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Startup Talk: Keepstream tries to reduce social media noise
Mar 30th
Some great startups come out of Startup Weekends and better so if you and your buddies cooked up a startup at Case Western Reserve. What started off as CorkShare – a tool to organize your social media streams across twitter and facebook has now evolved into Keepstream. Keepstream helps you organize it. Keepstream is a social media curation tool that helps you collect tweets, Facebook posts, and website bookmarks, and organize them into shareable, embed-able collection pages. This is useful for bloggers, marketers, or just about anyone who wants to curate the chatter from a conference or event, a news headline, or a hashtag chat. But even simpler than that, you can use it to organize your Twitter favorites and retweets, making it easier to share them with your friends or look them up later.
We have setup the Ideabing keepstream page ourselves and it looks as good as gold. Publicly launched in March 2010, Keepstream is a graduate of the Capital Factory early stage startup incubator program.
An International Referral Network for Scientists and Researchers
Mar 16th
With unemployment lower for post-docs than the population as a whole, finding the right colleague for the team can be tough. Not only are certain, rare skills needed to do notable scientific research, but also the fact that scientific research is moving in an interdisciplinary direction means that research teams need colleagues with a broad range of expertise. Disappearing are the days where the world’s biggest problems can be pigeonholed for only biologists, physicists, or mechanical engineers to solve.
iAMscientist is a social network of the world’s leaders in science, technology, and medicine, where members can post jobs, refer colleagues, and network with other leaders and their cutting edge research. The site was developed about two years ago by scientist-turned-entrepreneur Boris Shakhnovich, who learned from a previous business venture that what organizations and institutions really needed were the tools to build successful research teams, not necessarily a new product.
“We provide an organization with the ability to find that one person who is the foremost expert in an obscure area—our value is in that matching mechanism,” Shakhnovich said in Xconomy back in February. Some of the most valuable knowledge and experience that researchers have “isn’t really in their papers, it’s in their heads,” he says. “You want to get in touch with them and maintain a relationship.”
iAMscientist also has a blog that’s consistently updated with posts relevant to recruiting the best researchers. The site aims to be an authority in bringing good people together to come up with good ideas. At its last count, there were about 25,000 scientists and doctors (about 60 percent are in the U.S.) with profiles on the site, including department chairmen, institute directors, senior faculty, and a few Nobel Laureates.
Startup Talk: Now sell off those group deals you bought and did not use through sellmydeal.com
Mar 16th
This day had to come. It’s an almost predictable cycle for products. Once you have something and cannot use it, sell it. Marketplaces prop up everywhere when there is second hand stuff that can be sold. Craigslist should get you up to speed with the size of the second hand market.
Now sellmydeal.com wants to help you sell off your unused discount coupons you got from group buying sites like Groupon. Why this sudden flash of genius? Well, numbers talk. Apparently 20% of all group bought coupons never get used. So why not just sell it to someone at a reduced price compared to the reduced price you paid for it already? In the end the second hand consumer benefits from this sale. Sellmydeal also sends out a daily newsletter to make your second hand coupon hunting even more of a breeze. Depreciation rocks or what! Whatever be the case we can almost predict that there will be hundreds of sellmydeal clones very soon if Groupon and Livingsocial don’t already have plans to start off a second hand delas marketplace. These guys support deal hunting in almost all major cities in the US and Canada. Watch this startup!
An Innovation in Social Shopping
Sep 29th
Camelot Venture Group announced today the launch of a new service to consumers called WANT. With WANT, consumers have a brand new way to share lists of products they desire with friends and families via email or by pushing their WANTs out to Facebook. The unique aspect is that WANTers can receive funds directly towards specific items from contributors using PayPal or any major credit card.
“This is a major revolution in Social Shopping,” said David Katzman, Managing Partner of the Camelot Venture Group. “Now consumers can share exactly what they WANT with their social network and that same group of friends, family, even co-workers can work together to get them exactly what they WANT. I can’t think of a better way for Dad to make sure everyone knows what he wants for Father’s Day or children to share with Grandparents what’s on their list this holiday season.”
The WANT button was first implemented by SharperImage.com but shoppers aren’t limited to only sites that have the WANT button. Consumers can drag the browser button at www.ShareAbill.com/WANT/ that allows them to add any item from the web to a WANT list simply by clicking on the button and then clicking on the picture of the product they are interested in.
The WANT button comes from the same developers who brought ShareAbill to market, an alternative payment method that allows buyers to split the cost of any item at the time of purchase.
Maternal Instincts at their Best
Sep 26th
Sometimes the best ideas just need bravery and strength to implement, like Italy’s European Parliament member Licia Ronzulli, who brought her seven-week-old daughter Vittoria to work as she voted on proposals to improve women’s employment rights were broadcast.
“It’s bizarre,” Ronzulli said. “We’ve been doing a lot, a lot of work in the European parliament and there was no interest in the press. Then I come with my baby and everybody wants to interview me. It was not a political gesture. It was first of all a maternal gesture—that I wanted to stay with my daughter as much as possible, and to remind people that there are women who do not have this opportunity [to bring their children to work], that we should do something to talk about this.”
Ronzulli does not plan to bring her daughter on a regular basis and said she would leave if her child began to cry: “It’s an official meeting, it’s not a creche. You can’t have everybody coming in with children who might cry or who might want to play … I’ll come when it’s possible. If I can bring her, I will. If it’s not appropriate, then I won’t.”
“It’s bizarre,” Ronzulli said. “We’ve been doing a lot, a lot of work in the European parliament and there was no interest in the press. Then I come with my baby and everybody wants to interview me. It was not a political gesture. It was first of all a maternal gesture—that I wanted to stay with my daughter as much as possible, and to remind people that there are women who do not have this opportunity [to bring their children to work], that we should do something to talk about this.”
Ronzulli does not plan to bring her daughter on a regular basis and said she would leave if her child began to cry: “It’s an official meeting, it’s not a creche. You can’t have everybody coming in with children who might cry or who might want to play … I’ll come when it’s possible. If I can bring her, I will. If it’s not appropriate, then I won’t.”
Yes, You Need A Facebook Fan Page Evaluator
May 24th
Have a Facebook page you use to market stuff? Not sure if your page is up to the mark? How about a Social Page Evaluator? Hell yeah, Vitrue – a social media marketing company has just launched a “social page evaluator” to let you know if your page makes the cut. While giving you the current value
Toyota USA Foundation Awards $500,000 To Western Kentucky University
May 15th
Western Kentucky University (WKU) has been named the recipient of a $500,000 grant from the Toyota USA Foundation. Awarded over three years, the grant will help fund WKU’s Math and Technology Leadership Academy (MTLA) which aims to increase K-5 student interest and achievement in math and technology among high risk youth in the Bowling Green
Video: Zapping Malaria With Lasers
May 14th
Malaria kills people and there’s no denying that. Africa is the worst affected of this vicious disease and nothing seems to slow it down. So what do you do to get rid of Malaria? DDT? education? nets? What do you do when none of this works? You zap them with lasers, of course. Sounds like an episode
Real Time Photo Sharing Service Radar Shutting Down
May 8th
An amazing service is shutting down this month. Radar – the real time photo sharing service is closing it door on May 26th. Radar was one of the first startups in the photo sharing business along with Flickr and the service was certainly unique considering the real time photo sharing feature. Now the startup is shutting
Anonymous Feedback From Your Co-workers? Good Idea!
May 6th
BetterMe, Inc announced Thursday that its free online tools for anonymous feedback are currently being used by employees in more than 1,000 companies. The site, which launched in February, allows users to send feedback as well as “feedback requests” on any topic, from work to school to social situations. Fifty-nine percent of feedback sent through the
