I saw the news today that ImindI, after giving away 1000 invites to their beta on TechCrunch, accidentally deleted all user accounts. Whoops. ImindI’s CEO Adam Lindemann sent out an apology email:
Dear Friends of Imindi,
Yesterday, we were featured on Techcrunch and many of you were kind enough to sign up to the service. Unfortunately, we [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
After my last post on getting a startup noticed, I started getting emails and comments that were all hinting at one question:
Sure, using these tools might get me some attention or a quick burst of traffic, but how do I make it sustainable?
Well, that’s a great question I pretended to just ask myself.
I think it’s [...]
It’s a terrible day here in Boston, and I’ve run out of shows on my DVR. So, I thought I’d actually get back to the keyboard and do something productive. As you probably already know, the mashable Open Web Awards nominees have been named, and voting goes until Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008.
Here are the [...]
Last night I got an email from a old co-worker inviting me to check out SocialMinder, which said:
SocialMinder is an online assistant that helps you maintain relationships with your LinkedIn network.
I thought that you might appreciate a free invitation to the “closed” alpha test of SocialMinder.
SociaMinder:
* Scans your email headers and maps them to your [...]
Steve Rubel is the man. I’ve been thinking of just how exhausting it is to keep track of all the new betas, web 2.0 startups and the like, and once again, he said it best:
We’re a million monkeys running on treadmills, chasing the latest banana.
He’s exactly right. Right now the web seems absolutely chaotic with [...]
