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Used a neat tool called Prezi to do it - very cool site, check it out! We wanted a tour that was a bit different and one that matched our ideals - I.E. very visual..

That is a fair point - these bullet points are our key sellers and this is something that people felt we had failed to do last time we posted. Do the bullet points give you a flavour of what the site is/does?

Funny you should say that. We are rolling out a bunch of features in the next week or so and this is one of them! Along with some enhancements to our bookmarking tools...So just to clarify you would like to click 'view it later' and it would email you the link to your primary email address? Is there any other features like this that you would like to see?

thanks

With regard to your first comment I will look into this and try and fix it - works fine in IE, Firefox and Chrome (I believe) but I thought that to be true of Safari too. I will look into it and fix it.

With regard to your second comment - Favilous is aimed at the mass market. We feel that Delicious, in particular, is a bookmarking site for 'techies' and we are keen that anyone can use Favilous. We also want to focus on the bookmarking and not just the social part of social bookmarking. We also feel we fit well with the IPhone and IPad markets - our site is particularly visual, clean and simple. Added to that the fact then when you are browsing from any browser be it IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari (on the IPhone or IPad) you can bookmark any link using Favilous

If you're somebody who thinks "I like this article but I haven't got time to read it now, I'll read it when I get home", you might email the link to yourself for when you do get home. With favilous you can click one button and it saves it for reading later.

We wanted a visually compelling site that focused on bookmarking and the ease of bookmarking. With additional touches such as being able to have your own background image, sending links to your Favilous followers, seeing what is popular on Favilous and discovering new sites and reading descriptions of sites.

We are also going to be offering a big feature in the coming weeks that we hope will give us a niche in what is a very competitive market.

It has been a month exactly since we posted Favilous for review.

You all gave us such excellent feedback and we have been working through each of those to try to enhance the site. We also have a lot of exciting new features that we are working on in the next month or two.

We have redesigned the homepage in line with your comments and we still need to tweak it some more.

We now have over 275 users (more than Reddit in their first month) and have over 7000 links bookmarked.

Any further help you can give would be much appreciated!

Thanks

Steve

That's a great post (the T-shirt one).

I think you are right - it does belong on a Reddit type site. I find it really frustrating that there is not a hacker news type service but for creative writers. I love startups but I also like to blog but it's hard getting any people to read my content!

You are right though there is more appropriate media out there for these sort of posts but I am just not certain what they are.

I am not sure I can spin it to meet the audience but I have noticed that the Hacker News audience is generally one that is very open minded and also one that likes to be entertained. This 'entertainment' normally comes in the form of startups and all things interent but there are also users who have a sense of humour (such as yourself) who can appreciate the odd, random entertaining post (I hope).

I think it does. HN may be the wrong target audience but I think the article meets someones intellectual curiosity...you just really need to want to see it!

The piece also deals with an important point...if you have your own startup and you are moving into an office - just ensure you don't get one with an elevator.

Given your username I think you would appreciate this random piece but I take on board your point and I won't post these types of articles in the future.

Would you pay for Pinboard? Say if you could also bookmark Spotify playlists (as an example)?

Thanks Daniel,

We have dealt with the 2nd and 4th issue - that should now be fine. The 5th we are looking into as you are quite correct; we just wanted it to get some people to review it even though we did not have 100% of the functions in yet.

With regard to the first point we will add some wording in to make this clearer and with regard to the third point we are trying to explain to our audience (a largely non-technical base we imagine) what all the buttons do.

Overall did you like the site? Any major features that you would like to see added? Thanks for your feedback - we have taken it all onboard.

This is great thanks. You are right - we certainly need to make the homepage clearer in message. It seems to be getting lost at the moment but we are really pleased you have found the bookmarking tools and find them useful!

Hi, we see it as being a simpler more stylish alternative which appeals to technical and non-technical people alike. We also distinguish between the sites you might traditionally store in your browser favourites versus the articles and blog posts you might view and store via delicious. So somewhere in between the facilities you get with a browser and an application like delicious. We also provide the facility to bookmark pages for viewing later or to tweet a link straight from a bookmarklet.