Quickbrowse
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| Quicbrowse.com, Inc. | |
|---|---|
| Type | Private |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Headquarters | Miami Beach, Florida, USA |
| Key people | Marc Fest, Founder and CEO |
| Industry | Internet |
| Products | metabrowsing |
| Website | www.quickbrowse.com |
Quickbrowse is 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.
[edit] History
Quickbrowse received wide media coverage[1][2][3][4] during the height of the Dot-com bubble. It was quickly followed by other metabrowsers such as Octopus.com (backed by Netscape founder Marc Andreesen), 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[5]. Onepage received $25 million in venture capital funding[6]. Quickbrowse received half a million dollar in angel funding. It is the only one of the original Web-based metabrowsers still operating today. Quickbrowse backers included its lead investor, Geocities.com founder David Bohnett, the financial writer Andrew Tobias and CBS hurricane expert Bryan Norcross.
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.
[edit] References
- ^ Mark Frauenfelder. "Don't just browse the Web--metabrowse!", CNN, April 24, 2000. Retrieved on 2007-01-27.
- ^ Tom Weber. "Custom-Tailored Online News Can Be Dangerous for Society", The Wall Street Journal, October 15, 2001.
- ^ J.D. Lasica (August 2, 2001). "An in-depth look at the different flavors of personalization". Online Journalism Review. ISSN 1522-6883.
- ^ complete media coverage of Quickbrowse.com Quickbrowse pressroom. Retrieved on 2007-01-23.
- ^ "Highbeam.com Octopus.com Closes First Round Funding From Redpoint Ventures", PR Newswire, November 15, 1999. Retrieved on 2007-01-23.
- ^ VentureWire.com Venturewire.com (archived at archive.org). Retrieved on 2007-01-23.
