Videorix (www.videorix.com) is a fresh incarnation of Brandfame, a start-up I reviewed back in September 2007 which offered product placement in online videos - a concept I didn’t exactly welcome with open arms, but Founder Nadim Elgarhy hopes that this time around Videorix will be much more accessible and concentrate on sponsored ad-slots, rather than [...]
With a slogan like “Put a contract out on yourself” I was half expecting StickK to be the brainchild of a masochistic hitman. I was slightly disappointed to find out it was quite the opposite - StickK is a service that helps busy people to improve (not extinguish) their lives by setting goals in the [...]
According to Ameibo, this service is the only website in the world that pays you cold hard cash when you legally share the movies you buy or rent from them, which should not only satisfy all the copyright nazis who are getting their knickers in a twist about illegal file sharing, but promises to fill [...]
Do you ever wonder what happens to the links you share on Twitter? Well if you want to know just how your latest ‘lolcats’ tweet was received, Tweetburner could be a good way to find out if you’re an influential twitter-god, or just another face in the crowd.
It’s a great idea for power users who [...]
Trackur (www.trackur.com) is a brand new service that promises to take the legwork out of monitoring your online reputation by scouring the web for keywords related to yourself, your company or anything else that keeps you awake at night.
In a nutshell, it’s an aggregated ego-search for power users, allowing you to quickly see who’s talking [...]
Nononina, the company behind Truemors has launched a brand-new blog aggregator by the name of Alltop.com. This simple but convenient service is similar to Techmeme and Popurls, except that it sports a very simple, yet highly navigable layout that’s an absolute godsend for the obsessive reader who spends hours a day traversing countless RSS feeds [...]
Raisecapital.com promises to bring entreprenuers and investors together in a social melting pot akin to vator.tv, except on first impressions alone, this new site ditches the idea shared by it’s competitors that browsing should be simple, instead opting for a rather corporate web 1.0 look and feel.
The idea is, that you can post your pitch [...]
Mikons.com is a free online service that puts personal branding at your fingertips, allowing you to create a personal icon (called a mikon) that describes you, instead of the traditional icons or logos used by companies.
Curious about this novel idea, I set about trying to create my mikon, and surprisingly the editor is childsplay to [...]
I’m usually very sceptical about any startup jumping on the gravy-train of giants like StumbleUpon, and it was no different when I was tipped off about YouLicit. I wasn’t expecting much, but it seems my scepticism was unfounded as I installed the plug-in and began playing with the site.
Sign-up took about 3 seconds, the plugin [...]
The arrogantly titled Blog Council, managed by GasPedal, Chicago, IL, is the most ludicrous and ill-conceived idea to ever come out of a backward-thinking corporate cesspool that’s so desperate to get a piece of the pie, it’s willing to inject archaic web 1.0 sensibilities into the flourishing social phenomena the rest of us call blogging.
These [...]