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Lefora Offers Free Forum Hosting and Full RSS Feed Scraping

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:30:27 +0000

In the "friends of Meetup" category at last night’s NY Tech gathering, San Francisco-based Lefora presented their forums software. Lefora provides free forum hosting and offers two styles: a typical phpBB replacement and then a "new" style. The new style is geared more towards the Web 2.0 side and has a newsfeed style in design and usability. Lefora offers a variety of spam protection to keep your forums running and crowdsources spam prevention so the system learns over time. A NYC competitor is Yuku, part of the KickApps family.

The big turnoff for me on Lefora is that they allow you to repost entire full feeds from blogs and create a community around another site’s content. Presenter Vincent Lauria displayed how within 1 minute you can take Engadget’s full feed, and create threads for each piece of content. This type of scraping needs to be stopped. Outside of the fact that Lefora doesn’t care about content creators, the app functioned well.

More CN Coverage:
– FriendFeed
– Amie Street
– Startup Tips

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Anatomy Of A Failure: Lessons Learned

Wed, 21 May 2008 00:31:37 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
MySpace cfounder Tom Anderson is making a rare blogging appearance on the MySpace Developer blog this evening - outlining changes to their developer guidelines regarding how third party applications can communicate with users.
This is a a problem that Facebook has had to deal with extensively, including early changes to their platform to limit what we […]Source:TechCrunch
This post was written by guest contributor Paul Bragiel, founder of Meetro, a location-aware instant messaging platform that was DeadPooled last month. Bragiel is also the founder hosted forum solution Lefora. See our coverage of these two companies here, along with our first post on Meetro in August 2005. Also see our post titled What […]

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Meetro Abandoned for Lefora, A Hosted Forum Solution

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:30:04 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
Meetro is finally coming out of the closet with the hosted forum solution we anticipated last October, and it’s pretty much what we expected it to be: a white label platform like Ning except without all that social networking humbo jumbo, just good old fashioned discussion threads.
The product, once codenamed “Makaha”, is now officially known […]

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