Facebook’s homepage is increasingly “LIVE”, and I think thats how all web-based software apps should be. AJAX isn’t just nice-to-have, its essential for a seamless user experience for web apps. Almost LIVE-enabled Alertle - hope to showcase it someday.
2 mt. demo of Alertle’s version 1.0
Full demo of Alertle’s version 1.0 (with sound)
Press
Global reviews / usage
french, spanish, chinese, italian, arabic, japanese, portuguese, polish
Visited by people from almost 100 countries.
Quotes
“I just found your feed reader, and i think it’s revolutionary! I use Google Reader a long time ago, but I signed up to alertle right after the demo.”
“Alertle is a AJAX-y little news aggregator. It has a pretty cool interface and comes loaded with tons of feeds. The autoplay of stories is kind of cool if you like to just watch news flow past…”
” next generation aggregation?”
“I like this feedreader because of it’s ease of customization and reading automation.”
“I really appreciate how uncluttered the display window is for the news item that is currently being read..”
(Cross-post from Techvibes: http://www.techvibes.com/blog/web-2.0-startup-lessons)
I gave a presentation at the DemoCamp 19 in Toronto on my experience in founding/running a Web 2.0 startup over the past few years, and what I think we did right and where we screwed up. My idea was to share some experiences which other entrepreneurs in the consumer web space might find useful, especially those not in Silicon Valley. Folks in the audience seem to have really liked it, and Albert Lai (Kontagent, BubbleShare) remarked that this was the best case study he had seen about a startup’s ups and downs. So I’m posting it here. Check it out:
This was a quickly assembled presentation for DemoCamp’s special ‘Ignite’ format. I have been asked to repeat it elsewhere, and would update it with a better version when it happens on www.varunmathur.net / Techvibes.
Will be sharing some stuff from what I learnt from founding/running a web 2.0 startup from concept to launch to (…) over the past 2+ yrs at the next DemoCamp in town, on Tuesday March 3rd.
BusinessWeek’s Stephen Baker on the latest location-tracking software, Sense Networks and Google Latitude, and how companies may target advertisements to users of these programs
Fido chewing a shuttlecock :)
He is over 12 yrs old now and is a Japanese Spitz, kind of like American Eskimo. His is a toy breed - he is pretty tiny, but has a big personality….messes up with bigger dogs all the time so I have to be careful when walking him! :)
http://blog.marsdd.com/2009/02/20/boot-camp-for-ict-start-ups/
Is your start-up looking for better access to Silicon Valley and US venture capital, angel networks and Fortune 500 ICT companies? Apply now to be one of the companies taking part in the Canadian Trade Commissioner Service’s Regional Boot Camp for ICT Start-Ups being held at MaRS on Thursday, March 19th, 2009.
This one-day boot camp will feature Silicon Valley and other US investors and is specifically designed to facilitate your market access to the US and Silicon Valley venture capital, angel networks and Fortune 500 ICT companies.
