So what are Mobs and what are MicroMobs? Well MicroMobs is a messaging platform for groups with similar interests. This group messaging service allows you to easily manage and communicate with multiple groups in a private and controlled environment.

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Recently I was contacted by Ajay Kamat, one of the founders of MicroMobs.com, to have his website reviewed on StartupBooster.com. I was able to ask him a few questions regarding the website. See below for his response.

What is the URL of Your Website?

www.micromobs.com

What is Your Vision for this Business?

micromobs aims to be the tool people utilize when communicating in groups. Today, getting in touch with an individual is easy through Facebook, but where do you go when you want to communicate with a group? Usually people use email threads, which are good for making announcements, but are not sufficient for a back and forth conversation. micromobs focuses on quick temporary group discussions by making the conversations easy to manage and setup.

What is the Business Plan or model?

micromobs will provide customization tools for groups that have additional requirements. These include redirecting to a unique URL, css customization, themes, etc. micromobs will also allow brands to sponsor mobs based on the topics being discussed across mobs.

Why Did You Start this Website?

We started micromobs because we felt that there was a fundamental problem with group communication. While most tools focused on enterprise or long term groups, no one was adequately addressing the fact that most groups are temporary in nature. micromobs was built to address this problem.

How are You Planning to market it?

People seem to identify quickly with the problem we are solving. We are targeting our audience through Facebook Ads, Adwords, and through grassroots campaigns.

Who are the Founders of this Website?

Ajay Kamat, Himani Amoli, and Gordon McCreight

Where are You Located?

California, USA

When Did you Start this Website?

May, 2010

How are you Different from Your Competitors?

We do have some competition in Facebook, Google groups, and Yahoo groups. We are different because we are focused on the temporary nature of groups and the fact that people dont want an extensive setup process to start a group. micromobs focuses on simplicity.

It certainly looks like MicroMobs is out to fix some of the fundamental issues of social media platforms – many of today’s mediums tend to be more complicated and rather difficult to have private group discussions.

I wish them all the best with their new ventures.

Please visit their website at MicroMobs – Group Messaging.

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Today I was contacted by the founder of My Corporate Logo, a site dedicated to improving your corporate identity as you enter the business world. Vineet Kothari, the founder and CEO of My Corporate Logo, had he following to say about his startup.

Since 2005, My Corporate Logo has been offering logo design and corporate identity design services to startups, small and mid-sized organizations. Our creative team of over 25 designers and more than 100 years of combined experience can effectively deliver any message across a wide variety of media. Over the years, we’ve developed the right set of research, creative and design skills to further your existing brand or develop a new brand strategy that builds the strongest possible connections with your customers, employees, and partners.

My Corporate Logo has successfully designed thousands of logos catering to the needs of almost every industry imaginable. Besides, we have also designed hundreds of websites, brochures, letterheads, business cards, and envelopes for our clients. Our support team is always accessible via email and phone for any technical support or consultation.

My Corporate Logo is a business of Digital Avenues Limited – an integrated web solutions organization that helps advance web businesses by combining its expertise in Technology and Creativity.

While there are a number of other custom logo design companies and the market seems saturated, My Corporate Logo is both profitable, and has the potential to grow and touch thousands of businesses. We are able to tap into a pool of highly skilled designers and artists with years of experience behind them to service the needs to businesses looking to get a logo designed.

While My Corporate Logo is a paid service, start ups and small businesses can benefit significantly. Our logo design services are reasonably priced, we offer unlimited revisions, 100% money back guarantee and more importantly, the quality and creativity of our work ensures that our customers are happy. Satisfied customers can always come back to get all their web needs taken care of under a single umbrella.

The start up is an extension of an established web business and hence we are able to keep our costs low while at the same time leverage the parent companies infrastructure and pool of quality resources and processes. The focus of the business is also going to acquire as many logo customers with the ultimate objective of converting them into larger customers by offering a wide variety of services like web design, web application development, mobile applications, rich internet applications and other creative services.

As My Corporate Logo evolves, we intend to setup a local American office for pre-sales support, after sales account management and a support team to make quick enhancements based on our client’s feedback. This will enable us to provide 24-hour availability to our customers and ultimately assist in improving our clients’ experience in working with us.

Are you in need of a facelift for your startup? Drop by My Corporate Logo and find out what they can do for you.

Please don’t forget to leave your comments below.

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Yahoo’s social bookmarking site, delicious.com got a facelift today. Delicious an early adaptor of social media hasn’t really changed since their early days. They survived as many new social media sites came online in the recent years but now Yahoo decided that it is time to really go “social”. It is time they do this unless Yahoo wants to write this off due to lack of creativity.

According to their blog post, this is coming out of their testing of Twitter activity for their Yahoo News Stories. Back in January they tested something called “TwitterNews”, which ranked Yahoo News Articles and the relevance Twitter messages.

The front page of delicious now lists the number of relevant Twitter discussions related to each story. This is something that will definitely rank stories based on real-time discussion rather than how many people bookmarked a story months ago. This will allow delicious to directly compete with other social media sites; giving life back to delicious.

Lately I’ve seen many startups piggy backing on Twitter’s open API to take advantage of real time discussions.

I believe this will add pressure on other sites such as Digg.com or other media outlets to figure out a way to allow social involvement or integrate with someone who is already doing it – i.e. Twitter.

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TeachStreet lauched a new payment/marketplace service for real world teachers who teach real world classes such as sports, dancing and cooking lessons.

The platform allows teachers who are not very familiar with technology to easily implement payment processing system for their online courses. They can also use TeachStreet as a marketplace to get new students. It allows the students to review classes offered by teachers and search for high rated classes. It allows the teachers to monitor the number of hits their classes are receiving and also the sales.

It seems to be a site that brings together existing payment technology such as paypal and other known collaboration concepts to allow teachers to easily sell their courses online. It is an interesting concept and without any doubt, required by the teaching community.

TeachStreet is founded by Dave Schappell who used to work for Amazon.com as a Director of Product Development and at JibJab as Vice President of Marketing.

Dave’s “About Us” pages says the following as to how TeachStreet was born:

“Undaunted, Dave sought a teacher at his scooter dealership and was directed to an old bulletin board at the back of the store. Thinking, “There’s got to be a better way,” Dave discovered that there wasn’t. So he created one. And—after a bit of brainstorming, many sticky notes, and some generous funding from investors—TeachStreet was born.”

Their page also summarizes their service with the following quote:

“TeachStreet is a dynamic online community that brings motivated learners and talented teachers together. On one hand, this is a place where people who love to learn can find classes that are just right for them. On the other, we offer a public forum that helps teachers, coaches, and other experts share what they know. In the process, TeachStreet helps these experts grow their businesses with simple online tools they can use to promote their classes, workshops and special events. So they can then focus on what they do best—teach.”

Good luck to Dave and his team.

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Nathan Kaiser wanted us to take a look at one of his existing site, yet growing in a niche market – nPost.com.

Here is what Nathan has to say:

“We are a new job board specifically targeting small- to medium-sized startups.  Over 50 companies have posted jobs on nPost.com.  By focusing on this market, we hope to bring together startups with the type of individuals who want to help build, grow, and create something new and dynamic. In addition to the job board, we have conducted over 170 interviews with CEOs and entrepreneurs talking about their insights, ups / downs, revenue models, funding, and hiring practices.”

nPost seems to be a great resource for entrepreneurs, especially if you are in the lookout for some great talents.

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