Findory.com

http://www.findory.com/

Last activity: 01.10.2007

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Oct 1, 2007	Plug To Be Finally Pulled On Findory	Personalized newspaper service Findory is finally closing, after remaining on life support since January when development ceased. Founder Greg Linden has now posted that the site will now be shut November 1. Linden took the opportunity to p...
Aug 7, 2007	Personalized Search Primer – And Google’s Approach	Guest article by Greg Linden, founder of personalized news service Findory and author of Geeking with Greg. Google has received much attention, not all of it positive, for its efforts to personalize search. In this article, I will briefly d...
Jul 3, 2007	Thoof: A New Social News Startup	Yesterday Richard opined that Digg could use some editors so that if someone submits a story with a nonsensical description or lame title it could be fixed instead of seeing a good story get buried. Thoof, which is a new link sharing and so...
Jan 14, 2007	Findory Put On Life Support	The last time we wrote about Findory was over a year ago. Ironically, it was to note that they had turned cash flow positive. Today, founder Greg Linden said he’s going to stop development of the site and put it on “autopilot.” Findory is a...
Oct 18, 2006	Personalized News: A Market Overview	Written by Guest Blogger Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus. Introduction Personalized Content is one of the two most popular approaches in next generation news sites – the other is Power of Masses, which we will cover in a future ...
Oct 18, 2006	Personalized News: A Market Overview	Written by Guest Blogger Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus. Introduction Personalized Content is one of the two most popular approaches in next generation news sites – the other is Power of Masses, which we will cover in a future ...
Aug 28, 2006	Spotback news site gets even better	Israeli personalized news site Spotback released upgrades to its interface and a couple of new features. If you missed our initial review back in May, this is a good time to check out the site. As a personalized news page, Spotback learns f...
Apr 2, 2006	Claria abandons adware — really! — and raises $40 to push PersonalWeb	Updated Claria, that Redwood City company that we and others criticized for its adware software that tracks your surfing patterns, has repented and decided to do something completely different. Its latest offering is a personalized home pag...
Mar 27, 2006	Microcontent Design – Responses	My introductory post last week about Microcontent Design got such a good response that I need to pause and consider all the feedback, before I move onto Part 2. Basically what I call ‘microcontent design’ involves: …microchunking your conte...
Feb 14, 2006	Personalized Clustering: It’s too hard, say developers	After my post about Personalized Megite, I got taken to task by both Gabe Rivera from Memeorandum and Nik Cubrilovic from OmniDrive – two developers who have had a lot of experience trying to develop such systems. As Gabe wrote in Scoble’s ...
Jan 2, 2006	Findory Hits Milestone	Congratulations to Greg Linden, who reports that Findory is now cash flow positive. If you’d like to know more about Findory, my original profile, written on September 5, 2005, is here.
Sep 25, 2005	Findory Adds Self-Evolving Feed Reader	Findory has a first-class personalization engine for blog and other news (see our profile on September 3, 2005). Findory has built up a loyal following in the nearly two years since its launch. However, many users requested the ability to i...
Sep 3, 2005	Findory is your Personalized Newspaper	Company: Findory Launched: January 2004 Location: Seattle, WA I’ve recently become interested in companies that exploit the actions and attention of users to provide personalized content recommendations. We wrote about Attensa’s efforts in ...
Feb 18, 2005	What Is The Data Matrix? Machines and Humans Coexist	Andrew Nachison from The Media Centre raises some interesting issues regarding RSS content aggregation. He boils it down to these 3 questions: 1. Machines vs. humans? [in regards to aggregation] I agree with Andrew’s conclusion: “This isn’t...
Dec 3, 2004	Blog Bucks	The Steve Smith column that I linked to in my previous post generated a little debate among Steve Rubel and Tom Watson about where the money will be made in blogging. Steve Rubel says blog networks like Gawker Media and Weblogs Inc will be ...

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Parsers VC has collected 16 articles mentioning Findory.com, among them “Plug To Be Finally Pulled On Findory” (Oct 1, 2007) and “Personalized Search Primer – And Google’s Approach” (Aug 7, 2007).

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Yes, Findory.com is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Oct 1, 2007.