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GOOD - Social Media Platform Offering Content, Experience and Utilities to Serve Community
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites, Indian Web Startup News on October 16, 2009
GOOD is a media platform for people who want to live well and do well. It’s a collaboration of individuals, businesses, and nonprofits organization with a focus on social issues, politics, and sustainable living.
GOOD presently publishes content on their website, videos, live events, and a quarterly United States general-interest magazine offering content, experiences, and utilities to serve this community.
GOOD wish to stand as an independent media that blends entertainment and relevant information.
According to the promoters, Good has reached over 2 million monthly uniques. Their magazine reaches two hundred thousand readers, videos reach millions and live events that had over 20,000 attendees in the last year.
Company Insight
Founded in 2006 by Ben Goldhirsh, son of entrepreneur and Inc. Magazine creator Bernie Goldhirsh, the company has garnered praise for its unique editorial perspective and fresh visual aesthetic and is quickly emerging as a significant new voice in culture.
Recently they announced that it has recently closed a Series A round of funding led by its co-founder and CEO Ben Goldhirsh and a number of angel investors including Nicholas Negroponte.
AOL PoliticsDaily - Online Magazine Focused on US Political Landscape
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on April 29, 2009
PoliticsDaily is a new website cum online magazine that is focused to build a relationship with readers across the political spectrum. The daily envisions to tie the old media’s in-depth political analysis with a sustainable digital medium.
AOL launched a PoliticsDaily - A New Online Magazine Focusing on US Political Landscape.
PoliticsDaily is part of the AOL News network, which receives more than 27 million unique visitors every month, according to March 2009 comScore Media Metrix.
The initiative is led by former New York Times Washington Correspondent, Melinda Henneberger.
PoliticsDaily Features
As the public increasingly turns to the Internet for political news and information, PoliticsDaily.com delivers information across the political spectrum and across various demographics and voting blocks through regular features and sections.
The site features a mix of political views, as well as reporting and analysis of key political issues of the day. The stories are thought out well in advance, not just focused on the minute-to-minute news cycle.
The site includes different types of blogs such as “Woman Up,” a blog focused on political issues from a woman’s perspective; “The Daily FLOTUS,” a blog which focuses on First Lady Michelle Obama; and “The Cram,” a student-focused blog on political news.
Rivals4Ever - Create Rivalry | Invite Friends to Join | Upload Videos Images
Posted by ilovegajeebo in startups on December 29, 2008
Passion can create rivalries, which in turn can gives rise to websites as Rivals4Ever. Jokes apart; the site concept seems interesting, though the problem lies in the marketing which is a real tough job as thousands of site comes in existence each and everyday.
Its early ages for collaborative concept in India, and it might take time to be popular thus the startup needs to hold their nerves till that time. Also the looks can be improved to make it more attractive from a visitor’s perspective.
RocketBoom - Daily Videoblog about Internet Culture
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on November 14, 2008
RocketBoom - Daily Videoblog about Internet Culture
Rocketboom is a daily international news program based in New York City. They cover and create a wide range of information and commentary from top news stories to contemporary internet culture.
RocketBoom is a very popular Monday through Friday videoblog, or vblog. The segments are short - around 3-5 minutes and released weekdays at 9 am EST. RocketBoom is extremely low budget Instead of costing millions of dollars to produce, Rocketboom is created with a level video camera, a laptop, two lights and a map with no additional overhead or costs.
Rocketboom is presented in the format of a newscast with a comedic slant. Each weekday Rocketboom offers oddities, vlog excerpts and explores emerging social. It sometimes presents political commentary. Apart from an occasional use of old newsreel footage or vintage commercials, mainstream media is avoided. The Rocketboom weblog and Apollo Pony feature supplemental material that isn’t fit for the vlog.
Topics of Rocketboom videos typically cover top news stories of the day, international arts and business, technology news, and a quirky section of internet culture, Watch daily news on this website, subscribe via email, iTunes, or RSS, browse their archives, or find Rocketboom on many off-site destinations like YouTube, Vimeo and Yahoo!.
visit website - http://www.rocketboom.com/
Hubdub - The World’s News Forecaster
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on September 20, 2008
Hubdub is a startup news forecaster that allows users to track news stories, predict their outcomes and compete with other news junkies. In theory, this predicting process turns you from being a passive news consumer into an active news participant and then if you are correct, you receive credits that help you reach the leaderboard.
Hubdub is a platform and community that combines the value of user-generated news aggregation with passionate prediction markets. Unlike Digg or Reddit, Hubdub tracks only the stories that people decide are worth creating a market around. To create a market, someone asks a question. They request either a “yes” or “no” answer or offer a multiple choice scenario, then determine the duration of trading. Successful predictors make the leaderboard in topics such as Technology, Politics and Sports, which they can link back to their blogs, sites or profiles on social networks.
Hubdub has created a special section for Reuters which highlights the latest news and events. On the community site, interested members can friend other members and the Reuters account as well. There’s also a widget option so visitors can take the latest Reuters predictions and place them around the Web.
visit website http://www.hubdub.com/
visit blog http://blog.hubdub.com/
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