What Company is Offering:
Norway’s two-seat, electric-powered Think City car—set to go on sale in the coming months—will come with an owner financing package unheard of in the auto industry.
How It Works:
Consumers will pay an estimated USD 15,000 to 17,000 for the vehicle, but the company plans to lease the Think’s battery. And for good reason: on its own, the battery would cost an estimated USD 34,000, more than the price of a low-end luxury vehicle in most countries. Moreover, the Think battery’s useful life will depend on how the vehicle is used. Meaning: if Think owners were compelled to buy the battery along with the car, they’d be assuming risks few vehicle buyers would tolerate.
The workaround Think has devised is a USD 100-200 per month bundle that will include the battery lease plus other services such as insurance and mobile internet access. The latter will enable the company to remotely monitor the battery’s remaining useful life. As the battery’s ability to recharge declines with age, the company will automatically offer owners the chance to replace it or alternately keep the battery in exchange for a lower monthly leasing fee.
Why It is Different:
Think’s battery-leasing business model differs sharply from that of US electric car maker Tesla Motors. With a batteries-and-all price tag of about USD 100,000, the sporty Tesla is being marketed as status symbol for Hollywood celebrities and Silicon Valley titans. Notwithstanding, under an agreement announced this spring, Tesla will help supply Think with battery packs. Notably, both Think and Tesla are start-ups, aptly illustrating how the switch to alternate fuels will make room for innovative upstarts in an industry dominated by giants. (Related: The going is green—and electric.)
More At www.think.no
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Bountii.com For Searching The Best Price On Any Electronics Items
What Company Is Offering:
Bountii.com has a simple, clean interface which doesn’t distract you from your search. Conducting a search is very simple and there are many features that can help you narrow down your search if you need to use them, such as the price range feature. Many times it is difficult to find electronics within your price range and limiting your search to a maximum limit will help you stay focused. The feature that allows you to enter your zip code for pricing purposes is a great feature. Sometimes the shipping and handling costs can make quite a difference in the overall cost. It is nice that you can search for electronics and get the total price instantly.
How It Works:
You use Bountii.com such as any other search engine. Type the name of the electric device you are searching for. A list will appear of different variations and prices for the item you selected. You can choose from a price range located above the results and below the browser. Each listed item from the search has an image, its name, price, a store rating out of 4 stars, and the store or site where it can be purchased. There is a section that lets you put in your zip code so you can get the full price including shipping and handling. Once you have chosen the item you like, click on it to get more information, there will be a link that will direct you to the store site so you can purchase the product. There is also a list of similar items below once you click on the image. When you visit Bountii.com’s homepage there is a section that will bring you to the most popular products if you are interest in taking a look. Bountii.com helps you find the best prices foe electronics.
More at:http://bountii.com/
Bountii.com has a simple, clean interface which doesn’t distract you from your search. Conducting a search is very simple and there are many features that can help you narrow down your search if you need to use them, such as the price range feature. Many times it is difficult to find electronics within your price range and limiting your search to a maximum limit will help you stay focused. The feature that allows you to enter your zip code for pricing purposes is a great feature. Sometimes the shipping and handling costs can make quite a difference in the overall cost. It is nice that you can search for electronics and get the total price instantly.
How It Works:
You use Bountii.com such as any other search engine. Type the name of the electric device you are searching for. A list will appear of different variations and prices for the item you selected. You can choose from a price range located above the results and below the browser. Each listed item from the search has an image, its name, price, a store rating out of 4 stars, and the store or site where it can be purchased. There is a section that lets you put in your zip code so you can get the full price including shipping and handling. Once you have chosen the item you like, click on it to get more information, there will be a link that will direct you to the store site so you can purchase the product. There is also a list of similar items below once you click on the image. When you visit Bountii.com’s homepage there is a section that will bring you to the most popular products if you are interest in taking a look. Bountii.com helps you find the best prices foe electronics.
More at:http://bountii.com/
WebAdClassifieds.com is a free classifieds site for website owners and webmaster to post advertising opportunities
What Company isOffering:
WebAdClassifieds.com is a free classifieds site for website owners and webmaster to post advertising opportunities on thier websites for text links, sponsorships, banner ads, etc. Potential advertisers to these sites are provided a marketplace to review and directly compare online advertising offerings. Unlike many other classifieds sites, webadclassifieds.com is completely free to both place ads and search.
How it Works:
Publishers post their advertising opportunities in the forum. The publisher's domain ranking, traffic information and media kit is easily accessible to potential advertisers, who then can buy directly from individual website or blog publishers rather than through ad networks. Communications between sellers and buyers can be confidential. The site can be used as a stand-alone marketing vehicle or it can be tied in with publisher's other campaigns.
More at:http://www.webadclassifieds.com/
WebAdClassifieds.com is a free classifieds site for website owners and webmaster to post advertising opportunities on thier websites for text links, sponsorships, banner ads, etc. Potential advertisers to these sites are provided a marketplace to review and directly compare online advertising offerings. Unlike many other classifieds sites, webadclassifieds.com is completely free to both place ads and search.
How it Works:
Publishers post their advertising opportunities in the forum. The publisher's domain ranking, traffic information and media kit is easily accessible to potential advertisers, who then can buy directly from individual website or blog publishers rather than through ad networks. Communications between sellers and buyers can be confidential. The site can be used as a stand-alone marketing vehicle or it can be tied in with publisher's other campaigns.
More at:http://www.webadclassifieds.com/
Veodia’s high-end video broadcasting service caters to both professional bloggers and business users
What Company is offering:
Veodia’s high-end video broadcasting service caters to both professional bloggers and business users in search of a simple way of creating and distributing TV-quality video while preserving full control and ownership of their content. That makes it a perfect tool for broadcasting through the Internet: independent TV shows, interviews, music or dance performances, auctions, training sessions, HR and executive announcements, product reviews, marketing events, lectures, conferences, speeches, panels, and many more.
How It Works:
Veodia dynamically optimizes viewing quality so the maximum quality video is published and stored in your private library. Broadcasters retain control over content and, through content management and reporting systems, publish videos for on-demand viewing or podcasting. Training videos, corporate communications, live streams into Second Life, and more can now all be shared without the hassle or upfront costshttp or special technology.
More at:://www.veodia.com/
Veodia’s high-end video broadcasting service caters to both professional bloggers and business users in search of a simple way of creating and distributing TV-quality video while preserving full control and ownership of their content. That makes it a perfect tool for broadcasting through the Internet: independent TV shows, interviews, music or dance performances, auctions, training sessions, HR and executive announcements, product reviews, marketing events, lectures, conferences, speeches, panels, and many more.
How It Works:
Veodia dynamically optimizes viewing quality so the maximum quality video is published and stored in your private library. Broadcasters retain control over content and, through content management and reporting systems, publish videos for on-demand viewing or podcasting. Training videos, corporate communications, live streams into Second Life, and more can now all be shared without the hassle or upfront costshttp or special technology.
More at:://www.veodia.com/
Go-To Site of Internet TV Got Funding From Pond Venture Partners
What Company Is Offering:
TIOTI is a newly-launched social media aggregation site that has quickly become a major destination portal for TV programming, indexing more than 75,000 television shows and more than 500,000 individual episodes for download.
In addition to indexing TV content available across the entirety of the Web, TIOTI adds useful social tools that allow users to recommend shows to friends as well as enabling discussions and shared ‘TV watch lists’. TIOTI also enables the creation of groups to build communities around TV - it allows users to add, edit and expand the information on cast, crew, critics, fan fiction, gossip and trivia surrounding TV shows.
How It Works:
The service enables Web links, photos and videos to be easily integrated from Flickr® and YouTube™ into individual TIOTI groups. The site also includes pertinent links to a wide range of online TV services such as those from Apple®, Amazon®, AOL® and Joost™, among others.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Pond Venture Partners, Europe’s largest early-stage technology venture capital fund with more than $200 million under management, today announced it has successfully
led and closed a significant Series A investment round in TIOTI, Inc.
More at:www.TIOTI.com
TIOTI is a newly-launched social media aggregation site that has quickly become a major destination portal for TV programming, indexing more than 75,000 television shows and more than 500,000 individual episodes for download.
In addition to indexing TV content available across the entirety of the Web, TIOTI adds useful social tools that allow users to recommend shows to friends as well as enabling discussions and shared ‘TV watch lists’. TIOTI also enables the creation of groups to build communities around TV - it allows users to add, edit and expand the information on cast, crew, critics, fan fiction, gossip and trivia surrounding TV shows.
How It Works:
The service enables Web links, photos and videos to be easily integrated from Flickr® and YouTube™ into individual TIOTI groups. The site also includes pertinent links to a wide range of online TV services such as those from Apple®, Amazon®, AOL® and Joost™, among others.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Pond Venture Partners, Europe’s largest early-stage technology venture capital fund with more than $200 million under management, today announced it has successfully
led and closed a significant Series A investment round in TIOTI, Inc.
More at:www.TIOTI.com
Kinset has launched its new 3D shopping service
What Company is Offering:
Kinset has launched its new 3D shopping service and announced it is in the process of building a virtual store for the retailer Brookstone.
How it works:
In order to shop Kinset, which currently offers a bookstore and electronics shop through Amazon, you must first download a browser utility from the company’s web site. You can clearly see book covers, and can then mouse over them to get detailed item descriptions, reviews, and price info. If you would like to buy something, you simply use your credit card.
According to Kinset’s founders, it will allow customers who are familiar with the physical store to more quickly find what they are looking for. Meanwhile, it will allow those unfamiliar with the store to get acquainted with its layout and thus have a better experience when they show up in person.
Overall, 3D shopping experiences like Kinset and Scenecaster are a natural progression of ecommerce as broadband becomes ubiquitous.
More at:http://www.kinset.com/
Kinset has launched its new 3D shopping service and announced it is in the process of building a virtual store for the retailer Brookstone.
How it works:
In order to shop Kinset, which currently offers a bookstore and electronics shop through Amazon, you must first download a browser utility from the company’s web site. You can clearly see book covers, and can then mouse over them to get detailed item descriptions, reviews, and price info. If you would like to buy something, you simply use your credit card.
According to Kinset’s founders, it will allow customers who are familiar with the physical store to more quickly find what they are looking for. Meanwhile, it will allow those unfamiliar with the store to get acquainted with its layout and thus have a better experience when they show up in person.
Overall, 3D shopping experiences like Kinset and Scenecaster are a natural progression of ecommerce as broadband becomes ubiquitous.
More at:http://www.kinset.com/
PlayerBlock.com is the first ever text based service that allows people to look into the dating habits of others
What Company is Offering:
PlayerBlock.com is the first ever text based service that allows people to look into the dating habits of others. Whether you had a good experience or bad, you can post a new encounter online or from the palm of your hand. Did your date go well? Did you get PLAYED? Did they call when they said they would? We want to know! Tell us your innermost thoughts don’t let your neighbors get fooled just as you did
PlayerBlock is an SMS-based service that lets you check up on your date to see if he’s a player. … This service appears to revolve around phone numbers, so in order to find out about your date, you type in their phone number to see if you can dig up any dirt.
How it Works:
All the information found through PlayerBlock is user-generated, so in order to find any information on a date, someone else must have dated them first, and written a report on them. Likewise, you’re encouraged to dish the dirt on your dates. As this is primarily a text-messaging service, it makes it that much easier to get reports and give reports while you’re on the actual date. You can also enter a number to be “watched,” meaning you’ll receive an update on that person once a new entry has been added.
More at:http://www.playerblock.com/
PlayerBlock.com is the first ever text based service that allows people to look into the dating habits of others. Whether you had a good experience or bad, you can post a new encounter online or from the palm of your hand. Did your date go well? Did you get PLAYED? Did they call when they said they would? We want to know! Tell us your innermost thoughts don’t let your neighbors get fooled just as you did
PlayerBlock is an SMS-based service that lets you check up on your date to see if he’s a player. … This service appears to revolve around phone numbers, so in order to find out about your date, you type in their phone number to see if you can dig up any dirt.
How it Works:
All the information found through PlayerBlock is user-generated, so in order to find any information on a date, someone else must have dated them first, and written a report on them. Likewise, you’re encouraged to dish the dirt on your dates. As this is primarily a text-messaging service, it makes it that much easier to get reports and give reports while you’re on the actual date. You can also enter a number to be “watched,” meaning you’ll receive an update on that person once a new entry has been added.
More at:http://www.playerblock.com/
RoyaltyShare have got an additional $4 million in its Series B funding from Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments and Trident Capital
What Company Is offering:
RoyaltyShare, the web-based royalty processing service.
With RoyaltyShare’s focus on the changing face of digital media distribution and Internet culture, RoyaltyShare offers services to allow you to manage your distribution partners that all deliver separate reports in different formats.
How It Works:
It works with mobile, web, and physical distribution, offering a centralized way in which to handle the business of making money with the promotion of your content.
RoyaltyShare also aims to help you evaluate your multiple channels for distribution in order to optimize each, experiment with new pricing models, and better manage more data in one place. If it helps artists market more directly with consumers across the different platforms, then it could become a viable option for those looking to follow in Radiohead’s footsteps.
How Much They Got From VCs:
They have got an additional $4 million in its Series B funding from Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments and Trident Capital. With this addition, the total amount of funding that RoyaltyShare has received amounts to $9 million.
More at:http://www.royaltyshare.com/
RoyaltyShare, the web-based royalty processing service.
With RoyaltyShare’s focus on the changing face of digital media distribution and Internet culture, RoyaltyShare offers services to allow you to manage your distribution partners that all deliver separate reports in different formats.
How It Works:
It works with mobile, web, and physical distribution, offering a centralized way in which to handle the business of making money with the promotion of your content.
RoyaltyShare also aims to help you evaluate your multiple channels for distribution in order to optimize each, experiment with new pricing models, and better manage more data in one place. If it helps artists market more directly with consumers across the different platforms, then it could become a viable option for those looking to follow in Radiohead’s footsteps.
How Much They Got From VCs:
They have got an additional $4 million in its Series B funding from Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments and Trident Capital. With this addition, the total amount of funding that RoyaltyShare has received amounts to $9 million.
More at:http://www.royaltyshare.com/
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