What Company Is Offering:
Wsoogle.com is a global online directory of web services and web service resources. The directory lists web services from different places around the world providing services in 15 different disciplines including business, communication, e-commerce, finance, government and internet.
Different from most web service directories, Wsoogle.com has its own crawler and provides searching facilities to its users. Web service seekers/consumers are able to access the latest and most comprehensive web services information from a single point. Wsoogle.com also provides equal opportunities for web service providers with different sizes and types to promote and sell their service products.
How It Works:
Wsoogle.com uses a special algorithm to cluster web service operations based on their input and output message definitions. It also exams the description defined inside each WSDL document and creates a semantic model for each web service operation. The semantic model is created using ontology due to the vision we shared with the semantic web community.
Wsoogle.com gives software development teams and individuals the opportunities to reduce their work load and to maximise their revenues. Companies can save a large amount of money by utilising other people?s solutions, or to increase the revenue by selling their existing solutions through SOA (Service Oriented Architecture). Building a web service is simple; you can refer to the web service tutorial section for more information.
More at:http://www.wsoogle.com/
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Autobrag.com is the internet's first car price search engine
What Company Says:
Autobrag.com is the internet's first car price search engine. They help car buyers save time and money by answering the question: how much should I pay for a new car? Their search engine reveals car prices from dealerships around the country that are offering a no haggle experience.
This is a dramatic shift from how the industry works today where almost all the leading auto websites are in the business of generating “leads”. When attempting to shop for prices on their websites you are asked the make and model of the car you are looking for along with your contact information. The website then sells the "leads" to dealerships willing to pay for your information. That is when the emails and phone calls from the car dealerships starting coming in.They asked themselves how can the new car buying process can be dramatically improved? The answer was simple: deliver price transparency to car shoppers saving time and money.
How It Works:
They’re providing a free service that eliminates much of the stress and frustration that is typically associated with buying a new car. At the end of the day AutoBrag’s mission is to save people time and money. With just the click of the mouse AutoBrag.com shows you the actual selling prices for tens of thousands of cars from hundreds of dealerships around the country that offer a “no haggle” car shopping experience.
Research new car prices at AutoBrag.com. Find the best deal and then purchase the vehicle directly from one of the dealerships quoted on AutoBrag. Or compare these prices to your local dealer and negotiate the best deal possible. AutoBrag does not sell cars, but shows consumers tens of thousands of cars from hundreds of dealers around the country that offer a “no haggle” car shopping experience.
How To Use It:
To use AutoBrag’s services, consumers must be invited to become a beta tester by AutoBrag or an already registered user. In order to be invited, consumers must register only their email addresses on the site. It is not necessary to provide any additional information and the email address is not used or sold.Their service is free of charge for individuals looking for a new vehicle.
More at:http://www.autobrag.com/
Autobrag.com is the internet's first car price search engine. They help car buyers save time and money by answering the question: how much should I pay for a new car? Their search engine reveals car prices from dealerships around the country that are offering a no haggle experience.
This is a dramatic shift from how the industry works today where almost all the leading auto websites are in the business of generating “leads”. When attempting to shop for prices on their websites you are asked the make and model of the car you are looking for along with your contact information. The website then sells the "leads" to dealerships willing to pay for your information. That is when the emails and phone calls from the car dealerships starting coming in.They asked themselves how can the new car buying process can be dramatically improved? The answer was simple: deliver price transparency to car shoppers saving time and money.
How It Works:
They’re providing a free service that eliminates much of the stress and frustration that is typically associated with buying a new car. At the end of the day AutoBrag’s mission is to save people time and money. With just the click of the mouse AutoBrag.com shows you the actual selling prices for tens of thousands of cars from hundreds of dealerships around the country that offer a “no haggle” car shopping experience.
Research new car prices at AutoBrag.com. Find the best deal and then purchase the vehicle directly from one of the dealerships quoted on AutoBrag. Or compare these prices to your local dealer and negotiate the best deal possible. AutoBrag does not sell cars, but shows consumers tens of thousands of cars from hundreds of dealers around the country that offer a “no haggle” car shopping experience.
How To Use It:
To use AutoBrag’s services, consumers must be invited to become a beta tester by AutoBrag or an already registered user. In order to be invited, consumers must register only their email addresses on the site. It is not necessary to provide any additional information and the email address is not used or sold.Their service is free of charge for individuals looking for a new vehicle.
More at:http://www.autobrag.com/
instaSaver is a web service that enables you to instantly transform your favorite photos into a full-featured screensaver
What Company Is offering:
instaSaver is a web service that enables you to instantly transform your favorite photos into a full-featured screensaver.
How It Works:
Use instaSaver.com to instantly create your own Screensaver online. It is as easy as 1-2-3. Just specify the name, upload your favorite pictures and the screensaver with over 150 transition effects is ready! You will get a fully standalone distribution package that enables you to easily install and/or distribute your screensaver. The installer will automatically install the screensaver on the user's computer and activate it. If the user would like to remove the screensaver, he can do it using the same installer application.
After creating a screensaver with instaSaver you will get a fully standalone distribution exe package that enables you to easily install the screensaver. Just launch the exe file and click the Install button.
On the Create Screensaver page click the Browse... button and use the file selection dialog to specify your image file. Repeat this step for all your slides. Only JPEG files supported. Files cannot be bigger than 512KB each. Max. 10 files allowed.
Enable the "Slide over" option to slide a new image over the current during the transition. Widths and heights of all the images must be equal. Otherwise, the "Slide over" option will not work.
More at:http://www.instasaver.com/
instaSaver is a web service that enables you to instantly transform your favorite photos into a full-featured screensaver.
How It Works:
Use instaSaver.com to instantly create your own Screensaver online. It is as easy as 1-2-3. Just specify the name, upload your favorite pictures and the screensaver with over 150 transition effects is ready! You will get a fully standalone distribution package that enables you to easily install and/or distribute your screensaver. The installer will automatically install the screensaver on the user's computer and activate it. If the user would like to remove the screensaver, he can do it using the same installer application.
After creating a screensaver with instaSaver you will get a fully standalone distribution exe package that enables you to easily install the screensaver. Just launch the exe file and click the Install button.
On the Create Screensaver page click the Browse... button and use the file selection dialog to specify your image file. Repeat this step for all your slides. Only JPEG files supported. Files cannot be bigger than 512KB each. Max. 10 files allowed.
Enable the "Slide over" option to slide a new image over the current during the transition. Widths and heights of all the images must be equal. Otherwise, the "Slide over" option will not work.
More at:http://www.instasaver.com/
Fishermen Receive Updates On Catching Fish In The Sea On Their Mobile Phones
Leading network infrastructure solutions provider ADC Krone will partner with telecom services provider Tata Indicom to enable fishermen receive updates on weather and information on catching fish in the sea on their mobile phones, the company said Wednesday.
Krone said the initiative has been taken up as a pilot project under the aegis of M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation at Veerampattinam in Tamil Nadu and would be followed soon as a commercial service.
'Fishermen will hereafter spend far less time at sea, as they will know before sailing the weather conditions, wave height and wind velocity and direction,' the company said in a statement.
Some 5,000 villages on the coast will be able to use the application. The mobile coverage will extend up to six km into the sea.
'The project is aimed at equipping the fishing community with weather knowledge, concentration of fish pools and safety messages. It will also minimise loss of life,' Krone managing director Bala Chandran said.
The geographic base of Indian marine fisheries has 8,118-km coastline, 2.02 million sq km of exclusive economic zone, including 0.5 million sq km of continental shelf and 3,937 fishing villages.
There are 1,896 traditional fish landing centres, 33 minor and six major fishing harbours, serving as bases for about 208,000 traditional non-motorised craft, 55,000 small-scale beach-landing craft fitted with outboard motors, 51,250 mechanised craft and 180 deep-sea fishing vessels.
More at:http://www.adc.com/
Krone said the initiative has been taken up as a pilot project under the aegis of M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation at Veerampattinam in Tamil Nadu and would be followed soon as a commercial service.
'Fishermen will hereafter spend far less time at sea, as they will know before sailing the weather conditions, wave height and wind velocity and direction,' the company said in a statement.
Some 5,000 villages on the coast will be able to use the application. The mobile coverage will extend up to six km into the sea.
'The project is aimed at equipping the fishing community with weather knowledge, concentration of fish pools and safety messages. It will also minimise loss of life,' Krone managing director Bala Chandran said.
The geographic base of Indian marine fisheries has 8,118-km coastline, 2.02 million sq km of exclusive economic zone, including 0.5 million sq km of continental shelf and 3,937 fishing villages.
There are 1,896 traditional fish landing centres, 33 minor and six major fishing harbours, serving as bases for about 208,000 traditional non-motorised craft, 55,000 small-scale beach-landing craft fitted with outboard motors, 51,250 mechanised craft and 180 deep-sea fishing vessels.
More at:http://www.adc.com/
Travel Club---Unusual But Workable Idea
The villagers from Kayanna, 45 km from Kozhikode, are not rich, managing to earn about Rs.3,000-4,000 per month. But thanks to the travel clubs, they are confident about travelling and meeting the expenses.
The villages of Kayanna and adjacent Koorachundu are home to more than a dozen travel clubs. Tours are an indispensable biennial event in these villages.
'The last time we planned to fly to Delhi it did not materialise because the plan did not get a nod from the majority of club members. Next year, too, we will propose a trip to New Delhi by plane. If members approve the plan, we will have no problem in organising the trip,' A.K. Sajeevan, secretary of the Phoenix Family Club at Karikandanpara, a small hamlet near Kayanna, told IANS.
Sajeevan has been the secretary of the club for the last 10 years. This hamlet itself has around four tour clubs and some of the villagers are members of more than one club.
The travel clubs that run on subscription from villagers and memberships are open to all.
The clubs have an ingenious way to raise funds for the tours. Each club has around 45-50 members; enough to hire a bus for a trip. The members pay a monthly subscription of Rs.100 for two years.
The corpus raised is invested in some ventures and the profit is used for organising tours. After the trip, members get back their subscription amount.
'Last time, our club bought hay from Palghat (around 150-km south from here) during harvest season with the subscription money. Later, we sold the fodder for a good profit here,' said Sajeevan.
The tour clubs also execute contracts tendered by the local administrative bodies with the money. In their last trip to tourist spots across Kerala, the Pheonix Club had spent around Rs.80,000.
'Apart from investing the money in small businesses, we also give loans to club members at a nominal interest rate,' said C.K. Narayanan, president of Udaya Club. Narayanan is a construction worker.
If you enquire about the origin of travel clubs or about people's penchant for tours, villagers have no clear answer. 'I am an active member of various tour clubs for the last 22 years and went for about 10 tours. I don't know who started the first club here. These clubs were there when I was a child,' said E.J. Shaju, a middle-aged farmer, a member of the Idea Club.
The club has 15 families as members and three from a family can take part in tours.
'I have already visited Goa, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. However, no clubs have ventured to North India yet,' said Shaju.
The clubs have strict code of conduct. 'Each member should read the rules and should sign the form before becoming members,' said Sajeevan.
It is during the general body meeting of the clubs that travel plans are finalised. 'The destination and tour plan will be decided by vote. All the members have to go by majority decision,' he added.
A panel comprising six or seven members looks after the club administration. A two-member audit team will keep tab on accounts.
During a trip, a discipline committee of three members will be formed to keep order during travel.
'The travel clubs are a community enterprise here. It helps strengthen relationships as families will be spending almost a week together during the tours,' Sajeevan said.
The villages of Kayanna and adjacent Koorachundu are home to more than a dozen travel clubs. Tours are an indispensable biennial event in these villages.
'The last time we planned to fly to Delhi it did not materialise because the plan did not get a nod from the majority of club members. Next year, too, we will propose a trip to New Delhi by plane. If members approve the plan, we will have no problem in organising the trip,' A.K. Sajeevan, secretary of the Phoenix Family Club at Karikandanpara, a small hamlet near Kayanna, told IANS.
Sajeevan has been the secretary of the club for the last 10 years. This hamlet itself has around four tour clubs and some of the villagers are members of more than one club.
The travel clubs that run on subscription from villagers and memberships are open to all.
The clubs have an ingenious way to raise funds for the tours. Each club has around 45-50 members; enough to hire a bus for a trip. The members pay a monthly subscription of Rs.100 for two years.
The corpus raised is invested in some ventures and the profit is used for organising tours. After the trip, members get back their subscription amount.
'Last time, our club bought hay from Palghat (around 150-km south from here) during harvest season with the subscription money. Later, we sold the fodder for a good profit here,' said Sajeevan.
The tour clubs also execute contracts tendered by the local administrative bodies with the money. In their last trip to tourist spots across Kerala, the Pheonix Club had spent around Rs.80,000.
'Apart from investing the money in small businesses, we also give loans to club members at a nominal interest rate,' said C.K. Narayanan, president of Udaya Club. Narayanan is a construction worker.
If you enquire about the origin of travel clubs or about people's penchant for tours, villagers have no clear answer. 'I am an active member of various tour clubs for the last 22 years and went for about 10 tours. I don't know who started the first club here. These clubs were there when I was a child,' said E.J. Shaju, a middle-aged farmer, a member of the Idea Club.
The club has 15 families as members and three from a family can take part in tours.
'I have already visited Goa, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. However, no clubs have ventured to North India yet,' said Shaju.
The clubs have strict code of conduct. 'Each member should read the rules and should sign the form before becoming members,' said Sajeevan.
It is during the general body meeting of the clubs that travel plans are finalised. 'The destination and tour plan will be decided by vote. All the members have to go by majority decision,' he added.
A panel comprising six or seven members looks after the club administration. A two-member audit team will keep tab on accounts.
During a trip, a discipline committee of three members will be formed to keep order during travel.
'The travel clubs are a community enterprise here. It helps strengthen relationships as families will be spending almost a week together during the tours,' Sajeevan said.
The serial for cell phones --Unique Idea
Digital technology has changed the economics of India's Rs.440 billion ($11 billion) entertainment industry and entrepreneur Rajat Barjatya, the scion of one of Bollywood's biggest film banners, is set to tap it in a big way.
Rajat, the younger brother of Sooraj Barjatya who owns Rajshri Productions, is coming up with the first ever serial for mobile phone users in India.
'I hate to use the term first. I would rather say that we are among the first to make a serious attempt at doing this. We have produced a 90 episode series, with three minutes per episode, and it is in the humour genre,' Rajat told IANS in an interview here.
Rajat launched his company Rajshri Media last year that specialises in producing content for new media like Internet, mobile phones and ipods.
The serial for cell phones is Rajat's second breakthrough in the last 13 months, thanks to digital technology. His first endeavour was the release of Rajshri's 'Vivah' simultaneously in theatres and online on its website.
'We are going to put the serial out towards the end of January. Its very desi, compelling and one of its kind and I think people are going to love it,' he added.
Mobile telephone users are currently estimated at close to 220 million. After Internet penetration, which is pegged at 46 million, with an active base of over 32 million in India, Rajat has plans of exploiting the mobile phone medium now.
Rajat said: 'We are looking at new delivery platforms which could be online delivery, delivery via telecom, delivery via IPTV networks. Essentially, we believe that we need to create content for new entertainment devices, which are proliferating and entertaining audiences.
'Earlier there was cinema and TV. Today, PC, mobile phones and devices like ipod are personal entertainment touch points to the audience. So we are looking at these third, fourth and fifth screens (which is PC, mobile and ipod).'
'For smaller screens, you need a different way of thinking - you have to conceive, develop and produce content in a different way. Just the way TV content is developed, conceived and produced differently than cinema.'
When Rajat released 'Vivah' online, for the first few days he allowed surfers to download the film for free and later it was sold at Rs.400 ($10) per download. Nine months later, it had sold 6,500 downloads, according to an Ernst and amp; Young report.
When asked about the budget for his new venture, Rajat refused to give any details.
However, he spoke enthusiastically about his Internet invasion and said: 'After 'Vivah' we have released a dozen films of UTV, Pritish Nandy Communications and Shemaroo like 'Hattrick', 'Life In A Metro', 'Bow Barracks Forever', 'Blue Umbrella' and 'Dhamaal. It's all revenue share.'
How It Works:
'Essentially, we sign an agreement with the producer, we digitise the movie, upload it on our servers in the US and make it available on the Internet at a certain price. If we have sufficient time on hand, we upload it with subtitles in different Indian and foreign languages.
Via-India Business news
Rajat, the younger brother of Sooraj Barjatya who owns Rajshri Productions, is coming up with the first ever serial for mobile phone users in India.
'I hate to use the term first. I would rather say that we are among the first to make a serious attempt at doing this. We have produced a 90 episode series, with three minutes per episode, and it is in the humour genre,' Rajat told IANS in an interview here.
Rajat launched his company Rajshri Media last year that specialises in producing content for new media like Internet, mobile phones and ipods.
The serial for cell phones is Rajat's second breakthrough in the last 13 months, thanks to digital technology. His first endeavour was the release of Rajshri's 'Vivah' simultaneously in theatres and online on its website.
'We are going to put the serial out towards the end of January. Its very desi, compelling and one of its kind and I think people are going to love it,' he added.
Mobile telephone users are currently estimated at close to 220 million. After Internet penetration, which is pegged at 46 million, with an active base of over 32 million in India, Rajat has plans of exploiting the mobile phone medium now.
Rajat said: 'We are looking at new delivery platforms which could be online delivery, delivery via telecom, delivery via IPTV networks. Essentially, we believe that we need to create content for new entertainment devices, which are proliferating and entertaining audiences.
'Earlier there was cinema and TV. Today, PC, mobile phones and devices like ipod are personal entertainment touch points to the audience. So we are looking at these third, fourth and fifth screens (which is PC, mobile and ipod).'
'For smaller screens, you need a different way of thinking - you have to conceive, develop and produce content in a different way. Just the way TV content is developed, conceived and produced differently than cinema.'
When Rajat released 'Vivah' online, for the first few days he allowed surfers to download the film for free and later it was sold at Rs.400 ($10) per download. Nine months later, it had sold 6,500 downloads, according to an Ernst and amp; Young report.
When asked about the budget for his new venture, Rajat refused to give any details.
However, he spoke enthusiastically about his Internet invasion and said: 'After 'Vivah' we have released a dozen films of UTV, Pritish Nandy Communications and Shemaroo like 'Hattrick', 'Life In A Metro', 'Bow Barracks Forever', 'Blue Umbrella' and 'Dhamaal. It's all revenue share.'
How It Works:
'Essentially, we sign an agreement with the producer, we digitise the movie, upload it on our servers in the US and make it available on the Internet at a certain price. If we have sufficient time on hand, we upload it with subtitles in different Indian and foreign languages.
Via-India Business news
Godkut aims to create the largest faith-based social network in the world
What Company Is Offering:
Godkut aims to create the largest faith-based social network in the world. They envision a world where peace, love and unity overtake religion and prejudice; a world without walls, where people can relate with one another as creations of ONE creator – irrespective of their religious beliefs or practices.
How It Works:
Godkut aims to unite people from all faiths and walks of life. There are no religious, social or cultural barriers on Godkut. We encourage healthy debates on questions related to spirituality, evolution and the purpose of life. Godkut is NOT a religious website favored towards any single particular community or sect. Hatred, prejudice, blasphemy or extremist views against any particular sect or religion, whether minority or otherwise, will defeat the entire purpose of the site, and hence will be strictly dealt with.
By becoming a member of Godkut, you agree that you love God and others made by Him!
Their sole aim is to bring God talk out of the closet, by giving people a platform for openly sharing their perceptions/experiences about God. Hopefully, Godkut will help people come in terms with their spirituality and join hands with others in seeking after God. Beats posting useless scraps about Britney’s wardrobe on other social networking websites doesn’t it?
More at:http://godkut.com/
Godkut aims to create the largest faith-based social network in the world. They envision a world where peace, love and unity overtake religion and prejudice; a world without walls, where people can relate with one another as creations of ONE creator – irrespective of their religious beliefs or practices.
How It Works:
Godkut aims to unite people from all faiths and walks of life. There are no religious, social or cultural barriers on Godkut. We encourage healthy debates on questions related to spirituality, evolution and the purpose of life. Godkut is NOT a religious website favored towards any single particular community or sect. Hatred, prejudice, blasphemy or extremist views against any particular sect or religion, whether minority or otherwise, will defeat the entire purpose of the site, and hence will be strictly dealt with.
By becoming a member of Godkut, you agree that you love God and others made by Him!
Their sole aim is to bring God talk out of the closet, by giving people a platform for openly sharing their perceptions/experiences about God. Hopefully, Godkut will help people come in terms with their spirituality and join hands with others in seeking after God. Beats posting useless scraps about Britney’s wardrobe on other social networking websites doesn’t it?
More at:http://godkut.com/
Choose Your Own Adventure-style tales
What Company Is Offering:
Protagonize is an online community dedicated to the (nearly) lost art of the addventure (yes, that's spelled right), a very specific type of collaborative fiction. Early forms of this on the web date back over a decade, when Snoot.com popularized a site called "Choose Your Own Schizophrenia", an collaborative fiction site popular in the mid-to-late '90s. Of course, this all dates back to the old Choose Your Own Adventure series that started back in 1979 and ran until 1998, published by Bantam Books.
How It Works:
An addventure is a type of online interactive fiction that combines aspects of round-robin stories and Choose Your Own Adventure-style tales. Like a round-robin story, an addventure is a form of collaborative fiction in which many authors contribute to a story, each writing discrete segments. However, like a gamebook, the resulting narrative is non-linear, allowing authors to branch out in different directions after each segment of the story. The result is a continually growing work of hypertext fiction.
Protagonize would like to update this concept, not only with the contributions of the users, but with a bit of web 2.0 mixed in there as well. While there are countless websites out there that have an ongoing, round-the-robin formats for collaborative stories. Protagonize puts some handy tracking tools in there so that you can better stay afloat with the stories you like and those that you create. It’s an approach similar to coComment: you’ve created content on a third-party site, and it’s interactive on multiple levels. Others can respond to your content, build on it, and take things in an entirely different direction.
More at:http://www.protagonize.com/
Protagonize is an online community dedicated to the (nearly) lost art of the addventure (yes, that's spelled right), a very specific type of collaborative fiction. Early forms of this on the web date back over a decade, when Snoot.com popularized a site called "Choose Your Own Schizophrenia", an collaborative fiction site popular in the mid-to-late '90s. Of course, this all dates back to the old Choose Your Own Adventure series that started back in 1979 and ran until 1998, published by Bantam Books.
How It Works:
An addventure is a type of online interactive fiction that combines aspects of round-robin stories and Choose Your Own Adventure-style tales. Like a round-robin story, an addventure is a form of collaborative fiction in which many authors contribute to a story, each writing discrete segments. However, like a gamebook, the resulting narrative is non-linear, allowing authors to branch out in different directions after each segment of the story. The result is a continually growing work of hypertext fiction.
Protagonize would like to update this concept, not only with the contributions of the users, but with a bit of web 2.0 mixed in there as well. While there are countless websites out there that have an ongoing, round-the-robin formats for collaborative stories. Protagonize puts some handy tracking tools in there so that you can better stay afloat with the stories you like and those that you create. It’s an approach similar to coComment: you’ve created content on a third-party site, and it’s interactive on multiple levels. Others can respond to your content, build on it, and take things in an entirely different direction.
More at:http://www.protagonize.com/
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