http://blog.otavo.com Otavo - The Intention Engine's Official Blog Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:14:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ 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 ... http://blog.otavo.com/2006/10/25/google-still-pretending-there-is-no-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 ... http://blog.otavo.com/2006/10/11/google-erases-otavo/ 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!!! :) http://blog.otavo.com/2006/07/25/otavo-enters-public-beta/ We have been quite the last couple of month as we made major changes to Otavo. Thank you all for your feedback. Keep them coming... http://blog.otavo.com/2006/07/13/breaking-the-silence/ 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 ... http://blog.otavo.com/2006/04/11/techcrunch-writes-about-otavo/ 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 ... http://blog.otavo.com/2006/03/14/20-needs-to-help-me-figure-out-what-i-want/ 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 ... http://blog.otavo.com/2006/03/13/stowe-boyd-responds-to-doc-searls-on-the-intention-economy/ 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 ... http://blog.otavo.com/2006/03/13/following-the-path-from-intention-to-attention/ 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 ... http://blog.otavo.com/2006/03/13/doc-has-created-a-little-buzz-about-intentions/