Blue Dot Launches Topic Networks, Changes Name to Faves.com.Bookmarking In genetics and epigenetics, bookmarking is a biological phenomenon believed to function as an epigenetic mechanism for transmitting cellular memory of the pattern of gene expression in a cell, throughout mitosis, to its daughter cells. Site Serves Community-Rated Content on Personalized Home Pages See personal portal. Based on Members' Favorite Topics SEATTLE Seattle (sēăt`əl), city (1990 pop. 516,259), seat of King co., W Wash., built on seven hills, between Elliott Bay of Puget Sound and Lake Washington; inc. 1869. -- Social discovery and bookmarking site Blue Dot today announced that it has changed its name to Faves.com to better reflect the company's enhanced offering, which includes personalized home pages that feature community-rated content about members' favorite topics. The Faves.com Web site uses "topic networks" to connect members and to give members quick and easy access to the highest rated content on their chosen topics. Once a member has specified topics of interest, Faves.com will recommend related topics, find people with similar interests, and create a personalized home page to feature the most popular web sites about those topics. "Lots of people regularly track their special interests on the web," said Rob Dickerson, chief executive officer of Faves.com. "But the Web has more content than any one person can easily find and read. Faves.com is continually con·tin·u·al adj. 1. Recurring regularly or frequently: the continual need to pay the mortgage. 2. updated with latest, highest-quality recommendations, providing our users with an easy and efficient way to browse (1) To view the contents of a file or a group of files. Browser programs generally let you view data by scrolling through the documents or databases. In a database program, the browse mode often lets you edit the data. See Web browser. through information about their favorite topics. Topic networks also let you participate in focused communities that share your interests without having to build up a network of friends." New Faves.com Features The new Faves.com topic network model allows members to select topics and add them to "My Topics" lists. Members' personalized home pages are then built and organized using the highest ranked and most frequently viewed and commented content submissions. Faves.com also recommends new topics based on members' voting history and correlation with other members' subscriptions. After joining Faves.com, two buttons are installed in members' Web browsers The following is a list of web browsers. Historical Historically important browsers In order of release:
n. One that is preferred above others or likely to win; a favorite. adj. Favorite. [Short for favorite.] , members can add notes, assign a thumbnail A miniature representation of a page or image that is used to identify a file by its contents. Clicking the thumbnail opens the file. Thumbnails are an option in file managers, such as Windows Explorer, and they are found in photo editing and graphics program to quickly browse multiple image and quote text from the source Web page. Faves.com provides automatic tagging, so all faves submissions are assigned as·sign tr.v. as·signed, as·sign·ing, as·signs 1. To set apart for a particular purpose; designate: assigned a day for the inspection. 2. to the appropriate topics. Once saved, all faves are accessible from the Faves.com searchable online collection of content. The highest rated content will appear on the home pages of members who have subscribed to topics associated with that fave. "Faves.com is focused on making it easy for our members to stay current and to consistently find great Web sites and information on the topics they care about," said Mohit Srivastava, co-founder of Faves.com. "We ask the question, 'What are your favorite things?', and then we deliver those things in a newsreader-style home page within a community of like-minded individuals." ABOUT FAVES.COM Founded in October 2004, by Mohit Srivastava and Sumit Sen, Blue Dot, Inc./Faves.com is a Seattle-based company whose mission is to help people find the highest ranked web content across a broad variety of topics. Through a new type of communication described as Social Discovery[R], Faves.com's free Web site delivers recommendations personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. to each user's topics of interest. Through a unique Topic Network, Faves.com users are connected to other members who are making the highest quality recommendations of interest to them. Faves.com is led by an experienced group of entrepreneurs formerly from Microsoft[R]. To learn more about Faves.com, please visit www.faves.com. |
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