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HauteLook Helps You Get 50-70% Off Today’s Best Designer Brands

Thomas Oppong — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 20:50:42 +0000

HauteLook is a members-only website that offers 48-hour sale events with the world’s top brands in women’s and men’s fashion, accessories, beauty, kids, home and services. HauteLook offers discounts of 50 to 75 percent off retail prices, with new sale events starting each day. Membership is free and everyone is welcome.

At HauteLook, you will discover thousands of the top fashion and lifestyle brands at amazing savings. Each day at 8 AM Pacific, shop new sale events featuring the best names in women’s and men’s fashion and accessories, beauty, kids’ apparel and toys, home décor, and travel getaways at up to 75% off.

With the HauteLook app iPhone app , you can:

* Browse and buy right from your phone
* Preview upcoming events and set alerts
* View a gallery of your past purchases
* Become a HauteLook member and shop immediately

Earbits Offers You Interactive Internet Radio Experiences

Thomas Oppong — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:50:49 +0000

Earbits is a marketing platform for music related products built around interactive radio experiences. Earbits works directly with labels, high quality artists and live music event promoters to create innovative internet radio-based promotions that turn listeners into loyal fans and consumers.

They provide commercial-free streaming music on Earbits.com, Earbits Mobile Radio apps, and across a variety of affiliate website partners.

Earbits offers you the freedom to bounce around between genres, unlimited skipping of songs and advertisements that relate specifically to the artists being played.

If you connect to the site via Facebook, the station will show you channels it thinks you will like based on preferences in Facebook. You may hear artists you know, but you’ll also hear a wealth of less well known, curated bands that the folks at Earbits have personally pre-screened.

Earbits currently offers an iPhone app and their web site is compatible with the iPad, but they plan to come out with new and improved apps soon.

Are You Building A Startup? I Have Got 3 Words For You

Thomas Oppong — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 10:12:34 +0000

In Paul Graham’s words: “You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible.” There are tons of advice, guidance and best practices from around the web that you can act on for your startup success. Founders and entrepreneurs keep sharing their lessons and tips on how you can succeed. There are always tools for every entrepreneur. If you are bootstrapping, the resources are unlimited, if you intent to raise capital, there are always investment mistakes to avoid, its out there, find it make every dollar count. Build a great product and whatever happens don’t stop even if means crawling, you will get there.

This is a summary of startup advice gathered in 3 words for you.

Build something great
Innovate.Listen.Iterate.
Iterate.Iterate.Iterate.
Vision.Team.Execution
Speed! Speed! Speed!
Build. Listen. Fix.
Focus, focus, focus
Talent.Talent.Talent
Passion. Passion.Passion
Just Do It
Vision. Team. Traction.
Simple. Lean. Valuable.
Don’t be evil
Write a blog.
Invest in culture.
Spend less money
Don’t ignore users
Raise Whats Needed
Connect with Twitter
Revenues matter most.
Sell.Sell.Sell
Pursue multiple strategies
Stretch your imagination.
Never stop pushing
Never say never.
Connect with facebook

Three words wisdom continues @ OnStartups and @ HolyKaw

Byliner Helps You Discover & Discuss Great Articles By Great Writers

Thomas Oppong — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 05:39:33 +0000

Byliner is a publishing company and social network built around great stories. Byliner.com, now in public beta, is a digital magazine rack of new and classic nonfiction magazine stories curated by the site’s editors. It features more than 30,000 articles sorted in a variety of ways and personalized for each reader.

Byliner publishes original narratives by some of the most accomplished writers working today, at lengths that allow them to be read in a single sitting. Called Byliner Originals, these stories typically range between 10,000 and 35,000 words and are available in digital form, with select titles also available as audio or print-on-demand books.

They tackle compelling stories from the worlds of culture, technology, politics, business, sports, science, crime, adventure, and more.

On Byliner.com, readers can discover, share, and discuss articles with a community of fellow readers, receive personalized recommendations, and follow their favorite writers — ensuring that they never miss a great read.

Invite-Only Turntable.fm Takes ‘Social Music’ To A New Level

Thomas Oppong — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 21:31:42 +0000

Turntable.fm is an online music parlor, where users can create “rooms” to hang out and various DJs cue and play songs and the audience can move from room to room according to their tastes.

In order to use the site, you must be logged in through Facebook and one of your FB friends must be a member. That will ensure viral adoption, along with the fact that through FB Connect, Turntable.fm will know what music you already like.

DJs represented by avatars sit at a desk in the front of the room taking turns playing one track each, while audience members crowd the floor in front of them.

Just like in real life, everybody gets to listen and chat with each other, whichever avatar is DJing bobs its head, and everybody knows whether they have a Mac or a PC.

You can choose songs from your computer’s own library, or from Turntable.fm’s own impressive collection, which fielded most tunes we asked for. And you can preview each song before it plays privately, just like a real DJ would with headphones, to ensure that you’re not about to embarrass yourself in front of everyone (with cross-fades, no less).

Top 12 Most Influential Women In Technology

Thomas Oppong — Sun, 22 May 2011 16:06:07 +0000

There are a lot of women who have succeeded in technology and deserve recognition. You may or may not know that these women have contributed to the success of the software technology giants in the world. They are an inspiration for everyone, male or female and have demonstrated what can be achieved through creativity and hard work.

Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO
Marissa Mayer, Google VP
Padmarsee Warrior, Cisco CTO
Susan Wojcicki, Google VP
Ann Mather, Google and Netflix Board of Directors
Safra Catz, Oracle
Karen Quintos, Senior VP & CMO, Dell
Virginia Rometty, SVP, IBM
Diane Bryant, CIO, Intel
Katie Cotton, Apple VP
Carol Bartz – Yahoo CEO
Polly Sumner – Salesforce, Chief Adoption Officer

Who else should be on the list?

Bootstrapped: WhereToGet.It, Find And Buy Your Fashion Inspirations

Thomas Oppong — Mon, 02 May 2011 12:48:40 +0000

Where-To-Get-It is an inspiring source of information about fashion shops. Did you ever fell in love with a fashion product that you saw someone wearing in the street, with an accessory in a magazine, or with great looking shoes on a fashion blog?

It happens to all of us; we get inspired, we absolutely want it. Now, you have a way to get your hands on the fashion items you love!

WhereToGet.It is crowd-sourced. What happens is that you post a picture of the fashion item you’d like to find/buy, and other members will post links to things that look like it and vote on it. It works pretty well even with a low userbase of just over 1,500 people currently.

Ask the community to help you find where to get the fashion items you love. In a world where consumers are all connected, Fashion has no boundaries anymore. Anyone from Paris to L.A., or from Jakarta to Sydney, can take part of a community of Fashion lovers who share their passion and tips about the trendiest shops around the world.

WhereToGet.It is a pivot for the three-person, bootstrapped startup, which also runs Hypeed, a community fashion site (think Tumblr, but for fashionistas only) which is doing well with 4000 contributing bloggers and a partnership with Vogue France, but a media site, particularly in the highly competitive fashion space, is hard to grow and monetize.

Comemories Helps You Collect All Photos Taken At The Same Event With Several Cameras

Thomas Oppong — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:45:29 +0000

comemories allows you to collect photos you and your friends & family took at the same event with several cameras.

Comemories tries to solve this problem: You and your friends attend some event and everyone takes photos with their own camera. But you actually never get to see any of those photos but the ones you took yourself!

Just create a comemories-gallery with one click and share the secret link with your friends. Everyone who knows the link can add photos to the gallery by just dragging and dropping them right onto Chrome. Once everyone is done uploading you can download the entire gallery as a zip-file which contains all the photos in full quality.

Foxframe, Self-service Video Ad Creation Service Wins Innovation Park Enterprise Award

Thomas Oppong — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 11:23:47 +0000

Foxframe, the Irish self-service video ad creation start-up, has won the Bolton Trust’s Docklands Innovation Park Enterprise Award for 2011. Foxframe will be launching a revolutionary new video creation tool in the first quarter of 2011. Foxframe is currently in private beta.

How Foxframe works
# Choose from thousands of video, audio and photographic assets to create your video. Foxframe will sort out the sourcing, licensing and technical criteria for you; all you have to do is choose what’s right for your business.
# Bring your chosen pieces together in the Foxframe online editor to create videos in minutes. Purchase the finished result fully licensed for exactly how you want to use it.
# Download or publish your licensed video. Host in the cloud, on your website, or upload to any of our channel partners to unlock the real power of Foxframe for your business or brand.

Foxframe started life on the Endeavour programme in Co. Kerry, and are set to go live with a freemium version of their self-service video ad creation service later this month. Along with the Enterprise Award, Foxframe also collected a cheque for €10,000.

we7 Radio Plus Android App Helps You Create Your Own Personal Radio Station

Thomas Oppong — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:56:51 +0000

we7, the UK’s Internet Radio plus music service, today announced a European first by launching a mobile radio app which lets users create their own personal radio stations that can work anywhere.

we7 Radio Plus works regardless of Internet connection, meaning the mobile can now truly be a user’s main device for radio and music consumption.

The app uses the millions of available tracks on the companies database to play and create radio stations based on the music you love:
- Choose one of our Themed stations to find out whats hot or pick a style of music you enjoy
- Create your own stations from any genre, artist or theme you like
- Play a station based on the songs you love