Friday, December 28, 2007

FON is a Community of people making WiFi universal and free

What Company Is Offering:
FON is the largest WiFi community in the world. FON is a Community of people making WiFi universal and free. Their vision is WiFi everywhere made possible by the members of the Community, Foneros. They share some of their home Internet connection and get free access to the Community’s FON Spots worldwide.
How It Works:
Their Community WiFi router, La Fonera, allows everyone to share WiFi in a secure environment. It takes only five minutes to hook up, and then you’ve got WiFi at home and around the world for free!.

Foneros connect to thousands of WiFi FON Spots worldwide for free. If you still do not share your WiFi, you can purchase inexpensive access. Find FON Spots on our FON Maps.

FON is a Movimiento of people building a free, global WiFi Community, sharing our experiences and ideas.

Who Is Backing Them:


Martin Varsavsky Is CEO And Founder: Argentine entrepreneur and philanthropist, Martin is the founder of highly successful companies such as Viatel, Jazztel and Ya.com. Martin also teaches at the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, Spain and is President and Founder of The Varsavsky Foundation and the Safe-Democracy Foundation, and was Ambassador-at-Large of Argentina up to 2005.

Jose Antonio Arribas

Jose Antonio Arribas: CTO, Chief Technical Officer. Jose Antonio has been an integral part of the development of the Internet in Spain over the last 10 years. For the past 5 years, he acted as Ya.com’s Technical Director. Previously, he had worked in RetevisiĆ³n as head of the Systems Department during the launch of the Alehop portal. Jose Antonio began his professional career in 1996 at Servicom S.A., one of Spain’s first ISPs.
Diego Cabezudo

Diego Cabezudo: COO, Chief Operations Officer. Diego was formerly Strategy Manager at O2in Ireland, where among others was the Business Sponsor leading the launch of the 3G network and was responsible for the first commercial WiFi hotspots in Ireland. He has also worked in a cable operator (TeleCable) in technical, marketing and sales roles and in DMR/Fujitsu Consulting. Diego is a Telecommunications Engineer, holds an MBA from the London Business School, UK and Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, US and is a member of the IEEE. Diego also had some fun presenting a TV program in Spain, about Internet and new technologies.
More at:http://www.fon.com/

Ourvoice is created to address the needs of the Indian Consumers Community

What Company is Offering:

Ourvoice is created to address the needs of the Indian Consumers Community. The growth and globalization of India has created huge demand for the businessess and increased expectations of the consumers. Though there are many Government established institutions for the purpose of dispute resolution and creating awarness, they are heavily overloaded and inadequate in resources, which in turn delays the logical and equitable resolutions. And certainly, this platform does NOT replace the Judicial Systems.


How It Works:

It is a internet based platform to accept grievances and forward to approriate respondent to address and try to resolve. All such issues are tracked till the life of it and at the logical end feeds the ratings mechanism to judge the friendliness of the Business towards their customers. All at NO COST and convenience of easy accessibility and availablity both to consumer as well as to the respondent! We believe that most of the respondents are willing to resolve to the satisfaction of their customers. And if a platform is convienent and simple and yet effective, above all, free, why not use it.
More at:http://ourvoice.in/

Sosius---Create,Manage,Connect Your Digital Life

What Company Is Offering:
Sosius is a new, powerful way of managing the digital information in your life without the need for lots of different, complicated services and providers.

Your Sosius account provides you with a 200 MB workspace that you can use to store, organize and share information with whoever you want, wherever they are.

What sort of information? Almost anything!

Documents, files, web pages, calendar items, databases, projects and tasks, lists, contacts.

Whether you're running a fast moving business across multiple locations with your associates always on the road or organizing the local softball team Sosius provides the perfect place to bring it all together.

How It Works:

With its unique peer networking approach and host of useful tools, Sosius brings a new level of efficiency to 'group work'. Anything that requires people to work together - be it a major deadline at the office, or managing a sales team out on the road - can be made easier with Sosius. You simply create a project workspace, and then invite people to join it, securely: co-workers, project members, friends.

Sosius gives you tools to communicate and schedule, assign tasks, develop strategies, and get results. In life, one thing depends on another, which leads to yet another: make Sosius "workflow" move your projects through the maze, so you can stay focused on priorities. Easy to get started, yet hard to outgrow.
More at:http://www.sosius.com/

Icerocket---new and more powerful ways for customers to find exactly what they are looking for

What Company Is Offering:
Icerocket is a global leader in commercial search services on the Internet, providing new and more powerful ways for customers to find exactly what they are looking for. IceRocket is pioneering commercial search by putting the interests and wants of consumers before advertisers. IceRocket has innovative blog search technology to search blogosphere.

How It Works:

IceRocket works like a typical search engine. Simply enter your term into their search box and click "Search" to find web documents that match your results.If your query contains more than one search term, IceRocket will automatically (and by default) return results that match ALL the search terms.
You can search for a phrase by putting double-quote marks " " around the terms of the query.
You can use the plus (+) and minus (-) signs to ensure that certain words are included or excluded from your query.
IceRocket searches are not case sensitive. All letters in your search terms will be understood only as lower case. I.e. A search for mobile computer will return the same results as MobiLe CoMpuTer.
IceRocket supports Boolean query operators such as AND, OR, NOT, and parentheses to conduct complex queries.
More at:http://www.icerocket.com/

Floating Hotel ----UnCommon Business Idea

The CPH LIVING hotel is a designer hotel, And all the furniture and almost all the equipment in the hotel have been designed by Waterliving's architects.

"They dropped all brass and maritime equipment and chose instead to stick to a style that suits the lightness that naturally occurs through the interplay of light and water. We have used half-matt glass to soften the light and on the whole we have chosen to stick to materials that match the water surface. The furniture is maritime and made of teak, and here the style is also light and streamlined," explains Mikkel Stewart, a leading architect on the project.

CPH LIVING covers an area of 480 square metres, with an indoor area of 300 square metres and an outdoor area of 180 square metres. In addition, there is a roof terrace measuring 150 square metres. The hotel is 30 metres in length, 7.2 metres in width and is 6.2 metres above the waterline.

The indoor area contains 12 rooms, a reception, conference rooms, a linen room and a storage room. All rooms have large windows and French balconies, as well as floor heating, flat-screen TV, wireless Internet access and coffee-making facilities.

The hotel is smoke-free, and on arrival all guests are provided with a key card to the roof terrace, which has deckchairs and offers an impressive view.

The barge Viva, located alongside the new hotel, is a gastronomic mecca with star chef Paolo Guimaraes at the helm. Paolo and his team will also provide the new floating hotel with food and service.

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

A Japanese company unveiled a new device that will allow people "speak" through their ear

"A Japanese company Tuesday unveiled a new device that will allow people "speak" through their ear so they can use their mobile telephones in noisy places. The device -- named "e-Mimi-kun" (good ear boy) -- doubles as an earphone and a microphone by detecting air vibrations inside the ear, developer NS-ELEX Co. said."

More at:http://adverlab.blogspot.com/

Social bookmarking is a powerful tool in promoting a website---It can help you spread a link on 30 of the best social bookmarking sites

What Company Is Offering:

Social bookmarking is a powerful tool in promoting a website. But going through all of those social bookmarking sites is very time-consuming and downloading all toolbars is madness! That's where SocialMarker.com comes in, the free service designed to reduce the time and effort needed to socially bookmark a website.

How it Works:

All you need to do is simply drag button to your bookmarks toolbar, in order to create a submission bookmarklet. When you are on a website that you want to socially mark, simply select the text and click the SocialMarker button to pre-populate the submission form with the selected information.
If you want to use button on your blog or website, install their 'All-in-one Bookmarking Button' plugin for WordPress, or simply insert the its code.

It can help you spread a link on 30 of the best social bookmarking sites in under 15 minutes!.

It helps you get a lot of backlinks.
It helps you increase your traffic.
Your link gets indexed by Google in a matter of minutes.
Best of all, it's free!.

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

Plone is a ready-to-run content management system

What Company Is Offering:
Plone is a ready-to-run content management system that is built on the powerful and free Zope application server. Plone is easy to set up, extremely flexible, and provides you with a system for managing web content that is ideal for project groups, communities, web sites, extranets and intranets.

Unique Features:

Plone is easy to install. You can install Plone with a a click and run installer, and have a content management system running on your computer in just a few minutes.

Plone is easy to use. The Plone Team includes usability experts who have made Plone easy and attractive for content managers to add, update, and mantain content.

Plone is international. The Plone interface has more than 35 translations, and tools exist for managing multilingual content.

Plone is technology neutral. Plone can interoperate with most relational database systems, open source and commercial, and runs on a vast array of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris and BSD.

More at:http://plone.org/

ThinkFree Online is a comprehensive office productivity solution

What Company Is Offering:
ThinkFree is the most comprehensive online office productivity solution available today.ThinkFree products are platform independent (works on Windows, Apple, Linux) and include ThinkFree Write (word-processing), ThinkFree Calc (spreadsheet), and ThinkFree Show (presentation) - applications that are round-trip compatible with Microsoft Office (.doc, .xls, .ppt).

ThinkFree Online is a comprehensive office productivity solution, including the core office suite applications that are tightly integrated with document storage (1GB free) and collaboration tools such as document sharing, version management, and user access control. In addition, with Doc Exchange (our published document library), you can easily publish your work for the world to see .


How It Works:
With ThinkFree Online, you can:

- Schedule and track tasks for your social group.
- Create elaborate invitations and easily post online for everyone to see.
- Build a presentation to describe your latest project or show pictures from your latest trip with complete details of the story behind the photo.
- Upload, download, edit and save it as Word, Excel, PowerPoint documents.
- Create Microsoft Office compatible files.
- Invite your friends to share and collaborate on documents.
- View the revision history of a document, and roll it back.
- Post your documents to a blog or web page.

How It Will Benifit You:

Manage, access, and edit documents from anywhere over the Internet.
1 GB free storage.
Best Microsoft Office compatibility available.
Full text search of published, shared, and private files.
Unique Quick Edit and Power Edit modes.
Share, get everyone’s input.
Publish your ideas to the world on your blog or web page, or on our Doc Exchange.

This service is absolutely Free. No installation is required because it worksthrough your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla, etc), and you can work anytime, anywhere, on any connected computer with a browser.
More at:http://www.thinkfree.com/

NetworkText----Distribute Information Within Organization Via SMS

What Company Is Offering:
NetworkText allows any group to communicate for free with text messaging.NetworkText was created to allow groups to connect with their members more efficiently. The text message is the perfect media to allow for quick information from groups to be distributed to all their members regarding events, reminders and updates. NetworkText allows groups the flexibility to store entire member rosters and send unlimited amounts of text messages to an infinite amount of members. Being aware that life now moves at hyper speed, they understand that it is important to get your groups messages out as quickly and most efficiently as possible.

How It Works:

Anyone is able to create a group on NetworkText. They have purposely put no restrictions on who can form groups, so as to allow anyone that feels that they could benefit from this service to sign up. We facilitate all groups no matter what the size or the location of the group. If you need to get information to people in your group quickly and efficiently, NetworkText is your solution. NetworkText is currently available in the U.S. and Canada, with plans to expand globally.

At NetworkText they realize that text messages are a vital way for groups to distribute information to their members. We also realize that not everyone has unlimited text messaging or the time during the day to be receiving unwanted text advertisements. That’s exactly the reason why we don’t do any of the above. NetworkText never will send you extra text messages or allow any of our advertisers to do the same. The only text messages you will ever receive are from the groups you have joined. It’s that simple.


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

Geezeo helps people make "Educated Financial Decisions Adds New Feature Called Confessions For Sharing Your Spending Sin!

What Company Is Offering:

Geezeo helps people make "Educated Financial Decisions." The team at Geezeo believes that cutting edge financial tools and services don't need to come with a high price tag. Geezeo is a free web-based personal finance application that makes it easy to track all your finances, see where all your money is going, set financial goals and learn from others.

Recent Updats:

The Confessions feature is set up very much like a microblogging tool, with updates being posted on a public page within the Geezeo network. And speaking of microblogging, Confessions can also be tied into your Twitter account, so public confessions can be posted on Twitter as well. Anonymous confessions will be posted on the “MoneyConfession” Twitter account. So there are multiple ways in which to keep up with Confessions: via Twitter or via RSS, found on the Confessions page.
Geezeo has added mobile support for Geezeo Targets, so you can more easily check your categorized budgets from your cell phone. That should minimize the amount of time you spend in the Confessions booth.

More at:https://www.geezeo.com/

MoDazzle---Online services & information on your mobile

About Company:
MoDazzle is a division of its parent company, ClairMail. ClairMail has been established by an experienced team who recognized the power and potential of mobile phones to change the landscape of customer interactions. ClairMail’s breakthrough technology allows companies to offer convenient, secure and always-on 2-way mobile services to their customers by using any mobile phone's messaging functionality.

After its phenomenal success in two-way mobile communication/information system for financial services industry at the enterprise level, MoDazzle is extending the technology platform & services directly targeting the consumer segment. MoDazzle is ClairMail's dedicated consumer service to help millions connect to their social or professional communities through their cell phones or blackberry devices.

For Whom It Will Be Helpful:

One click access to News,Stocks,Weather,
Directions, Salesforce.com, nearest Starbucks,
Restaurant reviews, and more on your mobile...

The services are available for Facebook, LinkedIn, and VentureSource community users with several free services such as locating the nearest starbucks, directions between two addresses, web search, etc. All through SMS or mobile email!!

Over the next few months many more services including accessing information on restaurants, movies, news, people etc. will be made available on MoDazzle, all at a touch of a button...on SMS or mobile email.

More at:http://modazzle.com/

Symbaloo is your personal online desktop

What Company Is Offering:
Symbaloo is your personal online desktop .you don't need to register to use Symbaloo. In case you want to access your desktop(s) from more then one place you can go for a free account.

How It Works:

For using Symbaloo without an account your browser needs to store cookies. In case your desktop is erased every time you visit Symbaloo your cookies may not be saved automatically. You can check this in your browser's security preferences. An easier solution is to create a Symbaloo account by which you'll have access to your Symbaloo desktop on any computer.

Symbaloo is still in a beta phase. Sometimes some parts of Symbaloo may not work correctly. Most of the times the solution to such a small error is to refresh the page by pressing the Refresh button of your browser.

With a fresh new installation of Internet Explorer 7 you need to change some settings in order to get Symbaloo search queries in a new tab instead of a new window. Go to Options, look for Tabs and click on Settings. Change the Pop-up setting: choose "Open pop-ups always in a new tab".
More at:http://www.symbaloo.com/