Friday, February 1, 2008

Bizak is a business valuation application which calculates & benchmarks the profitability of internet startups

What Company Is Offering:

Bizak is a business valuation application which calculates & benchmarks the profitability of internet startups.

Entrepreneurs use these calculations to increase profits & lower costs.
Investors analyze the statistics to connect with new funding opportunities and
professionals network with startups to form business partnerships.

How It Works:
Entrepreneurs use Bizak to calculate the profitability of their business according to website analytics and key performance indicators. These calculations can then be compared to other startups and industry benchmarks. With these calculations entrepreneurs are then invited to join Bizak's elite network of investors and business professionals who are eager to invest in your profitability.

Professionals use Bizak's comparative traffic analysis to discover new advertising and business opportunities.

Investors use Bizak to discover new investment opportunities. From the calculation of comparative benchmarks investors can evaluate the earnings potential of startups in comparison to their competitors and industry.
More at:http://www.bizak.com/

TaxAccountant10.com has truly innovated the way people will search for accountants and tax related information on the Internet

What Company Is Offering:
TaxAccountant10.com has truly innovated the way people will search for accountants and tax related information on the Internet. The site has an easy-to-navigate menu that is well researched for ease of use. The directory is carefully designed to ensure that the content is national, state, area and zip code specific.

How It Works:
Accountants can join the directory by filling a simple registration form. It takes only a minute or two to register. Members can then login to edit profile, add web pages to their profile, post their client's testimonials, post open jobs, manage prospects and design customized mailing options to prospective clients. You can register at http://TaxAccountant10.com/RegisterMember.aspx.

For individuals and small business owners looking to file their taxes or looking for tips to save taxes, this directory provides great tools to search for accountants by zip code. The site navigation is simple and easy. One can navigate using state and city links or simply do a search near a zip code. Your taxes can be best taken care of by an experienced accountant local to your area. The directory’s aim is to enable users to find local accountants within 10 miles of their zip code and hence the name TaxAccountant10.com.

For accountants, CPAs, tax attorneys, this is an excellent opportunity to list their business and be found by individuals and small business owners. The directory in a way allows accountants to create a profile, which is like creating a mini website for your business. You can list your services, add web pages, and add testimonials from existing clients and so on.
The directory provides a host of features for quick promotion of services. This online directory would serve as a highly effective tool for accountants to enhance and grow their business.

More at:http://taxaccountant10.com/

Widgetbox raised $8 million in its series B funding

What Company Is Offering:
Widgetbox helps people express, connect, create and inform using web widgets that can be easily shared and distributed anywhere on the web. Widgetbox has the largest selection of web widgets -- over 33,000, with 28 million monthly viewers on over 210,000 domains. Widgetbox serves both the developers and consumers of widgets and has the most comprehensive set of tools for the management and distribution of your web widgets.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Widgetbox(TM) announced that it has closed its series B funding, raising $8 million from investors Sequoia Capital, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, NCD Investors, and private investor, Michael Dearing. The new funding will be used to build products and services for its large and growing community of developers and
consumers including the expansion of DevShare(TM), the company's revenue sharing program with developers.

For more: http://www.widgetbox.com

ElectionU ---Social Networking For Sharing Political Ideas

What Company Is Offering:
The ElectionU mission is to create a free social network for the politically minded, an educational resource to educate all voters, and a campaign tool that can bring voters and politicians from all sides together. They want voters to be able to debate issues and learn from those with opposing viewpoints so that one day we can find the middle ground for every issue that faces our country and the world.

How It Works:
ElectionU accomplishes its goals in several ways. First it provides a forum for the debate of issues which are created by members. The members. participation is really what drives the site. Members can create issues, join political action committees, research news on candidates and issues, and follow the politicians in their area. Further they can communicate with politicians and watch politicians debate.

ElectionU also provides politicians with a free campaign tool. Local politicians who usually could not afford a website can now use ElectionU to reach out to voters through the internet. Politicians and members have a calendar of events that they can add to and follow.
ElectionU news is a consolidated source for all your news needs. It is arranged by topics and gathers stories from multiple sources. So you may select one top, such as health care, and see stories on this topic being drawn from many news sources like CNN, Fox News, the Associate Press, the Washington Post, and more. This way you can see how all of the news agencies are covering the same topic. You no longer have to go to each news source.s website to search for the topic you want to read about. Instead you can find everything in one place.

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

With Exp& Demo --Experience an incredible 2D/3D visual dimension never thought possible on a mobile phone

What Company Is Offering:
Exp& Demo is a free mobile application that you can download and use on your cell phone. Experience an incredible 2D/3D visual dimension never thought possible on a mobile phone! Expand Images, Co. is making available this free demo application to wireless users in the U.S. for a limited time.

Exp& (expand) is a mobile technology that overcomes the limitation of small screens found on most mobile devices. With Exp&, you can zoom in/out, pan, and rotate the content of very large images, anytime and anywhere.

How It Works:
With the Exp& Demo mobile application, you will be able to magnify and explore the content of large images with complete freedom! Even more, some of the images allow you to view the subject from different angles, and still be able to zoom and pan, providing a unique 3D visual experience!

If you want to have a close encounter, you know...of the Exp& (expand) kind...then, there is good news!
Their trial-introductory version, Exp& Demo, is now available FREE of charge.
Exp& Demo works on many current mobile phones, some of which cost $100 or less.

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

Online Marketplace For Bike And Cars

WhatCompany Is Offering:
Infibeam.com , it offers thousands of new cars, bikes (motorcycle), scooters and mopeds at the most competitive prices and costs to its customers. The company has helped customers make the right buying choice and save crores of rupees with the help of competitive pricing on display along with the products.
Marketplace at Infibeam.com takes the online experience to a new level offering a host of opportunities in the new and used (pre-owned) products like cars, bikes, scooters and mopeds.

How It Works:
Infibeam.com customers can discover items posted by third-party sellers on product information pages across the web site. From there, customers can easily view the items offered by third parties along with the price, its condition, and contact information about the seller. To buy an item from a third party seller, a buyer has to simply click the “I Want One” button and contact the seller using his Infibeam.com account. Payment can be made directly to the seller once the buyer inspects the vehicle to his satisfaction after final negotiations.

Selling on Infibeam.com Marketplace is easy with tools available for an individual as also for businesses who wish to sell vehicles to their prospective customers. Sellers can post details of the item for sale in less than 60 seconds by simply clicking on the button “Sell” and following simple steps. Infibeam.com also plans to guide sellers and help them price their vehicle, very soon. More information about how third parties can sell products through Infibeam.com can be found at http://www.infibeam.com/CreateListing.action

Infibeam.com recently announced the launch of online News and Interview section which covers global auto industry news, happenings and information about the industry. Here one can find interviews of automobile industry leaders who provide deep insight into their intelligence and business acumen that makes them what they are.

More at:
Infibeam.com
Ashish Phanse
91-9227884916
infibeam@yahoo.com
www.infibeam.com
1004, 10th Floor, GNFC Info Tower,
S.G. Highway Road,
Nr.Bodakdev,
Ahmedabad - 380054
Gujarat, India.

iConcept Media offers intelligent and innovative services in advertising, public relations, creative designs, branding and strategic marketing

What Company Is Offering:
iConcept Media , the company offers intelligent and innovative services in advertising, public relations, creative designs, branding and strategic marketing. Services include everything needed to promote and market your business. The agency works one-on-one with clients to help them define their business and products in a creative and visually stimulating ways.

Who Is Backing Them:

iConcept Media group, a sub division of SEG Corporation, a boutique marketing, media and communications company that has been constantly flourishing since its conception.
SEG Corporation is a vibrant company encircling a broad range of business sectors, including; event production and project management, internet services, marketing and communications, publishing, talent management, music and entertainment productions. The company is headquartered in New York, NY with remote operations in Canada, London, and West Africa, Ghana.

Company Info:
iConcept Media Group
Zenobia Love
212-795-0706
zenobia@iconceptmedia.com
www.iconceptmedia.com

Ukpagesonline---Linktelligence

What Company Is Offering:
Ukpagesonline human edited search engine friendly link directory and the best way to advertise your business on the Internet.

How It Works:

Ukpagesonline uses Linktelligence to access and edit each submission before

approval, they only accept sites that will enhance the directory experience. Content rich, intextual and contextual sites are favoured. To list your sites in
Ukpagesonline simply navigate to your chosen category and click Submit Site. Then follow the on screen instructions to add your website. Submitting your website to Ukpagesonline will generate business leads and help your Search Engine Ranking .

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

Amazon.com has acquired Audible.com is the leading provider of spoken entertainment and information on the Internet

What Company Is Offering:
Audible, Inc. is the leading provider of spoken entertainment and information on the Internet. Audible specializes in the spoken experience, providing digital audio editions of books, newspapers and magazines, original programming, and TV and radio subscriptions. Consumers shop, purchase, and download audio content from www.audible.com (United States), www.audible.co.uk (United Kingdom), www.audible.de (Germany), or www.audible.fr (France) directly to personal computers for listening in a variety of ways. Most of their customers download audio to their PCs and Macs and then transfer the audio to MP3 players, personal digital assistants (PDAs), or to smart mobile devices (SMDs) for listening on the go. Others transfer, or "burn," the content to audio CDs, while some customers simply listen at their computers or through a digital home entertainment network.

Audible customers can also have their Audible content wirelessly delivered to their smart mobile devices every day, even while they are asleep, taking the computer out of the equation. In addition to Audible's Web sites.
In addition to our content, Audible offers customers value, convenience and flexibility. Customers have the option to buy Audible content either on a per-program basis (a la carte) or to join any one of our AudibleListener plans that offer significant savings from what consumers will find at any other traditional or online retail store. Our AudibleListener program provides customers with access to 30% discounts on any individual program, exposure to periodic sales, and six free channels of content all for the low price of $9.95 per year.

Recent Updates:
Amazon.com, Inc., announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Audible Inc. This deal brings together two pioneering companies that share a long history of ceaseless focus on improving the customer experience,” said Donald Katz, founder and chief executive of Audible.com. “We are very excited to be joining a company as innovative as Amazon.com.”
Under the terms of the agreement, Amazon.com will commence a cash tender offer to purchase all of the outstanding shares of Audible.com for $11.50 per share and will assume Audible.com’s outstanding stock-based awards, for an aggregate transaction value of approximately $300 million which includes Audible.com’s cash and short-term investments at closing.

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

app2you allows users to create their own, custom, hosted, interactive web applications

What Company Is Offering:
app2you allows users to create their own, custom, hosted, interactive web applications. app2you requires no programming experience or knowledge of web technologies. Instead, users simply outline the pages of their application. app2you does the database and application programming.

How It Works:
app2you's power and ease-of-use allows you to quickly create complex applications that meet your needs. Check out the sample applications below for ideas about just a few of the thousands of applications that you could build with app2you.

Online Catalog & Ordering.
Service Call/Request Management.
Group Event Planning.
Task Assignments.
Stuff Rating.
Personnel Recruiting.
Sponsor Drive .
Classroom Management .
Each of these samples can also be used as a template to jumpstart your own application design. Simply create a copy, try it out, and modify it to fit your needs.

More at:http://app2you.com/

uvLayer for media discovery...

What Company Is Offering:

With uvlayer ,you can search for videos, play them in a list, create a collection,
throw the media around,
... you gotta download uvlayer if you want to share with friends, save your collections and see what they are watching.


How It Works:

You can easily share your collections with others. Just drag the content you want to share over your buddy’s icon. Of course your friends might already see what you are watching and check it out on their own.

When you or your friends view or share content, uvLayer will immediately let you know what is going on. No more waiting to get in on the latest and greatest media.

With uvLayer you can publish your collections of media to Facebook, no coding, no typing, no work; tomorrow publish anywhere on the web.

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

Lookery for the Web is an ad network that fixes the economic problem of social networks

What Company Is Offering:
Lookery for the Web is an ad network that fixes the economic problem of social networks: great user profiling and so-so inventory for advertisers. They make it safe and easy for social networks to distribute their data as targeting information outside their sites, in order to make money on web sites that have great inventory and little or no targeting information.

How It Works:
Lookery provides demographic marketing services in and around social networks. They’re working to fix the the basic economic problem that social networks face: great user profiling but unpredictable ad inventory. They make it safe and easy for social networks to distribute their data as targeting information outside their web sites, in order to make money in partnership with web sites that have great inventory but little or no user targeting information.


Lookery for Facebook is a traditional display advertising network that runs exclusively on Facebook applications. Like all other Facebook-only networks, they exist at Facebook’s whim. They’ll do very well by our Facebook application publishers as long as they let us, but they have a lot more data than we do to run a network on their site. Lookery for the Web is a service in which they’re building a unique market position, building their revenue programs for content publishers and sharing back to social networks. Bridging across networks let them add more value and more unique value.

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

ThatsMyMouse shares your mouse position with other visitors on the same webpage --real time web based interaction

What Company Is Offering:

ThatsMyMouse shares your mouse position with other visitors on the same webpage to open up a new world of real-time web-based interaction. Each person's mouse position on the page is represented by an avatar with their name written on it. As they move their mouse, you can see what they point to and what links they click on.

ThatsMyMouse also offers a range of API functions that gives website developers the power to build a whole new range real-time interaction based web applications.

How It Works:
Just start typing. If you're not currently writing inside a form input, then you'll see a dialogue box pop up that records what you type. Once you're done, press enter and a bubble will pop out of your avatar for everyone to see. You can also click on the 'Talk' button in the control panel to display a more tradition chat interface.

People can only see your mouse marker if you can see theirs. If you see someone else's mouse marker then they will be able to see you. If our control panel or icon is visible in the corner of the web page, then ThatsMyMouse is enabled and anyone who enters the web page will be able to see you. If you want to stop people from seeing you, simply click on the x button on the top right hand corner of the control panel. You will have options for the time period you want to close the application for. You can re-enabled ThatsMyMouse at any time by visiting http://thatsmymouse.com.


From the Setting button on the bottom left of the control panel, there are various options for playing sounds on different ThatsMyMouse events. By default the only sound that is enabled is when someone sends a message on a page you're currently on. Sounds are not currently supported if you are using the Safari web browser.
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