What Company Is Offering:
IRSeek utilizies the power of the people on IRC and brings it to the rest of the community to enjoy and learn from.
IRC (Internet Relay Chat) remains one of the most active platforms for sharing knowledge and collaborating on the Internet.
How it Works:
www.IRSeek.com strives to make this hidden gem available to the entire Internet community. By constantly archiving thousands of active, highly-focused, public chat-rooms in a wide variety of topics (e.g. Linux, soccer, Christianity, poker, business and others) then indexing, processing and publishing the content on the web using advanced Web 2.0 technologies while maintaining the privacy of the users, we are creating a knowledge base different from any other.
Who Is Backing Them:
Eran Cohen, Chief Executive Officer
Eran cohen has over 13 years of experience in the computing industry. Prior to co-founding B&C Advanced Solutions LTD, Mr. Cohen skillfully lead several large-scale client-server projects which are extensively used throughout the world today. During his time in iWeb LTD, Mr. Cohen served as a senior web-application developer. He then served as a consultant and project leader for Computest LTD. Mr. Cohen then served as the head of the e-payment backoffice system at Random-Logic LTD. Mr. Cohen completed his military service at the Israeli Air-Force as a computer-systems expert.
Ariel Berkman, Chief Technical Officer
Ariel Berkman has over 15 years of experience in the computing industry. Prior to co-founding B&C Advanced Solutions LTD, Mr. Berkman had extensive experience consulting and implementing complex systems with emphasis on reliability, availability, and security. During his time in Contact- NOW LTD, Ariel served as a senior Unix system-administrator. At Envara LTD (acquired by Intel), Ariel served as a the head of the IT department. He then served as a technology consultant for Metacafe LTD and the Computer- Science IT department at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
More at:http://www.irseek.com/
Friday, November 30, 2007
Shopit is a marriage of e-commerce and social networking
What Company Is Offering:
Shopit is designed to be a faster, easier and more cost effective selling and trading environment than any other available today. It is the world′s first and largest peer-to-peer social commerce network that enables users to buy, sell and trade anything, anywhere on the Internet.
How It Works:
Shopit is a marriage of e-commerce and social networking. This website is the only e-commerce exchange that allows users to build personalized Mini-Stores™, quickly upload items and list them for sale or trade. These Mini-Stores™ can be displayed millions of places on the Web, including social networks, blogs and e-mails.
Best of all, doing business on Shopit is absolutely FREE! You can buy, sell, trade, and list items without any fees. Shopit also allows users to promote products with photos and video on their own profiles.
Who Is Backing Them:
The Shopit team is a group of Internet users who decided that buyers and sellers needed better tools for Web commerce. The site is backed and managed by a team of Internet visionaries with expertise spanning e-commerce, social networking, advertising, online marketing and affiliate marketing. Together, they realized that the next evolution in e-commerce involves empowering every Internet user to be a merchant. You are able to browse for free without registering but in order to purchase or sell an item you must register.
More at:http://www.shopit.com/
Shopit is designed to be a faster, easier and more cost effective selling and trading environment than any other available today. It is the world′s first and largest peer-to-peer social commerce network that enables users to buy, sell and trade anything, anywhere on the Internet.
How It Works:
Shopit is a marriage of e-commerce and social networking. This website is the only e-commerce exchange that allows users to build personalized Mini-Stores™, quickly upload items and list them for sale or trade. These Mini-Stores™ can be displayed millions of places on the Web, including social networks, blogs and e-mails.
Best of all, doing business on Shopit is absolutely FREE! You can buy, sell, trade, and list items without any fees. Shopit also allows users to promote products with photos and video on their own profiles.
Who Is Backing Them:
The Shopit team is a group of Internet users who decided that buyers and sellers needed better tools for Web commerce. The site is backed and managed by a team of Internet visionaries with expertise spanning e-commerce, social networking, advertising, online marketing and affiliate marketing. Together, they realized that the next evolution in e-commerce involves empowering every Internet user to be a merchant. You are able to browse for free without registering but in order to purchase or sell an item you must register.
More at:http://www.shopit.com/
PeekYou Is People Search Engine
What Company Is Offering:
A PeekYou profile helps other people find your websites, social-networking pages, photos or anything else about you online. You can also create a profile for friends or relatives to ensure that they may also be easily found online.
You can also register to become a full Contributor which allows you to track your edits to PeekYou and gives you other benefits as well.
How it Works:
Everyone can browse through PeekYou or create new profiles. However, in order to edit or submit information on existing profiles you need to be a registered user. PeekYou will prompt you to log in to your account when you attempt to make changes to a profile. After you have logged in, you can easily edit the "info", "tags", "bio", "photo", and "weblinks" fields by clicking on the appropriate edit buttons. Submitting links into the correct categories ensures easy navigation on the profile. Please note that there can be up to 25 tags on every category, so choose only the most relevant descriptions for the person whose profile you are editing.
PeekYou contributors can link more than one location to a profile. The key is for each added location to be relevant to the person on the profile, and not merely a transient locality. Good examples of relevant locations include birthplace, college town, and any place where that person has lived for a few years. Location therefore does not need to be limited to current locality. When in doubt whether a specific location should be added, consider whether someone who knows that person could plausibly relate him/her principally to the location under consideration. If yes, then that location is a good candidate for being added to the profile.
Why Is It In News Again:
PeekYou.com, the “people search” engine, announced a new way to search Google. This application improves Google’s results by displaying the people who own the websites or those who are referenced within them. The service is available at http://google.peekyou.com/
More at:http://www.peekyou.com/
A PeekYou profile helps other people find your websites, social-networking pages, photos or anything else about you online. You can also create a profile for friends or relatives to ensure that they may also be easily found online.
You can also register to become a full Contributor which allows you to track your edits to PeekYou and gives you other benefits as well.
How it Works:
Everyone can browse through PeekYou or create new profiles. However, in order to edit or submit information on existing profiles you need to be a registered user. PeekYou will prompt you to log in to your account when you attempt to make changes to a profile. After you have logged in, you can easily edit the "info", "tags", "bio", "photo", and "weblinks" fields by clicking on the appropriate edit buttons. Submitting links into the correct categories ensures easy navigation on the profile. Please note that there can be up to 25 tags on every category, so choose only the most relevant descriptions for the person whose profile you are editing.
PeekYou contributors can link more than one location to a profile. The key is for each added location to be relevant to the person on the profile, and not merely a transient locality. Good examples of relevant locations include birthplace, college town, and any place where that person has lived for a few years. Location therefore does not need to be limited to current locality. When in doubt whether a specific location should be added, consider whether someone who knows that person could plausibly relate him/her principally to the location under consideration. If yes, then that location is a good candidate for being added to the profile.
Why Is It In News Again:
PeekYou.com, the “people search” engine, announced a new way to search Google. This application improves Google’s results by displaying the people who own the websites or those who are referenced within them. The service is available at http://google.peekyou.com/
More at:http://www.peekyou.com/
Fotolog Acquired By French Internet company Hi-Media At $90 million
What Company is Offering:
Fotolog is the world's leading photo-blogging site, one of the world's largest social networking sites and a global cultural phenomenon. More than 10 million members in more than 200 countries use Fotolog as a simple and fun way to express themselves through online photo diaries or photo blogs.
What makes Fotolog special is not just the ability to post photos, but the ability to connect with others — whether simply staying in touch with friends and family or exploring the diverse Fotolog universe, discovering photos of new people from different cultures, participating in the site's fascinating special-interest communities and, perhaps most important, receiving personal feedback on their photos from around the world.
How It Works:
Just click the "create your own free Fotolog photo-blog" link that you'll see all over the place and fill out the short registration form. It should take less than a minute and you'll be on your way. After that, you'll be able to upload a photo any time you want in less than a minute.Once you've created your free Fotolog photo-blog, go to your page, and click on the upload link that you see in the navigation bar. Then click on the browse button to find the photo you'd like to upload from your computer's hard drive. Remember: photos must be JPGs or GIFs, and they need to be 2,000 KB or less. Most digital cameras out there today create photo files that are less than 2,000 K, so you should be good to go. But, for you folks with super-duper gazillion mega-pixel cameras, any basic image-editing software (check out this list at CNET) will allow you to resize your photos to the proper size to upload. Fotolog will ultimately convert your photo to a JPG, no larger than 500x500 pixels.
How Much They Got From VCs:
French Internet company Hi-Media,operator of one of Europe’s largest ad networks and micro-payment services, completed its acquisition today of Fotolog.
The $90 million deal was first announced last August. Since then, Fotolog has added two million more members for a total of 13 million, and claims 3.9 billion page views a month.
Fotolog trails behind MySpace’s PhotoBucket and Yahoo’s Flickr. CEO John Borthwick is moving on to his incubator/investment fund Betaworks.
More at:http://www.fotolog.com/
http://www.hi-media.com/
Fotolog is the world's leading photo-blogging site, one of the world's largest social networking sites and a global cultural phenomenon. More than 10 million members in more than 200 countries use Fotolog as a simple and fun way to express themselves through online photo diaries or photo blogs.
What makes Fotolog special is not just the ability to post photos, but the ability to connect with others — whether simply staying in touch with friends and family or exploring the diverse Fotolog universe, discovering photos of new people from different cultures, participating in the site's fascinating special-interest communities and, perhaps most important, receiving personal feedback on their photos from around the world.
How It Works:
Just click the "create your own free Fotolog photo-blog" link that you'll see all over the place and fill out the short registration form. It should take less than a minute and you'll be on your way. After that, you'll be able to upload a photo any time you want in less than a minute.Once you've created your free Fotolog photo-blog, go to your page, and click on the upload link that you see in the navigation bar. Then click on the browse button to find the photo you'd like to upload from your computer's hard drive. Remember: photos must be JPGs or GIFs, and they need to be 2,000 KB or less. Most digital cameras out there today create photo files that are less than 2,000 K, so you should be good to go. But, for you folks with super-duper gazillion mega-pixel cameras, any basic image-editing software (check out this list at CNET) will allow you to resize your photos to the proper size to upload. Fotolog will ultimately convert your photo to a JPG, no larger than 500x500 pixels.
How Much They Got From VCs:
French Internet company Hi-Media,operator of one of Europe’s largest ad networks and micro-payment services, completed its acquisition today of Fotolog.
The $90 million deal was first announced last August. Since then, Fotolog has added two million more members for a total of 13 million, and claims 3.9 billion page views a month.
Fotolog trails behind MySpace’s PhotoBucket and Yahoo’s Flickr. CEO John Borthwick is moving on to his incubator/investment fund Betaworks.
More at:http://www.fotolog.com/
http://www.hi-media.com/
VerticalSearch.com---For B2B Community
What Company Is Offering:
VerticalSearch.com's mission is to provide the B2B community with the best search experience on the web. They accomplish this first by focusing their search engine on the most relevant web sites for the B2B user.
How It Works:
To begin with, They have indexed over 4,000 of the B2B trade press sites, including many online -only publishers of B2B information. These sites offer a wealth of content and editorial expertise in the whole range of B2B verticals, from Agriculture to Mining, Construction to Transportation. Soon they will be adding tens of thousands of B2B company sites to augment the B2B trade press sites. And, as VerticalSearch.com evolves, watch for useful community tools and features that will allow each vertical B2B community to share domain expertise, product offerings, and business and job opportunities by sector.
Who Is Backing Them:
VerticalSearch.com LLC is a privately held company founded by Jeffrey Dearth, one of the pioneers of the commercial Internet. Partners in the venture include Planet Discover, a customized search engine provider, and DeSilva & Phillips, LLC, a media investment bank. But VerticalSearch.com is also YOU, the B2B user. With your help, VerticalSearch.com can become one of your major partners in developing new leads, delivering relevant content, and putting you in touch with your industry colleagues worldwide. Click here to find out how to submit your web site to VerticalSearch.com.
More at:http://www.verticalsearch.com/
VerticalSearch.com's mission is to provide the B2B community with the best search experience on the web. They accomplish this first by focusing their search engine on the most relevant web sites for the B2B user.
How It Works:
To begin with, They have indexed over 4,000 of the B2B trade press sites, including many online -only publishers of B2B information. These sites offer a wealth of content and editorial expertise in the whole range of B2B verticals, from Agriculture to Mining, Construction to Transportation. Soon they will be adding tens of thousands of B2B company sites to augment the B2B trade press sites. And, as VerticalSearch.com evolves, watch for useful community tools and features that will allow each vertical B2B community to share domain expertise, product offerings, and business and job opportunities by sector.
Who Is Backing Them:
VerticalSearch.com LLC is a privately held company founded by Jeffrey Dearth, one of the pioneers of the commercial Internet. Partners in the venture include Planet Discover, a customized search engine provider, and DeSilva & Phillips, LLC, a media investment bank. But VerticalSearch.com is also YOU, the B2B user. With your help, VerticalSearch.com can become one of your major partners in developing new leads, delivering relevant content, and putting you in touch with your industry colleagues worldwide. Click here to find out how to submit your web site to VerticalSearch.com.
More at:http://www.verticalsearch.com/
FreeTVonline.com-- Watch More Than 1000 Channels Free
What Company Is Offering:
This site is made for enjoying TV and videos online in a variety of different formats. They believe that their directory has indexed more video links than any other website, and they strive to deliver the best interactive video-watching experience online. They do not host any of the video files.
FreeTVonline.com is a young startup with a passion for creating a thriving internet video community. They are currently in public beta, and they plan to release many new and exciting site features in the near future.
How It Works;
Their goal is to provide users with a highly interactive and engaging video finding and viewing experience. They believe that the emerging worldwide interest in online video and web 2.0 communities, coupled with the changing nature of traditional video and TV viewing habits, requires fresh ideas. They hope to be part of an industry solution that respects content creators while providing a fun, interactive online platform for users to experience video content.All the videos are hosted by third party video hosting websites (ie YouTube). You may need to download and install the appropriate video player (see below). Otherwise, some video hosting websites take a long time to load videos. Please be patient. If the video hasn't started loading after 1 minute, then the video has most likely been removed from the host website, and you can report it as a dead link (must be logged in to the members area).
FreeTVonline.com is wholly owned and operated by FreeTVonline.com Inc, a registered corporation in the Republic of Panama. They are a small company, currently funded by individual investors.
More at:http://www.freetvonline.com/
This site is made for enjoying TV and videos online in a variety of different formats. They believe that their directory has indexed more video links than any other website, and they strive to deliver the best interactive video-watching experience online. They do not host any of the video files.
FreeTVonline.com is a young startup with a passion for creating a thriving internet video community. They are currently in public beta, and they plan to release many new and exciting site features in the near future.
How It Works;
Their goal is to provide users with a highly interactive and engaging video finding and viewing experience. They believe that the emerging worldwide interest in online video and web 2.0 communities, coupled with the changing nature of traditional video and TV viewing habits, requires fresh ideas. They hope to be part of an industry solution that respects content creators while providing a fun, interactive online platform for users to experience video content.All the videos are hosted by third party video hosting websites (ie YouTube). You may need to download and install the appropriate video player (see below). Otherwise, some video hosting websites take a long time to load videos. Please be patient. If the video hasn't started loading after 1 minute, then the video has most likely been removed from the host website, and you can report it as a dead link (must be logged in to the members area).
FreeTVonline.com is wholly owned and operated by FreeTVonline.com Inc, a registered corporation in the Republic of Panama. They are a small company, currently funded by individual investors.
More at:http://www.freetvonline.com/
Find your CD or DVD cover fast with this searchengine
Find your CD or DVD cover fast with this searchengine. Searches through millions of covers instantly.
Type the name of a CD/DVD or artist in the searchfield and Albumart.org will find lots of high quality CD and DVD covers within seconds!
More at:http://albumart.org/
Type the name of a CD/DVD or artist in the searchfield and Albumart.org will find lots of high quality CD and DVD covers within seconds!
More at:http://albumart.org/
Martinair-- Mobile Travel Guide Talk In Your Language
What Company is Offering:
Martinair's mobile travel guides combine several elements to create a helpful tool for their holiday-bound customers. The Dutch charter company is the first airline to offer its passengers a travel guide they can install on their web-enabled mobile phones.
How it Works:
Customers can buy a destination guide for EUR 6.50, and they're free for anyone booking in December. A link is sent to the user's phone by text message, and they can download the entire guide—approximately 400 KB—within minutes. Since all of the information is copied to their phone's memory, travellers are able to avoid expensive roaming charges when they want to look up a local hotspot.
The travel guides are based on content provided by Leads2Travel's travel editors and include local tips from Martinair crew members. Current destinations on offer are Curaçao, Miami and Havana, with two dozen other cities to follow over the next few months. While Dutch people won't have much trouble getting by on the primarily Dutch speaking island of Curaçao, the guides for Miami and Havana offer an extra tool—a talking vocabulary. This service, built by Steape and accessible from within the travel guide, offers a host of useful phrases shown in Dutch and English or Spanish. Users who have trouble communicating with the locals can let their phones do the talking. Click on a button, and a friendly voice speaks the selected phrase.
On the mobile front, British travel business lastminute.com offers a Talking Translator—a free service that provides text and audio translations of holiday phrases from English into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and German.
Still—we like Martinair's integrated approach, bundling tailor-made travel information with a talking translator, and offering it to customers when they book their tickets. Other airlines to follow?
More at: www.martinair.com
Martinair's mobile travel guides combine several elements to create a helpful tool for their holiday-bound customers. The Dutch charter company is the first airline to offer its passengers a travel guide they can install on their web-enabled mobile phones.
How it Works:
Customers can buy a destination guide for EUR 6.50, and they're free for anyone booking in December. A link is sent to the user's phone by text message, and they can download the entire guide—approximately 400 KB—within minutes. Since all of the information is copied to their phone's memory, travellers are able to avoid expensive roaming charges when they want to look up a local hotspot.
The travel guides are based on content provided by Leads2Travel's travel editors and include local tips from Martinair crew members. Current destinations on offer are Curaçao, Miami and Havana, with two dozen other cities to follow over the next few months. While Dutch people won't have much trouble getting by on the primarily Dutch speaking island of Curaçao, the guides for Miami and Havana offer an extra tool—a talking vocabulary. This service, built by Steape and accessible from within the travel guide, offers a host of useful phrases shown in Dutch and English or Spanish. Users who have trouble communicating with the locals can let their phones do the talking. Click on a button, and a friendly voice speaks the selected phrase.
On the mobile front, British travel business lastminute.com offers a Talking Translator—a free service that provides text and audio translations of holiday phrases from English into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and German.
Still—we like Martinair's integrated approach, bundling tailor-made travel information with a talking translator, and offering it to customers when they book their tickets. Other airlines to follow?
More at: www.martinair.com
Satisfaction lets consumers participate in conversations about customer service issues specific to particular companies or products
What Company Is Offering:
Satisfaction is people-powered customer service for absolutely everything. More specifically, though, it's a place where communities of customers come together to answer each others questions, share ideas with each other or with an organization, report and solve problems and generally talk about about what matters to them around these products or services.
When the organization or company is involved too it gives them a way to engage with their customers around the issues that matter to their customers most. Satisfaction provides a neutral playing ground where companies and customers can interact to everybody's benefit.
How It Works:
Satisfaction lets consumers participate in conversations about customer service issues specific to particular companies or products. A recent post in the Twitter section, for example, describes a problem one consumer had getting a Twitter application to update in Facebook. In the Timbuk2 section, another contributor asks for advice about laptop messenger bags. Participants in the conversations can include both customers and company employees (clearly labelled as such), and the posts ranked as most useful get propelled to the top of the list. Discussions are controlled by the community, free of impersonal contact forms or company censorship. Marketers who choose to join in, meanwhile, are freed from repetitive support tasks and able to engage their customers in a more collaborative way. The service is currently free for those on both sides of the equation.
Find the company that makes the product you want to talk about and click it.
Ask a question or start a topic in the Hey Satisfaction Unlimited! box above. If there's a similar topic already, you can join the conversation in progress. They'll notify you via email whenever people reply to the topic you posted.
More at:http://getsatisfaction.com/
Satisfaction is people-powered customer service for absolutely everything. More specifically, though, it's a place where communities of customers come together to answer each others questions, share ideas with each other or with an organization, report and solve problems and generally talk about about what matters to them around these products or services.
When the organization or company is involved too it gives them a way to engage with their customers around the issues that matter to their customers most. Satisfaction provides a neutral playing ground where companies and customers can interact to everybody's benefit.
How It Works:
Satisfaction lets consumers participate in conversations about customer service issues specific to particular companies or products. A recent post in the Twitter section, for example, describes a problem one consumer had getting a Twitter application to update in Facebook. In the Timbuk2 section, another contributor asks for advice about laptop messenger bags. Participants in the conversations can include both customers and company employees (clearly labelled as such), and the posts ranked as most useful get propelled to the top of the list. Discussions are controlled by the community, free of impersonal contact forms or company censorship. Marketers who choose to join in, meanwhile, are freed from repetitive support tasks and able to engage their customers in a more collaborative way. The service is currently free for those on both sides of the equation.
Find the company that makes the product you want to talk about and click it.
Ask a question or start a topic in the Hey Satisfaction Unlimited! box above. If there's a similar topic already, you can join the conversation in progress. They'll notify you via email whenever people reply to the topic you posted.
More at:http://getsatisfaction.com/
Cutcaster is the first dynamic marketplace - a creative exchange
What Company Is Offering:
Cutcaster is a marketplace where all forms of video, short films, stock footage, b-roll, motion graphics, animation, audio clips and photos can be securely bought, sold or requested from the Cutcaster community.
Cutcaster is the first dynamic marketplace - a creative exchange - that allows buyers and sellers to have an impact on licensing conditions, market pricing, and community sourcing for content like digital video, motion graphics, audio, and photos. Upload content and choose your own price or use the Cutcaster Algorithm to find the right price based on current market conditions.
How It Works:
Creators of video footage, photos, short films, stock footage, b-roll, motion graphics, animation, or audio clips can upload their work to the Cutcaster site and sell them at a price determined by them or by using the powerful Cutcaster Algorithm to determine the correct market price. All footage must be up to standard broadcast quality formats e.g. super 16mm, 16mm, DigiBeta, HD, HDV and even NTSC and PAL; trademarks, logos, brands and entities with trademarks/copyright should be removed. CutCaster pays 40% of the collected royalty payment to the producer for non-exclusive rights and 60% of the collected royalty for exclusive rights to sell your content. On the other hand, buyers can search for works via category and topic; they can also specify what kind of royalty/rights agreements they want.
More at:http://www.cutcaster.com/
Cutcaster is a marketplace where all forms of video, short films, stock footage, b-roll, motion graphics, animation, audio clips and photos can be securely bought, sold or requested from the Cutcaster community.
Cutcaster is the first dynamic marketplace - a creative exchange - that allows buyers and sellers to have an impact on licensing conditions, market pricing, and community sourcing for content like digital video, motion graphics, audio, and photos. Upload content and choose your own price or use the Cutcaster Algorithm to find the right price based on current market conditions.
How It Works:
Creators of video footage, photos, short films, stock footage, b-roll, motion graphics, animation, or audio clips can upload their work to the Cutcaster site and sell them at a price determined by them or by using the powerful Cutcaster Algorithm to determine the correct market price. All footage must be up to standard broadcast quality formats e.g. super 16mm, 16mm, DigiBeta, HD, HDV and even NTSC and PAL; trademarks, logos, brands and entities with trademarks/copyright should be removed. CutCaster pays 40% of the collected royalty payment to the producer for non-exclusive rights and 60% of the collected royalty for exclusive rights to sell your content. On the other hand, buyers can search for works via category and topic; they can also specify what kind of royalty/rights agreements they want.
More at:http://www.cutcaster.com/
I Love Rewards , a Web-based reward program provider, has completed a $3.3 million Series A financing
What Company Is Offering:
I Love Rewards is one of North America's leading incentive marketing companies. They develop, design and implement innovative incentive solutions for small and medium-sized companies as well as Fortune 1000 businesses. Their solutions focus on driving employee motivation, increasing customer loyalty, and rewarding valued behaviors.
How It Works:
I Love Rewards has developed an online points-based platform suitable for all business sizes.
Give points to your employees and empower them to choose the rewards they want. After all, that is what makes a great rewards program.
I Love Rewards' solutions are delivered via a web-based points engine that allows clients to achieve their unique business goals in a variety of ways. I Love Rewards' success is based on building both standard and customized programs to support our clients' business objectives. Users are able to redeem their points for brand name rewards from our industry-leading product catalog.With a solutions-driven approach and a focus on client service, I Love Rewards has demonstrated unprecedented success in helping other organizations improve their employee recognition and sales programs.
How Much They Got From VCs:
I Love Rewards Inc., a Web-based reward program provider, has completed a $3.3 million Series A financing round with JLA Ventures, Laurence Capital and other angel investors
More at:http://www.iloverewards.com/
I Love Rewards is one of North America's leading incentive marketing companies. They develop, design and implement innovative incentive solutions for small and medium-sized companies as well as Fortune 1000 businesses. Their solutions focus on driving employee motivation, increasing customer loyalty, and rewarding valued behaviors.
How It Works:
I Love Rewards has developed an online points-based platform suitable for all business sizes.
Give points to your employees and empower them to choose the rewards they want. After all, that is what makes a great rewards program.
I Love Rewards' solutions are delivered via a web-based points engine that allows clients to achieve their unique business goals in a variety of ways. I Love Rewards' success is based on building both standard and customized programs to support our clients' business objectives. Users are able to redeem their points for brand name rewards from our industry-leading product catalog.With a solutions-driven approach and a focus on client service, I Love Rewards has demonstrated unprecedented success in helping other organizations improve their employee recognition and sales programs.
How Much They Got From VCs:
I Love Rewards Inc., a Web-based reward program provider, has completed a $3.3 million Series A financing round with JLA Ventures, Laurence Capital and other angel investors
More at:http://www.iloverewards.com/
Snooth , a wine review site, today announced $1 million in angel funding
What Company Is Offering:
Snooth is a revolutionary web-based social shopping experience that is simplifying how people select, interact with and purchase their favorite wines.
Snooth is the world's most comprehensive wine database, featuring millions of reviews and hundreds of thousands of wines. It offers both casual and aspiring wine drinkers personalized wine recommendations, ratings & reviews, as well as a wine information search tool that seamlessly connects users to the websites of top online merchants and wineries worldwide.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Snooth Inc., a wine review site, today announced $1 million in angel funding from the company's initial backers, as well as a new group of international investors. This is the company's second round, following an initial $300,000 raised in December 2006. The new funds will be used to scale the development team, integrate the current backlog of merchants that have already partnered with Snooth, and add new retailers worldwide.
How Is It Different:
Unlike sites that make recommendations strictly by selecting wines of similar price, region, or varietals as wines you have purchased in the past, Snooth strives to understand your personal taste in great detail so that it can recommend the wines that are best-suited to you. In order to understand your preferences, Snooth needs a sample of at least 5 wines that you like or dislike. Although 5 wines is the minimum, the more wines that you rate, the more accurate your recommendations will become.Snooth does not sell wine, however, you can buy wine that you find on Snooth's site through our merchant partners. Once you have found a wine you'd like to purchase, you can click on the "buy now" link which will redirect you to the site of Snooth's partners.
More at:http://www.snooth.com/
Snooth is a revolutionary web-based social shopping experience that is simplifying how people select, interact with and purchase their favorite wines.
Snooth is the world's most comprehensive wine database, featuring millions of reviews and hundreds of thousands of wines. It offers both casual and aspiring wine drinkers personalized wine recommendations, ratings & reviews, as well as a wine information search tool that seamlessly connects users to the websites of top online merchants and wineries worldwide.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Snooth Inc., a wine review site, today announced $1 million in angel funding from the company's initial backers, as well as a new group of international investors. This is the company's second round, following an initial $300,000 raised in December 2006. The new funds will be used to scale the development team, integrate the current backlog of merchants that have already partnered with Snooth, and add new retailers worldwide.
How Is It Different:
Unlike sites that make recommendations strictly by selecting wines of similar price, region, or varietals as wines you have purchased in the past, Snooth strives to understand your personal taste in great detail so that it can recommend the wines that are best-suited to you. In order to understand your preferences, Snooth needs a sample of at least 5 wines that you like or dislike. Although 5 wines is the minimum, the more wines that you rate, the more accurate your recommendations will become.Snooth does not sell wine, however, you can buy wine that you find on Snooth's site through our merchant partners. Once you have found a wine you'd like to purchase, you can click on the "buy now" link which will redirect you to the site of Snooth's partners.
More at:http://www.snooth.com/
By spending five minutes filling in some basic details about yourself, your pay and status, you can find out if you are entitled to any gov.benefits
What Company Is Offering:
Entitledto has unique experience in helping people find out about entitlements online. They have provided a free web-based calculator to help people work out their entitlement to benefits and tax credits. Their public calculator www.entitledto.co.uk currently performs over 1 million calculations a year.
Entitledto has been Sunday Times website of the week and was featured on BBC Radio 4's Moneybox programme and has also been mentioned many times on National Radio, TV and in the press.
How It Works:
By spending five minutes filling in some basic details about yourself, your pay and status, you can find out if you are entitled to any government benefits. The site, which is free and funded by the sales of software to local authorities and other organisations, will list all the tax credits and benefits you should be claiming. Well worth a look considering the amount going unclaimed.
Their products include:
E2Adviser Web based benefit calculator designed for use by benefit advisers. It provides sophisticated 'what if' calculations and case management functions.
E2Mobile Smartphone based add-on to the E2Adviser product for mobile workers and home visitors.
E2Calc A benefits calculator designed for local authorities and other organisations which can seamless integrate into their own websites.
E2Claim A complete claims solution allowing a Claim Form to be generated as a PDF or electronically transfered to an organisations back office systems.
More at:http://www.entitledto.co.uk/
Entitledto has unique experience in helping people find out about entitlements online. They have provided a free web-based calculator to help people work out their entitlement to benefits and tax credits. Their public calculator www.entitledto.co.uk currently performs over 1 million calculations a year.
Entitledto has been Sunday Times website of the week and was featured on BBC Radio 4's Moneybox programme and has also been mentioned many times on National Radio, TV and in the press.
How It Works:
By spending five minutes filling in some basic details about yourself, your pay and status, you can find out if you are entitled to any government benefits. The site, which is free and funded by the sales of software to local authorities and other organisations, will list all the tax credits and benefits you should be claiming. Well worth a look considering the amount going unclaimed.
Their products include:
E2Adviser Web based benefit calculator designed for use by benefit advisers. It provides sophisticated 'what if' calculations and case management functions.
E2Mobile Smartphone based add-on to the E2Adviser product for mobile workers and home visitors.
E2Calc A benefits calculator designed for local authorities and other organisations which can seamless integrate into their own websites.
E2Claim A complete claims solution allowing a Claim Form to be generated as a PDF or electronically transfered to an organisations back office systems.
More at:http://www.entitledto.co.uk/
Search And Compare Shopping Sites
What Company Is Offering:
Their goal is to make shopping easier starting from product research to price comparison to coupon search and helping making final purchase. Their goal is to give you a shortcut to online retailers, you get information direct and realtime, unlike delayed or scraped information you get from shopping NextTag, Shopping.com and shopping engines.
How It Works:
You can compare shopping sites.Its for your complete shopping soultions from product research ,price comparison to coupan search and at last helping final purchase.
More at:http://shoppingvale.com/
Their goal is to make shopping easier starting from product research to price comparison to coupon search and helping making final purchase. Their goal is to give you a shortcut to online retailers, you get information direct and realtime, unlike delayed or scraped information you get from shopping NextTag, Shopping.com and shopping engines.
How It Works:
You can compare shopping sites.Its for your complete shopping soultions from product research ,price comparison to coupan search and at last helping final purchase.
More at:http://shoppingvale.com/
Pulse is a web-based cash flow management tool that allows you to easily monitor the heartbeat of your small business
What Company Is Offering:
Pulse is a web-based cash flow management tool that allows you to easily monitor the heartbeat of your small business - your cash. Say goodbye to unmanageable spreadsheets, and hello to an intuitive interface with the power to quickly manage and evaluate your income and expenses. Pulse makes tracking the health of your business simple, accurate and efficient.
How It Works:
Pulse lets you categorize your income and expenses, your cash flow has never been so organized. Quickly pull in all your companies and projects from the popular project management web software Basecamp and Pulse will automatically organize your projects based upon company.The main cash flow page lets you view your income and expenses over an 8 month time period. Scroll through past and future months with just a click of a button.From the "Add income" page instead of entering a title, click on the "Select a project" link. The drop-down box that appears will list out all of your projects organized by company. If you want to delete ,Click on the "Edit" link next to an item on the main Cash Flow page. On the edit page you will find a delete link in the top right hand corner.Pulse is 100% free. There is a good chance that a paid subscription plan (including more features) will become available in the future. However, a base set of features will always be provided for free.
More at:http://pulseapp.com/
Pulse is a web-based cash flow management tool that allows you to easily monitor the heartbeat of your small business - your cash. Say goodbye to unmanageable spreadsheets, and hello to an intuitive interface with the power to quickly manage and evaluate your income and expenses. Pulse makes tracking the health of your business simple, accurate and efficient.
How It Works:
Pulse lets you categorize your income and expenses, your cash flow has never been so organized. Quickly pull in all your companies and projects from the popular project management web software Basecamp and Pulse will automatically organize your projects based upon company.The main cash flow page lets you view your income and expenses over an 8 month time period. Scroll through past and future months with just a click of a button.From the "Add income" page instead of entering a title, click on the "Select a project" link. The drop-down box that appears will list out all of your projects organized by company. If you want to delete ,Click on the "Edit" link next to an item on the main Cash Flow page. On the edit page you will find a delete link in the top right hand corner.Pulse is 100% free. There is a good chance that a paid subscription plan (including more features) will become available in the future. However, a base set of features will always be provided for free.
More at:http://pulseapp.com/
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Give or Take is an online shopping centre where you earn cashback on your purchases
What Company Is Offering:
Give or Take is an online shopping centre where you earn cashback on your purchases at over 500 stores listed on the site which you can either donate to your chosen charity or keep for yourself.
Give or Take is an extensive online shopping centre that brings together over 500 leading online stores, including familiar high street names such as John Lewis, Marks and Spencer, WHSmith, Waterstones and Currys, and 60 charity partners, including Shelter, Samaritans and RNID.
Give or Take’s aim is to make it effortlessly simple for people to save masses of money on their shopping bills, or raise oodles of cash for charity for free.
How It Works:
Sign up for an account.Type your email address and name in the sign up box above.Go Shopping.Click on the 'Stores' page and choose a store you'd like to look at.
Purchase Tracking
A notice will appear to tell you that your purchases are being tracked (this is so we can track and put all the cashback you earn into your account). You will then be transferred to the store's Home Page.
Shop in the usual way
Look at products and services you're interested in, and check out your purchases as usual on the store's checkout area.
Each store displays the amount of cashback you will receive as a member. This can be either a lump sum amount, or a percentage of the purchase price. This is the same fee the store will pay us, and we've chosen to GIVE BACK 100% of this fee to YOU or your chosen charity.
The only thing you have to do is SIGN UP NOW so that we can track your cashback, then you're free to START SHOPPING.Every time you make a purchase, Give or Take earns a referral fee from the store you buy through. We create ‘cashback’ by passing the fee we earn from the store back to the member who made the purchase.
More at:http://www.giveortake.com/
Give or Take is an online shopping centre where you earn cashback on your purchases at over 500 stores listed on the site which you can either donate to your chosen charity or keep for yourself.
Give or Take is an extensive online shopping centre that brings together over 500 leading online stores, including familiar high street names such as John Lewis, Marks and Spencer, WHSmith, Waterstones and Currys, and 60 charity partners, including Shelter, Samaritans and RNID.
Give or Take’s aim is to make it effortlessly simple for people to save masses of money on their shopping bills, or raise oodles of cash for charity for free.
How It Works:
Sign up for an account.Type your email address and name in the sign up box above.Go Shopping.Click on the 'Stores' page and choose a store you'd like to look at.
Purchase Tracking
A notice will appear to tell you that your purchases are being tracked (this is so we can track and put all the cashback you earn into your account). You will then be transferred to the store's Home Page.
Shop in the usual way
Look at products and services you're interested in, and check out your purchases as usual on the store's checkout area.
Each store displays the amount of cashback you will receive as a member. This can be either a lump sum amount, or a percentage of the purchase price. This is the same fee the store will pay us, and we've chosen to GIVE BACK 100% of this fee to YOU or your chosen charity.
The only thing you have to do is SIGN UP NOW so that we can track your cashback, then you're free to START SHOPPING.Every time you make a purchase, Give or Take earns a referral fee from the store you buy through. We create ‘cashback’ by passing the fee we earn from the store back to the member who made the purchase.
More at:http://www.giveortake.com/
Livescreen's original content discovery service displays dynamic, fresh and engaging content teasers on Idle screens
What Company Is Offering:
Celltick, pioneer of Active Content Marketing, has introduced a new mass reach medium into the mobile space. Its flagship product, LiveScreen Media, allows content providers and advertisers to broadcast targeted content messages to millions of mobile phone idle screens, turning them into a network of interactive personal billboards and creating a strong revenue stream for operators. Celltick Races Ahead in Deloitte Technology Fast 500 - Ranked 2nd Place.
How It Works:
With LiveScreen™ Media, Celltick took the service a step further. It now collects not only content but also marketing messages from multiple sources and matches them to dynamic user segments.
While the mobile industry braces itself for the day mobile marketing establishes its place in the digital marketing mix, advertisers are already paying real money to use LiveScreen Media. Leading operators around the world have adopted Celltick's vision and created a new medium for content and advertising.
Celltick cooperates with mobile operators to turn their mobile screen medium into a powerful revenue driver.
Livescreen's original content discovery service displays dynamic, fresh and engaging content teasers on Idle screens - that is when - and only when - they are not in use. News headlines, sport reports, weather updates, music stories, gossip or games entice users to react - and when they do, they are just two clicks from requested content.
Celltick systems are already deployed by more than 20 mobile operators. The company has close relations with all network infrastructure companies, all major SIM vendors and the leading handset manufacturers.
More at:http://www.celltick.com/
Celltick, pioneer of Active Content Marketing, has introduced a new mass reach medium into the mobile space. Its flagship product, LiveScreen Media, allows content providers and advertisers to broadcast targeted content messages to millions of mobile phone idle screens, turning them into a network of interactive personal billboards and creating a strong revenue stream for operators. Celltick Races Ahead in Deloitte Technology Fast 500 - Ranked 2nd Place.
How It Works:
With LiveScreen™ Media, Celltick took the service a step further. It now collects not only content but also marketing messages from multiple sources and matches them to dynamic user segments.
While the mobile industry braces itself for the day mobile marketing establishes its place in the digital marketing mix, advertisers are already paying real money to use LiveScreen Media. Leading operators around the world have adopted Celltick's vision and created a new medium for content and advertising.
Celltick cooperates with mobile operators to turn their mobile screen medium into a powerful revenue driver.
Livescreen's original content discovery service displays dynamic, fresh and engaging content teasers on Idle screens - that is when - and only when - they are not in use. News headlines, sport reports, weather updates, music stories, gossip or games entice users to react - and when they do, they are just two clicks from requested content.
Celltick systems are already deployed by more than 20 mobile operators. The company has close relations with all network infrastructure companies, all major SIM vendors and the leading handset manufacturers.
More at:http://www.celltick.com/
Laaik.it is a social news and bookmarking service that lets you decide which issues and stories are important and which are not
What Company Is Offering:
Laaik.it is a social news and bookmarking service that lets you decide which issues and stories are important (those you “laaik”) and which aren’t worth your time (those you “dislaaik”). As you and thousands of other users “laaik” and “dislaaik” stories, a community driven picture of the day’s (and week’s and month’s) news emerges.
How It Works:
You can either submit a link to a story or picture or video that you consider relevant or vote on an existing entry. You can also comment on stories and save interesting stuff to your personal bookmarks area.
More at:http://laaikit.24.com/
Laaik.it is a social news and bookmarking service that lets you decide which issues and stories are important (those you “laaik”) and which aren’t worth your time (those you “dislaaik”). As you and thousands of other users “laaik” and “dislaaik” stories, a community driven picture of the day’s (and week’s and month’s) news emerges.
How It Works:
You can either submit a link to a story or picture or video that you consider relevant or vote on an existing entry. You can also comment on stories and save interesting stuff to your personal bookmarks area.
More at:http://laaikit.24.com/
Submit your photos or video clips to ANN and get paid every time your content is used
What Company Is Offering:
Submit your photos or video clips to ANN and get paid every time your content is used.The Amateur News Network is different than any other video clip sharing communities. They sell your content to news & media outlets around the world for you. TV Stations are willing to pay for content such as: news worthy material, funny clips, bizarre clips, rescues, accidents, celebrities, storm footage and many other topics. Your videos or photos could be worth thousands. The next time you are an eyewitness to a news event; film it, send it to us and start making money.
Turn your hobby into cash with this exciting NEW program. For more information check out Frequently Asked Questions and Terms Of Use..
How It Works:
If you have personally filmed or took photos of something which you think is of interest to others, simply up-load up your video clips or images and we take care of the rest. Your content will then be offered to stations around the world and at the end of every month we will send you a check or a payment with pay Pal. Its that simple!ANN will take care of the whole sales process for you. They negotiate prices with media outlets, invoice for the materials and make sure you get paid. They are your agent and it is their job to negotiate for you. For their services they charge 40% of all revenues, the other 60% will be paid out directly to you.They do not own or buy your media (including without limitation text, video, photographs, graphics, images, music and sound that you have created) they are yours. They only act as an agent for you. Remember everyone that uses your material, whether Internet, TV, Newspapers or magazines has to pay royalties to you.
More at:http://amateurnewsnetwork.info/
Submit your photos or video clips to ANN and get paid every time your content is used.The Amateur News Network is different than any other video clip sharing communities. They sell your content to news & media outlets around the world for you. TV Stations are willing to pay for content such as: news worthy material, funny clips, bizarre clips, rescues, accidents, celebrities, storm footage and many other topics. Your videos or photos could be worth thousands. The next time you are an eyewitness to a news event; film it, send it to us and start making money.
Turn your hobby into cash with this exciting NEW program. For more information check out Frequently Asked Questions and Terms Of Use..
How It Works:
If you have personally filmed or took photos of something which you think is of interest to others, simply up-load up your video clips or images and we take care of the rest. Your content will then be offered to stations around the world and at the end of every month we will send you a check or a payment with pay Pal. Its that simple!ANN will take care of the whole sales process for you. They negotiate prices with media outlets, invoice for the materials and make sure you get paid. They are your agent and it is their job to negotiate for you. For their services they charge 40% of all revenues, the other 60% will be paid out directly to you.They do not own or buy your media (including without limitation text, video, photographs, graphics, images, music and sound that you have created) they are yours. They only act as an agent for you. Remember everyone that uses your material, whether Internet, TV, Newspapers or magazines has to pay royalties to you.
More at:http://amateurnewsnetwork.info/
mbuzzy is a place for consumers and content publishers alike to create new experiences
What Company Is Offering:
mbuzzy is a place for consumers and content publishers alike to create new experiences through pictures, videos, and sounds across both the mobile phone and the PC.
Whether for personalization of one's own phone, sharing with friends, or connecting with others in new and interesting ways, mbuzzy creates a seamless experience regardless of wireless carrier or mobile phone.
How It Works:
With mbuzzy you can use your own personal content to personalize your phone with Ringtones, Wallpaper, and Videos. Share your personal content with your friends and the mbuzzy community.Browse hundreds of thousands of shared pictures and videos from the mbuzzy community. Watch videos on your PC or your mobile phone.Connect with friends by sharing and recommending content, and seeing what your friends are sharing. Capture pictures and videos directly from your mobile phone to share with friends and the community, or keep private .While most mbuzzy services are completely free, some premium content-related services are offered as well. mbuzzy partners with many in the mobile entertainment industry to offer the best premium content catalog available.
More at:http://www.mbuzzy.com/
mbuzzy is a place for consumers and content publishers alike to create new experiences through pictures, videos, and sounds across both the mobile phone and the PC.
Whether for personalization of one's own phone, sharing with friends, or connecting with others in new and interesting ways, mbuzzy creates a seamless experience regardless of wireless carrier or mobile phone.
How It Works:
With mbuzzy you can use your own personal content to personalize your phone with Ringtones, Wallpaper, and Videos. Share your personal content with your friends and the mbuzzy community.Browse hundreds of thousands of shared pictures and videos from the mbuzzy community. Watch videos on your PC or your mobile phone.Connect with friends by sharing and recommending content, and seeing what your friends are sharing. Capture pictures and videos directly from your mobile phone to share with friends and the community, or keep private .While most mbuzzy services are completely free, some premium content-related services are offered as well. mbuzzy partners with many in the mobile entertainment industry to offer the best premium content catalog available.
More at:http://www.mbuzzy.com/
docstoc is a user generated community for sharing professional documents raised $750,000 in a Series A round of funding
What Company Is Offering:
docstoc is a user generated community for sharing professional documents.
Find a vast quantity of high quality legal, business, technology, educational, and creative documents for free. docstoc allows users to upload their documents for all the world to share.
In addition, users can store their documents in their own personal online folders for anytime, anywhere access.
How It Works:
Simply create a profile (only username and email required) and you can download any document on docstoc. Users can upload an unlimited amount of documents. Just make sure that they are valuable for the community and that you have the copyright to do so. Currently we are supporting the following file types: .doc, .pdf, .xls, .ppt, .ppt, .txt
How Much They Got From VCs:
They raised $750,000 in a Series A round of funding. This comes months after its angel funding which was for an undisclosed amount.
more at:http://tnr.tribes.cc/
docstoc is a user generated community for sharing professional documents.
Find a vast quantity of high quality legal, business, technology, educational, and creative documents for free. docstoc allows users to upload their documents for all the world to share.
In addition, users can store their documents in their own personal online folders for anytime, anywhere access.
How It Works:
Simply create a profile (only username and email required) and you can download any document on docstoc. Users can upload an unlimited amount of documents. Just make sure that they are valuable for the community and that you have the copyright to do so. Currently we are supporting the following file types: .doc, .pdf, .xls, .ppt, .ppt, .txt
How Much They Got From VCs:
They raised $750,000 in a Series A round of funding. This comes months after its angel funding which was for an undisclosed amount.
more at:http://tnr.tribes.cc/
Amobee--Mobile Advertising Company Got VCs Funding From Vodafone
What Company is Offering:
Amobee is the first company to deliver a unified, telco-grade system for funding mobile content and communications through advertising revenues.
Amobee Media Systems is, enabling all players in the mobile content and data value chain to generate new revenues from advertising. Its software solution supports digital ad delivery to all mobile content and communication types, including WAP and mobile web, mobile games, mobile video and mobile messaging. The company launched its first live consumer trial in March of 2006 and has now several commercial operator launches including Vodafone in Greece, Czech Republic and Spain.
How Much They Got From VCs Funding:
Amobee Media Systems, the world leader in mobile advertising solutions for mobile operators today announced that Vodafone has made a strategic minority investment in the company, joining Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners and Globespan in funding Amobee through its next stage of development.
What's Market Of That Kind Of Product:
Mobile advertising presents an unprecedented potential to increase reach for advertisers. According to Pyramid Research, by 2010, one billion new mobile subscribers will join the current base of 2.8 billion. Further, according to Informa, worldwide mobile advertising will rise to $11.35 billion in 2011.
What VCs Says:
Mobile internet is fast emerging as a mainstream information, entertainment and transaction source for people on the move. We see a tremendous opportunity for brands to target segments that traditional media reach less efficiently and help them run truly integrated communication campaigns.” says Frank Boulben, Vodafone’s Director of Strategic marketing & Communication Planning. “We’re working with Amobee in three markets to develop mobile advertising approaches that will deliver revenue for Vodafone whilst ensuring our customers enjoy a richer mobile experience, “
More at:http://www.amobee.com/
Amobee is the first company to deliver a unified, telco-grade system for funding mobile content and communications through advertising revenues.
Amobee Media Systems is, enabling all players in the mobile content and data value chain to generate new revenues from advertising. Its software solution supports digital ad delivery to all mobile content and communication types, including WAP and mobile web, mobile games, mobile video and mobile messaging. The company launched its first live consumer trial in March of 2006 and has now several commercial operator launches including Vodafone in Greece, Czech Republic and Spain.
How Much They Got From VCs Funding:
Amobee Media Systems, the world leader in mobile advertising solutions for mobile operators today announced that Vodafone has made a strategic minority investment in the company, joining Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners and Globespan in funding Amobee through its next stage of development.
What's Market Of That Kind Of Product:
Mobile advertising presents an unprecedented potential to increase reach for advertisers. According to Pyramid Research, by 2010, one billion new mobile subscribers will join the current base of 2.8 billion. Further, according to Informa, worldwide mobile advertising will rise to $11.35 billion in 2011.
What VCs Says:
Mobile internet is fast emerging as a mainstream information, entertainment and transaction source for people on the move. We see a tremendous opportunity for brands to target segments that traditional media reach less efficiently and help them run truly integrated communication campaigns.” says Frank Boulben, Vodafone’s Director of Strategic marketing & Communication Planning. “We’re working with Amobee in three markets to develop mobile advertising approaches that will deliver revenue for Vodafone whilst ensuring our customers enjoy a richer mobile experience, “
More at:http://www.amobee.com/
Entrepreneur Challenge Launches, Web 2.0 Company to Help Start-Ups Gain Funding
What Company Is Offering:
spigit is a platform that provides professionals the ability to showcase new ideas and innovations and in the process build their professional network. Companies and Entrepreneurs can obtain feedback-contributions-ratings from employees, partners and customers. Through our proprietary simulation they can build and refine an idea, find the right resources to contribute, create buzz, and calculate a multitude of targeted metrics to provide insight into viability and simulate the likelihood of success.
The spigit simulation engine measures and quantifies interactions on social networks. The spigit simulation engine captures dynamic feedback from all participants, tracking hundreds of dynamic events and through a series of algorithms, computes results producing valuable predictions and identifies key social connections to maximize professional and economic gains.
The Entrepreneur Challenge invites entrepreneurs to showcase their start- ups on the website, develop ideas, business plans and leadership teams, and connect with industry leaders and investors worldwide utilizing the spigit platform. Some 1,000 companies registered for the competition and 130 have been chosen at this point to participate on spigit's platform for innovation, which incorporates a market-tested, seven-step process where entrepreneurs build their reputation based on the quality of their ideas and contributions to the ideas of others, earn badges and expert approval, and finally, launch their company on a virtual stock market.
How It Works:
The top six startups will be awarded prizes by industry leaders to help make their dream a reality: Keiretsu Forum SoCal, one of the nation's leading angel investment communities and premier sponsor, will offer the opportunity to present live in front of the forum; Sun Microsystems will supply hardware; Southwest Airlines will provide nationwide air travel; and Mashable, the popular social networking news site, will publish live, on-going coverage of the event and its winners.
The Innovation Challenge for Entrepreneurs is now live at: http://innovation.spigit.com/
"spigit's Entrepreneur Challenge is the first online platform competition that will truly give an insider's view on the funding process. The capabilities of outsiders, insiders and experts to engage in discussion and push one company ahead of another is the true meaning of Web 2.0 technology at work. The opportunity for the participants is not only measurable by their success throughout the competition, but the buzz that is generated from the platform," said Adam Hirsch, Mashable Community & Marketing Director.
More at:http://innovation.spigit.com/
spigit is a platform that provides professionals the ability to showcase new ideas and innovations and in the process build their professional network. Companies and Entrepreneurs can obtain feedback-contributions-ratings from employees, partners and customers. Through our proprietary simulation they can build and refine an idea, find the right resources to contribute, create buzz, and calculate a multitude of targeted metrics to provide insight into viability and simulate the likelihood of success.
The spigit simulation engine measures and quantifies interactions on social networks. The spigit simulation engine captures dynamic feedback from all participants, tracking hundreds of dynamic events and through a series of algorithms, computes results producing valuable predictions and identifies key social connections to maximize professional and economic gains.
The Entrepreneur Challenge invites entrepreneurs to showcase their start- ups on the website, develop ideas, business plans and leadership teams, and connect with industry leaders and investors worldwide utilizing the spigit platform. Some 1,000 companies registered for the competition and 130 have been chosen at this point to participate on spigit's platform for innovation, which incorporates a market-tested, seven-step process where entrepreneurs build their reputation based on the quality of their ideas and contributions to the ideas of others, earn badges and expert approval, and finally, launch their company on a virtual stock market.
How It Works:
The top six startups will be awarded prizes by industry leaders to help make their dream a reality: Keiretsu Forum SoCal, one of the nation's leading angel investment communities and premier sponsor, will offer the opportunity to present live in front of the forum; Sun Microsystems will supply hardware; Southwest Airlines will provide nationwide air travel; and Mashable, the popular social networking news site, will publish live, on-going coverage of the event and its winners.
The Innovation Challenge for Entrepreneurs is now live at: http://innovation.spigit.com/
"spigit's Entrepreneur Challenge is the first online platform competition that will truly give an insider's view on the funding process. The capabilities of outsiders, insiders and experts to engage in discussion and push one company ahead of another is the true meaning of Web 2.0 technology at work. The opportunity for the participants is not only measurable by their success throughout the competition, but the buzz that is generated from the platform," said Adam Hirsch, Mashable Community & Marketing Director.
More at:http://innovation.spigit.com/
Gilt Groupe, a provider of invite-only high-fashion "sample sales" to its members, has raised $5 million in VCs funding
What Company Is Offering:
Gilt Groupe is a private online community dedicated to providing its members with access to coveted fashion and luxury lifestyle brands at sample sale prices.
Gilt Groupe hand selects both established and up and coming brands relevant to our membership base.
How It works:
The 'sample sale', a New York phenomenon where consumers line up around the block on a single day to buy top designer items at steep discounts, is now available for the first time online and to shoppers nationally through Gilt Groupe.
Each Gilt Groupe Shopping Event is designer-specific and held over a one day period. The Gilt Groupe production team creates a short video reel to introduce each designer and brand to our membership.
There is no fee associated with joining Gilt Groupe, membership is by invitation only.
For each friend you invite, Gilt Groupe will credit your account with $25.00 after your referral's first purchase.
Working directly with the designer or brand, Gilt Groupe ensures the best product mix and often showcases top end designers who never discount their products or sell online. Membership is by referral, and there is no fee associated with joining Gilt Groupe. The existing membership base hails from all 50 states and since the Company's November launch multiple thousands of members join daily.
How Much They Got From VCs Funding:
Gilt Groupe (www.gilt.com), which brings invitation only 'sample sales' to its national membership, announced that it has secured $5.0 million in financing from top venture capital firm Matrix Partners..
more at:http://www.gilt.com/
Gilt Groupe is a private online community dedicated to providing its members with access to coveted fashion and luxury lifestyle brands at sample sale prices.
Gilt Groupe hand selects both established and up and coming brands relevant to our membership base.
How It works:
The 'sample sale', a New York phenomenon where consumers line up around the block on a single day to buy top designer items at steep discounts, is now available for the first time online and to shoppers nationally through Gilt Groupe.
Each Gilt Groupe Shopping Event is designer-specific and held over a one day period. The Gilt Groupe production team creates a short video reel to introduce each designer and brand to our membership.
There is no fee associated with joining Gilt Groupe, membership is by invitation only.
For each friend you invite, Gilt Groupe will credit your account with $25.00 after your referral's first purchase.
Working directly with the designer or brand, Gilt Groupe ensures the best product mix and often showcases top end designers who never discount their products or sell online. Membership is by referral, and there is no fee associated with joining Gilt Groupe. The existing membership base hails from all 50 states and since the Company's November launch multiple thousands of members join daily.
How Much They Got From VCs Funding:
Gilt Groupe (www.gilt.com), which brings invitation only 'sample sales' to its national membership, announced that it has secured $5.0 million in financing from top venture capital firm Matrix Partners..
more at:http://www.gilt.com/
iotum, a pioneer and leader in voice services for social networks Got VCs Funding
What Company Is Offering:
iotum is a company which empowers conversations by connecting people where, when and how they choose. iotum’s software platform immediately makes people more productive, accessible and in control of their communications.
In other words, iotum is a Voice 2.0 company setting out to shape a world of relevant communications where devices, social networks and web services work seamlessly together to let people communicate with whom they want, when they want and on the device they want. Iotum has been awarded the prestigious CATA Alliance Innovation Award for Emerging Technology Achievement as the best emerging technology company of the year in Canada; was named a DEMOgod at DEMO2006, and was named to the Branham 25 Emerging Companies in Canada as well as to Business 2.0's Next Net 25. iotum and its innovative products, including the iotum Relevance Engine, iotum Talk-Now for Blackberry, and most recently iotum Free Conference Calls for Facebook, have garnered accolades from industry and users alike.
How Much They Got From VCs:
iotum, a pioneer and leader in voice services for social networks, announced today that it has received new investment funding from boutique investment and management consulting firm VERDEXUS. Financial details were not disclosed.
Who Is Backing Them:
VERDEXUS General Partner Randall Howard has joined iotum's Board of Directors and has been appointed Chairman of the Board.Howard, a founding partner of VERDEXUS, brings a global network of senior-level business contacts based on his deep executive experience in international technology markets. As founder, Chairman and CEO of MKS Inc. (www.mks.com) (TSX: MKX), one of Canada's leading enterprise software vendors, he led growth to more than $40 million revenue annually and 350 employees worldwide, including seven acquisitions. From May 2004 to April 2006, Howard served as CEO of VERDEXUS' portfolio company, Software Innovation (www.softinn.com).
Howard's extensive board and advisor experience has included Necho Systems Corp, GoodContacts, Whitehill Technologies, Waterloo Maple Software, Arise Technologies and Nanodesign.
About VCs:
VERDEXUS (www.verdexus.com) is an international, strategic management and financial boutique dedicated to turning great technologies into globally competitive companies. We leverage our extensive management know how, finance partners and international networks to build technology ventures faster and further. Founded in 2001 by international technology entrepreneurs who have founded and built global technology companies, VERDEXUS uses a hands-on investment model that provides seasoned operational executives who turn strategy into execution and build new levels of strategic market value for technology companies.
More at:http://www.iotum.com/
iotum is a company which empowers conversations by connecting people where, when and how they choose. iotum’s software platform immediately makes people more productive, accessible and in control of their communications.
In other words, iotum is a Voice 2.0 company setting out to shape a world of relevant communications where devices, social networks and web services work seamlessly together to let people communicate with whom they want, when they want and on the device they want. Iotum has been awarded the prestigious CATA Alliance Innovation Award for Emerging Technology Achievement as the best emerging technology company of the year in Canada; was named a DEMOgod at DEMO2006, and was named to the Branham 25 Emerging Companies in Canada as well as to Business 2.0's Next Net 25. iotum and its innovative products, including the iotum Relevance Engine, iotum Talk-Now for Blackberry, and most recently iotum Free Conference Calls for Facebook, have garnered accolades from industry and users alike.
How Much They Got From VCs:
iotum, a pioneer and leader in voice services for social networks, announced today that it has received new investment funding from boutique investment and management consulting firm VERDEXUS. Financial details were not disclosed.
Who Is Backing Them:
VERDEXUS General Partner Randall Howard has joined iotum's Board of Directors and has been appointed Chairman of the Board.Howard, a founding partner of VERDEXUS, brings a global network of senior-level business contacts based on his deep executive experience in international technology markets. As founder, Chairman and CEO of MKS Inc. (www.mks.com) (TSX: MKX), one of Canada's leading enterprise software vendors, he led growth to more than $40 million revenue annually and 350 employees worldwide, including seven acquisitions. From May 2004 to April 2006, Howard served as CEO of VERDEXUS' portfolio company, Software Innovation (www.softinn.com).
Howard's extensive board and advisor experience has included Necho Systems Corp, GoodContacts, Whitehill Technologies, Waterloo Maple Software, Arise Technologies and Nanodesign.
About VCs:
VERDEXUS (www.verdexus.com) is an international, strategic management and financial boutique dedicated to turning great technologies into globally competitive companies. We leverage our extensive management know how, finance partners and international networks to build technology ventures faster and further. Founded in 2001 by international technology entrepreneurs who have founded and built global technology companies, VERDEXUS uses a hands-on investment model that provides seasoned operational executives who turn strategy into execution and build new levels of strategic market value for technology companies.
More at:http://www.iotum.com/
Spotzer ,the world's first provider of affordable multi-media video advertising campaigns got Euro 10 million in financing
What Company Is Offering:
Spotzer is the first global advertising agency dedicated to making high quality video advertising fast, affordable and highly targeted.
They offer an online library of creative, ready-to-air commercials produced by industry-leading professionals from around the world.
Spotzer offers local businesses turn-key, multi-media, video advertising campaigns at remarkably low costs. Clients can use advanced search and mapping tools to configure and purchase highly targeted campaigns across television, Web and out-of-home TV networks. Clients also have access to an online library of high-quality, "ready-to-air" video commercials that can be personalized with their unique logos, photos, slogans and other branding materials.
How It Works:
They help you plan and buy spots across multiple advertising media, including television, the web, and narrow cast networks (location specific, out-of-home networks). They use the latest technologies for targeting advertising to limited geographic areas and well defined demographic audiences. This helps you better target your customers and brings efficiency and cost-effectiveness to your video advertising.
Best of all, Spotzer manages your campaign from beginning to end freeing you to focus your time and energy on growing your business.
How Much They Got From VCs Funding:
Spotzer Media Group, BV, the world's first provider of affordable multi-media video advertising campaigns, today announced the closing of Euro 10 million in financing led by Sierra Ventures of Menlo Park, Calif. European Directories, operator of leading yellow page publishers in nine countries, also invested.
What's The Purpose Of Raising Funds:
Spotzer will primarily use the new capital to extend its innovative rich media advertising services into the U.S. market. The company has recently opened offices in New York and California and now plans aggressive build-out of its sales and client services capabilities. Strategic partnerships with a number of major U.S. television, Web and out-of-home TV networks are also under development. The expansion is timed to fully leverage the company's new online advertising platform (www.spotzer.com), which was recently opened to clients globally.
About VCs:
1.Sierra Ventures, founded in 1982, is a privately held venture capital firm focused on investments across all areas of the information technology sector from semiconductors to enterprise software. Sierra Ventures has managed nine venture capital partnerships and currently has more than $1.5 billion of capital under management. Some of the firm's investments include 360Commerce (acquired by Oracle), Active Software (acquired by WebMethods), AmeriGroup (AGP), Authentec (AUTH), Centex (acquired by WorldCom), ConvergeNet (acquired by Dell), FatBrain (acquired by Barnes & Noble), Frontbridge (acquired by Microsoft), Healtheon (merged with WebMD), Interact Commerce (acquired by Sage), Intuit (INTU), Micromuse (acquired by IBM), OnAssignment (ASGN), OnLink (acquired by Siebel), Quinta (acquired by Seagate), StrataCom (acquired by Cisco), Sourcefire (FIRE), Sychip (acquired by Murata Manufacturing) and Teradata (acquired by NCR). More information is available at http://www.sierraventures.com.
2.European Directories (www.europeandirectories.com) is a pan-European directory services group, operating in printed directories, online and mobile searches and directory assistance. It holds the leading market position in the Netherlands, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Czech Republic and Slovakia and has a strong presence in Sweden, Poland and Gibraltar. The company has approximately 4,500 employees and services over 750,000 advertisers with long established brands including De Telefoongids, Herold, De Gule Sider, Fonecta and Zlat鼯SPAN> StrἯSPAN>nky.
More at:http://www.spotzer.com/
Spotzer is the first global advertising agency dedicated to making high quality video advertising fast, affordable and highly targeted.
They offer an online library of creative, ready-to-air commercials produced by industry-leading professionals from around the world.
Spotzer offers local businesses turn-key, multi-media, video advertising campaigns at remarkably low costs. Clients can use advanced search and mapping tools to configure and purchase highly targeted campaigns across television, Web and out-of-home TV networks. Clients also have access to an online library of high-quality, "ready-to-air" video commercials that can be personalized with their unique logos, photos, slogans and other branding materials.
How It Works:
They help you plan and buy spots across multiple advertising media, including television, the web, and narrow cast networks (location specific, out-of-home networks). They use the latest technologies for targeting advertising to limited geographic areas and well defined demographic audiences. This helps you better target your customers and brings efficiency and cost-effectiveness to your video advertising.
Best of all, Spotzer manages your campaign from beginning to end freeing you to focus your time and energy on growing your business.
How Much They Got From VCs Funding:
Spotzer Media Group, BV, the world's first provider of affordable multi-media video advertising campaigns, today announced the closing of Euro 10 million in financing led by Sierra Ventures of Menlo Park, Calif. European Directories, operator of leading yellow page publishers in nine countries, also invested.
What's The Purpose Of Raising Funds:
Spotzer will primarily use the new capital to extend its innovative rich media advertising services into the U.S. market. The company has recently opened offices in New York and California and now plans aggressive build-out of its sales and client services capabilities. Strategic partnerships with a number of major U.S. television, Web and out-of-home TV networks are also under development. The expansion is timed to fully leverage the company's new online advertising platform (www.spotzer.com), which was recently opened to clients globally.
About VCs:
1.Sierra Ventures, founded in 1982, is a privately held venture capital firm focused on investments across all areas of the information technology sector from semiconductors to enterprise software. Sierra Ventures has managed nine venture capital partnerships and currently has more than $1.5 billion of capital under management. Some of the firm's investments include 360Commerce (acquired by Oracle), Active Software (acquired by WebMethods), AmeriGroup (AGP), Authentec (AUTH), Centex (acquired by WorldCom), ConvergeNet (acquired by Dell), FatBrain (acquired by Barnes & Noble), Frontbridge (acquired by Microsoft), Healtheon (merged with WebMD), Interact Commerce (acquired by Sage), Intuit (INTU), Micromuse (acquired by IBM), OnAssignment (ASGN), OnLink (acquired by Siebel), Quinta (acquired by Seagate), StrataCom (acquired by Cisco), Sourcefire (FIRE), Sychip (acquired by Murata Manufacturing) and Teradata (acquired by NCR). More information is available at http://www.sierraventures.com.
2.European Directories (www.europeandirectories.com) is a pan-European directory services group, operating in printed directories, online and mobile searches and directory assistance. It holds the leading market position in the Netherlands, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Czech Republic and Slovakia and has a strong presence in Sweden, Poland and Gibraltar. The company has approximately 4,500 employees and services over 750,000 advertisers with long established brands including De Telefoongids, Herold, De Gule Sider, Fonecta and Zlat鼯SPAN> StrἯSPAN>nky.
More at:http://www.spotzer.com/
Small Cap Directory ---Investment Made Easy
What Company Is Offering:
Small Cap Directory manages a rich database of over 18,000 publicly-traded companies with market caps under $2 billion, making it the most comprehensive research tool of its kind. Its ground-breaking niche technology meets the research needs of small cap investors and the investor awareness needs of small cap companies. Merging the best elements of search engines with the ease-of-use of directory listings, Small Cap Directory’s innovative approach to stock research dramatically improves the relevance & manageability of small cap searches.
How It Works:
Small Cap Directory help self-directed investors find companies more efficiently than ever before—allowing searches by name, symbol, keyword, industry, market cap, exchange & even location—it also leverages the exciting potential of collaborative social technologies to track popular searches by other investors, expanding search horizons and leading site users to interesting, if unexpected, discoveries.
As a self-directed investor using Small Cap Directory, you won’t get 8,678,431 results for your search term—an all-too-familiar & frustrating deficiency that plagues traditional search engines. You will get a concise list of publicly-traded small caps that match your search criteria. And from this manageable and relevant list, you will have one-click access to important company profile information, including corporate & IR contacts, as well as financials, SEC filings & news. For companies with premium listings in our directory, you will also get (where available) a calendar of events, investor kits, other supporting investor documentation, audio & video podcasts, webcasts, etc.
More at:http://www.smallcapdirectory.com/
Small Cap Directory manages a rich database of over 18,000 publicly-traded companies with market caps under $2 billion, making it the most comprehensive research tool of its kind. Its ground-breaking niche technology meets the research needs of small cap investors and the investor awareness needs of small cap companies. Merging the best elements of search engines with the ease-of-use of directory listings, Small Cap Directory’s innovative approach to stock research dramatically improves the relevance & manageability of small cap searches.
How It Works:
Small Cap Directory help self-directed investors find companies more efficiently than ever before—allowing searches by name, symbol, keyword, industry, market cap, exchange & even location—it also leverages the exciting potential of collaborative social technologies to track popular searches by other investors, expanding search horizons and leading site users to interesting, if unexpected, discoveries.
As a self-directed investor using Small Cap Directory, you won’t get 8,678,431 results for your search term—an all-too-familiar & frustrating deficiency that plagues traditional search engines. You will get a concise list of publicly-traded small caps that match your search criteria. And from this manageable and relevant list, you will have one-click access to important company profile information, including corporate & IR contacts, as well as financials, SEC filings & news. For companies with premium listings in our directory, you will also get (where available) a calendar of events, investor kits, other supporting investor documentation, audio & video podcasts, webcasts, etc.
More at:http://www.smallcapdirectory.com/
ihound--- Your Device Tracker For Getting Your Digital Life Back
What Company Is Offering:
ihound™ is revolutionary software that helps protect your devices by alerting you when your USB digital device is connected to another individual's computer.
How It Works:
ihound™ Software will alert you via email as soon as someone else tries to connect your device to a computer.Once your device has been located, you can print a report for the authorities that contains your device's information as well as the location where your device has been tracked.You will know where your device is at all times via ihound™ Software's "Device Tracker". See your device's location on a map and "Get your digital life back". ihound™ Software works on most USB devices that you need to connect to your computer to update. i.e. MP3 players, Flash Cards, Jump Drives, Phones, iPods.
More at:http://www.ihoundsoftware.com/
ihound™ is revolutionary software that helps protect your devices by alerting you when your USB digital device is connected to another individual's computer.
How It Works:
ihound™ Software will alert you via email as soon as someone else tries to connect your device to a computer.Once your device has been located, you can print a report for the authorities that contains your device's information as well as the location where your device has been tracked.You will know where your device is at all times via ihound™ Software's "Device Tracker". See your device's location on a map and "Get your digital life back". ihound™ Software works on most USB devices that you need to connect to your computer to update. i.e. MP3 players, Flash Cards, Jump Drives, Phones, iPods.
More at:http://www.ihoundsoftware.com/
Product Clash offers products at low prices
What Company Is Offering:
Product Clash offers products at low prices. Comparison shopping has never been such good value for products. Now you can clash and compare your best consumer products for low price offers. Product Clash features cheap cameras, cheap cell phones, cheap computers, cool gadgets, cheap home entertainment, cheap peripherals and portable media comparison clashes! Clashing is fun for movies, music, games and DVDs.
How It Works:
A purchasing decision is based on three main criteria: The influential power of other people, the emotional connection to the brand or product category, and the underlying rational need for a product or a service. ProductClash addresses the first two of these dimensions, by adding social prioritization to the information overload on the internet. People can vote between cell phones, computers, cameras, gadgets, and more. Meanwhile, you can see all the specifications of each product so you can compare. If you have your own clash, you can submit it for others to vote on them.
More at:http://www.productclash.com/
Product Clash offers products at low prices. Comparison shopping has never been such good value for products. Now you can clash and compare your best consumer products for low price offers. Product Clash features cheap cameras, cheap cell phones, cheap computers, cool gadgets, cheap home entertainment, cheap peripherals and portable media comparison clashes! Clashing is fun for movies, music, games and DVDs.
How It Works:
A purchasing decision is based on three main criteria: The influential power of other people, the emotional connection to the brand or product category, and the underlying rational need for a product or a service. ProductClash addresses the first two of these dimensions, by adding social prioritization to the information overload on the internet. People can vote between cell phones, computers, cameras, gadgets, and more. Meanwhile, you can see all the specifications of each product so you can compare. If you have your own clash, you can submit it for others to vote on them.
More at:http://www.productclash.com/
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
NASDAQ Launched NASDAQ Internet Index(sm) (Nasdaq:QNET)
What Company Is Offering:
NASDAQ Internet Index(sm) (Nasdaq:QNET). The Index is a new benchmark designed to track the performance of companies engaged in a broad range of internet-related services including internet access providers, internet search engines, web hosting, website design, and internet retail commerce.
How It Works:
The NASDAQ Internet Index is comprised of securities of companies that are at the forefront of internet technology. They are leading innovators in providing faster internet access, creating more intuitive e-commerce experiences, and developing the second generation Web.The NASDAQ Internet Index contains some of the most exciting internet companies traded on NASDAQ and other U.S. exchanges," said NASDAQ Senior Vice President Steven Bloom. "Given the strength of NASDAQ's brand association with innovation and its market share of internet company listings, it is logical for NASDAQ to extend investment opportunities through a new benchmark for this dynamic, evolving sector."
NASDAQ Financial Products (NFP) is engaged in the design, development, calculation, licensing, and marketing of NASDAQ indexes. NFP specializes in the development of indexes focusing on NASDAQ's brand themes of innovation, technology, growth, and globalization. NFP also provides custom index services and design solutions as a third-party provider to selected financial organizations.
Given that the index contains some of the most exciting internet companies traded on NASDAQ this index is likley to become a great benchmark for the internet world.
More at: www.nasdaq.com/indexes.( Nasdaq:QNET)
NASDAQ Internet Index(sm) (Nasdaq:QNET). The Index is a new benchmark designed to track the performance of companies engaged in a broad range of internet-related services including internet access providers, internet search engines, web hosting, website design, and internet retail commerce.
How It Works:
The NASDAQ Internet Index is comprised of securities of companies that are at the forefront of internet technology. They are leading innovators in providing faster internet access, creating more intuitive e-commerce experiences, and developing the second generation Web.The NASDAQ Internet Index contains some of the most exciting internet companies traded on NASDAQ and other U.S. exchanges," said NASDAQ Senior Vice President Steven Bloom. "Given the strength of NASDAQ's brand association with innovation and its market share of internet company listings, it is logical for NASDAQ to extend investment opportunities through a new benchmark for this dynamic, evolving sector."
NASDAQ Financial Products (NFP) is engaged in the design, development, calculation, licensing, and marketing of NASDAQ indexes. NFP specializes in the development of indexes focusing on NASDAQ's brand themes of innovation, technology, growth, and globalization. NFP also provides custom index services and design solutions as a third-party provider to selected financial organizations.
Given that the index contains some of the most exciting internet companies traded on NASDAQ this index is likley to become a great benchmark for the internet world.
More at: www.nasdaq.com/indexes.( Nasdaq:QNET)
Mamma.com is a "smart" metasearch engine ---Mother Of All Search Engines
About Company:
Mamma.com is metasearch engine a site owned and operated by Copernic Inc. (formerly known as Mamma.com Inc.).
How It Works:
Mamma.com is a "smart" metasearch engine — every time you type in a query Mamma simultaneously searches a variety of engines, directories, and deep content sites, properly formats the words and syntax for each, compiles their results in a virtual database, eliminates duplicates, and displays them in a uniform manner according to relevance. It's like using multiple search engines, all at the same time.
How It Works:
What Is MetaSearch:
Every time you type in a query at a metasearch engine, they search a series of other search and content sites at the same time, compile their results, and display them either by source or by integrating them in a uniform manner, eliminating duplicates, and resorting them according to relevance. It's like using multiple search engines, all at the same time.
By using a metasearch engine, you get a snapshot of the top results from a variety of search engines (including a variety of types of search engines), providing you with a broad scope of information. Metasearch engines are tolerant of imprecise search terms or inexact use of operators, and tend to return fewer results, but with a greater degree of relevance. They're best used when you've got a general search, as metasearch engines return broad results. Instead of returning every possible result that contains your search term, metasearch will return the most trusted results on the Internet for your search. Metasearch engines also allow you to compare what kinds of results are available on different engine types (indexes, directories, pay-for-placement, etc), or to verify that you haven't missed a great resource provided by another site, other than your favourite search engine (acting as a backup). Overall, they're a great way to save time and find exactly what you're looking for.
More at:http://www.mamma.com/
Mamma.com is metasearch engine a site owned and operated by Copernic Inc. (formerly known as Mamma.com Inc.).
How It Works:
Mamma.com is a "smart" metasearch engine — every time you type in a query Mamma simultaneously searches a variety of engines, directories, and deep content sites, properly formats the words and syntax for each, compiles their results in a virtual database, eliminates duplicates, and displays them in a uniform manner according to relevance. It's like using multiple search engines, all at the same time.
How It Works:
What Is MetaSearch:
Every time you type in a query at a metasearch engine, they search a series of other search and content sites at the same time, compile their results, and display them either by source or by integrating them in a uniform manner, eliminating duplicates, and resorting them according to relevance. It's like using multiple search engines, all at the same time.
By using a metasearch engine, you get a snapshot of the top results from a variety of search engines (including a variety of types of search engines), providing you with a broad scope of information. Metasearch engines are tolerant of imprecise search terms or inexact use of operators, and tend to return fewer results, but with a greater degree of relevance. They're best used when you've got a general search, as metasearch engines return broad results. Instead of returning every possible result that contains your search term, metasearch will return the most trusted results on the Internet for your search. Metasearch engines also allow you to compare what kinds of results are available on different engine types (indexes, directories, pay-for-placement, etc), or to verify that you haven't missed a great resource provided by another site, other than your favourite search engine (acting as a backup). Overall, they're a great way to save time and find exactly what you're looking for.
More at:http://www.mamma.com/
RedZee 2.0---Website Search Instead Of Text
What Company is Offering:
A search engine with Web sites as the results instead of plain ordinary text, allowing you to sift through massive data quickly.
With RedZee 2.0 you have a choice of up to 100 results which you can zip through lightning fast! The Web sites are the results instead of plain ordinary text, allowing you to sift through massive data quickly. Search 2.0 will take your search deeper where the best results are.
How It Works:
Conventional search engines use text as the main focus of their results, only bringing back 10 results per page. Almost 85% of searchers settle on what they find on that first page, often leaving them unsuccessful in finding what they truly were looking for. Although the desired results are more than likely buried deep, most people do not have the time or the patience to read through page after page of text based listings. They end up settling on the results that seem the closest and most convenient.
More at:http://www.redzee.com/
A search engine with Web sites as the results instead of plain ordinary text, allowing you to sift through massive data quickly.
With RedZee 2.0 you have a choice of up to 100 results which you can zip through lightning fast! The Web sites are the results instead of plain ordinary text, allowing you to sift through massive data quickly. Search 2.0 will take your search deeper where the best results are.
How It Works:
Conventional search engines use text as the main focus of their results, only bringing back 10 results per page. Almost 85% of searchers settle on what they find on that first page, often leaving them unsuccessful in finding what they truly were looking for. Although the desired results are more than likely buried deep, most people do not have the time or the patience to read through page after page of text based listings. They end up settling on the results that seem the closest and most convenient.
More at:http://www.redzee.com/
SoftVoter is where people vote for the best PC software
What Company Is Offering:
SoftVoter is where people vote for the best PC software. All software is submitted and voted by their visitors. Rate, share and discover the best applications.
SoftVoter is a place where people discover and share software titles socially, the best of which are voted on to the top by their users.
How It Works:
First you have to create free account before posting your listing.
No "sponsored listings". No "promotion links". Forget about "regular" software archives. Only actual user feedback.
More at:http://www.softvoter.com/
SoftVoter is where people vote for the best PC software. All software is submitted and voted by their visitors. Rate, share and discover the best applications.
SoftVoter is a place where people discover and share software titles socially, the best of which are voted on to the top by their users.
How It Works:
First you have to create free account before posting your listing.
No "sponsored listings". No "promotion links". Forget about "regular" software archives. Only actual user feedback.
More at:http://www.softvoter.com/
AgentCasts creates stunning real estate video tours for your property listings
What Company is Offering:
AgentCasts creates stunning real estate video tours for your property listings, delivering you and your clients a serious advantage on the Web. Our range of real estate video services will help you save time and sell more efficiently, while truly igniting your real estate business and listings online.
How It Works:
Each video tour AgentCasts produces and distributes for you online will rise to the top of the most relevant searches in the most relevant locations on the web, wherever your potential clients may be searching online. Search engines like Google will list your video tours as results for targeted organic searches.Web video sites will return your video tours as results for searches that match your keywords. Podcasting sites like iTunes will index your video podcasts and display them for relevant searches.
Why It Could Work:
Video tours offer your prospective customers a clear visual display of your real estate listings without having to schedule preview appointments or open houses, and allow for them to visually walk through your listings without having to be there. By offering video tours of your property listings, you give your clients a means of finding out if they are interested before they take the next step of scheduling an appointment - saving everyone countless hours in the early decision making process. In truth, buyers who view video tours typically take up to three times less time making a purchase decision with a Realtor.Their video tour distribution strategy helps to immediately improve your own website's organic and direct referral traffic from search engines, while presenting your video listings in as many places as possible in order to get them in front of your potential customers. As you can see, the benefits of video extend well beyond simply providing a better representation of your real estate listings online - they're rather an entire web marketing strategy within themselves!
More at:http://www.agentcasts.com/
AgentCasts creates stunning real estate video tours for your property listings, delivering you and your clients a serious advantage on the Web. Our range of real estate video services will help you save time and sell more efficiently, while truly igniting your real estate business and listings online.
How It Works:
Each video tour AgentCasts produces and distributes for you online will rise to the top of the most relevant searches in the most relevant locations on the web, wherever your potential clients may be searching online. Search engines like Google will list your video tours as results for targeted organic searches.Web video sites will return your video tours as results for searches that match your keywords. Podcasting sites like iTunes will index your video podcasts and display them for relevant searches.
Why It Could Work:
Video tours offer your prospective customers a clear visual display of your real estate listings without having to schedule preview appointments or open houses, and allow for them to visually walk through your listings without having to be there. By offering video tours of your property listings, you give your clients a means of finding out if they are interested before they take the next step of scheduling an appointment - saving everyone countless hours in the early decision making process. In truth, buyers who view video tours typically take up to three times less time making a purchase decision with a Realtor.Their video tour distribution strategy helps to immediately improve your own website's organic and direct referral traffic from search engines, while presenting your video listings in as many places as possible in order to get them in front of your potential customers. As you can see, the benefits of video extend well beyond simply providing a better representation of your real estate listings online - they're rather an entire web marketing strategy within themselves!
More at:http://www.agentcasts.com/
XSCapacity.com online marketplace
What Company is offering:
XSCapacity.com gives you access to the thousands of trucks traveling the nation's highways everyday with little to no freight in their trailers. This all too common practice drives up the cost of freight.
How It Works:
By filling out one simple form only one time, XSCapacity.com will bring the entire trucking industry to your doorsteps, whether your freight shipping needs are LTL (less than truck load) or full truck loads. XSCapacity.com, you no longer have to wait for days to receive critical information about shipping rates. In fact, most companies have that answer within hours, directly from our extensive directory of certified DOT truckers. There are no barriers between you and the carriers...By using our application to book your freight, you can drive savings directly to your bottom line.
Your company can be trained to post loads on the XSCapacity.com online marketplace within minutes. The system is easy to use and there are no costs or obligations for shippers. Our user-friendly portal makes your shipping request available to thousands of trucking companies with real-time access to the same information...This innovative and simple to use platform will streamline your shipping operations and save you lots of time and money.
More at:http://xscapacity.com/
XSCapacity.com gives you access to the thousands of trucks traveling the nation's highways everyday with little to no freight in their trailers. This all too common practice drives up the cost of freight.
How It Works:
By filling out one simple form only one time, XSCapacity.com will bring the entire trucking industry to your doorsteps, whether your freight shipping needs are LTL (less than truck load) or full truck loads. XSCapacity.com, you no longer have to wait for days to receive critical information about shipping rates. In fact, most companies have that answer within hours, directly from our extensive directory of certified DOT truckers. There are no barriers between you and the carriers...By using our application to book your freight, you can drive savings directly to your bottom line.
Your company can be trained to post loads on the XSCapacity.com online marketplace within minutes. The system is easy to use and there are no costs or obligations for shippers. Our user-friendly portal makes your shipping request available to thousands of trucking companies with real-time access to the same information...This innovative and simple to use platform will streamline your shipping operations and save you lots of time and money.
More at:http://xscapacity.com/
2collab is a social bookmarking site where you can store and organize your favorite internet resource
What Company Is Offering:
2collab is a social bookmarking site where you can store and organize your favorite internet resources – such as blogs, websites, research articles, and more. Then, in private or public groups you can decide to share your bookmarks with others – stimulating debate and discussion. Members of groups can evaluate these resources (by rating bookmarks, tagging and adding comments), or add their own bookmarks. You can browse public groups and bookmarks, but must register (your name and email address) to access the full functionality – such as creating groups, adding comments, and adding bookmarks.
How It Works:
You can start using 2collab now, just register to start adding bookmarks, creating groups and much more – or you browse the site as a guest user.
In addition to the create bookmark form they also provide an easy to use 2collab browser button to add a bookmark from anywhere on the web with the touch of a button.
More:http://www.2collab.com/
2collab is a social bookmarking site where you can store and organize your favorite internet resources – such as blogs, websites, research articles, and more. Then, in private or public groups you can decide to share your bookmarks with others – stimulating debate and discussion. Members of groups can evaluate these resources (by rating bookmarks, tagging and adding comments), or add their own bookmarks. You can browse public groups and bookmarks, but must register (your name and email address) to access the full functionality – such as creating groups, adding comments, and adding bookmarks.
How It Works:
You can start using 2collab now, just register to start adding bookmarks, creating groups and much more – or you browse the site as a guest user.
In addition to the create bookmark form they also provide an easy to use 2collab browser button to add a bookmark from anywhere on the web with the touch of a button.
More:http://www.2collab.com/
Sendori --Sending Web Traffic To You Got $2.12 million Series A-1 round VCs Funding
What Company is Offering:
Sendori is in the business of connecting generic-term domains with leading advertisers. Their patent-pending solution optimizes these connections for the benefit of advertisers and domain owners.
How It Works;
The Sendori domain monetization service is unlike what you are used to. They have created a zero-click service; Sendori sends all of your visitors to paying advertisers, and reduces your reliance on ads and click rates. They provide detailed reports that show the domain activity, including total visitors sent to advertisers, average pay per visitor, and RPM (Revenue per 1000 visitors). In addition, They include your total parked page views and revenues, in cases when they create your parked page using their parking parters. Domains that are listed by domain owners as being for sale will be marketed to advertisers. Sendori charges the domain owner 5% of the final sale price. Payments can be made using PayPal, check, or bank transfer. The minimum payout is $50. The maximum payout via PayPal is $10,000. We use Mass Pay, so you pay no PayPal fees. You receive in your PayPal account exactly what you earn on redirects. If your application is accepted, please sign in and select your preferred method of receiving payments, by visiting the My Account tab.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Sendori, that drives online traffic from generic domains to specific Web advertisers, has secured $800,000 of a $2.12 million Series A-1 round.Backers include First Round Capital, Baseline Ventures, Maples Investments and Felices Ventures.
https://www.sendori.com/pubsite/owner_faq#protect_strategy
Sendori is in the business of connecting generic-term domains with leading advertisers. Their patent-pending solution optimizes these connections for the benefit of advertisers and domain owners.
How It Works;
The Sendori domain monetization service is unlike what you are used to. They have created a zero-click service; Sendori sends all of your visitors to paying advertisers, and reduces your reliance on ads and click rates. They provide detailed reports that show the domain activity, including total visitors sent to advertisers, average pay per visitor, and RPM (Revenue per 1000 visitors). In addition, They include your total parked page views and revenues, in cases when they create your parked page using their parking parters. Domains that are listed by domain owners as being for sale will be marketed to advertisers. Sendori charges the domain owner 5% of the final sale price. Payments can be made using PayPal, check, or bank transfer. The minimum payout is $50. The maximum payout via PayPal is $10,000. We use Mass Pay, so you pay no PayPal fees. You receive in your PayPal account exactly what you earn on redirects. If your application is accepted, please sign in and select your preferred method of receiving payments, by visiting the My Account tab.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Sendori, that drives online traffic from generic domains to specific Web advertisers, has secured $800,000 of a $2.12 million Series A-1 round.Backers include First Round Capital, Baseline Ventures, Maples Investments and Felices Ventures.
https://www.sendori.com/pubsite/owner_faq#protect_strategy
BDMetrics Got $ 15 Million In VCs Funding
What Company is Offering:
BDMetrics, headquartered in Baltimore, MD, is the creator of You-Based? personalization technology for leading trade shows and associations and the Event365? year-round event community technology. Specifically, BDMetrics provides the technology to power the search, personalization, media and lead generation functionality for a trade show or community's online presence. This enables the trade show owner to monetize its member base year-round through an interactive channel whereby exhibitors can place media or generate leads through the show's website or the trade show's product locator kiosks.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Greenhill SAVP ("GSAVP") announced today it has invested in BDMetrics, Inc. ("BDMetrics"). Greenhill SAVP led this Series C financing of $15 million with participation from existing institutional investors which included: Valhalla Partners, Grosvenor Funds, New Markets Growth Fund and Maryland DBED. As a result of this financing, Brian Hirsch, Managing Director of Greenhill SAVP, will join the BDMetrics Board of Directors.
How They Are Progressing:
In a relatively short period of time, BDMetrics has become the market leader in providing B2B lead generation and online media solutions to the $10 billion trade show industry.
About VC Detail:
Greenhill SAVP (www.gsavp.com) is an early stage venture fund focused on investments in technology enabled services and business information services. Greenhill & Co., Inc. (NYSE:GHL), is a leading independent investment bank It acts for clients located throughout the world from its offices in New York, London, Frankfurt, Toronto and Dallas and its website is www.greenhill.com.
More at:http://www.bdmetrics.com/
BDMetrics, headquartered in Baltimore, MD, is the creator of You-Based? personalization technology for leading trade shows and associations and the Event365? year-round event community technology. Specifically, BDMetrics provides the technology to power the search, personalization, media and lead generation functionality for a trade show or community's online presence. This enables the trade show owner to monetize its member base year-round through an interactive channel whereby exhibitors can place media or generate leads through the show's website or the trade show's product locator kiosks.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Greenhill SAVP ("GSAVP") announced today it has invested in BDMetrics, Inc. ("BDMetrics"). Greenhill SAVP led this Series C financing of $15 million with participation from existing institutional investors which included: Valhalla Partners, Grosvenor Funds, New Markets Growth Fund and Maryland DBED. As a result of this financing, Brian Hirsch, Managing Director of Greenhill SAVP, will join the BDMetrics Board of Directors.
How They Are Progressing:
In a relatively short period of time, BDMetrics has become the market leader in providing B2B lead generation and online media solutions to the $10 billion trade show industry.
About VC Detail:
Greenhill SAVP (www.gsavp.com) is an early stage venture fund focused on investments in technology enabled services and business information services. Greenhill & Co., Inc. (NYSE:GHL), is a leading independent investment bank It acts for clients located throughout the world from its offices in New York, London, Frankfurt, Toronto and Dallas and its website is www.greenhill.com.
More at:http://www.bdmetrics.com/
Listomi is a new online service based on lists and list management
What Company is Offering:
Listomi is a new online service based on lists and list management. Listomi aims to be the leading site for online list repositories.
How It Works:
Listomi is the place to go for all data that can be organized into a list. It is the next generation of list repositories, possibly the first true, dedicated list repository.
Listomi in the forefront of list repositories and list data management. The goal of Listomi is to become the known place to go to for lists of all shapes and sizes. Need a list of US States to use on your website? Want to browse through thousands of baby names all in one place? Need to settle an argument about the works of a particular author? Everyday people search for lists of things, the types of lists that people search for is virtually infinite. The results for these searches return a multitude of different sites that may or may not contain a suitable list. If there was single site, an online repository of all the possible lists in the universe that someone could go to find the list they are looking for, then the amount of traffic is equally as infinite. Listomi.com is that place.
More at:http://www.listomi.com/
Listomi is a new online service based on lists and list management. Listomi aims to be the leading site for online list repositories.
How It Works:
Listomi is the place to go for all data that can be organized into a list. It is the next generation of list repositories, possibly the first true, dedicated list repository.
Listomi in the forefront of list repositories and list data management. The goal of Listomi is to become the known place to go to for lists of all shapes and sizes. Need a list of US States to use on your website? Want to browse through thousands of baby names all in one place? Need to settle an argument about the works of a particular author? Everyday people search for lists of things, the types of lists that people search for is virtually infinite. The results for these searches return a multitude of different sites that may or may not contain a suitable list. If there was single site, an online repository of all the possible lists in the universe that someone could go to find the list they are looking for, then the amount of traffic is equally as infinite. Listomi.com is that place.
More at:http://www.listomi.com/
Work At Home Moms For Hire
What Company Is Offering:
Their aim is to unite work home moms to build long lasting relationships and partnerships. There is something for everybody here.Business owners can post their jobs or opportunities.
Working Moms can hire other experienced Moms to help them with a problem or task.
Newbie WAHMS or Business Owners can request advice to help them get started with their own business. Working Moms can show off their talents and gain experience by doing work for other Business Owners and earn money.
How It Works:
Wahms or Work atHome Moms for Hire are folks who have a talent or specialty and can perform tasks for other new business owners or WAHM's. THey are also people who want to help out other business owners or want to help promote their own business by making a presence by completing jobs. This category of members will bid on projects and come up with a fee they think will suit their needs. Once they perform the task, the customer releases funds to them and they can cash out using PayPal.
WAHMs can sign up and post a project or a task for other WAHMs to bid on and earn cash. Very fun and good way to promote your business or talent, this is the place for you to gain some experience by performing certain tasks and projects for other business, or Work at Home Moms. If you have something to offer, then browse the open projects to see if you qualify. If so try bidding on the project to see if you are chosen. If you are chosen, then you can earn some nice cash upon completion of the project.
More at:http://www.wahmsforhire.com/faq.php
Their aim is to unite work home moms to build long lasting relationships and partnerships. There is something for everybody here.Business owners can post their jobs or opportunities.
Working Moms can hire other experienced Moms to help them with a problem or task.
Newbie WAHMS or Business Owners can request advice to help them get started with their own business. Working Moms can show off their talents and gain experience by doing work for other Business Owners and earn money.
How It Works:
Wahms or Work atHome Moms for Hire are folks who have a talent or specialty and can perform tasks for other new business owners or WAHM's. THey are also people who want to help out other business owners or want to help promote their own business by making a presence by completing jobs. This category of members will bid on projects and come up with a fee they think will suit their needs. Once they perform the task, the customer releases funds to them and they can cash out using PayPal.
WAHMs can sign up and post a project or a task for other WAHMs to bid on and earn cash. Very fun and good way to promote your business or talent, this is the place for you to gain some experience by performing certain tasks and projects for other business, or Work at Home Moms. If you have something to offer, then browse the open projects to see if you qualify. If so try bidding on the project to see if you are chosen. If you are chosen, then you can earn some nice cash upon completion of the project.
More at:http://www.wahmsforhire.com/faq.php
CoveritLive's web based software takes your next live blog to a new level
What Company Is Offering:
CoveritLive's web based software takes your next live blog to a new level. Your commentary publishes in real time like an instant message. Our ‘one-click’ publishing lets you drop polls, videos, pictures, ads and audio clips as soon as they come to mind. Comments and questions from your readers instantly appear but you control what gets published. Try our software for your next live blog. Your readers will love it.
How It Works:
CoveritLive took the concept of instant messaging and combined it with the idea that an informed, smart writer could make a live blog worth watching. From there, content (video, audio, images) and interactive (polls, viewer questions) features began to fall into place.
Who Is Behind The Idea:
CoveritLive is led by Keith McSpurren. Keith founded web based software startup Salesdriver which was later purchased by Carlson Marketing and has had other leadership roles such as CEO of Durham Furniture and Vice President of Flagstone Capital a small private equity fund based in Toronto.
Bob Barnard leads the technology effort. Bob created the web based software company Analyzer Software and has been managing technology projects through BBMG Digital which has delivered leading technology websites during the last 4 years. Prior to running his own companies, Bob was head of technology/engineering at Organic's Toronto office.
More at:http://www.coveritlive.com/
CoveritLive's web based software takes your next live blog to a new level. Your commentary publishes in real time like an instant message. Our ‘one-click’ publishing lets you drop polls, videos, pictures, ads and audio clips as soon as they come to mind. Comments and questions from your readers instantly appear but you control what gets published. Try our software for your next live blog. Your readers will love it.
How It Works:
CoveritLive took the concept of instant messaging and combined it with the idea that an informed, smart writer could make a live blog worth watching. From there, content (video, audio, images) and interactive (polls, viewer questions) features began to fall into place.
Who Is Behind The Idea:
CoveritLive is led by Keith McSpurren. Keith founded web based software startup Salesdriver which was later purchased by Carlson Marketing and has had other leadership roles such as CEO of Durham Furniture and Vice President of Flagstone Capital a small private equity fund based in Toronto.
Bob Barnard leads the technology effort. Bob created the web based software company Analyzer Software and has been managing technology projects through BBMG Digital which has delivered leading technology websites during the last 4 years. Prior to running his own companies, Bob was head of technology/engineering at Organic's Toronto office.
More at:http://www.coveritlive.com/
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
LeadPoint is the first online marketplace optimized for the lead industry
What Company Is Offering:
LeadPoint is the first online marketplace optimized for the lead industry. LeadPoint neither influences pricing nor competes with lead sellers. LeadPoint ensures the integrity of the transaction (the transfer and the format of the leads and the financial exchange) and the quality of the leads, buyers and sellers operating in the marketplace.
As a free-market exchange, the value of leads is based on quality, demand and performance. Lead sellers are rewarded for high performing leads, and lead buyers establish their own bid prices, and purchase leads according to their true value based on performance. There is no direct contact between buyer and seller.
How It Works:
With LeadPoint, lead buyers now have a single location where they can purchase qualified leads from multiple sources without the fear of fraud or of paying too much for poor quality leads. Lead sellers now have a single marketplace to sell quality leads at the highest price the market yields.
As an exchange that operates in real-time, both buyers and sellers can get an instant view of the price and performance of leads. Fresh leads are supplied by sellers and sold to buyers instantly. The exchange is always open and the community of buyers and sellers is always growing.
More at:http://www.leadpoint.com/
LeadPoint is the first online marketplace optimized for the lead industry. LeadPoint neither influences pricing nor competes with lead sellers. LeadPoint ensures the integrity of the transaction (the transfer and the format of the leads and the financial exchange) and the quality of the leads, buyers and sellers operating in the marketplace.
As a free-market exchange, the value of leads is based on quality, demand and performance. Lead sellers are rewarded for high performing leads, and lead buyers establish their own bid prices, and purchase leads according to their true value based on performance. There is no direct contact between buyer and seller.
How It Works:
With LeadPoint, lead buyers now have a single location where they can purchase qualified leads from multiple sources without the fear of fraud or of paying too much for poor quality leads. Lead sellers now have a single marketplace to sell quality leads at the highest price the market yields.
As an exchange that operates in real-time, both buyers and sellers can get an instant view of the price and performance of leads. Fresh leads are supplied by sellers and sold to buyers instantly. The exchange is always open and the community of buyers and sellers is always growing.
More at:http://www.leadpoint.com/
coComment has found another way to let you follow your comments across the web
coComment has found another way to let you follow your comments across the web. It has two new Facebook applications that will track and display the comments from blogs and websites that you participate in. One app is for individual users, while the other is for publishers. So no matter what your purpose behind comment-tracking, you can share it with friends on Facebook.
The good thing about the application designed for individual users is the ability to customize which blogs’ comments display in the app. This of course will also be displayed on your profile, so all your friends can see your comments from across the web. Now, setting up the Facebook apps for coComment is a different story. It’s not so easy if you don’t already have a coComment account, and of course you’ll need to register and install the coComment application prior to starting with your app on Facebook.
More at:http://www.cocomment.com/
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The good thing about the application designed for individual users is the ability to customize which blogs’ comments display in the app. This of course will also be displayed on your profile, so all your friends can see your comments from across the web. Now, setting up the Facebook apps for coComment is a different story. It’s not so easy if you don’t already have a coComment account, and of course you’ll need to register and install the coComment application prior to starting with your app on Facebook.
More at:http://www.cocomment.com/
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Audiotube--an online portal that lets you access high quality music videos Acquired by Sputnik7 network
What Company is Offering
audiotube is an online portal that lets you access high quality music videos.
How It Works:
Create a private community on audiotube and you can share video playlists and interests with your growing network of mutual friends as well as access the latest in Music News. They also provide a section for true Indie Artists.
1. First, Sign Up and Create a Profile
(Your Profile is Your Space on the Web, where you can describe yourself, and your favourite kinds of music and or Artist. You can even upload pics and write journals.)
2. Second, invite your Friends to join Your Personal Network.
OR, Search the site for your Friends who are already Members of audiotube.
3. Third, View the Connections you create between Your Friend and Their Friends.
Who Acquired Them:
Audiotube, a video-on-demand portal has acquired the Sputnik7 network from Palm Entertainment Properties LLC. The Sputnik7 network is host to on-demand audio/video Internet entertainment, sputnik7.com, and the world's first DRM free online indie music catalogue, Epitonic.com.
What Were Purpose Of Acquisition:
The acquisition will expand Audiotube's online reach by capitalizing on Sputnik7's search engine ranking and traffic. It will also fuel the growth of the company's network by linking the communities. The acquisition provides Audiotube with a large catalogue of pre-cleared content and routes into hundreds of indie music record labels as the Sputnik7 and Epitonic brands and online following hold major weight in the indie world.
More at:http://audiotube.com/
audiotube is an online portal that lets you access high quality music videos.
How It Works:
Create a private community on audiotube and you can share video playlists and interests with your growing network of mutual friends as well as access the latest in Music News. They also provide a section for true Indie Artists.
1. First, Sign Up and Create a Profile
(Your Profile is Your Space on the Web, where you can describe yourself, and your favourite kinds of music and or Artist. You can even upload pics and write journals.)
2. Second, invite your Friends to join Your Personal Network.
OR, Search the site for your Friends who are already Members of audiotube.
3. Third, View the Connections you create between Your Friend and Their Friends.
Who Acquired Them:
Audiotube, a video-on-demand portal has acquired the Sputnik7 network from Palm Entertainment Properties LLC. The Sputnik7 network is host to on-demand audio/video Internet entertainment, sputnik7.com, and the world's first DRM free online indie music catalogue, Epitonic.com.
What Were Purpose Of Acquisition:
The acquisition will expand Audiotube's online reach by capitalizing on Sputnik7's search engine ranking and traffic. It will also fuel the growth of the company's network by linking the communities. The acquisition provides Audiotube with a large catalogue of pre-cleared content and routes into hundreds of indie music record labels as the Sputnik7 and Epitonic brands and online following hold major weight in the indie world.
More at:http://audiotube.com/
AmericanTowns--Connecting Everyone
What Company is Offering:
AmericanTowns, your local link to the people, issues and activities that matter most in YOUR daily life.The AmericanTowns site is an indispensable practical tool and the most effective way to bring neighbors together.
How it Works:
By organizing a town's many internet resources under a single umbrella, AmericanTowns helps people quickly find out what's happening in their local government, schools, libraries and community groups. It's the place to instantly find recreation, entertainment, fun places to take the kids, restaurants, movies, realtors, businesses and other professional services.
They connect you to the community like nothing else. AmericanTowns is a virtual "town square," plugging you in to the information and resources related to your neighborhood. Whether it's town issues and community activism or school calendars and sports schedules, AmericanTowns delivers the info faster and helps you use it better.
Enter your zip code or click on your state to get started.
More at:http://www.americantowns.com/
AmericanTowns, your local link to the people, issues and activities that matter most in YOUR daily life.The AmericanTowns site is an indispensable practical tool and the most effective way to bring neighbors together.
How it Works:
By organizing a town's many internet resources under a single umbrella, AmericanTowns helps people quickly find out what's happening in their local government, schools, libraries and community groups. It's the place to instantly find recreation, entertainment, fun places to take the kids, restaurants, movies, realtors, businesses and other professional services.
They connect you to the community like nothing else. AmericanTowns is a virtual "town square," plugging you in to the information and resources related to your neighborhood. Whether it's town issues and community activism or school calendars and sports schedules, AmericanTowns delivers the info faster and helps you use it better.
Enter your zip code or click on your state to get started.
More at:http://www.americantowns.com/
HireThings--NewZealand 's Hire And Rental Marketplace
What Company is Offering:
Hire Things is proudly brought to you by the team at Let Use It Limited, a business founded on the vision of establishing and operating resource sharing marketplaces around the world.
They aim to make Hire Things a useful tool for businesses, clubs, groups, and individuals to find what they need, when they need it, and to promote what they have that others can use. You can download a Brief Sheet here.
How it Works:
They work to make hiring a renting an option that, more and more, you consider a smart alternative to buying, storing, insuring, and maintaining everything you just need to use from time to time.
And for those things you do buy, hiring out lets you justify buying things of much better quality, that will last longer, and that many people can use
Unique Features:
* After you have registered, you can list specific products, goods, places, and services you have for hire, rent, lease or let.
o Make sure you profile is up to date, with a description of your business or yourself, and your contact details
o You may include a detailed description, photos, and even bond/deposit requirements.
o You define the hire rates and optionally the quantity you have on offer.
+ Currently you can define any or all of theses:
# Hourly rate, 4-hour rate, daily rate, week rate, and month rate
+ You can indicate if this is just a single item, or if you have a set number of these available, or if you just have lots
# if it is just a single item, the Hire Things booking system will show potential customers when the item is already booked out, to avoid duplicate bookings
# if you indicate you have more than one of these items, then the system will not show other bookings to customers on the calendar
o Any special rates, discounts, or terms can be entered in the description or terms.
* Customers can view your listing's details and can submit a quote or booking request
o requests will include the dates, quantity, and any other requirements they have.
o The Hire Things website will calculate an estimated cost for the booking for you and the customer
o You are notified by email of the new request, and upon viewing may confirm the booking or respond with a firmer quote.
* Once a booking is confirmed, the contact details of the customer are shown to you on the booking, and vice versa to the customer, so you can both work out any final details.
* The customer pays you directly for the hire.
* Once the hire period is completed, or after 2 weeks if it is a longer hire, we will deduct a success fee from your Hire Things account.
More at;http://www.hirethings.co.nz/
Hire Things is proudly brought to you by the team at Let Use It Limited, a business founded on the vision of establishing and operating resource sharing marketplaces around the world.
They aim to make Hire Things a useful tool for businesses, clubs, groups, and individuals to find what they need, when they need it, and to promote what they have that others can use. You can download a Brief Sheet here.
How it Works:
They work to make hiring a renting an option that, more and more, you consider a smart alternative to buying, storing, insuring, and maintaining everything you just need to use from time to time.
And for those things you do buy, hiring out lets you justify buying things of much better quality, that will last longer, and that many people can use
Unique Features:
* After you have registered, you can list specific products, goods, places, and services you have for hire, rent, lease or let.
o Make sure you profile is up to date, with a description of your business or yourself, and your contact details
o You may include a detailed description, photos, and even bond/deposit requirements.
o You define the hire rates and optionally the quantity you have on offer.
+ Currently you can define any or all of theses:
# Hourly rate, 4-hour rate, daily rate, week rate, and month rate
+ You can indicate if this is just a single item, or if you have a set number of these available, or if you just have lots
# if it is just a single item, the Hire Things booking system will show potential customers when the item is already booked out, to avoid duplicate bookings
# if you indicate you have more than one of these items, then the system will not show other bookings to customers on the calendar
o Any special rates, discounts, or terms can be entered in the description or terms.
* Customers can view your listing's details and can submit a quote or booking request
o requests will include the dates, quantity, and any other requirements they have.
o The Hire Things website will calculate an estimated cost for the booking for you and the customer
o You are notified by email of the new request, and upon viewing may confirm the booking or respond with a firmer quote.
* Once a booking is confirmed, the contact details of the customer are shown to you on the booking, and vice versa to the customer, so you can both work out any final details.
* The customer pays you directly for the hire.
* Once the hire period is completed, or after 2 weeks if it is a longer hire, we will deduct a success fee from your Hire Things account.
More at;http://www.hirethings.co.nz/
Disaboom--social network aimed specifically at consumers whose lives have been touched by disabilities
What Company is Offering:
Disaboom, aims to change all that with a social network aimed specifically at consumers whose lives have been touched by disabilities.
Disaboom was founded by J. Glen House, who graduated from medical school after a skiing accident left him quadriplegic at the age of 20. Its mission is to develop the first interactive online community dedicated to improving the lives of people with disabilities or functional limitations. In so doing, it aims to serve not just those who have disabilities themselves but also caregivers and families.
How It Works:
Disaboom.com strives to provide you the tools and guidance you need to live active, engaged lives.The Denver-based site brings together content and tools ranging from specialized health information to social networking to daily living resources, including medical news, career advice, dating resources and travel tips. Ford, Netflix and Johnson & Johnson are among the advertisers that have enthusiastically flocked to the site, which also features video, chat and city-by-city accessibility reviews. Disaboom recently acquired Lovebyrd—a dating site for disabled singles—and just before launch it raised more than USD 5 million in a common stock offering. The site already boasts a network of more than 180 million people.
Disaboom.com community is as diverse as the communities we live in, made up of mothers and models, surfers and surgeons, babies and baby boomers.
As populations age throughout the industrialized world, the number of people with disabilities of one sort or another will only increase—and so, too, will their collective spending power. Marketers, take note!
more at: www.disaboom.com
Disaboom, aims to change all that with a social network aimed specifically at consumers whose lives have been touched by disabilities.
Disaboom was founded by J. Glen House, who graduated from medical school after a skiing accident left him quadriplegic at the age of 20. Its mission is to develop the first interactive online community dedicated to improving the lives of people with disabilities or functional limitations. In so doing, it aims to serve not just those who have disabilities themselves but also caregivers and families.
How It Works:
Disaboom.com strives to provide you the tools and guidance you need to live active, engaged lives.The Denver-based site brings together content and tools ranging from specialized health information to social networking to daily living resources, including medical news, career advice, dating resources and travel tips. Ford, Netflix and Johnson & Johnson are among the advertisers that have enthusiastically flocked to the site, which also features video, chat and city-by-city accessibility reviews. Disaboom recently acquired Lovebyrd—a dating site for disabled singles—and just before launch it raised more than USD 5 million in a common stock offering. The site already boasts a network of more than 180 million people.
Disaboom.com community is as diverse as the communities we live in, made up of mothers and models, surfers and surgeons, babies and baby boomers.
As populations age throughout the industrialized world, the number of people with disabilities of one sort or another will only increase—and so, too, will their collective spending power. Marketers, take note!
more at: www.disaboom.com
CrowdFunder
What Company Is Offering:
CrowdFunder recently launched a beta site focusing on the Boulder area that aims to make it easy to collectively fund many kinds of community projects, charitable and otherwise.
How It Works:
Fundable endeavours can range from giving to local nonprofits to refurbishing a playground to hosting a big party—only investment and business uses are prohibited. Current examples on CrowdFunder include establishing a scholarship for a local Boulder school, helping an artist finish recording her CD, installing bus-stop benches and supporting a 7-year-old local gymnast. People posting projects indicate a financial goal and deadline, and the site tracks how much is raised over time. As with Fundable, if the goal amount is not met by the deadline, all contributors get their money back. The entire process is free during the startup phase, but eventually CrowdFunder will charge a transaction fee of 7.5 percent of the funds raised for each project that succeeds in meeting its goal.
How Is It Different:
CrowdFunder's founders are banking on the site's local focus to set it apart. They explain: "CrowdFunder is a platform that we believe works best locally, where people who know each other and can vouch for each other and see and enjoy each other's works will have more confidence to make financial contributions to members of the community."
CrowdFunder aims to expand both geographically and topically in other directions. One to bring to a community near you?
More at: www.crowdfunder.com
CrowdFunder recently launched a beta site focusing on the Boulder area that aims to make it easy to collectively fund many kinds of community projects, charitable and otherwise.
How It Works:
Fundable endeavours can range from giving to local nonprofits to refurbishing a playground to hosting a big party—only investment and business uses are prohibited. Current examples on CrowdFunder include establishing a scholarship for a local Boulder school, helping an artist finish recording her CD, installing bus-stop benches and supporting a 7-year-old local gymnast. People posting projects indicate a financial goal and deadline, and the site tracks how much is raised over time. As with Fundable, if the goal amount is not met by the deadline, all contributors get their money back. The entire process is free during the startup phase, but eventually CrowdFunder will charge a transaction fee of 7.5 percent of the funds raised for each project that succeeds in meeting its goal.
How Is It Different:
CrowdFunder's founders are banking on the site's local focus to set it apart. They explain: "CrowdFunder is a platform that we believe works best locally, where people who know each other and can vouch for each other and see and enjoy each other's works will have more confidence to make financial contributions to members of the community."
CrowdFunder aims to expand both geographically and topically in other directions. One to bring to a community near you?
More at: www.crowdfunder.com
Use Jott For Calling Your Amazon Orders
What Company Is Offering:
When you Jott, they translate your voice to text, and can deliver your jott to someone in BOTH email and text. In email, they will be able to easily click on a link to hear your voice. In text, not only will they see the text translated, but they can simply dial our number [866-JOTT-BOX or 866-568-8269] given in the text message, and hear your Jott.The voice messaging tool that’s slowly integrating itself into social networking in various and unique ways, is getting ready to launch a service for Amazon users. Dial the number 1-866-JOTT-123, and say “Amazon.” You’ll then be prompted to say the name of the product you’d like to remind yourself to spend money on later.
How It works:
Theye use a combination of machine and human transcription to convert your voice to text. The quality of this transcription is affected by many factors, including recording quality, noise, accents, pronunciation, etc. At times, the quality of the recording will be so bad that we will simply ask you to listen because of Low Transcription Confidence.
Their transcribers have no way of associating your personally identifiable information with the recorded jotts they are transcribing (unless, of course, you make that information part of the recording). They operate in a “clean” environment that is also used for transcribing sensitive medical dictations, with no tools or other equipment that would allow them to record or make use of this information. Finally, they have very strict confidentiality guidelines for our employees and agents. Violations of these guidelines can lead to termination or other legal action. Nevertheless, they understand if you would like to transcribe your own jotts. If this is the case, simply go to the jott.com setting page, and click the checkbox next to "Do not transcribe my jotts".
More at:http://.jott.com.
When you Jott, they translate your voice to text, and can deliver your jott to someone in BOTH email and text. In email, they will be able to easily click on a link to hear your voice. In text, not only will they see the text translated, but they can simply dial our number [866-JOTT-BOX or 866-568-8269] given in the text message, and hear your Jott.The voice messaging tool that’s slowly integrating itself into social networking in various and unique ways, is getting ready to launch a service for Amazon users. Dial the number 1-866-JOTT-123, and say “Amazon.” You’ll then be prompted to say the name of the product you’d like to remind yourself to spend money on later.
How It works:
Theye use a combination of machine and human transcription to convert your voice to text. The quality of this transcription is affected by many factors, including recording quality, noise, accents, pronunciation, etc. At times, the quality of the recording will be so bad that we will simply ask you to listen because of Low Transcription Confidence.
Their transcribers have no way of associating your personally identifiable information with the recorded jotts they are transcribing (unless, of course, you make that information part of the recording). They operate in a “clean” environment that is also used for transcribing sensitive medical dictations, with no tools or other equipment that would allow them to record or make use of this information. Finally, they have very strict confidentiality guidelines for our employees and agents. Violations of these guidelines can lead to termination or other legal action. Nevertheless, they understand if you would like to transcribe your own jotts. If this is the case, simply go to the jott.com setting page, and click the checkbox next to "Do not transcribe my jotts".
More at:http://.jott.com.
Clearstone Venture Partnersplans to invest $30-40 million in companies focussing on India’s consumer market
Venture capital (VC) investor Clearstone Venture Partners, which has two offices in California and one in Mumbai, plans to invest $30-40 million (about Rs119-158 crore) in companies focussing on India’s consumer market in fiscal 2008.
Clearstone, which has $650 million in committed capital under management, has invested a total of $21 million in three Indian companies with partners since 2006. The company mainly looks to provide seed money to technology companies and business innovators. In the next 30 days, Clearstone is expected to announce an investment in a consumer company.
The VC firm also has two-three investments in the pipeline, which could be finalized as soon as in the next six months, says Rahul Khanna, director, Clearstone. Khanna, however, refused to divulge the name of the companies.
Although we are seeing some pulling out right now, there is no proof of a slowdown yet.Rahul Khanna
Clearstone Venture PartnersClearstone, which plans to focus on India’s high-growth, consumer-driven market, says the sector is not overcrowded with investors, although some sluggishness is visible compared with 2001-03, when foreign investors flooded Indian markets.
“Investment business thrives on exits also,” says Khanna. “Although we are seeing some pulling out right now, there is no proof of a slowdown yet. There was a mad rush earlier to invest due to the flood of new investors. However, investments are happening at a much manageable rate right now. The market is still underplayed. It can take more investors.” Clearstone currently is investing in India from its global Clearstone Fund III.
Khanna says Clearstone will stay out of auction deals and would ideally like to invest in partnerships. Even with just three investments in the past one year, the firm says it is sticking to its game plan for Indian market.
“We are in no hurry to strike deals,” Khanna adds.
“We take our own time on deciding where we want to invest and what that investment would mean for the firm.”
Clearstone officials says it is open for investments in the range of $1-10 million. In terms of stakes, they could be from 26% to not more than 49% in terms of holdings.
Venture capital firms in the US have raised close to $2 billion for investment in India since January 2006, according to informal industry estimates.
More at:http://www.clearstone.com/
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Clearstone, which has $650 million in committed capital under management, has invested a total of $21 million in three Indian companies with partners since 2006. The company mainly looks to provide seed money to technology companies and business innovators. In the next 30 days, Clearstone is expected to announce an investment in a consumer company.
The VC firm also has two-three investments in the pipeline, which could be finalized as soon as in the next six months, says Rahul Khanna, director, Clearstone. Khanna, however, refused to divulge the name of the companies.
Although we are seeing some pulling out right now, there is no proof of a slowdown yet.Rahul Khanna
Clearstone Venture PartnersClearstone, which plans to focus on India’s high-growth, consumer-driven market, says the sector is not overcrowded with investors, although some sluggishness is visible compared with 2001-03, when foreign investors flooded Indian markets.
“Investment business thrives on exits also,” says Khanna. “Although we are seeing some pulling out right now, there is no proof of a slowdown yet. There was a mad rush earlier to invest due to the flood of new investors. However, investments are happening at a much manageable rate right now. The market is still underplayed. It can take more investors.” Clearstone currently is investing in India from its global Clearstone Fund III.
Khanna says Clearstone will stay out of auction deals and would ideally like to invest in partnerships. Even with just three investments in the past one year, the firm says it is sticking to its game plan for Indian market.
“We are in no hurry to strike deals,” Khanna adds.
“We take our own time on deciding where we want to invest and what that investment would mean for the firm.”
Clearstone officials says it is open for investments in the range of $1-10 million. In terms of stakes, they could be from 26% to not more than 49% in terms of holdings.
Venture capital firms in the US have raised close to $2 billion for investment in India since January 2006, according to informal industry estimates.
More at:http://www.clearstone.com/
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Selling A Personal DNA Test For $999 By 23 And Me
Reuters Reports:23andMe, an online company funded by Google that is selling a personal DNA test for $999, has made its debut as a kind of genetics-focused MySpace or Facebook, but with the more serious aim of allowing medicine someday to target Americans' ills more precisely.
Users sign up for the DNA saliva test online and receive and return it by mail. Four to six weeks later, their results are online, allowing them to learn about their inherited traits, their ancestry and - with the help of a professional to look at the data, in most cases - some of their personal disease risks.
The Web site, which takes its name from the 23 pairs of chromosomes that make up the human genome, says it will display more than 500,000 data points in users' genomes in a format they can visualize and understand.
"Compare your genetic blueprint to your friends and family," the site invites.
Later, when the company's database is much larger, users will have the option of taking part in scientific studies that could help researchers determine things like who is in danger of having a life-threatening drug reaction or who may be more likely to benefit from a specific cancer treatment.
"The mission of 23andMe is to take the genetic revolution to a new level," said one of its founders, Linda Avey.
"There wasn't an effective way for people to contribute," said Anne Wojcicki, a fellow founder who has a background in health care investing and is married to Sergey Brin, a Google co-founder.
The site does not make interpretations about a user's risk for getting cancers, Alzheimer's disease or diabetes, although in some cases, users could get help from genetic counselors or other experts to make basic assessments.
As technology has made it easier to find and share information, security and privacy issues have become critical. The protection of genetic information is particularly important to many consumers, who fear that insurers or other groups may use genetic data to deny coverage to or discriminate against people predisposed to develop a serious disease.
23andMe's founders say the personal data in their system is secure and under the user's control, protected by more than a dozen levels of authentication and encryption from the lab to the user.
The two women said that aggregated genomic data would eventually be made available to people outside 23andMe for study, but would never be sold.
"The data will not leave 23andMe," said Avey, who came to the project with sales and business development experience in the biopharmaceutical industry.
While the project's goal is to tackle dreaded diseases and is in early stages on projects with Autism Speaks and the Parkinson's Institute, Avey said one of the company's primary aims was to make a complex subject more appealing by giving individuals information about their own genes.
For example, users could begin to understand why they dislike certain flavors or foods, or whether they share a maternal ancestor with celebrities like the singer Jimmy Buffett, a 23andMe user.
Besides Google, the company's other early investors include the biotechnology company Genentech and New Enterprise Associates, a venture capital company.
Competitors to 23andMe include deCODE Genetics of Iceland and Navigenics, a company based in Silicon Valley and backed by $25 million in funding from the top-flight venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Sequoia Capital and Mohr Davidow Ventures.
More at:https://www.23andme.com/
Users sign up for the DNA saliva test online and receive and return it by mail. Four to six weeks later, their results are online, allowing them to learn about their inherited traits, their ancestry and - with the help of a professional to look at the data, in most cases - some of their personal disease risks.
The Web site, which takes its name from the 23 pairs of chromosomes that make up the human genome, says it will display more than 500,000 data points in users' genomes in a format they can visualize and understand.
"Compare your genetic blueprint to your friends and family," the site invites.
Later, when the company's database is much larger, users will have the option of taking part in scientific studies that could help researchers determine things like who is in danger of having a life-threatening drug reaction or who may be more likely to benefit from a specific cancer treatment.
"The mission of 23andMe is to take the genetic revolution to a new level," said one of its founders, Linda Avey.
"There wasn't an effective way for people to contribute," said Anne Wojcicki, a fellow founder who has a background in health care investing and is married to Sergey Brin, a Google co-founder.
The site does not make interpretations about a user's risk for getting cancers, Alzheimer's disease or diabetes, although in some cases, users could get help from genetic counselors or other experts to make basic assessments.
As technology has made it easier to find and share information, security and privacy issues have become critical. The protection of genetic information is particularly important to many consumers, who fear that insurers or other groups may use genetic data to deny coverage to or discriminate against people predisposed to develop a serious disease.
23andMe's founders say the personal data in their system is secure and under the user's control, protected by more than a dozen levels of authentication and encryption from the lab to the user.
The two women said that aggregated genomic data would eventually be made available to people outside 23andMe for study, but would never be sold.
"The data will not leave 23andMe," said Avey, who came to the project with sales and business development experience in the biopharmaceutical industry.
While the project's goal is to tackle dreaded diseases and is in early stages on projects with Autism Speaks and the Parkinson's Institute, Avey said one of the company's primary aims was to make a complex subject more appealing by giving individuals information about their own genes.
For example, users could begin to understand why they dislike certain flavors or foods, or whether they share a maternal ancestor with celebrities like the singer Jimmy Buffett, a 23andMe user.
Besides Google, the company's other early investors include the biotechnology company Genentech and New Enterprise Associates, a venture capital company.
Competitors to 23andMe include deCODE Genetics of Iceland and Navigenics, a company based in Silicon Valley and backed by $25 million in funding from the top-flight venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Sequoia Capital and Mohr Davidow Ventures.
More at:https://www.23andme.com/
Don'tApply.com--Check Companies Background
What Company is Offering:
This site is not only to talk about your past or present employers. It also reconnects you to old coworkers and friends. Through their member profile feature, members are able to login at anytime. This feature also comes with a buddy list and a message center where members can exchange messages with buddies.
How It Works:
This site is all about writing reviews for your current or previous place of employment. The site is not only for negativity, but can also be for positive responses. If you feel that you have worked for the same company as someone else and have a different opinion. You should also leave your views on that company.
You can say anything that you would like to say. However, don’t use foul language or write in ALL CAPS. The use of foul language is prohibited and is going against our policy agreement.
Companies do background check on their applicants, so why not have the applicants get legitimate referenced background on the company. The site not only allows you to review your old companies, but you can also do so anonymously. This website is designed for any and everyone to write reviews about their past and present employers. Whether you love, hate, and just don’t care about your job, this is the spot to talk about it. Read what others have to say and share your thoughts.
More at:http://dontapply.com/
This site is not only to talk about your past or present employers. It also reconnects you to old coworkers and friends. Through their member profile feature, members are able to login at anytime. This feature also comes with a buddy list and a message center where members can exchange messages with buddies.
How It Works:
This site is all about writing reviews for your current or previous place of employment. The site is not only for negativity, but can also be for positive responses. If you feel that you have worked for the same company as someone else and have a different opinion. You should also leave your views on that company.
You can say anything that you would like to say. However, don’t use foul language or write in ALL CAPS. The use of foul language is prohibited and is going against our policy agreement.
Companies do background check on their applicants, so why not have the applicants get legitimate referenced background on the company. The site not only allows you to review your old companies, but you can also do so anonymously. This website is designed for any and everyone to write reviews about their past and present employers. Whether you love, hate, and just don’t care about your job, this is the spot to talk about it. Read what others have to say and share your thoughts.
More at:http://dontapply.com/
Yodle,a New York-based provider of local online advertising and lead generation got$12 million in second-round funding
What Company Is Offering:
Yodle provides local businesses with a simple way to get more customers and phone calls using online marketing. Yodle, a company funded by Bessemer Venture Partners and Draper Fisher Jurvetson, is transforming local online advertising by connecting local business owners with consumers in a simple, measurable and relevant way. Yodle has developed an integrated approach to signing up and serving local businesses that are transitioning their marketing budgets online. Yodle operates offices out of New York, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Atlanta and Boston.
Yodle's aim is to make buying online ads simple and easy for small businesses and to offer a high-performing, cost-effective alternative to the outdated Yellow Pages, previously the standard for small business advertising.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Yodle,a New York-based provider of local online advertising and lead generation, has raised $12 million in second-round funding. Draper Fisher Jurvetson led the deal, and was joined by return backer Bessemer Venture Partners.
What's Market Of That Kind Of Product:
"Today, 63 percent of consumers primarily search for local businesses online; Yodle is tapping this enormous advertising market to drive customers to businesses in a way that has never been done before. With Draper Fisher Jurvetson's financing, they will be able to complete national rollout and offer their services to small businesses across the country," said Court Cunningham, CEO of Yodle.
How It Works:
Yodle provides local businesses with a simple way to get more customers and phone calls using online marketing
Yodle delivers tangible results for its customers, focusing on generating phone calls instead of web clicks. It's estimated that $1 invested with Yodle results in $8 in additional profit for small businesses such as electricians, lawyers, doctors, roofers and even florists.
Andreas Stavropoulos, managing director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, added: "What impressed us about Yodle was its ability to deliver a high and steady volume of quality consumer phone calls to small businesses in a simple yet reliable way. Customer loyalty to the Yodle product is higher than that of any competitor in the market we have seen."
In addition, Yodle has developed a proprietary media buying platform to squeeze maximum performance out of every dollar it spends in online advertising for clients.
"Yodle now offers small business owners something they have never had before; they know exactly what their return on investment is using Yodle's industry leading Call Tracking and integrated Lead Manager tools. This level of transparency is new to small business owners who traditionally advertise in the Yellow Pages. With no long-term contracts and a clear method to track performance, this is low risk and potentially high reward investment for any small business to make," said Cunningham.
How Much They Are Progressing:
Yodle is experiencing dynamic and rapid growth: 400% in the third quarter 2007 vs. third quarter 2006. Yodle was founded in Philadelphia in 2005 by Nathaniel Stevens, a recent finalist for Business Week's "America's Best Young Entrepreneurs 2007." Yodle now operates offices out of New York, Washington DC, Boston, Atlanta, as well as Philadelphia.
About VCs:
1.Draper Fisher Jurvetson is a leading venture capital firm with a global presence through a network of affiliated funds, with offices in more than 30 cities around the world and approximately $6 Billion in capital commitments. DFJ's mission is to identify, serve and provide capital for extraordinary entrepreneurs anywhere who are determined to change the world. Over the past twenty years, DFJ has been proud to back over 500 companies across many sectors including such industry changing catalysts as Hotmail (acquired by MSFT), Baidu (BIDU), Skype (acquired by EBAY), EnerNOC (ENOC), athenahealth (ATHN), Focus Media (FMCN), Mobile 365 (acquired by Sybase), xFire (acquired by Viacom), United Online (UNTD), Overture (acquired by YHOO), Interwoven (IWOV), Four11 (acquired by YHOO), Massive (acquired by MSFT), Parametric (PMTC) and Mozy (acquired by EMC).
2.
As the oldest venture capital practice in the U.S., Bessemer has carried on a tradition of hands-on, early-stage investing since 1911. With offices in New York, California, Massachusetts, Shanghai and Mumbai, Bessemer Venture Partners ( www.bvp.com ) now manages more than a billion dollars of venture funds. Over 100 Bessemer startups have gone public, including Ciena, Gartner, Ingersoll Rand, International Paper, Maxim, Parametric, Staples, WR Grace, Verisign, and Veritas. Wikia is one of many Web2.0 companies whose first venture rounds were led by Bessemer; others include Skype, Yelp, Zopa, Revver and Flock.
More at:www.yodle.com
Yodle provides local businesses with a simple way to get more customers and phone calls using online marketing. Yodle, a company funded by Bessemer Venture Partners and Draper Fisher Jurvetson, is transforming local online advertising by connecting local business owners with consumers in a simple, measurable and relevant way. Yodle has developed an integrated approach to signing up and serving local businesses that are transitioning their marketing budgets online. Yodle operates offices out of New York, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Atlanta and Boston.
Yodle's aim is to make buying online ads simple and easy for small businesses and to offer a high-performing, cost-effective alternative to the outdated Yellow Pages, previously the standard for small business advertising.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Yodle,a New York-based provider of local online advertising and lead generation, has raised $12 million in second-round funding. Draper Fisher Jurvetson led the deal, and was joined by return backer Bessemer Venture Partners.
What's Market Of That Kind Of Product:
"Today, 63 percent of consumers primarily search for local businesses online; Yodle is tapping this enormous advertising market to drive customers to businesses in a way that has never been done before. With Draper Fisher Jurvetson's financing, they will be able to complete national rollout and offer their services to small businesses across the country," said Court Cunningham, CEO of Yodle.
How It Works:
Yodle provides local businesses with a simple way to get more customers and phone calls using online marketing
Yodle delivers tangible results for its customers, focusing on generating phone calls instead of web clicks. It's estimated that $1 invested with Yodle results in $8 in additional profit for small businesses such as electricians, lawyers, doctors, roofers and even florists.
Andreas Stavropoulos, managing director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, added: "What impressed us about Yodle was its ability to deliver a high and steady volume of quality consumer phone calls to small businesses in a simple yet reliable way. Customer loyalty to the Yodle product is higher than that of any competitor in the market we have seen."
In addition, Yodle has developed a proprietary media buying platform to squeeze maximum performance out of every dollar it spends in online advertising for clients.
"Yodle now offers small business owners something they have never had before; they know exactly what their return on investment is using Yodle's industry leading Call Tracking and integrated Lead Manager tools. This level of transparency is new to small business owners who traditionally advertise in the Yellow Pages. With no long-term contracts and a clear method to track performance, this is low risk and potentially high reward investment for any small business to make," said Cunningham.
How Much They Are Progressing:
Yodle is experiencing dynamic and rapid growth: 400% in the third quarter 2007 vs. third quarter 2006. Yodle was founded in Philadelphia in 2005 by Nathaniel Stevens, a recent finalist for Business Week's "America's Best Young Entrepreneurs 2007." Yodle now operates offices out of New York, Washington DC, Boston, Atlanta, as well as Philadelphia.
About VCs:
1.Draper Fisher Jurvetson is a leading venture capital firm with a global presence through a network of affiliated funds, with offices in more than 30 cities around the world and approximately $6 Billion in capital commitments. DFJ's mission is to identify, serve and provide capital for extraordinary entrepreneurs anywhere who are determined to change the world. Over the past twenty years, DFJ has been proud to back over 500 companies across many sectors including such industry changing catalysts as Hotmail (acquired by MSFT), Baidu (BIDU), Skype (acquired by EBAY), EnerNOC (ENOC), athenahealth (ATHN), Focus Media (FMCN), Mobile 365 (acquired by Sybase), xFire (acquired by Viacom), United Online (UNTD), Overture (acquired by YHOO), Interwoven (IWOV), Four11 (acquired by YHOO), Massive (acquired by MSFT), Parametric (PMTC) and Mozy (acquired by EMC).
2.
As the oldest venture capital practice in the U.S., Bessemer has carried on a tradition of hands-on, early-stage investing since 1911. With offices in New York, California, Massachusetts, Shanghai and Mumbai, Bessemer Venture Partners ( www.bvp.com ) now manages more than a billion dollars of venture funds. Over 100 Bessemer startups have gone public, including Ciena, Gartner, Ingersoll Rand, International Paper, Maxim, Parametric, Staples, WR Grace, Verisign, and Veritas. Wikia is one of many Web2.0 companies whose first venture rounds were led by Bessemer; others include Skype, Yelp, Zopa, Revver and Flock.
More at:www.yodle.com
Human Brain Cloud ----Multiplayer
What Company Is Offering:
Human Brain Cloud - a massively multiplayer word association "game" or experiment ... or something. The idea is that given a word, a player types in the first thing that comes to mind and the results are combined into a giant network.
How Is It Works:
For instance given the word "volcano", a common word people might submit would be "lava", and this would result in a very strong connection between "volcano" and "lava". On the other hand, given the word "volcano", fewer people might associate it with something like "birthday party", resulting in a very weak connection or no connection at all. Over time and with many players, I hope the cloud will gradually grow to represent words and phrases people tend to associate with other words and phrases, assuming it doesn't get inundated with spam. The cloud started with just one word, "volcano". All other words were submitted by visitors to this site.
This isn't academically rigorous or anything, so set your expectations accordingly and have fun seeing what people subconsciously think about stuff!
More at:http://www.humanbraincloud.com/
Human Brain Cloud - a massively multiplayer word association "game" or experiment ... or something. The idea is that given a word, a player types in the first thing that comes to mind and the results are combined into a giant network.
How Is It Works:
For instance given the word "volcano", a common word people might submit would be "lava", and this would result in a very strong connection between "volcano" and "lava". On the other hand, given the word "volcano", fewer people might associate it with something like "birthday party", resulting in a very weak connection or no connection at all. Over time and with many players, I hope the cloud will gradually grow to represent words and phrases people tend to associate with other words and phrases, assuming it doesn't get inundated with spam. The cloud started with just one word, "volcano". All other words were submitted by visitors to this site.
This isn't academically rigorous or anything, so set your expectations accordingly and have fun seeing what people subconsciously think about stuff!
More at:http://www.humanbraincloud.com/
ClearWiki--A truly easy way for your organization to share information
What Company Is Offering:
ClearWiki is feature rich, yet extremely intuitive and easy to use. Organize your information logically and easily. A private wiki for your business, accessible only by people that you invite. It is hosted by them, so there is nothing for you to install or maintain. ClearWiki is feature rich, yet extremely intuitive and easy to use. Your users don't need to learn a special wiki language. Navigating through your information has never been so easy.
How It Works:
ClearWiki has structured content, so wiki pages can be organised in a logical hierarchy just like the folders on your computer. As you create the hierarchy a topographical sitemap is generated automatically.ClearWiki makes an ideal and cost effective Intranet solution. You can create departments and teams, each with their own area of the Intranet, and restrict access using our Access Control Lists. Departments can have their own home pages or blogs as can your employees. What's more, your employees can access your Intranet at home as well as at work.
Your data is stored in a completely separate database to all other ClearWiki customers providing you with extra security. A backup option lets you download an archive your wiki.ClearWiki allows you to pay for only the features you need. You can add and reduce the number of users you need when you need to, and can increase the the amount of storage you need when you need to at very competitive prices.
More at:http://www.clearwiki.com/
ClearWiki is feature rich, yet extremely intuitive and easy to use. Organize your information logically and easily. A private wiki for your business, accessible only by people that you invite. It is hosted by them, so there is nothing for you to install or maintain. ClearWiki is feature rich, yet extremely intuitive and easy to use. Your users don't need to learn a special wiki language. Navigating through your information has never been so easy.
How It Works:
ClearWiki has structured content, so wiki pages can be organised in a logical hierarchy just like the folders on your computer. As you create the hierarchy a topographical sitemap is generated automatically.ClearWiki makes an ideal and cost effective Intranet solution. You can create departments and teams, each with their own area of the Intranet, and restrict access using our Access Control Lists. Departments can have their own home pages or blogs as can your employees. What's more, your employees can access your Intranet at home as well as at work.
Your data is stored in a completely separate database to all other ClearWiki customers providing you with extra security. A backup option lets you download an archive your wiki.ClearWiki allows you to pay for only the features you need. You can add and reduce the number of users you need when you need to, and can increase the the amount of storage you need when you need to at very competitive prices.
More at:http://www.clearwiki.com/
Monday, November 26, 2007
Global Business Networking
What Company Is Offering:
Global Business Networking is an online business networking website dedicated to giving its members the best online networking experience possible. They concentrate on enabling users to business network, gain business contacts, network online, discuss business-related issues and broaden their business horizons. There are news and events sections within GlobalBusinessNetworking.com, a seperate networking area where members can start their own mini-networks to discuss issues specific to them, an area to hire and be hired, online business chat, recommendations and extensive networking tools.
How It Works:
When you first login you'll see a button on the menu called "Search Members". If you click that button you can search through every member of Global Business Networking.com. Have a look through the list, and if there's anyone in a business sector you'd like to network with then click the link to their profile or click the green + sign next to their name to invite them into your contacts.
When you see someone else's profile who is not already a member of your network at the top of the page you'll see a button called "Invite this member to your network". Click on this to invite that member to your network.
One interesting way to network is to look through other people's networks. When you click on a link to see a person's profile you'll see their network in the info bar on the right of the screen. You can then click on any of those names to see their profile and also their network. This can lead to searching through a number of networks and some interesting contacts!
More at:http://www.globalbusinessnetworking.com/
Global Business Networking is an online business networking website dedicated to giving its members the best online networking experience possible. They concentrate on enabling users to business network, gain business contacts, network online, discuss business-related issues and broaden their business horizons. There are news and events sections within GlobalBusinessNetworking.com, a seperate networking area where members can start their own mini-networks to discuss issues specific to them, an area to hire and be hired, online business chat, recommendations and extensive networking tools.
How It Works:
When you first login you'll see a button on the menu called "Search Members". If you click that button you can search through every member of Global Business Networking.com. Have a look through the list, and if there's anyone in a business sector you'd like to network with then click the link to their profile or click the green + sign next to their name to invite them into your contacts.
When you see someone else's profile who is not already a member of your network at the top of the page you'll see a button called "Invite this member to your network". Click on this to invite that member to your network.
One interesting way to network is to look through other people's networks. When you click on a link to see a person's profile you'll see their network in the info bar on the right of the screen. You can then click on any of those names to see their profile and also their network. This can lead to searching through a number of networks and some interesting contacts!
More at:http://www.globalbusinessnetworking.com/
GIFUP.com is your personal GIF animation and avatar generator
What Company Is Offering:
GIFUP.com is your personal GIF animation and avatar generator.
How It Works:
Simply upload images from your computer or get them from Flickr or any web site and let GIFUP do all the magic. You get your animated avatar, banner or GIF slideshow in a sec! You may then save it to your computer, share it with your friends or post it on Myspace, Hi5, Friendster, Blogs, Forums, etc.
What Is GIF:
The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) is an 8-bit-per-pixel bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability.
The format uses a palette of up to 256 distinct colors from the 24-bit RGB color space. It also supports animations and allows a separate palette of 256 colors for each frame. The color limitation makes the GIF format unsuitable for reproducing color photographs and other images with continuous color, but it is well-suited for more simple images such as graphics or logos with solid areas of color.
GIF images are compressed using the Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) lossless data compression technique to reduce the file size without degrading the visual quality.
More at:http://www.gifup.com/
GIFUP.com is your personal GIF animation and avatar generator.
How It Works:
Simply upload images from your computer or get them from Flickr or any web site and let GIFUP do all the magic. You get your animated avatar, banner or GIF slideshow in a sec! You may then save it to your computer, share it with your friends or post it on Myspace, Hi5, Friendster, Blogs, Forums, etc.
What Is GIF:
The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) is an 8-bit-per-pixel bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability.
The format uses a palette of up to 256 distinct colors from the 24-bit RGB color space. It also supports animations and allows a separate palette of 256 colors for each frame. The color limitation makes the GIF format unsuitable for reproducing color photographs and other images with continuous color, but it is well-suited for more simple images such as graphics or logos with solid areas of color.
GIF images are compressed using the Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) lossless data compression technique to reduce the file size without degrading the visual quality.
More at:http://www.gifup.com/
Best of eBay
What Company Is Offering:
Best of eBay is a community driven website dedicated to show the most eccentric listings on eBay. With Best of eBay you can nominate the most eccentric listings you find and eBay to be voted by fellow community members. In order to nominate and vote for a Best Of eBay listing you must be a registered eBay member.
How It Works:
You can nominate an interesting listing to best of eBay by using the yellow "Nominate to Best of eBay" button located in the left column. After you click on Nominate an listing, you will be asked to insert an item number for the listing you would like to nominate. You can find this number located at the top right side of each eBay listing as shown in the screenshot below.
The administration will purge nominations which don't fit the "strangest, funniest, or eccentric" criterion or do not have a complete description on why the listing deserves to be nominated.
You can support items that have already been nominated to Best of eBay by voting. Voting is very easy, just click on the "Vote for this item" icon located to the right of each item. After you have voted for a listing, the icon changes its color to purple.
You view and add your comments to a Best of eBay nominee by clicking on the 'comment' link at the bottom of each listing. eBay content rules apply to all comments and submissions.
More at:http://bestof.ebay.com/
Best of eBay is a community driven website dedicated to show the most eccentric listings on eBay. With Best of eBay you can nominate the most eccentric listings you find and eBay to be voted by fellow community members. In order to nominate and vote for a Best Of eBay listing you must be a registered eBay member.
How It Works:
You can nominate an interesting listing to best of eBay by using the yellow "Nominate to Best of eBay" button located in the left column. After you click on Nominate an listing, you will be asked to insert an item number for the listing you would like to nominate. You can find this number located at the top right side of each eBay listing as shown in the screenshot below.
The administration will purge nominations which don't fit the "strangest, funniest, or eccentric" criterion or do not have a complete description on why the listing deserves to be nominated.
You can support items that have already been nominated to Best of eBay by voting. Voting is very easy, just click on the "Vote for this item" icon located to the right of each item. After you have voted for a listing, the icon changes its color to purple.
You view and add your comments to a Best of eBay nominee by clicking on the 'comment' link at the bottom of each listing. eBay content rules apply to all comments and submissions.
More at:http://bestof.ebay.com/
SeeToo allows Internet users to share videos stored on their computers without the burden of uploading them to another site
What Company Is Offering:
SeeToo is a web-based application that allows individuals to invite their online buddies to watch videos together with them in real time. Founded in 2007, SeeToo allows Internet users to share videos stored on their computers without the burden of uploading them to another site.
How It Works:
Whether the video is generated by your digital camera, camcorder or webcam, using SeeToo is simple:
* Select a video, or any multimedia file, from your computer. SeeToo requires no upload or any preparation work and can easily handle file of any size: 500Mb, 2Gb and greater.
* Send an automatically generated invitation to your buddy over the instant message network of your choice (e.g. AIM, ICQ, Live Messenger, Google Talk, Skype, etc.) or simply send the link to your buddy in an email. Your buddies don't have to install anything to start watching videos with you, all they need is a browser and an Internet connection.
* Once your buddy clicks on the link in the IM or email, the simultaneous viewing experience begins!
More at:http://www.seetoo.com/
SeeToo is a web-based application that allows individuals to invite their online buddies to watch videos together with them in real time. Founded in 2007, SeeToo allows Internet users to share videos stored on their computers without the burden of uploading them to another site.
How It Works:
Whether the video is generated by your digital camera, camcorder or webcam, using SeeToo is simple:
* Select a video, or any multimedia file, from your computer. SeeToo requires no upload or any preparation work and can easily handle file of any size: 500Mb, 2Gb and greater.
* Send an automatically generated invitation to your buddy over the instant message network of your choice (e.g. AIM, ICQ, Live Messenger, Google Talk, Skype, etc.) or simply send the link to your buddy in an email. Your buddies don't have to install anything to start watching videos with you, all they need is a browser and an Internet connection.
* Once your buddy clicks on the link in the IM or email, the simultaneous viewing experience begins!
More at:http://www.seetoo.com/
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