Feedza - already famous community driven Rss reader
Posted on August 28, 2008
Filed Under Office/Productivity | 47 Comments
FeedZa is a public online RSS reader pulling in snippets of feeds from human quality approved blogs and web sites. Users are able to find new content by browsing through snippets of feeds that are in the network, vote on the feeds that find interesting and view the most popular feeds of the day (which are decided by the FeedZa community). The start-up is based near Bangkok, Thailand and the founder is Chris Osborne.
FeedZa requires no registration. Just visit the site and start discovering RSS feeds.The feeds are divided into two sections, namely, latest feedz and popular feedz. One can discover content based on categories and sub categories provided through drop-down menu. To subscribe to any RSS feed, just click on the concerned button at the bottom of the snippet and you would be provided options to subscribe it in your favorite reader. The total number of feeds available is given at right-top of the website.
Main features:
* Their latest feeds are refreshed every 25 minutes while popular feeds are refreshed every 24 hours.
* Any comment posted on any feed is first moderated and then allowed.
* Publisher can submit their feed in only one category but can provide other optional category choices which could be chosen in case the default category is not suitable for their RSS feed by FeedZa moderators.
* FeedZa is currently available only for English blogs and no other languages are supported.
Overall mark: 7/10
PickRSet.com - allows bands to communicate with their fans and allow the fans to actually feel like they are part of the show
Posted on August 20, 2008
Filed Under Audio/Music | 32 Comments
What is PickRSet.com?
In one word: Connection. This site allows bands to communicate with their fans and allow the fans to actually feel like they are part of the show and that their voice really matters. Let’s be honest, without the fans you don’t have a show, so why not try and give them what they want? That being said, if the band doesn’t play everything in the proposed set or, heck, doesn’t play anything from their requests (which is possible) it’s their choice. After all, it is their band.
Where is the startup based in? Who are the founders?
San Clemente, CA. Founding Members: Chris Siglin, Mark Hoppus, Jay Bentley and Shea McQuestion.
What is this startup about?
The site is used to help promote bands that tour and they catalog of music that they have. The main feature is pickRset which is a built from the ground up application to allow fans of music to request songs for live performance as well as review shows, purchase merchandise, by tickets and much much more with new features always being added.
What makes this startup special?
This is a site by bands for fans. They feature the one of a kind first every setlist requesting tools. Since our launch in July of 2007 as a simple poll we have been dulicated in poor fashion by major recording artists which loved our site.
What is the objective of the founders?
To stay true to the fans and bands by creating new and exciting ways to engage fans to come to live performances and feel like they are part of the shows. Having worked in the music industry and having bands that have been touring for as long as 30 years now they know what it takes to keep selling tickets.
Does this startup need an investor?
They currently have self financed everything but are currently looking for investors to maximize exposure.
Pangaeaa - the most innovative online community for emerging and independent talent
Posted on August 20, 2008
Filed Under Audio/Music | 35 Comments
Pangaeaa.com is an innovative online community for emerging and independent talent. Through Pangaeaa’s unique design, members are able to create a personal home page to share and discuss their various talents. Pangaeaa.com also gives artists the ability to not only share their talents with others, but to receive a percentage (up to 90%) of all sales of their artwork through the website. Art, Music, and Literature are just the beginning. As membership grows so will the areas of interest. Pangaeaa’s goal is to become the #1 website on the Internet for people to discover new talent of all kinds.
Pangaea (pan-GEE-ah), as many may know, was the name of the Super Continent before the continental divide. Instead of a divide, the concept of Pangaeaa came about because of the need for a place where artists could come together and express themselves and share their unique talents with others. As the concept grew from an idea for a community, the thought that not only should artists have a place to share their art, music, and literature but they should also be able to achieve some financial gain from their hard work. The internet has changed the way we communicate, entertain ourselves, and purchase goods and services. So the internet offers the perfect place for Artists to come together, share their talents, and participate in e-commerce.
How to listen to 12 million albums for free - no need to be a geek
Posted on July 8, 2008
Filed Under Audio/Music | 49 Comments
Jogli is the search engine for music. It scans the internet for existing music and music video clips, and then indexes the music in order to enable an easy and efficient search. As a result, users have access to huge free inventory of music. Including half a billion songs and more then 12 million albums.
Users can search and listen to any desired album, music video clips, individual tracks, and other users’ playlists.
Jogli is also a music community. Any user can be a VJ, creating and sharing play lists with friends. Users can review, chat and respond to each other’s “MTV channels”.
Now you can click and play tens of millions of albums and hundreds of millions of songs – it’s free, its legal, it’s easy.
Our mark for this site is: 7/10
A Startup that might save your life
Posted on June 17, 2008
Filed Under Uncategorized | 43 Comments
I am pretty sure you haven’t heard about anything similar. What Keith Larrimore, Seth Lesky, Louis Tran, and Quin Hoxie have just launched is a startup that hopes to leverage common technologies in order to help victims of emergency situations. Those guys are based in Tucson, Az and are currently open to offers from investors.
In Case of Emergency (ICE) is a startup that enables first responders, such as paramedics, firefighters, and police officers, to find victims and contact their family to obtain important medical information. The program was conceived in the mid-2000s and promoted by British paramedic Bob Brotchie. It is not a new idea, but this startup has been launched recently. So basically, it encourages people to enter emergency contacts to their cell phone’s address book under the name “ICE”. It’s really useful and easy to use.
No statistics about the number of users are available, but I expect that more than 90% of users are based in the US and Canada.
This startup hasn’t received much media coverage, but we managed to find a video that most sites have omitted. For more details: link
FotoViewr - excellent tool to integrate with Flickr and Facebook
Posted on June 12, 2008
Filed Under Photo | 31 Comments
FotoViewr started out as someone’s pet project to learn how to program using Adobe Flash and Papervision, a 3D programming library for Flash. Then it became a project to learn about integrating with other technologies like Flickr and Facebook. FotoViewr launched in June 2008.
FotoViewr aims to provide a better experience for viewing photos. You and your friends can look at your photos by clicking on page after html page or you can immerse yourself in a highly interactive and engaging interface.
This startup has both pros and cons.
Pros
1. No registration required. You can start right-away.
2. It offers various 3D styles to choose from, be it sideways flow or a wall like interface. All the styles look unique and stunning.
3. Doesn’t require you to upload photos. You can get started in seconds.
4. It’s free to use.
Cons
1. It may not display all the photos and may just choose to display 20-30 photos in your account.
2. When I tested it, my CPU usage shot up to almost 60 %. I think they’ll have to work on this. It’s a beta app and hence bugs can be expected.
via: jeetblog
Our mark is 6/10
RestyleMe - a great style advice website has been launched
Posted on June 10, 2008
Filed Under User Gen. Content | 49 Comments
Restyleme is an innovative website has been launched to fill a gap for a service providing free personal style advice. It achieves this with its revolutionary voting system and tools that have never been used for this purpose on the internet before.
RestyleMe.com is a style advice website that allows you to rate other people’s style or fashion sense. RestyleMe.com is very different than other photo rating applications. Instead of using a 1-10 rating or stars, RestyleMe.com allows people to indicate what exactly they should keep or change regarding their style (hair, clothing and etc).
RestyleMe.com is loaded with never-seen-before features on a fashion website such as pinpoint photo marking, you can mark on users’ photos with a single click and give them feedback about their style with pinpoint accuracy; tagging of clothing items, you can tag style items or brands by selecting areas on your profile photo; detailed bar graph results, you can view detailed stats about people’s opinion on your style shown with bar graphs.
Also featuring social networking components like friend / favorite lists and userfriendly messaging, RestyleMe.com offers you unique tools to show off or improve your style.
The secret of watching videos that have been forbidden by Youtube…
Posted on May 24, 2008
Filed Under User Gen. Content | 36 Comments
You probably remember our discussion about Deletube, the site that used to allow users to watch videos that have been forbidden by Youtube. Nowadays, there DeleTube is down and everyone is trying to find an alternative… and I am sure that you are one of those guys who are impatient to know how to do it…
It’s really simple. There is a site called YouTomb, nice name isn’ it? Whenever a video is deleted by YouTube, they publish it! So next time you write, what a pity I haven’t seen it, check it out… you might find it there…
So what’s the site about? YouTomb is a research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation. More specifically, YouTomb continually monitors the most popular videos on YouTube for copyright-related takedowns. Any information available in the metadata is retained, including who issued the complaint and how long the video was up before takedown. The goal of the project is to identify how YouTube recognizes potential copyright violations as well as to aggregate mistakes made by the algorithm. Sounds like a really ambitious project.
YouTomb was built by MIT Free Culture, a student organization at MIT. Active Free Culture chapters exist at many schools and universities; they work together to promote open access to knowledge and culture. Here is a list of contributors.
When a user-submitted video is suspected to infringe copyright, the rights holder is contacted and given the option to take down the video in question. In addition, rights holders can submit DMCA takedown notifications at any time that cause YouTube to immediately remove alleged infringing content.
MIT Free Culture became especially interested in the issue after YouTube announced that it would begin using filtering technology to scan users’ video and audio for near-matches with copyrighted material. While automating the takedown process may make enforcement easier, it also means that content falling under fair-use exceptions and even totally innocuous videos may receive some of the collateral damage.
As YouTube is not very transparent with the details surrounding this process and the software used, YouTomb was conceived to shed light on YouTube’s practices, to educate the general public on the relevant copyright issues, and to provide helpful resources to users who have had their videos wrongfully taken down.
Ok, I know. It’s not perfect, but right that’s the best site in its category. I don’t know if this is an amazing startup for you, but to me it definitely has potential… what I personally don’t like is that you can’t (theoretically) download the videos…
iRead - a community for real book lovers
Posted on May 11, 2008
Filed Under Social Networking | 51 Comments
iRead is a community for book lovers. Whether you love classics or popular fiction; whether you love Dickens or Dan Brown; iRead is a place where you can find others who share your reading tastes and through them discover new books that you will love. With iRead you can:
- List, rate and write reviews about the books you are reading or have read in the past.
- Browse what other iReaders are reading and what they are saying about books you’re interested in.
- Find iReaders with similar reading interests as you and learn which books they recommend.
- Have fun with books! And who wouldn’t want that?
- With iRead Anywhere, you can take your bookshelf with you anywhere! for example, myspace page, blog, homepage
Only 8 months old, iRead is already one of the largest book community on facebook with over one million registered users and over 20 million books added.
ConcertAttack.com - leading online community for sharing your concert reviews, pictures and videos
Posted on May 10, 2008
Filed Under Audio/Music | 24 Comments
ConcertAttack.com is a leading online community for sharing your concert reviews, pictures and videos. Think Myspace/FaceBook meets YouTube, flickr and Fandango.com but, focused solely on concerts.
Theyare a Concert Experience Archive and Concert News Outlet. This basically means that they organize your concert reviews, tour journals, pictures and videos by artist and concert date which, makes them easy to find and makes them part of history. When you post your concert pictures of your favorite artists just in your Myspace profile or Facebook, that makes it hard for other fans to find them and comment on them. On those type of websites it is difficult to share pictures and opinions of the concert you went to with fellow fans outside your network because they won’t be able to find or access them.
If you post your concert content at ConcertAttack you won’t have to search thousands of web pages and social network profiles to find out about what’s going on at your favorite artists’ concerts and you will be able to easily share your concert stuff with fellow fans. That’s a piece of cake, isn’t it?
So what can you do using this startup? Just few points:
- Share your concert pictures, videos and reviews that can be left in both video and text formats.
- Recommend artists to see in concert.
- Use widgets to place your concert content on other profiles and web sites.
- For Artists, create video tour journals for your concerts
- Share your concerts with your friends.
- Set reminders for the concerts you are attending.
- Make new friends and fans.
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