Hot Startups - Swipp.Com Review

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You probably remember how free social intranet provider Bitrix24.com has become the fastest growing social enterprise tool in 2012. But it's 2013 now. Aside from being “social,” Facebook, Google+ and just about every company in the social arena have something in common – to become the social layer beneath every service on the Internet and provide real-time social data that’s measurable, can be referenced and helpful to marketers and data analysts spanning a broad range of industries. Facebook’s recent release of Graph Search and everything else Google has been doing since Google+ was released in 2011 are adding up to this mounting evidence.

Launched on January 23, 2013 in 45 countries and 5 languages, Swipp is a brand-new social media analytics and sharing platform whose main objective is to find out how the general population feels about a given topic real-time. User sentiment is analyzed, and coupled with structured data that is readily available via sites like Wikipedia, app developers should be able to come up with more intuitive applications that can better predict users’ needs.

Despite the fact that companies providing consumer sentiment analytics have sprung up from here, there and everywhere, a lot of social data is unstructured, which means that making comparisons – let alone, drawing conclusions – from such data is easier said than done. Swipp’s answer is to recreate the way things are shared via social media to generate more consistent and functional data.

Technically speaking, you, the social media user, are still allowed to post random thoughts about random things – unstructured data, essentially. Swipp, then, would have you tag your post to signify that it’s under a subject that exists in its humungous library of structured web data. After which, to explicitly address the sentiment analysis side of things, it also would make you rate how you feel about your post using a scale of 1 to 10. And once the data is entered, Swipp lets you know how other people from different parts of the world feel about the same subject.

While Swipp may be able to give its users extra and relevant data, it doesn’t have the follower base Facebook has for Graph Search nor the user data Google has for every meaningful thing it has in store for Google+. Swipp is coming from nowhere and may need to beat insurmountable odds to become a major player in the social space.

Then again, as per Swipp co-founder and CEO, Don Thorson: Every big idea looks impossible up until the exact moment it looks inevitable. Whether he’s right or wrong is left to be seen.

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Ray Hudson And His Honey

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There’s something about check-out counters that gets a customer feeling ripped-off: the hard-to-miss check-out question “Do you have a promo code?” If the customer doesn’t, the frantic search for a coupon code begins – usually through RetailMeNot and similar other sites, where, at times, the coupon codes suggested no longer work. After a while, the exasperated customer gets discouraged and opts to simply forget about the purchase – a loss, first and foremost, for the store, and for the customer second, especially if the purchase is something that can profoundly change his/her life.

In 2005, a tech entrepreneur named Ryan Hudson was featured in Businessweek’s “Top Young Entrepreneurs of Tech” alongside none other than Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. Hudson had been creating companies for almost a decade, four in the last year or two. Despite that, Hudson claims no company of his has ever taken off like his latest venture – Honey.
 
Honey is a Google Chrome extension that scours the web for discounts and promo codes at the same time you’re checking out of an online store. Aside from the code-hunting, Honey also tries multiple codes, if available, in the first few seconds. If none works, you know there isn’t anything you’re missing out on. If something works, well and good, right?

Shortly before Thanksgiving, just after Honey was launched, a bug tester at Mechanical Turk got so excited about the product that he leaked it via Reddit in advance. That took things off, and Hudson and his team had to watch at the escalating numbers with bated breath, hoping Honey wouldn’t crash.

At present, Honey already has 125,000 installs, of which 97,000 are being actively used weekly. Aside from more than 400 websites the extension works on, it also has hundreds of websites in backlog, and that is due to the fact that aside from Hudson himself, there’s only one other full-time employee comprising the Honey team. To date, Honey has already helped users save over $108,000.

Honey may be in the business of saving people money, but currently, it still isn’t sure how it will generate a profit. Hudson isn’t taking a cut from the money users are saving. Someday, it probably will. Right now though, all Hudson knows is to make the most of the unprecedented user interest and add fuel to the fire.

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DudaMobile Takes On Apple And Android

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In February of this year, Mashable reported that for the first time in history, smartphone sales overtook PC sales in terms of units, the real story being the popularity of the smartphone rising relentlessly.

The smartphone, as we know it today, means information at your fingertips, flexible working, better organization, faster communication, better sharing of information, among other things. Industry experts agree that the smartphone is yet to see a sharp decline in its upward trajectory. And the way things are going for the smartphone, that won’t be anytime soon. As a matter of fact, people are now browsing the Internet via a smartphone more than via a desktop.

With that as a backdrop, if you’re a website owner, you’ll do good to know that ensuring your website is mobile-optimized can be profitable for your business. To help you do that, here’s a brief review of DudaMobile, a do-it-yourself service that converts regular websites to mobile sites that can work with all smartphones.

Here’s your step-by-step do-it-yourself guide to get that website rocking the smartphone as well:

- On DudaMobile’s homepage, type in your website’s URL and click on Make My Site Mobile.
- Next, you’ll be given a number of templates to choose from.
- Once you’ve made up your mind on a template, within minutes, DudaMobile imports all of your site’s content – text, images, links, everything!
- You can then edit different things, including taking out text, links, images or other stuff that look out of place.
- When you’re ready to test things out, simply add a code (or install a plugin) to the main site for a mobile redirect.

What’s remarkable about DudaMobile is that you don’t have to be on the techie side to get things done. All in, average time to get setup is about 10 to 15 minutes. And what’s even more impressive is that whenever you make changes to your main site, your mobile site is automatically updated – for free!

DudaMobile’s basic package, which is free, can let you customize up to 10 pages. The premium package, which costs $9 per month, allows you to work on unlimited pages, offers unlimited bandwidth, ads-free and customizable footer, your own mobile URL (m.yourcompany.com), phone and e-mail support, mobile site analytics, maps and directions.

Weird Startups - Tailwaiters

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Jason Wotman admits the whole idea was born out of laziness. Tailgate parties are fun, but the transportation, set-up and clean-up are certainly no picnic. After one particular New York Jets game when Wotman and his friends' grill was stolen and they were tired of bringing "back all this gross stuff covered in burger juice," they developed the idea for Tailwaiters, a service that brings all the food and necessary equipment to tailgaters in the New York area.

"Now, ironically, we're dealing with it for everyone else," jokes Wotman, 24. But he and his partners (and childhood friends) Josh Winston, 24, and Zach Henick, 24, don't regret their decision a whit. "While it is work, we get to tailgate at every game," says Wotman.
Clients range from a handful of friends taking the train to a game to businesses treating a few dozen guests to a pre-game meal to one memorable event where the Tailwaiters took care of 300 rabid "away" fans at a Chargers-Giants game.

Customers order their packages of food and equipment (tents, grills, chairs, coolers) online or via phone. The three founders and five on-call employees set up the party in the parking lot for the partiers. They clean up at game time, and even offer a chef for a fee. The company doesn't provide alcohol, but Wotman says people seem to manage that part of the tailgate just fine.

"We get to serve a lot of fun people, and that really makes the job a lot more entertaining for us," says Wotman. "Especially when we have first-time customers, like people, let's say, who get off the train, walk over to the spot we coordinate with them and see a whole tailgate set up for them with a tent and a lit grill-they're beside themselves. They're completely ecstatic, because this has never really been done before."

Started for just $15,000 out of the partners' pockets, Tailwaters made it through its first season last year with just word-of-mouth advertising and flyers placed on cars. As they've made more money, they've invested it into radio ads, public relations and branding efforts. They've also thrown tailgate parties for some Jets and Giants bloggers to spread the word on the internet. "Anyone who's a big fan of the teams and goes to a lot of the games probably has heard something about us at this point," says Wotman.

Now in their second season, the company averages 10 tailgates each game. And they haven't just stuck to football. During Bruce Springsteen's recent five-night stint at Giants Stadium, the Tailgaters averaged 12 tailgates per show. They also struck a deal with the Red Bulls soccer team, offering tailgates as an incentive for group ticket sales.

As of now, the partners don't have specific deals in place with the Jets, Giants or stadiums, but they are working on it. "The stadiums and teams definitely know about us now," says Wotman. "I can't divulge the exact secrets yet, but there are potential plans to be in at least one other stadium by next football season. We definitely want to expand our operation in the New York area and become more of a powerhouse here."

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