CenterNetworks » nextNYers http://www.centernetworks.com Web 2 and Social Media News and Reviews Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:53:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 nextNYers – Social Shore http://www.centernetworks.com/nextnyers-social-shore http://www.centernetworks.com/nextnyers-social-shore#comments Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 Allen Stern nextNYersThis week on nextNYers, host Courtney Nichols sits down with Fahad Khan, founder and CEO of Social Shore. Khan explains why he began the Silicon Alley company, which provides technology, services, and solutions to small, large, and startup businesses. Ideal clients are cost-effective companies that are in search of a solution for their social media problems.

]]> nextNYersThis week on nextNYers, host Courtney Nichols sits down with Fahad Khan, founder and CEO of Social Shore. Khan explains why he began the Silicon Alley company, which provides technology, services, and solutions to small, large, and startup businesses. Ideal clients are cost-effective companies that are in search of a solution for their social media problems.


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]]> nextNYersThis week on nextNYers, host Courtney Nichols sits down with Andrew Keidel and Martin Codyre, co-founders of Mod My Life. Andrew and Martin take us through the steps that led to their lifecasting website. The website reaches out to both media companies and advertisers who want a more interactive way to reach consumers as well as to viewers who are attracted to the amount of control they have over the performances. We first covered ModMyLife back in December.


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Mochila has continued to increase their distribution with deals nearly every month similar to the one today. Check out my interview with the Mochila team along with their nextNYers video interview.

 

]]> MochilaNY-based Mochila is announcing a new partnership today with Pringo. Pringo is a white-labeled social networking provider similar to other NY-based companies KickApps and Magnify.net. Pringo customers will have the ability to add Mochila content syndication into their social networks and benefit from a revenue share. Pringo customers will also be able to syndicate their content to the 3500+ publishers in the Mochila platform.

Mochila has continued to increase their distribution with deals nearly every month similar to the one today. Check out my interview with the Mochila team along with their nextNYers video interview.

 


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]]> nextNYersThis week on nextNYers, host Courtney Nichols sits down with StartUp Alpha Founder and CEO Donna Bogatin offers an insider’s look at her company. StartUp Alpha is a Silicon Alley social network for entrepreneurs to not only pitch themselves but to actively network their startup company. Bogatin is focusing on business models and sustainability for the startups she works with. She is looking at a corporate sponsorship as a funding model and the business is currently self-funded. In the “cool app” generation, Bogatin notes that the hope is to give out something for free and then gain good traction. She is helping companies create unique business models.


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]]> nextNYersThis week on nextNYers, host Courtney Nichols interviews WeMix co-founder Matt Apfel. WeMix is a new media company founded by Ludacris and Matt Apfel in 2007 as a joint venture between Disturbing Tha Peace Entertainment and MegaMobile TV. It’s a simple deal: you sign up, create your page, upload your original songs, beats, vocals, riffs, and more. As a member you can collaborate on songs, offer feedback, and share ideas for new music with others. Most importantly you can vote for your favorite songs.

nextNYers’s disclosure: Courtney currently serves as interim COO for wemix and is on retainer.


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This is the most interesting nextNYers to-date as Charlie discusses the NY tech scene versus an actual startup. watch the interview

]]> nextNYersThis week on nextNYers, guest host Paul Kontonis speaks with nextNY founder Charlie O’Donnell. I’ve been impressed with nextNY since I moved CN back home last year. There are 1500+ members overall with a very active and participatory mailing list.

This is the most interesting nextNYers to-date as Charlie discusses the NY tech scene versus an actual startup.


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They are currently angel funding but are looking at a Series A round. Some notes about Gorilla Spot:

  • An online video editing application bringing premium entertainment content to the hands of creative users
  • Generates revenue with a CPA model for every video created and a CPM model for every video consumed
  • Recently did a campaign for Paramount Pictures and the movie Sweeney Todd

Allen's note - this seems pretty similar to Kaltura, another NY-based company.

]]> nextNYersThis week on nextNYers, Athan Stephanopoulos, CEO and founder of Gorilla Spot, discusses the appeal and success of the online public editing program. By teaming up with movie houses including Paramount Pictures, Gorilla Spot is able to provide users with premium content on an intuitive user-friendly editing platform.

They are currently angel funding but are looking at a Series A round. Some notes about Gorilla Spot:

  • An online video editing application bringing premium entertainment content to the hands of creative users
  • Generates revenue with a CPA model for every video created and a CPM model for every video consumed
  • Recently did a campaign for Paramount Pictures and the movie Sweeney Todd

Allen’s note – this seems pretty similar to Kaltura, another NY-based company.


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Check out all of the previous nextNYers episodes along with our review of online video in NYC.

]]> nextNYersThis week on nextNYers, Courtney sits down with NY-based Cameron Price, Chief Technology Officer at Mint Digital. Price explains how the New York and London based company creates cross platform entertainment properties for a variety of clients by fusing new media and traditional media. Clients include MTV Networks, ABC Family and the BBC.

Check out all of the previous nextNYers episodes along with our review of online video in NYC.


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Last month we covered a similar service, IndieGoGo.

Check out all of the previous nextNYers episodes along with our review of online video in NYC.

]]> nextNYersThis week on nextNYers, Courtney sits down with NY-based Indaba Music co-founders Matthew Siegel and Dan Zaccagnino. Indaba Music is an online social network and web application that not only provides musicians and artists with the ability to locate and communicate with one another, but also to collaborate with fellow artists. Musicians can use Indaba as a tool to finesse already composed tracks, or create brand new material from scratch with their peers. They are privately funded and aren’t seeking any additional funding at this time.

Last month we covered a similar service, IndieGoGo.

Check out all of the previous nextNYers episodes along with our review of online video in NYC.


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Check out all of the previous nextNYers episodes along with our review of online video in NYC.

]]> nextNYersThis week on nextNYers, Courtney sits down with NY-based Camlink Co-Founder Serge Kalinskiy. Kalinskiy discusses how his research in the growing online dating market led to the launch of this webcam-based speed dating service. Camlink.com features free registration and personalized profiles. In addition, it holds online ‘events’ for people with common interests to come together. They are looking to raise a funding round this spring and are targeting a userbase of 60,000 unique users per month. It’s worth a watch just to see how Courtney really goes into him about business plan, and competitors.

Check out all of the previous nextNYers episodes along with our review of online video in NYC.


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Don't forget to check out all of the previous nextNYers episodes along with our review of online video in NYC.

]]> nextNYersThis week on nextNYers, Meghan sits down with NY-based Wreck and Salvage Co-Creator Adam Quirk. Adam discusses how the company is a collective of three video artists across several states. With a wide demographic, Wreck and Salvage attracts clients who want to create original and unique viral videos.

Don’t forget to check out all of the previous nextNYers episodes along with our review of online video in NYC.


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Check out all of our previous Mochila coverage including their latest distribution deals and our extended interview with the team.

Don't forget to check out all of the previous nextNYers episodes along with our review of online video in NYC.

]]> nextNYersThis week on nextNYers, Meghan sits down with NY-based Mochila and its CEO Keith McAllister. McAllister explains how Mochila is the first and only online marketplace for content. A publisher has the option to either purchase photos, videos, and articles, or acquire the content for free by accepting advertising with it.

Check out all of our previous Mochila coverage including their latest distribution deals and our extended interview with the team.

Don’t forget to check out all of the previous nextNYers episodes along with our review of online video in NYC.


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They have continued to make their products (BlueOrganizer and SmartLinks) easier to understand for the common person (aka me) and Karen noted that they are looking to enter the social space this year so I expect to see the terminology continue to shift. While some geeks might care about "semantic web", most Internet users just want something that helps them without big words.

Karen also noted that they are seeking a series B round of funding and are currently in discussions with investors. Lastly, she noted that AdaptiveBlue is considering adding advertisements to their panels which would be highly contextual.

Come inside to view the interview »

Don't forget to check out all of the previous nextNYers episodes along with our review of online video in NYC.

]]> nextNYersThis week on nextNYers, Meghan sits down with NY-based AdaptiveBlue’s Director of Engineering Karen Teng. We’ve covered AdaptiveBlue several times over the past year.

They have continued to make their products (BlueOrganizer and SmartLinks) easier to understand for the common person (aka me) and Karen noted that they are looking to enter the social space this year so I expect to see the terminology continue to shift. While some geeks might care about "semantic web", most Internet users just want something that helps them without big words.

Karen also noted that they are seeking a series B round of funding and are currently in discussions with investors. Lastly, she noted that AdaptiveBlue is considering adding advertisements to their panels which would be highly contextual.

Don’t forget to check out all of the previous nextNYers episodes along with our review of online video in NYC.


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Some notes about Zude:

  • Allows users to organize, publish and share their digital assets
  • Uses a premium ad unit model allowing only one perishable ad on any given page
  • Zude platform is a social media community with exchangeable objects

come inside to view the video »

Check out all of the previous nextNYers episodes along with our review of online video in NYC.

]]> nextNYersThis week on nextNYers, Meghan sits down with NY-based Zude. Zude Co-Founder Jim McNeil explains how Zude is a fully customizable personal online space where users can grab and share pictures, objects, widgets and information allowing them to communicate with their friends and contacts in a way not possible on Facebook or Myspace. Zude effectively allows anyone to easily create and maintain their very own website.

Some notes about Zude:

  • Allows users to organize, publish and share their digital assets
  • Uses a premium ad unit model allowing only one perishable ad on any given page
  • Zude platform is a social media community with exchangeable objects

 

Check out all of the previous nextNYers episodes along with our review of online video in NYC.


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Come inside to view the video interview »

Check out all of the previous nextNYers episodes along with our review of online video in NYC.

]]> nextNYersThis week on nextNYers, Meghan sits down with NY-based 10ton Co-Founders Matthew Semel and Chris Chang. Matthew and Chris discuss their company’s goal of providing creative, engaging, and entertaining online video content ranging from client based spots created directly for advertisers to original, stand alone videos such as their viral success www.getengagedquickly.com. In addition to production capabilities, 10ton.tv also offers site users an online community forum to discuss and learn useful tips to creating successful online video content.

Check out all of the previous nextNYers episodes along with our review of online video in NYC.


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