Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Mixxt.de allows you to make a social network that focuses on your interests

What Company is Offering:
Mixxt helps you create your own social network. Easily create a social network that looks, works, and feels exactly as you want it to. Rapidly connect to colleagues, friends or similar minded people in your network. Instantly start sharing knowledge, media, and interests with the right people.
How It Works:
Mixxt.de allows you to make a social network that focuses on your interests so that you and others can connect and share your interests and ideas. With a social network friendships and connections are established that break the limitation of borders. Mixxt.de mission is to connect cultures and individuals from all over the world by allowing them to create social networks that will interest many different people with different interests and backgrounds. You can search the tag cloud to see what types of social networks have already been created and if any of them interest you go ahead and join them.
More at:http://www.mixxt.de/

Swoogle is a search engine for the Semantic Web on Web

What company is offering:
Swoogle is a search engine for the Semantic Web on the Web. Swoogle crawl the World Wide Web for a special class of web documents called Semantic Web documents, which are written in RDF. Currently, it provides the following services to the following services:
• Search Semantic Web ontologies.
• search Semantic Web instance data.
• search Semantic Web terms, i.e., URIs that have been defined as classes and properties.
• provide metadata of Semantic Web documents and support browsing the Semantic Web. (Please refer to Li Ding et. al., Finding and Ranking Knowledge on the Semantic Web, ISWC'04 for details).
• archive different versions of Semantic Web documents.
How It Works:
Anything you want to know about the semantic web, you can search for on Swoogle-- which incidentally, should you be wondering, stands for Semantic Web Ontology, and the rest, well that’s up to you for now. Swoogle makes use of a system of crawlers to root out RDF and Html documents with RDF content concerning all things having to do with this new vogue the semantic web. Swoogle figures out what’s meaningful about these docs and indexes all this data in its database. Furthermore, it extracts relational data between and amongst documents, for easier search and organization. From there, users can find out relevant information.
More at:http://swoogle.umbc.edu/

WhoIsWrong.com is the first website designed to end any argument once and for all

What Company is Offering:
WhoIsWrong.com is the first website designed to end any argument once and for all.
WhoIsWrong.com is a place where two quarrelling parties can log in, open a case and present their sides of the disagreement. Over the course of a week, anyone on the internet can read the evidence, mull over the dispute and cast their vote. Once time is up for the case, all the votes are tallied, and a winner is decided. It couldn’t be any more straightforward.
How It Works:
WhoisWrong.com is here to stop any argument dead in its tracks and grant one party official ownership of bragging rights forever! So if you’re in a fight with someone and want to figure out who is wrong and who is right, open a case and let millions of strangers decide.
More at:http://whoiswrong.com/

Kerika lets you share your ideas, documents and projects with friends and colleagues around the world using Graphical Wikis

What Company is Offering:
Kerika lets you share your ideas, documents and projects with friends and colleagues around the world using Graphical Wikis: a unique approach to team collaboration that makes it easy for everyone to understand what your project is all about.
How It Works:
Kerika is a flexible, affordable and easy way to share your ideas, documents and projects with friends and colleagues around the world, no matter where they are located or what sort of computer they are using.

* Kerika works on Macs, Windows and Linux: Most collaboration tools work only on Windows, which is a real hassle you are trying to pull together a team of designers, software developers and corporate clients.

With Kerika you don't need to get everyone on Windows just to get them all on the same page.

* Kerika connects across organizations: Kerika lets you build a people-to-people network in just seconds that brings together people working from home, offices and coffee shops.
How Much It Cost:
* Kerika is very affordable: After a 30-day free trial you pay a monthly charge that can be as low as $6.95 per month, per user, in order to connect to other users and access other value-added services. (The software itself is free for stand-alone use.)

No up-front costs, no need to upgrade any machines or hire staff, no long-term committments, and no restrictions on how many projects you set up or share.
More at:http://www.kerika.com/

The Future of Web Apps ----Save 25%

The Future of Web Apps (Miami, Feb 28 - Mar 1 2008), is offering a 25% discount for registering early. The discount will run out when a preset amount tickets have been sold, so don’t delay. This is FOWA’s first time on the East Coast of the United States.

FOWA brings together web visionaries to discuss the technologies, platforms, and business models that will launch the next generation of successful web apps. Already confirmed to speak are Google, Twitter, Plaxo and Ning, with others to be announced soon. The agenda will include the future of web apps beyond the browser, launching a web app in 40 minutes, the problem with social networks, and the future of APIs.

There are also 50 $95 passes being awarded to startups for the conference. You need to be a sole trader or small company, with a URL (proof of your start-up status). Please email Mel Kirk with your credentials to apply for a start-up pass.
More at:http://futureofwebapps.com/
Link--Mashable

AfterVote---Search Socially

What Company is offering:
They are applying principle to search results without having to go through all that work of clicking buttons to vote for a site’s “coolness”. Here’s a example. You do a search for “Social Search Engine” and you click the first result. It’s not what you were looking for at all, and is therefore not a useful result for your query. You press the back button and try result #2. Voila! You found exactly what you are looking for. But it’s more than that. Younanimous is analyzing these results and has cast a vote for you, automatically, saying that result #1 wasn’t what you wanted, but #2 was. If you do however find a awesome site, You can manually vote for it as well.
How It Works:
Ever find sites that never have the info you want, but are always at the top of the serps? Yes, we are looking at you Experts-Exchange.com… Well, now you can blacklist pages or entire domains from showing up in your listings, No more crap! And say goodbye to spam. With a “Spam!” Tag, you can help eliminate bogus results from the serps one spam site at a time.

Dont take our word for it, try this. Do a Google, MSN, or Yahoo search for a common spammer term. Viagra would be a good test. Look at how on these engines, spam just takes up all the spots. Now try it on Younanimous. You will be hard pressed to find anything unofficial, and thats why Younanimous works.Another cool thing is that you don’t need a account to enjoy all the awesomeness of Younanimous. It’s all stored in a cookie! Of course, you can create one if you want to, and share your settings at work and gramma’s house, but it’s totally up to you!

How They Decide Ranks:
They take the results from the 3 major search engines, (Google, Yahoo, MSN) Taking into account their current rankings. We then weight them against our own database to see what our users have said about where positions should be, and apply that weight to the results. Sometimes users have their own custom algorithm, and in that case you choose how to rank the results, not us.
More at:http://www.aftervote.com/

Dawdle matches buyers and sellers of video games, systems, and accessories

What Company Is Offering:
Dawdle matches buyers and sellers of video games, systems, and accessories. They make it easier to bid for items and list items for sale, automatically matching buyers and sellers, so that buyers get what they want sooner and sellers get paid faster. Their goal is to make it easier and less stressful to do business online, so you can game more.

How It Works:
Dawdle was created by gamers to address gamer-specific needs when buying and selling video games, gaming systems and accessories online. The site provides an easy-to-use and risk-free online platform that dynamically matches buyers' needs to items sellers have available. Dawdle offers users an easier, quicker, and hassle-free alternative to buying and selling new and used interactive entertainment products online. Dawdle is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

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

Kiptronic allowing media customers to manage, measure and monetize their video and audio assets

What Company is Offering:
Kiptronic is the leader in downloadable media services. Their Media Services Platform is a workflow and ad serving solution allowing media customers to manage, measure and monetize their video and audio assets.
How It Works:

The Kiptronic Media Services Platform with ExpressMatch technology provides customers with a seamless way to add advertising and management services to new and archived video and audio files at the point-of-download without changing publishing processes.

Key partnerships with rich media content delivery networks enable content publishers to simply turn on our services to manage and measure large ad campaigns.

Kiptronic’s technology can deliver ads across a wide variety of Internet technology mediums, offering a key value-added service to any digital media strategy.

Who Is behind The Site:
The genesis of Kiptronic leads to one individual, Founder and Chief Technology Officer Jonathan Cobb. Since the mid-1990s, Cobb has been interested in creating technologies to power online media.

As General Manager of KWUR 90.3 FM in St. Louis, Cobb developed an early Internet audio streaming system in 1996, helping his college station attract a larger audience and realize the global power and reach of the Web.



Why It Could Work:
The consumer gains control of their media consumption experience and advertisers can extend their brand.

Their technology flexibility has allowed them to develop a unique and powerful set of industry partnerships that provide their customers with the tools they need to make downloadable media a prominent part of their digital strategies.
More at:http://www2.kiptronic.com/

TinselVision For Bollywood movies and soaps for as low as $1.99--Got VCs Funding

What Company is Offering:
Bollywood movies and soaps for as low as $1.99. Subscription packages from $9.99 a month. Now combining the choice of video-on-demand with the power of the web.
How Much They Got From VCs:
They have secured terms for an inside, up-round for Series B financing, led by its current largest investor, Innovative Entertainment Limited (IEL). Company sources confirm the amount of the Series B round exceeds the Series A funding level of US$3MM, and establishes the company's pre-launch, post-money valuation at nearly US$20MM.
Why They Are Raising More Fund:
Explaining the reasons for accelerated funding, a spokesman for the company's finance group notes "management has soundly navigated the early capital and content risk phases of the business and, has a growing appetite to extend these early gains." Its finance team sought and readily obtained acceleration capital in advance of previously planned growth capital. The venture will deploy its deep access to liquidity to implement its tested tactics for infrastructure, distribution and services launch.
More at:http://www.tinselcinema.com/

DoublePositive -- Sales Leads Generations Solution Got $4 Million in venture funding

What Company Is Offering:
DoublePositive was founded on the belief that the traditional method of buying "leads" as a marketing solution had become costly and inefficient. DoublePositive's LIVE Hot Transfers out-perform other lead generation solutions because every DoublePositive lead passing through a DOUBLEconfirm™ process, which delivers LIVE, interested consumers who have the highest probability of converting into a sale. DoublePositive specializes in LIVE mortgage leads, debt settlement leads, education leads, insurance leads, automotive leads and real estate leads.
How Much They Got From VCs:
DoublePositive Marketing Group, Inc. ,the industry leader in LIVE Hot Transfer Leads for sales organizations, got an additional $4 Million in venture funding. The financing will help fuel DoublePositive's growth by increasing sales and marketing efforts and expand the business into new vertical markets and offerings.Several new investors, as well as all of DoublePositive's previous investors, participated in the round. New institutional investors participating in the round include Hamilton Investment Partners, Southern Capitol Ventures and Slate Venture Group.

Frank Bonsal, co-founder of New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and former General Partner at Alex Brown, and Dave Willey, former Chief Financial Officer of Capital One, also participated in the round as individual investors.
How They Will Use Fund:
This fundraising will help solidify our position as the leading LIVE lead generation company by allowing us to focus on diversification into new markets," said Sean Fenlon, DoublePositive's co-founder and Chief Executive Officer. "We're absolutely thrilled about what our new investors will bring to the table with their experience and knowledge in building strong companies with dominant position."

A leader in the live leads space, DoublePositive continues to provide a cost-effective and time-saving marketing solution for companies seeking the highest ROI from their marketing and advertising dollars.
How Is It Different:
Sales professionals are also able to access the original lead data using a standard web browser via our client extranet simultaneous to receiving the live call transfer. Thus, a 100% contact rate is inherent in our program. As a result of our second layer of screening/qualifying beyond a consumer’s initial expression of interest (our DoubleConfirm™ process), sales professionals speak live with consumers who have the highest probability of converting into a sale.

By introducing their innovative new marketing concept, DoublePositive has become the immediate leader in next-generation Online Marketing solutions.

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

Vaestro is audio forum

What Company Is Offering:
Vaestro is audio forum software that you can use on your web site for free. Talk to your friends, host interactive podcasts, or use it like an audio blog. Use it anytime you need to communicate with groups of people small or large. With Vaestro, everyone has a chance to speak and be heard. Our software is built to solve many problems with other methods of communication. In fact, it is built to become a new paradigm in mass media.
How It Works:
Adding Vaestro to your site is easy; simply a matter of cutting and pasting the provided HTML snippets; Vaestro will then appear as a button on your site which links directly to the forum. Once a visitor is in the forum, he or she will be able to have his or her voice heard across an unlimited audience; Vaestro doesn’t cap the number of participants in a forum. If you are the master of a Vaestro forum (called a “channel”, you’ll have access to recordings of old conversation and have the ability to control who talks and for how long; you can change speakers somewhat like you would change channels with a remote. Anyone can create a channel as long as you register.
More at:http://vaestro.com/

OfficeTechDeals---Find Office Helpful Electronics

What Company Is Offering:
OfficeTechDeals will help you quickly and easily find great deals on the Computers, Monitors, Printers, Networking Gear, Software, Scanners, Copiers, Fax Machines, and Cell Phones you need.OfficeTechDeals is a useful search engine for anyone in need of cheap new electronics and/or office supplies. Since it only sponsors searches and doesn’t sell the products themselves, OfficeTechDeals is able to produce a broad range of products and prices from all sorts of different sales sites across the internet.
How It Works:
OfficeTechDeals lets you do exactly that; browse for good deals on office tech products, including laptops, cellular phones, printers, scanners, fax machines, etc. You can search OfficeTechDeal’s database by keyword or category. Also present on this site is an article section, where you can read the latest in tech news. The database of articles is also searchable, though only by keyword. Keep in mind that if you’re looking to buy something, OfficeTechDeals doesn’t sell the items directly; results are pulled from across the internet, including auction sites like eBay.
More at:http://www.officetechdeals.com/

MediaMax---Free Online Storage

What Company is Offering:
MediaMax, powered by Streamload, gives you a private and secure place to upload, store, access, and share your personal videos, photos, movies, music, and files.
How It Works:

Store files securely on the web. Get 25 GBs of FREE online storage.
Access your files from any web browser.
Share all your files quickly and easily, without file size restrictions.
Host videos, audio, images and more on the web.
Backup your files and data safely and reliably.
More at:http://www.mediamax.com/

Flux---Social Distribution Platform for Media Publishers

What Company is Offering:
If your website has fresh content, and if you want to increase important site metrics such as page views, time spent, and repeat visitors, then you should get in Flux. Flux will help you distribute your content across the social web, while leading new users back to your site.
How It Works:
Once users have discovered your site, Flux offers social tools like member profiles, videos, photos, guestbook comments and more, keeping them engaged and improving your site metrics. Flux can also help you increase your CPM’s and attract the best advertisers for your content.Flux offers 3 ways to get started: fShare, Flux Lite, Flux Custom.
Adding the fShare widget code to your site puts an fShare button next to your site’s videos, photos, and blogs. Now your visitors can distribute your content across the social web, while preserving your branding and attribution – increasing traffic and engagement on your site.
More at:http://www.flux.com/