Friday, February 15, 2008

Onyomo provides its users the capability to search for location specific information about products and services

What Company Is Offering:
Onyomo provides its users the capability to search for location specific information about products and services. Users can search for this information through Onyomo's website or by sending an SMS with thier query to 5454.

How It Works:
Onyomo will search by default in the city to which your phone belongs to.

So if your phone is from Bangalore every search you from your phone do will be in bangalore.

If you wish to search in a city that is different from the one your phone belongs to then type the name of the city along with the query.The charge for sending an SMS to 5454 will depend on your mobile phone company. It varies from Rupee 1 - Rupees 3.
Text-it allows you to send information on the product/outlet you like to your own/friends phone. You can click on the and enter the phone number you wish to send the information to. It will be sent to the recipient as an SMS.
They cover all kind of services as example:
Automobiles, Ayurveda, Beauty Saloon, Cooking Gas, EducationInstitutes, Electronics, Embassies, EmergencyServices, GiftShops, Homeopathy, Jewellery, Laundry, Library, Music, Opticians, Packers and Movers, PestControl, Photography, RealEstate, SportsGoods, TaxiServices, Tour and Travel, Valuers, Watches, WineShops.
More at:http://www.onyomo.com/

LoveDetect---Measuring Your Emotions Through The Voice Analysis Technology

What Company Is Offering:
LoveDetect is a subsidiary of TelTech Systems, INC).
LoveDetect measures high and constant levels of excitement and concentration - indicative of arousal derived mostly from sexual attraction. This type of feeling and arousal is usually present between two people in the beginning of their relationship, and before the relationship is moved to a more formal structure.
The higher the level of "Love" is, the more excited and concentrated your friend was in during the conversation. In many cases, you will see that the Love Level is rising when speaking about certain issues, but decreases again when speaking about a different issue. In these cases, the "Love Level" will reflect the emotions of your friend associated with the arousing issue, and not with the real feeling of love. To make sure that the Love analysis is really a result of attraction, the Love level should stay more or less constant throughout the conversation regardless of the issue at hand.

Who Is Behind Them:
LoveDetect is a subsidiary of TelTech Systems, INC).

TelTech is a company dedicated to revolutionizing how people use their phones to interact with each other. They are passionate about building best-in-class telephony applications that connect people with each other in meaningful ways.

The SENSE technology is the 3rd generation of the voice analysis technology invented in 1997, originally designed for security purposes.

Unlike other voice-analysis technologies, SENSE can analyze different layers within the voice, using multiple parameters to analyze each speech segment. SENSE can detect various cognitive states, such as whether your subject is excited, confused, stressed, concentrating, anticipating your responses, or unwillingly sharing information. The technology also can provide an in-depth view of the subject's range of emotions, including those relating to "love."

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

YouNewsTV brings the user-generated video movement to local media

What Company Is Offering:

YouNewsTV brings the user-generated video movement to local media outlets with an innovative, locally focused approach that integrates seamlessly with our clients' goals.

Visitors to their local media websites are turned into “virtual reporters” when they easily upload video and photo stories to YouNewsTV. These user-submitted reports can then be broadcast on-air, while YouNewsTV's back-end tools allow for the monitoring and tracking of video submissions and the ability to target local and national video ads.
How It Works:

YouNewsTV gives viewers the ability to submit their photos and videos of breaking news, sports, weather and events. They screen all photos, videos and comments, ensuring that only quality content gets published to your site.

Viewer Loyalty Rewards programs are a terrific way to drive traffic (and revenue) as you cross-promote your TV or Radio broadcast and web assets. Local advertisers sponsor ongoing contests, with prizes...

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

BuzzFlash.net is a user driven progressive political news website for BREAKING NEWS

What Company Is Offering:
BuzzFlash.net is a user driven progressive political news website that allows you to submit a story that may be reviewed by all visitors and may or may not be promoted to the front page. When you submit a story, it remains in the pending Buzz queue until it receives enough votes to be promoted to the main page.

How It Works:
Select the option Create Buzz and the recent stories will be listed for you, sorted by date of submission. You can then "buzz" the stories you like or consider important. Once the stories have surpassed the threshold of buzzes and karma, they will be promoted to the main page.

Your personal karma level is based on your positive contributions to the BuzzFlash.net community. This means, when you perform actions (such as buzzing a story, or submitting a story) that is in line with most other buzzer's opinions you will receive positive karma. If you perform actions that are counter to most other buzzer's opinions you will lose karma. Karma is adjusted nightly through an automatic process. Beware that even if you have earned karma in the past, inactivity will cause you to slowly lose that karma, so keep buzzing!

Every buzzer has a level of karma, and that level of karma is considered when they buzz a story. Stories gain (and lose) karma in relation to the buzzers who register their opinion with that story. Keep in mind, if your karma level is high then your vote will essentially 'count' more. The level of karma you see assocatied with stories is an indication of the quality of the story as determined by buzzers with varying levels of karma.

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

Online brokerage rewards most useful social network

Online brokerage TradeKing, looking to boost its social networking efforts, announced this week that it will provide a month of free trading to users of its online community whose content is determined to be most useful to others.

The company also announced this week plans to upgrade the social community, which it launched in 2005 to provide leads for its customers.

For example, users can now attach a "miniblog" commentary to specific trade notations, or learn about successful traders through a new "All Star Blog" where industry experts comment on the trading strategies of community members. Finally, the company has added a "groups" feature to the online community, where users with common interests can congregate and share investing strategies.

The contest to find the best user-generated content starts this month with community members choosing the three top-rated posts about specific trades and the three top-rated blog posts. They will also select the overall top-rated community member -- the person who garners the most combined votes for top blog post and trade notes.

The winners will receive unlimited free options and equities trades in March, said Don Montanaro, the company's CEO.

"[We've] taken the solitary pursuit of independent investing and turned it into a social pursuit," he noted. "You no longer have to feel alone because you now have cohorts who you can collaborate with. It is just really becoming a really vibrant spot where Main Street research meets Wall Street research."

Montanaro said the community now has about 7,000 users, up from 2,500 last summer. Because the community operates on the same site as the trading tool itself, the company can keep its users on the site longer, he added.

In addition, unlike other online investor forums that allow anonymous users, members are TradeKing customers who must register with their real names. Thus, other users know that the people who are advising them are real traders, he added. "They don't have to bounce from using whatever trading platform they might like to use over to a community ... to try to infuse their decision-making process with information from other folks," Montanaro said.
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Mobissimo is the ultimate travel search engine performs real-time queries of the multiple websites

What Company Is Offering:
Mobissimo is a travel search engine, not a travel agency. They search dozens of travel suppliers simultaneously so that you can research your options quickly and conveniently. Our meta-search technology searches the Web sites that you would normally check by hand, plus many more you might not think of (in the United States and around the world). Our aim is to return the most comprehensive travel search results in less than a minute.

Mobissimo is the ultimate travel search engine with a simple mission: improve the way people seek and discover travel information. The Mobissimo search engine performs real-time queries of the multiple websites that travelers traditionally check manually (plus dozens of others that are often overlooked). In a very short time, Mobissimo returns the most comprehensive travel search results available on the Web today.

How It Works:
They search across the largest supplier base of any travel search engine on the Web. Their coverage includes travel agents, consolidators, airlines, and international suppliers

Mobissimo empowers customers to quickly find and book travel deals that suit their needs. With innovative industry leading technology, the most extensive coverage and selection of worldwide travel suppliers, and a proven business model that supports customers and suppliers alike, Mobissimo is uniquely positioned to deliver to its users a differentiated and superior travel buying experience.

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

ShotCode connects your target audience to your websites in one click by using technology that changes camera mobile phones into personal scanners

What Company Is Offering:
ShotCode connects your target audience to your websites in one click by using technology that changes camera mobile phones into personal "barcode" scanners. Install the ShotCode reader on a mobile phone, start the software, aim at a ShotCode and click. That is all it takes to connect your target audience to you, on impulse.

How It Works:
ShotCodes provide the links to local car dealers and consumers can instantly book a test ride with the car of their choice. Provide your customers with branded content right on their phone and get instant feedback about the quality of service. All via a simple ShotCode.
Use ShotCodes to provide exclusive content only visible to your customers such as free music, ring tones, video, games, concert tickets or any other product you can imagine. If consumers outside of your customer base scan your ShotCodes they are made aware that the only way to consume this content is to become a customer of yours. Exclusivity counts.

Allow your customers to partake in sweepstakes on impulse and provide them with their winnings right at the point of sale. Coca Cola paved the way for this in Mexico using their Sprite brand. Consumers scanned ShotCodes right off of 600 ml Sprite bottles and were instantly rewarded with free pizza`s and DVD rentals (through a mobile coupon). Through a mobile coupon, participants could directly claim their prize at the participating outlets (Domino`s and Blockbuster). Relatively seen ShotCode usage outperformed the supporting SMS campaign.

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

Threadsmith allows customers to create and order a variety of embroidered items from its Web site in real-time receives $1M in venture capital

What Company Is Offering:
Threadsmith developed by Goldman and chief technical officer Nirav Patel allows customers to create and order a variety of embroidered items from its Web site in real-time using their own logos or other artwork.

How It Works:

Choose from a wide variety of garments, clip-art, lettering styles, effects, and thread colors to create a unique embroidered product -- that perfectly fits your company or organization. Add your final design to your cart and we'll deliver your custom-embroidered garment to your door.

How Much They Got From VCs:
Threadsmith receives $1M in venture capital to expand, hire workers or employees.The $1 million in capital will be used to extend Threadsmith's online capabilities, launch a marketing campaign and fund expansion of the company, which includes hiring 12 employees, "if we can find them," Goldman said.

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

Cre8buzz, the place where everyone in the world has a chance to be seen, heard, and found

What Company Says:
Cre8buzz, the place where everyone in the world has a chance to be seen, heard, and found.
There are a lot of talented people in the world. We know this. Unfortunately, most of them go unnoticed and remain in anonymity their entire lives. We all know of someone who has an amazing talent, or an amazing idea, or is phenomenal at what they do, but hardly anyone knows about it. This fact bothers us at cre8buzz. We believe there is something wrong with a world where talented people and ideas can go unnoticed. So they decided to do something about it. They set out to build a place where everyone had a chance to be seen, heard and found.

They built Cre8buzz with one question in mind: How do they get EVERYONE more…
More exposure. More visitors.More views. More friends. More followers.More comments. More feedback.

How It Works;
Cre8buzz, the place where everyone in the world has a chance to be seen, heard, and found!
1.Showcase yourself, showoff, post your pictures, blog your opinions, and share your videos. It’s show and tell, what do you got? Pimp yourself.
Build a following, reach out, get mad love from others. Show the world you’ve got followers, you’ve got fans!
Use their buzzranking widget, put it on your other sites and let the world know your buzzranking.
Get a buzz going about you!
2. Jump in communities that align with your interests. Hang with people like you. Meet cool people who are crazy about the same things you are. Chill with friends, holler at folks, and share information with people who know what you are talking about.
3.Want to know if people think your stuff is tight? Post it and see how you rank. Are YOU the best today? This week? This month? Their unrivaled buzzranking will tell you. Everything gets a buzzranking, every profile, every picture, every video, every blog, every audio file, EVERYTHING! The higher buzzrankings get more exposure and the best placement on the site. Use your buzzranking to separate yourself from the crowd, and get mad props from the world.

More at:http://www.cre8buzz.com/

AnsMart is an online marketplace of knowledge exchange in the form of questions and paid answers

What Company Is Offering:
AnsMart is an online marketplace of knowledge exchange in the form of questions and paid answers across a broad range of subject areas. It targets the semi-professional answer services - a niche between free answer site and pricey consulting service.

Unlike most social Q&A websites and forums, AnsMart provides financial reward for users' effort and time in answering questions. It truly believes that financial reward is the driving force to build a professional Q&A market.

In AnsMart, only high level experts, users who have proven track record, have accesses to expensive questions. Meanwhile, experts are motivated to provide highest quality answer by earning double compensations. This monitoring and rating system creates a zero fraud platform that ensures experts are fairly rewarded for their efforts.

How It Works:
AnsMart employs an answer screening process. Once a question is posted, unlimited numbers of answer samples (partially completed answers) can be collected from experts. The asker makes his pick and invites 1 or more experts to submit a complete answer. Only the earliest respondent can submit a complete answer. The asker will give a rating to the answerer and it determines how much the answerer earns.

AnsMart employs a level system to differentiate among experts. High level experts are those with proven track record on providing quality answers. Only high level experts will have access to expensive question. Meanwhile, experts will only get paid by providing satisfactory answers.

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

Vuzit--A web-based document viewer, You can embed it into any web page

What Company Is Offering:

Vuzit (pronounced "views-it"), A web-based document viewer. You can embed it into any web page. Hovitate's flagship software, is web-based software that changes the document distribution landscape by enabling universal office document viewing, security, auditing, and search that increases revenue by improving overall accessibility and usability.

How It Works:

Vuzit allows content publishers to embed documents in their web pages, similar to how YouTube distributes video, thus maintaining consistent branding and site navigation. Document auditing and statistical analysis enables content publishers to analyze the usage of their documents to create new revenue streams and optimize workflow.

More at:http://vuzit.com/

With MoneyExchange you can securely transfer money to other accountholders with just a few clicks of the mouse

What Company Is Offering:
MoneyExchange is an easy and reliable way to send and receive money online between accountholders. It’s a great way to exchange money with friends, colleagues, or online sellers. Share restaurant, travel or household expenses. It’s easy, reliable and secure.

How It Works:
With MoneyExchange you can securely transfer money to other accountholders with just a few clicks of the mouse. MoneyExchange helps you repay others for covering your restaurant, travel, or household expenses when you don’t have cash handy:


To use MoneyExchange, the first thing you need to do is sign up for a MoneyExchange account. When you sign up, you will establish a stored value account with First Bank & Trust, Brookings, South Dakota (Member FDIC), which is also referred to as your MoneyExchange account. With your MoneyExchange account, you can send funds to and receive funds from other MoneyExchange accountholders.
Linking your MoneyExchange account directly to your existing bank (checking or deposit) account will allow you to transfer money to your MoneyExchange account electronically (i.e. Add Money) or withdraw funds electronically to your bank account. It is not a requirement however, to link your MoneyExchange account to your bank account to receive funds from other MoneyExchange accountholders, request funds from others, or withdraw funds from your account by check.

More at:https://www.revolutionmoneyexchange.com/

StyleCart Inc. is a startup company dedicated to improving the experience of consumer online shopping

What Company Is Offering:
StyleCart Inc. is a startup company dedicated to improving the experience of consumer online shopping.

The StyleCart technology is a breakthrough in interactivity that is grounded in editorial merchandising – the fashion layouts in magazines and other media – and the familiar desktop user experience of ‘drag and drop’ functionality. These two factors together form StyleCart’s highly interactive and personalized experience.

How It Works:
For Retailers
Retailers can now offer customers the same breakthrough interactive experience used for Style&Share, seamlesslessy branded for your company and easy to get started. Click here for more about StyleCart technology and StyleCart Campaign Manager.

For the first time, now you can style yourself an entire outfit, or entire wardrobe, from thousands of designers and stores – all in one place.

At Style&Share, they use Amazon, one of the most trusted internet retailers, for checkout, shipping, and returns, so you know your finds will get to you.

More at:http://styleandshare.com/