A social networking startup aimed at female web surfers called Smaknews has claimed on April Fool’s Day that it managed to raise $5M from Founders Fund. In case you didn’t know, Founders Fund is the same venture capitalist firm that was behind social networking juggernaut Facebook.
Lala, a new startup based in Palo Alto, California has managed to create a new twist on file sharing. Instead of possibly copyright infringing peer to peer file sharing enabled by the likes of Kazaa and BitTorrent services, Lala attempts to create a legal file sharing system that charges people to both listen and download music at differing rates. So how does it work?
Caterina Fake, the co-founder of world-famous photosharing network Flickr, has just launched her latest startup dubbed Hunch. As the name suggests, the service allows people to share useful information about specific knowledge domains. Not unlike other knowledge-based services like Yahoo Answers, Hunch is aimed at professionals looking to aid their decision making processes.
The system sources questions asked by other similar peers in order to help a decision maker elaborate their own thinking processes. Whether it will actually help remain to be seen. However, the beta version is out and is being offered to a lucky few for tryout and evalution.
You can go to the site and sign up for an invitation to try out the service in beta release.
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