Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Matter is a new and unique idea in communications that brings companies and people together

What Company Is Offering:
Matter is a box full of interesting stuff.Matter is a new and unique idea in communications that brings companies and people together around real, physical stuff–things you can hold in your hands, keep in your drawer, or give to your friends. It's a new way for companies to introduce themselves by giving you something you might like.

How It Works:
Matter works a little like a magazine by creating specific boxes for different audiences, except each bit of 'content' is in fact a different object each created by a different company. Matter works with each company to create items you'll enjoy getting, which might be something that explains what the company does, its ideas or its values, or simply something to try out.

Matter is a refreshing interlude to the fast-moving blur of modern media. It's stuff you can read, play with, or try at your leisure. But becasue Matter is carefully created it's also a thoroughly modern concept–it's advertising you'll want to keep.

More at:http://www.matterbox.co.uk/

IndiaHotelReview.com--For low cost vacation packages across India

What Company Is Offering:
IndiaHotelReview.com is the largest online search and rating community bringing around 10,000 hotels spread across 850 destinations in India. The additional services include car rentals, bus ticket bookings, holiday packages, group booking, corporate travel solutions. IndiaHotelReview.com helps travelers share their actual staying experiences as a result providing fellow hotel seekers best information necessary to make an intelligent staying decision.

How It Works:
IndiaHotelReview.com masters in providing extremely low cost deals at the same time they have a dedicated team of Vacation Specialists who can answer all of your queries over the phone and tell you the best deal fitting individual’s budget showcasing a very scalable yet quick and transparent booking model. These top notch places include Kerala, Goa, Himachal, Karnataka and Uttaranchal.

Recent Updates:
India’s leading online travel company announced the launch of exclusive low cost vacation packages across India.

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

The Reble Media Player lets you explore your friends’ music as if it were right on your local computer

What Company Is Offering:
The Reble Media Player lets you explore your friends’ music as if it were right on your local computer. But they won’t help you steal music.

How It Works:
Listen all you want, but if you want to put it on your iPod…you gotta buy it. Think of Reble as the digital equivalent of going to a friend’s house and spending the day listening to their music collection…but without leaving your desk. Or having to see your friend.
The key to Reble is that you're sharing music with a small set of people that you know. Copies of songs can only be listened to by one person at a time, so other potential listeners have to wait until you're done. Tragic I know. Since they're based on a streaming architecture illegal copies of songs do not spread, unlike filesharing programs. Finally, none of your library data is centrally stored, it's between you and your friends.

More at:http://reble.fm/

HumanArchives

What Company Says:

You can last forever if you create your own webpage on Humanarchives.org. You might create a personal webpage to tell the world about yourself and your interests.

Imagine distant generations of your family having the opportunity to know more about you or your loved ones because you documented the information that will be carefully preserved and always accessible at Humanarchives.org

More at:http://humanarchives.org/

JobScore ---Cooperative Recruiting

What Company Is Offering:
JobScore is an online "hiring headquarters" that employers use to find and hire great people. They address some of your most difficult and time consuming recruiting tasks.

How it Works:
With JobScore you're not recruiting alone: you're leveraging the work of every other employer using the system.

The JobScore Network is a place where employers privately share their un-hired applicants. Through the network, employers quickly find qualified, interested candidates that previously applied for similar jobs at other companies.

They use patent pending matching technology to create the best possible connections between employers and job seekers.

They are growing their network by offering employers free technology to market their jobs and track their applicants. As the network grows, they will enable employers to find and contact qualified candidates in the network for a small fee.


Unique Features:
Creating, marketing and updating your job listings.
Scoring applicants to zero-in on who's best qualified for your openings.
Tracking the recruiting process and helping you stay organized.
Reporting on what's working so you can optimize your recruitment spending.
JobScore is free and you can implement it on your own, without consultants or tech support, in about 15 minutes.

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

PlaceMyProduct.com---Product Placement,Sponsorship, &Advertisement,Auction Marketplace

What Company Is Offering:
It is an auction marketplace to sell your ad inventory to the highest bidder. It could be an advertisement, a sponsorship, a product placement.

How It Works:
Create a profile. And your auctions take place on your profile page. All current and future auctions take place on the exact same page. You can even post a wideget that will automatically link to your auctions as you post them.

Take an ad block that you have on your website or blog and see how much money you earned from it in the previous month. Then, figure out how much you need to start your auction at to make the same amount of money from an auctioned ad as you did via the ad network. Then, create an auction and start the auction at that amount. It’s free to post an auction so there’s nothing to lose. If you get just one bid, you will earn as much as you did in the previous month. If you get more than one bid, you will earn more.

How Is It Different:
Unlike an ad network, YOU decide what shape or form the ad takes. It doesn’t need to be a standard banner ad or text link ad. It could, but it doesn’t have to. This is where you can get creative. And, it can be for a time period that you choose. You can auction a 1-week ad, a 1-month ad, a 2-month ad, a permanent ad; it’s totally up to you.

Examples of Ads, sponsorships, or product placements that could be auctioned on PlaceMyProduct.com:

Banner ads: The most traditional of online ads.
Text Link Ads: Another mature market .
Site Or Blog Sponsorships: Something that you could really get creative with .

Product Placement In Online Video Or Podcasts.

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

Broadcom has announced a new chip is focused on providing wireless connectivity for mobile devices

What Company Is Offering:
Broadcom Corporation is a major technology innovator and global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications.

How it Works:
Broadcom products enable the delivery of voice, video, data and multimedia to and throughout the home, the office and the mobile environment. They provide the industry's broadest portfolio of stateof-the-art, system-on-a-chip and software solutions to manufacturers of computing and networking equipment, digital entertainment and broadband access products, and mobile devices. These solutions support their core mission: Connecting everything.

Unique Features:
Digital cable products for cable modems, digital cable television set-top boxes, personal video recording, cable modem termination systems and residential broadband gateways.
Digital TV solutions with standard definition (SD) and high definition (HD) video and graphics capabilities for interactive televisions, cable, and DBS set-top boxes.
Direct broadcast satellite (DBS) and cable devices for integrated digital television programming designed for a variety of digital set-top devices, high-definition televisions and TV tuner cards.
DSL high-speed access chipsets for both central office and customer premises equipment.
Mobile multimedia processors for mobile phones and handheld platforms that include mobile TV, camcorder, and digital camera capabilities.
Mobile phone solutions for WCDMA/EDGE/GPRS/GSM phones and PC cards.

Recent Updates:

Irvine-based Broadcom has announced a new, single-chip Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and FM receiver, the firm said today. The new chip is focused on providing wireless connectivity for mobile devices.
More at:http://www.broadcom.com/

CrownPeak Launches New Product

What Company is Offering:
CrownPeak is the only company to provide comprehensive, world-class Web Site Management as a hosted software solution. CrownPeak Solutions include Web Content Management, Search, Web Hosting, and Intranet/Extranets. CrownPeak has been named to eContent's 100 most influential companies list, has won Product of the Year from InfoWorld and eWeek's Analyst’s Choice Award, and is named as one of the top 25 ASP’s worldwide by ASPNews.com.



Recent Updates:

The new product, at ContentManagement.com, will offer the ability for firms to manage their web sites, landing pages, and other sites. The firm said the new offering will be available starting at $1,250 per month. CrownPeak is a provider of hosted, web content management systems used by companies to allow non-technical users to easily update and maintain web site content; the firm is venture backed by Altos Ventures and Sigma Partners.

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

XinLab Is a provider of steaming media technologies, has raised $8.1 million in Series A funding

What Company Is Offering:
XinLab is a trusted provider of cutting-edge streaming media technologies. Their team has broad and deep expertise in broadband and mobile streaming media and IP-based networks.

XinLab's technology solutions are embedded in many products and services deployed by the world's leading equipment manufacturers, service providers and enterprises.

Their flagship product in the broadband IP streaming space is its cutting-edge streaming server. Capable of supporting multiple formats simultaneously, including an unsurpassed number of streams, XinLab's streaming server is second to none on the performance front.

For the mobile IP market, XinLab is focused on helping providers generate more revenue from their existing 2.5G deployments as they migrate to 3G. Many large European mobile operators count on their 3GP Video Applet to broaden the reach of fast-growing Video MMS.

How Much They Got From VCs:
XinLab, a Milpitas, Calif.-based provider of steaming media technologies, has raised nearly $8.1 million in Series A funding, according to a regulatory filing. New Enterprise Associates led the round, with NEA's Kittu Kolluri and Xiaodong Jiang taking board seats.

http://www.xinlab.com/

eBuddy.com is provider of mobile instant messaging solutions, has raised EUR 6.5 million in second-round funding

What Company is Offering:
eBuddy is a free web based messenger that enables you to chat with your MSN, Yahoo, MySpace, Google Talk, MySpace and AIM buddies. No downloads or registration required!

How It Works:
To use the web version of eBuddy, all you need is a Javascript enabled browser on your computer. You can access eBuddy from any computer or location and it even works behind a firewall. Whether you're at home, school, at the library or at work, surf over to eBuddy and login with your account to start chatting - it's as easy as that!

When you're on the road, outdoors or traveling you can use the mobile version of eBuddy to chat with your buddies. Every mobile device that supports xHTML or WAP can be used; this includes Cell Phones, PDA's, Sony PSP and Nintendo DS!

How Much The Got From VCs:
eBuddy.com, an Amsterdam-based provider of mobile instant messaging solutions, has raised EUR 6.5 million in second-round funding. Prime Technology Ventures led the round. It's unclear is existing shareholder Lowland Capital Partners also participated.

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

Enkata is a leading provider of on-demand performance and talent management solutions for customer operations got $8 million in Funding

What Company is Offering:
Enkata is a leading provider of on-demand performance and talent management solutions for customer operations. Enkata is the only solution that combines best-in-class analytics and workflow to guide managers to the next best actions to improve performance and eliminate rework. Enkata's solution enables large service organizations to increase their profitability and boost the productivity of their employees.

How Much They Got From VCs:

They got $8 million in corporate financing. This latest funding round was led by Sigma Partners, Menlo Park, Calif. and Apex Ventures, Chicago, Ill. The investment will fund strategic investments to accelerate Enkata's US and international growth and the adoption of its solutions that are critical to the new service-driven economy.

What VCs Says About Company:
We recognize that Enkata is delivering a uniquely powerful solution and has established itself as a clear leader in offering on-demand performance and talent management technologies to service operations," said Wayne Boulais, general partner of Apex Ventures. "Our investment in Enkata signals Apex Ventures' continued commitment to investing in innovative technologies that deliver a significant impact to customers and to the marketplace."


What's Market Of That Kind Of Company:

The market opportunity for talent management applications, such as Enkata's, are projected by Yankee Group to grow 25 percent year-over-year, reaching $4 billion by 2009.

More at:www.enkata.com

MediaPops brings user's favorite media to them

What Company Is Offering:
MediaPops brings user's favorite media to them. Once they know what bands/authors/movies a user enjoys, they keep track of all new releases for that user. Their mission is to ensure people know about the media they will love.

How It Works:
Their number one objective is to simplify the process of you discovering and acquiring media. From Books to Movies to Music and Games.MediaPops aggregates all of the available items and enables filters todeliver you quality results in a simple interface. They also let you know every week about new media opportunities so you never miss out.In a nutshell they take advantage of web efficiencies to connect you to media that matters to you.



Unique Features:
Keep track of their favorite new releases.
Discover new recommendations they would like.
Influence peers by rating media online.

More at:http://mediapops.com/

Thingfo---Instant Community For Anything

What Company Is Offering:
Thingfo not only creates a delicious stream of data, it helps connect people and build communities around, well, any thing.

How It Works:

They've introduced a concept called "experiences" on Thingfo. An experience on Thingfo is like a tag, but instead of tagging a THING, you're labelling your personal interaction with something. They limit the experience to 30 characters, to keep it concise and make more connections possible.

Thingfo is also sensitive to time and space, meaning we ask users where and when they interact with their things. And, we've integrated the service with Twitter, to help people link what they're talking about to the THINGS in their lives. Soon, we'll release our "from Twitter" integration, so you can send info from Twitter to any page on Thingfo, even from your mobile phone! Thingfo is simple and fun to use.

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

The Independent Comedy Network is a new media comedy brand

What Company is Offering:
The Independent Comedy Network is a new media comedy brand. They work with professional talent to develop and distribute original comedy series online and beyond.

How It Works:

ICN operates under the basic improvisational comedy principle of YES, AND. In improv terms this means that whatever is presented on stage by one actor is heard and accepted by a fellow actor (YES) and then built upon (AND). This concept is the primary building block for all great improvisational comedy.

It is also central to their approach to business. This commitment to creativity, effective communication, and teamwork allows us to develop and nurture meaningful and mutually beneficial relationships with our viewers, as well as with our production, distribution and advertising partners. In addition, this process is also inherently interactive and positive in nature, both of which are essential ingredients in our brand of comedy.

More at:http://www.icn.tv/

MediaPhy--Mobile TV solutions receives a $7 million investment from ATA Ventures

What Company Is Offering:
MediaPhy Corporation is a fab-less semiconductor company developing highly integrated monolithic ultra-low power Mobile TV solutions for the mobile phone and other mobile / portable markets.

MediaPhy is based in San Jose, California with a design center in Delhi, India and Sales & Support offices throughout Asia.

How It Works:

The MediaPhy MP2011 Solo Series of monolithic multi-standard mobile TV demodulator Systems on Chip (SoC) comprise the mobile TV industry’s first 7-mode single-die device combining multi-standard capability with the low cost attributes of single-die designs. In addition to a very small footprint , their patented system architecture allows for ultra low power operation under time sliced (DVB-H) and non time-sliced (ISDB-T, DVB-T) modes.
As the block diagram of the MP2011 Solo Series shows, these devices are suitable for a variety of applications ranging from power sensitive (mobile phones and PMP) to high bit rate/performance one (DVB-T, ISDB-T 13seg). Moreover, the comprehensive suite of interface allows for integration into a diverse customer and application base.

How Much They Got From VCs:
MediaPhy receives a $7 million investment from ATA Ventures..

About VCs:
ATA Ventures “ATA Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seeking out early stage private companies which appear to offer above average prospects for capital growth. With over $350 Million of capital under management, ATA Ventures focuses on Information Technology (IT) and provides seed capital and early stages of financing to these companies.”
http://www.ataventures.com/

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