YouChoose, LLC
YouChoose Distributed Forums
- Conference
- DEMO 08
- Market Segment
- Enabling Technology
- Funding Details
- $900,000 self-funded, $700,000 angel funding
- Competitors
- No direct competitors. The secondary competitors are primarily the integrated comment feature provided on blogger, typepad and other blogging websites.
- Product Description
- The YouChoose Distributed Forums is a simple widget that replaces the 'comment' section at the bottom of most blog posts and news articles, and on people's social network personal pages. Comments entered in the widget appear immediately on all websites that are hosting the widget. This creates a shared global conversion across a distributed social network, enhancing community and activity on each host site.
- Market Opportunity
- There are more than 100 million blogs (technorati) of which 87% (Pew) allow comments. There are thousands of online editions of print newspapers that accept comments at the end of each article. The market opportunity is to replace those ‘local’ comments with the community discussion created through distributed forums.
- DEMO Says
- With a thriving online community around activism already established, YouChoose wouldn’t seem a likely candidate to shake up the commenting landscape. But that’s precisely what its Distributed Forums widget does. Bringing much-needed critical mass to commenting, Distributed Forums’ aggregation of all comments into one issue-specific widget grants new power to the smallest of Web sites. Joe Schmo sharing and participating in the same discussions as ABC News — that’s true citizen journalism.
- Contact
- Mike Dever
- mike@youchoose.net
- Company Address
-
The Mill, 381 Brinton Lake Rd.
Thornton, PA 19373 - Primary Phone
- 610-361-2000
- Primary Fax
- 610-361-3001
- URL
- www.youchoose.net
- Corporate Officers
- Mike Dever, CEO & Founder Kane Bender, Chief Creative Officer & Founder John Quillen, CTO
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