I wasn’t sure if you have heard of this great new startup. The site is called MakeFive and it is starting to generate some interest. MakeFive is a social network site where a user can create top 5 lists for anything, share it with others, and meet like-minded individuals based on their interests. Each user generates points to win prizes at the end of each month.

Differing from sites that currently occupy the social networking space, the new website allows people to connect with others through their opinions and interests. “Sites like Facebook are great for staying connected with existing friends” MakeFive Technical Director Eric Shelkie notes, “but we think the real fun is in meeting different people who can expose you to new ideas and influences.”

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ClickBook is a real-time, web-based booking and scheduling system for small business with the critical features that characterise large scale booking systems, without the prohibitive costs of custom-built solutions.ClickBook Free Online Scheduling is the easy alternative to distracting telephones, expensive receptionists, endless call-backs and missed opportunities from unanswered calls. It is a web-based replacement of your appointment sheet, scheduling system or diary that lets your clients book online.

The system provides a broad spectrum of small businesses with a highly user-friendly and accessible on-ramp into the online scheduling world, and provides their clients with the ultimate in appointment scheduling convenience.

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As you know, Dashwire offers the industry leading Connected Service to help users take the contacts, text messages, calls, photos, videos, and settings from their mobile phones to their computers and the web, where they can backup their stuff, search & interact with their information, and share their experiences with friends and social sites like Facebook, Flicker, Twitter, FriendFeed, and more. Dashwire’s FREE service keeps the phone and the web constantly connected, so that the stuff done on one automatically shows up on the other in just a few seconds.

Up to this point, they’ve primarily focused on helping users effortlessly bring their mobile phone and content it captures up to the web. Starting with this week’s release, a major focus for them going forward will also be enabling users to bring the content they care about from the web instantly down to their phones, and allowing them to interact with it in a fast, new user interface.

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SodaHead, a leading opinion community focused on discussing today’s hottest topics, announced an $8.4 million Series B round of funding. Mission Ventures led the round with prior investor Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV) co-investing. Funds will be allocated to new marketing initiatives and strategic hires designed to make SodaHead the #1 discussion community.

“SodaHead offers an incredible opportunity for individuals to express their opinions and meet similar people,” said Robert Kibble, managing partner, Mission Ventures. “SodaHead’s community and upcoming initiatives are very exciting and I believe SodaHead will be one of the biggest sites on the Internet. Mission Ventures has made several investments in Internet/digital media companies and we are very excited to add SodaHead to our portfolio. SodaHead has an experienced management team for this opportunity and we believe in their vision and strategy.”

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Yoono, a leader in developing solutions to simplify your Internet life and save you time, announced the private beta launch of its newly expanded service for FireFox users. Yoono truly socializes your browser, getting you to interact more with friends and family over the Web. Like a “universal remote” to help you easily manage your digital life, the new Yoono brings all of the best of the Internet into one single browser-based application. Now, Yoono’s 1.3 million users can access and interact with all of their social networks in one easy-to-use interface.With Yoono, users can discover new content, share it with friends in multiple networks, and hold two way conversations and universally update their status in real-time. Available today in FireFox, Yoono will soon be available for IE.

“Aggregation is without a doubt the hot sector in emerging tech right now. The social Web has become so disparate that keeping up with one’s myriad networks is a workday in itself,” said Carla Thompson, Senior Analyst at Guidewire Group. “That’s why I’m excited to see the new Yoono. The company is the first to combine bookmarking, chat, photos, video and lifestreaming, all in one inconspicuous browser sidebar.”

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