TotSpot: Social publishing for the short crowd
Categories: Newborns, Babies, Toddlers, Preschoolers, Gadgets & Tech, That's Entertainment
Well, I suppose it was bound to happen. With the success of MySpace and Facebook, the popularity of parenting blogs and a whole generation that'll learn to use a mouse before they learn to jumprope, TotSpot is bringing social publishing to the preschool set.Of course, tots can't really network themselves, so it'll be parents that log on to publish photos, stories and videos about their kids online. And while parents can do all of those things already using weblogs, photosharing sites, YouTube and the like, TotSpot aims to pull it all together -- and then some. Co-founder Adam Katz assures me that you won't have to be a tech-savvy parent to use TotSpot: "It's the easiest publishing platform on the internet," he says.
Privacy settings will allow parents to control who has access to the site. Unique templates for baby's milestones, growth charts, and other "firsts" will tempt parents to toss their paper baby books in the trash. Social networking features, like "friending" and photo tags, will allow members to share content automatically with others.
Recognizing that any childhood is really a shared memory, TotSpot not only allows comments from friends and family members, but also lets parents choose others to contribute content. Grandma can write her own tale of little Janie's first birthday party, and Uncle Rob can upload the pictures he took at the family reunion directly into the site.
TotSpot is currently in a private beta version but is accepting sign-ups for new users. If you submit your e-mail via their homepage now, you can expect an invitation to play in the next week or two. The service is free. Get in now, and you can say you were TotSpotting before TotSpotting was cool.
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BabySpot.com 3-12-2008 @ 4:04PM
Nicole, Great post. However, I wanted to share with you, www.babyspot.com. We are a social networking and informational tool for new parents to connect. Totspot looks like a great site, however, we are in the same space and have already launched our full site (December 2007). Our site has been live since then and was started because my co-founder, James Rivera, wanted to share pictures and videos of his son, Danny, in a safe and secure manner. Below is a press release regarding our site and our company story. We hope that you can take a look at our site and we would welcome the chance to chat with you. Love your blog!!
Zameer Upadhya, CEO and Co-Founder
http://www.babspot.com
Presenting the Youngest Social Networking Profiles…Ever.
Highly successful http://www.babyspot.com emerges to revolutionize the way families and parents interact with one another. Parents create profiles for their children that allow the world to watch them grow each day. The site offers blogs, videos, pictures, comment features, and parenting-based content.
Miami, FL (PRWeb) Jan. 21, 2008 - With the birth of a child came the birth of one of the Internet’s greatest ideas. Though the Internet now offers a substantial number of social networking sites, none exist like the one created by co-founders James Rivera and Zameer Upadhya.
Shortly after welcoming their first child Danny into the world, James and Monica Rivera became bombarded with requests for news, pictures and videos of their little bundle of joy. Seeking to quell the mob that demanded to see the new family member, the fresh-faced parents logged onto the Internet and started posting pictures here and there and sending scattered emails that were sometimes filtered out by Spam-screeners. Frustrated by their need to act as technical support for the newborn’s various online profiles and photo sites, the parents turned to long-time friend Zameer who, as it turns out, was experiencing equal chagrin at how challenging it had become to try and receive news about his distant baby-cousins. Together, they hatched a plan to create an entirely new breed of social networking site that would forever change the lives of parents the world over.
They created Babyspot.com, a site that allows users—specifically parents—to create profiles that give them the ability to post news and pictures of their children for fellow parents and family members to see. The prevailing sentiment is that not everyone can completely appreciate the sublime joy of becoming a parent, but Babyspot.com brings together the people who do.
Delving into the site, users can see the site offers as many (if not more) features as most social profile sites. With the ability to write biographies and blogs, and update pictures and videos, parents can create an immersing baby-centric experience for the viewing pleasure of their families and friends. The simplicity of the site eliminates the need for tired newborn parents to spend what little energy they have left bouncing from site to site and writing countless emails to relatives, over and over. The site is very user-friendly, and has thus far been incredibly successful at keeping families in touch and creating friendships between parents living cities and countries apart. The creators of the site even understood that not all parents want the world to see their children, so they added an option that allows you to block your child’s profile from anyone who was not personally invited to view it.
Just like watching their own child learn and become successful, the Riveras will be able to guide their website to a healthy future adulthood. With the recent explosion in popularity of networking sites, one thing is for certain: it’s worth keeping an eye on Babyspot.com to see what it’ll be when it grows up.
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