Ardorado.com Launches Private Alpha
Today seems like the first day of school, like the first date, the first kiss, the first (you know what) all at the same time. I am on edge with excitement and anticipation. After months of passionate conversations, confusion, disappointment, discovery, excitement, elation, gallons of Starbucks, and too many sleepless nights, the sum total of our efforts to change social networking is taking a small step into the world. Semantic Communities is launching a limited pre-beta version of its signature web site Ardorado.com today. A project started just this past spring is now truly coming to life. Four dreamers, spending proverbial time in the garage (in our case it was more like outdoor barbecues), spent the past five months dreaming up and creating a truly new way to engage in social networking. We had nothing less in mind than a true paradigm shift for social networking. Our ambitions are small. The only thing we want is for Ardorado.com to become your new starting point for journeys on the Web. Ardorado.com offers access to a vast amount of news and information, connections to people, groups and online communities, blogs and links to Web sites all tied in to your interests. We have analyzed millions of Web pages and pieces of information to jump-start the process of building a community of communities.
The site is not just another ordinary directory. It is much more. It is an evolving semantic database of human interests. It is comprised of millions of data points analyzed and extracted from seemingly unrelated, widely dispersed information contained within existing online communities. We named the semantic technologies driving our product The Interest Matrix TM.
The Interest Matrix TM database allows us to create a truly unique way of exploring the online world and of creating interconnections between information and people. The Interest Matrix TM is the engine that drives the core of what our site is all about - connecting people through relevant information. Our hope is that Ardorado.com will become the place where you collect and manage all your interests as well as the place you find people sharing your unique varied interests.
There will be much more in this space about our functionality, our technologies, our business philosophy, our struggles and successes with product development, our efforts to secure VC funding, and everything in between.
