di Dario Salvelli – Lunedì 14 Maggio 2007 alle 09:15

Ricordate quando abbiamo parlato di creatività sul Web: quella messa nella creazione di t-shirt bellissime o semplicemente nel riconoscere le scene di un film.

Perché il Web è (o almeno dovrebbe essere) partecipativo e partecipato, fatto di persone e non solo di nuovi strumenti e possibilità: perché se ancora ci chiediamo della reale utilità degli RSS allora bisogna guardarsi intorno e comprendere che fine faranno le nostre congetture, i servizi che ogni giorno vengono aperti.

Non basta analizzare i comportamenti e le tendenze di chi naviga. Insomma verso dove si muove e spinge la creatività?

Talicious è uno dei tanti esempi di community tematiche che forse vuole aiutarci in questo senso: in realtà se hai un talento lo puoi condividere con gli altri con la speranza di essere catturati da personaggi e agenti noti.

Questa dolce illusione attraversa il Web come la vita reale ma tentare e provare a costo zero non nuoce; ed ecco quindi una lista di categorie tra le più svariate nella quale segnalarsi e delle competitions per mettersi in gara.

La mancanza di un blog e di informazioni più precise indicano che il servizio è di recente apertura ma da tenere comunque d’occhio.

Dare sfogo alla propria arte può anche essere semplice, privo di alcun scopo e collaborativo: ce lo insegna Dreamzone con il quale è possibile modificare, realizzare e creare delle immagini partendo da un’idea iniziale.

La Gallery contiene risultati interessanti votati dagli utenti che si sono dati, magari senza volerlo, degli obiettivi per creare una piccola opera d’arte.

In fin dei conti Web 2.0 vuol dire coinvolgere idee, interessi, intuizioni tra le più diverse: creare valore divertendosi, collaborando, conoscendosi.

Tags:creatività 2.0 dreamzone talicious web partecipativo

Ahora nos toca demostrar nuestro talento, ese que todo llevamos dentro y que plasmamos en obras digitales, para deleite del público en general. Para ello tenemos a Talicious, una galería social donde los usuarios cuelgan sus obras, dentro de una serie de categorías y subcategorías, para que el resto de la comunidad pueda valorarlo, comentarlo, añadirlo a favoritos y compartirlo por correo electrónico.

A los autores también se le pueden mandar mensajes privados desde las páginas de sus propias obras.

El funcionamiento es el siguiente, los usuarios seleccionarán un tipo de cuenta de los disponibles, en función de su actividad, y al menos al principio y desde el nivel básico disponen de seis slots, de los cuales los archivos de audio y video ocupan dos. Cada tipo de archivo dispone de los formatos soportados y del peso máximo, que se indicarán a la hora de subirlos.

De momento no existen competiciones en vigor y disponen de foros de discusión casi casi sin estrenar. Un buen lugar para la búsqueda por parte de agencias y cazatalentos.

由. 启羁 将文章归档于 互联网

Talicious 是一个互联网中的才艺秀台。这是一个让用户展示各类才能和天分的社会化网络，任何用户都可以尽情展示自己各项特长，从体育项目到艺术类，从理科到文科，任何你认为拿手的都可以到这里来秀一下。通过用户们自我的展示，或许你能找到不少有意思的朋友可以交流。

Den Selbstdarstellungsdrang der aktiven Web 2.0 Anwender will nun ein neues Start Up für sich nutzen: Talicious ist eine Plattform, die ganz frisch ins Rennen gegangen ist und versucht, Youtube und Myspace mit einem anderen Fokus neu zu erfinden: Bei der neuen Social Community geht es primär darum, Talente aufzuspüren beziehungsweise Menschen dazu zu bewegen, ihre begnadeten Begabungen unter Beweis zu stellen.

Mit verschiedenen Kategorien wie Kunst, Tanz, Design, Fashion, Literatur, Musik, etc. spricht Talicious Könner aus verschiedenen Disziplinen an. So zeigt uns beispielsweise ein junger Mann in einem Videoclip, dass er in der Lage ist, einen Ball im Nacken zu balancieren und sich gleichzeitig von seinem Shirt zu trennen – sportlich, sportlich.

Sobald Talicious die notwendige Masse an Content und Mitgliedern gewonnen hat, will der Gründer Kooperationen mit Unternehmen starten, die für eine passende Kategorie Talentwettbewerbe ausschreiben und den Gewinnern einen – wie auch immer gearteten – Preis verprechen.

Text: stefan-winter (http://jetzt.sueddeutsche.de/texte/anzeigen/382339)

Angestrichen:

“Ein Möbelhaus kann zum Beispiel Designer aufrufen, eine neue Wohnzimmereinrichtung zu kreieren, für einen Sportartikelhersteller könnte ein neuer Laufschuh geschaffen werden, oder ein Mobilfunkunternehmen startet einen Handy-Wettbewerb.”

Wo steht das denn?
In einem Text der Financial Times über das neue Webportal talicious.com. Deren Macher beschreibt darin das Konzept seiner Webseite, die sich selber als “Talent Community” bezeichnet. Der 26-jährige Nicholas MacGowan von Holstein will mit Talicious, das eine Wortkombination aus den Begriffen Talent und delicious (köstlich) ist, talentierten Amateuren zu Ruhm verhelfen – als Designer von Wohnzimmereinrichtungen oder Handys.

Die Idee ist dabei schnell erklärt: Talicious funktioniert wie YouTube für Menschen, die sich selbst für talentiert halten. Und dieser Glaube an die eigenen vermeintlich herausragenden Fähigkeiten ist nach Hoffnung der Talicious-Macher so groß, dass Premium-Nutzer sogar 99 Cent für mehr Online-Speicherplatz zahlen. Ob mit der Bezahlung auch die Chancen steigen, entdeckt zu werden, müssen Nicholas und sein Bruder, mit dem er gemeinsam die Site betreibt, hingegen erst noch beweisen.

21. Mai 2007

Talicious is a site that allows people to get “discovered.” People post their talent, it gets categorized and indexed, and then the public rates them. The higher the rating, the higher their video goes on the chart. It is a pretty simple idea and easy to implement. I admit, my first thought was that it reminded me of “The Gong Show,” but really that just ages me. Obviously, there is a market for “talent” out there because there is a popular TV show with this exact premise. And thus it seems plausible that the idea of finding talent can be tranferred online in some way. On the other hand, the site had minimal talent content and little traffic, so either it is just getting known or is not what the “scouts” are looking for right now.

In their own words:
TALICIOUS is a talent community website that allows talented people to share their talents, communicate with other interesting people and be discovered by scouts or agencies who can easily search the site.
TALICIOUS was born out of the idea to give talented people the chance to show the world their talents and if they want to, be discovered. We have tried to make this as easy as possible; both for the talents to upload their profile and for their friends, family and people with the same interest as well as scouts to find them.
Basically, TALICIOUS is a community for talented people and those that work with them.
Anyone who has a talent can upload a media (videos, pictures, audio files or word documents) to show his or her talent. Talents are grouped in different categories so that they are easily searchable and can then be rated by users. The average rating determines the talent’s position in the category.

The focus of the site are the talents. We aim to have only original talent media from people who would like to show their talents to the world, and for everybody to be able to rank and discuss those talents, related news, gossip, locations, equipment or anything else. Like music charts, talents will move up and down the ranking which is determined by our users.
There are other great websites where you can up-load your media, but because we are focused purely on Talented people, you have a much better chance of being seen and maybe even ‘discovered’.

In which ever way you use TALICIOUS, we wish you a lot of fun and success.

Why this site might be a killer:
It seems like an innovative and potentially successful way for people to match talent and opportunities. The site is well-designed and easy to use.

Some questions:
Why aren’t people using the site to post themselves and their talent? Is there a market for matching talent with talent scouts? How are they planning on making a profit?

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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What makes a startup successful?

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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iStockDomains.com – Marketplace for Domain Names

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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Traduwiki.org – the easiest way to translate those hundreds of good article and reviews

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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G.ho.st – a free virtual computer that runs on any browser as a PC

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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Mygetgo.com – fully customisable home or start pages where YOU decide on the content, and the look

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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