Collactive

Collactive Inc. was an Israel-based privately held start-up company which marketed 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.

Collactive Inc.
Private
IndustryInternet, Computer software
FoundedDecember 13, 2006 (as Delaware corporation)
Headquarters
Herzliya
,
Israel
Key people
Eran Reshef, CEO
Amir Hirsh, President
Products"APB System", "Campaign Manager", "Collactive Web Assistant"
Websitewww.collactive.com (defunct)

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.[1]

gollark: The tooling is kind of awful.
gollark: It's pretty good, have used it a bit.
gollark: Of course, that's what I would say if it *was* me.
gollark: No.
gollark: mαtheus#7134 is.

See also
  • Megaphone desktop tool, an earlier version of Collactive's "Web Assistant" used for political lobbying.
  • Vote-stuffing

Press coverage

References
  1. "Blue Security Resurfaces Reincarnated as a Social Networking Spammer – The Blue Frog Will Spam Digg, Del.icio.us and More with Their New Collactive Service". The Internet Patrol: ISIPP Publishing. June 7, 2007. Retrieved July 5, 2013. Check date values in: |year= / |date= mismatch (help)


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