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Geeking with Greg (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
[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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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 03/05/2008
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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WebPro News (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
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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John Cook's Venture Blog (Free subscription) | 02/01/2008
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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mathewingram.com/work (Free subscription) | 01/31/2008
... 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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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008
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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John Cook's Venture Blog (Free subscription) | 01/05/2008
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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Geeking with Greg (Free subscription) | 01/03/2008
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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Geeking with Greg (Free subscription) | 12/18/2007
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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Population Statistic (Free subscription) | 12/09/2007
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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John Cook's Venture Blog (Free subscription) | 12/01/2007
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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Mashable (Free subscription) | 11/12/2007
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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Research Buzz (Free subscription) | 10/22/2007
Hitachi says 4-TB drives by 2009? Findory! You will be missed. GMail's getting more storage. MP3 Spam. > eyeroll
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WebPro News (Free subscription) | 10/16/2007
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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Real Lawyers :: Have Blogs (Free subscription) | 10/15/2007
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...
