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September 23, 2007
Hot betas: MindMeister, Restorm.tv, and RapidObject
The hot betas section used to be beta only but now it is a place to highlight Web 2.0 things, mainly, that we see or hear about.
MindMeister
This reporter has tried mind mapping software from Microsoft in the day job but didn't get very far. So the MindMeister app is probably facing a hungry market. At any rate it is wowing investor types, well at least it wowed Hasso Plattner Ventures, which gave it the 2007 Software Design Award recently. HPV says MindMeister, which is from a startup called Codemart, "skillfully hides the complexity of its full capabilities to first-time users, it may initially appear simplistic. But any extended use will quickly reveal the several advantages of the product and the careful, deeper design decisions that were made during development."
Rapidobject.com
Its like a Vistaprint for three dimensional objects (the company behind it has a chain of printing shops equipped with 3D printers). RapidObject gets high praise for innovation and business sense from exciting commerce blog, which covers the ecommerce seen in Germany closely and critically.
Restrom.tv
Swiss startup restorm.tv has raised seed financing from active business angel Peter Schuepbach. It does what the logo tagline says, combines music videos with a soc net. It is a good idea to have a platform for acts that don't make the local versions of Viva or MTV, but the site is using Quicktime which served up some annoying sync problems between sound and video. Schuepbach is also backing kyte.tv, plazes, as well as studivz, Xing, and owns Genevalogic.
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