Shufflr Aims To Fill The Social Video Void On Windows 8

shufflr_logoAlthea Systems, the startup behind social video app Shufflr, is launching the Windows 8 version of Shufflr today.

Of course, it’s hardly alone in releasing a Windows app this week, since the Windows Store itself just launched, with a reported 3,500 apps. However, Shufflr co-founder Rajnish (he goes by one name) pointed out that in the video category, most of the big names like YouTube and Vimeo are absent. (At least in an official capacity — there are some YouTube-viewing apps built by third-party developers). So Rajnish argued that the Windows launch presents Shufflr with an opportunity that it didn’t have on other platforms, to claim massive userbase before there’s too much competition.

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Shufflr Aims To Fill The Social Video Void On Windows 8

shufflr_logoAlthea Systems, the startup behind social video app Shufflr, is launching the Windows 8 version of Shufflr today.

Of course, it’s hardly alone in releasing a Windows app this week, since the Windows Store itself just launched, with a reported 3,500 apps. However, Shufflr co-founder Rajnish (he goes by one name) pointed out that in the video category, most of the big names like YouTube and Vimeo are absent. (At least in an official capacity — there are some YouTube-viewing apps built by third-party developers). So Rajnish argued that the Windows launch presents Shufflr with an opportunity that it didn’t have on other platforms, to claim massive userbase before there’s too much competition.

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“In the Studio,” Sosh’s Rishi Mandal Wants To Attack Offline Monotony

Screen shot 2012-10-16 at 9.40.14 AM“In the Studio” hosts an entrepreneur who, after studying astrophysics, went on to handle various product management roles at a small startup eventually acquired by Google and who know, most recently, helped launch a venture-backed mobile application startup based in San Francisco.

Rishi Mandal, co-founder and CEO of Sosh, has brought a team together to bring real web scale technologies to a mobile form factor and, in all the noise of apps today, has managed to get this product on peoples’ radars. Members of Sosh in San Francisco are already using the service to find out about new things to do in the city and, as Mandal hopes, to get personalized recommendations about new things to do that breaks the monotony of people patronizing the same places. But beyond the pretty web site and slick iPhone app, there is real web technologies powering Sosh, crawling the web, blogs, and forums to structure disparate data around locations and events and create a timely product in the process. This ability, in turn, makes it easier for a service like Sosh to scale to other cities, so much so that the company recently announced it has raised Series A financing.

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Udemy Rolls Out New Publishing Platform To Help Teachers Create Quality Online Courses

Screen shot 2012-10-17 at 4.00.12 AMOnline video education is a hot space right now, thanks to the likes of Khan Academy, Coursera, Udacity, StraighterLine, Lynda.com, CreativeLIVE (and many more), which are collectively on a mission to democratize education and bring affordable, online learning tools and courses to a global audience.

While the rising tide of video-based learning has lifted all boats, it’s also led to some crowding. With more and more players entering the space, it’s become important for startups to try to set themselves apart from the pack and show evidence of workable business models.

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