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3 New Tools for Promoting Your Interests. The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Each weekend, Mashable selects startups we think are building interesting, unique or niche products. This week we focused on three companies creating new ways to promote your interests. SeeJoeRock is a network for musicians and music industry professionals to connect. SeeJoeRock: A Musician's Free Community Quick Pitch: SeeJoeRock is a free community for musicians. Genius Idea: Bridges the gap between unsigned musicians and professionals in the music industry. Mashable's Take: Described at the "eHarmony for musicians," SeeJoeRock is a network for unsigned musicians and music industry professionals to connect. Unsigned, independent musicians and bands can create their own profiles and include bios, genre, talents, levels of experience and instruments played. Image courtesy of Flickr, JPott

Citelighter Is Like a Highlighter for the Internet The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Citelighter Quick Pitch: Citelighter keeps information from multiple web sources in one place. Genius Idea: Making it easy to compile notes — and citations — from multiple web pages. For better or worse, students use the Internet for research. Citelighter attempts to solve this conundrum by giving students a note-collecting toolbar that sticks with them as they navigate the web. Through marketing partnerships with well-targeted websites such as CollegeHumor and Frat Music, the company says it has signed up students at 1,000 different universities since it launched in August 2010. In the current version, users are restricted to collecting information on websites through a Firefox extension. Citelighter is simple and easy to use. Series Supported by Microsoft BizSpark

Use YouTube As a Music Player With Tubalr Chances are you've already used YouTube as a music player. But how much fun was that? You had to return to the page every time a song ended, search for the next one and then load often-crude comments and clutter along with your song. A 23-year-old software developer in Atlanta has fixed the YouTube listening experience with a simple app called Tubalr. It searches YouTube for the top songs from a particular artist and arranges them in a continuous playlist. If you'd like to mix it up, a "similar" option searches related artists on Last.fm and delivers their top videos on YouTube to your playlist. "I was surfing YouTube and found some amazing HD music videos," says creator Cody Stewart, "and I thought it would be a cool idea to play those back to back without having all the other stuff I didn't find interesting — mainly the 10,000s of comments about cats and dogs." Stewart, neither a surfer nor a Tuba player, created the app in order to show off his skills during a job search.

How To Find That 1 Thing You Lost Online Argh! What was that video called? Was that on Twitter or Facebook? Where did I save that article? Who was it who made that joke about the Edsel? Do you find yourself asking these questions often? We’ve got inboxes over here, inboxes over there, boards here, there, tweets, docs, posts and shares. Greplin: For Finding Your Stuff Greplin is the way I find that one online thing I’m looking for. It can search Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Reader and Google Contacts (as well as the professional Google Apps versions). Some of them you have to unlock by inviting friends. Here’s Greplin in action: Yes, you’re reading that right. Greplin’s premium service is $4.99 a month or $49.99 a year. What About Sensitive Stuff Like Logins & Passwords? User names, passwords, ID and credit card numbers are hard to remember, too, and we need to use them often online. Today I found out about Dashlane, which will do just that. I’ve taken it for a spin.

The Life of Links: An Interview With the Maker of Kippt The word "bookmark," referring to a saved Web link, is starting to sound old. "Bookmark" has this connotation of turn-of-the-century Web browsers, when there weren't Web-based services for saving things. Your local bookmarks folder was where you kept links you wanted to go back to. These days, we're browsing on multiple devices, and links aren't necessarily "sites," "pages" or "articles" anymore. Links can point to all kinds of things. ReadWriteWeb: How did you decide on the features of Kippt, and how do you distinguish it from other bookmarking services? Jori Lallo: "We didn't actually plan to build a bookmarking service. "We both bought iPads right when they came out, both me and [Kippt designer] Karri [Saarinen]. "It got pretty okay traction for a hack project. Beyond the Chore of Tagging "We both had been opposed to the traditional tagging. "I've found that just plain folders actually work pretty well. What's Wrong With Bookmarking "My girlfriend actually uses Kippt in this way.

How To Get My Attention It's an attention economy, and the good people at Jones-Dilworth have built a tool that will help you get some. Totem launches today, a free app that helps anyone build a great press page. Whether you're a giant company, a start-up, or even a solo act, you shouldn't have to think too hard about a press page. For that matter, neither should I. A press page is a place for you to put all the info a reporter needs about you, your company, your product and your news. Free Totem users can build unlimited press pages with all the right info, bios, articles and image resources in all the right places. Here's an example. The front page includes the basic gist, links to social feeds, and all the video and image resources a reporter will need to grab. The right side also features a few feeds to keep things fresh, such as company press releases and featured blog posts. Have you noticed those nice rows of publication logos at the bottom of start-ups' websites highlighting good coverage?

Comunitee Wants To Simplify How You Read Your Socially Curated News Comunitee is a new social network with the news-obsessed reader in mind. It purports to deliver news based on the your reading patterns, cutting away the clutter that you see on social networks that were not built with news as the main type of content. Its name is a mashup of the words "community" and "committee," which is the driving concept behind this combination social network and news site. In its attempt to be as simple as possible, Comunitee employs a combination of social network functions, including Lists (Twitter and Facebook), Circles (Google+), socially relevant news (Digg), personalized news apps (Zite, Flipboard, News360), news based on your social graph (Facebook), frictionless sharing (Facebook), discovery (StumbleUpon) and news based on your interest graph (Twitter). When you log-in to Comunitee, you first tell it what categories and subsequent keywords you are interested in. Comunitees are organized a lot like Google+ Circles.

'This Message Will Self-Destruct': One Shar.es Erases Data After Transmission The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: OneShar.es Quick Pitch: OneShar.es lets you send confidential data that automatically deletes after the recipient views it once. Genius Idea: Allows your sensitive data from becoming one of the many "read" emails in a recipient's inbox, which could potentially be accessed if his or her smartphone is lost or stolen. Ever wonder if the private emails you send to trusted friends and acquaintances are deleted or if that information lingers in their inboxes? The web tool allows people to easily share private information, whether its via your mobile device (apps for iOS and Android) or your browser window. "There’s a lot of trust placed with people with whom we share private information," says Jerry Thompson, co-founder and CTO. What do you think about OneShar.es?

Startup Pulls Social Media Chatter Onto Publisher Comments The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: LiveFyre Quick Pitch: LiveFyre makes comments real-time and more interactive. Genius Idea: Putting social media conversations surrounding a web page back on the publisher's site. Comments, Jordan Kretchmer believes, missed the transition to the social web. "I looked at the space of how conversations were happening online," Kretchmer says, "and I saw that the social web had taken interactions between people to a new level, where interactions on publishers hadn’t changed." LiveFyre, the company he founded, hopes to help comments catch up. Most, according to LiveFyre, have seen the number of comments on their sites increase. With a new update that the site launched Tuesday, that number should increase even more. Image courtesy of iStockphoto, hiob Series Supported by Microsoft BizSpark

Easy-to-Use Mashup Tool IFTTT Gets Betaworks Backing Point and click web mashup startup ifttt ("if this then that") has raised financing from cutting-edge tech incubator Betaworks. News of the funding came to us via NeuVC's bot watching the firm's portfolio page, which is fitting given the nature of the startup. ifttt allows anyone to set up a chain of conditional actions between a wide variety of web services, like "If I post a photo to Flickr, save it to my Dropbox." The company calls these "recipes." ifttt was started by Linden Tibbets, a computer scientist formerly at design powerhouse IDEO, film artist Alexander Tibbets and designer Jesse Tane, also formerly of IDEO. Here's how the startup introduced itself at launch: "We began with the theory that as our digital tools became more domain specific and easier to use, there would be vast amounts of creative potential in how any two tools might be used in tandem. The most popular ifttt recipes are here; co-founder Linden Tibbets's are here.

'Is It Old?' Decides If Links You Share Are Dead, OK or Mad Fresh Ever wonder whether that link you want to share with friends is still in its prime? Sure you have. And now a "mad fresh" website — Is It Old? Is It Old? "Internet moves at the speed of light — what is old by Internet standards is very different to what's old in the real world," Is It Old? To use the service, you just paste a link into the site's submission. Although the site can help you determine how long a link has been around, it doesn't necessarily mean the newer the link, the better. Give it a shot or flip through this gallery to see the designations. Tiny Gadget Hooks You Up With Like-Minded People Nearby Why sort through online dating profiles when a device could alert you when a potential good match is nearby? Instead of setting your gaze permanently at nametag level during conferences, you'd receive a text message when someone with a relevant business opportunity enters the room. And at a concert, you'd know who shares your taste in music without borrowing their iPods. This is the world that magnetU, an Israeli startup, hopes to create. The nearly weightless $24 gadget, which will officially launch in about six weeks, automatically creates a social network of relevant people carrying the same nearby. MagnetU also provides Bump-like exchanges of contact information. Of course, the system has one large potential drawback: that you need to use a device separate from your smartphone. "GPS doesn't work indoors, drains your mobile battery and impedes on your privacy by making your physical location known," he says.