Startup Weekend in Action
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Take Your Story Somewhere
www.therollplay.comThe Roll Play (www.therollplay.com) is a new web system to allow students, writers, and others to build stories collectively with other members by assuming the role of a character of their own making.
The members in effect make a “rolling” play or even a debate. The site is up and running with new differentiating functionality coming out weekly.

A visual local guide that lets you find dishes, not just restaurants.
http://foodspotting.net/foodspotting was formed over a weekend at Startup Weekend San Francisco with Women 2.0. They were offered $5k seed funding by an Angel Investor in the crowd.
They will also have free workspace offered to them by Dylan Rossario at sfCUBE. They are set to be huge!

In a sticky situation?
http://www.escapemydate.com/The popular vote winner! This team was amazing and created a fully functional project in just 2 days! Keep your eye on this team to see what keeps coming! They were also the winners of a one-month tenure at PlugandPlayTechCenter!
Know the People you Know
http://www.learnthatname.com/Introducing the first mobile app to help LinkedIn users memorize people within their network. iPhone and Palm Pre users can use this app as an effective name memorization technique packaged in an entertaining mobile game.

Sustainable Jewelry
http://sulusso.comSulusso\'s featured designers all have one thing in common - a commitment to social and environmental responsibility. We offer the best selection of beautiful jewelry made with recycled metals, conflict-free diamonds and ethically sourced gems.
a nudge in the right direction
http://www.99nudges.com/a nudge in the right direction

84 People Are Now Connected From Our 1st Event
http://eventhash.com/Events are everywhere but connections get lost. event#hash brings together and matches people to connect. Tweet your event tag or start at eventhash.com on your computer or phone and connect with people at your location.
Find what you’re seeking and seek to be found at eventhash.com.
Feeding the Community Year Round
http://www.localfood365.com/For what you’d guess to be a techie crowd, a very un-techie startup — a company that would build greenhouses on currently vacant land to grow food that would be sold and consumed locally.
Unlike a farmer’s market or urban garden, the greenhouse and hydroponics would allow year-ground growing in large quantities, and the distribution method would be through wholesalers versus direct to the public. The idea has good PR potential, because the idea of keeping more food dollars circulating locally versus shipping food in from elsewhere is a newsworthy concept.
Your rewards are waiting
http://joemetric.com/JoeMetric™ leverages smart phone technology to gather consumer opinions when and where they matter most. Our highly interactive interface makes it simple and affordable for organizations to develop and distribute customized surveys.
Consumers are constantly on the move and JoeMetric™ is there alongside them every step of the way.

Clearwish is an interactive service that allows a user to create, grow and share their wish lists wi
www.clearwish.comClearwish is an interactive service that allows a user to create, grow and share their wish lists with family and friends.
Find love in 140 characers or less
http://140match.com/Twitter matchmaking. The site would basically parse your tweets and the tweets of those you follow (plus the tweets of those THEY follow) for keywords to make matches.
If you tweet about your poodle a lot, there just may be some other dog lovers out there among your extended Twitter universe. This concept was a crowd-pleaser, the team seemed to think their big challenge was Twitter’s rules on usage of their API.

Would you like to go on a fun date with your partner?
Sparknight.comYou tell us about you and your significant other, then we set you up with a surprise date night! We\'ll tell you about your first stop and reveal the rest of the night from there.

Effortlessly assemble what your readers really want to hear.
www.skribit.comSkribit is a user-generated content suggestion application for blogs.

Kill Your Neighbor
http://gpsassassins.com/Very cool iPhone app in development that yep, you guessed it, will involve using GPS to locate and then assassinate other players [in the game, obviously].

An End to Parking Tickets
http://tixsux.com/Never forget to move your car again. Send us a date and time. We\'ll call with a reminder.

The easiest way to manage business finances
www.indinero.comEasy Business Finance Software, Simplified Small Business Accounting and Cash flow Accounting
We help you get better at interviews
http://bettertalking.com/Better talking allows you to hone your interview skills through sharing your responses to an automated stock interview with your friends, and gathering their feedback. See it action here:

What are you looking for?
www.marksmenus.comMarksMenus is a site that allows a user to upload menus of their favorite restaurants and to rate menu items. This enables other users to search where to eat using criteria like dish ingredients and menu items.
This way if you need to find the best vegan dishes in the city you can easily locate them and know where to go.

Music. Gather. Share
www.mugasha.comThe best way to listen to music online.
Eat, sort, and find recipies you actually like.
http://pickyplates.com/PickyPlates is a social recipe service built for the picky eater in all of us. Tell us the food you like and dislike and we will recommend recipes based on your food preferences.
Online Bidding Done Right
http://www.bidsie.com/We love to shop as much as you do. The current online auction process can be rough and unforgiving. It is filled with strangers selling products that may be bogus or at the very least not in the condition described.

Discover your relationships with Search results.
http://mysearchkick.com/Discover your relationships with Search results.

List - Swap - Donate Your Childs Neglected Toys.
http://www.toybintrader.com/Toy swap amungst parents.

Stop wasting the great contacts you make every day.
http://ming.ly/Your SocialCRM. Stop wasting the great contacts you make every day.

Tracking Opinions on Twitter.
www.twitrratr.comA twitter opinion tracking app. Discover what people are really saying on Twitter. With Twitrratr you can distinguish negative from positive tweets surrounding a brand, product, person or topic.

We Screen Your Candidates for the Price of The Craigslist Job Ad.
http://sayhired.com/a/indexWith SayHired, you off-load the boring and frustrating task of sorting and pre-screening candidates. We will post your jobs on the job boards of your choice, pre-screen candidates over the phone, and recommend the best ones for your position.
You pay only a small flat fee for the candidate you choose to interview.

Real Estate Communications Platform
http://uvestor.com/Uvestor Real Estate Software for Investors, Brokers, Realtors, Landlords and Title Companies.

Get your ducks in a row.
http://helloyaro.com/Yaro is a platform that gives you control over you social media presence by providing one location where you can manage the content you publish on your social networks.

For all the things you wish they\'d said
http://fakewhale.com/A hilarious twitter prank that tests some boundaries sure to make anyone flinch.
Customers tell you what they think
http://www.instantloop.com/Finally, a quick and simple way to find out what people think. Voicify calls your customers, friend, or team members with the questions you want answered.
It then displays the results in easy to read graphs to help you make better decisions about your business or personal life.

Social Commuting
http://submate.com/S
ubMate allows you to discover the familiar strangers you see every day in the subway, and potentially share a moment before, during or after your train trips ! SubMate will launch in New York, London and Paris before expanding to all major US and European cities.

Discovering Projects. Connecting People.
http://openaction.orgBasically, OpenAction maps organizations and individuals making a difference in order to foster great transparency, collaboration, and sharing of best practices.
We accomplish this by adding value to organizations that adopt an open data standard for reporting project information. The open standard allows project data (stories, photos, videos) to be mapped, linked to a timeline of progress, and disseminated to multiple locations including the organization's website, the ActionMap that aggregates projects to promote greater connectivity amongst organizations, the RSS Readers of their supporters (similar to how one subscribes to a blog), and Google Earth presentations. This maximizes the return on an organization's outreach because they can engage their existing supporters while connecting to new audiences and like-minded organizations. There is no need for retyping information, so that all of the content is current.

Meetlie helps people share knowledge with others in their area.
http://www.meetlie.com/If you\'re looking for advice or help with a problem, you can search by topic for people near you who can help

Informative Awakening
http://izaazu.com/A mobile app that lets you customize your morning. Looking for a way to organize a hectic life and wake up on the informative side of the bed? iZazzu will help you!

your media release hub
http://releaseq.com/Track your favorite upcoming releases: movies, books, music, and video games. Gives you a way to organize the overwhelming amount of information that is out there in a way that is relevant to you.
a better way for webcomics
http://www.higut.com/A website to help improve your web comic experience. A place where authors and viewers come together to help fuel and sustain the comic industry.

Find nearby volunteer opportunities
http://www.snapimpact.org/SnapImpact is a guerrilla, open-source, nonprofit startup with the goal of using tech to make doing good easy. We started out with the idea of building an iPhone app that would show you places to volunteer nearby and have since added a FaceBook app, a WordPress plugin, and the SnapImpact.org website.
Windows Mobile, Android, and other forms are in the works! We’re based in Boulder, Colorado, and everyone involved are volunteers. There is no gain, only glory. Want to help us do more? Check out the Help SnapImpact link below. We’re a Component Fund of The Community Foundation, which means we are a 501(c)3 and we would not be able to be successful without their support.
Invite the Web to Your Next Event
http://eventstart.com/EventStart allows you to go from an event idea to a vibrant community in less time than you ever imagined. Do you need a top-notch event registration page? Events are completely free if you don't charge for tickets.
If you do charge for tickets, we charge a small fee for each ticket you sell.

isit? Yes it is!
http://qleeq.comQleeQ provides Credibility Ranking of data with a product called isit? utilizing various reliable and authorized information sources along with analyzing phrases semantically
http://www.pockettales.com/
Pocket Tales is an online social reading game aimed at 7-12 years old. The objective is to level-up by reading books and completing activities like taking quizzes, playing games, rating books, and recommending books to friends. And probably the biggest news of all - we were recently selected to the Microsoft Business Accelerator Competition at SXSW.
We are one of eight teams competing in the entertainment category. http://sxsw.com/interactive/accelerator/finalists

http://www.friendmosaic.com/
We make awesome mosaics of your Twitter profile picture using the pictures of your friends and followers.
Posted by Tugce Ergul
Posted by Tugce Ergul
Startup Weekend is a 54-hour startup event that provides networking, resources and incentives for individuals and teams to go from idea to launch. A highly motivated group of developers, business managers, startup enthusiasts, marketing gurus, graphic artists and more meet and work on building projects out. Startup Weekend Istanbul is going to take place at the Microsoft office, a fantastic facility right in the heart of Istanbul.
What’s in it for you?
You will get inspired by ideas or promote your own,
Meet developers/designers/IT pros/entrepreneurs and form teams,
Get real-time help from business pros/academics/consultants,
What do we need from you?
Be open about your ideas,
Bring your own laptop,
Be open to meet and collaborate with startup enthusiasts,
We’re working behind the scenes, assembling an impressive crew of sponsors, speakers, and advisors, to help you launch your startup in 54 hours. So, find a business idea, be creative, develop your elevator pitch and surprise us at Startup Weekend Istanbul!
Posted by Startup Weekend Crew

