TC50: YourVersion Wins People's Choice Award In The DemoPit
YourVersion launched today, and looks to help users search for content across blogs, multimedia sites, Twitter, and other social sites, updating with relevant content in real-time. Rather than force users to run the same searches multiple times or rely on a clunky bookmark system, YourVersion pays attention to your interests, and presents results accordingly. You can browse through results from all of these content sources, indicating which ones you like (or dislike) using thumbs up or thumbs down functions.
For mobile users, YourVersion offers an iPhone application, which you can download for free on the App Store here. There’s also a Firefox extension that allows users to quickly share their favorite blog posts and news articles on Facebook, Twitter, and other services.
Q: So it’s like Digg and reddit without needing user submissions? Do you have commenting?
A: Yes, this also helps prevent the editorial tone you get on those sites. We will have comments in the future.
Q: How do you get more passive discovery?
A: There’s a line between implicit and explicit. You’ve got thumb, share, etc as explicit. Below that is implicit — if people repeatedly go to the same sites again and again on the same topics, that’s a good indicator.
Video:
http://www.ustream.tv/flash/video/2164204
Other Coverage:
TechCrunch50: YourVersion – StumbleUpon, But Better? AppScout.
YourVersion Sign-Up Process Works Instigator Blog.
YourVersion Wins People’s Choice Award at TechCrunch50 Conference Marketwire.
YourVersion Launches Real-Time Discovery Engine at TechCrunch50 Conference MarketWatch.