Company: ListalLaunched: August 29, 2005? (based on earliest date in forum)
Creator: Tom Mascord
Location: UK (based on listal.com whois information)
Overview
Listal is a very early beta product that allows you to catalog, tag and share your physical media. At this point it is free.
While functionality is currently limited (heck, it’s only a few days old), the site clearly anticipates upcoming features and it looks like it can become quite useful. Since there are limited solutions for organizing physical media using your computer, I like where this is going.
Once you’ve registered, you can tell it the books, music, movies and games (physical media) you own. There is also a nice ajax interface to tag items and rate them. Your listal stuff is public - ours is at techcrunch.listal.com. For now, there is no way to make any part of the list private.
Features
Features include:
- Add products via search, amazon ASIN number or ISBN (for books)
- Group items with custom themed lists
- Tag items
- Rate Items
- Add Wanted Items
- Write and read reviews of items
Delicious Monster
I also want to mention a wonderful and similar product called Delicious Monster (Mac-only and not browser-based, you have to download software). In addition to an award winning design, DM also allows users to simply point a digital video camera at any bar code and capture the media information without typing a single thing in.
Delicious Monster launched in November 2004 and racked up sales of $250k in its first month (the product is $40). It is also (or was) headquarted in a Seattle coffee house.
If Listal can become as good as Delicious Monster, they’ll have something.
Additional Reading
Solution Watch, Sanjeev Narang, Rick Abbott, Simplistically (note: works fine on firefox for me), LargeHeartedBoy, Rob Andrews, Genbeta
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I recently poste about this company here:
Listal
Colib
claims to be the Delicious Monster of online apps and it looks quite promising.
Media Chest has been around for while as well though no fancy AJAX stuff, the site works pretty well.
Hi Michael,
I just checked out Listal, and as well as everything being public, I think anyone can change anyone else’s settings. I just uploaded an avatar image file to the TechCrunch account, without having logged in or anything. Were you aware of this?
Sean
I’ve fixed the preferences now so they don’t show up and cannot be accessed.
I guess there will be more competition in this area, serves me right for waiting so long to release it, I actually started working on it before Delicious Monster was released.
Thanks for listing the site!
While mediachest seems to be quite a competition, it seems for my taste to be far too focused on the USA
Sean, thanks for adding the image to my account, but what is it?
Listal looks good. I like the way the tabs only appear once you have something listed in it (e.g. DVD, Books etc.)
I’ll have to get Colib moving now that Listal is out.
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