Radiusly is a new start-up that is currently in private mode but demonstrated their product at the TechCrunch50 conference. I watched their presentation on UStream and was hoping for an upbeat presentation. Social media for enterprises is a boring subject so the presentation should compensate for the service offered. But instead the presentation seemed generic and I found my attention was lost.

Here’s how it works:
1. You sign up for an account on Radiusly and join your company network
2. The list of employees are listed on Radiusly and when you click on the employee, their social media involvement is showcased such as their LinkedIn profiles, Facebook profiles, Twitter status updates, etc.

The CEO of Radiusly is Chris Sel and the VP of Business Development that presented the product at TechCrunch50 was Adarsh Pallian. Pallian started the presentation by saying that Radiusly solves the problem of users being duped by fake corporate Twitter accounts. To find employees or contact someone in a company, any customer can go to the company’s account on Radiusly. Employees of the company are expected to showcase their education and professional information along with their social media presence.

Do I think this is a good idea? Not really. I’m skeptical because a lot of employees tend to be private about what they do. Those who want to let people know their opinion and just happen to be an employee at a company will be found by the public. For example, I always know what Dare Obasanjo (Microsoft) and Matt Cutts (Google) want to reveal to the public by their blogs and Twitter accounts.

StockTwits is a service that is used to discuss stock trends through micro-blogging service Twitter.  Recently StockTwits acquired Chart.ly, a stock chart service that tracks activity on StockTwits, making this acquisition sound ideal.  When using Twitter, you can write about a stock, have it reported on StockTwits, and add a link to a stock chart using Chart.ly.

Howard Lindzon is the founder of StockTwits.  Lindzon previously founded Wallstrip which was acquired by CBS.  Chart.ly was started by Adarsh Pallian.  StockTwits owns the code that Pallian wrote now.  Pallian will remain with StockTwits to oversee the development of the website and help with advertising deals.  Pallian had paid less than $10,000 for the development work and will split ad revenue on Chart.ly 50-50 with StockTwits.

When Pallian first started Chart.ly, he approached the StockTwits team to ask if he could create software for them.  StockTwits decided against it since they were very busy already.   StockTwits currently has 70,000 followers on Twitter.  About 3,000 charts have been created on Chart.ly.

[via TechCrunch]