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Track Your Interests With Smallaa

A new start-up has just launched beta (Promo page).

Smallaa

From the site: “At Smallaa, you can track and post information, even create a community, on just about any topic you want.

Our users decide how important a post is – whether a note, a question, an event, a video, a picture, or a link – to a community interested in the same topic.

They also get their community to alert them when an event of particular interest happens. It can be something as general as “Alert me when the price of oil drops to $50 a barrel,” to somehting as specific as “Alert me when Bill Gates moves out of Seattle.”

As soon as users notify our community that a requested alert took place, Smallaa will notify you by e-mail or SMS. Of course, you too can get to notify others on their alerts. It’s the simple way Smallaa lets its users tap into the knowledge of the world.”

Also, to encourage lots of fantastic posts, every Wednesday Smallaa be giving $10,000 to the person our users voted as having supplied the best stuff. Winners will be announced on this page, smallaa.com/contest.

US is not ready for mobile start-ups

Everybody seems to know that mobile area is “the next big thing”. Start-ups are popping up like crazy trying to develop something “mobile”: mobile social network, mobile dating service, mobile contact list, etc.

I happen to know a few US start-ups in this area which either failed or on the way to fail. Why is that? What is it with US which makes it so hard? We know how cell phones are popular in Asia and Europe, how people get addicted to mobile network there. Why can’t US experience the same? Let me get to the point and explain why US is simply not ready for mobile revolution. Continue reading →