Web 2.0 Social Media Startups to watch – 2007

Penultimo post sull’articolo di Business 2.0 con le 25 più promettenti startup web 2.0 per il 2007. Oggi riporto le news in merito alle Social Media company.

StumbleUpon: Funding: $1.5 million (Ron Conway, Mitch Kapor, Josh Kopelman, Brad O’Neill, Ram Shriram)

Launched in 2002 by three 20-somethings in a Calgary, Alberta, apartment, StumbleUpon now has 2 million registered users drawn by its knack for finding websites that match their interests and those of others with similar tastes as they “stumble” around the Net.

Slide: Funding: Not disclosed (Peter Thiel, Vinod Khosla, others)

Slide has developed customizable and easily assembled slide shows of photos that can be embedded in a blog or a MySpace page, sent out in an RSS feed, and streamed to a desktop as a screensaver.

Bebo:

Bebo has built a social network, more than 30 million members strong, that keeps users’ pages private but still allows them to share things like video and drawings made on an online whiteboard.

Meebo: Funding: $12.5 million (Draper Fisher, Jurvetson, Sequoia Capital)

Meebo lets users manage multiple instant-messaging services from one site. Meebo’s killer app is a widget that places an IM window on your blog or webpage.

Wikia: Funding: $4 million (Amazon.com, Marc Andreessen, Bessemer Venture Partners, others)

Wikia operates a hosting service for ad-supported community sites that use the same software and collaborative content model that made Wikipedia a Web phenomenon.