The second company to emerge from the TechCrunch50 DemoPit as a peoples’ choice winner is YourVersion, a discovery engine that looks to help recommend new content based on your past searches and interests. The company was among the top two recipients of TechCrunch50 tokens, which are used by conference attendees to vote on their favorite companies in the DemoPit, and shares today’s Peoples’ Choice Award with oDesk.
YourVersion launched today, and looks to help users search for content across blogs, multimedia sites, Twitter, and other social sites, updating with relevant content in real-time. Rather than force users to run the same searches multiple times or rely on a clunky bookmark system, YourVersion pays attention to your interests, and presents results accordingly. You can browse through results from all of these content sources, indicating which ones you like (or dislike) using thumbs up or thumbs down functions.
For mobile users, YourVersion offers an iPhone application, which you can download for free on the App Store here. There’s also a Firefox extension that allows users to quickly share their favorite blog posts and news articles on Facebook, Twitter, and other services.
Q: So it’s like Digg and reddit without needing user submissions? Do you have commenting?
A: Yes, this also helps prevent the editorial tone you get on those sites. We will have comments in the future.
Q: How do you get more passive discovery?
A: There’s a line between implicit and explicit. You’ve got thumb, share, etc as explicit. Below that is implicit — if people repeatedly go to the same sites again and again on the same topics, that’s a good indicator.
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Other Coverage:
TechCrunch50: YourVersion – StumbleUpon, But Better? AppScout.
YourVersion Sign-Up Process Works Instigator Blog.
YourVersion Wins People’s Choice Award at TechCrunch50 Conference Marketwire.
YourVersion Launches Real-Time Discovery Engine at TechCrunch50 Conference MarketWatch.
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You should disclose that you wrap your links using Linksynergy, so you make money from every click.
It would be nice to be able to use it without the sign up..
these guys made a lot of thing for a first release version. there are tons of features.. amazing job but I have no idea from where to start
Thanks, Thiago!
I have been using all day since I first saw the demo early this morning. I love this site and voted for them. They deserved it.
Congrats Dan. Great response to your public launch. Guess the secrets out!
So far, I’m very disappointed with what I see coming out of TC50. All I see are websites with a different spin on organizing data for various vertical apps. That is not what I think of as real innovation.
Where is the next big thing? Anybody seen it yet?
Marissa looked a little nervous….
i think she just saw the future of search and it had nothing to do with seo, links,,, yada yada…
imagine facebook basically copies these features… overlaid on the social graph…
puts a little search box on the home page
feeling lucky?
game over for the googleplex
The first time my Firefox browser loaded the page, i thought i Facebook Connect icon and then after i click the button, it just disappeared, it’s gone. Do they really support this ?
i created my user since Facebook connect doesn’t work, then i realized i can’t logout … auhauhauah it’s too buggy yet.
Way to go Dan & team!
I checked the “Sign in with FaceBook connect”, it said it worked, now when I want to log in it says wrong password and when I try to recover it it says my email cannot be found. Not nice.
Social search’s been done before (got the t-shirt). Maybe it’ll get more traction this time: more people in the echo chamber due to fb and twitter etc.
Personally, I found any “personalization” of search annoying, most of the time.
Whhhhooooooooo o poop oooooooo!
Insttant .com was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Exactly what we have been waiting for – my vote for the best presentation in TechCrunch50 2009!! Insttant is already on my favorites list and will use in our company daily! Thank you Joe Langevin at Insttant.com!!!!
Congrats Dan! It really does look great & work amazingly.