Living Junction – a social publishing platform

Living Junction is a social publishing platform that let’s you drag-and-drop rich media content to the pages of your own gorgeous magazine to bring your favourite topics alive.

Each magazine you create comes with a set of social features helping you create micro communities of interest around the topics you love.

You can upload your photos from your computer, grab them from your Facebook albums – or search for suitable content using Bing or Youtube right inside the magazine editor. Creativity is not bound by themes or templates – you can rotate, resize, add frames and shadows to make the pages of your magazines look just the way you like.

Samples:
Fashion:-   http://livingjunction.com/journal/s-means-style-4
Recipe Books:-   http://livingjunction.com/journal/sticky-rice
About Living Junction:-   http://livingjunction.com/journal/living-junction-issue-1-2012

Founding History:-  Living Junction was founded in November 2011 in Helsinki, Finland. We released our first MVP in January 2012 for a small group of test users and iterated the concept based on the feedback we received. We launched the first BETA version of the service with the concept of User Created Social Magazines in March 2012 and ever since then, we’ve been building and perfecting the service with the help from our growing community of enthusiastic users.

Uniqueness about Living Junction:- We’re building a dead simple way for casual users to mashup digital content like pictures, videos, sound, text, etc. from different sources into a social magazine that they can use to express their hobbies and interests. The magazine not only works as a delivery vehicle for the content, but it’s also a social object which allows building small micro communities around specific topics, bringing together people from all over the world and connecting them through that specific topic that they really enjoy.

Founders:-  Olli Laesvirta – Founder and CEO. Olli drives the product, operations and user acquisition for Living Junction. Prior to founding Living Junction, Olli has built and led on a number teams and startups in the gaming, consumer web and web analytics space.

Funding:- Living Junction has raised a 350,000€ seed round from some of the most prominent angel investors in Finland, as well as, the Finnish Fund for Technology and Innovation.