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    0 starsmohit | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 11 2009 | twitter, news, blue dot, faves, technology
    This Twitter Post a Long Time in Coming « SmoothSpan Blog

    I agree with the following.

    Quoted: I have personally gotten real value from Twitter despite that friction. Twitter is an incredible newswire and real time search. Remember the old teletypes constantly churning out news?

    It's interesting how many of these "value extraction frictions" are similar to what we experienced at Blue Dot/Faves....although we did address some of them.

    Quoted: What, then, is the “Value Extraction Friction” that Twitter faces?

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    0 starsmohit | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 09 2008 | gogrid, technology, faves, scalability, cloud
    GoGrid :: Scalable Load-Balanced Windows and Linux Cloud-Server Hosting

    I have been pretty impressed by this and am seriously considering moving Faves from our own data center to this "cloud" infrastructure.

    The nicest feature is the "multi-server" control panel and api that enables you to deploy and manage load-balanced cloud servers. They have categorized their images as "load balancers", "web/app servers", and "database servers" which removes a lot of installation steps (e.g. you don't have to install MySql yourself). They also give you a generous amount of public and private ip addresses.

    The sales rep assured me that they will be around for awhile, since the company (ServePath) is financially sound and has been around since 1999. But, I need to confirm that part.

    The dealbreaker is that they don't have cloud storage yet. I called the sales team, and the rep said they will be launching that within 6 weeks. The first 100GB will be free, and subsequent storage is $0.15 per gig per month.

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    0 starsmohit | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 05 2008 | faves, facebook, application
    Faves.com Blog: Facebook Application: Enabling detailed newsfeed and wall posts

    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.

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    0 starsmohit | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 22 2008 | mashable, bdmentions, faves
    Social Surfing: 15+ Tools to Turn Firefox 3 into a Social Hub

    Small mention in Mashable.

    Quoted: Faves - Social bookmarking that lets you save, tag and discuss your favorite pages with friends and other users of the service.

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    0 starsmohit | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 18 2008 | faves, facebook
    Facebook | Faves

    Note: After installing the app, you can add Faves as a tab on your Facebook profile by a) clicking the little "+" tab on your profile and b) selecting Faves.

    Quoted: Faves are enhanced bookmarks that make it fun and easy to share interesting Web sites with your friends on Facebook.

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    0 starsmohit | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 18 2008 | bdmentions, blogs, faves

    Mention in a small blog.

    Quoted: The most convenient and the most loved feature of this website is that every time its registered user visits the Faves homepage, they see their ‘bookmarks’ i.e. they are able to easily view a summary of whatever things their friends have viewed or whatever has been shared among them.

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    0 starsmohit | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 18 2008 | faves, facebook
    Facebook | Faves

    ReFave: Faves' Facebook App has released. Feel free to try it out and let us know what you think.

    Quoted: Faves are enhanced bookmarks that make it fun and easy to share interesting Web sites with your friends on Facebook.

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    0 starsmohit | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 12 2008 | google, google insights, marketing, faves

    Google Insights is a pretty useful marketing tool. I searched for social bookmarking and got a a state by state break down of "regional interest". In theory, it would make sense to invest disproportionately on marketing efforts for a site like Faves in those states.

    "Social bookmarking" searches are distributed across a number of states whereas "microblogging" searches are only popular in California. And overall, "microblogging" is a far less popular search term than "social bookmarking".

    It's also fun to type in my last name and get a breakdown. Presumably, this tracks the relative concentration of Indian Americans in the U.S.

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    5 starsmohit | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 12 2008 | audience, technology, faves, twitter, todo
    The 3 Loops of Designing for Audience ··· dsp · by gregor hochmuth

    This is great. It neatly captures what we've intuitively been trying to do with Blue Dot / Faves from day one. Having said that, we don't close the "3+1 loops" nearly as well as we should/could.

    I think it also helps explain why Twitter can and do Facebook coexist.

    Quoted: 3 + 1 + You
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    Feedback loops contribute greatly to a user’s sense of Audience within a service. I talked about four such loops here. What other loops exist? What else builds and supports a sense of Audience?

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    0 starsmohit | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 30 2008 | faves, twitter, feedback, summize, bdmentions
    faves.com - Twitter Search

    Twitter search for Faves.com

    Some positives:
    zanzoodle: Cool site of the day www.faves.com, love this site
    lachcorp: in an internet cafe in Chiang Mai just met the owner of faves.com
    kmwinter: i think i'm going to move http://kirkwinters.com/Items to http://faves.com/users/kmwinter. Yay for developer APIs!

    Some negatives:
    allergyexpert: http://faves.com/users/allergyexpert/friends/dots This my New Faves.com site. Not sure what it's for
    DesignDump: Just signed up for "Faves.com" account...seems difficult to read through entries.

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