Jellibug is a Los Angeles startup by James Hu that helps you follow your favorite celebrities, athletes, and influencers by aggregating their posts on social media into one place for easy viewing. Utilizing API’s and hand-selecting celebrities to bring content from Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Flowd, Lockerz, MyPict.me, Path, Tumblr, WhoSay and YFrog the web app keeps on top of all your favorite people’s experiences.
The fast, fun, and addictive way to visually tour what’s hot and trending within the social media sphere from the perspective of over 2,000 celebrities, with more being added everyday, is what you’ll expect from Jellibug. Ignoring re-tweets and comments not directly from the verified accounts of celebrities; the site removes the noise, allowing for the “celebrity” to take center stage.
Why do kitties on YouTube get tens of millions of hits? It’s a question that never ceases to cause amazement, but then again how can you stop watching one once it’s on? If your one of those cat lovers out there that just can’t seem to get enough of watching our feline friends there’s a new source for gratification: Catmoji.
On Catmoji it’s, you guessed it, all about cats! Disrupting from Startup-Up Chile, the website lets you share and discover cat pictures and videos. And like this video and this one, the site will somehow trance you into scrolling and never ever leaving the friendly, cute and cuddly kitties paraded on the site. As their mission states, Catmoji wants to make the Internet a better and happier place with cats because the Internet loves cats.
Launched in April of 2012, Bitrix24 is the affordable intranet for businesses with 12 employees or less, at a cost of zero dollars. Combining the capabilities of Yammer (social intranet), SalesForce (CRM), Facebook (likes), BaseCamp (project management), and DropBox (file sharing) Bitrix24 does it all in a pretty package.
Bitrix24 delivers everything in one place for your team (messaging, file storage, calendar, and to-do lists) with an incredible activity stream to show you what’s going on right now or what happened while sleeping on the office couch. But unlike the many other intranet options on the market, Bitrix24 really shines with an intuitive design and interface that is far from rickety and the un-viewable eyesores growing on its competitors. The tasteful design choices make it more then an effective system, but a system worth using.
If you’ve been screaming at the theatres this Halloween, creepily enjoying Paranormal Activity 4 or went to watch Hotel Transylvania with your little one’s you probably shared your thoughts, likes, and dislikes on Twitter or Facebook. But did your friends seem to care? Maybe you’ll need to find some new cinema loving friends or do you really just need a social network that caters specifically to your love of movies with other like-minded movie fanatics?
There are a few great sites that help you connect with other film fans around the world such as Letterboxd or Wigglehop, but the one that seems to be generating the most buzz while still in beta is SeenTh.at – An online community where users discuss, recommend and discover movies, as well as organize lists of what they’ve seen or want to see. What differentiates SeenTh.at from the others is its community or single user recommendation sharing. While most of the competitors in the space provide the opportunity to mark movies watched, organize, comment and rate SeenTh.at let’s you specifically target groups or a single user and recommend to them what they should watch.
Today App.net was able to surpass its goal of $500,000 with well over 10,000 users already signed up to use the ad-free subscription based social network. Because of the high volume of requests the site is now giving Alpha access to users on a first-serve basis and you won’t have to pay until receiving alpha access.
App.net is “a different kind of social platform. We’re building a real-time social service where users and developers come first, not advertisers. We believe that advertising-supported social services are so consistently and inextricably at odds with the interests of users and developers that something must be done.”
Kicking a bad habit is a personal battle that can be hard to understand unless you’re going through or have gone through it. Smoking is one of those habits. Smoking is one of those habits that call’s for you to pick up a pack that clearly states that bad things will happen if you continue using it, yet it is a process that many people still partake in everyday.
But what does it take to stop smoking? Is it simply will power? The help and support of friends? A gradual decrease in usage? Or a cold turkey approach? Maybe it’s a combination of them all? Everyone has a different need and a different way to go about changing they way they behave, but one thing is clear – one has to want to change in order for change to take place.
Springpad has re-launched with a new interface and design that feels a lot like Pinterest but comes with a ton more powerful features. Springpad is “smart notebooks that let you share and discover with the people you care about”. You can create personal notebooks that can be customized to yourself, add notes and tasks to your notebooks, or search for something more specific like a book or a movie to add to a notebook. These virtual notebooks can be followed, shared privately or collaborated upon with other friends – all while the platform is enhancing the information you share.
Video is an incredible way to share those special moments of your life and the things that interest you the most with those around you. Brevidy is a video social network that connects people. Not everyone feels comfortable with sharing those intimate videos that are captured on phone, camera or camcorder – Brevidy will allow you to decide who gets to see what and keep the videos you want private away from the eyes of just anyone on the web.
What is the one thing that could solve the majority of problems faced by entrepreneurs and startups? If you said money, dinero, cash, capital or any word that defines the little green paper that makes our world go around than you are absolutely correct.
With so many different accounts (email, social networks, business management tools, etc.) it can be difficult to maintain and find what you need quickly. Did you send a message via Gmail or was what you sent through a Tweet? Those are the distractions and confusions that can happen day-to-day. You could search each individual account and try to find what you need, but while some applications have amazing search features, others fail to find what you’re looking for. Greplin “is a personal search engine that allows you to search all your online data in one easy place.”
