Thursday, December 6, 2007

Utterz is the first way you can instantly blog your experiences, thoughts and ideas, anywhere, using all the capabilities of your mobile phone

What Company Is Offering:

Utterz is the first way you can instantly blog your experiences, thoughts and ideas, anywhere, using all the capabilities of your mobile phone. Utterz mashes together the voice, video, pictures, and text you call or send in and creates an 'Utter' that can immediately update your existing web pages on sites like Blogger, Facebook, LiveJournal, MySpace and more.

How It Works:
An utter is any combination of voice, video, pictures, and text. Send them in whatever order you want, they'll figure it out.You can use the utterz service by e-mailing video, audio, pictures and text to go@utterz.com. You can also upload your utterz by clicking "Upload Utterz Here." We will be rolling utterz voice services out worldwide in the coming months. If you'd like to request we come quickly to your country, shoot an e-mail to sim@utterz.com! The easiest way to get started is just call 712-432-Mooo (6666) and record a voice Utter. Then snap a picture or video from your phone and send with some text to go@utterz.com. We'll mash it all together instantly and post it. You can choose to have it posted to Utterz and your blog or webpage, to just your web page or to just yourself.You can send voice, pix, videos and text in any order.Utterz is free because they have relationships with phone companies to get a small portion of what you are paying your cell phone company for your calling plan.

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

itsourtree.com, your brandnew free base for the exploration and discovery of your family tree

What Company Is Offering:

itsourtree.com, your brandnew free base for the exploration and discovery of your family tree.

How It Works:

Itsourtree lets you create your family tree by entering in information that you already know about your ancestors (names, birth and death dates, photos etc). By inviting more relatives, you’ll be able to collaborate to fill in the blanks on the chart, and track down more of your relatives. Once your tree is built, you can view it from your perspective, or you can click on a random relative and see how the chart would look from their point of view. Itsourtree operates several different sites which cater to different languages and countries (Brazil, Italy, Great Britain, Germany, Poland, and Spain). Signing up is free, and currently the site doesn’t charge any fees for any of its services.
More at:http://www.itsourtree.com/

CrossLoop, Inc., creator of the world's easiest to use secure desktop sharing,announced that it has raised $3 Million in a Series A financing

What Company Is Offering:
CrossLoop is a consumer Internet company that empowers everyone to help someone anywhere in the world with its free and easy-to-use desktop sharing software application. CrossLoop connects computer users with trusted, qualified service providers and friends who can provide the support they need quickly and conveniently. With over 10 million help minutes served and over 300,000 unique users, CrossLoop is available in 21 languages and is used by individuals and businesses in over 150 countries for technical support, training and collaboration.

How Much They Got From VCs:

CrossLoop, Inc., creator of the world's easiest to use secure desktop sharing software, announced that it has raised $3 Million in a Series A financing led by El Dorado Ventures.

How They Are Progressing:

Since launching last November, CrossLoop has seen rapid adoption with hundreds of thousands of user sessions connecting people in over 150 countries worldwide," said Tom Peterson. "We are excited to partner with the CrossLoop team to help them achieve their vision of solving the frequent computer support problems that every computer user has experienced."
About VCs:
About El Dorado Ventures

El Dorado Ventures (EDV) is a leading entrepreneur-focused, early-stage venture capital firm with over two decades of success. Entrepreneurs see EDV as a trusted investment partner who shares their vision and helps them succeed by providing ongoing strategic guidance and access to a wealth of industry contacts. With $750 million in capital under management, the firm invests across the information technology spectrum, from semiconductors and systems to communications, software and services, targeting both consumers and the enterprise. El Dorado's early-stage investments have included Compellent Technologies, Cyras Systems, EarthLink, Efficient Networks, Novellus and NuSpeed Internet Systems. Numerous EDV portfolio companies have gone public or been acquired by major technology companies including AT&T, Ciena, Cisco Systems, nVidia, Siemens, Texas Instruments and Yahoo.
VCs website detail at:http://www.eldorado.com/
Product detail at:https://www.crossloop.com/

TuVox has closed $20 million of financing

What Company Is Offering:
TuVox speech applications deliver world-class customer service through the phone channel and achieve the highest levels of caller adoption.
TuVox also offers over 50 award winning self-service speech applications, and powerful knowledge voice base applications - all deployed rapidly and updated in short, efficient cycles. The TuVox advantage: leading edge technology combined with deep expertise.
How It Works:
TuVox Perfect Router a conversational call routing application, determines caller intent and routes the call to the appropriate self-service application or agent.
All TuVox applications are available hosted through their low risk, high availability hosting. Customers limit risk, up-front capital investment and benefit from faster response to market changes through TuVox's rapid updates to the application.
All TuVox applications are also deployable on-premise. Customers can maintain the applications using TuVox life cycle software or outsource maintenance and tuning to TuVox.
How Much They Got From VCs:
They have announced that it has closed $20 million of financing. This additional capital provides TuVox the ability to accelerate expansion of its core business and invest in new areas of growth. The financing included new investor Glynn Capital Management and the continued participation of all of TuVox’s institutional investors, including Norwest Venture Partners, Foundation Capital, Granite Ventures, and Adobe Ventures.
More at:http://www.tuvox.com/

FlyRig is New York City's community-based apartment rental site

What Company Is Offering:
FlyRig is New York City's community-based apartment rental site, where apartment hunters are given the tools to make their searches quickly and with confidence.
Renting an apartment in New York City is expensive, time-consuming, and chaotic. It's their goal to fix these issues by creating a listing service where the community has a voice and trustworthy brokers are rewarded.
How It Works:
They're building a set of tools so you can quickly assess a property by map, transportation routes, local interest information, pictures, and opinions shared by fellow apartment hunters. Since most of New York's apartments can be found through a broker, it's important that you connect with one you can trust. They're giving the community a voice by asking them to share their views on individual listings and the brokers they've worked with so you can get a better understanding of what's available. In addition, they've enabled the brokers to easily communicate with you so there's no time wasted.
How Is It Different:
They have a large portfolio of fresh listings, maps, transportation information, and several community-based features. All visitors are encouraged to post comments and reviews on both listings and brokers. This way, you'll know what the properties are really like and be able to work with brokers you trust.
More at:http://www.flyrig.com/

Tesly is a web-based test plan management system

What Company Is Offering:

Tesly is a web-based test plan management system that allows you not only to store and track the results your test cases, but also to share the testing responsibility among members of your team. After creating your team, you can assign test cases to be executed by your team-mates, who will receive a notice of the test case assignment via email. Every time a test case is executed, you will immediately get the results of that test run via email. When you come back to the site, you'll be able to see at a glance the status of your testing, as well as review the history of testing activity.Tesly, LLC creates web-based software aimed at helping teams collaborate to solve problems and deliver results. Aside from delivering products such as Tesly and Tesly Jr., Tesly LLC also provides consulting and development for custom web applications. Get in touch to learn how your business can realize success with the help of web applications custom-built to suit your needs.

How It Works:

Tesly is provided both as a hosted service and as a licensed product you can install on your own server. The hosted Tesly service has both free and paid subscription levels. With your free account you will be able to manage one project and have as many people as you wish on your team. Your team-mates will be able to see all the test documentation that you create, and you can assign tests to particular individuals or just make them available for others to view and run. If you wish to manage more than one project, or if you'd like to have the ability to create attachments and track issues, you can create a paid subscription.
More at:http://www.tesly.com/

ClickTale, the analytics tool for measuring your site visitors’ browsing sessions, has secured an undisclosed amount of funding fromYL Ventures

What Company Is Offering:
ClickTale is a brand new approach to website analysis and optimization. While traditional web analytics provide aggregated visitor data across web pages, we provide information about individual visitor behavior inside the web page. We show website owners movies of browsing sessions, as well as meaningful reports of behavior inside their webpage by aggregating thousands of visitor sessions. Now, website owners can gain a deeper understanding of visitor behavior, which leads to improved website usability, enhanced navigation, and increased overall website effectiveness.

How It Works:

ClickTale is a hosted service, so no software installation on the server or client side is needed and visitors can browse your website as they always have. Account setup takes only a few minutes. As with other web analytics packages, website owners add a small piece of JavaScript code to their web pages. The JavaScript collects browsing data and transmits it to the ClickTale servers for processing. ClickTale creates movies of browsing sessions in minutes, and website owners can log-in securely at any time to view these movies.

How is it different:
ClickTale-enabled pages have been visited over 100 million times and over one million pages have been recorded. They offer Heatmaps for an aggregate view of your data, advanced search capabilities, automatic tagging, and recording of https pages such as checkout and login pages.
Unlike other solutions, they cache your pages' HTML at the time of the recording, so the movies you see are absolutely accurate. They are also the only solution that works with member-only, password protected, session based and intranet websites.

How Much They Got From VCs:
ClickTale, the analytics tool for measuring your site visitors’ browsing sessions, has secured an undisclosed amount of funding from European venture capital firm YL Ventures.

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

TomTom WORKS---Tracking And Tracing --your vehicles in real time on street level maps and know the exact locations

What Company Is Offering:
TomTom WORK, a division of the industry leading TomTom NV, is a provider of tracking and tracing solutions for fleet management combined with navigation and communication products and services to the business to business market.
How It Works:

TomTom WORK offers a connected navigation solution that combines plug and play tracking & tracing technology, with smart navigation and communication tools. It helps to improve the management (and control) of vehicles and day to day planning. All you need is a mobile navigation system connected to the web-based TomTom WEBFLEET vehicle management and communication service. No special software or interference from IT is needed. Therefore TomTom WORK is for any sort and any size of fleet. Surveil and guide your vehicles and staff, manage and plan your business, communicate with your drivers and help them to find their way the easy way!

TomTom WORKS' business activities is throughout Europe, focusing on all professional multi car users, which make TomTom WORK suitable for pretty well any size or type of businesses.

Features:
View your vehicles in real time on street level maps and know the exact locations. Identify where the vehicle is located against your planning and pick the best vehicles to manage a new task.
Navigation by order with destination address makes the driver's job a lot easier and less stressfull.
Send (standard) text messages from and to the office, give client orders and locations or send tasks with navigation coordinates via the PC in the office to the drivers. Simple and Quick.
Make automatic logbooks of driving time, times of standstill and habits for tax, for KM registration, pay roll and expense accounting. Receive daily, weekly or monthly reports containing exact data your company requires.

Recent Updates:
TomTom, team up with Google to provide greater utility in TomTom’s portable GPS devices.Google and TomTom is actually a major step for TomTom, and GPS navigation as a whole. Live business data and points of interest from the Google business listings as well as certain crowd-sourced Google Maps data for points of interest will be available via Internet capable TomTom devices.

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

Organic Incentive--User Generated Marketing

What Company Is Offering:
Organic: like organic search marketing (SEO), Incentive: the natural incentive visitors have to share your widget because of its compelling content. They provide organic incentives to market your product.

How It Works:
Organic Incentive is the Clearspring killer. They provide tools so users with absolutely no programming experience can create viral widgets. All you do is enter the URL of your flash widget, and drag and drop a "share" button on to it, customize it, and customize the popup with all the share options that appears when your users click "share."
They have a widget ad system in the works, as well as complete widget creation for all sorts of widgets, media players, widgets with forms, chat rooms, messaging widgets, chat widgets, comment widgets, etc. Our system also lets you combine them together, or upload your own widget and combine it with that.

The main thing though, regardless of however many flash widgets you can drag, drop and customize, is THE CUSTOMIZEABILITY! It's almost endless, and for the first time you can create completely custom branded flash widgets without knowing actionscript

You simply put your widget into the marketplace, choose how much you want to pay for every time someone clicks & "share" on the widget. Then top bloggers scoop it up to make some extra bread, and they get paid every time one of their loyal readders "shares" it. It's a payperpost sorta twist....The good part though is that you don't need to pay any time it is shared after this first degree of separation (or wait, is that the 0th degree...well whatever).
More at:http://www.organicincentive.com/

WildTangent is the fastest growing online game propertyhas raised $20 million in venture debt funding from Hercules Technology Growth Capital

What Company Is Offering:
WildTangent is the fastest growing online game property in the world with 11.5 million unique monthly gamers (comScore July 2007) offering hundreds of the most popular online and downloadable games from the world's top developers and publishers including its own WildStudios which publishes Polar Bowler, Penguins, Fate and many more.
The WildTangent Games Console ships directly on the desktops of leading PC manufacturers including Dell, HP, Gateway and Toshiba, representing more than 25 million new consumer PCs annually in North America. Gamers of all ages and demographics play more than 250 million game sessions a month across the WildTangent game network.

How Much They Got From VCs:

WildTangent Inc., a Redmond, Wash.-based online gaming network, has raised $20 million in venture debt funding from Hercules Technology Growth Capital. The company previously has raised $67 million in VC funding since 1999, from firms like Advanced Technology Ventures, ATI, CIBC Capital Partners, Grelock, IDG Ventures, Madrona Venture Group, Millennium Technology Ventures, New Millennium Partners, Sony Corp. and Washington Mutual.

What VCs Says About Company:

The casual gaming market is growing exponentially, and WildTangent has proven to be a key player," said Sam Bhaumik, senior managing director and group head of technology at Hercules. "WildTangent is a leader in developing new and exciting business models in the online games space," Bhaumik said. "They have invented an industry-leading platform that provides unparalleled opportunities for marketers to appeal to gamers, while enhancing and adding value to the overall gaming experience
About VCs:

Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. is a NASDAQ traded specialty finance company providing debt and equity growth capital to technology and life science companies at all stages of development. Founded in December 2003, the company primarily finances privately held companies backed by leading venture capital and private equity firms. Hercules invests in a broad range of ventures active in technology and life science industries and offers a full suite of growth capital products up and down the capital structure. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif. and has additional offices in the Boston, Boulder, Los Angeles and Chicago areas. Providing capital to publicly-traded or privately-held companies backed by leading venture capital and private equity firms involves a high degree of credit risk and may result in potential losses of capital. For more www.HTGC.com.
More at:http://www.wildtangent.com/

Get Gift Ideas

What Company Is Offering:
Ilan and friends will help you find meaningful gift ideas for your loved ones, friends or other acquaintances. They are searching for gifts all the time on the web and offline, and are by our selves gifters of some experience.

How It Works:
This is the place to ask for Advice.
Whether these are luxurious gifts you are looking for or sentimental presents or even poker gifts.If you click on the "Gift Ideas" Link or the grey button at the top of page. The gift advice table would open and there you can tell us a little about the gift - recipient's tastes. The reason for the gift and whatever information you wish to add.Give them a few days to scratch their heads, and they'll do best to impress you with the perfect gift idea.
Visitors who need an advice are asked to describe the gift recipient and circumstances in short, and they usually receive an email response within 3 days. It is strictly human operated, and the advice is based on surveying gift sites and new product announcements. They also offer a gift-site review service for e-stores giving them some improvement tips and quality badges. All the site's services are free, there are some ads throughout the pages and the occasional text ad embedded in the emails.
More at:http://www.getgifting.com/

Online Print Ordering

What Company Is Offering:

Personalise and download graphic designs as PDF, JPEG, GIF and PNG files. Anything from website banners to real estate signs. Design products like business cards, posters, etc. Supplied by printing companies from all over the globe.
How it Works:

1.Find printers to meet your requirements and request quotes for your designs. Use your own files or designs from this website.2.Personalise and download graphic designs as PDF, JPEG, GIF and PNG files. Anything from website banners to real estate signs.3.Design products like business cards, posters, etc. Supplied by printing companies from all over the globe.4.Find publications and ad agencies to reach your markets. Send them your files or use design from this website.
It is an open service where anyone can upload a graphic design for others substitute texts and images. The system outputs PDF for print, JPEG for photo printing and GIF/PNG for viewing on screen. If you are not willing to pay $100 for a banner that will run for a week you can pick one for $10 on ZetaPrints.com, put your text and photos in it and download it in minutes. The personalization process is completely automated. Design authors get 50% commissions from all sales.
More at:http://zetaprints.com/

bmorgz---Web Organizer

What Company Is Offering:
bmorgz has been created for those people who want to manage their time more effectively and easier then ever. For all who need application which will enable creating categorized notes, planning and writing events in the calendar or such thanks to which they will be able to save information about their clients and friends - everything in one easy accessed place. Try out our system right now - registration is 100% free.
How It Works:
To start work with bmorgz - all you have to do is have a justbemore account. Which means that you have to register in any of their product or service. Registration is fairly simple and 100% free. Using this account you will be able to log into all their products and services.

This system will enable you to create categorized notes in web note pad, plan your meetings or tasks using web calendar, keep all of your contacts in one place using internet address book. Also you can co edit all sections of the organizer with other users; publish notes; export notes to PDF; import/export tasks using iCalendar format; import/export contacts from/to programs like Thunderbird, Outlook, Gmail; send mails to contacts from address book and keep history of sent mails; and more.
More at:http://www.bmorgz.com/

Yokl’d.com is a "Best Of" local business ranking social platform

What Company Is Offering:
Yokl’d.com is a "Best Of" local business ranking social platform that is 100% compiled and commented on by users. The idea is simple - the more times a business gets "Yokl’d" (voted) the higher in the rankings it will be listed.

How It Works:

Share local knowledge with a social network of friends, family and business associates. Discover the best local businesses recommended and ranked by the user community. Benefit from trusted friend’s personal pages to see what they recommend
Never get lost -- detailed maps pinpoint each location. Add favorite local businesses to the site. Vote through a 1-click process for preferred local businesses. Build and maintain a portfolio of elite local businesses that can be shared with others. Post positive or negative comments about a business
Rank user comments based on usefulness and accuracy.

How Is It Different:
Local search sites like CitySearch and Yelp! provide user generated content for local businesses using a controversial five-star rating system. Users debate the use of the five-star rating because people within the general population have very different tastes. This ranking system provides no way to tell if a group of people ranking a business shares the same tastes as a specific user. While,Yokl’d provides a better solution for the discriminating consumer, business traveler, or weekend connoisseur.
More at:http://www.yokld.com/

bizot.ch --Social Networking News

What Company Is Offering:

bizot.ch is whatever you want it to be - a news site, an information source, a social networking community... With more things to gradually be added you won't need to look at any other website.

How It Works:

bizot.ch gives you power and enables you, the reader, to edit the news however you want. So, if you think we've been too harsh by referring to Pete Doherty as a junkie scumbag you can change it to something more pleasant. Equally, if you think junkie scumbag is not harsh enough for the Babyshambles singer and can think of something a lot worse to call him, go for it! The world is your oyster.
bizotching is easy. Once you've signed up you can get crackin! Find a story you want to bizotch. Read the story, which may be either the previous person's version of the news or our original source (you can click on the "view original" or "view latest bizotch" button to alternate between the two versions). Once you feel inspired enough, click on the main bulk of the text. This will then change into an edit box where the magic happens.

Re-write the story however you feel. Change words, add sentences, insert paragraphs, heighten subjectiveness, scrap it all and start the whole thing over. The only thing we ask of you is to loosely stick to the main story as an inspiration point.
More at:http://bizot.ch/