ATTAP Technologies Introduces Riffs.com, a Place to Rant, Rave, or Vote on Any Person, Place, or Thing.CARLSBAD, Calif. -- ATTAP ATTAP All Things to All People ATTAP Advanced Turbine Technology Applications Project (All Things to All People) Technologies, Inc., a New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City-based start-up, today announced Riffs.com, a fun aggregator of personal opinions and preferences. Offering the most comprehensive online tools available, Riffs.com makes it easy to rate products, people, music, movies, books, and anything else on which you have an opinion. "Our personal opinions on everything we care about are what define each of us as individuals," said Bruce Spector, founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of ATTAP Technologies, Inc. "It's why more than 20 million people are expressing their thoughts and opinions on blogs and other sites. Riffs.com makes it easy to rant, rave, review, and vote on any subject. No longer will people have to go to different sites to express their opinions. In fact, riffing on Riffs.com is so easy that it's a natural complement to blogging Writing Weblogs. See blog. ." Riffs.com combines powerful and comprehensive online tools for expressing opinions. Its "bliki" platform provides a combination of blogging and wiki A Web site that can be quickly edited by its visitors with simple formatting rules. Developed by Ward Cunningham in the mid-1990s to provide collaborative discussions, there are several "wiki" tools on the market for creating such sites, including www.editme.com, www.seedwiki.com, www. tools for impassioned rants, raves, and reviews. A simple "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" option is available for quick, personal expressions of opinion. The site also provides the ability to upload See download. upload - /uhp'lohd/ To transfer programs or data over a digital communications link from a smaller or peripheral "client" system to a larger or central "host" one. Opposite: download. del.icio.us bookmarks and your iTunes playlists, and since these are your preferences, they automatically get a "thumbs up" vote as a rating. The Web's Most Dynamic Social Recommendations Network Riffs.com is also a dynamic social recommendations network. The underlying ATTAP technology dynamically delivers the web's first cross-category product and topic recommendations to riffrs (people who rate any topic on the site) based on opinions you express as well as those of like-minded individuals. With the technology tracking personal opinions on more than 15 million items, with each riff, you'll receive increasingly accurate recommendations. And if a recommended item is available for purchase, buying it is only one click away. Riffs.com has forged partnerships with more than 75 of the most popular online retailers, including Amazon, NetFlix, Fandango fandango (făndăng`gō), ancient Spanish dance, probably of Moorish origin, that came into Europe in the 17th cent. It is in triple time and is danced by a single couple to the accompaniment of castanets, guitar, and songs sung by the , Apple iTunes, and Wal-Mart to make it easy for riffrs to get what they want, when they want it. Because Riffs.com aggregates personal preferences and opinions, its never been easier to identify and meet truly like-minded people or polar opposites that which is conspicuously different in most important respects. See also: Opposite . The site makes it easy to get a composite picture of any member -- from taste in music to favorite books to political views to favorite local haunts. The site also enables tagging, book marking, and subscribing to topics or riffrs you like. Finally, Riffs.com makes it easy to connect with other riffrs with the site's built-in chat, email, and SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. messaging capabilities. "Riffs.com may well evolve as an alternative to a number of sites," said Bruce Spector, founder and CEO of ATTAP Technologies, Inc. "For now, users are discovering that Riffs.com is the easiest way for people to express their opinions on everything and anything." About ATTAP, Inc. ATTAP Technologies, Inc. (All Things to All People) is a software development company that is building a series of Preference Expression and Management applications. Founded by the same team that founded WebCal, maker of the first web-based Personal Information Management system acquired by Yahoo!, Inc. in 1998 (now called Yahoo! Calendar This article or section contains information about computer software currently in development. The content may change as the software development progresses. ), ATTAP is dedicated to developing applications that will give users control of, and easy access to, the information, people, products, and services that they want and need, based on their own preferences and the preferences of other users like them, rather than receiving information that vendors and marketers choose to deliver. The Company's first applications are PersonalDNA.com and Riffs.com. For more information on the company, go to www.attap.com. |
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