Saturday, November 29, 2008

Woopid

What Company Is Offering:
Woopid is a video tutorial website which aims to empower people by giving them access to thousands of free and practical video tutorials, allowing them to learn about their computer and other gadgets. Everything video is made with the knowledge that both a beginner and an advanced user may be watching, and through the unique “Take a Step Back”, “Moving Forward” system, we’re able to ensure all levels of computer and gadget users aren’t confused about what they’re watching. Learn some new tricks, make better presentations, network your computer and more.

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

Friday, November 28, 2008

WikiPik is the place where consumers and professionals alike connect and exchange opinions and data

What Company Is Offering:
wiki" means it's collaborative, and "pik" stands for three things: "pick" as in "pick the best", "peak" meaning "top" or "best", and "PIK" = "Payment In Kind" which stands for WikiPik's reward point system . WikiPik is also a word that is easy to pronouce in just about any language, emphasizing WikiPik's global reach..
WikiPik is the place to make lightning fast educated decisions. WikiPik is the place where consumers and professionals alike connect and exchange opinions and data on products, services, places, people, you name it. WikiPik is truly international, multilingual, ad free and open licensed, that means it's free information forever.

How Is It Different:

Meaningful, Bias Compensated Rankings WikiPik uses a novel ranking algorithm, to display information in the order that is relevant to you. DeltaRank™ is different in that it can compensate for bias in users ratings, by basing its scoring on how contributors perceive quality differences between items rather than just averaging uncorrelated opinions.

Customizable Grid Views WikiPik's powerful grid-based ranking/sorting/filtering interface allows you to quickly manipulate information and identify the item that is best for you. No more sifting through pages and pages of review text to tediously extract the information you need. WikiPik finally has it all at your fingertips!
Performance Database Beyond subjective opinions on quality aspects, users can also share own physical performance measurements, such as such as battery life or power consumption, in a plethora of quantities and units, and convert them between US and metric. Such way you can use WikiPik as a collaborative research database, go beyond whitewashed manufacturer's specs and get your hands on real world data.

Open Structure WikiPik allows you not only contribute content, but also collaborate on how this content is represented and organized. If something is not in the database yet, simply add it! Create new items, categories, rating criteria, technical specs whenever you need them and build WikiPik right then and there.

Open License All contributed content is published under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license. So anything you contribute to WikiPik stays free information available to mankind forever, and can be re-distributed and altered by anyone, free of charge, even for commercial purposes, under the terms of this license.

Ad Free Consistent with the vow to strict neutrality and trust, WikiPik is a 100% ad-free web site. WikiPik puts mission first and money second so we can all enjoy a truly informational experience.

Multilingual Having a name that is easy to pronounce in just about any language, and a multilingual interface & database, WikiPik makes it easy for anyone from any culture to contribute.

More at:Wikipik

MIVA is all about helping your business grow through performance marketing services

What Company Is Offering:

MIVA is all about helping your business grow through performance marketing services. From setting up storefronts to delivering customers to your website, MIVA can help in multiple ways. To achieve these objectives, we have established three main divisions, each complementing the other and each offering their own unique products and services:

MIVA Direct helps businesses develop direct relationships with users through private-branded consumer desktop software supported by robust underlying contextual and search technologies.

They offer popular consumer desktop software tailored to the needs of specific audiences, customized with a partner brand and buttons. Consumer software options include a search toolbar with ad-blocker and custom links tailored to site content, rich messaging capabilities via RSS and XML, and custom integrations with additional features such as weather, finance and communications. Desktop software can link to a site's most active and engaging content. For example, this could include a popular sports icon that resides on the desktop which offers instant information and quick access to a fantasy football league, or a stock ticker that provides immediate market updates. Partners can earn additional revenue, extend their brand beyond the traditional web site, and interact with their consumers in new ways. Users benefit from a better, more interactive experience with their favorite online or offline brand.

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

Industry Trends Exercise

Why is Wayne Gretzky one of pro hockey's all-time greats? Gretzky says the trick is "skating to where the puck's going to be, not where it is." Anticipating his teammates' moves and competitors' reactions, he dynamically positions himself to take the shot. This time-tested strategy landed Gretzky among the National Hockey League's leading scorers for over ten years.
Your company can glide to the top using a similar approach, dynamically positioning itself to anticipate the market's direction and competitors' responses. That's one way strategic planning gives you an edge. Unlike operational planning, strategic planning focuses on where you need to be in three to five years.

Failing to look ahead is like skating blindfolded. You never know how close you are to the goal.

Understanding industry trends There are various approaches to understanding trends in your industry-gathering and analyzing secondary data already available, for example, or collecting primary data from your customers, suppliers, and other key stakeholders.

Too many companies overlook one of the best and most convenient sources of industry insight-the management team. If your managers are up on your industry, you have a storehouse of information at your fingertips.

You can do the same Industry Trends Exercise that enables our clients to tap the knowledge and expertise of their managers. Through this structured exercise the management team

Identifies and prioritizes key trends that are likely to affect the company - for all key stakeholder groups within the industry (customers, suppliers, governments, and others).
Outlines strategies to take advantage of favorable trends.
Develops strategies to minimize the impact of unfavorable trends.

If your industry is in flux, facing environmental changes that could affect your future success, try the Industry Trends Exercise. It will help you reach your goals as you grow and your industry evolves.

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Futurecovery .com---Discover Your Future

What Company Is Offering:

Futurecovery is a simple mini app which is Ajax based. People are always guessing what they will become in ten years time, what they will be doing in a week, or indeed next year. Futurecovery simply lets the user choose a date, write what they think they will be, have become, or want to be, type in their e-mail and click send.

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

Cebase is a web based database that allows you to manage and share your data on the web

What Company Is Offering:
Cebase is a web based database that allows you to manage and share your data on the web. In cebase your data is stored in lists. A list is much like a table in a traditional database like Microsoft Access or FileMaker but without the hassles of having to create primary keys, foreign keys or any other low-level database object.


How It Works:

To get started you first have to create an application. You can create an application by clicking on the Create New Application button that is located on your account home page. In the page that is loaded, enter a name for your application and click Create Application to let cebase create your application.

You can either create a new list by entering a list name and defining one or more fields - or - by importing your data. If you have no data to import and want to start from scratch then select Create a New List. Enter a descriptive term (like contacts or tasks) for the items in your list. The term you enter should be the plural noun that best describes the data you want to keep track of. If for example you want to keep track of your contacts then you should enter the plural noun Contacts. Next define the information you want to store for each item in your list. You can do so by entering one or more field names and selecting an appropriate data type. Some example field names are First Name, Last Name, Street, etc... If you are done entering field names then click the Create List button to create your list.



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

Free IQ is an online community where streaming video is used to share knowledge and information with others…at no cost

What Company Is Offering:

Free IQ is an online community where streaming video is used to share knowledge and information with others…at no cost.


At Free IQ, the emphasis is placed on exchanging valuable information not frivolous entertainment. They believe that everyone knows something that is of value to someone else. They let people share that knowledge through video.

A unique feature enables site visitors to make purchases directly from a content provider. The product purchased could be additional video information (which can be downloaded directly from Free IQ or sent via DVD), audio CD’s, E-zines, E-newsletters or even physical products. Free IQ processes each transaction and collects a modest commission.

How Is It Different:

Free IQ allows a user to upload any video, regardless of length. You can also upload audio, PDF’s…almost any media. A proprietary search engine allows users to quickly select only relevant content. The search algorithm—which has two patents pending—also incorporates a sophisticated user rating system which considers direct input, review quality and actual user experience with each piece of content.

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

Thursday, November 27, 2008

The Indian Outbound Travel Monitor provides an understanding of the market segments of Indian outbound travelers

In 2008, approximately 10 million* overseas trips will be made by Indians. By 2010 it is estimated that this will go up to about 16 million*. There is limited information on the Indian outbound travelers' behavior, perceptions and experiences. The India Outbound Travel Monitor 2008 is the first syndicated survey of its kind to provide you with insights on the Indian outbound traveler to fulfill this need gap and help marketers and those related to the travel and tourism industry make informed decisions. *Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA)

The report is based on face to face interviews conducted with 2000 outbound travelers across tier I and tier II cities. The study was conducted across five big cities and five smaller cities spread across the North, East, West and South of India.

The Indian Outbound Travel Monitor provides an understanding of the market segments of Indian outbound travelers allowing marketers to:

- Identify and optimize growth opportunities in the India outbound travel market

- Develop effective marketing strategies to win Indian consumers

- Gain insights for tactical plans to communicate with your target segment

- Unravel the entire travel decision making process and the Barriers and drivers there in

- Track your performance against competitors

- Understand new trends in travel

This study will be useful to the Airlines, NTO s, Hotels, Airport authorities, Travel Agents, OTAs, Duty free shops, Insurance, Telecom and many others related to the Travel Industry.

Asian countries are the most popular destinations for Indian travelers.

On average, Indians spend nearly USD 1,789 per person per leisure trip.

Nature and the environment (62%), culture and art (53%), safety (50%) and hygiene (48%) are the most important considerations for travellers when selecting their next travel destination.

The internet has fast become one of the most popular sources of information on destinations for close to half (48%) of those surveyed, behind travel agents and tour operators (56%).

More at:http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/38e8ee/india_outbound_tra

inDplay accelerates, expands, and facilitates the worldwide marketplace for film, TV and video rights

What Company Is Offering:

inDplay accelerates, expands, and facilitates the worldwide marketplace for film, TV and video rights. Aggregating professional buyers and sellers, inDplay promotes sales across all distribution channels (e.g.,Theatrical, Home Video/DVD, Cable/TV, Mobile/Handheld, and Internet/VOD). inDplay is a subscription-based online marketplace where buyers and sellers can transact and manage rights for their film and video properties. Using a proprietary standardized licensing and contract process, inDplay facilitates content discovery and acquisition process, making it easier to buy and sell distribution rights globally.
inDplay is comprised of a team of professionals from the media, entertainment, and technology industry. Read about our Team or our Board & Advisors.

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

Curbly is the best place to find design ideas, share your creativity, and learn from experts

What Company Is Offering:

Curbly is the best place to find design ideas, share your creativity, and learn from experts.

It's an online community of people who are passionate about making their homes the best place to be.

Curbly is a Web community for people who love where they live. Curbly is the best place to share pictures of your home, find design ideas, and get expert home-improvement advice.

With the right tools and know-how, every person can create a place that fits their personality. Curbly helps you bring out the best in your home.

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

AutoVirt allows you to eliminate tasks from your workload by automating data migration in a transparent, out-of-band operation

What Company Is Offering:

AutoVirt allows you to eliminate tasks from your workload by automating data migration in a transparent, out-of-band operation. AutoVirt is the only complete and fully automated file virtualization and data migration software solution for Windows environments.
AutoVirt software optimizes storage utilization, frees staff to make better use of talent and time, mitigates business risk, and delivers a significant ROI.
AutoVirt software will be available for purchase online as well as over the phone, and pricing is determined by the size of the user environment. AutoVirt can help automate data migration tasks for organizations of any size.

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

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

PlaySpan, Inc., the leading provider of digital goods micro-transaction and payment solutions got $16.8M funding

What Company Is Offering:
PlaySpan is the game industry's first publisher-sponsored in-game commerce network. PlaySpan's patent-pending in-game search, commerce and micropayment technologies enable game publishers and developers to generate new revenues, acquire new users and extend the loyalty of existing users. Leading game providers and virtual world publishers have selected PlaySpan as their official marketplace for virtual goods.

PlaySpan offers global payment solutions through its subsidiary PayByCash®, which has served the games industry for 10 years, supporting over 70 payment methods in over 180 countries.

How Much They Got From VCs:

PlaySpan, Inc., the leading provider of digital goods micro-transaction and payment solutions, announced $16.8M in Series B investment from Easton Capital Group, Menlo Ventures, Novel TMT Ventures, STIC and other undisclosed investors. This new capital brings the company's total funding to $24M. The new funding will be used to expand into Europe and Asia and to grow PlaySpan's global publisher and user-base.

"Online games publishers and social media application developers are looking for new sources of revenue beyond traditional advertising and subscriptions. We are enabling a new business model in the form of micro-transactions for users that prefer the pay-as-you-go model," said Karl Mehta, Founder & CEO of PlaySpan. "It is a testament to our market-leading position, demonstrated growth, and the long-term potential of virtual goods and micro-transactions that we have raised a significant round in spite of the current economic climate."

The pay-as-you-go model has gained rapid adoption and is poised for tremendous future growth because it gives consumers more control over their entertainment experience and offers publishers expanded revenue opportunities. PlaySpan offers publishers and developers a complete out-of-the-box platform for managing secure, efficient micro-transactions, virtual goods sales, global alternative payments and peer-to-peer trading. PlaySpan’s platform enables any developer to monetize any content at any price for any user in any country, said Mehta.

More at:www.playspan.com

Contact:
VSC Consulting
Vijay Chattha, 415-305-6041
vijaychatta@gmail.com

Sezmi Corporation, creator of the first complete personal TV system has secured $33 million

What Company Is Offering:
Sezmi Corporation has developed the first complete personal TV offering by combining traditional TV content, movies and internet video in a single easy-to-use product. Designed from the ground up with next generation TV functionality, Sezmi puts consumers in total control with a personalized on-demand viewing experience. Sezmi is working with partners from broadcast, broadband, content and advertising industries to create a new TV choice for consumers.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Sezmi Corporation, creator of the first complete personal TV system, announced that it has secured $33 million of additional financing. This amount includes new investments from Advanced Equities, Inc. and others, and follow-on investments from previous investors: Morgenthaler Ventures, Omni Capital Group, TD Fund, and Legend Ventures.

“This round of funding enables us to put the final touches on product development and testing, and bring the Sezmi service to market,” said Buno Pati, co-founder and CEO of Sezmi. “We are pleased to welcome our new investors and would like to thank our previous investors for their ongoing support.

“Sezmi has a strong plan and has established a unique position in the market,” said Bob Pavey, general partner of Morgenthaler Ventures. “Sezmi has demonstrated not only the viability of its offering, but also its ability to reach milestones as set forth in its plan. We strongly believe in Sezmi and its management team; this funding reflects our enthusiasm for the opportunity to contribute to Sezmi’s growth.”

More at: www.sezmi.com
Sezmi Corporation
Barbara Cassidy, 650-631-7100
bcassidy@sezmi.com
or
A&R Edelman
Jody Farrar, 650-762-2925
jody.farrar@ar-edelman.com

QuickenPicks.com, a new, free online shopping service

What Company Is Offering:
QuickenPicks.com, a new, free online shopping service from Intuit Inc. It offers discounts from more than 900 popular online retailers so consumers can save more money and even earn cash back. Last month, Quicken Picks customers received an average cash back check of nearly $50.

Quicken Picks offers consumers hundreds of discounts in 27 categories, including automotive services, books, clothing, shoes, toys, and even groceries. Consumers can easily find wish list items too, everything from wine to outdoor gear, to dining, travel and electronics. QuickenPicks.com features discounts from retailers such as Best Buy, Barnes & Noble, and Lands End.

Quicken Picks is available to everyone, free of charge. Consumers can also install a toolbar within Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers on Windows machines to receive updates on deals.

More at:https://couponoffers.intuit.com/

VideoEgg, the video and rich media ad network that guarantees brand engagement, today introduced AdFrames for mobile

What Company Is Offering:
VideoEgg is a new kind of rich media advertising network that guarantees brand engagement. The network is composed of over 80 million uniques across more than 200 leading video, gaming and social network sites as well as social applications, bringing outstanding consumer reach and engagement to its advertising partners. An advertising innovator, VideoEgg was the first to commercialise interactive advertising overlays onto video, an approach that is being widely adopted by the industry.

New Updates:

VideoEgg, the video and rich media ad network that guarantees brand engagement, today introduced AdFrames for mobile, a performance-based ad offering that enables advertisers to distribute invitation-based, expandable video or rich media ads to iPhone users. Nikon is among the first brands to leverage AdFrames’ mobile distribution as a measurable way to promote its CoolPix and D90 cameras and reach highly engaged consumers.

What Is AdFrame:
The AdFrames solution distributes video or rich media through an innovative, expandable ad unit that can be dynamically formatted to fit any size on a page, widget or online game. This flexibility will enable publishers to better integrate the ad message into their environment. Importantly, Adframes will align incentives across the delivery network by compensating publishers on user engagement. Engagement doesn’t begin until a user rolls over the ad, and the AdFrame Invitation has expanded into an overlay. AdFrames includes a countdown during the roll-over to ensure the user is not engaging with the ad inadvertently.

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

Venture Capital Is Still Flowing ?

A ray of hope in the hard-knocks economy: Despite few foreseeable exits, early stage investors are still making bets in a handful of promising, high-growth sectors.

In fact, venture capitalists have put only slightly fewer dollars at stake as they did this same time last year, before the financial crisis had gained any traction. In the three quarters ended Sept. 30, venture-capital investment was down just 4%, to $22.3 billion, versus the same period in 2007, according to VentureOne, an industry tracker.

Compare that to the relatively comatose market for initial public offerings, which tends to offer the juiciest exits for VC funds. Measured in dollar terms, the 50 IPOs in the first three quarters raised just $30.5 billion, compared with the 261 deals that yielded $60.5 billion in the first three quarters of last year. Only eight companies went public in the last three months, raising a mere $1 billion.

Some VCs say the difficult market has made it easier to find promising companies. "There are [fewer] tourists right now who are just pitching," says Guy Kawasaki, managing director at Garage Technology Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund. "That yields a better entrepreneur."

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Search the best of the web in a single search

What Company Is Offering:

"Search the best of the web in a single search".They've created the first multi-dimensional information aggregator and search portal in the world. Their goal is to gather, organize and render the most relevant information from the internet's most valuable destinations for each users search, in one single simple shot. Catch a useful video when you weren't looking for one, see the latest news and blogs on a topic you're searching for, or find a variety of deals on a gadget you need and more when you use LeapFish.

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

Meshopolis.com is your one-stop shopping marketplace that provides you convenience for buying and selling online

What Company Is Offering:

Meshopolis.com is your one-stop shopping marketplace that provides you convenience for buying and selling online. Or simply put, Meshopolis is an online shopping mall. At Meshopolis, everyone can create and operate their eStores with just a few clicks.

At meshopolis, most eStores will be able to process credit cards through the use of Paypal. Depends on the eStore you visit, credit cards and Paypal will most likely be accepted.

How Is It Different:

Unlike traditional malls, shoppers can also take the advantage of participating in the Meshopolis Community for product discussions and opinion sharing. You can also read product reviews posted by others – a great way to do your research before making final decision on what product to buy.


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

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Zuberance, the leading provider of on-demand customer sales force software has raised $4 million in Series A funding

What Company Is Offering:
Zuberance offers a portfolio of customizable SaaS applications that enable enterprises to identify, mobilize, and track customer advocates. Zuberance's unique applications enable customers to automatically publish authentic, advocate-generated content like reviews and testimonials to specific locations within shopping and review sites, to share promotional offers with friends and colleagues, as well as offers powerful management tools and real-time analytics.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Zuberance, the leading provider of on-demand customer sales force software, announced that it has raised $4 million in Series A funding from Emergence Capital Partners, the leading venture capital firm focused on early and growth-stage technology-enabled services companies. Gordon Ritter, general partner of Emergence Capital, joined Zuberance’s board of directors and the company will use the funding to expand its team and support product development, sales and marketing efforts.

About VCs:

Emergence Capital Partners, based in San Mateo, Calif., is the leading venture capital firm focused on early and growth-stage Technology-Enabled Services companies. Its mission is to help build market leaders in partnership with great entrepreneurs. Emergence partners have funded and helped build more than 35 TES companies, more than any other early-stage venture firm. Emergence Capital has assets of over $325 million under management. Prior investments include companies such as salesforce.com (CRM), SuccessFactors (SFSF), HireRight (HIRE), Genius, Intacct, TouchCommerce and InsideView. For more information, visit www.emcap.com.

More at:www.zuberance.com

Top 30 start-up

Agri-business, software testing, sports management, education and tele-radiology all rub shoulders in a shortlist of 30 nominees in the Tata-NEN Hottest Startup Awards conducted by the National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN), a not-for-profit organization that aims to nurture entrepreneurship in the country.
The 30 were chosen from a list of 588 nominees with maximum public votes and the highest expert ratings. The competition, of which Mint is an exclusive print partner, attracted 200,000 votes across all nominees and 100,000 registered users on its website.

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With Melt Mail, you only give your unique Melt Mail address and get the desired information

What Company Is Offering:
With Melt Mail, you only give your unique Melt Mail address (which forwards to your own), get the desired information and after a defined period of time (the melting point) the Melt Mail address will be deleted.


How It Works:

Enter your e-mail address in the text field and choose how long your Melt Mail forward-address should be available -- it's the melting point.
After hitting the "create"-button, a unique Meltmail is created which forwards every incoming mail to your e-mail acccount.

After the melting point is reached, they delete your real e-mail address from their database and also the Meltmail won't be available anymore.
So, they only store your e-mail address during the period of time you defined with the melting point.

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

Blern.com--Get personalized recommendations of news and blog articles based on what you like

What Company Is Offering:
Blern.com learns about you through a variety of your user profiles on the web such as MySpace, Digg, Pandora, Delicious, WordPress, Stumbleupon and others. Blern then makes accurate recommendations of news and blog articles based on what it learns about you. You can also train Blern by telling it directly which articles you liked and which you didn't.

More at:http://blern.com/

Monday, November 24, 2008

50 Biggest Companies by Revenue

50 Biggest Companies by Revenue
Even beleaguered standbys like GM, Bombardier and Nortel are still impressively huge.

RANK COMPANY (Year-End) REVENUE
($000's) REVENUE
%CHG ASSETS
($000's) ASSETS
%CHG
1 Royal Bank of Canada (Oc07) 41,307,000 14.60 600,346,000 11.84

2 Manulife Financial (De07) 35,533,000 3.92 352,002,000 -2.02

3 George Weston (De07) 33,035,000 2.27 18,388,000 -1.11

4 General Motors of Canada (De07) 31,675,000 -4.99 n/a n/a

5 Power Corp. of Canada (De07) 29,623,000 2.50 133,145,000 0.29

6 Magna International (De07) 1 26,192,000 7.98 15,343,000 16.64

7 Bank of Nova Scotia (Oc07) 26,427,000 17.55 411,510,000 8.58

8 Toronto-Dominion Bank (Oc07) 25,209,000 12.59 422,124,000 7.43

9 Imperial Oil (De07) 24,136,000 2.65 16,287,000 0.91

10 Onex Corp. (De07) 23,520,000 16.99 26,199,000 16.04

11 EnCana Corp. (De07) 1 21,886,000 33.09 46,974,000 33.81

12 CIBC (Oc07) 23,289,000 15.38 342,178,000 12.56

13 Chrysler Canada (De06) 8 15,226,000 2.39 n/a n/a

14 Rio Tinto Alcan (De07) 1 20,091,000 -15.02 n/a n/a

15 Petro-Canada (De07) 21,496,000 15.14 23,852,000 5.33

16 Sun Life Financial (De07) 21,190,000 -12.77 187,496,000 -0.60

17 Bank of Montreal (Oc07) 20,344,000 12.07 366,524,000 14.55

18 BCE Inc. (De07) 20,264,000 14.54 37,797,000 1.68

19 Bombardier Inc. (Ja08) 1 17,763,000 9.17 20,562,000 -4.83

20 Suncor Energy (De07) 18,178,000 14.83 24,167,000 28.83

21 Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec (De07) 18,067,000 55.44 227,149,000 9.46

22 Husky Energy (De07) 15,674,000 23.44 21,697,000 20.99

23 Shell Canada (De06) 14,806,000 2.86 17,556,000 28.47

24 Wal-Mart Canada (Ja06) 14,300,000 5.93 31,891,000 n/a

25 Alimentation Couche-Tard (Ap07) 1 12,087,400 18.68 3,043,200 31.20

26 Empire Company (My07) 13,408,200 2.39 5,224,900 3.43

27 ACE Aviation Holdings (De07) 12,728,000 19.10 13,771,000 2.46

28 Hydro-Quebec (De07) 12,417,000 10.27 64,852,000 2.54

29 Desjardins Group (De07) 12,275,000 5.15 144,059,000 11.55

30 Enbridge Inc. (De07) 12,233,800 11.96 19,907,400 8.31

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Zubka is a unique job referral site

What Company Is Offering:
Zubka is a unique job referral site which can benefit you in two simple ways;

First, you can earn good money by recommending friends for jobs. And second, if you need to fill a job vacancy, Zubka helps you find the perfect person - in a simpler, cheaper, more hassle free way than the usual recruitment routes.

How It Works:

If there's a job posted on Zubka and you think it is right for someone you know, then refer them.

They can be anyone – your sister, cousin, school mate, work colleague - anybody you know who would be perfect for that job.

If they get the job, bingo! You're in the money. For example, they reward to you for placing someone in a £50,000 job is £3,600.



If you're a Hirer advertising a job on Zubka, it means you're opening up that vacancy to the world of Zubka Connectors. This means all the Candidates (the people who are referred) are personally recommended. Check their profile to see they're totally appropriate for the position.

And as well as being a quick way of hiring, it costs a third of traditional recruitment charges. The Hirer gets the perfect candidate and pays considerably less than usual.

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

ReliefInsite.com, is a HIPAA-compliant web-based platform that provides visually-oriented pain assessment and tracking

What Company Is Offering:

ReliefInsite is a privately held healthcare information technology company that provides secure online pain management services. The company's flagship product, ReliefInsite.com, is a patented, secure, HIPAA-compliant web-based platform that provides visually-oriented pain assessment and tracking. Through the collection of structured and unstructured data and preparation of comprehensive reports, ReliefInsite provides a longitudinal perspective of a patient's condition in real-time, enabling improved quality of care and assessment of outcomes.

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

SENIORPeopleMeet.com

What Company Is Offering:

SENIORPeopleMeet.com has been designed to provide a simple and fun atmosphere for singles. Meet other singles in your city or on the other side of the world. Using theirr easy to use search features and their leading edge website technology, meeting other singles has never been easier.

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

Friday, November 21, 2008

Offbeat Guides create personalized, up-to-date travel guides that cover over 30,000 travel destinations

What Company Is Offering:
Offbeat Guides create personalized, up-to-date travel guides that cover over 30,000 travel destinations, using a combination of search technology and curation by both amateur and professional travel experts.

How It Works:

Their guides scour the web to find the best, most up-to-date information about your destination. You can personalize the information you want based on your travel dates, preferences, and destination. The guides come with local maps, festivals and events going on while you're there, exchange rates, key phrases in the city's language, weather forecasts and more.

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

Mobspin makes it easy to ask for (and share) recommendations with your friends across a wide range of topics

What Company Is Offering:

Mobspin makes it easy to ask for (and share) recommendations with your friends across a wide range of topics.

How It Works:

The questions, reviews, and comments you write can be seen by any other Mobspin user, and will eventually be available to the general public as well.

However, only people who are "connected" to you can see your name or picture attached to what you've written (or see your profile).

"Connected" users are your friends (one degree away), your friends' friends (two degrees), and the friends of your friends' friends (three degrees).

Your content will appear anonymous to everyone else.
Only people connected to you — within three degrees of friendship — can reply to your questions or comment on your reviews.

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

Foonance.com is the new flexible way for families, individuals, and couples to manage their personal finances

What Company Is Offering:

Foonance.com is the new flexible way for families, individuals, and couples to manage their personal finances and track their Net worth over multiple Money Stores.

How It Works:

Once your have started logging your expenses and income you will have the chance to "Tag" your expenses. Tags are basically keywords, for instance you may log a transaction when you purchase some groceries, for this you may enter a Tag of say: "Groceries" or "Food". These Tags will help generate a "Tag Cloud" which will give you a helpful look into exactly where your money is going.

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

SXC is an alternative for expensive stock photography

What Company Is Offering:

SXC is an alternative for expensive stock photography. The idea was to create a site where creative people could exchange their photos for inspiration or work. In about two years the site evolved into this massive community you see now - there are over 1.500.000 registered users and more than 350.000 photos online!

When you click download, the high res photo appears in a HTML page. On Windows you can save them by right clicking on them and selecting Save as, while on Mac you can save them by CTRL - clicking on them and selecting Save as. If you use Internet Explorer and it wants to save a BMP file, please empty your browser cache and try again!


More at:http://www.sxc.hu/

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Tip'd is a community for financial news, ideas, and tips

What Company Is Offering:
Tip'd is a community for financial news, ideas, and tips. It operates as a social media platform, meaning the community (you) decides which news stories and investing tips should be published on their homepage. Tip'd users vote on stories they like by clicking the 'Tip it' button that appears next to each story, and then can comment by pressing the 'Discuss' link below the story.


More at:http://tipd.com/

wePapers is a place where students (and everybody) can expand their knowledge and share their wisdom, for free

What Company Is Offering:
wePapers was created to help students (and other knowledge-thirsty folks) share their smarts. wePapers is a place where students (and everybody) can expand their knowledge and share their wisdom, for free .They created wePapers to help people learn from one-another.

How It Works:

The idea is simple: they think everyone has something to teach, and anyone can become a teacher, a guru or a mentor.
More important, they believe everybody deserves the right to learn for free .

wePapers is where you find the kind of quality information you wouldn't find anywhere else on the web, the kind of papers you'd have to dig for in dusty library basements and still not find what you're looking for .

wePapers is also where you share what you've learned, with people who are learning the same thing. You can discuss your work with them and get useful feedback .

Whether to help you graduate with honors or just win an argument, they created WePapers to help make you smarter, much smarter .

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

ebandLive gives you a professionally designed website and content management service so you can easily update your band's website from anywhere

What Company Is Offering:

ebandLive gives you a professionally designed website and content management service so you can easily update your band's website from anywhere in the world using only a web browser. Add, delete and edit news postings, tour dates, blogs, links, band bios, pics, mp3s and more! ebandLive was built specifically for bands, artists, band manager / management companies and record labels. It includes all of the elements that make a music website kick ass AND it's super easy for anyone to update.


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

ebandLive gives you a professionally designed website and content management service so you can easily update your band's website from anywhere

What Company Is Offering:
ebandLive gives you a professionally designed website and content management service so you can easily update your band's website from anywhere in the world using only a web browser. Add, delete and edit news postings, tour dates, blogs, links, band bios, pics, mp3s and more! ebandLive was built specifically for bands, artists, band manager / management companies and record labels. It includes all of the elements that make a music website kick ass AND it's super easy for anyone to update.


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

CreativePro Office is the most complete set of online office management tools

What Company Is Offering:
CreativePro Office is the most complete set of online office management tools you're likely to find at any price - and it's completely free! Manage your team, clients, projects, invoices, events and quotes from one web-based application. CreativePro Office is well suited for both independent professionals and small teams of graphic designers, programmers and web developers.


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

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

RollStream is the leader in enterprise collaboration for trading partner communities

What Company Is Offering:
RollStream is the leader in enterprise collaboration for trading partner communities. RollStream delivers an online solution for accelerating interactions across the global supply chain. Industry leaders like McKesson Medical-Surgical, Owens & Minor and Tesco use RollStream to significantly reduce the cost and time required to onboard partners, communicate operational changes, and rollout sales and marketing initiatives.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Core Capital Partners, a leading venture capital firm that invests in high-growth technology companies, today announced that it led a $6 million Series B round of funding for RollStream, a premier provider of enterprise collaboration software solutions. This latest round of funding will be used to expand sales and marketing efforts and to bolster RollStream’s portfolio of tools for contact management, communications, document sharing, and feedback management.

Fairfax, Va.-based RollStream optimizes trading partner communities through collaboration solutions targeted at person to person interaction. By speeding collaboration and communication amongst manufacturers, suppliers, distributors and customers, the company’s hosted software solution enables businesses to reduce the cost to manage their extended supply chains.

More at:www.rollstream.com

Trashbank is the Web's premier free, full-service bartering site

What Company Is Offering:
Trashbank is the Web's premier free, full-service bartering site. Unlike other similar bartering destinations, Trashbank is the only one that provides a comprehensive range of categories that truly allows members to trade anything they have for anything they want, be it a product, a service or even cold, hard cash.

How It Works:
Trashbank is the place for you. Whether you're a home repair guru, a musician, a massage therapist or just a hard-working person willing to mow someone's lawn all summer in return for a ride back to school in the fall, you are sure to find someone here willing to trade with you.

Trashbank is more than a collection of hidden treasures. It's also a community of people like yourself who know the value of what you have and what you have to offer. And that's why even if you don't immediately find something you want, you can still get paid.

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

MOG, your personalized gateway for music discovery

What Company Is Offering:
MOG, your personalized gateway for music discovery. With MOG, you can find, share, and talk about the music you’re into, from Abba to Zappa.

Whether you’re a die-hard music junkie, or just looking for inspiration for your latest party playlist, MOG is your essential online music source. Created by a passionate community of music lovers and powered by cutting edge music discovery technology, MOG makes it ridiculously easy to find new music, watch music videos, and read news and reviews that match your personal taste in music.

Imagine if Rolling Stone or MTV had thousands of writers and producers contributing news, reviews, songs, and videos that were filtered based on what you were listening to, so you could always find the good stuff. That’s exactly what MOG is doing.

And the scene at MOG is raging. You may even rub shoulders with some of your favorite bands; Over 100 artists are currently hanging out on MOG, including Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie, Questlove of The Roots, Branford Marsalis, Greg Saunier of Deerhoof, Tad Kubler of The Hold Steady, Matthew Caws of Nada Surf, David Lowery of Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven, Tom Gray of Gomez, Josh Haden, and Portastatic.

Completely free, anyone can create a MOG page and browse posts, MP3s and videos by visiting www.mog.com.

More at:http://mog.com/

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

digitalArbor provides onshore/offshore implementation and production services to the digital advertising, marketing, and content/communications market

What Company Is Offering:
digitalArbor provides onshore/offshore implementation and production services to the digital advertising, marketing, and content/communications market.digitalArbor takes creative and strategic direction for advertising and marketing activities from clients to produce and maintain digital campaigns with the same quality and speed of much more expensive onshore teams. Whether a large retained team, or short-term project, digitalArbor is focused on partnering with clients on their terms.

How Much They Got From VCs:

digitalArbor, a provider of implementation and production services to the digital advertising, marketing and content/communications market, launched today and announced that it has secured a $5 million Series A round of financing led by Flybridge Capital Partners. In conjunction with the launch, the company also announced that its United States operations and first offshore digital production facility have begun to service new client relationships. As part of the funding, Jeff Bussgang from Flybridge Capital Partners will join the company’s board of directors.

More at:www.digitalarbor.com

VibeAgent.com is a hotel search engine

What Company Is Offering:
VibeAgent.com is a hotel search engine. VibeAgent searches rates and availability for more than 140,000 hotels worldwide from 30 leading hotel and travel sites.


How Much They Got From VCs:

VibeAgent, the hotel search engine, announced at the industry-leading PhoCusWright Travel Conference that it has raised $3 million in Series A investment capital to support its goal of becoming the world's leading hotel search engine.

"It can be very time-consuming to find the right hotel at the best price online," said VibeAgent Co-founder and CEO Adam Healey. "VibeAgent solves this problem by aggregating rates, availability, and content from over 30 travel sites, and adding a layer of intelligence to match each traveler to the perfect hotel. Our goal is to become the market leader in hotel search, and this investment is a milestone along that path."

More at:www.vibeagent.com

Friday, November 14, 2008

Digitalsmiths is an innovative video indexing and digital content publishing technology has closed a $12 million

What Company Is Offering:

Digitalsmiths is an innovative video indexing and digital content publishing technology provider serving major Hollywood studios, web video destinations, media companies and advertisers. The company’s proprietary computer-vision based video indexing, search and interpretation algorithms empower content owners and publishers to efficiently monetize their digital video content, and advertisers to automatically target ads to thematically relevant video content. Digitalsmiths’ robust digital content publishing system and integrated video player enable simplified multi-platform content syndication, intelligent content recommendations, and detailed reporting and analytics.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Digitalsmiths, the award-winning broadband video indexing, analytics and publishing technology provider, has closed a $12 million Series B round of equity financing from a combination of new and returning investors. Boston-based venture capital firm .406 Ventures joined returning investors The Aurora Funds and Chrysalis Ventures in the investment that was announced today by Ben Weinberger, CEO, Digitalsmiths.

“After looking at numerous potential digital video investments, the magnitude of the opportunity at Digitalsmiths became crystal clear and we are delighted to have led this financing round,” said Maria Cirino, Managing Director, .406 Ventures. “The quality of Digitalsmiths’ indexing and analytics is unparalleled and as such offers exciting possibilities to content providers and advertisers looking for newer and more promising ways to monetize vast amounts of internet video.

More at:www.digitalsmiths.com

OnStagePortal is an online project management solution that allows for easy group collaboration on all project tasks

What Company Is Offering:
OnStagePortal is an online project management solution that allows for easy group collaboration on all project tasks. Share documents and track changes, preserve and organize important correspondence, coordinate calendars, assign project tasks, monitor progress, streamline customer communication and customize the dashboard to preserve your company’s brand.


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

Glissers is a directory of surfing holidays, surfing camps and other surfing accommodations all around the world

What Company Is Offering:

Glissers is a directory of surfing holidays, surfing camps and other surfing accommodations all around the world. Most places have been added and reviewed by traveling surfers, who know that sharing experiences is good for the karma.

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

Allthetopbananas.com is here to help job searching In UK

What Company Is Offering:
Allthetopbananas.com is here to help job searching.Allthetopbananas.com have developed systems to automatically seek out that new job for you from hundreds of UK websites full of vacancies advertised. Their Web Spider – 'Boris the job spider' can read job boards, company websites, newspaper websites and recruitment agency sites and put the job in the Allthetopbananas.com job index with salary, location, job title and full description. The job index is used every day to help thousands of job seekers to search for jobs locally to them or nationally.

How It Works:

The job search technology developed by Allthetopbananas.com lets candidates enter a local town name and a miles radius defining how local their job search will be.

As well as letting the job seeker search hundreds of UK recruitment agencies, job boards and employers from one dedicated job search, Allthetopbananas.com has a range of helpful support with regards to candidates' CVs. A candidate can upload their CV to us, which exposes it to many employers and recruitment agencies with many vacancies to fill. Coming soon is a section dedicated to professional CV writers. These CV authoring companies provide a range of CV services to help candidates present themselves as best as possible.

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

Thursday, November 13, 2008

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Viviti is the fastest way to make a professional, easy to update, web site with only a few clicks

What Company Is Offering:
Viviti is the fastest way to make a professional, easy to update, web site with only a few clicks. You’ll have your web site looking great and online in minutes!You don’t need technical knowledge to use Viviti, just click on the item you want to change, or click a button on the manager toolbar.Viviti is absolutely free to signup and use! In the future, a premium service may be provided to offer extended functionality, but it will always remain available as a free service.

More at:http://viviti.com/

Tarpipe is a publishing mediation and distribution platform that simplifies regular upload activities

What Company Is Offering:

Tarpipe is a publishing mediation and distribution platform that simplifies regular upload activities.

Unique Features:

Publishing content to multiple Web locations.
Combining different media into a single blog post or article.
Transforming documents on-the-fly.
Managing repeatable upload actions.

More at:http://tarpipe.com/

RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers

What Company Is Offering:
RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers. RefSeek aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than one billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers.



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

Rosegardens offers you a browser independent bookmark solution with free online storage

What Company Is Offering:
Rosegardens offers you a browser independent bookmark solution with free online storage. Rosegarden is a online solution to organize your bookmarks. It is a free service. Rosegardens with all modern browsers and future web standards compliant browser. No more importing and exporting. You have access to your bookmarks wherever you have Internet access. You can easily make an offline copy of your Rosegarden and make it your browser's home page. Thus, when you work with Rosegarden, you will feel like you work with an Offline application. No installation or upgrade procedures
New features are added automatically as soon as you update your Rosegarden.
Full Unicode support, use chinese, japanese or any other script. Rosegarden is targeted to work with any web standards compliant browsers.

More at:http://www.cerny-online.com/

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package

What Company Is Offering:

Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a University with 200,000 students.


More at:http://moodle.org/

MySidekick is a social search engine that learns from you and gets smarter as you search

What Company Is Offering:
MySidekick is a social search engine that learns from you and gets smarter as you search. They allow people to find and submit sites that are automatically tagged with terms used during the search session. These tagged sites are then anonymously shared with the mySidekick community to provide better results for all.

How It Works:


When you search for stuff online, you might change your search request a few times before you finally find what you are looking for. In fact, if you're like the rest of us, you'll change your search request about three to four times during an average search. MySidekick groups these search requests together as a set of "tags" that describe the topic you and other people have researched.

They then use their special relevancy algorithms to figure out exactly which sites people liked for those tags, and promote those sites as the "People's Choice" for other mySidekick community members. When other people search for a similar topic, these tags help them more easily find what they are looking for in the People Choice's area. The end result is better search results for everyone.

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

PortfolioChest.com - “community driven television tm “

What Company Is Offering:

PortfolioChest.com - “community driven television tm “ is a multimedia content directory where you can find Groups about many different subjects, complete with video, audio, articles, and pictures. The best content of each Group is promoted to the home page on a TV channel.

On PortfolioChest.com you can find pretty much anything that the PortfolioChest.com community finds interesting. This includes: videos, articles, music, and images created by the community for the community. Typical content include but is not limited to interviews, documentaries, live music, essays and much more. Many artists (filmmakers, musicians, painters, actors, etc) choose PortfolioChest.com to present their artwork, but you don’t need to be an artist to talk about what you do, professionals of any type (architects, lawyers, plumbers, artisan, computer wiz, etc ) are welcome as well, just try to make your content compelling for the community. If you do not see something you care about, consider posting it yourself and get the credit for it!

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

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

VideoCafé enables bloggers to use the same platform traditional media outlets use to acquire 'video from the source

What Company Is Offering:
VideoCafé enables bloggers to use the same platform traditional media outlets use to acquire 'video from the source.'After much demand from bloggers,
The NewsMarket, the world's leading online platform for raw news footage,
is releasing a new Web site.

How It Works:

On VideoCafé, bloggers can: Access multimedia content from companies including AOL, GM, Google,Nintendo, Novartis, Volvo Cars, Yahoo!and more.

Embed video or download files for editing. Check the featured player for video highlights, or to browse by channel.

The NewsMarket is a web-based video marketing and distribution platform. They enable companies and organizations to take advantage of the video revolution by making it easy for them to distribute video content they create to different target audiences as part of their communications.

Around the clock and around the globe, they use digital technology tools to bring together a vibrant community of video consumers - broadcast and online journalists, bloggers, employees, investors - and some of the world's leading brands and organizations.

More at:http://www.thenewsmarket.com/vc/

The Ribbit Phone Component will give Rich internet application developers the ability to make and receive calls, record/send and receive voicemail

What Company Is Offering:
The Ribbit Phone Component will give Rich internet application developers the ability to make and receive calls, record/send and receive voicemail, as well as add and manage contacts.

Their goal in sharing this revolutionary technology with other developers is to help fill a huge void in web applications today; the ability to make true one-click-calling. The ability to click on a number within a web application and connect the user without delay or download is an unprecedented feature. Many existing and upcoming applications will benefit from this functionality, ranging from e-commerce and reservation sites to mapping and local services applications.

Many developers will find even more value in the ability to integrate a full-featured communications suite into their applications. Taking advantage of the voicemail and contacts features, developers can tap into the Ribbit user-base. This increases the number of ways Ribbit users can access and manage their information, adding tremendous value to the developer's application as well as the overall Ribbit experience.

More at:http://developer.ribbit.com/

Second Rotation, is committed to providing an easy, fast, and safe way for consumers to get cash for selling unwanted electronics or to recycle them

What Company Is Offering:
Second Rotation, is committed to providing an easy, fast, and safe way for consumers to get cash for selling unwanted electronics or to recycle them responsibly. To date, thousands of consumers have used the service as a way to clean out closets, get cash and help out a good cause. In addition, Gazelle empowers consumers to avoid time consuming and risky online experiences associated with peer-to-peer selling. Consumers can rest assured that all personal information is thoroughly removed from their item while benefitting from conveniences like free shipping and packaging. Based in Boston, Second Rotation is led by a group of consumer Internet veterans from companies like eBay, BuyerZone and Fairmarket and is backed by venture capital firms Venrock Associates and RockPort Capital Partners.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Second Rotation, the company behind the online service Gazelle , announced a $6 million round of funding led by RockPort Capital Partners, one of the largest venture capital firms focused on clean technology investments. The Series B funding includes previous investors Venrock Associates and angel investors Austin Ligon and Henry Vogel. The investment validates Gazelle's effectiveness in providing consumers with an easy, fast and safe way to get cash for their unwanted electronics or support responsible recycling. The capital will primarily be used to further develop Gazelle by investing in new technology and product enhancements. Additionally, funds will be leveraged for branding and marketing opportunities.

More at:www.gazelle.com

Monday, November 10, 2008

Data Jelly is the leading provider of on-demand integration solutions

What Company Is Offering:
Data Jelly is the leading provider of on-demand integration solutions. Their flexible software platform can meet practically any integration need, and is provided through a convenient web-based interface to free you from the hassle of installing or maintaining complicated software, servers, or network appliances.

The process from sign-up to go-live is a snap, allowing clients to literally build integrations within hours. Simply configure the rules of your integration, with no coding required, and Data Jelly will automate the process of transferring data between applications. Their platform monitors and keeps a history of important events, and will automatically alert you should any errors occur.

With the ability to setup your integration before you buy and pay-as-you go pricing, there is absolutely no risk.

More at:http://datajelly.com/

Snaptu---The best internet experience on your mobile phone

What Company Is Offering:
To install snaptu on your mobile phone: SMS (text message) and WAP (downloading using your mobile phone's Web browser).

When using the SMS method, they send you an SMS message that includes a link to start the download process. When you receive the SMS, open the message and the link inside. To open the link, either click on it, or use the menu and select Use Details. Depending on your phone model, you may need to scroll down to highlight the link and choose 'Select', 'Go to' or 'Open'. Once you have done this your phone will open an Internet connection and start the download.


If you cannot open the link, please open your device's Web browser and navigate to http://m.snaptu.com. If you can click the link but your device still can't download the application, then check the device for correct WAP settings. You can get the correct WAP settings for your device from the manufacturer's web site.

To use the SMS method, click here to go to the download page
To download snaptu to your phone, visit m.snaptu.com using your phone's existing Web browser, and click on 'Download Snaptu'.

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

SWF2Go Professional enables you to create rich, powerful and engaging Flash Lite applications

What Company Is Offering:

SWF2Go Professional enables you to create rich, powerful and engaging Flash Lite applications rapidly by combining the power of Python for S60 and Net60. Making professional class deployment packages is now one-click operation with new redesigned and friendlier user interface.

SWF2Go is a RAD (Rapid Application Development) friendly tool, allowing Flash Lite developers to deliver fast and on-time through simplified SIS packaging process.

More at:http://www.swf2go.com/

Saturday, November 8, 2008

iSkoot, a leading provider of mobile Web services has secured $19 million

What Company Is Offering:
iSkoot, with offices in Cambridge and Israel, brings leading Web services like Skype to mobile handsets around the world. iSkoot worked with Skype and Hutchison 3 to launch the first carrier-deployed mobile Skype application in 2006, and to develop the award-winning 3 Skypephone, currently sold in eight countries on three continents. iSkoot for Skype takes advantage of the voice-optimized circuit-switched carrier network for delivery of voice communications, in keeping with iSkoot's mission to bring resource-intensive Web communications services to mobile phones with carrier-grade quality.

How Much They Got From VCs:

iSkoot, a leading provider of mobile Web services, announced today that it has secured $19 million in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Vision Opportunity Master Fund and included participation from existing investors Charles River Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Jesselson Capital Corporation and ZG Ventures. iSkoot will use this round of funding to support introduction of a groundbreaking suite of mobile communication solutions and maintain its position at the leading edge of mobile experience development.

"This funding represents a tremendous validation of the new mobile services we've been developing," said Mark Jacobstein, CEO of iSkoot. "iSkoot products let mobile consumers get dramatically greater value from the Web services they already count on, and in the current economy value is going to be a powerful differentiator.

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

YourGarageOnline

What Company Is Offering:

YourGarageOnline lets you enter in your vehicle information (make, year, and model) along with the option of including your plate, state of registration, and VIN number. Once you’ve done that, start taking out the yellow carbon copies from your car’s glovebox, backseat, console, etc, and start entering them into your new personalized online garage. For each receipt, you can enter in the mileage, date, cost, and name of facility where your car was serviced.


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

Myminutes.org is a portal where it is possible to associate the minutes of a solar year to the most significant moments of one’s life

What Company Is Offering:
Myminutes.org is a portal where it is possible to associate the minutes of a solar year to the most significant moments of one’s life. These minutes will form the collective sentimental calendar to be shared with all the world.

How It Works:

You can personalise your minutes by inserting in the associated pages text, video, images and links to your own site or blog. The acquired Minutes will be visible on the home page in every time zone at their corresponding time and will be replayed at the same time every year thereafter. The minutes can be indexed or searched for through a keyword (i.e birthday, first kiss, wedding, anniversary, event, party or special dates ). If the minute becomes popular it will appear directly on the homepage’s top list of most voted or commentated on minutes. It is possible to buy a minute you want for as long as they are available. (525,600 equal to one solar year) is a portal where it is possible to associate the minutes of a solar year to the most significant moments of one’s life. These minutes will form the collective sentimental calendar to be shared with all the world. You can personalise your minutes by inserting in the associated pages text, video, images and links to your own site or blog. The acquired Minutes will be visible on the home page in every time zone at their corresponding time and will be replayed at the same time every year thereafter. The minutes can be indexed or searched for through a keyword (i.e birthday, first kiss, wedding, anniversary, event, party or special dates ). If the minute becomes popular it will appear directly on the homepage’s top list of most voted or commentated on minutes. It is possible to buy a minute you want for as long as they are available. (525,600 equal to one solar year).

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

Friday, November 7, 2008

GetBack Media is a broadband entertainment community, and pop culture marketplace that provides user interaction around premium media content

What Company Is Offering:
GetBack Media is a broadband entertainment community, and pop culture marketplace that provides user interaction around premium media content. GetBack is geared around media from years past with a strong editorial treatment to guide users through a rich and deep media archive experience. GetBack is a "feel good" environment of content, interactivity, community, and commerce connected to happy memories.

How Much They Got FRom VCs:

GetBack Media Inc., the online pop-culture community dedicated to providing cool, fun, creative, interactive content from the 1960's to the present, announced that it secured $1.7 million in Series A Funding. Beringea , a global venture capital firm focused on emerging media, led the institutional round joined by a syndicate of high net worth individuals and entertainment leaders.

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

Mogreet, Inc., the pioneer in video messaging for mobile phones has raised a $5 million

What Company Is Offering:
A 'Mogreet' is a short video message for birthdays, holidays, special events, and everyday sentiments, which are sent to and from mobile devices via MMS or SMS delivery. Mogreet, Inc. works with leading global wireless carriers, handset manufacturers, content partners and websites to enable the interoperable delivery of its innovative texting product.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Mogreet, Inc., the pioneer in video messaging for mobile phones, today announced that it has raised a $5 million round of Series B venture capital financing.
"Mogreet has created an innovative video messaging platform that works seamlessly across mobile devices and online destinations," said Lucas. "After witnessing first-hand the explosive growth of mobile messaging in the United States, we are excited to participate in the next evolution of the medium, the migration from simple text to Mogreet video messaging."

More at:www.mogreet.com

Thursday, November 6, 2008

ConXPoint---Connect,Exchange,Perform

What Company Is Offering:
ConXPoint is the flagship service of CXP Solutions LLC, a privately-owned company founded by AssureCo LLC and AlphaTrust, Inc. The AssureCo and AlphaTrust teams boast a diverse background of technical, managerial and business service experience; and all of these factors have combined to assist in the successful development and application of ConXPoint's unique technology.


The underlying idea for ConXPoint grew out of several successful web-based automation projects developed by the ConXPoint programming team for AssureCo and its affiliated companies. These web-based automation projects proved so successful in saving time and money, it was decided to package these technologies together in a manner that was easily accessible and highly affordable by a wide range of business, professional, industry, and government users.

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

gtwit is a dynamic web based client for twitter that supports history and personal search of your tweets by storing them on Google's cloud

What Company Is Offering:

gtwit is a dynamic web based client for twitter that supports history and personal search of your tweets by storing them on Google's cloud.

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

ErrorKey is the tool you need to quickly get an answer for errors you encounter

What Company Is Offering:

ErrorKey is the tool you need to quickly get an answer for errors you encounter.

ErrorKey as an in house application to help us in our work by quickly get resolution to errors.

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

Stack Overflow is a programming Q & A site

What Company Is Offering:

Stack Overflow is a programming Q & A site that's free. Free to ask questions, free to answer questions, free to read, free to index, built with plain old HTML, no fake rot13 text on the home page, no scammy google-cloaking tactics, no salespeople, no JavaScript windows dropping down in front of the answer asking for $12.95 to go away. You can register if you want to collect karma and win valuable flair that will appear next to your name, but otherwise, it's just free. And fast. Very, very fast.


More at:http://stackoverflow.com/about

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Gnip is standardizing the way companies access and integrate the web's data

What Company Is Offering:
Gnip is standardizing the way companies access and integrate the web's data. Using Gnip's on-demand extensible messaging platform companies can simplify how they access and integrate business and social data from across the Internet. Gnip makes it easy to access, filter and integrate the web’s data that companies are now using as the basis for providing compelling business and social applications.

How Much They Got From VCs:
Gnip, an on-demand extensible messaging solution that is standardizing the way companies access and integrate the web’s data, today announced that it has closed a second round of financing. The investors in this $3.5 million round include Foundry Group, First Round Capital and SoftTech VC, all of whom also participated in Gnip’s initial seed round earlier this year.

Gnip will leverage its new funding to invest in the further development of its extensible messaging platform, to deliver new products and to develop additional partnerships where companies are building applications that benefit from the ability to easily access, filter and integrate business and social data from across the Internet.

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

Open-Xchange Inc. is the innovator of scalable and integrated open source email and collaboration solutions for enterprises

What Company Is Offering:
Open-Xchange Inc. is the innovator of scalable and integrated open source email and collaboration solutions for enterprises, academic institutions, and government authorities. It provides an on-premise version called Open-Xchange Server Edition, along with Open-Xchange Hosting Edition, which enables web hosting companies to provide an easy-to-use and feature-rich application delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS). The Open-Xchange Hosting Edition is architected to integrate into a hosting provider's existing infrastructure such as authentication, provisioning, billing, and email storage and does not require that these systems be replaced.


How Much They Got From VCs:
Open-Xchange Inc. , the leading provider of open source collaboration software, has closed a Series B round of venture funding totaling $9 million.

The company will use the funds to further develop its software and continue expanding its business in the U.S., Europe and emerging markets.

More at:http://www.open-xchange.com

xat.com is a fun social networking site with the coolest online chat box

What Company Is Offering:

xat.com is a fun social networking site with the coolest online chat box. Make friends, join a group, run your own chat - 10,000s online now.


More at:http://web.xat.com/

Sendeo is a single dashboard for your digital life

What Company Is Offering:
Sendeo is a single dashboard for your digital life. Sendeo looks and feels like a lookup window for all of your people, places, and things. Sendeo is your hard drive on the web and everything is securely stored and managed.

How It Works:

With Sendeo, you can instantly share any type of file with family, friends, classmates, neighbors etc including documents, photos, and videos that are too large for email. Everything is drag and drop, just like on your own computer's desktop applications.

When you upload you digital stuff to Sendeo you can enjoy it anywhere with their embedded flash viewers. You can share and work from any computer public or private because there's nothing to download — it’s all in your browser, on the web, and secure.

When you want a link to create a unique website address (URL) which can be safely accessed by anyone, there are a lot of online places to turn, but none as attractive or easy to use as the one-click publishing feature of Sendeo.

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

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

With Adium, you can connect to any number of messaging accounts on any combination of supported messaging services

What Company Is Offering:
Adium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X, released under the GNU GPL and developed by the Adium team. With Adium, you can connect to any number of messaging accounts on any combination of supported messaging services and then chat with other people using those services.

How To Use It:

Installing Adium is similar to installing most Mac OS X applications.

Download the Adium disk image. Note that download managers/accelerators may interfere with this.
If an Adium window doesn't open automatically, double click the downloaded file
Drag the Adium application to your Applications folder (Or wherever you'd like to keep it).
"Eject" the Adium disk image, which has an icon of a drive
The Adium disk image will still be present in your download folder (probably on your desktop). You can drag this file to the trash, as it is no longer needed.
To load Adium, locate it in the Applications folder (or whereever you dragged it) and double click.

More at:http://trac.adiumx.com/

Enterprise Social Messaging Experiment is a social tool for real time business process problem solving

What Company Is Offering:

ESME (Enterprise Social Messaging Experiment) is a social tool that takes the immediacy of messaging and applies it to real time business process problem solving. Taking the concepts embodied in social networks such as tags and groups, ESME provides the business communications framework that allows for the fastest and most reliable way of discovering the best solution to everyday problems for people working in peer and extended networks. It reduces the risk of applying suboptimal solutions by surfacing the right people at the right time who can apply expertise to a given situation, allows the participation of mobile workers, integrates to existing systems and provides for contextually appropriate document attachments.


More at:http://www.esme.us/

Palo Alto Networks enables visibility and policy control of applications and content running on enterprise networks got VCs funding

What Company Is Offering:
Palo Alto Networks enables visibility and policy control of applications and content running on enterprise networks. Based on innovative App-ID™ application classification technology, the Palo Alto Networks family of next-generation firewalls accurately identifies applications – regardless of port, protocol, evasive tactic or even SSL encryption – at 10Gbps with no performance degradation.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Palo Alto Networks announced that it has attracted an additional $10 million in venture financing. Led by JAFCO Ventures, the funding also includes investment from JAIC and Northgate Capital. The capital expands the company’s Series C round, announced in August, to a total of $36 million, and brings the overall investment-to-date to $64 million.

Palo Alto Networks is among the most strongly funded young companies in the security and network infrastructure sector.

More at:www.paloaltonetworks.com

RockYou is the leading innovator, creator and distributor of applications on the social web

What Company Is Offering:
RockYou is the leading innovator, creator and distributor of applications on the social web. The RockYou Ads network provides customized application-based branding and advertising campaigns that can be easily distributed across social networking platforms and engage directly with active users.

How Much They Got From VCs:

RockYou, the leading innovator, creator and distributor of applications on the social web, today announced an additional $17M in investments from Softbank, leading shareholder of Yahoo! Japan, and SK Telecom Ventures, the venture capital arm of SK Telecom. In June of 2008 RockYou announced an initial C Round investment of $35M, led by DCM; this strategic round brings the company's funding to a total of $67M.

The combined strategic financing will enable RockYou to extend their presence in the Asia-Pacific market. RockYou has been focusing development efforts overseas, including expansion into China's largest social network, Xiaonei.

SoftBank and RockYou will also set up a new joint venture company that will develop widget and application products and services for use on PCs and mobile devices in the Asian market, in particular the Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Chinese markets. Each of the JV Partners will contribute technology, know-how, systems and human resources to the Joint Venture.

More at:http://rockyou.com/

Monday, November 3, 2008

NextBee's word of mouth marketing platform

What Company Is Offering:
NextBee's word of mouth marketing platform is built by analyzing tools and interface components needed for successful word of mouth marketing campaigns.

How It Works:

You sign up with us and immediately get access to your business account.

If you decide to offer awards for referring users, you create your own specific award program by defining criteria such as how many conversions required for award, how the award is calculated (% of item price, fixed prize, a coupon, or even no award).
Through the Setup page in your account, you have access to html code snippets that you should host on your site. In these code snippets you substitute product id/campaign id, referral url with your specific parameters.

You include Javascript files from their server (similar to what you do if you are tracking visitors through Google analytics/Omniture). The Javascript automatically replaces the html snippets with widgets for reviews/review counts, and referral buttons, all of which can be customized.

When the user sends a referral, they use your specified referral URL and append tracking information to it. This enables us to track the performance of these referrals and associate conversions with appropriate referrals.

Whenever a successful conversion happens, you notify us about it by making a simple Javascript call or URL redirection. This does not affect your website flow or functionality.

Once they get the conversion notification, they make the sanity check, associate it with right users, calculate awards, notify users, and update the campaign analytics available in your account.

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

GetSignOff provides a mechanism for presenting your site designs, managing feedback and organising multiple versions of a design

What Company Is Offering:
GetSignOff provides a mechanism for presenting your site designs, managing feedback and organising multiple versions of a design.

Unique Features:

Can be used to approve mood boards, interface elements, imagery, personas, storyboards, site design concepts or any other element of the web design process.

Fully customisable CSS and visual appearance.

Up to 30GB of storage Manage unlimited numbers of clients, projects and designs.

Create and manage multiple versions of each design Integrates seamlessly into Basecamp.
Add notes directly on your designs Check to see if a client has viewed a design.

Receive notifications via email and RSS Each client can support multiple logins Restrict client logins to specific projects Customisable Domain Names.

Easy to use interface (ideal for clients!) .

Clear sign off procedure to ensure everybody knows when a design is approved.

Get started with a free account .
More at:http://www.getsignoff.com/

Dezidr is a simple tool that helps you make better decisions

What Company Is Offering:
Dezidr is a simple tool that helps you make decisions by comparing and evaluating different options with regard to specific criterions. It is based on the concept of a Decision Matrix.

How It Works:

Dezidr helps you to structure your decision process by giving you the possibility to define your own personal decision matrix. It allows exploits the wisdom of other deciders to propose alternatives to a given solution and to find the most relevant criterions to consider for similar problems.

More at:http://dezidr.com/

Inner8 to connect you with the right people and the right information about your investing goals and strategies

What Company Is Offering:
Inner8 to connect you with the right people and the right information about your investing goals and strategies. Sophisticated analytics and correlation technology translate your market views and their community’s top investors into smarter investments and better money management results, customized to your unique needs.


More at:http://www.inner8.com/

Saturday, November 1, 2008

cubeless is the online community platform that allows organizations to tap into the collective intelligence of their employees

What Company Is Offering:
cubeless is the online community platform that allows organizations to tap into the collective intelligence of their employees or members. Built from the ground up specifically for secure internal company or organization use, cubeless allows employees or organization members to connect and collaborate across geographic, functional and hierarchal lines.

How It Works:

In a cubeless community, members can share their skills, expertise and knowledge to help others work more efficiently and effectively. Through interactions and inclusion, cubeless also helps build strong culture and community within the organization. Cubeless is fun and easy to use. It isn't your typical corporate platform. Because of its intuitive design, employees and members want to use cubeless, making the system easily adoptable across all functions of the organization and used by the widest possible range of the organization, which is critical in building an optimal community that works.

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

Grab The Best Deals

What Company Is Offering:
Their goal is to provide hot online deals and help you get best price for the item you are looking for. They have coupons, rebates, promotions, discounts and so on their website which will help you save money while you spend money. This site is an information only resource for shoppers looking for great deals.

How It Works:

Every day they post new, fresh and hot deals on our homepage along with various coupons from many stores. They verify the accuracy of each and every deal before posting. The deal can change at merchant's site at any time. Please verify the offer at merchant's site before participating in any offer.

They help shoppers figure out where and what promotions are available at different stores and online. They provide free information for the best available online deals to help you make a better decision. All prices and product availability are subject to change at vendor's side. It costs money to keep this site online. This web site contains links to other sites on the Internet.

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

BrainKeeper is an enterprise collaboration tool

What Company Is Offering:
BrainKeeper is an enterprise collaboration tool that is designed to help effectively communicate with the individuals, teams, and departments in your company. BrainKeeper aims to be the central knowledge repository for any corporation that can capitalize on the use of stored information.

How It Works:

BrainKeeper provides everyone in your company with an intuitive, secure system that facilitates the capture of essential company knowledge in the form of pages of text organized into workspaces, images, attachments, and comments that can be easily retrieved with a powerful search engine.

BrainKeeper will ensure your most important company knowledge is thoroughly captured, easily found, and distributed to exactly the right people.
BrainKeeper is built to be effectively used by small teams, full departments, or an entire enterprise. Anyone who needs to easily gain access to the knowledge of others in their company will benefit from using BrainKeeper. You can sign up for a trial account in less than a minute and see everything that BrainKeeper has to offer. A trial account includes three user accounts and attachments under 5MB. You can upgrade to a full subscription at any time.

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

Nostradamical is a new application based around the collective prediction of future events

What Company Is Offering:

Nostradamical is a new application based around the collective prediction of future events.


Unique Features:

Publish your predictions to the world in just a few minutes (like a blog). They'll instantly publish your prediction to your favourite search engines.
Get the inside track on what people are predicting - from sporting events to political battles, to celebrity gossip and rumours.
Use collective intelligence to predict future world events.
Share opinions, meet like minded people. The Nostradamical Prediction Engine carefully promotes successful group predictions. Rise through 7 levels of status and gain fame as an oracle of the future. Promote your blog or website.

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