Online P2P fundraising services have continued to grow in popularity this year as giving has gone Web 2.0. A sure sign of maturity in any market is an aggregation site that pulls data from many of these sites: Social Actions does just that.
Powered by Drupal, Social Actions indexes the following sites: BringLight, Change.org, ChangingthePresent, DemocracyInAction, Firstgiving, Fundable, GiveMeaning, GlobalGiving, Kiva, PledgeBank, Razoo and SixDegrees. The index can be searched in traditional search engine style, or users can pull up fundraising efforts by Platform, Theme, and Location. The site has a Digg style voting feature that allows users to vote on various fundraising efforts and if users prefer Digg itself, direct links are provided to Digg for that very purpose.
The site comes from Montreal based Peter Deitz and is a one man effort for now. Deitz is currently building extra functionality for the site, including widget support that was launched earlier this week.
TC – good job in getting a half-assed review of social-actions on the home page to deter viewers from seeing the Comotion post (that created Commotion!) right below…
http://www.yawpco.com
Jay
sorry if you think it’s half arsed but not sure what more I could say about it…it’s interesting because it’s the first site like this I’ve seen, but its still just an aggregation site/ search engine so there’s only soo much you can write
Talk about going down hill. One too many ridiculous posts on TC in a 24 hour period. Michael wake up, stop eating doughnuts and approval articles before they are posted.
Truth be told, I’d rather read about new business ideas like this than manuals on gaming youtube.
Duncan – how about a little bit more indepth review and the value add of the sitel, instead of the one sentence
“The site has a Digg style voting feature that allows users to vote on various fundraising efforts and if users prefer Digg itself, direct links are provided to Digg for that very purpose.”
jay
I’m not trying to make out that this is a ground breaking, amazing site…it isn’t, but unlike the 25 other sites I’ve looked at in the last 2-3 hours it’s at least a little bit different and new. I’m finding it hard to get excited though about it…but I’ll take your comments on board.
Duncan –
I hear ya – the stuff isnt earth shattering by any means – it’s jus that a little more background about what the heck the company is doing would be nice. Look at it from the person who knows nothing about P2P fundraising, they really don’t walk away from this post knowing anything more about it – give some background it can help.
jay – yawpco.com
“The site comes from Montreal based Peter Deitz and is a one man effort for now. Deitz is currently building extra functionality for the site, including widget support that was launched earlier this week.”
Duncan, I can’t believe you listed a site from Montreal or from Canada for that matter. Don’t you know the ban on non-valley sites on TechCrunch? I bet you get fired in 3, 2, 1…..
Social crap is the new breeding grounds for con men, crooks, pedifiles, …
You are right. How many more of these worthless applications can we possibly handle?
No kidding.
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I like the Digg style voting feature for fund raising.
I think it should be said that the reason Canadian startups are way crappier is because our Venture or Risk Capital is Federally funded by the government here, and the BDC is total crap as far as helping technology startups.
We pay into a broken system that doesn’t work, then it kicks us in the ass when we need it.
Keep that in mind Silicon Valley. The playing field isn’t exactly fair. When you see a Canadian site, divide what you expect it to be by 10, then judge it.
We partner with SocialActions (Bring Light is one of the sites Peter aggregates). I think it is a great idea, and we have seen traffic come to our site as a result.
Glad to see the coverage.
Drew McManus
Bring Light
http://www.bringlight.com
Thank you TechCrunch and Duncan for looking outside of the SF Bay Area for innovation, in this case social innovation.
Working on a response to the rest of the discussion…
Peter Deitz
Social Actions
P2P live streaming has been officially enhanced by Chinese government since the begginning of 2007. As you see http://nba.spor.../01/index.shtml, people could enjoy NBA matchs online with p2p enpowered system from Koos ltd., a small company in west China.
It was predicted, In 2008, hundreds of Olympic matchs will be shown in CCTV.com by P2P streaming system with millions of users online simultaneously. Maybe that is the time for people to see P2P application by media industry.
–CCTV.com, as the name China Central TV station, is the majoy TV network in China with 75% the civil market.
Don’t hold back Drew!
Mark