Sunday, December 16, 2007

Hi Everywhere! is a volunteer tour guide exchange network that connects people from all over the world

What Company Is Offering:
Hi Everywhere! is a volunteer tour guide exchange network that connects people from all over the world.

Hi Everywhere! aims at making trips exciting with local guides who enjoys hosting and having new friends. For travelers, a volunteer guide means not only a local perspective but also assistance when traveling; for local guides, touring with foreigners let you rediscover your home towns.

How It Works:

Their service is totally free! It only takes you a few minutes to create your profile which you can post a request, book a request and participate in the discussion forums. Whether you are interested in meeting local guide or hosting travelers, Hi Everywhere is where friendships happen.

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

PicoCool is a site that's dedicated to bringing you tiny bytes and obscure content from the world of peer media

What Company Is Offering:
PicoCool is a site that's dedicated to bringing you tiny bytes and obscure content from the world of peer media, social networks and subcultures. Cool content from real people.
How It Works:

PicoCool is the first site to focus on the content being created by people on social networks and through peer media. It's not about who's popular or who has the most points, it's about the things we create, the ideas we have, and the creative or daily minutiae that makes us human.

They cover underground trends, subcultures, art, human experiences, products, innovations, philosophies, digital living, the obscure and the tiny. Somewhere in the undiscovered and the mundane lives real brilliance. PicoCool is about uncovering these microscopic moments when things first begin.
More at:http://picocool.com/

MadWhips lets you easily upload, store, organize and showcase your priceless car pictures

What Company Is Offering:
MadWhips lets you easily upload, store, organize and showcase your priceless car pictures.

Are you an avid photographer or gifted car spotter? Can you identify any sports car on the

street in under 0.25 seconds? When you return from a vacation, are 80% of your photos

pictures of nice cars? Do you frequent car shows or race tracks?


At MadWhips, they understand that spotting a special car on the street is truly an exhilarating

and emotional experience, often creating a vivid memory that lasts a lifetime. Our system

allows you to upload your pictures, easily classify them, and showcase them to the world.
How It Works:
MadWhips lets you quickly upload as many photos as you like of your car, your friend’s

car, your neighbour's new Ferrari, or even the 150 photos you took at the car show, tuner-

fest, or car cruise last weekend.
At MadWhips your submissions are highly valued and they take the responsibility of storing and showcasing your pictures very seriously. Your pictures will always be available, and easily accessible. Even 20 years from now, when a conversation comes up about that insane Lamborghini you once spotted while on vacation, you can quickly pull up the photo(s). If you have photos of a make or model that does not exist, upload your pictures into an unclassified album, and send a quick email to the MadWhips team with the new make and model information.

Think of car spotting as the equivalent of the paparazzi photographing celebrities. They photograph them profusely, and everywhere. Car spotting is no different. People all around the world love to take and see candid pictures of cool especially modified and exotic cars! MadWhips lets you upload all your awesome car photos online for everyone to enjoy for a long time.
More at:http://www.madwhips.com/

BeenVerified---Now You Can Trust Internt Profiles

What Company Is Offering:
The BeenVerified Identity and Credential Verification process is a patent pending system that starts by requiring all potential members to submit their credit card as part of the initial authentication process. Once they have confirmed that the person exists and is a real person, they then have them run through their Identity verification process which for US members is done by taking a 3 minute questionnaire with questions that only the holder of that credit card could possibly know. For international members, they are required to submit a substantial amount of documentation to authenticate them. They then run every potential member’s data through a 50-point risk based, scoring model that further decreases the likelihood of that user not being who they claim. Potential members who do not pass our margin of safety are not allowed into our system even if the possibility of them being who they claim is still likely.

How It Works:

They utilize their patent pending process to verify your identity, validate your credentials, and then help you present them to the world. Their sign up and verification process takes less than 5 minutes and is free for 6 months if you sign up before December 31st.
1.Sign up takes less than two minutes. You will first be allowed to choose your own personalized BeenVerified Profile Web Address. Then enter your personal information and credit card details which we will use as part of the identity verification process. We will NOT charge your credit card anything and simply request it as one of our many layers of security and verification.
2.After sign up, you will receive access to your BeenVerified Member Console. Members residing in the United States will have the ability to verify their identity through an automated questionnaire. Our international users are simply required to send physical documentation proving their identity. Once we have verified your identity you may start adding verified credentials to your profile.

How Is It Different:
A GetVerified request is better than a background check because it takes the liability, hassle, and cost of running a background check off of your shoulders. If the person you are hiring agrees to become a BeenVerified member, they are doing so voluntarily and on their own accord and using their own money to do so. Additionally, they also gain the benefit of having a BeenVerified account for life which can then be used by your business as a marketing tool. Instead of running the background check and never using it again, you turn it into a positive piece of marketing for your staff to present to potential clients and colleagues.
More at:http://www.beenverified.com/

Toggl is a free, online timetracker for consultants, programmers, designers, etc

What Company Is Offering:
Toggl is a free, online timetracker perfect for anyone who needs to manage their work hours: consultants, programmers, designers, etc.
With Toggl, there is no limit to the number of projects or users; this basic functionality is free. Users can invite as many people to Toggl as they wish with no charge.

How It Works:
In the text field you can enter words or parts of words that apply to the usernames, users' full names, clients' and projects' names. You can exclude results if you add a "-" sign in front of a word.
Toggl has some built-in filters you can use to view reports for certain time periods (such as today, yesterday, this week, last week etc), but you can also set the period manually using the date fields or calendar buttons. Then there are filters for viewing general user or project statistics for a given period as well as weekly views for both. There is also the custom filter described below.

The best way to use Toggl's time tracking is to divide your bigger tasks into smaller ones that you can track and complete independently. If the task is very time consuming but cannot be divided into smaller parts, you can create a new task with the same name each day and close it in the evening. That way you'll be able to keep track of how much time was spent on that task on a daily basis.
More at:http://www.toggl.com/

Clippz.com is the first website to offer high quality mobile video to a massive audience, without the need for a mobile network

What Company Is Offering:
Clippz was formed to take advantage of the functionality gap between highly specified mobile devices and the relatively low specification wireless networks that are implemented by wireless carriers. As a result, Clippz has become the market leader in off-carrier mobile video.

How It Works:

Clippz.com is the first website to offer high quality mobile video to a massive audience, without the need for a mobile network. You can download videos to your PC and then transfer them to your mobile device using Bluetooth, USB or by writing to a memory card and inserting it into the device.

As you don't have to use a mobile network for delivery, none of the usual restrictions apply. Video quality is determined by the ability of each device and not by the restraints of the mobile network. The vast majority of devices we support are not on 3G mobile networks, yet the performance levels are usually better than 3G levels.

How Is It Different:

Clippz is network independent. Delivery of the video does not touch a mobile network, so your choice of carrier is irrelevant. The only exception to this rule is if you have a Verizon cell phone. Verizon is legendary for crippling its phones to disable Bluetooth file transfer. However you can still use the memory card option for Verizon phones.
More at:http://clippz.com/