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"Company Name\nBabySpot\n20-Word Description\nFacebook for babies with a focus on safety, health and development, economical empowerment and fun.\nCEO's Pitch\nCombine\u00A0a safe and secure\u00A0online space for parents to share and store their baby's precious moments with a stimulating social network and a fun, yet educational environment, and you get BabySpot.\u00A0\nCatering to the busy lifestyles of modern day parents, Babyspot provides a\u00A0one-stop shop where they can easily and frequently share baby's growth with family members, socialize with like-minded individuals and\u00A0learn about and share how certain matters will affect them.\u00A0Babyspot fosters opportunities for parents and families to learn about things that will ultimately have a positive growth effect on their lives.\nMashable's Take\nThere are a couple of things about BabySpot which immediately reveal themselves as primary drivers for the service. Media sharing is one of them. It clearly has a special place among the various features provided. Videos in particular. The other is network activity, be it public or private, which is pretty much how things go insofar as interaction among parents today. Memories are shared at nearly every moment possible. So life goes.\n\nIn that sense, BabySpot is a good option to choose when online networking with your infant or toddler in view sounds like something you\u2019d like to get involved with. It\u2019s very easily learned, and makes nearly everything you might want or need quickly accessible. It sports a top-to-bottom layout, which places your main set of services across a header display, followed by items pertaining to whatever section you\u2019re focused on at any one time. \nI must say it\u2019s a little peculiar to have a Profile URL box (to embed in places elsewhere on the Web) situated front and center on your BabySpot dashboard, rather than some widget that might have more lasting value to the average user, but there\u2019s a good chance you won\u2019t spent much time at this page to quibble about it one way or another. Individual utilities will demand virtually all your attention.\nSuch utilities include a friend list, chat box, forum, journal editor, groups directory, message roll, and a video and photo gallery. If you wield a still-shot or video camera with any regularity, the last area is where you\u2019re likely to spend considerable amounts of time. You and your closest relatives and associates together. The journal may get its fair share of activity, too. The same with user groups and the site forum.\n\nSetting up basic information for your infants and toddlers can be accomplished quite speedily, and even done immediately after sign-up. Register an account, and the following pages will reveal multiple fields provided for one or more children, and if invites to family members or family friends are in order, you\u2019re given the option to easily invite people from your Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, or AOL contact list(s). Alternatively, if you prefer inputting names without grabbing them from one of these webmail services, there is a form that allows you to enter addresses manually. Once you complete your initial account setup, you\u2019ll be asked to login once more. No need to check your mail for any verification messages.\nBased in Miami, Florida, BabySpot was launched this past summer, and it is evident that the community remains a fairly small operation. But you can interpret this one of two ways. Either it is too little a player in the market, or it is nicely manageable, \u201Cexclusive\u201D and fresh-faced. I see it through the latter lens. It\u2019s elementary and comprehensive all at the same time. And that\u2019s the right recipe for any network of this kind to have. Besides, who can say no to a network whose spotlight is babies?\nEditor's Note: This post is part of an ongoing series at Mashable - The Startup Review, Sponsored by Sun Microsystems Startup Essentials. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.\nSponsored By: Sun Startup Essentials"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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