Here is another nice startup/venture news syndication site called discoverion http://www.discoverion.com. Not sure where it is going, but pretty cool

http://www.ezecho.com

Webjam is often compared to an elegant blend between social networking, blogging/publishing and personalized pages. As a combination of the three, our interface is indeed unsettling because more simple: with just a few buttons on the topbar you can manage all aspects of both sites (modules, content and styles…) and communities (invites, co-editing rights…) management without ever leaving your page for separate admin tools. Furthermore you can constantly toggle between a view and an edit mode to check how each site and its individual modules will be seen by you, your communities and the public. Our aim is to raise the bar for web publishing and sharing; we know we have to work on making this even easier for you, and your comments are invaluable in that regard. We are going to organize focus groups in different cities starting by the UK and the US after the Christmas period. Contact us at contact@webjam-ltd.com if you are interested.

On replication, our belief is that things should indeed be replicable by default -in a Creative Commons sort of spirit- to allow everybody to simply be better at what they do by building on, not merely copying, what the community is doing. Of course not everything can and should be replicable. That is why most of the content you post is indeed not, like blogs and forums, and it is the publisher’s decision to share or not the bookmarks or map markers they have contributed to the community for example. On the other hand, the architecture of each page, its layout, its style and the modules always are replicable at this stage. Advertising modules, like any other, can be moved around and edited to change their format on all community/public pages, but they don’t appear on any private page unless you request it.
We are working among other things on releasing (premium) replication functionalities that will allow publishers to fine-tune who can replicate or edit what among content, modules, layout and styles. If you are interested to be part of the thinking regarding how Webjam should evolve, go to http://about.webjam.com/wj/discusswebjam/

Finally hardly two weeks after the launch, we are seeing growth across very different type of usage: casual blogging around interest and passions, community management (eg local clubs…), professional use to share industry/project information with selected colleagues, and corporate use to aggregate extra/intranet tools and information for partners and colleagues alike to foster “viral” efficiency, if not build an entire website like we have done! See how Webjam can help you manage your digital life on http://about.webjam.com/wj/whywebjam/

Webjam is indeed about sharing! Replicate- or rather build on- what you like, and more importantly make replicable what can enhance the lives of your chosen communities or the general public. Webjam, simply be better.

Yann Motte, CEO
RSS our blog on http://about.webjam.com/wj/blog/ to know the latest ; like yours on your Webjam pages, it is readable outside the registration-only environment we keep for the beta period until we make all public pages available to all in just a few weeks.

nice article by the way. love reading ur blog.

In response to some of the comments:

Re: Safari - yep indeed it’s not completely working in Safari. There’s some pretty complex Javascript in there and Safari’s handling of it isn’t quite up to Firefox’s levels. It’s something we’re working on over the next few weeks.

Re: Complexity of the interface - Webjam is a very powerful product and there are many functionalities. We are constantly working to improve the user experience and are very keen to react quickly to user feedback on the issue.

Re: misspelling of our own name on the tutorial video - It was late, we were in a rush! We’ll correct this soon. Ahem,…

Marcus
(co-founder, Webjam)

Spokeo is just an aggregator. Natali is right. Spokeo does not allow you to build a profile or edit CSS because it’s not a social network.

This strict product definition allows Spokeo to focus on organizing vast amounts of social content. For example, only Spokeo allows you to start tracking hundreds of friends’ blogs in ONE click. It’s this simplicity that makes Spokeo different.

Community is at http://dir.yourminis.com

Why should I copy a website that promotes a movie… what’s the big plan behind it… so many buttons, does any one really think that this kind of hyperventilating interface goes mainstream.

If I want to grab stuff and put it in a drag & drop environment I use myholycrib.com - one button, one click - done. And what about that super-highspeed tutorial video, still feeling dizzy. Slow it down to normal speed and it will take 10 minutes… and seems to explain only the basic features.

Sorry guys, I really appriciate fresh ideas but this one is far too chaotic for my taste.

There is no stickiness in this idea and have a look at the UI - it’s certainly targetting only geeks. They better get their Excel working and try to get funded fast.

*CHEERS*