Idea Picks

Blogabond

2006-10-17T23:35:00.000+03:00

It looks like travel blogs are tres-a-la-mode lately. Blogabond is a new service that makes it easy to maintain a travel blog:

Get your own Travel Blog
Why do I need a travel blog, you ask? Because you're a world traveler. You've got photos to post, stories to tell, and, well, travel to blog about. Post a couple quick comments into your travel blog and your parents will think you're keeping in touch, when really you're just trying to make your friends jealous! So blog on, fellow traveler! The world is waiting to hear from you.

Fring

2006-10-15T03:37:00.000+03:00

Fring™ uses your existing mobile internet data plan to make peer-to-peer VoIP calls, send instant messages and communicate with PC based VoIP applications such as Skype and Google Talk, at no extra cost.

This is a great idea. Especially if it works with new mobile phones equipped with wifi...

Fabjectory

2006-10-15T03:00:00.000+03:00

Fabjectory:

Make your electronic characters and objects into incredibly detailed, full color, real-life statuettes.

They are currently able to recreate real life statuettes from SecondLife avatars. Check out this gallery.

Crowdstorm

2006-10-14T19:29:00.000+03:00

Crowdstorm is a social shopping service. It helps users figure out what to buy, by showing them the buzz around products. Users recommend products and write comments about them, and the best items bubble up to the top.

xFruits

2006-10-14T19:04:00.000+03:00

xFruits, a French startup, allows users to mashup feeds in an easy way. You can think of xFruits as a "feed toolbox": modules ("bricks") that can mix varius feeds into one, turn a feed into HTML or RDF or xHTML 1.0 mobile-friendly format.

TagLoops

2006-10-14T11:23:00.000+03:00

TagLoops is an online application that lets you remix online media, like images, audio and XML feeds with your own text

Use TagLoops to author web content, not into web pages, but into immersive clips that progress over time - we call them Web Movies

Once your media assets are addressable through a URL, you can use them - no need to download or upload again

Your Web Movies play full screen within TagLoops.com Link to them from your web site or blog, or just keep them private.

Well, TagLoops made it to TechCrunch (congrats Harry!) acouple of days ago. I found one of Harry's comments there to be very interesting:
TagLoops is a combination of two flash tools: the authoring tool and the player.
What’s behind it, is a whole new concept, we call ‘web movies’. A web movie extends the concept of a web page (as a combination of text, links, layout info and embedded media) by adding the dimension of time.
What you create with TagLoops is not a flash or video binary, but a set of metadata, currently stored in our database, but easily encoded in XML.
Web movies is really about repackaging web content into an immersive kind of medium and offering a whole new spectrum of creative possibilities.

MagnaCRM

2006-10-14T11:08:00.000+03:00

MagnaCRM is a web based CRM application for small businesses. It will help you solve your needs for scheduling, keeping customer data and tracking upcoming sales, without getting in the way.

MagnaCRM is developed in Apache-PHP-MySQL, comes with an easy-to-use installer and will run on most operating systems.

What is "Idea Picks"?

2006-10-14T10:32:00.000+03:00

Idea Picks is a place where fresh new ideas and products are displayed.

If you don't live where venture capitalis usually hang arround, you know how frustrating it can be to have a good idea, or a good product or project and not be able to fund it. I want Idea Picks to be the place where all tose ideas will be presented. A place where people making sites and services can meet other like-minded individuals.

And (why not?) a place where business angels will check every now and then to see if something interesting is being done in a place they have never visited by talented people they will never meet.