What Company Is Offering:
The EntreWiki is a new Web 2.0 Directory of Business Ideas where entrepreneurs and companies can advertise their businesses such as a franchise, business plan, start-up business, or any business that can help someone to start a new business.
How It Works:
EntreWiki targets a focused niche group of entrepreneurs and people who are interested in starting a new business. They offers 15 years of online and offline advertising at just one hundred dollars with one-time free advertisement creative conversion to Wiki text.
The EntreWiki team will "convert" an advertisement creative, normally submitted to a National Paper Magazine (in Photoshop format), into a Wiki markup language. Basically, they make an offline advertisement to be visible online, easily searched by search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, and AOL.
Once an advertisement has been converted to a Wiki page, EntreWiki pings the advertisement page all over the blogsphere and the internet through Web 2.0 technologies like RSS, Blogs, and Social Networks like Digg and StumbleUpon, further enhancing the ad's visibility on the internet.
As EntreWiki's database of business ideas grow, the advertisement page-owners will benefit from the on-growing web traffic and visitors who come through Google search terms related with each advertisement page's content.
With the revenue generated from all the advertisement pages, EntreWiki will re-invest the money back into offline magazine advertising in such magazines as Entrepreneur, Small Business Opportunities, Home Business, and etc….
Once a Wiki-converted advertisement page goes live, page-owners can also edit their pages, add photos, YouTube videos, RSS Feeds, GoogleMaps, or anything that can be done with a Wiki page. A page on the EntreWiki can be edited just as easily as a user would edit a page in Wikipedia.
more at:http://entrewiki.com/
Sunday, December 2, 2007
eCirkit is the latest to introduce a webtop “personal desktop” experience to users for an integrated social networking experience
MashableReports :
eCirkit is the latest to introduce a webtop “personal desktop” experience to users for an integrated social networking experience. Unlike most basic offerings towards this end, eCirkit acts very much like a Windows desktop in most respects. Still conducting private testing, the company hasn’t launched a beta yet (it’s coming December 1), but I had a rather involved conversation with the guys behind eCirkit so I could find out what the site’s all about.
On the social networking side of things, eCirkit has an instant messenger client, an email tool for aggregating POP/IMAP accounts, and shared “browsing and web” options. For instance, viewing another user’s preferred RSS feeds and social bookmarks can be viewed through eCirkit’s proxy browser, and added to their own favorites. So in this sense, there’s the potential for direct sharing of certain types of media that we often interact with on the web.
more at:http://www.ecirkit.com/
eCirkit is the latest to introduce a webtop “personal desktop” experience to users for an integrated social networking experience. Unlike most basic offerings towards this end, eCirkit acts very much like a Windows desktop in most respects. Still conducting private testing, the company hasn’t launched a beta yet (it’s coming December 1), but I had a rather involved conversation with the guys behind eCirkit so I could find out what the site’s all about.
On the social networking side of things, eCirkit has an instant messenger client, an email tool for aggregating POP/IMAP accounts, and shared “browsing and web” options. For instance, viewing another user’s preferred RSS feeds and social bookmarks can be viewed through eCirkit’s proxy browser, and added to their own favorites. So in this sense, there’s the potential for direct sharing of certain types of media that we often interact with on the web.
more at:http://www.ecirkit.com/
ASMALLWORLD---Millinoire's Social Networking
What Company Is Offering:
ASMALLWORLD is a private online community, which is designed for those who already have strong connections with one another.
They allow their members to connect, reconnect and interact more effectively with like-minded individuals who share the same circle of friends, interests, and schedules.
ASmallWorld.net -- borrow many of their rules from blue-blood social clubs. People must be invited to join. Membership decisions seem to be based on an applicant's education, job title and connections, since it's difficult to verify wealth levels. Those who engage in improper behavior, like trying to mingle with strangers or sell products too aggressively, are kicked out.
On the surface, the sites seem like a winning idea. Social networking outposts have exploded in popularity, while the number of millionaires and billionaires is also surging. Since wealth likes to be with wealth, the rich often seek out networks to help them with everything from vacations and parties to managing money and making business contacts. What's more, the sites host frequent member events, like jet rides, vineyard tours and sailing trips, sponsored by high-end corporate partners.
What's more, while the sites claim to be exclusive, they're opening their doors wider and wider to please advertisers and investors, who often prefer quantity over quality. And the sites can't ensure that all their members are what they say they are, despite verification systems from fellow members and the sites themselves. All this has rankled some members, who say the sites have become simply well-dressed Facebooks.
"It's very difficult to build a network based solely on wealth," says Stephen Martiros, a managing director of CCC Alliance, a coalition of rich families based in Boston. "You might start with a few wealthy people, but as you grow it eventually reverts to the mean. And once that happens, the wealthy leave. If you have one guy worth $100 million sitting at a table with a guy worth $1 million, only one of them is going to be excited to be there."
How It Works:
Prospective members have to be invited to join by another member. Rules state that members aren't allowed to "annoy, harass or unreasonably disturb members, or try to connect to members with whom you have no previous contact."
The site's classified ad section reads like a billionaire's yard sale: "For sale -- Caviar Servers and Horn Spoons." "For Sale $2.8 million Tsavorite gemstone." "Bugatti Veyron, Black, 2006. 1.1 million Euros."
This week's hot topics in the forums included "Best Fencing Clubs in the world," "Surfing in Gstaad?" and a discussion of lobster-abuse in St. Tropez. (One member recoiled at watching them boiled alive.) Another asks: "If you had $20 million where would you invest it now, given the subprime crisis?" (Members advised commodities and cash.)
How They Are Progressing:
aSmallWorld. Launched by Swedish banker and globetrotter Erik Wachtmeister, aSmallWorld has more than 250,000 members. Weinstein Co., owned by movie moguls Bob and Harvey Weinstein, bought a stake last year, giving it added cachet. Joe Robinson, the company's CEO, says aSmallWorld is aimed at tastemakers, social connectors and the migratory rich, who may want to meet up in Scotland for golf or Paris for dinner.
More at:http://www.asmallworld.net/
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ASMALLWORLD is a private online community, which is designed for those who already have strong connections with one another.
They allow their members to connect, reconnect and interact more effectively with like-minded individuals who share the same circle of friends, interests, and schedules.
ASmallWorld.net -- borrow many of their rules from blue-blood social clubs. People must be invited to join. Membership decisions seem to be based on an applicant's education, job title and connections, since it's difficult to verify wealth levels. Those who engage in improper behavior, like trying to mingle with strangers or sell products too aggressively, are kicked out.
On the surface, the sites seem like a winning idea. Social networking outposts have exploded in popularity, while the number of millionaires and billionaires is also surging. Since wealth likes to be with wealth, the rich often seek out networks to help them with everything from vacations and parties to managing money and making business contacts. What's more, the sites host frequent member events, like jet rides, vineyard tours and sailing trips, sponsored by high-end corporate partners.
What's more, while the sites claim to be exclusive, they're opening their doors wider and wider to please advertisers and investors, who often prefer quantity over quality. And the sites can't ensure that all their members are what they say they are, despite verification systems from fellow members and the sites themselves. All this has rankled some members, who say the sites have become simply well-dressed Facebooks.
"It's very difficult to build a network based solely on wealth," says Stephen Martiros, a managing director of CCC Alliance, a coalition of rich families based in Boston. "You might start with a few wealthy people, but as you grow it eventually reverts to the mean. And once that happens, the wealthy leave. If you have one guy worth $100 million sitting at a table with a guy worth $1 million, only one of them is going to be excited to be there."
How It Works:
Prospective members have to be invited to join by another member. Rules state that members aren't allowed to "annoy, harass or unreasonably disturb members, or try to connect to members with whom you have no previous contact."
The site's classified ad section reads like a billionaire's yard sale: "For sale -- Caviar Servers and Horn Spoons." "For Sale $2.8 million Tsavorite gemstone." "Bugatti Veyron, Black, 2006. 1.1 million Euros."
This week's hot topics in the forums included "Best Fencing Clubs in the world," "Surfing in Gstaad?" and a discussion of lobster-abuse in St. Tropez. (One member recoiled at watching them boiled alive.) Another asks: "If you had $20 million where would you invest it now, given the subprime crisis?" (Members advised commodities and cash.)
How They Are Progressing:
aSmallWorld. Launched by Swedish banker and globetrotter Erik Wachtmeister, aSmallWorld has more than 250,000 members. Weinstein Co., owned by movie moguls Bob and Harvey Weinstein, bought a stake last year, giving it added cachet. Joe Robinson, the company's CEO, says aSmallWorld is aimed at tastemakers, social connectors and the migratory rich, who may want to meet up in Scotland for golf or Paris for dinner.
More at:http://www.asmallworld.net/
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A clustering engine that will search the Web with www.etools.ch and automatically organize the results into thematic categories
What Company is Offering:
A clustering engine that will search the Web with www.etools.ch and automatically organize the results into thematic categories.
Carrot2 is an Open Source Search Results Clustering Engine. It can automatically organize (cluster) search results into thematic categories.Carrot2 provides an architecture for acquiring search results from various sources (YahooAPI, GoogleAPI, MSN Search API, eTools Meta Search, Alexa Web Search, PubMed, OpenSearch, Lucene index, SOLR), clustering the results and visualising the clusters. Currently, 5 clustering algorithms are available that are suitable for different kinds of document clustering tasks.
Thanks to its flexible architecture, high quality and a friendly BSD-like license, Carrot2 has been successfully used in a number of commercial and research applications and resulted in a number of interesting publications.
How It Works:
Carrot2 can add clustering of search results to an existing search engine. You can use an Open Source project called Nutch to crawl your website. Nutch has a Carrot2-based search clustering plugin, so you'll get all crawling, searching and clustering in one piece.
How can I integrate Carrot2 with my Web site/ software?
Such an integration depends on what existing infrastructure is already available in your project. Carrot2 requires a feed of documents (search results), so typically you'll need a search engine that crawls your site. Such an engine can be indeed local to your Web site (proprietary solutions in intranets, search engines built on top of Nutch or ht://dig), but it can as well be a global search engine with searches restricted to your domain (Google, Yahoo).
Once a search engine is available, the integration depends on the technology your site/ software uses for rendering the user interface (or more accurately: for implementing application logic). Software written in Java can use Carrot2 directly in a way that is shown in the end-to-end example code (JavaDoc). Sites written in Perl, PHP, .NET and other languages can use the Carrot2 Document Clustering Server, for more details see the dedicated FAQ. Finally, in some cases you might want to re-use and customize (through XSLT) some bits of Carrot2's web application (located in the carrot2/applications/carrot2-demo-webapp folder of the source repository) to e.g. visualize clusters.
More at:http://demo.carrot2.org/
A clustering engine that will search the Web with www.etools.ch and automatically organize the results into thematic categories.
Carrot2 is an Open Source Search Results Clustering Engine. It can automatically organize (cluster) search results into thematic categories.Carrot2 provides an architecture for acquiring search results from various sources (YahooAPI, GoogleAPI, MSN Search API, eTools Meta Search, Alexa Web Search, PubMed, OpenSearch, Lucene index, SOLR), clustering the results and visualising the clusters. Currently, 5 clustering algorithms are available that are suitable for different kinds of document clustering tasks.
Thanks to its flexible architecture, high quality and a friendly BSD-like license, Carrot2 has been successfully used in a number of commercial and research applications and resulted in a number of interesting publications.
How It Works:
Carrot2 can add clustering of search results to an existing search engine. You can use an Open Source project called Nutch to crawl your website. Nutch has a Carrot2-based search clustering plugin, so you'll get all crawling, searching and clustering in one piece.
How can I integrate Carrot2 with my Web site/ software?
Such an integration depends on what existing infrastructure is already available in your project. Carrot2 requires a feed of documents (search results), so typically you'll need a search engine that crawls your site. Such an engine can be indeed local to your Web site (proprietary solutions in intranets, search engines built on top of Nutch or ht://dig), but it can as well be a global search engine with searches restricted to your domain (Google, Yahoo).
Once a search engine is available, the integration depends on the technology your site/ software uses for rendering the user interface (or more accurately: for implementing application logic). Software written in Java can use Carrot2 directly in a way that is shown in the end-to-end example code (JavaDoc). Sites written in Perl, PHP, .NET and other languages can use the Carrot2 Document Clustering Server, for more details see the dedicated FAQ. Finally, in some cases you might want to re-use and customize (through XSLT) some bits of Carrot2's web application (located in the carrot2/applications/carrot2-demo-webapp folder of the source repository) to e.g. visualize clusters.
More at:http://demo.carrot2.org/
IowaNightlife is the one-stop, online nightlife resource guide for Iowa
What Company is Offering:
IowaNightlife is the one-stop, online nightlife resource guide for Iowa. Throughout the region, tens of thousands utilize IowaNightlife to find out which bars, clubs, and restaurants are most popular from night to night.
How It Works:
IowaNightlife provides useful information including hours of operation, directions, food/drink specials and on-location photo albums.
As more people continue to flock to Iowa, there become more opportunities for leisure and entertainment.
IowaNightlife continues to accommodate to the growing nightlife scene, by providing a diverse range of resources. Regardless of individual tastes, local "nightlifers" can find the information to plan an exciting night out with IowaNightlife!
More at:http://www.iowanightlife.com/
IowaNightlife is the one-stop, online nightlife resource guide for Iowa. Throughout the region, tens of thousands utilize IowaNightlife to find out which bars, clubs, and restaurants are most popular from night to night.
How It Works:
IowaNightlife provides useful information including hours of operation, directions, food/drink specials and on-location photo albums.
As more people continue to flock to Iowa, there become more opportunities for leisure and entertainment.
IowaNightlife continues to accommodate to the growing nightlife scene, by providing a diverse range of resources. Regardless of individual tastes, local "nightlifers" can find the information to plan an exciting night out with IowaNightlife!
More at:http://www.iowanightlife.com/
izzyMe--Connect with other users, sell, and buy through personalized social networking groups
What Company Is Offering:
izzyMe is a privately funded company headquartered in Kirkland, Washington. They created izzyMe because they didn't see any of the other classifieds site giving their users full control over how they sell, buy, local or nationwide, cash credit, and or trade (Why limit the user). They feel if people want to connect with other users, sell, and buy through personalized social networking groups, and on the classified site, they should be able to. This is a site that is very much a work in progress. Let us know what you like, what you don't like, or what you wish we had. They're going to keep adding more features, but they want to know what could make this site better.
Who Is Backing Them:
1.Davrick Liles, Founder and CEO
Davrick is an entrepreneur in his own mind, never content with the basics, always looking for ways to improve in business, and relationships with people. Davrick has had a successful track record with running businesses in the past, after 6 years with his last company, he helped start AttackMedia.com in 2007. From there he found in his free time that he would toggle between different web sites, and then wondered why he couldn't build a site that would allow users to a have a real user experience with Classified ads (izzyme). Davrick is always thinking of ways to improve the users experience on the web, so why not do it himself, he calls izzyme.com the peoples network, because he wants others to help in the efforts of design, and ideas that will contribute to the needs of users online.
2. Nicholas Reed, Co-Founder and Web Engineer
I'm the main programmer for izzyMe and also get to help out on design while it grows. Feel free to send me an email with any comments, suggestions, or questions about the site.
more at:http://www.izzyme.com/
izzyMe is a privately funded company headquartered in Kirkland, Washington. They created izzyMe because they didn't see any of the other classifieds site giving their users full control over how they sell, buy, local or nationwide, cash credit, and or trade (Why limit the user). They feel if people want to connect with other users, sell, and buy through personalized social networking groups, and on the classified site, they should be able to. This is a site that is very much a work in progress. Let us know what you like, what you don't like, or what you wish we had. They're going to keep adding more features, but they want to know what could make this site better.
Who Is Backing Them:
1.Davrick Liles, Founder and CEO
Davrick is an entrepreneur in his own mind, never content with the basics, always looking for ways to improve in business, and relationships with people. Davrick has had a successful track record with running businesses in the past, after 6 years with his last company, he helped start AttackMedia.com in 2007. From there he found in his free time that he would toggle between different web sites, and then wondered why he couldn't build a site that would allow users to a have a real user experience with Classified ads (izzyme). Davrick is always thinking of ways to improve the users experience on the web, so why not do it himself, he calls izzyme.com the peoples network, because he wants others to help in the efforts of design, and ideas that will contribute to the needs of users online.
2. Nicholas Reed, Co-Founder and Web Engineer
I'm the main programmer for izzyMe and also get to help out on design while it grows. Feel free to send me an email with any comments, suggestions, or questions about the site.
more at:http://www.izzyme.com/
Biggest Polaroid-picture-collection of the planet to celebrate the magic of instant photography
What Company Is Offering:
They are building the biggest Polaroid-picture-collection of the planet to celebrate the magic of instant photography. So please seach your archives and attics and reactivate your Instant Cameras. This is the slamming comeback of Instant Photo Fun.
They are presenting a rapidly growing group of amazing Polaroid enthusiasts that are polanoid enough to believe in the unique power of vivid instant photography.
They are searching for instant addicts all over the world, ready to support this project, ready to register and upload. For free and just for Instant Fun.
About Membership:
From the very beginning thy try their best to make your membership at polanoid.net challenging and enriching. Every new member receives a 5 EURO coupon for unsaleable.com, the best source for Polaroid products. As soon as you have uploaded your first pictures you can take part in our projects, become world famous and win fantastic prices every week.
More at:http://www.polanoid.net/
They are building the biggest Polaroid-picture-collection of the planet to celebrate the magic of instant photography. So please seach your archives and attics and reactivate your Instant Cameras. This is the slamming comeback of Instant Photo Fun.
They are presenting a rapidly growing group of amazing Polaroid enthusiasts that are polanoid enough to believe in the unique power of vivid instant photography.
They are searching for instant addicts all over the world, ready to support this project, ready to register and upload. For free and just for Instant Fun.
About Membership:
From the very beginning thy try their best to make your membership at polanoid.net challenging and enriching. Every new member receives a 5 EURO coupon for unsaleable.com, the best source for Polaroid products. As soon as you have uploaded your first pictures you can take part in our projects, become world famous and win fantastic prices every week.
More at:http://www.polanoid.net/
eToro---Financial Trading Made Easy
What Company Is Offering:
eToro makes it faster and easier than ever to execute trades, watch your trading activity, share, and enjoy financial information - using real or virtual money. It is a unique and user-friendly platform, which combines multidisciplinary expertise from the fields of finance, software development, and design to bring you the next generation of trading.
How It Works:
Trades are visually represented so you can watch your trades run marathons, rise and fall between countries and more. Apply your trading skills with real-market rates on virtual money. Various free-to-enter championships are held so you can get a chance to win top prizes and become the top trader. Interact with friends and fellow traders either privately or publicly. Trade for real money with real-time trade execution and without dealer intervention.
For Whom It Will Helpful:
eToro’s trading platform was developed in order to serve the emerging retail segment of the Forex community. Novice Forex enthusiasts that like to experience trading are no longer required to deal with complicated trading systems, and can now enjoy Forex trading via eToro‘s exciting visual trading platform.
Their commitment to providing traders with innovative and easy to use currency trading technology, fair dealing practices, and excellent customer service establish eToro as the perfect platform for traders worldwide.
More at:http://www.etoro.com/#
eToro makes it faster and easier than ever to execute trades, watch your trading activity, share, and enjoy financial information - using real or virtual money. It is a unique and user-friendly platform, which combines multidisciplinary expertise from the fields of finance, software development, and design to bring you the next generation of trading.
How It Works:
Trades are visually represented so you can watch your trades run marathons, rise and fall between countries and more. Apply your trading skills with real-market rates on virtual money. Various free-to-enter championships are held so you can get a chance to win top prizes and become the top trader. Interact with friends and fellow traders either privately or publicly. Trade for real money with real-time trade execution and without dealer intervention.
For Whom It Will Helpful:
eToro’s trading platform was developed in order to serve the emerging retail segment of the Forex community. Novice Forex enthusiasts that like to experience trading are no longer required to deal with complicated trading systems, and can now enjoy Forex trading via eToro‘s exciting visual trading platform.
Their commitment to providing traders with innovative and easy to use currency trading technology, fair dealing practices, and excellent customer service establish eToro as the perfect platform for traders worldwide.
More at:http://www.etoro.com/#
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