Pluck Launches New Community Search and Blogging Service; Shadows.com Provides a ``People's View'' of Search and the Web.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 -- At the BlogOn 2005 Social Media Summit (http://www.blogonevent.com/blogon2005), Pluck(TM) Corp. unveiled Shadows(TM) 1.0 (www.shadows.com), a new community-based search and blogging service. Shadows provides a people's view of search and a way to interact on blogs that exist behind each and every web page on the Internet. With Shadows, users can move beyond simple search to a new phase of discovery, linking people to information based on the collective views of the online community. E[acute accent acute accent n. A mark (´) indicating: a. that a vowel is close or tense, as é in French été. b. that a vowel or syllable has a high or rising pitch, as in Chinese or Ancient Greek. c. ]As they exist today, search engines like Google and Yahoo do a good job helping users find search terms on web pages and blogs based on algorithms. Yet they don't reflect what the collective community of web users finds useful. Similarly, blogging tools like Typepad and Wordpress are excellent personal publishing See blog, wiki and citizen journalism. platforms. But they create islands of information that are disconnected from the object of their posts. Shadows provides a new twist on search and blogging by connecting people to web pages the community finds valuable and facilitating an open conversation that is linked to any page on the web. E[acute accent]"Connecting consumer opinions to every web page on the Internet and then allowing others to search in this vast community is likely to have a far reaching impact on the way we discover, disseminate dis·sem·i·nate v. dis·sem·i·nat·ed, dis·sem·i·nat·ing, dis·sem·i·nates v.tr. 1. To scatter widely, as in sowing seed. 2. and react to information online," said Chris Shipley, executive producer of the BlogOn executive conference. "Shadows is a powerful new service that takes today's notions of search, blogging and community to a new level." E[acute accent]Key features available in Shadows 1.0 include: E[acute accent]--Shadow Pages: Creates a community blog behind every page on the web, thereby enabling users to easily discover points of view, find related information and participate in the conversation. While viewing any web page, a user clicks a button in their browser browser Software that allows a computer user to find and view information on the Internet. The first text-based browser for the World Wide Web became available in 1991; Web use expanded rapidly after the release in 1993 of a browser called Mosaic, which used and is instantly transported to a Shadow Page where they can post their thoughts and see comments, ratings, tags, related pages, people, and site-level summaries. This feature channels the power of blogging out to the point of context -- the very place where people are browsing source information. E[acute accent]--Community Search: Harnesses the collective actions and ideas of web users to provide a powerful new approach to discovering relevant information. The Shadows community is actively tagging, rating and commenting on pages they come across on the web. When visitors search Shadows their answers come from that collective pool of information, benefiting from what others find valuable and true, rather than link-based algorithms. E[acute accent]--Developer APIs: A comprehensive Application Programming Interface (API (Application Programming Interface) A language and message format used by an application program to communicate with the operating system or some other control program such as a database management system (DBMS) or communications protocol. ) makes it easy for third party developers to integrate Shadows services into websites and build new components that extend Shadows' functionality. Using the Shadows API, applications built for social bookmarking Ranking a Web site by users who like the content rather than by the total number of links to the site. Social bookmarking sites such as del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us) let users tag their favorite sites with key words and post them for others to see. See folksonomy and page ranking. sites like del.ici.ous can be ported to Shadows within a few minutes. E[acute accent]"In life, it's clear that our best sources of advice, information, and entertainment are the people we meet along the way," said Dave Panos, co-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 Pluck Corp. "Shadows reconnects us with this natural order -- putting us in touch with the people that are powering the web -- moving past our exclusive reliance on algorithmic search." E[acute accent]Shadows 1.0 is now available. The free web site is located at www.shadows.com. Optional toolbars and bookmarklets are offered for popular web browsers The following is a list of web browsers. Historical Historically important browsers In order of release:
E[acute accent]About Pluck Corp. E[acute accent]Pluck Corporation transforms how end-users and Internet publishers consume and create information online. Providing RSS (Really Simple Syndication) A syndication format that was developed by Netscape in 1999 and became very popular for aggregating updates to blogs and the news sites. RSS has also stood for "Rich Site Summary" and "RDF Site Summary. , Blogging and Community Search software and services, Pluck helps its customers leverage the open content model that has emerged as the cornerstone for Web 2.0 services. The privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. is based in Austin, Texas with funding from Austin Ventures and Mayfield. More information on Pluck offerings can be found at www.pluck.com. E[acute accent]Pluck and Shadows are trademarks of Pluck Corp. All other company and product names mentioned are used only for identification and may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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