Veveo is officially launching its flagship product today, vTap. This product is a mobile search engine for video results, and is now available on the iPhone and phones that support Microsoft Windows Mobile.
We first covered Veveo here, when we learned of its funding to the tune of $28 million, as well as its partnership with Verizon for powering video search. You may remember that the vTap search engine operates by figuring out what you’re searching for as you type. This character-based incremental search will serve up instant results that dynamically change as you enter in more text. vTap then presents browsing options for you to view the clips. This is further refined by the fact that it’s a niche search engine that currently focuses on video vTap will soon be available for Java-enabled phones in the near future, which will include support for Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, LG and Sony Ericson phones.
More at:http://www.vtap.com/
Via-Mash
Monday, September 10, 2007
Dime Tracker helps you manage your money by allowing you to send text messages of what you spend
We use to stuffed many receipts in our wallet right most of the time? Right. Now, how many of those have you actually copied down into an Excel file? Tracking your spending is important, but doing it by hand is inconvenient. Why not just text your expenses from your cell phone as you spend? Dime Tracker lets you save detailed reports to Excel, check up on your spending totals via your cell, and create budgets you can stick to.Sometimes you lose a receipt or just forget. Dime Tracker helps you manage your money by allowing you to send text messages of what you spend. So you decide to splurge and buy yourself some new sneakers, that´s $100, send a text that records that purchase, even take a photo of the sneakers if you want, and save this as a record in Excel. There you go, you don´t have to remember to write it down later, it is done right then and there. It is easy to create an account, choose username and password, select your mobile carrier and you are ready to go. Keep track of your expenses with DimeTracker.com.
More at:http://www.dimetracker.com/
More at:http://www.dimetracker.com/
Business Plan competition is being organised by Entrepreneurship Development Cell, IIT Roorkee in THOMSO
Samadhan is a social entrepreneurship Business Plan competition and is being organised by Entrepreneurship Development Cell, IIT Roorkee in THOMSO ,the youth cultural festival of IIT Roorkee. Samadhan aims at encouraging young and budding entrepreneurs to think of innovative plans which would have an impact on the society.
The Business Plans must be mailed to samadhan.iitr@gmail.com by 23rd September. The best 10 entries will be shortlisted and will be provided mentoring by their Knowledge Partners Gensol Consultants Pvt. Ltd . for a period of 10 days . The final presentation will be held on 27th October in IIT Roorkee .
The top 2 entries would get the opportunity to make a presentation at TIECON while there are cash prizes for the top 3.
For further details you can log on to www.thomso.org.in .
The Business Plans must be mailed to samadhan.iitr@gmail.com by 23rd September. The best 10 entries will be shortlisted and will be provided mentoring by their Knowledge Partners Gensol Consultants Pvt. Ltd . for a period of 10 days . The final presentation will be held on 27th October in IIT Roorkee .
The top 2 entries would get the opportunity to make a presentation at TIECON while there are cash prizes for the top 3.
For further details you can log on to www.thomso.org.in .
VenturePrize
VenturePrize
Alberta's Business Plan Competition
The VenturePrize Program is open to new and future entrepreneurs from across Alberta. VenturePrize provides training, professional support and financial incentives to help people build or enhance viable technology-based ventures. VenturePrize is a program of TEC Edmonton, made possible through support from organizations across Alberta.
VenturePrize has two categories:
the Alberta Student Business Plan category is exclusively for students in universities and colleges
the Fast-Growth category is for individuals, teams, new companies, inventors, students or any other type of entrepreneur with high-growth, technology concepts or businesses
There are four main components to the program:
A seminar series led by university experts (October and November)
Mentoring from experienced entrepreneurs (December to March)
Feedback on all bussiness plans entered in the competition from business professionals
Over $180,000 in prizes to be shared among finalists in the two categories. Prizes include cash and in-kind support such as prototype development, marketing, legal and accounting services.
Key activities/dates:
Seminars start October 17, 2007
Business plan submission deadline in the Fast-Growth category is Feb. 28, 2008.
Final face-off and Awards Luncheon is in May 2008.
More at:http://www.tecedmonton.com/VenturePrize.cfm
Alberta's Business Plan Competition
The VenturePrize Program is open to new and future entrepreneurs from across Alberta. VenturePrize provides training, professional support and financial incentives to help people build or enhance viable technology-based ventures. VenturePrize is a program of TEC Edmonton, made possible through support from organizations across Alberta.
VenturePrize has two categories:
the Alberta Student Business Plan category is exclusively for students in universities and colleges
the Fast-Growth category is for individuals, teams, new companies, inventors, students or any other type of entrepreneur with high-growth, technology concepts or businesses
There are four main components to the program:
A seminar series led by university experts (October and November)
Mentoring from experienced entrepreneurs (December to March)
Feedback on all bussiness plans entered in the competition from business professionals
Over $180,000 in prizes to be shared among finalists in the two categories. Prizes include cash and in-kind support such as prototype development, marketing, legal and accounting services.
Key activities/dates:
Seminars start October 17, 2007
Business plan submission deadline in the Fast-Growth category is Feb. 28, 2008.
Final face-off and Awards Luncheon is in May 2008.
More at:http://www.tecedmonton.com/VenturePrize.cfm
EchoSign
The Office 2.0 conference was set up almost entirely without paper (except for some checks that paid for sponsorships). Even the contracts necessary to set up the show were signed electronically, using EchoSign. There are other companies that provide services to create legally binding signatures, such as DocuSign (review), but EchoSign has simplicity going for it.
If you want to have a document "signed" electronically, EchoSign will convert it to a PDF, send it to your designated recipient, and give you the option to have it signed via a Web form, or with a pen, via fax. For e-signatures, the service confirms when the recipient opened the document and when they "signed" it with keystrokes on their computer; this transaction is actually a legally valid signature. Still, traditionalists might want to use the fax option, in which case EchoSign sends your recipient a PDF of your file, which they then print, sign, and fax to the number printed on a special cover sheet. This fax is then routed to your EchoSign account automatically. Whichever method you use, EchoSign keeps track of all your contracts and can remind you of which ones are pending signature.
The service also puts rudimentary workflow on top of your contracts, informing you of which ones still need to be signed.
The product does not confirm that the person who signed the document is who you intend it to be. It's an electronic record-keeping and workflow service, not a notary. But electronic signatures are more legal than you probably think, and much easier to manage than paper transactions.
If you only need to manage the odd contract from time to time, you probably don't need this product, which is $12.95 a month. But if managing and tracking contracts takes up a noticeable portion of your work time, EchoSign could probably get some of it back for you. There's also a version that integrates with SalesForce.com, which is great for salespeople.
more at:http://www.echosign.com/
If you want to have a document "signed" electronically, EchoSign will convert it to a PDF, send it to your designated recipient, and give you the option to have it signed via a Web form, or with a pen, via fax. For e-signatures, the service confirms when the recipient opened the document and when they "signed" it with keystrokes on their computer; this transaction is actually a legally valid signature. Still, traditionalists might want to use the fax option, in which case EchoSign sends your recipient a PDF of your file, which they then print, sign, and fax to the number printed on a special cover sheet. This fax is then routed to your EchoSign account automatically. Whichever method you use, EchoSign keeps track of all your contracts and can remind you of which ones are pending signature.
The service also puts rudimentary workflow on top of your contracts, informing you of which ones still need to be signed.
The product does not confirm that the person who signed the document is who you intend it to be. It's an electronic record-keeping and workflow service, not a notary. But electronic signatures are more legal than you probably think, and much easier to manage than paper transactions.
If you only need to manage the odd contract from time to time, you probably don't need this product, which is $12.95 a month. But if managing and tracking contracts takes up a noticeable portion of your work time, EchoSign could probably get some of it back for you. There's also a version that integrates with SalesForce.com, which is great for salespeople.
more at:http://www.echosign.com/
The Idea Of Micropayments
The idea of micropayments — charging Web users tiny amounts of money for single pieces of online content — was essentially put to sleep toward the end of the dot-com boom.
In December 2000, Clay Shirky, an adjunct professor in New York University’s interactive telecommunications program, wrote a manifesto that people still cite whenever someone suggests resurrecting the idea. Micropayments will never work, he wrote, mainly because “users hate them.”
But wait. Amid the disdain, and without many people noticing, micropayments have arrived — just not in the way they were originally envisioned.
The 99 cents you pay for a song on iTunes is a micropayment. So are the tiny amounts that some operators of small Web sites earn whenever someone clicks on the ads on their pages. Some stock-photography companies sell pictures for as little as $1 each.
Consumers were reluctant to pay even a tenth of a cent for something they believed should be free. “There is a certain amount of anxiety involved in any decision to buy, no matter how small,” Mr. Shirky wrote in 2000.
It turns out, however, that consumers are more than willing to pay for certain types of content in certain situations. Consumers “expect to pay for music and movies, but not so much for the printed word,” said George Peabody, an analyst with Mercator Advisory Group, which serves the payments industry.
In December 2000, Clay Shirky, an adjunct professor in New York University’s interactive telecommunications program, wrote a manifesto that people still cite whenever someone suggests resurrecting the idea. Micropayments will never work, he wrote, mainly because “users hate them.”
But wait. Amid the disdain, and without many people noticing, micropayments have arrived — just not in the way they were originally envisioned.
The 99 cents you pay for a song on iTunes is a micropayment. So are the tiny amounts that some operators of small Web sites earn whenever someone clicks on the ads on their pages. Some stock-photography companies sell pictures for as little as $1 each.
Consumers were reluctant to pay even a tenth of a cent for something they believed should be free. “There is a certain amount of anxiety involved in any decision to buy, no matter how small,” Mr. Shirky wrote in 2000.
It turns out, however, that consumers are more than willing to pay for certain types of content in certain situations. Consumers “expect to pay for music and movies, but not so much for the printed word,” said George Peabody, an analyst with Mercator Advisory Group, which serves the payments industry.
Idea Storm Products
Idea Storm Products
School: Pace University
City/State: Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.
Team members: Bill Phelps, 27
Concept: Designed to stimulate creative thinking, the card game Yamodo (yamodo.com), asks players to define and illustrate a made-up word. It captured the imagination of buyers at Barnes & Noble.com and the Discovery Channel store, which are already stocking it. Yamodo creator Phelps - a MBA student from Pace University who calls himself the company's "chief imaginator" -aims to make the game a childhood classic. "Just about anyone can tell you their favorite board game," he says. "If you ask enough questions, you'll probably discover that it has more to do with the memories that were created while playing the game itself."
more at:http://www.yamodo.com/
via-http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/fsb/0708/gallery.fsb_showdown_top_six.fsb/3.html
School: Pace University
City/State: Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.
Team members: Bill Phelps, 27
Concept: Designed to stimulate creative thinking, the card game Yamodo (yamodo.com), asks players to define and illustrate a made-up word. It captured the imagination of buyers at Barnes & Noble.com and the Discovery Channel store, which are already stocking it. Yamodo creator Phelps - a MBA student from Pace University who calls himself the company's "chief imaginator" -aims to make the game a childhood classic. "Just about anyone can tell you their favorite board game," he says. "If you ask enough questions, you'll probably discover that it has more to do with the memories that were created while playing the game itself."
more at:http://www.yamodo.com/
via-http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/fsb/0708/gallery.fsb_showdown_top_six.fsb/3.html
AuthorHouse.com is a self-publishing website which does the dirty work for you and lets you publish, promote, and sell your book
AuthorHouse.com is a self-publishing website which does the dirty work for you and lets you publish, promote, and sell your book with the help of their services. To get started, choose what type of book you want to publish (paperback or hardcover), and submit your manuscript to AuthorHouse. They will then schedule a cover design conference call, after which you can view how your book will look on the site. Confirm the content and the design, and you’re already done. Afterward, your book will be available for order at more than 25,000 retail outlets worldwide, on the Internet at Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, and through the AuthorHouse online company book store. The site also offers tons of ways to promote and sell your book; they’ll do everything from making posters for book signings to issuing press releases to submitting your book for to be reviewed independently. Best of all, you get to determine your royalties and retain all the rights to your book.
Since 1997, AuthorHouse, the leading self-publishing company in the world, has helped more than 30,000 authors reach their book publishing goals and self publish more than 40,000 books. Publishing your book with AuthorHouse means you'll have all the services and support you need to publish, promote and sell your book”.
More at:http://www.authorhouse.com/
Since 1997, AuthorHouse, the leading self-publishing company in the world, has helped more than 30,000 authors reach their book publishing goals and self publish more than 40,000 books. Publishing your book with AuthorHouse means you'll have all the services and support you need to publish, promote and sell your book”.
More at:http://www.authorhouse.com/
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