Faves is a Topics network that wants to help you find, share, and store content that you find interesting.  You start out by selecting topics that you want to be informed about.  Everything that other Faves members have favored that fit into your selected topics, will show up on your homepage.  These Faves can be voted up or down enabling you to find the most popular content.  As you scroll through stories, they’ll be marked as read so you won’t keep getting the same stories over and over.  Every time you vote on something, it will be saved so you can find it later.  There are friends to be made on Faves, but you don’t have to be friends with anyone in order to find content you want.  Adding things to Faves is easy with their bookmarklets and you can even choose the image you want associated with it.

BlueDot just relaunched as Faves, and I think they did a great job.  It was July 2006 when I created a screencast for BlueDot and a few weeks later they invited me to their launch party.  Wasn’t that sweet?  When I saw they had relaunched as Faves, I quickly went back to my screencast of BlueDot to see the differences.  Whoa!  Not only has BlueDot improved with their new name and site, but my screencasting has definitely improved as well.  Now, I never ever toot my own horn.  In fact, it’s usually the opposite.  But watching the screencast for BlueDot (it’s not even in Flash!) made me want to crawl under my desk and hide.  If you decide to check it out here, note that at the time I was using a twenty dollar microphone and sound like I didn’t have a clue as to what I was talking about.   Here’s my screencast tour of Faves:

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( source:  CenterNetworks)