Wow, what a year we had!
So much has happened it feels like we live a whole life in 2007. Several major releases of the BlueOrganizer, launch of SmartLinks and SmartLink Widgets, series A funding by Union Square Ventures, major conferences and press coverage are just a few things that happen to us in 2007.
For the most of 2006 it was just me and Andy. In 2007 we transitioned from a two guys with an idea and determination to a funded startup with an awesome team focused on delivering the next generation of smart browsing technologies. It was a huge leap and I am proud of what we have accomplished this year.
2008 is going to be a defining year for AdaptiveBlue. We have put all the pillars in place and ready to connect the dots in the really interesting way. We are going to either build a business or decide that what we developed up to now is no more than an interesting bit of technology. All of us genuinely believe that we are onto something big and that there is a company worth fighting for here. Only time will tell.
In the mean time, we can sit back and watch the 2007 time machine. The wonderful thing about this one is that it is nothing but certainty :) And so now without further delay, the AdaptiveBlue in 2007 timeline:
January 5: BlueOrganizer 3.1 is shipped.
February 12: BlueOrganizer 3.2 released.
February 19: Jeff Condal joins AdaptiveBlue as a Software Engineer.
February 20: Union Square Ventures leads AdaptiveBlue’s Series A.
March 21: 500,000 downloads of the BlueOrganizer.
March 24: AdaptiveBlue is covered by PC Magazine in the article about Semantic Web.
May 21: BlueOrganizer Denim released.
May 22: BlueOrganizer launch is covered by major blogs including TechCrunch.
May 27: BlueOrganizer is covered in Wired blog.
June 8: Karen presents BlueOrganizer at the New York tech meetup.
June 21: AdaptiveBlue presents at Supernova as one of the connected innovators.
June 27: Brad Feld and Biltmore Ventures are join our series A led by Union Square Ventures.
June 29: Articles about AdaptiveBlue in Red Herring and eWeek.
July 9: Computer World names Alex as one of the top 40 technologists under 40.
July 10: Red Herring picks AdaptiveBlue as one of the top startups to watch in New York.
July 12: AdaptiveBlue exhibits in the Digital Playground at the Fortune iMeme conference.
August 13: BlueOrganizer 3.3.2 released.
September 13: Fraser Kelton is joining AdaptiveBlue as a Director of Business development.
September 20: Alex participated on the SIIA panel on Widgets.
October 4: Alex interviewed by Jennifer Zaino for SemanticWeb.com.
October 20: 1,000,000 downloads of the BlueOrganizer.
October 23: Automatic SmartLinks are launched.
October 30: New SmartLink Widgets launch - Amazon WishList, Last.fm Top Artists, Netflix Queue and much more.
November 1: Alex was one of the panelist on the Future of the Web 2.0 in Business panel on The New New Internet conference in Washington D.C.
November 5 : Alex and Fraser showed off SmartLinks and widgets at Defrag. Alex gave talk on Structured Attention.
November 8 : AdaptiveBlue crew showed off SmartLinks and widgets at BlogWorld in Las Vegas. We gambled and watched “O” too!
November 20: Alex Iskold participates in the Semantic Web panel at Stanford along with Rober Cook from Metaweb, Nova Spivack from Radar Networks and Paul Kedrosky from Venture West.
November 29: Richard MacManus highlights AdaptiveBlue among top 10 Semantic Web companies to watch.
December 3: New toolbar icons now appear in the BlueOrganizer when you browse books, movies, music, stocks, restaurants, wine and more.
December 13: New Dashboard lets bloggers track popularity of SmartLinks on their blogs.
December 13: New install wizard for SmartLinks and widgets support more options and many new platforms including iGoogle and Tumblr
December 13: AdaptiveBlue is selected to present at the prestigious Down Jones Venture One Summit.
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A fine year! :-)
But speaking as an avid user of your product, please tell us whether BlueOrganizer is ever likely to add non-US websites? You got a disappointingly poor review in Linux Format magazine (the biggest selling Linux magazine in the UK) here because of the US-centric nature of your product. I’m thinking of big websites such as http://www.amazon.co.uk and http://www.ebay.co.uk here.
Any thoughts?
Baxter,
We do support Amazon.uk. For example, I just tried:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0571237797
and blueorganizer recognized it as a book.
EBay is trickier, we do not recognize items even in US.
Where is that negative review you referring to, I can’t find it.
In terms of support for non-US sites, yes we have been bad. It is difficult for us to do that since we are small. We do hope to change this next year as we grow.
Thanks for your patience and support,
Alex
congrats. keep up the good work
Amazon UK: I’ve just tried it again (first time for a wee while) and it does work now. Many thanks for setting this site up to work with the extension. I’ll definitely be using this rather than Amazon US.
eBay: I’m afraid I’m not sure of the technicalities involved. Since you’ve had ebay.com available for a while, although I’ve never tried it (I wouldn’t ever buy from eBay’s US site to import because of the customs and tax duties), I presumed it did something useful, whereas ebay.co.uk isn’t listed, which made me think I was losing out on functionality.
The Linux Format review is in the UK printed magazine. I’ve just checked their website, but they don’t seem to publish the same content there: http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/
If you like, I can type up the review, or send you a scan from the magazine. But for info, BlueOrganizer got 4 out of 10. The main reason for the score was “if the service gets expanded to take less of an American slant [] this could be a worthwhile addition to your browser. The edited bit referred to Amazon UK, which is obviously now included.
I do appreciate that you’re a small company, and I wish you every success with an innovative product.