Blue Dot

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Blue Dot Inc.

Type of Company	Private
Founded	Seattle, Washington (2004)
Headquarters	Seattle, Washington
Key people	Mohit Srivastava, Co-Founder
Industry	Software & Programming
Slogan	Dot the Web, Connect with Friends
Website	www.bluedot.us

Blue Dot is a social bookmarking and networking software that installs a single browser button for users to "dot" a webpage, making a link to the page part of their Blue Dot profile. While offering a service similar to the better-known del.icio.us, Blue Dot has a wider range of functionality that encourages interaction with "friends" in rating the content of linked webpages.^[1]

Blue Dot Inc. was founded in 2004 by Mohit Srivastava using $1.5 million from angel investors, and the website bluedot.us was launched in June 2006.^[2] Blue Dot hopes to profit on of sales from "dotted" websites from its affiliate marketing program,^[3] and is part of the technology resurgence in the Washington Puget Sound area.^[4]

Blue Dot actively seeks interaction with early adopters in "pizza and soft drink" focus groups on campus that have been cautiously criticized by some academics.^[5]

[edit] See also

List of social networking websites

[edit] References

^ Harmony Satoshi, "Blue Dot challenges the innovator in social netwroking," CNET Japan [1] Last accessed 14 December 2006
^ Marshall Kirkpatrick, "Blue Dot is not just another social bookmarking system," TechCrunch [2] Last accessed 14 December 2006
^ Charles Bermant, "Blue Dot marks the spot for sharing best of Web," The Seattle Times [3] Last accessed 14 December 2006
^ Kim Peterson, "2006 Year in Review: 10 developments that kept local tech companies in the news," The Seattle Times [4] Last accessed 14 December 2006
^ John Cook, "Startup social networking sites find targeted, willing helpers on campus," Seattle Post-Intelligencer [5] Last accessed 14 December 2006