I attended yesterday’s highly anticipated Launchbox Demo Day in Reston VA. For those of you not in the tech-know, Launchbox is a start-up incubator that selects a handful of businesses, gives them just enough cash to buy a sandwich everyday and 12 wks to create the next .com masterpiece.
UVa PhD, Ashon Wardak, and undergrad student, Luc Castera, are the founders of Sharememe, one of the nine companies out of 200 Launchbox selected to be a future .com darling. So what is Sharememe? Essentially it provides one outbox for all of your informal messages. To explain further, lets walk through an example of planning a birthday party without Sharememe:
Party is for this Friday at the X-Lounge
- You want to invite your 50 closest friends
- 10 friends use Facebook, 15 friends use Twitter, 5 friends use Gmail, 10 friends use their mobile phone, and 10 friends use a combination of the aforementioned services to receive messages
- WHAT DO YOU DO!?!?!?!!?!?!
- Setup a Facebook even, and invite your 10 friends on fbook
- Twitter your 15 friends
- email 5 friends
- Send 10 different text messages
- forget the other 10 friends this is too much work!
- pray that everyone received the messages in time!
- Come the day of your birthday party, 5 people show up and you decide to quit your short career as an event planner
Using Sharememe:
- Login to Sharememe where you already have a group created containing your 50 closest friends that you invite to all your shin digs
- Send the message about the party, date, time, place to this group
- Sharememe takes care of sending one message to multiple recipients at a variety of internet messaging destinations. It knows to send Friend A a fbook message and not a text message, and that if Friend B does not respond on gmail in 5 min to send him a text to his presonal phone because he is at work where they do not allow personal email
- All responses are sent to Sharememe in a neat organized fashion
Essentially it takes care of routing your personal messages to all your friends, regardless of what platform they use. I like. Check it out and let us know if you want in, I am sure Ashon and Luc wouldn’t mind inviting a view more people into their Beta test period. Wish both of them luck today as they flew into San Fransisco last night to pitch their presentation to a bunch of west coast Venture Capital groups.
Here is a demo video if I somehow managed to confuse you with the above explanation:
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we can easily organize the cVillain troops around town for organized beerfests, foodie debauchery and riding motorcycles with a baby at the park without helmets.
Project mayhem ensues!
wtf is twitter?
wtf is twitter?
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates (otherwise known as tweets) which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.
Updates are displayed on the user’s profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. The sender can restrict delivery to those in his or her circle of friends (delivery to everyone being the default). Users can receive updates via the Twitter website, instant messaging, SMS, RSS, email or through an application such as Twitterrific or Facebook. For SMS, four gateway numbers are currently available: short codes for the United States, Canada, and India, as well as a United Kingdom number for international use. Several third parties offer posting and receiving updates via email.
/wikipedia; you has it
i dont knw how but we have a twitter..
http://twitter.com/cvillain
sounds nerdy.
It’s not nerdy! At long last, when the little kid in front of you in line at the grocery store picks his nose, YOU CAN TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS—and with one simple text.
/yeah; okay; nerdy
//but then, you’re commenting on a blog, so a difference of degree, not one of kind
Dammit. My em dash broke.
it’s a blog about drinking and eating and being elitist dammit! cvillain is like going out, except you can do it during the day at work.
Yeah, because gawd forbid you don’t get to tell all your friends immediately that scintillating news.
@9 was @6
Back to the post, this is a really neat idea. It’s like eVite on speed times eleventy. Needs a new name though. (Sharememe? You’re not sharing memes. That’s what del.icio.us is for.) With luck, they’ll get some capital and a new name, and than blammo!
Doesn’t everybody have an email address? To which you could send an email?
@12: The point is that Friend X never answers e-mail but answers texts; Friend Y communicates best via Facebook; and Friend Z lives next door, so for him the service throws a brick through the window with a note on it.
/I lied about that last one; but you get the idea; or maybe you don’t.
Sigh, this was all so much simpler when we just had telephones.
@13 i don’t want to be friends with anyone who doesn’t answer email. that’s just rude.
We have too many forms of communicashunz.
Don’t have friends. Then it doesn’t matter.
Don’t have parties. Then you don’t need a Sharememe.
Share Me Me - I thought is was two dudes looking convince a girl to score some 3:30 time- if you know what I mean
i have a friend that will only reply if the message is incoherent and sent out between 230-5am. so sharememe holds onto the message, translates it into boozy, then delivers it really late with its shirt untucked, smelling like cheap gin and looking for some no-strings sex.
god bless it.
That’s really great that Sharememe lets you keep in touch with even your sketchy-ass pals.
my sketchy type pals aren’t very tech
This seems like a huge thing for networkers and junior leaguers
Is wrong that this is my only online social network?
I’m twitterpated?
@11: ok so I did you party planning as an example of how Sharememe works, but it wasn’t meant to plan parties or be the next evite…its just a unified messaging platform that just so happens to be the next best thing since cupcakes on the mall.
@13: right on. I forgot to ask about where they came up with the name though, you have a point!
@12, 14, & 16… agreed. if this was one of the 9 best, id hate to see the 200th best. a telegraph-based version of napster? a social networking site for dead people? come on, uva. you can do better.
i mean… good luck guys :-\
“a social networking site for dead people”
too late, it’s been done.
Linky poo?!
I am so over the web 2.0 app du jour of the week.
mydeathspace.com
WTF?!