Sunday, April 13, 2008

FirstLook is that kind of company. Instead of digging tools, it sells detailed reports to new-energy entrepreneurs

What Company Is Offering:
FirstLook is that kind of company. Instead of digging tools, it sells detailed reports to new-energy entrepreneurs. Those reports show just how much wind or sunshine an area is likely to receive, based on years’ worth of meteorological data.

How It Works:
The company advertises its reports via a free interactive map, which uses Google Maps. Preliminary information from the map helps entrepreneurs determine whether a windmill or solar-panel installation at a chosen location would make good financial sense. Registered users simply log in and click a location on the interactive map. Immediately, they receive a brief run-down on the area’s potential. Wind reports, for example, show the area’s average wind speed at different heights, which correspond to the possible heights of a windmill tower. Solar maps give the average daily illumination the same spot receives at differing angles. That information on sunlight angles is critical, unless the project employs solar panels that track the sun’s movement across the sky.

Websites run by the Department of Energy and other government and environmental organizations already provide similar information, though maybe with a less easy-to-use interface. But energy entrepreneurs will need something far more detailed if they hope to convince bankers or investors to fund their projects. A simple mouse click takes them to FirstLook’s reports page, where they can buy a detailed report USD 1,000 and up.

More at: www.3tiergroup.com

nsyght is a new type of search engine powered by you, your bookmarks, and your friends

About Company:

nsyght is a search engine powered by you, your bookmarks, and your friends.Nsyght is a new type of social search engine that helps users improve the relevancy of search by leveraging their bookmarks and social network. Content relevancy is not a problem that can be solved by algorithm alone. Too often searches get clogged up with spam sites or sites of low relevance. The broader the search, the less relevant the results. To achieve the best possible results from a given search, you need the human factor to augment any computer algorithm.

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

2People---Their immediate goal is to build an overwhelming public mandate for real solutions to the climate crisis

What Company Is Offering:
The mission of 2People is sustainability in one generation. To achieve this, they must make the connections between many issues, from pollution and poverty to women's rights and democracy. Their immediate goal is to build an overwhelming public mandate for real solutions to the climate crisis. They are a non-profit organization, started by Phil Mitchell.

How It Works:
Find out what are the most important actions you can take to help solve global warming.

See what actions other people are doing, ranging from personal actions such as driving less to big-picture political actions such as working on the Climate Elections 2008 campaign.

Connect with people who live near you, and connect with teams of people who are working on projects you'd like to be involved in. Join an existing team or propose a new one.
Help build the network by inviting people you know to join.

More at:http://www.2people.org/

WhatYah---A place to share movies, games and tv shows with friends legally

What Company Is Offering:

WhatYah's goal is to provide anyone the ability to know exactly what media titles your friends have so you can share everything.A place to share movies, games and tv shows with friends legally, create reviews and let your friends know what you think.

How It Works:

Sign up, Invite friends. Add & organize media titles. Create top lists to share
Print your archive for friends. Track your media. Get notified when friends get media you want. Get notified when friends get media you want.

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

IPLAdda.com H2H Fantasy Cricket League is the first ever head to head fantasy game in Cricket

What Company Is Offering:
An H2H (head-to-head) league is one where a player plays a 'match' against an opposing player in the same league. A series of such matches are played with other opposing players in the user's league for the entire duration of the competition/tournament.

How Is It Different:
IPLAdda.com H2H Fantasy Cricket League is the first ever head to head fantasy game in Cricket. In most other cricket fantasy games, you either just collect statistics for the duration of the tournament and all the other opponents in your league do the same. The team with the best statistics for the duration of the entire tournament is the winner. There is no concept of playing a match against any opponent. Furthermore, there are certain other fantasy cricket games where you are playing against yourself, such that your batsmen should score more runs than the number of runs your bowlers give away. This is also an interesting concept, but you end up playing against yourself (batsmen v bowlers), and there is no concept of playing against any other player playing the fantasy game. In a H2H league, for a specific time period within the tournament, you will play against an opponent in your league, and you should try to obtain a better statistics in terms of runs, wickets, boundaries, catches etc, which calls into picture an all-round measure of your team's capability.

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

HowDoYa was created to help people who want to learn how-to do something — anything

About Company:

HowDoYa was created to help people who want to learn how-to do something — anything. They do it by helping you search the Internet in a smarter, task-centric way. And unlike other websites that profess to have the single right answer, they give you many (but not too many) answers, so you can find the one that is right for you.

HowDoYa offers up many precisely relevant concepts and notions organized in a simple, easy-to-understand way. These concepts can be used to refine your search, building out a more and more precise query, or they can be used to quickly purchase the things you will need to do your "how-to."

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