Thursday, February 21, 2008

MyFaceID is a facial recognition technology

About Company:
MyFaceID is a free media search service based on biometric facial recognition technology.

Technology was developed and is constantly being improved by team at Betaface.
Currently searching is performed only within MyFaceID users and famous people database. Only user profiles marked as ‘visible’ take part in search and respectively are visible in search results.

MyFaceID service came after few years of research and facial recognition technology development. They believe in great possibilities and future of this technology and that properly adopted, it may be a useful service for users all over the internet.

How It Works:


They detect people on photos and find a match in their database for time being, but they plan to expand their face recognition services further. Their mission is to perform face search in photos and video files over the internet.

Their technology was used in first ever automatic caricature creation Simpsonizeme and in promotion of Microsoft Windows Server, where composite face of user was automatically created.

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

Shoutbox is an easy to use messaging system that allows you to interact with others instantly

What Company Is Offering:
Shoutbox or tagboard/chatbox, is an easy to use messaging system that allows you to interact with others instantly.

Get a shoutbox for your blog or website and get instant comments from your visitors today!

How It Works:
A shoutbox can be placed on your blog or website. Your visitors can then easily post comments in it. They can also use the shoutbox to chat with you and other visitors at the same time.

Shoutbox is a great interactive add-on that makes your visitors coming back for more! Give our shoutbox a try and see how it performs!

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

ScratchBack ---It allows you, the publisher, to accept tips and "give back" links or images in return

What Company Is Offering:
ScratchBack is an online "tipping" system. It allows you, the publisher, to accept tips and "give back" links or images in return (all links are nofollow). You name your price on your tips, and you earn money from every interaction through our easy-to-use automated system. It's free to sign-up, and you can have a TopSpot widget on your website or blog in minutes.

How It Works:
With Scratchback, they can tip you, have some fun, and participate beyond just leaving comments.It's built for everyone, from small blogger, to HUGE publisher, regardless of traffic. Smaller sites or blogs will find that their TopSpots can generate some extra income that they might not be getting from other sources. Big publishers can use their TopSpots to allow everyone to participate on their sites beyond just reading or leaving a comment. If you like to have fun, and you think your readers like the information you have to offer, than this is something for you.Scratchback takes a commission from each tip to pay for bandwidth, hosting and administrative fees. Please note... The current commission structure has been switched to 90% for the publisher during this beta.

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

Topper is a personalization tool that actually learns your preferences

What Company Is Offering:
Topper Search is a demonstration of a Web 2.0 personalized search engine. Using Topper anyone can build "ad hoc" intelligent models to sort and filter their results. Topper doesn't simply categorize your results. It learns, in real time, from your likes and dislikes in order to filter out results that you don't want or consider spam. Topper models can be applied again and again to new search queries and even shared with other users.

How It Works:

Topper is a personalization tool that actually learns your preferences. Topper Search is a personalization of web search. Topper learns what you like from a single search and then applies what it learned to any search that you make. Topper is not a web search engine but rather a tool that sits on top of search results. This version currently sits on top of Yahoo Search results. Topper can be easily be adapted for Google or any other search engine.

Topper Search allows you to create or use an existing Topper 'hat' to sort search results to your taste. Creating a Topper hat is simple - simply click on the results you like and don't like, watch Topper score your results. These results can then be sorted using a blend of your 'hat' score and the original rank of the result. As you click each result Topper automatically builds a new mental model for you and re-scores all of the results. Multiple hats can be created, modified and reused that represent your different tastes.

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

Blist is revolutionizing how consumers create, share, and utilize the information got $6.5 million Series A funding

What Company Is Offering:
Blist is revolutionizing how consumers create, share, and utilize the information that's important to them with the industry's first online social database service for consumers and small businesses. Blist delivers unprecedented ease of use through a new visual and intuitive user interface that outshines others in the database market. Only Blist makes it easy for anyone to create private or collaborative databases for anything ranging from the personal to the professional.

How Much They Got From VCs:
They announced a $6.5 million Series A investment from Frazier Technology Ventures and Morgenthaler Ventures. Blist will use the additional funding to accelerate the development and marketing of its new online social database service that allies the simplicity of a spreadsheet with the power of a fully featured relational database. In connection with the Series A financing, Scott Darling, general partner at Frazier Technology Ventures, and Ken Gullicksen, partner at Morgenthaler Ventures, have been added to Blist's board of directors.

How Is It Different:
Blist provides everyday mainstream users with a strikingly intuitive and flexible way to design simple or sophisticated databases that meet their specific needs without requiring users to have experience with programming or databases. Using Blist, mainstream users can structure and catalogue all types of information and then create communities around the data they share.

About VCs:
1.
Morgenthaler is a leading, national venture capital and buyout firm with offices in Menlo Park, CA (headquarters); Boston, MA; Cleveland, OH; Boulder, CO; and Princeton, NJ; and has an investment focus on information technology and life sciences. Morgenthaler's Internet and software investments, past and present, include such industry-leading companies as NexTag, imeem, Netli, Ingres Corporation, Illustra Information Technologies, TimesTen, and Synopsys. Morgenthaler has a total of $2.5 billion under management. Its most recent fund, capitalized at $450 million, was raised in 2005. The firm (www.morgenthaler.com) has funded approximately 300 companies over its 39-year history.
2.
Frazier Technology Ventures (FTV) is a Seattle-based, early-stage venture capital firm focused on investments in wireless, internet service, and next generation enterprise companies. The partnership helps entrepreneurs build category defining companies by applying their executive operating backgrounds from companies like C-Cube, EdMark, Intel, LSILogic, Metapath, Microsoft, RealNetworks, and Visio. For more information, visit www.fraziertechnology.com.




For more: www.blist.com.

N-trig provides innovative new technology for the next generation of mobility by making notebook PCs more mobile got $28 million in VCs Funding

What Company Is Offering:
N-trig is the provider of DuoSense digitizer technology combining pen and zero-pressure touch for mobile computers into a single device. N-trig provides innovative new technology for the next generation of mobility by making notebook PCs more mobile, productive, user-friendly, natural, and intuitive to use. DuoSense is easily integratable and supports any type of LCD, giving OEMs and ODMs more flexibility. DuoSense drives a new level of mobile productivity and is enabling new market opportunities in gaming and multimedia.

How Much They Got From VCs:

They announced that they have completed a fund-raising round of $28 million from Canaan Partners, Evergreen Venture Partners and current investors.

In addition to the investment round, N-trig has recently secured a credit facility of $5 million from Plenus, a leading Venture Lending Fund in Israel.

N-trig’s technology is now being deployed by Dell Computer, with its recent launch of its Latitude XT Tablet PC. Other major brands are expected to announce new products, which raises the bar on the next generation of notebook PCs and other mobile devices currently in development.

About VCs:
Canaan Partners invests in visionary entrepreneurs and provides them the networks, insights and operational guidance required to build high-performance technology and healthcare companies. For over 20 years, Canaan has taken an active and committed role in the companies in which it invests, and has seen its portfolio companies complete about 70 mergers and acquisitions and 53 IPOs. With $3 billion under management and a worldwide footprint, the firm's technology team is committed to catalyzing the growth of innovative companies in the digital media, communications & mobility, enterprise and clean tech industries. Among its successes are DoubleClick, the leading online advertising solution, Match.com, the most popular online dating site in the world, CommerceOne, the company that pioneered B2B ecommerce; Capstone Turbine, first to market and world's leading producer of commercially viable microturbine energy products; and VOIP equipment supplier Acme Packet, which was one of the top ten performing tech IPOs of 2006. Canaan has offices in California, Connecticut, India and Israel. For more information visit: www.canaan.com.
2.

Evergreen invests in early-stage Israeli and Israel-related companies in the following fields: software, Internet & media, communications and healthcare. Evergreen’s $650 million of venture capital funds under management represents one of the largest portfolios in Israel with investments in 110 technology start-ups. Evergreen has exited successfully 35 portfolio companies through IPOs and acquisitions. Some of these companies include Traiana, Colbar, Identify, BigBand, P-Cube, Actona, Backweb, Exalink, Radvision and Radware.www.evergreen.co.il.



More at:www.n-trig.com

Twipster is a geocentric mobile publishing platform

What Company Is Offering:
Twipster is a geocentric mobile publishing platform. It can be used for many different purposes. You can use Twipster to do things like photowalk, tell a story, journal a vacation, geocaching, or just share memories.

How It Works:

Twipster is to provide a way for people to capture and share their life experiences through mobile phones and the web. They are always interested in hearing from you.
Twipster is currently available for Nokia S60 Series phones and is in private beta until early 2008. If you would like to be notified when Twipster is available, let them know with the form below.


Twipster (ver 0.46.1) - Symbian S60

If you would like to be included in the private beta, please include your phone's IMEI (dial *#06#) and they will add you to the development build.

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

Ticketwood.com is a free comparison ticket shopping site

What Company Is Offering:
Ticketwood.com is a free comparison ticket shopping site. We specialize in premium and hard to get sold out tickets as well as cheap tickets to all biggest entertainment events.We also offer game schedules for every sport including MLB, NBA, NFL, and NHL. For anything else, they are happy to answer your questions about tours, concerts, teams, venues, seating charts and maps. They are not affiliated with any box office, venue, team, performer or Ticketmaster.com. Any trademarked terms that may have been used are used for descriptive purposes only.

How it Works:

Ticketwood.com is a Ticket comparison shopping service. The company's mission is to enable Ticket shoppers to quickly and easily find compare and buy any tickets, sold by virtually All major ticket brokers, anywhere. Ticketwood.com connects consumers with hunderds of ticket brokers worldwide. They specialize mainly in premium and hard to get tickets as well as tickets to all biggest entertainment and sporting events including MLB, NBA, NFL, and NHL.

More at:http://www.ticketwood.com/
Company Info:
TicketWood, Inc.
18551 Dearborn St Suite 31
Northridge, CA 91324
(818) 324-8428
Customer Service: 1.866.473.7855
Email: info@TicketWood.com

DotHomes is a real estate search engine—a “Google of property”

What Company Is Offering:
DotHomes is a real estate search engine—a “Google of property”.

Consumers use DotHomes to quickly search over thousands of estate agent Websites across multiple countries, with relevant search results taking consumers to property listings on these Websites. Underlying DotHomes’ search mechanism is a proprietary data-mining technology which allows for scalable and accurate indexing (aggregation) of property listings directly from estate agency Websites—with zero cost or effort for estate agents.

How it Works:

DotHomes offers a real alternative to the traditional directory Websites for real estate search (like RightMove, PrimeLocation and PropertyFinder). These Websites require that estate agents send in datafeeds of their property listings, and estate agents are charged a monthly fee for the privilege. DotHomes also offers an alternative to the new “mashup” Websites, which index only the directory Websites—and thereby do not link through to the original, potentially richer and more up-to-date property listings on the sourcing estate agent Websites.

For estate agents, DotHomes provides a free and effortless marketing platform. For house hunters, DotHomes provides the easiest and most transparent way to find properties on the Web.

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

Tipit----The Easiest Way To Turn Content Into Cash

What Company is Ofering:
You consume great content online for free. You want authors to keep making this cool stuff. Why not show them your appreciation by giving them a small token?
Tipit.to makes that possible.
Tipit.to enables people to show their support to a cause, person or website by tipping some money. Voluntarily giving money, no matter how small the amount, serves as moral and financial support.
To make tipping easier, Tipit.to enables users to tip amounts as low as a couple of cents. These tip intentions are not transferred immediately. Once the total amount of money tipped reaches a threshold, a user will be prompted to make good on their intentions.

How It Works:
The amount of money transferred to other sites may seem small but all the amounts add up and the recognition from each individual tipper is priceless.

It only takes a single click.Tipping is as easy as possible. With a single click users are taken to Tipit.to where they can specify the amount to tip. After tipping users are taken back to the site they came from. Widgets to further integrate tipping with the host environment and eliminate the roundtrip will be released in the future.
Tipit.to handles the accounting of incoming and outgoing tips. After receiving the money, it is made available to those tipjar owners it was meant for.
Tipping means paying real money to show your appreciation. This creates a much more accurate measure of which sites on the web are worth something (i.e. real money). While votes may be faked or gamed, tips speak for themselves.

Tipit.to tries to minimize the amount of transaction costs for both the giving and receiving parties. Unfortunately in today's world, financial transactions even after they have been batched can cost significant amounts of money. Tipit.to charges exactly enough money to break even on the transaction costs.

Setting up a tipjar is very easy. The associated code to tip that tipjar is simply a button with a link to the Tipit.to website. Users are guided through the tipping process and then returned to your website when they're done.

Tip intentions that have been paid by tippers show up on your incoming tips. When your total amount of incoming money has passed a threshold you can cash it out. Tipit.to only charges the transaction fees of the payout method you choose.

More at:https://tipit.to/

GWT-Ext is a powerful widget library

What Company Is Ofering:
GWT-Ext is a powerful widget library that provides rich widgets like Grid with sort, paging and filtering, Tree’s with Drag & Drop support, highly customizable ComboBoxes, Tab Panels, Menus & Toolbars, Dialogs, Forms and a lot more right out of the box with a powerful and easy to use API. It uses GWT and Ext.

More at:http://gwt-ext.com/

co-ment makes it possible for you to write or upload your own texts, submit them for comments and process the comments

What Company Is Offering:

co-ment makes it possible for you to write or upload your own texts, submit them for comments and process the comments. Two types of services are available on co-ment.net: a fully functional free-of-charge service with quantitative limitations and limited support and a professional service. Sopinspace also provides personalised co-ment services: you can get your own specific co-ment space. The full code base of co-ment is free software under the Affero GPLv3. co-ment is a trademark of Philippe Aigrain.

Why It Could Work:

From the antiquity to the revision process for the GNU General Public License, commenting texts has always been an important part of what communities do to exist as communities. Today, on-line text publication and annotation has become a new pivotal media for formalizing and communicating thoughts to others.
To enable collaborative processes around texts that are more structured than on wikis, we created co-ment, an online collaborative text commenting system.

More at:http://www.co-ment.net/

StyleHop is the place for people to discover and share fashion

What Company Is Offering:
StyleHop is the place for people to discover and share fashion. From the largest department stores to the most obscure online retailer, StyleHop surfaces the best stuff selected and ranked by our members through our fun, competitive style ranking game. You won't find fashion editors or star designers telling you what's fashionable at StyleHop - we're here to provide a place where real people determine the top styles.

How It Works:

At StyleHop, their mission is to build the most trusted, up-to-date, reliable source for smart people to share their style preferences and make better style decisions.

There are two main consumer activities at StyleHop:
StyleHop Shopping - Fashion shopping engines typically require you to sort through hundreds or even thousands of options to find something to buy. Alternatively, you can go to those fashion sites or magazines that tell you what to wear because they are the experts. At StyleHop, they're taking a different approach. They will show the top styles ranked the way you want to see them. Want to see the top five knit tops as ranked by StyleHop college women in Los Angeles? No problem. Want to see the top five StyleHop ranked sweaters at Abercrombie? We can do that. The answers are a few clicks away.

StyleHop Games - They are working hard to create fun, competitive style ranking games. We will use the games to give you a StyleHop Score that objectively measures your fashion savvy against all other users. You can play against your friends in your own league or against all other StyleHop users. In addition to being great entertainment for you, your style rankings will directly feed our shopping engine (which allows you to see the styles you want).

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

Offtype.net is a fast, fun, free and easy way to create

What Company Is Offering:

Offtype.net is a fast, fun, free and easy way to create
your own images online. It allows to draw sketch or road map, to create graffiti, pixel art, drawing, to paint ecard, handwrite message or note.

How It Works:
The resulting image will be saved on the offtype.net free web server and can be used anywhere on the Web. You can share it in your blog, journal, newsletter, message board, email, chat, gallery etc.

More at:http://offtype.net/