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"Editor's Note: This post is part of an ongoing series at Mashable - The Startup Review, Sponsored by Sun Microsystems Startup Essentials. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.\nSTARTUP DETAILS:\nCompany Name: Smynx\n20 word description:   Find new ideas for having fun, and arrange to try them with friends and people near you.\nCEO's Pitch: Smynx is a website for people who need more variety in their lives. Get inspiration for active, worthwhile, or just unusual new ideas to try and things to do. You can also arrange to try them, either privately between friends, or publicly with new people, making friends in the process. And if you have a good idea, add your own!\nIn keeping with the idea of having more fun in your life, you can rate ideas by interestingness, comment and tag them, and even add your own little sketches!\n\nMashable's Take:  If you have friends in driving distance and the lot of you can't think of anything to do, Smynx may be just the thing for you.  This site lets you post and search for activity ideas you can do with your friends.  Some of them you can even do by yourself, such as watch all the episodes of a season (or 3) of your favorite television series in one night, but the purpose of Smynx is to help you find activities on a local level.  \nAny ideas that are public and are in your neck of the woods will appear as recommendations for things you may want to do yourself.  Any ideas that you'd like to try out through the site involve some basic event-planning tools that let you pick a time and date, and post the event on Smynx's site.  \nThis event-planning process could be greatly expanded to include import and export options so you can post the event on your Facebook events profile, import friends from email or various social networks, or sync up local events with your iCal.  This would also be a prime area for any additional event-planning resources or further details surrounding a particular idea, which could be used for marketing or advertising purposes or for recommendations for products that are related to the idea being tried out.  For instance, in planning my dog party, I could receive recommendations on pet treats and party favors for the willing pet owners.  \nIn posting or viewing others' ideas, you can rate them, or even add a sketch (think the graffiti app), which is fun and helpful for search and filtering purposes, but uploading your own image or even performing a Web search for importing a Flickr image may have a broader appeal to users as opposed to the sketch option.  While ideas are currently broken down into categories like \"social\" and \"active\" I think Smynx has the potential to dig deeper into various niche groups, such as dating ideas, children's parties ideas, or even housewarmings or weddings.\n\n\nSponsored by Sun Startup Essentials\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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