StartUps.com sold for $500k
October 31, 2008
KillerStartups
, a blog that covers killer startups has acquired the domain Startups.com for “mid six figures” in cash, CEO Gonzalo Arzuaga says. So let’s call it $500,000. That is within reason for a premium domain name. Business.com was originally bought for $7.5 million and was ridiculed by many until being built into a business that sold for $350 million.
Contrast that against the $17.2 million that Startups.com raised during the dotcom boom before shutting its doors in January, 2002. Back then, Startups.com was a startup incubator, offering office space, HR, and other business services to startups (Guy Kawasaki was on its board). The only asset that survived was its URL.
KillerStartups, which is backed by $250,000 in angel money from South American domain-name entrepreneur Matias de Tezanos, plans to create a network of startup-related business sites around the new domain. The company will rename itself Startups.com Network, but will keep the name KillerStartups for the blog. After plunging to 160,000 unique visitors worldwide in July (their servers melted, it is fixed now), KillerStartups shot back up to a respectable one million uniques in September, according to comScore. (Arzuaga says the site is attracting 1.5 million uniques a month). He says:
We would never kill this concept. It’s a stepping stone to build our network of business-related websites.
Diversifying is always a good idea. Arzuaga adds that the acquisition was funded from cash flow. Sounds like a killer startup in the making.
moko.mobi !!!!!!
October 31, 2008
moko.mobi is an awesome social networking site. dating, chatrooms, fun areas, you name it.
The layout is so visually pleasing and easy to use. There is a full pc version which will autodetect at moko.mobi
& check out the mobile version if you are viewing this article from your mobile device, or if viewing from a pc and are curious:
creditplus.mobi
October 31, 2008
creditplus.mobi
Based in Stuttgart, CreditPlus Bank, specialises in the consumer credit market. It belongs to the French group SOFINCO, itself a subsidiary of the Crédit Agricole Group. CreditPlus Bank manages its activities with 317 employees spread across 12 agencies in Germany for an outstanding of over one billion euros as at 31 December 2004. The Bank offers its credit products via its network of agencies and also through its partners and directly over the Internet. http://www.creditplus.de
http://www.sofinco.com/spip.php?rubrique132
Ready.mobi 5/5
SplashPlay.mobi - This is awesome!
October 29, 2008
SplashPlay.mobi is a beautifully constructed site with a unique idea that is sure to be a winner.
Quote from site:
“SplashPlay, the only UK company to win a top 50 spot in the Google Android Challenge, offers the next generation in music tuition and learning to play the guitar just got a whole lot easier. Simply attach the pod and light panel to your guitar, download our software and start strumming to your favourite songs in minutes. (Please note, only Android G1 users can interact with the videos). A windows application will be released shortly, so you can create chords and lyrics on your PC and upload your interpretations for others to share).
- Share and learn music on different instruments using the SplashPod and a paper-thin light panel.
- Combines freely available tutorials with optionally available hardware.
- Learn songs or chords wherever you want, such as on a bus or
train, or even in your tent at a music festival. - Use the phone to wirelessly control the light panel using BlueTooth
irrepressible.info by amnesty international
October 28, 2008
irrepressible.info is another fantastic incentive and move by the wonderful amnesty international. All our freedoms are being eaten away daily . The internet is the biggest venue for freedom of speech, ‘they’ want to take it away. Whilst some areas no doubt need cleaning up etc, we cannot allowcorrupt governments to control and fail where they have so many times before. Follow the Link and sign the e-petition. It takes literally 10 seconds. Thanks for your help.
Be irrepressible
Chat rooms monitored. Blogs deleted. Websites blocked. Search engines restricted. People imprisoned for simply posting and sharing information.
The Internet is a new frontier in the struggle for human rights. Governments – with the help of some of the biggest IT companies in the world – are cracking down on freedom of expression … learn more
“An Amnesty International delegation handed in a petition of 50,000 signatures to this pledge in November 2006 at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Athens, before an audience of governments and companies from across the world.
The IGF process continues and so does Amnesty’s fight for freedom of expression online. Irrepressible.info will continue to collect signatures to the pledge and use them to campaign against internet repression.
The more people who sign up, the louder our voice. Please read and sign our pledge.” More details here: irrepressible.info/pledge
1981 News Report About ‘Online News’
October 28, 2008
I was just thinking today, how far we had come with the online world and how much further we have to go.
I think it is pretty much accepted that the print media is very much dying. I can see a time when only weekend newspapers are printed. I hope they never stop for the sheer enjoyment of it. To be honest most of the ‘press’, certainly here in the U.K is pure rubbish. How can the sun, or the star, or the express etc. even claim to be newspapers?
The upside to the newspapers dying off is millions of acres of trees and paper saved every year . I think that has to be one of the most important things. Also the media is tightly controlled by just a few people. Namely one, Murdoch.
News Online gives greater freedom to everyone through blogs or established channels to give their views and news. We have already taken the bold step of having enrmously successful news sites online. There must be tens of thousands when you consider all the countries and all the individual bloggers, as we must count them, probably many more.
Watch this report on Kron from 1981 before we go any further:
The thing that we have now and is growing exponentially is online news and websites for your mobile. Less and less are people wanting to be in a fixed position to research the news and find the information they are looking for. People are getting more refined, they also don’t just want to be spoonfed news bulleting to their eardrums from the radio. Once again you are having what you hear controlled by bbc or whoever. The mobile internet for news, information, whatever it is is total freedom.
Well let’s enjoy it, embrace it and think later about what’s next???? Hologram news??
A few to consider:
News
FoxNews.mobi
AlJazeera.mobi
Newspapers
GuardianJobs.mobi
timesmobile.mobi
Magazines
Time.mobi (Time Magazine)
BusinessWeek.mobi
CNNMoney.mobi
Maxim.mobi
Metro.mobi
oc transpo goes .mobi!
October 28, 2008
Ottawa City Transport (oc transpo) has launched their mobile website at octranspo.mobi
Their pc site can be found at octranspo.com
2 new sony .mobi sites
October 26, 2008
Pleased to announce 2 new sony mobile sites.
The first is SonyPictures.mobi
The website is set to autodetect your mobile device so can only be accessed via your mobile phone. If you are viewing this article via your pc you can make use of these resources, including mtld’s ‘ready.mobi’ service to view the site;
http://www.google.com/search?client=…=Google+Search
http://mtld.mobi/emulator.php?webadd…&Submit=Submit
http://mtld.mobi/emulator.php?emulat…ypictures.mobi
Sony have made a lot of use of subdomains with the sonypictures domain and can cleverly use it for marketing purposes and just change sites on a whim using different subdomains. A tactic I think we will see more and more for mobile websites and marketing in general rather than having tired static or heavy sites.
Next up is 4Sony.mobi
Enjoy!
SignOn.mobi - SignOnSanDiego.com
October 21, 2008
signonsandiego.com is a pagerank 4 , website with an alexa rank of 3,500.
They have their mobile website live at signon.mobi
artwanted.mobi
October 21, 2008
saw this today. nice to see medium size sites adopting and promoting .mobi
http://www.artwanted.com/mb/topic.cfm?Topic=453748
