Fliva, Kickapps, Zitgist, LongJump, Vuvox

Below are five of the hottest startups according to Killer Startups for the period ending June 25, 2007. Check out previous Killer Startups posts.

Kickapps.com - Social media platform

If you want to build a social networking site from scratch, try doing it with Kickapps, a web development platform that offers you a wide range of applications that are useful for community sites. When you sign up for the service at no cost, Kickapps provides you with hosting and management tools, but don"t worry, you are in charge of the site information and members. read more »

Fliva.com - Personality Q&A for Your Profiles

Fliva is capitalizing on the growing (insatiable?) desire for people to share their uniqueness with the rest of the world on all the social networking sites and blogs. Fliva allows you to create a widget with a personal Q&A (such as, "who is your favorite political figure?" or "What would you do if you had 24 hours to live?" or whatever other questions you want to share with your friends and fam), and then post it almost anywhere online. read more »

Zitgist.com - New Semantic Web Query Service

Zitgist is a "semantic web query service" or rather, a new kind of search that is helping people locate data, knowledge, and information in a whole new way on the web. Forget keywords, because Zitgist promises to get you there without them. In stead, type in the kind of qualities your search target should own along with your search query. read more »

LongJump.com - Build Apps Fast, No Skills Needed

LongJump is an app creation tool for non-developers. It's a business friendly means to customize and control apps that otherwise would be quite costly and difficult to build. They offer a catalogue of ready to go apps which can be easily adapted to any business. There are also built in collaboration tools to facilitate group work and projects. read more »

VUVOX.com - Your Visual Voice

VUVOX is your visual voice expression to create, edit, and share with the world. What is a "visual voice" you ask? VUVOX understands that your vision might not be limited to just one of the senses. With VUVOX you can easily mix up and blend together all your media files: videos, photos, text, music, and other audio, to create a media rich presentation of yourself. read more »