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Starting Findory: Funding (Geeking with Greg)

Fri, 09 May 2008 16:40:00 GMT

[This is a continuation of the posts in my Starting Findory series describing my experiences building my first company, Findory .] I had the wrong strategy with trying to get funding for Findory. I pursued VCs instead of angels. I should have realized, VCs would never fund Findory. From their point of view, there was just too much risk. Findory was lead by a first...

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People Who Read This Article Also Read… (Resource Shelf)

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:00:42 GMT

An article by ResourceShelf friend and personalization/customization expert, Greg Linden (how we miss Findory ), that appears in IEEE Spectrum. People Who Read This Article Also Read… The newspaper, that daily chronicle of human events, is undergoing the most momentous transformation in its centuries-old history. The familiar pulp-paper product still shows up on newsstands [...]

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Microsoft Picks Up Linden (WebPro News)

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:07:29 GMT

Microsoft has picked up Greg Linden , one of my favorite geeks and the guy who created Findory and Amazon.com's recommendation engine. Greg’s biggest strength comes in the form of personalized services, as both at Amazon and Findory he designed websites that learned from user behavior and improved what was shown to the user in extremely effective ways, first with books, then with news...

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Search expert Greg Linden joins Microsoft (John Cook's Venture Blog)

johncook@seattlepi.com (John Cook) — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:54:00 GMT

Greg Linden, who founded the personalized online news service Findory and spent five years at Amazon.com helping to develop the retailer's shopping recommendation service, has joined Microsoft's Live Labs group as a principal researcher.

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Persai, meet Findory and Thoof (mathewingram.com/work)

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:32:01 GMT

... can't succeed. Maybe they can. Maybe they're that much smarter than Greg Linden, who founded Findory , or Ian Clarke, who was behind Thoof . Maybe they have some kind of secret sauce. Not to mention the fact that I’m only going on what has been reported about Persai . All that said, though, I have to think that the odds are stacked against these guys. A personalized news aggregator is an...

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Congrats to Greg Linden, Joining MS Live Labs (Resource Shelf)

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:57:09 GMT

Greg Linden, founder and developer of the now gone, Findory, personalized news and blog service will be joining MS Live Labs as reported by Matt Hurst. Congrats to our friend Greg on his new job. Not only is Greg a really great guy but few have taught us and made us think more about personalization/customization/etc. [...]

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Linden's Web 2.0 doomsday prediction (John Cook's Venture Blog)

johncook@seattlepi.com (John Cook) — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:50:00 GMT

Findory founder Greg Linden speculates on a coming Web 2.0 crash in 2008, noting that it "will be more prolonged and deeper than the crash of 2000."

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A brief history of Findory (Geeking with Greg)

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:46:00 GMT

Findory was a personalized news site. The site launched in January 2004 and shut down November 2007. A reader first coming to Findory would see a normal front page of news, the popular and important news stories of the day. When someone read articles on the site, Findory learned what stories interested that reader and changed the news that was featured to match that reader's interests. In this way,...

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Findory turns off the lights (Geeking with Greg)

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:47:00 GMT

Findory turned off its last webserver today. Sadness. Previous posts ( [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] ) have more details on the shutdown and Findory's history.

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FADEOUTS FROM FINDORY, FEEDSTER (Population Statistic)

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:31:40 GMT

The past several days weren't kind ones for Web 2.0 sites starting with the letter “F”: - Findory, a news/blog content aggregator founded by Amazon.com alumnus Greg Linden, was shuttered toward the end of November. At least Linden left a note, unlike: - Feedster, the onetime RSS-feed search engine, which up and disappeared without advanced warning. From what I [...]

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Findory officially shuts down (John Cook's Venture Blog)

johncook@seattlepi.com (John Cook) — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:26:00 GMT

Back in January, Findory founder Greg Linden announced plans to shut down the online personalized news service. At the time, the former Amazon.com developer said it would be a slow wind down.

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Tiinker - Recommendation Without Organization (Mashable)

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:31:31 GMT

I have to admit I’m somewhat skeptical about RSS readers that “adapt to my reading habits” and serve me the “stories I like”. The reason is simple: I’ve tried out many (some similar services are now defunct Findory and Spotplex), and none have ever worked out that well for me. It's probably the nature of [...]

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ResearchBuzz Roundup 101707 (Research Buzz)

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 02:33:54 GMT

Hitachi says 4-TB drives by 2009? Findory! You will be missed. GMail's getting more storage. MP3 Spam. > eyeroll

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Goodbye to Findory (WebPro News)

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:26:34 GMT

I missed the news over my vacation that Greg Linden was shutting down Findory on November 1, just 15 days away. After that, my favorite startup and news source will be no more, and to say that's a shame would be an understatement. Greg took the work he pioneered on personalization at Amazon and brought it to news, and the results were effective and useful, becoming a large part of my news discovery...

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LexBlog Q & A: Greg Linden of Findory (Real Lawyers :: Have Blogs)

rob@lexblog.com (Rob La Gatta) — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:53:23 GMT

Today we return with another LexBlog Q & A (formerly Five Questions ), this time featuring web personalization guru Greg Linden . Greg developed the engine that drives Amazon.com's recommendation system and, more recently (in 2004) founded Findory.com . After Kevin recently wrote about Findory's impending closure , I got in touch with Greg for a brief e-mail interview regarding his experience...

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Goodbye, Findory (Inside Google)

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:46:10 GMT

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Starting Findory: Hardware go boom (Geeking with Greg)

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 22:09:00 GMT

Computers go down, a lot more often than we might like. For most of Findory's four years, it ran on six servers. In that time, those servers had one drive failure, one bad memory chip, and four power supplies fail. Of these, only the two power supply failures caused outages on the site, one of one hour and one a painful eight hour outage. There were a few other short outages due to network problems...

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Findory is sadly going offline (Real Lawyers :: Have Blogs)

kevin@lexblog.com (Kevin) — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:33:31 GMT

Om Malik reports this morning that Seattle's Greg Linden, the founder of the news aggregation service, Findory , is shutting down the service on November 1. Greg, an early believer in the personalization of news and info, had this to say from his personal blog . Some day, online newspapers will focus on your interests, building you your own unique, customized front page of news. Some day, search...

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Plug To Be Finally Pulled On Findory (TechCrunch)

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:02:25 GMT

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 preach the gospel of personalized news, despite Findory's failure: Some day, online newspapers will focus on your interests, building you your [...]...

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Findory heads for the deadpool (Frostfirebuzz.com )

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:57:16 GMT

Some day, online newspapers will focus on your interests, building you your own unique, customized front page of news. Some day, search engines will learn from what you do to help you find what you need. Some day, your computer will adapt to your needs to help with the task at hand. Some day, information overload will be tamed."

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