Sunday, November 25, 2007

Zumobi takes accessing, retrieving, and sharing Web-based content beyond traditional mobile browsers

What Company Is offering:
Zumobi takes accessing, retrieving, and sharing Web-based content beyond traditional mobile browsers. Through an intuitive, lush, high-framerate user interface called Tiles, Zumobi allows people to easily “bounce” in and out of snack-sized bits information they need throughout the day, and the targeted entertainment they enjoy, while offering advertisers a better way to connect with consumers through their mobile phones.
How It Works:
Zumobi’s open platform offers a better mobile experience for business partners and developers. Zumobi delivers a device-neutral platform for building and deploying rich content for mobile phones. We make it simple and profitable to build and deliver mobile applications through a single standard for development and deployment plus an attractive revenue sharing model.

Zumobi tiles are “always on, updating & waiting for you” so there’s no frustrating browser delays as you access the broad range of interactive content and customized experiences from top-tier providers and world-class partners. Plus, Tiles can be easily sent via phone form user to user, so that you can quickly share with your friends on the spot!

A Beta version of the Zumobi SDK will be available to developers simultaneously with the launch of the Beta Program in December. Zumobi Tiles can be easily sent to other Zumobi users, allowing communities of friends to quickly create, embrace, share and use Tiles targeted to their unique interests.
More at:http://www.zumobi.com/

CatalystOffice----Your Office Anywhere

What Company Is Offering:
CatalystOffice is the only suite of enterprise-grade communication, document management, and other office productivity applications designed to relieve you of the headaches of other enterprise solutions:
High server costs and administrative demands.
Equipment requirements and space restrictions.
Complicated and expensive licensing.
How It Works:
The software was designed for the needs of small businesses, with multiple users in different locations, and has a lot of “little” features that are missing from Microsoft Outlook and Windows.

There are 4 pricing plans starting at $25 per month – companies can add as many users as they want and the price does not increase, it’s only dependent on how much storage you use for your files (for example you get 10 Gigs of file storage for $25/month)

The setup for the software is easy to setup and despite strong competition from HyperOffice, WebEx's WebOffice, Google, Zimbra and Zoho, the simple Catalyst interfaces should help them gain traction.


You can start using CatalystOffice after your very first login. Their applications are based on familiar functions and standard business applications. CatalystOffice is designed to let you set yourself up to work the way you’re most productive.
Your data is stored in the same data centers as some of the best known Web companies in the world. It’s monitored 24x7. And daily backups ensure your data is protected.
Unique Features:
Unlimited user licenses – add people without added cost.
Flexible pricing – buy only what you need.
Geographic expansion – our system lets you work anywhere, anytime.
Changing user roles and access – easy profile management lets you do it on the fly.
Free upgrades – get the latest features and newest versions for nothing .
more at:http://www.catalystweb.com/

TheAutoLog.com provides a free online system for tracking and recording vehicle maintenance information

What Company is Offering:
TheAutoLog.com provides a free online system for tracking and recording vehicle maintenance information. TheAutoLog allows its members to easily organize repairs and maintenance that have been done to their vehicles. TheAutoLog keeps a shareable, customizable, personalized profile that can display photos, general information and maintenance records of a particular vehicle.
How It Works:
1.You'll need to Log-in. Go to 'Maintenance Records' and select "Upload maintenance record" for the vehicle of your choice. Your invoice must be stored on you computer and be of type .jpg, .gif or .png. Your invoice file can not be larger than 200KB. You can reduce the size of your invoice file by using a program such as MS Paint
2.To make your vehicle profile private (only viewable by you): Log-in and click on: "Customize Profile". Next, choose the desired vehicle and click on "Profile Settings". Simply change "Profile mode: Viewable" to "Profile mode: Private". Press "Save Changes."
3.Your maintenance records are defaulted to 'Private Mode' - only you can view them. If you want others to be able to view your maintenance history (ie. a repair shop), Log-in and go to 'Maintenance Records' and click on "Maintenance Settings". You'll now see an option to make your maintenance records public.
4.You must be logged into TheAutoLog. To vote for a paticular vehicle, simply go to that vehicle's profile and under the main photo click on: 'Vote'.
TheAutoLog.com provides all of it's current features for free.
More at:http://www.theautolog.com/

Grocery Guide

What Company is Offering:
Grocery Guide collects the grocery sales from around the country. Those sales are processed to add ratings, recipes, charts, nutritional information, tracking, sale price alerts, coupon notifications, and more.

Simply put... If you buy groceries, they can save you a lot of money. Kiss those long trips up and down the isles goodbye.

How It Works:

Ratings -
Believe it or not, a sale does not mean savings. Either write down the prices for each product for the next 19 years (yep we use that much history), or look at our star ratings next to the sale price. The choice is your's.


Grocery Coupons -
They track all coupons relating to grocery products. Some people use coupons, others don't. Either way, they make it easy for you couponers.


Recipes
So what if Chicken is on sale if you don't know what to do with it. They help by showing you recipes for many of the sale items. It makes meal planning and shopping easy. Find a recipe that you like? Be sure to create a sales alert so we know to notify you when the main ingredients go on sale.


Price Charts -
Price are continually adjusting based on supply and demand. Using their vast archive of sale prices dating back 19 years, they are able show you relevant price points to help you know whether prices might be going up or down.
More at:http://www.groceryguide.com/

nerdynews.com ---Submit Story Or News To Them And Make Money

What Company is Offering:
nerdynews.com is an AdSense API partner, which means that Google has bestowed on us the ability to display ads on our users behalf (with a 50% revenue share). This means that you'll make 50% of the money made off your submissions comment pages, paid to your AdSense account, by Google.

How It Works:

First, you need to create a nerdynews.com account. During this process you will be asked to either create a new Google AdSense account (which we can do behind the scenes for you) or associate with an existing account. Once your account is all set up, you can post stories. If those stories are popular, they will recieve more prominent position on the site (perhaps making it to the homepage). Each story has its own comment page. The ads shown on a stories comment page are split 50/50 with the user who submitted that story. Eventually (depending on how you've set up your Google AdSense account), Google will mail send you the money you've earned.
More at:http://www.nerdynews.com/

InterviewStudio combines the newest online recruiting tools into one Web portal--Digital Interview

What Company is Offering:
InterviewStudio is the most comprehensive applicant screening tool on the market, offering an exciting new platform for executive hiring. InterviewStudio combines the newest online recruiting tools into one Web portal, including: candidate profiles, video interviews, online resumes, social networking profiles, professional assessment tests, business references, and data about the candidates from internet search engines.
How It Works:
InterviewStudio is a ground breaking new platform that brings speed, efficiency and effectiveness to the hiring manager and job seeker alike.

In the time it takes a Hiring Manager to review a traditional resume, he or she can now, using InterviewStudio, review the candidate's resume, evaluate the results of a nationally recognized assessment test, watch a video taped interview, look for public information on the candidate in Google and identify their social network via LinkedIn, all from the same platform and in a matter a minutes. Based on this broad base of information on the candidate, the hiring manager can quickly determine if the individual may be the right "fit" for their firm and warrant the time and expense of an in person interview.

For job seekers, the InterviewStudio platform offers a candidate the ability to uniquely showcase their complete skills, abilities and talents to a hiring manager and dramatically improve their ability to gain an in person interview.

Who is Behind This Company:

InterviewStudio is created by an award-winning, pioneering thought leader in the recruitment solutions industry, Colleen Aylward. Colleen has spent the last 15 years as President and Founder of Northwest recruiting firm Devon James Associates, Inc. whose clients have included such industry pioneers as Amazon, Visio, Spry/Compuserve, Xylo, Quintessent Communications, Rhapsody Networks, Avenue A, Cranium, Infospace. These startup companies have depended on her strategic thinking about recruiting solutions (such as her "Onsite Recruiting War Room" model of 1992 which has widespread adoption today) in order to grow their companies quickly and cost effectively.

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

Pouchons is the first real Hip-Hop social networking website

What Company is Offering:
Pouchons is the first real Hip-Hop social networking website where members stay in touch with their homies, connect with homies, share photos, discover new interests and just hang out.Pouchons.com was founded by Thierry Bellevue and launched in August of 2005 as a french only website. One year and half later, Thierry decided to work on an improved version of the website, bringing Pouchons.com to another level.

In the peak of fall, in November 2007, the old and the new platforms were merged and branded to become the first Hip-Hop social network on the Web.
Pouchons, Inc. is based in Montreal, Canada.

How It works:

Accessing your account with your email (avoiding you to forgot the handle that you just changed).
Many privacy options such as make your profile visible only to your friends.
Blocking access to your profile to an age range users.
Receiving private shout outs only or public only .
See who’s online by age or by gender .
All members are kept in the same zone (country) - United-States, Canada, France
Search on all website (powered by Google) .
Improved profile - you can now change the colors and the fonts of your profile .
Improved friends system - it works now by requests .
Improved ratings system - send rating automatically .
Improved Control Panel.
Chat System.
Uploading up to 20 pictures (Up to unlimited eventually) .
You can write comments on users’ pictures.
And many more…

Exhibit 2.0

What company is Offering:
Create interactive data-rich web pages without ever touching a database or a web server, or doing any programming.
How It works:
Exhibit is a three-tier web application framework written in Javascript, which you can include like you would include Google Maps.
If you just want to show a few hundred records of data on maps, timelines, scatter plots, interactive tables, etc., why bother learning SQL, ASP, PHP, CGI, or whatever when you can just use Exhibit?
To use Exhibit, you write: a simple data file, and an HTML file in which you specify how the data should be shown. Data + Presentation. That's all there is to publishing, as it should be.
Actually, there is nothing to download—you didn't have to download Google Maps, did you?! Exhibit is also a Web API. All you need is reference its Javascript. Nothing to download; nothing to install. Welcome to a new era of software development.

But if you absolutely have to download something just to feel better about it, or if you have extra disk space to waste, sure, here's how to download Exhibit's source code.
More at:http://simile.mit.edu/