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I listen to songs almost every time I am writing these posts. But it gets a bit irritating at times when I am not able to tell the artist’s name or to put it simply; recognize what music is being played. You have music recognition services for the mobile devices like the iPhone app from Shazam but the desktops lack one such app, don’t they? Welcome Audiggle, a startup that is dedicated to providing you with a software that helps you know what music you are playing with its desktop app.
The best part is that you can use the software and avoid the trouble of searching for artist’s and music information on Google. I seriously have huge issues and most of the times give up on digging out details on music. You don’t have to close yourself up to play a track, perhaps you hear soundtrack of Brave Heart, or watching a YouTube where the background music allures your ears, Audiggle has details on any music from any source.
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As we had earlier promised that we would restart reviewing startups on Startup Meme and have so far kept up with that. The move was made on our readers demand and to stay connected to the roots of this blog, more importantly because I love to talk about new services. Today we have a Yelp for People and its called Betterfly.
While Yelp helps you with places to get your work done Betterfly gets a bit more specific and narrows or should I say expands that to people. Think of it, I recommend you that you can get your car fixed in my city at a particular workshop and compare that to stating that a particular mechanic in that workshop is the best person for the job. Does that make a difference to you? To me it does and there is nothing better than being specific in telling people who the expert or the right person is for a job or anything. Betterfly does exactly that but by helping you find the right individual, a Betterist who can help you learn how to fix your car.
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Bookmarking is very useful but there is something they miss, a frequent reminder of any updates that occur on the site you have marked. I mean what’s the point of bookmarking if all you have to do is remember the pages and check for updates manually? What if a service could exist that bookmarked as well as monitored updates and notified users? Well there is one startup that does exactly that: Diphur.
The startup does an impressive job at offering its users ease by helping them in numerous ways. That is important, otherwise there was no point in talking about it and moving away from your existing Bookmarking tool. With Diphur you can:
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I use Microsoft Visio whenever I need to draw diagrams and flowcharts but things have been changing lately or should I say evolving. With the advent of things migrating to Cloud its imperative that creating diagrams wouldn’t go there too. While we all use Google Docs for anything to do with Documentation online, a platform to create diagrams was needed and Creately is one of them. The startup has everything you need from thumbnails like the ones you have in Office to boxes and rectangles for flowcharts.
I am not a design geek and many our there are same. What we look forward to are easy ways to give visuals to our ideas and easy shouldn’t be unprofessional. With Creately you get both, easy and professional looking diagrams that can be created right on the site, shared with colleagues and stored online. So what is the benefit here? Well for those of you who don’t know that, storing your work online makes it easier for you to access content anywhere without the burden of carrying a backup all the time.
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When it comes to startups it is important that you have a killer idea to get the word going. Now, you just can’t spring up and yell I can create a device that will take you to Andromeda and vanish. It might trigger a few enthusiasts but your disappearance and no methodology to put this to practice would have people call you stupid. Seriously, you don’t have to doubt that at all. I have many ideas to talk about, many that can be implemented and yet putting them to practice can be difficult for many reasons and the major one is a business model. Somehow I just can’t a way to justify that, I know it will have user demand, I know it users translate to revenue but just say business model and boom! I am out.
That’s the story of past, until my recent visit to Finland to attend Mindtrek back in 2009. Meeting all the people, entrepreneurs, startups and being exposed to ideas making big transformed me and I figured out my flaw: there can’t be singularity with innovation. A dream is individual but its implementation, requires a dedicated team. So does that mean I had no team building in me? I wont say that, because it is untrue, the issue is simple and dead straight, I couldn’t get the idea out in a manner that others who I collaborate with, would develop a clear understanding of any idea. It is imperative that you share and share very clearly; your objectives, the methodologies, the expertise of each individual in your team and more importantly how to apply them in the right direction and path. That is why I am always up and loud on having anyone share ideas with those who have had one in their lives and turned it into success.
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You can’t always go to places to attend sessions or organize one, primarily because it adds up to a higher cost for participants and more importantly not every thing requires training sessions in real. Something of an online information hub would do the job more appropriately. There are definitely many ways you can provide online information sources for your product, from video tutorials to blogs but a platform is what actually would be really helpful and not everyone is Techie enough to create one for themselves. In comes Traindom, a startup that provides you with an easy to use platform to market information effectively.
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The biggest problem you can run into when organizing events is to facilitate participants book reservations, etc. Most importantly the organizers who find the task quite mountainous to handle. Step in Bookwhen, that takes up the responsibility of easing the task for you. There are quite a few methods that you can already use to help you with that and most of them involve outsourcing it entirely to someone else. With Bookwhen, you remain in command as always by signing up for the service.
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Based on popular demand and loads of email that I continue to get, it has been decided that Startup Meme will now try to bring to limelight a couple of startups each week. As you all know we did the same through out earlier, which is one reason why many startup founders email for review. This would be put to practice from the first week of April and each startup that is being covered would be done randomly, based on emails and what startup is found interesting.
As for now, anyone of you who plans to submit a startup, please do the following:
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You are bound to have a lot of self belief when your college project turns out to be the largest social network and revolutionizes how people connect. Similar is the case with Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook who is heading out to begin his own startup. Chris’ startup is a non-profit and would connect those people and organizations who plan to change the world.
The startup is called Jumo and we have no clue as to what it is about other than the name the brief description Chris has provided on the site. At first I thought it was something very similar to Facebook but that isn’t really the case. Since it is based on invites, I had to answer a few questions which give me a fair bit of an idea on how it might work and what purpose it is there for. From what I see is simply that people would find it easier to share thoughts and connect with those who share similar interest around the world. I completely agree with the description on the site that says there are no magical solution to problems and many people have absolutely no clue how they can make a difference.
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