What Company Is Offering:
Geared towards single pet owners and animal lovers, the online dating website offers instant messaging with webcam, graphic intense unique chat rooms, e mails, flirts, searches by region, age, animals and breeds, blogs, forums and an online magazine on pets and dating. Sign up now... it's free and The Right Breed is also offering the potential to win one year's worth of pet food. A site like this is long overdue.
How It Works:
Founder Cindy Novak is looking to give back by starting up an adoption service where those less fortunate (aka seriously ill children, veterans, the elderly and the disabled) will have the opportunity to adopt pets. By assisting with the costs of immunizations and the first year's worth of food, both affection starved animals and those in need of some loyal companionship will benefit.
In addition, the first 60 days have complete and open usage of all the site's features. After that, the cost is only 14.99/month of which a portion will go to sponsor the adoption program. Plans for a VIP membership offering additional features such as mobile technology and unlimited virtual gifts will be offered in the coming months for a few dollars more. Money well spent.
More at;www.therightbreed.com
Monday, March 31, 2008
Ficstar develops powerful, innovative solutions that help organizations
What Company Is Offering:
Ficstar develops powerful, innovative solutions that help organizations quickly, accurately, and cost-effectively capture and save information from targeted web sites. With robust software and comprehensive consulting services, they deliver effective, fully-customized solutions designed to meet any web data extraction need.Ficstar Web Grabber can extract data from nearly any web site – including eCommerce sites, member list directories, search engines, and others.
How It Works:
Web Grabber collects both static and dynamic content from web pages, then converts it into a text file, Excel spreadsheet, or any database format. And, its fully-customizable, to ensure fast, simple extraction from any target web site.
Web Grabber empowers you to extract web content more efficiently and accurately than ever before. You can instantly capture and store the content you need – quickly, easily, and error-free!
Their web data extraction technology enables organizations to quickly and easily get the results they want.
More at:http://www.ficstar.com/
Ficstar develops powerful, innovative solutions that help organizations quickly, accurately, and cost-effectively capture and save information from targeted web sites. With robust software and comprehensive consulting services, they deliver effective, fully-customized solutions designed to meet any web data extraction need.Ficstar Web Grabber can extract data from nearly any web site – including eCommerce sites, member list directories, search engines, and others.
How It Works:
Web Grabber collects both static and dynamic content from web pages, then converts it into a text file, Excel spreadsheet, or any database format. And, its fully-customizable, to ensure fast, simple extraction from any target web site.
Web Grabber empowers you to extract web content more efficiently and accurately than ever before. You can instantly capture and store the content you need – quickly, easily, and error-free!
Their web data extraction technology enables organizations to quickly and easily get the results they want.
More at:http://www.ficstar.com/
DonorDrive is a suite of simple to use tools to manage, mine, target and grow your constituency for raising awareness and donations
What Company Is Offering:
A Web-based software service designed to increase the development capacity of non-profit organizations. DonorDrive is a suite of simple to use tools to manage, mine, target and grow your constituency for raising awareness and donations.
How It Works:
Efficiently manage any event or capital campaign. Participant, ticketing or fundraising events are easy to setup and operate. Quickly increase online donations and giving for any development initiative.
Search and manage all constituent data with ease. Track donation activity, event registrations, marketing communications and contact information. Run constituent specific reports, filter data and export on-demand.
Mine and manage your data with simple to read charts, graphs and reports. Capture meaningful trends and statistics as well as easily filter and export your data in multiple formats. Printer friendly views and other useful features.
Create, manage and track targeted e-mail campaigns. Segment constituent lists by profiles, preferences and behaviors. Build your brand and distribute relevant content to your constituency with the highest e-mail deliverability rates.
More at;http://www.donordrive.com/
A Web-based software service designed to increase the development capacity of non-profit organizations. DonorDrive is a suite of simple to use tools to manage, mine, target and grow your constituency for raising awareness and donations.
How It Works:
Efficiently manage any event or capital campaign. Participant, ticketing or fundraising events are easy to setup and operate. Quickly increase online donations and giving for any development initiative.
Search and manage all constituent data with ease. Track donation activity, event registrations, marketing communications and contact information. Run constituent specific reports, filter data and export on-demand.
Mine and manage your data with simple to read charts, graphs and reports. Capture meaningful trends and statistics as well as easily filter and export your data in multiple formats. Printer friendly views and other useful features.
Create, manage and track targeted e-mail campaigns. Segment constituent lists by profiles, preferences and behaviors. Build your brand and distribute relevant content to your constituency with the highest e-mail deliverability rates.
More at;http://www.donordrive.com/
Darrb----It is an online marketplace that connects people that want to send an item from one location to another
What Company Is Offering:
Darrb means “way” in Arabic. It is an online marketplace that connects people that want to send an item from one location to another with people who are willing to offer the delivery service and earn an income as a return. Is summary, Darrb is EBay for delivery.
How It Works:
When users auction their deliveries, deliverers (Darrbers) compete with each other by offering the lowest price and fastest delivery time in order to win the bid. This will ensure that users get the best rates and fastest delivery service.In order to ensure quality, competitive rates and speediness, users will be able to rank the service of the Darrbers once the deal is done. This ranking system will allow the public to see how other people, that have used the service of a specific Darrber, found the quality, price and speed of the delivery.
Like many auction related marketplaces, Darrb shows all bids participated to a delivery order. What Darrb does extra is it sorts the bids as per the lowest price or fastest delivery period announced by the Darrber. This means that if two Darrbers participated in a delivery order and both had similar prices, the user can sort the bids based on time (delivery duration) rather than cost. At the end of the auction, the user could choose the Darrber who best fits his requirement.
Any delivery service consists of three main factors:- Price, Time & quality of service. This sorting would give the user the best match of the first two factors, and the last factor would be known from the feedback and rating system.
More at:http://www.darrb.com/
Darrb means “way” in Arabic. It is an online marketplace that connects people that want to send an item from one location to another with people who are willing to offer the delivery service and earn an income as a return. Is summary, Darrb is EBay for delivery.
How It Works:
When users auction their deliveries, deliverers (Darrbers) compete with each other by offering the lowest price and fastest delivery time in order to win the bid. This will ensure that users get the best rates and fastest delivery service.In order to ensure quality, competitive rates and speediness, users will be able to rank the service of the Darrbers once the deal is done. This ranking system will allow the public to see how other people, that have used the service of a specific Darrber, found the quality, price and speed of the delivery.
Like many auction related marketplaces, Darrb shows all bids participated to a delivery order. What Darrb does extra is it sorts the bids as per the lowest price or fastest delivery period announced by the Darrber. This means that if two Darrbers participated in a delivery order and both had similar prices, the user can sort the bids based on time (delivery duration) rather than cost. At the end of the auction, the user could choose the Darrber who best fits his requirement.
Any delivery service consists of three main factors:- Price, Time & quality of service. This sorting would give the user the best match of the first two factors, and the last factor would be known from the feedback and rating system.
More at:http://www.darrb.com/
An ultra high security password generator.
What Company Is Offering:
Generating long, high-quality random passwords is
not simple. So here is some totally random raw
material, generated just for YOU, to start with.
Their server generates a unique set of custom, high quality, cryptographic-strength password strings which are safe for you to use.
How It Works;
Click your web browser's "refresh" button a few times and watch the password strings change each time.
Every one is completely random (maximum entropy) without any pattern, and the cryptographically-strong pseudo random number generator we use guarantees that no similar strings will ever be produced again.
These password strings are just for you. No one else can ever see them or get them. You may safely take these strings as they are, or use chunks from several to build your own if you prefer, or do whatever you want with them. Each set displayed are totally, uniquely yours — forever.
More at:https://www.grc.com/
Generating long, high-quality random passwords is
not simple. So here is some totally random raw
material, generated just for YOU, to start with.
Their server generates a unique set of custom, high quality, cryptographic-strength password strings which are safe for you to use.
How It Works;
Click your web browser's "refresh" button a few times and watch the password strings change each time.
Every one is completely random (maximum entropy) without any pattern, and the cryptographically-strong pseudo random number generator we use guarantees that no similar strings will ever be produced again.
These password strings are just for you. No one else can ever see them or get them. You may safely take these strings as they are, or use chunks from several to build your own if you prefer, or do whatever you want with them. Each set displayed are totally, uniquely yours — forever.
More at:https://www.grc.com/
Omeka is a web platform for publishing collections and exhibitions online
What Company Is Offering:
Omeka is a web platform for publishing collections and exhibitions online. Designed for cultural institutions, enthusiasts, and educators, Omeka is easy to install and modify and facilitates community-building around collections and exhibits. It is designed with non-IT specialists in mind, allowing users to focus on content rather than programming.
How It Works:
Enable users to publish web content with a system that is low-cost and easy-to-use.Omeka offers users professional-looking design themes that showcase collections and eliminate the need to hire outside designers. CHNM also plans to offer a hosted version by 2009 for those who cannot run Omeka on their own servers.
Provide users with a standards-based, interoperable system that allows them to share and use digital content in multiple contexts.
Facilitate users, in particular cultural institutions, engaging their publics and building communities around objects and primary sources.
More at:http://omeka.org/
Omeka is a web platform for publishing collections and exhibitions online. Designed for cultural institutions, enthusiasts, and educators, Omeka is easy to install and modify and facilitates community-building around collections and exhibits. It is designed with non-IT specialists in mind, allowing users to focus on content rather than programming.
How It Works:
Enable users to publish web content with a system that is low-cost and easy-to-use.Omeka offers users professional-looking design themes that showcase collections and eliminate the need to hire outside designers. CHNM also plans to offer a hosted version by 2009 for those who cannot run Omeka on their own servers.
Provide users with a standards-based, interoperable system that allows them to share and use digital content in multiple contexts.
Facilitate users, in particular cultural institutions, engaging their publics and building communities around objects and primary sources.
More at:http://omeka.org/
ChickSpeak is an organization for young women created to inspire Big Dreams, Strong Values and Success in the world
What Company Is Offering:
ChickSpeak is an organization for young women created to inspire Big Dreams, Strong Values and Success in the world.
Their website exists to be the most entertaining and engaging reflection of women’s life in college, while also providing the support and information necessary to stay healthy, grounded and achieve great heights while in school and well after graduation.
How It Works:
They are your voice- your interests and passions, your unique journey and experiences.
Updated daily articles are written by women currently in college and cover everything from health and beauty, to relationships, travel, entertainment and much more. They also feature guest writers and columnists who are recognized experts in their fields and who act as advisers to our members. Members can post comments on articles and build relationships with other members and the ChickSpeak Team through forums, personal blogs and private messaging.
More at:http://chickspeak.com/
ChickSpeak is an organization for young women created to inspire Big Dreams, Strong Values and Success in the world.
Their website exists to be the most entertaining and engaging reflection of women’s life in college, while also providing the support and information necessary to stay healthy, grounded and achieve great heights while in school and well after graduation.
How It Works:
They are your voice- your interests and passions, your unique journey and experiences.
Updated daily articles are written by women currently in college and cover everything from health and beauty, to relationships, travel, entertainment and much more. They also feature guest writers and columnists who are recognized experts in their fields and who act as advisers to our members. Members can post comments on articles and build relationships with other members and the ChickSpeak Team through forums, personal blogs and private messaging.
More at:http://chickspeak.com/
Soskod.com is an online freelancer project-service exchange portal
What Company Is Offering:
Soskod.com is an online freelancer project-service exchange portal. We provide different popular job scope so our freelancers enjoy sourcing for valued projects. Our clients (service buyers) successfully reduce their project development cost but with quality services and on the other hand our freelancers (service providers) keep on earn from our portal.
How It Works:
Service Buyer is people who post up their project in order for freelancers to bid on it. Service Provider is freelancer who interested in bidding project, provide service to service buyer.
As you know, most complicated projects are not belongs to any single category. They may be required both "Banner Creation", "Logo Design", "PHP server side language", and even "Symfony Framework" for the whole project development. That's why their project posting system designed to allow you to clearly define the behavior of your project which can be easily identify the project scope by freelancers.
"win-project-bid" mail with service buyer contact information will deliver to service provider after the service buyer picked the provider.
Their system designed to separate PM (Private Message) function with bid system so that as a service provider can has enough information on project before placing their bid. And for Bid system, each service provider has maximum 3 bids for each project to maintain the fair-play of the bid game.
More at:http://www.soskod.com/
Soskod.com is an online freelancer project-service exchange portal. We provide different popular job scope so our freelancers enjoy sourcing for valued projects. Our clients (service buyers) successfully reduce their project development cost but with quality services and on the other hand our freelancers (service providers) keep on earn from our portal.
How It Works:
Service Buyer is people who post up their project in order for freelancers to bid on it. Service Provider is freelancer who interested in bidding project, provide service to service buyer.
As you know, most complicated projects are not belongs to any single category. They may be required both "Banner Creation", "Logo Design", "PHP server side language", and even "Symfony Framework" for the whole project development. That's why their project posting system designed to allow you to clearly define the behavior of your project which can be easily identify the project scope by freelancers.
"win-project-bid" mail with service buyer contact information will deliver to service provider after the service buyer picked the provider.
Their system designed to separate PM (Private Message) function with bid system so that as a service provider can has enough information on project before placing their bid. And for Bid system, each service provider has maximum 3 bids for each project to maintain the fair-play of the bid game.
More at:http://www.soskod.com/
UnWired Buyer 2.0 is an interactive service that allows eBay buyers and sellers to connect with eBay auctions
What Company Is Offering:
UnWired Buyer 2.0 is an interactive service that allows eBay buyers and sellers to connect with eBay auctions in the critical final minutes from any mobile phone or PC. eBay shoppers are now able to determine how they want to be notified about an ending auction (email, phone call, or both) and where they want to place their bids (PC or mobile phone).
How It Works:
After you have registered, UnWired Buyer automatically synchronizes with your "My eBay Watch List" watched auctions and auctions on which you have bid on. Items on your list are then monitored, and if they meet criteria you have set, for target price, etc. you are called on them in the final minutes of the auction. You then enter your PIN and are able to bid as if you were logged into eBay on your computer.
UnWired Buyer helps sellers by allowing buyers to bid from their computer or mobile phone so they don't miss the end of an auction. UnWired Buyer brings more buyers to your auction in the closing minutes, driving more bids for your items. In addition, you can signup for the service and monitor auction activity in real-time from your PC or via your mobile phone. Bottom line, your get more bidders, more bids and more revenue.
More at:https://www.unwiredbuyer.com/
UnWired Buyer 2.0 is an interactive service that allows eBay buyers and sellers to connect with eBay auctions in the critical final minutes from any mobile phone or PC. eBay shoppers are now able to determine how they want to be notified about an ending auction (email, phone call, or both) and where they want to place their bids (PC or mobile phone).
How It Works:
After you have registered, UnWired Buyer automatically synchronizes with your "My eBay Watch List" watched auctions and auctions on which you have bid on. Items on your list are then monitored, and if they meet criteria you have set, for target price, etc. you are called on them in the final minutes of the auction. You then enter your PIN and are able to bid as if you were logged into eBay on your computer.
UnWired Buyer helps sellers by allowing buyers to bid from their computer or mobile phone so they don't miss the end of an auction. UnWired Buyer brings more buyers to your auction in the closing minutes, driving more bids for your items. In addition, you can signup for the service and monitor auction activity in real-time from your PC or via your mobile phone. Bottom line, your get more bidders, more bids and more revenue.
More at:https://www.unwiredbuyer.com/
NowTorrents is an advanced real-time search engine for bit-torrents
What Company Is Offering:
NowTorrents is an advanced real-time search engine for bit-torrents. They do not host any torrents on NowTorrents, we just make them findable. Their software scans the largest torrent hosting websites on the internet and comes up with the best results from these websites. NowTorrents is also able to detect and remove fake/dead torrents! In the near future we will also add categories and more advanced search features.
What Is BitTorrent :
BitTorrent (often abbreviated to 'BT') is a protocol (a set of rules and description of how to do things) allowing you to download files quickly by allowing people downloading the file to upload (distribute) parts of it at the same time. BitTorrent is often used for distribution of very large files, very popular files and files available for free, as it is a lot cheaper, faster and more efficient to distribute files using BitTorrent than a regular download.
More at:http://www.nowtorrents.com/
NowTorrents is an advanced real-time search engine for bit-torrents. They do not host any torrents on NowTorrents, we just make them findable. Their software scans the largest torrent hosting websites on the internet and comes up with the best results from these websites. NowTorrents is also able to detect and remove fake/dead torrents! In the near future we will also add categories and more advanced search features.
What Is BitTorrent :
BitTorrent (often abbreviated to 'BT') is a protocol (a set of rules and description of how to do things) allowing you to download files quickly by allowing people downloading the file to upload (distribute) parts of it at the same time. BitTorrent is often used for distribution of very large files, very popular files and files available for free, as it is a lot cheaper, faster and more efficient to distribute files using BitTorrent than a regular download.
More at:http://www.nowtorrents.com/
Bid4Vid provides a trusted, secure environment for connecting buyers and producers
What Company Is Offering:
They’re a marketplace for creative services, particularly video production. Bid4Vid provides a trusted, secure environment for connecting buyers and producers. The site lets you find talented producers or quality jobs, track a project’s progress, keep a record of all communications on the site and use a private workspace to manage your project.
How It Works:
If you’re a buyer, Bid4Vid is the easiest, most affordable way to get a high-quality video made in a specific geographical area. The video can be an ad, promotion, documentary, digital story — almost anything.
If you’re a producer, it’s a way to earn money — no matter where you’re located. Bid4Vid provides a convenient way to find work and make a living with your skills without the expense and hassle of marketing yourself.
A buyer is anyone who posts a project for people to bid on.
A producer is anyone — professional, semi-pro or amateur — who can create a good-looking video or other media. Don’t confuse the term with traditional media’s narrow definition of a producer. Here it means anyone who can create a polished media work.
More at:http://www.bid4vid.com/
They’re a marketplace for creative services, particularly video production. Bid4Vid provides a trusted, secure environment for connecting buyers and producers. The site lets you find talented producers or quality jobs, track a project’s progress, keep a record of all communications on the site and use a private workspace to manage your project.
How It Works:
If you’re a buyer, Bid4Vid is the easiest, most affordable way to get a high-quality video made in a specific geographical area. The video can be an ad, promotion, documentary, digital story — almost anything.
If you’re a producer, it’s a way to earn money — no matter where you’re located. Bid4Vid provides a convenient way to find work and make a living with your skills without the expense and hassle of marketing yourself.
A buyer is anyone who posts a project for people to bid on.
A producer is anyone — professional, semi-pro or amateur — who can create a good-looking video or other media. Don’t confuse the term with traditional media’s narrow definition of a producer. Here it means anyone who can create a polished media work.
More at:http://www.bid4vid.com/
LeagueSafe---Fantasy League Finance Mangment
What Company Is Offering:
Simply put, they're a fantasy commissioner's best friend. They eliminate the hassle of managing league entry fees and payouts by automating the entire process. League members pay their dues using one of our convenient and 100 percent safe and secure online payment options. League funds are held safely in an FDIC-insured account at our partner bank and distributed in accordance with league rules at season's end.
How It Works:
LeagueSafe allows your league to deposit and withdraw funds several different ways, including options without fees. They encourage you to walk through the setup process, and see for yourself. After you pay your entry fee, your funds are secured all season long at one of our two FDIC-insured partner banks, U.S. Bank or The Bancorp Bank. Think of LeagueSafe as a type of escrow account for your league's fantasy funds. They're controlled by a third party and can't be released unless you and your league members vote to allow the funds to be dispersed in accordance with your league's rules at the end of the season.
Your entry fee is deposited in an account at LeagueSafe’s FDIC-insured partner bank. From your league homepage, you can track your balance and the status of all other owners' accounts in your league. At the end of the season, you have the power to ratify your winners’ payouts.
If you have a checking account, you can use e-check to deposit funds. It’s as easy as using a credit card for an online transaction — you just type in your checking account information and the funds are transmitted electronically via a 100 percent safe and secure online transaction.
More at:https://www.leaguesafe.com/
Simply put, they're a fantasy commissioner's best friend. They eliminate the hassle of managing league entry fees and payouts by automating the entire process. League members pay their dues using one of our convenient and 100 percent safe and secure online payment options. League funds are held safely in an FDIC-insured account at our partner bank and distributed in accordance with league rules at season's end.
How It Works:
LeagueSafe allows your league to deposit and withdraw funds several different ways, including options without fees. They encourage you to walk through the setup process, and see for yourself. After you pay your entry fee, your funds are secured all season long at one of our two FDIC-insured partner banks, U.S. Bank or The Bancorp Bank. Think of LeagueSafe as a type of escrow account for your league's fantasy funds. They're controlled by a third party and can't be released unless you and your league members vote to allow the funds to be dispersed in accordance with your league's rules at the end of the season.
Your entry fee is deposited in an account at LeagueSafe’s FDIC-insured partner bank. From your league homepage, you can track your balance and the status of all other owners' accounts in your league. At the end of the season, you have the power to ratify your winners’ payouts.
If you have a checking account, you can use e-check to deposit funds. It’s as easy as using a credit card for an online transaction — you just type in your checking account information and the funds are transmitted electronically via a 100 percent safe and secure online transaction.
More at:https://www.leaguesafe.com/
Fame Experiment
What Company Says:
Fame Experiment! This isn't a reality show, there's nothing particularly special about anyone who takes part in the experiment, but they're all interested in one thing, the power of the internet to generate fame.
How It Works:
It works on the idea that one person, if seen over and over again in a multitude of places, could experience public recognition, or become “famous”. The aim is for this person’s image to be everywhere, and for that image to become embedded in internet users’ thoughts so that to see this person in public will trigger an “I know you” moment.
There are two phases to the experiment, both equally important:
Phase 1 is about getting the word out about the Fame Experiment. If you have a website, a blog, post on forums, or even email others, it is easy to participate.
By selecting the Earn Fame Points link after logging in, you will be given a choice of special code that you can place on your website, blog, forum or email signature. These links will generate an image linking to the Fame Experiment website, that when clicked on by others, will add to your Fame Points. These points contribute to the final selection of the subject. To find out how visit the FAQ page.
Phase 2 begins by selecting the winning "subject" and publicizing them to the large network of sites participating in the experiment.
From the moment the second phase begins, all images displayed on these sites will be changed to include an image of the selected subject, with a link back to the Fame Experiment where the subject's profile will be featured. During this phase, the subject will be encouraged to investigate any difference in public perception, and reflect upon this on their Fame Experiment blog.
Any clicks earnt during Phase 2 will be considerably higher than usual and contibute to a likely second experiment.
More at:http://www.fameexperiment.com/
Fame Experiment! This isn't a reality show, there's nothing particularly special about anyone who takes part in the experiment, but they're all interested in one thing, the power of the internet to generate fame.
How It Works:
It works on the idea that one person, if seen over and over again in a multitude of places, could experience public recognition, or become “famous”. The aim is for this person’s image to be everywhere, and for that image to become embedded in internet users’ thoughts so that to see this person in public will trigger an “I know you” moment.
There are two phases to the experiment, both equally important:
Phase 1 is about getting the word out about the Fame Experiment. If you have a website, a blog, post on forums, or even email others, it is easy to participate.
By selecting the Earn Fame Points link after logging in, you will be given a choice of special code that you can place on your website, blog, forum or email signature. These links will generate an image linking to the Fame Experiment website, that when clicked on by others, will add to your Fame Points. These points contribute to the final selection of the subject. To find out how visit the FAQ page.
Phase 2 begins by selecting the winning "subject" and publicizing them to the large network of sites participating in the experiment.
From the moment the second phase begins, all images displayed on these sites will be changed to include an image of the selected subject, with a link back to the Fame Experiment where the subject's profile will be featured. During this phase, the subject will be encouraged to investigate any difference in public perception, and reflect upon this on their Fame Experiment blog.
Any clicks earnt during Phase 2 will be considerably higher than usual and contibute to a likely second experiment.
More at:http://www.fameexperiment.com/
Jobsplay is an online Social Recruitment site
What Company Is Offering:
Jobsplay is an online Social Recruitment site, it has all of the features required for a community to grow around the concept of advancing people's careers through connecting with the right people.
How It Works:
It has a Job board embedded into the heart of it allowing people to be alerted to the latest job opportunities that match their skills and location. This also makes it far easier for Recruiters to find the people they are looking for in the right locations. Searches can be done by skills, location, salary expectations and all viewed on a map with travel times to the location of the role you are researching.
The site isn't just a job board though, it is a useful site for people who are happy in their current roles but are just interested in talking to other people from around the world. If you don't want to be contacted about positions then mark yourself as not looking for work and you won't be able to be found by recruiters. All contact from recruiters comes through the site as your email address is never given out, that way once you have found your perfect job you can just switch yourself to not looking for work and all contact will stop. No more phone calls and emails about jobs you just aren't interested in.
More at:http://www.jobsplay.com/
Jobsplay is an online Social Recruitment site, it has all of the features required for a community to grow around the concept of advancing people's careers through connecting with the right people.
How It Works:
It has a Job board embedded into the heart of it allowing people to be alerted to the latest job opportunities that match their skills and location. This also makes it far easier for Recruiters to find the people they are looking for in the right locations. Searches can be done by skills, location, salary expectations and all viewed on a map with travel times to the location of the role you are researching.
The site isn't just a job board though, it is a useful site for people who are happy in their current roles but are just interested in talking to other people from around the world. If you don't want to be contacted about positions then mark yourself as not looking for work and you won't be able to be found by recruiters. All contact from recruiters comes through the site as your email address is never given out, that way once you have found your perfect job you can just switch yourself to not looking for work and all contact will stop. No more phone calls and emails about jobs you just aren't interested in.
More at:http://www.jobsplay.com/
Lexposure.net is the first social and business platform custom-built for people in the fashion and creative scenes
What Company Is Offering:
Lexposure.net is the first social and business platform custom-built for people in the fashion and creative scenes. They designed it to be the leading networking and information website for the fashion and creative scene. Whether you're a photographer, model, designer, hair or makeup artist, editor, booker or producer - anyone can have his own account on Lexposure.net. Elegant, intuitive and easy to use, Lexposure.net is where work connects with your online life and your ideas come alive.
How It Works:
Users can upload portfolios, share information and link with potential partners. They can check individual activity feeds, featured members and wall posts in user profiles or mini portfolios, and communicate through the message centre, forum and pro forum or their friends' and partners' networks.
All across town and all round the world, connection is everything. Lexposure.net aims to be the main juncture for agencies, production companies, models, photographers, stylists, artists, designers and others, influencing trends, ideas and the market. Updated daily, Lexposure.net offers the highest quality collection of photos of catwalks, campaigns, new faces, promising talent, hot looks and chic parties from around the world. A growing library of 80,000 fully printable and searchable pictures, intelligently tagged, provide all you need to know. Lexposure.net gets you backstage on the fashion circuit. The faces and stories behind the big campaigns become visible. Lexposure.net is a sleek, fast and high-impact update on the people, places and issues that matter.
More at:http://www.lexposure.net/
Lexposure.net is the first social and business platform custom-built for people in the fashion and creative scenes. They designed it to be the leading networking and information website for the fashion and creative scene. Whether you're a photographer, model, designer, hair or makeup artist, editor, booker or producer - anyone can have his own account on Lexposure.net. Elegant, intuitive and easy to use, Lexposure.net is where work connects with your online life and your ideas come alive.
How It Works:
Users can upload portfolios, share information and link with potential partners. They can check individual activity feeds, featured members and wall posts in user profiles or mini portfolios, and communicate through the message centre, forum and pro forum or their friends' and partners' networks.
All across town and all round the world, connection is everything. Lexposure.net aims to be the main juncture for agencies, production companies, models, photographers, stylists, artists, designers and others, influencing trends, ideas and the market. Updated daily, Lexposure.net offers the highest quality collection of photos of catwalks, campaigns, new faces, promising talent, hot looks and chic parties from around the world. A growing library of 80,000 fully printable and searchable pictures, intelligently tagged, provide all you need to know. Lexposure.net gets you backstage on the fashion circuit. The faces and stories behind the big campaigns become visible. Lexposure.net is a sleek, fast and high-impact update on the people, places and issues that matter.
More at:http://www.lexposure.net/
Sunday, March 30, 2008
2threads is a community media and news website that combines social networking with community generated content and editorial content
What Company Is Offering:
2threads is a community media and news website that combines social networking with community generated content and editorial content. You can use 2threads to explore, interact, connect and contribute with the community and its content. The community has a fondness for all things fashion, music, lifestyle news, photos and video.
How Is It Different:
They believe we are part of the next generation of social networking and internet media destinations.They distance themselves from the mainstream social networks and media properties by taking the focus away from profile pages and social mapping tools. Instead they focus on showcasing the contributions of the community along side the content of our international editorial team. These contributions come in the form of photo galleries, videos, news articles, product finds and music players. They are the platform and your co-producers.
More at:http://www.2threads.com/
2threads is a community media and news website that combines social networking with community generated content and editorial content. You can use 2threads to explore, interact, connect and contribute with the community and its content. The community has a fondness for all things fashion, music, lifestyle news, photos and video.
How Is It Different:
They believe we are part of the next generation of social networking and internet media destinations.They distance themselves from the mainstream social networks and media properties by taking the focus away from profile pages and social mapping tools. Instead they focus on showcasing the contributions of the community along side the content of our international editorial team. These contributions come in the form of photo galleries, videos, news articles, product finds and music players. They are the platform and your co-producers.
More at:http://www.2threads.com/
SlideRocket is a web application that provides everything you need to design professional
What Company Is Offering:
SlideRocket is a web application that provides everything you need to design professional quality presentations, manage and share libraries of slides and assets, and to deliver presentations in person or remotely over the web.
How It Works:
SlideRocket is a rich internet application that provides for every part of the presentation lifecycle. It integrates authoring, asset management, delivery and analytics tools into a single hosted environment that allows you to quickly create stunning presentations, intelligently manage your assets, securely share your slides, and measure the results.SlideRocket integrates flexible authoring, intelligent asset management, secure delivery and analytics tools in a single on demand application. SlideRocket allows you to quickly create stunning presentations, store, organize, tag and search your assets, collaborate with your colleagues, securely share your slides in person or remotely and measure the results, all in one integrated environment.
More at:http://www.sliderocket.com/
SlideRocket is a web application that provides everything you need to design professional quality presentations, manage and share libraries of slides and assets, and to deliver presentations in person or remotely over the web.
How It Works:
SlideRocket is a rich internet application that provides for every part of the presentation lifecycle. It integrates authoring, asset management, delivery and analytics tools into a single hosted environment that allows you to quickly create stunning presentations, intelligently manage your assets, securely share your slides, and measure the results.SlideRocket integrates flexible authoring, intelligent asset management, secure delivery and analytics tools in a single on demand application. SlideRocket allows you to quickly create stunning presentations, store, organize, tag and search your assets, collaborate with your colleagues, securely share your slides in person or remotely and measure the results, all in one integrated environment.
More at:http://www.sliderocket.com/
Zemanta is building a platform for assisted on-line content production for any web user
What Company Is Offring:
Zemanta is building a platform for assisted on-line content production for any web user. Thir solution is best demonstrated by taking a text (a blog, an article or a web page) and feeding it into their system. The system recognizes the content and returns suggested images, smart links, keywords and relevant related stories from the Internet. It can be referenced from a user's preferred content publishing platform through a simple plug-in.
For this reason they invest in the development of advanced user-friendly interfaces and smart technologies that can understand the content.
How It Works:
They index around 300 top media sources and numerous blogs of thir users.They analyze your post through our proprietary natural language processing and semantic algorithms, and statistically compare its context framework to thir preindexed database of other content.They provide tools for bloggers to make their work of gathering and filtering information easier. They enable a blogger to have his or her blog post 'spiced up' with just a few clicks.
They are suggested from Wikimedia Commons, Flickr and various stock photo providers. They are suggested based on contextual comparison of your text and the image's title, description and articles they were used in originally.
More at:http://www.zemanta.com/
Zemanta is building a platform for assisted on-line content production for any web user. Thir solution is best demonstrated by taking a text (a blog, an article or a web page) and feeding it into their system. The system recognizes the content and returns suggested images, smart links, keywords and relevant related stories from the Internet. It can be referenced from a user's preferred content publishing platform through a simple plug-in.
For this reason they invest in the development of advanced user-friendly interfaces and smart technologies that can understand the content.
How It Works:
They index around 300 top media sources and numerous blogs of thir users.They analyze your post through our proprietary natural language processing and semantic algorithms, and statistically compare its context framework to thir preindexed database of other content.They provide tools for bloggers to make their work of gathering and filtering information easier. They enable a blogger to have his or her blog post 'spiced up' with just a few clicks.
They are suggested from Wikimedia Commons, Flickr and various stock photo providers. They are suggested based on contextual comparison of your text and the image's title, description and articles they were used in originally.
More at:http://www.zemanta.com/
Fav2.0 is a modern way to use your most visited websites
What Company is Offring:
Fav2.0 is a modern way to use your most visited websites. Set it as homepage and add your most visited sites. It uses cookies to store your sites and settings. Set your browser's homepage to fav20.com to easily access what you added here. Open links in new window or same window. Shows/hides this help window.
More at:http://www.fav20.com/
Fav2.0 is a modern way to use your most visited websites. Set it as homepage and add your most visited sites. It uses cookies to store your sites and settings. Set your browser's homepage to fav20.com to easily access what you added here. Open links in new window or same window. Shows/hides this help window.
More at:http://www.fav20.com/
Wundrbar is a next generation search bar that lets you control your personal accounts
What Company Is Offering:
Wundrbar is a next generation search bar that lets you control your personal accounts and launch any kind of web search. For example, you can manage your online calendar, start a flight search, update your twitter status, and much more. And you can do it all from the same search bar.
How It Will Helpful:
They created Wundrbar to help you to use the web faster and more easily. If you're like us, you have personal accounts all over the place - Google Calendar, Netflix, Open Table, Paypal. All of these are great services, but sometimes it just takes a little too long, or is too much hassle, to open up Netflix to add that movie your friend recommended, or open up your calendar just to add that one event. And don't even get us started on flight searches - why in the heck do all those travel sites make us click twenty times just to start a flight search? All these things should be as simple as saying them. And that's exactly what they've tried to do with Wundrbar. Want to add a new event? Type "create drinks tonight 9pm with john". Want to rent that movie? Type "netflix superbad". Want to do a flight search? "Fly sfo nyc tomorrow return 3/30". Wundrbar is built to be intuitive and flexible, so you can enter commands in a whole variety of ways. No need to worry about syntax or formatting.
They're connected to several providers for travel searches involving flights, hotels, or cars. They're connected to a few personal services, including Google Calendar. And they're connected to a lot of simple services so you can do things like 'amazon harry potter' or 'ebay ipod'.
Wundrbar is built as a programmable framework, so that anyone can hook it into new services, and so that existing actions can be linked together in new ways.
In the meantime, if there is an action you think Wundrbar should perform, add it to the public wishlist. And while you're there, vote up the other ideas that you'd like to see implemented. They'll create some of the most popular actions, and soon you'll be able to create them to. And in fact, you'll get recognition for creating actions that are highly-requested!
Also: be sure to check out the Wundrbar Firefox toolbar and search plugin, so that you can use Wundrbar from anywhere on the web.
More at:http://www.wundrbar.com/
Wundrbar is a next generation search bar that lets you control your personal accounts and launch any kind of web search. For example, you can manage your online calendar, start a flight search, update your twitter status, and much more. And you can do it all from the same search bar.
How It Will Helpful:
They created Wundrbar to help you to use the web faster and more easily. If you're like us, you have personal accounts all over the place - Google Calendar, Netflix, Open Table, Paypal. All of these are great services, but sometimes it just takes a little too long, or is too much hassle, to open up Netflix to add that movie your friend recommended, or open up your calendar just to add that one event. And don't even get us started on flight searches - why in the heck do all those travel sites make us click twenty times just to start a flight search? All these things should be as simple as saying them. And that's exactly what they've tried to do with Wundrbar. Want to add a new event? Type "create drinks tonight 9pm with john". Want to rent that movie? Type "netflix superbad". Want to do a flight search? "Fly sfo nyc tomorrow return 3/30". Wundrbar is built to be intuitive and flexible, so you can enter commands in a whole variety of ways. No need to worry about syntax or formatting.
They're connected to several providers for travel searches involving flights, hotels, or cars. They're connected to a few personal services, including Google Calendar. And they're connected to a lot of simple services so you can do things like 'amazon harry potter' or 'ebay ipod'.
Wundrbar is built as a programmable framework, so that anyone can hook it into new services, and so that existing actions can be linked together in new ways.
In the meantime, if there is an action you think Wundrbar should perform, add it to the public wishlist. And while you're there, vote up the other ideas that you'd like to see implemented. They'll create some of the most popular actions, and soon you'll be able to create them to. And in fact, you'll get recognition for creating actions that are highly-requested!
Also: be sure to check out the Wundrbar Firefox toolbar and search plugin, so that you can use Wundrbar from anywhere on the web.
More at:http://www.wundrbar.com/
Mumboe offers secure solutions that make it easy to create, store, track and manage your important business agreements online
What Company Is Offering:
Mumboe offers secure solutions that make it easy to create, store, track and manage your important business agreements online.
How It Works:
Using Mumboe, business professionals can author new contracts, store them in a secure, central repository, grant authorized access to specific individuals, and quickly search for key contract information.
Getting started with Mumboe is easy. With Mumboe, there is no upfront commitment, no hardware or software to install, and no implementation cost. All you need is an Internet. Mumboe is available for a low monthly fee. There are no commitments, and you can cancel anytime. There’s even a free account version to help you get started. Compare the Mumboe products , then click on the one that’s right for your business for details.
More At:http://www.mumboe.com/
Mumboe offers secure solutions that make it easy to create, store, track and manage your important business agreements online.
How It Works:
Using Mumboe, business professionals can author new contracts, store them in a secure, central repository, grant authorized access to specific individuals, and quickly search for key contract information.
Getting started with Mumboe is easy. With Mumboe, there is no upfront commitment, no hardware or software to install, and no implementation cost. All you need is an Internet. Mumboe is available for a low monthly fee. There are no commitments, and you can cancel anytime. There’s even a free account version to help you get started. Compare the Mumboe products , then click on the one that’s right for your business for details.
More At:http://www.mumboe.com/
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Figuringout----To help you figure out what you need to do to achieve your true potential in your personal and professional goals
What Company Is Offering:
To help you figure out what you need to do to achieve your true potential in your personal and professional goals.
As a team of coaches their job satisfaction comes from helping others feel confident, assured and clear in who they are and what they can achieve.
They question, you talk and they listen to help you unravel your thoughts and identify options that you could take. They are independent to family and friends so they have no ulterior motive, they want what is best for you!
How It Works:
The coaching part of Figuring Out's service focuses on clarifying career goals, mastering interview techniques and learning new job search strategies, among other objectives. Such career coaching programmes can come in packages of three or more one-hour sessions in person or by phone or e-mail, and are priced on average between GBP 80 and GBP 100 per hour. The work experience portion of Figuring Out's services, however, is where clients can begin testing out their options. Tapping into its Striding Out network of businesses, Figuring Out identifies and connects clients with flexible, part-time work placement opportunities that can provide the right type of work experience for their needs. The work experience service is charged at an additional fee, depending on the range and type of placements required. The result, however, is a realistic, hands-on feel for what each career possibility would really be like.
Figuring Out is a sister company of Striding Out, a support network for entrepreneurs. It was through Striding Out that Figuring Out was born.
As a company they want to inspire and support their clients to make the right choices. They will keep you posted on relevant news and exciting opportunities which they feel will help you take the right steps.
More at:http://www.figuringout.co.uk/
To help you figure out what you need to do to achieve your true potential in your personal and professional goals.
As a team of coaches their job satisfaction comes from helping others feel confident, assured and clear in who they are and what they can achieve.
They question, you talk and they listen to help you unravel your thoughts and identify options that you could take. They are independent to family and friends so they have no ulterior motive, they want what is best for you!
How It Works:
The coaching part of Figuring Out's service focuses on clarifying career goals, mastering interview techniques and learning new job search strategies, among other objectives. Such career coaching programmes can come in packages of three or more one-hour sessions in person or by phone or e-mail, and are priced on average between GBP 80 and GBP 100 per hour. The work experience portion of Figuring Out's services, however, is where clients can begin testing out their options. Tapping into its Striding Out network of businesses, Figuring Out identifies and connects clients with flexible, part-time work placement opportunities that can provide the right type of work experience for their needs. The work experience service is charged at an additional fee, depending on the range and type of placements required. The result, however, is a realistic, hands-on feel for what each career possibility would really be like.
Figuring Out is a sister company of Striding Out, a support network for entrepreneurs. It was through Striding Out that Figuring Out was born.
As a company they want to inspire and support their clients to make the right choices. They will keep you posted on relevant news and exciting opportunities which they feel will help you take the right steps.
More at:http://www.figuringout.co.uk/
SemanticHacker $1M Innovators' Challenge
SHIC is a unique opportunity to be awarded for a significant contribution to identifying and jumpstarting a new semantic discovery application for TextWise.
The judging panel will be selectively choosing up to 3 award recipients. That recipient is awarded:
$100,000 immediate payout.
Development and rollout of the software prototype and/or business plan by TextWise
Become a part of the team.
Up to an additional $900,000 during the first year after the application is released .
To qualify for the Challenge, participants must submit:
Software Prototype OR
Business Plan OR
Both a Software Prototype and a Business Plan
as well as a complete Challenge Entry Form.
More at:http://www.semantichacker.com/challenge
The judging panel will be selectively choosing up to 3 award recipients. That recipient is awarded:
$100,000 immediate payout.
Development and rollout of the software prototype and/or business plan by TextWise
Become a part of the team.
Up to an additional $900,000 during the first year after the application is released .
To qualify for the Challenge, participants must submit:
Software Prototype OR
Business Plan OR
Both a Software Prototype and a Business Plan
as well as a complete Challenge Entry Form.
More at:http://www.semantichacker.com/challenge
Billeo --- makes all online transactions convenient, simple and secure
What Company Says:
Whether you're paying bills, shopping online or need help managing passwords, Billeo combines three great tools into one convenient package to make your online life easier and more secure.
How It Works:
It provides consumers a free service that makes all online transactions convenient, simple and secure. Powered by the largest biller directory in the industry, Billeo offers consumers the greatest flexibility in managing their online bills, as well as their passwords or any other information involved in online transactions. Online Banking report has recognized Billeo with the ePayment "Best of the Web" award.
Billeo is a venture-backed firm that brings innovative features to make the online lives of our consumers hassle free. Their product helps users make payments, record receipts and access their online world in a safe and secure fashion. They have been in business for nearly three years and continually reinvented and reviewed our products to better fit our consumers needs and requests.
More at:http://www.billeo.com/
Whether you're paying bills, shopping online or need help managing passwords, Billeo combines three great tools into one convenient package to make your online life easier and more secure.
How It Works:
It provides consumers a free service that makes all online transactions convenient, simple and secure. Powered by the largest biller directory in the industry, Billeo offers consumers the greatest flexibility in managing their online bills, as well as their passwords or any other information involved in online transactions. Online Banking report has recognized Billeo with the ePayment "Best of the Web" award.
Billeo is a venture-backed firm that brings innovative features to make the online lives of our consumers hassle free. Their product helps users make payments, record receipts and access their online world in a safe and secure fashion. They have been in business for nearly three years and continually reinvented and reviewed our products to better fit our consumers needs and requests.
More at:http://www.billeo.com/
Classtools.net----Create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash
What Company Is Offering:
Create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash!
Host them on your own blog, website or intranet!
How It Works:
Each template can be saved as a stand-alone HTML file or as a Widget that can be embedded into a blog or wiki - as long as it is non-commercial.The templates need to run "live" from the server. An internet connection is therefore needed.There is no charge for creating or using any of these templates.
More at:http://www.classtools.net/
Create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash!
Host them on your own blog, website or intranet!
How It Works:
Each template can be saved as a stand-alone HTML file or as a Widget that can be embedded into a blog or wiki - as long as it is non-commercial.The templates need to run "live" from the server. An internet connection is therefore needed.There is no charge for creating or using any of these templates.
More at:http://www.classtools.net/
Skimbit is a fun web tool that makes it easy to make complicated and social decisions
What Company is Offering:
Skimbit is a fun web tool that makes it easy to make complicated and social decisions. Skimbit helps you: gather research on a project (e.g. picking a holiday house, deciding on a wedding dress), collaborate and get feedback from friends
make and act upon a decision.
How It Works:
Social decision-making is when you make a decision in a social way. Rather than deciding on something on your own, you seek advice and feedback from friends, family, colleagues, or the general public. Skimbit aims to make this process fun and easy. There are other sites that let you bookmark and share websites among friends, but only Skimbit is tailored to helping you make and act upon a decision. In addition to pooling together websites, Skimbit helps you sort, filter and analyse all the information you collect.
A project is how they refer to any decision you need to make, or research you need to do e.g. choosing a holiday house, researching which TV to buy or finding a venue for your wedding.
Login to Skimbit and click on 'Start a project'. Here you can enter all the information about your project, like the type of decision and the decision-making criteria. Once you have finished, Skimbit will create your own project webpage and you can begin your search process.
More at:http://skimbit.com/
Skimbit is a fun web tool that makes it easy to make complicated and social decisions. Skimbit helps you: gather research on a project (e.g. picking a holiday house, deciding on a wedding dress), collaborate and get feedback from friends
make and act upon a decision.
How It Works:
Social decision-making is when you make a decision in a social way. Rather than deciding on something on your own, you seek advice and feedback from friends, family, colleagues, or the general public. Skimbit aims to make this process fun and easy. There are other sites that let you bookmark and share websites among friends, but only Skimbit is tailored to helping you make and act upon a decision. In addition to pooling together websites, Skimbit helps you sort, filter and analyse all the information you collect.
A project is how they refer to any decision you need to make, or research you need to do e.g. choosing a holiday house, researching which TV to buy or finding a venue for your wedding.
Login to Skimbit and click on 'Start a project'. Here you can enter all the information about your project, like the type of decision and the decision-making criteria. Once you have finished, Skimbit will create your own project webpage and you can begin your search process.
More at:http://skimbit.com/
Virb is a community website that combines social interaction
What Company Is Offering:
A place that lets you put all of the things that make you you – photos, videos, blogs – in one place. So you can find friends (and friends can find you). VIRB° is a website that combines you, your interests, your friends and the things you like with music, art, fashion, film and more. Stay connected with your friends. Find new music. View and upload good videos, photos and more.
How It Works:
Virb is a community website that combines social interaction with music and entertainment exploration. It's a great way to keep in touch and meet people with similar interests. Use Virb to discover music, videos, cool companies and organizations... then share what you find with your friends.
More at:http://virb.com/
A place that lets you put all of the things that make you you – photos, videos, blogs – in one place. So you can find friends (and friends can find you). VIRB° is a website that combines you, your interests, your friends and the things you like with music, art, fashion, film and more. Stay connected with your friends. Find new music. View and upload good videos, photos and more.
How It Works:
Virb is a community website that combines social interaction with music and entertainment exploration. It's a great way to keep in touch and meet people with similar interests. Use Virb to discover music, videos, cool companies and organizations... then share what you find with your friends.
More at:http://virb.com/
Friday, March 28, 2008
SMX Social Media Marketing Event
SMX Social Media Marketing is where internet marketers will learn to harness the power of user engagement. You'll be a master of social media marketing after attending SMX Social Media!
This show is for internet marketers who want to engage the unique and difficult-to-reach audiences at social media sites like Digg, del.icio.us, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Reddit and Wikipedia. These and other social media sites are serving new and fast growing audiences that want to discover information based on community interests, voting and sharing.
SMX Social Media Marketing will get you up to speed on social media and how to engage communities at social media sites in an appropriate and respectful manner. Don't miss out on the revolution!
Agenda Highlights:
SMX Social Media Marketing will explore current opportunities and future developments, offering both fundamental and advanced panels on topics including:
* Social Media Marketing Essentials.
* Linkbait - Chumming for Traffic on Social Media Sites.
* Extra! Extra! The Social News Sites.
* A Marketer's Guide to Social Bookmarking & Tagging.
* Effectively Leveraging Social Networking.
* Evangelist - The Marketer's Role in SMM.
* Wikipedia, Yahoo Answers & Answer Sharing.
Via-Mashable
This show is for internet marketers who want to engage the unique and difficult-to-reach audiences at social media sites like Digg, del.icio.us, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Reddit and Wikipedia. These and other social media sites are serving new and fast growing audiences that want to discover information based on community interests, voting and sharing.
SMX Social Media Marketing will get you up to speed on social media and how to engage communities at social media sites in an appropriate and respectful manner. Don't miss out on the revolution!
Agenda Highlights:
SMX Social Media Marketing will explore current opportunities and future developments, offering both fundamental and advanced panels on topics including:
* Social Media Marketing Essentials.
* Linkbait - Chumming for Traffic on Social Media Sites.
* Extra! Extra! The Social News Sites.
* A Marketer's Guide to Social Bookmarking & Tagging.
* Effectively Leveraging Social Networking.
* Evangelist - The Marketer's Role in SMM.
* Wikipedia, Yahoo Answers & Answer Sharing.
Via-Mashable
Vigster is a community and social network for video games fans of all categories
What Company Is Offering:
Vigster is a community and social network for video games fans of all categories. Whether you are a die-hard video games fan or lover of PC based video games, web/mobile video games or a fan of other gaming platforms, Vigster is the right place to be.
How It Works:
At Vigster they introduce gamers to their global community of video game lovers and provide them with the functionality to share their gaming passions and experiences by providing the functionality for them to access our massive collections of video games and other games related information, connect with peers, friends and meet new users that share the same gaming passion as themselves.
Anyone can join Vigster its free and easy to start with. Once registered, users can then begin to enjoy the Vigster Experience.
Unique Features:
Access a massive gaming related database with up to date information on video games.
Build virtual game shelves to express themselves and show their game collections.
Discover new video games and new gaming related information about games that they love.
Share their hands on experiences about games they have played with other members.
Rate, review, discuss and voice out their opinions on video games.
Play quizzes, submit quizzes on video games that they have played.
Learn from other users about their gaming tastes and preferences.
More at:http://www.vigster.com/
Vigster is a community and social network for video games fans of all categories. Whether you are a die-hard video games fan or lover of PC based video games, web/mobile video games or a fan of other gaming platforms, Vigster is the right place to be.
How It Works:
At Vigster they introduce gamers to their global community of video game lovers and provide them with the functionality to share their gaming passions and experiences by providing the functionality for them to access our massive collections of video games and other games related information, connect with peers, friends and meet new users that share the same gaming passion as themselves.
Anyone can join Vigster its free and easy to start with. Once registered, users can then begin to enjoy the Vigster Experience.
Unique Features:
Access a massive gaming related database with up to date information on video games.
Build virtual game shelves to express themselves and show their game collections.
Discover new video games and new gaming related information about games that they love.
Share their hands on experiences about games they have played with other members.
Rate, review, discuss and voice out their opinions on video games.
Play quizzes, submit quizzes on video games that they have played.
Learn from other users about their gaming tastes and preferences.
More at:http://www.vigster.com/
SmartyPig Is A Simple, Smart, Social Savings
What Company Is Offering:
SmartyPig is a simple, smart, fun way to save for a specific goal. SmartyPig allows you to invite family and friends to contribute to your account, gives you additional incentive boosts from top retailers who sell exactly what you’re saving for AND *4.30% (APY) interest on the money you’re saving. Simple, Smart, Savings. SmartyPig!
How It Works:
With just a few clicks, your account can be up and running, with you on the fast track toward realizing the goals you’ve set for yourself. How simple is it? This simple:1. Create Your Profile
Just the facts: Some information about you, and some about your bank for your FDIC-insured accounts. Safe, secure, and as easy as 1-2-3.
2. Establish a Savings Account & Goal
Now the fun part. Tell us what you want. A new kitchen, a dream vacation, holiday gifts without the hassle of debt? It can be virtually anything.
3. Meeting Your Goal
How much do you want to save? When do you need it? Just give us the particulars and we’ll suggest a monthly contribution that will be automatically deducted from your existing checking account or other designated funding source.
4. Friends and Family Can Help!
Let your friends and family help you save by making your account Public — or don’t, by keeping it Private. You decide. SmartyPig gives you the option to reach your savings goal faster than you could ever imagine by inviting your family and friends to help you save, all while keeping your personal information safe and secure. Birthdays, holidays, graduation? Forget the stuff you don’t want. Tell them to log onto SmartyPig.com and help you reach your goal. You can even grab the SmartyPig widget off your Account page and place it on your MySpace or Facebook page to give the whole world the opportunity to help you reach your savings goal.
5. Start Saving
Their bank’s computer talks to your computer and then your bank’s computer and suddenly… Voila! You’re safely and securely on the road to reaching the goals you sensibly set for yourself. We’ll also help you along with monthly e-mails (and e-mails when friends and family members chip in) showing you where you stand and encouraging you to keep up the good work.
More at:https://www.smartypig.com/
SmartyPig is a simple, smart, fun way to save for a specific goal. SmartyPig allows you to invite family and friends to contribute to your account, gives you additional incentive boosts from top retailers who sell exactly what you’re saving for AND *4.30% (APY) interest on the money you’re saving. Simple, Smart, Savings. SmartyPig!
How It Works:
With just a few clicks, your account can be up and running, with you on the fast track toward realizing the goals you’ve set for yourself. How simple is it? This simple:1. Create Your Profile
Just the facts: Some information about you, and some about your bank for your FDIC-insured accounts. Safe, secure, and as easy as 1-2-3.
2. Establish a Savings Account & Goal
Now the fun part. Tell us what you want. A new kitchen, a dream vacation, holiday gifts without the hassle of debt? It can be virtually anything.
3. Meeting Your Goal
How much do you want to save? When do you need it? Just give us the particulars and we’ll suggest a monthly contribution that will be automatically deducted from your existing checking account or other designated funding source.
4. Friends and Family Can Help!
Let your friends and family help you save by making your account Public — or don’t, by keeping it Private. You decide. SmartyPig gives you the option to reach your savings goal faster than you could ever imagine by inviting your family and friends to help you save, all while keeping your personal information safe and secure. Birthdays, holidays, graduation? Forget the stuff you don’t want. Tell them to log onto SmartyPig.com and help you reach your goal. You can even grab the SmartyPig widget off your Account page and place it on your MySpace or Facebook page to give the whole world the opportunity to help you reach your savings goal.
5. Start Saving
Their bank’s computer talks to your computer and then your bank’s computer and suddenly… Voila! You’re safely and securely on the road to reaching the goals you sensibly set for yourself. We’ll also help you along with monthly e-mails (and e-mails when friends and family members chip in) showing you where you stand and encouraging you to keep up the good work.
More at:https://www.smartypig.com/
BankSwitcher is a tool to help you switch banks
What Company Is Offering:
BankSwitcher is a tool to help you switch banks by:
Analyzing your banking activity to find transactions that you'll need to switch (i.e., Direct Deposits, automatic payments).
Compiling instructions and forms to switch those transactions to a new bank — using our directory of over 1500 Billers and Depositors.
Creating your personal Switching Checklist (PDF format) that you can print and use when you find a better bank.
How It Works;
BankSwitcher looks at your banking activity to identify things you will need to do if you want to switch banks (e.g., change direct deposits and automatic payments). You progress through BankSwitcher in three steps:
1. Gather bank activity. BankSwitcher looks for items that will need to be changed when you switch banks, such as direct deposits and automatic payments.
2. Choose what to switch. You select the Billers and Depositors you want included in your Switching Checklist based on the items compiled in Step 1.
3. Print your Switching Checklist. Then, BankSwitcher generates a printable document (PDF format) with everything you need to change banks. You can use your Switching Checklist whenever you want.
More at:http://www.bankswitcher.com/
BankSwitcher is a tool to help you switch banks by:
Analyzing your banking activity to find transactions that you'll need to switch (i.e., Direct Deposits, automatic payments).
Compiling instructions and forms to switch those transactions to a new bank — using our directory of over 1500 Billers and Depositors.
Creating your personal Switching Checklist (PDF format) that you can print and use when you find a better bank.
How It Works;
BankSwitcher looks at your banking activity to identify things you will need to do if you want to switch banks (e.g., change direct deposits and automatic payments). You progress through BankSwitcher in three steps:
1. Gather bank activity. BankSwitcher looks for items that will need to be changed when you switch banks, such as direct deposits and automatic payments.
2. Choose what to switch. You select the Billers and Depositors you want included in your Switching Checklist based on the items compiled in Step 1.
3. Print your Switching Checklist. Then, BankSwitcher generates a printable document (PDF format) with everything you need to change banks. You can use your Switching Checklist whenever you want.
More at:http://www.bankswitcher.com/
Celltradeusa.com has developed the world's first cellular exchange place
What Company Is Offering:
Celltradeusa.com has developed the world's first cellular exchange place. Whether you want to walk away from your current contract as a Get Out member, or if you want to find an unbeatable deal as a Get In member, Celltradeusa.com has brought millions of cellular customer together to get out of stressful contract obligations, and to save big on their next cellular transaction.
How It Works:
Celltradeusa.com allows cellular customers to register a free user profile to list their remaining contract obligation. Other Celltradeusa.com members (Get In members) can browse and make contact with them. We then let the Get Out and Get In members follow through with the respective cellular service transfer of responsibility process.
Celltradeusa.com provides this service through an incentive based system that connects millions of cellular customers nationwide that want to Get Out with those that want to Get In.
More at:http://www.celltradeusa.com/
Celltradeusa.com has developed the world's first cellular exchange place. Whether you want to walk away from your current contract as a Get Out member, or if you want to find an unbeatable deal as a Get In member, Celltradeusa.com has brought millions of cellular customer together to get out of stressful contract obligations, and to save big on their next cellular transaction.
How It Works:
Celltradeusa.com allows cellular customers to register a free user profile to list their remaining contract obligation. Other Celltradeusa.com members (Get In members) can browse and make contact with them. We then let the Get Out and Get In members follow through with the respective cellular service transfer of responsibility process.
Celltradeusa.com provides this service through an incentive based system that connects millions of cellular customers nationwide that want to Get Out with those that want to Get In.
More at:http://www.celltradeusa.com/
Vontoo is a market-leading provider of automated voice messaging solutions
What Company Is Offering:
Vontoo is a market-leading provider of automated voice messaging solutions. Their robust and flexible product offerings allow organizations of all sizes to leverage the power of voice in order to build brands, drive revenues, increase operational efficiencies and solve complex communication challenges.
How It Works:
When it comes to communication, nothing can compare to the power, excitement and authenticity of the human voice. Vontoo was founded with a clear mandate – to bring the power of voice marketing and communication to organizations eager to leverage its seemingly endless capabilities.
At Vontoo, they realize that seamless communication with your customers, partners and fans is critical to your success. Voice messaging offers an accessible, dynamic and cost-effective way to stay connected to your audience - whoever they might be.
Vontoo realizes that different organizations have different needs. As a result, Vontoo offers a choice of three voice messaging solutions specifically tailored to our customer's unique communication needs.Vontoo Products: Express ,Professional
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More at:http://www.vontoo.com/
Vontoo is a market-leading provider of automated voice messaging solutions. Their robust and flexible product offerings allow organizations of all sizes to leverage the power of voice in order to build brands, drive revenues, increase operational efficiencies and solve complex communication challenges.
How It Works:
When it comes to communication, nothing can compare to the power, excitement and authenticity of the human voice. Vontoo was founded with a clear mandate – to bring the power of voice marketing and communication to organizations eager to leverage its seemingly endless capabilities.
At Vontoo, they realize that seamless communication with your customers, partners and fans is critical to your success. Voice messaging offers an accessible, dynamic and cost-effective way to stay connected to your audience - whoever they might be.
Vontoo realizes that different organizations have different needs. As a result, Vontoo offers a choice of three voice messaging solutions specifically tailored to our customer's unique communication needs.Vontoo Products: Express ,Professional
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More at:http://www.vontoo.com/
Biz Strategies, Inc--New Website Offers Valuable, Free Business Resources
What Company Is Offering:
Biz Strategies, Inc. is a full service on line consulting business. The company provides business management coaching that supports all facets of starting, growing and running a business. This includes putting business strategies, plans, tactics and processes in place to support taking your business to the next level, successfully.
Biz Strategies offers a number of free strategy guides, including "Business Management Coaching, Who needs it anyway" and "How to Identify, Form and Capitalize on Strategic Alliances". Both of these strategy guides offer process flow charts that will make it easier for business managers to understand the step by step process for growing their business. Additional free guides will be available in the near future.
In addition to the free guides the company is also providing one week of free consulting services on any business topic of your choice along with free bi-weekly management tips and tactics.
The Biz Strategy team is comprised of seasoned business professionals who have experienced allot within the industry. In addition to the team members listed on the web site, Biz Strategies is also finalizing a number of affiliate relationships with a powerful business law firm that will be able to support a number of legal tasks and questions for clients, and a strong funding professional in order to support various different types of funding strategies. This group has already worked together for many years and is going strong.
More at:http://www.bizstrategies.biz/
Biz Strategies, Inc. is a full service on line consulting business. The company provides business management coaching that supports all facets of starting, growing and running a business. This includes putting business strategies, plans, tactics and processes in place to support taking your business to the next level, successfully.
Biz Strategies offers a number of free strategy guides, including "Business Management Coaching, Who needs it anyway" and "How to Identify, Form and Capitalize on Strategic Alliances". Both of these strategy guides offer process flow charts that will make it easier for business managers to understand the step by step process for growing their business. Additional free guides will be available in the near future.
In addition to the free guides the company is also providing one week of free consulting services on any business topic of your choice along with free bi-weekly management tips and tactics.
The Biz Strategy team is comprised of seasoned business professionals who have experienced allot within the industry. In addition to the team members listed on the web site, Biz Strategies is also finalizing a number of affiliate relationships with a powerful business law firm that will be able to support a number of legal tasks and questions for clients, and a strong funding professional in order to support various different types of funding strategies. This group has already worked together for many years and is going strong.
More at:http://www.bizstrategies.biz/
SchoolFinder,CollegeFinder,GlobalScholar
About:
1.SchoolFinder places K-12 school information at your fingertips, enabling you to search and compare public, private, charter and online schools. Compare and sort schools by name, location, grade level, type and school district. They also provide schools’ student information, test scores, parent ratings, reviews, and much more.
2.CollegeFinder places college information at your fingertips, enabling you to search and compare state, private, community and online colleges. Compare and sort colleges by degree, major, location, size, price and more. We also provide colleges’ programs, contact, admissions, financial aid, student, campus, athletics, alumni, faculty, rankings, reviews and related information.
3.GlobalScholar is an online education platform and community for parents, students and trusted educators. Parents and students can search, compare and purchase online tutoring and homework help from hundreds of independent teachers and tutors on the site. They have run a criminal background check on all of their tutors and confirmed they hold a four-year college degree or higher. This assures parents and students a safe learning environment taught by top notch tutors.
More at:http://schoolfinder.globalscholar.com/
http://collegefinder.globalscholar.com/
http://www.globalscholar.com/
1.SchoolFinder places K-12 school information at your fingertips, enabling you to search and compare public, private, charter and online schools. Compare and sort schools by name, location, grade level, type and school district. They also provide schools’ student information, test scores, parent ratings, reviews, and much more.
2.CollegeFinder places college information at your fingertips, enabling you to search and compare state, private, community and online colleges. Compare and sort colleges by degree, major, location, size, price and more. We also provide colleges’ programs, contact, admissions, financial aid, student, campus, athletics, alumni, faculty, rankings, reviews and related information.
3.GlobalScholar is an online education platform and community for parents, students and trusted educators. Parents and students can search, compare and purchase online tutoring and homework help from hundreds of independent teachers and tutors on the site. They have run a criminal background check on all of their tutors and confirmed they hold a four-year college degree or higher. This assures parents and students a safe learning environment taught by top notch tutors.
More at:http://schoolfinder.globalscholar.com/
http://collegefinder.globalscholar.com/
http://www.globalscholar.com/
RingBranch----Talk More Pay Less
What Company Is Offering:
It is a Personal Auto-Attendant and Call-Connection service that overlays on to your existing phone service. Just pick up your phone, call your RingBranch number and be connected to your contacts. There is no special software to download. All you need is a phone and a dial tone to use RingBranch.
How It Works:
They give you a phone number. You can call this phone number at anytime, day or night, and through the Personal Auto-Attendant and call forwarding service that they provide, you will be connected to any of the phone numbers in your Friends and Family contact list. You can talk to them for up to 1,000 minutes per month. For those non-math types, that’s between 16 and 17 hours per month.You will be able to start using your RingBranch service immediately after you finish the online sign up, which only takes a few minutes.
You may designate from 1 to 3 different phone numbers that you can call your Auto-Attendant from. So, for example, you could reach your Personal Auto-Attendant from your mobile, work, and home number. Or your mobile, your spouse’s mobile, and your parent’s home phone. The point is that you can chose up to any 3 different phone numbers. You designate these numbers and are able to change them at any time from “My Profile”.
More at:http://www.ringbranch.com/
It is a Personal Auto-Attendant and Call-Connection service that overlays on to your existing phone service. Just pick up your phone, call your RingBranch number and be connected to your contacts. There is no special software to download. All you need is a phone and a dial tone to use RingBranch.
How It Works:
They give you a phone number. You can call this phone number at anytime, day or night, and through the Personal Auto-Attendant and call forwarding service that they provide, you will be connected to any of the phone numbers in your Friends and Family contact list. You can talk to them for up to 1,000 minutes per month. For those non-math types, that’s between 16 and 17 hours per month.You will be able to start using your RingBranch service immediately after you finish the online sign up, which only takes a few minutes.
You may designate from 1 to 3 different phone numbers that you can call your Auto-Attendant from. So, for example, you could reach your Personal Auto-Attendant from your mobile, work, and home number. Or your mobile, your spouse’s mobile, and your parent’s home phone. The point is that you can chose up to any 3 different phone numbers. You designate these numbers and are able to change them at any time from “My Profile”.
More at:http://www.ringbranch.com/
Agentek offers breakthrough communications technology that rapidly deploys mobile applications to large and small organizations got $8 million
What Company Is Offering:
Agentek offers breakthrough communications technology that rapidly deploys mobile applications to large and small organizations. Agentek serves field service in home repair, electronics, medical equipment, communications, utilities and office equipment.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Edison Venture Fund announced an $8 million investment in Agentek, headquartered in Alpharetta, GA. Joe Allegra, General Partner, and Dick Cook, Edison Director Network member, serve on the Board of Directors. Sever Totia, Principal, conducted Edison's due diligence.
"Edison was the clear investment partner choice," stated Jeff Jarvis, CEO. "Their value-add services and strategic guidance will assist Agentek to accelerate our growth."
"After tracking field service software for 20 years, Agentek is the first investment candidate to solve the speed, reliability and configurability challenges," stated Joe Allegra. "Van Nyugen, the founder and CTO, combines vision, creativity and persistence, and has assembled a top-flight CEO and management team." Sever Totia continued, "Customers praised Agentek's comprehensive applications, domain expertise and responsive support."
More at:www.edisonventure.com
Agentek offers breakthrough communications technology that rapidly deploys mobile applications to large and small organizations. Agentek serves field service in home repair, electronics, medical equipment, communications, utilities and office equipment.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Edison Venture Fund announced an $8 million investment in Agentek, headquartered in Alpharetta, GA. Joe Allegra, General Partner, and Dick Cook, Edison Director Network member, serve on the Board of Directors. Sever Totia, Principal, conducted Edison's due diligence.
"Edison was the clear investment partner choice," stated Jeff Jarvis, CEO. "Their value-add services and strategic guidance will assist Agentek to accelerate our growth."
"After tracking field service software for 20 years, Agentek is the first investment candidate to solve the speed, reliability and configurability challenges," stated Joe Allegra. "Van Nyugen, the founder and CTO, combines vision, creativity and persistence, and has assembled a top-flight CEO and management team." Sever Totia continued, "Customers praised Agentek's comprehensive applications, domain expertise and responsive support."
More at:www.edisonventure.com
Blekko --online search startup got Series B round funding
About Company:
Blekko is a search company founded by Rich Skrenta and his core team from previous company Topix and Netscape’s Open Directory. Blekko was founded halfway through 2007 and has already earned itself an angel round from Ron Conway’s Baseline Ventures and two ex-Googlers.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Blekko, a Redwood Shores, Calif.-based online search startup, has called down $925,000 of a $3.07 million Series B round. No institutional investors are listed, although angels include both Ron Conway and Marc Andreesen. The company is run by former Topix CEO Rich Skrenta.
More at:www. blekko.com
Blekko is a search company founded by Rich Skrenta and his core team from previous company Topix and Netscape’s Open Directory. Blekko was founded halfway through 2007 and has already earned itself an angel round from Ron Conway’s Baseline Ventures and two ex-Googlers.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Blekko, a Redwood Shores, Calif.-based online search startup, has called down $925,000 of a $3.07 million Series B round. No institutional investors are listed, although angels include both Ron Conway and Marc Andreesen. The company is run by former Topix CEO Rich Skrenta.
More at:www. blekko.com
Morph Labs that leverages virtual infrastructure and open source technologies, has secured a $750,000 deal
What Company Is Offering:
Morph Labs is the leading enabler of Software as a Service (SaaS) that leverages virtual infrastructure and open source technologies to simplify the deployment, delivery, and management of web based applications.
Morph Labs uses virtual infrastructures including Amazon Web Services to provide a truly elastic environment for web applications that can be instantly provisioned and seamlessly scaled.
Morph Labs is a global company with headquarters in Cebu City, Philippines.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Morph Labs, the leading enabler of Software as a Service (SaaS) that leverages virtual infrastructure and open source technologies, has secured a $750,000 deal with CSK Venture Capital Co. Ltd., a Japanese investment firm, to complete a pre-IPO funding round of $1.5 million.
The funding has been led by Philippine-based AO Capital Partners Ltd., which has invested the other $750,000.
The investment is the first step in Morph Labs' Initial Public Offering (IPO) on the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE), scheduled for the second quarter of 2008. Proceeds from the IPO will enable Morph to expand its operations, capitalize on the global demand for hosted software and the explosive growth of Software as a Service (SaaS), and fund SaaS incubation within its platform.
How Is Market Of That Kind Of Company:
Global demand for the design and deployment of SaaS is growing rapidly. Industry analyst firm Springboard indicated that the Asia-Pacific SaaS enterprise applications market alone amounted to $154 million USD in 2006 and would grow by 66% by 2010 to account for 15% of the total enterprise software market.
About VCs:
AO Capital Partners Ltd. is a member-company of the American Orient Capital Partners Group (AOCP Group). The AOCP Group provides high value added advisory services for the private placement of debt and equity capital, corporate restructuring, mergers & acquisition, and project finance.
In addition, the AOCP Group is involved in managing private equity funds for investments in Asian-based companies and has been involved as an advisor and/or investor in over 100 major transactions valued in excess of $10 billion USD in Asia. The senior management team of the AOCP Group has over 120 years of cumulative professional experience throughout the region. Along with its head office in Hong Kong, the AOCP Group maintains full service offices in the Philippines, Singapore, and in India.
About CSK Venture Capital Co. Ltd.
CSK Venture Capital Co. Ltd., a pioneer of Japanese Biotech VC, is a member of the CSK Group, Japan's largest independent IT service provider. CSK Venture Capital Co. Ltd., is engaged in the investment and nurturing of venture companies in Japan and overseas, focusing on IT and Life Sciences; establishment and management of partnership funds; IPO and management consulting; corporate matching, business alliance support, and M&A intermediary; and trustee services regarding investment businesses.
More at:www.mor.ph
Morph Labs is the leading enabler of Software as a Service (SaaS) that leverages virtual infrastructure and open source technologies to simplify the deployment, delivery, and management of web based applications.
Morph Labs uses virtual infrastructures including Amazon Web Services to provide a truly elastic environment for web applications that can be instantly provisioned and seamlessly scaled.
Morph Labs is a global company with headquarters in Cebu City, Philippines.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Morph Labs, the leading enabler of Software as a Service (SaaS) that leverages virtual infrastructure and open source technologies, has secured a $750,000 deal with CSK Venture Capital Co. Ltd., a Japanese investment firm, to complete a pre-IPO funding round of $1.5 million.
The funding has been led by Philippine-based AO Capital Partners Ltd., which has invested the other $750,000.
The investment is the first step in Morph Labs' Initial Public Offering (IPO) on the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE), scheduled for the second quarter of 2008. Proceeds from the IPO will enable Morph to expand its operations, capitalize on the global demand for hosted software and the explosive growth of Software as a Service (SaaS), and fund SaaS incubation within its platform.
How Is Market Of That Kind Of Company:
Global demand for the design and deployment of SaaS is growing rapidly. Industry analyst firm Springboard indicated that the Asia-Pacific SaaS enterprise applications market alone amounted to $154 million USD in 2006 and would grow by 66% by 2010 to account for 15% of the total enterprise software market.
About VCs:
AO Capital Partners Ltd. is a member-company of the American Orient Capital Partners Group (AOCP Group). The AOCP Group provides high value added advisory services for the private placement of debt and equity capital, corporate restructuring, mergers & acquisition, and project finance.
In addition, the AOCP Group is involved in managing private equity funds for investments in Asian-based companies and has been involved as an advisor and/or investor in over 100 major transactions valued in excess of $10 billion USD in Asia. The senior management team of the AOCP Group has over 120 years of cumulative professional experience throughout the region. Along with its head office in Hong Kong, the AOCP Group maintains full service offices in the Philippines, Singapore, and in India.
About CSK Venture Capital Co. Ltd.
CSK Venture Capital Co. Ltd., a pioneer of Japanese Biotech VC, is a member of the CSK Group, Japan's largest independent IT service provider. CSK Venture Capital Co. Ltd., is engaged in the investment and nurturing of venture companies in Japan and overseas, focusing on IT and Life Sciences; establishment and management of partnership funds; IPO and management consulting; corporate matching, business alliance support, and M&A intermediary; and trustee services regarding investment businesses.
More at:www.mor.ph
ReputationHQ----Tools to make it easier for you to build and keep a reputable name, a reputable company, and the respect of the world at large
What Company Is Offering:
ReputationHQ has built tools to make it easier for you to build and keep a reputable name, a reputable company, and the respect of the world at large, it’s as simple as that.
How It Works:
ReputationHQ searches for your companies name across millions of websites.Each article is pulled into your reputation manager automatically every 10 minutes for easy digesting, searching and collaborating. Posts are filtered and rinsed which makes for for minimal spam.
It’s a Private, Social Network Around Your Company
This is what separates ReputationHQ from the pack. It’s one thing to find information about your company online, but what do you do when you find it? ReputationHQ enables powerful collaboration on each post.
Add comments and follow a conversation, get email notifications when new comments are added and manage your comment subscriptions.
Rate posts that were particularly helpful or even really negative. This allows users a quick glance at important posts.
Tag posts for later assignments, for example: someone in your department is assigned to only work on posts that are tagged ‘negative’. Or you can tag them as ‘follow up’ or ‘cool’ for easy separation and organization.
More at:http://reputationhq.com/
ReputationHQ has built tools to make it easier for you to build and keep a reputable name, a reputable company, and the respect of the world at large, it’s as simple as that.
How It Works:
ReputationHQ searches for your companies name across millions of websites.Each article is pulled into your reputation manager automatically every 10 minutes for easy digesting, searching and collaborating. Posts are filtered and rinsed which makes for for minimal spam.
It’s a Private, Social Network Around Your Company
This is what separates ReputationHQ from the pack. It’s one thing to find information about your company online, but what do you do when you find it? ReputationHQ enables powerful collaboration on each post.
Add comments and follow a conversation, get email notifications when new comments are added and manage your comment subscriptions.
Rate posts that were particularly helpful or even really negative. This allows users a quick glance at important posts.
Tag posts for later assignments, for example: someone in your department is assigned to only work on posts that are tagged ‘negative’. Or you can tag them as ‘follow up’ or ‘cool’ for easy separation and organization.
More at:http://reputationhq.com/
Workcircle is a job search engine
What Company Is Offering:
Workcircle is a job search engine. They search jobs from job boards, agencies and employers across the UK to help you find the job you want, fast.
How It Works:
When you search jobs on Workcircle we check 645,982 UK job vacancies to see which best match your needs. And if you don’t find your dream job straight away, they can send you email alerts when they get new jobs that suit you.
If you advertise jobs (if you’re a job board, recruitment agency or employer), then Workcircle can help jobseekers find your site. Visit www.workcircle.com/signup to trial Workcircle for free.
Workcircle was founded by recruitment veterans Simon Appleton and Tony Jewell. They pioneered the high-volume, low-cost model with our previous site, and now they're exploiting the latest technology to build an even better way to find employment.
More at:http://www.workcircle.com/
Workcircle is a job search engine. They search jobs from job boards, agencies and employers across the UK to help you find the job you want, fast.
How It Works:
When you search jobs on Workcircle we check 645,982 UK job vacancies to see which best match your needs. And if you don’t find your dream job straight away, they can send you email alerts when they get new jobs that suit you.
If you advertise jobs (if you’re a job board, recruitment agency or employer), then Workcircle can help jobseekers find your site. Visit www.workcircle.com/signup to trial Workcircle for free.
Workcircle was founded by recruitment veterans Simon Appleton and Tony Jewell. They pioneered the high-volume, low-cost model with our previous site, and now they're exploiting the latest technology to build an even better way to find employment.
More at:http://www.workcircle.com/
gethuman---The voices of millions of consumers who want to be treated with dignity when they contact an enterprise for customer support
What Company Is Offering:
The gethuman movement was created from the voices of millions of consumers who want to be treated with dignity when they contact an enterprise for customer support. Their goal is to convince enterprises that providing high quality customer service and having satisfied customers costs much less than providing low quality customer service and having unsatisfied customers.
More at:http://gethuman.com/
The gethuman movement was created from the voices of millions of consumers who want to be treated with dignity when they contact an enterprise for customer support. Their goal is to convince enterprises that providing high quality customer service and having satisfied customers costs much less than providing low quality customer service and having unsatisfied customers.
More at:http://gethuman.com/
Tricks a website's headers, into thinking that you are google so you can see the content you want.
What Company Says:
Have you ever been googleing something, and you see exactly what you need in the preview, but when you click the link it doesnt show you what you want to see?
This is because the owners of the site are trying to trick you into buying something, or registering. It's a common tactic on the internet. When Google visits the site, it gives something called a "Header". This header tells the site who the visitor is. Google's header is "Googlebot". The programmers of the site check to see if the header says "Googlebot", and if it does, it opens up all of its content for only googles eyes.
Now, all we have to do is trick the site's headers, into thinking that we ARE google. That's what this site does. See the How to use box to the right for instructions on usuage.
How to use:
1) First, find the URL of the site you want to visit. It can be found in the "Address" bar of your internet explorer.
2) Copy the URL to the clipboard, you can do so by holding down Ctrl, and pressing C. Or right click, and select Copy.
3) Paste the URL in "Enter URL" box above. DO so by holding down Ctrl, and pressinv V. Or right click and paste.
3) Click Go, and you're all set.
More at:http://www.avivadirectory.com/
Have you ever been googleing something, and you see exactly what you need in the preview, but when you click the link it doesnt show you what you want to see?
This is because the owners of the site are trying to trick you into buying something, or registering. It's a common tactic on the internet. When Google visits the site, it gives something called a "Header". This header tells the site who the visitor is. Google's header is "Googlebot". The programmers of the site check to see if the header says "Googlebot", and if it does, it opens up all of its content for only googles eyes.
Now, all we have to do is trick the site's headers, into thinking that we ARE google. That's what this site does. See the How to use box to the right for instructions on usuage.
How to use:
1) First, find the URL of the site you want to visit. It can be found in the "Address" bar of your internet explorer.
2) Copy the URL to the clipboard, you can do so by holding down Ctrl, and pressing C. Or right click, and select Copy.
3) Paste the URL in "Enter URL" box above. DO so by holding down Ctrl, and pressinv V. Or right click and paste.
3) Click Go, and you're all set.
More at:http://www.avivadirectory.com/
Let rentBits help you find your perfect rental home
What Company Is Offering:
rentBits is a search engine for rental listings. They offer a consumer search experience that is simple, fast and comprehensive. The rentBits index includes hundreds of thousands of single family home, condo and apartment for rent listings from major rental sites, associations and property management websites - and they continue to crawl new rental listings every day!
How It Works:
rentBits strives daily to make all rental data and information as useful as possible when you look for your next rental home or apartment. To that end, rentBits offers a next generation vertical search engine focused exclusively on helping you find your ideal rental residence. They are 100% dedicated to redefining and streamlining the way rental properties are found on the web. At rentBits, they are committed to the following mission:
Offer the best consumer search experience for rentals on the web. Through our clean user interface, they deliver the most intuitive, fast and relevant consumer search experience for available rental homes, condos and apartments.
Provide the most comprehensive index of available rental properties. Their vast index of available rental properties allows consumers to see the freshest, most complete rental listing data. rentBits' crawling technology ensures that consumers find the perfect rental property, in the right location, at the right price, with the right amenities - every time!
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More at:http://rentbits.com/
rentBits is a search engine for rental listings. They offer a consumer search experience that is simple, fast and comprehensive. The rentBits index includes hundreds of thousands of single family home, condo and apartment for rent listings from major rental sites, associations and property management websites - and they continue to crawl new rental listings every day!
How It Works:
rentBits strives daily to make all rental data and information as useful as possible when you look for your next rental home or apartment. To that end, rentBits offers a next generation vertical search engine focused exclusively on helping you find your ideal rental residence. They are 100% dedicated to redefining and streamlining the way rental properties are found on the web. At rentBits, they are committed to the following mission:
Offer the best consumer search experience for rentals on the web. Through our clean user interface, they deliver the most intuitive, fast and relevant consumer search experience for available rental homes, condos and apartments.
Provide the most comprehensive index of available rental properties. Their vast index of available rental properties allows consumers to see the freshest, most complete rental listing data. rentBits' crawling technology ensures that consumers find the perfect rental property, in the right location, at the right price, with the right amenities - every time!
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More at:http://rentbits.com/
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Zanna209.com
About Company:
Zanna209.com has pulled together all the information needed to help you get a more secure future. Many many jobs and where to find them, jobs that never pop up in the want adds. Computer skills, resume preparation, resume submission, interview skills, dress for success skills. Even if you are not looking for a new job, just advancement in your present position, zanna209.com, provides information to make you more confident when you go in for the interview.
This web site gives you the complete package. You can even take a personality test, which could lead you in the right direction.
Another interesting point on this well rounded web site is the information to help you recreate yourself, to make you more confident. Get a new hair style, new make up, work on problem areas, that could hold you back from getting that dream job.
More at:http://www.zanna209.com/
Zanna209.com has pulled together all the information needed to help you get a more secure future. Many many jobs and where to find them, jobs that never pop up in the want adds. Computer skills, resume preparation, resume submission, interview skills, dress for success skills. Even if you are not looking for a new job, just advancement in your present position, zanna209.com, provides information to make you more confident when you go in for the interview.
This web site gives you the complete package. You can even take a personality test, which could lead you in the right direction.
Another interesting point on this well rounded web site is the information to help you recreate yourself, to make you more confident. Get a new hair style, new make up, work on problem areas, that could hold you back from getting that dream job.
More at:http://www.zanna209.com/
InfiBeam.com launches "Online Mobile Shop"
What Company Is Offering:
The company offers the convenience of online payments and receiving delivery of phones within 48-72 hours at the location of your choice anywhere in India. At infibeam.com, customers can easily view the items offered along with the prices for customer’s convenience for purchasing both new and used mobile phones. They offer customers the easiest way to shop for mobile phones at the most attractive price, and provide detailed specifications and customer reviews on products.
Currently, Infibeam.com offers over 200 top selections of mobile phones that can be delivered anywhere in India. In addition, customers will experience features such as Search and Discover; detailed product pages that include product description, specifications, product images, as well as a zoom feature that allows customers to see all mobile phone details.
What Their CEO's Says:
"Infibeam's formula of providing great value, outstanding selection, and unparalleled convenience will ensure that customers find exactly what they're looking for in mobile phone purchase, whether it's the latest phone from Apple or new models from Nokia." said Vishal Mehta, founder & CEO of Infibeam.com. "Sellers can also sell their mobile phones by listing the product in less than 5 minutes on our website without any fees and get buyers for their used phone. We're excited to launch the store and have the capability to deliver the product at the location of your choice anywhere in India".
More at:http://www.infibeam.com/Mobiles/
The company offers the convenience of online payments and receiving delivery of phones within 48-72 hours at the location of your choice anywhere in India. At infibeam.com, customers can easily view the items offered along with the prices for customer’s convenience for purchasing both new and used mobile phones. They offer customers the easiest way to shop for mobile phones at the most attractive price, and provide detailed specifications and customer reviews on products.
Currently, Infibeam.com offers over 200 top selections of mobile phones that can be delivered anywhere in India. In addition, customers will experience features such as Search and Discover; detailed product pages that include product description, specifications, product images, as well as a zoom feature that allows customers to see all mobile phone details.
What Their CEO's Says:
"Infibeam's formula of providing great value, outstanding selection, and unparalleled convenience will ensure that customers find exactly what they're looking for in mobile phone purchase, whether it's the latest phone from Apple or new models from Nokia." said Vishal Mehta, founder & CEO of Infibeam.com. "Sellers can also sell their mobile phones by listing the product in less than 5 minutes on our website without any fees and get buyers for their used phone. We're excited to launch the store and have the capability to deliver the product at the location of your choice anywhere in India".
More at:http://www.infibeam.com/Mobiles/
medioh.tv – the comprehensive guide to web video
What Company Is Offering:
Medioh Inc. launches medioh.tv – the comprehensive guide to web video, with applications ranging from the mashable web to devices like the iPhone.Located in Boulder, Colorado, the medioh! team is comprised of deeply experienced media creation and distribution business professionals, seasoned web developers and accomplished Internet technology experts.
How It Works:
medioh.tv aggregates video from thousands of sites across the web. Medioh! adds rich search and filtering tools, then displays them in an intuitive interface. This allows users to dig deeper to find exactly the content that suits their interests. Using RSS, users can subscribe to their own custom interest channels.
Developers can use the free API to plug medioh’s search and recommendations in to their web applications and devices. Device interfaces are easily optimized and results are filtered for device compatible videos.
With content ranging from full length HD video to niche interest to popular web clips, medioh! provides the complete solution to long tail video.
They bring broad experience in media, software, and telecom from such companies as Apple Computer, Echostar, MCI and Paramount Pictures.
More at:www.medioh.com
Medioh Inc. launches medioh.tv – the comprehensive guide to web video, with applications ranging from the mashable web to devices like the iPhone.Located in Boulder, Colorado, the medioh! team is comprised of deeply experienced media creation and distribution business professionals, seasoned web developers and accomplished Internet technology experts.
How It Works:
medioh.tv aggregates video from thousands of sites across the web. Medioh! adds rich search and filtering tools, then displays them in an intuitive interface. This allows users to dig deeper to find exactly the content that suits their interests. Using RSS, users can subscribe to their own custom interest channels.
Developers can use the free API to plug medioh’s search and recommendations in to their web applications and devices. Device interfaces are easily optimized and results are filtered for device compatible videos.
With content ranging from full length HD video to niche interest to popular web clips, medioh! provides the complete solution to long tail video.
They bring broad experience in media, software, and telecom from such companies as Apple Computer, Echostar, MCI and Paramount Pictures.
More at:www.medioh.com
Audiopoint announced an agreement With EarthLink
What Company Is Offering:
Audiopoint is a leading provider of innovative, voice services to
consumer-oriented businesses. The company designs, develops and deploys
large-scale Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) software and services. Audiopoint developed and launched the industry's first voice portal in 1999 and is currently releasing its newly developed Personal Voice Portal (PVP) platform. Audiopoint is a
privately held company based in Rockville, Maryland with office in
Middleburg, Virginia and Atlanta, Georgia .
Recent Updates:
Audiopoint, a speech
applications company developing products for businesses that reach consumer
markets, and EarthLink (Nasdaq: ELNK), one of the nation's leading Internet
service providers (ISPs), today announced an agreement that will give
EarthLink's subscribers the ability to define their own News and
Information Services leveraging Audiopoint's latest product release and
speech application service.
The popularity of EarthLink's Email By Phone has demonstrated that
people want access to a wider range of information on the go. News and
Information Services combines the existing functionality of Email By Phone
with natural voice-enabled Web content. Popular content such as Local News,
Weather and Stock Quotes, amongst other personalized services are now
available from any telephone using simple voice commands.
"The demand is growing for powerful new communications services as a
strategic way to enhance customer service and build a competitive edge,"
said Brian Lichorowic, CEO & President of Audiopoint. "At the center stage
of these new services is Audiopoint's next-generation Personal Voice
Portal. Using PVP, Earthlink customers will have a very real edge in the
marketplace. Today's announcement furthers Audiopoint's goal of providing
our customers with the most progressive speech applications on the market
today."
The new service provides an expanded access solution by voice enabling
web content for the individual subscriber. Information is retrieved by
phone through a voice activated menu system. In its most generic sense a
voice portal can be defined as "speech-enabled access to Web-based
information." In other words, a voice portal provides telephone users with
a natural language interface to access and retrieve Web content.
More at:
http://www.audiopoint.net
http://www.EarthLink.net
Audiopoint is a leading provider of innovative, voice services to
consumer-oriented businesses. The company designs, develops and deploys
large-scale Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) software and services. Audiopoint developed and launched the industry's first voice portal in 1999 and is currently releasing its newly developed Personal Voice Portal (PVP) platform. Audiopoint is a
privately held company based in Rockville, Maryland with office in
Middleburg, Virginia and Atlanta, Georgia .
Recent Updates:
Audiopoint, a speech
applications company developing products for businesses that reach consumer
markets, and EarthLink (Nasdaq: ELNK), one of the nation's leading Internet
service providers (ISPs), today announced an agreement that will give
EarthLink's subscribers the ability to define their own News and
Information Services leveraging Audiopoint's latest product release and
speech application service.
The popularity of EarthLink's Email By Phone has demonstrated that
people want access to a wider range of information on the go. News and
Information Services combines the existing functionality of Email By Phone
with natural voice-enabled Web content. Popular content such as Local News,
Weather and Stock Quotes, amongst other personalized services are now
available from any telephone using simple voice commands.
"The demand is growing for powerful new communications services as a
strategic way to enhance customer service and build a competitive edge,"
said Brian Lichorowic, CEO & President of Audiopoint. "At the center stage
of these new services is Audiopoint's next-generation Personal Voice
Portal. Using PVP, Earthlink customers will have a very real edge in the
marketplace. Today's announcement furthers Audiopoint's goal of providing
our customers with the most progressive speech applications on the market
today."
The new service provides an expanded access solution by voice enabling
web content for the individual subscriber. Information is retrieved by
phone through a voice activated menu system. In its most generic sense a
voice portal can be defined as "speech-enabled access to Web-based
information." In other words, a voice portal provides telephone users with
a natural language interface to access and retrieve Web content.
More at:
http://www.audiopoint.net
http://www.EarthLink.net
Insight's market analysis study, "Streaming Media, IPTV, and Broadband
Streaming video and music
distributed across the Internet, an IPTV network, or a mobile handset will
generate $70 billion in network-derived and content-derived revenue into
the US markets over the next six years, according to a new market research
study from The Insight Research Corporation. Streaming media refers to the
transmission of digital audio and video files over an IP network or
wireless network in real time or on-demand, while prohibiting users from
storing the files locally.
Insight's market analysis study, "Streaming Media, IPTV, and Broadband
Transport: Telecommunications Carriers and Entertainment Services
2008-2013," describes the technology and market forces underpinning the
network-derived revenues generated from distributing streamed content
across the public Internet, content distribution networks, cellular
networks, or telco IP networks. The study also estimates the revenue from
the various types of content-derived revenues, along with associated
advertising revenue. The streaming market is expected to grow at a compound
annual rate of nearly 29 percent over the next six years, driven by
on-demand audio, on-demand video, as well as the accompanying advertising
revenue.
"The outlook for streaming media has never been brighter. Questions
surrounding consumers' willingness to pay for content have been dispelled
by satellite radio and iTunes," says Robert Rosenberg, Insight Research
president. "The forecasts that we present are conservative and in line with
current performance. If, however, per-stream costs drop faster than
anticipated, we have quicker acceptance of IPTV, or improvements in 3G
delivery take place faster than expected, it could blow the doors off of
our forecasts, propelling this industry into explosive growth," Rosenberg
continues.
Via-PR Newswire
distributed across the Internet, an IPTV network, or a mobile handset will
generate $70 billion in network-derived and content-derived revenue into
the US markets over the next six years, according to a new market research
study from The Insight Research Corporation. Streaming media refers to the
transmission of digital audio and video files over an IP network or
wireless network in real time or on-demand, while prohibiting users from
storing the files locally.
Insight's market analysis study, "Streaming Media, IPTV, and Broadband
Transport: Telecommunications Carriers and Entertainment Services
2008-2013," describes the technology and market forces underpinning the
network-derived revenues generated from distributing streamed content
across the public Internet, content distribution networks, cellular
networks, or telco IP networks. The study also estimates the revenue from
the various types of content-derived revenues, along with associated
advertising revenue. The streaming market is expected to grow at a compound
annual rate of nearly 29 percent over the next six years, driven by
on-demand audio, on-demand video, as well as the accompanying advertising
revenue.
"The outlook for streaming media has never been brighter. Questions
surrounding consumers' willingness to pay for content have been dispelled
by satellite radio and iTunes," says Robert Rosenberg, Insight Research
president. "The forecasts that we present are conservative and in line with
current performance. If, however, per-stream costs drop faster than
anticipated, we have quicker acceptance of IPTV, or improvements in 3G
delivery take place faster than expected, it could blow the doors off of
our forecasts, propelling this industry into explosive growth," Rosenberg
continues.
Via-PR Newswire
EveryZing --Next-generation universal search technology to online audio and video content
What Company Is Offering:
EveryZing provides next-generation universal search technology and brings the benefits of search engine optimization (SEO) to online audio and video content.
How It Works:
Through their speech to text, search and optimization technologies, and consumer-facing website, they create greater opportunities for consumer and advertiser access to online content. The company’s best-in-class technology and comprehensive set of advertising services enable their partners to profit from their content by launching digital channels that deliver the entertainment, news and information that consumers crave.
By aggregating structured and unstructured digital content for faster, easier discovery, EveryZing improves the search experience and drives user consumption of multimedia content. EveryZing’s patented technology provides greater monetization opportunities and helps its customers – operators of “infotainment” web sites providing news, weather, sports, business and other professionally produced content – capture a larger share of the $4 billion online video advertising market.
More at:http://www.everyzing.com/
EveryZing provides next-generation universal search technology and brings the benefits of search engine optimization (SEO) to online audio and video content.
How It Works:
Through their speech to text, search and optimization technologies, and consumer-facing website, they create greater opportunities for consumer and advertiser access to online content. The company’s best-in-class technology and comprehensive set of advertising services enable their partners to profit from their content by launching digital channels that deliver the entertainment, news and information that consumers crave.
By aggregating structured and unstructured digital content for faster, easier discovery, EveryZing improves the search experience and drives user consumption of multimedia content. EveryZing’s patented technology provides greater monetization opportunities and helps its customers – operators of “infotainment” web sites providing news, weather, sports, business and other professionally produced content – capture a larger share of the $4 billion online video advertising market.
More at:http://www.everyzing.com/
Trackvia is an online database platform designed for non-technical people
What Company Is Offering:
Trackvia is an online database platform designed for non-technical people. It's similar to Microsoft Access, but web-based and easy to use. It allows people to manage lists, track projects, enable workflows, communicate, and collaborate. It includes intuitive data management features that people want (e.g. Quick Search or Find Duplicates) without the complexity that most don't want (e.g. structured query languages).
How It Works:
Trackvia can be used to track and manage: action items, clinical trial results, comments, complaints, consultant hours, contacts, custom home specs, documents, investments, job applicants, mailing lists, press mentions, product defects, project issues, requests, RFQs, RSVPs, sales leads, vehicles, and more.
With Trackvia, there is no software to download or install. It is inexpensive, and there's no risk – you can cancel at any time. It's easy to learn, easy to use, and fast. It's very flexible, and most important, Trackvia will let you save time, reduce mistakes, and improve collaboration when tracking and managing almost anything.
Trackvia can be accessed on-demand from anywhere, any time, without requiring a shared drive or virtual private network. Trackvia data can be updated by multiple people at the same time. Trackvia keeps track of what was changed, when, and by whom. It allows different users to have different permission levels. It can pull data in from emails or the Web, and push data out by email or the Web. It gives you custom views of your data that you can save and reuse. It has an amazingly simple and fast search tool, and makes it easy to perform common tasks like creating a drop-down list, annotating a record, or attaching a document.
More at:http://www.trackvia.com/
Trackvia is an online database platform designed for non-technical people. It's similar to Microsoft Access, but web-based and easy to use. It allows people to manage lists, track projects, enable workflows, communicate, and collaborate. It includes intuitive data management features that people want (e.g. Quick Search or Find Duplicates) without the complexity that most don't want (e.g. structured query languages).
How It Works:
Trackvia can be used to track and manage: action items, clinical trial results, comments, complaints, consultant hours, contacts, custom home specs, documents, investments, job applicants, mailing lists, press mentions, product defects, project issues, requests, RFQs, RSVPs, sales leads, vehicles, and more.
With Trackvia, there is no software to download or install. It is inexpensive, and there's no risk – you can cancel at any time. It's easy to learn, easy to use, and fast. It's very flexible, and most important, Trackvia will let you save time, reduce mistakes, and improve collaboration when tracking and managing almost anything.
Trackvia can be accessed on-demand from anywhere, any time, without requiring a shared drive or virtual private network. Trackvia data can be updated by multiple people at the same time. Trackvia keeps track of what was changed, when, and by whom. It allows different users to have different permission levels. It can pull data in from emails or the Web, and push data out by email or the Web. It gives you custom views of your data that you can save and reuse. It has an amazingly simple and fast search tool, and makes it easy to perform common tasks like creating a drop-down list, annotating a record, or attaching a document.
More at:http://www.trackvia.com/
Small World Labs is a proven enterprise social networking provider that helps customers better understand, engage and serve their key constituents
What Company Is Offering:
Small World Labs is a proven enterprise social networking provider, recognized as having a unique combination of technology and community building expertise that helps customers better understand, engage and serve their key constituents. Their customer engagements are collaborative relationships with their team taking a hands-on approach to creating successful, vibrant communities. Small World Labs was built from the ground up for social networking and has a proven track record, having created and grown communities for well known brands, organizations and associations.
Who Is Backing Them:
Michael Wilson, CEO
Prior to founding Small World Labs, Michael served as the Director of Product Management at Coremetrics, the leading provider of web analytics solutions. As head of the group, Michael’s responsibilities included delivering new products and services, evaluating new markets, and assessing partner technologies. Before Coremetrics, Michael founded Wilson & Company, a return on investment consulting company. Prior to that, Michael was a management consultant for R. B. Webber & Company (a spin-off of McKinsey and Boston Consulting Group associates) where he led projects for high-tech companies, including Hewlett-Packard, Sprint, FedEx, ReSound (a hearing assistance accessories provider), and several start ups that were later acquired by larger companies, such as Cisco and Vignette.
Michael holds a B.A. in economics with summa cum laude and departmental honors from Yale University, and has also completed studies at Oxford University.
Miles Sims, VP of Community Solutions
Prior to joining Small World Labs, Miles held various positions at AT&T including roles on the U-verse IPTV team and the product marketing team working on the AT&T Yahoo! Partnership. As part of the AT&T Yahoo! team, Miles responsibilities included delivering online security products and assessing partner technologies. Prior to AT&T Miles managed the VPN product line for Vectris, an SDSL broadband provider,as a key member of the product team. Before Vectris Miles spent time in the start-up arena working in various marketing and technology roles.
Miles holds a B.S. in communications from Tarleton State University.
More at:http://www.smallworldlabs.com/
Small World Labs is a proven enterprise social networking provider, recognized as having a unique combination of technology and community building expertise that helps customers better understand, engage and serve their key constituents. Their customer engagements are collaborative relationships with their team taking a hands-on approach to creating successful, vibrant communities. Small World Labs was built from the ground up for social networking and has a proven track record, having created and grown communities for well known brands, organizations and associations.
Who Is Backing Them:
Michael Wilson, CEO
Prior to founding Small World Labs, Michael served as the Director of Product Management at Coremetrics, the leading provider of web analytics solutions. As head of the group, Michael’s responsibilities included delivering new products and services, evaluating new markets, and assessing partner technologies. Before Coremetrics, Michael founded Wilson & Company, a return on investment consulting company. Prior to that, Michael was a management consultant for R. B. Webber & Company (a spin-off of McKinsey and Boston Consulting Group associates) where he led projects for high-tech companies, including Hewlett-Packard, Sprint, FedEx, ReSound (a hearing assistance accessories provider), and several start ups that were later acquired by larger companies, such as Cisco and Vignette.
Michael holds a B.A. in economics with summa cum laude and departmental honors from Yale University, and has also completed studies at Oxford University.
Miles Sims, VP of Community Solutions
Prior to joining Small World Labs, Miles held various positions at AT&T including roles on the U-verse IPTV team and the product marketing team working on the AT&T Yahoo! Partnership. As part of the AT&T Yahoo! team, Miles responsibilities included delivering online security products and assessing partner technologies. Prior to AT&T Miles managed the VPN product line for Vectris, an SDSL broadband provider,as a key member of the product team. Before Vectris Miles spent time in the start-up arena working in various marketing and technology roles.
Miles holds a B.S. in communications from Tarleton State University.
More at:http://www.smallworldlabs.com/
Gear6 delivers scalable, centralized storage caching solutions secured a $10 million dollar financing
What Company Is Offering:
Gear6 delivers scalable, centralized storage caching solutions that dramatically improve application performance while reducing total storage costs. By eliminating shared I/O bottlenecks, Gear6 appliances accelerate data center I/O performance and increase server utilization levels to help companies maximize storage and server investments. Gear6 provides unprecedented visibility into how application workloads are influenced by server virtualization, clustered computing and web-scale environments to dynamically improve and manage sustainable I/O performance, even under peak load conditions. The company's CACHEfx appliances provide real-time data delivery to Fortune 1000 customers in industries ranging from financial services to energy to animation.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Gear6, accelerating I/O for real time application performance, announced it has secured a $10 million dollar financing round led by Horizon Ventures. Existing investors U.S. Venture Partners and InterWest Partners also participated in the round. The funds will be used to bolster the company's market expansion being fueled by increasing demand for its CACHEfx line of scalable caching appliances. Centralized storage caching is rapidly emerging as the most simple and cost-effective way to increase data center application performance while dramatically reducing total storage costs.
More at:http://www.gear6.com
Gear6 delivers scalable, centralized storage caching solutions that dramatically improve application performance while reducing total storage costs. By eliminating shared I/O bottlenecks, Gear6 appliances accelerate data center I/O performance and increase server utilization levels to help companies maximize storage and server investments. Gear6 provides unprecedented visibility into how application workloads are influenced by server virtualization, clustered computing and web-scale environments to dynamically improve and manage sustainable I/O performance, even under peak load conditions. The company's CACHEfx appliances provide real-time data delivery to Fortune 1000 customers in industries ranging from financial services to energy to animation.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Gear6, accelerating I/O for real time application performance, announced it has secured a $10 million dollar financing round led by Horizon Ventures. Existing investors U.S. Venture Partners and InterWest Partners also participated in the round. The funds will be used to bolster the company's market expansion being fueled by increasing demand for its CACHEfx line of scalable caching appliances. Centralized storage caching is rapidly emerging as the most simple and cost-effective way to increase data center application performance while dramatically reducing total storage costs.
More at:http://www.gear6.com
Bubble Motion, the pioneer and global leader of ‘voice SMS’, announced $14 million in additional funding
What Company Is Offering:
Bubble Motion is the pioneer and global leader for 'voice SMS'. The company offers the award-winning BubbleTALK service, and works with mobile operators around the world to create a global network of asynchronous voice messaging and advanced voice content applications.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Bubble Motion, the pioneer and global leader of ‘voice SMS’, announced $14 million in additional funding from existing investors Sequoia Capital US and Sequoia Capital India, as well as new investors Comcast Interactive Capital and NCD Investors.
This additional funding will allow the company to further develop and expand the award-winning BubbleTALK platform, and will enable the company to focus on securing additional operator partnerships around the world.
What VCs Says About Company:
Gaurav Garg, Sequoia Capital US, said “Bubble Motion has continued to impress us with their developments over the past year and a half. With a solid track record of success, a seasoned and experienced leadership team in place, and some phenomenal usage statistics, it is not surprising that the company received so much interest from the VC community.”
How This Company Is Growing:
Over 135 million consumers currently use the BubbleTALK service, which provides a ‘click, talk, and send’ short voice messaging service that works on any mobile phone. Operators have been implementing the BubbleTALK service because it gives them a fun and easy-to-use new service that increases Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) without the need for any additional network infrastructure.
More at:www.bubblemotion.com.
Bubble Motion is the pioneer and global leader for 'voice SMS'. The company offers the award-winning BubbleTALK service, and works with mobile operators around the world to create a global network of asynchronous voice messaging and advanced voice content applications.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Bubble Motion, the pioneer and global leader of ‘voice SMS’, announced $14 million in additional funding from existing investors Sequoia Capital US and Sequoia Capital India, as well as new investors Comcast Interactive Capital and NCD Investors.
This additional funding will allow the company to further develop and expand the award-winning BubbleTALK platform, and will enable the company to focus on securing additional operator partnerships around the world.
What VCs Says About Company:
Gaurav Garg, Sequoia Capital US, said “Bubble Motion has continued to impress us with their developments over the past year and a half. With a solid track record of success, a seasoned and experienced leadership team in place, and some phenomenal usage statistics, it is not surprising that the company received so much interest from the VC community.”
How This Company Is Growing:
Over 135 million consumers currently use the BubbleTALK service, which provides a ‘click, talk, and send’ short voice messaging service that works on any mobile phone. Operators have been implementing the BubbleTALK service because it gives them a fun and easy-to-use new service that increases Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) without the need for any additional network infrastructure.
More at:www.bubblemotion.com.
Skydeck is an online service that helps people to take control of their cell phones and their cell phone bills
What Company Is Offering:
Skydeck is an online service that helps people to take control of their cell phones and their cell phone bills.
How It Works:
Skydeck first unlocks the valuable information hidden in your cell phone bill. Their secure software fetches your bills from your cell phone company and combines that information with your address book to show you your true social network: the people you talk to and text every day.
For the first time you can search your calls the way you've always been able to search your email. You can organize your address book by who is important to you and who you need to call back, not just alphabetical order. You can see where your money goes. And because their software also tracks your usage, you'll never get a surprise bill again.
More at:http://skydeck.com/
Skydeck is an online service that helps people to take control of their cell phones and their cell phone bills.
How It Works:
Skydeck first unlocks the valuable information hidden in your cell phone bill. Their secure software fetches your bills from your cell phone company and combines that information with your address book to show you your true social network: the people you talk to and text every day.
For the first time you can search your calls the way you've always been able to search your email. You can organize your address book by who is important to you and who you need to call back, not just alphabetical order. You can see where your money goes. And because their software also tracks your usage, you'll never get a surprise bill again.
More at:http://skydeck.com/
weplay is the ultimate destination for the youth sports community
What Company Is Offering:
weplay is the ultimate destination for the youth sports community. Their mission is to enable and enhance the joy of sports for kids, families, coaches and fans both online and on the field. They built a fun, educational, informative and safe site that allows people to connect, share, learn and have fun! They also bring this community together with their weplay pros: Derek Jeter, Jennie Finch, Lebron James and Peyton Manning and many more-- all of whom played on youth sports teams. They know firsthand what all the research says, that children learn valuable lessons by playing sports that benefit them later in life. They learn important skills like leadership, teamwork, winning, losing, good nutrition, good health and perseverance..
How It Works:
Once you're a registered weplay user, which takes just a matter of seconds, you'll find activities, teammates, friends and all sorts of groups that cater to your many diverse interests in youth sports and activities. Create a group and invite friends and family around common interests or specific teams and clubs. You can create private or public groups and invite friends and family members to join. And because you control all your information, you decide who sees or doesn't see it. weplay's industry leading security and privacy settings also ensure members of all ages can have a meaningful and safe experience interacting with friends online.
More at:http://www.weplay.com/
weplay is the ultimate destination for the youth sports community. Their mission is to enable and enhance the joy of sports for kids, families, coaches and fans both online and on the field. They built a fun, educational, informative and safe site that allows people to connect, share, learn and have fun! They also bring this community together with their weplay pros: Derek Jeter, Jennie Finch, Lebron James and Peyton Manning and many more-- all of whom played on youth sports teams. They know firsthand what all the research says, that children learn valuable lessons by playing sports that benefit them later in life. They learn important skills like leadership, teamwork, winning, losing, good nutrition, good health and perseverance..
How It Works:
Once you're a registered weplay user, which takes just a matter of seconds, you'll find activities, teammates, friends and all sorts of groups that cater to your many diverse interests in youth sports and activities. Create a group and invite friends and family around common interests or specific teams and clubs. You can create private or public groups and invite friends and family members to join. And because you control all your information, you decide who sees or doesn't see it. weplay's industry leading security and privacy settings also ensure members of all ages can have a meaningful and safe experience interacting with friends online.
More at:http://www.weplay.com/
Stickam is where you will find your friends and your fans, LIVE
What Company Is Offering:
Stickam is where you will find your friends and your fans, LIVE!
See and be seen at Stickam, the LIVE community.
How It Works:
First, if you want to use your Web Cam make sure no other application is using it. (e.g. MSN, AIM, Photo Booth, etc.) Usually only one application at a time can access your Web Cam. Be sure the camera you are using is plugged in and on before launching your web browser.
Go to your "Edit Videos" page and click on the "Record Video" button on the right. Videos recorded using this function will automatically be uploaded to your movie gallery page. You can also record while your are Live. Simply hit the record button to begin recording your live stream.If a visitor is viewing your web cam, you will see the number of viewers the right of the yellow "lurker" icon above the list of people in your host chat. If the visitor has entered chat mode, you will see the name of the person on the right-hand side of the chat box.
When you 'Go Live', the volume button to the left of your chat window controls the volume of your microphone. You can also adjust your microphone settings by right-clicking the chat window (on PC) or pressing CTRL + click (on a Mac) and clicking 'Settings'.
More at:http://www.stickam.com/
Stickam is where you will find your friends and your fans, LIVE!
See and be seen at Stickam, the LIVE community.
How It Works:
First, if you want to use your Web Cam make sure no other application is using it. (e.g. MSN, AIM, Photo Booth, etc.) Usually only one application at a time can access your Web Cam. Be sure the camera you are using is plugged in and on before launching your web browser.
Go to your "Edit Videos" page and click on the "Record Video" button on the right. Videos recorded using this function will automatically be uploaded to your movie gallery page. You can also record while your are Live. Simply hit the record button to begin recording your live stream.If a visitor is viewing your web cam, you will see the number of viewers the right of the yellow "lurker" icon above the list of people in your host chat. If the visitor has entered chat mode, you will see the name of the person on the right-hand side of the chat box.
When you 'Go Live', the volume button to the left of your chat window controls the volume of your microphone. You can also adjust your microphone settings by right-clicking the chat window (on PC) or pressing CTRL + click (on a Mac) and clicking 'Settings'.
More at:http://www.stickam.com/
UserVoice is a way to harness the innovation and ideas of customers and potential customers
What Company Is Offering:
UserVoice is a way to harness the innovation and ideas of customers and potential customers. UserVoice helps companies, bloggers and community leaders answer the question “What do users really want?”
How It Works:
It’s a way to improve the signal-to-noise of user opinion, and to moderate the ideas of one against the opinions of the many. It’s Satisfaction meets Digg. It’s focus groups for companies that can’t afford focus groups.
End users will see UserVoice as the best channel for customer feedback to any company. They will rely on UserVoice to voice opinions, suggestions, and complaints, because UserVoice will be more accessible and effective (through transparency and strength in numbers) than the official site.
More at:http://uservoice.com/
UserVoice is a way to harness the innovation and ideas of customers and potential customers. UserVoice helps companies, bloggers and community leaders answer the question “What do users really want?”
How It Works:
It’s a way to improve the signal-to-noise of user opinion, and to moderate the ideas of one against the opinions of the many. It’s Satisfaction meets Digg. It’s focus groups for companies that can’t afford focus groups.
End users will see UserVoice as the best channel for customer feedback to any company. They will rely on UserVoice to voice opinions, suggestions, and complaints, because UserVoice will be more accessible and effective (through transparency and strength in numbers) than the official site.
More at:http://uservoice.com/
CraveOnline.com is your source for everything that males crave on the net
What Company Is Offering:
CraveOnline.com is your source for everything that males crave on the net. They have everything you need from Videos and Music, to Video Games and Movie News & Trailers. They strive to get you the most up-to-date and coolest stuff around the web.
More at:http://www.craveonline.com/
CraveOnline.com is your source for everything that males crave on the net. They have everything you need from Videos and Music, to Video Games and Movie News & Trailers. They strive to get you the most up-to-date and coolest stuff around the web.
More at:http://www.craveonline.com/
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Viva Vision, a premier content and applications provider for mobile entertainment has raised an additional $2 million in funding
What Company Is Offering:
Viva Vision, a Santa Monica, CA based company, is the leading provider of entertainment applications and content for slide shows, video on demand, and live video for mobile phones. Viva Vision delivers programming to the broadest number of handsets through its suite of broadcast platforms, and also produces its own original consumer-driven content. Working with its world-class partners, Viva Vision is able to reach over 250 million wireless subscribers worldwide.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Viva Vision, a premier content and applications provider for mobile entertainment, announced that it raised an additional $2 million in funding from Medical Capital Corporation, a private equity company. Following a turn-around year for Viva Vision, the additional funding allows the company to scale its business, support its growing user base, and further grow distribution.
More at:www.vivavision.com
Viva Vision, a Santa Monica, CA based company, is the leading provider of entertainment applications and content for slide shows, video on demand, and live video for mobile phones. Viva Vision delivers programming to the broadest number of handsets through its suite of broadcast platforms, and also produces its own original consumer-driven content. Working with its world-class partners, Viva Vision is able to reach over 250 million wireless subscribers worldwide.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Viva Vision, a premier content and applications provider for mobile entertainment, announced that it raised an additional $2 million in funding from Medical Capital Corporation, a private equity company. Following a turn-around year for Viva Vision, the additional funding allows the company to scale its business, support its growing user base, and further grow distribution.
More at:www.vivavision.com
Become.com ,the Web’s fastest-growing site for comparison shopping got $17.5 million Series C
What Company Is Offering:
Become.com is a powerful search engine and comparison shopping service. Become.com helps people make better buying decisions and purchases online. Become.com searches over 5.6 billion web pages and uses its patent-pending AIR(Affinity Index Ranking) search technology to provide the Internet's most useful product reviews and guides, and then makes it easy to find and buy products from brand name retailers at the best prices. With over 25 million products from 5000 merchants, Become.com provides the Web's most robust and easy to use combination of relevant product research and comparison shopping. Founded by industry pioneers Michael Yang and Yeogirl Yun, creators of MySimon.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Become.com ,the Web’s fastest-growing site for comparison shopping, announced that TPG Growth has made a $17.5 million Series C investment in Become.com.
How Is Market Of That Kind Of Company:
A survey of shopping habits from Accenture found that 69 percent of respondents now research products online, 68 percent compare prices online before shopping in a physical store and 58 percent locate items online before going to a store to purchase.
· Independent firm comScore Media Metrix ranked Become.com the fourth-fastest-growing Website of any kind in October 2007. Become.com’s site traffic grew 260% from February 2007 to February 2008.
About VCs:
TPG Growth is the venture, growth and smaller buyout investment platform of TPG, the global private investment firm. With more than $2.5 billion under management, TPG Growth targets investments in technology, life science, biotechnology, renewables, and consumer companies utilizing venture capital, growth equity, public equity and leveraged buyout structures. The firm is backed by the resources of TPG with more than $50 billion of assets under management. TPG Growth has offices in the US, China and India. TPG also brings specific expertise in the retail industry, with a history of successful retail investment in leading companies such as J.Crew and Debenhams. For more information, please visit www.tpg.com.
More at: www.become.com.
Become.com is a powerful search engine and comparison shopping service. Become.com helps people make better buying decisions and purchases online. Become.com searches over 5.6 billion web pages and uses its patent-pending AIR(Affinity Index Ranking) search technology to provide the Internet's most useful product reviews and guides, and then makes it easy to find and buy products from brand name retailers at the best prices. With over 25 million products from 5000 merchants, Become.com provides the Web's most robust and easy to use combination of relevant product research and comparison shopping. Founded by industry pioneers Michael Yang and Yeogirl Yun, creators of MySimon.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Become.com ,the Web’s fastest-growing site for comparison shopping, announced that TPG Growth has made a $17.5 million Series C investment in Become.com.
How Is Market Of That Kind Of Company:
A survey of shopping habits from Accenture found that 69 percent of respondents now research products online, 68 percent compare prices online before shopping in a physical store and 58 percent locate items online before going to a store to purchase.
· Independent firm comScore Media Metrix ranked Become.com the fourth-fastest-growing Website of any kind in October 2007. Become.com’s site traffic grew 260% from February 2007 to February 2008.
About VCs:
TPG Growth is the venture, growth and smaller buyout investment platform of TPG, the global private investment firm. With more than $2.5 billion under management, TPG Growth targets investments in technology, life science, biotechnology, renewables, and consumer companies utilizing venture capital, growth equity, public equity and leveraged buyout structures. The firm is backed by the resources of TPG with more than $50 billion of assets under management. TPG Growth has offices in the US, China and India. TPG also brings specific expertise in the retail industry, with a history of successful retail investment in leading companies such as J.Crew and Debenhams. For more information, please visit www.tpg.com.
More at: www.become.com.
OpenService, a Marlborough, Mass.-based provider of enterprise event management solutions, has raised an undisclosed amount of Series D funding
What Company Is Offering:
OpenService improves the reliability, performance and security of the world's most complex enterprise networks. The company specializes in Enterprise Event Management (EEM) software that scales to high volume, global implementations in use by hundreds of the world's best-known enterprises. OpenService's InfoCenter is comprised of NerveCenter, LogCenter and ThreatCenter providing event correlation, log management, compliance solutions and security for the entire enterprise.
How Much They Got From VCs:
OpenService, a Marlborough, Mass.-based provider of enterprise event management solutions, has raised an undisclosed amount of Series D funding. Return backers include Advent International and Hudson Ventures. The company had previously raised around $19 million.
Where They Will Use Fund:
CEO Schmitt said the new round of investments "will provide us with the resources we need to promote one of the industry's best-kept secrets." Schmitt added, "Bill and I also look forward to expanding the company's efforts to help companies keep their businesses running by reducing IT risk without giving up comprising business agility."
More at:http://www.openservice.com/
OpenService improves the reliability, performance and security of the world's most complex enterprise networks. The company specializes in Enterprise Event Management (EEM) software that scales to high volume, global implementations in use by hundreds of the world's best-known enterprises. OpenService's InfoCenter is comprised of NerveCenter, LogCenter and ThreatCenter providing event correlation, log management, compliance solutions and security for the entire enterprise.
How Much They Got From VCs:
OpenService, a Marlborough, Mass.-based provider of enterprise event management solutions, has raised an undisclosed amount of Series D funding. Return backers include Advent International and Hudson Ventures. The company had previously raised around $19 million.
Where They Will Use Fund:
CEO Schmitt said the new round of investments "will provide us with the resources we need to promote one of the industry's best-kept secrets." Schmitt added, "Bill and I also look forward to expanding the company's efforts to help companies keep their businesses running by reducing IT risk without giving up comprising business agility."
More at:http://www.openservice.com/
Broadcast LIVE video from your mobile phone onto your website
What Company Is Offering:
Broadcast LIVE video from your mobile phone
over 3G or WiFi onto your website. Or use your phone as a bluetooth webcam in Mac OS X. Free and Open Source.
How It Works:
Open the application manager within the installations folder, choose settings from the menu, and set it to allow installation of "all" applications. You might also need to disable online certificate check at the same place.
You will also get this error if the phone's clock is set to a date earlier than the application's certificate creation date. Make sure your phone is configured with proper date and time.
Any program that can handle both the file format, the codecs and the transport method, should be able to play the stream if you know the URL of your stream. One way of finding the URL is to check the XML feed provided by the video server you are streaming through.
More at:http://www.movino.org/
Broadcast LIVE video from your mobile phone
over 3G or WiFi onto your website. Or use your phone as a bluetooth webcam in Mac OS X. Free and Open Source.
How It Works:
Open the application manager within the installations folder, choose settings from the menu, and set it to allow installation of "all" applications. You might also need to disable online certificate check at the same place.
You will also get this error if the phone's clock is set to a date earlier than the application's certificate creation date. Make sure your phone is configured with proper date and time.
Any program that can handle both the file format, the codecs and the transport method, should be able to play the stream if you know the URL of your stream. One way of finding the URL is to check the XML feed provided by the video server you are streaming through.
More at:http://www.movino.org/
SkillsTM to find skilled people
What Company Is Offering:
SkillsTM offers an advanced feature called "Broadcasting." Broadcasting allows a person to connect with a group of specifically skilled people on a variety of topics. For example, a user can broadcast an opportunity. Once posted, he/she will be immediately be presented with a list of potential matches to peruse proactively.
Unlike standard social networks that connect people together by who they know, SkillsTM connects people by what they know and do. Use SkillsTM to find skilled people. Use SkillsTM to be discovered based on your skills.
How It Works:
Student entrepreneurs can use SkillsTM to network and build up their team within their School or University. Use SkillsTM.com to leverage a community of specifically skilled people to find exactly who or what you need. They have a fully implemented Facebook application, so people can proudly display their skills on their Facebook page.
Based on the proprietary Lanxer Database engine, SkillsTM introduces Wiki Style Parametric Search. The search is not keywords based, but is rather hierarchically structured. Members can “Search Within” any combination of skills to find people with the exact skill set they desire. If the skills you want to search on aren’t there you can simply add them without even leaving the search screen. We also have standard keyword search but it is enhanced by our hierarchical structure.
Users don’t have to rely only on search to connect with skilled people. One does not have to rely on people finding the opportunity as qualified people are automatically informed. Users can also broadcast a question or a discussion in a similar fashion and generate a rapport with skilled professionals in our community.
They also provide fully integrated chat and messaging to further facilitating the networking process.
Who Is Backing Them:
Robert Lancer - President, Founder and Developer
Robert was not satisfied with the outmoded ridged relational database solutions, so he developed a new database architecture with its own engine to power it: the Lanxer Database Engine (Xerbase). Then, he set out to build applications with his new database technology to demonstrate its power. Robert has had the idea for SkillsTM.com for a long time. He always thought the standard ways of finding and connecting with skilled people were inadequate, and that a community such as SkillsTM.com could greatly help many people connect and become better informed.
Dan Roberts - Technology Analyst / Physicist and Co-founder
Dan immediately recognized the potential in Robert's idea and set out to make himself part of Lanxer. His role at Lanxer is multifaceted, from guiding the development of our products, doing research, testing, creating product demos, writing white-papers, and more. Outside of Lanxer, Dan is a fulltime Physics and ECE major at Duke University, where he conducts physics research in the field of transformation optics (which includes designing invisibility cloaks). When he is not working on SkillsTM or making objects invisible, he plays bass guitar in his band, Rosedale.
More at:http://skillstm.com/
SkillsTM offers an advanced feature called "Broadcasting." Broadcasting allows a person to connect with a group of specifically skilled people on a variety of topics. For example, a user can broadcast an opportunity. Once posted, he/she will be immediately be presented with a list of potential matches to peruse proactively.
Unlike standard social networks that connect people together by who they know, SkillsTM connects people by what they know and do. Use SkillsTM to find skilled people. Use SkillsTM to be discovered based on your skills.
How It Works:
Student entrepreneurs can use SkillsTM to network and build up their team within their School or University. Use SkillsTM.com to leverage a community of specifically skilled people to find exactly who or what you need. They have a fully implemented Facebook application, so people can proudly display their skills on their Facebook page.
Based on the proprietary Lanxer Database engine, SkillsTM introduces Wiki Style Parametric Search. The search is not keywords based, but is rather hierarchically structured. Members can “Search Within” any combination of skills to find people with the exact skill set they desire. If the skills you want to search on aren’t there you can simply add them without even leaving the search screen. We also have standard keyword search but it is enhanced by our hierarchical structure.
Users don’t have to rely only on search to connect with skilled people. One does not have to rely on people finding the opportunity as qualified people are automatically informed. Users can also broadcast a question or a discussion in a similar fashion and generate a rapport with skilled professionals in our community.
They also provide fully integrated chat and messaging to further facilitating the networking process.
Who Is Backing Them:
Robert Lancer - President, Founder and Developer
Robert was not satisfied with the outmoded ridged relational database solutions, so he developed a new database architecture with its own engine to power it: the Lanxer Database Engine (Xerbase). Then, he set out to build applications with his new database technology to demonstrate its power. Robert has had the idea for SkillsTM.com for a long time. He always thought the standard ways of finding and connecting with skilled people were inadequate, and that a community such as SkillsTM.com could greatly help many people connect and become better informed.
Dan Roberts - Technology Analyst / Physicist and Co-founder
Dan immediately recognized the potential in Robert's idea and set out to make himself part of Lanxer. His role at Lanxer is multifaceted, from guiding the development of our products, doing research, testing, creating product demos, writing white-papers, and more. Outside of Lanxer, Dan is a fulltime Physics and ECE major at Duke University, where he conducts physics research in the field of transformation optics (which includes designing invisibility cloaks). When he is not working on SkillsTM or making objects invisible, he plays bass guitar in his band, Rosedale.
More at:http://skillstm.com/
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Mogopop is a free web-based service where members and visitors can create, publish and download multimedia content for iPod
What Company Is Offering:
Mogopop is a free web-based service where members and visitors can create, publish and download multimedia content for iPod. This content that can incorporate audio, video, pictures, podcasts, text – whatever our members’ minds can imagine, they can create. Mogopop downloads are like mini-Websites for iPod that anyone can enjoy.
How It Works:
To register with Mogopop click "Sign Up/Log In" from the homepage. Then click "Register." After you've filled in your information, an email confirmation will be sent to you. In the email, click the confirmation link and you will be sent to the "Log In" page at Mogopop.com. You can now login using the Username and Password you've selected.Once signed in, click "My Mogopop" on the top of the homepage. Then click "My account." Find the "Your Password" tab, change your password, then click save.
More at:http://www.mogopop.com/
Mogopop is a free web-based service where members and visitors can create, publish and download multimedia content for iPod. This content that can incorporate audio, video, pictures, podcasts, text – whatever our members’ minds can imagine, they can create. Mogopop downloads are like mini-Websites for iPod that anyone can enjoy.
How It Works:
To register with Mogopop click "Sign Up/Log In" from the homepage. Then click "Register." After you've filled in your information, an email confirmation will be sent to you. In the email, click the confirmation link and you will be sent to the "Log In" page at Mogopop.com. You can now login using the Username and Password you've selected.Once signed in, click "My Mogopop" on the top of the homepage. Then click "My account." Find the "Your Password" tab, change your password, then click save.
More at:http://www.mogopop.com/
Monday, March 24, 2008
For Netrepreneur
If you read this article, chances are you are planning to start your own business online, but you are still in doubt whether it is right for you. Here’s a list of advantages of going online.
* Start on a shoestring. Building a business online, you may or may not need additional funding. There are many ways to start an online venture. If you are lack of capital to start a business, you can always start small and grow from there. A lot of Internet business models allow you to start on a shoestring. You may be surprised to know the figure. I used to start a business for under $50. My monthly spending for various necessity for the business doesn’t exceed $100. That, of course, doesn’t include advertising expense, because I think of that as an investment. It actually makes money instead of spending it. How many business can you start and maintain with that?
* You’re in control (or be your own boss.) Internet entrepreneurship is often illustrated with an individual working from home, in the bedroom or the kitchen, in underwear. That may not be an actual benefit for a lot of us, but at least it drives the point home. You can do what you want without the need to wear suit and all the formalities. Of course, the rest of it, like business relationship has a lot of similarities. As your own boss, you control your business. With it comes responsibilities though.
* Enormous earning potential. When it comes to the earning potential, solopreneur who works from home earns anywhere from four-, five- and even six-figure income. The sky is the limit. You can keep it small and manageable or hire a team to work for you and grow the business to any level you want.
* Automation possibilities. You can automate a lot of components of the business, including but not limited to, order and payment processing, inventory management, customer support, follow up via email, and so on.
* Global presence and reach. Brick and mortar business is limited by location. A huge factor of success of the business depends on the location of the business. On the Internet, this factor doesn’t event exist. By establish an online business, you have the possibilities to reach global market. Combining this with the minimal investment, it becomes a very lucrative venture.
* Measurable and effective marketing methods. There’s nothing that brings more measurable results than the Internet. Direct response marketers will be excited to jump on this medium. Best of all, you can start getting results of different tests in a few minutes. Compare it with traditional marketing which needs weeks, if not months, to get accurate results.
Link--Virtual Entrepreneur
* Start on a shoestring. Building a business online, you may or may not need additional funding. There are many ways to start an online venture. If you are lack of capital to start a business, you can always start small and grow from there. A lot of Internet business models allow you to start on a shoestring. You may be surprised to know the figure. I used to start a business for under $50. My monthly spending for various necessity for the business doesn’t exceed $100. That, of course, doesn’t include advertising expense, because I think of that as an investment. It actually makes money instead of spending it. How many business can you start and maintain with that?
* You’re in control (or be your own boss.) Internet entrepreneurship is often illustrated with an individual working from home, in the bedroom or the kitchen, in underwear. That may not be an actual benefit for a lot of us, but at least it drives the point home. You can do what you want without the need to wear suit and all the formalities. Of course, the rest of it, like business relationship has a lot of similarities. As your own boss, you control your business. With it comes responsibilities though.
* Enormous earning potential. When it comes to the earning potential, solopreneur who works from home earns anywhere from four-, five- and even six-figure income. The sky is the limit. You can keep it small and manageable or hire a team to work for you and grow the business to any level you want.
* Automation possibilities. You can automate a lot of components of the business, including but not limited to, order and payment processing, inventory management, customer support, follow up via email, and so on.
* Global presence and reach. Brick and mortar business is limited by location. A huge factor of success of the business depends on the location of the business. On the Internet, this factor doesn’t event exist. By establish an online business, you have the possibilities to reach global market. Combining this with the minimal investment, it becomes a very lucrative venture.
* Measurable and effective marketing methods. There’s nothing that brings more measurable results than the Internet. Direct response marketers will be excited to jump on this medium. Best of all, you can start getting results of different tests in a few minutes. Compare it with traditional marketing which needs weeks, if not months, to get accurate results.
Link--Virtual Entrepreneur
MindBites is a self-publishing platform that allows anyone to share what they know by means of audio and video lessons
What Company Is Offering:
MindBites is a place where anyone can design, create and post instructional content for sale. They offer real people, individuals like you, a self-publishing platform to share their knowledge, skills and passions with others through audio and video lessons. These lessons can be promoted and previewed across the web, where others can purchase and download them using credits costing as low as $1.69. The result is an inspiring community of discovery that hopes to revolutionize the way the world shares knowledge.
How It Works:
MindBites is a self-publishing platform that allows anyone to share what they know by means of audio and video lessons. Aided by our Author Enablement toolset, authors can create content utilizing basic consumer tools and upload them to our site via their home internet connection. With customized titles, descriptions, and preview images, your lessons are promoted with ease and professionalism to a worldwide audience. Additionally, authors can upload auxialliary materials to compliment their lesson, such as text documents, pictures, and graphs.
Users are then able to browse, preview and purchase the author's lessons using credits purchased at MindBites for as low as $1.69. Once purchased, the media files are available to be viewed in the user's browser or downloaded for future use. Documentation of these purchases can be found under your MyMindBites page.
More at:http://www.mindbites.com/
MindBites is a place where anyone can design, create and post instructional content for sale. They offer real people, individuals like you, a self-publishing platform to share their knowledge, skills and passions with others through audio and video lessons. These lessons can be promoted and previewed across the web, where others can purchase and download them using credits costing as low as $1.69. The result is an inspiring community of discovery that hopes to revolutionize the way the world shares knowledge.
How It Works:
MindBites is a self-publishing platform that allows anyone to share what they know by means of audio and video lessons. Aided by our Author Enablement toolset, authors can create content utilizing basic consumer tools and upload them to our site via their home internet connection. With customized titles, descriptions, and preview images, your lessons are promoted with ease and professionalism to a worldwide audience. Additionally, authors can upload auxialliary materials to compliment their lesson, such as text documents, pictures, and graphs.
Users are then able to browse, preview and purchase the author's lessons using credits purchased at MindBites for as low as $1.69. Once purchased, the media files are available to be viewed in the user's browser or downloaded for future use. Documentation of these purchases can be found under your MyMindBites page.
More at:http://www.mindbites.com/
picapp.com is a free online service for adding high-quality stock photos to blogs and websites
What Company Is Offering:
picapp.com is a free online service for adding high-quality stock photos to blogs and websites – without the copyright and legal headaches. Registration is free, and picapp.com members have legal access to the best and most current stock photo collections on the web. Inserting picapp.com images on your site is as easy as 1-2-3.
How It Works:
A picapp image enables publishers, bloggers, and website owners to incorporate high-end images from stock photography
leaders in their online destination. The content is licensed to the publisher free of charge under the website terms
and includes an advertising mechanism to facilitate royalties to the content owners.
More at:http://www.picapp.com/
picapp.com is a free online service for adding high-quality stock photos to blogs and websites – without the copyright and legal headaches. Registration is free, and picapp.com members have legal access to the best and most current stock photo collections on the web. Inserting picapp.com images on your site is as easy as 1-2-3.
How It Works:
A picapp image enables publishers, bloggers, and website owners to incorporate high-end images from stock photography
leaders in their online destination. The content is licensed to the publisher free of charge under the website terms
and includes an advertising mechanism to facilitate royalties to the content owners.
More at:http://www.picapp.com/
Track, compare and share data, free. Identify trends across social graphs and networks, realize the potential of p2p
What Company Is Offering:
Track, compare and share data, free. Identify trends across social graphs and networks, realize the potential of p2p, track engagement metrics, look at what is really happening, real time.
Track the popularity and awareness of trends across a variety of inputs, ranging from social networks, to blog buzz and video views downloads, all in real time. Compare trends to one another, monitoring and evaluating their status across a variety of sources. Share favorite trends with friends and other users and discover new trends that other users are already aware of and tracking.
How It Works:
Use Trendrr to monitor the popularity surrounding your favorite up and coming artist, new TV show, or movie that just went into development. Track just how many friends your candidate of choice has and just how many people are favoriting their latest video.Compare the popularity of anything, across any input, and draw your own conclusions. See what people are saying and project what you think the effects of this data will be.Blog about interesting data or trends you’ve identified and share and raise awareness regarding things you think are on the rise. Use Trendrr to support your claims with graphs and data.
More at:http://trendrr.com/
Track, compare and share data, free. Identify trends across social graphs and networks, realize the potential of p2p, track engagement metrics, look at what is really happening, real time.
Track the popularity and awareness of trends across a variety of inputs, ranging from social networks, to blog buzz and video views downloads, all in real time. Compare trends to one another, monitoring and evaluating their status across a variety of sources. Share favorite trends with friends and other users and discover new trends that other users are already aware of and tracking.
How It Works:
Use Trendrr to monitor the popularity surrounding your favorite up and coming artist, new TV show, or movie that just went into development. Track just how many friends your candidate of choice has and just how many people are favoriting their latest video.Compare the popularity of anything, across any input, and draw your own conclusions. See what people are saying and project what you think the effects of this data will be.Blog about interesting data or trends you’ve identified and share and raise awareness regarding things you think are on the rise. Use Trendrr to support your claims with graphs and data.
More at:http://trendrr.com/
Post your myHomeShop ---The first platform for Web cam classifieds
What Company Is Offering:
Post your myHomeShop with your webcam today. The first platform for Web cam classifieds.
How It Works:
To take down your video, sign in to the channel and select Show my Videos half way down the Manage Your Profile screen in Content. If you are already signed in, click the Manage Your Profile link, then Show my Videos. On the next page, you’ll see a Remove this Video link next to each clip.
More at:http://www.myhomeshop.info/
Post your myHomeShop with your webcam today. The first platform for Web cam classifieds.
How It Works:
To take down your video, sign in to the channel and select Show my Videos half way down the Manage Your Profile screen in Content. If you are already signed in, click the Manage Your Profile link, then Show my Videos. On the next page, you’ll see a Remove this Video link next to each clip.
More at:http://www.myhomeshop.info/
Act-On is an on-demand business service
What Company Is Offering:
Act-On is an on-demand business service that enables you to engage more effectively with prospects & customers at every stage of your sales funnel.
They provide a next-generation communication and collaboration service that transforms business e-mail into a true 24/7 customer interaction management service.
How It Works:
Act-On service is intended for use by every customer- and market-facing professional, it has been designed from the ground up to be easy to learn and use, while still providing a rich set of features and capabilities.
The pricing makes it simple for you. You pay a low monthly price based on your list size, and get a very rich set of features and capabilities. There are no per-message fees or other hidden fees, and there is no long term contract to sign.
More at:http://www.actonsoftware.com/
Act-On is an on-demand business service that enables you to engage more effectively with prospects & customers at every stage of your sales funnel.
They provide a next-generation communication and collaboration service that transforms business e-mail into a true 24/7 customer interaction management service.
How It Works:
Act-On service is intended for use by every customer- and market-facing professional, it has been designed from the ground up to be easy to learn and use, while still providing a rich set of features and capabilities.
The pricing makes it simple for you. You pay a low monthly price based on your list size, and get a very rich set of features and capabilities. There are no per-message fees or other hidden fees, and there is no long term contract to sign.
More at:http://www.actonsoftware.com/
Inspectd.com allows you to test your stock market skills against real historical data
What Company Is Offering:
Inspectd.com allows you to test your stock market skills against real historical data. They'll show you a random chart from the past, and you try to guess whether the stock rose or dropped. They'll even give you $100,000 in play money to test your skill.
More at:http://www.inspectd.com/
Inspectd.com allows you to test your stock market skills against real historical data. They'll show you a random chart from the past, and you try to guess whether the stock rose or dropped. They'll even give you $100,000 in play money to test your skill.
More at:http://www.inspectd.com/
What Company Is Offering:
Siterake allows site owners to chart the performance of their site in the search engines. Siterake is also a great tool for search engine optimisation consultants. Chart your high performance search phrases now.
How It Works:
You may upload log files of type: zip, gz, tar, and bzip only. Using 'grep' they record all referrers that match Google, Yahoo or Live Search. All bot referrers are removed. With each of the referrers, all the relevant information is ripped including time, search query, referring URL, region/country info and user agent.
Regional information is based on the domain of the referring search engine.
More at:http://siterake.com/
Siterake allows site owners to chart the performance of their site in the search engines. Siterake is also a great tool for search engine optimisation consultants. Chart your high performance search phrases now.
How It Works:
You may upload log files of type: zip, gz, tar, and bzip only. Using 'grep' they record all referrers that match Google, Yahoo or Live Search. All bot referrers are removed. With each of the referrers, all the relevant information is ripped including time, search query, referring URL, region/country info and user agent.
Regional information is based on the domain of the referring search engine.
More at:http://siterake.com/
Ping.fm is a simple service that cuts out the middle man when it comes to posting to your social services
About Company:
Ping.fm is a simple service that cuts out the middle man when it comes to posting to your social services such as Facebook, Twitter, Jaiku, Tumblr and Pownce with more being added soon.
Ping.fm was created for the sole purpose of making it as easy as possible to share your posts with the world. Now you don't have to fumble around the web in order to post anymore, you can just post once, and be done with it.
The idea came about when making some posts to Twitter and Tumblr. The idea of posting the exact same information in two places seemed a bit tedious, so Ping.fm was born.
More at:http://ping.fm/
Ping.fm is a simple service that cuts out the middle man when it comes to posting to your social services such as Facebook, Twitter, Jaiku, Tumblr and Pownce with more being added soon.
Ping.fm was created for the sole purpose of making it as easy as possible to share your posts with the world. Now you don't have to fumble around the web in order to post anymore, you can just post once, and be done with it.
The idea came about when making some posts to Twitter and Tumblr. The idea of posting the exact same information in two places seemed a bit tedious, so Ping.fm was born.
More at:http://ping.fm/
Friday, March 21, 2008
Ben Franklin to Invest $335,000 in Early-Stage Companies
The Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania (BFTP/NEP) board approved investments of $335,000 in three Pennsylvania companies. BFTP/NEP is a state-funded economic development organization that links early-stage companies and established manufacturers with experts, universities, funding, and other resources to help them prosper through innovation.
BFTP/NEP plans to invest in the following companies:
Advanced-Tec Materials Corporation, Hazleton
Investment: $35,000
Provide strategic direction to this manufacturer of specialized industrial materials derived from coal-combustion by-products. Products incorporating these formulations include thermal insulation and fireproofing, environmentally-friendly “green" construction materials, shoe insoles, and various consumables in the automotive and cosmetic markets. Advanced-Tec will further develop its comprehensive business plan and its intellectual property strategy, and conduct material testing requisite for UL and other certifications.
Element ID, Inc., Bethlehem
Investment: $150,000
Test a new Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) reader prototype at several trial sites, and begin commercializing with a full-scale sales launch. Element ID’s readers utilize proprietary software that provides superior read rates and eliminates interference problems associated with other readers on the market. These RFID tag readers will be sold to material-handling companies worldwide.
Third Eye Diagnostics, Inc., Bethlehem
Investment: $150,000
Conduct prototype development and clinical studies leading to the commercialization of a medical device for non-invasively monitoring intracranial pressure. Intracranial pressure monitoring is a common tool for physicians treating patients with a severe head injury, intracranial hemorrhage, or swelling due to a stroke. This non-invasive technique substantially lowers patient risk and associated costs.
Contact:
Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern
Pennsylvania (BFTP/NEP)
Laura S. Eppler, Director of Marketing, 610-758-5237
leppler@nep.benfranklin.org
BFTP/NEP plans to invest in the following companies:
Advanced-Tec Materials Corporation, Hazleton
Investment: $35,000
Provide strategic direction to this manufacturer of specialized industrial materials derived from coal-combustion by-products. Products incorporating these formulations include thermal insulation and fireproofing, environmentally-friendly “green" construction materials, shoe insoles, and various consumables in the automotive and cosmetic markets. Advanced-Tec will further develop its comprehensive business plan and its intellectual property strategy, and conduct material testing requisite for UL and other certifications.
Element ID, Inc., Bethlehem
Investment: $150,000
Test a new Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) reader prototype at several trial sites, and begin commercializing with a full-scale sales launch. Element ID’s readers utilize proprietary software that provides superior read rates and eliminates interference problems associated with other readers on the market. These RFID tag readers will be sold to material-handling companies worldwide.
Third Eye Diagnostics, Inc., Bethlehem
Investment: $150,000
Conduct prototype development and clinical studies leading to the commercialization of a medical device for non-invasively monitoring intracranial pressure. Intracranial pressure monitoring is a common tool for physicians treating patients with a severe head injury, intracranial hemorrhage, or swelling due to a stroke. This non-invasive technique substantially lowers patient risk and associated costs.
Contact:
Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern
Pennsylvania (BFTP/NEP)
Laura S. Eppler, Director of Marketing, 610-758-5237
leppler@nep.benfranklin.org
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