What Company is Offering:
The UpDown a destination for investors to collaborate and compete using virtual portfolios and real-life brokerage simulations, its members also have a chance to make real money derived from their on-site analyses.
By aggregating the trading activity of its members, we compile a community-based investment strategy, which is then used to manage a real-life fund. We believe that the organic competitive analysis is the ultimate hedge to investment risk. Instead of just one fund manager, we have an entire community.
The revenues from this fund are shared with the top members of The UpDown on a weekly and monthly basis. It all comes down to the individual investors - the more qualitative their insight, the higher the fund dividends, and the more money they'll earn.
How It Works:
Register at TheUpDown.com and create and maintain a stock portfolio. You have virtual money in your portfolio you can virtually trade, so no worries about blowing your salary you can trade away carefree and have a possibility to earn money from TheUpDown.com. There are three ways to earn money. You can earn money by beating the market, if your portfolio is better then the S&P 500 index you will get paid every month, by PayPal. You can also make money based on the history of your portfolio, if you have a good track record of beating the S&P 500 index you get money. You also get money from submitting good stock analyses. Your analyses are voted on by other users and who ever has the best stock analysis of the week gets money. The last way you can get money at TheUpDown.com is by referring a user who then gets money; you get 10% whenever your referral gets money. TheUpDown.com is a social network, so just like any social network you have a profile which shows your trading success among other stock related history. You can add friends and join or great groups. TheUpDown.com holds contests for users and at the moment there is a contest for university students so don’t miss out. Have fund trading stocks and learning at TheUpDown.com.
More at:http://www.theupdown.com/
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
GlobeFunder's Purpose is higher returns for lenders and lower costs for borrowers through the GlobeFunder online marketplace
What Company is About:
GlobeFunder uses proprietary technology and consumer finance industry best practices to offer loan funding to borrowers looking for lower interest rates. The goal is higher returns for lenders and lower costs for borrowers through the GlobeFunder online marketplace. GlobeFunder is committed to being the leader in providing alternative loan funding where it is needed most, at market-driven interest rates, with the highest levels of service and integrity.
How It works:
GlobeFunder provides a simple, scalable platform that will marry the best attributes of online borrowing with new profitable loan opportunities for lenders in a global loan marketplace,” says President and Co-Founder Benjamin Decio.
GlobeFunder has partnered with companies like Experian, CSC, and eDominate to screen borrowers, service loans and process repayments online. This cuts out consumer finance companies and banks, ultimately lowering borrowing costs to benefit consumers.
More at:http://www.globefunder.com/
GlobeFunder uses proprietary technology and consumer finance industry best practices to offer loan funding to borrowers looking for lower interest rates. The goal is higher returns for lenders and lower costs for borrowers through the GlobeFunder online marketplace. GlobeFunder is committed to being the leader in providing alternative loan funding where it is needed most, at market-driven interest rates, with the highest levels of service and integrity.
How It works:
GlobeFunder provides a simple, scalable platform that will marry the best attributes of online borrowing with new profitable loan opportunities for lenders in a global loan marketplace,” says President and Co-Founder Benjamin Decio.
GlobeFunder has partnered with companies like Experian, CSC, and eDominate to screen borrowers, service loans and process repayments online. This cuts out consumer finance companies and banks, ultimately lowering borrowing costs to benefit consumers.
More at:http://www.globefunder.com/
ToneMine is a ringtone mixer
What Company is about:
ToneMine is a ringtone mixer that’s just been launched by mobile retailer LetsTalk.com. The ringtone mixer is slightly more extensive than most services out there, with a little bit of social networking mixed in as well.
How It Works:
The mixing composer on the site lets you work from a basic music package, which covers the basic genres from hip hop to salsa, jazz and rock. From there, you can add in music and effects from ToneMine’s library, the shared community sounds, and your own library. What’s useful about this editor is that you can “Save As” meaning you can create a ringtone, save it, tweak it and save it again without needing to start from scratch.
You can enjoy a good amount of ToneMine without creating a profile, but once your profile is created all of your favorite ringtones will be displayed on your profile, but not the ones you’ve made for yourself. Check out the community ringtones to see what’s new and what’s popular. Save good ringtones to your Favorites and add tags. The sharing options for each ringtone, which unfortunately cannot be done from the profile but only from the community section, lets you send the ringtone to your mobile phone, send it to a friend, or save it on various bookmarking sites like Digg and del.icio.us. Other ringtone services include RingBlender and Razz.
More at:http://www.tonemine.com/
ToneMine is a ringtone mixer that’s just been launched by mobile retailer LetsTalk.com. The ringtone mixer is slightly more extensive than most services out there, with a little bit of social networking mixed in as well.
How It Works:
The mixing composer on the site lets you work from a basic music package, which covers the basic genres from hip hop to salsa, jazz and rock. From there, you can add in music and effects from ToneMine’s library, the shared community sounds, and your own library. What’s useful about this editor is that you can “Save As” meaning you can create a ringtone, save it, tweak it and save it again without needing to start from scratch.
You can enjoy a good amount of ToneMine without creating a profile, but once your profile is created all of your favorite ringtones will be displayed on your profile, but not the ones you’ve made for yourself. Check out the community ringtones to see what’s new and what’s popular. Save good ringtones to your Favorites and add tags. The sharing options for each ringtone, which unfortunately cannot be done from the profile but only from the community section, lets you send the ringtone to your mobile phone, send it to a friend, or save it on various bookmarking sites like Digg and del.icio.us. Other ringtone services include RingBlender and Razz.
More at:http://www.tonemine.com/
BitTorrent DNA - which will leverage the company’s peer-to-peer technology to try and attract business
What Company is about:
BitTorrent is set to release their first enterprise product – BitTorrent DNA - which will leverage the company’s peer-to-peer technology to try and attract business customers. The company’s first client is Brightcove, who provides video content to many large publishers including Reuters, National Geographic, and TMZ. The move puts the company up against some major competitors in the Content Delivery Network (CDN) arena, including Akamai and Internap.
How It will work:
BitTorrent described the new BitTorrent DNA product in a statement as "the ideal solution for publishers seeking ways to overcome the obstacles associated with centralized content delivery, such as slow downloads, choppy video streams, and inefficient use of network infrastructure." The inaugural client for the new content delivery network (CDN) is online video start-up Brightcove, which powers a number of large companies' broadband media operations.
BitTorrent DNA will be used to "accelerate" the delivery of the video hosted on Brightcove's platform.
With the rise of online video and large-scale media downloads, content delivery has become a crowded niche in the market.
It looks like BitTorrent is following a similar path to Skype, whose founders first created the Kazaa p2p file sharing platform and then used similar technology to enable VoIP. BitTorrent has also created a legal digital download store that utilizes their technology, so the company is clearly starting to ramp up their commercial ambitions. Late last year, the company raised $20 million in venture capital to try and turn their massive user base (150 million downloads) into a profitable business.
More at:http://www.bittorrent.com/
BitTorrent is set to release their first enterprise product – BitTorrent DNA - which will leverage the company’s peer-to-peer technology to try and attract business customers. The company’s first client is Brightcove, who provides video content to many large publishers including Reuters, National Geographic, and TMZ. The move puts the company up against some major competitors in the Content Delivery Network (CDN) arena, including Akamai and Internap.
How It will work:
BitTorrent described the new BitTorrent DNA product in a statement as "the ideal solution for publishers seeking ways to overcome the obstacles associated with centralized content delivery, such as slow downloads, choppy video streams, and inefficient use of network infrastructure." The inaugural client for the new content delivery network (CDN) is online video start-up Brightcove, which powers a number of large companies' broadband media operations.
BitTorrent DNA will be used to "accelerate" the delivery of the video hosted on Brightcove's platform.
With the rise of online video and large-scale media downloads, content delivery has become a crowded niche in the market.
It looks like BitTorrent is following a similar path to Skype, whose founders first created the Kazaa p2p file sharing platform and then used similar technology to enable VoIP. BitTorrent has also created a legal digital download store that utilizes their technology, so the company is clearly starting to ramp up their commercial ambitions. Late last year, the company raised $20 million in venture capital to try and turn their massive user base (150 million downloads) into a profitable business.
More at:http://www.bittorrent.com/
Yoink’d is a new media search and viewing tool
What Company is About:
Yoink’d is a new media search and viewing tool that gives you a lot of functionality in a tiny package. There are a few things you can do with Yoink’d. You can use it as a media player, use it to find new videos on your own or through the Yoink’d community, and you can share it with the world using the Yoink’d widget.
How It Works:
Go to the Yonk’d homepage and you’ll see the mediabox player, front and center. Play around with it if you’d like, and create an account if you’d like to fully interact with it and save your changes. You can perform a web search for video directly from the mediabox, view them, and choose which clips you’d like to add to your playlist. Create a new playlist or use one of the defaults that Yonk’d has provided for you. You can also see what you’re Yoink’d friends are up to and grab their lists as well.
This mediabox can act as a stand alone player, so you can have it on and active as you surf the net. There are no downloads required, which is good if you use community computers, or just don’t feel the need to add another desktop application. Clips and playlists can be embed from the player, as it provides the embed code for mini players to be placed on your website or social networking profile. That means that if you’re doing a blog post and don’t feel like trecking to YouTube in order to find that video of OK Go on the treadmills, you can do a search with your Yoink’d mediabox player and get the embed code from there. This works for individual videos as well as entire playlists.
More at:http://www.yoinkd.com/
Yoink’d is a new media search and viewing tool that gives you a lot of functionality in a tiny package. There are a few things you can do with Yoink’d. You can use it as a media player, use it to find new videos on your own or through the Yoink’d community, and you can share it with the world using the Yoink’d widget.
How It Works:
Go to the Yonk’d homepage and you’ll see the mediabox player, front and center. Play around with it if you’d like, and create an account if you’d like to fully interact with it and save your changes. You can perform a web search for video directly from the mediabox, view them, and choose which clips you’d like to add to your playlist. Create a new playlist or use one of the defaults that Yonk’d has provided for you. You can also see what you’re Yoink’d friends are up to and grab their lists as well.
This mediabox can act as a stand alone player, so you can have it on and active as you surf the net. There are no downloads required, which is good if you use community computers, or just don’t feel the need to add another desktop application. Clips and playlists can be embed from the player, as it provides the embed code for mini players to be placed on your website or social networking profile. That means that if you’re doing a blog post and don’t feel like trecking to YouTube in order to find that video of OK Go on the treadmills, you can do a search with your Yoink’d mediabox player and get the embed code from there. This works for individual videos as well as entire playlists.
More at:http://www.yoinkd.com/
Companies using Voodoovox will be able to directly reach their consumers in a precise and timely manner
What Company is Is Offering:
Telephony will be free, and VoodooVox’s In-Call Media™ will make it happen. VoodooVox’s patent-pending In-Call Media™ process involves the targeted insertion of ad-supported audio content directly into the call stream of any type of phone traffic, providing new revenue sources for the call “publisher,” and additional features and services for the caller.
How It Works:
Their In-Call network, they claim, will be the next ‘breakthrough advertising channel’. Companies using Voodoovox will be able to directly reach their consumers in a precise and timely manner. So what exactly is their innovative and pioneering proposition? Audio ads. For example, Voodoovox can insert audio spots directly into a company’s callstream; instead of hearing vapid hold music and cyclic apologetic messages, callers will hear targeted, engaging ads. They’ve got three main products: RadioVoodoo, myVox for social networking, and On-hold network their inspired solution for ameliorating the on-hold situation.
More at:http://www.voodoovox.com/
Telephony will be free, and VoodooVox’s In-Call Media™ will make it happen. VoodooVox’s patent-pending In-Call Media™ process involves the targeted insertion of ad-supported audio content directly into the call stream of any type of phone traffic, providing new revenue sources for the call “publisher,” and additional features and services for the caller.
How It Works:
Their In-Call network, they claim, will be the next ‘breakthrough advertising channel’. Companies using Voodoovox will be able to directly reach their consumers in a precise and timely manner. So what exactly is their innovative and pioneering proposition? Audio ads. For example, Voodoovox can insert audio spots directly into a company’s callstream; instead of hearing vapid hold music and cyclic apologetic messages, callers will hear targeted, engaging ads. They’ve got three main products: RadioVoodoo, myVox for social networking, and On-hold network their inspired solution for ameliorating the on-hold situation.
More at:http://www.voodoovox.com/
"ServiceSeeking" mediates the selling and buying of any type of service
What Company Is About:
ServiceSeeking is an online service market based in Australia. The site mediates the selling and buying of any type of service whether it be contractual construction work or one time projects.
How It Works:
Finding the right professionals, contractors or freelancers to do your work can be exhausting, particularly if you’re not sure what you are really asking for or how much to pay. Welcome Service Seeking, the online market where people bid to do your work. You describe what you need and service providers bid for the job in an open market!
Then, you compare all the bids and choose the best value provider based on their bid price and their Service Score (our feedback system). You can communicate with a provider during the project via our private messaging facility and pay for the work securely whenever you like.
More at:http://www.serviceseeking.com.au/
ServiceSeeking is an online service market based in Australia. The site mediates the selling and buying of any type of service whether it be contractual construction work or one time projects.
How It Works:
Finding the right professionals, contractors or freelancers to do your work can be exhausting, particularly if you’re not sure what you are really asking for or how much to pay. Welcome Service Seeking, the online market where people bid to do your work. You describe what you need and service providers bid for the job in an open market!
Then, you compare all the bids and choose the best value provider based on their bid price and their Service Score (our feedback system). You can communicate with a provider during the project via our private messaging facility and pay for the work securely whenever you like.
More at:http://www.serviceseeking.com.au/
Freenormous shows the best free offers
What Company Is About:
Freenormous shows the best free offers, free samples, contests and freebies from around the web. Submit free offers for the community to review and promote to the main page based on votes. When a user submits a new offer, the article is placed in the "upcoming" area until it gains sufficient votes to be promoted to the main page.
How It Works:
Once you go to the homepage you have a list of the recently posted free offers. There are contests, free shoe give aways, free popcorn and shampoo samples, basically anything you can imagine. Click on the free product of your choosing and you will see what user posted it and when, the url of the site that is offering the free sample, comments, related links, and who voted. You can decide to discuss the free sample, or send it to a friend or if it is a fake offer you can bury it. You can search for free sample by category or tag or use the search engine. You must register to submit a free offer or sample. You can take a look at the top users and see their karma, which is a score that is created by how active and useful they are on the site. Take a look at Freenormous.com and see what cool free stuff you can find.
More at:http://www.freenormous.com/
Freenormous shows the best free offers, free samples, contests and freebies from around the web. Submit free offers for the community to review and promote to the main page based on votes. When a user submits a new offer, the article is placed in the "upcoming" area until it gains sufficient votes to be promoted to the main page.
How It Works:
Once you go to the homepage you have a list of the recently posted free offers. There are contests, free shoe give aways, free popcorn and shampoo samples, basically anything you can imagine. Click on the free product of your choosing and you will see what user posted it and when, the url of the site that is offering the free sample, comments, related links, and who voted. You can decide to discuss the free sample, or send it to a friend or if it is a fake offer you can bury it. You can search for free sample by category or tag or use the search engine. You must register to submit a free offer or sample. You can take a look at the top users and see their karma, which is a score that is created by how active and useful they are on the site. Take a look at Freenormous.com and see what cool free stuff you can find.
More at:http://www.freenormous.com/
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