02 « March « 2009 « AltSearchEngines

German search portal Luupo is for sale!

March 2nd, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
Posted in Global, News | No Comments »

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Here’s an awful translation:

Already last year was in the bargain community Luupo (www.luupo.de) subdued mood. The reason: Conversations on a financing round were all in the sand. In recent months it has not changed. Interest of investors, there was apparently plenty finally jumped the donors but always from. Partial seem very short. “We have a wild gallop through the financial industry is experiencing,” says Jörn art from German-startups.de.

Now, the founder of the Reißleine draw before the start-up before the wall goes. Luupo is now available for sale. “Luupo is in operation with the existing 21,000 users sold,” writes art sale in a mail. So could the new operator immediately without loss of time his own article without offering margin losses for other dealers or mediate. Instant sales are guaranteed. “We have sold over 5,500 articles. There were about 300,000 users of the acquired operations. The concept immediately generated a strong, own revenues. ”

Last Luupo was due to the funding search, however, clearly on ice. In the initial phase, the monthly revenue according to its own data for several thousand euros. The bargain Luupo community was the end of July 2007 at the official launch. For all prices Luupo are initially hidden. Through the use of so-called Luupos (which you must purchase), any user the price of his desire to Article 40 cents lower. At the same time, with each use of the price. After the sale will Luupo-founder of the Art World Web maintained: “I have many ideas in the bag, which I in any case be achieved”.

Author: Alexander Hüsing here.

It’s a jukebox, it’s a time machine, it’s DipityTV!

March 2nd, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
Posted in Global, Guest Authors, Innovations, Updates | 1 Comment »

Hello Charles, I hope this email finds you well.

I wanted to let you know about a fun project. It’s called Dipity.TV and it lets users search for their favorite bands and watch their music videos evolve over time.

Here’s a preview of one of your favorite artists, Billy Joel:

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Your readers can embed these widgets in their blogs/webpages too. Also, perhaps most interestingly, every search builds our database of music video embed codes. If video killed the radio star, what did the internet to do video? While you ponder that check out the latest and greatest from the Dipity Labs.

Just what is Dipity.TV? Think of it like a video jukebox. All your favorite bands, all of their videos organized as only Dipity can do it. You can surf your favorite band’s videos on an interactive timeline. Not only do you never have to give up Rick Asley but you can see how Michael Jackson went from the ‘King of Pop’ to the ‘King of Flop’.

Beyond just individual artists, Dipity.TV is a video time machine. Rocking out to your favorite hair bands of the 80’s is just a click a way with ‘Best Of‘ timelines by decade. It’s not just about oldies but goodies, Dipity.TV also has a pulse on who’s hot now such as Rihanna, U2 and the hard to resist Katy Perry.

Enjoy!

BK Gupta

From the CaronteWeb blog:

Dipity.Tv è un nuovo e interessante servizio lanciato da Dipity che consente di visualizzare i migliori contenuti multimediali di un artista o di una band musicale attraverso una linea del tempo.

Scegliendo quindi un cantante preferito potrete quindi conoscere e scoprire in ordine cronologico video, immagini, descrizioni e informazioni che lo riguardano.

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