Fautore Marks

Fautore Marks is the ability to click a button on third party web sites and record information relevant to that site, or site portion, where that button was clicked. The recorded information will be received by Fautore and distributed/stored as defined by the end user in the rules engine. This can be thought of privatizing the "Like" system in place by another company now.

This functionality will be implemented a downloadable javascript and images that are stored and used locally by the implementing site. We have no need to force the code to be downloaded and run from TekAdvocates resources as we have no intention of using this functionality to track anyone.

One differentiating element of Fautore AMrks is that items marked will be store locally to the end user's personal repository and they will be additive. This feature is intended to be an expression of how much something is liked. The implicite use of this feature is when someone stumbles onto product more than once and absent mindedly clicks that they like the item, article, comment, picture, etc... again. This is an implicite reinforcement that the item being liked wasn't just a one time deal. An explicite use of this feature is to just repeatedly click an item as a personal statement for the degree of approval.

Another aspect of the mark could be to implement a "left click approve" and "right click disaprove" where the "approve" click would increment a personal counter in the Fautore repository and the "disapprove" click would decrement the repository counter for the item.

The "Mark" feature should also be configurable to send increment/decrement data only to the page owner on which the button is placed.

Though this is a concept at this time, it is an important aspect of Fautore. It simply isn't worth spending the time on creating now as nobody is going to be implementing it until Fautore is function with enough of a user base to get someone's attention.

Browser plugins are also being considered to meet similar purposes until the "Mark" button is more widely adopted.