Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Get Qipit - free mobile online copy service

What Company Is Offering:

Qipit is a new online mobile service that lets you use your camera phone or digital camera to make a digital copy of any written or printed document to store, share via email or fax, or publish to the web.

How It Works:
With qipit you can copy whiteboards or class notes; fax documents and contracts; scan and copy receipts, reports, or invoices; email notes, letters and drawings to your friends; copy a poster, magazine article, or a notice on a bulleting board; even make digital copies of your tax forms and tax return for your files. You can use qipit like a portable scanner, or a mobile copier and you can send digital copies right from your cameraphone as a multimedia message (MMS) to an email or fax number. And qipit requires no mobile download or cell software. Basically, qipit turns your camera phone into a portable scanner, a mobile copier, and a mobile fax machine so that you can scan, copy, email and fax documents on the fly.

Qipit allows you to convert all of your written and printed documents into scan-quality digital copies (in black and white or color) for convenient online storage, without the need of a portable scanner, copier, or cell software. It's easy. All you do is take a picture of notes, a whiteboard or a document with your camera phone or digital camera; send it to qipit as a multimedia message (MMS) from your camera phone, via email or your qipit account; and qipit turns your photo into a clear digital copy, in PDF or JPEG format, that you can store or send to an email or fax number from your cell phone as a multimedia message (MMS) or mobile email, or on your PC via email or your qipit account. You can even publish your qipit copy to the web. Qipit is like a portable scanner, mobile copier, and a mobile fax machine, all in one.

With qipit, online file storage and file sharing is in the palm of your hand. Just like you share photos, you can share printed documents and handwritten notes or whiteboards. Qipit also takes the place of expensive interactive whiteboards, electronic whiteboards, digital whiteboards, electronic copy boards, or smartboards. Qipit lets you copy, store, fax, email and publish any information you put on a whiteboard, giving you a digital copy instead of just providing a printout. And qipit is a great way to archive all of your important documents like birth certificates, ID cards, passports, legal documents, tax documents and more.
More at:http://www.qipit.com/

Jacked has developed a first of its kind media engine

What Company Is Offering:
Jacked is a independent company created to develop state-of-the-art technology to generate news and information delivered by the internet synchronized with other programming. Jacked has developed a first of its kind media engine. It uses a proprietary technology called SearchCasting to scour the web and bring relevant, real-time information and content into a customizable WebTop interface.

How It Works:

Jacked will "watch and listen to" television programs, listen to radio shows, and "watch" other media and Jacked's search engines will provide you with news, information, images, links and other content that you want on your laptop that you can select to receive to enhance your experience. Jacked recently launched its first product, the Jacked SportsTop, which takes you beyond the gamecast, putting you in control in real time of the news, images, links and information you want that relate to the games you watch.

The Jacked SportsTop is a multifaceted interactive tool developed for sports programming that searches for and provides you the exact team, player, and game content you are most interested in receiving and viewing while you watch the television broadcast. Jacked is working on interactive tools for other television programming and will introduce them on a rolling basis, as they are developed.

The result is an enhanced sports news experience, delivering the real time game stats, photos, news, links to analysis, and the ability to connect with other fans. Jacked puts you in control, so you can make the call, customizing the widgets and content for your personalized dashboard. You can even view news, images, and stats for multiple games via multiple dashboards and save them for the next time you watch that sport or that team.
More at:http://sports.jacked.com/

SafeCheckIn.com is an exciting concept that allows singles the security of having someone always waiting for him or her to return from any activity

What Company Is Offering:
SafeCheckIn.com is an exciting concept that allows singles the security of having someone always waiting for him or her to return from any activity. When you are a single and heading out for a run, a hike, skiing or even a first date, you often do not have anyone to tell where you are going and when you expect to return. Nobody is waiting for you in case something goes wrong and you do not come back in time. Now anyone can have someone waiting to make sure they come back safely. SafeCheckIn.com is a service where individuals can put in specific information about themselves as well as information about any activity they are going to do. When they “check out”

How It Works:
SafeCheckIn will monitor their absence until the member “checks in” again. If the member is overdue then SafeCheckIn will attempt to contact the member to update their status. If SafeCheckIn cannot reach the member, we then contact the people that the member has designated as emergency contacts with the local authorities as being contacts of last resort. SafeCheckIn is designed for anyone who goes out hiking, running, fishing, hunting, skiing/snowboarding, takes road trips or any activity where an individual wants to make sure there is someone waiting for them to return home safely. It is that simple… tell SafeCheckIn where you are going and when you expect to come back. We will make sure you are safe or in the even you do not check back in and cannot be contacted, notify anyone you choose of your overdue status.

With the number of single households increasing every year there is an extreme need for a service like SafeCheckIn.com. SafeCheckIn can be used when meeting anyone new whether they are a first date, a business meeting or a stranger for any reason. You can be assured that if something happens, someone will be looking for you! How many news reports have we all heard about people being found alive after days or weeks and nobody knew they were missing or if someone did, did not have enough information to do a effective search? That is exactly what the service is designed for! When you go out, make sure you check out so someone is waiting for you to check in.
More at:http://www.safecheckin.com/

The Alternative, a London based Creative Agency, has developed a unique way to engage passers-by on busy London streets

The Alternative, a London based Creative Agency, has developed a unique way to engage passers-by on busy London streets.

In addition, this innovation has provided Orange with a fun way to excite and entertain customers for hours after their Carnaby Street retail store has closed for the day. The installation in the store's main window employs a large projection screen and highly advanced piece of motion capture technology. This installation has been developed by The Alternative and this is the first time it's been shown to the public. Using a large projected image and a touch-free interface, the installation provides users with a very engaging new way to activate news, film clips, music videos and many of Orange's unique services. To use it you simply wave your hand in thin air, because there are no buttons or touch-sensitive surfaces employed. All you need is a hand, and the ability to wave it wildly without caring what you look like.

This ground-breaking innovation really does appear to be a world-first, so naturally it's hard to create suitable comparisons. If forced to make one, Gavin Martin, Creative Director of The Alternative, says, “This really is the next generation of the user interface. We wanted to throw out all the traditional ways if interacting with technology and start from scratch. We created this with the needs of humans in mind, not computers. A few people have referenced the film 'Minority Report.’ The similarities are there with exception that with our interface you don’t need a 'magic glove', or indeed a controlled environment.” One of the most impressive features isn't a technical one, however. It's how the window turns even the most reserved person into a piece of street theatre within seconds. “The interactive is just as much fun when you watch others use it as it is to play with yourself. Because it requires movement, it is very intuitive and great fun. Tests have shown that we can now make a playful child out of any grown adult in a matter of seconds!” adds Martin.

The motion-capture system will undoubtedly find many more exciting applications across a wide variety of sectors. To properly appreciate the technology and the street theatre it generates, you simply must experience it.
More at:www.thealternative.co.uk

LivePitch upload facility to allow people seeking investment to upload their audio visual pitch to investors

What Company Is Offering:
LivePitch allows the potential investor to view both the entrepreneur, their presentation style and their personality as well as assess the business plan and anything else the potential entrepreneur sees useful to helping him/her raise finance. LivePitch upload facility to allow people seeking investment to upload their audio visual pitch to investors. This can be accompanied by business plans, spreadsheets and images of products/prototypes/logos.

How It Works:

LivePitch helps the investor in numerous ways. Investors receive numerous requests for finance. LivePitch allows the proposed opportunity to grab their attention, allowing the entrepreneur to stand out. It will allow the investor to judge not just the business idea but the entrepreneur as well. They need to sell themselves- so clarity and conciseness of presentation, appearance, content of the pitch and how the entrepreneur strings it together can be assessed.

LivePitch allows the entrepreneur to have a massive audience both national and international for their proposed business venture.

More at:http://www.thebusinessshop.ie/

Velocity Venture Capital has closed its second fund with $15 million raised

About Company:
Velocity Venture Capital is investing in the next generation of successful technology companies in the Sacramento region. Velocity actively invests in the most promising deals in California’s Capital region alongside top-tier venture firms and local angel investors.Velocity has deployed a unique approach to venture capital with an innovative fund management organizational structure and company-building approach. Along with its General Partners, Velocity has a stable of seasoned industry experts called Venture Partners that are assisting portfolio companies in various respects, including securing customers, recruiting management talent, establishing industry partnerships, and syndicating rounds of financing.

How Much They Raised:
It has closed its second fund with $15 million raised and is preparing for its third fund with a target fund size of $60 million.

With its first two funds, Velocity already has made 11 investments in companies in the greater Sacramento region, including companies like Jadoo Power and Marquiss Wind Power, which are taking a leadership role in Sacramento’s efforts to become a national leader in clean energy innovation.

The Velocity fund management team plans to complete its Fund II portfolio by adding up to three more portfolio companies for a potential total of 14 investments in California’s Capital region.



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

MyWire connects users to the best media from trusted sources around the world

What Company Is Offering:
MyWire connects users to the best media from trusted sources around the world. Our innovative technologies make it easy to find, personalize and share high quality content. MyWire was founded by Louis Borders, who previously founded Borders Books and WebVan.

How It Works:

Every day, they bring together the most important stories of the moment, from all angles and every corner of the world. They are a global hub for news, opinions, essays, photojournalism and more, from publications around the world. They make it easy to find what you're looking for - their search delivers the latest and most relevant content, editors bring you multimedia collections on the hottest issues, and channels serve up content tuned to your interests.

Get what you want, how you want it. Your live channels let you tune into your favorite subjects, people and places, bringing together the latest and most engaging articles, photos and videos. Whether it's Paris, France or Paris Hilton, AC Milan or AC/DC, you get all the news and views, served up daily on your channels dashboard.

Share it with the world. Email, blog, digg or facebook - share whatever you find on MyWire. Invite friends to your channels, or engage in other users' channels. Share your opinions, show off your profile, and connect with others.

For business partnets, we operate a business-to-business content marketplace called SmartServices, which allows content creators to expand their reach and businesses to enhance their websites with high-quality professional content. Check out the exciting programs under the MyWire Network, or contact us for more information.
More at:http://www.mywire.com/

FindingDulcinea puts the best of the Web at your fingertips

What Company Is Offering:
Dulcinea Media, Inc. is a Silicon Alley team of savvy Internet users. Their mission is to untangle the Web, freeing it of clutter and spotlighting only the sites that matter. They aim to provide a richer experience for every Internet user.


How It Works:
They distill their research with knowledge, judgment and insight, presenting you with Web sites that are clear, informative, and enlightening.

findingDulcinea puts the best of the Web at your fingertips in three distinct ways:

• Web Guides intuitively explain thousands of topics, supplementing meticulous research with organized, thoughtful guidance.
• Beyond the Headlines puts provocative news stories in context, supplying thoroughly researched links to historical, local, academic and other perspectives.
• Netcetera celebrates the wit and personality of the Web by featuring content on innovative people, diverse places and bold ideas.

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

The Overlay.TV platform allows viewers to interact with online video, and enables content owners and distributors to monetize their video assets

What Company is Offering:

Overlay.TV is an interactive media company that provides a video-advertising platform enabling users to lay contextual information directly onto video content.

How it Works:


The Overlay.TV platform allows viewers to interact with online video, and enables content owners and distributors to monetize their video assets. As video streams from its original location, such as leading video sharing sites, viewers are able to opt-in to receive “overlays” which provide contextual information about the content being viewed. The overlay technology allows any image in a video to be ‘hyper-enabled’ and allows a viewer to click on the image, right in the video, and take any number of desired actions that are directly associated with the context of the image being viewed.

The overlays can be embedded in external web pages, online shops, blogs and social network profiles. The simplicity and elegance of the Overlay.TV technology means that anyone posting video content will have a tool to add contextual information directly onto the video content – no pre-roll, no post-roll, no banners, and no changes to the video at all.
More at:http://www.overlay.tv/

Greystripe provides mobile content free to consumers in an ad-supported model

What Company Is Offering:
Greystripe provides mobile content free to consumers in an ad-supported model. Greystripe operates the world’s first in-game mobile ad network and the world’s first ad-supported mobile game distribution platform.

How It Works:

Greystripe’s AdWRAP advertising network takes full screen images, videos, and scrolling banners and dynamically delivers them into mobile games and applications. Mobile in-game advertising provides advantages over other advertising channels for all of the key advertising metrics -- including reach, targeting, measurement, and high recall and conversion rates. Research shows and Greystripe has proven that consumers are strongly receptive to in-game advertising and ad-subsidized mobile content.

Greystripe’s unique distribution solution is made possible by its patent-pending AdWRAP technology, which automatically adds the AdWRAP advertising client to mobile games and applications. This fundamental technology has enabled the AdWRAP system to rapidly achieve mass scale while maintaining extensibility for new ad formats, calls-to-action, and targeting. Greystripe is reaching millions of mobile game players through GameJump.com. the world’s largest free, ad-supported mobile game portal.and through its AdWRAP Catalog Program distribution partners.
More at:https://www.greystripe.com/

The Big Art Mob aims to create a public record of all the Public Art in the UK

What Company Says:
The Big Art Mob aims to create a public record of all the Public Art in the UK. For this reason, please try and keep your posts relevant to this subject, and avoid posting content that does not relate to Public Art. Posting content that is not strictly Public Art is not prohibited, but if you do, please do not fill in any of the location information to avoid such posts appearing in the Big Art Map.

How It Works:
You take photos or shoot video with your camera phone and then send them to the The Big Art Mob, direct from the phone, wherever you are. Your contributions are then published online in your very own Big Art Moblog to share with the rest of the Big Art Mob and the world at large - and to get their thoughts and feedback.

When you upload photos, you can add a title (as the MMS or email Subject) and accompanying text (as the MMS or email message) and these will appear on the site.


By giving providing informations about the location of the art (street and the city) on the form, your photo can be displayed on flag the Big Art Map with your image.

To access the Big Art User map, you need to check a user or group blog page and click on the Big Art Map link in the sidebar. If no such link exists, it means the user/group has no items mapped yet.
More at:http://www.bigartmob.com/

VooEasy to create a centralized location for communicating with your existing groups that you interact with outside of the Internet

VooEasy is a new network that has taken bits and pieces from a variety of social networking concepts in order to create a centralized location for communicating with your existing groups that you interact with outside of the Internet. Not yet launched, VooEasy is currently in private beta and has already gotten some seed funding from angel investors.
The network is comprised of multiple teams that you create upon sign up. This essentially allows you to make a mini world of your own, that touches whatever aspects of your life you’d like to reflect in your online expression. This isn’t entirely different from a groups option on an existing social network, but each team is still very much intertwined into your VooEasy profile.

The benefits of enabling a permission-based approach to letting users select who sees what aspects of their profiles within a single account. This retrofitting of added customization on an individual level is being tested by the likes of collectiveX and Friendster. But what VooEasy has done is offer this option, to some extent, right from the start.

VooEasy is hoping to, by encouraging you to create teams based on your interests and actual lifestyle. So you can create a team for work, school, hometown, clothing brand, book club, television show…anything you find of interest to you. Where VooEasy differs is the fact that all of your information is aggregated onto your profile.

Once you get to your profile, you may be a bit overwhelmed, because it is extremely centralizing in its approach to offering you a one-stop-shop for the activity going on throughout the site, and how it relates back to you. Your profile as well as your teams each have “cards,” which act as visual representations of your online presence and social graph, to a certain degree.
Via-Mashable

DailyStrength--Health Social Network

What Company Is Offering:
DailyStrength is a collection of safe, anonymous, online support groups focused on over 500 specific challenges to help people overcome their personal challenge or support a loved one through theirs.

DailyStrength isn't just for those living with a challenge themselves - care givers, supporters and medical professionals are welcome as well. Everyone can use a helping hand once in a while and our mission is to provide a safe forum where people can connect with others who know exactly what they're going through.

How it Works:
DailyStrength was built to enable people facing life challenges to:

a) simply and easily communicate their progress with friends, family, supporters, and have those people respond with encouragement and help.

b) find others facing the same circumstances, and exchange experiences, treatments and even hugs within a safe community setting.


To register, click on either Register or Sign Up, and follow the simple instructions from there. All that is required is an email address.DailyStrength is free for members. There are no costs or fees of any kind. DailyStrength is designed to be completely anonymous. The only information that is required is for you to choose a username that will be publicly visible. Any other informatin you provide is completely vountary. Please use discretion and common sense when providing your location, name or any other information that you post in your profile, journal or discussions.
Go to any member's profile page and click the "CLICK TO CHAT" button to send them a chat request. A chat window will pop up. BE PATIENT - it may take a few minutes for the other person to join you. Hopefully, you will see the other person enter the room and you can begin typing to each other. If the other person denies your chat request or does not respond within a few minutes, we will also alert you via automated message.

More at:http://dailystrength.org/

vSide is an immersive, interconnected virtual city environment where you can hang out, listen to music, chat, dance, and make friends

What Company Is Offering:
vSide is an immersive, interconnected virtual city environment where you can hang out, listen to music, chat, dance, and make friends.

How It Works:

Go to:http://www.vside.com/ , and download the application. Install and run vSide and you will be prompted to register from within the client.vSide fully supports AIM. If you supply your AIM username and password in your People panel (accessible via the People button, also F3 key), you'll be able to IM your AIM buddies right from the vSide client.

It is strongly recommended that you provide a valid email address when you register for vSide. You can then activate your account by clicking the link in the Welcome Mail you receive from Doppelganger. By activating your account you will be able to take advantage of advanced vSide features, learn about vSide happenings, get vSide support, be eligible for contests, prizes, etc.

When you register for an account or change your email address, the activation email should come immediately. If you don't see it, check your junk folder. If it's not there, go tohttp://www.vside.com , sign in, and go to theMy Account page . This page will have a link to re-send your activation email. If you still don't get the mail, try changing your email address on your My Accounts page by clicking on your email address. Gmail and Yahoo addresses both work fine.

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