Web 2.0 Expo Berlin: Startup Ignite

txtr

• All read more, but most text is digital: E-mail, blogs, files
• New market for reading devices (eg Kindle)
• Missing complete solution for combining texts with organistaion and community
• Keep text in the cloud – upload tool. Keep all documents in sync.
• Grab webpages – “solid state del.icio.us”
• (Grab my content and share without pageviews…hmm)
• widget for your blog/website.
• Focus on mobile clients, iPhone first.

aka’aki

• Uses Bluetooth. No Bluetooth on iPhone. GPS. Using cell positioning, too.
• Location aware social network, basically?
• Germany, tomorrow. the world in November.
• Privacy controls.
• Desire to discover new people
• Playful approach to making new friends.
• Tells you what aka’aki users are near you, what their interests are and probably needs a direct link to divorce lawyers…

iDesktop.tv

• Web-based iTunes for YouTube videos.
• Embeddable player
• Is this just YouTube addon?
• Works with other video sites, too
• Allows creation of branded player for aggregated video content.
• Looks like the channel players you get on a lot of old media sites
• (Couldn’t YT sweep them away in seconds?)

Soundcloud

• Imagine a world without Flickr…. We would not using photos like we do today
• Doing that for music and audio
• Embedable web-based audio upload and management.
• Really missing right now. (He’s right)
• Privacy controls.
• Dropbox for tracks. Great for music bloggers.
• Liking this one.