Seattle’s Blue Dot Inc., founders of an innovative Web site for Social Discovery® (www.bluedot.us), is offering several new features that change the way people share online and offline resources with friends and encourage further social interaction between users. Blue Dot, which has nearly tripled its user base since the launch, says the new features were added as a response to user feedback and also fits into their long term strategy to be the best way for people to share information.
Blue Dot users can now send personal messages to any user, increasing social interaction on the site. They can also see if they have received any new comments, messages or friend requests since a previous log-in.
Blue Dot has also enhanced compatibility with other social networking sites. Blue Dot is now compatible with sites like MySpace, Facebook and Friendster. Blue Dot users who also use one of those social networking sites can display Blue Dot content on their page which is updated regularly to include the user’s most recent Dots. This gives users an easy way to keep their pages fresh with very little effort.
Each time a user creates a new Dot, they have the option to keep it private, share it with a specific group or share it with the entire Blue Dot community. Users can now see who each Dot has been shared with in the Dot display bar. “Every time I create a Dot, I now know it is being distributed to everyone in my extended social network, no matter what site they are using,” says co-founder, Mohit Srivastava.
“This release is exciting for us because we believe sharing interesting Web content is so inherently social and these features help bolster that concept by making discussions and socializing on Blue Dot even easier,” says Kabir Shahani, the Dot Connector at Blue Dot. “As our user base grows, we will continue to listen to our users and create new features accordingly.”
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