Facebook and Social Startups Meme.

We Say That! lets you comment on any website on the internet, whether it supports commenting or not. Even if it has its comments closed, you can still comment on that website using We Say That! This may sound a bit like StumbleUpon or Digg, but it’s very different than them as it’s not a social network, but just pure commenting.

Commenting using We Say That! is very simple. There’s no sign up process required. All you have to do is type in the web page URL, that you want to comment on. It’ll load up the page with it’s thumbnail image and show a comment box like the ones you see on blogs. Then you can just type in your info and comment and your done – except for that, we haven’t been able to get it to work for us. We’ve tried many times to comment on Startup Meme using We Say That! but every time we type in the URL, it says be the first one to comment, meaning our comment never gets registered with We Say That! It would be great if it worked but sadly it’s broken.

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The CEO of Time Warner, Jeff Bewkes has announced the second quarter earnings of AOL along with the news of its split. News of the possible split were already making rounds some days ago, predicted to be announced with the news of the earnings.

We already know how hostile has Time Warner’s chief; Jeff Bewkes has been towards AOL and most probably the division is going to end up being pocketed by investors or the much interested team of Jerry Yang and Steve Ballmer. There has been a lot of delay at going ahead wit the later option but that is largely due to the financial constraints within Microsoft and Yahoo; not to forget how the two have been locking horns, slashing each other and having trouble at board meetings.

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DoubleClick which was acquired by Google for $3.1 billion in cash and underwent the rebranding of its Performics Affiliate as the Google Affiliate Network has announced its new capabilites to serve video ads into Microsoft Silverlight 2 video environments. This move has been announced on the eve of NBC’s Olympics Coverage in partnership with MSN using Microsoft’s Silverlight 2 video technologies.

Using DoubleClick In-Stream, NBC will be able to monetize the video content it’ll be broadcasting using Silverlight 2. It’s a well though out move on DoubleClick’s behalf which now is a part of Google, to take advantage of its competitor Microsoft’s streaming technology to deliver ads. DoubleClick In-Stream already powered video advertisements in Flash, RealMedia and Windows Media. According to the press release 

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If you’ve got a website and want to create a community forum for your followers and visitors, then Lefora is just the right place for you. It lets you set up a forum without any need of coding or hosting issues in just a few clicks. Lefora Forums can also be highly customized with themes, widgets, newsletters, RSS and many more features.

There’s no hassle of finding a hosting service with Lefora forums as they host the forums themselves. The forums are visually pleasing, more than vbulletin and phpbb forums, which require coding knowledge to be customized. Although one can argue that these forums can be modified to a great extent, but Lefora provides a simple, click to use feature list, which means you wont need to do any coding to set it up, but you can just click and modify it to your liking. Interactivity is enhanced with support for embedded content, videos, photos, threaded discussions, unread tracking and rich text editors. Lefora also claims to include industry leading anti-spam support, so you can moderate less and interact more with other members of the forum.

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ImageChef looks as if it’s targeted at MySpace users with all the glittery graphics you can create with it as well as all the animated images that can be made. Frames, animations, banners, videos etc can be made using Image Chef.

After signing up, you can either browse remixes of other users, or popular symbols and templates. Templates help you in quickly getting started on any option in the catalog. The templates provide simple and straight forward instructions to help you edit it. You can upload your images, adjust the animations as well as change the text. You can also add different cool symbols to further enrich your image. After you’re done, you can save the image in your account, and if it’s set to public, others can rate it and comment on it. They can even remix it, which means they can customize it to their likings.

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 40billion is a social take on investment and funding for entrepreneurs. You can put up your Startup along with your target for investment required. Investors can then help you or any other business or idea they like, and get a return for their investment.

40billion is like a blessing in disguise for investors and entrepreneurs, but at it’s very early stages, it shows 0% funds for all the businesses advertised. The idea behind 40billion is a good one, and is similar to online share trading and investing. It also lets you provide live presentations using PowerPoint presentations and conference calling. Although it would be much better if it provides VOIP and web cam options for live presentations. You can also invite your family and friends to help raise money for your business and give them opportunities for investment and returns. But if they are your friends or family, we doubt they would want to invest using a website and not through face to face meetings.

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Lifestreaming your Internet activites to your friends ( like FriendFeed ) is the in thing nowadays, and AOL hasn’t missed the oppurtunity by introducing AIM Buddy Updates. Integrated with your AIM account, it lets you share and view your online activities with them.

The list of services supported is quiet extensive and includes the likes of Twitter, Youtube, Blogger, RSS feeds and many more. The updates can also be viewed in a similar-to-FriendFeed interface, which isn’t a bad thing, as it lets you just focus on the content with the clean and simple layout. Also, like in Windows Live Messenger, when a contact changes or updates his profile or images, a gleam shows in the contact list. Taking a leaf out of Messenger’s book, there are similar alert notifications that show up in your AIM Buddy List making it easier to notify your friends.

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MySites aims to become the one place you need for your storage needs as well as many other social activities (although it says it’s not a social network). With 10 gb of space,  a cool multiple files upload tool, blogging, status updates and messaging as well as many other features, it seems to be a very attractive startup.

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Here’s a funny website. Kookies! gives you fortune cookies through the click of a button. Though, only good for a time pass, it can be entertaining. You can even create your own fortune cookies just for the heck of it ( not sure why you’d want to do that, but still ! ).

The website is easy to use, just click on the cookie and you’ll be told your fortune, although at the moment, it shows more spam and crap than fortune. And maybe it’s just us, but a lot of Kookies! visitors have a thing for Chuck Norris ( maybe he had some sort of investment in this Kookies! ). The fortunes can be ranked up or down or marked as inappropriate ( strangely the tooltip of the inappropriate button says Mark as appropriate! ). The website looks cool and seems as if it was run over by the Web 2.0 bandwagon.

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  Tired of fighting over that TV remote with our siblings? Or want to see better and high quality videos than what’s available on Youtube? Then Veetle is your answer! Veetle provides high quality broadcasts in TV and HD quality for free, which is available at just the install of a plug in.

Veetle is a Silicon Valley startup with the aim of providing high quality broadcasts to people, along with allowing you to broadcast your own content in high quality as well. Although the quality of the broadcast depends on the content. Live channels can be watched using Veetle, all it requires is the install of a simple plug in, that works on Firefox, IE and Safari. And on top of this, it runs on Windows, Macs AND Linux. It runs in the browser which makes it very simple to use.

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