Thursday, January 10, 2008

Sutori --The voice of today's customer

What Company Is Saying:
Sutori is a place where customers can rate companies, share experiences, build consensus and reach companies to affect positive change.
They help companies get closer to their customers by creating experiences (mostly delivered online) that meet the real needs of real people. They believe that customers now hold the reins of power. And they think most companies need to work on their listening skills. Because ultimately the meaning and value of their products and their brand is not determined by engineers, designers or marketers, but by customers—based on their own experiences.

How It Works:
On Sutori, you can rate companies by posting stories about your experiences with them.

Each story is accompanied by a "goodwill rating", which contributes to the goodwill meter—an aggregated view of how the Sutori community feels about each company.

When other users read your story, they have the option of leaving a comment or voting to agree or disagree with you.

To reflect the power of consensus, stories with many "agree" votes have a stronger impact on the goodwill meter. Similarly, stories with many "disagree" votes have less of an impact.

In addition to a centralized goodwill meter where companies can track how customers feel about them and why, Sutori also includes a mechanism whereby companies can post official responses to any story.

Sutori was conceived and developed by a small team of Blast Radius employees who wanted to turn these ideas into something real.

More at:http://sutori.com/

Foranu lets you save money as well as time in finding the best car insurance rate

What Company Says:
Foranu was born out of the need for better car insurance shopping experience. ForAnu lets you save money as well as time in finding the best insurance rate.

How It Works:

Users will input their basic car insurance related data like age, marital status, credit score, etc. (they do not collect personal information like name, address, phone number, etc. ) Users can query based on age, marital status, location, etc. and they show following results.

1.Car Insurance Company.
2.Car Insurance Company Service rating.
3.Insurance rate (computed for 6 months).
4.Car Insurance Company website link.
Users can get educated on car insurance matters and they also answers numbers of user’s questions.

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

DesignFlavr to deliver the latest and freshest art and design straight to you

What Company Is Offering:
DesignFlavr is a breed of website that hopes to deliver the latest and freshest art and design straight to you with no frills and no hassle. The concept behind this website is to help support the vast and ever growing number of Designers and Artists that reside here on the World Wide Web.

How It Works:

By creating a user friendly and regularly updated portal we hope that our efforts will help the many talented people out there get some well deserved recognition for their hard work.

They do not in any way take credit for the artwork and designs that appears on their site. They do not seek to profit or gain recognition for others people work - they are simply a medium for communicating an artist directory in a visual form.

This website is not designed to be used as a portfolio for artists or any person seeking free image hosting. All images submitted are moderated for quality and content as well as checked for any infringing copyright issues.
They encourage user submitted content and believe that the original artist retains the right to request their artwork removed at any time for any reason they deem sufficient.

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

DrUpload allow's you to upload images quickly, and freely on fast servers.

What Company Is Offering:

DrUpload allow's you to upload images quickly, and freely on fast servers.


How It Works:


They limit all files to a max of 10mb per file, however you may upload as many file's as you want. all you do is select your file click on upload and when its ready you will see your image! They allow most image type's such as .jpg .jpeg .png .bmp .gif .psd.

More at:http://drupload.com/

Lat49 is the online mapvertising system that brings geographically relevant advertising to users of online maps

What Company Is Offering:
Lat49 is the online mapvertising system that brings geographically relevant advertising to users of online maps. Lat49 is a new mapvertising system that finally enables advertisers to reach the enormous number of people who use online, interactive mapping technologies such as MapQuest, Google Maps, and the long tail of "map mashups". Lat49 provides a revenue strategy to the thousands of online publishers that have included interactive maps as a feature on their Web sites.

How It Works:

Lat49 puts your ad right where you know the user is looking — on the map. As users travel to different regions on lat49's partner map sites, your geo-targeted ad appears where it matters to your business. Your lat49 ad provides users with locally relevant, interactive map content. There is no competition for the user's attention. You own every block or region of the map that you buy — and you own it across a worldwide network of map sites that cater directly to your target market. To learn more about our publisher network, visit our featured publisher page.

With lat49, you purchase the exclusive advertising rights for regions of the map. Anytime someone visits your real estate across the lat49 publisher network, your ad is guaranteed to show.

With lat49, you can buy parcels of land at multiple zoom levels to suit the goals of your advertising campaign. Build your regional branding campaign by owning the map's most zoomed out views. Or, finely tune your messaging to target the local street, neighborhood, or urban level audiences. Action oriented or branding focused... lat49 offers a variety of ad formats to accommodate your needs.

Unique Features:

1.Lat49 provides advertisers with access to an engaged and interactive audience that is currently unreachable with existing ad engines.
2.Lat49 does NOT rely on keyword search. The user's interest is determined by interaction with the map. All ads are geo-targeted and contextually relevant.
3.Lat49 is NOT another pushpin on the map — it is an on-map display ad.
4.Lat49 suits any kind of retail, product, or service business. It is not dependent on a specific address, just the area(s) of the map that you choose.

More at:http://lat49.com/

FyreBall is developing a gaming-influenced alternative to email, has raised around $1.1 million in Series A funding

What Company Is Offering:

Fyreball is a rich and playful alternative to email for sending stuff to your friends. It's being developed by a team of game industry veterans, internet addicts and Spartan warriors. They think Fyreball will be a great way to track, send and receive cool content on the web.

How Much They Got From VCs:

FyreBall Inc., a Bellevue, Wash.-based company that is developing a gaming-influenced alternative to email, has raised around $1.1 million in Series A funding led by Labrador Ventures. It is run by former members of the Halo development team.

More at:www.fyreball.com

DevonWay is provider of on-demand web services for improving work processesraised $6.5 million in Series A funding

What Company Is Offering:
DevonWay On-Demand is a web services offering representing a new generation of solutions designed to improve work processes while supplying budget relief across the enterprise.

How It Works:
DevonWay puts an end to the rigid monolithic ERP system approach to software that force the user to think in foreign terms, requiring endless training. Devon-Way web-services improve your user experiences, end the hassle with IT support and simplify your work day… and our no-license fee — no maintenance-fee — on-demand model saves you money. Sit down. Log on. Begin working... no additional software or server required! Checkout our feature set – unavailable from any other software vendor.

Their service offerings are designed to be additive to client/server systems of record commonly in use. These offer incremental change to departmental functions improving the end-user experience and work performance of engineering, operations and maintenance disciplines. When fully deployed, they represent a new generation of browser class computing that can replace existing client/sever software products in use.
How Much They Got From VCs:
DevonWay is provider of on-demand web services for improving work processes, has raised $6.5 million in Series A funding led by Crosslink Capital.

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

LiveMocha is provider of online language education raised $6 million in Series A funding

What Company Is Offering:
LiveMocha is a language-learning tool that combines fun self-study lessons, motivational tools and community to help you learn the language of your choice. Unlike CDs and books that contain stale academic content, LiveMocha brings to you useful everyday language from actual native speakers.

How It Works:

LiveMocha has a goal setting and friendly leader board competition system to help you stay engaged and active in your foreign language-learning goal. Through competitions, point sharing and community involvement LiveMocha gives you the tools to stay motivated and on track.At LiveMocha they encourage you to learn with and teach other members of your community. Submit a writing sample or an audio sample of a lesson and have a native speaker correct your work. Do the same for someone else when you get the chance and together you can build a strong language community.

LiveMocha also gives you the opportunity to work with native language speakers and other students learning the same language as you. Practicing with other students and native language speakers gives you the opportunity to learn real conversational language instead of the stuffy language you learn in CD’s and books.

How Much They Got From VCs:
LiveMocha Inc., is provider of online language education, has nearly $6 million in Series A funding led by Maveron Equity Partners.

http://www.livemocha.com/help/onlinehelp

ArcMail is provider of email archiving and management solutions for small and medium-sized businesses got $3 million in VCs funding

What Company Is Offering:
ArcMail Technology is a cutting-edge provider of simple, secure, and cost-effective email archiving and management solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. The company’s ArcMail appliance is easy to buy, easy to install, and easy to use, and improves the end-user experience, reduces the load on IT resources, and safely and securely retains the business information contained in emails.

How It Works:
The company has a global channel program to help deliver its products to organizations worldwide. ArcMail's product strategy is to provide an email archive product that improves the end-user experience, reduces the load on IT resources, and safely and securely retains the business information contained in emails. By packaging the operating system and software with the database, on-board storage, and RAID disk management, ArcMail has provided a product that is reliable, easy to buy, easy to install, and easy to use. The Defender product line has also been designed to meet the archiving requirements of companies with as few as 5 mailboxes all the way up to 2000+ mailboxes, providing broad coverage for the SMB market space.

The company's distribution strategy is to develop and fully support channel sales through Value Added Resellers (VARs).
It offers a no-obligation 30-day free trial on all its products.ArcMail’s flagship product, ArcMail Defender captures all inbound, outbound and internal email using the journaling function of companies’ mail servers, which indexes the email header and text information. ArcMail Defender allows easy storage and retrieval giving organizations a simple way to manage email.

How Is Market Of That Kind Of Company:

With the use of email continuing to explode (many companies saw a 25%-50% increase in their email stores in just the past 12 months, according to Ostermann Research) and companies starting to recognize the importance of the business information contained in emails, we expect the email archive market will experience tremendous growth in the next 5 years.

How Much They Got From VCs:

ArcMail Technology, a leading provider of email archiving and management technologies, announced a $3 million investment from Advantage Capital Partners, the Louisiana Technology Fund and other investors. This new funding will be used to add staff and implement an aggressive marketing campaign to take advantage of quickly expanding market opportunities and to provide additional support for channel sales and product development.
More at:www.arcmailtech.com

DailyLit sends books in installments via e-mail

What Company is Offering:

DailyLit brings books right into your inbox in convenient small messages that take less than 5 minutes to read. This works incredibly well not just on your computer but also on a Treo, Blackberry, Sidekick or whatever the PDA of your choice. In the words of Dr. Seuss: Try it, you might like it! (Oops -- it would appear that the actual quote from Green Eggs and Ham is "You do not like them. So you say. Try them! Try them! And you may.")

How it Works:
DailyLit aims to combine the best of both worlds by delivering great books in bite-sized chunks via email and RSS.
DailyLit sends books in installments via e-mail. DailyLit currently offers over 400 classic public domain titles that can be subscribed to and read in their entirety for free. Popular titles include "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu and "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen Readers can choose how often and at what time they want the e-mails sent to them (e.g. every weekday at 6:30am). Books on DailyLit can be read any place that a reader receives e-mail, including on a PDA, Blackberry, Trio, etc. Each installment of a book can be read in under 5 minutes, and if a reader is done with a particular installment, a reader can receive the next installment immediately in his/her e-mail Inbox. DailyLit has recently added forums where readers can discuss their favorite books and authors.

All you need to do is pick a book (browse the collection or use the search box), select how often and when you want to receive messages, and provide your email address. Click on the big Subscribe button. DailyLit does the rest.

More at:http://www.dailylit.com/faq#why

Trulia--Real Estate Search has announced the Trulia Publisher Platform,become partner and earn

What Company is Offering:
They are a real estate search engine that helps you find homes for sale and provides real estate information at the local level to help you make better decisions in the process.

They aim to be a delightfully smart partner when you are looking to buy a home. The smart part should help you find your dream home (or at least the dream home within your budget) and arm you with data and information about local real estate (without too much work). The delightful part should make you smile and keep you coming back.

How It Works:


Whether you are moving down the street or clear across the country, they're here to help you understand real estate trends at the local level. When you are about to make the biggest financial decision of your life, they help you understand how your future home stacks up compared to similar homes on the market, and similar homes that have recently sold. They show you how sales prices have been trending where it matters—in your county, city, ZIP code and neighborhood.

Recent Updates:
The real estate web site, has announced the Trulia Publisher Platform, which allows other web sites to offer real estate listings under their own brand. Early partners include Kiplinger, Village Voice Media, and AmericanTowns. Trulia provides partners with software and listings, while partners provide Trulia with additional traffic. Additionally, Trulia shares advertising revenue with publishing partners that participate in the program.

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

Jingle Networks which bring you free directory assistance via the phone got $13 million in funding

What Company is Offering:
1-800-FREE411 is free nationwide directory assistance. And it’s free from any phone. Cell. Home. Work. Wherever. Of course, you may get charged minutes on your cell phone (like most calls), but we won’t charge you a penny.

How It Works:

Simply dial 1-800-FREE411 and get the listing you need for free. It’s just like 411, only better because it doesn’t cost anything. At Free411.com, you’ll get the most accurate residential and business listings on the Web. That’s because they use the same real-time data as the phone companies.

Recent Updates:
The first company to bring you free directory assistance via the telephone, Jingle Networks, has raised nearly $13 million in Series C-1 funding. With return investors Goldman Sachs, IDG Ventures Boston, Liberty Associated Partners and First Round Capital, this most recent round follows a $30 million Series C round from just a few months ago. That round also included a few media companies including Comcast Interactive Capital and Hearst, as well as Lead Dog Ventures.


http://www.free411.com/

ClipSyndicate--Video Search Tool For Social Networks

What Company Is Offering:
ClipSyndicate enables broadcasters and other video content producers to realize new revenue streams and extend their brand into the "Long Tail" of the Internet by syndicating video clips to thousands of vertical web sites looking for specific content of interest for their end-users.

Video news syndication is a win-win-win for the broadcaster, the Web publisher and the advertiser. As a result of these new distribution opportunities provided by ClipSyndicate, broadcasters can further monetize their clips, web publishers have a new source for fresh, relevant content, and advertisers have access to a highly targeted audience.

How It Works:

Once you have found your clip, click on publish this clip and you will be taken to the publish page. You will see a drop down menu to select "My First Channel." The clip will be added to your first channel. You may add more clips to your channel or copy code to publish your clip to your site. Click "Get Code" and a screen will offer several integration methods.

A channel is a collection of clips (one or more) organized into a playlist called a channel. You can create as many channels as you choose for as many different topics as you choose to integrate onto your site.

A smart channel is a "saved search" that automatically updates your channel's playlist as new clips become available that meet your search criteria.

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

Zotero is an easy-to-use yet powerful online research tool

What Company Is Offering:

Zotero is an easy-to-use yet powerful research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources (citations, full texts, web pages, images, and other objects), and lets you share the results of your research in a variety of ways.

How It Works:

Zotero integrates tightly with online resources; it can sense when users are viewing a book, article, or other object on the web, and—on many major research and library sites—find and automatically save the full reference information for the item in the correct fields. Since it lives in the web browser, it can effortlessly transmit information to, and receive information from, other web services and applications; since it runs on one’s personal computer, it can also communicate with software running there (such as Microsoft Word). And it can be used offline as well (e.g., on a plane, in an archive without WiFi).

Zotero users will gain the ability to share and collaborate on their collections with other users through an exchange server, and receive recommendations and feeds of new resources that might be of interest to them. In short, over the next year Zotero will expand from an already helpful browser extension into a full-fledged tool for digital research and collaboration.

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

FULLPIX is a powerful and easy-to-use software for enhancing mobile phone and internet videos

What Company Is Offering:
FULLPIX is a powerful and easy-to-use software for enhancing mobile phone and internet videos.

Full Image, the only European company fully dedicated to professional film and video digital restoration, used all his know-how and his in-house research and development team to offer to web community the simple and necesseary FULLPIX freeware.

How It Works:

You can get a new unlock code from the contact page.
Input and output video formats supported: 3gp, 3g2, avi, flv, mov, mpeg1, mpeg2, mp4, asf. In only: wmv 1, wmv 2, wmv 3, and many others...
• Input and output audio formats supported: mp2, mp3, aac, ac3, amr-nb, amr-wb. In only: wav, ogg, wma, and many others...
More at:http://www.fullpix.tv/