Comments on: Fav.or.it Finally Opens Beta To Take RSS And Commenting Mainstream

By: Pol39

Pol39 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:21:16 +0000

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By: Lynnae

Lynnae — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:05:16 +0000

I don’t think it’s a good business model when you republish copyrighted blog posts in full without even so much as notifying the blogger. It messes with the original blogger’s SEO and has the potential to draw traffic away from the bloggers site.

Sure, it works if you have the right creative comment license that works with fav.or.it, but most bloggers have a regular copyright. Apparently that means nothing to fav.or.it.

I didn’t sign up for fav.or.it. I did not give them permission to run my content. And yet my content is on their site in full. Beyond that, they make me look like a willing contributor, when in fact, I am not happy about this at all.

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By: Stewart Townsend

Stewart Townsend — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:46:21 +0000

Glad to see all live and scaling….and some good outreach as well, UK press picking up on this as well, check out the FT.

By: Ross

Ross — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:29:24 +0000

Fav.or.it could be very powerful. I haven’t been here long but the ability to use existing social network IDs and the timer feature for popularity are pretty innovative.

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By: nick halstead

nick halstead — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:50:25 +0000

@Kyle, we have been developing this for a long time without any external input, you can bet your bottom dollar that we will listen carefully to what people are saying and try and get that message right, what is important to me is that the concept of what we are trying to do is right, the design, the message can all be worked on.

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By: Frank Church

Frank Church — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:03:01 +0000

Michelle,
They don’t provide the content, they just aggregate it. The example you gave was from another site (in this case RoughlyDrafted). they do have a choice on text colors and it sounds like you a more informed opinion there.

By: Kyle MacRae

Kyle MacRae — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:48:38 +0000

Nick, just to echo what Michelle says above, and others keep saying, and as I suggested to you once before, you have to get the messaging right on fav.or.it. That’s everything from writing punchy, subbed copy that conveys the site’s usp through to the design, layout, colours and every element in between.

Truly, I want you to succeed big time. But forget everything you know about fav.or.it and look at the home page with objective eyes.

What IS fav.or.it? Could your dad, my mum, or any of the ‘masses’ you want to reach answer that? Until the answer is ‘yes, it’s really obvious what fav.or.it is is and I’m going to jump straight in’, I think you have a mountain to climb.

By: Michelle McCormack

Michelle McCormack — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:10:23 +0000

I like the site. The video explaination helped a lot. They totally need a site re-design. That blue color is just wrong – it hinders usability and ease of navigation. The primary navigation must stand out more.

Please get a decent copywriter, at least for the home page.
EXAMPLE:
“The Street Steve Jobs Health Fears Key to Our Stock Manipulation Game”

What is that? And it’s written in baby blue, with body text in light grey.

The engineers over there have to realize that no matter how great their technology is, if the comm design is difficult, the user will leave.

By: You SEO partner

You SEO partner — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:54:44 +0000

This is very cool, I love blogging about everything this is such a great resource and I know i will be using this all the time.

By: Shafqat

Shafqat — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:48:30 +0000

@Andy You’re right – we do have some similarities – both NewsCred and Fav.or.it share the vision of bringing the power of RSS aggregation to mainstream readers. However, there are a lot of differences as well, especially with regards to the UI and user experience, and of course our focus on credibility as a key criterion for news filtering.

Apologies for the sluggishness of the site. We’re working hard at fixing some of the scaling problems thoroughly rather than band-aid fixes (so that we can avoid Twitter-syndrom in the future)! Its already much faster today, and should be back to full speed in the next day or two.

Shafqat (cofounder of NewsCred)

By: Shafqat

Shafqat — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:48:29 +0000

Shafqat (cofounder of NewsCred)

By: sasho

sasho — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:16:36 +0000

i think that`s cool!!!

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By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:25:36 +0000

@Rajeev There was a TC post a few weeks ago about NewsCred, another site that does something similar in terms of easy aggreagation, but that had personalization. The UI was much simpler and more intuitive, but its frustrating because its often quite slow.

By: Zee

Zee — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:16:19 +0000

I reallly really really want these guys to succeed and have been tracking them since i first heard of them.

Unless i’m missing something though – importing opml feeds is still impossible? Until that gets working, i’m not using it.

By: Rajeev

Rajeev — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:01:17 +0000

Maybe next step should be customisation.
Rajeev Vashisht
http://tekno-wo...ld.blogspot.com

By: dailytwitter

dailytwitter — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:26:27 +0000

i think the concept is an interesting one and am keen to see how the site will grow. My only gripe is the UI – which i find quite overwhelming in that there is too much information being presented back. would prefer to see less and the ability to tweak it. not keen on the boxy approach.

also been thinking about the power of the individual blogg versus the aggregator – personally i prefer the source rather than a middleman – in that it has everything i want, and i know i wont be missing anything.

By: Toby Graham

Toby Graham — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:02:38 +0000

OK that post has yet to appear on Techcrunch. Oh and what happens if my profile name if different on fav.or.it and Techcrunch?

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By: Toby Graham

Toby Graham — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:57:43 +0000

So with a tip of the hat to The Player, is it digg meets friendfeed meets netvibes? I don’t really get it. This message will be posted from fav.or.it to test how it deals with commenting.
Don’t really like how it deals with my feeds. (I’m a netvibes man, cut me and I bleed netvibes)

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By: nick halstead

nick halstead — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:51:07 +0000

@pete,
What is a RSS reader doing then? other than taking full content? on our site you can flick between reader/portal – exactly the same same content, we are adding value by making it easy for non-techie users to interact with content from a broad spectrum of site.
And again as in my previous comment, we cater for licensing for those who wish to restrict content use.

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By: nick halstead

nick halstead — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:44:01 +0000

@jatt, no we are not scraping – we are taking the content from the feed. We are (probably) the only service that looks at the license that is attached (e.g. createive commons) and if the feed is set as non-commerical then we do not show the full feed. We have emersed ourselves in the blogosphere for over a year, and I hope are very senstive to this kind of issue.
Bottom line we want to engage a whole new target audience and give sites like techcrunch even more coverage!

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By: Pete Foster

Pete Foster — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:43:22 +0000

Umm, yes. I’m fairly sure just taking the full text of an article that is copyrighted and pasting into your site does not constitute fair use.

Taking the intro, first paragraph, title etc is fine and definately within the bounds of the fair use doctrine (despite what the AP says). But you can’t just take a full article and publish it on your own site without transforming or adding additional value if that source material is copyrighted.

By: nick halstead

nick halstead — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:40:17 +0000

The conversation tracking is the most powerful feature for us hardcore blog readers – I want to know when people have replied to my comments, at the moment comments are seen too much as write them and forget. When I send this, I am told whenever someone replies.

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