Photobucket, founded in 2003 by Alex Welch and Darren Crystal, is an image hosting, video hosting, slideshow creation and photo-sharing site. VCs including Insight Venture Partners and Trinity Ventures funded the company.
According to comScore, January 2007 report, Photobucket has 17.6 million unique monthly visitors in the U.S. and over 27 Million unique monthly visitors worldwide. The site has over 40 million registered users. According to Reuters, Murdoch's Newscorp (owner of MySpace), is all set to acquire Photobucket for an estimated price of $250 million. Photobucket, with close to 3 billion photos, is the # 1 photo site in the world.
More at:http://photobucket.com/
Saturday, May 26, 2007
CoRank
When CoRank launched in March it was a social news ranking site (like Digg) that filtered news based on your sources -- people whose opinion you value. Or, as CoRank founder Rogelio Bernal Andreo told us, it was "yet another boring bookmarking site." Today, the site relaunched with a new focus: allowing users to create their own, branded social news and bookmarking site based on CoRank's technology using a set of simple online tools.
Rogelio, who is also the founder of eGrupos, one of the largest Spanish-speaking social networks on the web, said that a trial run of the new CoRank on the Spanish version revealed some demand for this type of build-your-own-digg service (Rumoreame is an example of a customized CoRank running on the Spanish language version that is getting some use).
More at:http://www.corank.com/
Rogelio, who is also the founder of eGrupos, one of the largest Spanish-speaking social networks on the web, said that a trial run of the new CoRank on the Spanish version revealed some demand for this type of build-your-own-digg service (Rumoreame is an example of a customized CoRank running on the Spanish language version that is getting some use).
More at:http://www.corank.com/
Fly In 10$
Europeans have become used to flights for under 10 euros or British pounds, thanks to RyanAir and EasyJet, which use secondary and tertiary airports, and which provide barebones operations. Will a new airline do the same for the USA?
Skybus, which is launching its inaugural flights this week from Columbus, Ohio, to other secondary airports near major markets, such as Portsmouth, N.H. (near Boston), and Burbank, Calif. (near L.A.), says it is setting aside a minimum of 10 seats available for $10 on every flight (not including taxes and fees of up to $7.90, and the 9/11 security fee of $2.50). Reports are that it has sold 200,000 pre-flight tickets.
More at:http://soundmoneytips.com/article/36149
Skybus, which is launching its inaugural flights this week from Columbus, Ohio, to other secondary airports near major markets, such as Portsmouth, N.H. (near Boston), and Burbank, Calif. (near L.A.), says it is setting aside a minimum of 10 seats available for $10 on every flight (not including taxes and fees of up to $7.90, and the 9/11 security fee of $2.50). Reports are that it has sold 200,000 pre-flight tickets.
More at:http://soundmoneytips.com/article/36149
How They Become Entreprenuer....
Dappen, 39, was attracted to Two Sisters Gourmet in particular because of the unique way the business is run. At her in-home parties, instead of simply talking about the company's gourmet food products and passing around samples, she holds interactive cooking classes in which guests prepare various dishes using Two Sisters Gourmet ingredients. "People go to home parties so they can socialize," she points out, and getting together in the kitchen allows for just that. Home parties have the added benefit of showing the guests exactly how the Two Sisters Gourmet products can be used--and that anyone is capable of using them.
Though she knew she would enjoy it, Dappen did not have big plans for her Two Sisters Gourmet business. As a stay-at-home mom, she was simply looking for a way to make ends meet when she had fewer clients from her telecommunications consulting job, and she thought the parties would be a way to earn an extra $500 a month. She hadn't considered the other side of the business, though: sponsoring new consultants. A year after becoming the company's first consultant in upstate New York, Dappen now has 61 people in her downline, which has boosted her expectations for how much she can earn. Says Dappen, "I have every intention for this to be a six-figure income for me in a year."
Now that she sees her business's great potential, she's found creative ways to attract new customers and new consultants. She wears her Two Sisters Gourmet name tag wherever she goes so people will ask her what it is, and she has helped a variety of organizations with Two Sisters Gourmet fundraisers. After her team met its sales and recruitment goals last November, the corporate office sent celebrity chef Jon Ashton to host a cooking show in Dappen's hometown of Webster, New York. The event attracted attention from TV networks and the local newspaper.
Dappen's direct-selling business has greatly exceeded her original expectations and given her a chance to have a taste of her catering dream, all while allowing her to concentrate on what she feels is most important. "I'm able to work my business around my family, not my family around my business," she says. "That's what I enjoy most."
More at:http://www.twosistersgourmet.com/
Though she knew she would enjoy it, Dappen did not have big plans for her Two Sisters Gourmet business. As a stay-at-home mom, she was simply looking for a way to make ends meet when she had fewer clients from her telecommunications consulting job, and she thought the parties would be a way to earn an extra $500 a month. She hadn't considered the other side of the business, though: sponsoring new consultants. A year after becoming the company's first consultant in upstate New York, Dappen now has 61 people in her downline, which has boosted her expectations for how much she can earn. Says Dappen, "I have every intention for this to be a six-figure income for me in a year."
Now that she sees her business's great potential, she's found creative ways to attract new customers and new consultants. She wears her Two Sisters Gourmet name tag wherever she goes so people will ask her what it is, and she has helped a variety of organizations with Two Sisters Gourmet fundraisers. After her team met its sales and recruitment goals last November, the corporate office sent celebrity chef Jon Ashton to host a cooking show in Dappen's hometown of Webster, New York. The event attracted attention from TV networks and the local newspaper.
Dappen's direct-selling business has greatly exceeded her original expectations and given her a chance to have a taste of her catering dream, all while allowing her to concentrate on what she feels is most important. "I'm able to work my business around my family, not my family around my business," she says. "That's what I enjoy most."
More at:http://www.twosistersgourmet.com/
Unype.com is an application that allows users to navigate images of cities, taken from Google Earth
Now you can tour the virtual world with your friends. Unype.com is an application that allows users to navigate images of cities, taken from Google Earth, as an animated character. The application, combined with the animated navigation function, links with Skype, enabling users to talk to other people using Unype. Therefore, users can walk the streets of Paris together, or stop and take a look at the Grand Canyon. Users can find out where their friends are located, and immediately be brought to there location, either as a follower of their movements, or as a leader. They also have the ability to see everyone using Unype at that moment, and can transport to a new persons location, and see if they would like to talk together on Skype. Best of all the application is free.
“Use your existing Skype account for a multi-user Google Earth experience.”
More at:http://www.unype.com/
“Use your existing Skype account for a multi-user Google Earth experience.”
More at:http://www.unype.com/
Share Your World With TileFile.com
Are you tired of having to distinguish between a video, picture, and audio file when saving to your computer, or while organizing flies and folders? With TileFile you can combine all the pictures, videos and audio files into one folder, in the order you want. Users have access to all their files online in their account. It allows the user to create a digital postcard of a file/clip. For example, you can take a video clip from your files, write information on the virtual back of the clip for all to see, and share the clip with another user, who can also see what you wrote on the back and add comments. The files you create can be private, shared, or public; whereas, if they are public, any user can take a copy of your file and place it in their file, website, or blog. There is no download or software required, and the application is free. All user accounts can be accessed from any computer.
“TileFile.com is the home base from which you create and share "TileFiles". TileFiles are much more beautiful and social than emails, but just as easy to manage. Think of TileFiles as the "Postcards of the Internet". They can be private, shared, or public. This is a much richer way of sharing your photos, videos and animations (including Flash). You can mix your own TileFiles with TileFiles from another people and then share that mixture. You can take TileFiles from someone elses mixture and include them in your own. You can also publish TileFiles on web pages, blogs, and in your favorite communities. Instead of an old fashioned website of forms and links, we've designed TileFile to feel more like a desktop application. However you don't need to download any software, which means you can log in from anywhere. The way TileFile brings you and your friends together is simple and colorful. It may change the way you "Share Your World™".”
More at:http://www.tilefile.com/
“TileFile.com is the home base from which you create and share "TileFiles". TileFiles are much more beautiful and social than emails, but just as easy to manage. Think of TileFiles as the "Postcards of the Internet". They can be private, shared, or public. This is a much richer way of sharing your photos, videos and animations (including Flash). You can mix your own TileFiles with TileFiles from another people and then share that mixture. You can take TileFiles from someone elses mixture and include them in your own. You can also publish TileFiles on web pages, blogs, and in your favorite communities. Instead of an old fashioned website of forms and links, we've designed TileFile to feel more like a desktop application. However you don't need to download any software, which means you can log in from anywhere. The way TileFile brings you and your friends together is simple and colorful. It may change the way you "Share Your World™".”
More at:http://www.tilefile.com/
All IT Jobs At One Place
Odin Jobs is about cutting out all the time you spend looking at the hundreds of job boards around the net, letting you access a great number of posting from one portal. Odin aggregates job postings from over 1000 sources daily to maximize you job hunting experience, saving you time as you will be viewing over 20,000 jobs a day. You are also garunteed that you won’t be viewing any spam or irrelevant jobs, given that Odin has developed a processor that evaluates fitness in terms of your feild, looking at language among other factors. This also means you won´t be using keywords, Odin’s “artificial intelligence” will sort it out for you.
“Odin collects jobs from job boards, corporate websites, groups etc. At last count Odin is collecting over 20,000 jobs from 1000 of sources every day.
To fulfill the key part of our mission - get the "Right" It job, Odin features a matching technology that sifts through all the jobs and selects the right ones based on your qualification, experience and preference.
Instead of using keywords and displaying 1000's of weak to irrelevant jobs, Odin employs language processing and artificial intelligence to determine the fitness of a job for you and shows you only the right ones.
We want you to find the right IT job. We want to make your search easier and faster and more relevant.”
More at:http://www.odinjobs.com/
“Odin collects jobs from job boards, corporate websites, groups etc. At last count Odin is collecting over 20,000 jobs from 1000 of sources every day.
To fulfill the key part of our mission - get the "Right" It job, Odin features a matching technology that sifts through all the jobs and selects the right ones based on your qualification, experience and preference.
Instead of using keywords and displaying 1000's of weak to irrelevant jobs, Odin employs language processing and artificial intelligence to determine the fitness of a job for you and shows you only the right ones.
We want you to find the right IT job. We want to make your search easier and faster and more relevant.”
More at:http://www.odinjobs.com/
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