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IntroNiche: Back-Scratching Ad Network [The Startup Review]

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:30:11 +0000

Source:Mashable!
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STARTUP DETAILS:
Company Name: IntroNiche
20 word description: A simple classifieds marketplace which helps small companies and entrepreneurs find matching partners for cross-promotion and marketing.
CEO’s 100 word description: One of […]

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Pycasa: Simple Search For FSBO Real Estate [The Startup Review]

Tue, 20 May 2008 17:36:05 +0000

Source:Mashable!
Placely officially launches today, but how does its travel planning suite stack up against some of its competitors? With a focus on updating friends, blogging and tracking everyone’s travels, there’s only a handful of prominent sites that are comparable to Placely. TripIt and Dopplr are two of them. With a focus on […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Placely Officially Launches. How Does it Compare to Other Travel Planners?”, url: “http://mashable.com/2008/05/20/placely-official-launc/” });

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The latest stats from Nielsen Online show a significant decline in month-over-month unique visitors to Facebook in the US. In April, traffic fell to 22.4M uniques, down from the 24.9M reported in March. Year-over-year traffic growth decelerated from 98% to a much more modest 56%. MySpace also saw a modest decline (from […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Bubble Alert: Facebook Traffic Declines 10% in April”, url: “http://mashable.com/2008/05/20/facebook-traffic-decline/” });

Source:Mashable!
STARTUP DETAILS:
Company Name: Pycasa
20-word Description: Pycasa is a vertical search engine for FSBO properties with the most intuitive user interface.
CEO’s 100-word Pitch: Pycasa tries to solve two problems in the online FSBO market. First, Pycasa provides search results for the many FSBO sites already listing properties. We are in early beta and have […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Pycasa: Simple Search For FSBO Real Estate [The Startup Review]”, url: “http://mashable.com/2008/05/20/pycasa/” });

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HealthWorldWeb: Find Doctors and Support Groups [The Startup Review]

Sat, 17 May 2008 00:52:48 +0000

Source:Mashable!
Glubble is a developer of a parental control plugin for Firefox, which aids adults in the ability to watch over their kids internet usage.
In their approach is something similar to the Kidzui method, where they create a whitelist of kid-friendly sites. Instead of working on generating the list themselves, the sites on the whitelist are […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Glubble Filters a $3 Million Series A”, url: “http://mashable.com/2008/05/16/glubble/” });

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It seems the rumors reported earlier today by TechCrunch were spot on, and Wired is the proud new owner of Ars Technica. In a call to Alexandra Constantinople, Executive Director of Communications for Wired, she confirmed that, “the story is accurate, but (Wired) won’t be issuing an official statement until next week.”
This is sure […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Confirmed: Wired Buying Ars Technica”, url: “http://mashable.com/2008/05/16/confirmed-wired-buying-ars-technica/” });

Source:Mashable!
Editor’s Note: If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion in “The Startup Review” series, please see the details here.
STARTUP DETAILS:
Company Name: HealthWorldWeb
20 word description: HealthWorldWeb.com is a health-focused patients social network, doctors search portal and community-based reviews and recommendations engine for local medical providers.
CEO’s 100 word description: […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “HealthWorldWeb: Find Doctors and Support Groups [The Startup Review]”, url: “http://mashable.com/2008/05/16/healthworldwe/” });

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NoMoreNotebooks. It’s a Wishlist Site. [The Startup Review]

Fri, 09 May 2008 23:05:57 +0000

Source:Mashable!
The news has been rife with OpenID as of late. A few services have quietly launched OpenID authentication I’ve notice lately. Last week it was UStream.TV, as well as SourceForge, amongst others. It’s nice to see OpenID receiving wider adoption, but today, there’s a bit of news submitted by Allen Stern over at CenterNetworks regarding […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “CallVerifiD Introduces A New Layer of Security”, url: “http://mashable.com/2008/05/09/callverfid/” });

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Health search engine Healia has recently launched some community-driven verticals in order to provide additional value to users. This is something that several health-related search tools have done, in order to supplement existing search content with user-generated content.
This is typically a tricky situation for the health sector because of the sensitive and […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Healia Communities: Yahoo Answers for Health”, url: “http://mashable.com/2008/05/09/healia-communities-yahoo-answers-for-health/” });

Source:Mashable!
Editor’s Note: If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion in “The Startup Review” series, please see the details here.
STARTUP DETAILS:
Company Name: NoMoreNotebooks
20-word Pitch: No More Notebooks brings social shopping online, allowing you to automatically add products to your “wishlists” through a personal bookmarklet.
CEO’s Description: My name is Luke Harrison and […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “NoMoreNotebooks. It’s a Wishlist Site. [The Startup Review]”, url: “http://mashable.com/2008/05/09/nomorenotebooks/” });

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