What Company is Offering:
ReelProerties.tv is an interesting website that is geared toward real estate agents and promotes properties with videos.
How It Works:
There are so many useful tools for sharing information about a property, including the ability to embed videos in other websites, and email them out to friends. You can also leave comments on a particular property, as well as questions. This is useful for the person selling or leasing the property, because now they have a centralized location in which to address everyone’s questions. It’s also good for users, because they can now benefit from the answers to questions that have already been asked.
The information included for each listing is what you’d expect, and can easily be accessed via tabs for amenities, desription, etc. Filtering options for search are helpful, and the browsing tool lets you set a good amount of parameters for finding a property. This seems to be limited at the moment–no matter what parameters I set for a search, I was always given New York properties. Perhaps ReelProperties hasn’t moved beyond it’s current city just yet.
ReelProperties is giving away 500 free property videos for New York City. There’s a catch: you’ll have to vote for ReelProperties on idealblob in order to get the free video. It’s a win-win situation (if not somewhat unethical) for ReelProperties, because the more votes it receives, the more likely it will be to win the business plan competition, so with the exchange of votes for free stuff on the site, it’s essentially bribing its way to the top.
How They Could Improve:
If the existing features on ReelProperties would be more options on the embedded video, which could allow for direct contact of the owner, or the ability to see other, related videos. The idea of displaying related videos throughout the ReelProperties website would be helpful as well.
One good thing about ReelProperties’ business plans for its site is the advertising displays, which will be location-based and more relevant to site visitors based on the properties they’re searching.
More at:http://www.reelproperties.tv/
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Mobilestorm ,a leading provider of digital marketing products and services got Series A funding in which eonBusiness is the sole investor
What Company is Offering:
Mobilestorm ,a leading provider of digital marketing products and services.They provide a range of on-demand solutions designed for organizations spanning from small businesses to Global 2000 enterprises that helps them quickly, easily and reliably create, deliver and analyze successful email marketing, mobile marketing, voice, fax, and rss marketing campaigns.
How Much They Got From VCs:
They announced the successful conclusion of mobileStorm’s Series A funding in which eonBusiness is the sole investor.
What's The Purpose Of Raising Fund:
The capital resulting from eonBusiness’ investment will be used to further accelerate mobileStorm’s strategic growth, research and development, and to increase marketing and sales spending behind the mobileStorm brand.
About VCs:
Founded in 1997 as an Internet marketing strategy and web development company, eonBusiness has assisted many entrepreneurs in launching, developing and growing various web-based businesses. Our early success assisting others prompted us to make direct investments in and to operate our own e-commerce businesses, beginning as early as 1999.
We see our next opportunity as making supportive investments in seed and early-stage Web-based e-commerce businesses. Like the creative entrepreneur, we see a problem and want a solution. Our goal is to help fill the funding gap for entrepreneurs of seed and early-stage companies, so that necessary and available funding can be an appropriate match. As entrepreneurs, we understand what it takes to build a company from the ground up, and the challenges presented from concept through development and into the growth phase. While funding is necessary, it is not the only answer. The key to success is in the execution. Great concepts die due to mediocre execution. In addition to funding, we can add value to and enhance execution by participating in strategic planning, providing follow-on funding, and introducing new funding sources.
More at:http://www.mobilestorm.com/
About VC detail:http://www.eonbusiness.com/
Mobilestorm ,a leading provider of digital marketing products and services.They provide a range of on-demand solutions designed for organizations spanning from small businesses to Global 2000 enterprises that helps them quickly, easily and reliably create, deliver and analyze successful email marketing, mobile marketing, voice, fax, and rss marketing campaigns.
How Much They Got From VCs:
They announced the successful conclusion of mobileStorm’s Series A funding in which eonBusiness is the sole investor.
What's The Purpose Of Raising Fund:
The capital resulting from eonBusiness’ investment will be used to further accelerate mobileStorm’s strategic growth, research and development, and to increase marketing and sales spending behind the mobileStorm brand.
About VCs:
Founded in 1997 as an Internet marketing strategy and web development company, eonBusiness has assisted many entrepreneurs in launching, developing and growing various web-based businesses. Our early success assisting others prompted us to make direct investments in and to operate our own e-commerce businesses, beginning as early as 1999.
We see our next opportunity as making supportive investments in seed and early-stage Web-based e-commerce businesses. Like the creative entrepreneur, we see a problem and want a solution. Our goal is to help fill the funding gap for entrepreneurs of seed and early-stage companies, so that necessary and available funding can be an appropriate match. As entrepreneurs, we understand what it takes to build a company from the ground up, and the challenges presented from concept through development and into the growth phase. While funding is necessary, it is not the only answer. The key to success is in the execution. Great concepts die due to mediocre execution. In addition to funding, we can add value to and enhance execution by participating in strategic planning, providing follow-on funding, and introducing new funding sources.
More at:http://www.mobilestorm.com/
About VC detail:http://www.eonbusiness.com/
FORA.tv got seed round fund from Adobe Systems and venture capitalist Will Hearst
What company is Offering:
FORA.tv the leading provider of online video content focused on discourse, discussion and debates surrounding the world’s most compelling political, social and cultural issues.
How Much They Got From VCs:
They announced the closing of its seed round of financing with an investment from Adobe Systems Incorporated. Adobe joins noted investor and venture capitalist Will Hearst who has invested personally in the seed round.
How It Works:
FORA.tv enables a new, global media opportunity by aggregating a daily range of events, produced and electronically shipped by institutions or freelance producers, from around the world.
Its Features:
In addition to leveraging Adobe Flash® Player compatible video technology as its content delivery platform, FORA.tv is distributing video content via the new Adobe® Media Player. The Player offers high quality video and allows users to view their favorite content both online and offline via IPTV.
About VCs Deal:
“Adobe’s investment in FORA.tv signifies our belief in the company’s great opportunity to deliver a rich online media experience to consumers worldwide,” added John Leckrone, director of Venture Development for Adobe. “FORA.tv is making innovative use of Adobe’s Flash® Player compatible video technology. The fact that our shared vision for richer content delivery comes to life via the Adobe® Media Player is a win-win for us all.”
FORA.tv joins a noteworthy group of content publishers distributing video content via the Adobe® Media Player. Content available from FORA.tv includes each of FORA.tv’s channels as well as FORA Casts, representing featured content produced specifically for IPTV.
FORA.tv is based in San Francisco, California.
More at:http://www.fora.tv/
FORA.tv the leading provider of online video content focused on discourse, discussion and debates surrounding the world’s most compelling political, social and cultural issues.
How Much They Got From VCs:
They announced the closing of its seed round of financing with an investment from Adobe Systems Incorporated. Adobe joins noted investor and venture capitalist Will Hearst who has invested personally in the seed round.
How It Works:
FORA.tv enables a new, global media opportunity by aggregating a daily range of events, produced and electronically shipped by institutions or freelance producers, from around the world.
Its Features:
In addition to leveraging Adobe Flash® Player compatible video technology as its content delivery platform, FORA.tv is distributing video content via the new Adobe® Media Player. The Player offers high quality video and allows users to view their favorite content both online and offline via IPTV.
About VCs Deal:
“Adobe’s investment in FORA.tv signifies our belief in the company’s great opportunity to deliver a rich online media experience to consumers worldwide,” added John Leckrone, director of Venture Development for Adobe. “FORA.tv is making innovative use of Adobe’s Flash® Player compatible video technology. The fact that our shared vision for richer content delivery comes to life via the Adobe® Media Player is a win-win for us all.”
FORA.tv joins a noteworthy group of content publishers distributing video content via the Adobe® Media Player. Content available from FORA.tv includes each of FORA.tv’s channels as well as FORA Casts, representing featured content produced specifically for IPTV.
FORA.tv is based in San Francisco, California.
More at:http://www.fora.tv/
BetUknow is a totally free fantasy betting game, with over 1000 British Pounds in real monthly prizes,
What company is Offering:
BetUknow is the place where football bettors join to share their knowledge of the Premiership and other continental competitions, such as the Champions League. BetUknow it is a totally free fantasy betting game, with over 1000 British Pounds in real monthly prizes, directly from Amazon UK. So far so good, but BetUknow is more than just a game. It is a home for a growing network of bettors.
How It Works:
BetUknow leverages the collaborative powers of the modern web to discover the true wisdom of crowds. They claim that the mass opinion is a powerful tool. The crowd can predict the outcome of any event better than a single professional. There is no real money here but Fantasy pounds and a free friendly competition between football supporters. Each user that signs up receives a virtual £1000 to place fantasy bets on real matches with live odds from real bookies. Once the user placed his bet he can then has access to everyone’s picks in a simple graph. The user also enjoys a personal performance graph that demonstrates his wining and loosing throughout the season.
More at:http://www.betuknow.co.uk/
BetUknow is the place where football bettors join to share their knowledge of the Premiership and other continental competitions, such as the Champions League. BetUknow it is a totally free fantasy betting game, with over 1000 British Pounds in real monthly prizes, directly from Amazon UK. So far so good, but BetUknow is more than just a game. It is a home for a growing network of bettors.
How It Works:
BetUknow leverages the collaborative powers of the modern web to discover the true wisdom of crowds. They claim that the mass opinion is a powerful tool. The crowd can predict the outcome of any event better than a single professional. There is no real money here but Fantasy pounds and a free friendly competition between football supporters. Each user that signs up receives a virtual £1000 to place fantasy bets on real matches with live odds from real bookies. Once the user placed his bet he can then has access to everyone’s picks in a simple graph. The user also enjoys a personal performance graph that demonstrates his wining and loosing throughout the season.
More at:http://www.betuknow.co.uk/
IsIt20.com is for the reference to define the 2.0 in real life
What Company is saying:
This site is the reference to define the 2.0 in real life.
What is "2.0" for you ?
The Web has taken a step forward with the 2.0 patch few years ago, but it's still in beta stage. Some sites have definitly patched their Web and thus are know to be 2.0. However, separating deprecated and 2.0 in everyday life can be quite difficult. That's why isit20.com was created, you will finally be able to discern the real 2.0ness of everything. Submit pictures, rate them and define the 2.0 with the community.
How It Works:
IsIt20.com has many different categories such as; objects, humans, animals, countries, food, and houses. You rate these things out of 5 stars and you can comment on the 2.0ness. You can search for items by category or tag. Take a look and see which country is considered the most 2.0. You can browse the site all you want but if you want to be able to comment, vote, and add your own items to be voted on you must be a user. To submit an item you need to upload an image, then the IsIt20.com community will rate its 2.0ness and make comments. Go have fun and see which people and places are considered the most 2.0.
More at:http://www.isit20.com/
This site is the reference to define the 2.0 in real life.
What is "2.0" for you ?
The Web has taken a step forward with the 2.0 patch few years ago, but it's still in beta stage. Some sites have definitly patched their Web and thus are know to be 2.0. However, separating deprecated and 2.0 in everyday life can be quite difficult. That's why isit20.com was created, you will finally be able to discern the real 2.0ness of everything. Submit pictures, rate them and define the 2.0 with the community.
How It Works:
IsIt20.com has many different categories such as; objects, humans, animals, countries, food, and houses. You rate these things out of 5 stars and you can comment on the 2.0ness. You can search for items by category or tag. Take a look and see which country is considered the most 2.0. You can browse the site all you want but if you want to be able to comment, vote, and add your own items to be voted on you must be a user. To submit an item you need to upload an image, then the IsIt20.com community will rate its 2.0ness and make comments. Go have fun and see which people and places are considered the most 2.0.
More at:http://www.isit20.com/
MoveModern.com is a free online community of professionals, students and homeowners passionate about Modern design and architecture
What company is offering:
MoveModern.com is a free online community of professionals, students and homeowners passionate about Modern design and architecture.
How it works:
This site is designed to network diverse groups of modern enthusiasts across the country, while providing an interactive hub for modern design. We hope this community is a catalyst for greater interest in modern design and that it inspires and informs readers.
MoveModern differs from other design sites by having NO HIDDEN AGENDA. We sell no physical products or have direct affiliations with any particular line or brand. Our editorial staff vows to remain unbiased in our reviews and subject matter.
MoveModern is designed to be shaped by its members and encourage everyone to respond to threads, start a blog and create their own forum. MoveModern is whatever we make of it.
more at;http://www.movemodern.com/
MoveModern.com is a free online community of professionals, students and homeowners passionate about Modern design and architecture.
How it works:
This site is designed to network diverse groups of modern enthusiasts across the country, while providing an interactive hub for modern design. We hope this community is a catalyst for greater interest in modern design and that it inspires and informs readers.
MoveModern differs from other design sites by having NO HIDDEN AGENDA. We sell no physical products or have direct affiliations with any particular line or brand. Our editorial staff vows to remain unbiased in our reviews and subject matter.
MoveModern is designed to be shaped by its members and encourage everyone to respond to threads, start a blog and create their own forum. MoveModern is whatever we make of it.
more at;http://www.movemodern.com/
KushCash For Making Mobile Payments Easy
What Company is Offering:
Secure Wireless Transfers Corporation (SWT) is a leader in mobile commerce solutions enabling consumers to transfer money and make purchases through mobile phones while “on the go”. SWT provides the easiest, most secure, and most cost-effective means of mobile payment available today.
How It Works:
The company’s KushCash service, powered by SWT, allows instant, easily accessible cash transactions from anywhere through the use of its patent-pending User Interface and end-to-end payment processing system. Consumers can now send and receive money and make purchases more securely and inexpensively through its end-to-end authentication and payment processing system. The system uses SMS text messaging for instant notifications providing users with updated, timely account history and transaction alerts.Kushcash is backed by a fresh and vibrant team totally dedicated to making mobile payments easy, secure and fun.
More at:http://www.kushcash.com/
Secure Wireless Transfers Corporation (SWT) is a leader in mobile commerce solutions enabling consumers to transfer money and make purchases through mobile phones while “on the go”. SWT provides the easiest, most secure, and most cost-effective means of mobile payment available today.
How It Works:
The company’s KushCash service, powered by SWT, allows instant, easily accessible cash transactions from anywhere through the use of its patent-pending User Interface and end-to-end payment processing system. Consumers can now send and receive money and make purchases more securely and inexpensively through its end-to-end authentication and payment processing system. The system uses SMS text messaging for instant notifications providing users with updated, timely account history and transaction alerts.Kushcash is backed by a fresh and vibrant team totally dedicated to making mobile payments easy, secure and fun.
More at:http://www.kushcash.com/
Web2Carz For Easy Cars Loan
What company is offering:
Web2Carz was born when two software industry veterans joined forces to create a user friendly automotive web site. Our slogan states, "everything should be this easy" and our mission is to bring simplicity into the world of Online Full Service Automotive Portals. Unlike most Automotive Portals, Web2Carz is not directly affiliated with car dealerships. This gives us the freedom to advocate consumer causes and provide fair and balanced editorial content. We believe in the "User Created Constant" and we welcome feedback both positive and negative.
How They Are Different:
Drawing on years of industry experience, we built a national network of service providers. With these relationships we are able to provide our customers with the ability to search a nationwide network of dealerships, lenders, warranty organizations and other automotive related product offerings from a single online destination.
more at:http://www.web2carz.com/
Web2Carz was born when two software industry veterans joined forces to create a user friendly automotive web site. Our slogan states, "everything should be this easy" and our mission is to bring simplicity into the world of Online Full Service Automotive Portals. Unlike most Automotive Portals, Web2Carz is not directly affiliated with car dealerships. This gives us the freedom to advocate consumer causes and provide fair and balanced editorial content. We believe in the "User Created Constant" and we welcome feedback both positive and negative.
How They Are Different:
Drawing on years of industry experience, we built a national network of service providers. With these relationships we are able to provide our customers with the ability to search a nationwide network of dealerships, lenders, warranty organizations and other automotive related product offerings from a single online destination.
more at:http://www.web2carz.com/
GeeVee is a user submitted game-play video community
What Company is offering:
GeeVee is a user submitted game-play video community.
How It works;
Upload your videos and share them with other gamers around the world. View, vote, comment, and decide which videos become popular.
more at:http://www.geevee.com/
GeeVee is a user submitted game-play video community.
How It works;
Upload your videos and share them with other gamers around the world. View, vote, comment, and decide which videos become popular.
more at:http://www.geevee.com/
Veedow is a new way of looking at advertising
What company is offering:
Veedow is a new way of looking at advertising.
We believe that all kinds of information can be meaningful and useful when it's delivered to the right person, at the right time and in the right place without being intrusive. For this reason we created Veedow, a unique site shaped around users. We deliver valuable information directly linked to your interests, which you can then learn from and share with others. What you get is a virtual, multi-genre and multi-brand shop window constantly updated to giving you the opportunity to find new products, services, information, websites, promotions, events and so on: one page for one user.
How It works;
Veedow collects a wide range of commercial information from multiple sources and distributes it to you according to your specified interests. All you need to do is select your favourite topics from Veedow's comprehensive list and let the system design a personalized page that you can access whenever you want. The system continuously enhances the overall value of its contents thanks to the activity of its community, because Veedow is created for you and shaped by you! We just give you a little help with the framework so that you can get the best out of it and enjoy your visits.
more at:http://www.veedow.com/
Veedow is a new way of looking at advertising.
We believe that all kinds of information can be meaningful and useful when it's delivered to the right person, at the right time and in the right place without being intrusive. For this reason we created Veedow, a unique site shaped around users. We deliver valuable information directly linked to your interests, which you can then learn from and share with others. What you get is a virtual, multi-genre and multi-brand shop window constantly updated to giving you the opportunity to find new products, services, information, websites, promotions, events and so on: one page for one user.
How It works;
Veedow collects a wide range of commercial information from multiple sources and distributes it to you according to your specified interests. All you need to do is select your favourite topics from Veedow's comprehensive list and let the system design a personalized page that you can access whenever you want. The system continuously enhances the overall value of its contents thanks to the activity of its community, because Veedow is created for you and shaped by you! We just give you a little help with the framework so that you can get the best out of it and enjoy your visits.
more at:http://www.veedow.com/
Client Managment Website For Personal Trainer
What company is Offering:
Gympro is made to simplify/improve the way personal trainers manage their clients. Effective client management/training is based on good communication. Thats why we let your clients access their report and workout info and enable you to send them a message/comment about almost every feature in the syste.
How It Works:
Your clients have the freedom of signing up with Gympro and viewing their progress reports and their personal trainers schedule. Also clients are able to leave Gympro messages for their trainers ie. relating to a workout programme or maybe change of schedule. Since Gympro is a system for personal trainers and it stores private information, all clients must be invited by their trainer through a Gympro email.
You can choose to send your clients custom automatic notifications. Here are a few examples:
- You can send all your clients an email message to let them know if you are going on holiday. Or only select a few clients and let them know that you want to re-schedule.
- An automatic email is sent to your client when you have updated their workout programme
- You will be able to view notifications about when and what time your clients have logged in to Gympro.
- You will get a notification in the email whenever a client sends you a message in Gympro to enquire about something.
More at:http://gympro.co.nz/
Gympro is made to simplify/improve the way personal trainers manage their clients. Effective client management/training is based on good communication. Thats why we let your clients access their report and workout info and enable you to send them a message/comment about almost every feature in the syste.
How It Works:
Your clients have the freedom of signing up with Gympro and viewing their progress reports and their personal trainers schedule. Also clients are able to leave Gympro messages for their trainers ie. relating to a workout programme or maybe change of schedule. Since Gympro is a system for personal trainers and it stores private information, all clients must be invited by their trainer through a Gympro email.
You can choose to send your clients custom automatic notifications. Here are a few examples:
- You can send all your clients an email message to let them know if you are going on holiday. Or only select a few clients and let them know that you want to re-schedule.
- An automatic email is sent to your client when you have updated their workout programme
- You will be able to view notifications about when and what time your clients have logged in to Gympro.
- You will get a notification in the email whenever a client sends you a message in Gympro to enquire about something.
More at:http://gympro.co.nz/
Superbreak
What Company is offering:
Superbreak has specialised in UK short breaks and is the clear market leader in this sector. The business has developed to offer a complete range of short breaks, including theatre breaks, airport hotels, theme park and attraction breaks, luxury hotel accommodation and a wide range of overseas city and beach breaks to cater for the growing outbound short breaks market.
It is our aim to constantly grow our business by offering customers the widest choice of short breaks and the highest possible levels of service, backed by a guarantee of quality, satisfaction and value for money.
How It Works:
Superbreak has the distinct advantage that you can book directly with our reservations staff in York, through the travel agent or via the web site and various partner sites and clients will pay the same price with each.
We offer a selection of almost 5,000 hotels ranging from 5 star luxury to 2 star budget/motel. We hold allocations of rooms at all hotels and we can book up to and including the day of departure.
The Superbreak product range is also promoted in brochures of which 13 million are printed annually. You can order copies of our brochures online.
More at:http://www.superbreak.com/
Superbreak has specialised in UK short breaks and is the clear market leader in this sector. The business has developed to offer a complete range of short breaks, including theatre breaks, airport hotels, theme park and attraction breaks, luxury hotel accommodation and a wide range of overseas city and beach breaks to cater for the growing outbound short breaks market.
It is our aim to constantly grow our business by offering customers the widest choice of short breaks and the highest possible levels of service, backed by a guarantee of quality, satisfaction and value for money.
How It Works:
Superbreak has the distinct advantage that you can book directly with our reservations staff in York, through the travel agent or via the web site and various partner sites and clients will pay the same price with each.
We offer a selection of almost 5,000 hotels ranging from 5 star luxury to 2 star budget/motel. We hold allocations of rooms at all hotels and we can book up to and including the day of departure.
The Superbreak product range is also promoted in brochures of which 13 million are printed annually. You can order copies of our brochures online.
More at:http://www.superbreak.com/
ViaMichelin Is Your Traveling Planner
What company is offering;
ViaMichelin designs, develops and markets digital travel assistance products and services.
How it Works:
ViaMichelin shares the desire of its sole shareholder, the Michelin Group, to contribute to improving mobility by becoming a major European supplier of innovative services in the field of travel.
It combines Michelin's unique and renowned know-how in the publication of maps and guides with constantly changing technological expertise.
More at:http://www.viamichelin.com/
ViaMichelin designs, develops and markets digital travel assistance products and services.
How it Works:
ViaMichelin shares the desire of its sole shareholder, the Michelin Group, to contribute to improving mobility by becoming a major European supplier of innovative services in the field of travel.
It combines Michelin's unique and renowned know-how in the publication of maps and guides with constantly changing technological expertise.
More at:http://www.viamichelin.com/
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Buy And Sell Virtual Shares Of Celebrities At Hollywood Stock Exchange
What Company Is Offering:
Hollywood Stock Exchange is an integrated marketing, research and technology company driven by its patented entertainment stock market, HSX.com, the longest continuously operating commercial prediction market.
How It Works:
At HSX.com, visitors buy and sell virtual shares of celebrities and movies with a currency called the Hollywood Dollar®.The Company's Virtual SpecialistTM technology allows an unlimited number of consumers to trade thousands of virtual entertainment securities in a fair and orderly, supply-and-demand-based market. HSX syndicates the data collected from the Exchange as market research to entertainment, consumer product and financial institutions and as original content to radio, television and print media. Founded in 1996, HSX is now a subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P. HSX is headquartered in Century City, California.
More at:http://www.hsx.com/about/
Hollywood Stock Exchange is an integrated marketing, research and technology company driven by its patented entertainment stock market, HSX.com, the longest continuously operating commercial prediction market.
How It Works:
At HSX.com, visitors buy and sell virtual shares of celebrities and movies with a currency called the Hollywood Dollar®.The Company's Virtual SpecialistTM technology allows an unlimited number of consumers to trade thousands of virtual entertainment securities in a fair and orderly, supply-and-demand-based market. HSX syndicates the data collected from the Exchange as market research to entertainment, consumer product and financial institutions and as original content to radio, television and print media. Founded in 1996, HSX is now a subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P. HSX is headquartered in Century City, California.
More at:http://www.hsx.com/about/
GoodBusiness Is OneStop Place For Everything You Need To Run Your Online Business
What Company Is Offering:
GoodBusiness is a new way to host your business website. Beyond hosting your website, GoodBusiness helps you understand your customers, make better decisions and achieve real results.It's one, central console with everything you need to run your online business.
How It Works:
A one-stop, all-in-one solution for your website, online shop, email marketing, lead and contact management. Software designed and built by a business owner, for a business owner. Affordable (and even FREE) plans for every business.
How They Will Help You:
Concentrate on growing your profits, not on technology.
Build your online business in one central, organized place.
Avoid wrestling with disconnected and disparate business software.
Save money by using one tool instead of four.
More at:http://goodbarry.com/
GoodBusiness is a new way to host your business website. Beyond hosting your website, GoodBusiness helps you understand your customers, make better decisions and achieve real results.It's one, central console with everything you need to run your online business.
How It Works:
A one-stop, all-in-one solution for your website, online shop, email marketing, lead and contact management. Software designed and built by a business owner, for a business owner. Affordable (and even FREE) plans for every business.
How They Will Help You:
Concentrate on growing your profits, not on technology.
Build your online business in one central, organized place.
Avoid wrestling with disconnected and disparate business software.
Save money by using one tool instead of four.
More at:http://goodbarry.com/
RobotReplay lets you record and watch your website visitors in action
What Company is Offering:
RobotReplay lets you record and watch your website visitors in action. View recorded sessions of every mouse movement, click and keystroke.
How Its Useful And Works:
# Improve your site's usability.
# See where your readers get bored.
# Convert more visitors to buyers.
Its free and easy to use.
More at:http://www.robotreplay.com/
RobotReplay lets you record and watch your website visitors in action. View recorded sessions of every mouse movement, click and keystroke.
How Its Useful And Works:
# Improve your site's usability.
# See where your readers get bored.
# Convert more visitors to buyers.
Its free and easy to use.
More at:http://www.robotreplay.com/
nPost is a site devoted to tech entrepreneurship and startups.
What Company Is Offering:
nPost is a site devoted to tech entrepreneurship and startups. The nPost Tech Startup Job / Career Board features opportunities with Internet, Software, Hardware and Biotech startups.
How It Works:
nPost interviews startup entrepreneurs and CEOs about their businesses. Their interviews focus on their ideas, insights, experiences, and goals for each business. nPost also hosts tech networking events in Seattle, Portland and Vancouver, BC.To promote entrepreneurship by sharing insights from entrepreneurs, both good and bad, so that others can learn from them. Allow entrepreneurs to build their team in an effective and efficient manner as possible and bring enterpeneurs together, online and offline.
More:http://www.npost.com/
nPost is a site devoted to tech entrepreneurship and startups. The nPost Tech Startup Job / Career Board features opportunities with Internet, Software, Hardware and Biotech startups.
How It Works:
nPost interviews startup entrepreneurs and CEOs about their businesses. Their interviews focus on their ideas, insights, experiences, and goals for each business. nPost also hosts tech networking events in Seattle, Portland and Vancouver, BC.To promote entrepreneurship by sharing insights from entrepreneurs, both good and bad, so that others can learn from them. Allow entrepreneurs to build their team in an effective and efficient manner as possible and bring enterpeneurs together, online and offline.
More:http://www.npost.com/
YouMagix For Everyday Needs
What Company is offering:
YouMagix is a Unique & first of its kind social experiment. YouMagix provides a platform where you to create content around your needs, correct available content and provide helpful reviews. The generated content can power your search for options in your everyday life.
How It Works:
YouMagix is a completely “You” powered platform with no content borrowed from any where or created by youmagix staff. Every one is has an admin authority at YouMagix and any one can add, edit, comment or write a review on any item that is out there. Content creation and updates are as easy as clicking a button and hitting save. One does not even need an account to contribute content @ youmagix.com
Everyday Needs are starting point, You is the magic formula, the resulting place can be a very useful information repository for everyone.
more at:http://openyoumagix.youmagix.com
YouMagix is a Unique & first of its kind social experiment. YouMagix provides a platform where you to create content around your needs, correct available content and provide helpful reviews. The generated content can power your search for options in your everyday life.
How It Works:
YouMagix is a completely “You” powered platform with no content borrowed from any where or created by youmagix staff. Every one is has an admin authority at YouMagix and any one can add, edit, comment or write a review on any item that is out there. Content creation and updates are as easy as clicking a button and hitting save. One does not even need an account to contribute content @ youmagix.com
Everyday Needs are starting point, You is the magic formula, the resulting place can be a very useful information repository for everyone.
more at:http://openyoumagix.youmagix.com
Blitz Mobile is free mobile marketing services via text message ads
What Company is Offering:
Blitz Mobile provides FREE mobile marketing services.
How it Works:
Their service is delivered via text message ads.Text message ads provide you with a quick and easy way to reach customers. Your ad will be delivered in seconds right to your customers cell phone. Since customers opt-in to receive your message, they'll be anticipating it. Your offer will encourage them to patronize you and even forward your message to their friends. The service features unlimited messages. Start your campaign for FREE.
Whom It Will Help Most:
Their ideal customer is a business that wants to leverage its existing marketing efforts for greater impact. This includes Restaurants, Salons, Bars, Retailers, Banks, Schools, Advertising Agencies, News Papers and more.
Retail >> Specialty
Services >> Personal Services
Services >> Caterers / Restaurant
More at:http://www.fastpitchonline.com/
http://www.mytextad.com/
Blitz Mobile provides FREE mobile marketing services.
How it Works:
Their service is delivered via text message ads.Text message ads provide you with a quick and easy way to reach customers. Your ad will be delivered in seconds right to your customers cell phone. Since customers opt-in to receive your message, they'll be anticipating it. Your offer will encourage them to patronize you and even forward your message to their friends. The service features unlimited messages. Start your campaign for FREE.
Whom It Will Help Most:
Their ideal customer is a business that wants to leverage its existing marketing efforts for greater impact. This includes Restaurants, Salons, Bars, Retailers, Banks, Schools, Advertising Agencies, News Papers and more.
Retail >> Specialty
Services >> Personal Services
Services >> Caterers / Restaurant
More at:http://www.fastpitchonline.com/
http://www.mytextad.com/
Increase your productivity with Net-CATI 5.0
What Company is Offering:
Net-CATI 5.0 is the only full-featured CATI solution available on the market today that requires no major up-front investment, including the installation of hardware or software.The ease of installing and managing Net-CATI lets you focus your resources on the business you know best - market research. Net-CATI 5.0 is backed by Net-MR® and the GMI service team. GMI can help with all your telephone-based data collection needs.
How it Works:
Manage multiple projects across multiple call centers, all from the Net-CATI interface. The administration tool provides a cockpit view of all CATI projects in and out of field. Quickly zoom in on individual projects, monitor progress and adjust project details. Administrators can also manage sample, monitor activity, and assign surveys to new operators or groups of operators.
How It Will Help:
Increase interviewer productivity using the Net-CATI integrated dialer. With the Net-CATI integrated Voice over IP (VoIP) and predictive dialing technology, interviewers are up to 100% more efficient than with manual dialing, saving you time and improving your bottom line. Have a project that doesn't require a predictive dialer? Net-CATI lets you configure projects for the dialing mode that best suits your needs.
Thanks to GMI’s unique java operator interface, telephone interviewers experience no latency between screens or questions. This allows distributed call centers to be highly productive as they collaborate on a single CATI project. The interface is simple and uncluttered, with keyboard shortcuts for even greater efficiency.
More at:http://www.gmi-mr.com/cati/
Net-CATI 5.0 is the only full-featured CATI solution available on the market today that requires no major up-front investment, including the installation of hardware or software.The ease of installing and managing Net-CATI lets you focus your resources on the business you know best - market research. Net-CATI 5.0 is backed by Net-MR® and the GMI service team. GMI can help with all your telephone-based data collection needs.
How it Works:
Manage multiple projects across multiple call centers, all from the Net-CATI interface. The administration tool provides a cockpit view of all CATI projects in and out of field. Quickly zoom in on individual projects, monitor progress and adjust project details. Administrators can also manage sample, monitor activity, and assign surveys to new operators or groups of operators.
How It Will Help:
Increase interviewer productivity using the Net-CATI integrated dialer. With the Net-CATI integrated Voice over IP (VoIP) and predictive dialing technology, interviewers are up to 100% more efficient than with manual dialing, saving you time and improving your bottom line. Have a project that doesn't require a predictive dialer? Net-CATI lets you configure projects for the dialing mode that best suits your needs.
Thanks to GMI’s unique java operator interface, telephone interviewers experience no latency between screens or questions. This allows distributed call centers to be highly productive as they collaborate on a single CATI project. The interface is simple and uncluttered, with keyboard shortcuts for even greater efficiency.
More at:http://www.gmi-mr.com/cati/
CleverSet For Rapid Sales Conversion Improvement and Revenue Lift For Your Website
What company is offering:
CleverSet has one of leading technology services provider that improves the effectiveness of recommendations on eCommerce sites, reliably lifting revenue-per-visitor by 20% or more, and delivering the highest return on investment in the industry.More Effective Recommendations Yield Rapid Sales Conversion Improvement and Revenue Lift For Your Website.
How it works:
CleverSet’s recommendations service expertly assesses what each individual website visitor is interested in, shopping for, and most likely to purchase as they navigate through your website. Instead of using canned, static rules to suggest additional items to buy, CleverSet’s innovative technology platform makes merchandise recommendations based on powerful relational behavioral modeling logic. What makes CleverSet’s merchandise recommendations so relevant and so effective for our customers is the fact that our platform collects and analyzes the widest range of customer and clickstream information among any commercially available merchandise recommendations system. Simply put, more data allows CleverSet’s to deliver more relevant suggestions to your customers, increasing their ability to discover and purchase the specific items most interesting and appealing to them.
More at:http://www.cleverset.com/
CleverSet has one of leading technology services provider that improves the effectiveness of recommendations on eCommerce sites, reliably lifting revenue-per-visitor by 20% or more, and delivering the highest return on investment in the industry.More Effective Recommendations Yield Rapid Sales Conversion Improvement and Revenue Lift For Your Website.
How it works:
CleverSet’s recommendations service expertly assesses what each individual website visitor is interested in, shopping for, and most likely to purchase as they navigate through your website. Instead of using canned, static rules to suggest additional items to buy, CleverSet’s innovative technology platform makes merchandise recommendations based on powerful relational behavioral modeling logic. What makes CleverSet’s merchandise recommendations so relevant and so effective for our customers is the fact that our platform collects and analyzes the widest range of customer and clickstream information among any commercially available merchandise recommendations system. Simply put, more data allows CleverSet’s to deliver more relevant suggestions to your customers, increasing their ability to discover and purchase the specific items most interesting and appealing to them.
More at:http://www.cleverset.com/
SupportSpace's technical support services connect you directly to experts who can assist you with your technology needs
What Company is Offering:
SupportSpace's technical support services connect you directly to experts who can assist you with your technology needs in real-time.
SupportSpace has the first and only online support management and delivery platform that enables technology experts to collaborate, share their knowledge and deliver 24/7 unmatched real time service.
How It Works:
Every expert is certified by SupportSpace and is rated and reviewed by consumers. SupportSpace is all about choice - users can choose their expert, determine their price, and select from online, phone or in-person service. In addition to serving consumers directly, SupportSpace partners with vendors and retailers to deliver their customers world-class computers and gadget support.
Our proprietary Support Management and Delivery Platform empowers the expert with tools and information. It also allows them to collaborate with other experts in order to answer all your support requests.
It's all about changing the way people give and receive technical support in a technology-driven world.
More at:http://www.supportspace.com/
SupportSpace's technical support services connect you directly to experts who can assist you with your technology needs in real-time.
SupportSpace has the first and only online support management and delivery platform that enables technology experts to collaborate, share their knowledge and deliver 24/7 unmatched real time service.
How It Works:
Every expert is certified by SupportSpace and is rated and reviewed by consumers. SupportSpace is all about choice - users can choose their expert, determine their price, and select from online, phone or in-person service. In addition to serving consumers directly, SupportSpace partners with vendors and retailers to deliver their customers world-class computers and gadget support.
Our proprietary Support Management and Delivery Platform empowers the expert with tools and information. It also allows them to collaborate with other experts in order to answer all your support requests.
It's all about changing the way people give and receive technical support in a technology-driven world.
More at:http://www.supportspace.com/
Generate's business intelligence platform combines real-time company intelligence to deliver contextual information to business professionals
What Company is Offering:
Generate's business intelligence platform combines real-time company intelligence with integrated relationship-mapping technology to deliver contextual information to business professionals.
How It works:
Generate's technology crawls more than 75 million domains every day, extracting information about companies, executives, news, and trigger events -- alerts to actionable information, indicating the early stages of a purchasing decision. Generate's extraction and aggregation technology filters through more than 150,000 news articles from 25,000 news sources and more than 3 million blogs. Generate leverages this technology to maintain databases in real time containing deep profiles on companies, executives, and news.
Generate combines this comprehensive company intelligence with relationship-mapping technology to show users, and the users' organization, how they connect to each company and executive via three degrees of separation.
Whom It Will Help Most:
Generate's solutions are designed for:
Sales and business development professionals
Marketing professionals
Publishers, media, and content companies
Financial services, professional services, and technology companies
More at:http://www.generateinc.com/
Generate's business intelligence platform combines real-time company intelligence with integrated relationship-mapping technology to deliver contextual information to business professionals.
How It works:
Generate's technology crawls more than 75 million domains every day, extracting information about companies, executives, news, and trigger events -- alerts to actionable information, indicating the early stages of a purchasing decision. Generate's extraction and aggregation technology filters through more than 150,000 news articles from 25,000 news sources and more than 3 million blogs. Generate leverages this technology to maintain databases in real time containing deep profiles on companies, executives, and news.
Generate combines this comprehensive company intelligence with relationship-mapping technology to show users, and the users' organization, how they connect to each company and executive via three degrees of separation.
Whom It Will Help Most:
Generate's solutions are designed for:
Sales and business development professionals
Marketing professionals
Publishers, media, and content companies
Financial services, professional services, and technology companies
More at:http://www.generateinc.com/
Monday, October 29, 2007
EasySponsorship is the easiest and only way for you collect sponsorship money online
What company is offering:
EasySponsorship is the easiest and only way for you collect sponsorship money online. If you've ever collected sponsorship money before then you'll know how messy and confusing it can get. EasySponsorship removes the mess and confusion and in a few clicks you can have a dedicated web page online and ready to collect money from anyone and everyone.
How it Works:
All of your content and donations are stored in your personal password-protected account where you can create sponsorship pages, review your donations and post updates on your pages for your friends and family to follow; as well as the ability to send them emails telling them about it all!
All you need is a browser and the internet. One of the great advantages of EasySponsorship is that it is entirely web-based, meaning that all you need is a web browser and an internet to use it. No downloads, no spyware, no time consuming configuring - just register and get going.
More at:http://www.easysponsorship.com/
EasySponsorship is the easiest and only way for you collect sponsorship money online. If you've ever collected sponsorship money before then you'll know how messy and confusing it can get. EasySponsorship removes the mess and confusion and in a few clicks you can have a dedicated web page online and ready to collect money from anyone and everyone.
How it Works:
All of your content and donations are stored in your personal password-protected account where you can create sponsorship pages, review your donations and post updates on your pages for your friends and family to follow; as well as the ability to send them emails telling them about it all!
All you need is a browser and the internet. One of the great advantages of EasySponsorship is that it is entirely web-based, meaning that all you need is a web browser and an internet to use it. No downloads, no spyware, no time consuming configuring - just register and get going.
More at:http://www.easysponsorship.com/
Prisb is a one-stop online marketplace where customers can purchase products & services from various merchants
What Company is Offering:
Prisb is a one-stop online marketplace where customers can purchase products & services from various merchants. They have undertaken extensive research to understand your shopping behavior and needs and thus have come up with a concept like an online mall where you will come across an exclusively wide range of merchandise in various categories.
How It Works:
Prisb aims to drive the digital age into people's lives, influencing the way they live, work, transact and respond to changing times, providing a platform on which there will be no comparison or compromise on promised pre- & post-sales services for our customers.Prisb is loaded with user friendly features for a great online shopping experience.
Why is it Different:
Prisb differentiates itself from other India-based shopping portals through its powerful intelligence engines designed specifically to personalize each user’s online buying experience. These engines continuously analyze the online activity of all users, past and present, to suggest individually tailored buying alternatives for each product under consideration. “These dynamic recommendations, detailed feature comparisons and other rich user interface elements combine to form the complete guided purchasing experience found on Prisb,” said Chip Aprile, SVP Products and Technologies.
More at:http://www.prisb.com/
Prisb is a one-stop online marketplace where customers can purchase products & services from various merchants. They have undertaken extensive research to understand your shopping behavior and needs and thus have come up with a concept like an online mall where you will come across an exclusively wide range of merchandise in various categories.
How It Works:
Prisb aims to drive the digital age into people's lives, influencing the way they live, work, transact and respond to changing times, providing a platform on which there will be no comparison or compromise on promised pre- & post-sales services for our customers.Prisb is loaded with user friendly features for a great online shopping experience.
Why is it Different:
Prisb differentiates itself from other India-based shopping portals through its powerful intelligence engines designed specifically to personalize each user’s online buying experience. These engines continuously analyze the online activity of all users, past and present, to suggest individually tailored buying alternatives for each product under consideration. “These dynamic recommendations, detailed feature comparisons and other rich user interface elements combine to form the complete guided purchasing experience found on Prisb,” said Chip Aprile, SVP Products and Technologies.
More at:http://www.prisb.com/
Indyarocks.com aims to provide a complete social experience by bringing various social and professional events online
What company is Offering:
Indyarocks.com, a premier mobile and online social networking portal .Indyarocks.com aims to provide a complete social experience by bringing various social and professional events online, thereby allowing enhanced networking between people with similar interests.
Why is it in News:
Indyarocks and K Capital, a reputed Business forum organizer, today announced their partnership.
How It Works And What Were Purpose Of Partnership:
“Indyarocks is revolutionizing the way people interact and share knowledge, particularly with its seamlessly integrated mobile and online services,” said Raghoo Potinii, CEO at K Capital.
This partnership provides K Capital access to Indyarocks’ Integrated media platform to extend the value of its Business Forums beyond the day of the event. Indyarocks in turn will be able to host reputed business workshops and knowledge forums online and provide business value to its members.
How is it progressing:
“This year we already have become the online hosts for major events such as Hyderabad 10k Marathon, TiE-ISB Connect and VLSI International Conference.” said Kalyan Manyam, Founder, Indyarocks. “Through the partnership with Knowledge capital, we now will be able to provide our members with an exclusive online access to reputed international knowledge speakers like Verne Harnish and Harry Beckwith.”
“We’re excited that this partnership enables us to extend the overall value of our knowledge workshops by allowing our speakers to be in touch with their audience pre and post the event. This is a great way for us to share the immense knowledge that gets created in our workshops”
Who Is Backing Them:
About PhoneLinx Communications
PhoneLinx Communications is a new age Mobile Lifestyle solutions company based out of San Jose, California and Hyderabad, India. PhoneLinx will be introducing its various interactive mobile applications and offerings through its unified social networking platform Indyarocks.com. PhoneLinx vision is to redefine life on the move.
K Capital
K Capital is committed to providing an extraordinary perspective for educating the next generation of business leaders in India. Its business workshops /programs present a global perspective in a variety of formats - with each program designed to leave a lasting impact on you and your organization. We bring together the best faculty, their research and business leaders to help you to address your business challenges and dramatically improve your business performance.
More at:http://indyarocks.com/
Indyarocks.com, a premier mobile and online social networking portal .Indyarocks.com aims to provide a complete social experience by bringing various social and professional events online, thereby allowing enhanced networking between people with similar interests.
Why is it in News:
Indyarocks and K Capital, a reputed Business forum organizer, today announced their partnership.
How It Works And What Were Purpose Of Partnership:
“Indyarocks is revolutionizing the way people interact and share knowledge, particularly with its seamlessly integrated mobile and online services,” said Raghoo Potinii, CEO at K Capital.
This partnership provides K Capital access to Indyarocks’ Integrated media platform to extend the value of its Business Forums beyond the day of the event. Indyarocks in turn will be able to host reputed business workshops and knowledge forums online and provide business value to its members.
How is it progressing:
“This year we already have become the online hosts for major events such as Hyderabad 10k Marathon, TiE-ISB Connect and VLSI International Conference.” said Kalyan Manyam, Founder, Indyarocks. “Through the partnership with Knowledge capital, we now will be able to provide our members with an exclusive online access to reputed international knowledge speakers like Verne Harnish and Harry Beckwith.”
“We’re excited that this partnership enables us to extend the overall value of our knowledge workshops by allowing our speakers to be in touch with their audience pre and post the event. This is a great way for us to share the immense knowledge that gets created in our workshops”
Who Is Backing Them:
About PhoneLinx Communications
PhoneLinx Communications is a new age Mobile Lifestyle solutions company based out of San Jose, California and Hyderabad, India. PhoneLinx will be introducing its various interactive mobile applications and offerings through its unified social networking platform Indyarocks.com. PhoneLinx vision is to redefine life on the move.
K Capital
K Capital is committed to providing an extraordinary perspective for educating the next generation of business leaders in India. Its business workshops /programs present a global perspective in a variety of formats - with each program designed to leave a lasting impact on you and your organization. We bring together the best faculty, their research and business leaders to help you to address your business challenges and dramatically improve your business performance.
More at:http://indyarocks.com/
Pinger lets You Trade Voice With Any MobilePhone-Free
What Company is Offering:
Pinger, the voice messaging tool that aims to be an IM-like tool for voice, is jumping on the political bandwagon with its new Pingercasts messaging tools. This is a promotional tool for the candidates, or anyone else, to enable voice message “blasts” to all of their followers.
How It Works:
Pinger is instant voice messaging for your mobile phone. With Pinger you send voice messages directly to someone instantly--no ringing, no greetings, no lengthy prompts. Pinger is fast and efficient like email, but with your voice. It's mobile like text messaging, but with more personality. It's a new communication tool for your crazy life.
I think we’ll find that Pingercasts will be used in conjunction with several other promotional tools, across platforms and devices, and they’ll become equally as effective as email blasts as time goes on.
More at:http://www.pinger.com/
Pinger, the voice messaging tool that aims to be an IM-like tool for voice, is jumping on the political bandwagon with its new Pingercasts messaging tools. This is a promotional tool for the candidates, or anyone else, to enable voice message “blasts” to all of their followers.
How It Works:
Pinger is instant voice messaging for your mobile phone. With Pinger you send voice messages directly to someone instantly--no ringing, no greetings, no lengthy prompts. Pinger is fast and efficient like email, but with your voice. It's mobile like text messaging, but with more personality. It's a new communication tool for your crazy life.
I think we’ll find that Pingercasts will be used in conjunction with several other promotional tools, across platforms and devices, and they’ll become equally as effective as email blasts as time goes on.
More at:http://www.pinger.com/
ReelTV is the premier website for students and independent creatives to showcase their demo reels online
What Company is Offering:
ReelTV is the premier website for students and independent creatives to showcase their demo reels online to prospective clients and industry professionals worldwide.
How It Works:
ReelTV.com covers many art and entertainment categories, such as; sports, sound, acting, modeling, digital animation, sound, graphic design, photography, motion graphics and more. You can take a look at other artists’ reels by browsing through these categories. In order to post your own reel you must before a member. Then you can create a profile and post a demo real that can feature examples of your work from music samples to clips of productions you have been in. You can even list more than one track of music. Your profile includes basic information; such as a description of your reel, tags, education, what inspires you, and you can also attach your resume so that potential employers or clients can get a better idea of your past experience. ReelTV.com features a podcast and a section where you can take a look at posted jobs in the industry.
More at:http://www.reeltv.com/
ReelTV is the premier website for students and independent creatives to showcase their demo reels online to prospective clients and industry professionals worldwide.
How It Works:
ReelTV.com covers many art and entertainment categories, such as; sports, sound, acting, modeling, digital animation, sound, graphic design, photography, motion graphics and more. You can take a look at other artists’ reels by browsing through these categories. In order to post your own reel you must before a member. Then you can create a profile and post a demo real that can feature examples of your work from music samples to clips of productions you have been in. You can even list more than one track of music. Your profile includes basic information; such as a description of your reel, tags, education, what inspires you, and you can also attach your resume so that potential employers or clients can get a better idea of your past experience. ReelTV.com features a podcast and a section where you can take a look at posted jobs in the industry.
More at:http://www.reeltv.com/
EveryScape to create video tours of various cities
What Company is offering:
The startup that’s out to create video tours of various cities.
How it works:
You can set the tours to auto-guide, or control where the tour goes for yourself. Similar to Google Street Views, EveryScape is recorded in a similar manner, with sets of photographs being taken from atop a moving vehicle driving through the city. Unlike Google Street Views, however, EveryScape offers a more comprehensive look at what city you’re touring, with a natural flow that works better with people’s existing intuitions.
New Features:
EveryScape’s new Real World Online, having added several features to its initial service, further developed its video tours, and added Boston and New York to its list, with Miami and Aspen having been moved into the second stages of development, which includes more details and virtual exploration options for end users.
more at:http://www.everyscape.com/
The startup that’s out to create video tours of various cities.
How it works:
You can set the tours to auto-guide, or control where the tour goes for yourself. Similar to Google Street Views, EveryScape is recorded in a similar manner, with sets of photographs being taken from atop a moving vehicle driving through the city. Unlike Google Street Views, however, EveryScape offers a more comprehensive look at what city you’re touring, with a natural flow that works better with people’s existing intuitions.
New Features:
EveryScape’s new Real World Online, having added several features to its initial service, further developed its video tours, and added Boston and New York to its list, with Miami and Aspen having been moved into the second stages of development, which includes more details and virtual exploration options for end users.
more at:http://www.everyscape.com/
V-Lane Traffic for Earn While increasing Alexa Traffic
What company is offering:
MrsVIP / V-Lane Traffic is a full service media and advertising agency, specializing in the professional analyses and planning of highly successful, customized on line and off line marketing strategies, tailored to its clients individual needs.
How it works:
A unique opportunity where individuals and/or corporations alike can massively increase web traffic & Alexa rankings, while at the same time earn a passive daily income.
Savvy business owners worldwide, who utilizes online advertising in addition to traditional advertising campaigns are, or should be, well aware of is the fact, that their online marketing success rises and falls depending on the Alexa ranking of their business web site," states Chad Hershey, independent marketing executive with MrsVIP, "Exposure is the key and that is what V-Lane traffic is all about."
More at:http://www.CashPaidToView.com
MrsVIP / V-Lane Traffic is a full service media and advertising agency, specializing in the professional analyses and planning of highly successful, customized on line and off line marketing strategies, tailored to its clients individual needs.
How it works:
A unique opportunity where individuals and/or corporations alike can massively increase web traffic & Alexa rankings, while at the same time earn a passive daily income.
Savvy business owners worldwide, who utilizes online advertising in addition to traditional advertising campaigns are, or should be, well aware of is the fact, that their online marketing success rises and falls depending on the Alexa ranking of their business web site," states Chad Hershey, independent marketing executive with MrsVIP, "Exposure is the key and that is what V-Lane traffic is all about."
More at:http://www.CashPaidToView.com
10 greatest entrepreneurs
History’s 10 greatest entrepreneurs.
1. King Croesus. A pick by our veterans committee, Croesus, who ruled the Asia Minor kingdom of Lydia in the sixth century B.C., is owed a huge debt of gratitude for minting the world’s first coinage, thereby creating in a single stroke the lifeblood of every business: liquidity and cash flow. Moreover, his opulent lifestyle has given entrepreneurs throughout history something to shoot for. Is there a greater distinction for the commercially inclined than to be deemed “as rich as Croesus”?
2. Pope Sixtus IV. Sixtus gets the nod for realizing that the “wages of sin” meant more than unpleasant repercussions. There was money to be made in damnation, and Sixtus mined it by opening up a new market -- the dead -- for the indulgences the church had been selling for years. Relatives of the deceased quickly filled the Vatican’s coffers with payments intended to lessen the time their loved ones spent in purgatory. In 1478 Sixtus “grew his market” by authorizing the Spanish Inquisition, which swelled purgatory’s ranks by 100,000 souls in 15 years. He also was the first pope to license brothels.
3. Benjamin Franklin. In a real sense, Franklin was America’s first entrepreneur. Unlike other of the Founding Fathers -- the hypermoral Washington, the prodigiously intellectual Jefferson -- whose virtues and attainments are seen today as anachronisms, Franklin truly was a model of what many of us would become. Beneath the statesman’s mantle resided a popular author, a printer, an inventor (the lightning rod, bifocals) and a very savvy businessman who knew how to commercialize the fruits of his fertile mind.
4. P.T. Barnum. Americans have always loved a good scam and Phineas Taylor Barnum took the art to new heights. He played on our fascination with the bizarre and freakish with sideshow acts ranging from the midget Tom Thumb to Jumbo the giant elephant. In between was a host of more dubious curiosities. He created the Barnum and Bailey Circus as a showcase for all this wonderment, and dubbed it “the Greatest Show on Earth.” Along the way he invented modern advertising and became rich. For the record, he never said “There’s a sucker born every five minutes,” but he left behind plenty of other bon mots. Among them: “Every crowd has a silver lining.”
5. Thomas Edison. What do you say about the man who gave the world the electric light, the phonograph, talking motion pictures and more than 1,300 other patented inventions? That he was the world’s greatest inventor, certainly. But he was also able to exploit the profit potential in his creations, an entrepreneurial bent that asserted itself when Edison was a teen-ager, printing a newspaper in the baggage car of a rolling train and then selling copies to passengers. His impact on the way people live was and is pervasive. As a combination of inventive genius and entrepreneurial flair, he stands alone.
6. Henry Ford. Ford also fundamentally changed human lifestyles by making available a vehicle, the Model T, that vastly extended people’s range of movement. The automobile would allow America’s masses to fulfill their Manifest Destiny to populate every corner of the continent. But his more profound impact was on industry. The moving assembly line he designed to build his cars was the signal breakthrough of the Industrial Age. Appropriately, Ford earned the seed capital for his enterprise by working as an engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company in Detroit.
7. Benjamin Siegel. Known as “Bugsy” to his friends, Siegel was a notorious mobster with a touch of the visionary. Legend has it that he single-handedly invented Las Vegas, and that’s a stretch. But he was the first to see what the town could become: a lush oasis of pleasure where gambling was just one of the attractions. He also proved adept at attracting other people’s money to build his iconic resort, The Flamingo. Trouble was, some of those other people belonged to an outfit called Murder Inc., and Siegel was gunned down in 1947 amid rumors he had stolen from his partners. But give the devil his due: Before there was the Bellagio, there was Bugsy.
8. Ray Kroc. Nothing says entrepreneur like persistence, and nothings says persistence like Ray Kroc, the kitchen wares salesman who in 1954, at age 52 and in poor health, had his imagination hijacked by a family-run restaurant in the desert outside Los Angeles. Once he had bought out the McDonald brothers, Kroc proceeded to take their concept of a limited menu, fast service and low prices and expand it nationally, in the process creating the fast-food industry and dramatically affecting America’s lifestyle and, sadly, collective health.
9. H. Ross Perot. Within every entrepreneur lurks a touch of the cowboy, and there’s no better example of the strain than Perot, the diminutive Texan who has become best known in recent years as a political gadfly. Before that, though, he was all business, using a $1,000 loan from his wife in 1962 to launch Electronic Data Systems. Perot’s winning idea was that large corporations and organizations needed data-processing help if they were to take full advantage of computer technology. When in the mid-’60s he won contracts with two new federal health-care programs -- Medicare and Medicaid -- EDS was off and running and Perot was on his way to being one of America’s richest citizens.
10. Jobs & Wozniak. Apple Computer’s two Steves weren’t the first Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to launch a billion-dollar business from a Palo Alto garage -- Hewlett and Packard were there before them -- but they were the first to democratize computing by creating a machine whose use was so wonderfully intuitive that even technophobes embraced it. Combine the elegance of Wozniak’s operating system design with Jobs’ marketing savvy (remember Apple’s “1984” ad?) and the result was a true phenomenon. Yes, the Apple was eclipsed by the PC, but only after Microsoft (behind the vision of two other notable entrepreneurs, Bill Gates and Paul Allen) developed Windows to ape its rival’s ease of use.
via-MSNBC
1. King Croesus. A pick by our veterans committee, Croesus, who ruled the Asia Minor kingdom of Lydia in the sixth century B.C., is owed a huge debt of gratitude for minting the world’s first coinage, thereby creating in a single stroke the lifeblood of every business: liquidity and cash flow. Moreover, his opulent lifestyle has given entrepreneurs throughout history something to shoot for. Is there a greater distinction for the commercially inclined than to be deemed “as rich as Croesus”?
2. Pope Sixtus IV. Sixtus gets the nod for realizing that the “wages of sin” meant more than unpleasant repercussions. There was money to be made in damnation, and Sixtus mined it by opening up a new market -- the dead -- for the indulgences the church had been selling for years. Relatives of the deceased quickly filled the Vatican’s coffers with payments intended to lessen the time their loved ones spent in purgatory. In 1478 Sixtus “grew his market” by authorizing the Spanish Inquisition, which swelled purgatory’s ranks by 100,000 souls in 15 years. He also was the first pope to license brothels.
3. Benjamin Franklin. In a real sense, Franklin was America’s first entrepreneur. Unlike other of the Founding Fathers -- the hypermoral Washington, the prodigiously intellectual Jefferson -- whose virtues and attainments are seen today as anachronisms, Franklin truly was a model of what many of us would become. Beneath the statesman’s mantle resided a popular author, a printer, an inventor (the lightning rod, bifocals) and a very savvy businessman who knew how to commercialize the fruits of his fertile mind.
4. P.T. Barnum. Americans have always loved a good scam and Phineas Taylor Barnum took the art to new heights. He played on our fascination with the bizarre and freakish with sideshow acts ranging from the midget Tom Thumb to Jumbo the giant elephant. In between was a host of more dubious curiosities. He created the Barnum and Bailey Circus as a showcase for all this wonderment, and dubbed it “the Greatest Show on Earth.” Along the way he invented modern advertising and became rich. For the record, he never said “There’s a sucker born every five minutes,” but he left behind plenty of other bon mots. Among them: “Every crowd has a silver lining.”
5. Thomas Edison. What do you say about the man who gave the world the electric light, the phonograph, talking motion pictures and more than 1,300 other patented inventions? That he was the world’s greatest inventor, certainly. But he was also able to exploit the profit potential in his creations, an entrepreneurial bent that asserted itself when Edison was a teen-ager, printing a newspaper in the baggage car of a rolling train and then selling copies to passengers. His impact on the way people live was and is pervasive. As a combination of inventive genius and entrepreneurial flair, he stands alone.
6. Henry Ford. Ford also fundamentally changed human lifestyles by making available a vehicle, the Model T, that vastly extended people’s range of movement. The automobile would allow America’s masses to fulfill their Manifest Destiny to populate every corner of the continent. But his more profound impact was on industry. The moving assembly line he designed to build his cars was the signal breakthrough of the Industrial Age. Appropriately, Ford earned the seed capital for his enterprise by working as an engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company in Detroit.
7. Benjamin Siegel. Known as “Bugsy” to his friends, Siegel was a notorious mobster with a touch of the visionary. Legend has it that he single-handedly invented Las Vegas, and that’s a stretch. But he was the first to see what the town could become: a lush oasis of pleasure where gambling was just one of the attractions. He also proved adept at attracting other people’s money to build his iconic resort, The Flamingo. Trouble was, some of those other people belonged to an outfit called Murder Inc., and Siegel was gunned down in 1947 amid rumors he had stolen from his partners. But give the devil his due: Before there was the Bellagio, there was Bugsy.
8. Ray Kroc. Nothing says entrepreneur like persistence, and nothings says persistence like Ray Kroc, the kitchen wares salesman who in 1954, at age 52 and in poor health, had his imagination hijacked by a family-run restaurant in the desert outside Los Angeles. Once he had bought out the McDonald brothers, Kroc proceeded to take their concept of a limited menu, fast service and low prices and expand it nationally, in the process creating the fast-food industry and dramatically affecting America’s lifestyle and, sadly, collective health.
9. H. Ross Perot. Within every entrepreneur lurks a touch of the cowboy, and there’s no better example of the strain than Perot, the diminutive Texan who has become best known in recent years as a political gadfly. Before that, though, he was all business, using a $1,000 loan from his wife in 1962 to launch Electronic Data Systems. Perot’s winning idea was that large corporations and organizations needed data-processing help if they were to take full advantage of computer technology. When in the mid-’60s he won contracts with two new federal health-care programs -- Medicare and Medicaid -- EDS was off and running and Perot was on his way to being one of America’s richest citizens.
10. Jobs & Wozniak. Apple Computer’s two Steves weren’t the first Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to launch a billion-dollar business from a Palo Alto garage -- Hewlett and Packard were there before them -- but they were the first to democratize computing by creating a machine whose use was so wonderfully intuitive that even technophobes embraced it. Combine the elegance of Wozniak’s operating system design with Jobs’ marketing savvy (remember Apple’s “1984” ad?) and the result was a true phenomenon. Yes, the Apple was eclipsed by the PC, but only after Microsoft (behind the vision of two other notable entrepreneurs, Bill Gates and Paul Allen) developed Windows to ape its rival’s ease of use.
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Submit New Business Idea And Get $10,000
Advanta Bank’s Ideablob.com invites visitors to submit their business ideas for feedback and enter a monthly contest to win $10,000.
Prepacked lunch boxes is one of the most popular recent ideas.
Two others: a real estate Web site “that finally rids the world of real estate brokers” and a Web site to search for available wedding or
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Prepacked lunch boxes is one of the most popular recent ideas.
Two others: a real estate Web site “that finally rids the world of real estate brokers” and a Web site to search for available wedding or
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Start Up King......
Some people can’t stop thinking about food. Bill Gross can’t stop thinking about new businesses. One of the world’s great serial entrepreneurs, he’s launched more than 50 startups through Idealab, his incubator in Pasadena, Calif. His track record includes both winners (CitySearch, Cooking.com, NetZero/United Online) and losers (eToys, Eve.com, Free-PC). But he’s best known for inventing the pay-per-click advertising model behind Overture Services (formerly GoTo.com), the pioneering search engine he sold to Yahoo! in 2003 for $1.6 billion.
Now, after more than a decade of launching dotcoms, Gross has rediscovered the pleasures - and profitability - of the physical world. Idealab’s current lineup is crowded with companies that make actual products: robots, 3-D printers, electric cars, rooftop solar collectors. As Gross puts it, he’s much more interested today in “atoms businesses” than “bits businesses.”
“Well, one of the things we learned is that you definitely want to have first-mover advantage. It’s always great to be first when you have a new idea that is a potential game-changer. But you also want to have the “last mover living” benefit - meaning that if you just go first, if you’re way too early, you’re not going to make it until the market catches up to you.
So I think the biggest lesson we’ve learned is that you need to find a way to raise enough money and spend it slowly enough that you can stick around until everybody catches on to your idea. The race is not to run out of your money first - it’s to be there at the finish line,” Gross says.
Q. What do you look for when you start a company?
We like to challenge the status quo, to take on something that other people wouldn't do to solve a big problem. So when we look for a disruptive opportunity, we're really looking for a big problem and a way to solve it that no one else was willing to try.
Q. Do you go after industry incumbents, or are you looking for white space where customers aren't being served?
I would say we're going much more after white space. There are opportunities in both areas, and looking for a big industry gives you a lot of confidence that there will be customers there. But we prefer to look for a big itch that isn't being scratched.
Q. What are the drawbacks to going straight after a big industry incumbent?
The main drawback is that they are actually quite powerful. I think people underestimate big companies when they think of them as dinosaurs, as if they didn't have the power to fight back. For me, personally, if a customer is already being served, but just a little bit less efficiently, that's not as exciting as a customer with a problem that no one is trying to solve.
Q. Of all the companies you've started, which one was the most disruptive?
Probably GoTo. That company was designed to scratch an itch that wasn't being met. We had a whole bunch of small companies in the building that were all trying to buy advertising, but small advertisers were not being well served online. We thought the small advertiser needed some voice, some way to do business on a more cost-effective basis than cutting big deals with AOL. We had no idea that cost-per-click would have such a big impact - that it would change the economics of the Web. It was a disruptive thing that went beyond what we were hoping for.
Q. Didn't it become the basis for paid search, the economic driver for Google and Yahoo?
Yes, paid search has had an impact for Google (Charts, Fortune 500) and Yahoo (Charts, Fortune 500). But it's had an impact as well on many small publishers. Just as eBay (Charts, Fortune 500) empowers people to make a business online, so many publishers use AdSense and the price-per-click model to earn money online.
Q. How are you bringing search into the next phase?
Cost-per-click judges how many visitors you get, but it doesn't measure how effective those visitors are. Do they actually complete a transaction at the end? Do they become a customer of your Web site? We started Snap with the explicit purpose of introducing cost-per-action into search. An action could be anything the Web site cares about: a visitor signing up for a subscription or buying a book or deciding to become one of your customers. Since we introduced Snap, other search engines are starting to blend measurable actions into their final results.
Q. Is it frustrating that everyone copies you?
Well, we start these new companies for multiple reasons. Of course we're looking for economic gain; we have shareholders. But we are also looking to have an impact - and that's what makes us most proud.
More at:http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/25/news/companies/Startupking.biz2/?postversion=2007092605
Now, after more than a decade of launching dotcoms, Gross has rediscovered the pleasures - and profitability - of the physical world. Idealab’s current lineup is crowded with companies that make actual products: robots, 3-D printers, electric cars, rooftop solar collectors. As Gross puts it, he’s much more interested today in “atoms businesses” than “bits businesses.”
“Well, one of the things we learned is that you definitely want to have first-mover advantage. It’s always great to be first when you have a new idea that is a potential game-changer. But you also want to have the “last mover living” benefit - meaning that if you just go first, if you’re way too early, you’re not going to make it until the market catches up to you.
So I think the biggest lesson we’ve learned is that you need to find a way to raise enough money and spend it slowly enough that you can stick around until everybody catches on to your idea. The race is not to run out of your money first - it’s to be there at the finish line,” Gross says.
Q. What do you look for when you start a company?
We like to challenge the status quo, to take on something that other people wouldn't do to solve a big problem. So when we look for a disruptive opportunity, we're really looking for a big problem and a way to solve it that no one else was willing to try.
Q. Do you go after industry incumbents, or are you looking for white space where customers aren't being served?
I would say we're going much more after white space. There are opportunities in both areas, and looking for a big industry gives you a lot of confidence that there will be customers there. But we prefer to look for a big itch that isn't being scratched.
Q. What are the drawbacks to going straight after a big industry incumbent?
The main drawback is that they are actually quite powerful. I think people underestimate big companies when they think of them as dinosaurs, as if they didn't have the power to fight back. For me, personally, if a customer is already being served, but just a little bit less efficiently, that's not as exciting as a customer with a problem that no one is trying to solve.
Q. Of all the companies you've started, which one was the most disruptive?
Probably GoTo. That company was designed to scratch an itch that wasn't being met. We had a whole bunch of small companies in the building that were all trying to buy advertising, but small advertisers were not being well served online. We thought the small advertiser needed some voice, some way to do business on a more cost-effective basis than cutting big deals with AOL. We had no idea that cost-per-click would have such a big impact - that it would change the economics of the Web. It was a disruptive thing that went beyond what we were hoping for.
Q. Didn't it become the basis for paid search, the economic driver for Google and Yahoo?
Yes, paid search has had an impact for Google (Charts, Fortune 500) and Yahoo (Charts, Fortune 500). But it's had an impact as well on many small publishers. Just as eBay (Charts, Fortune 500) empowers people to make a business online, so many publishers use AdSense and the price-per-click model to earn money online.
Q. How are you bringing search into the next phase?
Cost-per-click judges how many visitors you get, but it doesn't measure how effective those visitors are. Do they actually complete a transaction at the end? Do they become a customer of your Web site? We started Snap with the explicit purpose of introducing cost-per-action into search. An action could be anything the Web site cares about: a visitor signing up for a subscription or buying a book or deciding to become one of your customers. Since we introduced Snap, other search engines are starting to blend measurable actions into their final results.
Q. Is it frustrating that everyone copies you?
Well, we start these new companies for multiple reasons. Of course we're looking for economic gain; we have shareholders. But we are also looking to have an impact - and that's what makes us most proud.
More at:http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/25/news/companies/Startupking.biz2/?postversion=2007092605
How To Monetize Social Networks
Give Rupert Murdoch his due. When the News Corp. (NWS ) chairman approved a $580 million deal to acquire MySpace in the summer of 2005, he was way ahead of the pack. Today, hundreds of millions of people around the globe have embraced these digital water coolers, using them as a means of self-expression or as a way to keep in touch with friends. But now the pressure is building for MySpace to prove it can be the cash cow that Murdoch and others are betting on. MySpace, still by far the largest social network, has lost some of its mojo lately as competing networks spring up like dandelions after a rain shower, crimping its growth.
Most important, social networks have yet to figure out a business model. Advertisers, for instance, aren't sure that social networks can become a great platform for their pitches. "Social-network advertising is still a work in progress," says Debra Aho Williamson, a senior analyst with research firm eMarketer.
Murdoch's challenge is to transform the Web phenom into a digital media powerhouse capable of richly monetizing eyeballs without driving off the very users who made it popular. Even MySpace executives concede they're winging it. "I don't think our monetization strategy will be a prize-winning Harvard Business School study," says Jeff Berman, general manager of a new MySpace TV unit.
The race to wring money out of MySpace's giant audience is all the more urgent because Facebook, the fast-gaining No. 2 network, is expected on Nov. 6 to unveil its own advertising strategy. On Oct. 24, Microsoft said it would invest $240 million in Facebook, reportedly beating out Google and giving the site a staggering $15 billion valuation.
Besides the big social networks like Facebook, hi5.com, and Bebo, new niche efforts are emerging. These outfits, with names like Geni and Dogster, are less about keeping in touch with friends than connecting with family or communing over mutual interests. Venture capitalists this year alone have poured about $250 million into 34 different social networks. And all kinds of places, from USA Today to Dwell magazine, are integrating social-networking techniques into their sites.
STOP BY, STAY A WHILE
That surge in new networks is one reason Bear Stearns analyst Spencer Wang sliced his first-quarter earnings estimates for News Corp. on Oct. 18. Wang noted that in the third quarter, MySpace's U.S. audience showed its first-ever quarterly decline, after peaking at 70.5 million in June. "We are not fully convinced that MySpace can maintain its lead," says Wang. Moreover, MySpace users are not lollygagging on the site the way they used to--a key metric for advertisers. MySpace users spent an average of 3 hours and 13 minutes a month on the site in the third quarter, down 26% from a year earlier. Meanwhile, users spent 3 hours and 33 minutes on Facebook, up 23% for the year.
Social networks have put most of their faith in advertising. But people don't go to MySpace to find products or information. Users are so engrossed with talking to friends and posting party pictures that they pay little or no attention to the ads. So ad rates on social networks are much lower than prices for search keywords or traditional ads--$1.86 per thousand views for MySpace, Merrill Lynch says. That compares with as much as $30 per thousand for prime-time TV. "Standard display ads--and I don't care how much targeting you do--it's not working well," says Ian Schafer, president of online ad firm Deep Focus.
Media giants such as Warner Bros. and NBC have set up sites on MySpace to promote their content. But ad providers say some big consumer brands are leery of running ads beside material created by users. "Almost every single client we have says, 'Do not run my ad on a social network," says Tim Vanderhook, CEO of ad network Specific Media.
MySpace is working to change that perception. It is rolling out a new system with computer algorithms that glean data about its users. That should produce ads that are more closely targeted to users' interests and make advertisers more eager to spend money on the site. "We're very excited about the prospects of this," says Peter Levinsohn, president of MySpace parent Fox Interactive Media. That project is crucial if Fox Interactive is to generate a third of News Corp.'s earnings growth in the current fiscal year, ending next June. Merrill analyst Jessica Reif Cohen expects Fox Interactive--of which MySpace is the largest part--to earn $239 million on operations, up from $33 million last year.
Loading up on ads can backfire, though. MySpace already turns off some members by putting as many as nine ads on a page. "I really hate it," says Vinh Pham, a 24-year-old Web developer who now spends more time on Facebook than MySpace because of the ad deluge. "You have to see, like, 100 ads just to do anything on MySpace."
GOING HOLLYWOOD
Meanwhile, MySpace co-founders Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson are spending big money to turn MySpace into a digital media juggernaut. In late October, MySpace announced the creation of a gaming site, as well as a deal with Sony BMG Music Entertainment to share revenues generated from Sony content displayed on MySpace's music pages. The most prominent effort came in June when it launched MySpace TV, which has gained traction by adding professionally produced video. MySpace also has plans to create a version of the video site for cell phones. "In some senses, we're becoming Hollywood's digital playground," says Berman.
But many analysts and technologists question how many users want this type of content and how much money MySpace can make from its investment. Yahoo! recently retreated from its strategy to produce more original programming. "The Hollywood playbook has not adapted well to the Web," says Reid Hoffman, CEO of professional network LinkedIn and an investor in Facebook.
For now, MySpace's biggest revenue source is a three-year, $900 million deal signed last summer that makes Google the site's exclusive ad provider. MySpace has to deliver a minimum amount of traffic.
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Most important, social networks have yet to figure out a business model. Advertisers, for instance, aren't sure that social networks can become a great platform for their pitches. "Social-network advertising is still a work in progress," says Debra Aho Williamson, a senior analyst with research firm eMarketer.
Murdoch's challenge is to transform the Web phenom into a digital media powerhouse capable of richly monetizing eyeballs without driving off the very users who made it popular. Even MySpace executives concede they're winging it. "I don't think our monetization strategy will be a prize-winning Harvard Business School study," says Jeff Berman, general manager of a new MySpace TV unit.
The race to wring money out of MySpace's giant audience is all the more urgent because Facebook, the fast-gaining No. 2 network, is expected on Nov. 6 to unveil its own advertising strategy. On Oct. 24, Microsoft said it would invest $240 million in Facebook, reportedly beating out Google and giving the site a staggering $15 billion valuation.
Besides the big social networks like Facebook, hi5.com, and Bebo, new niche efforts are emerging. These outfits, with names like Geni and Dogster, are less about keeping in touch with friends than connecting with family or communing over mutual interests. Venture capitalists this year alone have poured about $250 million into 34 different social networks. And all kinds of places, from USA Today to Dwell magazine, are integrating social-networking techniques into their sites.
STOP BY, STAY A WHILE
That surge in new networks is one reason Bear Stearns analyst Spencer Wang sliced his first-quarter earnings estimates for News Corp. on Oct. 18. Wang noted that in the third quarter, MySpace's U.S. audience showed its first-ever quarterly decline, after peaking at 70.5 million in June. "We are not fully convinced that MySpace can maintain its lead," says Wang. Moreover, MySpace users are not lollygagging on the site the way they used to--a key metric for advertisers. MySpace users spent an average of 3 hours and 13 minutes a month on the site in the third quarter, down 26% from a year earlier. Meanwhile, users spent 3 hours and 33 minutes on Facebook, up 23% for the year.
Social networks have put most of their faith in advertising. But people don't go to MySpace to find products or information. Users are so engrossed with talking to friends and posting party pictures that they pay little or no attention to the ads. So ad rates on social networks are much lower than prices for search keywords or traditional ads--$1.86 per thousand views for MySpace, Merrill Lynch says. That compares with as much as $30 per thousand for prime-time TV. "Standard display ads--and I don't care how much targeting you do--it's not working well," says Ian Schafer, president of online ad firm Deep Focus.
Media giants such as Warner Bros. and NBC have set up sites on MySpace to promote their content. But ad providers say some big consumer brands are leery of running ads beside material created by users. "Almost every single client we have says, 'Do not run my ad on a social network," says Tim Vanderhook, CEO of ad network Specific Media.
MySpace is working to change that perception. It is rolling out a new system with computer algorithms that glean data about its users. That should produce ads that are more closely targeted to users' interests and make advertisers more eager to spend money on the site. "We're very excited about the prospects of this," says Peter Levinsohn, president of MySpace parent Fox Interactive Media. That project is crucial if Fox Interactive is to generate a third of News Corp.'s earnings growth in the current fiscal year, ending next June. Merrill analyst Jessica Reif Cohen expects Fox Interactive--of which MySpace is the largest part--to earn $239 million on operations, up from $33 million last year.
Loading up on ads can backfire, though. MySpace already turns off some members by putting as many as nine ads on a page. "I really hate it," says Vinh Pham, a 24-year-old Web developer who now spends more time on Facebook than MySpace because of the ad deluge. "You have to see, like, 100 ads just to do anything on MySpace."
GOING HOLLYWOOD
Meanwhile, MySpace co-founders Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson are spending big money to turn MySpace into a digital media juggernaut. In late October, MySpace announced the creation of a gaming site, as well as a deal with Sony BMG Music Entertainment to share revenues generated from Sony content displayed on MySpace's music pages. The most prominent effort came in June when it launched MySpace TV, which has gained traction by adding professionally produced video. MySpace also has plans to create a version of the video site for cell phones. "In some senses, we're becoming Hollywood's digital playground," says Berman.
But many analysts and technologists question how many users want this type of content and how much money MySpace can make from its investment. Yahoo! recently retreated from its strategy to produce more original programming. "The Hollywood playbook has not adapted well to the Web," says Reid Hoffman, CEO of professional network LinkedIn and an investor in Facebook.
For now, MySpace's biggest revenue source is a three-year, $900 million deal signed last summer that makes Google the site's exclusive ad provider. MySpace has to deliver a minimum amount of traffic.
Via-http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_45/b4057047.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_technology
VoiceThread
What Company is offering:
VoiceThread is a new service that enables users to capture and add their voices to photos, presentations and embed them in a blog or a website.
How It works:
VoiceThread have ability to almost all types of image and doc files for e.g. JPG,GIF, BMP, PNG, DOC, PDF and PPT etc. So this effectively means you can double the value of your cool looking presentations by adding your own voice to support the content. Voice integration is an interesting way to gauge your target audience in conversations by sharing your thoughts.Apart from assisting professionals in creating collaborative presentations VoiceThread also acts a top quality service for family members who want to annotate their photos or videos.
More at:http://voicethread.com/
VoiceThread is a new service that enables users to capture and add their voices to photos, presentations and embed them in a blog or a website.
How It works:
VoiceThread have ability to almost all types of image and doc files for e.g. JPG,GIF, BMP, PNG, DOC, PDF and PPT etc. So this effectively means you can double the value of your cool looking presentations by adding your own voice to support the content. Voice integration is an interesting way to gauge your target audience in conversations by sharing your thoughts.Apart from assisting professionals in creating collaborative presentations VoiceThread also acts a top quality service for family members who want to annotate their photos or videos.
More at:http://voicethread.com/
Sunday, October 28, 2007
FUNDGRA+DES™ is the easiest way to get one of the most sophisticated, objective, and stringent evaluations of mutual funds
What Company is offering:
FUNDGRA+DES™ is the easiest way to get one of the most sophisticated, objective, and stringent evaluations of mutual funds, closed end and exchange traded funds.
How It works:
Every month, our database of over 22,000 mutual funds and ETFs is graded on an A+ through F scale for five criteria designed by ERISA fiduciaries to expose what anyone investing for retirement SHOULD LEARN before buying or selling ANY fund. These five separately graded categories - diversification, expense, risk, return and the risk of material underperformance - are combined into an equally weighted overall grade.
Usually less than 1% of all funds even receive an overall grade of A or A-. Honor Roll funds (graded B or better) normally make up less than 4-5% of all funds. Shouldn't you know what your funds grades are? Search for them above, or use our advanced search to screen for funds that may have the characteristics you are seeking.
More at:http://fundgrades.com/
FUNDGRA+DES™ is the easiest way to get one of the most sophisticated, objective, and stringent evaluations of mutual funds, closed end and exchange traded funds.
How It works:
Every month, our database of over 22,000 mutual funds and ETFs is graded on an A+ through F scale for five criteria designed by ERISA fiduciaries to expose what anyone investing for retirement SHOULD LEARN before buying or selling ANY fund. These five separately graded categories - diversification, expense, risk, return and the risk of material underperformance - are combined into an equally weighted overall grade.
Usually less than 1% of all funds even receive an overall grade of A or A-. Honor Roll funds (graded B or better) normally make up less than 4-5% of all funds. Shouldn't you know what your funds grades are? Search for them above, or use our advanced search to screen for funds that may have the characteristics you are seeking.
More at:http://fundgrades.com/
Trueview's online monitoring company, lets a business owner see what's going on in the store without being there
What Company Is offering:
Trueview's solutions offer a large number of monitoring tools through an intuitive and secure website. Live and recorded video can be viewed from an internet connection anywhere in the world
A New York-based online monitoring company, lets a business owner see what's going on in the store without being there. Real-time and archived video streams can be accessed by logging on to trueviewservices.com. The videos are saved online for at least two weeks, and can be downloaded for later viewings.
How It works:
The service starts at $1,495 for installation of two cameras. Monthly service is $29.99 for two-week storage and round-the-clock technical support. The cameras can be wireless. The company also is working on making its systems accessible by mobile phone.
"The technology, since it's Web-based, gave us the ability to log on remotely and see real time what's happening in our office," says Mr. Schwartz, who paid $3,000 for about a dozen Trueview wireless cameras and online remote backup system. "If I'm out of the office or out of the country, I could log on to see who's at their desk, what time everybody came in for work and what time they left, and I could see what people are working on in their computers, in each workstation," he adds.
More at:http://trueviewservices.com/
Trueview's solutions offer a large number of monitoring tools through an intuitive and secure website. Live and recorded video can be viewed from an internet connection anywhere in the world
A New York-based online monitoring company, lets a business owner see what's going on in the store without being there. Real-time and archived video streams can be accessed by logging on to trueviewservices.com. The videos are saved online for at least two weeks, and can be downloaded for later viewings.
How It works:
The service starts at $1,495 for installation of two cameras. Monthly service is $29.99 for two-week storage and round-the-clock technical support. The cameras can be wireless. The company also is working on making its systems accessible by mobile phone.
"The technology, since it's Web-based, gave us the ability to log on remotely and see real time what's happening in our office," says Mr. Schwartz, who paid $3,000 for about a dozen Trueview wireless cameras and online remote backup system. "If I'm out of the office or out of the country, I could log on to see who's at their desk, what time everybody came in for work and what time they left, and I could see what people are working on in their computers, in each workstation," he adds.
More at:http://trueviewservices.com/
Hyperoffice
What Company is offering:
This company's Web-based software makes it easier for owners, employees, suppliers and business clients to plan projects, share and edit documents, and manage information any time and from any Internet connection. HyperOffice, based in Rockville, Md., allows small businesses to also set up their own intranets and other portals for vendors and customers.
How Much It Cost :
The cost averages $6 to $9 a month per user, with multiple levels of user log-in and administrative rights set by the owner for security. There's a free 30-day trial.
More at:http://www.hyperoffice.com/
This company's Web-based software makes it easier for owners, employees, suppliers and business clients to plan projects, share and edit documents, and manage information any time and from any Internet connection. HyperOffice, based in Rockville, Md., allows small businesses to also set up their own intranets and other portals for vendors and customers.
How Much It Cost :
The cost averages $6 to $9 a month per user, with multiple levels of user log-in and administrative rights set by the owner for security. There's a free 30-day trial.
More at:http://www.hyperoffice.com/
Critical Links receiving $5,7 million from European venture capital funds
What Company is About:
Critical Links is an international networking technology company and provider of edgeBOX, a converged multi-function device or business gateway targeted at SMBs and Enterprise Branch Offices. edgeBOX is available in a wide range of scalable hardware platforms, including hardened appliances and standard servers, and has the best feature to price ratio in the market, making it the ideal choice for cost savvy SMEs. edgeBOX typically replaces 4 to 6 single-function devices required to deliver an equivalent set of services, fully remotely managed, with significantly lower TCO. Telecom Service Providers and Managed Services Providers offer edgeBOX as a service to their SME customers.
How Much They Got From VCs:
They announced it has closed its Series A round of funding, receiving $5,7 million from European venture capital funds InovCapital, Change Partners and ASK/ISQ Capital.
Whats The Purpose Of Raising Fund:
The new funding enables Critical Links to accelerate sales and marketing activities worldwide, in order to fuel the continued market growth of its proven edgeBOX “Office in a Box” solution. The company is expanding its direct presence in the US market and increasing its investment in sales and marketing in Europe and in key emerging markets such as India, China, Brazil and South Africa.
About VCs:
InovCapital is the Portuguese Ministry of the Economy and Innovation venture capital society, geared towards supporting SME’s and entrepreneurs. Its mission is to contribute for the supported growth of the Portuguese economy through the promotion of entrepreneurship and a proactive participation in the development of the Portuguese companies. Inovcapital focuses its investments in technology intensive start-up companies and innovative projects geared for expansion into the global market.
About ASK/ISQ Capital
ASK/ISQ Capital is the venture capital arm of the ISQ Group, one of the largest engineering services firms in Portugal with more than 700 staff members. ISQ Capital focuses its investments in early-stage, technology-oriented companies.
About Change Partners
Change Partners is a leading independent venture capital company in Portugal. The firm invests in start-ups and highly innovative companies through its Fast Change investment fund.
More at:www.critical-links.com
Critical Links is an international networking technology company and provider of edgeBOX, a converged multi-function device or business gateway targeted at SMBs and Enterprise Branch Offices. edgeBOX is available in a wide range of scalable hardware platforms, including hardened appliances and standard servers, and has the best feature to price ratio in the market, making it the ideal choice for cost savvy SMEs. edgeBOX typically replaces 4 to 6 single-function devices required to deliver an equivalent set of services, fully remotely managed, with significantly lower TCO. Telecom Service Providers and Managed Services Providers offer edgeBOX as a service to their SME customers.
How Much They Got From VCs:
They announced it has closed its Series A round of funding, receiving $5,7 million from European venture capital funds InovCapital, Change Partners and ASK/ISQ Capital.
Whats The Purpose Of Raising Fund:
The new funding enables Critical Links to accelerate sales and marketing activities worldwide, in order to fuel the continued market growth of its proven edgeBOX “Office in a Box” solution. The company is expanding its direct presence in the US market and increasing its investment in sales and marketing in Europe and in key emerging markets such as India, China, Brazil and South Africa.
About VCs:
InovCapital is the Portuguese Ministry of the Economy and Innovation venture capital society, geared towards supporting SME’s and entrepreneurs. Its mission is to contribute for the supported growth of the Portuguese economy through the promotion of entrepreneurship and a proactive participation in the development of the Portuguese companies. Inovcapital focuses its investments in technology intensive start-up companies and innovative projects geared for expansion into the global market.
About ASK/ISQ Capital
ASK/ISQ Capital is the venture capital arm of the ISQ Group, one of the largest engineering services firms in Portugal with more than 700 staff members. ISQ Capital focuses its investments in early-stage, technology-oriented companies.
About Change Partners
Change Partners is a leading independent venture capital company in Portugal. The firm invests in start-ups and highly innovative companies through its Fast Change investment fund.
More at:www.critical-links.com
Get Paid Upto$50 Dollars For Reviewing Any Software On Softwarejudge.com
What Company is Offering:
If you have strong opinions about software, whether positive or negative, and want to get paid for your reviews, you are in the right place. We pay up to 50 dollars for tell-it-like-it-is, no marketing BS, straight talking software reviews.
How It Works:
First. Submit only original reviews that you wrote personally. If we find out that there is a sentence that’s not yours (it’s very easy to find that out with Google), you won’t get paid. Even if you previously submitted top notch reviews that we really liked. We always run reviews through web search before paying you or buying software you requested.
Second. Don’t submit more than three reviews in one day. Better yet, submit one review and see if it gets published or not. If it does not get published, it’s not good enough and we don’t want to spend several hours a day reading crappy reviews. Not everybody is good at this. But you have to be good to get published. Also, don’t bother us if your English is very bad. It’s fine if you make some mistakes (we all do), but a person who only had two years of English classes in high-school or college isn’t someone who is qualified for this job.
Third. Besides freebies, like free reg keys and free games that we give away to best contributors, there are two ways you get paid. If you have $200 in your account, contact us via the form with the complete personal information necessary for us to send you the money. Right now the default method is Western Union, because money can be sent anywhere in the world in 15 minutes. Again, the minimum amount is $200 (two hundred dollars) because we don’t want to spend all our time in the bank. If you have at least $20 in your account, you can request any software, game or an e-book to be purchased. You pick any product you want that costs as much money as is currently available in your account (or less) BUT it has to be a DOWNLOADABLE. We don’t want to deal with shipping costs (we’ve got a few reviewers who live in Australia) or spend time finding out why your package never arrived. In this day and age, you can pretty much buy any software in downloadable form, just send us the link and we’ll get it for you. We won’t buy anything off eBay for the same reason – we don’t want to deal with merchants we can’t trust.
Finally. Don’t be stupid. Don’t review software that you never tried. Don’t say software is good, if it’s bad. Don’t try to write only positive reviews. And never, never do anything that’ll piss us off.
More at:http://www.softwarejudge.com/
If you have strong opinions about software, whether positive or negative, and want to get paid for your reviews, you are in the right place. We pay up to 50 dollars for tell-it-like-it-is, no marketing BS, straight talking software reviews.
How It Works:
First. Submit only original reviews that you wrote personally. If we find out that there is a sentence that’s not yours (it’s very easy to find that out with Google), you won’t get paid. Even if you previously submitted top notch reviews that we really liked. We always run reviews through web search before paying you or buying software you requested.
Second. Don’t submit more than three reviews in one day. Better yet, submit one review and see if it gets published or not. If it does not get published, it’s not good enough and we don’t want to spend several hours a day reading crappy reviews. Not everybody is good at this. But you have to be good to get published. Also, don’t bother us if your English is very bad. It’s fine if you make some mistakes (we all do), but a person who only had two years of English classes in high-school or college isn’t someone who is qualified for this job.
Third. Besides freebies, like free reg keys and free games that we give away to best contributors, there are two ways you get paid. If you have $200 in your account, contact us via the form with the complete personal information necessary for us to send you the money. Right now the default method is Western Union, because money can be sent anywhere in the world in 15 minutes. Again, the minimum amount is $200 (two hundred dollars) because we don’t want to spend all our time in the bank. If you have at least $20 in your account, you can request any software, game or an e-book to be purchased. You pick any product you want that costs as much money as is currently available in your account (or less) BUT it has to be a DOWNLOADABLE. We don’t want to deal with shipping costs (we’ve got a few reviewers who live in Australia) or spend time finding out why your package never arrived. In this day and age, you can pretty much buy any software in downloadable form, just send us the link and we’ll get it for you. We won’t buy anything off eBay for the same reason – we don’t want to deal with merchants we can’t trust.
Finally. Don’t be stupid. Don’t review software that you never tried. Don’t say software is good, if it’s bad. Don’t try to write only positive reviews. And never, never do anything that’ll piss us off.
More at:http://www.softwarejudge.com/
JackBe received $9.5 Million
What Company is Offering:
JackBe is a solution in the enterprise Web 2.0 market. Their solution focused on companies and organizations.JackBe is an enterprise mashup solution.
How It Works:
JackBe describes their solution, an innovative Enterprise Web 2.0 Mashup Platform that allows any user to easily access and mashup any data from any application to improve their decision making and enhance their collaboration."
What Is The Purpose:
The purpose is to provide a solution to allow employees to access and mashup information, any way they like. The outcome hopefully allows the user to discover and organize information in a way that allows them to make better decisions and collaborate with others.
JackBe states that the organizations desire is to turn knowledge workers into "the killer app" assisting their organization in obtaining an advantage over the competition.
How Much They Got From VCs:
JackBe received $9.5 Million from Harbert Venture Partners, Core Capital Partners, Intel Capital, Darby Technology Ventures and Blue Chip Venture Company.
About VCs:
Core Capital is a $350 million private equity fund that provides capital to both early-stage ventures and small to mid-sized growth companies. The common thread is that these companies are developing or incorporating disruptive technologies into their businesses. We focus principally on the kinds of "core" or fundamental technologies that enable or enhance information, data and communication. We are headquartered in Washington, D.C. and most of our investments are made on the East Coast. And others VCs:
http://www.core-capital.com/
http://www.intel.com/capital/
http://www.harbert.net/venture-capital/
http://www.darbyoverseas.com/do/jsp/home.jsp?url=/home/pub
More at:http://www.jackbe.com/
JackBe is a solution in the enterprise Web 2.0 market. Their solution focused on companies and organizations.JackBe is an enterprise mashup solution.
How It Works:
JackBe describes their solution, an innovative Enterprise Web 2.0 Mashup Platform that allows any user to easily access and mashup any data from any application to improve their decision making and enhance their collaboration."
What Is The Purpose:
The purpose is to provide a solution to allow employees to access and mashup information, any way they like. The outcome hopefully allows the user to discover and organize information in a way that allows them to make better decisions and collaborate with others.
JackBe states that the organizations desire is to turn knowledge workers into "the killer app" assisting their organization in obtaining an advantage over the competition.
How Much They Got From VCs:
JackBe received $9.5 Million from Harbert Venture Partners, Core Capital Partners, Intel Capital, Darby Technology Ventures and Blue Chip Venture Company.
About VCs:
Core Capital is a $350 million private equity fund that provides capital to both early-stage ventures and small to mid-sized growth companies. The common thread is that these companies are developing or incorporating disruptive technologies into their businesses. We focus principally on the kinds of "core" or fundamental technologies that enable or enhance information, data and communication. We are headquartered in Washington, D.C. and most of our investments are made on the East Coast. And others VCs:
http://www.core-capital.com/
http://www.intel.com/capital/
http://www.harbert.net/venture-capital/
http://www.darbyoverseas.com/do/jsp/home.jsp?url=/home/pub
More at:http://www.jackbe.com/
Fetch helps you provide secure delivery of your digital products
What Company Is Offering:
Fetch is the smartest, freshest, most elegant digital delivery application that makes selling digital goods simple. Your information is hosted on our fast, reliable and secure servers, so transactions are worry free. Simply add digital items and our automated system will do the rest.
How It Works:
Fetch helps you provide secure delivery of your products. Fetch includes features such as; automatic delivery, bulk import, custom notification, and download statistics. To begin you must choose one of the four plans, which vary only in price and storage space. The plan prices vary from $12 per month to $99 a month, and the storage space varies from 50MB to 10GB. The first step is to fill in some general settings, such as; the sites name, the sites email, the feed URL, feed username, and feed password. Then you need to add your items, either import a bulk inventory or add items individually. Use the items manager to display inventory items. Orders are automatically updated and instructions are sent to customers immediately.
More at:http://www.fetchapp.com/
Fetch is the smartest, freshest, most elegant digital delivery application that makes selling digital goods simple. Your information is hosted on our fast, reliable and secure servers, so transactions are worry free. Simply add digital items and our automated system will do the rest.
How It Works:
Fetch helps you provide secure delivery of your products. Fetch includes features such as; automatic delivery, bulk import, custom notification, and download statistics. To begin you must choose one of the four plans, which vary only in price and storage space. The plan prices vary from $12 per month to $99 a month, and the storage space varies from 50MB to 10GB. The first step is to fill in some general settings, such as; the sites name, the sites email, the feed URL, feed username, and feed password. Then you need to add your items, either import a bulk inventory or add items individually. Use the items manager to display inventory items. Orders are automatically updated and instructions are sent to customers immediately.
More at:http://www.fetchapp.com/
Payoneer Is Prepaid Mastercards
What Company Is Offering:
We offer a Prepaid MasterCard®. They have a prepaid limit, can be used everywhere that MasterCards® is accepted.
In addition to making the card available to partner groups for travel, we enable online payments for Web businesses to make payments to their members, vendors or partners through a fully-hosted solution to support all of their payment needs.
How It Works:
The card essentially functions like a gift card; you can load up to $1000 on to the card daily. Anyone over 13 can legally hold the Payoneer card, though if you’re under 18 you’ll need to have your parents order a card for you, and, though you’ll be able to check your Payoneer account online, only those over 18 will be able to load money on to your card. There are several ways to load money on to the Payoneer card; you can do it directly from the Payoneer site, or you can do it through the website of any bank partnered with Payoneer. Once you’ve activated your card online, you can use your Payoneer card just as you would a MasterCard; it’s accepted everywhere that a MasterCard is.
More at:http://www.payoneer.com/
We offer a Prepaid MasterCard®. They have a prepaid limit, can be used everywhere that MasterCards® is accepted.
In addition to making the card available to partner groups for travel, we enable online payments for Web businesses to make payments to their members, vendors or partners through a fully-hosted solution to support all of their payment needs.
How It Works:
The card essentially functions like a gift card; you can load up to $1000 on to the card daily. Anyone over 13 can legally hold the Payoneer card, though if you’re under 18 you’ll need to have your parents order a card for you, and, though you’ll be able to check your Payoneer account online, only those over 18 will be able to load money on to your card. There are several ways to load money on to the Payoneer card; you can do it directly from the Payoneer site, or you can do it through the website of any bank partnered with Payoneer. Once you’ve activated your card online, you can use your Payoneer card just as you would a MasterCard; it’s accepted everywhere that a MasterCard is.
More at:http://www.payoneer.com/
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Collabration Tool For Entrprises
What Company is offering:
Project management + enterprise knowledge sharing
• Project workspaces, tasks and reports
• Enterprise wiki, permissions and roles
• Ticketing and bug tracking
• Easy communication and knowledge sharing
• Really simple and intuitive interface
#1 On-Demand Software for knowledge-intensive collaboration!”
How It Works:
Using it you’ll get a bucketful of prime enterprise geared features: enterprise wiki, categories, and tagging, reports, charts, tickets, team dashboards, email notification, teams and roles, files storage, and customization among other things. It’s got an intuitive interface so anyone in your office should be able to manage. ComindWork gives companies a modern and elegant way to manage projects and improve communications. While there’s a free version available, paid editions start at an affordable $11 a month and go up to $245 a month for the Enterprise Max edition.
More at:http://www.comindwork.com/
Project management + enterprise knowledge sharing
• Project workspaces, tasks and reports
• Enterprise wiki, permissions and roles
• Ticketing and bug tracking
• Easy communication and knowledge sharing
• Really simple and intuitive interface
#1 On-Demand Software for knowledge-intensive collaboration!”
How It Works:
Using it you’ll get a bucketful of prime enterprise geared features: enterprise wiki, categories, and tagging, reports, charts, tickets, team dashboards, email notification, teams and roles, files storage, and customization among other things. It’s got an intuitive interface so anyone in your office should be able to manage. ComindWork gives companies a modern and elegant way to manage projects and improve communications. While there’s a free version available, paid editions start at an affordable $11 a month and go up to $245 a month for the Enterprise Max edition.
More at:http://www.comindwork.com/
Keep track of all your car service records online
What is company about:
Keep track of all your car service records online, and manage routine maintenance as well as major and minor repairs.
How It Works:
Virtual garage to store your cars, including year, color, make, model, license and vehicle identification number data.
Searchable repair forms to look up any repair or maintenance record, regardless of when or where it was performed.
Comprehensive service history outlines work done by professional shops or in your own back yard.
More at:http://yourgarageonline.com/about
Keep track of all your car service records online, and manage routine maintenance as well as major and minor repairs.
How It Works:
Virtual garage to store your cars, including year, color, make, model, license and vehicle identification number data.
Searchable repair forms to look up any repair or maintenance record, regardless of when or where it was performed.
Comprehensive service history outlines work done by professional shops or in your own back yard.
More at:http://yourgarageonline.com/about
FlauntR is a slick new tool photo editor
What company is offering:
FlauntR is a slick new tool photo editor.
Flauntr actually offers three web-application solutions for photo editing: PhotoStylr, PhotoEditr, and PhotoProfilr. Each one is different in it’s approach to photo editing, and all three are free to use under one single site login.
How It Works:
flauntR is incubated by DeviceDriven (http://www.devicedriven.com). flauntR is created with the vision of enabling consumers to enhance photos or images without reading through heaps of user manuals or purchasing and downloading expensive software.
More at:http://flauntr.com/
FlauntR is a slick new tool photo editor.
Flauntr actually offers three web-application solutions for photo editing: PhotoStylr, PhotoEditr, and PhotoProfilr. Each one is different in it’s approach to photo editing, and all three are free to use under one single site login.
How It Works:
flauntR is incubated by DeviceDriven (http://www.devicedriven.com). flauntR is created with the vision of enabling consumers to enhance photos or images without reading through heaps of user manuals or purchasing and downloading expensive software.
More at:http://flauntr.com/
2007 Microentrepreneurship award
Citibank (China) Co Ltd and the China Banking Association yesterday announced the winners of the 2007 Microentrepreneurship Awards in China.
Oriented from a symbolic anniversary of United Nations' International Year of Microcredit 2005, it is the third annual ceremony in China, which recognizes the entrepreneurs' skills and contributions to building prosperity with microfinance support and helping less-advantaged individuals to improve their lives.
The awards include 7 conventional categories, Rural Agriculture, Non-Agriculture, Urban Trade, Processing, Service, and Rural and Urban Loan Officers. Meanwhile, three special awards were introduced this year. They are Innovation, Common Wealth, and Energy-efficiency and Environmental-protection.
This year a total of 198 applications for the Awards were received from around China. After several rounds of screening and field trip interviews, some 107 micro-entrepreneurs were selected as winners across all the prizes.
Wu Xiaoling, vice governor of the People's Bank of China, suggested, "It proves that microfinance is such as a powerful mechanism for empowerment and poverty reduction because it unleashes the drive of the poor to improve their own lives and grow out of deprivation. We should create and provide an environment that fosters the healthy development of microfinance."
Richard Stanley, chairman of Citibank (China) Co Ltd, noted, "As a locally incorporated bank in China, Citi remains deeply committed to making a positive and significant contribution to the wider community, and we are proud of our longstanding support of microfinance development in China."
"Citi congratulates all of the winners of this year's Awards program, and we look forward to being a key supporter of microfinance in China in the future." Mr. Stanley added.
Oriented from a symbolic anniversary of United Nations' International Year of Microcredit 2005, it is the third annual ceremony in China, which recognizes the entrepreneurs' skills and contributions to building prosperity with microfinance support and helping less-advantaged individuals to improve their lives.
The awards include 7 conventional categories, Rural Agriculture, Non-Agriculture, Urban Trade, Processing, Service, and Rural and Urban Loan Officers. Meanwhile, three special awards were introduced this year. They are Innovation, Common Wealth, and Energy-efficiency and Environmental-protection.
This year a total of 198 applications for the Awards were received from around China. After several rounds of screening and field trip interviews, some 107 micro-entrepreneurs were selected as winners across all the prizes.
Wu Xiaoling, vice governor of the People's Bank of China, suggested, "It proves that microfinance is such as a powerful mechanism for empowerment and poverty reduction because it unleashes the drive of the poor to improve their own lives and grow out of deprivation. We should create and provide an environment that fosters the healthy development of microfinance."
Richard Stanley, chairman of Citibank (China) Co Ltd, noted, "As a locally incorporated bank in China, Citi remains deeply committed to making a positive and significant contribution to the wider community, and we are proud of our longstanding support of microfinance development in China."
"Citi congratulates all of the winners of this year's Awards program, and we look forward to being a key supporter of microfinance in China in the future." Mr. Stanley added.
Cellphonefocus.com offes excellent after-sale service
What Company is offering:
Cellphonefocus.com offes excellent after-sale service, all Cell Phone and Cellular Phone Accessories have a guarantee of 1 Year Warranty and 30 Day Money Back. "Our goal is to provide excellent quality to our customers at the lowest price, provide fast & reliable service, and excellent 'on-the-dot' shipping using our newly implemented UPS innovation shipping methods." said Leslie.chan, Sales Manager of cellphonefocus.com.
How It Works:
In order to make users more easily find the products that they want, cellphonefocus.com has improved its accessories categorization structure by adding Brand Buttons, such as NOKIA, MOTOROLA, SAMSUNG, LG Electronics, NEC, PANASONIC, Sony Ericsson, etc., near the top of the procuct pages. Besides, cellphonefocus.com has added a new catalog 'Shop by Brands', thus, users can easily find all the accessories related a certain brand by clicking the corresponding sub-catalog.
More at;http://www.cellphonefocus.com/
Cellphonefocus.com offes excellent after-sale service, all Cell Phone and Cellular Phone Accessories have a guarantee of 1 Year Warranty and 30 Day Money Back. "Our goal is to provide excellent quality to our customers at the lowest price, provide fast & reliable service, and excellent 'on-the-dot' shipping using our newly implemented UPS innovation shipping methods." said Leslie.chan, Sales Manager of cellphonefocus.com.
How It Works:
In order to make users more easily find the products that they want, cellphonefocus.com has improved its accessories categorization structure by adding Brand Buttons, such as NOKIA, MOTOROLA, SAMSUNG, LG Electronics, NEC, PANASONIC, Sony Ericsson, etc., near the top of the procuct pages. Besides, cellphonefocus.com has added a new catalog 'Shop by Brands', thus, users can easily find all the accessories related a certain brand by clicking the corresponding sub-catalog.
More at;http://www.cellphonefocus.com/
SEO Offer
Guaranteed SEO firm, Adviatech Corp., has announced a discount on their newly launched guaranteed search engine optimization plan for the month of October.
Tampa based search engine optimization company, Adviatech Corp. (www.adviatech.com), has announced a special offer for their guaranteed search engine optimization plan for the month of October. The guaranteed SEO plan has been a success (according to Adviatech Corp.) as many companies have entrusted Adviatech with their search engine optimization project based on the money back guarantee.
The guaranteed SEO service was officially launched earlier in 2007 with a few select industries. Last week, Adviatech expanded their list of accepted industries to include in their guaranteed search engine optimization plan. The list included many competitive industries which were not previously approved under the money back guaranteed search engine optimization service plan.
The month of October has always been the best time to start a “New Years” search engine optimization campaign. At least that’s the viewpoint of Adviatech Corp., Vice President, Jason Bland who commented today, “If a company is wanting to have their web site’s ranking increase by the new year, October is the best time to start a search engine optimization project. Most web sites start responding to the search engine optimization content changes and link building efforts performed by Adviatech in the third month of service.”
To promote the value of starting a search engine optimization project in October, Adviatech Corp., has launched a promotion which will end October 30, 2007. The promotion will allow companies to get a free month of guaranteed SEO management and save up to five hundred dollars ($500.00) off the initial search engine optimization project fee.
More at:http://www.adviatech.com/
Tampa based search engine optimization company, Adviatech Corp. (www.adviatech.com), has announced a special offer for their guaranteed search engine optimization plan for the month of October. The guaranteed SEO plan has been a success (according to Adviatech Corp.) as many companies have entrusted Adviatech with their search engine optimization project based on the money back guarantee.
The guaranteed SEO service was officially launched earlier in 2007 with a few select industries. Last week, Adviatech expanded their list of accepted industries to include in their guaranteed search engine optimization plan. The list included many competitive industries which were not previously approved under the money back guaranteed search engine optimization service plan.
The month of October has always been the best time to start a “New Years” search engine optimization campaign. At least that’s the viewpoint of Adviatech Corp., Vice President, Jason Bland who commented today, “If a company is wanting to have their web site’s ranking increase by the new year, October is the best time to start a search engine optimization project. Most web sites start responding to the search engine optimization content changes and link building efforts performed by Adviatech in the third month of service.”
To promote the value of starting a search engine optimization project in October, Adviatech Corp., has launched a promotion which will end October 30, 2007. The promotion will allow companies to get a free month of guaranteed SEO management and save up to five hundred dollars ($500.00) off the initial search engine optimization project fee.
More at:http://www.adviatech.com/
MedRecruit
What Company is Offering:
MedRecruit aims to pick up where other recruiting efforts leave off by explicitly including lifestyle in the process of matching doctors with positions. MedRecruit was founded last year by Sam Hazledine, a doctor and skiing champion who wanted to create better balance between doctors' work and personal lives.
How It Works:
Doctors who sign up for the free service, which currently serves just New Zealand and Australia, specify not just the details of their medical specialty and grade; they also tell MedRecruit what type of location they want and what sorts of family, cultural and recreational opportunities--skiing or surfing, for example. MedRecruit then helps find a good match among the hospitals and medical organizations it represents. Watchlists are available, as is 24-hour assistance, and MedRecruit facilitates all travel and accommodations. It even pays a 4 percent bonus to doctors who work exclusively through MedRecruit. Ultimately, the company says, the result is happier doctors and higher retention rates for the hospitals that hire them.
With thousands of jobs available at hundreds of hospitals across New Zealand and Australia.
More at: www.medrecruit.com
MedRecruit aims to pick up where other recruiting efforts leave off by explicitly including lifestyle in the process of matching doctors with positions. MedRecruit was founded last year by Sam Hazledine, a doctor and skiing champion who wanted to create better balance between doctors' work and personal lives.
How It Works:
Doctors who sign up for the free service, which currently serves just New Zealand and Australia, specify not just the details of their medical specialty and grade; they also tell MedRecruit what type of location they want and what sorts of family, cultural and recreational opportunities--skiing or surfing, for example. MedRecruit then helps find a good match among the hospitals and medical organizations it represents. Watchlists are available, as is 24-hour assistance, and MedRecruit facilitates all travel and accommodations. It even pays a 4 percent bonus to doctors who work exclusively through MedRecruit. Ultimately, the company says, the result is happier doctors and higher retention rates for the hospitals that hire them.
With thousands of jobs available at hundreds of hospitals across New Zealand and Australia.
More at: www.medrecruit.com
RealSelf is a new product review site with a niche for anti-aging
What company is offering:
RealSelf is a new product review site with a niche for anti-aging.
How it works:
The two main components of the site are reviews, and the Q&A section. Both are easily accessible from the homepage and nearly every other page throughout the site. This makes for very easy site navigation and a continuous swarm of information on RealSelf. This is a review site and a community, so reviews are made by users, as are the Q&A sections. Any comment or response can be voted on for helpfulness, and these will be ordered accordingly on the site, so whether you’re reading a page of answers to a question, or reviews for a product, the most helpful will show on top.
Why is It different:
One unique factor for RealSelf is its algorithm, which will hunt and kill smam reviews. And to put the icing on the cake (sort of) those spam reviews that are created by companies hoping to inflate the recognition of their products will be publically outed, often resulting in the company to acknowledge their wrong doing.
Individual profiles are also used as self-promotional purposes, as well as mini-hubs for information. A user can enter information about themselves, which could be particularly helpful for healthcare professionals, etc. A map enables them to mark their office and provide contact information. Profile pages will also display the RealSelf content that’s proved most valuable to them, as well as the content they’ve created or interacted with throughout the community.
More at:http://www.realself.com/
RealSelf is a new product review site with a niche for anti-aging.
How it works:
The two main components of the site are reviews, and the Q&A section. Both are easily accessible from the homepage and nearly every other page throughout the site. This makes for very easy site navigation and a continuous swarm of information on RealSelf. This is a review site and a community, so reviews are made by users, as are the Q&A sections. Any comment or response can be voted on for helpfulness, and these will be ordered accordingly on the site, so whether you’re reading a page of answers to a question, or reviews for a product, the most helpful will show on top.
Why is It different:
One unique factor for RealSelf is its algorithm, which will hunt and kill smam reviews. And to put the icing on the cake (sort of) those spam reviews that are created by companies hoping to inflate the recognition of their products will be publically outed, often resulting in the company to acknowledge their wrong doing.
Individual profiles are also used as self-promotional purposes, as well as mini-hubs for information. A user can enter information about themselves, which could be particularly helpful for healthcare professionals, etc. A map enables them to mark their office and provide contact information. Profile pages will also display the RealSelf content that’s proved most valuable to them, as well as the content they’ve created or interacted with throughout the community.
More at:http://www.realself.com/
Going.com, the local event website For Finding something fun you'd like to do
What Company is offering;
Going helps you find fun things to do and fun people to meet.Ever wish there were one place where you can find all the events around town?
Want to know whether an event is worth going to and see who else is interested?
Looking to meet some new people who are up for doing fun things?
How It works:
Find something fun you'd like to do. We have tons of ways to help you do that, such as by popularity (how many others are interested), by time, by distance, or using our Editors' Picks. Start here.
See who else wants to go. Don't be shy; people are meeting up to go do stuff all the time. Feel free to post a message for the event to see who else's up for meeting up.
Discover people who share your interests. Look up groups that sound interesting and add your two cents. Browse people, see who's similar in interests, then post a comment or send them a friend request.
Get out to one of our events. From Courtney Love, to The Teddybears, to Daft Punk, to Perez Hilton, Going gets you in to the best events.
How is it progressing:
Going.com, the local event website, has seen some success with its Facebook app called Naughty Gifts. This app has gained abou 4 million users, marking it as one of the fastest growing applications. Naughty Gifts needs no explanation. It lets you send very bad things to people you love.
more at:http://going.com/
Going helps you find fun things to do and fun people to meet.Ever wish there were one place where you can find all the events around town?
Want to know whether an event is worth going to and see who else is interested?
Looking to meet some new people who are up for doing fun things?
How It works:
Find something fun you'd like to do. We have tons of ways to help you do that, such as by popularity (how many others are interested), by time, by distance, or using our Editors' Picks. Start here.
See who else wants to go. Don't be shy; people are meeting up to go do stuff all the time. Feel free to post a message for the event to see who else's up for meeting up.
Discover people who share your interests. Look up groups that sound interesting and add your two cents. Browse people, see who's similar in interests, then post a comment or send them a friend request.
Get out to one of our events. From Courtney Love, to The Teddybears, to Daft Punk, to Perez Hilton, Going gets you in to the best events.
How is it progressing:
Going.com, the local event website, has seen some success with its Facebook app called Naughty Gifts. This app has gained abou 4 million users, marking it as one of the fastest growing applications. Naughty Gifts needs no explanation. It lets you send very bad things to people you love.
more at:http://going.com/
MyItThings Offering New Holiday Widgets
What Company is offering;
MyItThings is created for you and by you! It's a collaborative space where everyone is part of the community and contributes to the content. The magazine is a dynamic space that is published daily and gives an opportunity to everyone to contribute and be featured on its pages. You can just read what people write about their "It" things or create your own page .MyItThings, which is a user-generated lifestyle magazine of sorts.
New Features:
It will soon be offering a widget for your Wish List and Virtual Closet, which can be placed on other websites, blogs and social networking profiles, like MySpace and Facebook. A few of these widgets are holiday-themed, so MyItThings is taking advantage of the holiday season and letting you spread some Christmas cheer (i.e. your gift list).
The new widget is powered by Clearspring,so you know there are easy sharing options, including embed code for a variety of social networks and blogging platforms. Wishpot and Glimpse have similar wishlists and widget-sharing options as well.
More at:http://www.myitthings.com/
MyItThings is created for you and by you! It's a collaborative space where everyone is part of the community and contributes to the content. The magazine is a dynamic space that is published daily and gives an opportunity to everyone to contribute and be featured on its pages. You can just read what people write about their "It" things or create your own page .MyItThings, which is a user-generated lifestyle magazine of sorts.
New Features:
It will soon be offering a widget for your Wish List and Virtual Closet, which can be placed on other websites, blogs and social networking profiles, like MySpace and Facebook. A few of these widgets are holiday-themed, so MyItThings is taking advantage of the holiday season and letting you spread some Christmas cheer (i.e. your gift list).
The new widget is powered by Clearspring,so you know there are easy sharing options, including embed code for a variety of social networks and blogging platforms. Wishpot and Glimpse have similar wishlists and widget-sharing options as well.
More at:http://www.myitthings.com/
Friday, October 26, 2007
Make Anything Work is the ultimate small-business resource for business owners looking to develop or enhance their business skills.
What Companyy is Offering:
Make Anything Work is the ultimate small-business resource for business owners looking to develop or enhance their business skills. The content, delivery system and course design & creation, as well as the resources provided free through our blog and to our mailing list, have all been created to help small business owners beat the odds and build successful businesses.
How It Will Help Entrepreneurs:
Make Anything Work was founded on one simple principle: to do everything possible to help entrepreneurs and small business owners beat the odds and build successful businesses. As part of that goal, Make Anything Work, a Vancouver, British Columbia based training and education company for entrepreneurs and small business owners recently launched their propitiatory new training concept, the Bookinar.
The Make Anything Work Bookinar is the perfect blend of traditional book learning combined with live seminar training. The Bookinar concept forms the backbone of all Make Anything Work training programs, such as the hugely successful Make My Marketing Work recently launched at 10am in the 10th October 2007.
“This is an amazing development in the training tools available to new business owners. The Bookinar concept not only allows business owners to easily digest all the information needed to successfully manage their business, but it also ensures they put it into action.” says company co-founder Alex Read. He continues, “Our aim is to help develop a global plethora of successful entrepreneurs. We hate to see small business owners struggle to succeed and often fail. Our new Bookinar concept will certainly help to ensure that we get successful business habits developed within as many business owners as possible.”
More at:www.makeanythingwork.com.
Make Anything Work is the ultimate small-business resource for business owners looking to develop or enhance their business skills. The content, delivery system and course design & creation, as well as the resources provided free through our blog and to our mailing list, have all been created to help small business owners beat the odds and build successful businesses.
How It Will Help Entrepreneurs:
Make Anything Work was founded on one simple principle: to do everything possible to help entrepreneurs and small business owners beat the odds and build successful businesses. As part of that goal, Make Anything Work, a Vancouver, British Columbia based training and education company for entrepreneurs and small business owners recently launched their propitiatory new training concept, the Bookinar.
The Make Anything Work Bookinar is the perfect blend of traditional book learning combined with live seminar training. The Bookinar concept forms the backbone of all Make Anything Work training programs, such as the hugely successful Make My Marketing Work recently launched at 10am in the 10th October 2007.
“This is an amazing development in the training tools available to new business owners. The Bookinar concept not only allows business owners to easily digest all the information needed to successfully manage their business, but it also ensures they put it into action.” says company co-founder Alex Read. He continues, “Our aim is to help develop a global plethora of successful entrepreneurs. We hate to see small business owners struggle to succeed and often fail. Our new Bookinar concept will certainly help to ensure that we get successful business habits developed within as many business owners as possible.”
More at:www.makeanythingwork.com.
Myntra, start-up aimed at the personalized gifting and merchandise space in India it has secured seed funding from Erasmic Venture Fund
What Company is offering:
Myntra, a consumer internet start-up aimed at revolutionizing the personalized gifting and merchandise space in India.At Myntra.com, you can start shopping by searching and browsing through their extensive library of designs and artwork.
How It Works:
If you like something, choose your color and size and place and order. We offer wide selection of products including T-Shirts, Mugs, Greeting Cards, Mousepads, Posters etc. and are constantly expanding the available offerings at our site. We will print your order on the desired product and ship it to you within 24hrs. We accept major credit card payments.
If you want to become a seller, register on our site and upload your designs and publish them. Once you have uploaded your design, we will review it and if the design passes our legal and copyright tests, we will send you a mail confirming that your design has been published. You can then track the sale of your designs and manage your sales account. You will get paid for your designs on a monthly basis. You can get 10% of the value of the product sold.
How Much they Got From VCs:
Myntra, a consumer internet start-up aimed at revolutionizing the personalized gifting and merchandise space in India, announced today that it has secured seed funding from Erasmic Venture Fund and a few other angel investors.
About Vcs:
http://www.erasmic.com/
More at:http://www.myntra.com/
Myntra, a consumer internet start-up aimed at revolutionizing the personalized gifting and merchandise space in India.At Myntra.com, you can start shopping by searching and browsing through their extensive library of designs and artwork.
How It Works:
If you like something, choose your color and size and place and order. We offer wide selection of products including T-Shirts, Mugs, Greeting Cards, Mousepads, Posters etc. and are constantly expanding the available offerings at our site. We will print your order on the desired product and ship it to you within 24hrs. We accept major credit card payments.
If you want to become a seller, register on our site and upload your designs and publish them. Once you have uploaded your design, we will review it and if the design passes our legal and copyright tests, we will send you a mail confirming that your design has been published. You can then track the sale of your designs and manage your sales account. You will get paid for your designs on a monthly basis. You can get 10% of the value of the product sold.
How Much they Got From VCs:
Myntra, a consumer internet start-up aimed at revolutionizing the personalized gifting and merchandise space in India, announced today that it has secured seed funding from Erasmic Venture Fund and a few other angel investors.
About Vcs:
http://www.erasmic.com/
More at:http://www.myntra.com/
EchoSign "The Killer App for Contract Management." has announced that it has secured $6 million
What Is EchoSign:
In just one click, the EchoSign solution automates the entire signature process from the request for signature to the distribution and filing of the executed agreement or form. With nothing to download, learn or install, there is simply no faster or secure way to get your contracts signed, tracked and filed.
EchoSign has taken the 'contract close' process from its old paradigm of efaxes and misplaced emails into a sophisticated, but easy to use contract automation application with measurable and proven value. Now organizations can get both external and internal contracts signed in seconds electronically, or by an automated fax system, that intelligently routes signed copies of each contract to all parties. In addition, everyone in the organization -- sales, finance, HR -- now for the first time has instant visibility into the status of all outstanding contracts.
How Much They Got From VCs:
EchoSign , the leading web-based signature automation service, today announced that it has secured $6 million through a Series B Preferred venture capital financing agreement. The investment was led by Emergence Capital with full participation from previous investor Storm Ventures.
Whats The Purpose Of Raising Fund:
This round of funding enables EchoSign to expand sales, marketing, and product development operations to meet the increasing demand and popularity of its easy to use, web-based application. Every day over 150,000 users in over 500 global organizations say "Just EchoSign It," to get their contracts signed in the most secure, efficient and effective manner possible.
How It Value For Us Or Companies:
EchoSign's contract signature automation application adds value to organizations of all sizes from British Telecomm, Network General, PayPal, Entertainment Publications, and even bail bondsman at bailgram.com. EchoSign's seamlessly integrated application with salesforce.com -- EchoSign for Salesforce -- is one of the top rated applications on the salesforce.com AppExchange. At the recent salesforce.com Dreamforce conference, EchoSign was named "The Killer App for Contract Management." EchoSign is also a launch partner on Webex Connect, and a charter member of OpenSAM, enabling a full open ecosystem of online office applications.
About VCs:
Emergence Capital Partners is the leading venture capital firm focused on early and growth-stage Technology-Enabled Services investing. Our mission is to help build market leading, successful businesses in partnership with great entrepreneurs. Our partners have funded and helped build over 30 TES companies, including such leaders as aQuantive, DoubleClick, Salesforce.com, SuccessFactors, and HireRight more than any other early-stage venture firm. Having assessed thousands of companies in the TES sector, we have developed significant expertise and resources focused on the critical factors of success in our market. Our focus and team-based approach allow us to create unique value for our service-based portfolio companies.
In just one click, the EchoSign solution automates the entire signature process from the request for signature to the distribution and filing of the executed agreement or form. With nothing to download, learn or install, there is simply no faster or secure way to get your contracts signed, tracked and filed.
EchoSign has taken the 'contract close' process from its old paradigm of efaxes and misplaced emails into a sophisticated, but easy to use contract automation application with measurable and proven value. Now organizations can get both external and internal contracts signed in seconds electronically, or by an automated fax system, that intelligently routes signed copies of each contract to all parties. In addition, everyone in the organization -- sales, finance, HR -- now for the first time has instant visibility into the status of all outstanding contracts.
How Much They Got From VCs:
EchoSign , the leading web-based signature automation service, today announced that it has secured $6 million through a Series B Preferred venture capital financing agreement. The investment was led by Emergence Capital with full participation from previous investor Storm Ventures.
Whats The Purpose Of Raising Fund:
This round of funding enables EchoSign to expand sales, marketing, and product development operations to meet the increasing demand and popularity of its easy to use, web-based application. Every day over 150,000 users in over 500 global organizations say "Just EchoSign It," to get their contracts signed in the most secure, efficient and effective manner possible.
How It Value For Us Or Companies:
EchoSign's contract signature automation application adds value to organizations of all sizes from British Telecomm, Network General, PayPal, Entertainment Publications, and even bail bondsman at bailgram.com. EchoSign's seamlessly integrated application with salesforce.com -- EchoSign for Salesforce -- is one of the top rated applications on the salesforce.com AppExchange. At the recent salesforce.com Dreamforce conference, EchoSign was named "The Killer App for Contract Management." EchoSign is also a launch partner on Webex Connect, and a charter member of OpenSAM, enabling a full open ecosystem of online office applications.
About VCs:
Emergence Capital Partners is the leading venture capital firm focused on early and growth-stage Technology-Enabled Services investing. Our mission is to help build market leading, successful businesses in partnership with great entrepreneurs. Our partners have funded and helped build over 30 TES companies, including such leaders as aQuantive, DoubleClick, Salesforce.com, SuccessFactors, and HireRight more than any other early-stage venture firm. Having assessed thousands of companies in the TES sector, we have developed significant expertise and resources focused on the critical factors of success in our market. Our focus and team-based approach allow us to create unique value for our service-based portfolio companies.
Metrofunk is the latest to create a trend-setting site
What company is Offering:
Metrofunk is the latest to create a trend-setting site aimed for the networking of creatives, from fashion designers, to filmmakers and party promoters.
How It Works And For Whom:
Artists and businesses alike can use metrofunk for self-promotion with the creation of their own, branded networks. The purpose is to offer up channels of distribution, for pushing their own products. The tools for this promotion is what you’d expect: blogs, music, photos, videos, events, etc.
Metrofunk’s part in all of this is to provide a central hub for content being created through its branded networks. It can categorize content according to its four verticals: nightlife, fashion, film and music. As with other sites where you can create your own network, individuals can join your network.
Content is pushed through these networks in a Digg-like voting system, taking advantage of the popularity contest mindset that many trend-setters are born with. Incentives for the creation of your network are monetization opportunities. Dripbook and Behance are other networks for creatives while Ning and MyLifeBrand offer branded social networks. 944life and similar sites aim to bring the forefront of culture to users for promotional purposes as well.
More at:http://metrofunk.com/
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Metrofunk is the latest to create a trend-setting site aimed for the networking of creatives, from fashion designers, to filmmakers and party promoters.
How It Works And For Whom:
Artists and businesses alike can use metrofunk for self-promotion with the creation of their own, branded networks. The purpose is to offer up channels of distribution, for pushing their own products. The tools for this promotion is what you’d expect: blogs, music, photos, videos, events, etc.
Metrofunk’s part in all of this is to provide a central hub for content being created through its branded networks. It can categorize content according to its four verticals: nightlife, fashion, film and music. As with other sites where you can create your own network, individuals can join your network.
Content is pushed through these networks in a Digg-like voting system, taking advantage of the popularity contest mindset that many trend-setters are born with. Incentives for the creation of your network are monetization opportunities. Dripbook and Behance are other networks for creatives while Ning and MyLifeBrand offer branded social networks. 944life and similar sites aim to bring the forefront of culture to users for promotional purposes as well.
More at:http://metrofunk.com/
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SignUpForCards.com provides consumers with a fast, convenient, and interactive way to search and identify credit card offers that best meet their need
What Company is offering:
Search for credit cards by category below, or use the credit card locator to quickly find the card that best meets your needs. Search, compare, read reviews, and apply online! From 0% introductory interest cards to balance transfer, rewards cards and more, find the highest rated cards right here.
How It Works:
SignUpForCards.com provides consumers with a fast, convenient, and interactive way to search and identify credit card offers that best meet their needs. After selecting their cards of choice, visitors may instantly apply for credit cards online through this portal. SignUpForCards.com offers this dynamic and interactive credit card search tool as a free service to consumers.
more at;http://www.signupforcards.com/
Search for credit cards by category below, or use the credit card locator to quickly find the card that best meets your needs. Search, compare, read reviews, and apply online! From 0% introductory interest cards to balance transfer, rewards cards and more, find the highest rated cards right here.
How It Works:
SignUpForCards.com provides consumers with a fast, convenient, and interactive way to search and identify credit card offers that best meet their needs. After selecting their cards of choice, visitors may instantly apply for credit cards online through this portal. SignUpForCards.com offers this dynamic and interactive credit card search tool as a free service to consumers.
more at;http://www.signupforcards.com/
Do Me London is an entertainment guide for your mobile phone
What Company is Offering:
Do Me London is an entertainment guide for your mobile phone. It’s recently launched a set of mobile guides for touring the city.
How It Works:
You can request a tour via text message that’s sent to Do Me, and you’ll receive the tour guide mobile URL. Each tour guide offers a multimedia manner in which to enjoy the city, featuring both audio and video content. It will cost you between £1.00 and £1.50 for a tour guide, depending on the length of the tour.
Why Is It Different:
There are plenty of user-generated sites out there that tap into their user base to collect content and offer it back up to you via mobile phones, including sites like Whrrl. And while these can be very helpful, Do Me has an advantage with its offering of premium content, and appeals to a wider range of mobile users, especially those that are less familiar with extensive mobile browsing.
Having mobile tours like those offered by Do Me London is a good inclusion for bundled packages, such as those found with GetMobio. EveryScape is another service that’s looking to create a fuller spectrum of city tours, but lacks the accessible mobile features.
More at;http://do-me.info/
Do Me London is an entertainment guide for your mobile phone. It’s recently launched a set of mobile guides for touring the city.
How It Works:
You can request a tour via text message that’s sent to Do Me, and you’ll receive the tour guide mobile URL. Each tour guide offers a multimedia manner in which to enjoy the city, featuring both audio and video content. It will cost you between £1.00 and £1.50 for a tour guide, depending on the length of the tour.
Why Is It Different:
There are plenty of user-generated sites out there that tap into their user base to collect content and offer it back up to you via mobile phones, including sites like Whrrl. And while these can be very helpful, Do Me has an advantage with its offering of premium content, and appeals to a wider range of mobile users, especially those that are less familiar with extensive mobile browsing.
Having mobile tours like those offered by Do Me London is a good inclusion for bundled packages, such as those found with GetMobio. EveryScape is another service that’s looking to create a fuller spectrum of city tours, but lacks the accessible mobile features.
More at;http://do-me.info/
ChannelMe.TV, the network where you can have your own .tv domain and push video content withad revenue-sharing model
What company is offering:
ChannelMe.TV, the network where you can have your own .tv domain and push video content, has added an ad revenue-sharing model tat’s now being extended to its users. You own and control your channel’s brand.
How It Works:
The program is free to sign up for, but you’ll need to be at least 18 years of age. From there, you can select from three categories of advertisements tat will display on your .tv page. You get a cut from the ad revenue generated for ChannelMe.
Will it Work:
As the .tv domain hype has yet to be met in reality, with both ChannelMe and Me.tv, it will be interesting to see if this particular tactic helps to a large extent, with ChannelMe. This ad rev-share model is widely used across video-sharing networks, and has been implemented in a successful manner by only a few networks. As far as video-sharing networks go, it seemed like many couldn’t launch in the past year without boasting their ad rev program, but this proves difficult for unestablished start-ups.
ChannelMe’s ad program is currently available to US users only, and payouts occur after your account has reached $10.
More at:http://www.channelme.tv/
ChannelMe.TV, the network where you can have your own .tv domain and push video content, has added an ad revenue-sharing model tat’s now being extended to its users. You own and control your channel’s brand.
How It Works:
The program is free to sign up for, but you’ll need to be at least 18 years of age. From there, you can select from three categories of advertisements tat will display on your .tv page. You get a cut from the ad revenue generated for ChannelMe.
Will it Work:
As the .tv domain hype has yet to be met in reality, with both ChannelMe and Me.tv, it will be interesting to see if this particular tactic helps to a large extent, with ChannelMe. This ad rev-share model is widely used across video-sharing networks, and has been implemented in a successful manner by only a few networks. As far as video-sharing networks go, it seemed like many couldn’t launch in the past year without boasting their ad rev program, but this proves difficult for unestablished start-ups.
ChannelMe’s ad program is currently available to US users only, and payouts occur after your account has reached $10.
More at:http://www.channelme.tv/
MicroPlace lets you make small investments through its service
What Company is Offering:
MicroPlace lets you make small investments through its service, which provides loans to those in developing countries.
Why eBay Launching It:
The launching of micro-financing tools is becoming a popular trend, and it comes as no surprise that eBay has gotten in on this type of financial institution, made possible through the use of the Internet. With most of eBay’s recent projects focusing on classifieds websites, and the improvement of eBay’s own struggling auction and VoIP services, MicroPlace enables eBay to venture in a new direction.
The importance of these types of services is of course the provision of loans with conditions that are often more reasonable than what some will find in their own countries. Ad different countries around the world have different laws pertaining to loans, businesses, etc. it’s often extremely difficult to start your own business in a developing country, and many stay in poverty as a result of minimized access to financial resources. Others in this space include Kiva, Globefunder and WordHugger.
more at:https://www.microplace.com/
MicroPlace lets you make small investments through its service, which provides loans to those in developing countries.
Why eBay Launching It:
The launching of micro-financing tools is becoming a popular trend, and it comes as no surprise that eBay has gotten in on this type of financial institution, made possible through the use of the Internet. With most of eBay’s recent projects focusing on classifieds websites, and the improvement of eBay’s own struggling auction and VoIP services, MicroPlace enables eBay to venture in a new direction.
The importance of these types of services is of course the provision of loans with conditions that are often more reasonable than what some will find in their own countries. Ad different countries around the world have different laws pertaining to loans, businesses, etc. it’s often extremely difficult to start your own business in a developing country, and many stay in poverty as a result of minimized access to financial resources. Others in this space include Kiva, Globefunder and WordHugger.
more at:https://www.microplace.com/
Aactics is a site for gaining feedback about yourself and your company
What Company is Offering:
Actics is a new community for do-gooders. It’s a positive network that lets you earn respect and endorsements from others that recognize the goodness of your actions.
How It Works:
Aactics is a site for gaining feedback about yourself and your company. And what’s the end result of feedback? Improving yourself or your company, and having a public reason to hold yourself accountable. This encourages you to hold yourself to a slightly higher standard.
The community is connected by these values and actions, so it’s very easy to further navigate the site to find like-minded users. On your own profile, Actics will give you a snapshot of your proxy, so you can easily keep track of what your friends are doing.
How It Could Improve More:
I think a site like this will need a great deal of exporting options, and integration into other networks, like Facebook. It’s already begun to move in this direction with its offering of actics badges, which operate in a concept similar to a digg button, which lets site visitors show their support for your company directly from the company’s website.
more at:http://www.actics.com/
Actics is a new community for do-gooders. It’s a positive network that lets you earn respect and endorsements from others that recognize the goodness of your actions.
How It Works:
Aactics is a site for gaining feedback about yourself and your company. And what’s the end result of feedback? Improving yourself or your company, and having a public reason to hold yourself accountable. This encourages you to hold yourself to a slightly higher standard.
The community is connected by these values and actions, so it’s very easy to further navigate the site to find like-minded users. On your own profile, Actics will give you a snapshot of your proxy, so you can easily keep track of what your friends are doing.
How It Could Improve More:
I think a site like this will need a great deal of exporting options, and integration into other networks, like Facebook. It’s already begun to move in this direction with its offering of actics badges, which operate in a concept similar to a digg button, which lets site visitors show their support for your company directly from the company’s website.
more at:http://www.actics.com/
AdNav
What company is Offering:
Brooklyn based GPS marketing solutions company AdNav is preparing a navigation handset with hopes of eventually providing a free devices.
How It Works:
The company’s initial proposed model charges travelers a small fee for a device when renting a car or registering for a hotel. Through the functionality of AdNav’s sleek handset, participating tourists are enabled to blend into natural surroundings. Say goodbye to common “just visiting” signifiers such as the fanny pack, camera, or oversized maps.
The company eventually hopes to offer free GPS devices that come loaded with ads for various businesses.
How They Are Planing To Excute Their Business:
AdNav is already partnered with search engine Ask.com, which will provide Internet access and local business listings for the bewildered tourist. Other features include geo-coded city guides complete with historical information, popular attractions, local statistics, etc.
More at:http://www.adnavinc.com/
Brooklyn based GPS marketing solutions company AdNav is preparing a navigation handset with hopes of eventually providing a free devices.
How It Works:
The company’s initial proposed model charges travelers a small fee for a device when renting a car or registering for a hotel. Through the functionality of AdNav’s sleek handset, participating tourists are enabled to blend into natural surroundings. Say goodbye to common “just visiting” signifiers such as the fanny pack, camera, or oversized maps.
The company eventually hopes to offer free GPS devices that come loaded with ads for various businesses.
How They Are Planing To Excute Their Business:
AdNav is already partnered with search engine Ask.com, which will provide Internet access and local business listings for the bewildered tourist. Other features include geo-coded city guides complete with historical information, popular attractions, local statistics, etc.
More at:http://www.adnavinc.com/
Thursday, October 25, 2007
ChoiceA.com helps both buyers and sellers find what they are looking for
What Company Is Offering::
ChoiceA.com helps you choose choice A by creating a site that has pulled together the useful material from the web and creating a space where buyers and sellers can connect directly without a middle man.
How It works:
ChoiceA.com helps both buyers and sellers find what they are looking for. There is a search engine on the site that lets buyers search for property with filters such as; property type, price range, location, and geographic range from destination. A list of properties appear, with a photo, address, and square footage of the property. You can choose to look at a map, or photo gallery to get more details or just click on the listing to get more information on the property and the connect information of the buyer. The listing provides lots of detailed information about the property like if it needs any repairs, how many rooms are in the property, etc… ChoiceA.com has many tools for sellers to aide them in what can seem as the overwhelming process of selling their property. ChoiceA.com has tools and forms that help users list their property, negotiate, and then sell. All of the information and tools on ChoiceA.com are free, so take advantage of this site and choose ChoiceA.com
more at:http://www.choicea.com/
ChoiceA.com helps you choose choice A by creating a site that has pulled together the useful material from the web and creating a space where buyers and sellers can connect directly without a middle man.
How It works:
ChoiceA.com helps both buyers and sellers find what they are looking for. There is a search engine on the site that lets buyers search for property with filters such as; property type, price range, location, and geographic range from destination. A list of properties appear, with a photo, address, and square footage of the property. You can choose to look at a map, or photo gallery to get more details or just click on the listing to get more information on the property and the connect information of the buyer. The listing provides lots of detailed information about the property like if it needs any repairs, how many rooms are in the property, etc… ChoiceA.com has many tools for sellers to aide them in what can seem as the overwhelming process of selling their property. ChoiceA.com has tools and forms that help users list their property, negotiate, and then sell. All of the information and tools on ChoiceA.com are free, so take advantage of this site and choose ChoiceA.com
more at:http://www.choicea.com/
"Tryvertising Trend "Marketing With Taste!
What company is Offering;
Effectively market your product's flavor to consumers, via our new, groundbreaking Peel 'n TasteTM technology.First Flavor, which converts flavours into Peel 'n Taste strips that can be mass-distributed in a broad-scale tryvertising campaign.
How It works:
Using the latest in taste-matching technology, we replicate the flavor of your product and deliver it to consumers in a compact, dissolving edible film that works seamlessly within existing promotional vehicles, while exponentially increasing their value. Peel 'n TasteTM is easy, safe to use, and consumers love it.
First Flavor's strips contain no sugar or calories, and all ingredients have been FDA-approved. They're produced in bulk quantities of 100,000 to 10 million or more, and quantity-based pricing ranges from 7 to 40 cents per strip. Possible uses for the strips include not just print advertisements but also direct mail, product-on-product, and in-store coupon dispensing applications. Though only four promotions have launched so far, First Flavor's customers range from small, entrepreneurial firms to large, Fortune 50 companies, president and CEO Jay Minkoff says. The US-based company, which was founded last year, already has sales representation in the EU, but it has also received inquiries from around the world. It's open to the possibility of nonexclusive partnerships to help bring Peel n' Taste to more consumers, Minkoff says.
Will It Work:
They've already shone the spotlight on the tryvertising trend, and this is yet another piece of evidence that it's taking hold. Only time will tell how consumers take to it in this form, but it's a concept worth considering for any business in food and beverages or beyond. We're just hoping a chocolatier will sign up soon.
More at:http://www.firstflavor.com/
Effectively market your product's flavor to consumers, via our new, groundbreaking Peel 'n TasteTM technology.First Flavor, which converts flavours into Peel 'n Taste strips that can be mass-distributed in a broad-scale tryvertising campaign.
How It works:
Using the latest in taste-matching technology, we replicate the flavor of your product and deliver it to consumers in a compact, dissolving edible film that works seamlessly within existing promotional vehicles, while exponentially increasing their value. Peel 'n TasteTM is easy, safe to use, and consumers love it.
First Flavor's strips contain no sugar or calories, and all ingredients have been FDA-approved. They're produced in bulk quantities of 100,000 to 10 million or more, and quantity-based pricing ranges from 7 to 40 cents per strip. Possible uses for the strips include not just print advertisements but also direct mail, product-on-product, and in-store coupon dispensing applications. Though only four promotions have launched so far, First Flavor's customers range from small, entrepreneurial firms to large, Fortune 50 companies, president and CEO Jay Minkoff says. The US-based company, which was founded last year, already has sales representation in the EU, but it has also received inquiries from around the world. It's open to the possibility of nonexclusive partnerships to help bring Peel n' Taste to more consumers, Minkoff says.
Will It Work:
They've already shone the spotlight on the tryvertising trend, and this is yet another piece of evidence that it's taking hold. Only time will tell how consumers take to it in this form, but it's a concept worth considering for any business in food and beverages or beyond. We're just hoping a chocolatier will sign up soon.
More at:http://www.firstflavor.com/
Touch Order Seems Good Idea For Food Or Hotel Entrepreneurs
What Is it:
McDonald's in Korea is testing food ordering by RFID (radio-frequency identification). A pilot program in Seoul's Shinchon neighbourhood lets customers place an order by pointing their cell phone at the items they want.
How It Works:
Simple—they first need to download software to their phone and then, seated at their McDonald's table, plug an RFID reader into the phone and aim their handset at a menu with built-in RFID chips. Items are automatically charged to their cell phone bill. As soon an order is ready, a message is sent to the customer's cell phone, letting them know that they can pick up their tray at the counter.
Its first in World :
According to SK Telecom, McDonald's "Touch Order" system is the first in the world that lets customers use RFID to place orders at a restaurant. Like GoMobo, the company that enables members to order food by text message at a growing number of US restaurants, Touch Order allows customers to avoid queues, making the buying process faster and more convenient for both the restaurant and its patrons. One to watch if you're in mobile commerce or the fast food business! (Related: Food ordering by text message.)
Detail: www.mcdonalds.co.kr
McDonald's in Korea is testing food ordering by RFID (radio-frequency identification). A pilot program in Seoul's Shinchon neighbourhood lets customers place an order by pointing their cell phone at the items they want.
How It Works:
Simple—they first need to download software to their phone and then, seated at their McDonald's table, plug an RFID reader into the phone and aim their handset at a menu with built-in RFID chips. Items are automatically charged to their cell phone bill. As soon an order is ready, a message is sent to the customer's cell phone, letting them know that they can pick up their tray at the counter.
Its first in World :
According to SK Telecom, McDonald's "Touch Order" system is the first in the world that lets customers use RFID to place orders at a restaurant. Like GoMobo, the company that enables members to order food by text message at a growing number of US restaurants, Touch Order allows customers to avoid queues, making the buying process faster and more convenient for both the restaurant and its patrons. One to watch if you're in mobile commerce or the fast food business! (Related: Food ordering by text message.)
Detail: www.mcdonalds.co.kr
Unique Business Idea
What Company is offering:
The British company's Street Art service uses high-pressure cleaning machines to wash brands, logos and adverts onto dirty pavements.
Street Advertising Services is offering a less antagonizing—and more legal—solution by creating images out of water.
How It Works:
First, clients provide their design, and SAS turns it into a giant stencil. Then, working at night, the SAS team blasts the stencil with water and steam on dirty walls, roads, pavements or even road signs. The result is a sparkling clean image in the shape of the company's logo or message. Nothing but water and steam are used, and it's all perfectly environmentally friendly and legal, SAS stresses. Pricing for a street art campaign with 15 to 20 adverts throughout a city begins at GBP 1,000 per city plus initial setup costs. Clients so far have ranged from newly opened businesses to global brands.
How That Idea Came:
The idea for the service, which launched last year, came to founder Kristian Jeffrey out of sheer frustration. Jeffrey explains: "I run several small online businesses, and was searching for cost-effective advertising to attract consumers to my sites. My potential customers were walking around me every day, and it was when I was walking through the dirty streets of London that the idea came to me: why not take advertising literally to the street? Having experimented with several different methods, we wanted to apply a technique that was not just eye-catching and effective but also friendly to the environment. What could be more natural than water?"
SAS has operated primarily in the UK so far, but it's open to projects anywhere in the world (as long as there's dirty pavement!). The company is also keen to explore reciprocal arrangements with other entrepreneurial enterprises.
Detail at: www.streetadvertisingservices.com
The British company's Street Art service uses high-pressure cleaning machines to wash brands, logos and adverts onto dirty pavements.
Street Advertising Services is offering a less antagonizing—and more legal—solution by creating images out of water.
How It Works:
First, clients provide their design, and SAS turns it into a giant stencil. Then, working at night, the SAS team blasts the stencil with water and steam on dirty walls, roads, pavements or even road signs. The result is a sparkling clean image in the shape of the company's logo or message. Nothing but water and steam are used, and it's all perfectly environmentally friendly and legal, SAS stresses. Pricing for a street art campaign with 15 to 20 adverts throughout a city begins at GBP 1,000 per city plus initial setup costs. Clients so far have ranged from newly opened businesses to global brands.
How That Idea Came:
The idea for the service, which launched last year, came to founder Kristian Jeffrey out of sheer frustration. Jeffrey explains: "I run several small online businesses, and was searching for cost-effective advertising to attract consumers to my sites. My potential customers were walking around me every day, and it was when I was walking through the dirty streets of London that the idea came to me: why not take advertising literally to the street? Having experimented with several different methods, we wanted to apply a technique that was not just eye-catching and effective but also friendly to the environment. What could be more natural than water?"
SAS has operated primarily in the UK so far, but it's open to projects anywhere in the world (as long as there's dirty pavement!). The company is also keen to explore reciprocal arrangements with other entrepreneurial enterprises.
Detail at: www.streetadvertisingservices.com
APML allows users to personalized marketing
What Company is offering:
APML allows users to share their own personal Attention Profile in much the same way that OPML allows the exchange of reading lists between News Readers. The idea is to compress all forms of Attention Data into a portable file format containing a description of ranked user interests.
How It Works:
With APML you’d be able to share your attention profile with advertising companies and marketers, thus enabling you to gain control over your info. You’d be given more filtering power, thus making it easier for you to select what you want to be known about yourself. As deep, behavior analyzing adverts become more popular, APML should be embraced as it gives consumers a mantle of protection over their private and sacrosanct data. Advertisers wouldn’t have to do so much snooping as it were, and it’d be much easier for them to sell you stuff. Of course, APML may not go over so well with consumers, what with questions of efficiency, privacy, and the sheer amount of work involved. Currently you can see APML at work on Engagd, Particls and Clutzr among others.
More at:http://apml.org/
APML allows users to share their own personal Attention Profile in much the same way that OPML allows the exchange of reading lists between News Readers. The idea is to compress all forms of Attention Data into a portable file format containing a description of ranked user interests.
How It Works:
With APML you’d be able to share your attention profile with advertising companies and marketers, thus enabling you to gain control over your info. You’d be given more filtering power, thus making it easier for you to select what you want to be known about yourself. As deep, behavior analyzing adverts become more popular, APML should be embraced as it gives consumers a mantle of protection over their private and sacrosanct data. Advertisers wouldn’t have to do so much snooping as it were, and it’d be much easier for them to sell you stuff. Of course, APML may not go over so well with consumers, what with questions of efficiency, privacy, and the sheer amount of work involved. Currently you can see APML at work on Engagd, Particls and Clutzr among others.
More at:http://apml.org/
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