Monthly Archives: November 2008

November 20, 2008 · 8:57 pm

Library Thing – social app

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Aug 08 – Portland, ME – librarything.com – Tim Spalding, founder

LibraryThing is a site for book lovers. LibraryThing helps you create a library-quality catalog of your books. You can do all of them or just what you’re reading now. And because everyone catalogs online, they also catalog together. LibraryThing connects people based on the books they share.

LibraryThing gets all the right data from Amazon.com and over 690 libraries around the world, including the Library of Congress.

You can search your books, sort your books, edit book information, and apply “tags.” You can rate your books and write reviews.

It’s also full of social information. Each book page shows you who has the book and what they think about it—tags, reviews, even conversations.  LibraryThing Local is a gateway to thousands of local bookstores, libraries and book festivals—and to all the author readings, signings, discussions and other events they host.

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November 14, 2008 · 11:43 pm

Feedburner – for Blog / Podcast

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feedburner.com – Chicago, IL 2004 / 2007 Google acquired

This is a great company that is worth mentioning…

FeedBurner is a feed management service launched in February 2004 by co-founders Dick Costolo, Eric Lunt, Steve Olechowski and Matt Strobe. 

FeedBurner is the leading provider of media distribution and audience engagement services for blogs and RSS feeds. Their Web-based tools help bloggers, podcasters and commercial publishers promote, deliver and profit from their content on the Web.
It offers advertising services for blogs and podcasts also.

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November 13, 2008 · 8:49 pm

Animoto – slide show

animoto 8/2006, New Youk, NY – www.animoto.com

Create custom, professional-looking slideshows from user-uploaded music and photos…

Animoto is a web application that, with the click of a button, produces videos using images and music that a user selects.

Their “patent-pending Cinematic Artificial Intelligence technology and high-end motion design” drives the web app. They say 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.

Once completed, videos can be emailed, downloaded and embedded into other sites. The company says no two videos are ever the same.

Main competitors – Rockyou.com  and Slide.com

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November 13, 2008 · 8:43 pm

Slide – photo slide show

slide1 8/2005 – San francisco, CA – www.slide.com

Slide  publishes of social entertainment applications / widgets. They offer people the ability to engage and have fun with one another using the relationships they’ve already developed on social networks like Facebook and MySpace. The social networks benefit from increased activity, advertisers benefit from an exuberant audience, and our users can share favorite videos, send virtual lattes or even throw sheep at each other.

More than 155 million people interact with their products every month. Their applications — like SuperPoke!, Top Friends and FunSpace — are consistently the most popular applications on their platforms, including the #1 and #2 most popular applications on Facebook (FunSpace and Top Friends). That makes Slide one of the largest Web properties in the world.

Launched  and founded by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin,.

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