Saturday, December 8, 2007

The Banzai Way--Finance Managment Tool For Controlling Your Spending

What Company is Offering:
The Banzai Way is an entirely new approach to controlling your spending. Dissatisfied with traditional financial management tools, they began with a clean sheet of paper and created a system which gives your money a purpose. The Banzai Way is an invitation to try something different — there’s simply nothing else like it. They are committed to helping you make the transition to this new perspective on spending. One way they do this is by giving you personalized, one-on-one assistance.

How It Works:
Upon sign-up, you will be given the name and email address of your Banzai Coach—a real human being committed to helping you navigate The Banzai Way. Your coach will be available to you whenever you have a question or need assistance applying The Banzai Way to your individual circumstances.


Get your first month of Banzai for one dollar! After the trial, your subscription will continue for only $4.95/mo.

If you sign-up for six month billing, we'll send you a printed copy of The Banzai Way, our 124-page guide to the philosophy and website, at no additional charge.
In addition to your Banzai Coach, you will also have access to an extensive online support library and a user forum where you can discuss what works (and what doesn’t) with other followers of The Banzai Way.
More at:http://www.banzaiway.com/

sportme is an innovative and completely free social network that assists grass root and semi-professional sports clubs, teams, individual athletes

What Company Is Offering:
sportme is an innovative and completely free social network that assists grass root and semi-professional sports clubs, teams, individual athletes and fans to interact online and share their sporting experiences with one another.

How It Works:

From football to archery, netball to bowls, sportme offers everyone involved in sports the chance to share their exploits with others in the sporting community.

Clubs, teams and individuals can create custom profiles and use the development functions to keep up to date with their sports schedules; coordinate practices, matches and tournaments and find local teams with whom they can compete.

Members can also communicate with their sports peers, develop friendships with other sporty people and promote themselves and their groups via the internet using sportme message boards, sports forums, blogs, calendar and photo/video sharing functions.To use (and even get detailed information about) sportme, you’ll need to sign up. Once you’ve done this, you begin by creating your profile and uploading a photo. The profiles are heavily sports-related and detailed; you can even specify your teams, positions, duties, accomplishments, greatest moments, etc. From there, you can browse for your teams and clubs and join them, or create new ones if they don’t yet exist. Joining such groups lets you communicate with other team members, coaches, trainers, and fans; you can check out scheduling info, upload photos and videos, create posts, and more. You’ll probably find some of your team members here, whom you can friend and/or message to expand your network.
More at:http://www.sportme.org/

Bueno Investments Limited to offer cutting edge deals for investors as they diversify into growth fields

What Company Is Offering:
Bueno Investments Limited to offer cutting edge deals for investors as they diversify into growth fields. Much of this is made possible by their unique team - made up of professional and experienced key members.This company provides a complete service for those looking to prosper from investment in property, whether it is through residential buy-to-lets, commercial property, or structured investment funds. Property Investment Specialists, providing buy-to-let, discounted, no money down, 100% financed, low deposit, guaranteed rental, high yielding and commercial investment properties. In addition, they offer income schemes, funds, investment schemes, tax advice, investment guidelines, investment articles, property buying guides and financial services.

How It Works:

Bueno Investments Limited offer a wide range of property investment services for all levels of investor from the first time buy-to-let investor to the experienced commercial investor to those looking to profit passively from structured funds. Our services also include full support on legal, financial and taxation aspects of any deal.

Their network of property finders and contacts with developers, combined with our understanding of the property industry ensures that the investment opportunities on offer to investors are amongst the best on the market. We also have an excellent team of in-house advisors, solicitors and brokers to ensure every deal proceeds as smoothly as possible.

Whether you are looking to purchase your first buy-to-let or expand an existing portfolio we are on hand to help. Specialising in sourcing high yielding investment opportunities and creative finance, we have the expertise to maximise your returns from property whilst offering complete support from choosing the right investment for you through to letting your property.

The returns available through investment within property are phenomenal.
More at:http://www.buenoinvestments.com/

Nazara is a leading mobile entertainment company focused on the 100 million+ mobile subscriber base in India

What Company Is Offering:
Nazara is a leading mobile entertainment company focused on the 100 million+ mobile subscriber base in India. They develop a range of branded and original mobile content that is highly relevant to the culturally diverse consumer base in the country.

How It Works:
Nazara Technologies is brand led mobile entertainment content in India. Nazara develops a range of mobile entertainment content including games and personalization content geared towards the rapidly growing mobile consumer base in India. The product range includes brand led content based on the likes of Sachin Tendulkar and MS Dhoni and sales channels include direct to consumer and carriers.

They combine technology with a compelling experience to create innovate applications in the mobile environment. Nazara also provides complete solutions for the development, deployment, targeting and tracking of promotional campaigns on emerging mobile platforms.Our wireless solutions integrate content of media companies, marketing messages and the consumer reach of wireless carriers.
More at:http://www.nazara.com/

GameFly is the smartest way to rent, play and buy video games

What Company Is Offering:

GameFly is the smartest way to rent, play and buy video games. For one flat monthly fee, you can rent as many games as you want, with no due dates, no late fees, and pre-paid mail both ways. You get all the hottest titles from all the top players -- PlayStation 2, Xbox, Xbox 360, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, and PSP. If you like a game, "Keep it" for our low pre-played game price.
How It Works:

As a GameFly member, you can rent as many games as you want and play them as long as you want for only $22.95 per month. Manage your own personal wish list of games, what we call "My GameQ." Check out 2 games at a time. When you're done, send your games back to us and the next picks in your GameQ will automatically be sent to you.
They have the best selection of video games for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, PSP, Xbox 360, Xbox, Wii, GameCube, Nintendo DS, and Game Boy Advance. Open 24 hours every day, our rental library of over 5,000 titles makes renting hard-to-find classics and hot new releases as simple as a few clicks of your mouse. You can also find upcoming titles to add to your GameQ.
More at:http://www.gamefly.com/

56.com--Chines Video Sharing Site Got US$20 million In VCs Funding

What Company Is Offering:
56.com is a consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos worldwide through a Web experience.

How Much They Got From VCs:


Chinese video site 56.com officially announced that it has completed second round capital raising lead by HIKARI Private Equity, Inc. (HPE) and existing investor Susquehanna International Group China (SIG) with US$20 million, reports 163.com. Adobe Systems Incorporated, CID Capital, Sequoia Capital and Steamboat Ventures also participated in second round fundraising.
More at:http://www.56.com/

There.com--Lush 3D Environment Virtual World

What Company is Offering:
There is an online getaway where you can hang out with your friends and meet new ones -- all in a lush 3D environment that's yours to explore and help build.Create your own fully customizable avatar - then get in There and join the crowd.

How It Works:

Once you've installed the There software, you'll be prompted to register and create a starter look for your avatar. It's easy! Once you're in There, you can customize your avatar further to create your own unique look.

There offers two membership plans - a BASIC membership and a PREMIUM membership.BASIC Membership is absolutely FREE! It includes your fully customizable avatar, your own unique name, a set of new member clothes and a new hoverboard. Once in There, you can explore the world, chat with friends via text and IM, participate in a variety of events and games, shop in the catalog and auctions, listen to streamed Internet radio, join up to 50 Clubs, and begin leveling up in the skill system.

Our PREMIUM Membership costs a one time fee of $9.95. Along with everything from the Basic Membership, Premium Membership includes extra goodies like Voice Chat, the ability to save teleport locations, event hosting and club leader privileges, and full skilling abilities. You'll also be able to earn Therebucks by becoming a Neighborhood owner and collecting rent from tenants, or by creating and selling items like custom avatar clothing, vehicles and home furnishings to other members in the auctions. View a comparison chart of BASIC and PREMIUM benefits.

Recent Updates:

Coca Cola ,the beverages company has moved on to There.com. CC Metro is the island Coke has created in this virtual world, where avatars can hang out. There’s a virtual movie theater for viewing short films (this seems to be very popular in virtual worlds), a diner, and shopping stores where you can use your Coke Rewards points to redeem items for your avatar to don on themselves or in their homes.

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

ListenToYourWife.com

What Company is Saying:
ListenToYourWife.com you ask? The idea for this site started when I shared a NPR Radio story to my husband. My background is in Art, and I didn't have much knowledge on the subject, so it thrilled me because it gave me an opportunityto share an insightful story about HIS industry (IT).

However, from the moment that I was sharing the story, I felt a sense of skepticism in Howard's big eyes. He didn't believe a thing that I was saying!!! Worse was that he had the nerve to hop on to the computer in front of me and start Googling for the story. I couldn't believe what I was seeing!! When has my story become a fairy tale? Just because he has been in the industry for such a long time, it wasn't fair for him to automatically discredit it just because it came from me! Had the story come from his friends, co-workers, or even Sports Radio he would've believed it!!!

When he realized that the story was true, he turned to me and added, 'I guess you were right...'. I commented in an annoyed and sarcastic tone, 'Do you ever believe me?. Since you need the internet to validate my story, perhaps you should go to ListenToYourWife.com." Again Howard went to the computer and typed in listentoyourwife.com. At that time such a site did not exist. But it certainly gave us ideas.

I guess you could say something clicked in our heads after that experience. Howard and I were sure that I wasn't the only wife that felt this way. There must be thousands, if not millions of other wives with similar experiences. Why isn't there a site where I can go to share my marriage experiences? I needed a place to BE HEARD!! There was MySpace and FaceBook for teens and college students; LinkedIn for business professional. What about wives? Why not a destination portal where wives can freely go to express themselves?

Well, I guess you could say the rest is history. With the help from other business partner and my wonderful husband, (who now pays more attention to what I say), We've created this website to allow wives and future wives to connect, share their expertise and stories, and their life experience.
More at:http://www.listentoyourwife.com/

Grouptivity provides publishers with a free service to increase their page ranking and referral traffic

What Company Is Offering:
Grouptivity is a "Publisher Centric" web service that provides publishers with additional users and a great environment to share and discuss web content.
The benefits for the publishers are increased traffic from better page rankings and referral, creating a community around their content, and increased monetization opportunities.

How It Works:

Grouptivity provides publishers with a free service to increase their page ranking and referral traffic, while providing their users with simple but powerful tools to share, discuss and track their content.
All content that is emailed via Grouptivity is automatically added to iPond- the first discovery website for finding the most shared content on the web. Grouptivity provides a host of tools for your users to stay connected with you no matter where they are online.
The Grouptivity-powered EmailPlus link/button allows any user to share content they find on your website via email, bookmarking or cut and paste. Features like "Contact Book" enable a quicker easier experience of sharing content. One click sharing replicates the traditional "Email This" functionality, providing a familiar user experience.
Each user receives a personalized account with a Dashboard, giving them anytime anywhere access to all their shared content, discussions and Contact Book online. Users are instantly notified when the user’s community members respond to the shared content.
More at:http://www.grouptivity.com/