Session 3: Community & Collaboration

Video

Presenting Companies

Story Blender (Enfra Networks)

Story Blender (Enfra Networks)
  • Location: Seoul, South Korea
  • Funding: Series A, $1.50M
  • CEO: Yong Joon Hyoung

Story Blender is an online collaborative video production platform where people can work together to "blend" their media for rich, interactive storytelling. Story Blender CEO Hyoung Yong Joon is the original founder of Cyworld, which is South Korea's first and most popular social networking community.

StoryBlend's online editing tool lets users create videos by "blending" images, sound, text, and video clips. When users have created new video blends they can then share it with their friends and the StoryBlend community.

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TripIt

TripIt
  • Location: San Francisco, CA
  • Funding: Seed Round, $1.00M

TripIt is an intelligent travel organizer that helps do-it-yourself travelers manage their travel plans so that their trips go more smoothly. Travelers simply forward their purchase confirmation emails to TripIt and TripIt automatically creates master itineraries with travel plans and other critical information like weather, maps and driving directions, and destination information.

TripIt makes it easy for travelers to print or access their trip plans from anywhere including online, in print and on their web-enabled mobile devices. They can also share itineraries and travel calendars and collaborate on planning trips with friends in their TripIt network.

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Flock

Flock

Flock is a social web browser. When using Flock, people can easily discover, access, create and share videos, photos, blogs, feeds and comments across social communities, media providers, and popular websites.

Flock is also a powerful platform for distribution and marketing partners who receive a custom browser optimized for their business to drive engagement and incremental revenue from their communities both on and beyond their site. To date, Flock has shipped editions of its browser for Photobucket and Piczo.

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MusicShake

MusicShake

MusicShake is a Korea-based online music creation service developed and distributed by SilentMusicBand Corp that provides music composing solutions aimed at the general public without previous musical knowledge or expertise. The service lets users create personalized, professional quality music using various tools and pattern-combination methods.

They hope to meet the growing demand for customized ringtones and personalized music that mobile phone users and Internet users have for adding personalized creativity to their personal blogs, websites and social network pages.

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8020 Publishing

8020 Publishing
  • Location: San Francisco, CA
  • Funding: Seed Round, Undisclosed Amount
  • CEO: Paul Cloutier

8020 Publishing is a media company that allows online communities to take an active role in creating 8020 Publishing's published print magazines. They currently have two magazines JPG and the yet-to-launch Everywhere. They let their online users handle the heavy role of creating the content. They also let them critique and vote on the print content. However, 8020 Publishing still fills normal publishing roles like choosing themes, putting the magazines together and providing the final vote on all published content.

Their editors act more like curators letting their contributors the online communities provide the raw content. Taking this approach has provided them with a built-in magazine subscription audience not to mention loyal online communities. It has even led to them receiving two industry awards in 2007, Circulation Innovation of the Year and Best Use of Viral Marketing for Audience Development.

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