Tripr.tv, a videoguide for hotels landed $4.8 million in funding. Tripr.tv is different from triptv.com and trivop.com in that they rely on non-professional consumer generated content rather than professional recorded video.
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Blinkx
CEO: Suranga Chandratillake
Disruption: Web video search and ad insertion
Disrupted: Search engines and the TV ad business
The fastest growing segment of Internet advertising is video, and Blinkx’s video search engine aims to capitalize on the trend. Blinkx indexes more than 14 million hours of video available on the Web, using software that turns speech into text […]
ConceptShare allows for interactive design collaboration.
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MFG.com is an Atlanta-based B2B marketplace for sourcing manufactured parts from all over the world. Users can find nearly $50 million worth of requests for manufacturing quotes per day on the site, complete with CAD diagrams and other specifications. Manufacturers bid on the requests.
Here is the opportunity:
“Free has talked to me about his desire to […]
If there was ever an environment where quality trumps quantity, it’s photography. Flickr’s API allows individual developers to make further sense of their database and present and leverage it in unique ways.
One such developer collates all of the unique photos of the day on Flickr and makes a collage out of them, serving to inspire and motivate the photographic spirit […]
If Youtube and recorded video was all the buzz in 2007, I think live video will be all the buzz in 2008. http://www.ustream.tv/ is already positioning themselves as the Youtube for live TV.
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Change.org uses social networking to help social causes. The site already has it’s own network for linking volunteers to causes and voters to politicians. Now they’ve also launched a new Ning-like DIY white-label social network for non-profits. For the launch, they’ve already partnered with 50 non-profits, like CARE, Greenpeace, and Amnesty International. Any other non-profit […]
Here is the list of the the TechCrunch 40 websites.
tripit.com - TripIt is an intelligent travel organizer that helps do-it-yourself travelers manage their travel plans so that their trips go more smoothly.
trutap.com - Trutap is a mobile social-networking application that enables users to stay connected with offline and online friends regardless of where they are […]