ViaVol Launches Social Shopping Service

ViaVol, launched a social bookmarking/social shopping service. It enables users to post their specific shopping needs and be notified when a deal matching their needs is offered.

ViaVol allows you to download ViaVol buttons (at the moment just supports IE 6.0+). Utilizing these browser based buttons you can post web page of a product you are interested in buying. Users can also add tags, description images and price range for the product. ViaVol will then notify the users of any deals matching their shopping criteria.

Similarly shop owners and retailers can post special bargains and deals. Users can recommend and rate deals as well. ViaVol also allows users to create web channels to broadcast video, music and images of their favorite web content.

All in all ViaVol is a nice social shopping service which could save potential buyers hours of online surveying and comparisons, but it already has many competitors: ThisNext, Crowdstorm, and ShopWiki.

Zannel Launches Mobile Social Network

Zannel, last week launched a mobile based social network for sharing videos and pictures with friends.

Zannel has already bagged deals with video game publishers, philanthropic organizations and channel partners. Its partners include Japan based video game publisher Konami Digital Entertainment, the X PRIZE Foundation and 15,000 other content partners including Warner Bros. Inc.

Zannel would be creating direct distribution mobile channels for their content. The channel partners for Zannel include independent filmmakers, comedians, bands, game publishers, Hollywood entertainment companies, and youth brands.

Zannel has raised $6 million from U.S. Venture Partners and Palomar Ventures. There blog is here. Learn more here. Mashable thinks that the US mobile market might be in an infancy stage to cater the needs for data based services yet.

Criteo Lets You Create Automatic Blogrolls

Criteo has launched a blog widget called Autoroll, that automatically generates blog roll for your blog. The blogroll is generated based upon the content of your blog and the affinity of your reader´s.

All a blog owner has to do is include an embed code in the sidebar of his blog. Criteo´s Recommendation Engine then compute´s a relative affinity of all blogs with your blog and will automatically display Top 10 unique blog links inside the widget. The reader´s information is stored in a cookie on his computer, so readers won’t have to do anything and the process just works seemlessly.

The more blogs embrace this widget, the more targeted would be the traffic that they send to each other. The service also provides blog owners with a reporting module that displays statistics on impressions and click through rates to and from your blog. Sign up process is really a breeze and just require the Blog URL and Title.

See below the Blogroll generated by Criteo for this blog.

IconnectE, The Asian LinkedIn

IconnectE, the Asian LinkedIn would be officially launching on 28th of March. The stated purpose of IconnectE is to build meaningful business relationships. According to their own site:

IconnectE.com is an interactive portal that enables small businesses, entrepreneurs and professionals to generate more opportunities by building meaningful business relationships in a marketing-oriented community. This is achieved by providing members to a power professional profile that more succinctly conveys who they are and reasons to interact, through relevant marketing content and events.

IconnectE is based in Singapore and is funded by the Economic Development Board of Singapore. The company is also part of Microsoft´s Early Adopter Initiative for implementing .Net 3.0.

A free basic account offers you the ability to network with unlimited users and access other resources bundled with 2MB of storage. Additional storage of upto 15MB alongwith profile customization options could be acquired for a fees of S$ 180 per annum. As a launch premium users could post free events till 1st of July, which normally would be charged. Users will also be view and analyze market and product trends and business intelligence.

IconnectE is an entrant to a market whose worth has already been validated by LinkedIn. There is a clear demand for this in the Asian markets specially China and India, where business is booming and technology investments and venture creation is at all time high. They are the first comers to this market in Asia and all they need is flawless execution to make it big.

Selldeo Offers You To Broadcast Your Commercial For Free

Selldeo, offers you to broadcast video listings of your items on the site absolutely free of cost. There is no insertion or final value fees and charges either.

The feature set includes the option to post as many ads as you want, for as long as you want, Unlimited text description, ability to chat with potential buyers via Selldeo IM and email links to friends and family. Selldeo intends to make money via featured listings.

This is really a nice service at face value, however there are no listings on the site at the moment and the service is undergoing the classical “egg and hen” problem. Users will come when there will be classified listings and classified listings will come with the users. It remains to be seen how Selldeo will tackle this problem, which is not likely to be an easy one.

Edgeio is another listing service that automatically gathers classified ads from blogs and other such sites. Clearly the Edgeio model has a better chance of succeeding than Selldeo. Lets see when eBay starts offering video ads. A potential eBay-Youtube partnership to link together the online video and auctions world would definitely be a revolutionary service.