123brand - puts creative people in contact with those who need their opinion
Posted on May 2, 2008
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123brand is a service that puts creative types (all of us are creative, we just need to try!) in contact with those who need their opinion or their contribution. Two examples: - a company may need your opinion to select a logo from A, B or C. - a second company may ask for your help to find a name for a new product.
As soon as you register you will be assigned a “portfolio” which you will fill with points by participating on the website. Based on the points you accumulate you can select a gift from the catalogue, this is our first thank you for your activity. But there is more. The companies who enter a request for a contribution will award the winner with the item specified each time. And equally important, this is an excellent showcase for getting exposure in the communication and creative world, being able to demonstrate your ideas in the field is often much better than a good CV.
At some point you have certainly been faced with having to choose between A and B or to invent a new motto or claim. Yes, there are specialised agencies but sometimes you are too small and their costs are too high. Up to now the solution has been to ask your staff, friends or relations, even through in-house mailing lists, etc. Now there is something better, for a very low cost you can put your survey or request online making it visible to a potential number of creative types, customers and navigators which no mailing list can equal.
Activeciti - create events and manage them extremely quickly
Posted on May 2, 2008
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ActiveCiti is an extremely cool web application which lets you create events and manage them extremely quickly and easily. It was written to solve an extremely common problem which we faced as students - and that was organising small, everyday events with friends - like going to the movies, planning a dinner party, picnics etc.
ActiveCiti lets you organise these things effortlessly and within minutes. It also, removes the hassle of notifying all your invitees if your event changes or gets cancelled, because it does it automatically for you. Event though the website is called ActiveCiti, it is not specific to any city and you can use it from anywhere in the world to plan your events. ActiveCiti is entirely free to use.
My Neighbourhoods - brings people in the same neighbourhood and local community together
Posted on May 1, 2008
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My Neighbourhoods was created by Danny Bull and Charlotte Brinton with a simple aim - to bring people in the same neighbourhood and local community together. Online communities are great for meeting people from all walks of life, for chatting to people from the other side of the world, or if you’re lucky, the other side of your city, but where does that leave getting to know your neighbours?
My Neighbourhoods is the online community with a difference. Just like other online communities, it allows you to chat to and get to know different people, view their profiles, share ideas and thoughts, but unlike most online communities, these friendships don’t need to remain virtual. You’ll be talking to your immediate neighbours, to people who live in your street, or in your area.
The objective of the founders is to improve life in local areas and provide a means for people to help each other with the big and small things in life.
Buddyfetch - search for IM/Social Networking/Dating users across multiple providers
Posted on May 1, 2008
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Craig J. Stadler from Oakland, CA has recently launched a project called Buddyfetch that few of you may already know.
BuddyFetch is a search engine that allows people to search for fellow IM, social networking, and Internet dating users. BuddyFetch searches multiple providers :
43 Things, AIM, BEBO, BlackPlanet, Blurty, BookOfMatches, Digg, Espin, Facebook, Flickr, Friendster, Google Talk, Greatest Journal, HI5, Hot or Not, ICQ Messenger, IMVU, Jabber Messenger, Jaiku, LavaPlace, LiveJournal, Meetup, MocoSpace, MSN Messenger, Myspace, NetLog, OkCupid, Paltalk, PlentyofFish, Skype, Stickam, StumbleUpon, Tagged, Tribe, Twitter, VOX, WAYN, Webdate, Xanga, YahooIM, YouTube, Zwinky.
BuddyFetch was created because there was no central directory that allowed searches for IM/Social Networking/Dating users across multiple providers, In conjunction with the fact that some directories would only allow you to search for screen names of IM users that were presently online. BuddyFetch also had vision to improve the quality of searches from the directories.
This startup is looking for an investor.
Youversion - a startup to help access the Bible
Posted on April 26, 2008
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In generations past, the access people had to the Bible was very limited. Today, this is no longer the case. However, many people who have access to the Bible think its message does not apply to their lives. At the same time, there are others who believe there is a connection between the Bible and their every day experiences.
Over the last decade, the Internet has brought about a revolution which empowers people like never before. With the ability to share, contribute, create, broadcast and communicate, it’s easy to express who we are and what we believe with the rest of the world.
Since its start in 1996, LifeChurch.tv’s purpose has been to lead people to become fully devoted followers of Christ. In doing so, they have looked for new ways to help people connect the Bible to their daily lives. Their methods have changed over the years as they’ve incorporated various technologies and strategies. But at the core, their focus remains on relevancy as they consistently strive to demonstrate and teach people how God’s Word relates to everyone, no matter where they are in life.
YouVersion represents a new frontier in LifeChurch.tv’s efforts. They aren’t just building a tool to impact the world using innovative technology, more importantly, they are engaging people into relationships with God as they discover the relevance the Bible has for their lives.
Studymee - a community for students all over the world
Posted on April 25, 2008
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The international social community connects lifestyle to campus to career. On Studymee.com, students above the age of 16 can compare their skills with the requirements of other countries; they can edit and share homework, learning aids, lectures, tests and tips with their fellow students or work on common projects together online. Interesting contacts can be made easily, quickly and fostered. You can find parties in your area, or rummage through the integrated “get-a-ride center”. Upload and share images and videos on the virtual marketplace via filesharing. Studymee informs you about other cities and universities and their specific national peculiarities.
Studymee connects you with students and youth worldwide. The community defines and forms the content by itself. Each individual is a crucial part of the whole and everyone contributes their own personal vision to the success of the whole!
Studymee offers new and surprising features daily. Meet your friends and get to know people from around the world. Present your multi-faceted self, with the security of a 3-leveled privacy feature. Celebrate yourself and your community as one big party.
Studymee is your accees to worldwide studies - and your personal pocket study. Learn from and with others; give your knowledge and profit from collective inspiration. Compare your performance with the skills of others and be informed about need-to-knows, about other universities and cities worldwide.
Studymee connects you directly with the economy. The traineeship supports you with your diploma thesis, is the bridge to a relevant job and serves as a guide through your studies - find the right company or let others contact you directly through your business profile.
Studymee, probably the first worldwide WEB 2.0 portal, reaches a new level of social community networking for closed target groups. Content, functionality and benefits provide a total new platform of international communication; a worldwide exchange of knowledge on a simple, safe and accessible basis - for far-reaching experiences in both student and business life. Studymee is located in Berlin and entirely privately financed by its five successful founders.
AnsMart - an online marketplace of knowledge exchange
Posted on April 25, 2008
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AnsMart is an online marketplace of knowledge exchange in the form of questions and paid answers across a broad range of subject areas. It targets the semi-professional answer services - a niche between free answer site and pricey consulting service.
Unlike most social Q&A websites and forums, AnsMart provides financial reward for users’ effort and time in answering questions. It truly believes that financial reward is the driving force to build a professional Q&A market.
In AnsMart, only high level experts, users who have proven track record, have accesses to expensive questions. Meanwhile, experts are motivated to provide highest quality answer by earning double compensations. This monitoring and rating system creates a zero fraud platform that ensures experts are fairly rewarded for their efforts.
Their goal is to leverage a well-structured monitoring and rating system to provide high quality answers, shorten answer wait times, and share financial reward with contributing users.
AnsMart has designed an innovative monitoring and rating system to create a zero fraud platform that ensures answerers are rewarded for their efforts. This motivates the best subject matter experts to provide quality answers keeping them loyal to AnsMart while driving knowledge seekers’ satisfaction and retention.
Tioti - a special social media aggregator for television
Posted on April 25, 2008
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TIOTI is a social media aggregator for television. They use the web to put together all sorts of information about TV shows, and let you the audience edit and add to that. They let you see what’s hot, what other people like and where you can get it from.
They basically pull together information sources about TV shows from all over the web, connect that information with the full spectrum of download sources on the Internet and filter everything so that you and your friends can get hold of your favorites as seamlessly as possible. Each show and episode can also be recommended to people, rated, discussed with others, and you can see what shows other people enjoy.
In Spring 2007 TIOTI received angel funding from a group of London based investors. in October 2007 TIOTI added to this with Series A investment from Pond Ventures to fund future development of the site and expand TIOTI’s features into new areas
Advisors to TIOTI include the former CTO of Vodafone and the former busines development director at Discovery Channel Europe, currently business ventures SVP at Fremantle Media.
iAudioguide - leading provider of free multilingual city audio guides
Posted on April 25, 2008
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iAudioguide.com is a Brussels-based company founded in April 2006. They are the leading provider of free multilingual city audio guides. Their audio guides cover essential facts, entertaining information and insider knowledge about major tourist sites in the world’s most popular cities. The audio guides last about one hour, and they cover twelve to fifteen significant attractions in each city.
They are located in Brussels, “the heart of Europe” with international staff and freelancers at our disposal. The offices are in the IT-incubator mVillage. The team of tourist guides, local bloggers and professional speakers is led by managing director Torsten Peters, and has already produced audio guides covering 7 cities (London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Brussels, Vienna and Barcelona – with the Vienna guide offered via their Austrian partner). Almost each of these guides is in 4 languages (EN, FR, DE and IT), with more to come. Only half a year after its launch, iAudioguide is already describing about 250 attractions in these various languages, which means they are already providing more than 1000 minutes of quality content for the modern traveller. Due to its innovative business model, this quality content is available for free.
The main target group for audio guides, is that of tourists with independent minds who want to be more interactive with the city they are visiting, and who want to discover a city at their own pace. These audio guides in mp3 format can be used by anyone with even the most basic mp3 audio player, so no special skills are needed.
SetupAcall- intuitive and frictionless Web 2.0 conference software
Posted on April 24, 2008
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Setup A Call is an intuitive and frictionless Web 2.0 software application that allows you to easily organize a conference/web call with multiple parties, on multiple email platforms, in multiple companies on multiple dates and in multiple time zones if you wish.
Setup A Call takes an “evite” approach to scheduling with a social media twist. Once you register for a free account, you can use the service to send out conference call requests from any email client to any email client. The capabilities extend beyond the traditional programs, letting the scheduler send out requests for multiple dates, and the recipient can then provide his or her availability for each option.
What makes this startup special?
The fact that Setup A Call integrates with any email client. For example, once you accept a call, you can click on a link in your email confirmation which will automatically add it to your Outlook Calendar.
What is the objective of the founders?
The objective was to provide a free, easy, and quick way to schedule calls for busy professionals. With Setup A Call we want to enable professionals to use their time more efficiently and effectively.
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