UTR – Mosuki

Posted on March 2, 2006
Filed Under Companies, Innovation, Social Media |

Mosuki? This company needs a new name.

There are a bunch of calendar services that are emerging that probably are best desribed as not being calendaring apps but rather event and group forming catalysts.

“Mosuki is a collection of events that people are going to, and we can promote or sell tickets to these events”. Okay, that’s an honest description of the business model, but I’m not sure that doing this from outside of the event and ticket business actually makes sense. Now if you took advantage of loose integration to ebay tickets, as an example, you could draft into the market but of course you wouldn’t get a cut of the revenue.

It’s interesting to see that Mike is on this panel, this would an interesting service to layer onto Edgeio.

Lastly, Mosuki makes a point of emphasizing that they are more than an event database, they are leveraging social networking, blah, blah, blah… but considering they didn’t demo any of it I am hard pressed to validate this claim.

Dave Winer asked if there was a way to put this on someone’s blog… the answer is no but that’s because they are working on the security. A fair response but not really getting to the point of how a service is going to make their users lives better.

I asked the question about Edgeio and the answer was pretty vague… “we want to work with as many people as possible” and then some stuff about technology. I just don’t see how the technology is anything more than an enabler here, the business is dependent on having some kind of community, especially if you are depending on advertising revenue.

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