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Anyone who has been to a web-centric conference lately will have a list of the most impressive ventures and companies currently on the net. One name that has consistently held a note of both interest and excitement has been Y Combinator, with their startups that have been based on the theory that smaller amounts of seed money can be applied… Read more
“Who we think we are and what others think of us is often very different”is the motto that fuels the social media startup, Hearsay. Founded in 08/01/2010 and based out of Santa Monica, CA, Hearsay has a team of 6 people, including Ryan MacInnes, CEO and Founder, and Chris Huse, Director of Marketing. McInnes and his team launched a… Read more
Zenergo is a social media promotion site which combines location based services with activity orientated networking. The aim of the site is to allow people to find and promote events based on activities they love, not only within Zenergo but across most of web 2.0 as well. Aesthetically the site is fairly minimalistic, in a good, clean way. Users can… Read more
Karmaback is a new type of commercial social networking service, that aims to provide a platform from which advertisers can promote their brands, by harnessing the power of peoples personal social media accounts. Karmaback hopes to achieve this by offering non-business users the ability to earn karma points, which they do by interacting with the Karmaback system. Points can then… Read more
CrowdControlHQ have developed a mass media management system that makes keeping control over multiple social platforms easier than ever before. It works by allowing organizations to place different Facebook and Twitter accounts into consolidated work-groups, from which postings can be made without having to use the traditional web interfaces. Access to these work-groups can then be granted (with restrictions added… Read more
The idea behind Narvoo is to provide a place on the web where movie lovers can come and compile lists of their favorite movies, whilst also finding new people to discuss their favorite feature films with. Set up almost like on an online movie database, the site allows members to generate and search through film lists, to find movies that… Read more
Over the last few years we’ve seen the web give birth to many different types of social networks, providing more ways than ever before to reach out and contact whoever you want. BrainRepublic takes the social networking concept of easy and open communication, then expands on it to present a totally new form of social media, a real-time, web based,… Read more
Have you ever found yourself wishing your international friends could understand your status updates, so that people all over the world could know that your back is hurting or that you’re really drunk, no matter what language? No me neither, but apparently for some people it’s a real problem (must be why none of the big networks have installed their… Read more
When it comes to selling things online, no matter whether you’re getting rid of some unwanted items from around the home, starting your own business or selling on behalf of a company, making sure to promote your goods to a large and targeted audience will play a key part in seeing that a deal is done. To that end, SellAround.net… Read more
Let’s remember which sexy social media start-ups we have reviewed since summer:
