EU Local ‘Web 2.0′ Startups
Richard McManus (at Read/WriteWeb) posts about a competition among European “Web 2.0″ startups. He lists the 15 finalists. Among the 15, six are local or have a local/offline aspect:
Panoramio.com (http://www.panoramio.com ): Photo-sharing of geolocated photos. Panoramio offers 2 Gb of free storage for photos. The site has 330.000 registered users and 1,1 million geolocated photos.
Trivop (http://www.trivop.com ): Trivop is the first videoguide for the hotel industry. it’s a mashup with video, map and comments from users (through tripadvisor). We are convinc that video give travellers the transperncy they need before booking as today just a few photos is not sufficient enough. We want to become the youtube of the hotel industry.
Tupalo (http://tupalo.com ): Tupalo is a social mapping network for local and independent culture, allowing members of elusive niche cultures to add, rate, review, search and tag their favorite local businesses in major cities around the world via PC or Mobile devices.
hipoqih (http://hipoqih.com ): hipoqih.com is a system composed by a Web and plugin for mobile devices that allows to record alerts and URLs associated to any geopoint in the planet. These alerts can be seen automatically in terminals with the plugin when approaching that geopoint, so that the information arrives when you get to the place that interests you.
nvivo.es (http://www.nvivo.es ): Gig based social network. Its main objective is that you never loose that gig again. Follow your favourite bands and coolest venues of your city, met other fans and interact adding comments, tags, joining and attending gigs and get or ask for all the gig info you need. With Musicbrainz, last.fm, Google Maps and 11870.com mashups. Live music fans never got that easy.
Properazzi - the property search engine (http://www.properazzi.com ): Properazzi is a crawler-based web 2.0 property search engine for all of Europe. We launched in March 2007, and currently list 1.8 million sale and rental properties in 45 European countries, in all European languages and currencies. We’re backed by Mangrove Capital Partners (Skype, Quintura, Nimbuzz). We’ve got a highly international team and are based in Barcelona, Spain.
