As a startup, it makes sense to do awards submissions. One of the biggest ones out there is “The Crunchies”, a competition put on by TechCrunch to award the best startups and internet/tech innovations of the year. This is the second annual competition, and final voting just started. This afternoon I got the following email [...]
If user acquisition is the first problem startups face, the second is getting those users to continue to come back and be active on the site. After all the time, money and effort spent to get new users to register, online startups have to go one step further to find ways to turn new users [...]
RadWebTech has just launched ScrAPPlet, a browser based "blank canvas that makes it easy for anyone to customize a page, connect social profiles, or design a portablesite with drag and drop ease." While other social network aggregators and bridges have used the "enabling users to connect to multiple accounts" angle, scrapplet has gone for customization [...]
Back in October, I wrote about Signal Patterns launching a facebook app to match personality traits to voting behavior. Today, they’ve announced the official launch of their two first web apps: Personality Patterns and Music Patterns. From their press release:
The applications are now available on SignalPatterns.com, a first-of-its-kind website where people use professional psychology tools, [...]
Today, telonu launched the public beta of their service, a community site where users can talk about their employer anonymously. The site mixes reviews and ratings of companies with networking features. From their press release:
Telonu Inc. today announced the beta launch of its free user generated content community website, www.telonu.com focused on the workplace. Users [...]
Last night I made a quick post on Hacker News, asking the following question:
I am curious: what are your biggest PR/Marketing problems as a startup? Is it getting noticed? Getting coverage? Differentiation? What problems are startups having when it comes to marketing?
Looking through the comments I saw the following:
1 point by vaksel 10 hours ago [...]
Veedow is a shopping discovery site that recommends products to users based on their expressed interests. The moment I heard the word "discovery", I was all over it. Frequent readers of this blog may remember that until October, I worked at matchmine, a media discovery company that recommended music, video, podcasts and blogs to users [...]
My article, entitled “Content and Communications Companies Dominate WebInno 20“, is now available on Media Bulliseye.
WebNotes, the web annotation service covered here in November, has launched their invite-only public beta. Since I last covered their closed beta, the service has made several upgrades and feature changes, though most have taken place under the hood:
UI changes have been made to the highligter functionality
Security enhancements have been made
Changes have been made to [...]
Tonight is the 20th Web Innovators Group meeting here in the Boston area. The Web Innovators Group:
Is comprised of people engaged in internet and mobile innovation in the Boston area. We aim to support entrepreneurs, visionaries, and creative thinkers in the field by holding events which foster community interaction. Our regular meetings provide a forum [...]
