Saturday, April 5, 2008

Linqia is the world"s first online community and group aggregator and meta search engine

What Company Is Offering:
Linqia is the world"s first online community and group aggregator and meta search engine.

It has the largest directory of online communities and groups worldwide. Along with ratings and recommendations by Linqia users, the directory features the detailed profiles of these online communities and groups. This makes it easier for you to choose the online community or group you want to join. If you want to upload a group, providing a detailed group profile on Linqia will make it just as easy for people to join it.

How It Works:

On Linqia, you can search and find online communities and groups that is a perfect fit for you.You can search for communities and groups of your specific interest. You can browse groups of different categories in the directory. As you browse, you can read the detailed profiles of the online communities and groups listed in these categories. These detailed community and group profile also contains ratings and recommendations by other Linqia users. From these, you can find people who share your interests and join their online communities and groups.

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

Jobfox---Track who opens your resume and create your own personal web page to showcase your career skills and experience

What Company Is Offering:
Jobfox provides you with trackable version of resume to alert you when employers view your resume. Jobfox also gives job seekers the ability to create and personalize a public My Jobfox Page (www.Jobfox.com/people/YourName) containing information about your desired work environment, skills and experience, work samples and more! In addition, you can create a job matching profile on Jobfox to instantly match, score and rank the best jobs for your unique skills. Jobfox provides multiple feedback options online, via email and text message so you’ll know when employers are viewing your resume, your Jobfox Page and your skills profile.

How It Works:
From your tracking center, click ‘Edit My Jobfox Page’ to begin customizing your personal page. You may wish to provide Your Jobfox Page link to employers, friends, and colleagues. Your Jobfox Page link is included in the footer of your track-able resume, and you will be able to turn your page on or off at any time.

When you upload your resume to Jobfox, they immediately provide a trackable version that you can download from the Tracking Center. When employers view this version, you’ll get a text message alert on your mobile device, and Jobfox will record this viewing in your Tracking Center. Jobfox tracks views of your resume regardless of whether it’s been viewed by an employer on Jobfox, any other job site, or via email directly from you to an employer. Although Jobfox doesn’t charge you for these services, be sure to check your mobile device service agreement for text messaging charges.


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

With Sonopia, anyone can create and start marketing a mobile service in 15 minutes or less

What Company Is Offering:
Sonopia's mission is to provide every organization, group or club with the opportunity to create branded mobile service and build a unique mobile and web community of supporters and members.

How It Works:
With Sonopia, anyone can create and start marketing a mobile service in 15 minutes or less.At Sonopia, they have developed a set of groundbreaking technologies, online services and marketing tools that enable dramatically increased segmentation of, and communication with, the mobile subscriber market. They offer fully hosted, turnkey mobile service to large, medium-sized and small brands, affinity organizations, even to persons with a seed of an idea for a mobile service they want to market to consumers using Sonopia's tools. This approach enables an unprecedented, thinly slivered micro-separation of the mobile phone subscriber market.

Leading brands, charities, environmental organizations and entertainment groups are working with Sonopia to create their branded mobile phone services. These services are marketed with Sonopia's help to an increasingly discerning consumer, who demands relevant services, the right price and great customer service. They call each of these mobile services a "Sonopia" and expect there to be thousands of Sonopias within a few years.

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

Dotherightthing is to recognize companies for all the little things (and big things) that add up to make a positive impact on our lives

What Company Is Offering:
dotherightthing is a place online where you can get unfiltered information about the impacts of companies on people and the world and make it worth their while to "do the right thing." Dotherightthing is to recognize companies for all the little things (and big things) that add up to make a positive impact on our lives. It is an impact-maximizing, for-profit company, aiming to provide valuable services, without compromising its core mission to help drive more sales, talented employees, and investments in companies that do the right thing. While we could have founded a non-profit to host dotherightthing.com, we strongly believe that companies don’t need to become non-profits to do the right thing.


How It Works:
Consumers can learn about which companies will spend their hard-earned dollars in ways that make the world better.
Investors can learn about which companies focus on doing the right thing today so that they'll be, or continue to be leaders in their markets tomorrow.
Employees can learn about which companies share their passion for wanting to create more than just financial returns, and truly care about their well-being.

More at:http://dotherightthing.com/

shouldi is an instant social advice service that lets you quickly and easily give and get advice using your phone, instant messaging, the web, or e-ml

What Company Is Offering:
shouldi is an instant social advice service that lets you quickly and easily give and get advice using your phone, instant messaging, the web, or e-mail. You can ask your friends or the whole world.

How It Works:

shouldi helps people help each other with instant advice for life’s big or not-so-big decisions by bringing the right people together, at the right time, using the right communications. Whether it’s shopping, dining, dating, dressing, sports, entertainment, or any other topic, shouldi can help you get advice. If you can imagine it, there are people out there with the interests and experiences to help.

shouldi:Reaches out to the right people that can help with your advice request. These people could be your friends, or trusted advisors who have helped others with similar requests.
Communicates with users the way they prefer, including mobile phone messaging, instant messaging, e-mail, and the web.
Adds up everyone’s advice and gets a summary to you when you need it. You don’t have to sort through lots of responses and try to figure out the majority’s opinion yourself. And you’ll get an answer back in five minutes if that’s when you need it.

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

Twingly is a spam-free blog search engine

What Company Is Offering:
Twingly is a spam-free blog search engine. They use this search engine as the basis for developing kick-ass products. Right now, the two most popular are Twingly Blogstream - a widget connecting traditional media to the Blogosphere, and Twingly Screensaver - a visual representation of the real-time state of the blogosphere.



How It Works:
Add http://rpc.twingly.com/ to your blog tool's list of ping services. That way, Twingly will be notified every time you write a new blog post.


If your blogging platform doesn’t support automatic pings, you can ping us manually.

Go to http://twingly.com/ping. Enter the url of your latest entry, your RSS feed or even easier – your blog’s front page url.

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

Goojet enables you to customize your phone by organizing your mobile space

What Company Is Offering:
Goojet is a web site and a mobile application. Once you are registered on the web site, you receive an SMS with a download link. You select the link in the SMS and the application is automatically downloaded and installed on your mobile. The application communicates with the Goojet web site.

How It Works:
You create your mobile space on the web site and the application synchronizes your phone, automatically. If you update information using the mobile application, the changes will also automatically be synchronized with the website.
The Goojet service is free. It doesn’t cost anything to register and download and install the application. Creation and usage of the Goojet services is also totally free.Goojet is open to everyone and offers services for every need: personal usage (my information, my friends), professional usage (my teleconferences, my CV), social (my polls, my wall, my contact portal, my status), and any possible service and data mashups. Creating new services is also very simple, very fast, and accessible by all.

To access your Goojet space from your phone, your phone must be java-enabled (which is the case for the vast majority of recent devices) and of course you must have a mobile internet access.

More at:http://goojet.com/