Otavo, pioneering the intentional web revolution. http://blog.otavo.com Otavo - The Intention Engine's Official Blog Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:14:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 en Google loves Otavo…again. http://blog.otavo.com/2006/11/15/google-loves-otavoagain/ http://blog.otavo.com/2006/11/15/google-loves-otavoagain/#comments Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:54:34 +0000 amanuel Otavo google http://blog.otavo.com/2006/11/15/google-loves-otavoagain/ After speaking with various people on the net, we found a way to contact Google.

Google has rectified the situation. Thanks to everyone that helped.

Cheers.

Amanuel

]]> http://blog.otavo.com/2006/11/15/google-loves-otavoagain/feed/ Google still pretending there is no Otavo http://blog.otavo.com/2006/10/25/google-still-pretending-there-is-no-otavo/ http://blog.otavo.com/2006/10/25/google-still-pretending-there-is-no-otavo/#comments Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:27:34 +0000 amanuel Otavo google http://blog.otavo.com/2006/10/25/google-still-pretending-there-is-no-otavo/ We are disappointed that our attempts to get an official response from Google have failed.

Several SEOs we contacted found our situation suspicious. They said it is strange that we are no where in the index despite the many highly PageRanked sites linking to Otavo.

It is one thing to complain about not coming up for the standard keywords like “best web 2.0 site”…but for our own name? Bad Google. Bad.

What is a little 2.0 company like Otavo to do?

]]> http://blog.otavo.com/2006/10/25/google-still-pretending-there-is-no-otavo/feed/ Google erases Otavo http://blog.otavo.com/2006/10/11/google-erases-otavo/ http://blog.otavo.com/2006/10/11/google-erases-otavo/#comments Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:05:56 +0000 amanuel Otavo google http://blog.otavo.com/2006/10/11/google-erases-otavo/ Sometime last week, Otavo suddenly got removed from the Google index. So now when you search for Otavo, we are no where to be seen. We still don’t know why this has happened, but we do hope that Google clears up their glitch.

We are investigating the situation and will update you as soon as we know more.

…we hope this is not an intentional act by Google.

]]> http://blog.otavo.com/2006/10/11/google-erases-otavo/feed/ Otavo enters public beta http://blog.otavo.com/2006/07/25/otavo-enters-public-beta/ http://blog.otavo.com/2006/07/25/otavo-enters-public-beta/#comments Wed, 26 Jul 2006 00:30:53 +0000 amanuel Intentional Web Otavo News Intention Economy http://blog.otavo.com/2006/07/25/otavo-enters-public-beta/ Here is the announcement

Go register, start a quest, engage and enjoy yourself. The wait is over.

Several announcements will follow over the next couple of days…right now…we are going to just watch the server logs for the next few hours….look at it go….OMG!!!

:)

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Thank you all for your feedback. Keep them coming…

]]> http://blog.otavo.com/2006/07/13/breaking-the-silence/feed/ Techcrunch writes about Otavo http://blog.otavo.com/2006/04/11/techcrunch-writes-about-otavo/ http://blog.otavo.com/2006/04/11/techcrunch-writes-about-otavo/#comments Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:24:16 +0000 amanuel Blog Posts Media Articles Otavo News http://blog.otavo.com/2006/04/11/techcrunch-writes-about-otavo/ Michael Arrington at Techcrunch Wrote:
Ontario based Otavo is in the final couple of weeks of private beta testing and will be launching in May. I have been testing the service for a few days.

It is a new social bookmarking site with an interesting twist. Users can group tagged bookmarks under “quests” which are public search/research tools. Pete Cashmore saw it in March and calls it collaborative web search. I think that, like Wink, it shows the power of user generated tagging to produce good search results. Once the knowledge base is populated, many people could use this as a resource, and link to individual quest pages.

If you are interested in trying it out before launch, enter your email on the home page.

While Otavo has similarites to successful social bookmarking models it is quite different.

Otavo’s core concept is to organize your information on intentions (we call quests) instead of tags. Tags are used as a secondary organizer.

What’s the difference between Tags and Intentions?

Tags are categories. As categories, a tag does not store HOW or WHY you would use the information tagged, just where it belongs in the grand scheme of things.

Intentions store HOW and WHY you want to use the information.

This allows users to organize information for a specific purpose instead of just filing it like a librarian.

]]> http://blog.otavo.com/2006/04/11/techcrunch-writes-about-otavo/feed/ 2.0 Needs to Help Me FIGURE OUT What I Want http://blog.otavo.com/2006/03/14/20-needs-to-help-me-figure-out-what-i-want/ http://blog.otavo.com/2006/03/14/20-needs-to-help-me-figure-out-what-i-want/#comments Tue, 14 Mar 2006 20:09:36 +0000 amanuel Blog Posts Intention Economy http://blog.otavo.com/2006/03/14/20-needs-to-help-me-figure-out-what-i-want/ In 2.0 Needs to Help Me FIGURE OUT What I Want Scott Karp writes:

….This is why I come back to the same basic principle — life is complicated, and we need help figuring things out.

But getting help in 2.0 is not about prostrating to the power of media and marketing 1.0 — it’s about having the right tools, marketplace, and infrastructure to enable me to first FIGURE OUT what I want, and then to efficiently find it.

Maybe what I really want is a BMW 3, but I just haven’t “connected the dots.”…

Thanks to all the technological innovations in content creation and publication, there are real no content consumers left in the traditional sense left. We have all become publishers. The net has evolved to become a big 2-way medium for human communication.

By focusing on human defined intentions, Otavo gives its users just enough structure to form a meaningful dialog. We call each dialog a quest, and as each quest proceeds, users ‘connect the dots’ with the help of others in a natural fashion as in a communication medium.

I think the problem Scott and others keep running into is continuing to see the web 2.0 as a publishing medium when it really has transformed into a communication platform.

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]]> http://blog.otavo.com/2006/03/14/20-needs-to-help-me-figure-out-what-i-want/feed/ Stowe Boyd responds to Doc Searls on The Intention Economy http://blog.otavo.com/2006/03/13/stowe-boyd-responds-to-doc-searls-on-the-intention-economy/ http://blog.otavo.com/2006/03/13/stowe-boyd-responds-to-doc-searls-on-the-intention-economy/#comments Mon, 13 Mar 2006 18:45:04 +0000 amanuel Blog Posts Intentional Web Intention Economy http://blog.otavo.com/2006/03/13/stowe-boyd-responds-to-doc-searls-on-the-intention-economy/ Stowe wrote:

Perhaps part of that can be discerned from the conversations we are having online, in blogs and chat, but maybe not. Perhaps just a simple statement of intent might go a long way.

Otavo’s approach is to group statements of intent (we call them quests) to create a place that allows users to find what they are looking for with the help of others. In Otavo, a user’s intent may start as a vague desire but as information for the stated intent amasses it is shaped and clarified.

]]> http://blog.otavo.com/2006/03/13/stowe-boyd-responds-to-doc-searls-on-the-intention-economy/feed/ Following the path from intention to attention http://blog.otavo.com/2006/03/13/following-the-path-from-intention-to-attention/ http://blog.otavo.com/2006/03/13/following-the-path-from-intention-to-attention/#comments Mon, 13 Mar 2006 18:38:51 +0000 amanuel Blog Posts Intentional Web Intention Economy http://blog.otavo.com/2006/03/13/following-the-path-from-intention-to-attention/ Phil describes exactly what Otavo’s Intention Engine does when he wrote:

No, I think the intention side of the equation has much more power. I’d rather use my intentions, along with those of other like-minded people, to get things that otherwise would be unavailable.

Full article is located here: Following the path from intention to attention

]]> http://blog.otavo.com/2006/03/13/following-the-path-from-intention-to-attention/feed/ Doc has created a little buzz about intentions http://blog.otavo.com/2006/03/13/doc-has-created-a-little-buzz-about-intentions/ http://blog.otavo.com/2006/03/13/doc-has-created-a-little-buzz-about-intentions/#comments Mon, 13 Mar 2006 18:30:20 +0000 amanuel Blog Posts Intentional Web Intention Economy http://blog.otavo.com/2006/03/13/doc-has-created-a-little-buzz-about-intentions/ Doc Searls posted at the Linux Journal blog, The Intention Economy.

We agree with Doc that it is all about intentions and an intention economy. While we called it an intentional web instead of intention economy, I think we are talking about similar things.

The Attention economy’s concept of following my every action to create value creeps me out. Whereas, telling others what I want or am looking for (my intentions) somehow feels more natural.

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