Psst: ZigMail turns emails worth spreading into fast status updates

For deals too good to keep to yourself, email service ZigMail has created a simple sharing tool designed to help you pass inbox offers on to Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ friends.

ZigMail, as a refresher, is the Chicago-based startup that …

CrowdFanatic wants to become an “online Tahrir Square”

The debate club is coming to Facebook, and no, I don’t mean the after-school activity. CrowdFanatic is pitting Facebook fan pages against each other today, opening up the “walled garden of fans” that are social groups for lively back-and-forth.

“Facebook’s …

JockTalk brings pro-athletes and fans closer together

JockTalk is a social network for sports nuts and the professional athletes they love (or perhaps love to hate). The new site, announced today at the DEMO Spring 2012 conference in Santa Clara, Calif., combines profile pages, back-and-forth conversations, and …

Tablen: a new social network that mimics age-old dinner tables

Unhappy with the current state of collaboration in social networks, Luan Ngo-Tran decided to build one of his own: Tablen, a social network that harkens back to having conversations around a table with friends.

The company is making its debut …

Sched.it wants to revamp how you discover events in the social age

Figuring out what events you want to attend has only gotten more complex in the age of social media, something new startup Sched.it is keenly aware of.

Describing itself as “Twitter for events,” Sched.it offers an event discovery service that …

Blade Games World brings 3D game creation to everyone with Jumala

Lots of tool makers claim they can enable anyone to build games, but that usually just applies to professionals who already have development experience. With today’s introduction of Jumala, Blade Games World wants to extend game creation to just about …

HashTip collects and enhances tips from Facebook and Twitter friends

Surfacing the long-lost tips from people you trust is the promise of newly launched startup HashTip.

HashTip is a social network and content aggregator that collects, stores, and categorizes the tips previously posted by your friends on other services. The …

NetworkClean does give a damn about your bad reputation

NetworkClean, a new tool that scans your Facebook profile and flags anything it finds that could damage your reputation, thinks I should tone it down with the booze talk, aggressive and offensive lingo, and naughty adult-content on my Facebook profile. …

Forget gingko biloba, LiveAll puts your social memories in one place

On the social web, memories take the form of check-ins, photos, videos and comments. But, because it’s the social world, your memories get fragmented across different profiles. LiveAll wants to save you the ginkgo biloba and bring them all together.…

It’s My Play is Facebook for athletes

Business people have LinkedIn, journos and techies have Twitter, most of the world has Facebook, and now athletes have their very own social network. It’s My Play, from Max My Play, connects professional athletes with coaches, agents, and sports employees.…

Smurks uses emoticons to gauge the mood of crowds

 

Smurks, an iPhone and iPad app for non-verbal expression by way of malleable emoticons, has quietly become a powerful communication-aid in the autism community. Today, its makers are ready to transform the app into the next great tool for …

Ticlr launches a gift engine to help you motivate your social network

Everybody likes getting presents. The idea behind Ticlr is pretty simple. You’ve got a professional network, and it would be great if all those folks in your Rolodex felt kindly towards you.

The company has been running in beta for …

Can capitalism build a better search engine?

In 2009, Seuk Weon Song of Seoul, Korea, realized the Internet had a fundamental flaw: Google.

The dominant search engine for the majority of Internet users was giving websites top billing for all the wrong reasons — SEO, keyword stuffing, …

Negativity sucks: PositiveTalk is social app for happy thoughts only

PositiveTalk is a web-app that attempts to accentuate the positive social chatter in your life. It eliminates the negative with a somewhat messy and crowded Facebook-esque interface, peppered with graphs and charts obsessively calculating positivity.

Rawporter wants to give news publications a team of affordable photographers

Eager amateur photographers with the desire to practice their craft should take notice of new startup Rawporter.

“We are creating an army of cameras, on location, on demand,” said co-founder Rob Gaige at the DEMO Conference in Santa Clara, Calif., …

A better, faster, cheaper way to do video subtitles — now, with added techology!

The web needs better video transcriptions. Around the world, we’re sharing more information than ever, and we’re sharing it with people with all kinds of abilities and disabilities. For the most part, video leaves a lot of people out.

Koemei …

Do more with your spreadsheets with CollateBox

For those who live inside spreadsheets, CollateBox launches today as a no-fuss way to clean house and get productive.

“Any data you would see in a spreadsheet, we are bringing into CollateBox. You’ve heard of WYSWIG, well this is “what …

Project Footage helps you manage projects online

Most of us have such complicated, diverse lives that it’s hard to keep track of everything. Project Footage aims to help, with a cloud-based project management service that helps you manage your projects, collaborate with others, and stay on top …

Mash up Evernote and Pinterest, mix in beautiful layouts, and you get NotesCloud

Bruce Linn was sitting on a surfboard just outside his favorite surf break in Costa Rica when the idea came to him.

He wanted a way to collect and save everything he was interested in — notes, pictures, web pages, …

How to turn big data into engaging infographics with a single app

Digesting big data can be migraine-inducing. Knoema wants to make it as easy as scanning a graph.

“With data, we want to do what YouTube did for video,” Vladimir Bougay, founder and CTO of startup Knoema, told VentureBeat in a …