A new app called ShoutFlow wants to create a non-intrusive social network by hooking you up with people that you haven’t met, but who share common interests and mutual friends. Let the comparisons to 2 other social discovery tools we recently covered begin: Converge pulls data from social networking sites to help you meet new…
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As I meet startups from around the country, it continues to surprise me how they evolve to introduce products and services that are so intuitive, you are left asking, “Why didn’t I think of that?” Such is the case for Storymix Media, an automated video creation platform that allows wedding guests to capture a wedding…
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Catching on to the explosive growth of foodie culture and the pursuit of all things food, Chicago-based startup CookItFor.Us has positioned itself as a different kind of food website – one of action, purchase and discovery. Their online platform links “Cravers,” those who would like a recipe made for them, and “Makers,” the licensed chefs,…
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Anybeat, a discussion-based social network founded by former MySpace Music CTO Dmitry Shapiro, launched yesterday out of beta. Previously called Altly, which we covered in June, the site received $1 million in seed funding led by Freestyle Capital and with participation from MySpace founder Tom Anderson. Anybeat lets you browse people by filters like interest,…
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Facebook, intermittently blocked by the government in Vietnam, still boasts over 2.5 million users there. But Tamtay, a local social network started in 2007, has used its home-field advantage to gain a reported 4 million users. Inspired by Facebook, Tamtay features games, photo and video sharing, blogs, and instant messaging. It caters to Vietnamese users…
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Just in time for holiday shopping (for everyone on your list – and you too!), a new social shopping site that will help make those toss-up decisions for you. The Dutch startup Shall I Buy targets the brick-and-mortar shopper seeking in-the-moment buying advice from its peers. Shall I Buy is very similar to Snapette, which…
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Recently-launched Spreecast, a social video platform that lets people broadcast together, is claiming to be a hybrid of YouTube, Skype, Twitter, and Facebook all rolled into one. Here’s the formula: 1 part user-uploaded video content a la YouTube 1 part face-to-face chat a la Skype 1 part people and topics you follow on Twitter 1…
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Unless you have kids in school – who inevitably bring home the latest and greatest virus – chances are you have no idea what sundry illnesses are making the rounds. At our Tech Cocktail DC mixer last night, Baltimore-based startup SickWeather demo’d their beta site, which seeks to make that information easily accessible. As the…
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Millions of singles in the United States are eager to meet their perfect match, yet only a fraction are looking online – a sign that dating sites are missing something. Friendlylook cofounder Trevor Chidester thinks he knows what that is. “The user experience with traditional online dating is not much better than abysmal, as singles…
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Online advertising is such a crapshoot. If you don’t do it right, you end wasting a lot of time and money. Boulder-based startup Trada crowdsources online advertising by harnessing the expertise of creatives and those in advertising to provide you with an optimized ad/image combination. Until today, it was only available for Google, Yahoo, and…
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Over 50 million Americans between the ages of 13 to 25 live and breathe on Facebook. These same students spend an average of 2 hours connected to this dominant social media site everyday, yet schools and districts across the country block the site due to fear, the threat of cyberbullying, and potential misconduct. Startup TalkChalk…
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Smartphones have opened many new channels for mobile communication. In the old days, you could either call your contacts or text them. Today there are endless ways to communicate and even more ways to follow your contacts: email, Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, LinkedIn…and the list goes on. Contapps, a popular free Android app, helps users manage…
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I have been hitting up my friends lately for help with moving and putting together a boatload of IKEA furniture – always fun! Luckily, I know who I can turn to for stuff like that, but the app from LocalHero is a great alternative for finding friends who can lend a hand with things you…
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Since leaving Digg back in March, Kevin Rose has been hard at work building his next company – Milk Inc. Milk is a mobile development shop with plans to build a number of applications. The world got its initial preview of Milk’s first application called Oink at the Web 2.0 Summit a few weeks ago….
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Last month marked the launch of Spn.ee, the first social media tool that can measure your social media ROI. If you’ve ever wondered if that product review you tweeted about or that article you shared actually generated any sales, Spn.ee can help you find out. Founded by Michael Mayernick and Adam Bonnifield, Spn.ee tracks how…
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Thousands of full-length films are made every year, yet a fraction get the exposure of the big screen. Prescreen aims to be that online venue that offers great, yet often undiscovered or underexposed movies to its audience of movie lovers. It does so in the style of the daily deal model, a model founder Shawn…
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