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- allaboutdatiki, on 10/12/2007, -7/+66CNN calls Diggnation the "Wayne's World," of the Net generation.
We're not worthy! - Junkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+51I only knew about 5 of those. I must not be hip anymore.
- HarleyQuinn, on 10/12/2007, -3/+41When will these sites learn no one wants to click on 25 slides. Here is a summary. If you really care about employee counts and slightly more detail, click through.
www.stumbleupon.com
Launched in 2002 by three 20-somethings in a Calgary, Alberta, apartment, StumbleUpon now has 2 million registered users drawn by its knack for finding websites that match their interests and those of others with similar tastes as they "stumble" around the Net.
www.slide.com
Slide has developed customizable and easily assembled slide shows of photos that can be embedded in a blog or a MySpace page, sent out in an RSS feed, and streamed to a desktop as a screensaver.
www.bebo.com
Bebo has built a social network, more than 30 million members strong, that keeps users' pages private but still allows them to share things like video and drawings made on an online whiteboard.
www.meebo.com
Meebo lets users manage multiple instant-messaging services from one site. Meebo's killer app is a widget that places an IM window on your blog or webpage.
www.wikia.com
Wikia operates a hosting service for ad-supported community sites that use the same software and collaborative content model that made Wikipedia a Web phenomenon.
www.joost.com
Forget the three-minute video blog. The 30-minute, broadcast-quality Web 2.0 TV show is coming in all its full-screen glory. And if serial disrupters Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom have their way, neither television nor the Internet will be the same.
www.dabble.com
Dabble has designed a tool for organizing videos into playlists of favorites. Users share them across the network, so, say, food lovers can dabble in one another's video collections.
www.metacafe.com
Metacafe's service ranks uploaded videos by popularity and feedback from a community of 17 million monthly visitors - and pays the creators for the success of their work. The auteurs get $100 after 20,000 viewings and $5 for every 1,000 subsequent views. Since September, Metacafe has paid a total of $250,000 to 200 contributors.
www.revision3.com
Revision 3 is a production studio for geek-oriented online shows. Started by Digg founder Kevin Rose and its CEO, Jay Adelson, Revision3 sells sponsorships to companies like Go Daddy, Microsoft, and Sony for as much as $10,000 per episode.
www.blip.tv
Blip.tv has built a platform for syndicating serialized online shows such as Starring Amanda Congdon and TreeHugger TV. Blip provides producers with software, ads, and distribution to websites and blogs. A deal is already signed with Web TV service Akimbo, which lets producers send their videos to TV sets.
www.fon.com
Here's how it works: Fon sells a $30 wireless router to consumers. They hook it up, register their node, and agree to share their broadband with other "Foneros" for free. Those who want to charge outsiders for access can do so, and Fon gets a cut. Likewise, if someone wants to pay $2 or $3 to use the Fon network for a day, Fon takes a share of that revenue. Just over a year old, Fon's network boasts more than 70,000 hotspots. Initially focused on Europe and Asia, Fon plans a big push in the United States in the coming months.
www.loopt.com
Loopt offers around-the-clock friend tracking. Cell-phone customers are using Loopt to let their buddies see their locations. It's already a hit with some 100,000 Boost Mobile subscribers who want to know not just what their posse is up to but where it's at.
www.getmobio.com
Mobio offers mobile-phone mashups and widgets that figure out where you are and serve up on-the-go services like movie listings. Other widgets will book a cab or a seat at a restaurant.
www.tinypictures.com
It's Flickr on the fly. Tiny's Radar service lets you snap photos with cell phones and send them to friends, who can both access and comment on the shots. Radar will soon be a built-in application on T-Mobile's Sidekick.
www.soonr.com
Access your home or office PC from your mobile phone. SoonR allows you to use your phone to pull up and search data on your desktop - everything from Word docs to Photoshop files.
www.turn.com
Led by former AltaVista CEO Jim Barnett, Turn.com is offering online advertisers something many have craved for years: precise, automated ad targeting combined with a system that requires them to pay only for specific desired results.
www.adify.com
Adify is an online marketplace for highly targeted ads. Businesses can sell ad space directly to advertisers; advertisers can target specific market niches while Adify handles the back-office work.
www.admob.com
AdMob offers a place to buy ads for delivery to cell phones. That market is set to explode, and AdMob - which says it has sent out nearly a billion ads in less than a year - is poised to become its middleman of choice.
www.spotrunner.com
SpotRunner is a one-stop online shop for low-cost 30-second TV ads. Local businesses can browse a library of premade spots and personalize them for airing in their local markets.
www.vitrue.com
ViTrue's platform lets corporate customers solicit, edit, and upload user-generated videos that promote their products. With companies like General Motors tapping the YouTube generation to virally market their wares, ViTrue is in a sweet spot.
www.successfactors.com
Ultimately the service helps to match employee skills with company objectives. North Carolina-based Quintiles, a pharmaceutical services firm with 17,000 employees, deployed SuccessFactors last year to better pair worker aptitudes with jobs; its annual employee churn rate subsequently fell by nearly a third.
www.janrain.com
JanRain has developed a single sign-on service for multiple passwords that lets people hop freely from site to site. Business demand for JanRain's services is expected to grow as Web 2.0 entertainment and social-networking sites proliferate.
www.logoworks.com
Logoworks automates the design of logos, business cards, and stationery. Proprietary software helps Logoworks streamline the process and charge less than old-line competitors.
www.reardencommerce.com
Rearden Commerce sells a Web-based "virtual personal assistant" application that smoothly integrates hotel and flight reservations, meetings, and other events into your daily agenda. Some 150 companies and 500,000 employees use Rearden's software.
www.simulscribe.com
Finally, an effective way to convert voice-mail into scannable text. SimulScribe transcribes voice-mail messages and shoots them to your mobile device as text or e-mail messages. Targeting corporate customers, SimulScribe will integrate the service into company voicemail systems. - sonochamp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22It's not really ranked #9. They seem to be presented in order of category. Revision3 just seems to be on page 9. Still very cool!
- CapeKid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Pixel Perfect is well worth watching if you are into Photoshop. Bert does a great job of explaining how things get done.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Pretty boring list ... social networking is last year, the only video company that actually does anything new is joost. I stopped looking when I realised there was nothing notable about any of them except joost.
- BornWithRage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Judging by the list, toddlers with speech impediments are naming startups these days.
- adam84a, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16does that imply that we can expect a Diggnation movie ?
- Errik, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Companies like LOGOWORKS are awful, streamlining the design process like this means its no longer DESIGN.
- succubuskiller, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10It is the Me too syndrome. I have seen many VCs write about it when people approach them with ideas.
It will just be like Myspace BUT ____________ . It will be like YouTube, BUT _________________ which makes it better.
DotCom boom 2.0 is here. - apoc519, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14With the exception of Diggnation is there really anything worth watching?
I just hope Alex's new show is good - batfink, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9"Revision3 sells sponsorships to companies like Go Daddy, Microsoft, and Sony for as much as $10,000 per episode" - Wow!
- towski, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Those headshots scare me (except Revision 3). I see a bunch of nerd-gone-egomaniacs. I wish them good luck.
- 1337hx0r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"Loopt offers around-the-clock friend tracking. Cell-phone customers are using Loopt to let their buddies see their locations."
Is it just me, or is putting the power of Big Brother in to everyone's hands just a little creepy? - diggn_it, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Why? Revision3 is nothing that great. Most of its shows (I think all of its shows) are bad and its flagship show diggnation is so horrifyingly unprofessional that I have a hard time believing it will break outside of the digg audience. Its like TWIT except video and its bad, and even though TWIT is wildly popular, it still is not making any real amount of money.
Now go ahead and digg me down for not sucking up to kevin. Digg is great, but revisions3 is nothing special. - Anteros, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I am really surprised at the number of employees that slide has, it's just a flash slideshow...
- 1337hx0r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6The best thing about the revision3 page of the article is the "digg this story" button at the bottom. Digg pownes new media! That, and $10,000 per episode sponsorship? DAAAAMN. Don't screw it up guys, you may have something here.
- booozeninja, on 10/12/2007, -14/+18Revision3 are fly by night merchants like those stock scam spam kings. sneaky f*cks submitting this to digg with their name promentantly in the title.
- KSUdesigner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Is it just me, or is putting the power of Big Brother in to everyone's hands just a little creepy?"
Yes, but it's profitable so somebody's gonna do it. - KSUdesigner, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4digg != revison3
- Jomwilli, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Yawnnnnn. I mean what they're really doing is just re-packaging what's already out there. People fresh out of B-School, optimism sword in hand, fist full of Investor money in the other are scrambling to make the next YouTube/MySpace/Digg web widget.
- kidcodea, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4whats so special about rev3? a website hosting a few vid files made by geeks? wow! what a life changing idea.
dont get me wrong, i sometimes watch a show or 2, but its a niche and not very revolutionary at that.
digg yes, its a major vital website. but rev3? plz...
i dont even think it tries to be more than what it is really... just these lists hyping what needs or deserves no hype... - sjbdallas, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4It is clear from the names of most of those companies that all of the good descriptive names are gone.
- bumbobway, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Why does meebo continue to get press (and funding for that matter)? Mooching off other IM networks will only go so far before the rug gets pulled out from under them.
- Vlatro, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5theBroken could be an alright premise for a movie. It'd be like a cross between "jackass" and "Harold and Kumar go to white castle", but for geeks.
Well, ok... it would be pretty bad, but I'd at least download it. - mandarin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Is it possible to volunteer working at Revision3 in exchange for experience?
- AlanCayce, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"Revision3 sells sponsorships to companies like Go Daddy, Microsoft, and Sony for as much as $10,000 per episode."
I knew they made a little money off sponsors, but damn.. $10,000 an episode? - swordedge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think they went more by venture capital than by what they do. It *IS* CNN after all and they don't really get it. I do think one or more of the audio podcast companies deserve a mention. I can think of TWiT immediately as I listen to them and Podshow after a minute of research but there are several others. They and revision3 are still trying to get advertisers to understand that the audience is WORLD WIDE, not just the US. As a result, they have trouble comprehending the demographics.
- eddigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Watch what...them crash and burn into oblivion? What a sorry group of companies.
- Anth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2$10,000 isnt a lot.
Its not like Kevin and Alex are doing this by themselves, they've got lots of help behind the cameras. Even if they do 4 episodes a month, thats $40,000 which probably pays for the bandwidth to download the shows and thats it. - windwaker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Don't forget that it also pays for alex to be lazy the other 6 days of the week.
Seriously, his job is working on that show. Which is him talking for an hour and drinking beer. - Jomwilli, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Succubuskiller: I agree, VC's provide the wet dreams of Business School Grads with justification for their $120,000 school bill they just got.
- ThirdPrize, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3RocketBoom (dunno if they were in the article) and Rev3 are just next gen TV production houses. RocketBoom is great but what's the best they can hope for? Syndication on some cable TV channel? They can't really do much else without leaving the 3 min podcast format. At least Rev3 has a couple of shows. Having Kevin onboard is useful in a nieche marketing sort of way.
- cwcentral, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Guess what this list is just a popularity contest.
ALL the business models are either subscription or advertising. And all the founders that are young are focused on advertising--that's yesterday's fad young CEOs.... you better be preparing for an M&A or I see a dot bust coming...
Considering CNN Money caters to big business--they are 25 startups that are *being setup* for an acquisition by a google or microsoft. This article is old news and really advertising for those companies on behalf of their VC's.
I'm sick and tried of these business models based on ads--I'm not a consumer 24 hours a day. And I want quality content at my choosing and on demand. Why do you think iTunes works?
Geez.... I only see the enterprise subscription guys being anything successful. - galen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2agree... pixelperfect is fantastic.
- taco95060, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I guess selling or brokering advertising is the only way to make a buck on the net these days?
- The_Dude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well you can be one of the people that makes ads. I just heard a story on NPR yesterday saying they can't fill enough positions currently. I think you need to know flash, maybe have art ability. Stuff like that. But you'll still be a salary-man going that route.
- hookshotzz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1does anyone else thing that vitrue has the worst logo ever? it looks like it says true with a strange symbol next to it
- AlanCayce, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Diggnation, PixelPerfect, InDigital, and I think NotMTV i'snt bad. Every time one of those shows comes out, im watching.
My hope is the Revision3 will get there own channel on Joost. But that may just be wishful thinking.. - gildor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"AdMob offers a place to buy ads for delivery to cell phones. That market is set to explode, and AdMob - which says it has sent out nearly a billion ads in less than a year - is poised to become its middleman of choice."
Great, I've always wanted more ads on my cell phone. - Matrixsta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Lame
Most of these are 5 years old. Hardly a start up IMHO. Maybe a slow starter. - voyetra8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Meebo? Bebo? Soonr? Joost?
Nice names. Good luck differentiating yourselves against each other.
Amazingly, "Rearden Commerce" is the most unique/memorable name out of the 25. - The_Dude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Next up, flavor ads!
- Homunculiheaded, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The other big thing about revision3 that I think will become very important is the they create their own content. While user created content world of web 2.0 has been great for a variety of reasons, it also means that content is very easily duplicated across several services. I think original content will become increasingly valuable.
Most of these other companies are just relatively simple tools to handle user content, but they aren't particularly revolutionary, nor are they very difficult to emulate. - creoleplane, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I like the idea of stumbleupon.com just wish the would get a clue and fix it to work with Opera. No way in hell am I going to install firefox just for 1 site.
- Cogita, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Perfect! Who's able to open the link?
- mendigg, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0The author of clause has mentioned and has opened excellent and a vital topic presently. Clause is written interestingly and the main thing actual. The same theme on Russian sites: http://pivo.in.ua http://www.alcogol.kiev.ua
- BadgerAttack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0wow what are you guys talking about?
have you tried any of these?
i tried soonr, and it was pretty cool. Ive got all my music on my home computer, and since ive got soonr running, i can listen to all of it when im at school.
again i say, Soonr ftw - vemerge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I didn't know they were started in Calgary (where I am located). Interesting.
- dmitriyvoz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0RocketBoom (dunno if they were in the article) and Rev3 are just next gen TV production houses. RocketBoom is great but what's the best they can hope for? Syndication on some cable TV channel? They can't really do much else without leaving the 3 min podcast format. At least Rev3 has a couple of shows. Having Kevin onboard is useful in a nieche marketing sort of way. The same theme on Russian sites: http://pivo.in.ua http://www.alcogol.kiev.ua
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