Posts in ‘Fav 2.0’

Fav 2.0 Tshirt

Some other active members or that provided feedback received a Fav 2.0 Tshirt personalized with their sites on it.

Google launched a new web browser: Chrome. When I tested it, I got scared because of the good new tab feature with most visited webpages easily accesible. I thought I was doomed with my fav20 project. But lets see what diffrences make fav20 still better then chrome:

Fav20 …

1. isn’t browser depandable - can run on any browser, even on mobile
2. doesn’t require instalation (plugin or program/new browser)
3. You can have your favorite websites anywhere using the account, even tho you don’t need a fav20 account to use fav20.
4. You can add/manage your most visited websites as you please, sort them, color them.
5. You can launch most visited websites with one click !

Because I trust LinkedIn, I started a small advertising campaign for fav20 with DirectAds.

Fav 2.0 Ad

The results was 1682 2500 impressions for 25$ and 0 1 clicks in 8 days. So I don’t know what to think, but I didn’t expect much, considering fav20.com beeing something new.

First time on fav20

If you are for the first time on fav20, I added a tooltip on top that lets you open a window to learn how to use it.

I think this will come in handy because most of the first time visits don’t know what is and how to use fav20.

First time on fav20 info window

You can always open the info window from the icon on fav20.

I asked a lot of people what bookmark services are they using. Most of them are:

• FireFox Speed Dial Plugin
• Opera (has a speed dial)
• iGoogle
• and I made Fav20 - why ? read bellow

All of them have pluses and minuses.

FireFox SpeedDial Plugin
+highly customizable, -browser dependable, -requires instalation

Opera
-limited(9 sites), -browser dependable, -requires instalation

iGoogle
+categories,+rss,-registration

Fav20
+no install and no registration required

Everybody can use any of the bookmark services above, most tech people will use FireFox plugin, but avarage user can find fav20 very simple to use and may love it, specialy now that he can move all his local saved pages to his account to access from any computer.

What bookmark service do you use and why ? 
 

You can now drag the Add to Fav20 bookmarklet to you Firefox Toolbar (or Right click -> add to favorites in Internet Explorer) to faster add the website you are viewing, without leaving your current page.

You can find the bookmarklet on footer of fav20.

On fav20, for users I added a new feature. You can change the tag color of a site to see it better or organize better (usefull if you have many sites). You can click to change color of the tag. There are 4 colors: blue, red, green, yellow. You can click more times untill you choose the best color or choose none.

You can not now register on fav20 and save your websites anywhere.

To login fast just enter the following url:
http://www.fav20.com/[your_user]

If you already used fav20, you can click the on the top right to copy all saved websites from cookies to your account. More features will be added soon. Report any bugs please.

Don’t forget you can test the users with http://www.fav20.com/demodemo , password: demo

I know a lot of you are waiting for the account feature, where you can have your favorite websites anywhere.

I have made a test account:
Link: http://www.fav20.com/demodemo
Password: demo

Note that anyone can add/delete anything they want there to test. Feedback here (comment) is appreciated.
I will work this days on the code, so if problems while you test come back in few minutes and test again.

Bonus features that accounts will have in the near future:

• Copy local saved websites to the account (websites will be saved on server);
• Unlimited number of websites (currently cookies are limited to 4k size ~ 40 websites).
• Clear interface (remove unnecessary explaining text and icons)

Other futures that will come:

• Categories/tabs (organize your websites in tabs)
• Open all marked websites (mark some websites that you want to open in one click)
• Some kind of socializing/interaction between users (still thinking of it)

Asteptand pe cineva, m-am apucat sa citesc bloguri cu telefonul (HTC Diamond), si mi-a venit util sa o fac de pe fav20.com. Am zis sa va arat si voua.