Sriram Krishnan is an internet, business, technology and sports enthusiast. He's currently wrapping up his final year engineering studies at National University of Singapore.
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Online social networking meets media editing in Jaycut. Guys, there might be some element of bias in this post because, well, I know the guys at Jaycut and they’re cool.
Just spoke to Jonas from the Jaycut team and I was told that the service will be available for public viewing later this week. This is good news because their service has been getting alot of attention after their participation in the Venture Challenge in San Diego and at Hej! 2007.
Unfortunately, one will have to be invited by one of the current users to create an account, which I think is good thing because it will assist scalability.
I checked out the service and first impressions are simple and easy to use. It’s collaborative by nature and you can edit any sort of media you want. They’re doing a fantastic job so far. They just got featured as Europe’s Young Entrepreneurs 2007 at Business Week. They look all set for a very big sell out in the future.
Below, I have embedded an introductory video on using Jaycut. It’s funny because Jonas was unaware of it being publicly available when I showed it to him. Neways, that’s him in the video. It’s in Swedish btw. So is their blog.
I want to believe things are slowly changing. I think Malaysian, Singaporean, Indonesian entrepreneurial organisations should work hand in hand to create more awareness at a regional level. Individually, they’re too small to have a significant impact but together, they can form a closely knit entrepreneurship community to propel further innovation and growth.
For example, local Singaporean entrepreneuship organisations can rope in students to help organise a web 2.0 conference in either Jakarta or Kuala Lumpur. It’s a win win situation I think. For one, Jakarta/KL gets introduced to a growing phenomena and the Singaporean organisations expand their networks.
“Relakks, a Swedish company, will soon offer a way to circumvent walls that block people in Europe from downloading television from U.S. sites or bar Americans from viewing programs on sites in Europe.”
This coverage is brought to you by Ramkumar Shankar and me, during the Excitera’s Innovation Challenge final round presentations 2007. We took turns blogging while the other person stretched his legs or yawned or fidgeted. Both our teams qualified to the finals of this competition. We sat on the first row…busy blogging away. We were the only ones with a laptop there…
Here’s what my team won:
75,000 SEK and also support to start a company.
100,000 SEK in ear-marked funds for founding a company.
An offer to join the incubator IQube.
Free telecom infrastructure from Telenor during the company’s first six months of existence.
6.20pm
Opening speech by head organiser. The tone is set. It’s all in Swedish from now on. =( Why can’t organisers like Excitera or SSES etc organise something in English for a change? This would be excellent for a more global crowd.
6.25pm
Next up, is Ericsson’s Head of Innovation. Nice colourful ppt slides but he mentioned the hackneyed word “User Generated Content” =(
He speaks about the mobile phone as a wallet.
Ahh more market research. Some consulting firm brainfarted these numbers I guess. Ahh yes, it’s Gartner.
6.28pm
Oh no! More numbers! His talk on youtube reminds me of bubblare, a Swedish look a like
Example: SeeMe TV. They pay customers 0.01 pounds whenever a user video is downloaded. Service to expand.1.2 million pounds from 12 million video downloads. Interesting concept.
Ahh more colourful ppts. AND User Generated Content AGAIN!
Next slide, empower the consumer.Mobscene example. Interesting widgets.
6.30pm
This is getting interesting. I don’t understand one word he’s saying but his ppt says it all.
Integration of TV services. Mobile Joost in the future?
Everyone is reading his slides. There’s too much information there!
6.32pm
Ahh it took him 15 minutes to start on Ericsson. Nice on him.
World’s first Trial Interactive Mobile TV
World’s first Trial Personalised Mobile TV Advertising
He seems very excited – lots of hand movements
A mention on Click Through Rate
He’s still on the same slide =(
6.37 pm
MMS GPRS stuff
Best revenue model is from Ericsson! Yeah!
I understand that there might be more internet or web2.0 or blogging or technology conferences in the future here in Stockholm. My friends and I would be very delighted to share our experience in organising Hej! 2007 within a very short period of time. Pop me an email if you’re interested and we would be glad to be of any help.
“Inspired by a childhood passion for paper dolls, Scandinavian born Liisa started drawing dolls and accompanying wardrobes, uploading them to Geocities. The personal page grew, evolving to Paperdoll Heaven in 2004.Now calling itself Stardoll.com, the site took $4 million in Series A funding from Index Ventures in February 2006, and $6 million in a B Series round lead by none other than Sequoia in June the same year.”
“They currently sell between 60,000 to 180,000 items per day.”
“Stardoll has 7,144,735 members and is adding 20,000 new members a day, with 5.5 million unique visitors per month.”
Read more here. I am sure Henrik (Stardoll Biz Dev) would be proud. We’re meeting for coffee this Friday and I am sure there are plenty of things to talk about.
Stumble it! 
