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We had an exciting and busy week at GenieTown. Two events
took center stage: We launched the Facebook Platform Application Help Me Help You that
finally lets you put your network to use to find friends who need your help and
have them help you and Hassan, our CEO, spoke at the Dow Jones Web Ventures Conference in Redwood City, CA.
Help Me Help You complements GenieTown and allows everyone
on Facebook to ask friends for help and offer help as a favor, for cold hard
cash or for just a drink. It’s a great way to get stuff done and you may
connect with someone you haven’t talked in a while and never know their secret
expertise. We launched on Tuesday as planned and the first version of Help Me
Help You runs smoothly. Check our detailed post about Help Me Help You[coming
up].
The Dow Jones Web Ventures Conference started in 2007 and
was an immediate success with over 15 presenting companies getting funded. This
year’s event was even bigger and in typical Silicon Valley style VCs, bankers
and entrepreneurs networked for two days and exchanged new ideas and explored
new directions. GenieTown was selected as one of the presenting companies and
Hassan Chafi explained the corporate mission, the Web site as well as Help Me
Help You to an interested audience. What really counts are the people who come
up to talk afterwards and there were quite a few.
GenieTown as a marketplace and community fits well with the
consensus found at Web Ventures by c|net that we don’t need another social
network. What is needed by customers and service providers alike is a
marketplace to actually get stuff done – locally. And this was also the
feedback we got from everyone we talked at the event.
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