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Saturday Startups - Lifeinlines.com, Lifeblob.com & Kwippy.com
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Well its been a loooong time since we had our last saturday startups where we used to aggregate the startups buzzing on the Indian WAT (Web, Advertising & Technology Scene and give our review on the same. In between we have done some startup updates as well but we haven’t updated the startup review stuff a lot since then. So here we are reviving the same!
We have chosen three startups that fall into a similar category of lifestreaming with a few differences here and there! Well for those who aren’t really sure about what i mean when I say life streaming here is a post on read and write web with many such international applications. As the post puts it “Lifestreaming apps generally fall into two categories: those that help you keep track of and display your own lifestream and those that help you keep track of your friend’s lifestreams (or both)”
Lets look at the Indian guys attemting to be a life streaming engine:
Lifeblob.com - Ok simply put Lifeblob is a blogging, picture and video sharing engine with a timeline feature that can allow others to see a timeline of you activities. So essentially one can archive and share the happenings in one’s life through text, pictures and videos. One might say whats so great? Blogging allows you that! Well blogging does what twitter does as well but twitter still works doesn’t it?
This service will be interesting to those who are away from loved one’s and want to constantly send them pictures, videos, emails etc. Lifeblob looks like an effective and well thought out tool for people with that kind of need.
One can showcase the timeline from 1 day to hundred years! If one had to say that this is a great way to index one’s live autobiography daily then it wouldn’t be wrong to say so. This is an Indian startup which we came across from a review in startupdunia. All in all not sure if Indian’s are ready for this kind of thing given the low internet junta as of now but as mentioned earlier internationally there have been many such startups.
PS: Forgot to add. Life blob has a very good UI and great use of Ajax!
Lifeinlines.com - Lifeinlines is very similar to lifeblob only that it has an added option of voice. It does have added options of updating your life stream from IM and sms as well. The UI lags behind that of lifeblob and also somewhere the walkthrough given by lifeblob at the beginning of your very first use of the application helps much better to understand the use of the application as compared to lifeinlines which has take a tour button but how many of us do have the time for slow loading flash?
Kwippy.com - Kwippy is a little different that the above. Though still classified as life streaming its more of a twitter clone with an added advantage of updating through IM. Which is what twitter also has if you install the twitter fox plugin. All in all kwippy’s signup process was a delight and browing the application for 5 minutes I can say that they have done a good job at cloning and might just gain some traction given that twitter is still not hugely popular in India. Competing with kwippy would be two other twitter clones in chittr.com and snockles.com both India based startups which we have covered before here and here. Thanks pluggd for the kwippy review.
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Kwippy has already been reviewed on IndianWeb2.com long before your blog and even Pluggd.in
See here - http://www.indianweb2.com/2008/06/microblogging-service-india/
Chittr shut shop long before.
This review reminds me of the Rolling Stone magazine review of the song Stairway to heaven…if you know what I mean. There is much more to these start-ups than is covered here. Comparing and contrasting feature tours and casual interpretation of input channels is not the way to review start ups in this space!
Rajiv,
Thanks for covering Lifeblob. That must be one marathon review session :).
In addition to what you have already talked about, one of the key differentiators of lifeblob is the way it establishes relationships between various timelines through the posts on them, thereby building a huge mesh of interconnected timelines and then allows the user to navigate the mesh in a very simple manner.
So when I add a post on my timeline about a trip I had with my wife and add my wife as a participant to it, the post also shows up on my wife’s timeline. This provides a very powerful way for people to connect with others and share pieces of their lives that they participated in together.
Those interested in more details may also visit http://tinyurl.com/5h3o92 .
Regards,
Pranav
An unrelated question… What platform is WATBlog running on? I run a team blog and would like to allow users to request to be authors with a simple approval process by me as the administrator. WATBlog platform seems to be supporting this. Would be great to know!
Wordpress
True.. Weve just got back to saturday startups so we’re catching up on the long indepth review culture ourselves. You will surely see improvement from next saturday onwards.. And didn’t I mention lazy saturday in an earlier post on the same day?
Thanks for the update. Have included it in the post.
Hey ranjeet. Not a regular follower of Indianweb2 but now that you posted this will try and follow it. Thanks! We always link to the source we read it first on.
cool Rajiv.. am a regular visitor of IW2 along with urs, apart.. like to convey one more mssg to Maninder Gulati …do you have something to do with one or more startups in post.
…obvious wen there is more than one product to be reviewed in a single post…one has to be superficial..rather than go in depth, though I dont mid being a bit more extensive reviews
Ya ranjeet, I am one of the Directors at Lifeinlines.com.
Thanks for the coverage/suggestions and brickbats Rajiv
We will keep you updated on the developments at LiL.
I tried kwippy and it is much like twitter.
@Ravi Sagar: Yea Id agree. But being a copy isn’t that bad as yammer.com which is a twitter clone won techcrunch50 coz they identified the need for such an app for business/corporates.
I have been using kwippy for couple of weeks now and it has some extra features like email notifications etc.