Thursday, January 24, 2008

Inform Technologies is a new technology solution for established media brands that automatically searches, organizes and links content got $15 milli

What Company Is Offering:
Inform Technologies is a new technology solution for established media brands that automatically searches, organizes and links content to provide a rich, compelling experience that attracts and retains readers. The technology relies upon artificial intelligence tools, natural language processing, identification of topics, and the continual scanning and processing of content as it is published anywhere on the Internet.

How It Works:
Inform uses artificial intelligence and proprietary rules and algorithms to scan millions of pages of text and read the way a journalist does – identifying key “entities,” such as people, places, companies and products, and recognizing how they connect, even in subtle and context-specific ways. The software continually teaches itself – in real time – how information is related and automatically updates links and topics as the context changes.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Inform Technologies, a technology solution for established media brands, has received a $15 million investment from Spark Capital, a Boston-based venture fund focused on the intersection of the media, entertainment and technology industries. Inform will use the funds to help implement its strategy for accelerated growth.

About VCs:

Spark Capital is a venture capital fund focused on building businesses that transform the distribution, management and monetization of media and content, with experience in identifying and actively building market-leading companies in sectors including infrastructure (Qtera, RiverDelta, Aether Systems, Broadbus and BigBand), networks (College Sports Television, TVONE and XCOM) and services (Akamai and the Platform). Spark Capital has over $600 million under management, and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. Spark has committed to investing $20 million in CNET equity.

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

PrivacyMatters.com is a leading online destination for credit management and identity theft protection services

What Company Is Offering:
PrivacyMatters.com is a leading online destination for credit management and identity theft protection services. It educates consumers on the truths of identity theft and credit management by providing visitors and members with the latest news on identity theft and credit management, access to educational articles, and Privacy Matters 1-2-3 and Privacy Matters Identity. These programs include unlimited access to 3-in-1 credit reports and scores, daily Triple Bureau credit monitoring, identity theft monitoring services and more.

Features:

PrivacyMatters.com offers consumers :

To Manage Your Life
• Free Debt Analysis plus Credit Score and a triple-bureau Credit Report. Three tools that can help analyze one’s debt..
• Detailed Property Report. Helps get the facts needed before buying. It includes value, owner info, sales history and more.

To Protect Your Family
• Background Checks. Get information to help you make an informed decision. Criminal records, aliases and more are included in a background check.
• Criminal Checks. Wondering if nannies, repairmen and other hires coming in contact with your family have criminal records? A criminal check can be obtained.

To Find Information Fast
• People Search. To reconnect, reunite and reignite, PrivacyMatters.com helps consumers get back in touch with long-lost friends and loved ones.
• Reverse Phone Lookup. Don’t know who called? Get the 411 on unknown numbers and always know who’s called with this solution.

In addition to these new services PrivacyMatters.com will continue to provide consumers with single credit reports and scores, 3-in-1 credit reports and credit scores, and credit monitoring services as well as the Identity Theft Report and Identity Theft Restoration services.
More at:www.privacymatters.com

WeListAmerica.com ---Real Estate Search Engine For America

What Company Is Offering:
WeListAmerica.com is a user-friendly website advanced enough for the experienced professional and the everyday user. Private Sellers and Real Estate Professionals now have the ability to match buyers and sellers by marketing Residential Properties, Commercial Properties and Land to the entire country in one “easy to navigate” website.

Created by the experienced Real Estate Professional, knowing the needs and challenges of today’s market, WeListAmerica.com will fulfill the need for a Nationwide Real Estate Tool, making it “America’s Real Estate Search Engine.”

How It Works:

The easiest way to find a listing is to use the search feature available on this site. Go to the home page and click on the type of property you would like to search for, a drop down window will appear, click on "Buy" and you will be directed to our search page. On the search page you will see a list of categories which you can browse to find the listings you are interested in. You can also use our advanced search by clicking on the “Advanced Search” link in the Buyer Options section on the left hand site of the page.

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

Mosio is a mobile question and answer community enabling you to text any question from your phone and have it answered by real people

What Compnay Is About:

Mosio is a play on the word "Mociology", a mash up of "mobile" and "sociology", which is defined as "the study of human behaviour in a mobile world and the study of mobile device/phone lifestyles.

How It Works:

Mosio is a mobile question and answer community enabling you to text any question from your phone and have it answered by real people. Harnessing the power of helpful people, mobile technologies and the internet, Mosio gives users access to information anywhere.

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

RedHotFranchises.com is a franchise and business opportunity marketplace for prospective entrepreneurs

What Company Is Offering:
RedHotFranchises.com is a franchise and business opportunity marketplace where prospective entrepreneurs can get the latest information about hundreds of the most popular and profitable business opportunities for free. Prospective business owners can get info on franchise fees, start-up costs, royalties, and even earnings claims. Visitors to the site can search by industry or investment level. The site hosts a dynamic franchise articles section, a franchise news section and even a franchise contest.

Recent Updates:

RedHotFranchises.com announced the addition of BounceU as preferred advertiser on its franchise website portal. BounceU will be included as a Sizzling Franchises advertiser and will also be featured as an Article Sponsor in RedHotFranchises.com’s franchise Article section.

About BounceU – It is an indoor, climate-controlled stadium filled with giant inflatable play structures, accompanied by additional play equipment and video arcade games. In addition to hosting birthday parties and other special occasions, BounceU stadiums also offer “open bounce” sessions to provide franchise owners with an additional revenue stream.
The cost to parents to hold an event at BounceU is substantially the same as if they had the event at their own home. Once parents add up the costs to host the event at home and compare it to what it would cost to have the event at BounceU, they quickly see the unbeatable value and service that BounceU provides. If that’s not enough, they just have to envision the look on their child’s face at the end of the perfect party – at BounceU we truly do create happy memories for kids and parents!.

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

Tactile CRM is an easy to use web based CRM, contact and sales management system

What Company Is Offering:

Tactile CRM is an easy to use web based CRM, contact and sales management system designed for small businesses.Tactile is easy to use and setup - 45 seconds is all it takes to get up and running on free version - unlike other ‘CRM’ systems they don’t hold back features on free versions - you can evaluate all the functionality at your leisure.



How It Works:
In Tactile, you can set permissions on Clients and Leads giving access (separately) to 'Read' and 'Edit' the record.

By default, records you create will be Readable and Editable by Everyone - this means that all users with access to the account.


You can change this to 'Just Me' if you want to restrict either Read or Edit rights to only yourself, or you can choose a combination of users and/or 'Roles' (groups of users) - by holding 'Ctrl' (or the "Apple"/Cmd key) while clicking you can select more than one user/role in the list.

Giving access to 'Edit' a record will automatically allow the users to see the record, and the owner of the record is always able to see and edit it - even if they set access that would prevent this.

People who are part of a company will have the same permissions as the company. For 'individuals' (those not attached to a company) you can decide whether or not they should be 'Private'. Setting this means only you, the owner of the record, can see or edit the record.
More at:http://www.tactilecrm.com/

Chickipedia is the world’s largest web-based, women-based, wiki-based database of hot chicks on the planet

What Company Is Offering:
Chickipedia is the world’s largest web-based, women-based, wiki-based database of hot chicks on the planet. It is entirely user generated, making it the first female-only encyclopedia of the people, by the people, and for the people.

How It Works:

All you have to do is have access to the internet, log on, go to our “Add New Chick” link, and voila—you can create a new article, or revise an existing one. Just be sure to do so within our guidelines or risk being spanked. Hard.


Chickipedia is not your grandpa’s encyclopedia. First of all, anyone can contribute. Second, the older the profile the more well researched and accurate it is. Newer profiles tend to include falsehoods, half truths, or people just being stupid, because they haven’t been up long enough for editors to police them or to build a consensus. Third, Chickipedia is not written in stone. It can change at any second with continual updates. In fact, as we wrote that Angelina Jolie’s birthplace changed.

Their editors will be there to monitor, advise, and correct mistakes. Just don’t purposefully mess around with the site. You know the drill: If you vandalize, you will be penalized. In other words, you will be bounced off the site. Hard.

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

TurnHere--Internet video solutions provider

What Company is Offering:
TurnHere, Inc. is a full-service Internet video solutions provider to the
media, publishing, travel, local and real estate industries. They provide
video strategy development services, produce high quality low-cost Internet videos and develop and execute plans to deliver those videos across the Internet to the right audience.  

Their business strategy group includes a talented team of video and media professionals with creative, production and video monetization experience. We advise companies on ways to build traffic, enhance brands, engage consumers and increase sales with video.  

The company leverages its growing network of more than 3,200 professional filmmakers across more than 50 countries to create affordable Internet videos that deliver emotionally engaging and authentic content to the right audiences. With deep backgrounds in media and video production, TurnHere works with customers on creative treatments to help produce effective venues for building online traffic.

Recent Updates:

TurnHere Announces Agreement to Provide YELLOWPAGES.COM with Custom-Produced Online Video for its Local Business Advertisers.

More at:http://turnhere.com/

My WeShow enables anyone to create their own compelling video portals on any subject and customize them with fresh video content

What Company Is Offering:
My WeShow enables anyone to create their own compelling video portals on any subject and customize them with fresh video content, discussions, sharp design, and interactive tools. My WeShow provides its users with templates and tools needed to find, publish, manage, and track their video content so that it can be viewed and discussed across the social network.

My WeShow provides two different approaches to simultaneously browsing and finding videos, a focused search of the previously selected quality videos WeShow editors have labeled and organized in seven languages and an extensive search of video content from more than 100 video sites including YouTube, Metacafe, Google Video, Spike, Vimeo, Break.com and Dailymotion.

Recent Updates:

WeShow (www.weshow.com), the human-powered guide to the online video universe, launched My WeShow, powerful video focused social network that enhances Internet users' online video experience. My WeShow combines the best of video entertainment with social interaction on the web, enabling users to find video, create personalized video communities, share opinions and content while also potentially making money. My WeShow gives users the power to easily become an editor and aggregator of their own video portal, not only finding videos from more than 100 video sites, but immediately adding them to their own My WeShow portal under new titles and descriptions that they have written themselves.
In launching My WeShow, WeShow is leading the industry by fully combining video content and social networking into an entertainment guide that provides a personalized view of the top quality videos from around the world.

More at:http://www.weshow.com/my

Hictu is a video microblogging service with the integration of Jajah letting you publish audio messages online

What Company is Offering:
Hictu is a video microblogging service. Users can create their own microblog with small posts (with text, audio and video), personalize their public profiles, manage a presence-enabled friend list, meet new friends. It's easy to use, funny, effective and free.

How It Works:

Hictu is very simple to use: just provide a valid email address, choose a nickname and a password and you are in. After logging in, you can start creating your posts and inserting your personal profile information. For videoposts all you need is a webcam: click on the "Record" button and enjoy! You can also add friends to your Hictu friend list by importing your email address book, and invite them to join Hictu with a click on the Invite button.

Recent Updates:

Hictu has integration with the of Jajah into its video micro-blogging platform, letting you publish audio messages online, using Jajah’s service. These audio messages can be recorded directly within Hictu.

More at:http://hictu.com/

Roxer is an easy-to-use, free online tool that lets anyone create stunning web pages without programming

What Company is Offering:
Roxer is an easy-to-use, free online tool that lets anyone create stunning web pages without programming.

How It Works:

Roxer takes a new approach to making web pages, based on the idea that you should never have to bother with code. With Roxer anyone can make visually stunning and fully functional web pages online using only a web browser. Editing is even easier. To rearrange your content, just click and drag items where you want them. To change your text, just click and type. To move content from one page to another, just copy and paste. Best of all, you will be doing these things to your web page from your web page. It's that easy!


How Is It Different?
Roxer is different from other products in a few ways. First, they've taken a new web design approach which is visual and completely code free. Secondly they've packaged everything that people use to make web pages into little things called "Boxes" which are completely portable. This means that you can not only move them around on a web page, but also visually copy & paste them from one web page to another.

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

Greenopolis is the only site where you can practice the Spirit of Greener Living and visually measure your individual progress

What Company Is Offering:
Greenopolis is the only site where you can practice the Spirit of Greener Living and visually measure your individual progress. They’re planning all sorts of online and offline activities and resources to reinforce individual greener behavior for the greater green.

How It Works:

As a Greenopolis resident you’ll be able to measure your steps toward a greener lifestyle in a number of unique and cumulative ways.

First, get your Badge! By completing our short Beta survey, you’ll discover a starting point from which you can measure your progress. Each member can display their green badge and watch as their badge progresses from orange to green in color reflecting the amount of activities performed within the Greenopolis community.

To take the How Green Are You survey, register or login to Greenopolis and go to your Myopolis profile page. Under your profile image will be your Badge or a link to complete the survey to receive your How Green Are You badge.


By early 2008, you’ll be able to share your dynamic badge on other Blogs and on other social networks to let the world know you’re getting greener every day.

Boost Your Quality Rating. Each time your contributions are rated well, or you receive kudos from other Greenopolis Residents for your posts, you achieve a higher Quality Score. This score is used by Greenopolis to award those Residents who are contributing helpful and positive content. Become a Greenopolis Guru and mentor others with their efforts.

Earn those points! Don’t forget that Greenopolis is the only site that will provide tangible rewards for activities on the sites and even offline actions that support individual greener behavior for the greater green.

More at:http://greenopolis.com/

TrackMyShipments --Tracks the shipment using data gathered from the shipping company’s systems and updates you via the website, email and SMS text mes

What Company Is Offering:

The TrackMyShipments system constantly tracks the shipment using data gathered from the shipping company’s systems and updates you via the website, email and SMS text message alerts.

How It Works:

When you order online, your supplier will send you a ‘Your Order Has Shipped’ email when it ships your order. Once you have an account on TrackMyShipments.com you simply forward that ‘Your Order Has Shipped’ email to track@trackmyshipments.com.

The TrackMyShipments system will then examine your email and extract the company (eg ‘Amazon’), the shipper (eg ‘Fedex’), and the tracking number. The email can be in any format and any layout and the TrackMyShipments will cope without problems.

You can view the status of all your shipments at any time by logging onto TrackMyShipments.com.

It’s easy to use and much more straightforward than the alternative of having to find the original ‘Your Order Has Shipped’ email and then having to Cut&Paste the Tracking Number into the shipping company’s website.

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