By Amazing Startups | May 24, 2007
Talent is like a floodlight which makes things clearer only when you hold it in the right direction. Proper exposure and publicity turns a talent into a star. Only you need the exact channel that would share your talent and communicate it in an interesting way with the world. So start looking out for an agent. No. Just click onto talicious.com and find a place to showcase your talent and skills. A talent website born out of the idea to give talented people an opportunity to showcase their talents and get discovered by the right person, talicious.com is the right place to be.
So now on can upload their profile as well as for their friends and family members and
scouts can find them. These profiles are uploaded categorically based on the field the talent is. Any person who is talented can upload a media file like an audio scratch, video scratch, picture album, or word document that would display his/her talent in the particular group or category. Agents or scouts can perform a search and then find the required talent in that particular group or category.
The talents are viewed and then rated by the users. The ranks go up according to the ratings. So whenever anyone looks up for you, they know whether the person is good or not based on the performance as well as the numbers of ratings and rankings they have got. Here they only vouch to keep original talents from people who would like have an outlet. The rating system also makes it easier for people to know which a better one is through ranking which keeps gong up and down like music charts.
It is very seldom that you get a chance to show how capable you
are to the world without someone backing you. Lobbying is at its peak when it comes to entertainment industry. Talicious comes across as a source that will not only help you lobby your own talent and flair but also help you showcase it in front of the world.
The categories at talicious.com consist of art, dance design, fashion, literature, modeling, music, photography, screen media, sports and tuning. These categories are further subdivided into groups which go into details of every category. To tell you something frankly and upfront, it is a very smart way to promote your talent and let the world know how capable you are.
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By Amazing Startups | May 23, 2007
It would take me at least 10 hours to answer this question, but there are 5 things that seem to be absolutely essential:
1. a good startup is a completely new project or a good adaptation of an old idea.
This is what I mean. If you invented yahoo you would be really happy to see so many people talk about it. If you are not that creative why not creating a search engine in Luxemburg. It is going to be a copy, but I can tell you for sure that you will not find many competitors.
2. an excellent startup is able to create or find a niche.
This advice is really self explanatory. I would only add one more thing. Try to avoid high barriers of entry. If you have only 10 bucks to invest don’t try to produce cars. Do you see my points? -)
3. a startup should be useful
Well, useful is a BIG word… let’s say addictive… do you know Twitter…? That’s the point. Something really simple and to many extents useless has attracted millions of people.
4. a startup can be controversial.
Controversy is a good way of getting free media coverage. Even if someone will disapprove, you will still get more media coverage than normally.
5. success can be random.
Maybe, not exactly random, but it goes without saying that you need to be lucky from time to time. I have heard of search engines coming up before google arrived, but it was google to be noticed and discussed in every place in the world.
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By Amazing Startups | May 23, 2007
iStockdomains.com is a domain auction and parking website that allows its users to manage their entire domain portfolio.
iStockDomain allows you to buy and sell domain names and websites and at the same time make revenue by parking some of your unused domains. It really couldn’t be easier…
Appraisal (min 1 – max 10):
Idea:6 Graphics: 5 Usability: 5 Competitiveness: 6 Potential: 7 Profitabilty: 7
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By Amazing Startups | May 22, 2007
Your grandmother might have narrated thousands of stories that would have covered hundreds of miles and reached your bed from distant lands. But all those stories might have known only one language. It was easy for your grandmother to translate them because she knew the language of love but it is not for you unless you have Traduwiki.org at your desktop. Yes Traduwiki is the easiest way to translate those hundreds of good article and reviews that float on the internet but can not be read by many because of the language barrier.
Born out of frustration if some people who could not read a text that was available in only one language, Traduwiki believes on the significance of user content. With loads of translation softwares available, it is often observed that these ones not give an accurate translation of the meaning. Which is why this site gives you the opportunity of not only go through good texts from different regions but also makes you a part of the booming world of literature. User interface is an integral part of technological revolution and Traduwiki banks on it. Best on human knowledge, these guys reache the best in quality.
From Magazine stories to academic textbooks, essays, poetry, novels, technical papers and more, every document gets a translation here so that you can read whatever you want to I which ever language. So you easily stick onto the principles that ease the spread of culture and knowledge on the Internet. According to me books, in fact any kind of literature can only fill in knowledge brimming it with information and enlightenment. And with writings that would measure the length and breadth of the earth in your own language and many more languages, a person can only be benefited and nothing else.
The functioning of Traduwiki is simple and self explanatory. You have text chunks which are kept small to let you contribute at your level. One can opt for easy-to-translate text chunks which would give you a hang of how to translate. When you start feeling confidence, then you could try and translate text chunks that are harder to understand. This ways text would be translated in the purest of language forms by the people. Hence Traduwiki keeps the story of the German king who falls in love with n Indian princess the way it has been written in German by the legends without ruining the essence of it.
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By Amazing Startups | May 22, 2007
I am sure your mother would have told you ghost stories so that you gulp down a glass of milk before going to bed without any tantrums, could anyone ever imagine that ghost would actually be a beneficial source for you. Well, don’t rub your eyes while reading this for I am stating the fact to you.
The Global Host Operating System, popularly known as the G.ho.st is a free virtual computer that runs on any browser as a PC. With G.ho.st you can access your apps and data from anywhere in the world, always backed up, up to date and completely secured.
Yes, now your data will not be chained to a local PC. Just as you enjoy the services of a virtual drive, now you can also enjoy the facilities of a virtual computer. Travel across the length and breadth of the globe and then access your computer from the remotest corners through web. With technological innovations at its peak, get your PC right wherever you are completely booted, backed-up and up-to-date. With its multi user collaborations which are not possible through windows, ghost does not require software upgrades and patches. It has a Widget Toolkit which is an open source to world’s most comprehensive GUI library for RIAs.
You also get a free online sandbox and virtual server side code. Well if you ask me then probably ghost, unlike its name, is a friendly software that would give you wings, virtually. You get an instant access to the rapidly growing user group. You can also add value to your services by delivering it through a full online operating system and utilize the services for easy billing storage and using other services etc.
Fly at your leisure at least that’s what g.ho.st does to you. You have the luxury to do whatever you want from wherever you want. With a complete online personal computing environment, it provides you a categorized list of available applications. And this list keeps getting updated so that in near future you can use all the applications that you will need.
Yes it is little hard to believe that you can do so much with your internet browser without being glued to one place. That is the magic of technology for you. So the next time you go out, make sure that you own a virtual computer through g.ho.st and not an outdated Pc anymore.
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By Amazing Startups | May 21, 2007
As a kid we have always wanted our favorite things around us. Our favorite plant, favorite book next to the bed, favorite doll, favorite pink frock, favorite blue bat and favorite yellow curtains. Everything around us had to be something that we liked because human’s loves to customize. Then why not websites? The most interesting and eye catching way of tailoring the websites is mygetgo.com, where you can paint your thoughts in.
A canvass for a painter is the place where he pours in his feelings; his likes his dislikes, his love, his hatred. Adapting this psyche, the makers of mygetgo.com have tried making this a place which would help you translate your thoughts into your website. Now pour in colors of your choice, punch information that you would like to have and fuse in designs. Go ahead. Extend your personality.
Let it reflect our thought process, for every person has deserves to see an extended himself. At mygetgo.com all that is important is your taste and your choices. It is your webpage so it should look like yours. Choose your links and make them a part of your webpage. Add information from the search engines like Google. Make your page look like you.
With its link panel mygetgo.com helps you keep your important links at the toolbar. They look very stylish because of exclusive and smart buttons that have been created my mygetgo. With mygetgo you can get the satisfaction of creating something unique that would be exclusively yours. An extension of your personality. The current content module consists of lots of interesting accessories. It has a notepad that never forgets a birthday and thus keeps you away from the trouble of forgetting important birthdays.
Add bookmarks to all your favorite sites and goes back to them whenever you want to. Also create button bookmarks that would look interesting and creative. Now upload your images, have them as a slideshow or send them as e-cards to friends and family members and share some of your favorite moments with them.
Get latest news and gossip, post ads, weather updates, slideshows of interesting Flickr images. Also shake an extra stick with some mind boggling games. Create some extra pages fro yourself store files with theme designs and also some customized mygetgo themes. So in a nutshell a power packed site that allows you to create a space of your own wherever you go.
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