Currently in closed, invite-only Alpha (or "alfalfa" as the site prefers to call it) Phreadz is similar to Seesmic, the video conversations platform, but with Phreadz you can also automatically cross-post the multimedia to your blogs (Blogger, WP, TypePad, Livejournal) as well as images to a Flickr account, videos to a blip.tv account (and potentially a remote ftp location).
The company's first product was an app called Anchor, a real-time conversation platform.
"We believe YouTube is a great platform for hosting and broadcasting, but it's not a conversation platform.
Editor's note: Jordan Kretchmer is the founder of Livefyre, a realtime commenting and conversation platform for publishers and online communities.
I'm live blogging from video conversation platform Seesmic's headquarters, where Seesmic's founder Loic Le Meur, is previewing a new Twitter client.
How is this different from Qik? Glide is a conversation platform, and Qik is about broadcasting — the Glide team thinks they're fundamentally different.
"With Roger, Ricardo and team have built a beautiful app that takes the best aspects of these two mediums, creating a conversation platform that's far more dynamic and personal".
They'll be speaking about their stealthy social-good incubator, Obvious (which invests in companies such as the recently launched online conversation platform, Branch), and why technology founders can make a huge impact on the world while making money.
The team behind the social conversation platform Branch is today launching a new venture with Potluck, a service which seems almost the complete inverse of the company's earlier efforts at inspiring thoughtful, quality discussions on the web.
Potluck, the new link-sharing service from the team behind social conversation platform Branch, has now arrived on the iPhone, where Branch CEO and co-founder Josh Miller believes it may be able to better serve its larger goal of bringing today's Internet "lurkers" out of the shadows.
"Our dream at Unbound is for female sexual health to be viewed through the same lens as male sexuality — as a part of our overall health that deserves a conversation, platform, and shopping experience that doesn't feel like a flaming pile of garbage," Unbound founder Polly Rodriguez told TechCrunch's John Biggs.
