What Company Is Offering:
Global Business Networking is an online business networking website dedicated to giving its members the best online networking experience possible. They concentrate on enabling users to business network, gain business contacts, network online, discuss business-related issues and broaden their business horizons. There are news and events sections within GlobalBusinessNetworking.com, a seperate networking area where members can start their own mini-networks to discuss issues specific to them, an area to hire and be hired, online business chat, recommendations and extensive networking tools.
How It Works:
When you first login you'll see a button on the menu called "Search Members". If you click that button you can search through every member of Global Business Networking.com. Have a look through the list, and if there's anyone in a business sector you'd like to network with then click the link to their profile or click the green + sign next to their name to invite them into your contacts.
When you see someone else's profile who is not already a member of your network at the top of the page you'll see a button called "Invite this member to your network". Click on this to invite that member to your network.
One interesting way to network is to look through other people's networks. When you click on a link to see a person's profile you'll see their network in the info bar on the right of the screen. You can then click on any of those names to see their profile and also their network. This can lead to searching through a number of networks and some interesting contacts!
More at:http://www.globalbusinessnetworking.com/
Monday, November 26, 2007
GIFUP.com is your personal GIF animation and avatar generator
What Company Is Offering:
GIFUP.com is your personal GIF animation and avatar generator.
How It Works:
Simply upload images from your computer or get them from Flickr or any web site and let GIFUP do all the magic. You get your animated avatar, banner or GIF slideshow in a sec! You may then save it to your computer, share it with your friends or post it on Myspace, Hi5, Friendster, Blogs, Forums, etc.
What Is GIF:
The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) is an 8-bit-per-pixel bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability.
The format uses a palette of up to 256 distinct colors from the 24-bit RGB color space. It also supports animations and allows a separate palette of 256 colors for each frame. The color limitation makes the GIF format unsuitable for reproducing color photographs and other images with continuous color, but it is well-suited for more simple images such as graphics or logos with solid areas of color.
GIF images are compressed using the Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) lossless data compression technique to reduce the file size without degrading the visual quality.
More at:http://www.gifup.com/
GIFUP.com is your personal GIF animation and avatar generator.
How It Works:
Simply upload images from your computer or get them from Flickr or any web site and let GIFUP do all the magic. You get your animated avatar, banner or GIF slideshow in a sec! You may then save it to your computer, share it with your friends or post it on Myspace, Hi5, Friendster, Blogs, Forums, etc.
What Is GIF:
The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) is an 8-bit-per-pixel bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability.
The format uses a palette of up to 256 distinct colors from the 24-bit RGB color space. It also supports animations and allows a separate palette of 256 colors for each frame. The color limitation makes the GIF format unsuitable for reproducing color photographs and other images with continuous color, but it is well-suited for more simple images such as graphics or logos with solid areas of color.
GIF images are compressed using the Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) lossless data compression technique to reduce the file size without degrading the visual quality.
More at:http://www.gifup.com/
Best of eBay
What Company Is Offering:
Best of eBay is a community driven website dedicated to show the most eccentric listings on eBay. With Best of eBay you can nominate the most eccentric listings you find and eBay to be voted by fellow community members. In order to nominate and vote for a Best Of eBay listing you must be a registered eBay member.
How It Works:
You can nominate an interesting listing to best of eBay by using the yellow "Nominate to Best of eBay" button located in the left column. After you click on Nominate an listing, you will be asked to insert an item number for the listing you would like to nominate. You can find this number located at the top right side of each eBay listing as shown in the screenshot below.
The administration will purge nominations which don't fit the "strangest, funniest, or eccentric" criterion or do not have a complete description on why the listing deserves to be nominated.
You can support items that have already been nominated to Best of eBay by voting. Voting is very easy, just click on the "Vote for this item" icon located to the right of each item. After you have voted for a listing, the icon changes its color to purple.
You view and add your comments to a Best of eBay nominee by clicking on the 'comment' link at the bottom of each listing. eBay content rules apply to all comments and submissions.
More at:http://bestof.ebay.com/
Best of eBay is a community driven website dedicated to show the most eccentric listings on eBay. With Best of eBay you can nominate the most eccentric listings you find and eBay to be voted by fellow community members. In order to nominate and vote for a Best Of eBay listing you must be a registered eBay member.
How It Works:
You can nominate an interesting listing to best of eBay by using the yellow "Nominate to Best of eBay" button located in the left column. After you click on Nominate an listing, you will be asked to insert an item number for the listing you would like to nominate. You can find this number located at the top right side of each eBay listing as shown in the screenshot below.
The administration will purge nominations which don't fit the "strangest, funniest, or eccentric" criterion or do not have a complete description on why the listing deserves to be nominated.
You can support items that have already been nominated to Best of eBay by voting. Voting is very easy, just click on the "Vote for this item" icon located to the right of each item. After you have voted for a listing, the icon changes its color to purple.
You view and add your comments to a Best of eBay nominee by clicking on the 'comment' link at the bottom of each listing. eBay content rules apply to all comments and submissions.
More at:http://bestof.ebay.com/
SeeToo allows Internet users to share videos stored on their computers without the burden of uploading them to another site
What Company Is Offering:
SeeToo is a web-based application that allows individuals to invite their online buddies to watch videos together with them in real time. Founded in 2007, SeeToo allows Internet users to share videos stored on their computers without the burden of uploading them to another site.
How It Works:
Whether the video is generated by your digital camera, camcorder or webcam, using SeeToo is simple:
* Select a video, or any multimedia file, from your computer. SeeToo requires no upload or any preparation work and can easily handle file of any size: 500Mb, 2Gb and greater.
* Send an automatically generated invitation to your buddy over the instant message network of your choice (e.g. AIM, ICQ, Live Messenger, Google Talk, Skype, etc.) or simply send the link to your buddy in an email. Your buddies don't have to install anything to start watching videos with you, all they need is a browser and an Internet connection.
* Once your buddy clicks on the link in the IM or email, the simultaneous viewing experience begins!
More at:http://www.seetoo.com/
SeeToo is a web-based application that allows individuals to invite their online buddies to watch videos together with them in real time. Founded in 2007, SeeToo allows Internet users to share videos stored on their computers without the burden of uploading them to another site.
How It Works:
Whether the video is generated by your digital camera, camcorder or webcam, using SeeToo is simple:
* Select a video, or any multimedia file, from your computer. SeeToo requires no upload or any preparation work and can easily handle file of any size: 500Mb, 2Gb and greater.
* Send an automatically generated invitation to your buddy over the instant message network of your choice (e.g. AIM, ICQ, Live Messenger, Google Talk, Skype, etc.) or simply send the link to your buddy in an email. Your buddies don't have to install anything to start watching videos with you, all they need is a browser and an Internet connection.
* Once your buddy clicks on the link in the IM or email, the simultaneous viewing experience begins!
More at:http://www.seetoo.com/
Dabble's is to help you find and collect videos from all over the web, no matter where they are hosted
What Company Is Offering:
Dabble's is to help you find and collect videos from all over the web, no matter where they are hosted.
How It Works:
Videos get put on the web in lots of different ways: uploaded from people's home computers, mobile phones, and digital cameras, as well as professionally produced and posted by the company that made them (or others who enjoy them).
All of this video has to be "hosted" (stored and served from) somewhere online. Along with all the websites that just feature a clip or two, hundreds of video hosting sites now exist to store and serve these videos to you.
Dabble gathers video data from hundreds of hosting sites, as well as from tens of thousands of other websites. Dabble keeps a record of where web videos are located, descriptions about the video, who made it, what it's about, how popular it is, and so on.
This record, called "metadata", makes it easy to search and find video. The community of Dabble members adds details and notes, correcting mistakes, and sharing what is valuable to them about the media, enhancing the metadata in a massive team effort that goes far beyond what any one site can do alone.
You don't need to join Dabble to find videos using our search service, but once you have a membership in Dabble, you can start collecting and organizing your favorite videos. Wherever you travel on the web, you can quickly and easily import links to the videos you discover into your own personal Dabble collection. You can also add your own comments and "tags" (keywords) to share with our member community, and you can organize videos into playlists, like all the web videos about a favorite person or topic.
Because all the other Dabble members are organizing videos too, chances are you can find existing playlists in the Dabble community about whatever you're interested in, and find new videos that way. People also use Dabble to collect and organize other sorts of media, like audio and photographs. Dabble doesn't directly host any media.
More at:http://dabble.com/
Dabble's is to help you find and collect videos from all over the web, no matter where they are hosted.
How It Works:
Videos get put on the web in lots of different ways: uploaded from people's home computers, mobile phones, and digital cameras, as well as professionally produced and posted by the company that made them (or others who enjoy them).
All of this video has to be "hosted" (stored and served from) somewhere online. Along with all the websites that just feature a clip or two, hundreds of video hosting sites now exist to store and serve these videos to you.
Dabble gathers video data from hundreds of hosting sites, as well as from tens of thousands of other websites. Dabble keeps a record of where web videos are located, descriptions about the video, who made it, what it's about, how popular it is, and so on.
This record, called "metadata", makes it easy to search and find video. The community of Dabble members adds details and notes, correcting mistakes, and sharing what is valuable to them about the media, enhancing the metadata in a massive team effort that goes far beyond what any one site can do alone.
You don't need to join Dabble to find videos using our search service, but once you have a membership in Dabble, you can start collecting and organizing your favorite videos. Wherever you travel on the web, you can quickly and easily import links to the videos you discover into your own personal Dabble collection. You can also add your own comments and "tags" (keywords) to share with our member community, and you can organize videos into playlists, like all the web videos about a favorite person or topic.
Because all the other Dabble members are organizing videos too, chances are you can find existing playlists in the Dabble community about whatever you're interested in, and find new videos that way. People also use Dabble to collect and organize other sorts of media, like audio and photographs. Dabble doesn't directly host any media.
More at:http://dabble.com/
3LUXE---Refine Top Three For Shoppers
What Company Is Offering:
At 3LUXE, they do the research for you and they limit their results to the three things that they identify as the “Best Ofs” in each category. If you’re looking for the “Best Of” digital cameras, they give you the three best options, not millions of search results. And while their reviews are certainly subjective (they have real people actually researching the products, not algorithms), they are also completely objective in that no one can buy their way onto the list.
They intend that their “Best Ofs” will be very fluid and reflect the latest information available. As you bring better products to our attention, or as we uncover them ourselves with ongoing research, they’ll continually update categories to keep the site relevant, useful and most important, simple.
How It Works:
They do the same painstaking research you’d do if you had more time. They thoroughly review all the available information. Including, but not limited to, online reviews, magazine articles, company literature, and our own consumers’ feedback. Where possible, our team does rely on personal use, but for many items (large size jets anyone?) that’s just not practical.
All of the research and review work is done completely independent of any advertiser or outside company influence. This editorial independence is an incredibly important part of what we do to ensure the 3LUXE experience accomplishes what you want – giving you unbiased perspective on the best in any given category.
3LUXE is an advertising supported site. By creating an audience of people who are interested in possibly purchasing in a category, they create a valuable and targeted environment for companies to place their advertising message. They also hope to make money by referring people to other sites such as Shopzilla or Amazon as our 3LUXE consumers take the next step in the purchase process.
More at:http://www.3luxe.com/
At 3LUXE, they do the research for you and they limit their results to the three things that they identify as the “Best Ofs” in each category. If you’re looking for the “Best Of” digital cameras, they give you the three best options, not millions of search results. And while their reviews are certainly subjective (they have real people actually researching the products, not algorithms), they are also completely objective in that no one can buy their way onto the list.
They intend that their “Best Ofs” will be very fluid and reflect the latest information available. As you bring better products to our attention, or as we uncover them ourselves with ongoing research, they’ll continually update categories to keep the site relevant, useful and most important, simple.
How It Works:
They do the same painstaking research you’d do if you had more time. They thoroughly review all the available information. Including, but not limited to, online reviews, magazine articles, company literature, and our own consumers’ feedback. Where possible, our team does rely on personal use, but for many items (large size jets anyone?) that’s just not practical.
All of the research and review work is done completely independent of any advertiser or outside company influence. This editorial independence is an incredibly important part of what we do to ensure the 3LUXE experience accomplishes what you want – giving you unbiased perspective on the best in any given category.
3LUXE is an advertising supported site. By creating an audience of people who are interested in possibly purchasing in a category, they create a valuable and targeted environment for companies to place their advertising message. They also hope to make money by referring people to other sites such as Shopzilla or Amazon as our 3LUXE consumers take the next step in the purchase process.
More at:http://www.3luxe.com/
Millions in Sales
Even though he broke his foot dancing at his brother’s wedding one recent weekend, life is still good for Bert Jacobs.
Mr. Jacobs is the 42-year-old co-founder of Life is good, a popular apparel brand based in Boston that is on track to break $100 million in sales this year. This is rarefied air for Mr. Jacobs, who a dozen years ago was selling T-shirts out of a battered van on the streets of Boston with his brother John, now 39.
From a single childlike drawing of a character they named Jake and their uplifting three-word slogan, the brothers have developed a fashion brand sold in 4,500 independent retail outlets in the United States and 27 other countries.
Since 1994, they have sold nearly 20 million Life is good T-shirts and now have a product line with more than 900 items, from hats to dog beds, and the company continues to grow 30 to 40 percent annually. There are now 93 independently owned Life is good retail shops selling only their merchandise, and the company plans to have a total of 200 by the end of 2009. With all that, Life is good has just 250 employees.
Life is good, which rations its use of capital letters, offers one more example of a small company creating a big brand. Though most consumers associate great brands with marketing giants like Procter & Gamble, General Motors, Apple and Nike, the ability to build a powerful brand is no longer reserved for the big spenders. Small companies with great ideas and well-planned strategies — Kryptonite bicycle locks, Stonyfield Farm yogurt, Zipcar — have spawned prominent brands.
“A big brand comes from big insights about culture and consumers and what it is that they need,” said Susan Fournier, a brand expert and associate professor of marketing at the School of Management at Boston University. “To me, that has nothing to do with big budgets.”
“Life is good tapped into an emotional ethos that struck a chord with where the culture was at a certain point in time. That is not done by a marketing budget but by their customers who become evangelists and give the brand visibility and credibility.”
Internet start-ups like Google, YouTube, Craigslist and Facebook used the Web to promote themselves and have now grown into giants themselves. Facebook, the popular social networking Web site, for example, was started in a Harvard dormitory room by three undergraduates less than four years ago, and today, with just over 300 employees, has nearly 50 million active users and has been signing up 200,000 new ones a day since January. New brands can be started online with stunning speed and efficiency by small groups of entrepreneurs who understand the impact of the viral environment of the Web.
Creating that ubiquity for a brand in the nondigital world is tougher. Though they had been reasonably content to sell enough of their wares to pay a meager rent and avoid taking real jobs, the Jacobs brothers always believed that they could make a better T-shirt and turn it into a bona fide business.
They posted their own drawings and slogans on the wall of their apartment near Boston and regularly polled friends at their frequent keg parties for feedback about their ideas. “It was truly like a focus group,” Bert Jacobs recalled.
In search of something that would resonate with a broad audience, they created Jake, a crudely drawn stick character not all that far removed from the Smiley Face, and were amazed at how he inspired an intensely positive reaction.
“This guy has life figured out,” wrote one friend next to the drawing.
They later posted a list of 50 slogans they had compiled and got a similar reaction to the unremarkable phrase “life is good.” A girlfriend concluded that the slogan with three simple words “kind of says it all.”
The brothers printed 48 test T-shirts that combined the slogan with the drawing for a street fair in Cambridge, Mass., in 1994, and sold the entire lot in 45 minutes.
That night, the brothers huddled and decided that the gold they had seemingly struck was a result of their message of optimism. “The reason people bought those shirts was because they understood it instantly,” Bert Jacobs said. “It made them smile, and it was tangible. They could reach out and get a little sunshine.”
Doug Gladstone, chief executive of Brand Content, an ad agency in Boston, agreed. “They tapped into something positive yet benign,” he said. “The product makes you feel good but it’s not over the top.”
By the end of 1994, the brothers had sold $82,000 of Life is good shirts through a couple of willing retail outlets. Within four years, they broke the $1 million barrier and believed they had found the small business they had always dreamed of and that they were sitting on an emerging brand.
The outside world did not see it that way. “It was a real uphill battle to get other people to say we had a brand,” Bert Jacobs said. “At $10 million and even $20 million in sales, they were still asking us when we were going to launch something different.”
With no business acumen, the brothers sought out successful retailers and peppered them with questions. Bert Jacobs acknowledged that smarter businessmen could have expanded the company more quickly but that was never the point.
Prof. Fournier said that slow growth is an asset for small companies trying to build brands.
“People with deep pockets put the pedal to the metal and do too much too quickly,” she said. “Big companies try to do everything in the first two years but often fall off the cliff. Small companies have to hold back and build the brand more carefully and diligently. Slow and steady often wins the race.”
The Jacobs brothers considered a consumer advertising campaign several years ago but decided to wait until growth slowed to start it. Growth has never slowed. Instead of advertising, the company spends its money on charitable fund-raising festivals for children’s causes.
“People who are facing adversity embrace our message the most,” Bert Jacobs said.
Skeptics have warned the brothers that their concept has a limited shelf life, and, indeed, they plan to extend the brand to try to keep it vibrant. Next spring, Life is good plans to start several apparel and product lines like Good Karma, Good Kids, Good Dog and Good Vibes that will aim at specific audiences. Good Karma, for example, is an environmentally sustainable clothing line. Good Kids will extend the product line for children.
Bert Jacobs is confident the brand has legs. “So much of fashion and culture is cyclical. It comes and goes,” he said. “When the trend tails off, so does your business. But optimism is not a trend. It’s empowering to celebrate life’s simple pleasures.”
More at:http://www.lifeisgood.com/
Via-NY Times
Mr. Jacobs is the 42-year-old co-founder of Life is good, a popular apparel brand based in Boston that is on track to break $100 million in sales this year. This is rarefied air for Mr. Jacobs, who a dozen years ago was selling T-shirts out of a battered van on the streets of Boston with his brother John, now 39.
From a single childlike drawing of a character they named Jake and their uplifting three-word slogan, the brothers have developed a fashion brand sold in 4,500 independent retail outlets in the United States and 27 other countries.
Since 1994, they have sold nearly 20 million Life is good T-shirts and now have a product line with more than 900 items, from hats to dog beds, and the company continues to grow 30 to 40 percent annually. There are now 93 independently owned Life is good retail shops selling only their merchandise, and the company plans to have a total of 200 by the end of 2009. With all that, Life is good has just 250 employees.
Life is good, which rations its use of capital letters, offers one more example of a small company creating a big brand. Though most consumers associate great brands with marketing giants like Procter & Gamble, General Motors, Apple and Nike, the ability to build a powerful brand is no longer reserved for the big spenders. Small companies with great ideas and well-planned strategies — Kryptonite bicycle locks, Stonyfield Farm yogurt, Zipcar — have spawned prominent brands.
“A big brand comes from big insights about culture and consumers and what it is that they need,” said Susan Fournier, a brand expert and associate professor of marketing at the School of Management at Boston University. “To me, that has nothing to do with big budgets.”
“Life is good tapped into an emotional ethos that struck a chord with where the culture was at a certain point in time. That is not done by a marketing budget but by their customers who become evangelists and give the brand visibility and credibility.”
Internet start-ups like Google, YouTube, Craigslist and Facebook used the Web to promote themselves and have now grown into giants themselves. Facebook, the popular social networking Web site, for example, was started in a Harvard dormitory room by three undergraduates less than four years ago, and today, with just over 300 employees, has nearly 50 million active users and has been signing up 200,000 new ones a day since January. New brands can be started online with stunning speed and efficiency by small groups of entrepreneurs who understand the impact of the viral environment of the Web.
Creating that ubiquity for a brand in the nondigital world is tougher. Though they had been reasonably content to sell enough of their wares to pay a meager rent and avoid taking real jobs, the Jacobs brothers always believed that they could make a better T-shirt and turn it into a bona fide business.
They posted their own drawings and slogans on the wall of their apartment near Boston and regularly polled friends at their frequent keg parties for feedback about their ideas. “It was truly like a focus group,” Bert Jacobs recalled.
In search of something that would resonate with a broad audience, they created Jake, a crudely drawn stick character not all that far removed from the Smiley Face, and were amazed at how he inspired an intensely positive reaction.
“This guy has life figured out,” wrote one friend next to the drawing.
They later posted a list of 50 slogans they had compiled and got a similar reaction to the unremarkable phrase “life is good.” A girlfriend concluded that the slogan with three simple words “kind of says it all.”
The brothers printed 48 test T-shirts that combined the slogan with the drawing for a street fair in Cambridge, Mass., in 1994, and sold the entire lot in 45 minutes.
That night, the brothers huddled and decided that the gold they had seemingly struck was a result of their message of optimism. “The reason people bought those shirts was because they understood it instantly,” Bert Jacobs said. “It made them smile, and it was tangible. They could reach out and get a little sunshine.”
Doug Gladstone, chief executive of Brand Content, an ad agency in Boston, agreed. “They tapped into something positive yet benign,” he said. “The product makes you feel good but it’s not over the top.”
By the end of 1994, the brothers had sold $82,000 of Life is good shirts through a couple of willing retail outlets. Within four years, they broke the $1 million barrier and believed they had found the small business they had always dreamed of and that they were sitting on an emerging brand.
The outside world did not see it that way. “It was a real uphill battle to get other people to say we had a brand,” Bert Jacobs said. “At $10 million and even $20 million in sales, they were still asking us when we were going to launch something different.”
With no business acumen, the brothers sought out successful retailers and peppered them with questions. Bert Jacobs acknowledged that smarter businessmen could have expanded the company more quickly but that was never the point.
Prof. Fournier said that slow growth is an asset for small companies trying to build brands.
“People with deep pockets put the pedal to the metal and do too much too quickly,” she said. “Big companies try to do everything in the first two years but often fall off the cliff. Small companies have to hold back and build the brand more carefully and diligently. Slow and steady often wins the race.”
The Jacobs brothers considered a consumer advertising campaign several years ago but decided to wait until growth slowed to start it. Growth has never slowed. Instead of advertising, the company spends its money on charitable fund-raising festivals for children’s causes.
“People who are facing adversity embrace our message the most,” Bert Jacobs said.
Skeptics have warned the brothers that their concept has a limited shelf life, and, indeed, they plan to extend the brand to try to keep it vibrant. Next spring, Life is good plans to start several apparel and product lines like Good Karma, Good Kids, Good Dog and Good Vibes that will aim at specific audiences. Good Karma, for example, is an environmentally sustainable clothing line. Good Kids will extend the product line for children.
Bert Jacobs is confident the brand has legs. “So much of fashion and culture is cyclical. It comes and goes,” he said. “When the trend tails off, so does your business. But optimism is not a trend. It’s empowering to celebrate life’s simple pleasures.”
More at:http://www.lifeisgood.com/
Via-NY Times
Convergence Inc. Got $15 million in Series D funding
What Company Is Offering:
SBCs provide a means of interfacing VoIP traffic between service providers (the peering edge) or connecting users to their real-time services (the access edge). SBCs perform a variety of functions that may include NAT traversal, topology hiding, acting as a firewall for SIP traffic, or cooperating with the existing firewall, Denial-of-Service attack prevention, call routing, codec transcoding, protocol interworking, lawful intercept and other critical functions that are necessary to deliver a quality user experience over an IP network.
Covergence is the creator of Eclipse, the industry's first session border controller specifically designed to address the unique requirements of the VoIP access edge. The core of the development and leadership team has spent their careers working in the network equipment industry at companies such as Shiva, Cascade, Aptis, Bay Networks, Nortel, Tiburon Networks and other leading organizations. While this team has had a hand in creating almost every type of network solution imaginable, they are experts in solving high-performance routing and access problems found within the Global 2000 and service providers.
What's Market Of That Kind Of Product:
The first phase of VoIP has been reached as carriers have replaced their traditional TDM transport networks and Class 4 switches with more economical IP transport and softswitches. As a result a large percentage of long distance voice transport now relies on Session Border Controllers (SBCs) to manage peering between service providers. But a peering SBC may not meet the requirements found at the access edge. The access edge SBC has to process registration traffic, manage registration floods, authenticate users, protect the service from intrusions and attacks, encrypt and decrypt signaling and media, enforce user-defined policies, and manage thousands-to-millions of active endpoints - with negligible latency, jitter and loss. This is the reason the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) standard defines both an access-edge and peering-edge SBC.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Convergence Inc., a Maynard, Mass.-based provider of IP communications security, has raised $15 million in Series D funding. Backers include Highland Capital Partners, Globespan Capital Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners.
More at:http://www.covergence.com/
SBCs provide a means of interfacing VoIP traffic between service providers (the peering edge) or connecting users to their real-time services (the access edge). SBCs perform a variety of functions that may include NAT traversal, topology hiding, acting as a firewall for SIP traffic, or cooperating with the existing firewall, Denial-of-Service attack prevention, call routing, codec transcoding, protocol interworking, lawful intercept and other critical functions that are necessary to deliver a quality user experience over an IP network.
Covergence is the creator of Eclipse, the industry's first session border controller specifically designed to address the unique requirements of the VoIP access edge. The core of the development and leadership team has spent their careers working in the network equipment industry at companies such as Shiva, Cascade, Aptis, Bay Networks, Nortel, Tiburon Networks and other leading organizations. While this team has had a hand in creating almost every type of network solution imaginable, they are experts in solving high-performance routing and access problems found within the Global 2000 and service providers.
What's Market Of That Kind Of Product:
The first phase of VoIP has been reached as carriers have replaced their traditional TDM transport networks and Class 4 switches with more economical IP transport and softswitches. As a result a large percentage of long distance voice transport now relies on Session Border Controllers (SBCs) to manage peering between service providers. But a peering SBC may not meet the requirements found at the access edge. The access edge SBC has to process registration traffic, manage registration floods, authenticate users, protect the service from intrusions and attacks, encrypt and decrypt signaling and media, enforce user-defined policies, and manage thousands-to-millions of active endpoints - with negligible latency, jitter and loss. This is the reason the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) standard defines both an access-edge and peering-edge SBC.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Convergence Inc., a Maynard, Mass.-based provider of IP communications security, has raised $15 million in Series D funding. Backers include Highland Capital Partners, Globespan Capital Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners.
More at:http://www.covergence.com/
TargetProcess helps software development companies reduce the complexity of software project management and simplifies planning
What Company is Offering:
TargetProcess is agile project management software. Designed with simplicity in mind, TargetProcess helps software development companies reduce the complexity of software project management and simplifies planning, tracking and quality assurance activities.
How It Works:
Improves communication in your project team; allows agile development in distributed teams .
Real-time progress tracking; always know the current project state and next release date.
Full support of iterative development; use it for projects of all sizes.
Variety of productivity tools; execute common tasks faster.
More at:http://www.targetprocess.com/
TargetProcess is agile project management software. Designed with simplicity in mind, TargetProcess helps software development companies reduce the complexity of software project management and simplifies planning, tracking and quality assurance activities.
How It Works:
Improves communication in your project team; allows agile development in distributed teams .
Real-time progress tracking; always know the current project state and next release date.
Full support of iterative development; use it for projects of all sizes.
Variety of productivity tools; execute common tasks faster.
More at:http://www.targetprocess.com/
Muti--- For Those Interested In AFRICA
What Company Is Offering:
Muti is a social bookmarking site inspired by reddit and Digg but dedicated to content of interest to Africans or those interested in Africa.
How it Works:
Registered users submit links to news stories, articles or any item of interest. Other users have the opportunity of voting these submissions up or down. An up vote will increase a submission's score while a down vote will decrease its score.
Voting is achieved simply by clicking on the arrows (,) which appear to the left of the submitted items. Only registered users may vote. Voting also determines the "kudus" of a user. Kudus (a word play on both "Kudos", and also a southern african antelope) are similar to what many other sites refer to as "karma". Kudus are earned (or lost) by other users voting for a submission. Thus if I submit an article and ten people vote it up whilst three vote it down, I will earn seven kudus for that article.
There are a number of different views which show the submitted items in various ways. These are explained below.
hot - This is the default view. It lists submissions in order of a "hotness" or "heat", which is calculated based on the amount of voting within recent time periods. The more up votes an item has received within recent time periods, the higher it will appear on the list. Note that the "score" displayed below each item is NOT the same as the "heat" but is rather a composite score based on voting over all time AND the number of times the item has been viewed or read.
new - This view lists submissions in the reverse order in which they were submitted, in other words the newest submissions will always be at the top of this view.
top - The top view shows the submissions in order of a composite score based on total votes of all time and on number of times the item has been viewed or read.
More at:http://muti.co.za/
Muti is a social bookmarking site inspired by reddit and Digg but dedicated to content of interest to Africans or those interested in Africa.
How it Works:
Registered users submit links to news stories, articles or any item of interest. Other users have the opportunity of voting these submissions up or down. An up vote will increase a submission's score while a down vote will decrease its score.
Voting is achieved simply by clicking on the arrows (,) which appear to the left of the submitted items. Only registered users may vote. Voting also determines the "kudus" of a user. Kudus (a word play on both "Kudos", and also a southern african antelope) are similar to what many other sites refer to as "karma". Kudus are earned (or lost) by other users voting for a submission. Thus if I submit an article and ten people vote it up whilst three vote it down, I will earn seven kudus for that article.
There are a number of different views which show the submitted items in various ways. These are explained below.
hot - This is the default view. It lists submissions in order of a "hotness" or "heat", which is calculated based on the amount of voting within recent time periods. The more up votes an item has received within recent time periods, the higher it will appear on the list. Note that the "score" displayed below each item is NOT the same as the "heat" but is rather a composite score based on voting over all time AND the number of times the item has been viewed or read.
new - This view lists submissions in the reverse order in which they were submitted, in other words the newest submissions will always be at the top of this view.
top - The top view shows the submissions in order of a composite score based on total votes of all time and on number of times the item has been viewed or read.
More at:http://muti.co.za/
Kya Kare .com---Discover And Share Events In India
What Company Is Offering:
Kya Kare in Hindi means “What do I/we do?”. It’s a common question used in India to figure out what to do next. They thought this would be quite an apt name for an events listing site.This is an event listing site for for Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata covering Arts, theatre, plays, music, dance, seminars, workshops, TV, radio, and more.
How It Works:
For any event related information you can surf their data online, it would be quite useful to have a site that lists this information. They’ve kept the site quite simple and utilitarian, without fussing too much on look and graphic elements. The site is a platform for discovering and sharing events. It’s totally free of cost and a not for profit site.
They’ve built this site and has been launched on September 16th 2007.
More at:http://www.kyakare.com/
Kya Kare in Hindi means “What do I/we do?”. It’s a common question used in India to figure out what to do next. They thought this would be quite an apt name for an events listing site.This is an event listing site for for Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata covering Arts, theatre, plays, music, dance, seminars, workshops, TV, radio, and more.
How It Works:
For any event related information you can surf their data online, it would be quite useful to have a site that lists this information. They’ve kept the site quite simple and utilitarian, without fussing too much on look and graphic elements. The site is a platform for discovering and sharing events. It’s totally free of cost and a not for profit site.
They’ve built this site and has been launched on September 16th 2007.
More at:http://www.kyakare.com/
Survelio.com simplifies the online survey process by providing human and business intelligence
What Company Is Offering:
Survelio.com simplifies the online survey process by providing human and business intelligence with a combination of quality, speed, affordability, and service.
Survelio.com is a professional survey service provided by Saisient LLC- provides survey as a service not only to get you the right information related to an individual's work, growth capabilities but also allows you to analyze methods for optimum utilization of your resources/products/needs and many such factors.
Unique Features:
Quality
Attention to detail in every element of Client interaction.
Professional project management and communication.
Accurate and insightful analysis.
Sound processes and extensive research infrastructure.
Custom/Cost Effective.
Fraction of typical cost.
100% customized .
Highly scalable.
Flexible working relationship.
More at:http://www.survelio.com/
Survelio.com simplifies the online survey process by providing human and business intelligence with a combination of quality, speed, affordability, and service.
Survelio.com is a professional survey service provided by Saisient LLC- provides survey as a service not only to get you the right information related to an individual's work, growth capabilities but also allows you to analyze methods for optimum utilization of your resources/products/needs and many such factors.
Unique Features:
Quality
Attention to detail in every element of Client interaction.
Professional project management and communication.
Accurate and insightful analysis.
Sound processes and extensive research infrastructure.
Custom/Cost Effective.
Fraction of typical cost.
100% customized .
Highly scalable.
Flexible working relationship.
More at:http://www.survelio.com/
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