Posts Tagged community
eLitwit - Participate in Quizes, Pictionary and Other Entertainment Activities
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Latest Startups, startups on January 27, 2010
eLitwit is an entertainment portal where you can spend time in participating in various forms of activities.
The website itself looks rich of content and has put in the right mix of stuff so that people enjoy time on the site sharing their knowledge. There are sections such as quiz arena and reviews area, which keeps a visitor engaged.
As such the website looks fine, but on a broader sense, we are not so sure about their business focus and revenue model in long term.
Share and Discover Tips, Tricks and Advice with Others on TipsBase
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on October 30, 2009
Tips and Tricks are often useful snippets of Information that helps you work around many kind of situations.
What is TipsBase ?
TipsBase is a website that allows you to share and discover small tips and tricks. These tips can be on any subject you can think of.
TipsBase’s Categories
It features over two dozen categories such as Autos, Business, Careers & work, Computers & internet, Dating, Education Family etc, each with subcategories, where you can post tips.
If you’re looking for advice on something specific, you can either browse by category, or use the keyword search at the top of the page to find a relevant tip if there’s one available.
TipsBase’s Social Networking Feature
Accounts at TipsBase are free, and the service has a ever growing community of tippers providing a wealth of information in all of the site’s categories.
Once your tip is posted, other TipsBase members can rate it, comment on it, or share it with others on sites like Facebook, Digg, and Reddit.You can even add the tips you like to your favorites and return to them later.
Understand Your Genetic Information using DNA Analysis Technologies on 23andMe.com - A Personal Genome Service
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on September 9, 2009
23andMe.com is a personal genome service dedicated to help individuals understand their own genetic information using recent advances in DNA analysis technologies and web-based interactive tools. 
Search and Explore Genes
It enables you to search and explore genes contributing to your personal characteristics, such as lactose intolerance, athletic ability, and food preferences; learn how the research studies relate to your genomes; compare your profiles to family and friends; and discover your genetic roots, as well as to gain insights into your ancestry, genealogy, and inherited traits.
23andMe currently has four categories that it sells online. Health and Traits, Ancestry, Sharing and Community, and Research. They currently test and are researching over 100 diseases, conditions, and traits.
How It Works ?
1. Order a kit ($399 USD) from their online store.
2. Claim your kit, spit into the tube, and send it to the lab.
3. Their CLIA-certified lab analyzes your DNA in 2-4 weeks.
4. Log in and start exploring your genome.
For researchers and scientist, the website provides invaluable amounts of neatly categorized and easily searchable data.
Company Insight
The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Mountain View, California. Google has invested $3.9M and recently another $2.6M in 23andMe, whose co-founder Anne Wojcicki is married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin. Genentech is also reported to have invested in 23andMe.
Center’d - A Local Search Engine and an Event Planner
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on May 1, 2009
Center’d is a local search engine cum an event-planning app that assists people plan activities and events.
Plan any Activity and Find New Places to Go On Center'd
How it Works ?
Center’d gathers enhanced data about places which gives it a ability to make personalized plan recommendations. Their unique approach creates a more relevant experience for consumers as well as more targeted and intent-based advertising opportunities for businesses.
You can search places for restaurants, hotels, schools, museums, stores, etc. which appears on a Google map. There is a calendar view also.
Once you are connected with your friends on their site, their events pop up in your searches. Even you can create your own events and get your friends to help decide the details.
Center’d has compiled a database of around 1 million entries for various activities, each of which is categorized into a number of intent-based classifications including kid-friendly, romantic, cheap, and more. This allows people to quickly discover places and activities that best suit their needs while short-cutting the overload of unstructured local data on the Internet.
The site generates city guides for users with a variety of different criteria using the huge database. It has been launched with support for twelve cities initially, with plans to ramp up to more in the near future.
Company and Enhancements Planned
Center’d is led by former Amazon, Microsoft, and Yahoo! executives. The company is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, and is funded by Norwest Venture Partners, KeyNote Ventures and private angel investors.
In Near future, Center’d plans to deploy its suggestion engine to the iPhone, with a mobile application that will allow users to generate a day-long itinerary based on the amount of money they’re able to spend and the type of activities they’d like to pursue.
Center’d
PresentSir - Social Community for College Students
Posted by ilovegajeebo in startups on March 14, 2009
Community & Social Networking Websites are growing in numbers as well as popularity. We receive requests to list a community website almost everyday, and we try hard to find some innovation in them.
Targeted towards college goers, PresentSir certainly brings some innovation with itself. It lets users share notes and documents while networking. This makes work and play together and can attract college students.
The design needs a little attraction but the usability and features looks just fine.
Search for your Perfect Match with Yumbunny
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on February 24, 2009
Yumbunny is a matchmaking site that relies on ‘the crowd’ to help you pick out your future mate.
Search for your Perfect Match with Yumbunny
The site presents two people side by side, asking users to vote if they look like they’re meant for each other. It also presents a brief list of the things they like and dislike, so you can get a feel for their personalities.
If you are single you can use Yumbunny to find a match based on recommendations from the community. Alternatively you can act as Cupid and be a matchmaker by suggesting couples.
How to get started ?
Pick your hottest or most sophisticated picture and upload it. They will let you crop and resize things as needed and tell us some cool or remarkable things about you such as What makes you unique? What are your likes and dislikes?
Moreover, a widget is included for you to include on social sites or blogs, giving your profile more exposure and increasing your chances to meet up with someone who is compatible. The more you share and the more voting you do, the more often your picture will be shown.
A weekly match report will be put your way if you decide to give this system a spin. A conversation can then be started for a fixed amount, and then you can get to know each other a little more and see if the wisdom of crowds was really that accurate.
MoneyVidya - Community Portal to Learn and Manage Stock Portfolio in India
Posted by ilovegajeebo in startups on February 3, 2009
A stock portfolio management and discussion platform doesn’t make a great sense in a downturn economy, though this is the time when it can actualy help people learn the basic fundamentals of stock market dynamics.
Learning via Community and Knowledge Sharing tools help you learn from different perspectives. MoneyVidya which is still in its alpha stage, definitely leaves a mark on our minds with its user friendly and attractive design and layout.
Meezoog - An Affluent and Secure Social Network
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on January 29, 2009
Meezoog.com is a latest entrant to social networking. It attempts to determine how strong the connections are between users by analyzing their relationships on other sites across the web.
Meezoog - Unique Dating Social Network which Understands Your Relationships
Why should I go for Meezoog when I already use another popular Social Network?
Meezoog helps in filtering fake identities. The information added by fellow members is immediately visible to their friends who can mark whether the information is credible or not.
As an additional trust generating tool, they share your ‘Human Path’ to every member. This allows you to know through whom he or she is connected. This may seem quite a bit similar to Orkut and Facebook Suggest.
Then there is a ‘Social Proximity Gauge’, Meezoog’s innovative algorithm engine which calculates thousands of details, giving you a tool you can trust in measuring how close you are to people you find interesting.
Besides its social network, Meezoog also plans to offer Facebook and OpenSocial applications that allow users to estimate the nature of their connections with their friends, even if they aren’t on Meezoog’s network.
This cross-network analysis is probably the company’s best shot at success . This platform is empowered by the trust mechanism to allow the social validation of users’ representation on those sites.
It is an invite only social club with a monthly fee to help it remain elite.
Insight On Company
Meezoog was founded in 2007 with a grant from the Israeli Chief Scientist Office. Meezoog raised over $300K from private investors, including Dr. Yossi Vardi (Mirabilis – ICQ).
Among the Company founders are Tuvia Rosenthal, former CEO of the Entrepreneurship Program of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (TFL); and Hannan Shulman formerly from the CTO office of SAP.
visit website - http://www.meezoog.com/
DogSpot - Dog Owners and Lovers Community in India | Post Photos, Events and Articles, Ask Queries
Posted by ilovegajeebo in startups on January 28, 2009
DogSpot is a one stop place for dog owners and enthusiasts. Its a kind of community portal where all information is collated and experts are there to resolve unique queries.
The site has plenty of quality content though the design is not at all impressive. A bit of professional design can really help the site gain a lot of attraction which it lacks right now.
DailyLit - Read Stories in Short Installments via Email and Feeds
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on January 24, 2009
There are so many like us who love reading stories in short stints, especially when we read them on our computer or mobile screens.
As the problem arises, so does the solution. This problem is now being tackled in a totally innovative way. A new service ‘DailyLit’ lets you read entire books in short and customized installments. These will be sent to you by email or feeds (which can be read using Feed Readers).
Their service currently offer over 1000 classic and contemporary books available entirely for free or on a Pay-Per-Read basis. It includes bestselling and award winning titles, from literary fiction and romance to language learning and science fiction.
DailyLit - Read Books Online by Daily Email and RSS Feed
You can opt to receive these packets (installments) on your Blackberry and iPhone too. This makes you read on the go. You can even schedule the delivery of these packets.
You can read each installment in under 5 minutes and if you have more time to read, you can receive additional installments immediately on demand.
How Does it Works
Getting started is really easy. If you’d like to be a part of the community, you can register for a free account.
If you just want to read a book, there is no need to register. You can browse books by title, author or genre. When you find a book you like, click on it to go to the details page.
The details page will display all information related to total installments, the cost, members ratings and reviews, etc. Here you can opt to subscribe for yourself or even request to gift this book for someone else.
When subscribing for yourself, you can choose how frequently, what time and the mode through which you want to receive your installments. Enter an e-mail address and hit submit.
More Features on DailyLit Website
You can discuss your favorite books and author on their twitter groups and forums.
The gift service offers you to send books to friends, with installments starting on any date you choose. Each installment can be sent with a personalized message written by you.
visit website - http://www.dailylit.com/
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