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FamilyLink raises $2.85 Million in Series B Funding

Categories: Funding, Google, Web 2.0, social networking
FamilyLink raises $2.85 Million in Series B Funding

FamilyLink. com a Provo, Utah based family-centered social networking company has raised $2.85 million in Series B funding the company has previously raised its initial round of funding of $1.25 million in August 2007. Several Series A investors joined the Series B funding round, including vSpring Capital and TTP Capital Advisors of Japan the company employs 30 people in the US, and has development offices in India and the Philippines. The company has multi-projects in its bag centered around family-tree and finding ancestors' history. The interesting one is - 'How to use Google more effectively as a genealogy research tool' with a 352 page book written by genealogy and technology expert, Dan Lynch. It is said that Google's indexes more than 20 billion pages of the Web and it's likely that some of these pages contain clues about anyone's ancestors. Apart from FamilyLink.com the company has other such services as - Genseek, WorldVitalRecords.com, WebTree, Worldhistory.com and family-tree and genealogy based application at major social networking portal such as Facebook (We Are Related), MySpace, Hi5, Bebo, and Friendster. As per the December 2008 Quantcast statistics, the company ranked among the top 500 web companies world and giving a stiff comptetion to other portals in its ...

Veedio: Mobile Social Networking Platform for 3G

Categories: Mobile 2.0, Mobile 2.0 India, Mobile Social Networking, startups
Veedio: Mobile Social Networking Platform for 3G

Veedio is a new Spain based mobile social networking platform for 3G mobile operators that integrates with social networking and video sharing site functionality using video call technology. In a simple words and as main functionality Veedio lets users to upload their videos from thier mobile phones to social networks such as Facebook, MySpace and YouTube as well. Operators can easily deploy value added 3G-to-web video services such as instant video uploading, creation of private video-chat rooms and video-centric mobile marketing. Veedio as a tool enhances current social network and video-sharing Web site communication by injecting instant mobile-to-Web video communication in personal network platforms. Veedio enables user-generated video and location-based VAS services in real time using video call technology. As a 3G enabled service tool, users also can initiate real-time audio and video communication with other 3G mobile users or SNC Web users via a video call—anywhere, anytime. Users only need a 3G enabled phone and no software installation is needed. How to Use: Users simply place a video call to a designated number to initiate the service. From that moment they start recording and streaming live video instantly to the SNC or video-share Web site. Users record video streams and select one or several ...

Zimblee is Custom Online Ad Creator Tool for Facebook

Categories: Advertising 2.0, Indian Startups, social networking, startups
Zimblee is Custom Online Ad Creator Tool for Facebook

Zimblee, an Indian Startup from Pune has launched as a tool to create an online ad and promote company or even blog, social networking page, or favorite charitable cause within a social network like Facebook. Zimblee is a web-based self-service ad creator platform and apparently world’s first truly custom online ad creator tool designed for advertisers, agencies, and small business owners. Zimblee has intuitive interface, point and click, drag and drop customization tools enable first-time users as well as experienced marketers to create professional, effective and fully customized display ads for the internet efficiently and affordably. Users can upload logos and images of their choice through built in library. Moreover, the tool has patent pending platform that allows a user to not only create a display ad, but also promote their company, blog, favorite charitable cause, or personal page within a social network. The ability to launch a Zimblee custom ad to a social network provides the marketer with an new medium for advertising. The Zimblee application for social networks is a first of its kind in online advertising. Zimblee is a Yureekah Inc. Company founded by Vishal Sharma and Devaraj Southworth, serial entrepreneurs with backgrounds in media and consulting. The Company recently secured a round of ...

Open Source brings down cost of making Social Networks cheaper

Categories: Featured, Resource, Social Media, Social Networking India, Tools, Utility, Web 2.0, social networking
Open Source brings down cost of making Social Networks cheaper

Social networking which is integral part of web 2.0 wave, as users have much more participation level in this domain along with networking that lure them more than anything. When talking about this, names that appears in anyone's' mind are Facebook, Orkut or MySpace leaders in social networking and all of them have big names, brand and most importantly money to pay to their developers, visualizers etc. however today one can find plenty of scripts to make their own facebook clones or myspace kinda network. In India Agriya Infoway a chennai based web solution company provide ready made social network software called Kootali with a price tag of $247 and contains all the features you would expect in a professional social network package, friends, albums, sending messages, groups, events and more. Interestingly the company also provides other scripts as well such as social bookmarking script, video sharing software. In a similar fashion another chennai based company i-netsolution provide commercial PHP based Orkut Clone with similar layout/ look-n-feel as Orkut is having along with admin interface so any amateur HTML developer can run it likewise to blogging software, watch the user view of same here. iScripts.com is providing an another PHP based open source ...

Idntiti: Non-text based Community Rating Tool

Categories: Tools, Web 2.0, Web Tools, social networking, startups
Idntiti: Non-text based Community Rating Tool

IDNTITI is a community rating tool from a San Jose, CA based company providing Reputation & Identity related information about any entity in a clean and crisp quantitative manner. The tool allows you to rate any Person, Company, Product/Service (launching shortly), etc., that user have been associated with and have an opinion on. Entities currently rated on the site include Google, HP, Intel, Infosys and currenttly infamous Satyam Computers and other companies, schools and colleges from India along with US, Japan, Germany, UK etc.The site also allows users to sign-in through open-ID or Google/Yahoo/Facebook/ AOL login IDs Users can contribute the parameters being rated. The parameters are rated on a 0 to 10 scale. Semantic analytics can be easily done in a single click. No text based review is allowed, thus helping readers a quick understanding on the reputation of any entity. It's a way of looking at ratings in a social networking set-up. By becoming a member, user can invite his community to rate anything, look at their connected members ratings, filter data based on demographically similar people, re-compute score based on parameters that are important to each user. Therefore the rating is now customized and very relevant for every user.

LifeSnapz: Life Events sharing with photos, videos, timelines and maps

Categories: Visual Web, Web 2.0, social networking, startups
LifeSnapz: Life Events sharing with photos, videos, timelines and maps

LifeSnapz enables people to capture and explore life events with photos, videos, timelines and maps, and share these events with friends, family and other trusted groups. With interactive LifeSnapz users can organize, manipulate, find and share their own life events within user defined groups with customizable timelines, interactive maps and tags. Nominated for Open Web awards, LifeSnapz have used almost every media type any user can ever captured their life events in. Users can use LifeSnapz as a Individual user or as a group, company, organization or institution to enable them to organize/ share their histories, events and memorable moments in interactive ways. LifeSnapz users can even share their photos and videos from third party site apart from their own computers and for this the website has chosen intelligently ace performers in both of these, Flickr & Picassa for photos and YouTube & Vimeo.com for videos. The website has also appreciatively taken a good care of privacy while sharing ones online content with any users or groups such as 'read-only' members who can view events in the group and add comments to events, but cannot edit events, add new events or invite other members to the group.

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