{"id":155,"date":"2008-03-02T18:59:02","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T02:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/blog\/2008\/startups-of-note"},"modified":"2008-03-02T20:59:37","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T04:59:37","slug":"startups-of-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/blog\/2008\/startups-of-note","title":{"rendered":"Startups of note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past year, I&#8217;ve had several friends and colleagues break out from their corporate jobs and start up their own companies. As such, I wanted to point folks over to their efforts, as there are several stand-out efforts that are worth checking out.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crush3r.com\/\">Crush3r<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nAn events service that lets you send out beautiful, custom-designed invitations to your own list and doesn&#8217;t require signup of your guests.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.loud3r.com\/\">Loud3r<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nA series of topic-based sites aggregating cream-of-the-crop sources most topical to each category. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fast3r.com\/\">Fast3r<\/a> (a motorcycle enthusiast site) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vot3r.com\/\">Vot3r<\/a> (a timely election site) are both live. <\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thingfo.com\/\">Thingfo<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nA safe place where things hang out and find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thingfo.com\/frontend\/dashboard\/dashboard_user_public.php?username=mlaaker\">who<\/a> has stories involving them.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/p0pulist.com\/\">P0pulist<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nA collection of folks&#8217; favorite things, broken into popular categories. Think of it as one central place to enter <a href=\"http:\/\/p0pulist.com\/list\/hot_list\/17\">your Top Ten lists<\/a> for books, movies, games, music, etc. While still in private beta, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/p0pulist.com\/account\/signup\">signup<\/a> easily, and approval comes quickly.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dipity.com\/\">Dipity<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nA <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/_dipity_\/index.php\">Facebook App<\/a> for users to plot out timelines of their life events, Dipity can leverage your existing social timeline captured by Facebook to pre-populate your life story. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you got a minute, take a gander at each. They&#8217;re each working diligently to incorporate user feedback into their products, and deserve a larger user base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past year, I&#8217;ve had several friends and colleagues break out from their corporate jobs and start up their own companies. As such, I wanted to point folks over to their efforts, as there are several stand-out efforts that are worth checking out. Crush3r An events service that lets you send out beautiful, custom-designed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[285,281,282,284,283,286],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-list","tag-startup","tag-technology","tag-thing","tag-timeline","tag-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}