Interest: Site: Ardorado

From Ardorado.com

Site URL: http://www.ardorado.com

Interests covered: Ardorado, Semantic Web

Abstract: Ardorado.com the online guide to all your interests.

Everyone of us has an interest, hobby, or passion. We have collected thousands of activities people tell us and other web sites they are interested in and passionate about (currently the count is 470,607 and growing everyday), then we sorted though millions of web pages connected to these interests and passions, and in the end we cataloged this vast amount of information to create this unique site dedicated to your interests, hobbies, and passions.

Description: Sometimes you need to spend hours or days to find just the right information and products in traditional search engines. Especially if what you are searching for is information about a unique interest. We admire Wikipedia, but we know that people most times are looking for more than an academic description of a topic. For example, people also want current news and posts, and are interested in connecting to websites related to the topic. We admire Amazon, eBay, Last.fm and many other great e-commerce sites but we believe people want to and should spend much less time finding the things they a looking for online.

As we sought a solution to the issues mentioned above we started with these basic basic premises: each person has an interest, hobby, or passion; furthermore, these interests and passions are acclaimed and declared in millions of online personal profiles, then we thought why not collect, catalogue and expand on the information available in online profiles? Moreover, why not use the self-declared interests, hobbies and passions as the basis for identifying and organizing all the best online resources related to these interests? And as a final touch why not have all this information available in ONE place?

Therefore, Semantic Communities, LLC created ardorado.com. We see Ardorado as somewhat related to Google and Yahoo, but very different. What makes it different is that we think people want to see information relevant to their search rather than relevant to those who happened to have purchased the particular search term on a search result page. Ardorado.com is an extensive collection of thousands of activities, interests, hobbies, and passions (currently 470,607 and counting). We constantly catalog and organize this growing interests collection. We crawl millions of web pages looking for current news, blog posts, web sites, and e-commerce opportunities all with the goal of sorting and organizing this mass of information by interest. Next, we put to work web 2.0 technologies - using several well knows widgets and some created by us - to provide you with the ability to rate, comment, add, edit and refine the content of each topic. Here is where we need your help and passionate involvement.

The private beta version of ardorado.com consists of the 15,000 most popular interests. We have done a lot of preliminary heavy lifting to jump start the site. We wanted to create a solid basis upon which people who want the very best of on-line information and resources about their interests and passions can build and expand the content base. We see this site as a partnership. We will constantly seek to expand the quantity and quality of the content we publish.

We cannot grow and become THE resource for all the human interests without your active involvement. We know ardorado.com offers a very unique opportunity to you: quickly find all basic and current information about the things you like. Come on in, look for your interests. If you do not find what you are looking for create a page for it. We welcome you to correct our mistakes, give us suggestions, share information and content. Help us make ardorado.com a vibrant and active community, a place where publisher and consumer collaborate to create the best content possible.

We hope that Ardorado will become the one and only online guide to all your passions.

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