SocialActions Archive

Below are five of the newest startups according to Killer Startups for the period ending November 26, 2007. Check out previous Killer Startups posts.

Pijoo.com – New Blogging Network Offers Widgets

Pijoo is a brand new, fresh, blogging network. (Not quite sure what the name means though). Add your blog for free, and get, in return, free widgets and more readers. Nothing more simple than that. If that’s not enticing enough take a peek at the other blogs that have already signed up. See what you’re missing. read more »

SocialActions.com – FundRaising Aggregator

Montreal based SocialActions is a fund raising campaign aggregator powered by Drupal. It indexes Kiva, ChangingthePresent, FirstGiving, BrightLight, Change.org, Fundable, Razoo and SixDegrees among others. Users can search for campaigns via platform, theme, location, or by using the traditional search bar. Each proposed action can be rated Digg-style by community members. read more »

LeverageCard.com – Manage All Your Gift Cards

Just in time for the holiday season, Leverage has come to solve the problem of gift cards. Gift cards are hugely popular items to give, and yet many cards remain unredeemed. The end result bodes well for companies, but for you the consumer, you’re out of luck. Leverage aims to even out the playing field, giving consumers a way to manage, trade, and keep track of your gift cards. Register your gift cards on site to keep tabs on the spending amount left on each one. read more »

Mainada.net/ComicsSketch – Draw and Socialize

ComicsSketch is a site dedicated to you guessed it, comics, which has been revived recently as a full fledged social network. Comic artists can not only create new comics on the site, they can also share them with other artists and create group works by collating all drawings and sketches generated on site. Besides browsing through comics, members of the public can check out the most popular drawings, peruse through creators’ profiles, draw their own comics, and vote for the best and comment on the rest. read more »

Lingro.com – A Multilingual Dictionary

So you want to be a globetrotting polyglot who can order wine and cheese in five languages? If, like many people, you haven’t got the cash to go study abroad or to hire a private tutor, you may do well to check out Lingro, a very cool, multilingual Ajax dictionary. Besides the hipness factor, the folks over at Lingro staunchly believe that knowledge should be free and accessible to everyone, so you won’t go broke using Lingro. read more »