Monkiri - enables a web user to have clippings of a webpage and comment on the same
Posted on May 11, 2008
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Monkiri is a user friendly tool that enables a web user to have clippings of a webpage and comment on the same. Literally Monkiri means the Japanese art of paper cutting. Newspaper clippings are always a means amongst any knowledge enthusiasts to store a piece of information. In the web world Monkiri meets the same need. Monkiri lets one read and write blogs about any item published on a website.
With the help of Monkiri button a user can snap required portion of the item on the webpage and blog it. The user can then give a comprehensive review of the same and add on his comments. The ‘View Entries’ feature from Monkiri menu enables other interested users to visit the blogged item and comment on the same. In this way everyone visiting that page can review the comments giving one a potentially large audience. Over a period of time users can build up an online journal of articles of interest. In other words, Monkiri makes blogging and sharing a simple affair.
One of the main features of Web 2.0 is the democratization of the web where web users are no longer content to be passive observers of information that has been fed to them – they want to be active participants. Monkiri has been developed to take this advantage of Web 2.0.
MAP - the best global arts and crafts community and movement
Posted on May 11, 2008
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An interesting BETA has come up recently: MAP. Minh Nguyen, Todd Lipcon, and Kim Jackson have devoted 2 years to building MAP and it is now ready. MyArtPlot.com (MAP) is a global arts and crafts community and movement. Fighting elitism, it is an empowerment platform that offers functional tools to re-design the industry’s archaic social, professional, and commercial dynamics. On MAP, any one participant is a crucial element of the global movement.
By providing functional social, professional and commercial tools, MAP allows disconnected artists, crafters, artisans and buyers worldwide to connect socially while interacting professionally and commercially. On MAP, you can showcase, critique, rate, review, favorite, buy, and sell original arts and crafts while interacting with people from around the world and across all experience levels.
MAP attempts to solve a problem that has plagued artists and art buyers worldwide since the emergence of the artisan profession some millennia ago. The problem states that social, professional, and commercial interactions between artists, artisans, crafters and buyers are inefficient, caused by technology deficiency, with all parties suffering from (1) information asymmetry, lacking equal distribution of information about each other, and (2) isolation, having no easy centralized channel to connect and interact globally. Therefore, those who create original arts and crafts are notoriously known for earning substandard incomes simply because they, as independent operators, lack easy access to a global concentration of each other and of buyers.
Similarly, buyers, lacking the same access to those who create goods, have trouble accessing original arts and crafts, which are thus only available to those who are well connected to the artistic communities and who can afford the high prices, driven up by the inability to sell in large quantities. This situation of inaccessibility from all sides and high prices results in a majority of the arts and crafts professions earning low incomes while original arts and crafts buyers become an extremely elitist group which excludes perhaps a majority potential buyers who, lacking social and financial resources, resolve to buying reprints. Facing this problem, MAP offers itself as a solution.
myExperiment - enables you and your colleagues to share digital items associated with your research
Posted on May 10, 2008
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One of the main problems I had at university was sharing knowledge especially concerning experiments and projects. Fortunately there is now a solution for it. The myExperiment Virtual Research Environment enables you and your colleagues to share digital items associated with your research; in particular it enables you to share and execute scientific workflows.
You can use myexperiment.org to find publicly shared workflows. If you want further access, and the ability to upload and share workflows, you will need to sign up. The software that powers myexperiment.org is downloadable so that you can run your own myExperiment instance.
myExperiment is brought to you by a joint team from the universities of Southampton and Manchester in the UK, led by David De Roure and Carole Goble, and is funded by JISC under the Virtual Research Environments programme and by Microsoft’s Technical Computing Initiative. myExperiment is part of the myGrid consortium, which develops the Taverna workbench for creating and executing scientific workflows, and also builds on CombeChem - two of the original UK e-Science Pilot Projects.
In our humble opinion this is the only such startup on the net available so far, but if you think this is not the case please let us know and we will analyze it.
TravelGator - a successful travel startup for almost 4 years
Posted on May 10, 2008
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It is sometimes interesting to see old projects still being successfull, and that’s definitely the case of TravelGator. Founded in 2005, TravelGator is an online resource that helps active travelers make the most of their time doing what they love. A good site to know about.
Actually there are plenty of online resource to help you find low-cost fares and deals. But no one else can help you find cost-effective ways to spend your travel dollars on the activities you love most. No where else can you gain insight and input from other seasoned travelers who share your same interests, passions, and needs - who best to help you put together your next perfect vacation? Get travel advice from people just like you, then reach out to all the resources you need to book your trip, from all the major booking agents to small tour operators that can put you in the know. Small operators can easily get in touch with active travelers to build more customer-friendly transactions and packages.
The idea behind TravelGator is to help you travel smart from the get-go by offering a great community web experience. Its award-winning founders have been recognized for their contributions to building user-friendly websites appreciated by customers for their ease-of-use and accessibility. With more than 50 years’ combined experience founding and leading technology companies that put customers first, TravelGator’s leadership team believes in putting travelers first from the moment they start researching their next great vacation. TravelGator is an operating company of Tembizi, Inc.
When those guys started this project few years ago we were but skeptical, but now we recognize them as a good example of how to launch a startup. Good luck for the future!
SSMunch - a very effective search engine that helps you find the music you like on the web
Posted on May 9, 2008
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SSMunch.com is a simple search engine that helps you find the music you like on the web, then allows you to listen and download your favorite songs to your computer. None of the songs on site are hosted on SSMunch servers. SSMunch system crawls the internet for audio tracks and then provides the information for the users. SSMunch is free and easy to use.
This is not the first such an engine, but it is supposed to be one of the best one. Actually what we found is that much has to be done to improve it. If you use Firefox or Explorer it’s fine, but if you are willing to stick to Opera forget it.
If you use main browser loading is effective and buffering is relatively fast. What is great about this search engine is that eve though it doesn’t have too many option, it still allows to search for music files, pictures and videos. The “database” needs to be widened, but it is already impressing with thousands of songs that have been added until now.
Graphics is still very poor, but functionality is the key issue in the case of search engines. What is missing is the possibility of creating a playlist with selected songs. If you know anything better guys please let us know and we will cover it for sure.
Lucratives - find the best marketing articles online
Posted on May 8, 2008
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Getting to grips with Internet Marketing can be a little bit daunting at first. It can be difficult to know what to research first, who to trust and where to start. Then there´s the Internet jargon… It´s all extremely confusing when you don´t know what it means.
The problem with the Internet is not the lack of information. It´s the sheer abundance of it that can overwhelm even the sharpest mind. Faced with this overload of information, it´s easy for people to freeze and do nothing.
Lucratives has been is designed to correct these problems and to make the Internet Marketing business easier for us all. Lucratives is an Internet Marketing community with a difference. It provides a carefully filtered collection of the very best articles that the world of Internet marketing has to offer, and don´t forget that only the writings of the Top Gurus, who can pass muster are included. The articles are fully categorized in a user friendly and logical manner, making it extremely easy to find the right information when you need it.
Stumpedia - a social search engine that relies on human participation
Posted on May 8, 2008
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Stumpedia is a social search engine that relies on human participation to index, organize, and review the world wide web. Stumpedia does not depend on bots, algorithms, or company insiders to make decisions on the relevance and ranking of search results.
They enable users around the world to share their knowledge and interests with one another and provide an alternative to traditional search. Users are encouraged to create custom content pages for any possible search term in the world and submit links that will help people find relevant results and answers to their search requests. Links to social bookmarks, social profiles, blogs, new stories, authoriative articles, videos, images, and web pages are welcomed.
To us it is not a new google search engine, but something interesting to follow as it seems to have business potential.
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