Web2.0 Startups

On Tuesday, NBC Universal’s iVillage Live will be introducing its Live Online Chat during the streaming broadcast of the daily talk show. NBC has been looking for more ways to add community aspects to their iVillage counterpart, and Mashable provided exclusive coverage of iVillage Connect, their full-fledged social network launched earlier this month. With [...]

TripHub, the group travel site, launched Trip Maps today. This very useful feature has turned the map into an interactive group tool that functions much like a wiki. The maps are personalized for your trip, and show the locations of all your accommodations and scheduled events that group members have added to the [...]

ToonGum, which launches officially today, is a niche social network just for flash cartoons. The team has spent the last two months working on a re-design and fully integrating ToonGum with their sister site GameGum, a flash site for games. ToonGum has created a social network with all the basic functions, and added [...]

YouCams has just debuted an embeddable webcam chat that works with your MySpace profile, hi5, Piczo, Multiply, Friendster and more. But here’s the cool part: it also includes widgets within the widget. YouCams promotes this feature as a great way to share YouTube videos in real time within the chat room. But [...]

Xobni Analytics has just raised $1.5M of a $4.26M Series A round led by Khosla Ventures. Xobni’s service will help you understand how you interact with your email. If you ever wondered how many emails you read in a day, or how quickly you respond to someone else’s email, Xobni will figure it [...]

YouTube, can’t you just stay outta trouble for a couple of hours? It seems YouTube’s boxing clips aren’t the only sporting content causing issues. Now The International Cricket Council (ICC) is complaining that its copyrights have been ignored - the cricket body seems to have issued a DMCA notice for World Cup clips [...]

Citizendium, the Wikipedia competitor that will demand accountability from its users, launches in public beta today. Started last year by Larry Sanger, who was heavily involved with the creation of Wikipedia, Citizendium has been in private beta since last October. Citizendum will operate in a very similar manner to Wikipedia: the wiki format will [...]

Zoolit launches their beta site today, offering users a simplistic approach to giving the world access to all of our social networking profiles. Zoolit shares very little information about yourself, other than the basics: name, location, contact info (from AIM to Skype) and a brief greeting. The real sharing takes place with the [...]

Revish, a book lovers’ site planned to launch on Friday, has taken a rather academic approach to book reviews. Revish allows you to search books from Amazon’s database, and add them to any of your lists, such as “favorites,” “watch,” or “reading.” Users can review books that they’ve read, and others can comment [...]

StreetAdvisor will launch publicly today after a period of private testing. StreetAdvisor aims to provide a highly detailed view at the local level of any neighborhood, or even street. Incorporating first hand information, ranking and reviews, and bird’s-eye-view maps, StreetAdvisor empowers the community to portray the true colors of the community. Offering [...]