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Collactive

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Headquarters
  
Herzliya, Israel

Type of business
  
Private

Industry
  
Internet, Computer software

Key people
  
Eran Reshef, CEO Amir Hirsh, President

Products
  
"APB System", "Campaign Manager", "Collactive Web Assistant"

Website
  
www.collactive.com (defunct)

Founded
  
13 December 2006, Delaware, United States

Collactive Inc. was an Israel-based privately held start-up company which marked software designed to influence ratings on sites which allow users to rate articles or other items. Collactive launched publicly in May 2007, with US $2 million in startup funding from Sequoia Capital.

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Products

Collactive's main product was a system designed to influence ratings on key sites which measure the popularity of items on the Internet. The system had two main components, the APB component that allows an individual to create and distribute a "call for action" webpage, and the "Web Assistant", installed on a user's computer, which helped APB participants by automating the process of logging in, voting or commenting according to the previously created APB.

Controversy

Like its earlier Blue Service Team-released Blue Frog, Collactive's software was accused of being unethical.

Press coverage

  • "New Web 2.0 App Prompts Web 2.0 Elite To See Democracy As Spam", Wired blog entry by Ryan Singel.
  • "Web Sites' Lists Of 'Most Viewed' Too Easy to Game?", Wall Street Journal.
  • "Blue Frog reborn as traffic hoarder", InfoWorld
  • "Collactive seeks to overwhelm Digg, Reddit with interested stories", Venture Beat.
  • "Anti-spam tech reborn as web activist tool", The Register.
  • "Spammer Slammer Targets Politics", Wired.
  • References

    Collactive Wikipedia