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It’s time to literally reinvent the TV guide.

So says Jeremy Toeman, CEO of Dijit Media, the Silicon Valley startup behind the iPad app NextGuide. NextGuide is a personalized guide that informs its users of available shows on TV or online based on their preprogrammed genres of interest or their friends’ favorites. NextGuide aspires to foster a content-based experience among its users as opposed to channel-based, which is what traditional grid-based TV guides offer.

NextGuide brings together TV and movie listings from pay-TV services such as Tribune Movie Services, Netflix and iTunes. The guide can be sorted by show, type, channel or any keywords. NextGuide also allows DirecTV customers the freedom to initiate recordings on their DVRs. The same feature will be provided for subscribers of cable companies this fall.

What makes NextGuide unique from other TV guide apps is its mosaic-like interface made out of mov ies and TV shows a user is interested in. Each screen is representative of a particular category such as sports, drama or comedy. All a user needs to do is slide from one screen to another to browse through available listings. As well, NextGuide users have the option to form their own categories such as “Basketball,” “California,” or “Katy Perry.” The app then sends out alerts whenever new episodes of similar content become available.

NextGuide’s social media functionality evaluates a user’s Facebook friends’ interests and that of the user to make recommendations. And if content is available via Netflix, a video stream can kick off.

NextGuide can be downloaded for free at the App Store, and Dijit makes money through transaction fees for routing users to paid iTunes or Netflix content, promotion of TV shows through content advertising and data and analytics sales.

As Toeman puts it, the biggest pain from knowing about a TV show is figuring out how to watch it. With NextGuide is an app anybody can use to add it into a playlist. The user doesn’t even have to know which channel the show is on.

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Women love Pinterest. As of February 2012, women users are 80% of the total Pinterest population. Given this stat, Pinterest is still seen as a chick's site. Now, two Vancouver dudes, namely Colin Brown and Kamil Szybalski, have decided to create Pinterest's love interest: Dudepins, a startup that shares male-oriented content.

Dudepins is fairly easy to use. All you have to do is sign up, edit your profile, upload an image of you and you're ready to create a montage. Now, why the name Dudepins? The answer is pretty obvious. The co-founders felt "dude" was representative of male-oriented content, and "pins" was synonymous to content sharing.

When asked what inspires them, Colin pointed out the passion of others, prompting him to love the startup culture where a day is never the same and success is directly proportional to a person's decision and execution. Kamil, on the other hand, gets his inspiration from challenges, stress and results. He added he couldn't imagine himself spending his working hours outside of the startup environment.

Major emphasis on customer satisfaction is what makes Dudepins special. This is because Colin and Kamil want users to feel part of a community. The two founders are always accessible via Facebook, Twitter or e-mail to address user concerns. Dudepins is a self-funded venture.

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Nowadays, photo editing is an “in” thing. A lot of people enjoy cropping, enhancing and applying all sorts of techniques to enhance their photos, inasmuch as every photo has a story to tell. Best of all, these can be done through a selection of photo editing software, free or otherwise, that’s available to just about anyone on the web.

The name may not say much and the tagline – the only place for social pins – a little obscure, Yuhuhu.com is a cross between an online photo editing freeware and a social media platform like Pinterest. Notwithstanding the outright confusion (as there is no About page), what’s remarkable about this site is the simplicity of the interface and the relative ease of navigation. Here are some the basic steps:

1. Choose the thumbnail of the image you want to include in your photo. That can either be a bear with a plush heart, an outstretched hand with a bouquet of flowers, grapes, a cat sleeping in a box, and a few others.
2. Select the position/variation of the photo effect, either lower left-hand side or lower right-hand side.
3. Upload your photo.
4. Do some editing, if needed.
5. Finally, once you’re done, click go and your edited photo should be available for download.

At step #4 above, however, everything started to get really tricky. As there aren’t any instruction manuals, figuring out how to go about the horizontal and vertical layouts was quite a challenge. And for a photo editing software (if indeed it is), Yuhuhu.com doesn’t have much photo effects. The choices are very limited, all contained in a single page and a little too girly to begin with.

On the upper right-hand side of the page are three tabs – Home, Register and Login. Since I was already at the Home page and I didn’t have any login credentials yet, the next logical course of action was to register. I was asked to provide a username, a password and my e-mail address. After hitting register, boom, I came up with a PHP error that left me wondering what in the world just happened.

When I tried registering again, thinking I just bumped into some kind of a glitch, it turned out I was already registered. What was even more disappointing was discovering that the features available to me as a registered and unregistered user were basically one and the same, leaving me to conclude I just wasted my time registering.

To compete with other established photo editing freeware and/or social media platform, Yuhuhu.com still has much to work on.

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Imagine American Idol on Facebook. Yes, not on TV, but on Facebook. Further still, imagine American Idol without Jennifer Lopez, Randy Jackson and Steve Tyler, but just the American population spotting the next big singing sensation.

Impossible? Not quite.

Brett Marl of Fame.Me is looking to up the game by bringing a contest like American Idol to the Facebook generation, more like turning an interactive TV show into an even more interactive, accessible website. If that sounds a lot like YouTube to you, consider this: 60 hours of video is uploaded into YouTube every minute of the day so that getting spotted in a crowd like that is like finding a needle in a haystack – but probably not if you're a kitten or an adorable baby with a toothless grin.

FameMe is structured like a contest. The judges are people at home, sitting in front of their computers, with three chances to vote for their favorite performers dai ly. FameMe makes full use of existing social media, Facebook and probably Twitter in the future, for both contestants and supporters to campaign for votes.

Fame.Me is only four months old, but Marl and his team are confident the site will be the next big thing.

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