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.
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