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The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

 based privately held start-up company. Collactive offers a system 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

Sequoia Capital

Sequoia Capital is a Californian venture capital firm located on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California. The Wall Street Journal has called Sequoia Capital "one of the highest-caliber venture firms", and noted that it is "one of Silicon Valley's most influential venture-capital firms"...

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Products

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

Collactive offers a free and an Enterprise edition for its services. The free edition is available to individuals for non-commercial use, and the Enterprise edition is for commercial use.

See also

• Megaphone desktop tool
  Megaphone desktop tool
  The Megaphone desktop tool is a discontinued Windows "action alert" tool developed by Give Israel Your United Support and distributed by World Union of Jewish Students, World Jewish Congress, The Jewish Agency for Israel, World Zionist Organization, StandWithUs, Hasbara fellowships,...
  
  , an earlier version of Collactive's "Web Assistant" used for political lobbying.

Press coverage

• "New Web 2.0 App Prompts Web 2.0 Elite To See Democracy As Spam", Wired blog entry by Ryan Singel
  Ryan Singel
  Ryan Singel is a San Francisco-based blogger and journalist covering tech business, tech policy, civil liberty and privacy issues. His work has appeared extensively in Wired.com, and Singel co-founded the Threat Level blog with journalist and convicted hacker Kevin Lee Poulsen...
  
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• "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.