Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Memeo --Managing Your Digital Life Got Series B round of funding led by the Foundry Group

What Company Is Offering:

Memeo is focused on providing software and services that will dramatically simplify the way individuals manage digital media and information across their desktop computers, storage devices, media appliances, mobile devices, and the web.

Their goal is simple, providing innovation solution to meet people's every-day needs.

How It Works:
Memeo's LifeAgent suite of robust and feature-rich data management solutions provide consumers and businesses with a new way to backup, sync, and share their digital lives. LifeAgent AutoBackup for PC users backs up new or changed files automatically to almost any backup device, such as an external hard drive, USB flash drive, networked computers or hard drive, and online storage account.

How Much They Got From VCs:

They announced that it has received a Series B round of funding led by the Foundry Group. In combination with a recent investment from G-51 Capital, the latest round of funding underscores the market demand for simple solutions that reduce the time and effort needed to backup, sync, and share the ever increasing amount of digital content such as photos, music, video, and documents.

Memeo received over $8.1 million in equity funding. Although the company is profitable, it will use the additional capital to boost its market position, expand its team, build distribution channels and enhance product innovation and development.

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

Egglad.com--The Innovative Concept Of G-commerce

What Company Is Offering:
Egglad.com is an integrated casual game and shopping site based on the innovative concept of G-commerce. This site aims to foster a game fan community where members enjoy our free fun games and meet with new friends, and at the same time play the many games to earn points, called "Eggs" and "Chicks", in our affinity point system, which can be redeemed for a wide variety of products, entered into Daily Lucky Draw, and used to participate in other designated activities.

How It Works:

"Eggs" refer to the game points you earned within the same day. "Eggs" could be used to buy tickets to enter Daily Lucky Draw. At the end of the day the remaining Eggs in your balance will convert to "Chicks", or total accumulated points.

By playing the free Egglad games you can gain game score which will then automatically convert to Eggs. Due to different skill levels and complexities, Egglad.com has developed a conversion system that standardizes exchange of score of different games to Eggs. Alternatively, you will be credited with extra Eggs by referring friends to sign up as new members, achieving high rankings in featured games, or taking part in other designated programs. All unused Eggs will be counted as Chicks on the ensuing day for shopping and posting/accepting challenges.

More at:http://egglad.com/

Grooveshark----Everybody Gets Paid

What Company Is Offering:
Grooveshark is an online music sharing community that rewards you for sharing your music.
Grooveshark is a revolutionary music community that rewards users for sharing their music. Grooveshark was founded by three University of Florida students hell-bent on changing the music industry, and the world, forever. Grooveshark's goal is to compensate everyone in the value chain – from users to rights' holders.

How It Works:

For every song sold in their network, they first pay the label (or artist), then they pay you, then they pay themselves. All of the profits from their songs are split with the user 50 / 50.On Grooveshark you will be able to find any song you can dream of, from a classic Rolling Stones albums to Colombian folk music.Music downloaded from Grooveshark can be used in any software that can play MP3s.

Unique Features:

* Grooveshark allows you to safely and legally download high quality MP3s.
* Grooveshark is a peer to peer program with a massive library of songs.
* Grooveshark allows you to interact with other music lovers like yourself.
* Grooveshark rewards you for sharing your music, and gives you a cut of the profits for songs you sell.

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

Bigsight is about your true identity

What Company Says:
Bigsight can be a tool for you to get your work out to a larger audience.
The web is a crowded place and it has traditionally done a very poor job of dealing with people data; as such, they believe it is time for a central, standardized directory that is organized around the lasting elements that are tied to individual identity: learning, interests, and work. In creating this directory, they hope to provide a useful utility for individuals to better promote their work, connect with opportunities, and control their online identity. They employ a team of editors and ask that users adhere to strict content guidelines to ensure informational integrity across the directory.

How It Works:

bigsight is about your true identity. They do not allow avatars, aliases, or imagined data. Users must use their real names, real data, and provide an image in which they can be plainly seen.Central to the bigsight model is a third-person, narrative biography that connects all of the elements on the user’s profile. Editors may, at times, make corrections to a user’s bio or suggest improvements; however, each time an editor touches a user’s profile, the user will be notified of the change for review. They do this to ensure a moderate level of standardization across entries.To ensure that profile data is timely, they ask that users visit their profiles at least once each quarter to provide appropriate updates. Profiles that go un-touched after two quarters will be considered abandoned, and thus removed from the directory.
More at:http://www.bigsight.org/

BlueOrganizer-- Connect To Relevant Information

What Company Is Offering:
BlueOrganizer recognizes books, music, wine, stocks, travel destinations and many other things in the web pages that you browse and makes it easier for you to connect to relevant information about those things.

How It Works:

The BlueOrganizer makes it easy to save and manage your favorites. Save things with one click or turn on auto save and let BlueOrganizer capture what you are paying attention to automatically.

BlueOrganizer adds a button to your toolbar with a menu that changes depending on the content of the page: for a book, there is a book menu, for a movie the movie menu, etc. This toolbar menu is automatically personalized based on your browsing history and makes all relevant information just 1-click away.

Share the things you love with your friends and family by posting SmartLinks and Widgets on your blogs. With SmartLinks and Widgets your readers will be able to experience the power of Smart Browsing.

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

Video chat tool SightSpeed is introducing a new service called SightSpped Light

What Company Is Offering:
SightSpeed Inc. is the award-winning provider of the highest quality, most feature rich, and easiest-to-use Internet video communications services for both businesses and consumers.

The world's first high quality and cost-effective video conferencing service for all businesses (including SMBs) that is easy-to-use, secure and mobile, eliminating the need for expensive, immobile and inflexible hardware.
How It Works:
Their patented video technology ensures you get the best possible video and sound quality every time, unlike other online video services. SightSpeed offers the highest-quality, full-motion 30 frames per second video with clear audio and no annoying delay.

On top of that, you can easily send video mails - much more personal than the traditional email - and text chat endlessly with their integrated instant messaging (IM) service. SightSpeed also offers low-rate worldwide phone calling. And don't forget, SightSpeed works great on both PCs and Macs!


The world’s best reviewed and leading consumer-focused video chat service turns a PC or Mac into an easy-to-use video phone to communicate with friends and family around the world.


SightSpeed's services, which are SIP-based and standards-compliant, deliver superior quality on everyday computers and consumer broadband connections as a result of the company's revolutionary patented technology that is based on more than ten years of research and development originating out of Cornell University.

Recent Updates:
Video chat tool SightSpeed is introducing a new service called SightSpped Light, which is made to work with various social networks in order to provide video chat within a more integrated platform. To start things off, SightSpeed Light will be running on Open Social and all the networks participating in the program, including MySpace, LinkedIn, Salesforce, hi5 and Orkut. Developed on Adobe Flash, SightSpeed Light doesn’t require any downloads for use.


http://www.sightspeed.com/

PlaceShout isn't about volume - it's about trying to express the positives and negatives of a destination in as few of words as possible

What Company Is Offering:

PlaceShout isn't about volume - it's about trying to express the positives and negatives of a destination in as few of words as possible. If people agree, that "shoutout" moves up...if they don't, the shoutout moves down and begins to disappear.

How It Works:


When you view a place on PlaceShout, you're basically viewing a cheat sheet. The whole idea is to get right down to the point. Instead of reading lengthy reviews, you can get the gist: great pizza; roomy theater seats; check the Gorilla exhibit. When you search for a particular location, you’ll get the results with the quick reviews, along with the number of people that have agreed with the review, and disagreed with the review. So while you get some community feedback for the provision of contextual content, you’re still getting an at-a-glance approach to finding places to eat and things to do.
Placeshout was developed by Andre Lewis of Earthcode Studios and Derek Haynes of Highgroove Studios.


More at:http://placeshout.com/

Mobile media company SendMe has signed an agreement with Universal Music Group

What Company Is Offering:
SendMe is all about fun for your phone! As a leading provider of direct to consumer mobile entertainment, SendMe offers the broadest selection of mobile subscription services currently available online in the US. Whether it's interactive mobile trivia, the latest ringtones and wallpaper, mobile sweepstakes or one of the many other services we provide, SendMe is focused on delivering the best wireless content and experiences straight to your pocket.

How It Works:

Almost anyone can use SendMe Mobile. You do have to be located in the United States. And you do need to have a mobile phone. OK, so that isn't "almost anyone" in the global sense but we're still a small company that has yet to achieve world domination. Not to worry though, we're working on it.

All you have to do is visit the SendMe Mobile website. When you find something you'd like to order, just click the "SendMe" button and enter your phone number. We'll send a confirmation message with a password to your phone to make sure we've got the right number. Just enter the password you receive on the website or reply to that message with a "Y" or "YES" (without the quotation marks). Either way, we'll send you what you ordered automatically after that. It's that simple.

Who Is Backing Them:
Russell Klein, Co-Founder and CEO
Russell has spent the last 16 years in the digital media industry. Prior to co-founding SendMe, Russell was SVP, Corporate Development and Strategy, for HandsOn Mobile (f/k/a Mforma), where he spearheaded the company's M&A efforts and grew the company from 70 to 800 employees by acquiring mobile media companies in Europe, Asia, and North America; he also helped fund the company during his tenure as an EIR at General Catalyst Partners. Prior to General Catalyst Partners, Russell was Executive Vice President of Corporate Development at CNET Networks, and a board member of several other companies in the media and online marketing spaces. Russell is an avid consumer of all things mobile and never starts his day without reviewing his SendMe Horoscope. Russell is a Libra.

Russell has a BA in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Markus Mullarkey, Co-Founder and Head of Operations
Markus comes to SendMe with over 15 years of line management and operations experience. Prior to founding SendMe, he was the SVP, Sales & Marketing for Ebates Shopping and VP/General Manager of CNET Networks' email newsletter and subscription publishing businesses. Before that he held positions at Proctor & Gamble and Boston Consulting Group. Markus has been a mobile fanatic ever since getting one of the first Palm Pilots back when he was a wee lad, and is really excited now to have an excuse to buy all the latest phones (for testing, of course).

Markus has a degree in General Studies from Harvard and a MBA from Harvard Business School.

Recent Updates:

Mobile media company SendMe has signed an agreement with Universal Music Group, in order to use the record label’s songs and present them as mobile content for it users. SendMe has been spending some time growing its company, launching mobile entertainment games and acquiring another mobile network all together, SendMe is building up its portfolio to include more mobile networks and provisions of content.


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

Start your own live broadcast using Mogulus

What Company Says:
Start your own live broadcast using content from around the web or your own webcam, and assemble a dream team of producers.

It's the true beauty of Mogulus - it has been designed for simple, casual use. All you'll need is the desire to communicate, inform, and entertain. If you can use blog publishing platforms like Blogger and Wordpress, you won't have any problems using the Mogulus studio.

How It Works:

With Mogulus, the viewer experiences what the producer has put on the air in less than one second. Basically, everyone watching your channel can see exactly the same thing you see as you produce it. Think of the possibilities: you can use your web cam to cover a "live" news or sports event as it happens, spontaneously introduce and playback a prepared clip, then switch back to your web cam commentary with ease.
They have updated the Mogulus beta site with the ability for anybody to pick up the channel embed tag and add it to any internet web page. So, while we remain in closed beta, you can already start broadcasting your channel to the world by embedding the Mogulus Player widget on any web page.
Your viewers can visit your blog, myspace, or personal website without any restrictions.You just need to copy the embed tag under the watch page in your channel and paste in the HTML of your other sites.

You can also embed the player to your facebook profile. All you need is a facebook account.
Recent Updates:
It has secured a $1.5 million second round funding, according to BeetTV. This brings their total funding amount up to $2.7 million.

http://mogulus.com/

Balihoo--tools for media buyers and planners,has raised $4 million in its Series B round

What Company Is Offering:
Balihoo is the only web-based services/software company that creates intelligent, cross-medium tools for media buyers and planners. Based on the world’s largest database of advertising opportunities, Balihoo is a knowledge and communications platform that dramatically streamlines the media planning workflow.

How It Works:
Search and find best-suited media and advertising opportunities across any medium. Advanced search including geographic, demographic and medium-specific search filters. Access to all community media data including basic data, contacts and media kits. Access to community rating, tagging and profiling data on all media outlets. Fully hosted on-demand software solution.

Unique Features:

Find and evaluate cross-medium advertising opportunities for any target market.
Search based on demographic, geographic, keyword or media-specific variables.
Based on the world’s largest collection of advertising opportunities.
Central location to manage all campaign data.
Upload documents, make custom notes and manage all RFI/RFP’s.
Keep all data on media vehicles in easily accessible, campaign-specific “watch lists”.
Share data across your entire organization to facilitate quick, easy access to all campaign information.

Recent Updates:

Balihoo, the only provider of web-based media planning software that streamlines the media research, selection, and request-for-proposal (RFP) processes with on-demand data, today announced that it has raised $4 million in its Series B round of funding. Highway 12 Ventures led the round with participation from existing investor Lacuna Capital. The company will use the funds to augment their sales and marketing efforts targeting the media buying and planning community.

According to Pete Gombert, founder and CEO of Balihoo, “Our Beta Program, which recently ended and included 8 of the top 10 media buying companies in North America, helped us refine Balihoo and identify areas for future development. The product is ready to go and we’re excited to get the commercial version into the hands of our customers."

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

idiomag is a high-quality, digital magazine currently personalized to each individual user's interests in music

What Company Says:

It keeps you "in the know" about the artists and genres you love, while helping you discover new music. With articles, reviews, galleries and interactive features in a rich magazine format, you can access idiomag whenever and wherever you want it.

How It Works:

idiomag is a high-quality, digital magazine currently personalized to each individual user's interests in music. It keeps them "in the know" about the artists and genres they love, as well as finding new artists that they might like. It includes feature articles, reviews, galleries and interactive elements in an engaging format that users can access whenever and wherever they want it.

Users can read the article, play the track, view the video, check for gigs, and go off to buy the mp3 or ticket or share their views with their friends. We utilise all the knowledge this generates about our users and their interests to deliver the most relevant experience and to target the most compelling advertising.

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

Find a contractor or service professional

What Company Is Offering:
Service Villa is the home to over 1100 service professionals and general contractors in Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Orlando, Tampa, Naples, and the Florida Keys with plans to expand to the rest of the United States in the near future.

How It Works:

If an individual chooses to review a company on their site, they have the option of reviewing them anonymously. This is the now infamous "Service Villa User". They hope this encourages honest reviews that will benefit other users and even the company itself.



If you are a service professional or a general contractor and produce quality work, you can add your business listing to Service Villa.

Simply fill out their "Suggest a Product" application and their editors will research your request. Although not every product will make it to the product section, their editors will look at each application seriously.Make sure you letthem know via the form that you would like to send them the physical product.

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

GO is a knowledge network

What Company Is Offering:
The GO provides a controlled vocabulary to describe gene and gene products in different organisms. GO is a knowledge network containing about 20.000 biological terms. It is built up as a directed acyclic graph starting from three basic areas namely:
the molecular function of gene products,
their role in multi-step biological processes, and
their localization to cellular components.

How It Works:

Knowledge-based search helps you to find the answers to your question faster. By using a domain ontology as structured background knowledge the search results are sorted into meaningful categories. You can use these categories to narrow your set of found articles to the relevant ones. In many cases the categories will already represent the answer to your question.

Type "rab5" and wait for the tree on the left to appear. Have a look at the "Top categories What, Who, Where and When". A click on biological process shows endocytosis and clicking on cellular component shows endosome as answers for this question.
More at:http://www.gopubmed.org/