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.

ReFave of a nice mention.

Quoted: Michael [Arrington] appears extra frustrated because like most of us he wants Delicious to succeed. As a matter of fact, he named Delicious one of the Web Apps you can't live without in 2006, but then dumped Delicious in 2007 for BlueDot (Now Faves.com) because they were surpassed when it came to features.
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While Yahoo has been asleep at the wheel, countless new social bookmarking services have pulled ahead of the once king of online favorites. The best of the bunch being Magnolia and Faves.

I am trying (again) to establish a blogging habit.

Quoted: Not surprisingly, I use these microblogging services to broadcast “stream of consciousness” thoughts whereas I plan to use this blog for hopefully more thought provoking and “on-topic” posts.
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Why two microblogging services then?

Our position is unchanged -- although the companies directly above and below us are now different. Farecast presumably will soon be off the list since it was recently acquired.

Geekglue blogs about our new widget...

Quoted: moved my bookmarks from del.icio.us to Faves back when they called themselves BlueDot (my Faves). Since then I've posted more than once (11 times if we count this post) about their excellent service and converted a few friends along the way. I've also been using their blog widget for most of that time; it was simple and yet very useful.
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Yesterday Faves announced a new blog widget. The new widget has a neat "interactive wizard" to allow easy customization of the content and appearance of the widget.

Some feedback for us from the Firefox add-on site.

Quoted: The Faves service itself is very good. Great page design with a good selection of features. As far as the add-on is concerned, I don't like that I can't hide the Faves.com menu and I would like to see features added that allow me to see how many faves a particular site has in real time (as I'm surfing) and also allows me to rate up or down a site as I surf.

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.

Quoted: In the first post I gave an introduction and outlined eights spam rules to fight against spammers in Community Server 2007. In this second post I want to talk about other spam rules and using a few options in Subkismet to block spams. Flood From IP This spam