Wednesday, March 19, 2008

AirPlay enables enthusiasts to actively participate in their favorite programming through real-time competition and community

What Company Is Offering:
AirPlay delivers a compelling multiplayer game experience based on televison's most popular programs. AirPlay brings wireless competition and community to the living room for the first time. For the television industry, AirPlay enhances the viewing experience, increasing audience engagement with live television programming and advertising.Joining 200 million cell phones with 110 million TV households.

How It Works:

AirPlay produces more than 100 games a week across a variety of programs. These AirPlayTV events are leading the transformation of television entertainment from passive to active by letting viewers play and communicate with friends during their favorite programming.AirPlay enables enthusiasts to actively participate in their favorite programming through real-time competition and community. For its wireless and television industry partners, AirPlay offers a proprietary platform and service infrastructure which enables incremental revenue streams without partner capital investment. Led by a dynamic team of experienced technology executives, AirPlay is backed by QUALCOMM, Motorola, JK&B Capital, ONSET Ventures and Redpoint Ventures.

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

ReadTheWords.com is a free, web based service that will speak your text as you do

What Company Is Offering;
ReadTheWords.com is a free, web based service that assists people with written material. They do this by using TTS Technology, or Text To Speech Technology. Users of our service can generate a clear sounding audio file from almost any written material. They generate a voice that reads the words out loud, that you request them to read.

How It Works:

They provide users various ways to let them know what to read. You can always write text, or copy text from another file, and paste it into their text box. They also have a file upload section, where you can upload any Microsoft office document, Adobe PDF, txt, and HTML document. You can also tell them a website address, or RSS feed url, and they can read that as well.They have 15 voices, and you can select any reader you would like. There is a dropdown list with samples of each reader’s voice. You can hear a sample before you create your reading.

More at:http://readthewords.com/

Prime Time Rewind, they want to help you quickly find the latest episode of a Prime Time TV show you like

What Company Is Offering:
Prime Time Rewind, they want to help you quickly find the latest episode of a Prime Time TV show you like.

Prime Time Rewind also allows you to present you personalized Facet. It can consist of existing prime time TV shows, Internet only shows or any RSS feed of videos you would like to include.
Prime Time TV has traditionally been defined as the shows between 8-11PM.They would like to put you 'one-click away from watching your show.

At this point, Prime Time Rewind is not responsible for the viewing experience of the actual show, and is presenting it in an identical way to the way that the network has made the show available.

How It Works:
The Cube allows you to rotate it between the Networks (when rotating horizontally) and categories (Comedy, Drama, Reality) when rotating vertically. You can control the cube by using the mouse or the arrows on your keyboard. Once you click on a show - the control panel will open and the latest available episode of the show will start playing.You are able to rate a show, get additional information about a show, add comments or share with friends.Prime Time Rewind does not have its own player and does not interfere with the way the network wishes to present its contents. We play the episode in the same player with the same experience, ads that the original network wishes for it to be viewed.

More at:http://www.primetimerewind.tv/

Taltopia.com---Claim Your Fame

What Company Is Offering:
They're an entertainment community for up and coming talent and their fans. The goal of this talent network is to help aspiring artists get famous, build industry contacts, and find paying gigs.

How It Works:

If you upload a video, audio, or picture, you are considered a talent. If you don't, you are a fan...it's that simple.

Browse through the site and vote on media you find. Each "fame" vote will increase the score by 1, whereas a "shame" vote will decrease it by 1.

Help talent claim their fame by using our unique promotion tools. Be sure to donate Famebucks to talent you really admire.

Industry professionals and fans can use Taltopia to discover underground talent. Find new band members, models for a shoot, or that actor for your next film...all on Taltopia.com!

The Wall of Fame is a section of their website dedicated to talent who want to gain more exposure by bidding on spots to promote their media. There are a total of 23 available spots on the Wall of Fame. The top spot is featured on our front page, giving further attention to the highest bidding talent.

The amount you pay to be on the Wall of Fame is up to you! The more you bid, the higher your ranking. Bids can be placed for any available $.25 increment. Its that simple.

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

Cofoundr is a private community for entrepreneurs

What Company Is Offering:

Cofoundr is a private community for entrepreneurs -- programmers, designers, investors, and other individuals deeply involved with starting new ventures. Members use the site to find co-founders, build teams, and get advice.

Membership requires having a valid university or work email address.
To join, you can register here during the public beta.

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

SendMe, Inc. turns any mobile phone into a portable playground has secured $15 million

What Company Is Offering:
SendMe, Inc. turns any mobile phone into a portable playground. As the premier mobile media company, SendMe's family of destination sites lets you take the fun from the Web to your mobile phone with the broadest and best content, entertainment and community out there. SendMe's three properties -- SendMeMobile.com, SoLow.com and mbuzzy.com -- deliver content from today's pop culture sensations, niche independent creations, stuff from our own community, and one-of-a-kind mobile games that will keep you coming back for more. So whether you're looking for new ways to show your personal style, eager for some mobile gaming excitement, or trying to stay connected to the people and things you love most, SendMe brings it all to you -- how you want it, when you want it. Founded in 2006 by three veteran online and mobile entrepreneurs.

How Much They Got From VCs:

SendMe Mobile , the premier mobile media company, has secured $15 million in Series C growth capital financing. Led by new investor GrandBanks Capital, the Series C round also includes existing investors True Ventures and Spark Capital. SendMe will use the financing to extend market share for each of its three core brands, SendMeMobile.com, SoLow.com and mBuzzy.com. SendMe's growth strategy will also focus on adding new premium and community-generated content, services, and applications to each brand; launching new brands to support its connected portfolio strategy; and accelerating opportunities for other major acquisitions.

"With an exploding market opportunity for off-deck services in the US, SendMe has been able to navigate the marketplace effectively to offer the most innovative mobile media platform available today," said Ryan Moore, general partner at GrandBanks Capital and new SendMe board member. "SendMe's three destination sites combine to fundamentally change the way consumers discover and share content they love the most, and offer a new and compelling way for major media companies to connect with their target audiences."

More at:www.SendMeMobile.com

Portico Learning Solutions , offers a variety of Internet-based learning systems for corporate, academic and government clients got $1 million fund

What Company Is Offering:
Portico Learning Solutions , offers a variety of Internet-based learning systems for corporate, academic and government clients. Portico's products and services include CareerMap(tm), a basic Learning Management System (LMS) and an advanced Talent Management System (TMS); custom courseware development; and more than 2,000 off-the-shelf training courses. The company currently provides online e-Learning to more than 100,000 users at mid-sized companies and organizations worldwide.

How Much They Got From VCs:


Advantage Capital Partners, Enhanced Capital Partners, Louisiana Fund I and the Louisiana Technology Fund announced participation in a $1 million funding round for Baton Rouge-based Portico Learning Solutions, a premier provider of custom e-Learning solutions. The company will use the funds to fulfill its working capital needs.

"The e-Learning market is a growing industry and we're confident that Portico will continue to gain more traction in the marketplace with this latest round of funding," said Lee Pryor, CEO of Portico Learning Solutions.

About VCs:
Advantage Capital Partners is a leading venture capital and small business finance firm focused on early stage companies and other investments supporting state and local economic development. With offices in New Orleans, St. Louis, Austin and other U.S. cities, Advantage has raised more than $950 million in institutional capital since 1992 and invested in companies located in geographic areas underserved by traditional venture capital. http://www.advantagecap.com


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

Pivot---Revenue-generation tools, has secured $3 million in financing

What Company Is Offering:

Pivot is an inter-enterprise network that leverages Web 2.0 communication and collaboration capabilities to create revenue-generation tools for trading-related workflows within the capital markets arena. The Pivot network helps transform conversations into ideas and ideas into transactions by integrating information, relationships and transactions into a single pivot point, giving customers the best information to base decisions. Based in New York City, Pivot is backed by Eze Castle Integration and leading venture capital firms Softbank Capital, Draper Fisher Jurveston Gotham Ventures and Hudson Ventures.

How Much They Got From VCs:


Pivot Inc., a real-time enterprise collaboration network serving the capital markets, has secured $3 million in financing from MMV Financial, Inc. Pivot will use the funds to maintain its steady growth rate while continuing to develop core business operations, Pivot 360 and partner integration.

Pivot creates revenue-generation tools for participants in trading-related workflows. Pivot's full suite of real-time collaboration applications tighten processes, expand collaboration opportunities and streamline information management. Pivot provides the capital markets with an advanced platform to facilitate expanded trading capabilities, reduced costs and improved investment performance.

About VCs:
MMV Financial is a Toronto-based specialty finance company providing creative debt solutions directly to technology and life sciences companies across North America. MMV is backed by top U.S. and Canadian private equity firms and financial institutions including CCP Equity Partners, Caisse de d鼯SPAN>p?PAN>t et placement du Qu鼯SPAN>bec, HSBC, NewStar Financial Inc., and Wells Fargo Company. For more information please visit www.mmvf.com.

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

Managment Planning Tool

What Company Is Offering:
Planning Center Online will revolutionize the way you plan your worship services with its elegant approach that has been welcomed by staff and volunteers alike.

How It Works:
Add each of your service elements to your plan with the ability to add notes in categories you create. Upload files to individual items or to your plan in general to allow users with the appropriate permissions to access them from anywhere.

Easily click and drag each plan element to a new position in your plan. If you have chosen to display the estimated time each item is scheduled to occur, these times will automatically update when you reorder your plan based on the length of each item.
Planning Center's clean, graphical interface makes it intuitive for you to edit your plans, and for your users to view them.

Create your own categories for unlimited flexibility in organizing your service flows and scheduling and assigning your people to your plans. Add multiple plan times and rehearsal times and print customized reports to have hard copies on hand.

Add email addresses, phone numbers, physical addresses and even a picture to each person's account. Since Planning Center is online, your people can update their own information, and you can retrieve their contact information even when you are not at your own computer.

Assign your people to properties that you create. Create one property for ushers and another for greeters and then simply check the appropriate box in each person's profile. Then click on your property to see all people assigned to it. Use custom properties to simplify scheduling your people to positions in your plan. Tell Planning Center you need to schedule 5 greeters to your plan, and then click "5 people needed" in the greeters position to see a list of all your greeters with the date they last served and any potential conflicts.

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

NoFuss Reviews is a site dedicated to supplying honest reviews quickly, with no fuss and no hassle

What Company Is Offering:

NoFuss Reviews is a site dedicated to supplying honest reviews quickly, with no fuss and no hassle.

How It Works:

Simply type the complete or part of the game name and select the platform.Fuss Reviews aims to give you an idea of how good (or bad) a game is quickly, without hassle or waiting around.Games are rated by a small team of game fanatics, and an average score is calculated. Many metrics are used to create a fair score.The links are generated automatically, if the game is not found you may only be able to buy it with your consoles interface e.g. PSN, Virtual Console etc...This link takes you to the international site, when you place an order it will ask for your country, from then on in all prices will be in your country's currency.

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

FMDR --- Enhances the sharing and collaborative development of educational resources among family medicine educators

What Company is Offering:
The Family Medicine Digital Resources Library contains user-posted conference presentations and handouts, and shared curricular materials such as PowerPoint lectures, learning modules, syllabi, digital images, video and audio recordings, recommended Web sites and more. The mission of FMDRL is to support and enhance the sharing and collaborative development of educational resources among family medicine educators through a digital library that will include resources for all levels of family medicine education.

How It Works:

There is no charge to post or view materials in FMDRL. You find the uploading of conference materials and resources to be quite simple: just click on the “upload” tab, and you’ll be asked to register or log in, then follow quick, step-by-step instructions. Supports and enhances the sharing and collaborative development of educational resources among family medicine educators.


More at:http://fmdrl.org/

ProZ.com enables companies and organizations to rapidly search, find, qualify, evaluate and interact with the translators, interpreters and linguists

What Company Is Offering:

ProZ.com, the world's leading enabling and sourcing platform for language professionals. ProZ.com's unique online workplace provides tools and opportunities for its members to network, collaborate on projects and terms, expand their businesses, do better work and have more fun.

How It Works:
ProZ.com enables companies and organizations to rapidly search, find, qualify, evaluate and interact with the translators, interpreters and linguists they need.ProZ.com delivers a comprehensive network of essential services, resources and experiences that enhance the lives of its members.ProZ.com members enjoy considerable success as they collaborate, expand their businesses and have more fun.

Unique Features:

Outsource and accept translation and interpreting assignments.
Collaborate on terms with proprietary KudoZ software.
Evaluate clients with the member-built Blue Board.
Meet face-face at local conferences and Powwows.

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

Stafftool

What Company Is Offering:
Stafftool's innovative interface allows information to be accessed and displayed anywhere on the site.
stafftool is the easiest way for churches and non-profits to manage their people, events, and communications.

How It Works:

Keep track of everything that's going on - meetings, recurring events, birthdays - on a calendar or easy to scan list view.
Organize your people into whatever makes sense for your groupings. Easily assign group leaders, events and group communication.
Easily send messages to any groups within your organization to keep them in the know. Also, attach files to messages to give them access to newsletters, music files, spreadsheets, whatever.

Stafftool is built on top of an open and extensible REST api, which means your data is available for many other applications, such as the iPhone version, and remains easy to export at any time.

More at:http://stafftool.com/

Wordclay's mission is to supply a DIY self-publishing tool for writers that is both innovative and accessible

What Company Is Offering:
Wordclay's mission is to supply a DIY self-publishing tool for writers that is both innovative and accessible. Their user-friendly book publishing service will guide you step-by-step through the process of building your trade-quality book.


How It Works:
Quick and easy steps built into Wordclay's DIY publishing wizard walk you through the key elements of a book. Very affordable (it can't get more affordable than free), their publishing service provides you with a plethora of publishing options, and you can get additional publishing, distribution and marketing services to help you be successful.

They offer as many or as few extras as you desire. Their professional, readily-available and reliable staff of editors, designers, layout specialists and world-wide distributors is standing-by. Imagine the possibilities!

If you have ever dreamed of publishing your own book, need a fun way to present family photos or recipes, or just want to experience the exciting world of writing and DIY book publishing, we have the perfect quick-and-easy solution. So what are you waiting for?

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

Foretal is a destination where people predict the future

What Company Is Offering:
Foretal is a destination where people predict the future.

Their members submit Predictions to Foretal and, provided they are clear and legal, they post them on the site. Members also vote on these Predictions for free or for cash. There are also cash prize competitions for doing good stuff.


How It Works:
To get started, vote on the Predictions you see. Each time you do, you earn a free credit. When you register, these credits are saved. With five credits you can propose a free Prediction of your own. As you get into the site, you might want to move on to predicting for cash, but there's no obligation. There's a great deal of depth to the site even on the free side.They monitor all the predictions on this site constantly. If an event happens which makes a prediction turn out to be true, or not true, they 'declare an outcome'. At this point, there are winners and losers depending on how you have voted.

With cash votes on cash predictions, all those who put cash votes on the losing side get them distributed to the winning side – and, importantly, the predictor gets a cut of 3% on these cash votes, the same as Foretal.


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

Ucash.in --Turn Links Into Cash

What Company is Offering:
Ucash.in provides the ability to combine three important aspects, social bookmarking, a url service that converts long url links into shorter url links, and a service that turns your existing links and new links into cash!
Great for bloggers, forum users, webmasters, business users and more. Ucash.in makes it easy and simple to get paid for posting and sharing links.

How It Works:
When your Ucash links are clicked on, you make revenue from a redirect that can be an interstitial or top frame type advertisement. The current Revenue Sharing Rate (RSR) is $1 US for every 4000 top banner ad impressions, and $1 US for every 2000 intermission ad impressions .Use Ucash.in as a personal bookmarking service to save your favorite links online in one place. Bookmark links to your favorite website, news articles, music, classifieds, auctions or friends and family social networking profiles. The possibilities are endless, just use your imagination and link the whole internet with Ucash!.
A longer url will often break when added to pre-formatted forms such as comments and emails. This often becomes a hindrance to effectively sharing information.

More at:http://ucash.in/