Tuesday, February 19, 2008

ClientSpot is a Web-based service designed specifically for virtual assistants to collaborate with clients and subcontractors on projects

What Company Is Offering:

ClientSpot is a Web-based service designed specifically for virtual assistants to collaborate with clients and subcontractors on projects. When email just isn’t enough, ClientSpot brings together all the pieces of your client and team interactions, from project and task management to file sharing, time tracking, and calendaring.


How It Works:

You can add as many tasks as you like to a project. For each one, you can assign a person responsible and a deadline (optional). You can also log hours worked here to quickly keep track of time spent on each task.You and your clients can see project status at a glance, along with the hours worked to date on the project. You can also see a list of tasks across all of your projects.
See all upcoming deadlines and events for the week at a glance for your clients and projects. You’ll also see a list of any tasks that are assigned to you personally.

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

MagSuite.com, an integrated open-source web-based accounting, inventory control, and customer relationship management Service

What Company is Offering:
MagSuite.com, an integrated open-source web-based accounting, inventory control, and customer relationship management (CRM) Service. The Service is designed for small and lower midmarket businesses.

How It Works:
The Service integrates CRM functionality with accounting & inventory control which further improves productivity of companies by eliminating double entry of information between software used by marketing personnel, sales team, support team & ERP system.

Magsuite.com offers various reports which can be exported to industry standard Microsoft Excel and/or Adobe Reader file formats & stored on your local computer for viewing, printing or e-mailing.

MagSuite.com offers source code access for unlimited modifications and creation of vertical solutions by both customers and partners.

Unique Features:
MagSuite.com is a hosted web application which allows its users to utilize the following advantages compared with traditional desktop applications:

• improved security & reliability of data storage.

• hassle-free upgrades.

• secure access from any place in the world with Internet access.

• real-time access to the same corporate data by regionally distributed offices & home offices.

• lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

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

Boomi is a leading provider of business integration solutions for small and mid-sized business

What Company Is Offering:
Boomi is a leading provider of business integration solutions for small and mid-sized business (SMBs). Boomi was founded on the premise of making powerful integration capabilities available to SMBs who have challenging integration requirements but cannot afford the time and expense associated with implementing complex integration solutions typically employed by larger enterprises.

How It Works:
Boomi’s unique Visual Integration Technology SM allows companies to integrate applications, trading partners and data with point-and-click ease in one solution that can be deployed on premise or on demand. Using a visual process designer, users drag and drop integration components from a palette onto a “canvas” to build very simple to very sophisticated integration solutions. Integration configurations are built automatically and in the vast majority of cases, no further coding is required. Implementations are accomplished with exceptional speed – typically in days, not weeks, months or years – allowing customers to quickly realize the return on their investment in Boomi. Actively developed for over seven years, the technology has reached a high level of functionality and sophistication.

The combination of ease-of-use, no programming and speed of implementation makes Boomi an ideal solution for SMBs.

How This Company Is Going:
Boomi has over 400 clients in 11 countries ranging in size from $20 million in revenues to over $1 billion in revenues – corporations such as Puma, Nutri-Systems, Raleys, Harris Tea and D&H Distributors. Clients include 19 of the top 100 third-party logistics companies and six of the top twelve cold-storage companies in the United States. Boomi has earned a reputation for outstanding customer support and enjoys an extremely high level of client satisfaction and retention.

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

StyleBell--Your premier hair resource

What Company Is Offering:
At StyleBell they think beauty should be uniquely hip, incredibly accessible, and casually cool.

How It Works:

They strive to bring savvy shoppers an amazing array of well known, highly coveted, must-have items they think are effective and worth it. They sample, test, and review all beauty products to bring you the latest and greatest ‘gotta get’ brands at affordable prices. They love raving about a fabulous flat iron, recreating those celebrity styles at home, and sharing the 411 with anyone who will listen. They think beauty should be social and fun! Your premier hair resource.
You may order securely online or by calling us toll-free at 1-888-322-9959. They offer Free Shipping on all US Orders over $50 and a 90 Day Money Back Guarantee.


All transactions at StyleBell are protected by a Secure Online Server. Your name, address, and credit card information is safe and secure and cannot be read by anyone else. Once your order has been processed, your credit card information is deleted. Safety is our #1 priority and we do everything we can to ensure your shopping experience is safe and secure at all times.

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

"12 Year Old" Entrepreneur Got Listed In Forbes.com ,Identified him as one of the “Hot Role Models To Admire”

Southern California young entrepreneur, Jason O’Neill, did just that in January, 2008. Forbes.com identified him as one of the “Hot Role Models To Admire” on their list of Top 10 Role Models 18 & Under. O’Neill is in good company with celebrities as actresses Miley “Hannah Montana” Cyrus, Abigail Breslin “Little Miss Sunshine”, singer Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers, and actor Malcolm David Kelley “Lost”. Other regular, but not-so-ordinary kids round out the list in various areas of achievement.

O’Neill started his own business called Pencil Bugs when he was only 9 years old. Although he didn’t set out to become an entrepreneur, his simple idea of hand-making colorful bug-like pencil toppers, turned into a successful venture with a very promising future.

Pencil Bugs come in eight bold colors on top a #2 pencil, each with a Certificate of Authenticity that gives their name, birth date, care and training instructions.

When other kids were playing video games and watching TV, O’Neill was working on new products. Soon after he created his original Pencil Bugs, he made matching laminated bookmarks and t-shirts with the little characters. He already has new product ideas in the works including a plush toy Pencil Bug, a Pencil Bugs board game, and a video game. He has collaborated with his mom, Nancy, on a book series about each of the eight Pencil Bug characters and has set his goals on a cartoon series. “Who knows,” says young O’Neill. “Maybe even some day you’ll see ‘Pencil Bugs: The Movie’”.

Besides making the Forbes list, O’Neill has enjoyed some very impressive recognition during his short two-and-a-half years in business. He received a 2006 Young Philanthropist Award for his charitable donations to help foster kids, a 2007 Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, appeared on NBC’s 1 vs. 100 game show as their “kid mogul”, was included on an ABC News Nightline online story/slide show, was featured on web TV and radio programs, among having many newspaper and magazine articles written about him.

O’Neill sells his Pencil Bugs on his website (http://www.pencilbugs.com) and ships them all over the U.S. and Canada. A special order was sent to Lesotho, Africa for school children sponsored by World Vision. Pencil Bugs also flew to Cairo, Egypt and landed at a company called “Z Buggie” to be given as fun perks for their employees.

What’s next for O’Neill? It looks as if there’s no stopping his success. “You keep taking small steps one at a time and eventually something big will happen,” O’Neill states confidently. “All you need is an idea and the will to do it.”

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

YouNoodle ---Startup Success Predictor

What Company Is Offering:
YouNoodle helps people and groups that are interested in startups and innovation do what they do better. It appears that the device has now been translated into Artificial Intelligence software in the form of a startup success predictor. The software will be used to predict whether a startup will be successful or not.They provide business competition, event, networking and mailing list functionality for real-world groups that support startup communities. For investors, they're building technology to help inform their decisions.

YouNoodle.com is a place to discover and get involved with the hottest startups and university innovation that's happening right now.

How It Works:

YouNoodle is a place for startups and early-stage ventures. Discover and get involved with the ones that you're interested in, and promote your own. If you're at a startup, add it to the network to attract team members, get exposure and build a following. Otherwise, create a profile and browse the site to find startups you're interested in. They offer powerful tools for startup clubs, conferences and startup competitions, such as full business competition management, events and newsletters.

Startups on YouNoodle range from companies in stealth mode who haven't even launched and are looking to recruit, to others that have been around for a couple of years and are already making significant amounts of revenue.

Content posted to YouNoodle is entirely open. If there is something you don't want to share, probably best not to post it on the Internet. Startup pages do have a 'Publicity' setting so you can indicate whether you are open to receiving media attention. Share as little or as much as you are comfortable with. This is a place to find team members, investors, advisors, early-adopters and media exposure. If you're not interested in finding those things, join YouNoodle later on.

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

Jobbite is a new place for people to share their experiences with others regarding their current and past employers

What Company Is Offering:
Jobbite is a new place for people to share their experiences with others regarding their current and past employers.

How It Works:

Job seekers often see only a one-sided message provided by their potential employer. Jobbite can help provide a more balanced perspective by making available inside company information on things such as salary and company culture.
The reviews on Jobbite are the user's individual opinion. The court system has reaffirmed that this is okay countless times. Just as it is okay to leave a review on a restaurant, book, apartment or a professor, you can leave a review on the place you work.

More at:http://jobbite.com/

RazorSight --On-demand financial audit and analytics software for media, communications and entertainment companies, has raised $4 million

What Company Is Offering:
Razorsight's Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provides financial executives and managers with next-generation business intelligence to process, manage and analyze financial data -- from a single invoice to global expenditures. Razorsight's solution fully automates the processing of paper and electronic invoices from one to thousands of suppliers, thereby providing greater accuracy, reliability and speed of processing.

How it Works:

Razorsight's AIM solution provides line item visibility, workflow management, dashboards and customized reporting on every cost. Razorsight's complete invoice life cycle management offering is a web-based application that is ideal for distributed work environments. The world-class application and architecture is easy to install, highly scalable and proven to save millions of dollars for each client, providing a quick ROI (generally in 6 to 12 months).

How Much They Got From VCs:
RazorSight Corp., provider of on-demand financial audit and analytics software for media, communications and entertainment companies, has raised $4 million in additional Series A funding.

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

Invodo --Online video management platform, has secured $1.2 million of a $1.5 million Series A round

What Company Is Offering:
Invodo’s Video Management easily enables you to manage all of your digital video content from one platform.Syndicate video content to all of your retail partners.Analyze customer behavior by channel, product and video.

Invodo’s Video Management Platform is a TURNKEY digital video solution for Manufacturers that want to optimize the ROI on their video assets. Invodo’s Video Management Platform is a FREE, TURNKEY technology for Online Retailers that takes less than 10 minutes to fully integrate into your site.
As a retailer, could leverage your manufacturer’s best salespeople to present the features & benefits of their products to all of your potential customers 24 hours a day? What if, before a customer returned a product they couldn’t understand how to use or assemble, you could send the manufacturer’s product engineer to assist them? What if your customers could benefit from the collective experiences of all customers who have ever bought that particular product?

Invodo’s Product Pods & Video Collaboration & Management System allow you to leverage the power of video with the dynamic efficiency of the Internet.

How Much They Got From VCs:
Invodo Inc., an Austin, Texas-based online video management platform, has secured $1.2 million of a $1.5 million Series A round. Backers include Sevin Rosen Funds and S3 Ventures. www.invodo.com

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

Phorm --Creating a new "gold standard" for user privacy, a more relevant Internet experience, and more value for advertisers, publishers

What Company Is Offering:
Phorm is an innovative digital technology company. Their company is focused on creating a new "gold standard" for user privacy, a more relevant Internet experience, and more value for advertisers, publishers, Internet Service Providers and others in the online ecosystem.

How It Works:
Phorm is an innovative digital technology company that designed and built the infrastructure and technology that power Webwise and the Open Internet Exchange.
Webwise is a feature offered by leading UK ISPs in the UK that helps protect customers from fraudulent websites and replaces generic online ads with ads that are relevant to customers' interests. Webwise is powered by Phorm technology.

The OIX is a revolutionary new technology platform that allows, for the first time, online advertising to be targeted using behavioural keyword data gathered at the ISP network level. This data allows for the most accurate user targeting, while completely protecting user privacy. Campaigns created in the OIX are served to ad spots on OIX-partner publishers and networks via an open exchange.

Like a stock exchange, the OIX connects buyers and sellers of online advertising media, with prices established in a competitive, auction-based format.

The OIX is an open platform: All sellers of online advertising media, including publishers, ad networks and behavioural targeting companies, can make their media placements available or monetise their knowledge. All media buyers, including advertisers, online ad agencies and even independent, ISP-based or publisher-based ad sales teams can set up campaigns to be matched to placements.

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

BuzzShed---Get Paid For Watching Videos

What Company Is Offering:
BuzzShed is a community of members who discover and share great videos, and make some money watching video advertising.

As a member you can add videos to BuzzShed, then other members will rate your video using our Buzz or Bury rating system - creating buzz about the videos that really rock, and burying the rest.

How It Works:

When you sign up with BuzzShed, they'll ask you for some basic information about your lifestyle and personal interests. They'll then anonymously group your information together with all other members, to help them find the best audience for their videos.

Then when an advertiser wants to distribute a video, say a preview of the next Harry Potter movie, we might send a BuzzClip to all members under 25 who like reading books and going to movies. If you meet these criteria you'll receive an email linking to a video on the BuzzShed website, and we'll credit 30 cents to your account once you've watched it.
A BuzzClip is an email they'll send you when an advertiser is distributing a video they think will interest you. The email will contain a link to a video on the BuzzShed website, and once you've watched the video we'll credit 30 cents to your account.

The videos will be from your favourite stores, manufacturers, cell phone providers, and other interesting companies.


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

InterNations---Connecting Global Minds

What Company Is Offering:
InterNations is the first international online Social Network exclusively for people living and working abroad. As a network of trust, InterNations is a place where its members can interact with other internationally-minded individuals sharing the same situation abroad, similar interests, and needs.

How It Works:
Members of InterNations can get and keep in touch with private or work-related friends and acquaintances on a global and local level and exchange trustworthy and relevant information on specific topics with each other.

InterNations appeals to the international community where they live: diplomats, members of international organisations (IGOs, NGOs), foreign correspondents, and expatriates of international companies as well as their accompanying family members who take care of organising everyday life and social activities. Moreover, InterNations also addresses local people who have strong connections to the international community (government representatives, journalists).

The community of InterNations has global reach with local grounding: The international network is represented by more than 200 local communities across all countries of the world. Thus, InterNations it not only a cross-boundary network of international people but also a place where members of all kinds of nationalities and cultures can get together and share opinions and information on local circumstances and particularities.

More at:http://www.internations.org/

iVideosongs is an affordable and practical alternative to expensive private lessons

What Company Is Offering:
iVideosongs is an affordable and practical alternative to expensive private lessons and the poor quality song fragments, phrases, tab and tips scattered around the Internet. With artist and instructor titles, and also tutorials downloaded from iVideosongs, you can indulge in the experience any time you want, as often as you want, anywhere you want.

How It Works:

They'll show you how to play the complete song. Each iVideosongs title is broken into segments, so you learn the intro, verse, chorus, bridge and outro. Plus each includes an accurate performance, so you can check your progress against the complete track.

They can show you how to play a chill riff, bend strings, play outside the Pentatonic box and a boatload of other tips and tricks too. But it is a lot more fun to learn those techniques while you're mastering a song.

They break each song into bite size pieces. Get it down, move on to the verse and then the bridge and so forth. Once you've got each section nailed, string them together…and you've got the complete song.

Every title is spot on accurate, just as it was originally written and performed. Then it's up to you if you want to improvise and do your own thing with it.


iVideosongs' artist titles include an interview segment, where the inspiration for the song gets revealed. Or the artist talks about what was going on in their head when they wrote it. Its cool insight that often casts songs in a new light, and suggests a new meaning to lyrics you might have heard a million times.

iVideosongs is on your schedule. Because titles live on your computer, iPod or other device, you can play them any time you want, wherever you want. So you're not on a music teacher's schedule, or anybody else's.

iVideosongs titles are shot in rich high definition video. The lighting and production are fantastic. The effect is stunning, intimate and personal.

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