Friday, February 22, 2008

TextAway.com---The website allows its users to send free text messages to a single person or multiple individuals

What Company Is Offering:

TextAway.com launched with the goal of offering internet users a free and innovative method to keep in touch. The website allows its users to send free text messages to a single person or multiple individuals with U.S. mobile phones. TextAway.com is gaining popularity with thousands of loyal users and delivering many thousands of text messages each month from all over the world.

How Is It Different:
This innovative website is different than many competitor websites that offer web-based texting because it facilitates a real-time exchange of text messages and many cool features. Users can preference the manner in which they receive text message replies from friends and family (email, mobile phone, or the TextAway inbox). When the user's friend receives the text message on their mobile phone, they can reply and that message is routed back through the channel the user selected (email, mobile phone, or the TextAway Inbox). The dialogue can then continue in real-time between the TextAway user and the mobile recipients. TextAway.com also allows users to easily store and organize their mobile contacts into categories and use them to send messages quickly. The website also offers the ability to send text message invitations (similar to the email invitations offered by Evite.com), which allow the recipient to RSVP for an event directly from their cell phone.

More at:
TextAway LLC
Adam Hirsen
847-858-3278
adam@textaway.com
www.textaway.com

RecruiTT - --Unique Concept Of Online Recruitment

What Company Is Offering:
Recruitt enables employers to interview prospective candidates online. Jobs are posted with online interviews set by the employer. Candidates can apply by completing the interview. Traditionally, recruitment agencies provide the gateway between candidates and employers, sifting CVs to find candidates to present to the employer for consideration. Recruitt replaces that need by providing a service which allows candidates to stand out from the crowd by presenting themselves directly to employers via the online interview.

How It Works:

With Recruitt, you have the opportunity to shine in front of a prospective employer by completing an online interview set directly by the employer. Avoiding the middle man (recruitment agencies) saves time and effort and gives you the opportunity to get your CV in front of the real decision makers – the employers.

When the employer set the question, they also set the answers that their ideal candidate would reply with and gives each question points (‘Other’ type questions are not scored but may further help employers filter

candidates.) If your answer meets their requirements, you are allocated the points and at the end of the interview, your points are totalled. Any candidates achieving the minimum pass score set by the employer will have their CV sent to the employer directly.

This will mean that you will only be put forward for jobs that you are more likely to be recruited for, saving effort, time and money.

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

SeaFolks.com, a networking site for merchant navy officers

What Company Is Offering:

SeaFolks.com, a networking site for merchant navy officers is now made open also for spouses or would be spouses and other people closely associated with merchant navy professionals. This platform is offered so that they can improve their collective lives by interacting with each other. SeaFolks.com, which is a complete vertical or niche portal on the merchant navy profession.

How It Works:
SeaFolks.com gives officers a chance to get the first hand information about latest machineries or equipments, officers have worked with across the world. Looks like SeaFolks.com is a great recipe specially prepared for all the people associated with the Merchant Navy.Marine students, senior sailing officers, marine teaching faculties, etc are registered on this site. Because this is a platform of people with similar interests and concerns, they can share the right information to each other. The site offers them different tools like blogs, forums, special picture section, etc which makes it easy for them to share their life.

While speaking with the CEO of SeaFolks.com, Mr Umesh Dhekane said, “This is our sincere attempt to get SeaFolks and Sea Lovers closer. The aim is to get them all together to interact with each other and improve their collective lives.”

More at:
SeaFolks.com
Umesh Dhekane
+919822778254
umesh@seafolks.com
http://www.seafolks.com

Anpedia helps you find local and nationwide business information

What Company Is Offering:

Anpedia helps you find local and nationwide business listings quickly and easily. Their business search tools make it easy for you to look up local business names, addresses, phone numbers, web addresses, and other business information.


How It Works:

Rate and review your favorite restaurants, bars, dentists, doctors, beauty salons or any other businesses or places that you visit in your local community. Tag any business listings to make it easier to find later. And personalize Anpedia by selecting a search box color that matches your own tastes.

Use Anpedia reverse directory search to find local businesses using phone numbers and addresses. With Anpedia, it's fast and easy to do reverse lookup of local cities, zip codes, and area codes.

Use Anpedia mobile search to find local information from your phone or PDA devices -- anytime and anywhere.

Start browsing today, discover a new business, and write a review.

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

JukeDuke---unique 'zip code powered' employment search service

What Company is Offering:

JukeDuke have created their unique 'zip code powered' employment search service, which quickly connects employees with employers in their own area.


How It Works:

With JukeDuke, employees can create their own unique profile pages, by uploading pictures, and entering information about themselves, their experiences, and what they are looking for in a job. Employers can then search these pages, and find the exact employees they are looking for.

Unlike a traditional resume, a profile page is highly personalized, even putting a face to the name. Providing employers with everything they need upfront streamlines the hiring process, and shortens interview time. A whole team can be assembled within minutes. Missing staff can be replaced quickly, without creating delays.


No other site is powered via zip codes.

More at:http://jukeduke.com/

TrialPay unites advertisers, merchants and shoppers to create the first payment platform that benefits all parties raised $12.7 million in Series B

What Company Is Offering:
TrialPay unites advertisers, merchants and shoppers to create the first payment platform that benefits all parties. Using TrialPay, merchants turn lost and indecisive shoppers into paying customers by giving away their product for free when a shopper completes an offer from blue-chip advertisers like American Express, Gap, FTD, eBay and thousands more. Advertisers pay a bounty that equals or exceeds the merchant's regular price to create a profitable transaction out of a stalled or abandoned cart. TrialPay ensures that every shopper finds an offer that compels him or her to purchase by pairing premium brands with the added value of a free product. With TrialPay everyone wins: shoppers get a free product, advertisers acquire new customers and merchants earn significant revenue from lost or unlikely customers.

How Much They Got From VCs:
They have raised $12.7 million in Series B funding. Index Ventures led the round, and was joined by Atomico Ventures, "former PayPal executives," and return backers Battery Ventures, Ron Conway and Bob Pittman.

About VCs:
Index Ventures is a leading European venture capital firm active in technology venture investing since 1996. The firm is dedicated to helping top entrepreneurial teams in the Information Technology and Life Science sectors build their companies into market defining global leaders. The firm has offices in Geneva, London and Jersey and focuses its investment activity primarily on Europe and Israel. Investments include Skype (the pioneering communications company acquired by eBay); MySQL (the world's most popular open source database) and Last.fm (the world's largest social music platform, recently acquired by CBS). For more information, please visit www.indexventures.com .

More at: www.trialpay.com

Sub-One Technology develops high-performance protective coatings for industrial applications has closed $24 million in new financing

What Company Is Offering:
Sub-One Technology develops high-performance protective coatings for industrial applications. Its InnerArmor coating process applies an ultrahard, pinhole-free, chemically inert protective coating to critical equipment to reduce operational costs associated with corrosion, erosion and friction reduction. With offices and staff in Aberdeen, Scotland, Houston, Texas, and Pleasanton, California, the company is providing commercial coating systems to coating applicators and manufacturers worldwide.

How Much They Got From VCs:
Sub-One Technology announced that it has closed $24 million in new financing. The Series-C funding was led by Nomura International and included GE Energy Financial Services, Chevron Technology Ventures and Advanced Technology Ventures. Sub-One's InnerArmor(?) technology is the only process capable of cost effectively applying a hard-as-diamonds coating to the interiors of critical liquids and gas handling equipment and piping. InnerArmor applications cover a wide spectrum of industries and applications including oil and gas, automotive, chemical, semiconductor, pulp and paper, public utilities and aerospace.

About VCs:
1.New Energy & Clean Technology Ventures, a division of the leading Asia-based investment bank Nomura, aims at leveraging the bank's strengths in opening markets across Asia. It intends to act as a bridge between later-stage U.S. and EU companies and the surging demand for new forms of clean energy and water technologies in India, China and across Asia. Based in London, the division is in a strong position to provide larger sums of capital to companies with potentially game-changing technologies, and to help its portfolio companies forge links with Japanese multinationals. Nomura is a global financial services group dedicated to providing a broad range of financial services for individual, institutional, corporate and government clients. The group offers a diverse line of competitive products and value-added financial and advisory solutions through its global headquarters in Tokyo and an international network in 30 countries. ( www.nomura.com )

2.
GE Energy Financial Services' 350 experts invest globally with a long-term view, backed by the best of GE's technical know-how and financial strength, across the capital spectrum and the energy and water industries, to help their customers and GE grow. With $17 billion in assets, GE Energy Financial Services, based in Stamford, Connecticut, invests more than $5 billion annually in two of the world's most capital-intensive industries, energy and water. www.geenergyfinancialservices.com

3.
Chevron Technology Ventures, the Venture Capital Arm of Chevron, identifies and invests in new technologies and business opportunities that can create value, clear competitive advantage and superior financial returns for Chevron.Chevron (NYSE:CVX) is one of the world's leading energy companies. With approximately 56,000 employees, Chevron subsidiaries conduct business in more than 180 countries around the world, producing and transporting crude oil and natural gas, and refining, marketing and distributing fuels and other energy products. Chevron is based in San Ramon, California. ( www.chevron.com )

More at: www.sub-one.com

Swift Financial is a direct financial services company dedicated to small- business banking got $20 million

What Company Is Offering:
Swift Financial is a direct financial services company dedicated to small- business banking. Headquartered in Wilmington, Del., Swift Financial launched in 2007 and is led by a veteran team of top bank executives who want to provide small businesses with simple banking products without excessive fees and penalties - while providing a level of service not typically associated with small-business banking. Swift Financial is able to make these products available through its relationship with M&I Bank FSB ensuring that customer deposits are FDIC insured.

How Much They Got From VCs:

They have announced the close of its Series B Preferred Stock financing round of $20 million, bringing the total investment in the company to $26.5 million. Investors included Sutter Hill Ventures , Village Ventures ,Permit Capital and a subsidiary of Marshall & Ilsley Corporation.

"We are energized by the confidence shown in Swift Financial by these investors," says company founder and CEO Ed Harycki. "Their support will enable us to offer small businesses exceptional service and a chance to grow in a challenging credit environment."

About VCs:
1.Sutter Hill Ventures, in Palo Alto, Calif., is a venture capital firm that finances technology-based start-up and early-stage companies pioneering products or services in growth markets, especially those in information technology and health care. Founded in 1964, it is one of Silicon Valley's original venture capital firms. Companies backed by Sutter Hill include: Netapp, Legato, Quantum, Storage Tek, Tellabs, Alteon, Linear Technology, NVIDIA, BroadVision, Vitria, Molecular Devices, Cor Therapeutics, Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Omnicell and eLoyalty.

2.Village Ventures is a seed and early stage venture capital firm focusing on three primary sectors: consumer media and retail, health care and financial services. The Williamstown, Mass., firm's strategy is to partner with leading entrepreneurs creating innovative products and solving complicated problems in those industries.

3.
Permit Capital, LLC, is an independent investment firm founded in 2002 in West Conshohocken, PA. The firm invests domestically and internationally in private and public securities


More at: www.swiftfinancial.com

cellity ---saving as much as 90% on international calls and those within your home country or easily hold a conference call with several people

What Company Is Offering:
The cellity Communicator is more than just an ingenious cellphone app. The penny-pinching program offers all of cellity’s best features in a single, compact program.

How It Works;

After switching on your cellphone, all you need to do is launch cellity Communicator. Then you can start saving as much as 90% on international calls and those within your home country or easily hold a conference call with several people. cellity users also benefit from competitively priced text messaging and freeSMS messages of up to 2,048 characters. Users can also use the Communicator phonebook and easily run backups onto the cellity server. No important data is lost, even if you get separated from your cellphone.

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

Floobs enables anyone to setup their own live internet and mobile TV Channel

What Company is Offering:
Floobs enables anyone to setup their own live internet and mobile TV Channel. Managing your own Channel is fun and easy. You can broadcast live video and previously recorded video without installing any additional software.

How It Works:

Floobs is an internet service offering tools for creating and distributing one’s own TV Channel anywhere in the world. All that is needed for live broadcasting is a video-enabled mobile phone or a computer with a webcam. The easy-to-use service is developed to meet the needs of communities and to speed the distribution of their shared content. The service, piloted in Finnish-language pilot during fall 2007, is now in international beta since the end of December.

Floobs is the registered trademark of Floobs Ltd. Floobs Ltd is a Finland-based privately owned software development company founded by Kai Lemmetty and Joonas Pekkanen. The business ID / VAT number of Floobs Ltd is FI20916411.

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

Viewdle is a facial-recognition powered digital media platform for indexing, searching and monetizing video assets

What Company Is Offering:
Viewdle is a facial-recognition powered digital media platform for indexing, searching and monetizing video assets. Viewdle automatically looks inside the video, frame-by-frame, to create a real-time index of true on-screen appearances with unrivaled accuracy and relevance. With multiple patents in preparation, they are quickly building the world’s largest people-in-video reference database.

How It Works:

By unleashing Viewdle technology, content producers and distributors can effectively leverage their video assets to open new revenue streams and attract, engage and retain customers/visitors. Initially focused on providing internal and private-label indexing and search capabilities to news and entertainment media, we will soon launch targeted advertising solutions, developer tools and a consumer-facing search site.
Viewdle is to revolutionize video search by solving the inefficiencies inherent in using text-based metadata and other existing tools for indexing moving media. The Viewdle engine fuses pioneering visual analysis technology, continuously developed over the past 35 years, along with other leading search techniques to go “inside the clip” and identify contextually relevant appearances based on actual video assets.

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

WeddingWire is an online wedding community for Engaged Couples, Newlyweds and Wedding Vendors to connect with each other

What Company Is Offering:
WeddingWire is an online wedding community for Engaged Couples, Newlyweds and Wedding Vendors to connect with each other. WeddingWire provides cutting edge technology to the wedding industry through social networking, local vendor search, comparison shopping, and wedding planning tools.

How It Works:

You may change your name, email, age, and/or add to the information on your personal account through "My Account" section. Start by clicking on "My Account" in the left navigation menu after logging in. Next, click on "Manage Account(s)". From here you can click "Manage" to change your personal information or click "Update password" to change your password and security question.

You may change your Wedding Profile information (reception site, wedding date, pictures, etc.), through "My Profile" section. Start by clicking on "My Profile" in the left navigation menu after logging in. Next to each header, you'll find a "(edit)" link. Click on the "(edit)" link to update the information in each section. HTML can be used in most sections. Don't forget to select a default image for your Wedding Profile.


For their wedding members (engaged or married) every feature and function you see on the site is FREE, and will always remain FREE!

More at;http://www.weddingwire.com/

Streem is microblogging tool

What Company Says:
Streem, it's a serious attempt to help define the next iteration of weblogging and social media, or to be the Apple to Facebook's Microsoft, or something.

What are the ideas behind making it:
In a social network, producing content should be an active process and assembling an audience should be effortless. Instead of monitoring my behavior and relaying it to people I tell you I trust, let me share what I choose to and you can show it to whoever's interested. More eyeballs, less paranoia.

Pull the blogger down from the stage and into the crowd. When you flatten the relationship between posts and comments, commenters become publishers in their own right, and content becomes less lonely.

Many of the tools they're using to put stuff online are out of sync with the shrinking timescale of real-world activity. Slice content into tiny pieces and you remove the psychological barriers to producing it. This is obvious by now.

They're not so different: when everyone's posts are made of the same molecules, they can merge and separate in useful and exciting ways.
Design isn't everything, but it's pretty close.


More at:http://streem.us/

Comedy.com

What Company Is Offering:

Comedy.com is a...wait for it...comedy entertainment site (are your minds sufficiently blown?) that combines user generated content and original, exclusive content from some of the funniest peeps in the business (literally, they're comics made of marshmallow, gelatin and carnauba wax).

How It Works:
They want to be your resource and portal for anything funny on the Web. If it's funny, it's here! And the best of the best will be featured on their LOL List™ so check back hourly for your Daily Dose™ of laughter. If you're funny, then share it with other funny people by creating a Comedy.com profile and show us your bits.


Who Is Behind Them:

Dean Valentine -- Former President of Disney Television and United Paramount Network, Valentine launched some of the most successful television comedies of the 1990's. Dean enjoys burnt pretzels and Mexican Coca-Cola.




Scott Immergut -- A former Vice-President of production at the Walt Disney Company, Scott has produced over a dozen movies and TV shows. Scott was Senior Vice-President of Content at Digital Entertainment Network and he brings deep experience in creating broadband video content. He is shy around clowns and thinks Fantasy Football is the bomb.




Darla Brown -- Darla led the portal department at the Digital Entertainment Network back in the day. Since then, she has led several software and web development teams and/or acted as consultant to such companies as Henson Interactive, Excite@home, E*TRADE, and Vulcan's Storyopolis. Founder of shareyoga.com, she also holds yoga classes in our bathroom and does her part by driving a Prius.




Matt Komen -- Matt produced the HBO Comedy Festivals in Aspen and Las Vegas and was also the Talent Booker for the Hollywood Improv where he enjoyed drinking and eating for free 4 nights a week. He also functioned as brand manager for the Improv Comedy Clubs, working with Diet Coke, Sierra Mista and Yahoo! When not heading up funny content at Comedy.com, Matt likes to shop at the Big and Tall section of Gap Kids.

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

Amvona Trails --The first dedicated, easy-to-use, contextual search platform of its kind

What Company Is Offering:
Amvona is the world’s most popular online community for photo equipment allowing thousands of people every day to discover and share experiences of both products and media. Amvona also provides a forum for more than a hundred thousand people to connect, inform and inspire others across the globe and act as a distribution platform for equipment and original content creators. Amvona is based in Mansfield, MA.

Recent Updates:
Amvona.com, the leading online photo equipment retailer, that allows people to discover, view and share information about both products and media, today announced the debut of its new platform Amvona Trails. This centralized hub is the first dedicated, easy-to-use, contextual search platform of its kind, and is exclusively populated with media from Amvona’s growing photo sharing community. The approach showcases the vibrant relationship between striking images found at Amvona, their creators, and the tools they use.

Amvona Trails is updated in real time with media submitted by the Amvona community throughout the world. The site already includes highlights from top photographers, collections from emerging talents, and insight into the equipment industry experts rely on.

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