TuneIn, a new startup co-founded by Adam Hertz and former Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone, has raised a first round of funding – $500,000 from True Ventures and Mitch Kapor. Phil Black from True Ventures and Kapor join Lanzone and Hertz on the board of directors.
Lanzone is not working on the startup full time, he’s taking a board seat going forward.
TuneIn first launched a couple of weeks ago at our RealTime CrunchUp. It’s a web based Twitter client with a lot of additional features, including highlighting popular content from your network or anyone else you want to view. Lanzone has described it as “TiVo for Twitter” because it lets you peruse linked media and sites from your network.
The site has only rolled out initial features, Hertz tells me there is a lot more coming. Keep an eye on it.
Here’s the video of TuneIn’s debut at the CrunchUp:
This is kinda surprising considering their service cannot even accommodate users with more than a few thousand users. I hope they fix that.
In addition, I could see Twitter replicate their groups model and frankly put them out of business.
“I could see Twitter replicate their groups model and frankly put them out of business.”
Never put all your eggs in one basket.
Most people never take that phrase to heart.
very cool new service.
Since Twitter is soon to be the “pulse of the planet,” we’ll definitely need at least 50 more of these twitter clients before I feel comfortable.
I guess…
I wish it was cooler than it is.
They need a redesign for one! Also, they don’t really do much.
I’m loving TuneIn! http://tunein.com/adamhaider
Finally I can filter through what my followers and friends are posting.
The main reason I started to use Twitter was that it allowed me to access a stream of information that I otherwise would not have been able to view in such a clear and simple way.
I only have two issues with the site so far:
* Item thumbnails aren’t clickable
* Cannot select how many items to show per page
I wish that when TC (or any other news outlet) reported on large VC investments like this, there was some coverage of what the business model is.
TiVo for Twitter. Got it. Ace. And this is going to make money… how?
Whenever the answer is “ad revenue” it would also be rockin’ if you could make the post come with an auto-destruct feature, too.
I wish in the video he stopped pitching his idea and spent more time going through the product
Congrats Tune In.