Thursday, October 4, 2007

Million Euro Wiki

What Company is Offering:
What we are offering you is the opportunity to claim a word for a one time fee of €75 (or $100) and own a page with us for life or until you decide to sell it for a profit. On your page you can setup your online business and benefit from the collective traffic that's generated by the other page-owners and our marketing campaigns for this site. Thousands of paid directories online will give you just one link. We give you an entire page to edit as you see fit without any recurring charges.
How It Works:
When you own your page you can set up any type of business you like and with Million Euro Wiki you are part of a network that helps your page receive more traffic and therefore more revenue. You can set up Google ads on your page or set up links that go to your page to get more traffic. Setting up your page is simple. An automated editor helps you design your page, such as putting text in bold and adding images. If you want to be on the front page of Million Euro Wiki you can pay $10 per day and get more exposure. Join the micro- economy at MillionEuroWiki.com.
More at:http://millioneurowiki.com/

CareerTours through online profiles, video and audio clips that tell each company's story

What Company is Offering:
CareerTours, an online recruiting site that brings all of the above to the task of matching employers with job candidates.
CareerTours goes well beyond the traditional text-based job database to allow job candidates to experience potential employers through online profiles, video and audio clips that tell each company's story and show why it's a great place to work.
How It Works:
The service is free for job seekers; employers pay a monthly fee starting at USD 199. In exchange, companies gain a way to give potential employees an online "tour" of the job, workplace and culture, thereby increasing the odds of a good match.

A built-in assessment tool provides candidates with instant feedback on whether their application will be considered, while giving employers a way to prioritize them. A word-of-mouth tool, meanwhile, allows employers to take advantage of the connections in their social networks with tailored e-mails and invitations. All postings made on CareerTours are also cross-posted to Google Base, Indeed, Simply Hired, MySpace, Oodle, WorkBlast, the National Association of Sales Professionals and JobTarget, among others, reaching an audience of more than 20 million visitors a month, CareerTours says.

CareerTours not only gains an edge in matching jobs with today's web-minded candidates, it also begins to serve as a career guide for the undecided. The Arizona-based company surpassed 375,000 candidates in July, and is planning to launch a sister business called ResumeTours soon.
More at: www.careertours.com

Ponoko is offering consumers a new way to turn their creative ideas into real-world objects

What Company is Offering:
Ponoko is offering consumers a new way to turn their turn creative ideas into real-world objects.
How It Works:
After uploading their design to the website , users can choose from a variety of materials. Ponoko then runs the design through a laser cutter. Besides offering access to professional tools to manufacture products, Ponoko also helps users bring their products to market. Once they’re ready to sell, members add photos of their product to their profile page, together with a description, pricing information and descriptive tags. If a product needs to be assembled before being shipped to customers, Ponoko delivers the bits and pieces to the designer. If the product is self-assembly, Ponoko can ship directly to the end-customer.Users who aren’t interested in selling physical products can opt to sell or give away their design, for other manufacturers to produce and sell, which makes Ponoko stand out from creative consumer marketplaces like Etsy.
More at: www.ponoko.com

Women from all over rural Britain are being encouraged to gather in Cambridgeshire in October to share their experiences of business

Women from all over rural Britain are being encouraged to gather in Cambridgeshire in October to share their experiences of business, take advice from the experts and maybe even find new clients.

Women in Rural Enterprise (WiRE), the national business support, membership and networking organisation will host the event on Wednesday 31 October at Chilford Hall, Linton with support from Business Link Eastern Region, The Enterprising Women Project and HSBC.

WiRE membership is growing, particularly in the East of England. According to research carried out by Dr Rebecca Harding, executive director of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) significant numbers of rural-based women are exploiting new business opportunities partly helped by access to new technologies.

Female entrepreneurial activity is nearly twice as high for rural women as it is for urban women at nearly 60% of rural male entrepreneurial activity. However WiRE recognises that women still face significant barriers when starting out and is using its Conferences as learning opportunities for women who might otherwise find themselves both physically and socially isolated.

The conference, expected to draw over 100 delegates, will take women through all the stages of business, from the first seeds of an idea to business in the fast lane. Business seminars on Networking and Are you an Entrepreneur? will tackle practical everyday issues whilst The Rural Marketplace provides the perfect forum for networking and buying the best of WiRE member products.

Izzy Warren-Smith, Executive Director of WiRE, and recent winner of the Prowess Outstanding Contribution to Women’s Enterprise Award says: “this event celebrates the enormous impact women are making in the rural economy. We want women to go home inspired, better informed and with a notebook fully of new contacts”.

Speakers confirmed for Linton include:

Paula Lain of www.plainspeakingpr.co.uk
Jill Roberson of www.the-living-rooms.co.uk
Rebecca Rayner of www.glebe-flour.co.uk
Vivienne Wiggins of www.revivalcoaching.co.uk
Mary Munley of www.theflyingmarketer.co.uk

Full details of the conference can be found at www.wireuk.org

23andMe Is look Good For Funding VCs

What Company Is All About:
23andMe is a privately held company developing new ways to help you make sense of your own genetic information.

Even though your body contains trillions of copies of your genome, you've likely never read any of it. Our goal is to connect you to the 23 paired volumes of your own genetic blueprint (plus your mitochondrial DNA), bringing you personal insight into ancestry, genealogy, and inherited traits. By connecting you to others, we can also help put your genome into the larger context of human commonality and diversity.

23andMe a company that makes tools for learning about your genetic information. The company is best known as being founded by the wife of Sergey Brin, Google’s co-founder. Google drew some scrutiny earlier this year when they used $3.6 million of company funds to invest in 23andMe.

How Much They Got From VCs:
They raised an additional $9 million in funding.
Aside from Google, other investors include Mohr Davidow Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, and mega biotech company Genentech.
More at:http://www.23andme.com/

NationalGeographic widget

NationalGeographic has just launched a widget that can be placed on your blog or personal website. It brings you the incoming top news stories from National Geographic, including video footage and images.

This widget was developed by Clearspring, and offers one-click submission to your various social networks, like MySpace, Facebook, Friendster and Xanga. There are also email options and the provision of embed code directly from the widget.
More at:http://news.nationalgeographic.com/

BidBeaverR.com For Only Branded Things At Auctions

What Company Is Offering:
Contrary to other auctions the prices fall on BidBeaverR.com. Bidbeaver is a young startup-company from Germany. We offer you a mixture of social commerce and thrills. We sell branded stuff at auctions to hot deal prices. Thereby we turn normal auctions upside down. Users buy credits and set these on articles. With each bid the item price lowers by 10 cent. Every bid costs 50 cents. Because nearly at the same time many users make a bid, the price falls rapidly. So you have the chance to snap some great deals.
How It Works:
At BIDBEAVER there are two different possibilities on finishing an auction: The hidden end price: somewhere between the start price and 0, 00€ there is a hidden end price. If users place a bid and reduce the actual price to the hidden end price, he is automatically the winner of this auction.
The hidden end time: somewhere between the start time and the latest end of an auction is the hidden end time. When the hidden end time is reached, the last user who placed a bid on this auction is automatically the winner of this auction.
More at:http://www.bidbeaver.com/

MashupChallenge Contest

What Company Says:
MashupChallenge, where challengers from around the world are competing to raise the bar in mashup creation.

Along with the professional recognition that comes with winning a MashupChallenge, prizes range from 50%-off hosting for life to a Nintendo Wii and are given out to the top 10 winners every quarter year.
How It Works:
Mashable, Pipes, MashupAwards, Mobile Web Design and Media Temple are sponsoring a contest for challengers all around the world to create the best mashups. The site gives away prizes for the top 10 winners each quarter that range from 50% off hosting for life to Nintendo Wii systems, but even more importantly it is a platform to help get your mashup seen by the world.
More at:http://mashupchallenge.com/

GCodes For Money Saving

What Company is Offering:
This site could save you a bit of cash before you hit the high street to do your shopping. It highlights all the special offers and discounts available online. Links take you straight to all the stores featured.
How It Works:
This site helps you track down the special vouchers and promotional codes offered by online stores. Everything is divided into categories going from electronic devices, music & video, computer and mobiles to clothes & accessories, health and beauty, home & garden and food & drinks. There’s a section where you can compare the different prices of the different brands. A very interesting feature offered by the site is the free newsletter, the only thing you have to do is submit your e-mail.
More at:http://www.gcodes.co.uk/

Earn Money With Easy Share

What Company Is Offering:
Easy-Share.com is an easy to use, free file hosting solution. It's composed of many servers to provide the fastest download speeds possible.
How It Works:
Easy-share.com also gives you a chance to earn money without extra effort, How? You get paid for uploading and sharing useful files, and when someone clicks a link on your site and downloads a file from Easy-Share.com you get revenue. Easy-Share.com can be used to share any types of files with friends, as well as post links to these files on message boards and blogs. It’s really easy to use, and provides really fast download speeds.
More at:http://www.easy-share.com/