SportsLizard Entrepreneur Blog - Comments
Thanks for this post, Adam!
You capture very well the unique approach that we take at adaptiveblue. We are working hard to make things easy for people on the web, to save people time really.
Come by everyone, check out the blueorganizer and send us feedback!
Alex
What's their privacy policy? Does this convenient tool cost in terms of information given?
Pardon my cynicism. You can never be too careful and the way people sell information these days makes me sick.
Adam-
It's very inspiring and refreshing to see an entrepreneur who has taken a risk by leaving comfort and security to follow your dreams.
I wanted to let you know I enjoy reading your blog as well!
I'd love to chat if possible.
All the best,
Adam Gilbert
Thanks for the comments guys -
Donyell, I certainly understand your cynicism with everything going on out there, but this appears to be safe to me.
You do have the option to make your information public (to share with friends, family, etc) if you choose, but they never sell your info. Here's a clip from their privacy policy:
"adaptiveblue does not sell, trade or rent information pertaining to individual user's blueorganizer collections, settings or preferences to the third parties."
"Say we find an interesting book on Amazon, a wine to buy for a friend's birthday, or a restaurant that we'd like to visit next Valentines day. The moment we bookmark the site, the rich concept like a book, a wine or a restaurant instantly disappears. Instead what we have left is the link: a piece of text that will not be meaningful a week from now. Why not? Because we do not think in terms of links. We think in terms of concepts like books, wines and restaurants."
I disagree; this is precisely what tags are for. When I tag that wine link I tag it intelligently with things like "wine gift friend birthday present". I can immediately find that gift I wanted to get Joe for his birthday. What do I need blueorganizer for?
A couple of comments on the posts:
First privacy. We take it super seriously. We do NOTHING behind users back and give the user complete control of the data. Specifically, the data is stored securely on Amazon S3, we do not store any of the user's data.
In the coming 2.4 release, you will see the following additional privacy fatures: Export and Import your bluemarks and Delete your account completely.
Second point about bluemarks vs. bookmarks. The tags are great, Jorge, but you have to do much more work. For example, if you grab a book like Da Vinci code, you need to manually tag it as Dan Brown. Blueorganizer does this for you. And even if you tag it, your browser still does not know that 'Dan Brown' tag represents an author, so you can't find all other books by Dan Brown with one click with the current browser, but you can do that with blueorganizer.
Alex
We just released brand new website, new look and feel and blueorganizer 2.5. Many new features, including smart paging, import/export, etc. at http://www.adaptiveblue.com
Alex
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