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Udemy - online courses submitted by anyone (Academy of You)

Educators (which can be real teachers, wannabe teachers or, well, anyone else) can create their own course(s) and webinars in minutes. Using Udemy’s content platform, they can upload texts, videos and presentations and create structured courses that can be followed by users asynchronously. The site is inherently social, too, as educators can engage and interact with users and subscribers via online discussion boards and more.
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Chocomize- build your own custom chocolates

Chocomize brings out your inner Willy Wonka by letting you create and customize your very own chocolate bars through their website. Customers can pick their base chocolate (milk, dark, or white) and then add up to 5 ingredients from a list of 90 choices.
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Swingly - Hybrid human/machine learning Q&A site, 100B answers

Swingly says it has all of them beat because machine-drive Q A services are too shallow while human-driven ones are too esoteric — Swingly aims to take the best of both worlds. And so far, they’ve mined the web for over 100 billion question and answer pairings to link up.
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WePay Raises $7.5 Million For Hassle-Free Group Payments Platform

WePay is an easy way to collect, manage and spend money for groups. WePay’s platform based around a prepaid debit card system, which makes its accounts easy to set up as well as more flexible when it comes to setting up group paying.
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Juxio - annotate and share photos with short sentences

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Juxio is a service that allows you to create “Juxes,” which are Mondrian-like combinations of event-related text, title and image that you can combine like pieces of a puzzle to well, do all sorts of things, but namely create slideshows you can share with your friends through Facebook and Twitter.
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Yunno - easy social widgets for brands to interact with customers

Yunno’s self-service platform gives customers access to a variety of engagement tools, such as contests, surveys, trivia, and polls. New engagements can be created in minutes and can be integrated into both existing websites and Facebook fan pages, all with no programming or design experience needed.
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Vozeeme - eBay for freight

Vozeeme is eBay for the freight industry. On Vozeeme.com manufacturers and truckers can post and book truck loads through a web-based interface. The startup provides cost savings and price transparency for small manufacturers who today have trouble shipping their products in a cost-effective and reliable fashion and pay significant fees to brokers.
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Tembo - online games for kids that are semi-educational

The game is set in the rainforest and you, the player, are tasked with using the natural resources in the environment around you to survive. The challenge is that each time you touch the environment, you risk upsetting the balance between the plant and animal species in it, causing populations to crash and multiply and putting yourself and your neighbors at risk.
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Sqoot - coordinate real world activities with your friends

Sqoot is a way to share and discover the activities you want to do. Sqoot turns your online conversations into offline interactions by answering one question: “Who’s in?” In one step, you post your plan and you’re done. Sqoot crawls your social graph, find interested friends, and encourages them to join in—helping create the momentum to actually go offline and participate! Plans stay in your queue so you don’t forget about them and as plans are completed you are rewarded. As users cluster around similar activities, Sqoot allows businesses to offer them hyper-targeted, realtime offers.
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PocketTales - Online book club for kids with quizzes and games

To play Pocket Tales, readers test their knowledge of a recently finished book by taking a short quiz on the Pocket Tales site. Passing a quiz earns the reader points, which helps them level-up and challenge their friends for leaderboard domination.
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Numote - Mobile based social app that enhances watching TV

Numote (the “new remote”) is a new way to experience TV. The startup wants to transform the isolated experience of watching TV into a shared experience with friends through a mobile app. The app allows users to interact with their friends via polls, quizzes, gossip and real interactive ads that relate back to what is on the screen.
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MindSnacks - Mobile based learning with bite-sized lessons

MindSnacks is a tool for learning on mobile devices through fun, interactive, social games that feature bite-sized lessons. MindSnack’s first product is aimed at the foreign language learning market.
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