Kyle
If you’ve ever wanted your own infographic, you can have it now thanks to recent TechStars graduate and Oregon startup Vizify. Their exciting new social media tool is more than just a dashboard it gives you a visual glance at the things you’ve got going on in your personal social graph.
Now people can use your interactive infographics from Vizify to figure out what you’re all about.
For instance Emma the chief security at the Portland company likes to talk about squirrels, went to happy-go-lucky kindergarten and tweets pictures of herself. Everything is visual in a graphically appealing UI. Vizify draws out your social web as you can see from the screen shot above and when you click on any of the webs bubbles you can dive more into the content.
Todd Silverstein, Vizify’s co-founder told Mashable that the root of Vizify stems from Zuckerberg’s law. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that online data about you doubles each year. That makes a total mess of disjointed content about one person. Vizify simplifies that data and makes it pretty, and easy to use.
Another place where Vizify comes in handy is in the job search. Now all of your content is aggregated in an easy to view and easy to navigate platform. Face it every HR person and recruiter in the world is searching for all your social data anyway, now you can just add the url for your Vizify page to your resume and in one click a recruiter can see everything about you and where it fits in to your social graph.
We got a chance to interview Silverstein ourselves, check out the interview below:
Vizify.com transforms your social media profiles and content into a series of interactive infographics that show the people looking you up online what you’re all about. Our hope is that it will help you impress a potential boss, client, or even date.
Todd, Jeff, and Eli. We all worked together at another Portland-Ore. startup. I’m the product guy (but actually began my career in book publishing), Jeff & Eli are rockstar developers.
Portland, Ore. Land o’coffee.
I think it’s a tremendously exciting time to be a startup in Portland. The community is still pretty small, and there’s an incredible spirit of mutual cooperation and helpfulness between companies. Following fast in the wake of Jive Software’s IPO, there’s an exciting batch of companies doing amazing work and getting broader recognition for it: urban airship, cloudability, appfog, puppet labs, and shopigniter to name just a few. There are also some really powerful influences coming from both the open source movement, and on the creative side, from a raft of innovative digital & advertising shops such as Instrument, W&K and others. I think all this cross-pollination gives the startups here a really special character.
We help you make a great impression on-line.
First, second, even third impressions don’t just happen across conference tables or at cocktail parties anymore. If you use social media regularly, chances are good that your future boss, potential clients, even your next drinking buddy, are getting to know you by going online.
Our graphical bios ensure what these people see is an attractive digital “elevator pitch” of you.
Prioritization. We’ve always had more ideas than we can implement at any time and we keep reminding ourselves that it’s better to focus on a smaller number of things and do them well, than a larger number that we do poorly.
Jonathan Sposato, Dan Shapiro, and Matt Shobe are all incredible when it comes to think through the product & design side of making software full of personality, and a pleasure to use. They’ve all helped us at numerous points in our development process.We’ve gotten incredible business advice and guidance from some of our other mentors: Greg Meyer, Bill Bryant, and Dan Warner.Role-model-wise, we’re constantly in awe of the amazing visualization done by Kim Rees of Periscopic, people like Jan Willem Tulp, Wes Grubbs, and the many others pushing visual design into new places.
Our chief security officer, Emma (https://www.vizify.com/emma) can be distracted by tennis balls.
We’d prefer not to say and ruin the surprise.
