Friday, June 27th, 2008
LikeBetter.com is most obviously related to Twitter, like the other site, ImInLikeWithYou.Com; however, the concept is very different, although just as fun as both! Let me rave a little here; LikeBetter kept me entertained for a good fifteen minutes or so, just fiddling around on the front page. Without even ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
A very accurate tagline "your social compass", unlike many other sites, Loopt.Com actually means it! Loopt offers software that helps you stay in the "loop" with your friends! By naturally, being your compass as to where they are. Although cell companies have proposed this idea in the past, making Loopt ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
JuniorU is probably going to take a lot of the burden off of parents in this age. Adults and teens of all ages understand that the Internet is a vast and brilliant network full of great tools, information, videos, music, and interesting people. However, there are also scams, phishers, perverts, ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Okay so you have AIM, Yahoo, MySpace, Digg, whatever. But the main flaw in having so many different messengers is trying to find someone with the same interests as you, but in different communities or messengers. No one wants to take the time to search through a hundred different social ...
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Sunday, May 18th, 2008
BookQube.Com is the answer to the online literary community. Gone are the days of having to join amateur poetry websites, and pseudo-intellectual forums where people talk about books they've only read the reviews for! If you're a literature enthusiast, eclectic or have your own specific preferred genre, you will absolutely ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Twitter.com is one of the trendiest "upandcomers" out there. Why? It introduces innovative person-to-person blogspace. Everyone has their own miniature little area. Twitter.com makes minimalism an elegant alternative to sites like Bebo, Mocospace, and Myspace. Instead of spending hours modifying, and customizing a profile, and writing journals, Twitter.com focuses instead ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
We all know about addThis and how it can be used to share content on a web page with our friends or post on digg or reddit and the like. Blog publishers (such as myself) often use these tools to help promote blogs and ideas. Enter ShareThis, which does something ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
Let's talk about bizarre concepts that border creepy. PeekYou.com is a search engine explicitly for finding people. There are already a lot of "find this person" websites, but PeekYou takes it to an entirely different level. They search all of the existing social networking sites like LinkedIn, MySpace and also several whitepages ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
This one was submitted through our Startup Submission form, so thank you for that John. Showbeyond.com lets users create their own story using their own photos and apparently other rich media formats. It's a great concept, and should fly very well in the future. I checked out a few stories that ...
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
igigyou.com has an interesting concept. They act as a venue for bands, DJ's, comedians and venues to find each other. The concept has can definitely take off if executed correctly. The basic premise is that a musician (or DJ or comedian) registers himself (or herself) and is found by venues seeking ...
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