Friday, January 18, 2008

Clear Ambition is an online program that helps people make better, more confident decisions about their life direction and career path

What Company Is Offering:
Clear Ambition is the first all-inclusive online career and education planning program to provide integrated self-assessments (interests, skills, values, and personality), career and education exploration tools, and telephone guidance for every user.
Clear Ambition is an online program that helps people make better, more confident decisions about their life direction and career path. The company has simplified the process of finding a life/career direction that fits each person by combining self-assessments, career and education exploration tools, and 1-to-1 personal career guidance in one all-inclusive, online program. Its program is designed for teens, college students, and adults of all ages.

How It Works:
Using the telephone and Internet, Clear Ambition brings highly skilled career consultants and the planning tools you need directly to you. At a time you choose. Any place you choose. At a price you can afford. It's like having your own private career advisor who makes house calls!
Customers sign up for the program on the company’s website .The program steps each client through four self-assessments, then automatically generates a list of best-fit career options. Working with a highly trained career consultant by telephone, each client receives help in discovering what options really fit. The client then receives guidance in choosing a direction and in building a step-by-step action plan.

“Each of their career consultants have a Masters Degree and at least 5 years experience in career and education guidance,” says Sanders. “They carefully match each client with a consultant based on the client’s life stage and specific needs."

The upfront subscription fee includes access to the web tools and a specific number of guidance hours so clients know exactly what they’re signing up for. Packages start at $225 for students and $245 for adults.

More at:www.ClearAmbition.com.

SpotMyTee.com officially launched the Miss FBook contest

What Company Is Offering:
The SpotMyTee.com label offers a variety of high quality, hand-made clothing under twenty dollars ( $20 ). In addition, SpotMyTee.com offers the opportunity for tattoo artists to earn significant revenue through SpotMyTee.com's exclusive licensing agreement. Artists who partner with SpotMyTee.com are paid each time their designs on tees are sold. This licensing model is in stark contrast to its competitors that offers a flat payout per design reproduced.

"SpotMyTee.com officially launched the Miss FBook contest, January 10th at 12:00 am on facebook. Miss FBook is where you’ll find and maybe meet ( or at least try to ) the hottest, sexiest most beautiful women from around the world that facebook has to offer.

The Miss FBook contest is not your traditional beauty contest, the contestants aren’t chosen by a panel they are the hottest, sexiest girls on facebook – classmates, neighbors, girls you pass at the mall – real women. Judging is not by the “so called” experts who think they know what a makes someone beautiful. It’s done through the facebook social network where contestants put themselves out to the world to try and get the most votes. You enlist your friends to vote for you, go out and make new friends to vote for you, change your pics, your bio – compete head to head each week and use all your hidden assets to become Miss FBook. Contestants compete in a series of weekly competitions with all the weekly winners being eligible to compete again for Grand Prizes.

“Miss FBook is doing exactly what SpotMyTee.com created it to do, bring the hottest women together to win & wear the sexiest tattoo clothing on the planet” said Howard Panes, VP of Marketing. “Everything we do here is a grass roots organic approach to focus on the younger non conventional internet media outlets and we’re seeing the fruits of our labor along with some incredibly beautiful women.” Panes was quick to point out that SpotMyTee.com is carefully choosing select alliance partners to become part of Miss FBook. “Our goal is not keep all these women to ourselves, we are working with cosmetics firms, modeling agencies and other fashion houses to provide these women with opportunities beyond the facebook platform.”

Ahmet Ertek, Director of Social Network Development was quoted as saying, “We haven’t forgotten about the ladies wanting something to look at well, we’ll be launching Mr FBook soon and all I can say is Chippendale’s watch out!”



SpotMyTee.com clothing reflects today's modern fashion colors while serving as a canvas for its artist’s original art. They utilize industry leading 4 color process printing technologies to perfectly replicate the original artist style and coloring. This printing process is distinguishing SpotMyTee.com from the competition, which frequently utilize basic screen-transfer printing. By utilizing specialty textile dyes, SpotMyTee.com apparel retains maximum comfort and durability.

SpotMyTee.com - delivering cutting edge "Signature” tattoo apparel to the virtual Main Street for under $20."
More at:www.SpotMyTee.com
Via-newswire

Simple Sales Tracking

What Company Is Offering:

Simple Sales Tracking is a web-based service for the tracking, analysis and forecasting of individual and team sales collaboratively.Built with simplicity at its core, focus is kept on key sales tasks, while eliminating unnecessary ones, helping to ensure buy-in of the entire sales team.Simple Sales Tracking is accessed entirely thru your computers internet browser.

How Is It Different:
They Pay You! If after using Simple Sales Tracking for one month you've not increased your sales enough to cover the cost of the service, they'll pay you back $15 per month until you do.

Unique Features:
For up to 3 months!

* Limited Account: No cost, No credit card required. Not a trial, and will never expire. Limited to 50 sales tracked at a time. Standard Support.
* Full Account: Low monthly cost, no setup fee. No hidden costs or contracts. Cancel anytime. Gold support.
* Extremely simple to use and intuitive layout.
* Assign and track sales accross the entire team.
* Secure access from any computer with an internet connection.
* Low cost of ownership with no software, or hardware to maintain.
* Automatic data backup.

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

Ennect Mail is web-based email marketing software that empowers you to send visually rich emails and analyze results

What Company Is Offering:

Ennect Mail is web-based email marketing software that empowers you to send visually rich emails and analyze results.

How It Works:

Ennect Mail is a web-based email broadcast product, you don't need to purchase any additional hardware or software. All you need is a web browser and your computer connected to the internet via modem, DSL/Cable or a T1 line.You can purchase email credits with either a major credit card or check for your anticipated campaigns.
Ennect Mail can store up to 100,000 email addresses and up to 100,000 responses. You can add additional storage as needed. Ennect Mail comes standard with 2 Mb of image file storage for storing images.

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

Zynga Game Network is the social gaming company on the web

What Company Says:
Zynga Game Network is the social gaming company on the web. Zynga was founded specifically to add a social element to casual online games .Social games provide a more fun, competitive and contagious experience. Zynga delivers on the promise of social networks, making it easy to connect with old friends and make new ones (no download required!). Zynga has something for everyone: casino games, word games, board games, role playing games and party games which can be found on Facebook, Bebo, Friendster and meebo.

Who Is Backing Them:
Founder and CEO
Mark Pincus, frenetic visionary of Zynga. His DNA is one strand entrepreneur and one strand competitive gamer. Mark founded Tribe.net (www.tribe.net), one of the first social networks in 2003. Prior to Tribe, he was the founder and CEO of SupportSoft (Nasdaq: SPRT), the world's leading provider of support automation software. Prior to SupportSoft, Mark co-founded Freeloader, the first consumer push information service.

CTO & Founding Team

Michael is such a hardworking, big-thinking technologist that it prompts questions about whether he’s human or simply an enormous brain. Smart money says the answer is somewhere in between. He’s responsible for overall technology and platform strategy. Prior to Zynga, he designed and built the core systems for eUniverse and developed web caching and filesystem/kernel technology at Network Appliance. He studied music, math, and physics at UC Santa Cruz and enjoys playing the violin and piano.

More at:http://zynga.com/

Criteo for real-time personalized recommendation solution on the web

What Company Is Offering:
Criteo aims to become the most widely used real-time personalized recommendation solution on the web.

Personalization can help discover information one would not have found on his own, sites one never knew existed, based on users past behaviors and interests. Personalization and recommendations aid discovery. Discovery is about leveraging the long tail of huge catalogs that would be extremely difficult for a user to browse. It's hard to find something if you didn't know it existed. It's even harder to find something if you can't easily define exactly what you are looking for.

How It Works:
Criteo recommendation engine works on a real-time basis, both for input data and output results.
Input data can be either explicit user ratings (votes on items), or implicit user browsing history (clicks, page views or purchased items).
Output results can be Products, Content or Advertising personalized for each user.
Criteo solutions are available for any web site with plug-and-play web components.
Criteo uses a SaaS (Software as a Service) model. Their solutions are available for any web site, based on plug-and-play web components. It's an easy installation with no hassles. It does not require any kind of long term commitment nor advanced technical skills. Because of its transparency and efficiency, Criteo solutions have attracted thousands of clients of all sizes.

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

LesTout is the premiere source of consumer and everyday lifestyle information and advice

What Company Says:
LesTout is the premiere source of consumer and everyday lifestyle information and advice. The articles are written by a network of Guides - professional writers and authors, who are leading expert in their field. These expert guides have been gathered from around the world to provide you with only the most relevant, useful, accurate and easy to understand advice and information you deserve.


How It Works:
You can get expert advice on the site in the form of articles, videos and discussion boards. We employs strict editorial guidelines for all of the content that appears on our site. From the latest information about modern living, arts, humanities, business and parenting, to the most inspiring expert advice on relationships, travel, health, diet, education and more - if it's not on our site, it's not news! Through their Information Channels, their website is all about getting expert advice you need today.

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

MostListed aggregate the for sale listings

What Company Says:
A lot of the Internet is for sale, from domains, templates, and articles to complete websites. They aggregate the for sale listings from the popular listing locations for your convenience, and select a few listings they think deserve a little closer inspection.

More at:http://www.most-listed.com/

Tooble lets you browse, search and download any video from YouTube and put it on your iPod, iPhone or Apple TV

What Company is Offering:
Tooble is a brand new program designed to bring the vast mine of content on YouTube straight to your iPod. In one easy step, tooble automatically downloads, converts and imports any YouTube video to play on your video iPod, iPhone, AppleTV, or even on your computer with iTunes. Now all your favorite videos are with you and ready to play, no matter where you are.

How It Works:
Tooble lets you browse, search and download any video from YouTube and put it on your iPod, iPhone or Apple TV. You can also save them to watch on your computer.

Tooble automatically converts YouTube video to MP4 format and then sends them to iTunes so that the next time you plug in your iPod or iPhone they'll be there for you to watch.

It's super simple to use, because unlike other similar utilities, tooble is also a stand alone YouTube browser. Right now it's only available for Macintosh, but a Windows version is coming soon.Tooble is also completely free.

You can navigate using the lists of featured videos, enter a search in the search bar, or even enter in a URL you already know; tooble gives you access to everything from the elegant comfort of a simply beautiful interface. Once you have found something you like, simply check it and hit the download button- tooble takes care of the rest. Your video will then be downloaded, converted to an easily viewable mp4 format, and automatically imported into iTunes. Now all you need to do is plug in your iPod, and you'll have all the content you know and love right in your pocket.

More at:http://tooble.tv/

SharedReader takes out the shared items of the Google Reader's users so they will kow what's the most shared articles

What Company Is Offering:
SharedReader takes out the shared items of the Google Reader's users so they will kow what's the most shared articles.

How It Works:
The concept is to constantly updates the RSS feeds for the Google Reader's users shared items and count how many times the article were shared. By then they will know that most popular shared article. However, shared count is limited only to the number of user shared items' feeds that are in the list.

Who Is Backing Them:
Dennes B Abing from Davao City, Philippines. It's a little city with the largest land area in the world. He develop websites and help and teach students and out-of-school youth about web development.
contact : dennes.b.abing{at}gmail.com | http://blog.dennesabing.com

More at:http://sharedreader.dennesabing.com/

Wikimedia and Kaltura are teaming up for a program that aims to bring rich-media collaboration to Wikipedia and other wiki websites

What Company is Offering:
Kaltura is a free online site for group video making. For the first time, users are given the ability to CREATE RICH MEDIA TOGETHER. Like the Wiki platform that enables users to collaborate on the creation of texts from any browser, Kaltura enables a group of users to collaborate on the creation of a video – or what they call a Kaltura.

How It Works:

Users who start a Kaltura choose its topic, pick a look for the Kaltura page, and invite friends to contribute video, music and photos to it. Then, they can even edit it together. The collaborative result can be viewed on Kaltura.com, downloaded for later use, and easily embedded on any site, blog or social network as a widget.

Creating a Kaltura is a great way to document events, to socialize with peers, to fansource, to strengthen ties of an online or offline group, and to meet and interact with exciting people who share similar interests.

Recent Updates:

Wikimedia and Kaltura are teaming up for a program that aims to bring rich-media collaboration to Wikipedia and other wiki websites. This specifically to collaboratively created video, audio, animations, slide shows, text and images, and looks to be an extension of the Open Source remixing program that Wikipedia announced about a month ago. Collaborative is key, seeing as this is a program through Wikimedia, and all. And Kaltura is all about collaborative creation as well.

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

SellaBand lets music fans take a stake in their favorite artists in order to help fund their record

What Company Says:
The music industry is all about fences. Those who are on the inside, and those who are on the outside. SellaBand wants to break down all the fences. Everybody with a passion for music can be on the inside.It's your music. It's your choice.
SellaBand is a service that lets music fans take a stake in their favorite artists in order to help fund their record. Once enough shares have been purchased ($50,000), then an artist gets to head off to the studio and make an album.

How It Works:

Make your own Artist page on SellaBand.com. Create a profile that appeals to potential Believers. Upload a picture, a biography and a maximum of 3 demo-songs that represent you as an Artist. Tell your fans where they can see you play live, where they can find your own website, etcetera. Do you have a MySpace account? Let your Believers know!Promote yourself and your music by making links to your profile page on SellaBand.com and other (music) communities. Announce the url on concert posters, your own website, etc. And don't forget to motivate your Believers to promote your band. After all, SellaBand connects you with dedicated fans that will serve as the most aggressive street- and e-team ever!

All advertising revenues generated via SellaBand will be shared equally between the SellaBand Recording Artists, their Believers and SellaBand. This three way split will be based on market share. The more your songs are downloaded on SellaBand (by unique visitors), the bigger your market share and the more money you and your Believers can make.
Recent Updates:
A new partnership with The Orchard means that these artists get to work with industry professionals, and take advantage of some marketing know-how.
The partnerships take full effect on January 21, 2008, and the dates for the concert tour have been announced for Rio Grande, NM, Boston, MA, London and Amsterdam. Heineken has in fact renewed its partnership with SellaBand, with some upgrades thrown in there. The beer company will be sponsoring the live events as well as “SellaBand Presents…” which are compilations of top SellaBand acts.


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

Fave Media is to deliver organized, relevant results no matter what product or service you need

What Company Is Offering:

At Fave, they’re all about better local search. Their goal is to deliver organized, relevant results no matter what product or service you need, without the clutter that accompanies your searches on the major search engines. Fave is populated with over 350,000 Chicago area businesses, so you can search for everything, from restaurants to dentists to boutique shops to real estate agents. They hope you will appreciate the concise, easy to use business listings that Fave delivers, with emphasis on geographical location.

How It Works:

All results are delivered with your exact location in mind.In addition to providing the most comprehensive business listings in Chicagoland, Fave augments this with entertaining and informative videos, which truly reveal the unique nature of each business. Learning about your community has never been this fun! These videos can be shared with friends and family as you discover “Fave” businesses in your neighborhood. They take pride in the quality and level of customization of their business videos; hopefully they will enhance your local search experience in an entirely new way.

Recent Updates:
Fave Media has announced funding, to the amount of $1.6 million, from a “variety of private investors,” according to the release.

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