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Oct 2008
Events

Have a idea that serves public interest ? Upto $5 Million awaits you…

Knight News Challenge is giving away upto $5 Million for funding bright ideas that will serve public interest Knight Foundation is hosting 'Knight News Challenge',a social effort to encourage ideas that have the capability and novelty of serving public interest but require funds to get them implemented. They're giving away around $5 Million in 2009 for the development and distribution of neighborhood and community-focused projects,services, and programs. You're a right candidate for this challenge if you have a idea that will improve local online news, deepen community engagement, bring Web 2.0 tools to local neighborhoods, develop publishing platforms and standards to support local conversations or innovate how we visualize, experience or interact with information. Applications will be taken till November 1, 2008 so hurry if you think you're the ONE and haven't participated yet.There's
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18
Oct 2008
P2P

AdMatchup lets you advertise(P2P way) for FREE….Effective ?

Advertisement for free Admatchup. Admatchup lets you advertise for free by letting others advertise on your site. AdMatchup is an implementation of an interesting  concept....Doing "P2P for advertisements" and making the Ad system FREE to use. Armin Bahramshahry,the lead developer and founder of this website describes AdMatchup as a method to advertise one's website for FREE.Users signup and begin advertising for one another,they receive points as they advertise for others and those points are used towards advertisement for their website. Operating since Oct 1,it has 22+ websites registered on its platform and gearing up for more participation in the time to come. Few such systems based on FREE advertising through mutual sharing have been there already but didn't work out
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15
Oct 2008
Utility focussed

Scrumy lets you manage tasks/projects with no hassles

Scrumy project management tool(Scrum) lets you manage your tasks/projects efficiently with no hassles. Scrumy is a project management tool(Scrum) which lets you manage your tasks/projects efficiently with no hassles.It gives you an easy to use ajax based interface which lets you collaboratively use it with your friends/peers to manage daily tasks/projects. This illinois based startup has three founders(Robert Brend, Dan Kordik, Mike O'Malley) working for it and this is how they describe their product... In their own words
Scrumy is a simple and intuitive way to do Scrum project management. At its core, Scrumy is a virtual taskboard, and is free. Scrumy Pro has more Scrum-specific features like multiple sprints, burndown charts, and daily snapshots
The entire procedure to create a project on scrumy is very simple.It lets you create a story(sort of a goal) and add related tasks to that story.You can categorize those tasks into 'To do', 'In progress', 'Verify' & 'Done'.You can create multiple stories(goals) within a single project.Check out a demo
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14
Oct 2008
funding

Wix raises $3.5 Million more…proving its worth quite well

Wix has recently raised $3.5 Mn in funding making a total funding of $8.5Mn till now.They are having steady growth till now. Wix,a flash website builder service which we reviewed earlier has recently raised $3.5 Million from Mangrove Capital Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners,making its overall funding total to $8.5 Million. When we reviewed this web service in May,2008,Wix was in closed beta but its product was strong enough to let us realise its worth at that time itself.It proposed a solution to the core problem of flash websites-'SEO unfriendliness',by making the content of the website crawlable by search engines. In our recent post titled Website designing for beginners,we listed Wix and few other website building services(Weebly,Synthasite,Snappages) which can really help naive users create professional websites within no time. Today,Wix is serving more than 2,00,000
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14
Oct 2008
Utility focussed

Style up yourself with RestyleMe.com !

RestyleMe is the ultimate style advice community website. Restyleme fashion advice gives users quick, precise, and effective style advice. This is surely for all the 'style conscious' girls/guys who are always keen to seek style advices from their friends and peers.And it's definitely a meaningful attempt by a fashion oriented website to utilize the power of social web to effectively generate styling advices for the users of the site by other peers. RestyleMe,a fashion oriented website lets you upload your photographs and receive positive-negative comments through the community over your looks,clothing,hairs,accessories and whatever that matters in styling one's appearance. But here,you don't get a vague responses that you usually receive from your friends on your social network,which doesn't help you improvise your looks in any way. Here,the peers can mark a particular area of your
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13
Oct 2008
legal matters

TechCrunch Sued(Again) but Arrington should rather be Happy !

TechCrunch was being sued by Earthcomber for absurd reasons and will be countersued by TechCrunch for this act. On October 8,Earthcomber,a Chicago based startup filed a lawsuit against TechCrunch,adding it as a defendent in a patent infringement lawsuit which the former earlier filed against Loopt,a location based social network.The reasons behind penalizing Loopt still seem logical but putting TechCrunch under the scanner seems way illogical to us.  

Earthcomber vs Techcrunch

And Michael seems quite pissed off with this stuff and with Earthcomber President Jim Brady.According to Michael's conversations with Jim,it's not something that needs to be taken so seriously and can be worked out before going to the court.His ultimate target is taking Loopt to the court and not TC. This seems a pure publicity gimmick
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12
Oct 2008
Featured Startups

SnappyFingers Review

Snappyfingers is a Question and Answer Search engine which crawls and indexes FAQs all across the Internet & provides search results in a Question-Answer format If we want to search anything on the web today,there are enough destinations(search engines) to look out for but fetching relevant and authentic results within milli-seconds is yet to be mastered by Google,Yahoo!,Live,Ask,Cuil etc specially when the consumer is looking out for a solution to a particular 'query'. An indian startup has found its way in serving as a solution to this problem and the name is SnappyFingers SnappyFingers is a Bangalore based vertical search startup.It is basically a Question and Answer Search engine which crawls and indexes FAQs spread across the Internet and provides search results in an easy to view Question-Answer format. In their own words
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07
Oct 2008
Best of Web

3 Nonprofit Websites we can’t really afford to loose

There are some of the nonprofit websites which are non-commercial but have made a huge impact on the web. Three of them are given below: When it's about Web,then most of the services we use comes for FREE(for consumers),be it e-mail,messenger,web space,website building tools,music,videos,information,e-books,softwares and endless stuff like that. But almost all the service providers have their own ways of earning out of the FREE services they facilitate.Plenty of service providers on the web are encashing tens of millions of dollars out of their web based businesses. But still,there exists a plethora of web services which are 'free to use' and do not monetize their services at all.And few of them have made a huge impact on web population and the internet as a whole. So, here are those three elite web entities which you can't really
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