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25 startups in 2007 – was CNN right
By acca | September 30, 2007
At the beginning of 2006, Money.CNN made their prediction about websites that can make big success in that year. And on their list, there was: Digg, Trulia, Technorati, JotSpot, Writely, Youtube, … Oviously, CNN was right about named websites. Not all 25 made success but most of them did. In February 2007, CNN made new list for 2007. Let’s see a list. Notice yourself if CNN people were right again. And reading this, maybe you will get some idea for your startup.
StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon was launched back in 2002. Founders started Stumbleupon website in Calgary, now headquarters is placed in San Francisco. We all know about this website. It have more than 2 million users now.
Slide
Slide.com , founded in 2004. Site basic is slide shows of photos. Photos can be embedded in a weblog or a MySpace, can be sent out in an RSS feed. Interesting feature is slideshow can be also streamed to a desktop as a screensaver.
Meebo
One I personally use almost everyday. With Meeboyou can manage multiple instant-messaging services from one site (Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, AIM, Gtalk, Jabber). Started in 2005. Meebo have about 5.3 million unique instant messenger IDs per month.
Bebo
Bebo started in 2005, too. Interesting social network with more than 30 million members. Private pages, sharing pages, drawings, videos, …
Wikia
Wikia - a webhosting service for ad-supported community sites that use the same software. Wikia is open source engine.
Joost
Kazaa and Skype launched Joostwebsite together. They say Joost is a new way of watching TV on the internet. With Joost, you get all the things you love about TV, including a high-quality full-screen picture, hundreds of full-length shows and easy channel-flipping. And it’s free.
Dabble
Dabble.com – a tool for organizing videos into playlists of favorites, and sharing them. At this moment, there are 29,830,134 videos in members playlists. Free registration, of course.
Revision 3
Revision3 production studio computer related online shows. Revision 3 have more than 1.5 million viewers monthly. IBM and Sonny are 2 of several big companies advertising on this website.
MetaCafe
One where you can earn by uploading your interesting videos. If you made some video that can be interesting to wider public, upload it and you can get $100 after 20,000 views and $5 for every 1,000 subsequent views. MetaCafe have more than 17 million monthly visitors.
Blip
Here’s one whois url isn’t on dot com. Blip.tv . It’s still in beta phase, but Blip.tv have an interesting concept. TV shows producers can syndicate serialized online shows to websites and blogs by Blip. Walt Mossberg from The Wall Street Journal said about Blip: “My favorite is blip.tv”
Fon
Fon.com was started by Spain company. Their slogan is “WiFi for everyone”. FON is a Community of people making WiFi universal and free. They say, their vision is WiFi everywhere made possible by the members of the Community, Foneros.
Loopt
Loopt.com Cell-phone customers are using Loopt to let their buddies see their locations. Started in 2005 in Silicon Valley. Using Loopt social mapping service, Loopt even lets you send auto messages to nearby friends or receive automatic alerts when they’re in your neighborhood.
Get Mobio
GetMobio.com offers mobile-phone mash ups and widgets that figure out where you are and serve up on-the-go services like movie listings. Other widgets will book a cab or a seat at a restaurant. Another 2005 startup.
Tiny Pictures
TinyPictures.us is another mobile related website. It’s Radar service lets you snap photos with cell phones and send them to friends, who can both access and comment on the shots.
Soonr
Soonr.com let you access your home PC from your mobile phone. It also allows you to use your phone to pull up and search data on your desktop - everything from Word docs to Photoshop files.
Turn
Turn.com CEO is former AltaVista CEO Jim Barnett. It’s ad-management system. Turn enables advertisers and publishers to buy and sell online advertising in an advanced market that automates targeting. Turn eliminates the need for manual targeting and provides bidded CPA, CPC and CPM pricing for graphical and text ads. Through its revolutionary targeting and innovative pricing models, Turn simultaneously delivers amazing simplicity, dramatically better relevance, and maximum revenue for advertisers and publishers.
Adify
Adify.com is another online marketing related website on this list. It’s online marketplace for highly targeted ads. Businesses can sell ad space directly to advertisers; advertisers can target specific market niches.
AdMob
AdMob.com offers a place to buy ads for delivery to cell phones. Omar Hamoui started AdMob in 2006.
Spot Runner
SpotRunner.com founded in 2004. Advertising related sturtup. Spot Runner offers a complete solution for television advertising and commercial production, media planning and media buying in a single turn-key, self-service system. The entire process, now takes just days at a fraction of the cost, online.
Vitrue
Vitrue.com , 2006 startup. ViTrue gives corporate consumers the tools to create authentic, engaging advertising experiences that never compromise the integrity of brand. In short, ViTrue enables unprecedented results at a fraction of the usual cost of production.
Success Factors
SuccessFactors.com service helps to match employee skills with company objectives. North Carolina-based Quintiles, a pharmaceutical services firm with 17,000 employees, deployed SuccessFactors last year to better pair worker aptitudes with jobs; its annual employee churn rate subsequently fell by nearly a third. Over 1,400 organizations around the world have already chosen SuccessFactors.
Jan Rain
If you have problem with multiple passwords, JanRain.com can be useful place for you. It lets users hop freely from site to site when they’re log in janrain website.
Logo Works
We may say, LogoWorks.com is an old site, it was founded in 2001. But Money.Cnn saw big success for this sturtup in 2007. It automates the design of logos, business cards, and stationery. They have more than 45.000 clients so far. LogoWorks have their own affiliate program, too.
Rearden Commerce
If your website needs Web-based “virtual personal assistant”,
Reardencommerce.com is place where you can find one. Currently, more than 135.000 merchants have joined the Rearden Personal Assistant merchant network. They offer virtual personal assistants for individuals, companies and merchants.
Simul Scribe
SimulScribe.com have only 8 employers. They transcribes voice-mail messages and shoots them to your mobile device as text or e-mail messages. SimulScribe is integrated with over 95% voicemail systems.
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