Thursday, April 3, 2008

AliveRealEstate ---Interactive Live Chat For Realestate

What Company Is Offering:
AliveRealEstate is combining live chat technology with existing advertising campaigns (pay per click, banner ads, video) on your web site to provide an interactive customer experience like never before. In other words, getting potential customers to buy from your web site with the aid of interactive live chat between them and your salespeople.

How It Works:

Since there are no servers or software to install, all you have to do is to add a piece of HTML code to your web site, which displays a 'Chat Now!' button and also tracks your visitors. Log into the Operator Console (from our web site or your desktop) and you are ready to chat. Too busy? You can even sit back and let them do your sales and hand deliver you the leads!
Live Chat Software packages start at $29.95 USD per month, no contracts, cancel any time. They also offer a 14-day Free Trial which does not require a credit card. And if that is not enough, they provide a 60-day money back guarantee that their products will bring you the ROI you've been looking for.

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

Small Business Mavericks is a Web marketing company, specializing in marketing-driven website

What Company Is Offering:
Small Business Mavericks is a Web marketing company, specializing in marketing-driven website design and promotion for small and medium-sized business owners. The company creates sales-oriented websites for its clients and then promotes those sites online so that they rank highly with Google and can be found online in the search engine results.

As part of its promotion practice, Small Business Mavericks offers expert services including e-mail marketing, online reputation management, pay-per-click, search-engine-optimization, blogging, article marketing, and social media marketing.

Headquartered in Wayzata, Minnesota, Small Business Mavericks is the leader in teaching small business owners and managers how to market their businesses on the Internet, think creatively to find new local customers and increase sales.

Recent Updates:

Small Business Mavericks, a division of Melberg Marketing, announced a major new product release, The Business Owners Guidebook, which tells business owners what they need to do to ensure that their sites rank highly with Google, speak to their intended audience, increase site traffic, and convert visitors into customers.

The Business Owners Guidebook to Website Design and Promotion is available free at freewebguidebook.com, and includes an offer for a free “Web site checkup.”

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

Matchdragon launches another magic index: mRank

About:
Matchdragon,its auto-match, the “magic number” identifying how well each job seeker matches a certain job offer, calculated by artificial intelligence algorithms. Today, Matchdragon launches another magic index: mRank.

According to Stefano N. Roncari (CEO of Eggsist Ltd – http://www.eggsist.com), being the first job platform in the world to provide intelligent suggestions on “ideal jobs/candidates” rather than letting users perform a manual search, Matchdragon owes its success to the fact that it saves over 80% of the time that employers and job seekers normally spend looking for the right staff or job in China. The launch of mRank has the same purpose: providing employers with another important index meant to save their time by considering only the *good* resumes.

As Stefano N. Roncari explains, “since a rather vague job description would result in a big number of matching resumes, mRank comes to the aid of our auto-match rate. Combined together, the two indexes basically tell how good every resume’ is - not only in terms of *relative match*, but also in terms of *absolute relevancy*. mRank is calculated by our intelligent engine based on meaning analysis, and provides a significant help in discriminating among a list of resumes that are similarly matching a certain job description”.

Although the precise mRank algorithms are secret, the general criteria on which the index is based have been disclosed on the website (http://www.matchdragon.com/china-jobs/job-match-software.php). They include resumes’ accuracy and relevancy, resumes’ update history, and user behavior (in order to discourage spam).

More at:
Stefano Roncari
+86 13651064740
s.roncari@eggsist.com
www.eggsist.com

Machinima.com is the premiere online entertainment network showing original videos from your favorite video games

What Company Is Offering:

Machinima.com is the premiere online entertainment network showing original videos from your favorite video games. Watch thousands of trailers, gameplay, montages, music videos and original machinima series and movies created in World of Warcraft, Halo, Sims 2, GTA, Battlefield, Counterstrike and many more games.


How It Works:

Access all of these videos in their entertainment game channels as well as learn how to make your own machinima videos by collaborating with others via their forums and accessing great articles and tutorials in their Machinima 101 channel.

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

Kawink---The Social Directory

What Company Is Offering:
Their mission is to create a community based on like images and offer a comparisons visually based on their users input.

How It Works:

Create- They encourage all of their users to be creative and "create" kawinks that are unique and enhance our community's enviorment.

Share- As users create kawinks and share them with others this will get the ball rolling and introduce more users to our site.

Discover- The more kawinks are created the more users will discover new products and services that come with relevant feedback on them.

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

Best Entrepreneurial Programs

All-inclusive’ entrepreneurship programs can get you connected - and your business going.

Entrepreneur.com:
If 2 minds are better than one, imagine the power entrepreneurial programs can harness with the brilliance of multiple students from various colleges. Not only do students benefit from sharing ideas, but they’re also no longer limited to the resources of their own campuses.

The Harold Grinspoon Charitable Foundation’s Entrepreneurship Initiative is such a program, spanning 12 colleges in Massachusetts, including Hampshire College, Holyoke Community College, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Started in 2003, the program teaches college students about entrepreneurship through experiential and academic opportunities and encourages them to start businesses while still in school. ‘[Faculty] advisors attend regular meetings to share syllabuses and ideas, talk about the different opportunities their entrepreneurship clubs and organizations are offering to students, and make these opportunities available to all the students in the area,’ says Brenda Wishart, director of the HGCF Entrepreneurship Initiative.

Education and mentoring are only part of the program, which also awards about $70,000 in Entrepreneurial Spirit Awards to students annually to help them fund their businesses. Winning the award in 2006 helped brothers Andrew and Alex Cook, 19 and 21, respectively, build Rentabilities.com, an application service provider for tool and equipment rental companies.

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Striding Out aims to be a sustainable service for young entrepreneurs

What Company Is Offering:
Striding Out Community Interest Company, was set up with the intention to nurture and support young entrepreneurship. Young people often face discrimination when starting out in business, and they often lack the experience and confidence in their abilities, despite having great ideas. They wanted to help them stride out on their journey, by providing a range of tailored support that was youthful, exciting and dynamic – and very unlike sitting in the classroom.

Their approach is to provide you with the right information, support and resources throughout the different stages of your business journey. Whether you are exploring an idea, planning a business, have just launched a business, or you are planning to grow my business.


How It Works:
Creating a community network of young entrepreneurs, to mobilise peer to peer action-learning and the generation of business relationships.

Facilitating connections between young entrepreneurs and resources to support the development of their business and open doors to new business opportunities.

Providing motivational coaching, training and support to harness and grow entrepreneurial qualities in young people, to generate positive action from start-up through to growth stage.

Raising awareness about the best way to run a business, with a positive impact on the environment, economy and community to create the next generation of sustainable entrepreneurs.

They aim to create a unique energy for new members to thrive on and they hope that by being a member of the community the entrepreneur will develop and show the true characteristics.........risk taking, inspired, responsible, enthusiastic, determined, considerate, and motivated!Striding Out aims to be a sustainable service for young entrepreneurs.

More at:http://www.stridingout.co.uk/

Redux Inc online people discovery startup, has raised $6.5 million in Series B funding

What Company is Offering:
Redux addresses a basic human need: to meet and connect with people. Where others focus on building social graphs around fleeting interactions, Redux builds meaningful new connections between people using a unique set of algorithms based on user actions and personality preferences. The ability to chat on every page, exchange media, and filter through events of common interest makes Redux a service with lasting interaction for millions of people.

Redux fills in the void between dating sites and social networks, helping young professionals get settled in new communities, find people with similar likes, and identify activities that appeal to their interests. In some ways, it is an inverse social network, using online tools to help young people build new relationships in the real world, vs. the usual model that asks users to bring real world relationships online. The company has a compelling model for future growth and distribution and a wide-open opportunity in this market.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Redux Inc., a Berkeley, Calif.-based online people discovery startup, has raised $6.5 million in Series B funding, according to a regulatory filing. Institutional backers include Alsop Louie Partners and Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

The company was co-founded by Darian Shirazi and David McIntosh, who previously worked together to create mobile photo sharing site Fotodunk (bought by iLike).

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

Attributor is the world’s first web-wide content monitoring and analysis platform has raised $12 million

What Company Is Offering:
Attributor is the world’s first web-wide content monitoring and analysis platform that empowers all kinds of publishers to track their content online, understand how it is being used and profit from its distribution.


How It Works:
With Attributor, publishers can now program when, how and where their content is presented across the web and social networks. Advanced fingerprinting algorithms, a large scale crawling infrastructure and detailed contextual analysis provide publishers with web-wide visibility of their articles, images or videos. Using the Attributor platform, customers can monitor licensed uses, identify new sales leads and revenue-sharing opportunities, and derive more links and better search engine placement.

First, Attributor provides critical business intelligence on how and where content is distributed across the Internet . Next, they’ll provide you with context about each site copying your content. Third, by allowing you to set rules of use for your content, Attributor enables you to tap into the promotional and commercial value of your content after it leaves your site, increasing the traffic your site receives.
Lastly, as an independent and objective source for this information, Attributor will make your rules easily available to content hosts, search engines and ad networks, to enable them to make better decisions about how to serve, index and monetize your content.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Attributor, a Redwood City, Calif.-based provider of online content licensing technology, has raised $12 million in Series C funding. Jafco Ventures and Turner Broadcasting were joined by return backers Sigma Partners, Amicus Capital, Draper Richards, First Round Capital and Selby Venture Partners. It had previously raised $10 million.

More at:www.attributor.com

Loomia, a leading provider of personal recommendations and the SeenThis social recommendations application has closed $5 million in Series A

What Company Is Offering:
Loomia’s social convergence, web personalization and recommendations platform empowers consumer discovery of content and products related to their individual interests. Loomia’s technologies encompass multiple dimensions of relevance, including textual, contextual, personal and social. Its new SeenThis application uniquely bridges established social networking sites with media sites, allowing consumers to see at-a-glance what items are popular with their social circles, wherever they go -- right on their favorite content sites, as well as within their social networks. Loomia’s SaaS-based platform powers more than 50 media publishers.

How Much They Got From VCs:
Loomia, a leading provider of personal recommendations and the SeenThis social recommendations application, announced that it has closed $5 million in Series A funding. The round was led by venture capital firm, Asset Management Company, and two strategic investors: Peacock Equity, the joint venture between GE and NBC Universal, and Telefónica Capital S.A.U. The capital will be used to accelerate Loomia's rapid growth, including continuing the build-out of its world-class recommendations platform and expanding its sales and marketing efforts in the U.S. and internationally.

About VCs:
1.
Asset Management Company is one of Silicon Valley's oldest venture capital firms. Established in 1965 by Pitch Johnson, AMC has been a leading early-stage venture investor for over 4 decades, investing in more than 240 early-stage companies, with numerous successes in both life sciences and information technology. More information about AMC can be found at www.assetman.com.

2.Peacock Equity is a $250 million global capital fund co-founded by GE Commercial Finance’s Media, Communications & Entertainment business and NBC Universal. Introduced in April 2007, the joint venture focuses on companies developing technologies, platforms or business models that are a strategic fit to NBC Universal and have high growth potential. Peacock Equity’s capital investments, which include advertising services, digital content and communities, wireless and international platforms, range from $3 to $25 million each. Previous Peacock Equity investments have been made in Adify, Healthline, IGA Worldwide, 4INFO and Trion. www.PeacockEquity.com

3.Telefónica Capital is a finance company and subsidiary of Telefónica S.A. (www.telefonica.es), one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world. Telefónica’s activities are centered mainly on the fixed and mobile telephony businesses with broadband as the key tool for the development of both.



More at:www.loomia.com

Sampa lets you create a central place on the web where all your life events can be seen by your family and friends

What Company Is Offering:
Sampa lets you create a central place on the web where all your life events can be seen by your family and friends. Your important photos and stories and videos will not be spread out all over the Internet or hiding in your sister-in-law's e-mail. With Sampa, it's all in one place -- like a shared family history.

How It Works:

With Sampa, all updates to your site automatically send an e-mail to your friends and family. And they don't need to remember a password or login -- the secure e-mail link takes them directly to the new post instantly!

Sampa is easy so you can focus on your family, not confusing or challenging technology.
Sampa sites are private by default, yet users do not need to remember an arcane password or even know the web address. A Sampa site e-mails invited friends and family with each new story or set of photos uploaded. Those updates by e-mail contain a personalized key for each reader to enter the site just by clicking on the link in the e-mail. And patent-pending security prevents the key from working if it is forwarded to someone else.

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

P2PViNE is to present the newest stories in a timely and organized manner, without having to sift across categories

What Company Is Offering:

P2PViNE is to present the newest stories in a timely and organized manner, without having to sift across categories that aren’t specific to P2P.

How It Works:

P2PViNE, is a social web application that allows members to submit an article that will be reviewed by all and will be promoted, based on popularity, to the main page Published Section of the website. When a user first submits a news article it will be placed in the “unpublished” area of P2PViNE until it gains sufficient votes to be promoted to the main page.

Unique Features:

Submit Stories, Personal Rss Feeds For All Members Profiles, Individual Category RSS Feeds, Save Your Favorite Links For Easy Permanent Future Reference, Comment and Discuss Submitted Content.

More at:http://p2pvine.com/

YN is a social networking site for people under the age of 27 who like to connect based on deeper interests and want to get engaged within a cause

About Company:
YN is a social networking site for people under the age of 27 who like to connect based on deeper interests than Paris Hilton's wardrobe and want to get engaged within a cause. Find a cause, search for friends, and get involved. Want to free Tibet? Passionate about human rights?

YouthNoise's is to inspire and empower young people everywhere to catapult their passion and idealism into movements to sustain the planet.


One day millions of young people around the globe will work together through the YouthNoise platform and beyond it to make their communities and the world a better place for their generation and generations to come.

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

Forvo is an online pronouncing dictionary

What Company Is Offering:
Forvo is the place where you´ll find words pronounced in their original languages. Ever wondered how a word is pronounced? Ask for that word or name, and another user will pronounce it for you. You can also help others recording your pronunciations in your own language.


How It Works:

Forvo is an online pronouncing dictionary. They want to have all the words that exist in the world pronounced and recorded, including names. You can do it anonymously or with your username. If you add words with your username you will get more features at forvo.com, like tracking your words or notifications.
Forvo is not for large audio files or documents. It just have audio files of 2.5 seconds. Enough for every word.

More at:http://forvo.com/

Yocial, Your Social and Professional Networking Space

What Company Is Offering:
Yocial, Your Social and Professional space. Yocial is an open and free to use networking service. They at Yocial aim at providing a user friendly, feature rich and secure networking environment.

Sign up for a free account today and stay connected with your Friends, Family, Classmates, Colleagues and Dating interests and discover more about them, which in turn will strengthen your relationships. Have fun with old friends and make new ones, while sharing pictures, messages and much more.

How It Works:
To Sign Up, simply fill in your account information and submit the registration form. You will then be sent an authentication email to verify your email address. After you verify your email account by clicking on the link provided in that email, your new account will immediately become active for you to use. You can then go on with creating your profile and invite your friends to yocial.

To quickly search for a contact you can either enter their name or email address in the search box located in the header. For a user to be displayed in the search results, at least their basic profile must be available to the public.

You can see a contact’s contacts by any of the following ways (only if your contact has shared them with you):
By clicking on the number of contacts on the right of his/her name in contacts section on the Profile page.

By clicking on the number of contacts on the right of his/her name on the Contacts page.

Anybody with a valid email account who is 13 years or more of age can join for free. But it’s necessary to follow our terms of use to keep your account active.

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