Sunday, December 30, 2007

DIET Tv---All they do is put a wealth of weight-loss information at your finger tips, give you access to experts, meal plans, weight- loss tracking

What Company Says:
With our help, you will lose weight and develop a healthy lifestyle.
Diet Television is not about quick fixes and experimental diet pills. After all, if the quick fixes worked, you wouldn't have any reason to visit this site - right? You don't have to be a rocket scientist or even a nutritionist to know that starvation diets, grapefruit-only diets, juice fasts, etc. are not lasting. The only thing that will get rid of that 5, 10, 20 or 50 pounds forever is a healthy lifestyle practiced each and every day.


How It Works:

DIET as a fresh start, empowerment, a plan for preventative health care and also peace of mind. They are not selling any weight loss gimmicks. They are simply applauding your courage and determination to make yourself healthier and happier, one pound at a time.

All they do is put a wealth of weight-loss information at your finger tips, give you access to experts, meal plans, weight- loss tracking tools, plus a rock- strong community of other dieters to offer advice, cheerleading, and best of all, friendship. You have nothing to lose, except for the extra weight of course.
More at:http://www.diettv.com/

Spipra is a free service that allows you to leave comments for any page on the web

What Company Is Offering:

Spipra is a free service that allows you to leave comments for any page on the web.Their goal is to make Spipra a central location for commenting on the web, allowing users to comment on multiple websites with just one login ID.

How It Works:

After placing a small button or text link on the pages of your site, your visitors will be able to easily leave comments for that particular page.With just one account, you can leave comments on Spipra for any page on the web.In an effort to reduce spam, they have placed a "Flag this post as spam" button that appears with every post. When a post is reported as spam, notification will be sent to a moderator for further investigation.Spipra is 100% free to use!
More at:http://www.spipra.com/

eMarketer's Predictions For 2008

What will the new year bring?
Ben Macklin, Senior Analyst


Ad Spending
The Beijing Olympics and US presidential election will ensure that advertising spending will spike in 2008 across all sectors. The Olympics marks the "coming out" party of China. As was the case with South Korea in 1988, the games will be an important milestone for China's economic and political development. The competition will be fierce both on and off the sporting field as multinational organizations try to tap into China's growing middle class.


Politics Online
In the recent Australian election, a video appeared on YouTube that showed the prime minister-elect, Kevin Rudd, eating his ear wax. It didn't prevent him from winning the election, but it dogged him throughout the campaign. YouTube and the Internet in general will be an important battleground in the 2008 presidential election campaign in the United States. The influence of online-advocacy groups will continue to grow.

David Hallerman, Senior Analyst


Online Video

Internet video will produce more light than heat. That is, the array of video available online will jump dramatically both from professional content producers, such as TV networks, and from the growing panoply of amateurs. However, the heat of ad-spending dollars will remain small relative to the entire US online ad-spending universe.

Various large online video players, such as Google, Microsoft and the TV networks, will fortify their video offerings by buying small, ad-related companies.


Search Engines
At least one search engine will stop fighting the giant and farm out the bulk of its sponsored-link (a.k.a., paid-ad) results to Google.

A deal between Microsoft, Yahoo! or AOL (pick two of the three) will take place before the third quarter, but Google will still increase its share of ad revenues relative to those portals.


Online Ad Spending
Overall US online ad spending will be surprisingly resilient, even in the potentially recessionary economy. With money tight, marketing executives will continue to gravitate toward the Internet, looking for more measurable ad formats to buttress their positions.

Debra Aho Williamson, Senior Analyst


Social Networking

About 44% of US consumers will use social networking at least once a month. Although MySpace and Facebook will continue to dominate the market, changes are afoot that will extend social networking activities beyond a single destination site and into many other facets of the consumer Internet experience.

Profiles will eventually become portable, meaning consumers need only create one profile and be able to use it in many places on the Web. Small applications or “widgets” that today work with only one social networking destination site will be designed on an open platform, extending their reach. Activities such as online shopping, searching and even sending e-mail will be enhanced with social networking features.

Social networking will remain a key online activity regardless of the individual performance of MySpace or Facebook.

US ad spending on social networks will climb to nearly $1.6 billion in 2008, from $920 million in 2007. Although targeted advertising is getting the lion's share of attention and will continue to be a hot button in 2008, other forms of social network marketing, such as search advertising, widgets and e-commerce, will draw increased marketer interest. Additionally, self-serve advertising systems will create a new market for local and small businesses to promote themselves via social networks.

Video Games

Old video games will get a second life thanks to software from Double Fusion and other firms that can place ads retroactively into old games, which will then be placed online for free distribution to players.

The same concept will apply to console games distributed online for Xbox and Wii, although other firms such as Microsoft-owned Massive will provide the technology.
More at:http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?id=1005765&src=article2_home

Use "43 Things" For New Year Resolutions

What Company is Offering:

43 Things can help you document your success, share information, and make progress on what matters to you most.

How It Works:

Other people often have great ideas. You can get inspiration from others. Adopt a goal as your own or set up your own goals from scratch. Either way, 43 Things can help you document your success, share information, and make progress on what matters to you most.
Cheers are a simple way of supporting a person. You can cheer goals, entries, comments and photos. You have a handful of cheers to use each day. Use them wisely and help support the people you admire most on 43 Things.
Click on the Cheer this … link to show your support. The person you cheer will be able to see that you’ve cheered them on. You’ll also see that the cheer count has increased by one along with a message telling you how many cheers you have remaining for the day.
More at:http://www.43things.com/

SpiralFrog is an ad-supported Web site got $2 million in funding

What Company Is Offering:
SpiralFrog is an ad-supported Web site. They sell ads on their pages to advertisers who want to talk to you. And they give the majority of that advertising revenue to the music publishers and labels who own the music you're downloading.

Most of their song and video downloads take a short, consistent amount of time to complete, during which they encourage you to keep discovering new areas of the Web site. Every page you visit allows them to serve more advertising, thus building the revenues they can pay to the content creators.As of now, they have over 800,000 songs available for you to download. You may download as many of these songs as you like – no limit. They are adding more songs and videos every week, so if you don’t see your favorite band, check back often to see the latest updates.
They do NOT ask you for a credit card. But they do ask for your time and attention.

How Much They Got From VCs:
They got $2 million in funding through the private placement of Senior Secured Exchangeable Notes. The Notes bear an interest rate of 12% annually with interest due quarterly commencing on January 1st, 2008. All proceeds from the net profits of the deal will be used to acquire additional content and expand their operations.


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

FrostWire, is a collaborative effort from many Open Source and freelance developers located from all around the world

What Company Is Offering:
FrostWire, is a collaborative effort from many Open Source and freelance developers located from all around the world. In late 2005, a few concerned developers of LimeWire's open source community announced the start of a new project fork "FrostWire" that would protect the developmental source code of the LimeWire client and any improvements to the Gnutella protocol design. The developers of FrostWire give high regard and respect to the GNU General Public License and consider it to be the ideal foundation of a creative and free enterprise market.

What's Purpose:


To build competitive services with the community at the heart and forefront of design and innovation. They believe that an aspirational enterprise must meet the needs of it's audience and develop services around the involved communities. They further believe the community will provide us with the ability to design new and creative innovations in technological development.

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