Operation Mom – Impending launch
OpMom is taking email addresses to let you know when they will launch. From what I can gather, it’s to “Share, Meet, Schedule and More!” for moms. This Texas, Houston based start up’s parent company is TriTaur who are developing Web 2.0 based applications and OpMom is their flagship product.
More info on Operation Mom…Texa Startup Blog
Minti – launches Groups and Forums
As a co-founder of Minti, I am happy to mention that we’ve just launched with Groups and Forums…
Minti just got another update and here are a few of the key improvements to the site :
- Groups have been added – There are:
- public groups (such as for each country and for parents with children born in the same year) – where members can contribute to a collborative blog or chat via a group conversations.
- private groups which any member can form and then invite others to join into their own private area. Maybe you have a parenting group you are a member of and you want a private place to make posts in a blog format or chat with one another about the latest goings on in the conversation area- start your own group and be the administrator and controller of who gets to join in.
- Forums have been added – you can now chat about a range of topics organised into popular forums
- Daily emails are now available summarising activity on articles, blogs or by members who are on your “watch list” – these emails are relevant to your requirements and the watch list is easy to edit if you are receiving too much detail
- There is a new Blog calendar to help you track your blog entries by date and make it easy to recall when you made your last Blog update
- There are some pretty flags next to the member names to make countries clearer
- We have revised the ranking formula to make it more likely for those participating actively in the site to improve their ranking (through advice, voting, comments and regular visits)
- The Member’s menu’s have been simplified and the look of the member homepages revised.
It looks like the community on Minti are enjoying the added social networking features, as well as post their parenting advice content.
What else can social networking sites offer? I think improving on what we have in place currently and focusing on what our members like and would love to see.
We have also launched a Minti Competition which members who participate, are in the running to win a high-tech groovy, do if for you, vacum cleaner called the “Roomba”. How neat would that be relaxing with a cup of coffee of tea, whilst a little vacum cleaner intelligently cleans away?
Stay tuned on more down the track from Minti.
