DISQUS

Andrew Warner · 1 year ago

This post is very helpful. I've heard from several startups that you covered how powerful a mention in Mashable can be.

nobosh.com · 1 year ago

Great post.

Egaroo · 1 year ago

Great insight! I´ll cover all the fields before attempting any approach to you guys.
Thanks for the tips and letting us know what NO to do before being ready to launch.

Wesly Michel · 1 year ago

Adam,

Thanx 4 the post. Very Helpful!

K · 1 year ago

Again, thanks for a great post Adam.

LiveCrunch, I used to think like you, and that's the reason my previous site never took off.

Think like this, sure there are clones of YouTube, but there's only 1 YouTube.

While I understand why you'd want to keep the site secret, I do hope my advice helps. :)

K.

Jacob Johansen · 1 year ago

Hi Adam,

Thanks for posting this, very helpful info!

My startup should launch within the next couple weeks, so I'll be giving you guys a buzz.

Jacob

Ashley Smith · 1 year ago

Handy Adam, good to know what makes you guys tick ;)

AD · 1 year ago

Thanks for the post. I think if you could let us know from where else you get your traffic from apart from US..This is because I'm sure there are lot of us who are not in states but would actually like to showcase our startups on mashable

Dan Grossman · 1 year ago

Mind taking a look at my W3Counter, the coolest real-time web stats app out there? Just released a major new version with lots of widgets that fit right in with the Mashable types. I'm just a single programmer doing this out of my dorm at Drexel University with no funding. And I wear your Mashable t-shirt from StartupSchwag :)

Johnyzar · 1 year ago

Are you interested in covering Greek Start-ups also?

Eric Southern · 1 year ago

you forgot the most important tip: Appear on gigaom, venturebeat or techcrunch so we can copy paste their post and have you on mashable

Nils Van Brabant · 1 year ago

I am sorry for my bad english and all those spelling mistakes in my previous post. My native language is French. Cheers.

Lapp · 1 year ago

I also heard if you tell Adam that you like his hair, it helps!

Adam Ostrow · 1 year ago

@lapp lol, what hair? :-)

Vincent Nicolai · 1 year ago

Damn, I just launched another vertical social web news site. :)

but its not based on pligg.

best regards

Nils Van Brabant · 1 year ago

@lapp: thx I will try ;-)
@Adam: Adam your hair are beautifull! But more than your hair what's your feedback about my comment post? Feedback is always appreciate, as a blogger you love comments, no?

Adam Ostrow · 1 year ago

Hi Nils - I have seen your complaints about not getting covered, but no actual pitch of what your site does :-) Perhaps it didn't get thru to us. Send it along - news@mashable.com

Nils Van Brabant · 1 year ago

Thx Adam at the end for your feedback, I already sent numerous of email to this email address news@mashable.com and I never got any feedback, I also sent email for the Sun Microsystem Startup review action, but the same... nothing. Maybe my email address is blacklisted in the whole Mashable editorial staff ;-)

And I am not sure comments post are great medium to describe a web application. I much prefer explain it to you directly as it should be I suppose? Or comments post are the new form to submit a project?

In 2 words, it's a fun multimedia ecard application, you can mix video, photo, text and soon animation in funny way to spread whathever you want as a message.

As an example is better than any words, here we are (push up the volume up): http://www.onesens.com/message/adam-hair-beauti...

Cheers


Cheers Adam

iYobo Inc · 1 year ago

Hi Adam

We are looking forward to have our site featured on Mashable before any other site out there. The site www.iyobo.com has been under a construction for some time now, and about to be beta released between April and May.

Our site is social network related that is used as a utility site to enhance the user's social network experience. i can give you a brief description on the site:

iYobo is a personal media hosting service founded in 2007. The main revenue streams are through premium accounts and advertising.

With iYobo, members can choose from free or paid plans to store and share their images,videos,social network comments, layouts, and backgrounds. Free accounts provide unlimted GB of free storage (~10,000 images), 10 GB of bandwidth, and limited image sizes and content length. For $25 a year, members can upgrade to a Pro account, which provides unlimited GB of storage, unlimited bandwidth, larger images, higher quality images, longer video and slideshows, and a 10% discount on prints.

iYobo will experience tremendous growth because iYobo has not structured itself as a destination site, their main channel of growth will be through social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Hi5, Friendster. At one point iYobo is expected to serve 50% of all media links on the sites. Competitors: Photobucket, Slide, Rockyou

iYobo is expected to have over 40 million registered users, and to reach high ranks among the website property in the US, and is expected to receives over 10.0 million unique visitors / month in the US, and 20.0 million uniques / month worldwide. iYobo is expected to reach 1 billion uploads in a matter of 2 years. In addition to photo, layouts, comments, and video storage functionality, iYobo offers linking into third-party websites, emails.

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this is a brief description on what iYobo.com will be

does this fit in the Mashable universe, and would we have a shot at being covered?

Nils Van Brabant · 1 year ago

@Jeremy: the purpose of onesens is pretty simple, send a fun multimedia message to your friends and famil exactly as you will do it with American Greetings Ecards. As it's written in our About Us section here is few example if you are lack of inspiration: "Onesens can be used to celebrate any occasion and/or to convey any message: birthday, new job, new house, invitation to a party, ask someone's hand or...break up ;-)
The widgets created with Onesens can be embedded in any social network, to enhance interaction between buddies & friends."

"Meaning" is a personal interpretion, but could be global when I see TOP 1000 world website ranking trafic on the ecards app, Postsecret blog, Slide.com, etc... similar apps. And more than anything, meaning appeal to me when somebody use onesens.com to say a simple "I love you" to an other person. Simple as it is. No more.

You are right for our About Us page, this is far from the best one, but ontains some of true facts that we are believing.

Cheers

Ben Strackany · 1 year ago

Good tips Adam. IMO, following some of those suggestions also increases your startup's chances of success in general, i.e. be interesting, get the point across concisely, etc.

Josh · 1 year ago

I love common sense, because it's usually not.

Thanks for the clarifications.

Nordy · 1 year ago

Wonder why so many guys keep launching new social networking sites.
Heres mine: http://www.imagevertex.com/demo
Did all 48000 lines myself. Not a bit of code used from elsewhere.

technology press release · 1 year ago

"Another social news site powered by Pligg is so 2006 " - Which one are you referring to. Even our site for distributing press release about startups is still web 1.0 but it can do a good job of promoting your startup press release.

counteragent · 1 year ago

I wrote an email to the good folks of Mashable! about a week ago about a recent startup SuperLame! They still haven't even replied. I mean, I wrote exactly how they told me to and nothing. Look, all I'm askin for is some kind of response to let me know they even got it.

Oh well, might as well pimp it the only way that seems to generate any kind of response. The direct comment approach. Sorry if I'm going against the "How NOT to Promote Your Web 2.0 Company" article, http://mashable.com/2006/03/08/how-not-to-promo...
It's just that it's all that seems to work.

The startup is a web tool to easily add "comic book" style word balloons to your pictures. It's all free and easy at http://www.superlame.com

Thanks,
Jonathan

Emily · 1 year ago

Great article - hopefully it'll make things easier not only for us start ups but also for you guys who have to sift through the good and the bad. We'll be in touch in the near future, and I'll make sure to review these tips beforehand!

Krazd · 1 year ago

To the point and informative article

Kevin · 1 year ago

Thanks for explaining how we can get covered by Mashable. I'll be contacting you guys later this month about a new release of our ad network.

Sheri Smith · 4 months ago

Great post! I too submitted our unique idea - selling a house via an essay contest (http://www.WinHawaiianHome.com) and am waiting to see if Mashable will cover it... please hurry tho' guys as the contest ends 8/11/09 and we want to award the home to the talented writer of an essay of 101 words or less! There are cash prizes AND we will donate $30k to the local schools - who just got their budget cut AGAIN 8-(
Please checkout our contest people.No bailout here. And mahalo! Sheri and John (any questions? 808-965-1844)

Dave · 4 months ago

A great article. I have just sent stuff to the news@ address and I am hoping to get some coverage for http://www.salesandmarketingforums.co.uk as we really believe that we are different in every way.

I look forward to hearing from your team

Best Regards

Dave

Carole Feuerman · 2 months ago

Dear Social Media Expert,

I would like to submit my event for the public. My artworks are unique. I am the only female who creates hyper-realistic sculptures of people that are so real they seem to speak.
My art event is: Carole Feuerman Sculpture at Jim Kempner Fine Art
September 17 – October 31, 2009


Jim Kempner Fine Art is pleased to announce Carole Feuerman: Swimmers, Bathers, Nudes opening September 17 from 5-8pm. The exhibition will include six new hyper-real painted resin figures, including Amphitrite, a collaborative work with Robert Bery which will incorporate interactive video. In addition, four poured bronzes from her “Painting with Fire” series will be shown. This will be her first solo exhibition at Jim Kempner Fine Art and her first New York gallery show in 10 years.

Echoing many elements of Classical sculpture, Carole Feuerman’s figures exemplify the ideal of the female and male form. Her sculptures are hand-sculpted, cast in resin, and meticulously painted with numerous layers of oil paint. With the exception of Monumental Shower and The Survival of Serena (White Cap), which won first prize at the 2008 Beijing Biennale and featured at the 2006 Venice Biennale, the figures are life-size.

Water, a major theme in Feuerman’s work, not only inspires her subject matter, but is a physical presence on the sculptures themselves in the form of cascading water droplets that heighten the sense of realism, mysticism and sensuality. To make her bronzes, Feuerman pours, splatter, and drips molten metals into sand molds in a technique she developed. Her bronzes have a clear relation to water through the flowing liquidity of the medium.

A recipient of the Peabody Award, the Betty Parson Sculpture Award and the Medici Awards, Carole Feuerman’s sculpture has been in museum exhibitions and galleries throughout the world. Recent solo shows include a retrospective at the Amarillo Museum of Art in Texas in 2008, and By the Sea, curated by John T. Spike at the Pavilion Paradiso at the Venice Biennale. In 2010, she will have a retrospective at the El Paso Museum of Art, which will travel to Mexico and Korea; and a solo exhibition in the Museum Palazzo Vecchio in the Piazza della Signoria in Florence, where she will install two monumental sculptures. She will be the first female contemporary sculptor to be exhibited in the Piazza with the large copy of Michelangelo’s David.
Carole Feuerman’s work is in the permanent collections of the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation; Grounds for Sculpture, The Atlantic Foundation, Fort Lauderdale Art Museum; President Mikhail S. Gorbachov Foundation; the Malcolm Forbes Magazine Collection; President Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; Dr. Henry Kissinger; Mr. Sepp Meier of Credit Suisse and many others.
In 2008 Harry Abrams published, “A History of Western Art,” by Mason and Spike, covering prehistory to the 20th Century featuring Feuerman’s Grande Catalina in the section called “New Media: New Directions.” The second edition of her monograph, Carole Feuerman: Sculpture, published by Hudson Hills and written by Eleanor Munro and David Finn will be released this year.

alexiwp · 2 months ago

Brilliant advice

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