I’m at LeWeb in the Startup Competition room.
This has been the first batch of presentations :
Friendbinder is another social aggregator, too bad I didn’t arrive in time to hear their pitch as I wanted to understand what is setting them apart from all the other webapps that let you keep all your friends in one place. In their own words: “FriendBinder brings together your friends from different social networks. It lets you keep track of all your friends in one place, saving you time and lets you post updates and replies.”
This is one of the services I was looking forward to. It’s one of the first very useful ones, enabling you to create a social network platform on top of your website very easily.
In their own words: “Stribe is a plug and play service to instantly create a social network on any website”
This one an unexpected surprise, it’s a set of facebook applications to help you manage your pages and make them more interactive. Presentation was a bit boring, slides where cool and product sounds good. In their own words: “Tigerlily is a set of Facebook apps for marketers who want to get more from Facebook pages.”
Task.ly is trying to re-invent task management applications, the product looks very cool. Heavy bashing of all other to do apps such as remember the milk and things.
FriendBinder seems another service that could fill the gap left empty by SocialThing, not too popular but with some useful and interesting features lacking in other services. Very similar to another startup I am testing now: http://web.pond.pt I’m gonna check it out!
While I wasn’t privy to the meetings personally, my guess is that they approached the major hotel chains, airlines etc and convinced them that they were going to be doing a lot of serious advertising and finding all kinds of customers for them.