Sunday, January 13, 2008

PixFusion’s personalized video products

About Company:
Kideo has been the leading brand in child’s personalized videos for nearly a decade. The vision has always been to put children into their favorite shows making the child the star of the show. PixFusion LLC, which now owns the Kideo brand, has taken this concept to a higher level using its patented technology to incorporate children as the star of new videos with some of their favorite cartoon characters such as Dora the Explorer, Spider-Man, Care Bears, Arthur and more!. Over 500,000 of these personalized videos have been sold to date, a true testament to the popularity of this product. Kideo is a children’s brand dedicated to putting smiles on children’s faces.

PixFusion is a technology company that creates personalized branded video media products. PixFusion is leading a new wave of personalization technology in consumer products as well as advertising and promotional applications.

How It Works:
You can send us your photo(s) via e-mail to photos@kideo.com. Photos must be attached as a JPEG file (.jpg).Please include your Order Confirmation number, Child's name and Product ordered in the subject of the email. You may also mail us your photo(s). Please write your child’s name and your confirmation number on the back of your photo. Just write your child’s first name and your confirmation number on the back of the photo and we’ll match it up to your order.

Only your child’s first name will be featured in the PixFusion video products you have ordered. PixFusion’s personalized video products include your child’s first name being spoken throughout the video, and your child’s first name is printed on all of the video packaging (on some of our video packaging your child's last name is also printed). PixFusion’s personalized printed products (books, calendars, stickers, posters) feature your child’s first name printed throughout the product.


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

LiveOps Live Agent service is the ideal answer for those looking for an outsourced solution for their teleservices needs

What Company Is offering:
Enabling businesses to deliver high-performance call center and optimal customer contact, their hosted call center platform provides an enterprise-scale infrastructure, while their network of 16,000 experienced independent agents can effectively handle your incoming or outgoing calls.

How It Works:
LiveOps Live Agent service is the ideal answer for those looking for an outsourced solution for their teleservices needs. LiveOps has contracted with a community of professional home-based agents that provide the highest quality inbound and outbound customer care available. Live Revenue will help you to further maximize each customer interaction by targeted partnership marketing offers. In addition to Live Agent services, LiveOps rounds out its inbound and outbound services with IVR, ASR, and combined automated and Live Agent solutions. With so many offerings to choose from, LiveOps world-class Account Management team will work with you to determine the solution that best fits your needs.

With LiveOps, you have the peace-of-mind that comes with knowing that you never have too few or too many agents. Their on-demand solution can be scaled to real-time call volumes. And with complete visibility and control over your operations, the LiveOps platform solution matches the right agent to each call – every time.


Maximum call center quality and control with minimal complexity and cost – that’s LiveOps.
More at:http://www.liveops.com/

inluu lets you share your life story at your own pace

What Company Is Offering:

inluu lets you share your life story at your own pace. You train your very own inluu by answering questions. Your inluu will grow to understand the relationships between the different stories you share. People can then chat with and explore your inluu when you are unavailable (think long-term here).

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

Test Preparion Get Smarter--Socrato

What Company Is Offering:
Socrato is a place to make your learning effort easier and more productive. They will show you how you should be spending your precious study time based on your goals.
The word Socrato is a play on the name of the ancient Greek philospher Socrates - the creator of the Socratic teaching method and a teacher of another great philosopher, Plato. Socrato is a website for making learning fun and more productive. Whether you’re a student, a teacher or a tutor, use Socrato to test yourself or create tests for others. Then use Socrato’s features to help you understand your strengths, drill down on areas where you want more practice, and figure out what to do next to learn more.

How It Works:
You can start with a selection from their Test Library, or create your own tests.Socrato keeps track of your performance history and work notes. Tailor material based on your results, so you can focus on the areas that need improvement.
Practice tests and get instant feedback. Set performance goals and track your progress over time. Get insight into your learning trends, your strengths and areas for improvement. Personalized reports help you work on your trouble areas and improve. Create custom practice Tests based on your history and specific needs. Learn better, faster and measure your progress.

In “Practice Mode” you can answer all the questions, skip around, go backwards and forwards in the test, all without a time limit. You can also opt to view a timer while you’re practicing. To select this option, click on the checkbox next to “Click to show timer.”

In “Review Mode” you are only able to read the questions (and answers if you choose to check this option). You are not able to answer the questions. This mode is meant for people who want to skim through the questions on the test without actually testing themselves. This is useful for people who want to see what is covered on a particular test in order to study or prepare for the test.

How Is It Different:

Other learning tools replicate pencil and paper learning processes. Socrato brings the power of computing and data analysis to your studies. They constantly analyze your learning patterns, quantify your strengths and weaknesses and allow you to customize your practice session based on your goals.
More at:http://www.socrato.com/

Global Ideas Bank

What Company Is Offering:
The Global Ideas Bank aims to promote and disseminate good creative ideas to improve society. It further aims to encourage the public to generate these ideas, to participate in the problem-solving process.
These ideas they term social inventions: non-technological, non-product, non-gadget ideas for social change. These are a mix of existing projects, fledgling initiatives and new bright ideas.
In this way, the Global Ideas Bank is part-suggestions box, part-ideas network and part-democratic think-tank, giving the "ordinary" person a chance to have their creativity recognised, rewarded and even put into practice.
The Global Ideas Bank further aims to provide information and a community to help those individuals who wish to make their idea or project a reality in their own community. See the Practical Help and Success Stories sections for more on this.

How It Works:

Just register or login (which is very quick), then go to Submit an Idea and then type in the problem that your idea solves and the text of your idea. It's as simple as that.
The intention is that ideas can evolve from an initial concept to a fledgling project and then be brought to fruition. The inventors of 'seeds' that get a high feasibility rating may be invited to submit more information to become a 'plant'; they, or someone else, can then use that to put the idea into practice....and become a tree, a project changing the world.

Once you've registered, you can submit an idea, sign up to support ideas, comment on ideas and choose to receive ideas by e-mail in a particular category each week. You can alter your preferences/profile whenever you want by logging in and checking out MyGIB.
More at:http://www.globalideasbank.org/

Trashbank is an online website where you can sell your items or services or barter, swap, and trade your items or services

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.
And it's free. No processing fees. No hidden charges. No kidding!
Antiques, cars, books, cameras, clothing, collectibles, computers, games, home & garden, jewelry, toys. Every conceivable consumer product is represented. And so is every conceivable service. Have a talent or a service you know is worth something? Trashbank is the place for you.

How It Works:
Trashbank is an online website where you can sell your items or services or barter, swap, and trade your items or services with other people.

You can get far more value from the items you are willing to trade by exchanging it with other people's items that are of more value to 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.

You can trade up or you can simply make or receive a cash offer. It's fast, it's easy. And it's the solution to all your bartering needs.

Trashbank has attracted millions of satisfied users and added an advertising service that allows you to get the word out about your site or business without overspending your budget. Thanks to their open bidding system, you always spend what you can afford and receive prime placement in front of an upscale community of consumers.

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

Ushahidi.com is a tool for people who witness acts of violence in Kenya

What Company Is Offering:
Ushahidi.com is a tool for people who witness acts of violence in Kenya in these post-election times. You can report the incident that you have seen, and it will appear on a map-based view for others to see. They are working with local Kenyan NGO’s to get information and to verify each incident.

How It Works:

What you can do is get the word out about Ushahidi so that it’s utilized to it’s full potential. This especially extends to talking to the people that you know who have seen things in Kenya and getting them to the site as well. You can also help by using the contact form to volunteer to help with the tracking and verifying of each incident.
More at:http://www.ushahidi.com/