WeddingWire Archive

One of the themes I think we will see this year are services that take the offline and move it online and vice-versa. I believe in this theme as my startup takes the offline and moves it online. This past weekend I wrote about Suite Arrival, another service that takes the online and moves it offline.

A new service launching today from the Jackson Fish Market continues the theme. The service is named Thrilled For You and is a video guestbook kiosk software. It’s like the next version of the cheap disposable cameras that are left on tables for guests to use. I could see professional videographers purchasing this service on a white-label basis and then including it in their overall video recording packages.

The Jackson Fish Market team explains how they came up with the idea, “Last July, our own Jenny Lam got married. While there was a professional photographer, several amateur photographers, and a professional videographer (all of whom did a great job), there was still an opportunity for a different kind of documentation – the personal wish for the new couple spoken straight into the camera.”

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Below are five of the hottest startups according to Killer Startups for the period ending May 11, 2007. Check out previous Killer Startups posts.

Tractis.com – They Mean Real Business

Throw out faxes, snail mail, and papers in the trash, or the recycling bin if it makes you feel more green. Now you can create, negotiate, and sign off on contracts on the web with Tractis–that goes far above and beyond Verisign or Docusign. Tractis is seizing the federal ESIGN legislation, and revolutionizing e-signatures for a superior, more comprehensive contract package that allows for even more authentication options from mobile, OpenID, Biometric, one-time-tokens, etc. read more »

FloorPlanner.com – Create Interactive Floorplans

Floorplanner is a useful tool for anyone who needs to make a floorplan. Whether you're trying to decide the arrangement of furniture in the banquet hall for your upcoming event, or you're trying to decide if you have enough room to get that piano you've always wanted, or you want to show potential renters the layout of a house, this will help you out. It's easy to create floorplans and share them with others. read more »

Mojikan.com – Adopt a virtual pet

Those who are familiar with "digipets," like Tomagotchis, will already know about the fairly new concept of interactive tools for online social behavior. Mojikan is a new site where you can get a "digipet" of sorts which interacts with you in order to perform various assessments of your site. The program is called the Moji Intelligent Messenger, and it does appear to be pretty intelligent. read more »

WeddingWire.com – The Easiest Way to Plan Your Wedding

WeddingWire is the place to go to help you plan your wedding. They have all of the tools you cool possibly need to find the vendors in your area you're looking for, plus lots of tools to help you get organized. They have budget tracking, guest list managers, seating charts, checklists, and a lot more. You can compare various vendors and their services and read reviews and ratings from other couples who have used them in the past. read more »

Portrayl.com – Collaborative Story Telling

There are those who have decried internet decorum; email degrades language, they say; the short jots we parrot off in forums, or the myriad of acronyms deployed in chatting effectively curtails the richness of communication, according to some Luddites and naysayers. Portrayl.com offers a new way to share and create stories. read more »