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YouLicit - A Real Contender for StumbleUpon?
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, b...
Why The Blog Council Is Doomed To Fail
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 ...
9 Digg Alternatives You Should Know About
Getting tired of Digg? Well I’m tired of doing write-ups for Digg clones, so here in no particular order, are nine Digg-alikes you might not of heard of, but should definitely give a try. Variet...
Yokld Brings Social Voting To Local Business
Find it, Rank it, Share it. That’s the tagline of the unusually named yokld.com, who bring social ranking and local business together in a service hoping to compete against a plethora of very si...
Photobucket Embraces Digg
Image sharing underdog, Photobucket have announced new features for public photos that integrate with Digg, allowing users to digg images directly from the site. No doubt photobucket are simply jum...
Google Takes on Digg
Google is experimenting with a controversial new feature that could change the way search results are indexed forever. Instead of relying solely on algorithmic methods to determine relevance, theyR...
The Whoa Show and a TechCrunch Rebuttal
I got an interesting email last night from David Hissami, CEO of WhoaShow.com, who wanted to clarify a TechCrunch Article comparing the service to an Exquisite Corpse, which he felt was unfair. I gues...
MetroFunk Brings Networking to Elitist Socialites
Ah MetroFunk, where do I even start? First of all, this is an invite only social network for schmoozing with “Trend Setters, nightlife personalities, fashion designers yadiyada..” so if yo...
WooMe takes the mystery out of dating
Online Dating: The last refuge of the socially inept. Ideal for the 35 year old virgin who lives in his mothers basement, making plasticine ladies and getting the boobs “just right” before...
5 Things that will Kill your Startup in 2008
I don’t mean to be alarmist, but I do love a catchy headline, and nothing beats scaring the crap out of your readers. I enjoy it. But on a serious note, these dangers are real - and they’r...
Streakr takes on the mighty StumbleUpon?
Let me kick off this review by pointing to the ‘?’ in the title, as I do not intend to make the assertion that this fledgeling start-up can compete with the likes of StumbleUpon (y...
What your startup can learn from Digg
It doesn’t matter if you’re an absolute beginner, or a seasoned entreprenuer, it’s a fair bet that you can’t help but give at least a passing glance to the success stories that...
Digg for Products? I like, totally review it.
There are hundreds of Digg-clones out there, and none of them seem to be any good. iliketotallyloveit reminds me of Digg but to call it a clone would be doing it a disservice, as this one differs eno...
7 Most Evil Websites on Earth
When you sign up to a web service, do you know who you’re dealing with? A common rant of mine is when a company gets too big, they get…well… a bit evil. Here’s a quick run-dow...
Pijoo set to storm the blogosphere
Brand-new web start-up Pijoo (pijo.com) have launched into the blog community with the open beta of their new social networking site for bloggers. Brought to you by the team behind UK start-up, Gizfol...
AjaxWindows tries to take on.. windows?
As google try to move applications over to the web, it was probably just a matter of time before someone tried to go one further. AjaxWindows (www.ajaxwindows.com) does just that, by offering a full-f...
Gizfolio matches freelance portfolios with contracts
UK Start-up Gizfolio (www.gizfolio.com) launched earlier this year with the goal of helping freelance artists, designers, and all creative professionals to get targeted contract work based on individu...
Explosive start-up growth in 1 step
Now that’s quite a bold claim! What could you possibly do in a single step to turn a flagging start-up into a money-making sensation? The answer? Ignore conventional wisdom. A successful launch...
FOWA Expo is underway
The Future of Web Apps Expo ‘07 hits London, with Kevin Rose (Pownce/Digg), Dav Morin (Facebook) and Michael Arrington (Techcrunch) among the guest speakers. Running from the 3rd to the 5th Octo...
Podobo - The thinking mans Twitter?
Podobo (www.podobo.com) is a twitter variant that seems to encourage more philosophical musings than its better known counterpart, and it does this without losing the light and fluffy ‘web 2.0&#...
Get paid for slacking off with Moola
If you’d rather play games than work like a dog, and make free money (yes free money) then moola.com could be the answer you’ve been looking for. The idea is, moola gives you $0.01 to star...
Big Changes for Blogrush
BlogRush is a smart new idea for getting exposure for your blog posts, which are shown via a widget on related sites every time your own widget is loaded. What makes this one stand out from all the ot...
Brandfame to offer Product Placement
BrandFame (www.brandfame.com) is a meeting-place for advertisers and video publishers, who want to match online video with product placement in an attempt to make money and ruin the internet for every...
PCNames provides AJAX-powered domain search
This one’s been a favourite of mine for a while now, so it’s not strictly a ’start-up’, but this site is so useful to web start-ups I just had to give it a mention. Never again...
Fliqz offers branded video solution
With the rapid growth and success of online video, it was only a matter of time before video providers started to get creative. Fliqz (www.fliqz.com) offers branded video integration for third-party s...
Facebook aquires startup Parakey
Facebook has announced that it has acquired Parakey, a startup run by Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt, co-founders of Mozilla Firefox, an open-source and non-profit web browser. Ross and Hewitt will join Fa...