Unfortunately, a missed opportunity for them
Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2025 6:30 am
Social games are hot. Just look at the use of Farmville and Mafiawars on Facebook. These games are made in many variations. Bossa Studios believes that the real social element in these games is still missing. Bossa Studios is going to do this differently and better by letting users play games with each other in real time. How Bossa Studios is going to approach this and what their social games look like, was not presented. It remained unclear what the real purpose of their games is.
Charity engine
2 billion computers in the world do not use 100% of their computer power. Charity engine would like to use a piece of this power and bundle the computers, so that a large network of computers is created. This network can be used for scientific research. Think of it as a supercomputer that used to be used for this research, but then many times more powerful. This is also called ' volunteer computing '. Half of the proceeds from the research goes to a good cause, the other half is distributed among the users of Charity engine as soon as 1 million is available.
The following 8 nominated start-ups are discussed in more detail in Stephan ten Kate's article. Read his article about Thursday's start-ups here .
Wosju : Wosju is a social network analysis tool of all your online social networks. They have the ambition to become the most used online network tool, where all your online networks are analyzed and merged on 1 dashboard.
Hitchie : Hitchie is a tool that allows people to get to know each other online before an offline event.
Silk : Silk analyzes online content on a specific topic philippines phone number list for you and can quickly visually present the requested information. This makes it easier to get the content you want.
oneDrum : oneDrum is a combination of Dropbox and Google Docs, but just for Microsoft Office users. With oneDrum you can work on documents simultaneously, while also being able to chat with each other.
Marvia.ads : Marvia.ads makes it easy to create print ads. Small advertisers get the opportunity to design professional ads.
*openmargin : Just like with a regular book, you can make notes on what you are reading in an e-reader. Openmargin allows you to share these notes (and thus your thoughts about a book/article) with other readers of the piece.
Flockler : Flockler offers the possibility to let others co-write your news items. As a 'publisher' you can start a topic and invite experts to co-write a subject. This message can be embedded on your website and is useful for storytelling, for example.
Cleeng : Offering paid content is something that more and more (news) sites are considering. Cleeng offers the possibility to hide certain items on a website, and only show them after paying a small amount. This gives site administrators the opportunity to earn money from their content. The user who pays for the content and then shares it with his network, then receives a share of the revenue. Personally, I am curious whether visitors want to pay for content. Recent American research shows that 80% of respondents do not want to pay for content.
Charity engine
2 billion computers in the world do not use 100% of their computer power. Charity engine would like to use a piece of this power and bundle the computers, so that a large network of computers is created. This network can be used for scientific research. Think of it as a supercomputer that used to be used for this research, but then many times more powerful. This is also called ' volunteer computing '. Half of the proceeds from the research goes to a good cause, the other half is distributed among the users of Charity engine as soon as 1 million is available.
The following 8 nominated start-ups are discussed in more detail in Stephan ten Kate's article. Read his article about Thursday's start-ups here .
Wosju : Wosju is a social network analysis tool of all your online social networks. They have the ambition to become the most used online network tool, where all your online networks are analyzed and merged on 1 dashboard.
Hitchie : Hitchie is a tool that allows people to get to know each other online before an offline event.
Silk : Silk analyzes online content on a specific topic philippines phone number list for you and can quickly visually present the requested information. This makes it easier to get the content you want.
oneDrum : oneDrum is a combination of Dropbox and Google Docs, but just for Microsoft Office users. With oneDrum you can work on documents simultaneously, while also being able to chat with each other.
Marvia.ads : Marvia.ads makes it easy to create print ads. Small advertisers get the opportunity to design professional ads.
*openmargin : Just like with a regular book, you can make notes on what you are reading in an e-reader. Openmargin allows you to share these notes (and thus your thoughts about a book/article) with other readers of the piece.
Flockler : Flockler offers the possibility to let others co-write your news items. As a 'publisher' you can start a topic and invite experts to co-write a subject. This message can be embedded on your website and is useful for storytelling, for example.
Cleeng : Offering paid content is something that more and more (news) sites are considering. Cleeng offers the possibility to hide certain items on a website, and only show them after paying a small amount. This gives site administrators the opportunity to earn money from their content. The user who pays for the content and then shares it with his network, then receives a share of the revenue. Personally, I am curious whether visitors want to pay for content. Recent American research shows that 80% of respondents do not want to pay for content.