Talkwheel SonicNotify: Creating media in presence Brass Monkey Shareagift.com - Share a group gift with friends for birthdays, Christmas or any special occasion gift - Group buing Evacuated Tube Transport Technologies : et3 Network : Space Travel on Earth™ Enliken - First Party Data Gravity Personalizes Websites Based on 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. Name: Gravity Quick Pitch: Personalize website homepages for each viewer through interest graphing technology Genius Idea: Websites using Gravity can generated a personalized web page for each visitor based on the reader’s engagement with their website. MySpace might not be rising from the dead, but three of its former executives plan to take the web by storm this year with what you could call MyWeb. Gravity, a Santa Monica-based startup, has been working for the past two years to up the ante on personalized web browsing. Amit Kapur, Gravity’s CEO and former COO of MySpace, says there has been two major shifts in the way people consume the Internet. Kapur’s company has initiated a third way to filter through the content on the Internet — he calls it interest graphing.
Contently - writers/publishers market place Throwable Camera Creates 360-Degree Panoramic Images Are you, like so many others, tired of all those old-fashioned cameras you have to hold in order to take pictures? Well here's a camera you get to throw. The Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera is a foam-padded ball studded with 36 fixed-focus, 2-megapixel mobile phone camera modules capable of taking a 360-degree panoramic photo. You use the camera by throwing it directly in the air. When the camera reaches the apex — measured by an accelerometer in the camera — all 36 cameras automatically take a picture. SEE ALSO: The Development of the Camera: From Ancient to Instant [INFOGRAPHIC] The results — as seen in the video above — are pretty darn impressive, but the Ball Camera is definitely not meant for shaky hands. Right now, the Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera is not available to buy, though its creators have it pending a patent.
Meet the Next 63 Y Combinator Start-ups - Liz Gannes The start-up incubator Y Combinator today is pushing out 63 new companies, its largest and most daunting class ever. Of them, 31 are presenting themselves on the record for investors and press at the newly embiggened Y Combinator headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. “We didn’t become less selective,” Y Combinator founder Paul Graham said of the latest class, his program’s thirteenth. “We funded three percent of the applicants just like we always do. It’s just a larger percentage of the total pool of start-ups is coming through Y Combinator.” The other distinction is that Y Combinator didn’t let investors snag any participants early, as it previously has. Here’s how the on-the-record start-ups describe themselves. Aisle50: Groupon for groceries — the future of CPG promotions. Interstate: Project management software that lets you share development roadmaps with customers. MixRank: Competitive intelligence for online advertising. Debteye: Automated debt counseling. Can’tWait!