Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Zenoss provides a complete suite of software and services to help you succeed monitoring your IT infrastructure

What Company Is Offering:
Zenoss provides a complete suite of software and services to help you succeed monitoring your IT infrastructure.

To support your unique needs, we offer several paths to success. Choose the offering(s) that make sense for your situation, budget and expertise.

Everything we do is based on Zenoss Core, our award-winning open source IT management platform. Our software provides a single, integrated solution for monitoring your entire IT infrastructure: network, servers, applications, across the full lifecycle: inventory, configuration, availability, performance, events, logs and alerts.

Through our unique approach our goal is to overcome the common hurdles to achieving effective IT monitoring and management. Read about the successes of Zenoss customers and watch video testimonials here.
Unique Features:
With Zenoss’ latest update you can now use their Google Maps mashup to monitor your network geographically. Updates appear in real time and it’s interactive, so you can draw connections between locations, and check the status of individual locations. The Ajax dashboard uses drag and drop editing for easy control and navigation.
More at:http://www.zenoss.com/

Agendize is an online marketing tool which deals in Click to call and Call to Action solutions

What Company Is Offering:
AgendiZe offers the only complete suite of proven advertising call-to-action tools. With AgendiZe, any business from large online directory publishers to newspaper classifieds, from web megastores to individual small or mid-size businesses can powerfully transform online ads into actionable ads.
Exploiting the new era of the social consumer, AgendiZe makes ads and websites actionable by multiplying social attention points across over 50 communication services and devices.
How It Works:
Agendize has developed a product called AgendizeMe which turns ads into opportunities for customer action. There are eight customizable buttons which gives consumers more possibilities for interaction. For instance, the ‘Call Now’ button lets customers leave their phone number so you can call them back. Customers can also choose where to receive/move content you provide to their agendas, cell phones, PDA’s, IM’s and social networks. All of these buttons are included in the AgendizeMe pack for $49 a year. Solutions for directories, classifieds and other businesses are also available.
More at:http://www.agendize.com/

With LeadsExplorer you can get information on clients and potential buyers

What Company's Purpose:
Getting leads is one of the hardest parts of the sales cycle.

Allowing your sales staff to take advantage of the knowledge about your website visitors.

Currently your website generates leads by the contact form, newsletter or download registration.
Which is great, but only a minority of visitors ver registers for downloads or info.
Many more people visit your site, without you knowing anything about them.

Money has been spent to attract visitors to your website, but most visitors pass without leaving anything trail or indication for you to work on.
You got to analyze their actions, identify them !
Grab the trails they leave by visiting your website.
Find out impact of e-mail campaigns
Find out about reaction of cold calls

Get sales to act, when Companies visit your websit.
How It Works:
With LeadsExplorer you can get information on clients and potential buyers. LeadsExplorer helps you gather information on, customers, ex customers, competitors, financially related aspects such as investors and media such as newspapers and magazine articles about your site. All of this information will help you get a better idea of who your clients are and what they want. LeadsExplorer does not require additional software. Get a better idea of who your clients are by using LeadsExplorer.
More at:http://www.leadsexplorer.com/

“You Be the VC" Become Your Own CEO

What Company Is Offering:Start networking with other entrepreneurs, inventors, and dreamers like yourself. Brainstorm, get ideas, meet new friends, and maybe even find your future business partner or investor
How It Started And How It Works:
Bang Ventures has launched “You Be the VC,” a new web site where entrepreneurs can submit their Web-based business ideas and the public can vote on the one’s they like best. Ultimately, the public will decide on the three ideas they like best, which Bang Ventures will then fund, in addition to providing programming resources, management support and office space in Cambridge, Mass.

Along the way, the public votes on various tasks that entrepreneurs complete, such as a preliminary analysis and a video pitch. This is designed to model the real investment process, which usually consists of many steps.

The competition is looking specifically for web applications that can be brought to market quickly, so if you’re just one or two people with a cool idea, “You Be the VC” might be worth checking out.

More at:http://www.youbethevc.com/

Google Contest

Google.org, the search giant’s non-profit organization, is launching an initiative called the “Innovate or Die Pedal-Powered Machine Challenge.” The contest aims to encourage inventors to design environmentally friendly bikes that cause zero emissions, and will reward $5,000 to the best invention, and free bikes for the top 5 finalists. Inventors are also asked to submit their inventions via video on a YouTube group that has been setup.

For the contest, Google has partnered with Specialized Bikes and Goodby Silverstein & Partners.
More at:http://www.google.org/

Fortumo For Mobile Or SMS-Based Business

What Company Is Offering:
Fortumo has opened up to invitation holders, and it turns out it’s a wizard generator for creating mobile businesses.

Whether you’ve never even pondered creating an SMS-based business, or you’re an old hand at it, it seems Fortumo can help you get going in a matter of minutes. The focus of the service is currently on four types of SMS tools: SMS-info, SMS-campaign, SMS-chatbox, and Premium SMS-connectivity.
How It Works:
SMS-info and SMS-campaign involve you getting people to send a message to a short code address to receive information and you, in turn, getting paid for each SMS sent. The SMS-chatbox tool allows you to add a paid-chat or advertisement column to your blog for people to send out messages. The premium tool is meant only for those experienced in setting up mobile applications and feel comfortable having more of a free hand in their service’s creation.

With this new app, even a one person operation can get set up and running with their own SMS application and business. For the time being, the services work only with the countries of Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
more at:http://www.fortumo.com/

ZiiTrend is a new social prediction site

What Company Is Offering:
ZiiTrend is a new social prediction site that wants you to help predict the future on just about any subject you can think of.

Whatever your question or interest may be, you can join up on ZiiTrend and try to work with others to see what the future holds. You can browse for already existing questions and vote on them, or you can create your own question to try to get a prediction.
How It Works:
Questions are grouped in to a number of categories including finance, technology, politics, sports and entertainment. As each Ziibo (their name for users) votes, the site collects that data to make a prediction. Say you think candidate a will win the Presidential election next year, and so do 33% of other users. That candidate will then be assigned a ZiiValue of 33% and this will state the chance of the prediction coming true.

Once the predicted event has passed, the site will be updated to reflect how close the prediction came to being true, letting you know how good you really are at figuring things out. This will also help the software in future ZiiValue calculations in an effort to make it more and more accurate.

So why not put on your Nostradamus costume and give it a try to see how good you are at predicting what the future holds for all of us.
More at:http://www.ziitrend.com/
Via-Mash

Myxer is a mobile media sharing company for site visitors to mobilize their content

What Company Is Offering:
Myxer is a mobile media sharing company that lets web publishers offer a way for site visitors to mobilize their content, launching here at DEMO. With the Myxer widget, site visitors can send content to their mobile phones with drag’n'drop ease and almost instant results.
How It Works:
There’s a button publishers place on their website inviting site visitors to launch the widget. Content can then be dragged over the widget, and immediately downloaded. Both videos and images can be sent to a mobile phone, and publishers can also use this platform to sell their content. You select the price and description of various content items on your site, like an instructional video, and site visitors have the option of downloading it directly to their mobile phones. There’s also an option for users to keep this as a desktop widget for themselves, collecting various types of media from around th web. You can’t yet mobilze selected text, but this option will be added in the near future, and will show up on your cell phone as a text message. Other ways in which this widget is being used is for downloading ringtones and mobile wallpaper.
Another neat thing that Myxer has don is found a way to distribute its mobile content through Twitter, where a daily ringtone is made available by the company. If you’re receiving your Twitter updates on your ell phone, then you can opt to add Myxer’s Twitter ringtone directly to your cell phone. I like this particular use of Twitter for content distribution, as I think tat Twitter cold be used in many, many was for just this. So it’s always interesting to see what ways this is actually achieved by companies.

More at:http://www.myxertones.com/default/