What Company Is Offering:
The Nirvanix SDN helps businesses grow by providing a highly-scalable storage and delivery platform. Accessible via standards based web services.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Nirvanix, a San Diego-based media storage and delivery network company, has added Intel Capital to its investor base. The size of the investment was not specified. www.nirvanix.com
How It Works:
Through the Nirvanix Web Services (NWS), application developers can seamlessly integrate scalable media storage and delivery via a standards based API (SOAP and REST interfaces). NWS provides full file system capabilities, management of end user accounts, and built in media processing functions. Businesses can now expedite their time to market by focusing on their core application.
Unique Features:
The Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network (SDN) is the perfect platform for various applications. A few examples are:
Digital Locker Services
Consumers’ digital music, photos and video libraries are growing at an astounding rate. They are in need of a reliable way to store, access and share their media. Whether starting from scratch or integrating a digital locker service into an existing site or application, Nirvanix can expedite your time to market and help your business grow.
Backup Applications
The increased reliance on computers to manage all aspects of consumer’s lives has increased the importance of creating a completely secure location to backup information. Historically backup application providers needed to invest in costly hardware and staff up to manage and develop their online storage solution. Nirvanix solves these issues and provides your business with a cost effective and secure solution.
Content Delivery
Current content delivery solutions are great for delivering media to large audiences (tens-of-thousands to millions of viewers) on a short-term basis but are not cost effective for delivering media to small-medium sized audiences (hundreds to thousands of viewers) or for permanently storing content. Nirvanix is a great supplement to your content delivery needs for small-medium sized audiences and more cost effective way to permanently store media.
More at:http://www.nirvanix.com/
Monday, December 31, 2007
Ripoff Report is a worldwide consumer reporting Web site and publication, by consumers, for consumers
What Company Is Offering:
Ripoff Report is a worldwide consumer reporting Web site and publication, by consumers, for consumers, to file and document complaints about companies or individuals. While they encourage and even require authors to only file truthful reports, Ripoff Report does not guarantee that all reports are authenic or accurate. Be an educated consumer. Read what you can and make your decision based upon an examination of all available information.
How It Works:
Ripoff Report is a service to the world's consumers. The Ripoff Report enables YOU the consumer to be armed with the opinions and comments of your fellow consumers. This report will help you exercise your first amendment right to freedom of speech. By using their forum, you will have an opportunity to speak out against companies, businesses, governments, and individuals that have treated you unfairly. The bad Business Bureau's ... Ripoff Report will help you do that! Once your report is posted, millions of fellow consumers worldwide will have access to your information!
How Is It Different:
Ripoff Report does not hide reports of "satisfied" complaints. ALL complaints remain public and unedited in order to create a working history on the company or individual in question.
Ripoff Reports cover every category imaginable! You can Browse the latest Reports, Search the Reports, or Submit your report now for FREE, by clicking on File Report. View over 1,000 different topics & categories you can file under.
http://ripoffreport.com/
Ripoff Report is a worldwide consumer reporting Web site and publication, by consumers, for consumers, to file and document complaints about companies or individuals. While they encourage and even require authors to only file truthful reports, Ripoff Report does not guarantee that all reports are authenic or accurate. Be an educated consumer. Read what you can and make your decision based upon an examination of all available information.
How It Works:
Ripoff Report is a service to the world's consumers. The Ripoff Report enables YOU the consumer to be armed with the opinions and comments of your fellow consumers. This report will help you exercise your first amendment right to freedom of speech. By using their forum, you will have an opportunity to speak out against companies, businesses, governments, and individuals that have treated you unfairly. The bad Business Bureau's ... Ripoff Report will help you do that! Once your report is posted, millions of fellow consumers worldwide will have access to your information!
How Is It Different:
Ripoff Report does not hide reports of "satisfied" complaints. ALL complaints remain public and unedited in order to create a working history on the company or individual in question.
Ripoff Reports cover every category imaginable! You can Browse the latest Reports, Search the Reports, or Submit your report now for FREE, by clicking on File Report. View over 1,000 different topics & categories you can file under.
http://ripoffreport.com/
Finding what's open has never been easier
What Company Is Offering:
You will find what's open, what's closed, along with even more helpful information. One thing you won't have to worry about is annoying ads or other forms of tricky advertising - they keep it simple, friendly, and genuine.
How It Works:
Finding what's open has never been easier. Just type in what you're looking for (example: "pizza" or "starbucks" or "lamborghini dealership") and then type in your location (example: "92663" or "Newport Beach, Ca") and click "find it!". Immediately, depending how their servers are feeling, you should be taken to a virtual map with results to relevant results.
More at:http://www.whatsopen.com/
You will find what's open, what's closed, along with even more helpful information. One thing you won't have to worry about is annoying ads or other forms of tricky advertising - they keep it simple, friendly, and genuine.
How It Works:
Finding what's open has never been easier. Just type in what you're looking for (example: "pizza" or "starbucks" or "lamborghini dealership") and then type in your location (example: "92663" or "Newport Beach, Ca") and click "find it!". Immediately, depending how their servers are feeling, you should be taken to a virtual map with results to relevant results.
More at:http://www.whatsopen.com/
MeeMix---Internet Radio Station
What Company Is About:
At MeeMix, it's all about Mee, Mee, Mee!!
And when they say Mee, they mean YOU!
MeeMix understands how complex a creature you are. Your unique individuality and taste is formed by your innate qualities as well as the personal experiences throughout your life.
The future of entertainment, in MeeMix's vision is that each and every person will have one station and one channel that will satisfy their own unique taste.
We all love music, movies and TV shows but it seems as if there are just too many of them for us to find what we want, when we want it.
How It Works:
Its for: free, personalized and interactive entertainment. Doesn't that sound great? MeeMix is a place where you don't have to WORK to listen to the music you love. It's a place where you can sit back and enjoy the music and share your personal station with others. And this is just the beginning.
More at:http://www.meemix.com/
At MeeMix, it's all about Mee, Mee, Mee!!
And when they say Mee, they mean YOU!
MeeMix understands how complex a creature you are. Your unique individuality and taste is formed by your innate qualities as well as the personal experiences throughout your life.
The future of entertainment, in MeeMix's vision is that each and every person will have one station and one channel that will satisfy their own unique taste.
We all love music, movies and TV shows but it seems as if there are just too many of them for us to find what we want, when we want it.
How It Works:
Its for: free, personalized and interactive entertainment. Doesn't that sound great? MeeMix is a place where you don't have to WORK to listen to the music you love. It's a place where you can sit back and enjoy the music and share your personal station with others. And this is just the beginning.
More at:http://www.meemix.com/
Wix is an online application for creating and publishing stunning Web content in Flash
What Company Is Offering:
Wix is an online application for creating and publishing stunning Web content in Flash.
How It Works:
With Wix you don't have to be a designer or programmer to create gorgeous Websites and embeddable Web objects. Wix's drag & drop interface easily adds audio, video, images, text, animation, decoration, and so much more.
Wix can be published anywhere on the Web—social networks, blogs, as a stand-alone, etc.
How Is It Different:
Just like a regular website, the only difference being that is was built using the Wix editor and is rendered in Flash. A Wix Website is comparable in every other way to a normal website, in the sense that it provides multiple pages, navigation, graphics, text, and more. A major benefit of a Wix Website is its inherent XML structure, making it search engine friendly.
An ExtraSpace is an embeddable Wix object that expands the layout of a MySpace profile page, providing additional space for user-expression. Essentially, an ExtraSpace is a website within a MySpace profile.
Wix can be published anywhere on the Web.
Wix Website: can be published as a standalone site. At first, Wix websites will be published on Wix.com's domain, but in the future users will be able to publish their Wix websites at any URL.
More at:http://www.wix.com/
Wix is an online application for creating and publishing stunning Web content in Flash.
How It Works:
With Wix you don't have to be a designer or programmer to create gorgeous Websites and embeddable Web objects. Wix's drag & drop interface easily adds audio, video, images, text, animation, decoration, and so much more.
Wix can be published anywhere on the Web—social networks, blogs, as a stand-alone, etc.
How Is It Different:
Just like a regular website, the only difference being that is was built using the Wix editor and is rendered in Flash. A Wix Website is comparable in every other way to a normal website, in the sense that it provides multiple pages, navigation, graphics, text, and more. A major benefit of a Wix Website is its inherent XML structure, making it search engine friendly.
An ExtraSpace is an embeddable Wix object that expands the layout of a MySpace profile page, providing additional space for user-expression. Essentially, an ExtraSpace is a website within a MySpace profile.
Wix can be published anywhere on the Web.
Wix Website: can be published as a standalone site. At first, Wix websites will be published on Wix.com's domain, but in the future users will be able to publish their Wix websites at any URL.
More at:http://www.wix.com/
Liftopia---Find Discount Lift Tickets To Top Alpine Resorts
What Company Is Offering:
Liftopia, the new online marketplace where you’ll find discount lift tickets to top alpine resorts across the country.
How It Works:
Liftopia makes it safe for our resort partners to offer exclusive deals through our site. This way resorts can try to get more folks out on the slopes, without hurting their on-mountain prices. The term in the industry is "incremental purchases", which essentially means that with better deals for specific days, you will want to ski or ride more often than you would otherwise.
Liftopia partners with leading resorts across the nation in an effort to get people like you to their slopes more often. We work directly with our Resort Partners to identify opportunities for discounts and promotions that give downhill adventurers more opportunities to ski and snowboard for less. Liftopia is the best place to find great lift ticket deals at mountain resorts nationwide.
After purchasing your lift ticket(s) online at Liftopia, you will receive a Purchase Confirmation by e-mail. You must print out this document and present it at the “Will Call” ticket counter/desk of your chosen mountain resort. Remember, only you (the purchaser) can pick up the lift ticket(s), and you must present your Purchase Confirmation as well as a valid picture ID.
More at:http://www.liftopia.com/
Liftopia, the new online marketplace where you’ll find discount lift tickets to top alpine resorts across the country.
How It Works:
Liftopia makes it safe for our resort partners to offer exclusive deals through our site. This way resorts can try to get more folks out on the slopes, without hurting their on-mountain prices. The term in the industry is "incremental purchases", which essentially means that with better deals for specific days, you will want to ski or ride more often than you would otherwise.
Liftopia partners with leading resorts across the nation in an effort to get people like you to their slopes more often. We work directly with our Resort Partners to identify opportunities for discounts and promotions that give downhill adventurers more opportunities to ski and snowboard for less. Liftopia is the best place to find great lift ticket deals at mountain resorts nationwide.
After purchasing your lift ticket(s) online at Liftopia, you will receive a Purchase Confirmation by e-mail. You must print out this document and present it at the “Will Call” ticket counter/desk of your chosen mountain resort. Remember, only you (the purchaser) can pick up the lift ticket(s), and you must present your Purchase Confirmation as well as a valid picture ID.
More at:http://www.liftopia.com/
Hoosgot is a simple way to ask who’s got what you’re looking for
What Company Is Offering:
Hoosgot (pronounced “who’s got”) is a simple way to ask who’s got what you’re looking for. Just put “hoosgot” in a blog post or a Twitter tweet and it’ll show up here in Hoosgot. It’s meant to give you a place to send the requests for all of those things that you’ve wanted, but just can’t find - chances are, what you want already exists and someone else out there in the ether knows about it.
How It Works:
If someone’s got what you’re looking for, or a clue in that direction, they post a comment. RSS feeds flow from the comments.
For example, you might ask:
hoosgot an easy-to-use pencil sharpener that has suction cups on the bottom so I can stick it anywhere?
or:
hoosgot a simple camera bag that you can stick a laptop in, and still carry over your shoulder without knocking over pedestrians? Note I’m not looking for a knapsack or a backpack, I want it to act like a messenger bag…
And so on.
Of course, you can subscribe to hoosgot, they have RSS feeds so you can watch and participate - for hoosgot only works if you comment on the questions posed. Happen to know where someone can find the information they seek? Interested in collaborating with them on creating that invention described when the person invoked hoosgot or the lazyweb? Leave a comment on the entry, and give back to the web that has given us so much.
Who Is Backing Them:
Hoosgot is run by David Sifry, blogger, photographer, and entrepreneur, founder of a few companies you may have heard of, most recently Technorati. This is a personal project in his spare time.
More at:http://www.hoosgot.com/
Hoosgot (pronounced “who’s got”) is a simple way to ask who’s got what you’re looking for. Just put “hoosgot” in a blog post or a Twitter tweet and it’ll show up here in Hoosgot. It’s meant to give you a place to send the requests for all of those things that you’ve wanted, but just can’t find - chances are, what you want already exists and someone else out there in the ether knows about it.
How It Works:
If someone’s got what you’re looking for, or a clue in that direction, they post a comment. RSS feeds flow from the comments.
For example, you might ask:
hoosgot an easy-to-use pencil sharpener that has suction cups on the bottom so I can stick it anywhere?
or:
hoosgot a simple camera bag that you can stick a laptop in, and still carry over your shoulder without knocking over pedestrians? Note I’m not looking for a knapsack or a backpack, I want it to act like a messenger bag…
And so on.
Of course, you can subscribe to hoosgot, they have RSS feeds so you can watch and participate - for hoosgot only works if you comment on the questions posed. Happen to know where someone can find the information they seek? Interested in collaborating with them on creating that invention described when the person invoked hoosgot or the lazyweb? Leave a comment on the entry, and give back to the web that has given us so much.
Who Is Backing Them:
Hoosgot is run by David Sifry, blogger, photographer, and entrepreneur, founder of a few companies you may have heard of, most recently Technorati. This is a personal project in his spare time.
More at:http://www.hoosgot.com/
Get exact location of an IP address
What Company Is Offering:
Ip is an identifier for a computer or a device on a network. The ip address is used to identify the computers in a network. An IP address is written as four numbers separated by periods. Within a local network, the ip addresses can be assigned randomly, as long as they are unique, but over the internet you need to register the IP address.
How It Works:
Get exact location of an IP address. The tool shows country, state, city and internet service provider.
The IP address it’s not easy to get, but you can give it a try: When talking with someone on instant message, close all other programs, then go to Start, Run, and type “cmd”. In the windows that opens, type “netstat”. Trough this command, all open connections will be showed. If you closed all other programs, you can figure out easy which is the IP address you need.
Now you have the IP address, what to do next, use the tool at http://www.ipgp.net to get location. You can zoom in or out to get more details.
Also, with this tool you can find the location of someone who posted.
More at:http://www.ipgp.net/
Ip is an identifier for a computer or a device on a network. The ip address is used to identify the computers in a network. An IP address is written as four numbers separated by periods. Within a local network, the ip addresses can be assigned randomly, as long as they are unique, but over the internet you need to register the IP address.
How It Works:
Get exact location of an IP address. The tool shows country, state, city and internet service provider.
The IP address it’s not easy to get, but you can give it a try: When talking with someone on instant message, close all other programs, then go to Start, Run, and type “cmd”. In the windows that opens, type “netstat”. Trough this command, all open connections will be showed. If you closed all other programs, you can figure out easy which is the IP address you need.
Now you have the IP address, what to do next, use the tool at http://www.ipgp.net to get location. You can zoom in or out to get more details.
Also, with this tool you can find the location of someone who posted.
More at:http://www.ipgp.net/
Bookmark Tracker
What Company Is Offering:
BookmarkTracker.com, Inc. is now offering customized, private-labeled, web-based bookmarking solutions to portals, ISPs, Intranet's, Extranets, community sites or any other sites that would like to provide bookmarking functionality to their members.BookmarkTracker is a complete, easy-to-use web-application that allows you to safely store and organize your bookmarks online and securely access them from anywhere on the Internet.
Unique Features:
Keep your bookmarks secure in your own private password-protected account.
No banner ads, popup ads or email spam messages.
Synchronize your bookmarks securely between multiple computers and/or browsers.
Share your bookmarks anonymously with others.
Completely web-based. No additional software to install.
Store an unlimited number of bookmarks.
Automatic folders (My New Bookmarks, My Top Rated Bookmarks, Recently Visited, Most Visited).
Fast and FREE!
Works with Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox and Internet Explorer.
Public and private RSS feeds available.
More at:http://www.bookmarktracker.com/
BookmarkTracker.com, Inc. is now offering customized, private-labeled, web-based bookmarking solutions to portals, ISPs, Intranet's, Extranets, community sites or any other sites that would like to provide bookmarking functionality to their members.BookmarkTracker is a complete, easy-to-use web-application that allows you to safely store and organize your bookmarks online and securely access them from anywhere on the Internet.
Unique Features:
Keep your bookmarks secure in your own private password-protected account.
No banner ads, popup ads or email spam messages.
Synchronize your bookmarks securely between multiple computers and/or browsers.
Share your bookmarks anonymously with others.
Completely web-based. No additional software to install.
Store an unlimited number of bookmarks.
Automatic folders (My New Bookmarks, My Top Rated Bookmarks, Recently Visited, Most Visited).
Fast and FREE!
Works with Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox and Internet Explorer.
Public and private RSS feeds available.
More at:http://www.bookmarktracker.com/
MintEmail.com gives you a four hour temporary email address
What Company Is Offering:
MintEmail.com gives you a four hour temporary email address. Your new temporary email address has been already saved to your clipboard (no need to press Ctrl+C). All incoming emails will be displayed on this page.
How It Works:
Their website robot will automatically verify the email address for most websites. This means you no longer have to click on the URL link to verify the email (This feature currently works for most but not all websites).
Simply visit the website mintemail.com and a random email address will be automatically generated and copied to your clipboard. There's no need to press Ctrl+C. You can then go ahead and paste the email wherever its desired.
Once your email is received the title bar will automatically be updated. You don't need to constantly refresh the page to check if your email has arrived.
You can visit the page http://mintemail.com/username and it will display all the emails that are sent to username@mintemail.com .
More at: http://mintemail.com/
MintEmail.com gives you a four hour temporary email address. Your new temporary email address has been already saved to your clipboard (no need to press Ctrl+C). All incoming emails will be displayed on this page.
How It Works:
Their website robot will automatically verify the email address for most websites. This means you no longer have to click on the URL link to verify the email (This feature currently works for most but not all websites).
Simply visit the website mintemail.com and a random email address will be automatically generated and copied to your clipboard. There's no need to press Ctrl+C. You can then go ahead and paste the email wherever its desired.
Once your email is received the title bar will automatically be updated. You don't need to constantly refresh the page to check if your email has arrived.
You can visit the page http://mintemail.com/username and it will display all the emails that are sent to username@mintemail.com .
More at: http://mintemail.com/
monitority.com--They provide great utility for monitoring and test for every single web service
What Company Is Offering:
They provide great utility for monitoring and test for every single web service - website, ftp, e-mail, servers, giving also content monitoring for phrases in website and e-mail titles.
How It Works:
All data are safely gathered by checkpoints, visualized with readable charts,
real-time consultant will help You online.
If there will be some fault, breakdown or failure with monitored service - You will be the first to know about that. In speed of light they will inform You via e-mail or SMS, also giving such news to admin, webmaster, sale stuff or whomever You specify.
What They Monitor:
They monitor 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, from 5 independent checkpoints places all over the Earth, in time intervals from 1 to 60 minutes.
What They Test:
Websites, FTP servers, SSH, e-mail accounts, pop, smtp, VoIP, SLA,content accessability quality.
More at:http://monitority.com/
They provide great utility for monitoring and test for every single web service - website, ftp, e-mail, servers, giving also content monitoring for phrases in website and e-mail titles.
How It Works:
All data are safely gathered by checkpoints, visualized with readable charts,
real-time consultant will help You online.
If there will be some fault, breakdown or failure with monitored service - You will be the first to know about that. In speed of light they will inform You via e-mail or SMS, also giving such news to admin, webmaster, sale stuff or whomever You specify.
What They Monitor:
They monitor 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, from 5 independent checkpoints places all over the Earth, in time intervals from 1 to 60 minutes.
What They Test:
Websites, FTP servers, SSH, e-mail accounts, pop, smtp, VoIP, SLA,content accessability quality.
More at:http://monitority.com/
Sunday, December 30, 2007
DIET Tv---All they do is put a wealth of weight-loss information at your finger tips, give you access to experts, meal plans, weight- loss tracking
What Company Says:
With our help, you will lose weight and develop a healthy lifestyle.
Diet Television is not about quick fixes and experimental diet pills. After all, if the quick fixes worked, you wouldn't have any reason to visit this site - right? You don't have to be a rocket scientist or even a nutritionist to know that starvation diets, grapefruit-only diets, juice fasts, etc. are not lasting. The only thing that will get rid of that 5, 10, 20 or 50 pounds forever is a healthy lifestyle practiced each and every day.
How It Works:
DIET as a fresh start, empowerment, a plan for preventative health care and also peace of mind. They are not selling any weight loss gimmicks. They are simply applauding your courage and determination to make yourself healthier and happier, one pound at a time.
All they do is put a wealth of weight-loss information at your finger tips, give you access to experts, meal plans, weight- loss tracking tools, plus a rock- strong community of other dieters to offer advice, cheerleading, and best of all, friendship. You have nothing to lose, except for the extra weight of course.
More at:http://www.diettv.com/
With our help, you will lose weight and develop a healthy lifestyle.
Diet Television is not about quick fixes and experimental diet pills. After all, if the quick fixes worked, you wouldn't have any reason to visit this site - right? You don't have to be a rocket scientist or even a nutritionist to know that starvation diets, grapefruit-only diets, juice fasts, etc. are not lasting. The only thing that will get rid of that 5, 10, 20 or 50 pounds forever is a healthy lifestyle practiced each and every day.
How It Works:
DIET as a fresh start, empowerment, a plan for preventative health care and also peace of mind. They are not selling any weight loss gimmicks. They are simply applauding your courage and determination to make yourself healthier and happier, one pound at a time.
All they do is put a wealth of weight-loss information at your finger tips, give you access to experts, meal plans, weight- loss tracking tools, plus a rock- strong community of other dieters to offer advice, cheerleading, and best of all, friendship. You have nothing to lose, except for the extra weight of course.
More at:http://www.diettv.com/
Spipra is a free service that allows you to leave comments for any page on the web
What Company Is Offering:
Spipra is a free service that allows you to leave comments for any page on the web.Their goal is to make Spipra a central location for commenting on the web, allowing users to comment on multiple websites with just one login ID.
How It Works:
After placing a small button or text link on the pages of your site, your visitors will be able to easily leave comments for that particular page.With just one account, you can leave comments on Spipra for any page on the web.In an effort to reduce spam, they have placed a "Flag this post as spam" button that appears with every post. When a post is reported as spam, notification will be sent to a moderator for further investigation.Spipra is 100% free to use!
More at:http://www.spipra.com/
Spipra is a free service that allows you to leave comments for any page on the web.Their goal is to make Spipra a central location for commenting on the web, allowing users to comment on multiple websites with just one login ID.
How It Works:
After placing a small button or text link on the pages of your site, your visitors will be able to easily leave comments for that particular page.With just one account, you can leave comments on Spipra for any page on the web.In an effort to reduce spam, they have placed a "Flag this post as spam" button that appears with every post. When a post is reported as spam, notification will be sent to a moderator for further investigation.Spipra is 100% free to use!
More at:http://www.spipra.com/
eMarketer's Predictions For 2008
What will the new year bring?
Ben Macklin, Senior Analyst
Ad Spending
The Beijing Olympics and US presidential election will ensure that advertising spending will spike in 2008 across all sectors. The Olympics marks the "coming out" party of China. As was the case with South Korea in 1988, the games will be an important milestone for China's economic and political development. The competition will be fierce both on and off the sporting field as multinational organizations try to tap into China's growing middle class.
Politics Online
In the recent Australian election, a video appeared on YouTube that showed the prime minister-elect, Kevin Rudd, eating his ear wax. It didn't prevent him from winning the election, but it dogged him throughout the campaign. YouTube and the Internet in general will be an important battleground in the 2008 presidential election campaign in the United States. The influence of online-advocacy groups will continue to grow.
David Hallerman, Senior Analyst
Online Video
Internet video will produce more light than heat. That is, the array of video available online will jump dramatically both from professional content producers, such as TV networks, and from the growing panoply of amateurs. However, the heat of ad-spending dollars will remain small relative to the entire US online ad-spending universe.
Various large online video players, such as Google, Microsoft and the TV networks, will fortify their video offerings by buying small, ad-related companies.
Search Engines
At least one search engine will stop fighting the giant and farm out the bulk of its sponsored-link (a.k.a., paid-ad) results to Google.
A deal between Microsoft, Yahoo! or AOL (pick two of the three) will take place before the third quarter, but Google will still increase its share of ad revenues relative to those portals.
Online Ad Spending
Overall US online ad spending will be surprisingly resilient, even in the potentially recessionary economy. With money tight, marketing executives will continue to gravitate toward the Internet, looking for more measurable ad formats to buttress their positions.
Debra Aho Williamson, Senior Analyst
Social Networking
About 44% of US consumers will use social networking at least once a month. Although MySpace and Facebook will continue to dominate the market, changes are afoot that will extend social networking activities beyond a single destination site and into many other facets of the consumer Internet experience.
Profiles will eventually become portable, meaning consumers need only create one profile and be able to use it in many places on the Web. Small applications or “widgets” that today work with only one social networking destination site will be designed on an open platform, extending their reach. Activities such as online shopping, searching and even sending e-mail will be enhanced with social networking features.
Social networking will remain a key online activity regardless of the individual performance of MySpace or Facebook.
US ad spending on social networks will climb to nearly $1.6 billion in 2008, from $920 million in 2007. Although targeted advertising is getting the lion's share of attention and will continue to be a hot button in 2008, other forms of social network marketing, such as search advertising, widgets and e-commerce, will draw increased marketer interest. Additionally, self-serve advertising systems will create a new market for local and small businesses to promote themselves via social networks.
Video Games
Old video games will get a second life thanks to software from Double Fusion and other firms that can place ads retroactively into old games, which will then be placed online for free distribution to players.
The same concept will apply to console games distributed online for Xbox and Wii, although other firms such as Microsoft-owned Massive will provide the technology.
More at:http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?id=1005765&src=article2_home
Ben Macklin, Senior Analyst
Ad Spending
The Beijing Olympics and US presidential election will ensure that advertising spending will spike in 2008 across all sectors. The Olympics marks the "coming out" party of China. As was the case with South Korea in 1988, the games will be an important milestone for China's economic and political development. The competition will be fierce both on and off the sporting field as multinational organizations try to tap into China's growing middle class.
Politics Online
In the recent Australian election, a video appeared on YouTube that showed the prime minister-elect, Kevin Rudd, eating his ear wax. It didn't prevent him from winning the election, but it dogged him throughout the campaign. YouTube and the Internet in general will be an important battleground in the 2008 presidential election campaign in the United States. The influence of online-advocacy groups will continue to grow.
David Hallerman, Senior Analyst
Online Video
Internet video will produce more light than heat. That is, the array of video available online will jump dramatically both from professional content producers, such as TV networks, and from the growing panoply of amateurs. However, the heat of ad-spending dollars will remain small relative to the entire US online ad-spending universe.
Various large online video players, such as Google, Microsoft and the TV networks, will fortify their video offerings by buying small, ad-related companies.
Search Engines
At least one search engine will stop fighting the giant and farm out the bulk of its sponsored-link (a.k.a., paid-ad) results to Google.
A deal between Microsoft, Yahoo! or AOL (pick two of the three) will take place before the third quarter, but Google will still increase its share of ad revenues relative to those portals.
Online Ad Spending
Overall US online ad spending will be surprisingly resilient, even in the potentially recessionary economy. With money tight, marketing executives will continue to gravitate toward the Internet, looking for more measurable ad formats to buttress their positions.
Debra Aho Williamson, Senior Analyst
Social Networking
About 44% of US consumers will use social networking at least once a month. Although MySpace and Facebook will continue to dominate the market, changes are afoot that will extend social networking activities beyond a single destination site and into many other facets of the consumer Internet experience.
Profiles will eventually become portable, meaning consumers need only create one profile and be able to use it in many places on the Web. Small applications or “widgets” that today work with only one social networking destination site will be designed on an open platform, extending their reach. Activities such as online shopping, searching and even sending e-mail will be enhanced with social networking features.
Social networking will remain a key online activity regardless of the individual performance of MySpace or Facebook.
US ad spending on social networks will climb to nearly $1.6 billion in 2008, from $920 million in 2007. Although targeted advertising is getting the lion's share of attention and will continue to be a hot button in 2008, other forms of social network marketing, such as search advertising, widgets and e-commerce, will draw increased marketer interest. Additionally, self-serve advertising systems will create a new market for local and small businesses to promote themselves via social networks.
Video Games
Old video games will get a second life thanks to software from Double Fusion and other firms that can place ads retroactively into old games, which will then be placed online for free distribution to players.
The same concept will apply to console games distributed online for Xbox and Wii, although other firms such as Microsoft-owned Massive will provide the technology.
More at:http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?id=1005765&src=article2_home
Use "43 Things" For New Year Resolutions
What Company is Offering:
43 Things can help you document your success, share information, and make progress on what matters to you most.
How It Works:
Other people often have great ideas. You can get inspiration from others. Adopt a goal as your own or set up your own goals from scratch. Either way, 43 Things can help you document your success, share information, and make progress on what matters to you most.
Cheers are a simple way of supporting a person. You can cheer goals, entries, comments and photos. You have a handful of cheers to use each day. Use them wisely and help support the people you admire most on 43 Things.
Click on the Cheer this … link to show your support. The person you cheer will be able to see that you’ve cheered them on. You’ll also see that the cheer count has increased by one along with a message telling you how many cheers you have remaining for the day.
More at:http://www.43things.com/
43 Things can help you document your success, share information, and make progress on what matters to you most.
How It Works:
Other people often have great ideas. You can get inspiration from others. Adopt a goal as your own or set up your own goals from scratch. Either way, 43 Things can help you document your success, share information, and make progress on what matters to you most.
Cheers are a simple way of supporting a person. You can cheer goals, entries, comments and photos. You have a handful of cheers to use each day. Use them wisely and help support the people you admire most on 43 Things.
Click on the Cheer this … link to show your support. The person you cheer will be able to see that you’ve cheered them on. You’ll also see that the cheer count has increased by one along with a message telling you how many cheers you have remaining for the day.
More at:http://www.43things.com/
SpiralFrog is an ad-supported Web site got $2 million in funding
What Company Is Offering:
SpiralFrog is an ad-supported Web site. They sell ads on their pages to advertisers who want to talk to you. And they give the majority of that advertising revenue to the music publishers and labels who own the music you're downloading.
Most of their song and video downloads take a short, consistent amount of time to complete, during which they encourage you to keep discovering new areas of the Web site. Every page you visit allows them to serve more advertising, thus building the revenues they can pay to the content creators.As of now, they have over 800,000 songs available for you to download. You may download as many of these songs as you like – no limit. They are adding more songs and videos every week, so if you don’t see your favorite band, check back often to see the latest updates.
They do NOT ask you for a credit card. But they do ask for your time and attention.
How Much They Got From VCs:
They got $2 million in funding through the private placement of Senior Secured Exchangeable Notes. The Notes bear an interest rate of 12% annually with interest due quarterly commencing on January 1st, 2008. All proceeds from the net profits of the deal will be used to acquire additional content and expand their operations.
More at:http://www.spiralfrog.com/
SpiralFrog is an ad-supported Web site. They sell ads on their pages to advertisers who want to talk to you. And they give the majority of that advertising revenue to the music publishers and labels who own the music you're downloading.
Most of their song and video downloads take a short, consistent amount of time to complete, during which they encourage you to keep discovering new areas of the Web site. Every page you visit allows them to serve more advertising, thus building the revenues they can pay to the content creators.As of now, they have over 800,000 songs available for you to download. You may download as many of these songs as you like – no limit. They are adding more songs and videos every week, so if you don’t see your favorite band, check back often to see the latest updates.
They do NOT ask you for a credit card. But they do ask for your time and attention.
How Much They Got From VCs:
They got $2 million in funding through the private placement of Senior Secured Exchangeable Notes. The Notes bear an interest rate of 12% annually with interest due quarterly commencing on January 1st, 2008. All proceeds from the net profits of the deal will be used to acquire additional content and expand their operations.
More at:http://www.spiralfrog.com/
FrostWire, is a collaborative effort from many Open Source and freelance developers located from all around the world
What Company Is Offering:
FrostWire, is a collaborative effort from many Open Source and freelance developers located from all around the world. In late 2005, a few concerned developers of LimeWire's open source community announced the start of a new project fork "FrostWire" that would protect the developmental source code of the LimeWire client and any improvements to the Gnutella protocol design. The developers of FrostWire give high regard and respect to the GNU General Public License and consider it to be the ideal foundation of a creative and free enterprise market.
What's Purpose:
To build competitive services with the community at the heart and forefront of design and innovation. They believe that an aspirational enterprise must meet the needs of it's audience and develop services around the involved communities. They further believe the community will provide us with the ability to design new and creative innovations in technological development.
More at:http://www.frostwire.com/
FrostWire, is a collaborative effort from many Open Source and freelance developers located from all around the world. In late 2005, a few concerned developers of LimeWire's open source community announced the start of a new project fork "FrostWire" that would protect the developmental source code of the LimeWire client and any improvements to the Gnutella protocol design. The developers of FrostWire give high regard and respect to the GNU General Public License and consider it to be the ideal foundation of a creative and free enterprise market.
What's Purpose:
To build competitive services with the community at the heart and forefront of design and innovation. They believe that an aspirational enterprise must meet the needs of it's audience and develop services around the involved communities. They further believe the community will provide us with the ability to design new and creative innovations in technological development.
More at:http://www.frostwire.com/
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Wsoogle.com is a global online directory of web services and web service resources
What Company Is Offering:
Wsoogle.com is a global online directory of web services and web service resources. The directory lists web services from different places around the world providing services in 15 different disciplines including business, communication, e-commerce, finance, government and internet.
Different from most web service directories, Wsoogle.com has its own crawler and provides searching facilities to its users. Web service seekers/consumers are able to access the latest and most comprehensive web services information from a single point. Wsoogle.com also provides equal opportunities for web service providers with different sizes and types to promote and sell their service products.
How It Works:
Wsoogle.com uses a special algorithm to cluster web service operations based on their input and output message definitions. It also exams the description defined inside each WSDL document and creates a semantic model for each web service operation. The semantic model is created using ontology due to the vision we shared with the semantic web community.
Wsoogle.com gives software development teams and individuals the opportunities to reduce their work load and to maximise their revenues. Companies can save a large amount of money by utilising other people?s solutions, or to increase the revenue by selling their existing solutions through SOA (Service Oriented Architecture). Building a web service is simple; you can refer to the web service tutorial section for more information.
More at:http://www.wsoogle.com/
Wsoogle.com is a global online directory of web services and web service resources. The directory lists web services from different places around the world providing services in 15 different disciplines including business, communication, e-commerce, finance, government and internet.
Different from most web service directories, Wsoogle.com has its own crawler and provides searching facilities to its users. Web service seekers/consumers are able to access the latest and most comprehensive web services information from a single point. Wsoogle.com also provides equal opportunities for web service providers with different sizes and types to promote and sell their service products.
How It Works:
Wsoogle.com uses a special algorithm to cluster web service operations based on their input and output message definitions. It also exams the description defined inside each WSDL document and creates a semantic model for each web service operation. The semantic model is created using ontology due to the vision we shared with the semantic web community.
Wsoogle.com gives software development teams and individuals the opportunities to reduce their work load and to maximise their revenues. Companies can save a large amount of money by utilising other people?s solutions, or to increase the revenue by selling their existing solutions through SOA (Service Oriented Architecture). Building a web service is simple; you can refer to the web service tutorial section for more information.
More at:http://www.wsoogle.com/
Autobrag.com is the internet's first car price search engine
What Company Says:
Autobrag.com is the internet's first car price search engine. They help car buyers save time and money by answering the question: how much should I pay for a new car? Their search engine reveals car prices from dealerships around the country that are offering a no haggle experience.
This is a dramatic shift from how the industry works today where almost all the leading auto websites are in the business of generating “leads”. When attempting to shop for prices on their websites you are asked the make and model of the car you are looking for along with your contact information. The website then sells the "leads" to dealerships willing to pay for your information. That is when the emails and phone calls from the car dealerships starting coming in.They asked themselves how can the new car buying process can be dramatically improved? The answer was simple: deliver price transparency to car shoppers saving time and money.
How It Works:
They’re providing a free service that eliminates much of the stress and frustration that is typically associated with buying a new car. At the end of the day AutoBrag’s mission is to save people time and money. With just the click of the mouse AutoBrag.com shows you the actual selling prices for tens of thousands of cars from hundreds of dealerships around the country that offer a “no haggle” car shopping experience.
Research new car prices at AutoBrag.com. Find the best deal and then purchase the vehicle directly from one of the dealerships quoted on AutoBrag. Or compare these prices to your local dealer and negotiate the best deal possible. AutoBrag does not sell cars, but shows consumers tens of thousands of cars from hundreds of dealers around the country that offer a “no haggle” car shopping experience.
How To Use It:
To use AutoBrag’s services, consumers must be invited to become a beta tester by AutoBrag or an already registered user. In order to be invited, consumers must register only their email addresses on the site. It is not necessary to provide any additional information and the email address is not used or sold.Their service is free of charge for individuals looking for a new vehicle.
More at:http://www.autobrag.com/
Autobrag.com is the internet's first car price search engine. They help car buyers save time and money by answering the question: how much should I pay for a new car? Their search engine reveals car prices from dealerships around the country that are offering a no haggle experience.
This is a dramatic shift from how the industry works today where almost all the leading auto websites are in the business of generating “leads”. When attempting to shop for prices on their websites you are asked the make and model of the car you are looking for along with your contact information. The website then sells the "leads" to dealerships willing to pay for your information. That is when the emails and phone calls from the car dealerships starting coming in.They asked themselves how can the new car buying process can be dramatically improved? The answer was simple: deliver price transparency to car shoppers saving time and money.
How It Works:
They’re providing a free service that eliminates much of the stress and frustration that is typically associated with buying a new car. At the end of the day AutoBrag’s mission is to save people time and money. With just the click of the mouse AutoBrag.com shows you the actual selling prices for tens of thousands of cars from hundreds of dealerships around the country that offer a “no haggle” car shopping experience.
Research new car prices at AutoBrag.com. Find the best deal and then purchase the vehicle directly from one of the dealerships quoted on AutoBrag. Or compare these prices to your local dealer and negotiate the best deal possible. AutoBrag does not sell cars, but shows consumers tens of thousands of cars from hundreds of dealers around the country that offer a “no haggle” car shopping experience.
How To Use It:
To use AutoBrag’s services, consumers must be invited to become a beta tester by AutoBrag or an already registered user. In order to be invited, consumers must register only their email addresses on the site. It is not necessary to provide any additional information and the email address is not used or sold.Their service is free of charge for individuals looking for a new vehicle.
More at:http://www.autobrag.com/
instaSaver is a web service that enables you to instantly transform your favorite photos into a full-featured screensaver
What Company Is offering:
instaSaver is a web service that enables you to instantly transform your favorite photos into a full-featured screensaver.
How It Works:
Use instaSaver.com to instantly create your own Screensaver online. It is as easy as 1-2-3. Just specify the name, upload your favorite pictures and the screensaver with over 150 transition effects is ready! You will get a fully standalone distribution package that enables you to easily install and/or distribute your screensaver. The installer will automatically install the screensaver on the user's computer and activate it. If the user would like to remove the screensaver, he can do it using the same installer application.
After creating a screensaver with instaSaver you will get a fully standalone distribution exe package that enables you to easily install the screensaver. Just launch the exe file and click the Install button.
On the Create Screensaver page click the Browse... button and use the file selection dialog to specify your image file. Repeat this step for all your slides. Only JPEG files supported. Files cannot be bigger than 512KB each. Max. 10 files allowed.
Enable the "Slide over" option to slide a new image over the current during the transition. Widths and heights of all the images must be equal. Otherwise, the "Slide over" option will not work.
More at:http://www.instasaver.com/
instaSaver is a web service that enables you to instantly transform your favorite photos into a full-featured screensaver.
How It Works:
Use instaSaver.com to instantly create your own Screensaver online. It is as easy as 1-2-3. Just specify the name, upload your favorite pictures and the screensaver with over 150 transition effects is ready! You will get a fully standalone distribution package that enables you to easily install and/or distribute your screensaver. The installer will automatically install the screensaver on the user's computer and activate it. If the user would like to remove the screensaver, he can do it using the same installer application.
After creating a screensaver with instaSaver you will get a fully standalone distribution exe package that enables you to easily install the screensaver. Just launch the exe file and click the Install button.
On the Create Screensaver page click the Browse... button and use the file selection dialog to specify your image file. Repeat this step for all your slides. Only JPEG files supported. Files cannot be bigger than 512KB each. Max. 10 files allowed.
Enable the "Slide over" option to slide a new image over the current during the transition. Widths and heights of all the images must be equal. Otherwise, the "Slide over" option will not work.
More at:http://www.instasaver.com/
Fishermen Receive Updates On Catching Fish In The Sea On Their Mobile Phones
Leading network infrastructure solutions provider ADC Krone will partner with telecom services provider Tata Indicom to enable fishermen receive updates on weather and information on catching fish in the sea on their mobile phones, the company said Wednesday.
Krone said the initiative has been taken up as a pilot project under the aegis of M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation at Veerampattinam in Tamil Nadu and would be followed soon as a commercial service.
'Fishermen will hereafter spend far less time at sea, as they will know before sailing the weather conditions, wave height and wind velocity and direction,' the company said in a statement.
Some 5,000 villages on the coast will be able to use the application. The mobile coverage will extend up to six km into the sea.
'The project is aimed at equipping the fishing community with weather knowledge, concentration of fish pools and safety messages. It will also minimise loss of life,' Krone managing director Bala Chandran said.
The geographic base of Indian marine fisheries has 8,118-km coastline, 2.02 million sq km of exclusive economic zone, including 0.5 million sq km of continental shelf and 3,937 fishing villages.
There are 1,896 traditional fish landing centres, 33 minor and six major fishing harbours, serving as bases for about 208,000 traditional non-motorised craft, 55,000 small-scale beach-landing craft fitted with outboard motors, 51,250 mechanised craft and 180 deep-sea fishing vessels.
More at:http://www.adc.com/
Krone said the initiative has been taken up as a pilot project under the aegis of M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation at Veerampattinam in Tamil Nadu and would be followed soon as a commercial service.
'Fishermen will hereafter spend far less time at sea, as they will know before sailing the weather conditions, wave height and wind velocity and direction,' the company said in a statement.
Some 5,000 villages on the coast will be able to use the application. The mobile coverage will extend up to six km into the sea.
'The project is aimed at equipping the fishing community with weather knowledge, concentration of fish pools and safety messages. It will also minimise loss of life,' Krone managing director Bala Chandran said.
The geographic base of Indian marine fisheries has 8,118-km coastline, 2.02 million sq km of exclusive economic zone, including 0.5 million sq km of continental shelf and 3,937 fishing villages.
There are 1,896 traditional fish landing centres, 33 minor and six major fishing harbours, serving as bases for about 208,000 traditional non-motorised craft, 55,000 small-scale beach-landing craft fitted with outboard motors, 51,250 mechanised craft and 180 deep-sea fishing vessels.
More at:http://www.adc.com/
Travel Club---Unusual But Workable Idea
The villagers from Kayanna, 45 km from Kozhikode, are not rich, managing to earn about Rs.3,000-4,000 per month. But thanks to the travel clubs, they are confident about travelling and meeting the expenses.
The villages of Kayanna and adjacent Koorachundu are home to more than a dozen travel clubs. Tours are an indispensable biennial event in these villages.
'The last time we planned to fly to Delhi it did not materialise because the plan did not get a nod from the majority of club members. Next year, too, we will propose a trip to New Delhi by plane. If members approve the plan, we will have no problem in organising the trip,' A.K. Sajeevan, secretary of the Phoenix Family Club at Karikandanpara, a small hamlet near Kayanna, told IANS.
Sajeevan has been the secretary of the club for the last 10 years. This hamlet itself has around four tour clubs and some of the villagers are members of more than one club.
The travel clubs that run on subscription from villagers and memberships are open to all.
The clubs have an ingenious way to raise funds for the tours. Each club has around 45-50 members; enough to hire a bus for a trip. The members pay a monthly subscription of Rs.100 for two years.
The corpus raised is invested in some ventures and the profit is used for organising tours. After the trip, members get back their subscription amount.
'Last time, our club bought hay from Palghat (around 150-km south from here) during harvest season with the subscription money. Later, we sold the fodder for a good profit here,' said Sajeevan.
The tour clubs also execute contracts tendered by the local administrative bodies with the money. In their last trip to tourist spots across Kerala, the Pheonix Club had spent around Rs.80,000.
'Apart from investing the money in small businesses, we also give loans to club members at a nominal interest rate,' said C.K. Narayanan, president of Udaya Club. Narayanan is a construction worker.
If you enquire about the origin of travel clubs or about people's penchant for tours, villagers have no clear answer. 'I am an active member of various tour clubs for the last 22 years and went for about 10 tours. I don't know who started the first club here. These clubs were there when I was a child,' said E.J. Shaju, a middle-aged farmer, a member of the Idea Club.
The club has 15 families as members and three from a family can take part in tours.
'I have already visited Goa, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. However, no clubs have ventured to North India yet,' said Shaju.
The clubs have strict code of conduct. 'Each member should read the rules and should sign the form before becoming members,' said Sajeevan.
It is during the general body meeting of the clubs that travel plans are finalised. 'The destination and tour plan will be decided by vote. All the members have to go by majority decision,' he added.
A panel comprising six or seven members looks after the club administration. A two-member audit team will keep tab on accounts.
During a trip, a discipline committee of three members will be formed to keep order during travel.
'The travel clubs are a community enterprise here. It helps strengthen relationships as families will be spending almost a week together during the tours,' Sajeevan said.
The villages of Kayanna and adjacent Koorachundu are home to more than a dozen travel clubs. Tours are an indispensable biennial event in these villages.
'The last time we planned to fly to Delhi it did not materialise because the plan did not get a nod from the majority of club members. Next year, too, we will propose a trip to New Delhi by plane. If members approve the plan, we will have no problem in organising the trip,' A.K. Sajeevan, secretary of the Phoenix Family Club at Karikandanpara, a small hamlet near Kayanna, told IANS.
Sajeevan has been the secretary of the club for the last 10 years. This hamlet itself has around four tour clubs and some of the villagers are members of more than one club.
The travel clubs that run on subscription from villagers and memberships are open to all.
The clubs have an ingenious way to raise funds for the tours. Each club has around 45-50 members; enough to hire a bus for a trip. The members pay a monthly subscription of Rs.100 for two years.
The corpus raised is invested in some ventures and the profit is used for organising tours. After the trip, members get back their subscription amount.
'Last time, our club bought hay from Palghat (around 150-km south from here) during harvest season with the subscription money. Later, we sold the fodder for a good profit here,' said Sajeevan.
The tour clubs also execute contracts tendered by the local administrative bodies with the money. In their last trip to tourist spots across Kerala, the Pheonix Club had spent around Rs.80,000.
'Apart from investing the money in small businesses, we also give loans to club members at a nominal interest rate,' said C.K. Narayanan, president of Udaya Club. Narayanan is a construction worker.
If you enquire about the origin of travel clubs or about people's penchant for tours, villagers have no clear answer. 'I am an active member of various tour clubs for the last 22 years and went for about 10 tours. I don't know who started the first club here. These clubs were there when I was a child,' said E.J. Shaju, a middle-aged farmer, a member of the Idea Club.
The club has 15 families as members and three from a family can take part in tours.
'I have already visited Goa, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. However, no clubs have ventured to North India yet,' said Shaju.
The clubs have strict code of conduct. 'Each member should read the rules and should sign the form before becoming members,' said Sajeevan.
It is during the general body meeting of the clubs that travel plans are finalised. 'The destination and tour plan will be decided by vote. All the members have to go by majority decision,' he added.
A panel comprising six or seven members looks after the club administration. A two-member audit team will keep tab on accounts.
During a trip, a discipline committee of three members will be formed to keep order during travel.
'The travel clubs are a community enterprise here. It helps strengthen relationships as families will be spending almost a week together during the tours,' Sajeevan said.
The serial for cell phones --Unique Idea
Digital technology has changed the economics of India's Rs.440 billion ($11 billion) entertainment industry and entrepreneur Rajat Barjatya, the scion of one of Bollywood's biggest film banners, is set to tap it in a big way.
Rajat, the younger brother of Sooraj Barjatya who owns Rajshri Productions, is coming up with the first ever serial for mobile phone users in India.
'I hate to use the term first. I would rather say that we are among the first to make a serious attempt at doing this. We have produced a 90 episode series, with three minutes per episode, and it is in the humour genre,' Rajat told IANS in an interview here.
Rajat launched his company Rajshri Media last year that specialises in producing content for new media like Internet, mobile phones and ipods.
The serial for cell phones is Rajat's second breakthrough in the last 13 months, thanks to digital technology. His first endeavour was the release of Rajshri's 'Vivah' simultaneously in theatres and online on its website.
'We are going to put the serial out towards the end of January. Its very desi, compelling and one of its kind and I think people are going to love it,' he added.
Mobile telephone users are currently estimated at close to 220 million. After Internet penetration, which is pegged at 46 million, with an active base of over 32 million in India, Rajat has plans of exploiting the mobile phone medium now.
Rajat said: 'We are looking at new delivery platforms which could be online delivery, delivery via telecom, delivery via IPTV networks. Essentially, we believe that we need to create content for new entertainment devices, which are proliferating and entertaining audiences.
'Earlier there was cinema and TV. Today, PC, mobile phones and devices like ipod are personal entertainment touch points to the audience. So we are looking at these third, fourth and fifth screens (which is PC, mobile and ipod).'
'For smaller screens, you need a different way of thinking - you have to conceive, develop and produce content in a different way. Just the way TV content is developed, conceived and produced differently than cinema.'
When Rajat released 'Vivah' online, for the first few days he allowed surfers to download the film for free and later it was sold at Rs.400 ($10) per download. Nine months later, it had sold 6,500 downloads, according to an Ernst and amp; Young report.
When asked about the budget for his new venture, Rajat refused to give any details.
However, he spoke enthusiastically about his Internet invasion and said: 'After 'Vivah' we have released a dozen films of UTV, Pritish Nandy Communications and Shemaroo like 'Hattrick', 'Life In A Metro', 'Bow Barracks Forever', 'Blue Umbrella' and 'Dhamaal. It's all revenue share.'
How It Works:
'Essentially, we sign an agreement with the producer, we digitise the movie, upload it on our servers in the US and make it available on the Internet at a certain price. If we have sufficient time on hand, we upload it with subtitles in different Indian and foreign languages.
Via-India Business news
Rajat, the younger brother of Sooraj Barjatya who owns Rajshri Productions, is coming up with the first ever serial for mobile phone users in India.
'I hate to use the term first. I would rather say that we are among the first to make a serious attempt at doing this. We have produced a 90 episode series, with three minutes per episode, and it is in the humour genre,' Rajat told IANS in an interview here.
Rajat launched his company Rajshri Media last year that specialises in producing content for new media like Internet, mobile phones and ipods.
The serial for cell phones is Rajat's second breakthrough in the last 13 months, thanks to digital technology. His first endeavour was the release of Rajshri's 'Vivah' simultaneously in theatres and online on its website.
'We are going to put the serial out towards the end of January. Its very desi, compelling and one of its kind and I think people are going to love it,' he added.
Mobile telephone users are currently estimated at close to 220 million. After Internet penetration, which is pegged at 46 million, with an active base of over 32 million in India, Rajat has plans of exploiting the mobile phone medium now.
Rajat said: 'We are looking at new delivery platforms which could be online delivery, delivery via telecom, delivery via IPTV networks. Essentially, we believe that we need to create content for new entertainment devices, which are proliferating and entertaining audiences.
'Earlier there was cinema and TV. Today, PC, mobile phones and devices like ipod are personal entertainment touch points to the audience. So we are looking at these third, fourth and fifth screens (which is PC, mobile and ipod).'
'For smaller screens, you need a different way of thinking - you have to conceive, develop and produce content in a different way. Just the way TV content is developed, conceived and produced differently than cinema.'
When Rajat released 'Vivah' online, for the first few days he allowed surfers to download the film for free and later it was sold at Rs.400 ($10) per download. Nine months later, it had sold 6,500 downloads, according to an Ernst and amp; Young report.
When asked about the budget for his new venture, Rajat refused to give any details.
However, he spoke enthusiastically about his Internet invasion and said: 'After 'Vivah' we have released a dozen films of UTV, Pritish Nandy Communications and Shemaroo like 'Hattrick', 'Life In A Metro', 'Bow Barracks Forever', 'Blue Umbrella' and 'Dhamaal. It's all revenue share.'
How It Works:
'Essentially, we sign an agreement with the producer, we digitise the movie, upload it on our servers in the US and make it available on the Internet at a certain price. If we have sufficient time on hand, we upload it with subtitles in different Indian and foreign languages.
Via-India Business news
Godkut aims to create the largest faith-based social network in the world
What Company Is Offering:
Godkut aims to create the largest faith-based social network in the world. They envision a world where peace, love and unity overtake religion and prejudice; a world without walls, where people can relate with one another as creations of ONE creator – irrespective of their religious beliefs or practices.
How It Works:
Godkut aims to unite people from all faiths and walks of life. There are no religious, social or cultural barriers on Godkut. We encourage healthy debates on questions related to spirituality, evolution and the purpose of life. Godkut is NOT a religious website favored towards any single particular community or sect. Hatred, prejudice, blasphemy or extremist views against any particular sect or religion, whether minority or otherwise, will defeat the entire purpose of the site, and hence will be strictly dealt with.
By becoming a member of Godkut, you agree that you love God and others made by Him!
Their sole aim is to bring God talk out of the closet, by giving people a platform for openly sharing their perceptions/experiences about God. Hopefully, Godkut will help people come in terms with their spirituality and join hands with others in seeking after God. Beats posting useless scraps about Britney’s wardrobe on other social networking websites doesn’t it?
More at:http://godkut.com/
Godkut aims to create the largest faith-based social network in the world. They envision a world where peace, love and unity overtake religion and prejudice; a world without walls, where people can relate with one another as creations of ONE creator – irrespective of their religious beliefs or practices.
How It Works:
Godkut aims to unite people from all faiths and walks of life. There are no religious, social or cultural barriers on Godkut. We encourage healthy debates on questions related to spirituality, evolution and the purpose of life. Godkut is NOT a religious website favored towards any single particular community or sect. Hatred, prejudice, blasphemy or extremist views against any particular sect or religion, whether minority or otherwise, will defeat the entire purpose of the site, and hence will be strictly dealt with.
By becoming a member of Godkut, you agree that you love God and others made by Him!
Their sole aim is to bring God talk out of the closet, by giving people a platform for openly sharing their perceptions/experiences about God. Hopefully, Godkut will help people come in terms with their spirituality and join hands with others in seeking after God. Beats posting useless scraps about Britney’s wardrobe on other social networking websites doesn’t it?
More at:http://godkut.com/
Choose Your Own Adventure-style tales
What Company Is Offering:
Protagonize is an online community dedicated to the (nearly) lost art of the addventure (yes, that's spelled right), a very specific type of collaborative fiction. Early forms of this on the web date back over a decade, when Snoot.com popularized a site called "Choose Your Own Schizophrenia", an collaborative fiction site popular in the mid-to-late '90s. Of course, this all dates back to the old Choose Your Own Adventure series that started back in 1979 and ran until 1998, published by Bantam Books.
How It Works:
An addventure is a type of online interactive fiction that combines aspects of round-robin stories and Choose Your Own Adventure-style tales. Like a round-robin story, an addventure is a form of collaborative fiction in which many authors contribute to a story, each writing discrete segments. However, like a gamebook, the resulting narrative is non-linear, allowing authors to branch out in different directions after each segment of the story. The result is a continually growing work of hypertext fiction.
Protagonize would like to update this concept, not only with the contributions of the users, but with a bit of web 2.0 mixed in there as well. While there are countless websites out there that have an ongoing, round-the-robin formats for collaborative stories. Protagonize puts some handy tracking tools in there so that you can better stay afloat with the stories you like and those that you create. It’s an approach similar to coComment: you’ve created content on a third-party site, and it’s interactive on multiple levels. Others can respond to your content, build on it, and take things in an entirely different direction.
More at:http://www.protagonize.com/
Protagonize is an online community dedicated to the (nearly) lost art of the addventure (yes, that's spelled right), a very specific type of collaborative fiction. Early forms of this on the web date back over a decade, when Snoot.com popularized a site called "Choose Your Own Schizophrenia", an collaborative fiction site popular in the mid-to-late '90s. Of course, this all dates back to the old Choose Your Own Adventure series that started back in 1979 and ran until 1998, published by Bantam Books.
How It Works:
An addventure is a type of online interactive fiction that combines aspects of round-robin stories and Choose Your Own Adventure-style tales. Like a round-robin story, an addventure is a form of collaborative fiction in which many authors contribute to a story, each writing discrete segments. However, like a gamebook, the resulting narrative is non-linear, allowing authors to branch out in different directions after each segment of the story. The result is a continually growing work of hypertext fiction.
Protagonize would like to update this concept, not only with the contributions of the users, but with a bit of web 2.0 mixed in there as well. While there are countless websites out there that have an ongoing, round-the-robin formats for collaborative stories. Protagonize puts some handy tracking tools in there so that you can better stay afloat with the stories you like and those that you create. It’s an approach similar to coComment: you’ve created content on a third-party site, and it’s interactive on multiple levels. Others can respond to your content, build on it, and take things in an entirely different direction.
More at:http://www.protagonize.com/
Friday, December 28, 2007
FON is a Community of people making WiFi universal and free
What Company Is Offering:
FON is the largest WiFi community in the world. FON is a Community of people making WiFi universal and free. Their vision is WiFi everywhere made possible by the members of the Community, Foneros. They share some of their home Internet connection and get free access to the Community’s FON Spots worldwide.
How It Works:
Their Community WiFi router, La Fonera, allows everyone to share WiFi in a secure environment. It takes only five minutes to hook up, and then you’ve got WiFi at home and around the world for free!.
Foneros connect to thousands of WiFi FON Spots worldwide for free. If you still do not share your WiFi, you can purchase inexpensive access. Find FON Spots on our FON Maps.
FON is a Movimiento of people building a free, global WiFi Community, sharing our experiences and ideas.
Who Is Backing Them:
Martin Varsavsky Is CEO And Founder: Argentine entrepreneur and philanthropist, Martin is the founder of highly successful companies such as Viatel, Jazztel and Ya.com. Martin also teaches at the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, Spain and is President and Founder of The Varsavsky Foundation and the Safe-Democracy Foundation, and was Ambassador-at-Large of Argentina up to 2005.
Jose Antonio Arribas
Jose Antonio Arribas: CTO, Chief Technical Officer. Jose Antonio has been an integral part of the development of the Internet in Spain over the last 10 years. For the past 5 years, he acted as Ya.com’s Technical Director. Previously, he had worked in Retevisión as head of the Systems Department during the launch of the Alehop portal. Jose Antonio began his professional career in 1996 at Servicom S.A., one of Spain’s first ISPs.
Diego Cabezudo
Diego Cabezudo: COO, Chief Operations Officer. Diego was formerly Strategy Manager at O2in Ireland, where among others was the Business Sponsor leading the launch of the 3G network and was responsible for the first commercial WiFi hotspots in Ireland. He has also worked in a cable operator (TeleCable) in technical, marketing and sales roles and in DMR/Fujitsu Consulting. Diego is a Telecommunications Engineer, holds an MBA from the London Business School, UK and Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, US and is a member of the IEEE. Diego also had some fun presenting a TV program in Spain, about Internet and new technologies.
More at:http://www.fon.com/
FON is the largest WiFi community in the world. FON is a Community of people making WiFi universal and free. Their vision is WiFi everywhere made possible by the members of the Community, Foneros. They share some of their home Internet connection and get free access to the Community’s FON Spots worldwide.
How It Works:
Their Community WiFi router, La Fonera, allows everyone to share WiFi in a secure environment. It takes only five minutes to hook up, and then you’ve got WiFi at home and around the world for free!.
Foneros connect to thousands of WiFi FON Spots worldwide for free. If you still do not share your WiFi, you can purchase inexpensive access. Find FON Spots on our FON Maps.
FON is a Movimiento of people building a free, global WiFi Community, sharing our experiences and ideas.
Who Is Backing Them:
Martin Varsavsky Is CEO And Founder: Argentine entrepreneur and philanthropist, Martin is the founder of highly successful companies such as Viatel, Jazztel and Ya.com. Martin also teaches at the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, Spain and is President and Founder of The Varsavsky Foundation and the Safe-Democracy Foundation, and was Ambassador-at-Large of Argentina up to 2005.
Jose Antonio Arribas
Jose Antonio Arribas: CTO, Chief Technical Officer. Jose Antonio has been an integral part of the development of the Internet in Spain over the last 10 years. For the past 5 years, he acted as Ya.com’s Technical Director. Previously, he had worked in Retevisión as head of the Systems Department during the launch of the Alehop portal. Jose Antonio began his professional career in 1996 at Servicom S.A., one of Spain’s first ISPs.
Diego Cabezudo
Diego Cabezudo: COO, Chief Operations Officer. Diego was formerly Strategy Manager at O2in Ireland, where among others was the Business Sponsor leading the launch of the 3G network and was responsible for the first commercial WiFi hotspots in Ireland. He has also worked in a cable operator (TeleCable) in technical, marketing and sales roles and in DMR/Fujitsu Consulting. Diego is a Telecommunications Engineer, holds an MBA from the London Business School, UK and Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, US and is a member of the IEEE. Diego also had some fun presenting a TV program in Spain, about Internet and new technologies.
More at:http://www.fon.com/
Ourvoice is created to address the needs of the Indian Consumers Community
What Company is Offering:
Ourvoice is created to address the needs of the Indian Consumers Community. The growth and globalization of India has created huge demand for the businessess and increased expectations of the consumers. Though there are many Government established institutions for the purpose of dispute resolution and creating awarness, they are heavily overloaded and inadequate in resources, which in turn delays the logical and equitable resolutions. And certainly, this platform does NOT replace the Judicial Systems.
How It Works:
It is a internet based platform to accept grievances and forward to approriate respondent to address and try to resolve. All such issues are tracked till the life of it and at the logical end feeds the ratings mechanism to judge the friendliness of the Business towards their customers. All at NO COST and convenience of easy accessibility and availablity both to consumer as well as to the respondent! We believe that most of the respondents are willing to resolve to the satisfaction of their customers. And if a platform is convienent and simple and yet effective, above all, free, why not use it.
More at:http://ourvoice.in/
Ourvoice is created to address the needs of the Indian Consumers Community. The growth and globalization of India has created huge demand for the businessess and increased expectations of the consumers. Though there are many Government established institutions for the purpose of dispute resolution and creating awarness, they are heavily overloaded and inadequate in resources, which in turn delays the logical and equitable resolutions. And certainly, this platform does NOT replace the Judicial Systems.
How It Works:
It is a internet based platform to accept grievances and forward to approriate respondent to address and try to resolve. All such issues are tracked till the life of it and at the logical end feeds the ratings mechanism to judge the friendliness of the Business towards their customers. All at NO COST and convenience of easy accessibility and availablity both to consumer as well as to the respondent! We believe that most of the respondents are willing to resolve to the satisfaction of their customers. And if a platform is convienent and simple and yet effective, above all, free, why not use it.
More at:http://ourvoice.in/
Sosius---Create,Manage,Connect Your Digital Life
What Company Is Offering:
Sosius is a new, powerful way of managing the digital information in your life without the need for lots of different, complicated services and providers.
Your Sosius account provides you with a 200 MB workspace that you can use to store, organize and share information with whoever you want, wherever they are.
What sort of information? Almost anything!
Documents, files, web pages, calendar items, databases, projects and tasks, lists, contacts.
Whether you're running a fast moving business across multiple locations with your associates always on the road or organizing the local softball team Sosius provides the perfect place to bring it all together.
How It Works:
With its unique peer networking approach and host of useful tools, Sosius brings a new level of efficiency to 'group work'. Anything that requires people to work together - be it a major deadline at the office, or managing a sales team out on the road - can be made easier with Sosius. You simply create a project workspace, and then invite people to join it, securely: co-workers, project members, friends.
Sosius gives you tools to communicate and schedule, assign tasks, develop strategies, and get results. In life, one thing depends on another, which leads to yet another: make Sosius "workflow" move your projects through the maze, so you can stay focused on priorities. Easy to get started, yet hard to outgrow.
More at:http://www.sosius.com/
Sosius is a new, powerful way of managing the digital information in your life without the need for lots of different, complicated services and providers.
Your Sosius account provides you with a 200 MB workspace that you can use to store, organize and share information with whoever you want, wherever they are.
What sort of information? Almost anything!
Documents, files, web pages, calendar items, databases, projects and tasks, lists, contacts.
Whether you're running a fast moving business across multiple locations with your associates always on the road or organizing the local softball team Sosius provides the perfect place to bring it all together.
How It Works:
With its unique peer networking approach and host of useful tools, Sosius brings a new level of efficiency to 'group work'. Anything that requires people to work together - be it a major deadline at the office, or managing a sales team out on the road - can be made easier with Sosius. You simply create a project workspace, and then invite people to join it, securely: co-workers, project members, friends.
Sosius gives you tools to communicate and schedule, assign tasks, develop strategies, and get results. In life, one thing depends on another, which leads to yet another: make Sosius "workflow" move your projects through the maze, so you can stay focused on priorities. Easy to get started, yet hard to outgrow.
More at:http://www.sosius.com/
Icerocket---new and more powerful ways for customers to find exactly what they are looking for
What Company Is Offering:
Icerocket is a global leader in commercial search services on the Internet, providing new and more powerful ways for customers to find exactly what they are looking for. IceRocket is pioneering commercial search by putting the interests and wants of consumers before advertisers. IceRocket has innovative blog search technology to search blogosphere.
How It Works:
IceRocket works like a typical search engine. Simply enter your term into their search box and click "Search" to find web documents that match your results.If your query contains more than one search term, IceRocket will automatically (and by default) return results that match ALL the search terms.
You can search for a phrase by putting double-quote marks " " around the terms of the query.
You can use the plus (+) and minus (-) signs to ensure that certain words are included or excluded from your query.
IceRocket searches are not case sensitive. All letters in your search terms will be understood only as lower case. I.e. A search for mobile computer will return the same results as MobiLe CoMpuTer.
IceRocket supports Boolean query operators such as AND, OR, NOT, and parentheses to conduct complex queries.
More at:http://www.icerocket.com/
Icerocket is a global leader in commercial search services on the Internet, providing new and more powerful ways for customers to find exactly what they are looking for. IceRocket is pioneering commercial search by putting the interests and wants of consumers before advertisers. IceRocket has innovative blog search technology to search blogosphere.
How It Works:
IceRocket works like a typical search engine. Simply enter your term into their search box and click "Search" to find web documents that match your results.If your query contains more than one search term, IceRocket will automatically (and by default) return results that match ALL the search terms.
You can search for a phrase by putting double-quote marks " " around the terms of the query.
You can use the plus (+) and minus (-) signs to ensure that certain words are included or excluded from your query.
IceRocket searches are not case sensitive. All letters in your search terms will be understood only as lower case. I.e. A search for mobile computer will return the same results as MobiLe CoMpuTer.
IceRocket supports Boolean query operators such as AND, OR, NOT, and parentheses to conduct complex queries.
More at:http://www.icerocket.com/
Floating Hotel ----UnCommon Business Idea
The CPH LIVING hotel is a designer hotel, And all the furniture and almost all the equipment in the hotel have been designed by Waterliving's architects.
"They dropped all brass and maritime equipment and chose instead to stick to a style that suits the lightness that naturally occurs through the interplay of light and water. We have used half-matt glass to soften the light and on the whole we have chosen to stick to materials that match the water surface. The furniture is maritime and made of teak, and here the style is also light and streamlined," explains Mikkel Stewart, a leading architect on the project.
CPH LIVING covers an area of 480 square metres, with an indoor area of 300 square metres and an outdoor area of 180 square metres. In addition, there is a roof terrace measuring 150 square metres. The hotel is 30 metres in length, 7.2 metres in width and is 6.2 metres above the waterline.
The indoor area contains 12 rooms, a reception, conference rooms, a linen room and a storage room. All rooms have large windows and French balconies, as well as floor heating, flat-screen TV, wireless Internet access and coffee-making facilities.
The hotel is smoke-free, and on arrival all guests are provided with a key card to the roof terrace, which has deckchairs and offers an impressive view.
The barge Viva, located alongside the new hotel, is a gastronomic mecca with star chef Paolo Guimaraes at the helm. Paolo and his team will also provide the new floating hotel with food and service.
More at:http://www.cphliving.com/
"They dropped all brass and maritime equipment and chose instead to stick to a style that suits the lightness that naturally occurs through the interplay of light and water. We have used half-matt glass to soften the light and on the whole we have chosen to stick to materials that match the water surface. The furniture is maritime and made of teak, and here the style is also light and streamlined," explains Mikkel Stewart, a leading architect on the project.
CPH LIVING covers an area of 480 square metres, with an indoor area of 300 square metres and an outdoor area of 180 square metres. In addition, there is a roof terrace measuring 150 square metres. The hotel is 30 metres in length, 7.2 metres in width and is 6.2 metres above the waterline.
The indoor area contains 12 rooms, a reception, conference rooms, a linen room and a storage room. All rooms have large windows and French balconies, as well as floor heating, flat-screen TV, wireless Internet access and coffee-making facilities.
The hotel is smoke-free, and on arrival all guests are provided with a key card to the roof terrace, which has deckchairs and offers an impressive view.
The barge Viva, located alongside the new hotel, is a gastronomic mecca with star chef Paolo Guimaraes at the helm. Paolo and his team will also provide the new floating hotel with food and service.
More at:http://www.cphliving.com/
A Japanese company unveiled a new device that will allow people "speak" through their ear
"A Japanese company Tuesday unveiled a new device that will allow people "speak" through their ear so they can use their mobile telephones in noisy places. The device -- named "e-Mimi-kun" (good ear boy) -- doubles as an earphone and a microphone by detecting air vibrations inside the ear, developer NS-ELEX Co. said."
More at:http://adverlab.blogspot.com/
More at:http://adverlab.blogspot.com/
Social bookmarking is a powerful tool in promoting a website---It can help you spread a link on 30 of the best social bookmarking sites
What Company Is Offering:
Social bookmarking is a powerful tool in promoting a website. But going through all of those social bookmarking sites is very time-consuming and downloading all toolbars is madness! That's where SocialMarker.com comes in, the free service designed to reduce the time and effort needed to socially bookmark a website.
How it Works:
All you need to do is simply drag button to your bookmarks toolbar, in order to create a submission bookmarklet. When you are on a website that you want to socially mark, simply select the text and click the SocialMarker button to pre-populate the submission form with the selected information.
If you want to use button on your blog or website, install their 'All-in-one Bookmarking Button' plugin for WordPress, or simply insert the its code.
It can help you spread a link on 30 of the best social bookmarking sites in under 15 minutes!.
It helps you get a lot of backlinks.
It helps you increase your traffic.
Your link gets indexed by Google in a matter of minutes.
Best of all, it's free!.
More at:http://www.socialmarker.com/
Social bookmarking is a powerful tool in promoting a website. But going through all of those social bookmarking sites is very time-consuming and downloading all toolbars is madness! That's where SocialMarker.com comes in, the free service designed to reduce the time and effort needed to socially bookmark a website.
How it Works:
All you need to do is simply drag button to your bookmarks toolbar, in order to create a submission bookmarklet. When you are on a website that you want to socially mark, simply select the text and click the SocialMarker button to pre-populate the submission form with the selected information.
If you want to use button on your blog or website, install their 'All-in-one Bookmarking Button' plugin for WordPress, or simply insert the its code.
It can help you spread a link on 30 of the best social bookmarking sites in under 15 minutes!.
It helps you get a lot of backlinks.
It helps you increase your traffic.
Your link gets indexed by Google in a matter of minutes.
Best of all, it's free!.
More at:http://www.socialmarker.com/
Plone is a ready-to-run content management system
What Company Is Offering:
Plone is a ready-to-run content management system that is built on the powerful and free Zope application server. Plone is easy to set up, extremely flexible, and provides you with a system for managing web content that is ideal for project groups, communities, web sites, extranets and intranets.
Unique Features:
Plone is easy to install. You can install Plone with a a click and run installer, and have a content management system running on your computer in just a few minutes.
Plone is easy to use. The Plone Team includes usability experts who have made Plone easy and attractive for content managers to add, update, and mantain content.
Plone is international. The Plone interface has more than 35 translations, and tools exist for managing multilingual content.
Plone is technology neutral. Plone can interoperate with most relational database systems, open source and commercial, and runs on a vast array of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris and BSD.
More at:http://plone.org/
Plone is a ready-to-run content management system that is built on the powerful and free Zope application server. Plone is easy to set up, extremely flexible, and provides you with a system for managing web content that is ideal for project groups, communities, web sites, extranets and intranets.
Unique Features:
Plone is easy to install. You can install Plone with a a click and run installer, and have a content management system running on your computer in just a few minutes.
Plone is easy to use. The Plone Team includes usability experts who have made Plone easy and attractive for content managers to add, update, and mantain content.
Plone is international. The Plone interface has more than 35 translations, and tools exist for managing multilingual content.
Plone is technology neutral. Plone can interoperate with most relational database systems, open source and commercial, and runs on a vast array of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris and BSD.
More at:http://plone.org/
ThinkFree Online is a comprehensive office productivity solution
What Company Is Offering:
ThinkFree is the most comprehensive online office productivity solution available today.ThinkFree products are platform independent (works on Windows, Apple, Linux) and include ThinkFree Write (word-processing), ThinkFree Calc (spreadsheet), and ThinkFree Show (presentation) - applications that are round-trip compatible with Microsoft Office (.doc, .xls, .ppt).
ThinkFree Online is a comprehensive office productivity solution, including the core office suite applications that are tightly integrated with document storage (1GB free) and collaboration tools such as document sharing, version management, and user access control. In addition, with Doc Exchange (our published document library), you can easily publish your work for the world to see .
How It Works:
With ThinkFree Online, you can:
- Schedule and track tasks for your social group.
- Create elaborate invitations and easily post online for everyone to see.
- Build a presentation to describe your latest project or show pictures from your latest trip with complete details of the story behind the photo.
- Upload, download, edit and save it as Word, Excel, PowerPoint documents.
- Create Microsoft Office compatible files.
- Invite your friends to share and collaborate on documents.
- View the revision history of a document, and roll it back.
- Post your documents to a blog or web page.
How It Will Benifit You:
Manage, access, and edit documents from anywhere over the Internet.
1 GB free storage.
Best Microsoft Office compatibility available.
Full text search of published, shared, and private files.
Unique Quick Edit and Power Edit modes.
Share, get everyone’s input.
Publish your ideas to the world on your blog or web page, or on our Doc Exchange.
This service is absolutely Free. No installation is required because it worksthrough your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla, etc), and you can work anytime, anywhere, on any connected computer with a browser.
More at:http://www.thinkfree.com/
ThinkFree is the most comprehensive online office productivity solution available today.ThinkFree products are platform independent (works on Windows, Apple, Linux) and include ThinkFree Write (word-processing), ThinkFree Calc (spreadsheet), and ThinkFree Show (presentation) - applications that are round-trip compatible with Microsoft Office (.doc, .xls, .ppt).
ThinkFree Online is a comprehensive office productivity solution, including the core office suite applications that are tightly integrated with document storage (1GB free) and collaboration tools such as document sharing, version management, and user access control. In addition, with Doc Exchange (our published document library), you can easily publish your work for the world to see .
How It Works:
With ThinkFree Online, you can:
- Schedule and track tasks for your social group.
- Create elaborate invitations and easily post online for everyone to see.
- Build a presentation to describe your latest project or show pictures from your latest trip with complete details of the story behind the photo.
- Upload, download, edit and save it as Word, Excel, PowerPoint documents.
- Create Microsoft Office compatible files.
- Invite your friends to share and collaborate on documents.
- View the revision history of a document, and roll it back.
- Post your documents to a blog or web page.
How It Will Benifit You:
Manage, access, and edit documents from anywhere over the Internet.
1 GB free storage.
Best Microsoft Office compatibility available.
Full text search of published, shared, and private files.
Unique Quick Edit and Power Edit modes.
Share, get everyone’s input.
Publish your ideas to the world on your blog or web page, or on our Doc Exchange.
This service is absolutely Free. No installation is required because it worksthrough your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla, etc), and you can work anytime, anywhere, on any connected computer with a browser.
More at:http://www.thinkfree.com/
NetworkText----Distribute Information Within Organization Via SMS
What Company Is Offering:
NetworkText allows any group to communicate for free with text messaging.NetworkText was created to allow groups to connect with their members more efficiently. The text message is the perfect media to allow for quick information from groups to be distributed to all their members regarding events, reminders and updates. NetworkText allows groups the flexibility to store entire member rosters and send unlimited amounts of text messages to an infinite amount of members. Being aware that life now moves at hyper speed, they understand that it is important to get your groups messages out as quickly and most efficiently as possible.
How It Works:
Anyone is able to create a group on NetworkText. They have purposely put no restrictions on who can form groups, so as to allow anyone that feels that they could benefit from this service to sign up. We facilitate all groups no matter what the size or the location of the group. If you need to get information to people in your group quickly and efficiently, NetworkText is your solution. NetworkText is currently available in the U.S. and Canada, with plans to expand globally.
At NetworkText they realize that text messages are a vital way for groups to distribute information to their members. We also realize that not everyone has unlimited text messaging or the time during the day to be receiving unwanted text advertisements. That’s exactly the reason why we don’t do any of the above. NetworkText never will send you extra text messages or allow any of our advertisers to do the same. The only text messages you will ever receive are from the groups you have joined. It’s that simple.
More at:http://www.networktext.com/
NetworkText allows any group to communicate for free with text messaging.NetworkText was created to allow groups to connect with their members more efficiently. The text message is the perfect media to allow for quick information from groups to be distributed to all their members regarding events, reminders and updates. NetworkText allows groups the flexibility to store entire member rosters and send unlimited amounts of text messages to an infinite amount of members. Being aware that life now moves at hyper speed, they understand that it is important to get your groups messages out as quickly and most efficiently as possible.
How It Works:
Anyone is able to create a group on NetworkText. They have purposely put no restrictions on who can form groups, so as to allow anyone that feels that they could benefit from this service to sign up. We facilitate all groups no matter what the size or the location of the group. If you need to get information to people in your group quickly and efficiently, NetworkText is your solution. NetworkText is currently available in the U.S. and Canada, with plans to expand globally.
At NetworkText they realize that text messages are a vital way for groups to distribute information to their members. We also realize that not everyone has unlimited text messaging or the time during the day to be receiving unwanted text advertisements. That’s exactly the reason why we don’t do any of the above. NetworkText never will send you extra text messages or allow any of our advertisers to do the same. The only text messages you will ever receive are from the groups you have joined. It’s that simple.
More at:http://www.networktext.com/
Geezeo helps people make "Educated Financial Decisions Adds New Feature Called Confessions For Sharing Your Spending Sin!
What Company Is Offering:
Geezeo helps people make "Educated Financial Decisions." The team at Geezeo believes that cutting edge financial tools and services don't need to come with a high price tag. Geezeo is a free web-based personal finance application that makes it easy to track all your finances, see where all your money is going, set financial goals and learn from others.
Recent Updats:
The Confessions feature is set up very much like a microblogging tool, with updates being posted on a public page within the Geezeo network. And speaking of microblogging, Confessions can also be tied into your Twitter account, so public confessions can be posted on Twitter as well. Anonymous confessions will be posted on the “MoneyConfession” Twitter account. So there are multiple ways in which to keep up with Confessions: via Twitter or via RSS, found on the Confessions page.
Geezeo has added mobile support for Geezeo Targets, so you can more easily check your categorized budgets from your cell phone. That should minimize the amount of time you spend in the Confessions booth.
More at:https://www.geezeo.com/
Geezeo helps people make "Educated Financial Decisions." The team at Geezeo believes that cutting edge financial tools and services don't need to come with a high price tag. Geezeo is a free web-based personal finance application that makes it easy to track all your finances, see where all your money is going, set financial goals and learn from others.
Recent Updats:
The Confessions feature is set up very much like a microblogging tool, with updates being posted on a public page within the Geezeo network. And speaking of microblogging, Confessions can also be tied into your Twitter account, so public confessions can be posted on Twitter as well. Anonymous confessions will be posted on the “MoneyConfession” Twitter account. So there are multiple ways in which to keep up with Confessions: via Twitter or via RSS, found on the Confessions page.
Geezeo has added mobile support for Geezeo Targets, so you can more easily check your categorized budgets from your cell phone. That should minimize the amount of time you spend in the Confessions booth.
More at:https://www.geezeo.com/
MoDazzle---Online services & information on your mobile
About Company:
MoDazzle is a division of its parent company, ClairMail. ClairMail has been established by an experienced team who recognized the power and potential of mobile phones to change the landscape of customer interactions. ClairMail’s breakthrough technology allows companies to offer convenient, secure and always-on 2-way mobile services to their customers by using any mobile phone's messaging functionality.
After its phenomenal success in two-way mobile communication/information system for financial services industry at the enterprise level, MoDazzle is extending the technology platform & services directly targeting the consumer segment. MoDazzle is ClairMail's dedicated consumer service to help millions connect to their social or professional communities through their cell phones or blackberry devices.
For Whom It Will Be Helpful:
One click access to News,Stocks,Weather,
Directions, Salesforce.com, nearest Starbucks,
Restaurant reviews, and more on your mobile...
The services are available for Facebook, LinkedIn, and VentureSource community users with several free services such as locating the nearest starbucks, directions between two addresses, web search, etc. All through SMS or mobile email!!
Over the next few months many more services including accessing information on restaurants, movies, news, people etc. will be made available on MoDazzle, all at a touch of a button...on SMS or mobile email.
More at:http://modazzle.com/
MoDazzle is a division of its parent company, ClairMail. ClairMail has been established by an experienced team who recognized the power and potential of mobile phones to change the landscape of customer interactions. ClairMail’s breakthrough technology allows companies to offer convenient, secure and always-on 2-way mobile services to their customers by using any mobile phone's messaging functionality.
After its phenomenal success in two-way mobile communication/information system for financial services industry at the enterprise level, MoDazzle is extending the technology platform & services directly targeting the consumer segment. MoDazzle is ClairMail's dedicated consumer service to help millions connect to their social or professional communities through their cell phones or blackberry devices.
For Whom It Will Be Helpful:
One click access to News,Stocks,Weather,
Directions, Salesforce.com, nearest Starbucks,
Restaurant reviews, and more on your mobile...
The services are available for Facebook, LinkedIn, and VentureSource community users with several free services such as locating the nearest starbucks, directions between two addresses, web search, etc. All through SMS or mobile email!!
Over the next few months many more services including accessing information on restaurants, movies, news, people etc. will be made available on MoDazzle, all at a touch of a button...on SMS or mobile email.
More at:http://modazzle.com/
Symbaloo is your personal online desktop
What Company Is Offering:
Symbaloo is your personal online desktop .you don't need to register to use Symbaloo. In case you want to access your desktop(s) from more then one place you can go for a free account.
How It Works:
For using Symbaloo without an account your browser needs to store cookies. In case your desktop is erased every time you visit Symbaloo your cookies may not be saved automatically. You can check this in your browser's security preferences. An easier solution is to create a Symbaloo account by which you'll have access to your Symbaloo desktop on any computer.
Symbaloo is still in a beta phase. Sometimes some parts of Symbaloo may not work correctly. Most of the times the solution to such a small error is to refresh the page by pressing the Refresh button of your browser.
With a fresh new installation of Internet Explorer 7 you need to change some settings in order to get Symbaloo search queries in a new tab instead of a new window. Go to Options, look for Tabs and click on Settings. Change the Pop-up setting: choose "Open pop-ups always in a new tab".
More at:http://www.symbaloo.com/
Symbaloo is your personal online desktop .you don't need to register to use Symbaloo. In case you want to access your desktop(s) from more then one place you can go for a free account.
How It Works:
For using Symbaloo without an account your browser needs to store cookies. In case your desktop is erased every time you visit Symbaloo your cookies may not be saved automatically. You can check this in your browser's security preferences. An easier solution is to create a Symbaloo account by which you'll have access to your Symbaloo desktop on any computer.
Symbaloo is still in a beta phase. Sometimes some parts of Symbaloo may not work correctly. Most of the times the solution to such a small error is to refresh the page by pressing the Refresh button of your browser.
With a fresh new installation of Internet Explorer 7 you need to change some settings in order to get Symbaloo search queries in a new tab instead of a new window. Go to Options, look for Tabs and click on Settings. Change the Pop-up setting: choose "Open pop-ups always in a new tab".
More at:http://www.symbaloo.com/
Thursday, December 27, 2007
OAuth is a simple way to publish and interact with protected data
What Company Is Offering:
OAuth is a simple way to publish and interact with protected data. It's also a safer and more secure way for people to give you access. They've kept it simple to save you time.
OAuth , it allows you the User to grant access to your private resources on one site (which is called the Service Provider), to another site (called Consumer, not to be confused with you, the User). It is intended to solve this problem by allowing users to give services a valet key to their identities, rather than full access.
How Is It Different:
While OpenID is all about using a single identity to sign into many sites, OAuth is about giving access to your stuff without sharing your identity at all (or its secret parts).OAuth attempts to provide a standard way for developers to offer their services via an API without forcing their users to expose their passwords (and other credentials).
What For:
Many luxury cars today come with a valet key. It is a special key you give the parking attendant and unlike your regular key, will not allow the car to drive more than a mile or two. Some valet keys will not open the trunk, while others will block access to your onboard cell phone address book. Regardless of what restrictions the valet key imposes, the idea is very clever. You give someone limited access to your car with a special key, while using another key to unlock everything else.
Everyday new website offer services which tie together functionality from other sites. A photo lab printing your Flickr photos, a social network using your Google address book to look for friends, and APIs to build your own desktop application version of a popular site. These are all great services – what is not so great about some of the implementations available today is their request for your username and password on the other site.
More at:http://oauth.net/
OAuth is a simple way to publish and interact with protected data. It's also a safer and more secure way for people to give you access. They've kept it simple to save you time.
OAuth , it allows you the User to grant access to your private resources on one site (which is called the Service Provider), to another site (called Consumer, not to be confused with you, the User). It is intended to solve this problem by allowing users to give services a valet key to their identities, rather than full access.
How Is It Different:
While OpenID is all about using a single identity to sign into many sites, OAuth is about giving access to your stuff without sharing your identity at all (or its secret parts).OAuth attempts to provide a standard way for developers to offer their services via an API without forcing their users to expose their passwords (and other credentials).
What For:
Many luxury cars today come with a valet key. It is a special key you give the parking attendant and unlike your regular key, will not allow the car to drive more than a mile or two. Some valet keys will not open the trunk, while others will block access to your onboard cell phone address book. Regardless of what restrictions the valet key imposes, the idea is very clever. You give someone limited access to your car with a special key, while using another key to unlock everything else.
Everyday new website offer services which tie together functionality from other sites. A photo lab printing your Flickr photos, a social network using your Google address book to look for friends, and APIs to build your own desktop application version of a popular site. These are all great services – what is not so great about some of the implementations available today is their request for your username and password on the other site.
More at:http://oauth.net/
Chinese online video Web site Hupo.TV partnerering Music Radio
Chinese online video Web site Hupo.TV, backed by Internet entrepreneur Brad Greenspan, landed an exclusive partnership with China government-backed pop radio station Music Radio, the company said on Wednesday.
Hupo.TV, which draws more than 30 million unique monthly visitors, will manage Music Radio's Web site as well as its online marketing and events. Music Radio is part of China Central People's Broadcasting Station.
Greenspan once ran the company that owned the top Internet social network MySpace and most recently staged an unsuccessful bid to snatch Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co Inc. from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
The 34-year-old executive sued News Corp last year for its $580 million purchase of MySpace's parent company, claiming the deal's low value defrauded shareholders.
Greenspan is chairman of BroadWebAsia, a financial backer of Hupo.TV.
"The Chinese Internet is on the verge of tremendous growth over the next 2-3 years to 250 million users," Greenspan said in a statement.
More at:http://hupo.tv/
Via-Reuters
Hupo.TV, which draws more than 30 million unique monthly visitors, will manage Music Radio's Web site as well as its online marketing and events. Music Radio is part of China Central People's Broadcasting Station.
Greenspan once ran the company that owned the top Internet social network MySpace and most recently staged an unsuccessful bid to snatch Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co Inc. from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
The 34-year-old executive sued News Corp last year for its $580 million purchase of MySpace's parent company, claiming the deal's low value defrauded shareholders.
Greenspan is chairman of BroadWebAsia, a financial backer of Hupo.TV.
"The Chinese Internet is on the verge of tremendous growth over the next 2-3 years to 250 million users," Greenspan said in a statement.
More at:http://hupo.tv/
Via-Reuters
Search for and compare the opinion of any person or organization in the World on any issue
What Company Is Offering:
Search for and compare the opinion of any person or organization in the World on any issue.whereIstand.com is a where users can express their opinions on any issue in any language. All of the content on the site is driven by users. Whether you take a stand, propose a new issue, post evidence of opinions of public figures, or compare your stands to others, you're taking part in a unique forum that gathers, tracks and inspires public opinion on the most important issues of the day.
HOW It Works:
Anyone can browse or search topics or opinions, bookmark issues, request opinions of public figures, take stands and compare their stands to others without registering on whereIstand. However, unregistered users may lose their information after 30 days or when they close their browser.
Registering with whereIstand is free and simple: just enter an e-mail address and password. Once you're a registered user, your bookmarks, requested opinions and stands are saved, making it easier to compare your stands to others and track the progress of your favorite issues. Your opinions remain private.
Creating a public profile (with a unique user name) gives users a say in the whereIstand editorial process and makes their opinions visible to the entire whereIstand community. Members can increase their visibility on the site by starting a whereIstand blog, submitting evidence of opinions by public figures, adding a photo and bio to their profile and posting comments about issues. With a public profile, all of the user's comments become searchable and comparable by others.
http://whereistand.com/
Search for and compare the opinion of any person or organization in the World on any issue.whereIstand.com is a where users can express their opinions on any issue in any language. All of the content on the site is driven by users. Whether you take a stand, propose a new issue, post evidence of opinions of public figures, or compare your stands to others, you're taking part in a unique forum that gathers, tracks and inspires public opinion on the most important issues of the day.
HOW It Works:
Anyone can browse or search topics or opinions, bookmark issues, request opinions of public figures, take stands and compare their stands to others without registering on whereIstand. However, unregistered users may lose their information after 30 days or when they close their browser.
Registering with whereIstand is free and simple: just enter an e-mail address and password. Once you're a registered user, your bookmarks, requested opinions and stands are saved, making it easier to compare your stands to others and track the progress of your favorite issues. Your opinions remain private.
Creating a public profile (with a unique user name) gives users a say in the whereIstand editorial process and makes their opinions visible to the entire whereIstand community. Members can increase their visibility on the site by starting a whereIstand blog, submitting evidence of opinions by public figures, adding a photo and bio to their profile and posting comments about issues. With a public profile, all of the user's comments become searchable and comparable by others.
http://whereistand.com/
YouTube Catcher allows you to download YouTube videos easy and fast
What Company Is Offering:
YouTube Catcher allows you to download YouTube videos easy and fast! Tell your friends about YouTube Catcher.
How It Works:
Download YouTube Videos.Copy and paste the URL of the YouTube Video into the form below.Click the DOWNLOAD button to start.
Rename the file with a .flv extension.
To watch Flv Videos you need a Flv Player. Click here to download a free Flv Player!
You can also convert these flv videos to other formats like avi, mpeg, mp4. And you can transfer these videos to cellphones or ipods!
More at:http://www.youtubecatcher.com/
YouTube Catcher allows you to download YouTube videos easy and fast! Tell your friends about YouTube Catcher.
How It Works:
Download YouTube Videos.Copy and paste the URL of the YouTube Video into the form below.Click the DOWNLOAD button to start.
Rename the file with a .flv extension.
To watch Flv Videos you need a Flv Player. Click here to download a free Flv Player!
You can also convert these flv videos to other formats like avi, mpeg, mp4. And you can transfer these videos to cellphones or ipods!
More at:http://www.youtubecatcher.com/
ActiveReception allows your website visitors to connect to one of your company representatives
What Company Is Offering:
ActiveReception is an on-demand service that enables you to monitor and interact with visitors in real time on your website.
How It Works:
ActiveReception allows your website visitors to connect to one of your company representatives (the "Operator") and have their questions answered instantly by clicking on the ActiveReception button on your website.
Your operators have real-time information about your real-time visitors; allowing them to initiate conversation and offer them help or inform about your latest offers, products, or promotions.
Unique Features:
This new application delivery on demand model is of true value for user, mainly because there are:
No specific hardware and software requirements.
No downloads.
No costs for maintenance.
As summary; to run Active Reception the user only needs Internet connection and a web browser.
More at:http://www.activereception.com/
ActiveReception is an on-demand service that enables you to monitor and interact with visitors in real time on your website.
How It Works:
ActiveReception allows your website visitors to connect to one of your company representatives (the "Operator") and have their questions answered instantly by clicking on the ActiveReception button on your website.
Your operators have real-time information about your real-time visitors; allowing them to initiate conversation and offer them help or inform about your latest offers, products, or promotions.
Unique Features:
This new application delivery on demand model is of true value for user, mainly because there are:
No specific hardware and software requirements.
No downloads.
No costs for maintenance.
As summary; to run Active Reception the user only needs Internet connection and a web browser.
More at:http://www.activereception.com/
Online auction giant eBay has launched a microlending website that lets people invest in entrepreneurs
Online auction giant eBay has launched a microlending website that lets people invest in entrepreneurs in poor communities around the world and get a return on their money.
Unlike micro-finance organizations that make interest-free loans to people in developing countries, Microplace.com offers investors profits for funding folks trying to build better lives, said founder Tracey Turner.
“You are actually investing in the world’s working poor,” Turner told AFP. “And for the first time you get a return on investment. You can take the profit and invest in more people in a virtuous cycle.”
Turner’s vision of MicroPlace began taking shape in 2005, after she lived for a time with a Kenyan family comprised of a single mother caring for three children.
The Kenyan woman bought a sewing machine with $100 she borrowed and started an in-home business making school uniforms for local children.
The woman paid the debt and managed to send one of her sons to college in the United States.
“When you are out in the field talking to these women whose lives are transformed because of $30 or $10, then you are part of the movement forever,” Turner said.
California-based eBay bought Turner’s business plan in June of 2006 and the website launched 24 October of this year.
Website visitors can browse investors by country, seeing pictures of people seeking loans and reading about their business goals.
MicroPlace connects investors with micro-finance organizations in the various countries. MicroPlace scrutinizes the organizations to check their legitimacy.
“Our job is to vet,” Turner said. “We do a lot of research.”
Turner said rates of return are modest but that investors at the website see value in addressing global poverty. Lenders shoulder the risk that loans will not be repaid.
“The eye-opening thing for everyone is that repayment rates by the working poor remain unbelievably high, north of 98%,” Turner said.
Thousands of people visit the website daily and hundreds of thousands of dollars in loans have already been issued, according to MicroPlace. In keeping with the holidays, some have made gifts of loans by issuing in others’ names.
“What gets me out of bed in the morning is the idea that when you invest in a person it really honors them and enhances their dignity as a human being,” Turner said. “Which is different than a hand out.”
MicroPlace gets fees from microfinance organizations that get money through the website. Money is moved through online financial-transactions firm PayPal, which eBay owns.
“I think it is important everyone from the investor to the person making baskets in a village makes a profit,” Turner said. “The beauty and magic of micro-finance is that it is scalable. That is the only way it will scale.”
The company has promised that any profits made by MicroPlace will be invested in other initiatives for social good, according to Turner.
Pierre Omidyar, the eBay founder and his wife have channelled hundreds of millions of dollars into microloans through their own foundation and are investors in online microlending website Kiva.
Via-AFP
Unlike micro-finance organizations that make interest-free loans to people in developing countries, Microplace.com offers investors profits for funding folks trying to build better lives, said founder Tracey Turner.
“You are actually investing in the world’s working poor,” Turner told AFP. “And for the first time you get a return on investment. You can take the profit and invest in more people in a virtuous cycle.”
Turner’s vision of MicroPlace began taking shape in 2005, after she lived for a time with a Kenyan family comprised of a single mother caring for three children.
The Kenyan woman bought a sewing machine with $100 she borrowed and started an in-home business making school uniforms for local children.
The woman paid the debt and managed to send one of her sons to college in the United States.
“When you are out in the field talking to these women whose lives are transformed because of $30 or $10, then you are part of the movement forever,” Turner said.
California-based eBay bought Turner’s business plan in June of 2006 and the website launched 24 October of this year.
Website visitors can browse investors by country, seeing pictures of people seeking loans and reading about their business goals.
MicroPlace connects investors with micro-finance organizations in the various countries. MicroPlace scrutinizes the organizations to check their legitimacy.
“Our job is to vet,” Turner said. “We do a lot of research.”
Turner said rates of return are modest but that investors at the website see value in addressing global poverty. Lenders shoulder the risk that loans will not be repaid.
“The eye-opening thing for everyone is that repayment rates by the working poor remain unbelievably high, north of 98%,” Turner said.
Thousands of people visit the website daily and hundreds of thousands of dollars in loans have already been issued, according to MicroPlace. In keeping with the holidays, some have made gifts of loans by issuing in others’ names.
“What gets me out of bed in the morning is the idea that when you invest in a person it really honors them and enhances their dignity as a human being,” Turner said. “Which is different than a hand out.”
MicroPlace gets fees from microfinance organizations that get money through the website. Money is moved through online financial-transactions firm PayPal, which eBay owns.
“I think it is important everyone from the investor to the person making baskets in a village makes a profit,” Turner said. “The beauty and magic of micro-finance is that it is scalable. That is the only way it will scale.”
The company has promised that any profits made by MicroPlace will be invested in other initiatives for social good, according to Turner.
Pierre Omidyar, the eBay founder and his wife have channelled hundreds of millions of dollars into microloans through their own foundation and are investors in online microlending website Kiva.
Via-AFP
Global Broadcast News Ltd would invest Rs500 crore in an entertainment venture with US media group Viacom Inc
The broadcaster of news channels CNN-IBN and IBN7, Global Broadcast News Ltd (GBN) on Tuesday said it would invest Rs500 crore in an entertainment venture with US media group Viacom Inc. and in launching regional news channels. The funds are to come in through foreign direct investment (FDI).
“The amount of Rs500 crore will go in launching a number of news channels in regional languages and in an entertainment venture with Viacom,” GBN joint managing director Sameer Manchanda said.
He said GBN had proposed to induct up to 26% FDI.
Its proposal was among the 19 FDI projects, amounting to Rs726.88 crore, approved by the government on Monday.
GBN, a part of the Network18 Group, has already announced the launch of a 24-hour Marathi language news and current affairs channel, through a 50:50 joint-venture with the Lokmat Group.
Manchanda said the company would launch a few more regional news channels in the future, but did not give details.
The company had raised around Rs105 crore through an initial public offering early this year and has also formed a joint venture with the Jagran group to bring out a business newspaper in Hindi.
The Network18 Group has also announced plans to enter the entertainment space with a 50:50 joint venture with Viacom. The venture—Viacom 18—would operate the existing MTV Network channels inIndia (MTV, Vh1 and Nickelodeon), launch a new Hindi general entertainment channel, and house the group’s film business. The media sector is in a dynamic growth phase and GBN is geared up to take advantage of such opportunities and strengthen its leadership position as a media house, Manchanda said.
Via-Mint
“The amount of Rs500 crore will go in launching a number of news channels in regional languages and in an entertainment venture with Viacom,” GBN joint managing director Sameer Manchanda said.
He said GBN had proposed to induct up to 26% FDI.
Its proposal was among the 19 FDI projects, amounting to Rs726.88 crore, approved by the government on Monday.
GBN, a part of the Network18 Group, has already announced the launch of a 24-hour Marathi language news and current affairs channel, through a 50:50 joint-venture with the Lokmat Group.
Manchanda said the company would launch a few more regional news channels in the future, but did not give details.
The company had raised around Rs105 crore through an initial public offering early this year and has also formed a joint venture with the Jagran group to bring out a business newspaper in Hindi.
The Network18 Group has also announced plans to enter the entertainment space with a 50:50 joint venture with Viacom. The venture—Viacom 18—would operate the existing MTV Network channels inIndia (MTV, Vh1 and Nickelodeon), launch a new Hindi general entertainment channel, and house the group’s film business. The media sector is in a dynamic growth phase and GBN is geared up to take advantage of such opportunities and strengthen its leadership position as a media house, Manchanda said.
Via-Mint
UtahLuxury.com is a website for showcasing high-end luxury properties in a web 2.0 format
What Company Is Offering:
UtahLuxury.com is a website geared towards showcasing high-end luxury properties in a web 2.0 format. They are using wordpress in their favor to submit these properties to you in a social media environment.
The award-winning website www.UtahLuxury.com currently provides access to multi million dollar homes and luxury homes from around the state.
How It Works:
The properties have photos, videos, desktop wallpapers, and property descriptions. They want you to enjoy seeing these well decorated and beautifully designed homes from the comfort of your own home.
More at:http://utahluxury.com/
UtahLuxury.com is a website geared towards showcasing high-end luxury properties in a web 2.0 format. They are using wordpress in their favor to submit these properties to you in a social media environment.
The award-winning website www.UtahLuxury.com currently provides access to multi million dollar homes and luxury homes from around the state.
How It Works:
The properties have photos, videos, desktop wallpapers, and property descriptions. They want you to enjoy seeing these well decorated and beautifully designed homes from the comfort of your own home.
More at:http://utahluxury.com/
Smooth Mooove Senior Relocation Services---Unique Business Idea
What Company Is Offering:
Smooth Mooove Senior Relocation Services, is a full service relocation company that specializes in relocating seniors, and their services are designed with seniors and their families in mind. They are the senior relocation specialists. Their services are as unique as their clients, delivered by a professional, caring staff. Each client is treated with dignity and respect, like their own loved and respected grandparent.
How It Works:
Senior Relocation Consultant will conduct an interview to determine your specific downsizing needs and create a comprehensive Relocation Plan as individual as you are. On-site evaluations of your current home and the new home are available. When you work with Smooth Mooove, a professionally trained Project Manager will be onsite at all times to ensure that every detail of your move is handled with dignity and respect and completed to your satisfaction.
Services range from cleaning up vacated homes once all household items have been loaded on a truck, to hanging drapes and shopping for new items for a client’s new home. Although any move is costly, Simpson says Smooth Mooove can actually save time and money. Since family members often have to take time from work to help a parent move, the company isn’t just marketing its program to seniors, but also to corporate clients, as an employee benefit for children of aging boomers.
They'll remove all moving supplies and can reassemble your entire home or simply assemble your kitchen, bedroom and bath. Their Minimal Assembly gives you the ability to comfortably begin living in your new home immediately and you can continue to unpack at your own pace. At the end of the project, it won't look like moving day. You'll look like you've lived there for years.
Who Discoverd This Business Idea:
Adrienne Simpson, founder of Smooth Mooove ,like so many entrepreneurs, she recognized a business opportunity after personally discovering a need. While moving her parents from Georgia to Michigan, she searched without success for a specialized company that would be able to help. Thanks to Simpson’s hard-knocks lessons, Smooth Mooove’s clients can now choose from a lengthy menu of services within three basic moving plans.
More at:http://www.wemoveseniors.com/
Smooth Mooove Senior Relocation Services, is a full service relocation company that specializes in relocating seniors, and their services are designed with seniors and their families in mind. They are the senior relocation specialists. Their services are as unique as their clients, delivered by a professional, caring staff. Each client is treated with dignity and respect, like their own loved and respected grandparent.
How It Works:
Senior Relocation Consultant will conduct an interview to determine your specific downsizing needs and create a comprehensive Relocation Plan as individual as you are. On-site evaluations of your current home and the new home are available. When you work with Smooth Mooove, a professionally trained Project Manager will be onsite at all times to ensure that every detail of your move is handled with dignity and respect and completed to your satisfaction.
Services range from cleaning up vacated homes once all household items have been loaded on a truck, to hanging drapes and shopping for new items for a client’s new home. Although any move is costly, Simpson says Smooth Mooove can actually save time and money. Since family members often have to take time from work to help a parent move, the company isn’t just marketing its program to seniors, but also to corporate clients, as an employee benefit for children of aging boomers.
They'll remove all moving supplies and can reassemble your entire home or simply assemble your kitchen, bedroom and bath. Their Minimal Assembly gives you the ability to comfortably begin living in your new home immediately and you can continue to unpack at your own pace. At the end of the project, it won't look like moving day. You'll look like you've lived there for years.
Who Discoverd This Business Idea:
Adrienne Simpson, founder of Smooth Mooove ,like so many entrepreneurs, she recognized a business opportunity after personally discovering a need. While moving her parents from Georgia to Michigan, she searched without success for a specialized company that would be able to help. Thanks to Simpson’s hard-knocks lessons, Smooth Mooove’s clients can now choose from a lengthy menu of services within three basic moving plans.
More at:http://www.wemoveseniors.com/
ki work specializes in online work
What Company Is Offering:
ki work specializes in online work.
ki work is a marketplace, search facility and operational platform for project buyers and freelance professionals in the global sourcing of online work - powered by a network of accredited ki experts and category leaders.
How It Works:
ki work is a marketplace supporting a number of services. ki work provides an online platform that uses unique search technology based on semantic string analysis to match clients and professionals of outsourcing services. client can find the professionals they need on their own, or request the help of accredited experts to assist them either with recruitment or project management, or both. In this respect, accredited experts may play the role of recruitment/placement agents and negotiate their own fees.
How Is It Different:
1.category focus
In other marketplaces, professionals set up a single profile with the ability to show a wide range of expertise across a number of outsourcing categories. In ki work, professionals set up a generic profile with one or more detailed "elevator pitch" offers, each built round a specific outsourcing category. This enables professionals to differentiate themselves from other professionals and to be more easily found by clients. Experts offer their services on the same basis.
2.accreditation by experts
In other marketplaces, professionals that pay for subscriptions get the benefit of higher ranking and unrestricted access to respond to bids. clients do not have any way of judging whether a subscription payer is any better than a non subscription payer. In ki work professionals pay a subscription in return for being accredited by an expert in their field. The expert in turn has been accredited by a founder member. Assuming that the expert maintains a high level of reputation, this provides valuable information for the prospective client, knowing that a candidate has already been (at least partially) screened and vetted. It also adds real value to the professional's proposition.
More at:http://www.ki-work.com/
ki work specializes in online work.
ki work is a marketplace, search facility and operational platform for project buyers and freelance professionals in the global sourcing of online work - powered by a network of accredited ki experts and category leaders.
How It Works:
ki work is a marketplace supporting a number of services. ki work provides an online platform that uses unique search technology based on semantic string analysis to match clients and professionals of outsourcing services. client can find the professionals they need on their own, or request the help of accredited experts to assist them either with recruitment or project management, or both. In this respect, accredited experts may play the role of recruitment/placement agents and negotiate their own fees.
How Is It Different:
1.category focus
In other marketplaces, professionals set up a single profile with the ability to show a wide range of expertise across a number of outsourcing categories. In ki work, professionals set up a generic profile with one or more detailed "elevator pitch" offers, each built round a specific outsourcing category. This enables professionals to differentiate themselves from other professionals and to be more easily found by clients. Experts offer their services on the same basis.
2.accreditation by experts
In other marketplaces, professionals that pay for subscriptions get the benefit of higher ranking and unrestricted access to respond to bids. clients do not have any way of judging whether a subscription payer is any better than a non subscription payer. In ki work professionals pay a subscription in return for being accredited by an expert in their field. The expert in turn has been accredited by a founder member. Assuming that the expert maintains a high level of reputation, this provides valuable information for the prospective client, knowing that a candidate has already been (at least partially) screened and vetted. It also adds real value to the professional's proposition.
More at:http://www.ki-work.com/
Dopplr is an online service for frequent travellers especially business travellers
What Company Is Offering:
Dopplr is an online service for frequent travellers. It lets you share your future travel plans with a group of trusted fellow travellers that you have chosen. It also reminds you of friends and colleagues who live in the cities you’re planning to visit. You can use the service with your personal computer and mobile phone.
How It Works:
Dopplr works on your personal computer and mobile phone. It links with online calendars and social networks.
The service has attracted a following among business travellers around the globe.
Click on “Add a Trip” (upper right on your home page). Then fill out the form and you’re off! You can also click on a city name and add a trip from there.
How to see trips of people you know?
This is entirely opt-in, but from one direction only. So they have to invite you. But even if someone else doesn’t invite you to see their travels, you’re free to invite them to see yours.
http://www.dopplr.com/
Dopplr is an online service for frequent travellers. It lets you share your future travel plans with a group of trusted fellow travellers that you have chosen. It also reminds you of friends and colleagues who live in the cities you’re planning to visit. You can use the service with your personal computer and mobile phone.
How It Works:
Dopplr works on your personal computer and mobile phone. It links with online calendars and social networks.
The service has attracted a following among business travellers around the globe.
Click on “Add a Trip” (upper right on your home page). Then fill out the form and you’re off! You can also click on a city name and add a trip from there.
How to see trips of people you know?
This is entirely opt-in, but from one direction only. So they have to invite you. But even if someone else doesn’t invite you to see their travels, you’re free to invite them to see yours.
http://www.dopplr.com/
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Five Predictions For Future By IBM
Drained by your commute? Blood-sucking utility bills got you down? Wondering if that tomato in your dinner salad was really organic?
The cures to those ills and more may arrive within five years, according to IBM.
The company recently released its second annual set of "Next Five in Five" predictions, visions that sketch out a future where driving is a relative pleasure, eco-friendly devices save you money, and super doctors use advanced technology to probe your body's innermost depths in search of disease.
IBM's contention that driving will become safer and less aggravating may be particularly tantalizing for many.
The company said that during the next five years, a "wave of connectivity" between vehicles and roadways will help keep traffic flowing smoothly, drive down pollution, and get you to your destination easier, "without the stress."
This will be accomplished through "intelligent" traffic systems that automatically adjust light patterns and shift traffic to alternative routes, as well as cars that exhibit "reflexes" thanks to communication with other vehicles and roadside sensors, according to IBM.
The company's crystal ball also revealed that the long-simmering trend toward "smart energy" devices will proliferate wildly. "Dishwashers, air conditioners, house lights, and more will be connected directly to a 'smart' electric grid, making it possible to turn them on and off using your cell phone or any Web browser," a company statement asserts.
Even the act of eating will take on new meaning, in IBM's view: "You will know everything from the climate and soil the food was grown in, to the pesticides and pollution it was exposed to, to the energy consumed to create the product, to the temperature and air quality of the shipping containers it traveled through on the way to your dinner table."
The report also suggests that doctors' ability to heal us will become even more astounding. Due to advances in X-ray and audio technologies, doctors will gain "superpowers," according to IBM. Computers will also be able to compare your health data to an ocean's worth of other patient records, helping with diagnosis and treatment, the company said.
In addition, the company said cell phones will continue to grow in power and functionality. For example, phones will enable users to snap a photo of an article of clothing, pull in results from the Web about the brand and where to buy it, and then render the garment on top of a 3-D image of the user, IBM said.
IBM's list received a measured nod from Edward Cornish, editor of The Futurist magazine and past president of the World Future Society, an organization based in Bethesda, Maryland.
"Basically, the five forecasts seem to me to be quite reasonable," Cornish said. "They're based on technologies that have been around for a number of years and are simply extrapolations."
The Futurist has released its own list of predictions for 2008 and beyond.
The organization contends, among other things, that the world will have a billion millionaires by 2025; the earth is on the verge of a "significant extinction event;" and "nonhuman entities," such as robots fueled by artificial intelligence, will make more decisions.
Via-Infoworld
The cures to those ills and more may arrive within five years, according to IBM.
The company recently released its second annual set of "Next Five in Five" predictions, visions that sketch out a future where driving is a relative pleasure, eco-friendly devices save you money, and super doctors use advanced technology to probe your body's innermost depths in search of disease.
IBM's contention that driving will become safer and less aggravating may be particularly tantalizing for many.
The company said that during the next five years, a "wave of connectivity" between vehicles and roadways will help keep traffic flowing smoothly, drive down pollution, and get you to your destination easier, "without the stress."
This will be accomplished through "intelligent" traffic systems that automatically adjust light patterns and shift traffic to alternative routes, as well as cars that exhibit "reflexes" thanks to communication with other vehicles and roadside sensors, according to IBM.
The company's crystal ball also revealed that the long-simmering trend toward "smart energy" devices will proliferate wildly. "Dishwashers, air conditioners, house lights, and more will be connected directly to a 'smart' electric grid, making it possible to turn them on and off using your cell phone or any Web browser," a company statement asserts.
Even the act of eating will take on new meaning, in IBM's view: "You will know everything from the climate and soil the food was grown in, to the pesticides and pollution it was exposed to, to the energy consumed to create the product, to the temperature and air quality of the shipping containers it traveled through on the way to your dinner table."
The report also suggests that doctors' ability to heal us will become even more astounding. Due to advances in X-ray and audio technologies, doctors will gain "superpowers," according to IBM. Computers will also be able to compare your health data to an ocean's worth of other patient records, helping with diagnosis and treatment, the company said.
In addition, the company said cell phones will continue to grow in power and functionality. For example, phones will enable users to snap a photo of an article of clothing, pull in results from the Web about the brand and where to buy it, and then render the garment on top of a 3-D image of the user, IBM said.
IBM's list received a measured nod from Edward Cornish, editor of The Futurist magazine and past president of the World Future Society, an organization based in Bethesda, Maryland.
"Basically, the five forecasts seem to me to be quite reasonable," Cornish said. "They're based on technologies that have been around for a number of years and are simply extrapolations."
The Futurist has released its own list of predictions for 2008 and beyond.
The organization contends, among other things, that the world will have a billion millionaires by 2025; the earth is on the verge of a "significant extinction event;" and "nonhuman entities," such as robots fueled by artificial intelligence, will make more decisions.
Via-Infoworld
NamePros.com, an active community of domain name owners, investors, buyers, and sellers of all kinds
What Company Is About:
NamePros.com, an active community of domain name owners, investors, buyers, and sellers of all kinds. You can join over 76,000 domain name owners from around the world and discuss anything about domain names and website development!
To gain full access to all of our features, you must register for a free account.
How It Works:
NameBucks are part of their forum's currency system and can be used to 'purchase' benefits and features on the forum and, on occasions, actual goods and services through the NamePros Store. They may be earned by site participation, purchased from the bank or other members, and can be used as an easy and fee-free way to buy and sell with other NamePros Members on low to mid value transactions.
NameBucks have real value, guaranteed by the site owners, and the integrity of the currency system is protected and held in high regard.
Their forum has a feature called "reputation points". Reputaion points in its simplest form are a ranking of a members benefit and activity within the forum. Its basis comes from the opinions of all forum members that choose to take part in it.
Users gain and lose rep points on how their posts are scored by other members. Users with the ability to affect reputation, will either give or take away points by approving or disapproving with a post's content. Rep points are also gained or lost from transactions rated using their Trader Rating system.
Unique Features:
Once registered, you will be able to:
* Post your domains for sale or for free appraisals.
* Private message and conduct business with other domain owners.
* View members-only forums such as 'Legal Issues' and 'Expired Domains'
* Search and browse our complete database of over 2,300,000 posts!
http://www.namepros.com/
NamePros.com, an active community of domain name owners, investors, buyers, and sellers of all kinds. You can join over 76,000 domain name owners from around the world and discuss anything about domain names and website development!
To gain full access to all of our features, you must register for a free account.
How It Works:
NameBucks are part of their forum's currency system and can be used to 'purchase' benefits and features on the forum and, on occasions, actual goods and services through the NamePros Store. They may be earned by site participation, purchased from the bank or other members, and can be used as an easy and fee-free way to buy and sell with other NamePros Members on low to mid value transactions.
NameBucks have real value, guaranteed by the site owners, and the integrity of the currency system is protected and held in high regard.
Their forum has a feature called "reputation points". Reputaion points in its simplest form are a ranking of a members benefit and activity within the forum. Its basis comes from the opinions of all forum members that choose to take part in it.
Users gain and lose rep points on how their posts are scored by other members. Users with the ability to affect reputation, will either give or take away points by approving or disapproving with a post's content. Rep points are also gained or lost from transactions rated using their Trader Rating system.
Unique Features:
Once registered, you will be able to:
* Post your domains for sale or for free appraisals.
* Private message and conduct business with other domain owners.
* View members-only forums such as 'Legal Issues' and 'Expired Domains'
* Search and browse our complete database of over 2,300,000 posts!
http://www.namepros.com/
Global Classroom
What Company Is Offering:
TutorQuick.com is a cross border venture which aims at providing the finest tutoring service to students. The company has been formed by professionals from the United States and India who have a track record of providing excellent service to their clients in various fields including education. We are committed to providing the best tutoring service to all our students, ensuring a qualitative improvement in their level of understanding, problem solving skills, creative skills, logical approach and scientific temperament.
How It Works:
Connecting to an online tutor vis TutorQuick is extremely easy. With a few simple clicks, the user is linked into a web based live teleconference with one of our qualified tutors. All you need to do is to sign up on our website, purchase and schedule a tutoring session. The tutor will be available at the scheduled time. Voice interaction is done via Skype, which is a free software and can be downloaded from www.Skype.com.Written communication is done through an online virtual "whiteboard" (which is the equivalent of classroom blackboard). While speaking via a headset and microphone the student is able to ask questions, draw equations and get expert tutoring live and interactive. Our tutors teach rather than give just answers.
The tutoring will be done according to the needs of student and according to his/her requirements of the subject/s. TutorQuick.com offers power tutoring at a reasonable price with live access to real tutors.
More at:http://www.tutorquick.com/
TutorQuick.com is a cross border venture which aims at providing the finest tutoring service to students. The company has been formed by professionals from the United States and India who have a track record of providing excellent service to their clients in various fields including education. We are committed to providing the best tutoring service to all our students, ensuring a qualitative improvement in their level of understanding, problem solving skills, creative skills, logical approach and scientific temperament.
How It Works:
Connecting to an online tutor vis TutorQuick is extremely easy. With a few simple clicks, the user is linked into a web based live teleconference with one of our qualified tutors. All you need to do is to sign up on our website, purchase and schedule a tutoring session. The tutor will be available at the scheduled time. Voice interaction is done via Skype, which is a free software and can be downloaded from www.Skype.com.Written communication is done through an online virtual "whiteboard" (which is the equivalent of classroom blackboard). While speaking via a headset and microphone the student is able to ask questions, draw equations and get expert tutoring live and interactive. Our tutors teach rather than give just answers.
The tutoring will be done according to the needs of student and according to his/her requirements of the subject/s. TutorQuick.com offers power tutoring at a reasonable price with live access to real tutors.
More at:http://www.tutorquick.com/
Qik is a little piece of software that enables you to stream videos directly from your phone to the Web
What Company Is Offering:
Qik is a little piece of software that enables you to stream videos directly from your phone to the Web. Use it to stream engaging videos to your friends in Facebook, Twitter, etc. or as your camcorder to capture entertaining and special moments.
How It Works:
With Qik you can stream engaging video live from your phone to the world or use your phone like a camcorder to capture entertaining, interesting and special moments. Go LIVE with your life by streaming anytime, anywhere — right from your phone. Be an eyewitness, capture those first steps, or whip up your own streaming video blog. There are just a million and one uses of qik.Currently, they support video streaming on Nokia S60 phones: N71, N73, N75, N76, N77, N80, N91, N92, N93, N93i, N95, E50, E51, E61i, E65, E70m E90 Communicator, 3250, 5500, 5700 Xpress Music, 6110 Navigator, 6120 Classic, 6121 Classic, and 6290. You also need a Data Plan and it is also advisable to have an Unlimited Data Plan from your service provider as video streaming can consume considerable amount of bandwidth.
More at:http://www.qik.com/
Qik is a little piece of software that enables you to stream videos directly from your phone to the Web. Use it to stream engaging videos to your friends in Facebook, Twitter, etc. or as your camcorder to capture entertaining and special moments.
How It Works:
With Qik you can stream engaging video live from your phone to the world or use your phone like a camcorder to capture entertaining, interesting and special moments. Go LIVE with your life by streaming anytime, anywhere — right from your phone. Be an eyewitness, capture those first steps, or whip up your own streaming video blog. There are just a million and one uses of qik.Currently, they support video streaming on Nokia S60 phones: N71, N73, N75, N76, N77, N80, N91, N92, N93, N93i, N95, E50, E51, E61i, E65, E70m E90 Communicator, 3250, 5500, 5700 Xpress Music, 6110 Navigator, 6120 Classic, 6121 Classic, and 6290. You also need a Data Plan and it is also advisable to have an Unlimited Data Plan from your service provider as video streaming can consume considerable amount of bandwidth.
More at:http://www.qik.com/
Trutap-- Free Mobile IM Messaging
What Company Is Offering:
Trutap allows you to take your online social life where you go. You can send group messages, SMS and email from your mobile phone for free. You can also chat with your friends on IM (e.g. MSN) and post to blogs, photo-sharing accounts and social networks - all from your mobile phone.
How It Works:
Simply go to the download page and create an account. Then follow the instructions to download the application onto your mobile phone and away you go!
Or you can go to m.trutap.com on your phone‘s mobile browser. And if you‘re in the UK, just text ‘trutap‘ to 80468 and they‘ll send you a download link that‘ll help you download trutap onto your phone.
To get the most out of trutap you will need a supported mobile phone and a data plan that allows you to connect to the Internet from your phone.. You can find out if you have a data plan by calling your network operator.
When you are creating your trutap account they will send you an SMS message containing a verification code. All you need to do is enter this code into the web site when asked and your number will be verified. Simple as that!
Unique Features:
What is a WAP push?
It‘s a kind of SMS message that contains a web link that can be used by your mobile phone to open a web page. Some phones will call them slightly different things like service messages or push messages.
More at:http://trutap.com/
Trutap allows you to take your online social life where you go. You can send group messages, SMS and email from your mobile phone for free. You can also chat with your friends on IM (e.g. MSN) and post to blogs, photo-sharing accounts and social networks - all from your mobile phone.
How It Works:
Simply go to the download page and create an account. Then follow the instructions to download the application onto your mobile phone and away you go!
Or you can go to m.trutap.com on your phone‘s mobile browser. And if you‘re in the UK, just text ‘trutap‘ to 80468 and they‘ll send you a download link that‘ll help you download trutap onto your phone.
To get the most out of trutap you will need a supported mobile phone and a data plan that allows you to connect to the Internet from your phone.. You can find out if you have a data plan by calling your network operator.
When you are creating your trutap account they will send you an SMS message containing a verification code. All you need to do is enter this code into the web site when asked and your number will be verified. Simple as that!
Unique Features:
What is a WAP push?
It‘s a kind of SMS message that contains a web link that can be used by your mobile phone to open a web page. Some phones will call them slightly different things like service messages or push messages.
More at:http://trutap.com/
Senior FriendFinder site --For Above The Age Of 40
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GreenIQ
What Company Is Offering:
GreenIQ believes that you don’t have to hug trees to support them. The big picture behind GreenIQ is your, my, our, our children and our grandchildren’s future.
How It Works:
GreenIQ provides measurable answers to these and other ambiguous questions so you can truly gauge your impact on the environment.
GreenIQ will take the esoteric concept of the carbon footprint and bring it down to Earth in a straightforward, more easily gauged way.
By simply taking their GreenIQ test you can measure how green you really are. Once the test is taken, custom tips will be sent each week according to your individual green interests. The tips are intended for immediate use and easy integration into your life, therefore helping to increase their IQ and minimize the weight you have on this world.
Unique Features:
Traditional carbon calculators only calculate the basic big ticket items- flights, car, electricity.
GreenIQ takes other lifestyle components into account: travel, food and drink, beauty, home design, lifestyle, habits.
Traditional Tip Guides offer information, but no follow through.
GreenIQ informs, advises, guides with custom tips, helps set goals, and follows up to see that those goals are met.
GreenIQ will help you take responsibility for your environmental weight through the PGG (Personal Green Goals) program within the Green Community.
GreenIQ is also a community of like-minded people where you can learn from, meet , and chat with other GreenIQ members, as well as create a personal space- your GreenPad.
More at:http://www.greeniq.com/
GreenIQ believes that you don’t have to hug trees to support them. The big picture behind GreenIQ is your, my, our, our children and our grandchildren’s future.
How It Works:
GreenIQ provides measurable answers to these and other ambiguous questions so you can truly gauge your impact on the environment.
GreenIQ will take the esoteric concept of the carbon footprint and bring it down to Earth in a straightforward, more easily gauged way.
By simply taking their GreenIQ test you can measure how green you really are. Once the test is taken, custom tips will be sent each week according to your individual green interests. The tips are intended for immediate use and easy integration into your life, therefore helping to increase their IQ and minimize the weight you have on this world.
Unique Features:
Traditional carbon calculators only calculate the basic big ticket items- flights, car, electricity.
GreenIQ takes other lifestyle components into account: travel, food and drink, beauty, home design, lifestyle, habits.
Traditional Tip Guides offer information, but no follow through.
GreenIQ informs, advises, guides with custom tips, helps set goals, and follows up to see that those goals are met.
GreenIQ will help you take responsibility for your environmental weight through the PGG (Personal Green Goals) program within the Green Community.
GreenIQ is also a community of like-minded people where you can learn from, meet , and chat with other GreenIQ members, as well as create a personal space- your GreenPad.
More at:http://www.greeniq.com/
vSide--Virtual Music World
What Company Is Offering:
vSide is an immersive, interconnected virtual city environment where you can hang out, listen to music, chat, dance, and make friends.
How It Works:
There are four Moods you can set for your avatar: Confident, relaxed, upbeat, and blue. Set your mood using the Mood button on the button bar. Your gesture animations will be different depending on your mood.
Go to:http://www.vside.com/ , and download the application. Install and run vSide and you will be prompted to register from within the client.vSide fully supports AIM. If you supply your AIM username and password in your People panel (accessible via the People button, also F3 key), you'll be able to IM your AIM buddies right from the vSide client!
Unique Features:
Respekt is the social status system in vSide. As you gain Respekt and reach higher Respekt levels, you earn awards and access to VIP rooms in clubs, exclusive items for purchase, and more.
More at:http://www.vside.com/
vSide is an immersive, interconnected virtual city environment where you can hang out, listen to music, chat, dance, and make friends.
How It Works:
There are four Moods you can set for your avatar: Confident, relaxed, upbeat, and blue. Set your mood using the Mood button on the button bar. Your gesture animations will be different depending on your mood.
Go to:http://www.vside.com/ , and download the application. Install and run vSide and you will be prompted to register from within the client.vSide fully supports AIM. If you supply your AIM username and password in your People panel (accessible via the People button, also F3 key), you'll be able to IM your AIM buddies right from the vSide client!
Unique Features:
Respekt is the social status system in vSide. As you gain Respekt and reach higher Respekt levels, you earn awards and access to VIP rooms in clubs, exclusive items for purchase, and more.
More at:http://www.vside.com/
BootB is the on-line marketplace that connects your Brand to the world's creative talents
What Company Is Offering:
BootB is the on-line marketplace that connects your Brand to the world's creative talents. With BootB you can get responses to your ideas. Brands put creative challenges in the BootB box and you solve them. The best idea wins, and its creator wins a substantial cash prize.
How It Works:
Brand owners – Builders - publish their creative needs on BootB and allocate a budget to it. The brief, translated into 12 languages, reaches almost all people who use the internet in their mother tongue.
Creators around the planet, agency creatives, inspired mums, bright kids, street performers, wannabe writers - everyone can put their dreams in the box, and the Builder buys the best idea – for the full value of the brief - with a cast iron guarantee of payment by BootB.
The best idea wins the prize – pure ideas, one planet, no barriers, everybody is welcome in the Re-publi-ca of Unlimited Creativity - BootB.
Registration is free for everyone.
For Creators: Simply register, check out the briefs in the box, decide which ones you want to try to crack, dream up a solution, and post it back to us – starting January 1st – go for it! You can post as many as you like! We’ll keep it secret until the Builders go through them all one by one to see which one they love the most.
For Builders: If you want to publish a brief in the box, please use our contact us form, and we’ll get in touch to talk you through the process.
If you’re having difficulty with anything, please get in touch. This is your site, and we want to make it as easy for you to use as possible - we would love to hear your feedback if you have any ideas about how to make it more useful for you.
More at:http://www.bootb.com/
BootB is the on-line marketplace that connects your Brand to the world's creative talents. With BootB you can get responses to your ideas. Brands put creative challenges in the BootB box and you solve them. The best idea wins, and its creator wins a substantial cash prize.
How It Works:
Brand owners – Builders - publish their creative needs on BootB and allocate a budget to it. The brief, translated into 12 languages, reaches almost all people who use the internet in their mother tongue.
Creators around the planet, agency creatives, inspired mums, bright kids, street performers, wannabe writers - everyone can put their dreams in the box, and the Builder buys the best idea – for the full value of the brief - with a cast iron guarantee of payment by BootB.
The best idea wins the prize – pure ideas, one planet, no barriers, everybody is welcome in the Re-publi-ca of Unlimited Creativity - BootB.
Registration is free for everyone.
For Creators: Simply register, check out the briefs in the box, decide which ones you want to try to crack, dream up a solution, and post it back to us – starting January 1st – go for it! You can post as many as you like! We’ll keep it secret until the Builders go through them all one by one to see which one they love the most.
For Builders: If you want to publish a brief in the box, please use our contact us form, and we’ll get in touch to talk you through the process.
If you’re having difficulty with anything, please get in touch. This is your site, and we want to make it as easy for you to use as possible - we would love to hear your feedback if you have any ideas about how to make it more useful for you.
More at:http://www.bootb.com/
GigPark is a place for you and your friends to share recommendations so you can all find great service
What Company Is Offering:
GigPark is a place for you and your friends to share recommendations so you can all find great service. GigPark's mission is to make it easy for friends to share recommendations so we can all find great service.
How It Works:
GigPark allows you to easily check out recommendations from your friends and from the friends of your friends to find an agent that best suits your needs. If you can't find one, you can ask your friends for a recommendation through GigPark.
In turn, you can make your own recommendations and respond to your friends in need. If you recommend your dentist, you're not only helping your friend with the tooth ache, you're also sending potential clients to your dentist. You're a nice person.
Keywords are one-word labels that you can assign to each of your recommendations on GigPark to make it easier for friends to find that recommendation. For example, if you recommend a pediatrician, you may want to add the following keywords - baby doctor pediatrician newborn - or whatever other keywords would help your friends find this recommendation. You can assign as many keywords to a recommendation as you like and easily edit or delete them later.
More at:http://www.gigpark.com/faq
GigPark is a place for you and your friends to share recommendations so you can all find great service. GigPark's mission is to make it easy for friends to share recommendations so we can all find great service.
How It Works:
GigPark allows you to easily check out recommendations from your friends and from the friends of your friends to find an agent that best suits your needs. If you can't find one, you can ask your friends for a recommendation through GigPark.
In turn, you can make your own recommendations and respond to your friends in need. If you recommend your dentist, you're not only helping your friend with the tooth ache, you're also sending potential clients to your dentist. You're a nice person.
Keywords are one-word labels that you can assign to each of your recommendations on GigPark to make it easier for friends to find that recommendation. For example, if you recommend a pediatrician, you may want to add the following keywords - baby doctor pediatrician newborn - or whatever other keywords would help your friends find this recommendation. You can assign as many keywords to a recommendation as you like and easily edit or delete them later.
More at:http://www.gigpark.com/faq
Ask500People-----Companies Make Better Decision
What Company Is Offering:
Ask500People to gather input and opinion data in minutes instead of days, and to create a platform that other applications can integrate.
How It Works:
They've invented a new tool to help companies make better decisions based on fast, inexpensive independent input. Their results are more accurate than polling friends or people around the office and cheaper than a formal outsourced survey.
Create an account if you don't have one.
Log in.
On the Your Questions page, click on "Ask a Community Question.
When a question goes live on the network, over 75,000 websites display that poll. This network reach allows us to deliver voting results in real-time.
Businesses can create and launch questions from the privacy of the control panel, for reasonable rates. Unlike the questions running on the main page, your results are private and you're guaranteed that your question will have access to the network.
More at:http://www.ask500people.com/
Ask500People to gather input and opinion data in minutes instead of days, and to create a platform that other applications can integrate.
How It Works:
They've invented a new tool to help companies make better decisions based on fast, inexpensive independent input. Their results are more accurate than polling friends or people around the office and cheaper than a formal outsourced survey.
Create an account if you don't have one.
Log in.
On the Your Questions page, click on "Ask a Community Question.
When a question goes live on the network, over 75,000 websites display that poll. This network reach allows us to deliver voting results in real-time.
Businesses can create and launch questions from the privacy of the control panel, for reasonable rates. Unlike the questions running on the main page, your results are private and you're guaranteed that your question will have access to the network.
More at:http://www.ask500people.com/
Jalipo is the first online marketplace for TV and video--On Demand TV
What Company Is Offering:
Jalipo is the first online marketplace for TV and video. It lets content owners use the Internet to offer their channels, video-on-demand and live events direct to viewers around the world.
Jalipo aims to give you the best way to enjoy their content with the minimum of fuss and deliver it to you in the best quality your broadband can support. There's no download, just click and watch.
How It Works:
Jalipo J:Credits give you a flexible way to buy from each content owner paying only for what you watch. All live and recorded video is priced by content owners at a per-minute rate, you simply pay-as-you-go topping up your credits whenever you run low.
More at:http://www.jalipo.com/
Jalipo is the first online marketplace for TV and video. It lets content owners use the Internet to offer their channels, video-on-demand and live events direct to viewers around the world.
Jalipo aims to give you the best way to enjoy their content with the minimum of fuss and deliver it to you in the best quality your broadband can support. There's no download, just click and watch.
How It Works:
Jalipo J:Credits give you a flexible way to buy from each content owner paying only for what you watch. All live and recorded video is priced by content owners at a per-minute rate, you simply pay-as-you-go topping up your credits whenever you run low.
More at:http://www.jalipo.com/
My FutureSource is a FREE fully customizable and interactive website designed for the trader who demands efficiency
What Company Is Offering:
Their objective is to provide you with free and accurate futures commodity quotes, charts, news and other relevant information. They hope to give you a source you can count on, and do it in a way that is easy and convenient. FutureSource.com carries both "true composite" symbols that cover all trading sessions, and symbols that denote the day (pit) trading sessions only. Please view their Master Symbol List for more details.
How It Works:
My FutureSource is a FREE fully customizable and interactive website designed for the trader who demands efficiency. Workspaces include chart, quote and news components that display delayed data from around the world. Organize each component to create the perfect layout for your trading needs. Create your workspaces, and every time you log in, they will be there waiting for you.
To use this site, you are required to create an account using a valid email address. Your password will be forwarded to this email address, as well as other confirmation notices from the site administrator. If the email address you use during sign up changes, please update your Contact Information.
After successful registration, a password is forwarded to the email address you provided. You may change your password, if desired, after logging into your account.
Unique Features:
The charts available on the site are available for all futures contracts carried by FutureSource. Features include:
tick, intraday, daily, weekly, monthly time series.
displays Open/High/Low/Close as you pass your mouse over the chart.
display long-term market conditions using a continuation chart.
choose from a total of 26 studies.
add multiple studies to the chart.
changeable study parameters.
More at:http://futuresource.quote.com/
Their objective is to provide you with free and accurate futures commodity quotes, charts, news and other relevant information. They hope to give you a source you can count on, and do it in a way that is easy and convenient. FutureSource.com carries both "true composite" symbols that cover all trading sessions, and symbols that denote the day (pit) trading sessions only. Please view their Master Symbol List for more details.
How It Works:
My FutureSource is a FREE fully customizable and interactive website designed for the trader who demands efficiency. Workspaces include chart, quote and news components that display delayed data from around the world. Organize each component to create the perfect layout for your trading needs. Create your workspaces, and every time you log in, they will be there waiting for you.
To use this site, you are required to create an account using a valid email address. Your password will be forwarded to this email address, as well as other confirmation notices from the site administrator. If the email address you use during sign up changes, please update your Contact Information.
After successful registration, a password is forwarded to the email address you provided. You may change your password, if desired, after logging into your account.
Unique Features:
The charts available on the site are available for all futures contracts carried by FutureSource. Features include:
tick, intraday, daily, weekly, monthly time series.
displays Open/High/Low/Close as you pass your mouse over the chart.
display long-term market conditions using a continuation chart.
choose from a total of 26 studies.
add multiple studies to the chart.
changeable study parameters.
More at:http://futuresource.quote.com/
Dependable Printing is your one stop printing solution for everything from Wedding Invitations to Bar Mitzvah Invitations
What Company Is Offering:
Dependable Printing is your one stop printing solution for everything from Wedding Invitations to Bar Mitzvah Invitations.
We offer a vast selection of Special Occasion Announcements ranging from Graduation Announcements to Baby Announcements.
Quality Products at a Great Price, with on-time fast delivery!
Please call 770-271-1415 for assistance with your order.
They look forward to serving you!
More at:http://www.dependableprinting.com/
Dependable Printing is your one stop printing solution for everything from Wedding Invitations to Bar Mitzvah Invitations.
We offer a vast selection of Special Occasion Announcements ranging from Graduation Announcements to Baby Announcements.
Quality Products at a Great Price, with on-time fast delivery!
Please call 770-271-1415 for assistance with your order.
They look forward to serving you!
More at:http://www.dependableprinting.com/
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
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Election Platform--It’s a new democratic voting system, where every person can be an elector and candidate
What Company Says:
Every person in society has a particular place: one can drive a car, another can do scientific research, and a third can be a politician. Every person communicates with others, which is normal in a society and makes his impressions on people he has known during his lifetime. But when it comes to choosing the person to lead us, it's difficult to make a decision. First of all, because the list is limited, second, on the list there are some candidates that you have never heard about, not to mention you have no idea about his achievements, character, leadership aptitudes or intelligence. On the other side, you know quite well your own friends, but you can't vote for them unless they are on the candidates list.
On the Election Platform, an individual comes with a list of 1, 2 or 3 people that he wants to give his vote. He can vote for others, not for himself, that he believes are the best match for the election requirements. In this way each person distributes his authority value in equal proportion between voters. At the end they just need to compute the authority and sort it.
How It Works:
Election Platform represents the system which calculates the authority value of each person in the election. Election Platform can be used for team leader, professional communities, Local Administration, Parliament, even Presidential Elections.
It’s a new democratic voting system, where every person can be an elector and candidate.
What types of elections are there?
Closed – Recommended for small groups (10-20 people).
Open with Invitation – Recommended for medium sized groups (100 people).
Open with Password – Recommended for medium sized groups (100 people).
Open - Recommended for extremely large groups (millions of people).
Open for Trusted Individuals Recommended for large groups (hundreds of people).
What is the Difference between Classic Democracy and the Election Platform?
Under a Classic Democracy the winner is the person who gets the majority of votes.
In the election platform the winner is the person voted for by the members with the highest authority.
More at:http://www.electionplatform.com/
Every person in society has a particular place: one can drive a car, another can do scientific research, and a third can be a politician. Every person communicates with others, which is normal in a society and makes his impressions on people he has known during his lifetime. But when it comes to choosing the person to lead us, it's difficult to make a decision. First of all, because the list is limited, second, on the list there are some candidates that you have never heard about, not to mention you have no idea about his achievements, character, leadership aptitudes or intelligence. On the other side, you know quite well your own friends, but you can't vote for them unless they are on the candidates list.
On the Election Platform, an individual comes with a list of 1, 2 or 3 people that he wants to give his vote. He can vote for others, not for himself, that he believes are the best match for the election requirements. In this way each person distributes his authority value in equal proportion between voters. At the end they just need to compute the authority and sort it.
How It Works:
Election Platform represents the system which calculates the authority value of each person in the election. Election Platform can be used for team leader, professional communities, Local Administration, Parliament, even Presidential Elections.
It’s a new democratic voting system, where every person can be an elector and candidate.
What types of elections are there?
Closed – Recommended for small groups (10-20 people).
Open with Invitation – Recommended for medium sized groups (100 people).
Open with Password – Recommended for medium sized groups (100 people).
Open - Recommended for extremely large groups (millions of people).
Open for Trusted Individuals Recommended for large groups (hundreds of people).
What is the Difference between Classic Democracy and the Election Platform?
Under a Classic Democracy the winner is the person who gets the majority of votes.
In the election platform the winner is the person voted for by the members with the highest authority.
More at:http://www.electionplatform.com/
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