Quickbrowse
{{Infobox company |
name = Quickbrowse.com, Inc. |
type = Private|
foundation = {{start date and age|1998|12|14}}{{cite web|url=http://whois.domaintools.com/quickbrowse.com|title=QuickBrowse.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools|work=WHOIS|access-date=2016-03-26}}|
location = Miami Beach, Florida, U.S.|
key_people = Marc Fest, Founder and CEO|
products = metabrowsing|
industry = Internet|
homepage = [http://www.quickbrowse.com/ www.quickbrowse.com] |
}}
Quickbrowse was a Web-based subscription service that enables users to browse multiple Web pages more quickly by combining them vertically into a single Web page. It was one of the early metabrowsing services.
History
Quickbrowse received wide media coverage{{cite news | url = http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/04/24/metabrowser.idg/index.html | title = Don't just browse the Web--metabrowse! | date = April 24, 2000 | author = Mark Frauenfelder | work = CNN| access-date = 2007-01-27}}{{cite news | url = http://www.quickbrowse.com/press/wsj3/ | title = Custom-Tailored Online News Can Be Dangerous for Society | date = October 15, 2001 | author = Tom Weber | work = The Wall Street Journal }}{{cite journal | title = An in-depth look at the different flavors of personalization | author = J.D. Lasica | journal = Online Journalism Review | date = August 2, 2001 | url = http://www.jdlasica.com/articles/personalization.html | access-date = 2007-01-27 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070124165235/http://www.jdlasica.com/articles/personalization.html |archive-date = 2007-01-24}}complete media coverage of Quickbrowse.com [http://www.quickbrowse.com/press/ Quickbrowse pressroom]. Retrieved on 2007-01-23. during the height of the Dot-com bubble. It was quickly followed by other metabrowsers such as Octopus.com (backed by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen), Onepage.com (backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen), iHarvest.com, Katiesoft.com and Calltheshots.com - all of which have ceased to operate as metabrowsers. Octopus received more than $11.4 million in venture capital funding from Redpoint Ventures.{{cite news | title = Octopus.com Closes First Round Funding From Redpoint Ventures | work = PR Newswire | date = November 15, 1999 | url = http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-57560768.html?refid=ency_botnm%20Highbeam.com | access-date = 2007-01-23}}{{dead link|date=February 2019|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} Onepage received $25 million in venture capital funding.VentureWire.com [https://web.archive.org/web/20020205011821/http://onepage.com/press/venturewire.html Venturewire.com (archived at archive.org)]. Retrieved on 2007-01-23. Quickbrowse received half a million dollars in angel funding. Quickbrowse backers included its lead investor, Geocities.com founder David Bohnett, the financial writer Andrew Tobias and CBS hurricane expert Bryan Norcross. From 2001-2004, the Miami Herald licensed Quickbrowse and operated myHerald.com, a service that was based on the Quickbrowse approach of customizable Web content. Quickbrowse ceased operation in 2005.
Quickbrowse was created by Marc Fest, a former journalist and self-taught programmer who initially created it as a tool to facilitate his daily journalist research.
References
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External links
- [http://www.marcfest.com Marc Fest personal Web site]