bluedot.us | Shared With: Everyone - May 27 2008 | Blue Dot NewsQuoted: We got the site up sooner than expected - so everything should be working again. We are still recovering a back-up database server, but this should not effect your experience on the primary web site. If you're still having problems, feel free to email feedback@faves.com so we can look into it.
bluedot.us | Shared With: Everyone - May 14 2009 | Blue Dot NewsQuoted: The fight against spam on Faves is never ending. As we've scaled back on full time staff, it has been increasingly hard to keep up with users who are trying use Faves purely for SEO (despite the fact that our links are all no-follow!), spam, or distribute or adult content. This has been particularly harsh on our Buzz system - showing the most popular
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bluedot.us | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 25 2009 | Blue Dot News
Quoted: I've been watching the data loss at ma.gnolia.com with some interest. Ma.gnolia is (was) a social bookmarking web site, with a small, but engaged community of users. Amongst the social bookmarking websites, we felt it was one of the stronger competitors with Faves.com (bluedot.us). But, on Jan 31, 2009, they had a catastrophic data loss and the site
bluedot.us | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 23 2009 | Blue Dot News
Quoted: We were able to get our servers started in our new location as of Saturday at 6pm. Our new ISP is WowRack. They've been really helpful during our move and we love our new location (I wish my office had a view like this one!) Mohit and Lee (pictured) and I started powering down our servers at 9am. We moved them to the Westin Building (our new location)
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bluedot.us | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 21 2009 | Blue Dot NewsQuoted: We are moving the computers for the Faves.com service this weekend. Your Faves bookmarks will not be available during this period. We hope to have all services restored from our new data center by Sunday, March 22nd. We're sorry if we've caused you any inconvenience and thank you for your patience.
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bluedot.us | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 06 2009 | Blue Dot NewsQuoted: We are planning to move the Faves.com servers in the next couple of weeks. We will continue to run Faves.com, but are taking steps to reduce the costs of our infrastructure. Other than being down for one weekend in March, our users should not notice anything different about Faves.com before or after our move. Since we are planning on having a site
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bluedot.us | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 05 2008 | Blue Dot News
Quoted: We recently launched a Facebook application that automatically posts your Faves to your Facebook wall and friends' newsfeeds. Unfortunately, Facebook by default only allows applications to publish "one-line" updates. However, with a few steps, you can enable more detailed updates. First, note how a Fave looks in a "one-line" update vs. a "short"
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bluedot.us | Shared With: Everyone - May 27 2008 | Blue Dot NewsQuoted: We had a failure in our data center today which has caused Faves.com to be unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience, and hope to have the site back up in a few hours. We'll post more information here after we have recovered.
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bluedot.us | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 10 2008 | Blue Dot NewsQuoted: We just noticed a really cool site called GetSatisfaction. It's a customer-focused feedback site where users of any product or service can interact with the company that makes it to ask questions, register complaints, or offer suggestions. Looks like a great idea, and quite well done. So, give it a try if you have feedback for us a Faves.com!
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bluedot.us | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 10 2007 | Blue Dot NewsQuoted: We saw really good growth at Blue Dot starting in August. It's continued through to our re-launch as Faves.com this week. I'm happy to announce that we've doubled the number of visitors and page views in the last three months. Monthly visitors: 1 millionMonthly page views: 2 millionSince we launched in June 2006, we've always attracted a strong international
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