Veveo provides a video search solution for mobile devices.
Veveo has a product/service named vTap to simplify access to web video content from Internet-connected devices. Primarily a web video solution that allows for searching, browsing and viewing of web videos on mobile devices such as an iPhone.
vTap is not yet available.
THEY RAISED: Veveo Raises $28 Million, investors include Matrix Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, OmniCapital Group.
More at:http://www.veveo.net/
http://www.vtap.com/
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
How To Make Millions With Napkins
ABC Reported:
Who: Emmanuel Kastanias
Age: 24
Where: Sydney
Company: NapkinAd
What they've done: Puts advertising on napkins
Everyone uses them and by their nature, napkins are in your face.
A blank space perfect for scribbling down notes, it occurred to Emmanuel that napkins would be great for advertisements too.
Emmanuel says he found the idea staring him in the face while he was eating.
"I was looking at the napkin for 15 minutes. It's actually a very powerful medium when you look at it from a marketing perspective, not just as a napkin," he says.
"Not everybody needs a straw, or a knife, or a placemat, but everybody needs a napkin so it's a commodity that is very accessible and in demand."
Emmanuel designed perspex stands for the napkins that are also covered in advertising, targeting the thousands of consumers threading their way through food courts in various shopping malls.
"People actually use the stands like pamphlet holders," he says.
"They're targeted by the stand, pick up a napkin like a pamphlet, put it in their pocket and walk off."
Emmanuel now has stands in three locations and 20 businesses advertising.
Pitching his advertising napkins to the shopping centres was one of the hardest things he's ever had to do, says Emmanuel.
"You're out of your comfort zone and a shopping centre itself is a very large organisation - you're dealing with quite senior people.
"My very first negotiation, I was literally slaughtered," he says.
"It wasn't a pleasant experience, but it was an experience I guess I had to have."
After a disastrous first meeting, Emmanuel says he learned a good pitch was a quick pitch, and to clearly state what's in it for the company.
Building relationships with his clients was also crucial.
"I was lucky to some extent with people because I managed to build a rapport with some of the people there who thought 'Ok, here's a young guy. We'll give him a chance and see what he can come up with'," he says.
Some of the clients advertising on the napkins didn't have a website, so he built them one, even though it meant teaching himself how to do it.
"You're competing against a lot of people, a lot of very large customers, and the only thing that you can really beat them in is customer service. That's the one thing you have on top of them. So it's very important that you maintain that customer relationship, and you offer your customers whatever they need."
Emmanuel says finding investors has been nearly impossible, even after he self-funded the building of the stands and proved his product in the market, but he's not letting that slow him down.
"The plan is to be in every shopping centre across Australia, to have every person going to lunch each day and using one of my napkins," he says.
More at:http://www.abc.net.au/catapult/stories/s1783823.htm
Who: Emmanuel Kastanias
Age: 24
Where: Sydney
Company: NapkinAd
What they've done: Puts advertising on napkins
Everyone uses them and by their nature, napkins are in your face.
A blank space perfect for scribbling down notes, it occurred to Emmanuel that napkins would be great for advertisements too.
Emmanuel says he found the idea staring him in the face while he was eating.
"I was looking at the napkin for 15 minutes. It's actually a very powerful medium when you look at it from a marketing perspective, not just as a napkin," he says.
"Not everybody needs a straw, or a knife, or a placemat, but everybody needs a napkin so it's a commodity that is very accessible and in demand."
Emmanuel designed perspex stands for the napkins that are also covered in advertising, targeting the thousands of consumers threading their way through food courts in various shopping malls.
"People actually use the stands like pamphlet holders," he says.
"They're targeted by the stand, pick up a napkin like a pamphlet, put it in their pocket and walk off."
Emmanuel now has stands in three locations and 20 businesses advertising.
Pitching his advertising napkins to the shopping centres was one of the hardest things he's ever had to do, says Emmanuel.
"You're out of your comfort zone and a shopping centre itself is a very large organisation - you're dealing with quite senior people.
"My very first negotiation, I was literally slaughtered," he says.
"It wasn't a pleasant experience, but it was an experience I guess I had to have."
After a disastrous first meeting, Emmanuel says he learned a good pitch was a quick pitch, and to clearly state what's in it for the company.
Building relationships with his clients was also crucial.
"I was lucky to some extent with people because I managed to build a rapport with some of the people there who thought 'Ok, here's a young guy. We'll give him a chance and see what he can come up with'," he says.
Some of the clients advertising on the napkins didn't have a website, so he built them one, even though it meant teaching himself how to do it.
"You're competing against a lot of people, a lot of very large customers, and the only thing that you can really beat them in is customer service. That's the one thing you have on top of them. So it's very important that you maintain that customer relationship, and you offer your customers whatever they need."
Emmanuel says finding investors has been nearly impossible, even after he self-funded the building of the stands and proved his product in the market, but he's not letting that slow him down.
"The plan is to be in every shopping centre across Australia, to have every person going to lunch each day and using one of my napkins," he says.
More at:http://www.abc.net.au/catapult/stories/s1783823.htm
Ad:bree is a business network, news source and events organizer for the online advertising community
ad:bree is a business network, news source and events organizer for the online advertising community. ad:bree connects online publishers, ad networks, media buyers, creative agencies, analytics providers and investors.Ad:bree is geared specifically towards the online advertising community. It gives advertising people a chance to socialize, making precious business contacts along the way. Joining Ad:bree, whether you?re a publisher looking for advertisers, a media buyer, an advertiser, or even a salesman, will get you exposure. The site is a Ning-based network, so if you don?t already have a Ning ID you?ll need to choose one to sign up. As with other networks, each member is allotted ample profile space for filling out those important deets, such as profession, location, company, and of course there?s room for photos.
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CrowdVine is a simple way to build your own social network
CrowdVine is a simple way to build your own social network. It's free, it's hosted, and the founder is working extremely hard to build software that makes your day.
There are many reasons to create a network and with CrowdVine.com creating a network is easy. The homepage takes you through three easy steps. First design your network, basically choose your color, there isn?t a huge choice with designing your network at the moment. Then choose your profile questions, this is where you make your network unique, deciding what questions will be in your profile. The last step is to simply add friends. Tony Stubblebine is continuing to work on the site, it will upgrade from its beta status on September first.
With CrowdVine.com making a social network is so easy. If you browse through some of the social networks hosted by CrowdVine.com you will see that there are many interesting social networks such as "Providence Geeks" a tech social network for people in Providence RI. You can make your network as specific as you like for free.
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There are many reasons to create a network and with CrowdVine.com creating a network is easy. The homepage takes you through three easy steps. First design your network, basically choose your color, there isn?t a huge choice with designing your network at the moment. Then choose your profile questions, this is where you make your network unique, deciding what questions will be in your profile. The last step is to simply add friends. Tony Stubblebine is continuing to work on the site, it will upgrade from its beta status on September first.
With CrowdVine.com making a social network is so easy. If you browse through some of the social networks hosted by CrowdVine.com you will see that there are many interesting social networks such as "Providence Geeks" a tech social network for people in Providence RI. You can make your network as specific as you like for free.
more at:http://www.crowdvine.com/home
The Behance Team works day and night to help creative professionals and organizations make ideas happen
The Behance Team works day and night to help creative professionals and organizations make ideas happen. We are a bunch of designers, writers, developers, and entrepreneurs with a passion for what we call "productive creativity." We believe that all creative realms, society, and life would be a lot more interesting and enjoyable if more creative ideas were pushed forward. Quite selfishly, we'd like to live in a world where productive creativity yields more inspirational media, progressive arts, groundbreaking discoveries, revolutionary businesses, and less of the same old, same old.When you see a team or individuals profile you have the choice of looking at their portfolio, adding them to the watchlist, hearing their shout out or seeing their info, which is their professional information. When you join a circle, each circle has a theme or topic, you can participate in discussions and submit your work on the billboard. Behance.net allows you to look for job opportunities and buy products that will help you organize your projects. Behance.net helps inspire and organize creative minds.
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More at;http://www.behance.net/
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MyRetailCodes is updated a few times each day, with the hope of bringing you the latest and best deals on the internet. We offer to you online discount codes, link based coupons, product discount news and sale announcements. Many of the deals you find here are only found at MyRetailCodes.Shop for anything from clothes to airplane tickets. There is a search engine that allows you to enter a discount code and there is a thorough list of stores to browse through. There is a forum to discuss certain discounts, you can view the most popular discounts to see what stores provide them and how much they usually are. To make searching for discounts even easier, subscribe to the newsletter that sends alerts on discounts to your email address. Specify which products you are looking for and receive special alerts on those products. Don't miss a bargain because you don't have enough time to find it, use MyRetailCodes.co.uk.
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Jumptojobs.co.uk isn't a job board, it's a search engine for jobs
Jumptojobs.co.uk isn't a job board, it's a search engine for jobs.
JumptoJobs.co.uk is a new concept site that lets you determine how much you spend in order to generate traffic directly to your website and jobs through pay per click. Plus, with advanced technology it copies the jobs directly from your site to us without you lifting a finger.
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No Admin - we go into your site and upload all your jobs to our site - each time you update them we update them - you dont have to lift a finger
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Cost Per Click starting from as low as 12p*.
More at:http://www.jumptojobs.co.uk/
JumptoJobs.co.uk is a new concept site that lets you determine how much you spend in order to generate traffic directly to your website and jobs through pay per click. Plus, with advanced technology it copies the jobs directly from your site to us without you lifting a finger.
All you have to do is tell us how many click throughs to your jobs you want and we do the rest.
No Admin - we go into your site and upload all your jobs to our site - each time you update them we update them - you dont have to lift a finger
You decide how much to spend - giving you complete control over your budget
You only pay for traffic you receive - Thats right no spending lots of money to see if it works or not
Ensure your vacancies are top of the search category you want.
We will provide - Making sure you are always getting the best response
Weekly reports on number of clickthroughs and unique users - giving you complete control and enables you to analyse problem jobs
High visability on-line campaign - to ensure the candidates are always coming back
Cost Per Click starting from as low as 12p*.
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FilesTube
FilesTube.com is a search engine designed to search files in various file sharing and uploading sites.
As an file sharing search engine FilesTube.com finds files matching your search criteria among the files that has been seen recently in uploading sites by our search spider. This information is accumulated in a database. When you execute a FilesTube.com search it delivers results from the database.
With our unique approach to crawling you can find the files shared on uploading sites that the other crawlers miss. Also our search engine collects rich and relevant metadata for each page. As a result, when you search for files (video, music, software, documents etc) with FilesTube, you can always find high-quality, relevant search results.
More at:http://filestube.com/
As an file sharing search engine FilesTube.com finds files matching your search criteria among the files that has been seen recently in uploading sites by our search spider. This information is accumulated in a database. When you execute a FilesTube.com search it delivers results from the database.
With our unique approach to crawling you can find the files shared on uploading sites that the other crawlers miss. Also our search engine collects rich and relevant metadata for each page. As a result, when you search for files (video, music, software, documents etc) with FilesTube, you can always find high-quality, relevant search results.
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