Posted on Wednesday, 30th July 2008 by Launching Today
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HotelMapSearch.com
What do they do?
HotelMapSearch.com is a mashup of hotel prices, locations and other basic travel information over Google Maps. This basically means you can search New York City, and you see a map of the area with the hotels marked by average price. This allows you to very easily identify the cheapest hotels that are [...]
Tags: google maps, hotelmapsearch, mashup, travel
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Posted on Tuesday, 29th July 2008 by Launching Today
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Cuil
What do they do?
Cuil is a search engine which, according to them, index more pages in a cheaper and more efficient way than Google.
What are they like?
Cuil are obviously all or nothing here. They are a search engine with the hopes of toppling the market leader. Expensive to build and run, with a very high [...]
Tags: cuil, google, search
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Posted on Thursday, 24th July 2008 by Launching Today
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12seconds.tv
What do they do?
12seconds.tv lets their users post a short video message to their friends, using either a webcam or a cell phone.
What are they like?
They are basically Twitter for video. They compete with Seesmic who do video discussions and services like Qik which are in the cell phone-to-web game.
What else should they do?
12seconds need [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 24th July 2008 by Launching Today
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Pixily
What do they do?
Pixily wants you to send them your paper documents such as contracts, bills and etc. They will scan them, make their text searchable and add them to your account where you can access them to view, print, download or email them. Their aim is to back all of your documents up and [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 23rd July 2008 by Launching Today
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Knol
What does it do?
Google warned us a few months ago that this will be launching a reference based website, and here it is. Knol is your basic run of the mill socially written reference website, however authors are responsible for their content. Unlike Wikipedia, one author writes the article, on a topic that they have [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 22nd July 2008 by Launching Today
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DashGo
What do they do?
DashGo connects independent artists with music distribution services like iTunes, Amie st, emusic and the rest. They also manage social media promotional services like imeem and last.fm.
What are they like?
They are competing directly with services like TuneCore and SongCast, but DashGo appear to have more of a focus on marketing through social [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 22nd July 2008 by Launching Today
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GenePartner
What does it do?
GenePartner matches your DNA against other members, to find your perfect match. They have analyzed a sample of couples to determine an algorithm which will show you your perfect match for a partner.
What are they like?
Nothing that I know of. They compete with the usual players like Match.com and the rest of [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 22nd July 2008 by Launching Today
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Grabitnow.com
What does it do?
Offers a new deal every day to buy a different item an a drastically discounted price
What are they like?
There is quite a few of these, the biggest being woot.com. There is also Amazon Gold Box, and other country versions like Catch of the Day for Australia.
What else should they do?
Nothing really - [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 22nd July 2008 by Launching Today
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StumbleAudio
What do they do?
StumbleAudio let you discover new relevant music that you haven’t heard before - all indie music across all genres. Users can rate music which allows the service to provide more targeted songs based on what you liked and didn’t like.
What are they like?
Pandora is the obvious one here, however StumbleAudio does have [...]
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Posted on Sunday, 20th July 2008 by Launching Today
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Startuply
What does it do?
Startuply is a job listing website aimed at startup companies who can post open jobs for free.
What are they like?
Where to start? There is Dice who are aimed at IT companies, every other job website on the internet, as well as Craig’s List. Than there are the more startup job websites, usually [...]
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