Faves: bluedot.us

Spammers Be Gone!

bluedot.us — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:50:00 GMT

Quoted: 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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Ma.gnolia Data Loss and Faves.com Future

bluedot.us — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:59:00 GMT

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

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Faves is up and running again

bluedot.us — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:31:00 GMT

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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Faves will be down until Sunday, March 22, 2009

bluedot.us — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:59:00 GMT

Quoted: 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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Faves.com is "moving"

bluedot.us — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:02:00 GMT

Quoted: 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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Facebook Application: Enabling detailed newsfeed and wall posts

bluedot.us — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:46:00 GMT

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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Faves is back up

bluedot.us — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:34:00 GMT

Quoted: 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.

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Faves is down

bluedot.us — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:15:00 GMT

Quoted: 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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New way to post Feedback

bluedot.us — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:06:00 GMT

Quoted: 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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Two Million Page Views per Month

bluedot.us — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 04:31:00 GMT

Quoted: 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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