Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Collarity's mission is to improve your website's monetization performance by delivering more relevant site search results and content recommendations

What Company Is Offering:
Collarity is a recognized leader in the category of Content Search and Discovery.Collarity's mission is to improve your website's monetization performance by delivering more relevant site search results and content recommendations - both driven by the anonymous behavior of your website's audience.


How It Works:

By adding Collarity's search and discovery widgets to your website pages, your web visitors will find what they need more often. As a Web publisher, you will see increases in page views and advertising click-through rates.

Collarity doesn’t build individual behavior profiles (unless a person pro actively opts-in to this personalization level — normally a very small percentage), which is the main concern of the article. We also don’t track or store IP addresses. Finally, the information they collect is “intra-site” visitor data (they don’t track people moving around the Internet) which is held privately for the exclusive use of their web publisher customers.

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

With RevResponse, every corner of your online world becomes a potential revenue generator

What Company Is Offering:
RevResponse helps you present FREE content that’s of genuine value to your site visitors... and then they pay you when anyone take advantage of it. RevResponse puts this content at your fingertips, enabling you to provide your visitors with a free resource library that will keep them coming back again and again.


With RevResponse, every corner of your online world becomes a potential revenue generator, and they give you the tools to make it happen. No matter how you reach your readers, or what their professional interests are, RevResponse has the ad units to fit your format and the content to fit your needs.

How It Works:
With NetLine’s RevResponse, you’re in the position to give your audience valuable content completely free of charge AND get paid for doing so.Your users see the value and sign up for the free content, and they pay you a commission on every qualified subscription or download request—including requests from your international audience. Find another network that pays you to give away professional content and resources.
Unlike any other network in existence, we'll guarantee you a $1.50 minimum on every qualified subscription/request your audience generates.

Upon approval of your account, you’ll immediately have access to the RevResponse partner portal where you can review all details of your efforts.

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

SearchWebJobs

What Company Is Offering:

SearchWebJobs was created to bring industry leading Web Designers, Developers, Managers, and Tech Pros together.They only post jobs aimed at the Web Standards Community for the companies that seek to find them.


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

Gameseekr is a free service that lets you find games on the internet

What Company Is Offering:

Gameseekr is a social game discovery service that lets users find video games on the internet and lets them engage with users with similar tastes using shared gamelists. Gameseekr is privately funded and advised by successful executives in the internet and video game industry.

How It Works:

Gameseekr is a free service that lets you find games on the internet, find friends who have similar interests, create and maintain your gamelist and share your gamelists with your friends.

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

YesterDate--A tool that lets you find what you search or let them find you, placing you in place and time

What Company Is Offering:
A tool that lets you find what you search or let them find you, placing you in place and time. Find a kiss, person, pet or possession.

How It Works:

Step 1. Choose a category
What are you trying to find? A kiss? A friend? Your motorbike keys? Click on the corresponding category

Step 2. Indicate the date
Think hard, when was it? You must at least indicate the year.

Step 3. Search
Click on 'search' and get ready to recover what you thought was lost forever.

Step 4. Find
Consult the results on the list or map.

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

Marketcetera Inc is an open-source platform for automated trading, has raised $4 million in Series A funding

What Company Is Offering:
Marketcetera Inc is committed to providing fast, flexible and reliable securities trading tools to financial services professionals. Their mission is to make world-class order-management and risk-management software available and affordable to individuals and to institutions of all sizes. Marketcetera focuses on building the key trading functions that are common to all organizations, thus freeing our clients to concentrate on proprietary trading algorithms and other specialized software that provide a competitive advantage.

How Much They Got FRom VCs:

Marketcetera Inc., a Redwood City, Calif.-based developer of an open-source platform for automated trading, has raised $4 million in Series A funding, according to VentureWire. Shasta Ventures led the round, and was joined by existing angels like Clarium Capital's Jack Selby.

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

TargetRx products and services help pharmaceutical clients to deploy more effective and efficient sales and marketing programs has received $9.6M

What Company Is Offering:
TargetRx helps pharmaceutical companies create competitive advantage and shareholder value through unparalleled insights into the drivers of physician prescribing behavior. TargetRx products and services help pharmaceutical clients to deploy more effective and efficient sales and marketing programs. TargetRx employs a unique database approach to capturing physician attitudes and translating the findings into highly actionable insight for its clients. TargetRx has developed a highly predictive, large-scale normative database of physician attitudes that it uses in combination with its patented proprietary analytic methods to provide pharmaceutical companies with powerful "leading indicators" of performance. These insights provide companies with benchmarks for how they are currently performing, rich diagnostics that identify immediate ways to improve, and powerful forecasts that accurately predict future performance.

How Much They Got From VCs:
TargetRx Inc. announced that the company has received $9.6M of venture funding led by existing investors Quaker BioVentures, New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Domain Associates. This infusion of capital will further support the company's plans for growth and the development of innovative new products designed to help the pharmaceutical industry improve sales and marketing effectiveness as well as drive overall business performance.

"Over the past several years, TargetRx has established itself as the only company that can offer pharmaceutical companies the information and insight that will enable them to redefine their sales and marketing strategies and remain competitive in today's marketplace," said Richard Kollender, chairman of the TargetRx board of directors and a partner at Quaker BioVentures. "With an expanding customer base, seasoned senior management team and aggressive product development plans, the company is well-positioned for future success."

More at: www.targetrx.com

Marin Software, provider of the leading enterprise-class paid search management application for advertisers and agencies got $7.25 million Series B

What Company Is Offering:
Marin Software provides an enterprise-class paid search management application for advertisers and agencies. Marin Search Marketer addresses the workflow, analysis and optimization needs of professional search marketers, saving time and improving financial performance. Marin offers a 30-day, full-featured free trial with pay-as-you-go pricing and is designed for those who are spending at least $50,000 monthly on paid search.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Marin Software, provider of the leading enterprise-class paid search management application for advertisers and agencies, announced a $7.25 million Series B financing led by Benchmark Capital. As part of this round, Bruce Dunlevie, General Partner at Benchmark, will join Marin's Board of Directors. The new funds will be used to further develop Marin Search Marketer?, Marin's paid search management application, and to expand the company's sales and marketing efforts.



While traditional advertising is losing steam, spending on paid search advertising (also known as search engine marketing, or SEM) is large and growing fast. According to a recent report by JP Morgan, paid search in the United States is expected to grow 23% annually, from $11.8 billion in 2007 to $26.8 billion in 2011. Over the same period, international markets are projected to grow 34% annually from $10.2 billion to $33.1 billion. As paid search has become integral to the marketing mix, with programs expanding to include thousands of concurrent and often overlapping campaigns, and tens of thousands to millions of keywords, an urgent need has arisen for better search management tools. To date, most search marketers have had few options other than to manually manage and optimize campaigns using Excel spreadsheets and search engine ad centers.

More at:www.marinsoftware.com

Imprivata, Inc., the converged identity and access management appliance company has closed a Series C financing

What Company Is Offering:
Imprivata is the converged Identity and Access Management (IAM) appliance company. Its OneSign platform helps organizations safeguard enterprise information assets by enabling secure employee access to networks and applications—improving user productivity and convenience, while reducing the time, risk and cost of complying with data privacy and protection regulations. OneSign has received top ratings in product reviews throughout the industry and has been awarded numerous accolades from leading publications including Information Security, InfoWorld and SC Magazine.

How Much They Got From VCs:
Imprivata, Inc., the converged identity and access management appliance company, announced that it has closed a Series C financing round of $15 million. SAP Ventures, the venture capital arm of SAP AG (NYSE: SAP - News), the world’s leading provider of business software solutions, joined existing investors Polaris Venture Partners, General Catalyst Partners and Highland Capital Partners in the latest investment round. This investment will help Imprivata expand its reach into new markets and extend its industry leadership position in the authentication management and enterprise single sign-on sector.

“Imprivata’s innovative approach to enterprise single sign-on and authentication management coupled with its unique integration to physical access control systems is helping companies worldwide address compliance and insider security threats, ” said Jennifer Scholze, partner, SAP Ventures.

About VCs:
SAP Ventures has been investing in companies that offer exciting new technologies and applications. Leveraging years of experience and drawing on a network of powerful business relationships, SAP Ventures helps entrepreneurs and management teams recruit the best people, make the right technology decisions, win new business, and build their own partner networks. The goal of SAP Ventures is to grow businesses that create shareholder value for everyone involved. For more information, visit www.sapventures.com.

More at:www.imprivata.com

Covestor, a social networking company focused on personal investing, has raised $6.5 m

What Company Is Offering:
A real-trade sharing service for proven self-investors. To share your real investment decisions, gain recognition and earn fees by helping others.Where all data is private, normalized and anonymous, and membership is free.

How It Works:
To ensure that Covestor remains a source of high-quality analysis, membership is available only to qualifying participants who successfully manage their own investments.You will receive an e-mail with a link you can use to activate your membership. As a registered Member, you can immediately begin setting up your account and exploring the profiles and holdings of other Members.

Your real name is required so that they can verify your trade history, but it need never be revealed to others in the Covestor community. How much personal data you disclose on the site is completely up to you.

Create a Covestor identity, using your real name or by creating a screen name. You can also choose whether to share your investment record publicly on the web (recommended) or only with other Covestor members.

You have two options, to enter trades manually or to set up automatic data import.

If entering trades manually you will be required to enter trades as you execute them, using a 'trade entry' form, and to periodically upload your paper brokerage records for verification.

Using the secure import option simply provide the name of your brokerage plus the username and password you use to access your account. Your trade and holdings data will be automatically downloaded, at regular intervals, to update your Covestor account. This secure link operates using the same technology as online banking sites. No personal data (e.g. social security number) is available via this link. (View Privacy Policy).

How Much They Got From VCs:
Covestor, a social networking company focused on personal investing, has raised $6.5 million in Series A funding. Backers include Spark Capital, Union Square Ventures, Amadeus Capital, Howard Lindzon and John Borthwick.

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

GoogleStockScreener

About:
You can add international stocks to your portfolio for stock exchanges that they currently support by typing the symbol for the exchange and a colon in front of the symbol of the stock you wish to add. (View a complete list of supported exchanges) For example, to add Vodafone from the London Stock Exchange to your portfolio, go to the 'Add' section on the portfolio page and enter "LON:VOD." You can also just go to the Vodafone page and click the Add to portfolio link in the blue bar. We'll continue to expand our coverage of stock exchanges worldwide.You can maintain as many portfolios in Google Finance as you like, and you can easily add, edit, and import portfolios at any time.


More at:http://finance.google.com/finance/stockscreener

Work + Social Media + Networking = Workstreamr

What Company Says:
Workstreamr is a particular type of person often characterized with attributes such as ambition and passion. They are the over-achievers; the people who colleagues and clients describe as entrepreneurial, dedicated and driven. Workstreamrs are also innovative. They leverage technology to get more done at higher standards than previously thought possible. They recognize the benefits of sociality, collective wisdom and collaboration. Workstreamrs are a tribe who embrace the mantra ‘we are better together.’
The Workstreamr product is being developed specifically for their fellow Workstreamrs. They are developing a solution and a community.

Why To Use It:

At Workstreamr they are on a mission to design a product that allows people to reach their potential.Workstreamr addresses three gaps in the current marketplace:

Work is currently distributed across too many silos and applications.
The marketplace lacks socialization around work and projects online .
There is no digital database of project and workflow relationships .

In addition to the above, are further guided by several underlying principles that drive their product design and company persona:

Work is inherently social. Exploring the social dimension of work is critical to producing higher quality and/or more innovative work. The advent of the Internet and globalization are fundamentally transforming work culture. Most work tools fail to create an appropriate social environment for collaboration and knowledge sharing.
Work should not have to be attacked with a collection of un-integrated tools.
Individuals should leverage technology to get work done and to remain connected. Once technology has provided value, it should get out of the way.

More at:http://workstreamr.com/

Clueray---How To Focus Your Search

What Company Is Offering:
Clueray, Inc. was created to provide people a better way to search. By providing unique ways to focus search, Clueray technology takes search and search-based applications beyond the limitations of keywords – beyond the large collections of mixed-intent, mixed-quality results – to quality results which meet specific information needs.

How It Works:

Clueray’s IntentMatch technology starts with a collection of documents (typically returned by a keyword-based search engine) and returns a subset of those documents, the focused results, which meet a set of specified criteria. In the first phase of our public beta, the user is able to focus the results based on the kind of document they are looking for, something we refer to as the document intent. Future versions will expose additional focus elements which allow the user to more completely express their query intent.
Clueray’s IntentMatch technology takes end users and search-based apps beyond the “here are several results which may or may not work for you, you figure it out from here” paradigm to qualified results which match a specified information need.

The segmentation engine breaks up a document into regions of interest based on size, shape, content, and location on the page. Like many “hard” artificial intelligence problems, document segmentation is pretty easy for a human to do. However, automating this task for use in an unstructured environment like the web is particularly challenging. Clueray’s unique approach to solving this problem draws from multiple disciplines and can be tailored to address specific segmentation needs.

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

TheyWorkForYou

What Company Is Offering:
TheyWorkForYou is a website run by mySociety, which is itself a project of UK Citizens Online Democracy, a registered charity. It was originally built almost entirely by volunteers , but now mySociety pays Matthew to keep the site running and up-to-date as part of his wider work for mySociety.

How It Works:

Users of all ages and abilities may be contributing to TheyWorkForYou. Contributions should be constructive and polite, not mean-spirited or contributed with the intention of causing trouble. Unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, racially offensive or otherwise objectionable material is not acceptable.

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