Finally a startup whose founders met at the Lift conference (Lift08): Social placemarking company Tagcrumbs.com - founded by Benedikt Foit, Cornelius Rabsch and Sascha Konietzke. The three young Germans are studying and working in Paris, Ireland and Germany. As „business guy“ Ben puts it „Tagcrumbs allows you to discover those little things that might give you interesting information about the places you visit and share them with your friends, family and the world. You can build a mini community of people you know and recommend places you care about.“
Tagcrumbs will soon be moved from the web to more mobile platforms: „In the end it should be an address book on the go“, says Ben „whenever you are somewhere, someone shows you around a city and you hear stories, you can just tag it real quick. Since people are often looking for conversation starters, here you go... ;)" According to product developer Cornelius, Tagcrumbs already has „a running prototype for the iPhone application. We will be working on it in the months to come - that’s a big step for us.“
When it comes to revenue models, „there’s obviously highly targeted mobile advertisement“, notes Ben „but also a couple of interesting things going on with API users, paid mobile apps or possibilities to integrate our service into other sites. That’s a little bit a thing of the future, but I think we’ll get there.“
„More feedback, more users, more places focussing on big cities and cooperations with magazines“ are all goals for 2009 - as Cornelius points out - but first of all „pushing the iPhone app to the next steps and following our roadmap for API use cases with vertical applications.“
More interviews from LIFT09 can be found @ www.tiburon-tv.com
12.01.2010 at 16:01
From today on there is also a Tagcrumbs iPhone and iPod touch application available. More info in our launch blog post http://blog.tagcrumbs.com/2010/01/remember-and-share-places-easily-with.html or the direct app store link http://www.tagcrumbs.com/go/iphone
Thanks for the blog post!
Cornelius