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]]> By: Wrapping the Israeli internet scene in 2007 | Venture Capital Cafe http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-1898670 Wrapping the Israeli internet scene in 2007 | Venture Capital Cafe Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:18:37 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-1898670 [...] Smartshopper was sold to Zango for $9M and Rawsugar that was thought to be dead but eventually sold to Suggestica inc, likely for [...] [...] Smartshopper was sold to Zango for $9M and Rawsugar that was thought to be dead but eventually sold to Suggestica inc, likely for [...]

]]> By: Henrik Sjostrand http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-960709 Henrik Sjostrand Sat, 17 Feb 2007 08:40:07 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-960709 Hello, RawSugar members now have an alternative. Netvouz has just added support to import RawSugar bookmarks, complete with tag hierarchy. This means that Netvouz can now convert a RawSugar tag hierarchy into folders on Netvouz. So any RawSugar member who is concerned about leaving RawSugar and losing the convenience of a folder structure now have a powerful alternative. Read more at our blog, http://blog.netvouz.com Hello,

RawSugar members now have an alternative. Netvouz has just added support to import RawSugar bookmarks, complete with tag hierarchy. This means that Netvouz can now convert a RawSugar tag hierarchy into folders on Netvouz.

So any RawSugar member who is concerned about leaving RawSugar and losing the convenience of a folder structure now have a powerful alternative.

Read more at our blog, http://blog.netvouz.com

]]> By: Bill Lazar http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-694693 Bill Lazar Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:15:20 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-694693 @William: You need to stop making these incorrect public statements about me and RawSugar. The fact is you never delivered anything close to working code, obfuscated or otherwise, and after threatening us with a lawsuit (over $400!!!) didn't even bother to respond when we offered a reasonable settlement. Neither Ofer nor myself are in the least bit shady--we also hired Denis De Bernady, well known in the WordPress community to develop a similar piece of code for WordPress and had no trouble paying him because his work product actually worked. I'm very tired of finding comments like this any time RawSugar is mentioned and would like to point out that you are not the only one with access to lawyers. @William: You need to stop making these incorrect public statements about me and RawSugar. The fact is you never delivered anything close to working code, obfuscated or otherwise, and after threatening us with a lawsuit (over $400!!!) didn’t even bother to respond when we offered a reasonable settlement. Neither Ofer nor myself are in the least bit shady–we also hired Denis De Bernady, well known in the WordPress community to develop a similar piece of code for WordPress and had no trouble paying him because his work product actually worked.

I’m very tired of finding comments like this any time RawSugar is mentioned and would like to point out that you are not the only one with access to lawyers.

]]> By: William Chow http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-688024 William Chow Wed, 10 Jan 2007 07:24:28 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-688024 LOL, I did a very small contract for these losers a while back. I never got paid for it, something like $400 for a blog plugin for Moveable. Good thing I obfuscated my code. Dealt with Bill Lazar, mainly. I briefly met the President at their Palo Alto offices. Never understood what their site did. It was a very disorganized company from my dealings with them, and in general they were very shady characters. I've mentioned this experience to a number of RoR developers. Anyway, what comes around goes around. Karma's a bitch. Tell Billy Boy I said hi. I'll see him at the next RoR meet (guess he needs a job now). LOL, I did a very small contract for these losers a while back. I never got paid for it, something like $400 for a blog plugin for Moveable. Good thing I obfuscated my code. Dealt with Bill Lazar, mainly. I briefly met the President at their Palo Alto offices. Never understood what their site did. It was a very disorganized company from my dealings with them, and in general they were very shady characters. I’ve mentioned this experience to a number of RoR developers. Anyway, what comes around goes around. Karma’s a bitch. Tell Billy Boy I said hi. I’ll see him at the next RoR meet (guess he needs a job now).

]]> By: Bubble, Bubble, Bubble http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-683621 Bubble, Bubble, Bubble Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:00:56 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-683621 [...] The startup ranks are starting to thin. We’ve added three companies to the TechCrunch DeadPool in the last week (Raw Sugar, FilmLoop and Browster). Even Google got into the spirit of things when they shut down Google Answers at the end of the year. [...] [...] The startup ranks are starting to thin. We’ve added three companies to the TechCrunch DeadPool in the last week (Raw Sugar, FilmLoop and Browster). Even Google got into the spirit of things when they shut down Google Answers at the end of the year. [...]

]]> By: web live :: Bubble, Bubble, Bubble :: January :: 2007 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-676090 web live :: Bubble, Bubble, Bubble :: January :: 2007 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 02:58:42 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-676090 [...] The startup ranks are starting to thin. We’ve added three companies to the TechCrunch DeadPool in the last week (Raw Sugar, FilmLoop and Browster). Even Google got into the spirit of things when they shut down Google Answers at the end of the year. And over on the Forum users are asking “Who’s Next?” [...] [...] The startup ranks are starting to thin. We’ve added three companies to the TechCrunch DeadPool in the last week (Raw Sugar, FilmLoop and Browster). Even Google got into the spirit of things when they shut down Google Answers at the end of the year. And over on the Forum users are asking “Who’s Next?” [...]

]]> By: Multimedias.mobi » Bubble, Bubble, Bubble http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-673887 Multimedias.mobi » Bubble, Bubble, Bubble Sun, 07 Jan 2007 18:42:37 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-673887 [...] The startup ranks are starting to thin. We’ve added three companies to the TechCrunch DeadPool in the last week (Raw Sugar, FilmLoop and Browster). Even Google got into the spirit of things when they shut down Google Answers at the end of the year. [...] [...] The startup ranks are starting to thin. We’ve added three companies to the TechCrunch DeadPool in the last week (Raw Sugar, FilmLoop and Browster). Even Google got into the spirit of things when they shut down Google Answers at the end of the year. [...]

]]> By: Otis Gospodnetic http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-673885 Otis Gospodnetic Sun, 07 Jan 2007 18:42:18 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-673885 Daniel, Frank, etc.: I wish you luck selling RawSugar technology/IP! Daniel, Frank, etc.: I wish you luck selling RawSugar technology/IP!

]]> By: Daniel Feinstein http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-673296 Daniel Feinstein Sun, 07 Jan 2007 16:14:25 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-673296 As a member of the RawSugar team responsible for the engine backend development I want to thank everybody for the good words about RawSugar. Even so the company now is in DeadPool it gave me a nice feeling about the work we did. Daniel Feinstein In the past: Lead Software Engineer at RawSugar.com As a member of the RawSugar team responsible for the engine backend development I want to thank everybody for the good words about RawSugar. Even so the company now is in DeadPool it gave me a nice feeling about the work we did.

Daniel Feinstein
In the past: Lead Software Engineer at RawSugar.com

]]> By: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Bubble, Bubble, Bubble http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-672000 Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Bubble, Bubble, Bubble Sun, 07 Jan 2007 10:35:28 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-672000 [...] The startup ranks are starting to thin. We’ve added three companies to the TechCrunch DeadPool in the last week (Raw Sugar, FilmLoop and Browster). Even Google got into the spirit of things when they shut down Google Answers at the end of the year. [...] [...] The startup ranks are starting to thin. We’ve added three companies to the TechCrunch DeadPool in the last week (Raw Sugar, FilmLoop and Browster). Even Google got into the spirit of things when they shut down Google Answers at the end of the year. [...]

]]> By: Philipp Keller http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-662953 Philipp Keller Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:15:21 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-662953 I second Emanuele. RawSugar has got a very good tag-engine. They are IMHO the only ones that didn't just copy delicious to add a new features. Their ideas with clustering and auto-tagging were just unseen in the whole tag-market (ok, Flirckr has got Tag-clusters too) Yeah, probably they don't have the nicest-looking UI, but I never cared. I used the site for daily tagging and *finding* my bookmarks later on. Who cares about UI, the functionality is/was all there! It's very sad that there company is closing. Cool to have the service still available for some time! I second Emanuele.
RawSugar has got a very good tag-engine.
They are IMHO the only ones that didn’t just copy delicious to add a new features. Their ideas with clustering and auto-tagging were just unseen in the whole tag-market (ok, Flirckr has got Tag-clusters too)

Yeah, probably they don’t have the nicest-looking UI, but I never cared. I used the site for daily tagging and *finding* my bookmarks later on. Who cares about UI, the functionality is/was all there!

It’s very sad that there company is closing. Cool to have the service still available for some time!

]]> By: Emanuele http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-660579 Emanuele Thu, 04 Jan 2007 23:47:28 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-660579 Defining Rawsugar a delicious copy is completely wrong. It could be not so easy to tell from the UI, but Rawsugar had and still has a lot of value. Its innovative, patent based, faceted guided search is one of the few innovations inside the social bookmarking field. A much needed innovation if we want to make tags scaling and if we bother about the user experience with folksonomies. People continue to talk about delicious. Large user base, bad UI and user experience, few innovation, completely useless as a tool to refind o keep found a few hundreds (not to say thousands of bookmarks). Don't think about using it to find links from other users if you don't know the right tag. I came to know Frank Smadja because I really loved Rawsugar. I loved it because it was the only solution to a real scenario of social bookmarking sites. I used their bookmarklet everyday to save, annotate and manage new posts found on the web and to use these bookmarks for my job, articles, etc. Managing, for me, means having a way to make order into a chaotic bag of otherwise useless flat tags. Rawsugar provided this possibility automatically discovering tags' hierarchies and helping in their navigation. I'm completely sure that their technology will bring a competitive advantage to some company. Think for example to enteprise social tagging services like Cogenz and Connectbeam.. What are they waiting for? Defining Rawsugar a delicious copy is completely wrong.

It could be not so easy to tell from the UI, but Rawsugar had and still has a lot of value. Its innovative, patent based, faceted guided search is one of the few innovations inside the social bookmarking field. A much needed innovation if we want to make tags scaling and if we bother about the user experience with folksonomies.

People continue to talk about delicious. Large user base, bad UI and user experience, few innovation, completely useless as a tool to refind o keep found a few hundreds (not to say thousands of bookmarks). Don’t think about using it to find links from other users if you don’t know the right tag.

I came to know Frank Smadja because I really loved Rawsugar. I loved it because it was the only solution to a real scenario of social bookmarking sites. I used their bookmarklet everyday to save, annotate and manage new posts found on the web and to use these bookmarks for my job, articles, etc.

Managing, for me, means having a way to make order into a chaotic bag of otherwise useless flat tags. Rawsugar provided this possibility automatically discovering tags’ hierarchies and helping in their navigation.

I’m completely sure that their technology will bring a competitive advantage to some company. Think for example to enteprise social tagging services like Cogenz and Connectbeam..

What are they waiting for?

]]> By: JiveGuru Blog » Blog Archive » My first real post http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-650434 JiveGuru Blog » Blog Archive » My first real post Wed, 03 Jan 2007 07:29:27 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-650434 [...] Here is my first real blog post ever….. I have decided to blog about my experience starting my new company, JiveGuru. After 10 years in commercial real estate, I have decided to make a change and start a new internet company. Many of my friends have told me I’m crazy to leave a successful career and start over but I welcome the challenge and look forward to each day and the hurdles that continue to arise. I don’t think this will be an easy road, far from it. In this so-called “bubble”, it is hard to avoid the news stories of Google’s acquisition of YouTube or the multi-billion dollar valuation of Facebook. The stories make the road to success seem easy, but I’m not falling for that. Hard work, commitment, great strategy and execution are the elements of success, no matter what the news says. I can see why so many people are jumping into tech right now. It reminds me of the real estate market about 4 years ago. Everyone wanted in, many came in and many will be gone in the coming years. I have already seen 3 or 4 postings on TechCrunch and GigaOm reporting the recent demise of internet start-up companies and we are only 2 days into the new year! Over the next several months I will be sharing my thoughts and experiences throughout this process and I am hopeful that someone who reads this blog will find some semblance of guidance or value in my posts. [...] [...] Here is my first real blog post ever….. I have decided to blog about my experience starting my new company, JiveGuru. After 10 years in commercial real estate, I have decided to make a change and start a new internet company. Many of my friends have told me I’m crazy to leave a successful career and start over but I welcome the challenge and look forward to each day and the hurdles that continue to arise. I don’t think this will be an easy road, far from it. In this so-called “bubble”, it is hard to avoid the news stories of Google’s acquisition of YouTube or the multi-billion dollar valuation of Facebook. The stories make the road to success seem easy, but I’m not falling for that. Hard work, commitment, great strategy and execution are the elements of success, no matter what the news says. I can see why so many people are jumping into tech right now. It reminds me of the real estate market about 4 years ago. Everyone wanted in, many came in and many will be gone in the coming years. I have already seen 3 or 4 postings on TechCrunch and GigaOm reporting the recent demise of internet start-up companies and we are only 2 days into the new year! Over the next several months I will be sharing my thoughts and experiences throughout this process and I am hopeful that someone who reads this blog will find some semblance of guidance or value in my posts. [...]

]]> By: Dan http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-647137 Dan Tue, 02 Jan 2007 19:26:00 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-647137 Addressing the accuracy of the post, the site is NOT down. Traffic is at an all time high, having sky'd upwards in response. Secondly, to read that RawSugar as a competitor to del.icio.us is a sad reminder of the difference between perceptions and reality. We are a search company, providing faceted search for tagged content, whether that tagging comes from bloggers, bookmarkers, content collaborators, new sources, or what have you. Two companies are close to finalizing offers because they feel their own sites will be greatly enhanced by the addition of our Faceted Search for Tagged Content. A migration plan for users, if required, will be posted on our blog. Dan Seligson President, RawSugar Inc. Addressing the accuracy of the post, the site is NOT down. Traffic is at an all time high, having sky’d upwards in response.

Secondly, to read that RawSugar as a competitor to del.icio.us is a sad reminder of the difference between perceptions and reality. We are a search company, providing faceted search for tagged content, whether that tagging comes from bloggers, bookmarkers, content collaborators, new sources, or what have you.

Two companies are close to finalizing offers because they feel their own sites will be greatly enhanced by the addition of our Faceted Search for Tagged Content. A migration plan for users, if required, will be posted on our blog.

Dan Seligson
President, RawSugar Inc.

]]> By: TechYob http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-642260 TechYob Tue, 02 Jan 2007 03:25:55 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-642260 From someone who looked at them a while back while doing some DD on a competitive technology... RawSugar is not at all like Digg, what they are is an automated tag-cloud organizer for large websites. Their key tech is algo's that group related tags based on similarity and 'closeness'. What they do is improve the ROI and usefullness of tagging content by automatically categorizing tags. This is helpful both in building a dynamic site index as well as providing the ability to suggest related content, so-called guided-search. Their business model should be licensing or selling their technology to large websites. Path to market could be partnership or acquisition to webservices already targeting popular blogs e.g. Eurekster Use Case Scenario 1) web-page summary and index Ofer and Smadja, best of luck I think you have an innovative product but the business model needs some work (which probably means just more time). From someone who looked at them a while back while doing some DD on a competitive technology…

RawSugar is not at all like Digg, what they are is an automated tag-cloud organizer for large websites. Their key tech is algo’s that group related tags based on similarity and ‘closeness’. What they do is improve the ROI and usefullness of tagging content by automatically categorizing tags. This is helpful both in building a dynamic site index as well as providing the ability to suggest related content, so-called guided-search. Their business model should be licensing or selling their technology to large websites. Path to market could be partnership or acquisition to webservices already targeting popular blogs e.g. Eurekster

Use Case Scenario 1) web-page summary and index

Ofer and Smadja, best of luck I think you have an innovative product but the business model needs some work (which probably means just more time).

]]> By: Ofer http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-640132 Ofer Mon, 01 Jan 2007 20:09:12 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-640132 "The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated" the site is actually live and well at the same URL (http://www.rawsugar.com/). It is true that we are out of funding and might close it in the next few month but I guess that is where many start-ups are at. If and when we close it we will notify our users so they can export their data in time. As for this post on TechCrunch, nobody from TechCrunch bothered to contact us or even send an email prior to this posting. When I talk to Michael he seems friendly and sharp but he does not write about RawSugar and when he does write about RawSugar he never contacts us prior to publishing his blog entry. I wonder if that is the experience of other entrepreneurs? “The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated” the site is actually live and well at the same URL (http://www.rawsugar.com/).

It is true that we are out of funding and might close it in the next few month but I guess that is where many start-ups are at. If and when we close it we will notify our users so they can export their data in time.

As for this post on TechCrunch, nobody from TechCrunch bothered to contact us or even send an email prior to this posting. When I talk to Michael he seems friendly and sharp but he does not write about RawSugar and when he does write about RawSugar he never contacts us prior to publishing his blog entry. I wonder if that is the experience of other entrepreneurs?

]]> By: Web 2.0 Innovations http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-636232 Web 2.0 Innovations Mon, 01 Jan 2007 08:09:28 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-636232 I apologies for being a bit off topic, but this Snap java pop up message is quite annoying, you just move your mouse over the text and those pop-ups are covering the text you read anytime you mouse over a hyperlink...just my 2 cents I apologies for being a bit off topic, but this Snap java pop up message is quite annoying, you just move your mouse over the text and those pop-ups are covering the text you read anytime you mouse over a hyperlink…just my 2 cents

]]> By: David Mackey http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-635444 David Mackey Mon, 01 Jan 2007 05:37:10 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-635444 Any news on what on that next project may be? Any news on what on that next project may be?

]]> By: Alfred Toh http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-633774 Alfred Toh Sun, 31 Dec 2006 23:36:25 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-633774 Dead.. for sure, site is still live for users to export their tagged links.(see comment # 13 from Frank - VP Engineering of Rawsuger) People., don't you read the comments before commenting. ================================================== <a href="http://payscroll.com" rel="nofollow">Payscroll.com - The answer to the "How much am I worth?" question. Coming Soon!</a> Dead.. for sure, site is still live for users to export their tagged links.(see comment # 13 from Frank - VP Engineering of Rawsuger)

People., don’t you read the comments before commenting.

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]]> By: satyendra http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-633088 satyendra Sun, 31 Dec 2006 20:44:25 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-633088 site is up, just browsed it....someone forgot to tell them they were in deadpool ??? site is up, just browsed it….someone forgot to tell them they were in deadpool ???

]]> By: India 2.0 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-632377 India 2.0 Sun, 31 Dec 2006 18:22:39 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-632377 People do need to learn how to survive if they want to. - Vicky http://india2.in/blog People do need to learn how to survive if they want to.

- Vicky
http://india2.in/blog

]]> By: Adrian Keys http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-632321 Adrian Keys Sun, 31 Dec 2006 18:13:18 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-632321 I am sure those guys who have provided the testimonials on the home page will want them removed as soon as possible......... I am sure those guys who have provided the testimonials on the home page will want them removed as soon as possible………

]]> By: Thomas http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-632230 Thomas Sun, 31 Dec 2006 17:55:07 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/30/rawsugar-in-deadpool/#comment-632230 It's online and lets me login and do everything. Maybe it's not dead. It’s online and lets me login and do everything. Maybe it’s not dead.

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