Batanga is a niche social media network focused on the Hispanic market, Batanga describes themselves as a media and entertainment company. They state they are more than a social media site, as they not only have an online social network but they also reach the hispanic market through 20 exclusive online Latin radio stations and more than 5,000 user-programmed radio stations.
Their goal is to build the first Latino online brand. You may have the language of the site displayed in either English or Spanish.
Batanga stats: over 4.5 million+ unique visitors per month, streams 90 million+ songs per months, streams 10 million+ videos per month, and has 100,000 members as of August 2007.
They Raised:Batanga raised $30 Million in series C financing from Tudor Ventures and H.I.G. Ventures.
More at:http://www.batanga.com/
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Home Equity Share matches home buyers with investors
Home Equity Share is targeting a very specific niche: real estate down payments. It matches the parties and provides them with contracts, but doesn’t facilitate the exchange of money. Home Equity Share matches home buyers with investors. To be exact: it brings together buyers who can afford monthly payments but not a 20% down payment, and investors who want to get into real estate but don't want to become landlords or make monthly payments.
Potential home buyers post a profile listing their preferences, including the area they want to buy in, and the price range they're looking for. They're automatically matched with compatible investors, come to an agreement and sign a preliminary commitment. This allows the buyer to become pre-approved for a loan, and to start looking for a property. Once buyer and investor agree on a property, the investor provides the down payment, the buyer arranges a mortgage for his home and moves in. At the end of a specified agreement term—usually three to seven years—the buyer can purchase the investor's interest in the property, or they can sell the house share its appreciation in value.
Home Equity Share provides the matching service and contracts at no cost to buyers and investors, but requires that they use a real estate agent who is registered with the company. Agents pay a referral fee of 20% of the commission earned on transactions referred by Home Equity Share. (Since the service is still in its soft-launch phase, it won't be accepting new agents until early fall 2007.) We featured a similar business idea last year: Shared Spaces, a British network that also matches co-buyers. The major difference is that Shared Spaces is mainly targeted at buyers who'll be inhabiting a property together—roommates who are buying instead of renting to get a first foot on the real estate ladder.
More at:http://www.homeequityshare.com/
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Potential home buyers post a profile listing their preferences, including the area they want to buy in, and the price range they're looking for. They're automatically matched with compatible investors, come to an agreement and sign a preliminary commitment. This allows the buyer to become pre-approved for a loan, and to start looking for a property. Once buyer and investor agree on a property, the investor provides the down payment, the buyer arranges a mortgage for his home and moves in. At the end of a specified agreement term—usually three to seven years—the buyer can purchase the investor's interest in the property, or they can sell the house share its appreciation in value.
Home Equity Share provides the matching service and contracts at no cost to buyers and investors, but requires that they use a real estate agent who is registered with the company. Agents pay a referral fee of 20% of the commission earned on transactions referred by Home Equity Share. (Since the service is still in its soft-launch phase, it won't be accepting new agents until early fall 2007.) We featured a similar business idea last year: Shared Spaces, a British network that also matches co-buyers. The major difference is that Shared Spaces is mainly targeted at buyers who'll be inhabiting a property together—roommates who are buying instead of renting to get a first foot on the real estate ladder.
More at:http://www.homeequityshare.com/
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ReputationDefender
Job hunters perfecting their resumes for that dream job are being urged to also polish their online profile — and clean it up if need be, with a new breed of companies emerging to help mold Internet images.
A study of 1,150 hiring managers by Careerbuilder.com found 26 percent of managers admitted to using search engines such as Google and 12 percent of managers said they used social networking sites like Facebook.com in their hiring process.
Those numbers may be low, but not the repercussions.
Of the 12 percent who checked social networking sites, 63 percent declined to hire an applicant based on what they found, citing lying about qualifications and criminal behavior as two of the top disqualifiers.
For $10 a month, ReputationDefender.com will search your name everywhere — even “beyond Google” — including password-protected sites, and give a report of their findings.
For about $30 a month, clients can have them do a clean-up, which involves ensuring all links to, for example, a college kegstand on Facebook.com or a disparaging blog entry from a former partner, will not appear during an online search.
“More than half of my clients use us just to search and don’t even ask us to clean anything up,” the company’s chief executive and founder Michael Fertik.
While ReputationDefender.com caters to individuals not employers, DefendMyName.com services both camps.
The two-year-old Portland, Maine-based company, a division of QED Media Group LLC, will conduct an online clean-up for any size client, from individuals to large corporations. Some clients are companies seeking positive brand image online.
Using proprietary technology, company founder Rob Russo said DefendMyName creates links to promotional sites and blogs on clients in order to bury negative search engine results.
More at:http://www.reputationdefender.com/
Source:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20143819/
A study of 1,150 hiring managers by Careerbuilder.com found 26 percent of managers admitted to using search engines such as Google and 12 percent of managers said they used social networking sites like Facebook.com in their hiring process.
Those numbers may be low, but not the repercussions.
Of the 12 percent who checked social networking sites, 63 percent declined to hire an applicant based on what they found, citing lying about qualifications and criminal behavior as two of the top disqualifiers.
For $10 a month, ReputationDefender.com will search your name everywhere — even “beyond Google” — including password-protected sites, and give a report of their findings.
For about $30 a month, clients can have them do a clean-up, which involves ensuring all links to, for example, a college kegstand on Facebook.com or a disparaging blog entry from a former partner, will not appear during an online search.
“More than half of my clients use us just to search and don’t even ask us to clean anything up,” the company’s chief executive and founder Michael Fertik.
While ReputationDefender.com caters to individuals not employers, DefendMyName.com services both camps.
The two-year-old Portland, Maine-based company, a division of QED Media Group LLC, will conduct an online clean-up for any size client, from individuals to large corporations. Some clients are companies seeking positive brand image online.
Using proprietary technology, company founder Rob Russo said DefendMyName creates links to promotional sites and blogs on clients in order to bury negative search engine results.
More at:http://www.reputationdefender.com/
Source:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20143819/
PicnicMob is a social experiment of sorts, where the idea is to get a large group of people together in one city and have an online picnic
PicnicMob is a social experiment of sorts, where the idea is to get a large group of people together in one city and have an online picnic.
By figuring out your interests, the team behind PicnicMob will know where to seat you at this giant picnic in the sky (well, on the web–same difference). So you’ll get to sit by people that you’ll find most interesting, and vice versa. Meet others in your area and maybe find someone new in the offline world. There are 30 questions for you to fill out. They seem mostly nonsensical, but they’re targeted to sift out the information needed for the purpose of this picnic. All that’s needed for your participation in this project is an email address. Once 1000 people have completed the questionnaire, a virtual picnic will be held one Sunday at noon. The current cities supported are Boston, Chicago, New York, Washington D.C. and San Francisco.
PicnicMob insists that none of the data collected will be used for purposes other than matching you up for the virtual picnic. That means no third party research tools, or targeted picnic ads. In the end, this is really an art experiment, and I’m wondering how picnics will enable users to chat with each other, and how they will handle multiple picnics. It could be fun.
More at:http://www.picnicmob.org/
By figuring out your interests, the team behind PicnicMob will know where to seat you at this giant picnic in the sky (well, on the web–same difference). So you’ll get to sit by people that you’ll find most interesting, and vice versa. Meet others in your area and maybe find someone new in the offline world. There are 30 questions for you to fill out. They seem mostly nonsensical, but they’re targeted to sift out the information needed for the purpose of this picnic. All that’s needed for your participation in this project is an email address. Once 1000 people have completed the questionnaire, a virtual picnic will be held one Sunday at noon. The current cities supported are Boston, Chicago, New York, Washington D.C. and San Francisco.
PicnicMob insists that none of the data collected will be used for purposes other than matching you up for the virtual picnic. That means no third party research tools, or targeted picnic ads. In the end, this is really an art experiment, and I’m wondering how picnics will enable users to chat with each other, and how they will handle multiple picnics. It could be fun.
More at:http://www.picnicmob.org/
SearchToPhone Your Virtual Assistance Only For Calling Businesses For Goods And Services
Using the SearchToPhone service would be ideal for those who don't want to mess around and call 411 or search through the yellow pages, instead of that, you can easily make a quick call and then get the service providers to call you and you can begin to interview them about their services.
Its your own virtual assistant, but only in the realm of looking to call businesses for goods and services, not exactly as cool as having a full time assistant, but hey, its free. Simply call the SearchToPhone service, inform them of what exactly you are looking for, then the virtual assistants will start calling these businesses on your behalf and leave them messages that you may be interested in their services and the people will call you back within one minute and after speaking with them you can decide who you choose to do business through. You have the option to search on or offline, if you want to conduct a search online, simply type in the service you are looking for and the same process will happen.
More at:http://searchtophone.com/
Its your own virtual assistant, but only in the realm of looking to call businesses for goods and services, not exactly as cool as having a full time assistant, but hey, its free. Simply call the SearchToPhone service, inform them of what exactly you are looking for, then the virtual assistants will start calling these businesses on your behalf and leave them messages that you may be interested in their services and the people will call you back within one minute and after speaking with them you can decide who you choose to do business through. You have the option to search on or offline, if you want to conduct a search online, simply type in the service you are looking for and the same process will happen.
More at:http://searchtophone.com/
InsiderScore is an insider trading data monitoring and intelligence service
InsiderScore is an insider trading data monitoring and intelligence service. Their proprietary algorithms score and filter transactions in real time, allowing you to zero in on the most important and notable insider transactions. You can easily monitor your existing coverage realm and scan the entire market universe for timely, telling, and actionable new ideas via the one or two daily consolidated emails we send and/or by visiting our in-depth website.
With the Sarbanes-Oxley act being in effect in 2002 partly because of the horrific happenings with Enron, people working within the companies are now more well watched and need to publicize their trading moves more when buying or selling company stock. This is an invaluable tool for investors who are trying to figure out which way a company might go in the near future. Subscribers to the service of InsiderScore.com can receive emails stating the moves of prominent insiders of different publically traded companies to see if this can help add any insight to the investing that they are doing. Any serious investor would benefit from the insights that this information would provide.
More at:https://www.insiderscore.com/
With the Sarbanes-Oxley act being in effect in 2002 partly because of the horrific happenings with Enron, people working within the companies are now more well watched and need to publicize their trading moves more when buying or selling company stock. This is an invaluable tool for investors who are trying to figure out which way a company might go in the near future. Subscribers to the service of InsiderScore.com can receive emails stating the moves of prominent insiders of different publically traded companies to see if this can help add any insight to the investing that they are doing. Any serious investor would benefit from the insights that this information would provide.
More at:https://www.insiderscore.com/
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