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Written on 2nd June 2009
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Martin Bryant, Co-founder, Social Media Café Manchester
We’ve covered online sharing startup Tarpipe before and they were one of the finalists in the Rising Sun Start-up Presentations at this year’s The Next Web conference. Now the company, which has turned cross-posting of web content into an artform via its powerful workflow-based approach, has launched a Bookmarklet tool for simple browser-based sharing to multiple web services.
Sitting in your browser’s Bookmarks Toolbar, the Bookmarklet allows you to easily share a link and any text you like from a website to a number of services including Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook, Tumblr, Delicious and Evernote. While the Tarpipe bookmarklet works well it does lag behind its competitors by some distance. It cross-posts links and text quickly and efficiently but it comes across as very much a work-in-progress.
The number of services supported is dwarfed by those of the competing Ping.fm Bookmarklet which offers a similar service but can cross-post to over forty services. As yet the Bookmarklet does not support the picture sharing which is a central part of the Tarpipe API.
As a stand-alone end-user product Tarpipe’s Bookmarklet needs work in order to match its rivals. This is a shame as it could be a great advertisement for the powerful API the startup has developed. The complex workflows that can be created for sending data between web services are impressive. Different elements of posts to services (their titles or the tags, for example) can be chained together with a patchbay-like approach to build powerful applications. Just look at this Beer Tasting one for example.
For now Tarpipe is definitely a company making products for developers and ‘tinkerers’. Most users will find Ping.fm’s solution simpler and easier to use.
UPDATE: The day after this post was published, Tarpipe launched the ability for their API to talk to Calais Yahoo Pipes Web Service.
Written on 16th April 2009
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Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.
We’re delighted to be co-hosting the Rising Sun Start-Up presentation here at The Next Web conference. 24 startups have been selected to present and we’ve just had the first six.
Let’s give you an overview:
Tarpipe
Wondefully presented by co-founder Bruno Pedro. Tarpipe is an easy way to share your photos across the plethora of the internets photo sharing sites and social networks.
To share your photos you are given just one email address where you send your photos to. They then get posted to as many or as few of the social sites you’ve selected.
Mendeley
Mendelay aims to be the Last.fm for Research. Socially connecting research libraries, making it easier to discover relevant research papers on any topic.
The startup essentially aims to enable academics to manage and share their research paper inventory whilst connecting to like-minded people and papers thanks to the algorithms they have in place.
YourTour
YourTour is a nifty personalised holiday planner.
Designed to be ultra simple yet as customizable as you’d like, simply select the regions your interested in visiting (currently only France), select your preferences and they’ll build a personalized tour just for you.
To be clear, YourTour is not a travel agency, it’s an innovative technology for planning customized tours. YourTour offers its technology to put you in charge of your tour and you make your own bookings as you see fit.
MimicMe
MimicMe, aims to revolutionize online clothes shopping with an online 3D fitting room. Users can try digitalized clothes, seek opinions from other members of the site and collaboratively select outfits that work.
You essentially create an avatar with your own measurements (height, leg length, waist etc..) and then fashion yourself with the latest clothing from high street stores.
Aroxo
Aroxo’s goal is to flip and reverse how people buy and sell online – handing power to the buyer rather than the seller.
How does it work? Well, Buyers name their price, sellers target buyers, buyers can negotiate and Aroxo acts as the middle man. The site offers built in feedback and do some of their own due diligence to ensure sellers are up to scratch.
Citisins
Currently in Private Alpha with a beta due this summer, Citicins brings custom city guides to your doorstep. The tool brings original content about various worldwide cities
Citicins is all about original customizable content with a unique social layer on top of it all. No matter what major city you’re heading to, Citicins will bring you a unique guide featuring content from across the web as well as your friends across the social network you use. What’s even more interesting is that your guides can also be provided in hard copy as well as digital.
Written on 5th April 2009
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Patrick de Laive, Internet entrepreneur and co-founder of The Next Web Conference. Twitter: @patrick
Apart from keynote presentations (e.g. Matt Mullenweg, Bradley Horowitz, Jeff Jarvis, Chris Sacca), Pecha Kucha presentations and a Twitter ecosystem session, 24 startups get the opportunity to show their new product or service for free to the 900 Internet professionals who are attending The Next Web Conference.
All startups get 5 minutes on main stage to impress the highly tech savvy in the so called The Next Web Rising Sun Startup Rally.
In total 200 startups submitted their company to present here. After a long and strict jury process the top 19 startups were selected. The 5 other startups are selected by the public via a voting mechanism on twitter and on this blog
Mashable and Techcrunch broke this news this morning.
The finalists are:
yellowBird
Yellow Birds don’t have wings but they fly to make you experience a 3D reality. Launching at The Next Web Conference
Contextured
Contextured is the pain free SEO and SEM solution search marketers have been waiting for. Launching at The Next Web Conference
Prezi
Create stunning presentations that helps you to move beyond the slide
E
E connects people to people and people to services, all in real life. It’s like having all your online identities in your pocket. Launching at The Next Web Conference
Aroxo
Name your own price on thousands of items then negotiate! Launching at The Next Web Conference
Silentale
With Silentale, store all your personal conversations in one place and access them from anywhere. Time travel through your message history.
Klomptek
Remote Device Management solution for mobile business phones. Monitor, access, synchronise and control employees mobile phones via RCM Web (administrator) panel. Launching at The Next Web Conference
ShoutEm
Roll your own Microblogging or Mobile Social Network!
Quick TV
We provide revolutionary online tools & accountable video play-out to media publishers looking to give their videos the interactive edge. Launching at The Next Web Conference
Mimic Media
MimicMe enables online shoppers to fit clothes online with a personalized 3d model and shop real time together with their friends. Launching at The Next Web Conference
Yourtour
YourTour is a unique online solution for tailor-made holidays.
plista
Personalize your internet experience. Launching at The Next Web Conference
Yunoo
Yunoo is a personal finance application where users can get insight into their personal finance, discuss financial topics and save money.
Mendeley
Mendeley: Free academic software to manage & share research papers and a network to discover research trends and like-minded researchers
Huddle.net
Huddle is the world’s greatest collaboration app – beautiful, so usable, open API and fully integrated with Linkedin, Facebook and more
IRL Connect
IRL is the first visual social network on the web to map where your friends are & what they are saying. See your social network on a map. Launching at The Next Web Conference
Visibuild
Bring your architectural 3d to life in an online, interactive 3d project environment. Create a true architectural experience with Visibuild. Launching at The Next Web Conference
tarpipe
tarpipe makes it easy to share content across different social media applications.
CoTweet
CoTweet powers your brand on Twitter. Engage people across your organization to tweet through your brand’s Twitter account as a team.
Descriptions are the answers of the companies to the question; Pitch us Twitter style
A professional jury helps us to select the winners and the ultimate winner during the conference. Jury members are:
* Adeo Ressi, Founding Member of TheFunded.com
* Stewart Townsend, manager startup and emerging markets EMEA, SUN Microsystems
* Barend van de Brande, Big Bang Ventures
* Werner Vogels, CTO Amazon.com
* Robin Wauters, editor TechCrunch, organizer Plugg
We’re really looking forward to see all these great companies at The Next Web. The conference takes place in Amsterdam on April 15, 16 and 17. If you haven’t signed up yet, get your tickets now!
Written on 18th November 2008
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Andrew Hyde, Startup Enthusiast, Power User of Many Things, Community Organizer
Startup tarpipe is aiming to simplify the workflow of posting on social media sites. Their API enables users to do progressive things with their content in single actions. You can upload a photo from an email, have it post to a few such as uploading a photo, announcing this action with a tweet, sending an IM to a friend and send an email (and can do so at the same time). It does this without forcing the user to install a desktop or mobile application.
Their blog highlights some of the interesting projects their product is leading to, such as extending battery life while using location based service and make EverNote do some cool things.
The big question for me is in how it will be used, and how it will differ from just creating a social media power user megaphone. I can see some people setting it up so that their Twitter, Pownce, away message, Jaiku, Flickr, Friend Feed, Tumblr and Plurk update every time they see fit, which would create an almost embarrassing echo chamber.
They are strong advocates for open source, and with their API can imagine some creative uses. Currently, I see uses that are neat (use IM to update your twitter) to useful (uploading your photos to several places) but don’t see a use of their API that absolutely shines. Yet.
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