Teams
Backlight.org | FriendFit | friendradio | Funji | Gameyola | GeckoGo | GroupCard | Life360 | MyChurch | Navify | NetworkedBlogs | NutShellMail | photosilove | RentMineOnline | RunMyErrand | Samasource | Sociable | Sortuv | Thread | Vittana | Weardrobe | Wildfire | Workstir |
Worldly Developments | Zimride
Backlight.org is the online oasis for inspiring and creative content. Find inspiring things across the web, add your original creative expression, and celebrate important people in your life.
http://backlight.org | Contact: brad@backlight.org
FriendFit (formerly RunThere.com) is fitness community. You can track and share your fitness activities (runs, bike rides, hikes, swims, weightlifting, yoga and more), map and share custom routes, meet athletes nearby, and find new places to run and bike!
http://friendfit.com/ | Contact: leo@friendfit.com
friendradio is your social music player: listen to your friends’ music, evangelize your favorites, and make requests. friendradio is all about discovering new music while learning more about your friends.
http://www.friendradio.fm/ | Contact: cturitzin@gmail.com
Funji is a mobile virtual community for the iPhone and iPod touch, satisfying users’ desire to express themselves and communicate with others in a fun, creative way in mobile devices. The team has more than five years of experience in the mobile market in both South Korea and the US.
http://funji.me/ | Contact: shinyoung@funji.me
Gameyola is a distribution and monetization platform for casual Flash games. Flash games currently monetize poorly, but Gameyola solves this problem by providing Flash developers tools to sell virtual goods and to acquire users through social channels.
http://www.gameyola.com | Contact: drew@gameyola.com
Travel Brain by GeckoGo helps you track (and show off!) your travels, share experiences with others, and discover new places to visit. Learn from the knowledge of over 600,000 travelers, and get expert guide info from their Bradt Travel Guides partnership.
http://www.geckogo.com/ | Contact: pokin@geckogo.com
GroupCard lets users rally their friends to sign the same printable online card to celebrate any occassion. Each friend can add a message, upload photos or audio, and even make a gift contribution. GroupCard started at Stanford, and is already used by thousands of groups worldwide.
http://www.groupcard.com/ | Contact: john@groupcard.com
From keeping track of your kids to protecting your identity and getting back your lost stuff, Life360 is the place you go to keep your family safe, secure, and prepared for daily life.
http://www.life360.com | Contact: chris@life360.com
Churches create their own social networks on MyChurch.org. They extend their community between Sundays with tools to connect and engage their members. Over 30,000 church congregations are represented on MyChurch.org.
http://www.mychurch.org/ | Contact: joe@mychurch.org
Navify is a visual encyclopedia that combines Wikipedia articles with images, videos, and comments. It is the only general encyclopedia that allows you to listen to music videos, watch movie trailers, and browse news and celebrity photo galleries.
http://navify.com/ | Contact: alan.rutledge@navify.com
Bring your blog to Facebook, and Facebook to your blog. Pull your Feed to your profile and business pages, add widgets to promote your network, and read the news from blogs you follow on the largest community of bloggers and blog lovers on Facebook.
http://networkedblogs.com/ | Contact: waleed@ninua.com
Simplify the way you manage Facebook and other social networks through your email inbox. NutshellMail consolidates activity from all your accounts into a single email digest delivered on your schedule. Don’t let email alerts clutter your inbox. NutshellMail keeps you connected and productive at the same time.
http://nutshellmail.com/ | Contact: mark@nutshellmail.com
photosilove is a digital media sharing and discovery site emphasizing lightweight social content, self-expression, and communities.
http://apps.facebook.com/photosilove/ | Contact: llee123@gmail.com
Combines the success of resident referral programs with the power of social networks. Residents refer their community to friends through social networks like Facebook, and email to earn rewards and live with friends.
http://www.rentmineonline.com/ | Contact: Ed@rentmineonline.com
RUNmyERRAND is a social networking inspired web and mobile marketplace that provides people and businesses an easy and trusted way to get everyday tasks done in their own hyperlocal community.
http://runmyerrand.com/ | Contact: Leah@runmyerrand.com
Sama is Sanskrit for “equal” – Samasource finds and trains reliable QA professionals to test Facebook apps with a user-friendly interface that lives on Facebook Platform. With Samasource, developers lower costs, reduce poverty, and improve their applications.
http://www.samasource.org/ | Contact: jess@samasource.org
Sociable is building a comprehensive solution for online retailers to drive sales via the power of online friendships.
http://be-sociable.com/ | Contact: nisan@rondavu.com
Sortuv lets you start with something you like, and discover more. Instead of searching for a “great restaurant” just say what you mean: “Find me a place sortuv like Spago in Seattle”. Check them out on the Web, on the iPhone, and on Facebook.
http://sortuv.com/ | Contact: rfranczyk@sortuv.com
Find friends of friends to date…or play matchmaker! If you’re single, you can search your friends’ friends and ask for intros. If you’re taken, you can set friends up. Friends of friends are the best people to date. It’s social dating via friendly intros.
http://www.thread.com/ | Contact: brian@sofalabs.com
Vittana enables you to lend directly to students in the developing world, $25 at a time. Their mission is to bring student loans to the developing world through the power of person-to-person microlending.
http://www.vittana.org/ | Contact: kushalc@vittana.org
Weardrobe is a fashion-focused community for discovering different ways to wear clothing. Weardrobe provides a platform for people to share reviews of their own clothing, post photos of their looks, catalog their closet and search for style inspiration.
http://www.weardrobe.com | Contact: suzanne@weardrobe.com
Wildfire enables consumers to discover, share and engage with interactive promotions like contests, sweepstakes and give-aways and enables companies to easily create their own attractive, branded promotions that are automatically integrated with Facebook’s social features.
http://www.wildfireapp.com/ | Contact: victoria@wildfireapp.com
Workstir is a community that connects users with trustworthy local service providers. Anyone can post a job and choose a provider with confidence by browsing their past reviews. For businesses, Workstir provides a wealth of jobs in their area of expertise.
http://www.workstir.com/ | Contact: duncanwinter@gmail.com
Worldly Developments is building online services that will help you connect with the people, places and events in your local community. Its first product makes it a snap to plan, promote, and communicate around group activities.
http://plancast.com | Contact: markmhendrickson@gmail.com
Zimride helps classmates and coworkers share the ride.
http://zimride.com/ | Contact: logan@zimride.com
