Legal Playground – Professional Law Portal
A new entry into the social networking niche, Legal Playground provides a portal for the lawyers and legal fraternity to interact with people seeking them out for their needs. The process is simple. Both the service providers and clients get a chance to signup and seek each other out.
Legal professionals can make their profiles on the website. They can provide people with blog posts and list their expertise in the relevant field. Clients can seek out these professionals through searching or posting their problems eliciting a response from the appropriate professionals. Clients can also post their testimonials about the quality of service they got from anyone from this website.
What they say about themselves
Recent studies show that when looking for an attorney, consumers now search the Internet, review blogs, and watch online videos to help them decide. Legal Playground provides a way to connect consumers and lawyers in this digital revolution. Lawyers can easily create a profile, blog and upload multimedia. And, consumers can easily search for attorneys by name, location or practice area. The app is also revolutionary for the legal community, and the closest lawyers will get to having their own free app.
Why it could be a success
Targeting the legal fraternity and allowing them to easily interact with their prospective clients is a nice business model. The service is free and only charges when a professional is actually hired. For legal professionals who are new and need a place to build their portfolio, Legal Playground provides an easy to use and manageable platform.
TweetPort – Tweets to your Inbox
Who doesn’t tweet these days? Celebrities, sport personalities, politicians, friends and family all love to share their updates. And it can be overwhelming sometimes with the huge amount of messages. And what if you don’t check your account. You may end up missing something important. TweetPort now offers the solution.
This new service takes all your tweets and package them in an email to be sent to the address of your choice. A Twitter application, which only needs access to your account and the option to send the email daily, weekly or monthly, which summarizes all those tweets so that you can sit back and read them all at once.
The service is free for the first month and then costs $3 per month currently.
What they say about themselves
TweetPort is your personal Twitter summary report. It’s a way to condense all of your tweets into one, easy-to-read, daily email. Best of all, it’s automatically organized by importance. The report is also available in live form on TweetPort.net.
Why it could be a success
There are times when we don’t have access to the Internet or we may be busy or on vacation. Getting all the tweets in the email will certainly help as it should be a breeze to read them. I wonder if they can put an option to get the email with tweets only from certain people. That would be cool as only the important bits will come filtered from the rest.
Flapon – Topic-Based Social Networking
Flapon is a new and upcoming social networking website providing users with the ability to interact with other people based on their interests. Like most social networking websites, the idea is to create connections. From personal friendships to business affiliations, Flapon can help you to grow your network of friends.
Flapon is a topic-based social networking site. It works by allowing users to choose from a wide range of topics matching their interests and interact with people having similar tastes. The main theme revolves around creating Flaps, which are similar to forum or blog posts and can be used to write personal thoughts, reviews or just random tidbits of information which you feel can benefit others. The Flaps are then posted and streamed to users who are either following the person writing the Flap or the topic, the Flap is based on.
An interesting feature is the event notification. Users can inform others interested in a particular niche about an upcoming event. The event can both be online or offline in the real world. A marketplace to setup a business presence for a brand is also provided for young entrepreneurs as a launching pad to introduce others to their services.
What they say about themselves
Flapon features include an interactive blogging/forum function called “Flap” which allows users to write about and discuss topics of mutual interest. Users can easily meet new people based on those mutual interests without muddling through thousands of forums online.
Why it could be a success
The ability to make it easier to find people with similar interests by connecting them through Flap topics may give an edge to this new website. By posting useful information for others, people can easily find friends with similar interests in life. The idea of an integrated marketplace for business is an added advantage.
LifePulp – Get Inspired
With a refreshing design, LifePulp.com is a social network with one motive to give the inspiration to those in need of this valuable commodity. Members are able to access inspirational quotes along with the inspirational pictures and videos to get inspired. This is the perfect place to get encouragement and motivation, if you are falling behind in taking action.
Being a social network, LifePulp solely depends upon the content submitted by its users. The members can rate and discuss the inspiration sources with the like-minded people. Through this website, you have the resources and right kind of people to facilitate you in realizing your dreams.
If you want to set your path straight, you should consider joining this lively community. According to the website, the members and visitors to the website are increasing by thousands every month.
What they Say about Themselves
Our mission is simple, put together a social based website that enriches the user mentally via a great deal of motivational and inspirational content. In turn building a community of like minded, goal driven people who share what drives, motivates and inspires them to chase their dreams.
Why It could be a Success
Inspiration is what everyone needs to achieve the goals of the life. LifePulp.com is the right kind of website to cater these human needs along with the social touch, which is an essential part of the web today. A combination of social networking and inspiration makes it an ultimate attraction for the people interested in this subject or in need of its resources. The features of LifePulp have the potential to make it a success.
ZipSetGo – Travel Planning the Right Way
Planning a leisure travel has always been an exciting yet problematic process for most of us. The steps need to be taken to ensure you are getting the best return of your money and time in shape of a desirable destination, a comfortable and problems-free stay, and no-hassles travel.
ZipSetGo claims to make your life easy when you are in mood to travel either as an individual or with a group of travelers. Gladly enough they deliver. ZipSetGo is an online community focused on traveling. It brings about detailed information on any travel destination around the world. Now you don’t have to go through the calling every travel agency to find better advice; you also don’t need to visit every travel site to get the knowledge you want, you can visit ZipSetGo.
Either you are looking for a destination or more information on a destination, this community may provide you with all the necessary information. Know about the hottest spots, hotels, facilities for travelers, etc. from a single place. The free account at ZipSetGo also gives you the information on currency, culture, and other related matters about your chosen destination. The detailed city reviews would help you decide your destination in no time.
ZipSetGo is a go-to place for Travel Planners. The information presented through this community comes very handy, when you have to plan a trip for yourself or for your clients. The detailed travel plans according to every budget can be prepared in a very short time.
What do they Say about Themselves?
With 100 destinations and counting, ZSG provides quick access to truthful, comprehensive, and collaborative information for the world’s best travel destinations and what these have to offer.
Why it Could be a Success:
Travel planning is a tiresome process and anything making it easy for people has the potential of success; ZipSetGo does just that and could be a winner, if the quality of travel advice and resources available to members are kept at high quality.
Blogcastr – Blog it Live
Internet has seen a real revolution with the emergence of real-time information sharing. With the internet going real-time, numerous websites and applications enhancing this capability have been established.
Blogcastr offers a new blogging service to the internet users who want to blog about anything in real-time. The users have the ability to post to their blogs from web or from mobile phones. You can post images from the event you are attending or your thoughts on a speech you are listening.
Blogcastr claims to be an easy-to-use and better real-time blogging service. Through this platform, you can share live information with your community and get feedback, comments, and opinions from them about your share.
Though the Blogcastr claims to be the first consumer product to offer such capability but its functionality is very much similar to Twitter. Besides that the blogcasts of the founders of Blogcastr, Kyle Rushton and Matt Rushton does not show much uniqueness. The posts made so far either contain one or two sentences or an image with a short caption. It would be better for Blogcatsr, if the founders could show through their blogs what could be achieved by the Blogcastr.
What Do They Say about themselves?
Blogcastr is a free, easy-to-use live blogging service for sharing cool stuff as it happens. From attending a sports game or concert to watching your favorite TV show, Blogcastr enables you to share what you are doing as you are doing it. It’s a great way to create real-time conversation with friends.
Could it Be a Success?
Among several other social outlets offering similar features; Blogcastr has a very tough competition. People do want to share the cool stuff they are doing but turning them towards Blogcastr from Twitter or other similar services will be very challenging task for Blogcastr.
Jume.in – Get Things Done Socially
Do you have an item on your to-do list, which is always left unattended due to shortage of time or your laziness? Are you looking to buy a new gadget but want someone help you in choosing the right product at cheapest price from a dependable supplier? Are you looking for some ideas for your new project? Now is the time for you to be worry-free; Jume.in is a perfect platform to get the items checked-off of your tasks list.
Jume helps you complete your tasks by supplying you the required motivation. Who else could motivate you well than your own social circle? Jume allows people to help you complete your tasks through its innovative platform. The best thing is that the whole process is done in a fun, enjoyable, and interactive way.
Jume is not limited to motivating you to actually shorten your tasks list; it also makes everyone participate in completing others’ tasks. You also build your knowledge by getting tips from other Jume members. Connections are another highlight of the network; you establish new bonds or strengthen the older ones by actually working on them. Jume comes very handy, if you are looking to buy something. You would be able to get reviews from real users and get to know about the places offering the best price.
The Points, Badges, and Levels further add the fun element in the process of helping people complete their tasks.
What Do They Say About Themselves?
Jume is a free utility that helps you share your tasks and get things done. It leverages social influence to end procrastination in a fun and interactive way.
Why it Could Be a Success:
Jume has the potential to become a leading social network due to its innovative approach to get the things done socially. People need help and guidance in certain tasks and Jume does just that. It is also a solid platform for those, who want to help others in a simple and entertaining way.
Publishedin.com – Connecting Businesses with Online Publishers
Publishedin is a new network offering a unique get-connected opportunity to the businesses and online publishers. It is essentially focused on building a bridge between these two groups by ensuring benefits to both.
The basic concept is much similar to that of Google’s Pay-Per-Click program. The publishers write about their favorite stuff, products, and services and link to businesses. Whenever a visitor to the publisher’s website clicks on the link to the business, the publisher is rewarded with cash. Publishedin has termed its system as Reward-Per-Click Program.
Though similar in functioning with Google PPC, it has a totally different concept. Publishers do not have to put up ads on their websites to earn rewards. Instead they are given with a code, which needs to be pasted in their website. Once this code is installed, Publishedin takes care of reporting the referrals.
What businesses get from this system is increased profit through increase in quality visitors and customers. They are free to choose the value of reward they want to offer to the publisher. The Reward-Per-Click system does suggest a reward amount but the business has total control over this function. The businesses can also choose the daily limit for the rewards.
The word-of-mouth or a recommendation is always better than a flashy ad, this is exactly what the online publishers can provide to the businesses through this network. The readers to these publishers act more actively upon their recommendations than an advertisement.
It is also a good solution for those online publishers, who want to make some money through their websites but avoid the intrusive advertisements. Putting the HTML code does not display any ads to the visitors of the website yet the publisher gets paid on every click he refers to a business.
What Do They Say about themselves?
Publishedin.com helps businesses and online publishers connect and benefit each other.
Why it Could Be a Success:
Publishedin has an innovative and non-intrusive approach to connect two very important groups i.e., Businesses & Online Publishers in the cyber space. It is easy to use and well-suited for websites of every size.
Authonomy – Social Network for Writers
Social networks for writers are a great idea – I should know, I run one myself. There are various specialised social networks for writers on Ning.com and they do provide a service the bigger social networks like Facebook can’t. On a specialised network writers can find each other and make contact more easily, and if the network is organised right the good writers do rise to the surface and show so that the publishers who join can find them. I’ve seen two authors picked up by publishers in this way so it can be done.
Authonomy is a little different to many of the specialised social networks for writers because it’s organised by HarperCollins. However, that doesn’t show from the interface as it’s set up in a way that’s just like a standard writers’ network. You can join, create your profile, promote your writing (published or unpublished), join in with discussions on the forum and upload your writing to share and get feedback. Members are also encouraged to recommend their favourite books, and favourite writing by other members, and the books can be from any publisher.
I joined and will be using this site and would recommend it to any writer. I also believe publishers should be looking at these social networks to find the talented authors – they do rise head and shoulders above the rest. A difficulty can arise if these social networks also get so large that they have a similar problem to that created on Facebook: too many writers and pieces of writing being submitted to showcase so they get lost in the crowd.
It will be interesting to see if this site does lead to authors being talent-spotted, and if not it’s still a great way to meet other writers. The social network approach seems almost compulsory nowadays for many types of business, and I think all publishers should be providing this kind of site. The articles with helpful advice for writers are especially useful.
Shortology – Get Your Point Across Quickly
This is a fun site which lets you use up to seven bullet points to get your thoughts across. The idea is that these days it’s hard to get anybody to concentrate hard enough to read a longer article, so it’s best to concentrate the main points into a piece of Shortology. Odd though it sounds it actually works, and the site makes compulsive reading. It makes you want to add a bit of Shortology of your own, working out which rant or bit of wisdom you want to impart and then deciding how to concentrate it into key points.
Although some of the Shortology is light-hearted, other Shortologists have given their views on weighty topics such as Obama’s healthcare policy, and well considered arguments sit next to rants and heartfelt opinions. The main page shows a selection from all the subjects covered and it’s enjoyable to read the lighter views next to the serious ones on such a selection of topics.
Additional pages divide the Shortology into Fun, Politics, Entertainment, Sport and Technology, with reviews as well as opinions. Concentrating a book review into bullet points isn’t easy but really cuts to the essentials, and the same is true for entertainment and a look into the pros and cons of the latest gadgets, software and websites. This site has the feeling of one of the booths broadcasters put up so passers-by can air their views on television by speaking for one minute. The site looks good and could be addictive, and my only criticism is that it’s let down by the need for some proofreading, including some of the main subtitles.