Boxxet endeavors to rein in the best web content using a combination of algorithms and community interaction. Users are able to compile info-- photos, videos and text into a sort of greatest hits page or box set. You pick the topic, say Keira Knightly or iPods, and then you and other Boxxnet members select the top 25 news items and related sites. Here's where the automation comes in: Boxxnet uses Yahoo's search engine to find relevant articles which are then ranked; users can consequently give their own ratings and the system will respond in kind, putting emphasis on top user rated content while eliminating low rated sites. Each box also contains recommendations of related content and lists the top contributors. You'll find bookmarks submitted by users which feature relevant news stories or blog links as well as media. Essentially, each box is meant to be a fairly comprehensive best of compilation to be honed by community members.
"Boxxet (pronounced "box set") brings together the "best of" news, blogs, videos, photos, gear and much more on your favorite subjects. For the things you care about (teams, hobbies, interests, schools, towns, etc), Boxxet's unique combination of computer automation and community participation produces the most diverse and complete best-of compilations."
More at:http://www.boxxet.com/
Saturday, June 2, 2007
Food Of Thought For Entreprenurs
During today's Cornell University Alumni event at Google headquarters, I spoke to entrepreneurs about their startups. Most CEOs had already started selling ("traction") and were eager to speak about their companies.
However, a few CEOs in recent days said "We are in stealth mode" and they declined public comment.
Stealth mode means you are starting a new enterprise in secret. That is hard to do. But it is how you can surprise competitors. You might even shock them so much they give up when you go public about your company. Surprise can be an important element in building your unfair competitive advantage.
So how does a stealth startup operate? In a few words: very secretly, with a great deal of cunning.
Stealth startups have to recruit people by divulging a minimum of information.
Stealth startups get angel and venture capital firm money by exposing the minimum of facts needed to get the money.
Stealth startups tell reporters and bloggers a carefully prepared story, one that gets them curious but leaves them searching a false trail.
It feels something like taking your clothes off: you remove as little as possible to get the job done.
Candidates for employment move along a process that starts with bits of information and adds more and more as the process moves on to a job offer.
Venture firms are told just enough to get their initial interest and then get incrementally more information as they proceed to make an investment decision.
The prepared story for the media is intended to entice the curious but stop well before much is revealed.
The hardest part is to keep founders from bragging to their friends after a few beers. Startups are exciting. You want to tell the world all about yours. But to do so will make yours a public company and you'll loose your surprise power. This is a discipline that serial entrepreneurs are very serious about. They insist that all employees and investors adhere to secrecy as if the hidden secrets were top secret government facts that determine life or death.
BOTTOM LINE: Keeping your mouth shut is a sign of a wise entrepreneur. Until you are ready to go public about your company (typically when announcing the launch of your first product), you will gain a lot of power by keeping secret all that you can. It is one of the most important disciplines of a world-class unfair advantage core management team. I hope yours falls into that category.
More at:http://nesheimgroup.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/05/stealth_startup.html
However, a few CEOs in recent days said "We are in stealth mode" and they declined public comment.
Stealth mode means you are starting a new enterprise in secret. That is hard to do. But it is how you can surprise competitors. You might even shock them so much they give up when you go public about your company. Surprise can be an important element in building your unfair competitive advantage.
So how does a stealth startup operate? In a few words: very secretly, with a great deal of cunning.
Stealth startups have to recruit people by divulging a minimum of information.
Stealth startups get angel and venture capital firm money by exposing the minimum of facts needed to get the money.
Stealth startups tell reporters and bloggers a carefully prepared story, one that gets them curious but leaves them searching a false trail.
It feels something like taking your clothes off: you remove as little as possible to get the job done.
Candidates for employment move along a process that starts with bits of information and adds more and more as the process moves on to a job offer.
Venture firms are told just enough to get their initial interest and then get incrementally more information as they proceed to make an investment decision.
The prepared story for the media is intended to entice the curious but stop well before much is revealed.
The hardest part is to keep founders from bragging to their friends after a few beers. Startups are exciting. You want to tell the world all about yours. But to do so will make yours a public company and you'll loose your surprise power. This is a discipline that serial entrepreneurs are very serious about. They insist that all employees and investors adhere to secrecy as if the hidden secrets were top secret government facts that determine life or death.
BOTTOM LINE: Keeping your mouth shut is a sign of a wise entrepreneur. Until you are ready to go public about your company (typically when announcing the launch of your first product), you will gain a lot of power by keeping secret all that you can. It is one of the most important disciplines of a world-class unfair advantage core management team. I hope yours falls into that category.
More at:http://nesheimgroup.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/05/stealth_startup.html
KeepYouSafe.Com offers digital safe deposit boxes that people use to safely store vital personal information
KeepYouSafe.Com offers digital safe deposit boxes that people use to safely store vital personal information such as insurance policies, financial and medical records and the like. An Online Safe Deposit Box is completely secure, totally private and accessible from anywhere at any time. All you need is an internet connection and a web browser.”
Are you afraid of losing important documents or files? Or, maybe you have a fear of hackers stealing something from your computer? If so, you can store important text-based documents and flies/folders in an online safe deposit box at KeepYouSafe.com It allows users, free of charge, to store up to 10 documents or files, in a 100% secure environment, where only the person with the password can access the digital safe deposit box. For a fee of 4 dollars a month, a file space of 500 megs and room to store 500 text-based records or files is available. The user can access the box from any computer with internet access.
More at:http://www.keepyousafe.com/
Are you afraid of losing important documents or files? Or, maybe you have a fear of hackers stealing something from your computer? If so, you can store important text-based documents and flies/folders in an online safe deposit box at KeepYouSafe.com It allows users, free of charge, to store up to 10 documents or files, in a 100% secure environment, where only the person with the password can access the digital safe deposit box. For a fee of 4 dollars a month, a file space of 500 megs and room to store 500 text-based records or files is available. The user can access the box from any computer with internet access.
More at:http://www.keepyousafe.com/
Speakageline is an instant website publisher tool for any voice or video message that is sent by a phone
Speakageline is an instant website publisher tool for any voice or video message that is sent by a phone. Fully compatible with all websites and blog platforms. Can be configured as a user generated content "receiver" with an email being sent to the moderator after receiving any incoming message."
Imagine if you could instantly publish to your blog or website just by using your mobile phone. Speakageline makes it possible. You are provided with your own landline based number in your country; to post messages simply call the number speak your piece and hangup. Speakageline will add a nifty header jingle and background music about fifteen seconds after you've recorded your message and place the recording on the site automatically; you can choose to a add a title or edit your message via your web browser There's no technical know needed whatsoever. It's also compatible with most blogger platforms. You can even create a video if you've a cameraphone; or you can create your own radio program with interviews via the conference mechanism. You also can leave your speakageline number on your website so that readers can record their own comments providing for facilitated interaction. The targeted audience are the business types, time strapped CEO's who are always on the run; however, Speakageline is versatile enough that anyone can use it.
More at:http://www.speakageline.com/
Imagine if you could instantly publish to your blog or website just by using your mobile phone. Speakageline makes it possible. You are provided with your own landline based number in your country; to post messages simply call the number speak your piece and hangup. Speakageline will add a nifty header jingle and background music about fifteen seconds after you've recorded your message and place the recording on the site automatically; you can choose to a add a title or edit your message via your web browser There's no technical know needed whatsoever. It's also compatible with most blogger platforms. You can even create a video if you've a cameraphone; or you can create your own radio program with interviews via the conference mechanism. You also can leave your speakageline number on your website so that readers can record their own comments providing for facilitated interaction. The targeted audience are the business types, time strapped CEO's who are always on the run; however, Speakageline is versatile enough that anyone can use it.
More at:http://www.speakageline.com/
Startup Search tracks the web technology referenced as "Web 2.0."
Startup Search tracks the web technology ecosystem commonly referenced as "Web 2.0." We collect facts and figures about new web products, startup companies, key startup employees, and the funding dollars powering their growth.
Startup Search is a community site for everyone interested in tracking our growing industry. We hope this collected information engages a more informed user base and empowers startup entrepreneurs during their various stages of growth."
Startup Search is a newly launched directory of all things 2.0. It's got listings of the highest traffic gainers, companies and their highest ranked partners, along with detailed descriptions of start-up products. Start-ups are given an overall score based on buzz and traffic which are depicted in handy little tabs below the description. Buzz is currently determined by the number of mentions a site gets as measured by Google, Technorati and Yahoo. Traffic is rated by Alexa, Compete, and Quantcast observations. There are Flickr images on the side panel for added visuals, although they frequently have little to do with the sites themselves. Startup also gives you broader searching parameters with queries by person, investors and partners; Google maps display base locations and there is additional info about a person's experience, investment history, etc.. It's still pretty early to tell how well they'll do, but Startup has potential.
more at:http://www.startupsearch.org/
Startup Search is a community site for everyone interested in tracking our growing industry. We hope this collected information engages a more informed user base and empowers startup entrepreneurs during their various stages of growth."
Startup Search is a newly launched directory of all things 2.0. It's got listings of the highest traffic gainers, companies and their highest ranked partners, along with detailed descriptions of start-up products. Start-ups are given an overall score based on buzz and traffic which are depicted in handy little tabs below the description. Buzz is currently determined by the number of mentions a site gets as measured by Google, Technorati and Yahoo. Traffic is rated by Alexa, Compete, and Quantcast observations. There are Flickr images on the side panel for added visuals, although they frequently have little to do with the sites themselves. Startup also gives you broader searching parameters with queries by person, investors and partners; Google maps display base locations and there is additional info about a person's experience, investment history, etc.. It's still pretty early to tell how well they'll do, but Startup has potential.
more at:http://www.startupsearch.org/
Nenest introduces the most advanced technology to create affordable software to serve customers around the world
Nenest introduces the most advanced technology to create affordable software to serve customers around the world.”
So, you think you can create your own web software, eh? Nenest thinks so too, but not without the help from their form-based software platform which makes Joe Shmoe into a software developer. You will, at the very least, be able to create a software program which supports a database of online content, such as information for contact management, and accounting, bills, bookings and more for finance management. The list could go on forever, the big idea is if you have web content to store and manage, you can create personalized software for you and your business to promote efficiency and organization.
More at:http://www.nenest.com/
So, you think you can create your own web software, eh? Nenest thinks so too, but not without the help from their form-based software platform which makes Joe Shmoe into a software developer. You will, at the very least, be able to create a software program which supports a database of online content, such as information for contact management, and accounting, bills, bookings and more for finance management. The list could go on forever, the big idea is if you have web content to store and manage, you can create personalized software for you and your business to promote efficiency and organization.
More at:http://www.nenest.com/
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