Most of us, specially at Startup Meme, love to add speech bubbles to our images ( specially Sardar Mohkim Khan !). It isn’t a simple process though, with having to draw bubbles and then write in the words. But with Speechable, all that changes! No registration required. You just have to upload your image. After it has been uploaded, you’re taken to the very simple to use workspace.
Archive for July, 2008
You may have heard rumors related to Digg’s probable acquisition by Google. Though the rumor proved wrong, which we have mentioned in our last post. Now Digg’s founder Kevin Rose has announced the service’s integration with ‘Facebook Connect’.
The new service, which was uncovered at Facebook’s f8 conference yesterday, lets you share stuff with the third party sites using Facebook account. If you have a Facebook account, you can very easily become a Digg client, using the new ‘Facebook Connect’ service. Mini-Feed on the social network will show you the stories you have dugg.
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Over 25 million professionals use LinkedIn for exchanging ideas and information around the world representing over 150 industries. The task of collaborating across different countries and with people speaking different languages is always a daunting task. Why? It’s always easier to get your idea through in the native language.
That is the very basic idea followed by LinkedIn and as a result it has launched LinkedIn in Spanish: LinkedIn en español! For its Spanish speaking users (as reported)
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At times we just ignore the achievements and growth of someone in the light of giants making big leaps and its quite similar in the Web world too. While we get to hear so much about Facebook and MySpace; another social network hi5 is left unnoticed. Why should it be noticed if at all when we have the other two? Well the reason is that despite being an underdog, hi5 is expanding its horizons at a much higher rate as compared to the other two.
According to MG Siegler, hi5 has grown by over 79% in the half of 2008, almost double of what the top social networks have achieved so far. The unique visitors have increased by a figure of around 25 million to 56.4 million (December 2007 stats read them to be 31.4 million).
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With Facebook’s f8 going on in San Francisco, showing its global dominance in the social networking grounds. Back at home, MySpace takes the cake away back at home as it continues to grow to be the largest social network along with having a market share of visits tipped at over 3.5 times that of Facebook.
Heather Dougherty at Hitwise comes out with an analysis of the performance. The over all analysis shows an increase in Facebook’s traffic by 23% where as that of MySpace dropped by 29%. The average time spent by each visitor reflects the growth with time spent on MySpace going down by 4% and that of Facebook increasing by 41%.
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Xobni, a startup that provides different kinds of email analytics has recently experienced a Senior Exodus as it has lost its first employee Gabor Cselle. Cselle is working as a VP Engineering and had joined the company back in March 2007. With a good scholastic background and Master’s Thesis on “Organizing Email”, Cselle had an experience of working as a Gmail team member and that is why he was selected to be the first key person of a startup.
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With a quite a lot of hiccups up late within the news circles related to Microsoft, the company has made an important announcement regarding the makeover (or should I say a bit of alterations) of its Windows and Online Services business.
The release included the division of Platforms and Services Division (PSD) into two groups namely; Windows/Windows Live and Online Services and both of them asked to report to CEO Steve Ballmer. The announcement didn’t end up there but followed up with the confirmation of President PSD, Kevin Johnson’s exit from the company. This will take a bit of time until at least the transition is completed smoothly.
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You may have come across a number of online documentation tools like Google Docs. DocVerse is also categorized among those tools. The San Francisco based company has raised $1.3 million to enhance their services. The amount was raised from Baseline Ventures, Michael Dearing and unknown angel investors.
The report which was first reported by Seattle Post-Intelligence, was further confirmed by VentureWire.
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If you’re into writing rap, poetry or limericks, you’ll love Write Rhymes! No longer would you have do drown in sorrow when you can’t keep up with the homies. But you can now keep it real, as with Write Rhyme you get instant suggestions to words that rhyme with your words.
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Last year in December, Google spread the word regarding the new free tool ‘Knol’. Knols are actually reliable articles about particular subjects which are written by people who have knowledge about those topics. Now the tool is open for everyone.
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