Articles tagged with: software
Bookmarking »
Faves is a social bookmarking and networking software that installs a single browser button for users to “fave” a webpage, making a link to the page part of their Faves profile. Until October 2007, Faves was called Blue Dot.
While offering a service similar to the better-known del.icio.us, Faves has a wider range of functionality that encourages interaction with “friends” in rating the content of linked webpages. When a registered user visits their Faves home page, they see a summary of the bookmarks, called “Faves” by the company, that have …
Search Engines »
Mahalo.com is a web directory (or human search engine) launched in alpha test in May 2007 by Jason Calacanis. As of January 2008, the project is in beta test. It differentiates itself from algorithmic search engines like Google and Ask.com, as well as other directory sites like DMOZ and Yahoo by tracking and building hand-crafted result sets for many of the currently popular search terms. Mahalo means “thank you” in Hawaiian.
Mahalo’s directory employs human editors to review websites and write search engine results pages that include text listings, as …
Search Engines »
Scour Inc. was a multimedia search engine on the internet, and provided Scour Exchange, an early peer-to-peer file exchange service. Scour was founded by five students (Vince Busam, Michael Todd, Dan Rodriques, Jason Droege and Kevin Smilak) from the Computer Science Deptartment of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1997. It moved into the spotlight in 1999 when former Disney president Michael Ovitz bought about a quarter of its shares.
Portal »
Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power scores of different web sites, including
Community web portals
Discussion sites
Corporate web sites
Intranet applications
Personal web sites or blogs
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Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.
