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Share Your Favorite Things To Do and Experiences with Diddit

Diddit is a “to-do list for your life” that collects past, present and future experiences of your life. It’s a platform where you can discover new things that you’d like to do in coming years.

Share Your Favorite Things and Experiences with Diddit

Share Your Favorite Things and Experiences with Diddit

What you can do with Diddit ?

With Diddit, you can share your favorite things to do in your neighborhood and around the globe. Whether you are into travel, extreme sports, arts & crafts, food, or just about anything else, Diddit is for you.

Once you’ve signed up for a Diddit account, you can immediately begin marking items as ones you’ve done called “diddit” or items that you’d like to try called “wannados”.

If you have a particular goal, you can search for other users with similar lists, or suggest a list to the service. If you find another user who’s interested in doing what you wish to do, you can always add them to your list.

Each list gets its own page, where you can see other Diddit members who are working through the list or have participated by marking some of the items as done. You can even comment on any list and share your thoughts and also see related lists.

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Voxli - Web-based Voice Chat Service for Gamers

Voxli is a browser based voice chat service that makes it easy for large groups to chat. The service is useful for making voice chat while playing group games or simply engaging in conversations as large groups.

Voxil - Web-based Voice Chat Service For Gamers

Voxil - Web-based Voice Chat Service For Gamers

How Can I Use their Service?

Just go to the Voxli homepage, type in a voice room name and then click START. This will take you to a page where you are instructed to download a small app that will enable speaker and microphone usage.

Voxli can support up to 200 people in each voice room and has support for push to talk (walkie talkie) functionality outside of the browser . You can also participate in multiple chats at once in Voxli Platform.

Each group voice chat exists at a persistent URL, which can be shared with friends via email or IM to join a group chat session.

Voxli is currently free while it is in open beta.

Company Insight & Future Enhancements

The company is a Y Combinator startup and has two people on staff. It was founded about a year ago.

Over time, Voxli will add other features that let a user make voice communications private. It will also improve sound quality with echo cancellation technology, which helps remove background noise.

Voxli

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Foodzie - Buy Food from Small Artisan Producers and Growers

Foodzie is an online marketplace to discover and buy food from small artisan producers and growers. It is a great platform for small quant producers.

Buy Food from Small Artisan Producers and Growers

Buy Food from Small Artisan Producers and Growers

The Foodzie technology makes it simple for small producers to sell their products online and aggregate all these products within a marketplace. This makes it easy for foodies to discover some really great food.

The platform helps provide a centralized hub for these small food vendors, giving them more exposure than they’d get from their standalone sites. It focuses primarily on gourmet and organic health foods.

Business Model

The revenue model works like this - Foodzie earns commissions on each transaction that happens through their site. The platform handles only transactions and leaves distribution up to the individual stores.

The vendors pay very less commission comparative to the offline marketers, as Foodzie doesn’t warehouse the items it sells.

Funding

The platform raised $1 million in funding in Dec’08 from angel investors, led by First Round Capital and SoftTech VC, and is considering raising a follow-on round.

Future Plans

Foodzie is planning to add videos and other social networking features to allow buyers to communicate with the consumers. It helps in bringing the consumers closer to the people making and selling the food.

visit website - Foodzie

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Circle of Moms - Largest Community of Mothers on Internet , Discuss Motherhood Challenges

“With over 850,000 users, Circle of Moms is the fastest-growing community for moms on the Internet.”  The community enables mothers to dicsuss the various challenges they face while raising their children.

Circle of Moms - Community of Mothers on Internet

Circle of Moms - Community of Mothers on Internet

A user can join one of over 1,600 public communities that includes Toddler Moms, Recipe Swap, Money Saving Tips, communities by birth month for pregnant mothers and mothers of infants. She can even create a new community of her own.

These are vibrant communities in which moms help one another by sharing past experience or empathy with other moms in the community.

Each community has its own space and is neatly tabbed in “Conversations”, “Photos”, “Links”, “Videos”, “Members” and “Guidelines”. The community has administrator who enforce community guidelines and moderate the content actively.

From the design perspective, the site looks pretty ordinary and creative graphics might help attract more people. But as it has shown with its exponential growth in last four months of its existence, the site is already attracting a huge mass.

Circle of Moms have incorporated an extremely useful gift recommendation engine which brings all moms (who are the real decision makers at home) under a single platform.

The users also have an option to subscribe a rich content E-mail digests which are delivered as per her request.

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Viewdle - Next generation Search Engine for Video

Viewdle is a new way to search, gets you from query to relevant video clip in seconds. No more waiting for download or buffering to check the relevancy of returned results.

No more irrelevant search results. No more searching for just “files” when you can narrow in on precise moments. Search-in-Video helps you find the information you need fast.

Viewdle - Next generation Search Engine for Video

Viewdle - Next generation Search Engine for Video

Viewdle core technology is the Viewdle Engine, a facial-recognition powered digital media platform for indexing, searching and monetizing video assets. The Viewdle engine fuses pioneering visual analysis technology, along with other leading search techniques, to go “inside the clip” and identify contextually relevant appearances based on actual video assets.

Viewdle automatically looks inside the video, frame-by-frame, to create a real-time index of true on-screen appearances with unrivaled accuracy and relevance. With multiple patents in preparation, Viewdle is quickly building the world’s largest people-in-video reference database.

By unleashing Viewdle technology, content producers and distributors can effectively leverage their video assets to open new revenue streams and attract, engage and retain customers/visitors.

Viewdle, which was founded in 2006, is currently used by Reuters to identify video clips and in December won the startup competition at the LeWeb 2008 tech conference in Paris, France.

Initially focused on providing internal and private-label indexing and search capabilities to news and entertainment media, Viewdle will soon launch targeted advertising solutions, developer tools and a consumer-facing search site.

visit website - http://www.viewdle.com/

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Animoto - Create Music Videos Slideshows from User-Uploaded Music and Photos.

Animoto helps you create a animated film using your photos, music and some cool features.

Animoto - Create Music Videos Slideshows from User-Uploaded Music and Photos.

Animoto - Create Music Videos Slideshows from User-Uploaded Music and Photos.

It creates MTV style videos with the click of a button. Users simply choose a song and images. The app then automatically generates a unique video for them. No two videos are ever the same.

It generates videos using its own patent pending Cinematic Artificial Intelligence technology and high-end motion design drives the web app.

The Cinematic A.I. analyzes users photos and music like an actual director and editor. For instance, to analyze music the genre, song structure, energy, rhythm, instrumentation, and vocals are all taken into consideration.

Each video is a fully customized orchestration of user-selected images and music. Produced on a widescreen format, Animoto videos have the visual energy of a music video and the emotional impact of a movie trailer. Once completed, videos can be emailed, downloaded and embedded into other sites.

Animoto allows users to create short, 30 second slideshows for free but charges if you want to create longer videos. For personal use, Animoto costs $3 per video or $30 for a full year of use.

It also offers business accounts that run $249 a year and include value-added features such as DVD quality outputs and customized buttons. It also has a pretty awesome iPhone application.

The site recently won the SXSW web award in the “Film/TV” category.

visit website - http://animoto.com/

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Kindling - Idea Management and Collaboration Application for Groups.

Kindling is a web-based application that cultivates and manages the ideas for groups who want to promote discussion and innovation within an organization

Companies value Kindling for the way it facilitates idea sharing and discussion. From larger companies who want to give voice to every employee, to smaller companies who need a way to focus conversation, Kindling is a powerful tool for any organization. Kindling also works for groups of a more social nature.

Kindling - Idea Management and Collaboration Application for Groups.

Kindling - Idea Management and Collaboration Application for Groups.

The site offers a voting on ideas, allowing team members to hit a ‘+’ or ‘-’ next to each project or idea, with the most popular ones floating to the top. Users can also indicate if they’re going to complete a project, which makes Kindling double as an effective task manager.

To help give each vote some significance, Kindling caps the total number of votes that can be submitted by each user. As projects are completed or ‘fade’ out of the system for not getting enough votes, these points return to the user and can be redistributed.

Kindling makes it easy for your group to submit, discuss and vote on ideas. Good ideas naturally rise to the top helping your business or organization uncover brilliance that might otherwise go unnoticed.

Through voting and commenting, it becomes clear what and where the good ideas are. Kindling exposes these ideas making them easy to find and approve

With an intuitive and attractive interface that lacks any distracting frivolous features, and may be appealing to smaller businesses and organizations.

The service price is $5 per user, per month, with a flat rate of $99 for non-profit and educational organizations.

visit website - http://www.kindlingapp.com/

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Plista - Personalize Your Web Experience | Social Network for Product Recommendations

Plista is a browser extension that personalizes existing web sites by overlaying and re-ordering existing content with one click. There is no integration need from the publisher site while plista anonymously follows what users like and don’t across sites.

Personalize your web experience |  Social Network for Product Recommendations

Personalize your web experience | Social Network for Product Recommendations

Plista based on collaborative filtering and social graph applications allows to connect content, products, people and preferences to the benefit of publishers, users and marketers through the internet, mobile phones and other devices.

They receive personal web pages all over the web and individual recommendations based on their preferences. Users find related articles and products and are able to share this relevant content with people that really like it.

How does it works- Users simply download a plugin to their Firefox browser and the recommendations are presented seamlessly within the web page they are looking at. It overlays onto the actual web page and copies that page’s colors and typefaces to blend in as if it were meant to be there all along. It doesn’t require the web site owner to integrate its technology.

The Firefox Plista plugin will push out of the way any content to show a couple of lines of recommendations, or a larger number of recommendations within a side column. If there’s an advert in that side column, it will be pushed down the page.

With plista social and personalized targeting methods as well as trusted referrals become applicable globally throughout the internet, mobile and other devices - marketers will be offered a service to target, personalize, localize and mine rich user data of prospective clients or customers with the customer controlling his recommendations instead of receiving uncontrolled active advertisement.

visit website - http://plista.com/

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Zuberance - A Social Commerce Management Platform | Word of Mouth Marketing

Zuberance is a word of mouth marketing Service which provides on-demand software turns best customers into a Virtual Salesforce, cost-effectively boosting leads, sales, and positive Word of Mouth.

Zuberance - Social Commerce Management Platform

Zuberance - Social Commerce Management Platform

Their customizable software-as-a-service applications identify, mobilize and track the activity of a company’s happy customers. Its software then places content generated by these satisfied customers like reviews and testimonials to specific locations within shopping and review sites. It also allows them to share promotional offers with friends and colleagues.

Zuberance enables companies to identify actual customers who have had a positive experience with a product or service. It provides those customers with numerous opt-in ways for sharing their authentic enthusiasm with others, including reviews.

Their real-time analytics enable user to monitor and optimize advocate community results, transforming Word of Mouth marketing from an art to a science.

It also helps publish positive reviews to places like Amazon.com, CNet, TripAdvisor, YouTube and Facebook.

Zuberance’s leadership team includes seasoned online marketers, CRM veterans, and Social Media innovators from Apple, Genuity, Visible Path, and Blue Martini.

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Zuberance’s customers include Fortune 500 companies plus growing firms across a wide range of markets where Word of Mouth recommendations matter plus growing firms in automotive, consumer electronics, travel and tourism, business technology, and more.

Pricing depends on the amount of usage, but the Zuberance product generally costs between $5,000 and $10,000 a month.

visit website - http://www.zuberance.com/

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StyleHop - Fashion Made Fun | Shopping Made Easy

StyleHop is a fashion rating site that asks users to browse and rank their favorite outfits by playing interactive fashion games. Their aim is to be a fashion destination for unbiased wisdom-of-crowd consumer advice and industry analytics.

StyleHop  - Fashion Made Fun | Shopping Made Easy

StyleHop - Fashion Made Fun | Shopping Made Easy

StyleHop present style in a forum outside of magazines, advertisements, and celebrity-endorsed trends. Members will provide information about themselves (age, gender, location, etc) and regularly play style ranking games.

These games will determine style preferences and trends as expressed by the populace, rather than by select style editors.

The social games are part of StyleHop’s effort to provide a different experience for its users as it asks for a few ratings at a time. The site’s app will soon be on popular social networks as well, giving a boost to the number of users, though for now StyleHop’s focusing on general clothing trends at certain universities.

It’s easy to share your style preferences by playing their fun style rating games, which help both you and the entire StyleHop community get even smarter about fashion.

Most importantly, their fashion games will prompt women to provide a five-star ranking for each style presented. Playing StyleHop games will create the star ranking data that feeds StyleHop’s shopping engine and helps consumers shop styles based on the product rankings of people just like them.

Additionally, Stylehop allows results to be filterable not only by brand and product attributes but also by whom you want providing your five-star rankings.

StyleHop’s low-cost access to highly screened, predictive fashion consumers will allow them to sell fashion companies wisdom-of-crowd demand forecasting.

visit website - http://www.stylehop.com/

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