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Tinker.com

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Conference: DEMOfall 09
Market Segment: Consumer Software and Services
Funding Amount: More than $50,000,000
Funding Round: Series D
Funding Details: Glam Media is backed by Accel Partners, DAG Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Hubert Burda Media, Information Capital, GLG Partners, Mizuho Bank, and Walden Venture.
Competitors: No direct competitors. Secondary competitors: Facebook Live Page, Federated Media, Hootsuite.
Product Description: Tinker.com, an exciting new application from Glam Media, enables search, browsing and discovering real-time conversations on social media, including Twitter and Facebook. Tinker is the first application that lets publishers create live topics, news and events, moderate and curate the feeds allowing brand advertisers a trusted way to engage with users of the real-time Web.
Market Opportunity: eMarketer projects a 13.2% increase, to $1.29 billion, in social network advertising spending in 2010. With the explosive growth of social media, marketers are developing strategies to harness these online conversations and need tools such as moderation and filtering to enable engagement in a brand-safe environment.
DEMO Says: Take a step back from microblogging and you'll find Tinker.com. This start-up's vision for social media aggregation adds a layer of perspective to a medium of short bursts and quick reactions. Why follow microconversations when you can also follow the broader picture? Tinker.com provides a rare medium for viewing and analyzing conversations, the topics which started them, and the larger trends surrounding it all. This, plus revenue generating web publishing tools makes Tinker.com not only a start-up to watch but one to engage.

Contact: Matt Gleit; matthewg@glam.com
Company Address: 8000 Marina Blvd. Suite 130
Brisbane, CA 94005
Primary Phone: 650-244-4000
Primary Fax: 650-244-4004
URL: www.glammedia.com
Officer One: Samir Arora - Chairman
Officer Two: Ernie Cicogna - EVP Glam Partners & GM Glam Publisher Network
Officer Three: Fernando Ruarte - Co-founder, CTO & EVP Engineering
Officer Four: Raj Narayan - Co-Founder