Startups from Finland: What-A-Map - Create Social Map Apps For Your Phone
What-A-Map is a Finnish startup that wants to help people to find, create and share pedestrian maps and deliver them to your mobile phone. They say their service begins where Google Maps end: they want that users can have very detailed maps of specific places such as shopping malls, museums, amusement parks etc. that they can install on their phones.
Startups from Finland: Scred - Managing Expenses While Travelling Made Easier
A new Finnish startup Scred (short for street credit) is a new community finance tool thet strives to keep friends happy with each other by tracking debts and shared expenses. This is another Finnish online service that has been built from a need of frequent travellers. (Others being Vailoma and Dopplr.)
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Startups from Finland: MoiPal - Tamagotchi Networking On Your Mobile Phone
MoiPal is a friend you create on the internet and that lives in your phone. With MoiPal you can play fun games or just hang out and have a talk with some other pals.
In other words, MoiPal is a cross platfrom mobile game with an online environment for customizing the player’s own virtual content. It is developed by Ironstar Helsinki.
Check out a review at KillerStartups.com.
The Future Of TV Is Personal On-Demand P2P and Community-Created, Mobile Live HD Widget Aggregations For Free
The end of TV as we know it is near. The future of TV is online and ready to hit the mainstream and it will be better than YouTube. It will be more than just good old tv channels streamed to your computer through P2P technology.
The TV of the future will be a form of personal expression on the numerous video blogging platforms.
TV will be on-demand. It will be streamed live from your mobile or webcam.
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Startups from Finland: Floobs - Ustream.tv clone with Mobile Ambitions
As this Finnish startup says on their home page: “Floobs.com is a new service offering Community Created Live TV-channels.” aka a Ustream.tv or Stickam clone. But Floobs comes with the traditional Finnish twist: mobile. They are developing their own mobile client and also a mobile version of their site (mobile.floobs.com). They are angel funded, employ nine people and “are looking to hire more”.
They are currently running a beta in Finnish and they will launch the beta in English “soon”. I wish the company founded by two young ambitious men the best of luck, but they will have a big struggle in front of them in making the service a success beyond Finnish borders.
There is a good roundup of Floobs’ bigger competitors at TechCrunch.
[via Vierityspalkki, in Finnish]
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