Thursday, March 6, 2008

Within3 allows you to find health professional

What Company Is Offering:
Within3 is a health technology company, founded by social scientists, whose mission is to help organizations and health-science professionals forge stronger relationships to fight and prevent disease.

Connecting professionals to the trusted colleagues and organizations around them, Within3 works with health-science organizations to create powerful interdisciplinary, stand-alone, or multi-center communities with the goal of accelerating research and improving patient outcomes.

How It Works:
Within3 allows you to find professional contacts with common interests, gain referrals, increase your visibility within your field, recruit patients for clinical trials, stay informed of the latest medical advancements, keep in touch with former colleagues and graduate/medical school classmates, and communicate with advanced health professionals around the world.

Within3 believes that by providing health professionals a safe and secure venue for finding, evaluating, and sharing information, there is great potential for ground–breaking advances in collaborative research, discovery, and treatment.

More at:https://www.within3.com/

Stumpedia.com is a social search engine that relies on human

What Company Is Offering:

Stumpedia.com is a social search engine that relies on human
participation to index, organize, and review the world wide web.

How It Works:

Stumpedia.com is a social search engine that relies on human participation to index, organize, and review the world wide web. Submit links to your social bookmarks, social profiles, blogs, news stories, authoritative articles, images, videos, and web pages that will help improve relevant searches. Share your knowledge and interests with the world and help people search and surf the web.

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

Yoggin.com is a job advertising network that delivers job listings across a vast network of partner sites

What Company Is Offering:
Yoggin.com is a job advertising network that delivers job listings across a vast network of partner sites. By utilizing a distributed network, Yoggin.com is able to target the entire workforce compared to only 16% targeted by traditional job boards like Monster.com, CareerBuilder.com, and HotJobs.com.

How It Works:

By combining a traditional job board with our distributed network, they are able to serve appropriate job listings to qualified prospects. By indexing content, Yoggin.com can determine if the content is related to specific industries so we can serve relevant job openings. In addition, they are able to present job openings to candidates that previously weren’t looking for a job. These candidates Yoggin.com targets tend to be more qualified and loyal than employees who are looking for a new job. This equates to a significant competitive advantage for organizations.

At any given time, only 16% of the workforce is actively looking for a job. By using traditional job boards, you’re limited to sifting through this 16% of the workforce to fill your positions. Yoggin.com expands this reach to 100% by placing job listings where people go on a daily basis. Our job ads run on news, blogs, email, and article related sites as text ads. Partner sites are entered into channels on the Yoggin.com system. Job listings are also entered into channels when submitted on the Yoggin.com job board. By matching channels and content, we deliver exceptional results for hiring employers. Expand your reach and gain a competitive advantage with Yoggin.com.

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

Taltopia.com, a free online platform which connects aspiring talent with fans and industry professionals got $800,000 in VCs funding

What Company is Offering:
Taltopia, is an online media distribution and social networking destination whose aim is to provide aspiring and professional talent with a worldwide stage to share their abilities across the web. The site also rewards its members with Famebucks™ for simply using the site’s features, giving users an incentive to find and recommend good artists, while giving artists a platform to promote themselves online. Categories include Music, Art, Acting, Dance, Comedy, and Modeling. Taltopia.com™ is based in Los Angeles, California.

How It Works;

For users who are not getting the exposure they crave, the site boasts a “Wall of Fame” which grants users the opportunity to “buy” their fame with Famebucks™, the virtual currency used on the site. Users bid for the limited number of spots available on the page, with outbid users being bumped down to subordinate positions. To kick things off, Taltopia.com™ is giving away $5 worth of Famebucks™ to the next 2,500 members that join the free site.

How Much They Got From VCs:
Taltopia.com, a free online platform which connects aspiring talent with fans and industry professionals, announced that it has completed a Series “A” round of funding in the sum of $800,000. The financing was led by an angel investor from Go4Funding (www.go4funding.com), a site whose goal is to unite entrepreneurs, business owners, and investors.
“Taltopia is about empowering fans to decide who gets exposure,” said Allen Vartazarian, referring to the “fame” and “shame” voting system. By focusing on this unique niche, Taltopia™ has distinguished itself from other general social networking sites where aspiring artists typically get lost in the clutter.

More at:www.taltopia.com

Generate is an independent production and management studio creating professional entertainment properties targeted at all media platforms got $6m

What Company Is Offering:
Generate is an independent production and management studio creating professional entertainment properties targeted at Millennials across all media platforms with an emphasis on exploiting opportunities in the digital landscape. Generate is the first production and management studio established by media leaders with a proven track record with young audiences and blue-chip advertisers to create content across multiple platforms embraced by young adults. Management clients include Patton Oswalt, Janeane Garofalo, Fred Savage, Brian Posehn, Al Madrigal, Adam Rifkin, Dave Reynolds, Chatman & Lee, Christian Finnegan, Arj Barker and Jon Reep.

How Much They Got From VCs:
Generate, a next-generation production and management studio, announced that it has secured $6 million in its first round of financing. The influx of capital will help the firm expand its focus of creating professional entertainment properties targeted at Millennials across all media platforms with an emphasis on exploiting opportunities in the digital landscape. The round was co-led by Velocity Interactive Group, the digital-media investment firm headed by former News Corp. and AOL executives, Ross Levinsohn and Jonathan Miller respectively, and MK Capital, led by Mark Terbeek.

About VCs:
Velocity Interactive Group is a leading investment firm that focuses on digital media and communications. The firm brings a unique approach to investing by bringing not just financial capital, but also human capital to its investment companies. Velocity Interactive Group has a global presence in Palo Alto, Los Angeles, New York, India and China. www.velocityig.com


More at:www.generatela.com

Trevena, Inc., a drug discovery company announced the closing of a $24 million Series A financing

What Company Is Offering:
Trevena, Inc., a drug discovery company focused on developing pharmaceutical products targeting G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs).

How Much They Got From VCs:

They announced the closing of a $24 million Series A financing. Alta Partners and Healthcare Ventures led the round as part of an investor syndicate that included New Enterprise Associates and Polaris Venture Partners. The company will use the funds to progress its drug discovery portfolio.

"We are very pleased to have attracted an outstanding group of investors, who share our vision and strategy on building a premier drug discovery organization," said Maxine Gowen, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer. "Pharmaceutical products that target GPCRs represent over 40% of marketed drugs today and these targets provide an attractive starting point for new pharmaceutical agents. Trevena's mission will be to utilize a state of the art approach to discover and develop novel GPCR-targeted medicines for patients."

About VCs:
Alta Partners is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm focused on life sciences investing. Founded in 1996, the firm currently manages $2 billion in committed capital through seven venture fund programs. Alta invests in life sciences companies across the development continuum, from company formation to later-stage opportunities, and has funded more than 120 companies in the sector to date. http://www.altapartners.com

About Healthcare Ventures

For information on Healthcare Ventures, visit http://www.hcven.com

About New Enterprise Associates

New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is a leading venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs create and build major new enterprises that use technology to improve the way we live, work and play. With approximately $8.5 billion in committed capital, NEA's experienced management team has invested in over 550 companies, of which more than 160 have gone public and more than 230 have been acquired.
For more at:http://www.nea.com

GirlsAskGuys is an interactive website dedicated to popular topics on the minds of men and women

What Company Is Offering:
GirlsAskGuys is an interactive website dedicated to popular topics on the minds of men and women looking for advice about the opposite sex. Ask and answer questions, get ranked, be recognized, share stories, send and receive personal messages, create dynamic profiles and so much more.

Have you ever wondered what pick-up lines have actually worked on a girl or why a guy never called when he promised he would? Have you ever liked someone from a distance but didn't know how to talk to them? Have you ever wanted honest advice about dating, romance and love or candid answers about intimate issues or embarrassing situations? GirlsAskGuys is your source for getting answers to all of these questions and more!

How It Works:

Questions and answers are, for the most part, uncensored and posts can be anonymous so you can be completely honest and open. We have thousands of members with unique personalities and lifestyles all eager to offer insight and share their experiences. You can count on getting real answers and advice from people who understand.

Ask anything, share everything it's an interactive, anonymous and virtually uncensored way to learn everything you always wanted to know about the opposite sex!

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

FREEDOMSPEAKS.COM

What Company Says:

We've created a simple, easy way for you to write your government officials - all of them! On our website, you can compose a single letter, and, with a few clicks, send it to every official that represents you. We'll send that letter free of charge to your officials' email boxes and fax machines. How do we accomplish this? In a word, technology. Technology allows us to automate these processes so they cost a minimal amount. We get charged around $0.07 per fax that is sent, but we plan on making that up with advertising (so click on some ads if you'd like to support us!). We also plan on charging the politicians a monthly fee to maintain a custom profile as well.

One of our Mission Statement goals is to promote government transparency.
Issues like global warming and green initiatives, the conflict in Iraq, the tension our country faces with Iran, China and North Korea, our immigration policies, and even the slowdown of our once strong economy all play a role in who we decide will represent us to the world at large. Websites that bring these issues to light are great, and they do bring much needed attention. We feel, though, the only way to truly change how our country works is to communicate with those that represent us. How can we do that, you might ask? Simple - FREEDOMSPEAKS.COM.

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

Fire Eagle is the secure and stylish way to share your location with sites and services online

What Company Is Offering:

Fire Eagle is the secure and stylish way to share your location with sites and services online while giving you unprecedented control over your data and privacy. They're here to make the whole web respond to your location and help you to discover more about the world around you.

Fire Eagle is currently invitation-only. If you'd like to request an invitation code, send them your e-mail.

More athttp://fireeagle.yahoo.net/

Searchles is a highly scaleable "social search" platform that showcases expertise, enables collaboration with peers

What Company Is Offering:
Searchles is a highly scaleable "social search" platform that showcases expertise, enables collaboration with peers and instantly captures it in searchable knowledge indexes. The platform is a hybrid, combining aspects of "social bookmarking" and "social networking" technology with analytical "social search" capability.

How It Works:

Network search allows you to discover content with personalized filtering features that include tags, keywords or a combination of both, as well as the ability to apply these same filters to search all postings, groups, friends, or friends' friends based on your own criteria. By analyzing the associations and patterns between trusted people, sources, tags and content, Searchles is able to deliver more precise, relevant results while suggesting content and people related to your interests.

The proprietary technology behind Searchles is an evolution of the search engine Dumbfind, developed by veteran search technologist and Searchles' founder and CTO Chris Seline. Both brands are wholly-owned by Searchles, Inc., a privately-held company based in Washington, D.C. backed by angel investors.

More at:http://searchles.com/

Move Networks’ open, Web-based protocol solves the problem of delivering high-quality live and on-demand video

What Company Is Offering:
Move Networks’ open, Web-based protocol solves the problem of delivering high-quality live and on-demand video that easily and cost-effectively scales to millions of viewers while fully protecting your video assets.

Move Networks’ delivery protocol creates less cost for you. With most traditional streaming technologies, video content is delivered as one complete file, and sometimes the entire file must be downloaded before the viewer can begin watching it. But Move Networks’ technology divides the video content into smaller files called “streamlets” which are delivered continuously as the viewer watches content. Because streamlet delivery stays just ahead of the video display, you don’t have to pay for content delivered that might not be watched, such as when a viewer exits a video stream early.

How It Works:
Move Networks’ intelligent client enables high-quality video with precise measurement of video consumers’ experiences, geography, and demographics for targeted advertising at higher CPMs. Move Networks’ media platform acts as an operating system for video, allowing easy integration with ad systems, analytics packages, commerce solutions, and other third-party services.

How Is It Different:

Video consumers watch content longer on Move Media Player than on other media players, including the Flash and Microsoft players. For the media company, this means more ad availabilities for much higher revenue.
Media companies are able to place targeted ads at much higher CPMs than are possible with other streaming providers because of the precise measurement and reporting tools.
Operating costs are less than what media companies pay for other streaming solutions.
Full Digital Rights Management protects valuable content from piracy and lets media companies roll out their products around the world on schedules that meet their business requirements.
The smooth, full-screen video image does not buffer or restart.
Episode-length and live videos are as good as cable or satellite television.
Video is available when and where consumers want it—on a computer, a television, or a cell phone—with TiVo-style navigation controls.

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

GyPSii allows users to share their real life experiences in the virtual world using mobile devices and the web

What Company Is Offering:
GyPSii is the consumer application for mobile, web & Internet connected devices.
GyPSii allows users to share their real life experiences in the virtual world using mobile devices and the web.

How It Works:

It is a social networking, search & location based suite of integrated mobile and web applications - for users to share, view & upload pictures, video, text and POI (points of interest) with a Geo-location - place and track each other in their select communities. Find people and places, points of interest, map and navigate to them all.

A record of a Life History of Events in Full Context (Video & audio clips, location(s), photos, text, shared experiences & people, etc.)

A seamless mobile & web experience built on the convergence of locations based services, social networking, mobile & web 2.0 technologies, agnostic access across devices and networks.

Recent Updates:

They launched an iPhone-friendly version of their application. The addition of the iPhone compatibility is on top of their existing offers already for Nokia’s N-Series devices and some of the RIM-produced BlackBerries.

The service is only available to the Apple-produced smartphone through a visiting to the company’s site (for now). They do plan to release a native application once the iPhone Software Developers Kit (SDK) is released. (They will still also allow access via the website for those who prefer that interface.)


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

Miro is a free application that turns your computer into an internet TV video player

What Company Is Offering:
Miro is a free application that turns your computer into an internet TV video player. You can download it here for Windows, Mac, or Linux.

How It Works:

Clicking on the download link saves a .exe file to your desktop. Double click on that to run the installer.

Mac: clicking on the download link saves a .dmg (disk image) to your desktop. Double click on that to open it (if it doesn't open automatically). Drag the Miro icon into your applications folder and wait for it to copy over, then open the applications folder and double-click the Miro icon.

Linux: See LinuxNotes for operating-system specific instructions. Build instructions in the tarball are at tv/platform/gtk-x11/README.

If you're upgrading Miro, just 'replace' your existing version and your Channel subscriptions and video collections will remain. Miro won't launch.

Windows: make sure you meet the system requirements of Windows XP, 128MB of RAM.

Mac: Mac OS X 10.3 or higher and also QuickTime version 7, which is a software auto-update on Macs (run the second option under your Apple icon). This is most likely the cause. QuickTime 7 is also available .

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