Co-Founder at Soup.io
Soup.io offers a stress-free way for people to create a stream of their interests and activities that they can fully customize, host at their own domain and show off to others. We aim to lower the barrier to publishing, collecting and “remixing” content online as far as possible. We enable people (or groups) to post and collect thoughts, creations and things they like without the demanding expectations associated with blogging, and to a site that feels more their own than a profile on a social network.
A Soup page consists of short multimedia posts (images, videos, files, quotes, links, events and reviews) from various sources, listed chronologically. They can be created on the site (tumblelogging), collected from elsewhere online via the bookmarklet, imported from a web service (lifestreaming), reposted from a friend or sent in by email.
The user experience is central: The service can be evaluated without signing up, there is no seperate backend or admin interface, and users can "endlessly" scroll through the contents on Soup without ever having to click "next page".
Social features include groups, reposting and reacting to posts, and an endless combined view of a user’s contacts’ activities.
I've left the Soup team in January 2010 in order to pursue new opportunities.
»Among the 3 currently most exciting web apps.«—Richard MacManus, ReadWriteWeb