Friday, October 31, 2008

The Weblo Virtual World is the only online community that is duplicating the real world

What Company Is Offering:
The Weblo Virtual World is the only online community that is duplicating the real world. It's free to join this online virtual world & free to own celebrity profile or build your online investment portfolio. Own virtual real estate like cities and states, buy domain names and build a Friends Network! Weblo is a parallel universe that is the only virtual world based on the real world.

How It Works:

Members own and manage websites that are virtual replicas of real cities, states, properties, domains and celebrities. Members earn real money via hits, Internet ads and by selling or auctioning assets for a profit. Members enhance their online portfolios by claiming popular social networking profiles, blogs, emails and videos in Weblo's Calculate Your InterNET Worth section.

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

AsianAirfares.com -- Find cheap airline tickets for Asia

What Company Is Offering:

AsianAirfares.com is a Global online travel reservation system designed to save time and money. Visitors to AsianAirfares.com can shop Securely 24/7 for the best possible deals on Airline Tickets , Hotel Rooms , Vacation Packages , Car Rentals , Cruises , and travel Activities . Travelers can select from over 115,000 hotels and resorts worldwide, all leading rental car companies, all major cruise lines and hundreds of traditional and low-budget airlines to book travel services instantly and securely.

How It Works:

The AsianAirfares.com hotel booking engine offers the high quality of over 200 major hotel brands in nearly 10,000 diverse destinations worldwide at discounted rates and features full color hotel brochures and interactive mapping. Our powerful hotel engine provides the widest selection of hotel accommodations throughout the world. This technology connects directly to the central reservations systems of hotels worldwide, resulting in better rate and room descriptions, and in many cases, a greater variety of rates. This arrangement translates into considerable savings.

AsianAirfares.com in Partnership with Worldwide Travel Exchange will provide you with some of the best Travel deals and customer support in the Travel and Hospitality Industry. Worldwide Travel Exchange (WWTE) is operated by Travelscape, Inc. AsianAirfares.com is a subsidiary of San Francisco CA based Asian Airfares Group, LLC# California 200813710165

Through broad choices, low prices and excellent customer service, AsianAirfares.com and its Fully Owned subsidiaries, IndianAirfares.com, IndianAirTickets.com, AsianAirtickets.com, AsianFlights.com, ValueAirtickets.com, ValueAirlines.com, Asian-Hotels.com , AirlineDirectories.com, AirlineShops.com, SearchCheapTickets.com, Flights-Tickets.com, Cheapest-Flight.com, SearchCheapTickets.com, AirlineStores.com, AsianAirTravel.com, NewAirTickets.com, Low-Ticket.com, Low-Air.com, ValueAirTravel.com, Low-Rates.com, Best-Rates.com LowAirways.com, Asia-Rates.com, FindAirTravel.com, and Network portfolio of more than 250 International Travel Web Sites can take you to anywhere you want to go.

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

TroopSpace is a crowdsourced social network of the United States Military

What Company Is Offering:

TroopSpace is a crowdsourced social network. In this case, the crowd is the brave men and women of the United States Military.

More at:http://www.troopspace.net/

Shooting People is a community of 37,000+ filmmakers who share their resources, skills and experience

What Company Is Offering:

Shooting People is a community of 37,000+ filmmakers who share their resources, skills and experience. Members post to and receive up to eight daily email bulletins, which cover all aspects of filmmaking; add their events and screenings to the Indie Film calendars; and network with other members at parties, salons and screenings in London, New York and beyond; create dynamic, online searchable profile cards; and upload their films and reels to the site.

More at:http://shootingpeople.org/

Saturday, October 25, 2008

YouGoDo is the easiest way to find your chosen activities

What Company Is Offering:

YouGoDo is the easiest way to find your chosen activities, without having to wade through loads of irrelevant sites and out of date links. The search engine allows users to be as specific or as wide as they wish – the Kite Surfer visiting Tarifa in Spain, is just as well served as the Family visiting Innsbruck in Austria. Families will find Golf for him, Spa’s for her and zoos, whale watching, etc. for the group!

YouGoDo is based upon Web 2.0 technologies, whereby the activity operators enter and manage their own data, and it’s free for them to list their activities. This allows them (a) to be able to offer global coverage, and (b) to ensure you get the data accurately - directly from the operators.

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

find guru is a service that helps you to find your teacher in everything,from everywhere

What Company Is Offering:
find guru is a service that helps you to find your teacher in everything,from everywhere. Just type what do you want to learn and where do you want the location.

How It Works:

findguru is a free web site that helps students find local teachers, tutors, classes and schools so that they can learn new things. Their goal is to encourage life-long learning by connecting inquiring minds with stellar instructors--and for teachers to find motivated students--via an insanely easy-to-use web site.

More at:http://find-guru.com/

GigPay processes payments betweens performers and anyone likely to hire them

What Company Is Offering:
GigPay processes payments betweens performers and anyone likely to hire them.Their unique escrow solution offers a solution to payment conflict so your event goes without a hitch.

Because GigPay processes thousands of transactions and operates to banking standards, they have a first class customer service program to offer you that extra peace of mind.
GigPay Ltd is a payment processing corporation headquartered in Berkshire, in the United Kingdom. The company was founded as a means of providing a technological solution to the transactions conducted by live performance artists. Previously these were conducted largely by cash or cheque and it seemed that technology had by-passed this crucial aspect of any event. GigPay is the result of trying to address this problem whilst giving anyone involved in such a transaction, full control of their funds.

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

Mybirddogs.com is for Good quality leads

What Company Is Offering:
Mybirddogs.com is the answer to what our business has been struggling with... Good quality leads. Mybirddogs to anyone interested in filling their pipeline with loads of legitimate leads! Not only does this system help attract new business via my own birddog team, it also provides everything we need to stay in contact with my customers which keeps them coming back over and over for all their future business.

How It Works:

Offer incentives to your network of clients and friends (BirdDogs) to send you referrals for your business.
Incentives can be anything from money to gift certificates to free services.
Your referral program will have its own unique web address that you can include in your existing marketing efforts.
For a more seamless look you can embed the MyBirdDogs tools directly into your existing website.
Invite your network of clients and friends to become BirdDogs for your business without feeling awkward asking directly for more referrals.

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

Friday, October 24, 2008

AtBizz is a system that allows placing, selling and purchasing digital content on the web

What Company Is Offering:
AtBizz is a system that allows placing, selling and purchasing digital content on the web - easily, conveniently and securely

A community that unites your need for self-expression with the need for exclusiveness of other people.

A network that gives you opportunity to get rewarded for every promotion effort you make – whether you are producing content, purchasing, or helping promote content produced by others.

How It Works:

Become a Seller – if you have digital material that you are willing to offer to others.
Become a Buyer – if you are looking for digital data products and want to purchase any of the goods from the ATBIZZ.com product database.
Become a Partner – if you are looking to earn extra income by promoting ATBIZZ.com to others.

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

Love2trade is a free community that allows you to buy, sell and trade items

What Company Is Offering:
Love2trade is a free community that allows you to buy, sell and trade items, simply by trading the items you want for the items you don’t want.

How It Works:

List everything you have for sale or trade, as well as all the items you are willing to trade for "wanted items".
Browse listed items offered by other members, After you find something you want, simply send them an offer. You can send a trade offer if you own something the other trader might be intersted in, otherwise you can send a cash offer.
You can always add cash to a trade offer to even the trade. The other member can:
Accept your offer .You then confirm the offer and proceed to the item exchange
Decline your offer .You simply move on and start browsing for other items
Counter your offer. You can then accept, decline or counter the received counter offer.

More at: http://www.love2trade.com/

Delivery.com provides fast and easy online food ordering from local restaurants & merchants

What Company Is Offering:
Delivery.com provides fast and easy online food ordering from local restaurants & merchants. Delivery.com users place orders online, eliminating the need for telephone calls, and making food ordering a fast, convenient and more efficient process.

Why To Use It:

Delivery.com's online ordering system enables your restaurant or store to reach a new audience and increase delivery orders by giving your restaurant access to our thousands of users.
Delivery.com will provide you with your own fully interactive menu, enabling easy 'point and click' food ordering.
Orders placed through Delivery.com are clearly printed out and faxed to you, reducing chances of error due to misinterpretation or handwriting illegibility.
By minimizing the number of orders placed by phone, Delivery.com can save your restaurant staff valuable time. Our customers are also pleased by not having to wait on hold when your restaurant is particularly busy.

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

StreetAdvisor is the easy way to find out what people REALLY think about the street they live in

What Company Is Offering:

StreetAdvisor is the easy way to find out what people REALLY think about the street they live in. It’s a place where people can finally voice their opinions about where they live, have lived or simply visited!

Through detailed reviews and guidebooks (written by insiders that know best), combined with patent-pending scoring technologies, StreetAdvisor helps bridge the gap that exists about the relevant information at the street level, from neighborly attitudes to noise levels to traffic problems.

Unlike other sources of real estate information StreetAdvisor reviews are written by people in the know... the people who live (or lived) in the street!

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

Styky backs up and updates contacts on your mobile phonebook

What Company Is Offering:
Styky backs up and updates contacts on your mobile phonebook. With Styky, you can access, manage, message, and update contacts from any phone, styky.com, and even Facebook, while Styky keeps everything in sync. Think of it as a free, enhanced mobile blackbook.

How It Works:
Join Skyky and they will magically download an application onto your mobile phone that uploads all your contact details to Styky... think of it as a two-way street. Their program automatically checks to see if any updates have been made to your phone, or to Styky Central online, and replicates those updates in both places.

Just like your favorite online social networking community, Styky links you and your other Styky friends together instantly. Once you are all electronically glued together, you can share any of your Styky info with them... Snaps, Steals, Notes and Faces. You can create your own Styky cliques, keep work buddies separate from other friends or mix everyone up like a frothy summer cocktail. And of course, if you are avoiding your "ex" or hiding from your boss, you can control who is and isn't in your network. You steer Styky Central as you like.

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

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Zubican is a free online business community devoted to connecting business-to-business buyers and sellers

What Company Is Offering:
Zubican is a free online business community devoted to connecting business-to-business buyers and sellers.

Zubican is a database of profiles for virtually every company in the U.S., which Zubican believes is the most complete, comprehensive and accurate collection of information on U.S. companies available online.

How It Works:

Company profiles allow businesses to tell the world who they are and what they offer so buyers can find them. Each company is encouraged to take control of its profile to make it an even more powerful tool to be found by buyers looking for the solutions they offer.

Users are encouraged to create personal profiles, either directly in Zubican or by pointing to existing personal profiles in social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn or Plaxo.

These user and company profiles can be linked to other user and company profiles, demonstrating the depth and quality of individuals’ and companies’ professional networks. These links also serve to illuminate the shared relationships with providers when sourcing needed solutions.

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

StigID.com is a website that creates an online identity for the user

What Company Is Offering:

StigID.com is a website that creates an online identity for the user. The user is given 10 lines of text to type anything which can be hyper-linked to other websites. It’s a simple, modest application with a beautiful design.

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

With UBERELECTRON you can search, browse and watch public people driven vodcasts and mediaRSS feeds in a telly style environment

What Company Is Offering:
With UBERELECTRON you can search, browse and watch public people driven vodcasts and mediaRSS feeds in a telly style environment. No installation required but permalinks and sharing options included.

How Is It Different:

Content sources are - witout exception - open Vodcasts and mediaRSS-feeds. So all content you will get is provided or compiled by people like you and me, now lovingly collected, motherly indexed and impatiently waiting to get your attention.

At the frontend Uberelectron tries to emulate what made oldschool TV so popular: Relaxed, spontaneous consuming of content with a quite simple decision-making foregoing and an also simple handling. No need to sign up, no need to register. The whole user interaction is broken down to the essential minimum while the range of content served is hopefully as relevant and nontrivial as possible.

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

Visually compare electronic products to make a quick buying decision

What Company Says:

To simplify the shopping experience and help making buying decisions faster. They spent a year analyzing some of the electronic products and applied our knowledge in the field of Artificial Intelligence to come up with the algorithm to find the best decision and a presentation 'Shopnics Decision Graph' of the decisions.

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

Wisheo For Gifts

What Company Is Offering:
Wisheo is the first website that allows users not only to organize group gifts or setup wishlists, but also to collect contributions directly from friends, family or co-workers participating. Unlike generic wishlists at online shops which require each gift to be purchased by one person, Wisheo is unique in the sense that it enables multiple friends to contribute together to fund big-ticket items on the group gift list, effectively creating a private “gift” fundraiser within the user’s social graph.

How It Works:

Add to your group gift as many items as you wish from thousands of online retailers. If you prefer to create your own special gift, for example a honeymoon trip or a cruise, Wisheo makes it very easy to personalize your gifts!

With Wisheo, you can easily send custom email notifications inviting friends and family to participate. You can also send reminder notifications to late participants who haven't responded to your invitation.
Once they receive your invitation, friends and family will be able to see the details about the group gift you're organizing and easily make their contributions. All contributions go directly from the participants to you via your Paypal account. While your group gift is being funded, you can track its progress and view cool statistics about the participants.

Once each item in your group gift is 100% funded, simply use the money collected to purchase it. Wisheo provides direct links to the online retailers so you can quickly and easily complete your purchase.

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

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

InterviewStudio is the most comprehensive applicant screening tool

What Company Is Offering:
InterviewStudio is a ground breaking new platform that brings speed, efficiency and effectiveness to the hiring manager and job seeker alike.

InterviewStudio is the most comprehensive applicant screening tool on the market, offering an exciting new platform for executive hiring. InterviewStudio combines the newest online recruiting tools into one Web portal, including: candidate profiles, video interviews, online resumes, social networking profiles, professional assessment tests, business references, and data about the candidates from internet search engines.

How It Works:

InterviewStudio, review the candidate's resume, evaluate the results of a nationally recognized assessment test, watch a video taped interview, look for public information on the candidate in Google and identify their social network via LinkedIn, all from the same platform and in a matter of minutes. Based on this broad base of information on the candidate, the hiring manager can quickly determine if the individual may be the right "fit" for their firm and warrant the time and expense of an in person interview.

For job seekers, the InterviewStudio platform offers a candidate the ability to uniquely showcase their complete skills, abilities and talents to a hiring manager and dramatically improve their ability to gain an in person interview.

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

Mistakes Made By Social Media Gurus

In an effort to learn from others’ mistakes, here’s a list of some all star errors in judgment from some social media all stars. I’ll lead off the order by admitting an error of my own.

Respond to all negative comments – When I, David Spark,
started being seen publically in print, TV, radio, and online I read everyone’s comments, but focused more intently on the negative ones. I wasted a lot of time putting far too much effort into defending myself to these anonymous naysayers than they put into attacking me. I soon understood that some geeks simply can’t help themselves being negative. They’ve got an obnoxious strand of DNA and must constantly try to prove themselves smarter than you.

Participate in flame wars to increase traffic – Similarly, Dana Gardner, blogger for ZDNet, admits he would engage in online arguments just to watch his Web traffic shoot up. But over time Gardner realized that flame wars don’t attract the right kind of audience. “Going to the lowest emotional common denominator to me is an ineffective way of reaching that audience. I’d rather come up with valuable insightful fresh innovative content than appeal to angry white men sitting around computers that don’t have anything else to do,” Gardner said.

Hire a voice talent for $2,000 to read a podcast for you – Paul Dunay, Global Director of Integrated Marketing at BearingPoint and prominent blogger, made a massive blunder when he decided to get into podcasting. His first show was actually a whitepaper read by a voice talent for $2,000. The resulting podcast sounded like a book on tape and he and his colleagues were horrified. That episode was never published, but the voice talent did get paid.

Send a specially selected mass mailing to your friends – Susan Bratton, co-founder and CEO of Personal Life Media, is still having a problem trying to scale individual relationships with social media. Even when she pares down her mailing list of 8,000 to a personally selected mailing of 250, she still gets nasty messages telling her to “take me off this list.”

Assume that social media doesn’t exist until you arrive – Social media strategist Chris Brogan and founder of PodCamp reached out to the New England podcasters’ bulletin board and said he was going to invite all the social media rock stars to come to Boston for Podcamp. Nobody responded to what he thought was a generous offer until he saw a response on the board that said, “There are a lot of rock stars in Boston and it’s kind of offensive you got to import them from other places.” Brogan learned from his mistake. Wherever you go on the Web realize there’s been a history. Don’t assume you know everything and discredit what’s been done before you arrived, Brogan said.

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Jobirn is referral network that connects applicants with employees inside the company where they would like to work

What Company Is Offering:

Jobirn is referral network that connects applicants with employees inside the company where they would like to work. Jobirn makes connecting easy through features available inside the website such as video conferencing, chat and thousands of jobs.

How It Works:

Their site helps job seekers get a referral to their ideal job, and company insiders find the right candidate. If you are a hiring manager or a recruiter, Jobirn is also a free recruitment platform.

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

Indaba Music is an international community of musicians, music professionals, and fans

What Company Is Offering:
Indaba Music is an international community of musicians, music professionals, and fans exploring the creative possibilities of making music with people in different places.

How It Works:

The site is more than just a tool, it's a community of real people connecting and collaborating in new and exciting ways.

It makes finding other people, and working on recording, mixing, or mastering projects easier. For fans, Indaba provides unprecedented access to artists and to the creative process.


With recording hardware and software now available on almost any budget, it's easier than ever for artists of all levels and backgrounds to record and produce professional quality music. Artists are also harnessing the internet to get their music heard by more people than ever before.

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

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

JASEzone is an online neighborhood gathering spot for professionals from around the world

What Company Is Offering:
JASEzone is an online neighborhood gathering spot for professionals from around the world. They invite you to join the community and create your profile that identifies your professional accomplishments and goals. Friends and colleagues will find you just as you can network with other professionals aligned with your interests. You can add more JASEfriends by inviting others to join the JASEzone and connect to you.

Your network consists of your JASEfriends, your JASEfriends' JASEfriends, and the people they know, linking you to thousands of friends.

Unique Features:

Find potential clients, subject matter experts, and business partners.
Be found for future business initiatives.
Discover JASEfriends that can help you reach job opportunities.
Get introduced to other professionals through your JASEfriends.

More at:http://jasezone.com/

FUZGO.COM

What Company Is Offering:

FUZGO.COM is a unique niche based social platform that will change the traditional image the world has about networking media in general. Their niche based system allows users to keep in touch with friends, develop their businesses, and connect with their neighbours; all while making the world a better place through the Fuzgo Cares Network.


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

Shophilia allows the shopper to make smarter decisions to save money while shopping

What Company Is Offering:
Shophilia, the name of the website originated from the word "shop" and the suffix "philia". Philia is defined as "strange or abnormal attraction to", and when put together reads "Strange or abnormal attraction to shopping."

The website allows the shopper to make smarter decisions to save money, by comparing prices, using coupon codes, deals, and rebates, as well as, having the ability to locate stores that offer free shipping.

Currently containing over 34 million products, over 5,500 stores, and over 4,000 categories, diligent effort is made daily to satisfy the shopper by adding additional stores, features, and content.

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

Credit Karma offers a new way to track your credit score and a unique way to benefit from it

What Company Is Offering:
Credit Karma offers a new way to track your credit score and a unique way to benefit from it. For the first time you can get a truly free credit score with no hidden costs or obligations. Based on your score, you gain access to exclusive offers from companies that value your creditworthiness.

The premise of consumer Credit Scoring is that people with good credit pay their bills on time, are less likely to go into collections, and tend to waste fewer company resources overall. These factors translate to higher profitability for that company and make that customer more desirable.

How It Works:

The general idea is that any action a person takes either positive or negative, will have an inevitable equal effect in the future. Your credit score is kind of an expression of this concept; an index of your credit history: your credit karma. Credit Karma embodies the best parts of these two disparate yet similar concepts to help people stay aware of their Credit Score and gain access to exclusive deals at the same time.

Their services start with a FREE credit score. No credit card is required and no strings are attached. Return as often as you like and use their service to track your credit file and stay informed. Credit Karma believes this is a fundamental consumer right. Credit Karma will continue to provide these FREE credit scores while doing the most to protect your privacy regardless if you use our other services.

When you access the FREE credit score, Credit Karma will show personalized offers to you based on your credit profile . These offers are from advertisers who share our vision of consumer empowerment. If you wish to take advantage of Karma Offers, it is up to you. Credit Karma will never share your information without your consent.

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

Monday, October 20, 2008

CommonFloor is a secure online portal for apartment communities

What Company Is Offering:

CommonFloor is a secure online portal for apartment communities, fostering greater community interaction and offering locality information and a platform for common services. It opens the door to a better social life enabling the residents to interact, communicate and collaborate among each other.

How It Works:

It is a social platform which let users share knowledge and resources. Apart from e-enabling the processes like urgent notification, maintenance payment, etc. it powers user with information about its locality.

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

Noomii is an interactive web-based life management system that enables any two people to life coach each other

What Company Is Offering:
Noomii is an interactive web-based life management system that enables any two people to life coach each other. Noomii develops technologies that uniquely facilitate the coaching experience through technology and human accountability.

How It Works:

Noomii is website that helps you and a friend achieve your big goals in life. In a system called called Pair Coaching, you life coach your friend and your friend life coaches you. It’s easy, fast, and fun. And the best part is that anyone can be a life coach – with no prior training or experience. Noomii shows you how.

Pair Coaching is a new kind of life coaching where two people take turns life coaching each other. Instead of paying for a professional life coach, you take turns coaching your friend and being coached in return. Pair Coaching is a great way to try life coaching without the high cost.

To get started, you and your coaching partner simply sign up for a free Noomii account. Once you’re signed up, you each fill out your Wheel of Life using the simple Wheel of Life Wizard. The Wheel of Life gives you a “big picture” look at your life in several areas – Family, Health, Money, Love, Fun & Recreation, Career, Friends, and Spirituality. When that’s done, you then create a few goals for each of these life areas. Once you and your friend have each completed these simple steps, you’re ready to start pair coaching!

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

WizHelp, distance is no longer a problem

What Company Is Offering:
WizHelp, distance is no longer a problem.This is the first and only Ubuntu compatible remote access tool .WizHelp service relies on Open Source projects.

How It Works:

You just need to fill in the form and click on "Register".You will receive a confirmation e-mail allowing you to validate your registration on WizHelp.Your WizHelp profile is now created!!

It can be reached through your personal URL: http://www.wizhelp.com/en/wiztech/Your Identifier.To use WizHelp services with your contacts, send your identifier.

Here are three ways to send it :Connect on WizHelp, and click « Invite your contacts ». Your personal URL will be sent by email. Ask your contacts to visit www.wizhelp.com and enter your identifier in "Get helped by" (At the top of the homepage). Send directly your personal URL or add a link on your blog/home page/website. Once your contacts are visiting your profile, use WizHelp free services!Take control of your contacts' computer. Share your screen. View your contacts' screen.

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

TeachMate.org

What Company Is Offering:
TeachMate.org is a service that helps people who wish to learn things find others who wish to teach them. You may think of it as of a dating service in education. They are also very fond of the idea of teaching for teaching: you can find people who'd love to teach you something in return for you teaching him another thing.


More at:http://www.teachmate.org/

Saturday, October 18, 2008

HealthGrades is the leading healthcare ratings organization

What Company Is Offering:

HealthGrades is the leading healthcare ratings organization, providing ratings and profiles of hospitals, nursing homes and physicians to consumers, corporations, health plans and hospitals. Millions of consumers and hundreds of the nation's largest employers, health plans and hospitals rely on HealthGrades' independent ratings, consulting and products to make healthcare decisions based on the quality of care.

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

Firstentrant.com is the first global Web-Community that scans the entire internet to answer one question

What Company Is Offering:
Firstentrant.com is the first global Web-Community that scans the internet in order to investigate which internet sites entered certain business models first. As the site has a scientific background they focus their work on research.
By defining itself as a Community Firtsentrant.com constitutes a new approach in science. Their goal is it to deliver an overall ranking for as many business models as possible.

How It Works:

Firstentrant.com is the first global Web-Community that scans the entire internet to answer one question: Who was first? Firstentrant.com delivers you global and national rankings for many business models and investigates who entered these business models first.
You have to register once. You can write your comment, put your name in the line and send the information. You don’t have to give your e-mail adress to Firstentrant.

More at:http://firstentrant.com/

Hostels247.com is a travel social networking site for Budget accommodation online worldwide

What Company Is Offering:
Hostels247.com is a travel social networking site and leading provider of Hostels,Youth hostels,Hotels and Budget accommodation online worldwide, offering reservation services through its own websites. Hostels247.Com's aim is to be the number one travel social networking site for backpackers, student and independent travellers.

How It Works:

Hostels247.com gives Backpackers, Students, and Budget travellers' one of the widest selections of Hostels,Cheap Hotels,travel news,blogs,guides and Budget accommodation on the net, including both independent and major chain hostels and hotels in 1,000 's of properties worldwide. Hostels247.Com offers a completely free service with no booking fees and one-stop booking source for hostels, hotels and also specialises in providing travellers with accommodation during sold-out periods.

With thousands of Cheap Hostels, Hotels, Bed and Breakfast, Guest house & Budget Accommodation all over the world Hostels247.Com can help you find exactly what you're looking for even in small cites and towns where other hotels and hostels sites dare to go.

More at:http://www.hostels247.com/

Micro-messaging + Business + TabStore platform = QikCom

What Company Is Offering:
QikCom is a team of experienced tech and UI design guys dedicated to making it easier for you to communicate within your company or organization.Micro-messaging + Business + TabStore platform = QikCom.

How It Works:


It's FREE for employees to sign up and it's also FREE to become an Admin to secure/control the network.Following a person simply means that you will receive short messages from them whenever they decide to send something interesting.

The TabStore is a place for you to purchase more cool business Apps/Tabs on top of the core micro-messaging service.

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

Friday, October 17, 2008

TV4B is the first business video adventisement channel

What Company Is Offering:
The first business video adventisement channel on the web. Publish your commercial, product video, company video, event, vacancies etc. on the web and attract more visitors to your web site.

TV4B offers a white-label player, high resolution, which you can embed on your web site, as if it runs from your own web site, whilst TV4B takes care of all technical aspects and data traffic.

TV4B co-operates with several audio-visual production companies, offering attractive pricing.

How is the different:

Both YouTube and Google.Video show all kind of user-generated content.
TV4B offers a business-only channel, and no advertisements inserted in your video.
TV4B offers a withe-label video player, without a logo and no advertisements inserted in your video.
If you embed your video on your own web site, the visitor can not distinguish that the video technically runs from TV4B. It looks like it is completely published from your web site.
TV4B is your second shopping-window, attracting interested visitors only. A dedicated number of qualified leads brings more value than a large number of visitors, which are half-interested.

More at:http://www.tv4b.com/

Media-Convert

What Company Is Offering:
Media-Convert is 100% free. No software is needed, and you don't have to register. You only need your favorite Internet browser. Your files are ready 7/7 days 24/24 hours.

How It Works:

To convert a file located on your computer : Check File mode, click Browse and choose the file, select input format (if autodetection fails) and output format, submit the form.

To convert a file located on a webserver : Check URL mode, enter the file URL, select input and output format.

Media-Convert is the best manner of converting audio files, video, presentation, document, spreadsheet, etc.

More at:http://www.media-convert.com/

Adura Technologies, designer and manufacturer of turn-key wireless got $5 million Series A investment

What Company Is Offering:
Adura Technologies manufactures turn-key wireless lighting management systems that provide for significant energy cost savings and carbon reduction. The Adura LightPoint(TM) System consists of lighting control hardware, software-based installation tools and an enterprise-scale facility management software application that can be integrated with existing building management systems.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Adura Technologies, designer and manufacturer of turn-key wireless lighting management systems for offices and other commercial facilities, announced the completion of a $5 million Series A investment. The financing was co-led by VantagePoint Venture Partners, a leading CleanTech investor based in San Bruno, CA and Claremont Creek Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Oakland, CA.

Adura's advanced clean energy technology provides a full-service lighting management solution that substantially reduces the use of electricity in commercial buildings.

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

Yalwa Offers Free Business Pages

What Company Is Offering:
Yalwa offers directory services for all major US cities.Browsing, searching and posting business directory entries on Yalwa United States is quick, effective and free.
Choose your city and enjoy the Yalwa Free US Directory today! If you can't find your city, they recommend choosing the location closest to it.

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

Thursday, October 16, 2008

BrushVideo---Online Video Editor

What Company Is Offering:
BrushVideo was created because the internet needs a good video editor. They offer a free, fast and quality service. With their editor you can create your very own movies and upload them to YouTube or embed them on your pages.
Simply drag and drop various components onto the timeline and they'll create your movie, ready to be used.

How It Works:
Add a watermark, text or change the sound? All of that and much more is possible on this website, for free. You upload one or more video files, add some audio files, drag animations on top of your videos and add effects. Impress your friends with your very own movies. Click the record button inside the editor: the button with the red circle.
Make sure your webcam is connected to your computer.
A dialog will appear asking you for permission to allow us to access your camera.
These videos, including all other videos you've used, are only stored during your session.Once you have finished creating your movie, the files will be deleted from computer.

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

Thrive is the first on-line, 24/7 financial advisory for young adults

What Company Is Offering:
Thrive is the first on-line, 24/7 financial advisory for young adults. They help people in their twenties and thirties gain control over their financial lives by helping them figure out what to do with their money-aside from spending it!

How It Works:

They start by organizing your financial life and highlighting the pieces that matter the most; the results may surprise you! Then, by learning about your lifestyle and your unique perception of money, they provide highly personalized advice to help you achieve your goals, whether they include buying an iphone or saving up for your own apartment. You'll learn a lot about yourself too, like how much you save month-to-month, where you spend the most, and how financially fit you are. Throughout it all, they keep you up-to-date with valuable alerts so you can avoid major snafus before they happen, making sure that your money is in all the right places so it can grow.

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

FatTail, Inc is an innovator in online advertising optimization software solutions has closed its Series A financing

What Company Is Offering:
FatTail, Inc. is an innovator in online advertising optimization software solutions. Founded in 2001, the company’s AdBook yield and process management software for digital advertising is used by more than 500 of the world’s leading websites.


How Much They Got From VCs:
FatTail Inc., an innovator in online advertising optimization software, announced that it has closed its Series A financing. The $3M round was led by Velocity Interactive Group, whose partners include former AOL Chief Executive Jonathan F. Miller and former Fox Interactive Media President Ross Levinsohn, with participation by Ted Meisel, former Overture CEO and former president of Yahoo! Search Marketing, and others. Levinsohn will join FatTail’s board of directors.


How They Will Use Funds:

The company will use the funds for the development and launch of its new sales optimization software products, which will be available next year.

More at:www.fattail.com

Achronix Semiconductor Corp is provider of the world’s fastest field-programmable gate arrays got funding

What Company Is Offering:
Achronix builds the world's fastest field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) capable of up to 1.5 GHz peak performance.Achronix Semiconductor is a privately held fabless corporation based in San Jose, California.

How Much They Got From VCs:
Achronix Semiconductor Corp., provider of the world’s fastest field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), announced the first closing of a $52 million Series B preferred stock financing. The first $43 million of the unprecedented $52 million financing was closed on Oct. 10, with the remainder to close in the next several weeks.

How They Will Use Funding:

The proceeds from the financing will be used to fund the development of next-generation products and to support the rapidly accelerating demand for the recently-announced Speedster family of 1.5 GHz FPGAs.

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

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Tatango offers an easy-to-use platform that allows any group to stay connected through text messaging

What Company Is Offering:
Tatango offers an easy-to-use platform that allows any group to stay connected through text messaging. As an all in one solution, Tatango allows any group to collect, manage and mobile message all of their group members both from a computer and mobile phone. Tatango was born from the promise of giving groups the ability to stay connected anytime, anywhere. Tatango is permission-based, spam-free and cost-free to consumers.

How It Works:

Set your group free. You can now ditch your slow, inefficient email lists and phone trees, for the convenience and ease of mobile group communication.
Send one message directly from your computer or mobile phone to all of your group members, keeping them connected anytime, anywhere.Getting started is simple. It’s free, easy and quick to get on Tatango.

You can stop text messages to your mobile phone by replying to any group text message with the word STOP. You can also login to your account, and click on the “my account” tab at the top of the page and you will be able to remove yourself from any groups that you have joined.

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

Trendrr.com---Track the popularity and awareness of trends across a variety of inputs

What Company Is Offering:
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.Trendrr is not only a place to track your trends but also a place to discover new trends.

How It Works:

Draw causal relationships between movement across a variety of data and then share that with friends.Combine other user’s data with your own to further enhance your Trendrr experience.Explore what other users are tracking and see how the data they’re interested in compares to what you’re interested in.Import your own data using Trendrr’s API and through this compare virtually anything.

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

Vitals.com, online doctor evaluation service has closed on a $4 million

What Company Is Offering:
Vitals , an innovative, online doctor evaluation and comparison service from MDX Medical Inc., is a comprehensive source for empirical information, peer evaluations and patient feedback on more than 720,000 doctors nationwide.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Vitals.com, the leading online doctor evaluation service from MDX Medical Inc., announced that it has closed on a $4 million round of financing, further propelling the company's accelerated growth. The financing was led by New York-based venture capital firms Milestone Venture Partners, Greycroft Partners LLC and Cross Atlantic Partners with participating follow-on financing by Health Venture Group, LLC. Since its market launch in January of 2008, Vitals has emerged as one of the fastest-growing sites on the web and has become a Quantcast Top 2,000 web site, generating more than one million visitors per month.

More at:www.vitals.com

Booyah is stew-like food prepared en masse for large gatherings

What Company Is Offering:
Booyahs want to blow people away with a product that actually improves their life while simultaneously delighting them with an unmatched user experience.

Like little Type A elves, Booyahs bake their products until they are always perfectly done and tasty, because quality matters to them.

Booyah is stew-like food prepared en masse for large gatherings, and has become an exclamatory catchphrase for broadcasters like Jim Cramer and Stuart Scott. More quietly, it’s also become the name of an online content startup funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

Funding:

Kleiner Perkins is its only institutional backer to date, and has invested approximately $4.5 million with partner Matt Murphy taking a board seat.

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

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Rudder is designed to minimize the effort required in managing your money

What Company Is Offering:
Rudder is designed to minimize the effort required in managing your money. Whether you pay all your bills systematically from one checking account or have more credit cards than your wallet/ purse can fit, Rudder helps you stay on top of your finances.

How It Works:

They need your account log in, so they can connect to your banks and provide pertinent information like account balances, transactions, statement due dates, etc. To connect to your bank, they partner with CashEdge, a leading provider of financial services that serves 5 of the top 10 U.S. banks, including Bank of America and Citibank. They do not store your account credentials. Log in information is transmitted directly to CashEdge Inc. over 128-bit encryption. So, no one from Rudder can view your account information.

More at:http://rudder.com/

Wix--Online Publishing Plateform got 3.5 million in funding

What Company Is Offering:
Wix allows users to create any kind of Flash web site and content they want in a totally flexible manner without the need to know code. This means small businesses and consumers can create full-blown websites in a matter of hours, and make their own changes easily over time. Wix has created a Drag & Drop editor that allows you to decide how you want your website to look -- and see the results in real time online. There is no code to download and Wix provides full hosting management for the new site.


How Much They Got From VCs:

Wix announced that it received US$3.5 million in funding from Mangrove Venture Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners. Lead by Mangrove, the funding will go towards marketing and product development. Wix's current funding to date is US$8.5 million.


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

Intelligent InSites is a provider of enterprise visibility solutions for the healthcare market Got VCs Funding

What Company Is Offering:
Intelligent InSites is a leading provider of enterprise visibility solutions for the healthcare market. Its mission is to profoundly improve the safety, satisfaction, and quality of life of their clients and the people they serve by consistently delivering superior technology products and services.

The InSites Enterprise Visibility Platform improves operational performance by providing healthcare organizations with a single system capable of locating patients, staff, equipment, and inventory via information derived through a variety of wireless real-time location technologies.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Intelligent InSites, Inc., announced that Arthur Ventures, a Fargo-based venture capital group, has chosen the company to be the first major investment from its initial $11.3 million dollar growth fund. As part of the investment, former Microsoft Senior Vice President and current Arthur Ventures Chairman Doug Burgum will sit on the Intelligent InSites Board of Directors.

“We are pleased to be partnering with a dedicated group of investors that has a firm understanding of our mission to profoundly improve the safety, satisfaction, and quality of life of our healthcare clients and the patients and residents they serve,” said Intelligent InSites CEO Mark Rheault. “As a member of our board, Doug Burgum’s guidance will be an invaluable asset to our company.

More at:www.IntelligentInSites.com

Simbionix is to delivery of innovative and effective virtual reality simulation products and solutions

What Company Is Offering:
Simbionix is the industry's leader in the development and delivery of innovative and effective virtual reality simulation products and solutions for clinical education and training of medical professionals. Their products are designed to accelerate best-practice medical training, advance clinical performance, and improve patient safety.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Simbionix USA Corporation is pleased to announce the completion of a Series C round of growth capital financing led by River Cities Capital Funds, along with incumbent investor Early Stage Partners and other existing shareholders, as well as Western Reserve Partners who served as the company’s investment bankers. The investment will enable Simbionix to accelerate the already rapid growth of its medical simulation technology via the introduction of innovative new products and expanded distribution channels. “This significant funding will help us continue the company’s momentum and support Simbionix’s commitment to maintain its position as the global leader in medical simulation technology,” stated Dr. Avshalom Horan, Chairman.

More at:www.simbionix.com

Monday, October 13, 2008

Rewardpick.com is to allow users to easily choose and give feedback about reward credit cards

What Company Is Offering:

The goal of Rewardpick.com is to allow users to easily choose and give feedback about reward credit cards . All content are user-generated, including listed credit cards. We hope that you have fun and find the card that you are looking.

More at:http://rewardpick.com/

Buzzfuse is a content marketing system

What Company Is Offering:

Buzzfuse is a content marketing system.Buzzfuse provides consumers with an easy way to find new content that you'll like. They show you what is new, and what is hot, from within your social circle and the world abroad. You can get this by visiting the site or in a daily email. You can update your preferences at any time or search within the site for great stuff. Best of all, Buzzfuse* is free.

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

Marcellus is a SaaS platform for publishing and distributing video on the Internet

What Company Is Offering:
Marcellus is a SaaS (Software as a Service) platform for publishing and distributing video on the Internet. Marcellus integrates infrastructure, publishing control, distribution capabilties, monetization and visibility into a simple SaaS platform, enabling content publishers to fully harness the power of user generated context.


More at:http://www.marcellus.tv/

Entellium---Empower small and medium sized businesses with leading edge online Customer Relationship Management

What Company Is Offering:
At Entellium, they empower small and medium sized businesses with leading edge online Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions based on user designed innovation that fit today—and tomorrow. Entellium is a highly-focused company passionate about creating the best possible customer relationship management solutions on the market today for small and medium sized businesses.

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

GoHoster is a free online tool to create and publish useful, attractive web pages in just minutes

What Company Is Offering:

GoHoster is a free online tool that makes it easy for anyone to create and publish useful, attractive web pages in just minutes.



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

Saturday, October 11, 2008

NutshellMail transforms your primary email account into a universal inbox

What Company Is Offering:
NutshellMail is a free, web-based service developed to help you better access, manage, and monitor all your email and social networking accounts through your most commonly used inbox. NutshellMail transforms your primary email account into a universal inbox so you can retrieve messages and manage all your accounts in one place. NutshellMail was also designed to enable employees, restricted from third-party messaging accounts, to securely access personal messages at work without violating their employer's IT policies.


How It Works:

NutshellMail is a service for both non-technical and web-savvy users. It is a tool with many applications and our subscribers use the service for many distinct purposes. Some use NutshellMail simply to save time and to keep track of their various accounts. Employees restricted from accessing external messaging accounts use NutshellMail to retrieve personal messages without violating corporate policies. And parents use NutshellMail to keep track of their young children’s email and social networking activities.

More at:http://nutshellmail.com/

Equity Administration Solutions sells industrial-strength stock plan has closed $3.5 million

What Company Is Offering:
Equity Administration Solutions, Inc. sells industrial-strength stock plan expensing software designed to handle the accounting, tax and administration needs of companies that grant equity awards.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Equity Administration Solutions, Inc. (EASi), announced that it has closed $3.5 million in Series C equity financing to support rapid company growth and product enhancements that position the company's flagship stock option accounting software for continued success.

"Sales have doubled since last year," reported Vito Palmieri, CEO of EASi, "with more customers switching to EASi from their legacy systems and spreadsheet solutions." Palmieri explained that with such robust sales the company is now cash flow positive and has become the leading independent software company in the industry. "We continue to design our product to meet the needs of customers today and anticipate the support they will need to accommodate changing regulations and equity compensation trends."

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Fitbit Inc is making America healthier through motivation and awareness has raised $2 million

What Company Is Offering:
Fitbit is devoted to helping people of any fitness level achieve health and wellness. Fitbit provides a complete wellness solution focused on behavior change via awareness and motivation.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Fitbit Inc., a new company devoted to making America healthier through motivation and awareness, announced that it has raised $2 million in financing. True Ventures led the funding round with additional investment by Jeff Clavier’s SoftTech VC and a group of angel investors. As part of the funding round, Jon Callaghan from True Ventures joined Fitbit’s board of directors.

Fitbit will use the infusion of capital to move forward with the consumer launch of its Fitbit Tracker health and wellness monitoring device and Fitbit.com Website. Both are set for release in early 2009. This finance round will also accelerate the development of new products and service offerings.

More at:www.fitbit.com

Where! One of the world's most trusted travel brands

What Company Is Offering:
Where! One of the world's most trusted travel brands, Where has been publishing guidebooks, magazines and maps for more than 70 years. Our expertise is local and our reach is global: our editors live in the places they write about and our publications cover more than 100 destinations worldwide. Wherever you're traveling to, Where is there.


More at:http://wheretraveler.com/

AddsYou.com is a social publishing network that pays authors for their written works

What Company Is Offering:

AddsYou.com is a social publishing network that pays authors for their written works. This compilation of novels, blog posts, how-tos, news articles, short stories, poems, screenplays, etc. is positioned to become the world’s largest database of knowledge.


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

Friday, October 10, 2008

Clipta.com---Online Community For Video Search

What Company Is Offering:
Clipta.com is an ever-growing California based online community that provides it’s users with the ability to search and browse videos throughout the web as well as inside Clipta’s community itself. Clipta’s friendliest video search engine indexes online videos from the web for personal, entertainment and informational purposes.

There will be over a billion videos on the internet at the end of 2008 with millions more uploaded daily. With such an overwhelming amount of videos, it seems impossible to find the video you want. Our brand new state of the art designed V-Rate system allows our users to “make diamonds out of coal”. By rating video quality, our users make sure that there is no trash in our search results. The videos you will see 1st will be the best and you will never have to flip hundreds of pages in order to be satisfied.

Even though we are introducing our new search and V-Rate options, our primary goal of establishing top notch video community hasn’t changed. Clipta still carries all of it’s user oriented functions and still provides our users the ability to upload and share videos.

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

Medical Education Technologies, Inc has been a leader in interactive human patient simulation

What Company Is Offering:
Medical Education Technologies, Inc. (METI®) has been a leader in interactive human patient simulation since 1996. Each METI simulator is designed to simulate bleeding, breathing, talking, blinking and numerous other physiological characteristics and various medical emergency scenarios including heart attack, drug overdose, vehicular accidents, effects from weapons of mass destruction, bio-terrorism and other traumatic injuries. More than 2000 organizations worldwide utilize METI’s technology including leading medical schools such as the Mayo Clinic, Harvard, Cornell, Stanford and others.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Baird Capital Partners (BCP), the U.S.-based buyout fund of Baird Private Equity, and Lou Oberndorf, founder and current CEO of METI, announced that they have acquired Medical Education Technologies, Inc. (METI). Founded in 1996, METI is a Sarasota, Fla.-based manufacturer of human patient simulation products and provider of medical education content such as software learning modules and training. The Company was previously majority owned by L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL). BCP and Oberndorf partnered with Thrivent Financial for Lutherans on the acquisition. US Bank and M&I Bank provided the senior debt financing and Thrivent Financial for Lutherans provided the subordinated debt financing. With the closing of the transaction, Michael Bernstein, BCP Executive-in-Residence, will become METI’s Non-Executive Chairman. Oberndorf, the largest individual shareholder in the company, will continue as METI’s president and CEO.

More at:www.bairdprivateequity.com.

Trilibis Mobile is a technology-enabled publisher of interactive network applications for mobile phones

What Company Is Offering:
Trilibis Mobile is a technology-enabled publisher of interactive network applications for mobile phones. Trilibis' portfolio includes both original content and third-party titles under license from popular online communities and influential digital media companies. With its SmartPath, a scalable publishing platform, Trilibis is able to quickly create, broadly deploy, frequently update and easily manage its customizable, cross-platform mobile applications.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Trilibis Mobile, the leading publisher of interactive network applications for mobile phones, announced today that it has raised $5.7 million in Series B financing. Altos Ventures led the round with participation from ATA Ventures and several early individual investors. Ho Nam, General Partner and Co-Founder of Altos Ventures, has joined the board of Trilibis Mobile. Mike Hodges, Managing Director of ATA Ventures, has joined as a board observer.

"Trilibis has done a great job of establishing relationships with Tier 1 carriers and proving out the SmartPath platform with key content partners," said Ho Nam of Altos Ventures. "With this capital infusion, we look forward to working with the Trilibis team to continue to take market share and grow the business."

More at:www.trilibis.com

Concharto is an online encyclopedic atlas of history and happenings that anyone can edit

What Company Is Offering:
Concharto is an online encyclopedic atlas of history and happenings that anyone can edit. It is a geographic wiki. It looks like Google Maps and works like Wikipedia. It has the all of the illustrative power Google Maps and all of the strengths and weaknesses of Wikipedia.

Concharto gives you simple and elegant answers to hard questions like "What interesting things happened near where I am driving? What happened near our hotel in Paris? What is happening near my town and surrounding areas? What was New York City like from 1858 to 1869?"

How It Works:

Concharto is a Geographic Wiki. Unlike virtually all other mapping sites on the internet today, Concharto is not about places - it is about events. Unlike Wikipedia, it is about small discrete bits of information, rather than comprehensive articles. Like Wikipedia, there is a complete history of changes to events. Anyone can add or edit information.

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

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Spectrum K12 School Solutions Inc got VCs funding

What Company Is Offering:
Spectrum K12 School Solutions Inc. is the leading provider of Response to Intervention and special education IEP software serving 11% of the U.S. K-12 student population including 20 of the top 100 school districts in the United States. Their patented software is a dynamic student achievement management system that has enabled personalized learning for over 5 million children in 29 states in support of our mission to close the achievement gap and Move Every Child Forward.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Spectrum K12 School Solutions Inc, the leading provider of student achievement management software solutions for K12 school districts announced that it has completed a round of financing led by Novak Biddle Venture Partners, Capital Trust Ventures, Comerica Bank and MMV Financial Inc.

This round of financing will expand Spectrum K12’s patented, award winning student achievement management software products including response to intervention and service provider management. Spectrum K12 student achievement management software has enabled personalized learning for over 5 million children in 29 states in support of their mission to close the achievement gap and Move Every Child Forward.



More at:www.spectrumK12.com

CollegeWikis has closed a $2 million funding

What Company Is Offering:
CollegeWikis is the leading group messaging and information platform for students by students. The CollegeWikis web site and messaging platform provides access to immediate and trusted community information.

How Much They Got From VCs:

CollegeWikis, the leading group messaging and information platform for students by students, announced that it has closed a $2 million funding round led by HighBAR Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm founded by Bill Joy, Andreas Bechtolsheim and Roy Thiele-Sardiña. Richmond Management, eCoast Angel Network and Boston Harbor Angels also participated. Thiele-Sardiña will join CollegeWikis’ Board of Directors as part of this financing.

More at:www.collegewikis.com

appssavvy is a direct sales team for the social media space

What Company Is Offering:
appssavvy is a direct sales team for the social media space. The company based in New York City connects hundreds of social media applications with leading brands and agencies. appssavvy provides advertisers with contextually-relevant targeted media opportunities reaching an audience of more than 50 million unique online consumers enjoying social media applications. Developers generate significant revenues through appssavvy's integrated sponsorship capabilities for brands and agencies.

How Much They Got From VCs:
appssavvy , a direct sales team for social media applications, today announced that it has secured $3.1 million in Series A funding led by TRUE Ventures . appssavvy marks TRUE Ventures' first investment through its second fund with $165.5 million in commitments.

In addition to TRUE Venture's investment, Scott Kurnit, founder of About.com and an investor and advisor at the cross-section of media and technology, also participated in appssavvy's Series A investment round. Kurnit has worked at the highest levels of Warner, Viacom, News Corp., PBS, IBM and MCI.

More at:www.appssavvy.com

wabbadabba.com ---Search And Earn

What Company Is Offering:
Use wabbadabba.com as a normal search engine.Each search (limited to 150 a day) gives you a chance at instantly winning a prize.If you win, you’ll see an alert . Just tell them your name and where to send the prize. That’s it…

You do not have to register to win; all you need to do is search as you would do with any other search engine.
There are some rules they follow, but they do not stop you from winning. They limit each household to 3 prizes a month, so that everyone gets a chance of winning.

How It Works:
To use wabbadabba you do not need to register, sign up, join, enlist, commit, enroll or attach yourself in anyway to wabbadabba. However in order to claim your prize, and invite mates to join they will need a few detail.

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

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Muspy---to notify you when artists you like release new albums

What Company Is Offering:
Muspy – the easiest way to follow your favourite artists!This website has a single purpose: to notify you when artists you like release new albums.


How It Works:

You need to create an account to use Muspy. Come on, don't be lazy! It's free and only takes a minute! If you already have an account, click here to sign in.

After you sign in, you may add the artists you want to follow. When one of the artists releases a new album, you will receive a short e-mail notification with the album name and release dates. You can also see the new releases on the website sorted in the chronological order, or subscribe to the rss feed and receive release alerts using the feed aggregator of your choice.

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

Thinglink.org is an initiative to build a free product code and an open database system for creative work

What Company Is Offering:
Thinglink.org is an initiative to build a free product code and an open database system for creative work. Small producers, such as artists, designers, and crafters can use thinglink.org to identify, document and promote their work in the Internet. Thinglink.org offers an easy way to learn about makers, ideas, stories or histories behind products.

How It Works:


To get started, get your own free thinglink account by clicking register. Select a username and a password, and you are done. If you don't want to create an account, you can still find about things by searching makers, titles, or tags.


Thinglinks are codes that you can use for giving an object a unique identity. For example, let's say you have made a painting that you want to add into the thinglink database.

Select Create, and you will get a new form with a unique thinglink. If you want to register this thinglink for your painting, fill in the fields 'title' and 'maker'. In the description box, you have basically an unlimited space to tell about your work. You can refer to its history, tell about the materials and techniques you have used, or add links. If you have a Flickr account, you can easily add a Flickr photo to your thinglink description. If not, get a free account from www.flickr.com, or just add a link to your homepage.

More at:http://www.thinglink.org/

GazoPa enables users to search for a similar image

What Company Is Offering:
GazoPa is a similar image search service on the web in private beta by Hitachi. Users can search images from the web based on user’s own photo, drawings, images found on the web and keywords.

How It Works:

GazoPa enables users to search for a similar image from characteristics such as a color or a shape extracted from an image itself. There are abundant quantities of images on the web, however many of these simply cannot be described by keywords. Since GazoPa uses image features to search other similar images, a vast range of images can be retrieved from the web. GazoPa is a new visual search service that can navigate users to new territories on the web.

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

Siondo ERP is business management solution

What Company Is Offering:
Siondo ERP is currently the first software service available via Siondo's software service platform and it combines all the applications below into a single, powerful business management solution.

How It Works:

Siondo ERP can be fully customised to suit your changing business requirements, and is easily configured to comply with International business legislation and taxation. Core features include role-specific access and dashboards for unlimited users, multi-currency trading, free productivity and collaboration tools and much more.

Manage your customer details, specify unique customer preferences and set flexible terms for product and service sales. Siondo keeps customer accounts, maintains histories, and tracks all customer activity in real time.

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

Monday, October 6, 2008

PermissionTV ---Interactice Advertising Tool

What Company Is Offering:
PermissionTV is the intelligent online video platform that gives you the power to serve up an interactive, one-of-a-kind experience to each and every web visitor.

How It Works:

The PTV platform provides corporations, media companies, agencies, special interest groups and publishing companies a more flexible, interactive way to design, manage, measure and continuously refine video interactions. With PTV’s unlimited design options, robust publishing tools, an open integration framework, and sophisticated analytics, you have what you need to create a rich customer experience that drives profitable relationships and builds brands.

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

Tokoni---New Social Networking

What Company Is Offering:
Tokoni is to enable people to share stories and experiences within a vibrant and open community, where individual wisdom is celebrated and collective knowledge is valued.

How It Works:

Create your profile. Tell us about yourself and your life experiences. To get started create your profile page by clicking the "join now" link found on the upper right corner of the homepage. Tell us a little about yourself, upload a personal profile picture, or use one of ours (don't worry you can always update this page later).

The more active you are within the community the more complete your profile page will become. From your profile page you can view your most recent stories, the collections you've started, the hubs you have joined, all of the stories you've marked as "favorites", and view all of your fans and fan clubs.

You can also manage your account from your profile page,--set email notification preferences, change your password and email address, send an email to your fans, and manage you fan and fan club lists. To return to your profile page click on the my tokoni link that appears at the top of every page when you are signed in. You can also view your profile page (or the profile pages of other Tokos) by clicking on the username wherever it appears on the site.

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

Go4Funding.com--that brings together entrepreneurs, investors, and business experts from around the world

What Company Is Offering:
Go4Funding.com is an online platform that brings together entrepreneurs, investors, and business experts from around the world.


How It Works:

In the “Funding Needed” section of their website, new entrepreneurs and existing business owners can post their capital requirements. In the “Looking To Invest” section, investors, who are looking to invest, can post their profiles so that entrepreneurs can find them easily. Sometimes entrepreneurs may not need capital but may seek business partners or the opinions of other experienced investors or entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs can post these requests in their “Business Ideas” section. In the “Need An Expert” section, entrepreneurs can find experts in their field of industry by posting their requirements. They can even advertise work for equity jobs for experts (e.g. CEO, CFO, or marketing manager).
Go4Funding also allows all users to upload images and videos of their pitch. Our beta version is the first step in achieving their goal of simplicity. They will continuously add various tools over the coming months, which they believe will be beneficial to all users.

More at: http://www.go4funding.com/

Drink Logger makes it easy to track your drinking and monitor your estimated Blood Alcohol Content

What Company Is Offering:
Drink Logger makes it easy to track your drinking and monitor your estimated Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) with plots that show your BAC over time.

How It Works:

When you log a drink, all of the alcohol will be shown in your system at that time. Since alcohol takes time to be absorbed into your system, this is a known inaccuracy in the estimate of BAC. One way to err is to log the drink once it is complete. This way the BAC from that drink will show up in your system for a longer time.

However, this will only be fair estimate if you take a while to consume the drink so that alcohol is entering your system before the drink is consumed. If you are drinking fast, or taking shots, you may want to consider logging the drink some time after it is consumed.

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

Friday, October 3, 2008

LogiXML is Web-based Business Intelligence

What Company Is Offering:
LogiXML, the leader in interactive, Web-based Business Intelligence, empowers enterprises to turn data into business-critical information with pure Web-based reporting and analysis products. The company offers a comprehensive platform that addresses all key areas of BI--managed reporting, ad hoc reporting, analysis and data services. Used by thousands of users worldwide, LogiXML products are built on standards-based technologies for easy integration, implementation and upgrade.

How Much They Got From VCs:

LogiXML, Inc., the leader in purely web-based, truly unified Business Intelligence (BI) reporting, dashboard, and analysis solutions announced today that it has secured $3 million from Grotech Ventures. This funding brings total investments in the company to $8 million, including an earlier round from Updata Partners, which has been leveraged in support of LogiXML's explosive growth. Additionally, Grotech Ventures General Partner, Steve Fredrick will join LogiXML's Board of Directors.

"Grotech's strategy is to invest in high-potential technology companies and work as their partner toward continued growth," said Fredrick. "Along with our capital investment in LogiXML, we will work hands on with the management team and the board of directors to lend expertise on strategic issues, new business development, and most any other industry challenge.

More at:www.logixml.com

Avaak is wire-free personal video networking technology got VCs funding

What Company Is Offering:
Avaak, is the world’s leader in ultra low-power, easy-to-use, wire-free video technology that enables pervasive imaging applications where video and snapshots can be viewed, captured and shared from anywhere at anytime without the need of wiring cameras or downloading software. Originally developed for homeland security and defense purposes, Avaak’s technology enables the use of video in consumer and commercial applications and locations that were previously deemed infeasible.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Avaak, the industry leader in easy-to-use, wire-free personal video networking technology, announced that it raised $7 million in Series A funding. The capital will support product development, marketing, and sales of Avaak’s new and unique consumer product, scheduled for release in early 2009. The financing was led by Trinity Ventures, a firm focused on early-stage technology investment opportunities with an emphasis on digital media and Internet services, among other markets. InterWest Partners and Leapfrog Ventures also made significant investments in Avaak’s initial round of funding.

More at:www.avaak.com

Bloombla is all about connecting people

What Company Is Offering:

Bloombla is all about connecting people around the world and giving everyone a chance to make their mark. Everyone should be blooming and getting connected because it is fun, easy and will always remember the things you have done in your life. Just click done it!


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

Thinkmap is a software platform for developing customized visualization interfaces to complex data

What Company Is Offering:
Thinkmap is a software platform for developing customized visualization interfaces to complex data. The software provides a system for crafting visualizations with structured data in order to make the information more intuitive, accessible, manageable and meaningful. Thinkmap visualizations can make relationships in the data more apparent than can traditional line or column displays and can improve understanding and discovery.

Thinkmaps are highly customizable and are deployed by companies in variety of rich applications: knowledge management, operations and workflow, network management, e-commerce, research & development, and intelligence. Via the Thinkmap Software Developer Kit, developers can quickly create their own visualizations tailored to their data and integrated with their applications. Thinkmap runs on a variety of platforms and can be deployed in a variety of ways.

How It Works:

Thinkmap enables organizations to incorporate dynamic, data-driven information visualization technology into their enterprise Web applications. Thinkmap applications allow knowledge workers to make sense of complex information in ways that traditional interfaces can't. Data that may seem too overwhelming, too multi-faceted, or too dry for engaging users comes to life inside Thinkmap visualizations, keeping knowledge workers more engaged and effective. Thinkmaps make information more intuitive and understandable, often leading to discoveries of relationships and nuance not otherwise possible.

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

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Accellos is a global provider of logistics, warehouse, 3PL, transportation and mobile fleet management solutions

What Company Is Offering:
Accellos is a global provider of logistics, warehouse, 3PL, transportation and mobile fleet management solutions. Accellos addresses the supply chain management and execution market with warehouse management systems for multiple environments; Microsoft Windows-based transportation management solutions; and in-field mobile resource management solutions. Accellos' powerful supply-chain execution solutions are easy to customize and implement, providing our customers with more innovation for less investment while producing significant savings and greater profitability.

How Much They Got VCs:
Accellos Inc., a leading provider of logistics, warehouse, 3PL, transportation, and mobile resource management solutions announced today that it has closed $28.5 million in Series B private equity funding. The new investment comes from funds affiliated with Monitor Clipper Partners, LLC, as well as Accellos' current group of investors, including the group who co-founded Accellos, Colorado based Centennial Ventures.

Accellos will use the funds to finance future acquisitions that expand Accellos' product functionality and geographic footprint. A portion of the funds will be used to acquire Prophesy Transportation Software, a leading provider of solutions in the trucking industry. The acquisition will add over 1,200 fleets to the Accellos family of customers.

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

Tungle is the ultimate scheduling service

What Company Is Offering:

Tungle is the ultimate scheduling service. Tungle is a free web-based scheduling service that extends its customers' time management and groupware solutions, making it easy to coordinate meetings with other professionals no matter where they are or what time management software or groupware application they use.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Tungle, the ultimate scheduling service, announced that it has secured $5 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Waltham, MA-based Commonwealth Capital Ventures. Existing investors, including JLA Ventures and Desjardins Venture Capital, also participated in the round. The funds will be used to accelerate the company’s marketing and engineering activities. Tungle’s service is based on proprietary algorithms that assure that Tungle customers will never be double booked as their availability changes. As blocks of times are proposed for a meeting, they are dynamically updated with the latest availability of the organizer, and with the other Tungle customers that have responded to the meeting invitation.

More at:www.tungle.com

Swoopo is an exciting and unique eCommerce start-up

What Company Is Offering:

Swoopo is an exciting and unique eCommerce start-up that has been running in Europe for up to three years and is now live in the US. They sell a range of technology products, appliances and lifestyle goods, including laptops, vacuum cleaners and handbags. By charging a small amount for each bid placed they're able to offer the winners incredible deals, and give everyone who bids a thrill along the way.

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

Mendeley is free social software for managing and sharing research papers

What Company Is Offering:

Mendeley is free social software for managing and sharing research papers. It is also a Web 2.0 site for discovering research trends and connecting to like-minded academics.


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