congratulations to thomas marban and his business partner ralph zimmerman who’s widely popular android twitter client twidroyd (formerly twidroid) and news aggregator popurls have just been acquired by tweetup.
read the whole story at techcrunch, gigaom or the official press release.
last night i received an email from lars hinrichs announcing his new venture hackfwd – a pre-seed investment company designed to enable great people to launch great ideas.
hackfwd is led by the european technology entrepreneur lars hinrichs. the board includes other proven technology and investment entrepreneurs. hackfwd employs and involves top grade professionals in talent management, finance and marketing to serve as guides and support excellence for the individual business ideas.
find out more about their tools and how it works at hackfwd.com
wishing you and your team all the best for your new endeavor!
i attended the under the radar conference on wednesday, met a lot of friends and made great new connections. i was impressed again by all the innovative ideas and startups presenting their services and products for the first time. i don’t want to go into detail about all of them, you can find some more info at www.undertheradar.com but two of them really stood out for me.
my6sense – bringing sense to your digital life
my6sense ranks content from your different information streams based on what matters to you the most and allows you to interact in one click, it is focused on solving the ‘firehose effect’ of information deluge on mobile handsets.
“the amount of information that flows into our lives daily is growing rapidly. not only that, each information stream includes many pieces of content. the volume of information leads to lack of attention. the situation is getting worse with mobile. with our first consumer product, my6sense, we are aiming to solve a very big problem in a unique way — by presenting consumers information they need most”
“starting with cutting-edge machine learning technology, my6sense found an ingenious way to elicit the relevant variables needed for effective personalization. what is remarkable is that my6sense avoids added burden to the users and dramatically enhances the quality of their experience. the result is a groundbreaking solution for the mobile user.”
you can sign up to become an alpha user at www.my6sense.com / twitter.
soocial – online address book done right
soocial provides a one address book solution to contact management. no matter where you add or change a contact, it will be changed in your other connected devices or web applications. a problem that most of us are facing everyday and soocial is providing a solution for it, hassle-free contacts across different platforms, computers, mobile devices and online address books.
“our philosophy is that there is no good hassle-free solution yet to the contact management problem. we aim to link all currently disconnected address books to each other. a change in one of these address books will result in a change in all your connected devices.”
read more about their approach here, soocial is available at www.soocial.com / twitter.
dialplus won most of the jury and audience votings – “dialplus enriches the standard phone call experience by automatically and simultaneously providing dynamic, contextually relevant visual information about the called or calling party before the call is answered, during the call and after the call is over”. two friends and jajah partner companies announced their new services, iotum with calliflower going mobile and mobivox.
keep it going kristie, avinoam, barak, daniel, stefan and alec, it was great to see you!
mashable just kicked off the 2nd annual open web awards, an international online voting competition that covers major innovations in web technology. through an online nominating and voting process, the open web awards recognizes and honors the top achievements in 26 categories. this year, mashable is partnering with over 100 blog partners and i am one of them. the first open web awards achieved over 250,000 votes combined between mashable and 50 international blog partners.
now it is time for your nomination, the open web awards are now accepting nominations in 26 categories via the widget below. you may nominate a site/company in as many categories as you see fit. however, there is only one nomination per category per e-mail address, so choose wisely.
nominations will be held from november 5th till sunday, november 16th 2008. the voting round will be held from november 19th till december 15th and winners will be announced on december 16th.
if you want to support your favorite service/company, here is how to grab the widget and preset the category and company name.
please find all the info at 2nd annual open web awards
thanks to anya i recently discovered budurl, a great service to measure the power or reach of social networks, email campaigns, blog posts or simply giving you a short url and providing some great detailed metrics about when and from where people clicked on your url (referrer), budurl makes link tracking amazingly simple.
“what kind of power would you have if you could not only shrink a long url, but also add notes and tags along with detailed analytics like you have on your website? detailed statistics is marketing nirvana, but your website statistics only cover your website. what about social networks, emails, print marketing materials, presentations, etc. the list goes on and on! budurl gives you the power to quantify this traffic and make decisions that were once a shot in the dark.”
especially in combination with a service like ping.fm you can measure which of your social networks have any reach and which ones don’t. shorten the link, put it somewhere, watch it grow and measure the results. check it out at budurl.com
a little while back i received an invite for ping.fm from ryan merket, who i worked with before. in short ping.fm is a status update tool that sends your updates to a bunch of your favorite microblogging services like bebo, blogger, facebook, hi5, jaiku, linkedin, livejournal, myspace, pownce, tumblr and twitter and there are more to follow. you publish your update at ping.fm and within seconds all services are updated with your message.
“ping.fm is a simple service that makes updating your social networks a snap.”
“ping.fm was created for the sole purpose of making it as easy as possible to share your posts with the world. now you don’t have to fumble around the web in order to post anymore, you can just post once, and be done with it. the idea came about when making some posts to twitter and tumblr. the idea of posting the exact same information in two places seemed a bit tedious, so ping.fm was born.
you can update your status through the ping.fm website or a number of other tools like instant messengers or mobile email/sms, i usually use the iphone interface at ping.fm/iphone/.
this is an extremely handy tool and i love it. if you wanna check it out, just use the invite code “dreamofping” while signing up.
update : ping.fm just redesigned their ui (courtesy of jyoseph and it looks great) and added more services like plaxo pulse, plurk, brightkite, mashable and xanga.
