Comments on: BlueDot Relaunches As Faves With Anti-Social Twist http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/07/bluedot-relaunches-as-faves-with-anti-social-twist/ Startup and Technology News Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:02:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Matt Ellsworth http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/07/bluedot-relaunches-as-faves-with-anti-social-twist/#comment-1737374 Matt Ellsworth Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:52:13 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/07/bluedot-relaunches-as-faves-with-anti-social-twist/#comment-1737374 I love the new name. Its much catchier. I love the new name. Its much catchier.

]]> By: mathew johnson http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/07/bluedot-relaunches-as-faves-with-anti-social-twist/#comment-1737259 mathew johnson Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:13:09 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/07/bluedot-relaunches-as-faves-with-anti-social-twist/#comment-1737259 Bluedot has always been best-of-breed technically and functionally - it will be great to watch them build up the audience and community that the product deserves! Bluedot has always been best-of-breed technically and functionally - it will be great to watch them build up the audience and community that the product deserves!

]]> By: Mike Koss http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/07/bluedot-relaunches-as-faves-with-anti-social-twist/#comment-1737107 Mike Koss Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:23:11 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/07/bluedot-relaunches-as-faves-with-anti-social-twist/#comment-1737107 I agree we waited to long to change domain names. We were "in love" with our old brand name - mostly because the terms "dot" and "dotting" were pretty easy to incorporate into your everyday vocabulary (kind of like "googling" has become for everyone else). But the non-dot-com domain is a pretty major barrier for any site wanting to reach a broad internet population (I'd never recommend any startup start off with a .net or .us domain, for example). We tried very hard to get bluedot.com - but it was just too expensive (un-motivated domain owner). I feel fortunate to have found a 5-letter .com that's very appropriate to what Blue Dot was doing ... and for LESS than $10,000. The second half of this story will be - how well does Google get our PageRank moved over to the new domain? That will take some weeks to play out. Mike Koss Faves.com I agree we waited to long to change domain names. We were “in love” with our old brand name - mostly because the terms “dot” and “dotting” were pretty easy to incorporate into your everyday vocabulary (kind of like “googling” has become for everyone else).

But the non-dot-com domain is a pretty major barrier for any site wanting to reach a broad internet population (I’d never recommend any startup start off with a .net or .us domain, for example).

We tried very hard to get bluedot.com - but it was just too expensive (un-motivated domain owner).

I feel fortunate to have found a 5-letter .com that’s very appropriate to what Blue Dot was doing … and for LESS than $10,000.

The second half of this story will be - how well does Google get our PageRank moved over to the new domain? That will take some weeks to play out.

Mike Koss
Faves.com

]]> By: Harrison http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/07/bluedot-relaunches-as-faves-with-anti-social-twist/#comment-1736763 Harrison Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:17:18 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/07/bluedot-relaunches-as-faves-with-anti-social-twist/#comment-1736763 I love Bluedot, and I use it all the time. Now they are Faves.com. It's much easier to remember and type. I wonder how much they paid for the domain. At least $10,000 dollars? I love Bluedot, and I use it all the time. Now they are Faves.com. It’s much easier to remember and type. I wonder how much they paid for the domain. At least $10,000 dollars?

]]> By: Tac Anderson http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/07/bluedot-relaunches-as-faves-with-anti-social-twist/#comment-1736652 Tac Anderson Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:49:14 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/07/bluedot-relaunches-as-faves-with-anti-social-twist/#comment-1736652 @Tito - So if I give my seven year old meth he'll be able to write for TechCrunch? Does Ritalin count? That's kind of like meth. @Tito - So if I give my seven year old meth he’ll be able to write for TechCrunch? Does Ritalin count? That’s kind of like meth.

]]> By: Tito http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/07/bluedot-relaunches-as-faves-with-anti-social-twist/#comment-1736622 Tito Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:36:25 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/07/bluedot-relaunches-as-faves-with-anti-social-twist/#comment-1736622 That first paragraph reads like it was written by a seven year-old on meth. That first paragraph reads like it was written by a seven year-old on meth.

]]> By: The Puget News: Bye bye Blue Dot. Hello Faves! http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/07/bluedot-relaunches-as-faves-with-anti-social-twist/#comment-1736593 The Puget News: Bye bye Blue Dot. Hello Faves! Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:26:39 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/07/bluedot-relaunches-as-faves-with-anti-social-twist/#comment-1736593 [...] Blue Dot has changed their name, branding and product in one fell swoop and has been reborn as Faves.com. The new product focuses on users being able to subscribe to topics of interest and receive customized feeds regardless of whether or not that user has riends on the system. For me personally, this is less valuable than the very social sharing experience I use the site for, but the new direction does not get in the way of my existing experience at all and could be come useful when there are more people creating content in subject areas that interest me. I think this is a really smart move for the folks over at Faves (boy is it going to be hard not to refer to Blue Dot all the time) as the changes are born out of an honest assessment of where the site was seeing success and where it was facing challenges. It looks like they’re off to a great start with a very favorable review in TechCrunch! [...] [...] Blue Dot has changed their name, branding and product in one fell swoop and has been reborn as Faves.com. The new product focuses on users being able to subscribe to topics of interest and receive customized feeds regardless of whether or not that user has riends on the system. For me personally, this is less valuable than the very social sharing experience I use the site for, but the new direction does not get in the way of my existing experience at all and could be come useful when there are more people creating content in subject areas that interest me. I think this is a really smart move for the folks over at Faves (boy is it going to be hard not to refer to Blue Dot all the time) as the changes are born out of an honest assessment of where the site was seeing success and where it was facing challenges. It looks like they’re off to a great start with a very favorable review in TechCrunch! [...]

]]> By: Basicity http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/07/bluedot-relaunches-as-faves-with-anti-social-twist/#comment-1736582 Basicity Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:21:13 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/07/bluedot-relaunches-as-faves-with-anti-social-twist/#comment-1736582 Their new .com domain name is so much better than their previous .us name. Shows that they understand a little something about domain names. Surprised they took this long to make the name switch. Their new .com domain name is so much better than their previous .us name. Shows that they understand a little something about domain names. Surprised they took this long to make the name switch.

]]> By: techmine http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/07/bluedot-relaunches-as-faves-with-anti-social-twist/#comment-1736553 techmine Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:12:03 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/07/bluedot-relaunches-as-faves-with-anti-social-twist/#comment-1736553 Faves.com is just mixture of delicious and digg. Faves.com is just mixture of delicious and digg.

]]> By: techmine http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/07/bluedot-relaunches-as-faves-with-anti-social-twist/#comment-1736538 techmine Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:03:39 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/07/bluedot-relaunches-as-faves-with-anti-social-twist/#comment-1736538 Tired of so many bookmarking sites(no matter how you discover new things). Diigo works for me just fine. It has annotation, save anywhere else, share/forward features in one toolbar. Yeah it is more than what delicious does. Tired of so many bookmarking sites(no matter how you discover new things). Diigo works for me just fine. It has annotation, save anywhere else, share/forward features in one toolbar. Yeah it is more than what delicious does.

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