Foursquare Gives Special Badge to Istanbul
No Comment by Sami Eyidilli on December 27, 2011
Last week we wrote that Foursquare has reached 15 million users, and the number of its members continues to rise rapidly. Foursquare puts its users in a race with its badges, and receives very nice feedbacks with its special badges and encourages Foursquare usage. Foursquare used to work with its partners, and create special badges [...]
Mekanist.net Gets $2.5M from Pond Ventures on 2. Round
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on May 31, 2011
Mekanist.net first drew attention with the investment it got from Pond Ventures in July 2010 and now we have learned that 2. investment round has been finalized for the company. While the amount of investment for the first round was not announced back then, we had heard that it was at the level of 500 [...]
Sailing High on the Wind of Social Media – Where is Dipnot.tv Running in the New Media System?
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on March 14, 2011
I’m sure you know about Dipnot.tv, Cüneyt Özdemir’s website. The news site has caught my attention with its uptrend rally lately, and I believe it might be one of the most popular sites with its original content and studies on the new media. In today’s new media ecosystem, particularly printed media has turned towards mobile [...]
Live Football Score Application: liveza
No Comment by Ali Altuğ KOCA on December 23, 2010
There are various websites on the Internet to get info and chat on football games. But mostly, all we are interested in is the score of the game. Inspired by this fact, liveza is a simple online application that publishes game scores live on a single page. Liveza is the latest project of lunar, the [...]
UzmanTV Is Not to Confine Itself to the Internet!
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on December 24, 2009
UzmanTV has implemented important changes in its strategy besides the re-launch it performed in October. With its developments, it will not be right to consider it a mere web initiative, or rather a “video website”. UzmanTV sees itself an Internet television and develops its studies not only on the Internet, but also in mobile and [...]
NotebookPlatformu.com and Its Earnings Model
No Comment by Hasan Başusta on November 25, 2009
Notebook Platformu is a service with the aim of gathering all laptop users under a single roof. Established in 2007 and been fully active for only one year, Notebook Platformu has 58 thousand members. The service is the newest initiative of Hayal Akademisi, which realized Kulüp Vaio project, is based on a similar but wider concept [...]
Miaposta: Life Guide with One E-mail a Day
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on November 9, 2009
Gone online in May 2009 with the motto “Lifeguide for urban women”, Miaposta is a service that shares content that may interest its members via sending them one e-mail a day. This service has sped up its growth with the huge awareness it has created among Internet users. The founders of this initiative are Etel [...]
Bravoo Is Closing!
No Comment by Ali Altuğ KOCA on October 9, 2009
Update: One of the employees of the company sent Webrazzi exclusive information about the issue. You can read the e-mail that we received on the closing of Bravoo on our new post. Bravoo was launched about a year ago, and today, faxed its customers announcing that it is closing. Upon Omer Enis Sen informed Webrazzi [...]
Price Comparison For Books: EnUcuzKitap.com
One Comment by Ali Altuğ KOCA on October 7, 2009
We have made news about prices comparison sites on before. The common feature of the price comparison sites that we have examined so far was that they had electronic devices at hand mostly, but you could find any kind of products on those web sites. The difference of EnUcuzKitap (in Turkish, the cheapest books) is that [...]
Two Successful Turkish Initiatives: SitelerHakkinda.com and LivePageRanks.com
No Comment by Guest Author on September 25, 2009
Note: Burak Budak works in the Research Dept. of Hayal Ofisi, and this article of him has been published in Webrazzi as guest author. I have examined two successful Turkish initiatives for Web site owners and users. The initiatives have things in common, as well as parts that are quiet distinct from each other. I [...]