Stealth Start-ups, Part I of III

Well, and then again maybe not so stealth as some of them have been around for quite a while by now (some of them since 2005). At the recent Under The Radar Conference in June, some 32 companies presented. Here's a short profile of the first 11 and some links with more information.

Amiglia: Amiglia offers photo and social software technology; it is focused on family networks, tying a visual and interactive family tree with an online photo album. Amiglia uses technology from Riya, a photo search engine that uses face and text recognition to look inside a photograph in order for a user to find a specific picture. Amiglia also offers Skype integration. More from Silicon Beat and the Amiglia Blog.  

Blip.tv: blip.tv is a video videoblogging, podcasting and video sharing service. Another YouTube? Not really, say the founders of blip.tv. The core function of blip.tv's service is that it allows its users to take video they upload to Blip's servers and easily push it out to external sites. Blip.tv doesn't brand the videos with its logo either. A similar service btw is offered by Revver. More from CNET and the blip.tv blog. 

CastPost: CastPost is a consumer video hosting service to share personal video and audio clips. At the Under the Radar Conference, the CastPost folks got slammed by Google's Chris Sacca: More from the VC Ratings Blog.

Flukiest: Flukiest is a video/photo/music sharing site, however they especially seem to focus on creating a platform for bands to promote their music and create and sell merchandise. One nice feature seems to be their email function: I haven't tried it, but apparently you can simply email your picture to your flukiest email address and it's automatically uploaded and published. More from Forbes and the Under The Radar Blog.
Note: I'm sure that the folks at Flukiest are happy to hear that Eye-Fi, another start-up, is previewing a combination secure digital (SD) 802.11g radio and 1GB of storage into a singleSD card. While 802.11 cards with memory capability are not new (SanDisk debuted one in 2003), to date the cards have been able to work in slots enabled for SDIO (SD Input/Output). In the Eye-Fi implementation (the company is stating is stating it will offer more details later this year), the standard sized SD card would effectively Wifi enable a previously non enabled device. Again more from TechCrunch.

VideoEgg: VideoEgg is a web-based publishing service that allows users to capture video content from virtually any device and format and publish it to the web. More from TechCrunch.

Eyespot: Eyespot is a video share site that allows its users to upload their video, mix it together with audio, and then share them with anyone online. That's why Eyespot is called "Home of the mixer." Eyespot is also a social service allowing users to tag, join groups, and create blogs for their videos. More from Mashable! and Solutionwatch.

BroadbandSports: BroadbandSports is a video share site with 18 different channels on sport. The site features a community where enthusiasts are able to share, view and discuss sports and to rank and rate videos. Users can receive instant notification of new programming based on keyword “tags” like “skiing” or even by favorite athlete or destination. More from the Under The Radar Blog.

With so many video sharing sites around, TechCrunch prepared an excellent summary. And while we're at summaries, though completely unrelated, rev2.org has an excellent one on social networking sites: 33 places to hang out - the comments are very interesting as well. 

Filmloop: I posted about Filmloop back in 2005.

Dabble: Dabble leverages the best of Web 2.0 technology to allow users to create, manage and share spreadsheets, databases and intranet web applications. Here is the video that Dabble presented at the Under the Radar Conference. A lot more on Dabble from Solutionwatch.

Fabrik: Fabrik is principally an online storage company, but it doesn't end there. Fabrik offers a browser-like interface that allows to store, manage and share your data from your PC in an apparently very convenient manner. More from GigaOm.

Pixsy: Pixsy is a visual search engine that provides access to imagery posted on the web. Results pages include thumbnails along with direct links to the image url and the page where the image is posted. Worked pretty well for me. More from SearchEngineWatch.

Next post will cover Grouper, Jamendo, Jumpcut, Kiptronic, Mefeedia, MicroNet, MusicStrarnds, Pando, Phanfare, PiXPO and Podbridge. The third and last post will comprise Podserve, PodOmatic, Project Opus, PXN8, Songbirdnest, Reality Digial, Revver, TagWorld, TurnHere, Zoto. 

Comments

[mary hodder]

Hi, Actually, the links to Dabble above are as follows:

dabble.com

there is no link to the video yet, but enric is going to post it soon.

techcrunch discussed dabble here:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/12/dabble-media-bookmarking-sweetness

or there is some press here:
http://www.dabble.com/beta/press

DabbleDB is a database company (hense the DB).

Dabble.com is a video company.

Thanks!

[Lars]

Oops, sorry for that mistake. In fact I wasn't so sure when I posted, since I had heard of Dabble, but didn't remember it as a database company. I did find a post on GigaOm - http://gigaom.com/2006/02/02/dabble-dabble/- but that obviously didn't keep me from confusing the two.

[Stephanie]

Have you checked out ourstory.com? They have a great family 2.0 site that allows you to track your family's timeline, and allows you to print the whole thing out in a beautifully printed hardcover book. Worth checking out!