Monday, December 31, 2007

Nirvanix ,media storage and delivery network companyGot Intel For VCs Funding

What Company Is Offering:
The Nirvanix SDN helps businesses grow by providing a highly-scalable storage and delivery platform. Accessible via standards based web services.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Nirvanix, a San Diego-based media storage and delivery network company, has added Intel Capital to its investor base. The size of the investment was not specified. www.nirvanix.com

How It Works:

Through the Nirvanix Web Services (NWS), application developers can seamlessly integrate scalable media storage and delivery via a standards based API (SOAP and REST interfaces). NWS provides full file system capabilities, management of end user accounts, and built in media processing functions. Businesses can now expedite their time to market by focusing on their core application.

Unique Features:

The Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network (SDN) is the perfect platform for various applications. A few examples are:

Digital Locker Services
Consumers’ digital music, photos and video libraries are growing at an astounding rate. They are in need of a reliable way to store, access and share their media. Whether starting from scratch or integrating a digital locker service into an existing site or application, Nirvanix can expedite your time to market and help your business grow.

Backup Applications


The increased reliance on computers to manage all aspects of consumer’s lives has increased the importance of creating a completely secure location to backup information. Historically backup application providers needed to invest in costly hardware and staff up to manage and develop their online storage solution. Nirvanix solves these issues and provides your business with a cost effective and secure solution.

Content Delivery
Current content delivery solutions are great for delivering media to large audiences (tens-of-thousands to millions of viewers) on a short-term basis but are not cost effective for delivering media to small-medium sized audiences (hundreds to thousands of viewers) or for permanently storing content. Nirvanix is a great supplement to your content delivery needs for small-medium sized audiences and more cost effective way to permanently store media.


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

Ripoff Report is a worldwide consumer reporting Web site and publication, by consumers, for consumers

What Company Is Offering:
Ripoff Report is a worldwide consumer reporting Web site and publication, by consumers, for consumers, to file and document complaints about companies or individuals. While they encourage and even require authors to only file truthful reports, Ripoff Report does not guarantee that all reports are authenic or accurate. Be an educated consumer. Read what you can and make your decision based upon an examination of all available information.

How It Works:

Ripoff Report is a service to the world's consumers. The Ripoff Report enables YOU the consumer to be armed with the opinions and comments of your fellow consumers. This report will help you exercise your first amendment right to freedom of speech. By using their forum, you will have an opportunity to speak out against companies, businesses, governments, and individuals that have treated you unfairly. The bad Business Bureau's ... Ripoff Report will help you do that! Once your report is posted, millions of fellow consumers worldwide will have access to your information!


How Is It Different:
Ripoff Report does not hide reports of "satisfied" complaints. ALL complaints remain public and unedited in order to create a working history on the company or individual in question.

Ripoff Reports cover every category imaginable! You can Browse the latest Reports, Search the Reports, or Submit your report now for FREE, by clicking on File Report. View over 1,000 different topics & categories you can file under.

http://ripoffreport.com/

Finding what's open has never been easier

What Company Is Offering:
You will find what's open, what's closed, along with even more helpful information. One thing you won't have to worry about is annoying ads or other forms of tricky advertising - they keep it simple, friendly, and genuine.


How It Works:

Finding what's open has never been easier. Just type in what you're looking for (example: "pizza" or "starbucks" or "lamborghini dealership") and then type in your location (example: "92663" or "Newport Beach, Ca") and click "find it!". Immediately, depending how their servers are feeling, you should be taken to a virtual map with results to relevant results.
More at:http://www.whatsopen.com/

MeeMix---Internet Radio Station

What Company Is About:
At MeeMix, it's all about Mee, Mee, Mee!!
And when they say Mee, they mean YOU!

MeeMix understands how complex a creature you are. Your unique individuality and taste is formed by your innate qualities as well as the personal experiences throughout your life.

The future of entertainment, in MeeMix's vision is that each and every person will have one station and one channel that will satisfy their own unique taste.
We all love music, movies and TV shows but it seems as if there are just too many of them for us to find what we want, when we want it.

How It Works:

Its for: free, personalized and interactive entertainment. Doesn't that sound great? MeeMix is a place where you don't have to WORK to listen to the music you love. It's a place where you can sit back and enjoy the music and share your personal station with others. And this is just the beginning.
More at:http://www.meemix.com/

Wix is an online application for creating and publishing stunning Web content in Flash

What Company Is Offering:
Wix is an online application for creating and publishing stunning Web content in Flash.

How It Works:

With Wix you don't have to be a designer or programmer to create gorgeous Websites and embeddable Web objects. Wix's drag & drop interface easily adds audio, video, images, text, animation, decoration, and so much more.

Wix can be published anywhere on the Web—social networks, blogs, as a stand-alone, etc.

How Is It Different:

Just like a regular website, the only difference being that is was built using the Wix editor and is rendered in Flash. A Wix Website is comparable in every other way to a normal website, in the sense that it provides multiple pages, navigation, graphics, text, and more. A major benefit of a Wix Website is its inherent XML structure, making it search engine friendly.

An ExtraSpace is an embeddable Wix object that expands the layout of a MySpace profile page, providing additional space for user-expression. Essentially, an ExtraSpace is a website within a MySpace profile.
Wix can be published anywhere on the Web.

Wix Website: can be published as a standalone site. At first, Wix websites will be published on Wix.com's domain, but in the future users will be able to publish their Wix websites at any URL.
More at:http://www.wix.com/

Liftopia---Find Discount Lift Tickets To Top Alpine Resorts

What Company Is Offering:
Liftopia, the new online marketplace where you’ll find discount lift tickets to top alpine resorts across the country.

How It Works:
Liftopia makes it safe for our resort partners to offer exclusive deals through our site. This way resorts can try to get more folks out on the slopes, without hurting their on-mountain prices. The term in the industry is "incremental purchases", which essentially means that with better deals for specific days, you will want to ski or ride more often than you would otherwise.


Liftopia partners with leading resorts across the nation in an effort to get people like you to their slopes more often. We work directly with our Resort Partners to identify opportunities for discounts and promotions that give downhill adventurers more opportunities to ski and snowboard for less. Liftopia is the best place to find great lift ticket deals at mountain resorts nationwide.

After purchasing your lift ticket(s) online at Liftopia, you will receive a Purchase Confirmation by e-mail. You must print out this document and present it at the “Will Call” ticket counter/desk of your chosen mountain resort. Remember, only you (the purchaser) can pick up the lift ticket(s), and you must present your Purchase Confirmation as well as a valid picture ID.
More at:http://www.liftopia.com/

Hoosgot is a simple way to ask who’s got what you’re looking for

What Company Is Offering:
Hoosgot (pronounced “who’s got”) is a simple way to ask who’s got what you’re looking for. Just put “hoosgot” in a blog post or a Twitter tweet and it’ll show up here in Hoosgot. It’s meant to give you a place to send the requests for all of those things that you’ve wanted, but just can’t find - chances are, what you want already exists and someone else out there in the ether knows about it.

How It Works:

If someone’s got what you’re looking for, or a clue in that direction, they post a comment. RSS feeds flow from the comments.

For example, you might ask:

hoosgot an easy-to-use pencil sharpener that has suction cups on the bottom so I can stick it anywhere?

or:

hoosgot a simple camera bag that you can stick a laptop in, and still carry over your shoulder without knocking over pedestrians? Note I’m not looking for a knapsack or a backpack, I want it to act like a messenger bag…

And so on.
Of course, you can subscribe to hoosgot, they have RSS feeds so you can watch and participate - for hoosgot only works if you comment on the questions posed. Happen to know where someone can find the information they seek? Interested in collaborating with them on creating that invention described when the person invoked hoosgot or the lazyweb? Leave a comment on the entry, and give back to the web that has given us so much.
Who Is Backing Them:

Hoosgot is run by David Sifry, blogger, photographer, and entrepreneur, founder of a few companies you may have heard of, most recently Technorati. This is a personal project in his spare time.
More at:http://www.hoosgot.com/

Get exact location of an IP address

What Company Is Offering:
Ip is an identifier for a computer or a device on a network. The ip address is used to identify the computers in a network. An IP address is written as four numbers separated by periods. Within a local network, the ip addresses can be assigned randomly, as long as they are unique, but over the internet you need to register the IP address.

How It Works:
Get exact location of an IP address. The tool shows country, state, city and internet service provider.

The IP address it’s not easy to get, but you can give it a try: When talking with someone on instant message, close all other programs, then go to Start, Run, and type “cmd”. In the windows that opens, type “netstat”. Trough this command, all open connections will be showed. If you closed all other programs, you can figure out easy which is the IP address you need.

Now you have the IP address, what to do next, use the tool at http://www.ipgp.net to get location. You can zoom in or out to get more details.

Also, with this tool you can find the location of someone who posted.
More at:http://www.ipgp.net/

Bookmark Tracker

What Company Is Offering:
BookmarkTracker.com, Inc. is now offering customized, private-labeled, web-based bookmarking solutions to portals, ISPs, Intranet's, Extranets, community sites or any other sites that would like to provide bookmarking functionality to their members.BookmarkTracker is a complete, easy-to-use web-application that allows you to safely store and organize your bookmarks online and securely access them from anywhere on the Internet.

Unique Features:

Keep your bookmarks secure in your own private password-protected account.
No banner ads, popup ads or email spam messages.
Synchronize your bookmarks securely between multiple computers and/or browsers.
Share your bookmarks anonymously with others.
Completely web-based. No additional software to install.
Store an unlimited number of bookmarks.
Automatic folders (My New Bookmarks, My Top Rated Bookmarks, Recently Visited, Most Visited).
Fast and FREE!
Works with Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox and Internet Explorer.
Public and private RSS feeds available.

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

MintEmail.com gives you a four hour temporary email address

What Company Is Offering:
MintEmail.com gives you a four hour temporary email address. Your new temporary email address has been already saved to your clipboard (no need to press Ctrl+C). All incoming emails will be displayed on this page.

How It Works:

Their website robot will automatically verify the email address for most websites. This means you no longer have to click on the URL link to verify the email (This feature currently works for most but not all websites).

Simply visit the website mintemail.com and a random email address will be automatically generated and copied to your clipboard. There's no need to press Ctrl+C. You can then go ahead and paste the email wherever its desired.

Once your email is received the title bar will automatically be updated. You don't need to constantly refresh the page to check if your email has arrived.

You can visit the page http://mintemail.com/username and it will display all the emails that are sent to username@mintemail.com .
More at: http://mintemail.com/

monitority.com--They provide great utility for monitoring and test for every single web service

What Company Is Offering:
They provide great utility for monitoring and test for every single web service - website, ftp, e-mail, servers, giving also content monitoring for phrases in website and e-mail titles.

How It Works:

All data are safely gathered by checkpoints, visualized with readable charts,
real-time consultant will help You online.

If there will be some fault, breakdown or failure with monitored service - You will be the first to know about that. In speed of light they will inform You via e-mail or SMS, also giving such news to admin, webmaster, sale stuff or whomever You specify.

What They Monitor:
They monitor 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, from 5 independent checkpoints places all over the Earth, in time intervals from 1 to 60 minutes.

What They Test:

Websites, FTP servers, SSH, e-mail accounts, pop, smtp, VoIP, SLA,content accessability quality.
More at:http://monitority.com/