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Wednesday, February 27, 2008

fav.or.it Goes Public Beta

favorit fav.or.it is a unique product that not only allows you to read content from across the blogosphere but also to interact with it without leaving the website. fav.or.it today announced about it's public beta release.

Key Features of fav.or.it

  • River like feed reading
  • Integrated commenting
  • It tracks attention data, so you know what’s hot
  • Super easy search
  • Create your own slices of the web
  • Share your favorite bits
  • Full API

It has started to give out invites for the thousands of people who pre-registered to use the product. This will be done in a phased approach to make sure the infrastructure that is in place is capable of supporting the traffic.

The commenting company Disqus will be supporting the fav.or.it API to allow any Disqus enabled blog to interact directly with fav.or.it - This gives the blog owners using Disqus access to a much more diverse target audience and a way to gain more traffic. Like any other blog aggregated by fav.or.it they will gain access to a wide range of attention based traffic data which can be used to help them understand their target audience and enabled them to better tag/categorize future posts.

Daniel Ha, Founder of Disqus had this to say, “We at Disqus are trying to change the way people look at blog conversations, so we’re happy to discover that Fav.or.it is in a good position to make this happen. fav.or.it has a lot of potential and we look forward to working with them.”

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