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Courtesy of Brendan Reville.

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My experiments with creating custom widgets using the Faves JSON interface and jQuery. This one's a little rough around the edges, but kinda fun.

Short summary of the Faves.com case study I presented at SMX.

Quoted: This session will include actual case studies. First example is Faves.com. Wanted to capture long tail keyword searches so distributed long tail content across many linkable pages.
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They also had a branding problem Was called bluedot.us in which users were confused over the .us name. Faves.com is more in line with what they actually offer.

I just noticed we're mentioned -- but with our old name, Blue Dot -- in this Yahoo News article about Microsoft's social bookmarking tool.

Quoted: Among the more popular social bookmarking services that have sprung up are Reddit, del.icio.us and Digg. Other popular entrants include Blue Dot and Diigo.

You need to use an ASP:Button and not just an input if you want client-side validation in ASP.Net.

Quoted: The onclick attribute, along with the script, is added inside the AddAttributesToRender method of the Button control. The WebForm_DoPostBackWithOptions function can be examined in the rendered web resource JavaScript file within Visual Studio 2005, as explained in the above section. This function is in the resource file named WebForms.js. The function takes an argument of type WebForm_PostBackOptions. This function is also responsible for invoking the Page_ClientValidate function, which sets the value of the Page_IsValid member. The complete validation process triggered by the click of a button process can be summarized in the workflow below.

The dirty under-belly of SEO marketing. Here someone is looking to create a bunch of fake accounts on social networking sites (including faves.com).

Note, we aggressively remove any obvious SEO SPAM accounts from Faves.com. I don't really see why they bother - we mark all outbound links as nofollow, so they won't get any search engine credit by having a bookmark on Faves.

Quoted: I need someone to create 10 diffrent users for each of these bookmarking accounts. You need to create an gmail account for each user, a username and a password. backflip.com bibsonomy.org blinklist.com blogmarks.net faves.com buddymarks.com connectedy.com de.lirio.us del.icio.us digg.com diigo.com feedmelinks.com folkd.com fuzzfizz.com furl.net google.com linkagogo.com linkroll.com ma.gnolia.com markaboo.com mister-wong.com my.xilinus.com myweb2.search.yahoo.com netvouz.com plugim.com pro...

Nice review of Faves.com from Jan 2008 - just noticed it now.

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Relevant to us.

Quoted: The Safe Browsing API is an experimental API that enables client applications to check URLs against Google's constantly updated blacklists of suspected phishing and malware pages. Your client application can use the API to download an encrypted table for local, client-side lookups of URLs that you would like to check.

DOA social bookmarking service. IE and Windows only, requires rich client download. Raised $2.2M in angel funding. They think they can be ad supported and make this go. Good luck (esp. given then very limited market and big barriers to adoption - I wouldn't even trial their (untrusted) software).

Compare to Faves.com which works cross-platform and any browser, does not require a rich download (just drag a favlet/bookmarklet), and works from any machine you roam to.

Quoted: The idea of leaving sticky notes on the Web for others to find has been tried many times, but has never really taken ...