And the Atlanta Startups are…
What a weekend in Atlanta. Over 60 concepts were presented on Friday night at Atlanta Startup Weekend. Out of those 12 emerged as active projects. Eleven of the projects are still active. With only two hours to go before final presentations the team are rushing to get live. Two are already alpha. It’s going to be a great night of presentations! Here they are…
FanTrendz
Real_time news trends for your fantasy sports team.
Gomodo
Gomodo helps you quickly find events near you.
EventTank
EventTank aggregates event data from various social networking and event listing web sites to create a searchable database that allows third parties to recieve a comprehensive listing of events that is categorized by interest, date, time, and geographic area, etc.
FakeWhale
For all the things you wish they’d said.
FlexSeats
FlexSeats is time sharing for season ticket holders. It allows groups of friends and businesses to get together and share the cost of season tickets without the hassle of dividing up tickets, handling money, and handling conflicts.
Moody Tweets
Moody Tweets is a Twitter application offering users the ability to express their personality and mood in an easy, fun and customized manner.
Socialytix
Socialytix analyzes your social networks to help you determine which relationships are the strongest, which need attention, and which should be abandoned altogether. From there, you can build an action plan to strengthen your most important relationships and build on forgotten ones.
TodaysBracket
Definitive for questions that don’t matter.
Touchdown Nation
Touchdown Nation – the hottest football game on Facebook! Build your team. Train your players. Win games. Who will dominate the field?
Voicify
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.
XpenseTrack
Everyone hates expense reports. All those receipts. So many forms. XpenseTrack provides your company with a simple, paperless online receipt management system. Free yourself from the hassle of receipts. Go Receipt Free!
Fast Times at ASW3
There were 60+ ideas pitched on Friday night at Atlanta Startup Weekend. 44 hours later it’s Sunday afternoon and there are about 14 projects being worked on right now. One of the projects that has been at the top of the list from the beginning is Touchdown Nation. (This is a likely result of it being football season and we’re in the Southeast.) We started out as Football Nation, but that was taken. Don’t worry! That did not deter us! A group of developers has been coding and creating statistical models late into the night and (relatively) early in the morning. Our awesome designer has been in the corner drawing some of the best graphics on the Facebook platform. We’re into testing now and marketing is working on copy throughout the game as well as Facebook advertising. (Join the fan club!)
What an experience! The brainpower and creativity in the room has been almost overwhelming. Debates were practical and volunteers plentiful. Good attitudes. No, take that back – great attitudes. And now the clock is running down. We’ll have a demo ready by 6:00 pm. It remains to be seen if the work will continue tomorrow. However, judging from the willingness of everyone to pitch in $10 to buy Facebook ads, continuing support and development for the project is highly likely. More than highly likely. Can’t wait to see what other projects are going to demo and even continue after tonight!
Touchdown Nation Game Play
BTW – Have you joined the fan club yet?
We’re changing the world: Facebook? Oh, that place where you play football.
Jungle Disk Love
Jungle Disk is a leading provider of online storage software and services, leveraging the Amazon S3 platform and Rackspace infrastructure to provide easy to use and cost effective online storage and backup. They are also a proud sponsor of Atlanta Startup Weekend.
Jungle Disk recently announced their 3.0 product and based on the comment stream customers are excited about the new feature set. Go check out the Jungle Disk 3.0 release candidates. Jungle Disk will be giving away lifetime licenses that waive the base $2 per month per user to five lucky Startup Weekend projects.
Dave Wright, also known as JungleDave, is the founder and CEO of Jungle Disk and a partner at Shotput Ventures. We are fortunate that he is going to be participating in Startup Weekend. Give him and Jungle Disk a follow and when you see him over the weekend ask about the exciting things going on at JungleDisk.
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129 Sold
Atlanta Startup Weekend sold 129 tickets. Fifteen of those were for only the Sunday night pitch night, so we have 114 that have signed up to participant this weekend.
Tickets for designers have been reopened. We need a few more of those so that we have a designer on each team. If you know any encourage them to sign up and join what promises to be a great weekend.
Sales for pitch night have been temporarily suspended. They will be reopened on Friday night after kick off.
Win a netbook from Twilio!
Twilio is teaming up with us for the weekend of November 13th through 22nd to encourage innovation with voice enabled applications, using our open API. If your team uses Twilio in any way over the course of the weekend, you’re eligible to win Netbooks for your team members.
How It Works
Startup Weekend teams range in size, so we will award the winning team with up to six Netbooks, along with other Twilio goodies. Startup Weekend teams in six cities will compete for the chance to win, and we’ll be blogging and tweeting about your projects throughout th weekend and beyond.
Get Motivated
Brainstorm Ideas for Your Project Pitch
Do you have a laundry list of projects you’ve been meaning to build, or are you drawing a blank? Either way, its time to begin generating ideas so you can decide what to pitch on Friday night.
