Dan Olsen, Class of ’87, is having a big day. He founded, and is the CEO of a company that has produced a new web browsing application. It’s called YourVersion, and it’s launching to the public today.
YourVersion is still in beta, and has, up until now, only been available for use through private invitation. Today, the application is throwing open its doors and making itself available to anyone who would like to try it. In fact, it’s launching very publicly today at the TechCrunch 50 conference, going on today and tomorrow in San Francisco.
The YourVersion browser application allows for an Internet search different from Google or Yahoo!. In fact, it doesn’t call itself a search engine, but a discovery engine. In the site’s own words, “YourVersion is a revolutionary real-time discovery engine that lets you easily discover, share, and bookmark new, relevant web content tailored to your interests.”
I’ve been using YourVersion for several months now, and I really like it. It keeps me from having to sift through irrelevant results to find the information I’m interested in, and I can choose the broadest of topics like “writing” to very specific interests like a particular author whose work I enjoy.
YourVersion also recently launched an iPhone app. I’ve been playing around with that a bit too, and I like it so far. Right now, it just seems to pull information from my already-established Web profile. I don’t think it’s possible to add more interests via the app—yet. I would imagine that’s something the developers are working on.
Head on over to YourVersion and try it out yourself! And maybe leave Dan a note of congrats on his Facebook wall, or via Twitter. As those of us who knew him in school could tell back then, he’s headed for great things.
