Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Social Music Player

What Company Is Offering:

JukeFly is the new generation streaming service for remote access to your music. On JukeFly.com you can access all your music online as well as discover new music by connecting with a huge community of users sharing similar musical interests.

How It Works:
In order to enable online access to your music, create an account on JukeFly.com. Then download and install the small, efficient JukeFly music server on the computer that contains your music collection. Next select the folders that have the music that you want to make available for you on JukeFly.com. Now anytime you login to JukeFly.com you have access to all the songs. NOTE: The JukeFly music server does not upload the songs to our server, it streams the music from your computer.

More at:http://jukefly.com/

Spottt is a free way to trade links that help like-minded websites promote each other

What Company Is Offering:
Spottt is a free way to trade links with other like minded sites. You show ads of other Spottt members, and they will show your ads.Spottt is a free way to trade links that help like-minded websites promote each other.

How It Works:
Spottt is a free service. For every two times an ad is shown on your site, they'll show your ad once. They'll use the extra pages to show Spottt "house ads" that promote the Spottt service to other people like you. This will help grow the Spottt network which means your Spottt will have the ability to show on even more sites.
If you have a website, blog, or MySpace profile, you can use Spottt to get people to your page without paying for advertising.

Spottts are 125 x 125 pixel graphics that link from your web page to another, and vice-versa. For every two times a Spottt is shown on your site, your Spottt will appear once on another site.

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

ExtractVideo.com allows you to download and save videos from YouTube, Metacafe and Break directly to your computer

What Company Is Offering:

ExtractVideo.com allows you to download and save videos from YouTube, Metacafe and Break directly to your computer. Even more, you can search YouTube.com and download videos you like.

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

ifimpresident.com is a social utility designed to network people through ideas rather than personal relationships

What Company Is Offering:
ifimpresident.com is a social utility designed to network people through ideas rather than personal relationships.

How It Works:
It's goal is to foster a comfortable atmosphere, where political dialogue can be achieved respectably.

Users will be linked to their peers based on their political views so that when you discuss politics through out site, it will be read by a targetted audience based on what views you yourself have.
IIP is a comprehensive network which contains not only blogs but discussion groups, news feeds and policy pages (users can submit their own policies on a myriad of topics and find out just how popular their opinions are based on a simple rating system).
To increase the number of hits your blog will garner, you will notice intuitively that your general activity level on the site counts for a lot. Amassing friends, higher approval rating, reputation and best replies (each reply is rated and the highest rated reply per discussion topic is awarded the best reply which will be counted as an achievement on your profile) will allow more and more people exposure and direct access to your blog.

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

Rasba is a social e-commerce platform that connects sellers of the hottest brands and trends with young and hip buyers

What Company Is Offering:
Rasba is a social e-commerce platform that connects sellers of the hottest brands and trends with young and hip buyers. Brands can create a simple, fast, and customizable store within the website while users can discover and buy awesome new products/brands. What makes Rasba special is the awesome social networking and affiliate program that buyers and sellers can take advantage of. Whenever a user buys a product from a Rasba store, it goes to a public profile page where the user displays each product he/she has bought (see http://www.rasba.com/profile/20) and each time a user sells a product displayed through their profile, they get a commission, which varies from each product.

How It Works:
For Buyers
Start by buying a product at one of Rasba's many hip stores.Each product you buy goes to your public profile (http://www.rasba.com/profile/20) where your friends as well as other Rasba users can see what you are buying and then purchase through your profile based on your endorsement. In return, you will get a commission on each product you sell, which enables you to receive Rasba bucks, our virtual currency which allows you to use the money towards any store on Rasba. Discover new products and brands through friends.Create a wishlist.Get updated on what your friends are buying, and receive news about new products and discounts from your favorite stores& much, much more.
For Sellers:
Create your own custom e-commerce storefront on the Rasba platform. For each product, you can dictate how much commission you want give to the buyer when he/she resells the item(s) they have purchased from you (example: http://rasba.com/profile/20).Manage your store using our easy to use management tools that come with every store! Get your brand discovered and promoted by our audience of active young consumers. Keep track of your stores's audience with our consumer data tracking statistics. Keep in touch with customers and fans by sending notifications about promotions, sales, and new items to their Update feed. Purchase bonus services like logo design, professional product photos, and advertisements (which are displayed on the front page of Rasba.com).
More at:http://rasba.com/

Tizor provides the world's largest companies with the only enterprise data auditing and protection solutions has raised $8.3 million

What Company Is Offering:
Tizor provides the world's largest companies with the only enterprise data auditing and protection solutions capable of risk assessment, monitoring, reporting and alerting on all critical data activity across the enterprise data center -- databases, file servers and mainframe applications. Tizor's global enterprise customers include financial institutions, insurance companies, retailers, manufacturers, healthcare providers and airlines, among others.

How Much They Got From VCs:
Tizor Systems, the leading provider of enterprise data auditing and protection solutions for the data center, today announces that it has raised $8.3 million in a third round of financing. The round was lead by Longworth Venture Partners and included Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Masthead Venture Partners, Navigator Technology Ventures and Common Angels. As part of the financing, a partner at one of Tizor's venture capital backers made a substantial personal investment.

Tizor also announces that Nilanjana Bhowmik, Partner at Longworth Venture Partners, will be joining Tizor's board of directors as part of this funding round.

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

ROCKETON---new type of massively multiplayer entertainment experience got $5 million inSeries B round

About Company:

ROCKETON is a venture-funded startup that is developing a new type of massively multiplayer entertainment experience.

They are located in foggy South San Francisco. They're always looking for creative minds to join the ROCKETON community and their team. If you have ideas and want to contribute, that would be great. They believe in group collaboration and are looking for new ways to harness the creative energy of artists, programmers and designers all over the world.

How Much They Got From VCs:
It has closed its Series B round of financing with a $5 million investment from the D. E. Shaw group’s venture capital unit. This funding brings total amount invested to $5.8 million. The company is building out a new type of virtual world that doesn't exist on a single website, but, instead, is spread across the entire Internet.

What VCs Says About Company:
What caught our attention about ROCKETON is the potential for a new, real-time social interaction between people online," says Michael Banks, a senior vice president of D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P. "We asked ourselves, what if you took the next logical step beyond Facebook or Second Life? How would that look? The result is a new way of experiencing the Web."

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

NetMagic Solutions announced that it has acquired $20 million in private equity financing

What Company Is Offering:
NetMagic Solutions is India’s leading Managed IT Service Provider, specializing in Internet Data Center, Managed Hosting, Remote Infrastructure Management, Mail and Messaging Services.
Combining world class internet data centers with advanced technology and professional service capabilities, NetMagic Solutions delivers innovative and seamless performance of mission critical Hosted Applications from Multiple locations to its customers, securely.

How It Works:


NetMagic, India’s leading managed IT services provider, announced that it has acquired $20 million in private equity financing. This round of funding was led by the Indian proprietary venture and growth capital arm of Fidelity International Limited (FIL) and India’s leading venture capital firm, Nexus India Capital. The company will use proceeds of the financing to accelerate business growth and expand its footprint domestically and internationally. Nexus India Capital is a prior investor in NetMagic.

About VCs:
1.FIL has offices in over 20 countries across Europe and Asia-Pacific. The Indian venture and growth capital arm of FIL, which comprises some of the most experienced investment professionals operating in the Indian region, seeks to actively invest predominately FIL proprietary capital principally in high-quality, high-growth companies broadly in the information technology, healthcare and consumer sectors in India.
2.Nexus India Capital is India’s leading Venture Capital Fund focused on investing in innovative early to growth stage companies across sectors in India. Some of the areas of focus include Technology, Consumer services, and Outsourced business processes. The Nexus team includes successful entrepreneurs based in Silicon Valley, USA and Mumbai, India who bring extensive relationships and expertise in building companies. They typically prefer to invest early and play and formative role in developing the company. www.nexusindiacap.com.

More at:www.netmagicsolutions.com

UpSpring, pioneer of the new peace-of-mind parenting products genre, secured $2 million in series B funding

What Company Is Offering:
UpSpring, is a premiere parenting and child consumer brand that consists of popular labels such as Walking Wings and Milkscreen. Founded by momprenuers, the company is dedicated to offering parents and children the most innovative and trustworthy health, wellness and safety products available in the baby care industry. The founders are inspired by how many unmet needs still exist in the childcare industry and how many great ideas other parents have to offer. UpSpring, has worked with designers, medical experts and testing laboratories, to ensure fresh and more natural product alternatives that are safer and supportive for every facet of babies’ early childhood.

How Much They Got From VCs:
UpSpring, pioneer of the new peace-of-mind parenting products genre, secured $2 million in series B funding from current and new venture capital investors. Walter Foss and Sherman Wyman led the round in a pool of high-net-worth individuals. Prior to series B, UpSpring had received $600,000 in equity financing.

Recent Updates:
UpSpring launches the latest advancement in parenting products – Night Knight, a motion sensing pod for sleeping infants. This high-tech, lightweight peace-of-mind monitor clips to an infant’s onesie to detect motion for a safer night sleep. Sounding an alarm when no movement occurs for over 23 seconds, Night Knight’s ambient, gently pulsing glow lets parents know that even the slightest breathing motions are being detected. Sleepless nights will be a thing of the past with Night Knight, which promotes safer, doctor-recommended “on-back” sleeping, and unlike similar devices is easily portable, sets up in less than five minutes, and is affordable.

More at:
Behrman Communications for UpSpring
Brooke Hilton, 212-986-7000
bhilton@behrmanpr.com

Find Best...

What Company Is Offering:
Where's best is a large directory of pubs, retaurants, hotels and other meeting places and sites of interest. The site allows you to find businesses and meeting venues near you or, if you are meeting friends, find a place to meet somewhere between your different locations. You can tell other people what you think about places you've been by rating the businesses on the site or posting your comments or a review.

How It Works:
Anyone can use the site although you will have to create an account to access some features, such as submitting ratings and comments.The site is available to anyone who might find it useful, wherever they might be from. However, we are based in the UK and do only feature UK venues at the moment, although this may change in the future.

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

With LinkBunch, you take all those links and put them into one "bunch"

What Company Is Offering:
A link bunch is just that - a bunch of links. Often you find several links on the web that you want to share on services such as instant messengers (Google Talk, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, etc.) or microblogging platforms such as Twitter (which has a 140-character limit) and Pownce (which only has one link field).

How It Works:
With LinkBunch, you take all those links and put them into one "bunch", which is just one single link--which looks like a TinyURL or SnipURL link--and give that around instead. Saves space, looks cleaner and saves a few bytes of bandwidth! :)



When the recipient clicks on the tiny LinkBunch link, he/she will be presented with a page that contains all the links that you put in the bunch. He/she can then click any of those links and visit the desired pages!

LinkBunch is easy to use.Just paste links into the box below--one link on each line--and click 'Bunch' to bunch them together.

More at:http://linkbunch.com/

A clippl is a short video recording breifly explaining what you are doing at any given point in time

What Company Is Offering:
A clippl is a short video recording breifly explaining what you are doing at any given point in time.This video could have been recorded with a video camera, a cell phone, a web-cam, or anything else that could possibly record video.

How It Works:
Upload from anywhere! Take video and upload it to clippl on the website. Or, email your video to your clippl account. Or, record video on your cell phone and upload it to clippl from your phone itself! So you can clippl anywhere anytime.

Your friends are notified by email, and by text message if they prefer, so they can instantly view your clippl from anywhere!

To keep updated with your friends... with Video! Not only that, but you can watch the video anywhere! Log on to Clippl.com to view your, or any of your friends, video clippls!

Log on to Clippl.mobi from your mobile device (such as your cell phone) and watch your video clippls right off the web!



Your not exluded from the benefits of Clippl. You can also upload an Image to your clippl account, explaining your clippl in text. Or even only text! From your Computer, from your cellphone, by email, anywhere!

More at:http://clippl.com/

iArtwork is a simple tool to automatically get album artwork for your iTunes Library

What Company Is Offering:
iArtwork is a simple tool to automatically get album artwork for your iTunes Library.
iArtwork finds the original album cover for your music so your iTunes Library looks great in iTunes, iPod and iPhone. iArtwork can also helps you to organize your music.

More at:http://www.iartwork.net/

Check4Jobs.com is a product based search engine

What Company Is Offering:
Check4Jobs.com is a product based search engine. Unlike other search engines they specialise in targeting a specific product i.e. jobseekers and employers looking to fill vacancies. They work alongside traditional job boards and employers by adding their vacancies into their database and return relevant searches.

How It Works:

Their aim is to give their users a ‘one stop shop’ when it comes to searching for jobs online in the United Kingdom. Using their super fast and easy to use interface, users can search our database saving them the trouble of going to each job site, employment agency or employer individually. The job offerings displayed are not hosted by Check4Jobs.com ® and users are always redirected to the original job posting.



Check4Jobs.com uses several methods to identify job listings on the web and uses our powerful crawler to return those listings to our database. Once the jobs are listed we then use smart agents to regularly scan the jobs and add updates making sure everything we have loaded are the latest offers from our clients.

More at:http://www.check4jobs.com/

IM-history is a service for saving instant messaging history and contacts online

What Company Is Offering:
IM-history is a service for saving instant messaging history and contacts online. Whether you are at home, at work or traveling, just click to access all your conversations and contact info, whenever you need them, for free.

How It Works:
IM-history has two parts: client suite and online service. Client Suite saves chat history from your desktop instant messengers to servers and gives you one-click access to your history. It should be installed on every PC that you use to chat.

Online service provides friendly web-interface to your chat history. It can be accessed from IM-history Browser embedded into IM-history Client Suite or from any web-browser otherwise.


IM-History Client Suite is installed on your system and is running in your tray bar. It saves all your messages and contacts on IM-History servers over a secured channel.
Messengers like AIM, MSN, Windows Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Skype and Miranda should be started (or restarted) after being enabled to save chat history online.

More at:http://www.im-history.com/

VisualCV

What Company Is Offering:
The VisualCV makes a traditional resume come alive with video, pictures and a portfolio of your best work samples and other supporting documents. Informational pop-ups provide background data on the companies you’ve worked at and the colleges you’ve attended. You can securely share different versions with your own network of employers, colleagues and friends, and control who sees what.

How It Works:
An Internet-based resume that allows professionals to build and manage an online career portfolio that comes alive with informational keyword pop-ups, video, pictures, and social networking.
Enabling secure sharing of VisualCVs and interaction with others for purposes of networking, discussing best practices, career progression and business development.

VisualCV brings both the CV and the resume into the modern Web 2.0 world by transforming the way in which resume data is presented, accessed and shared.

Furthermore, VisualCV cuts out time and expense for both candidates and employers by combining the resume, interview audio and video, and a digital career portfolio into a compelling package hosted on a single, easy-to-use Web page.


Its Features:
First, create a VisualCV by cutting and pasting from your existing resume in Word, PDF or plain text format. Right away, your resume becomes a live Internet document with built-in company and university research.

You can easily enrich your VisualCV, making it a proxy for that first interview. You can add video, audio, charts, graphs, work samples, presentations, scanned documents and much more. The multimedia capabilities allow you to present yourself far beyond words on paper. Prospective employers get a full picture of you, your unique qualifications and how you present yourself.

You decide who gets to see your VisualCV. Share it with anyone you choose. Share it with your professional network or our database of employers who each have their own company-specific VisualCV. You can even create different versions for different audiences, showing more personal information only to those you trust.
More at:http://www.visualcv.com/