Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Social Networking Site for Virtual Assistants

What Company Is Offering:
The Alliance of Virtual Assistants is the “newest kid on the block” in the world of Virtual Assistant networking sites. It is a bit different to others in that it is based on the social networking model. AVA gives its members their own page to express their personality, groups, blogs, a forum, and the ability to upload videos and pictures.

AVA is a great way for Virtual Assistants to connect with each other and with the public.

How It Works:

If someone is looking for a VA, they can go to the site and post an RFP which will be sent to all the members of the network. AVA will give Virtual Assistants a venue to share with each other, support each other, and socialize with each other.

The Alliance of Virtual Assistants is giving away a free gift to the first Virtual Assistants that join. “Essential Article Marketing Secrets” an e-book written by Darrell Williams will be emailed to the first 50 VAs who sign up. As AVA grows, it will also offer advertising space, resources, contests and events. Williams says, “We want to see a real community grow out of AVA.”

More at:
Right-Hand-Man Virtual Assistant Services
Darrell A. Williams
902-367-5019
darrell@righthandmanva.com
www.righthandmanva.com
http://www.allianceva.ning.com

TronMe ---anyone can mix and perform their favorites live on MSN, Skype, or even YouTube

What Company Is Offering:
TronMe is brand new, it's in the starting blocks and ready to explode into the home entertainment arena.Using TronMe software anyone can mix and perform their favorites live on MSN, Skype, or even YouTube; it's a whole new level of interactivity that is certain to appeal to wannabe performers of all ages. This fresh technology works with a new audio format - .IVS Each song is separated into different tracks or building blocks and the software mixes these back together based on the movements detected through the computer's web cam to provide an exclusive mix every time.

Buyers will choose songs from their website, in the .IVS format for use with their TronMe software. If your tracks are among their favorites then they will be looking to buy them. Make sure your tracks are there - don't miss the opportunity to jump on board the IVS revolution.

How It Works:

TronMe is controlled purely from the webcam or the mouse and, from the movements detected, the program creates a unique mix of the track. The player has total control of how the mix sounds. The direction of the movement determines which instrument plays. Stay in the middle and they are equal, move higher and the percussion is dominant. There is no end to the options and possibilities. Of course, no one ever moves the exact same way twice and so each time a song is played an entirely new mix is created. There are also plenty of effects to add onto the video to make the end result exceptionally professional.

TronMe is compatible with MSN, Skype and, of course, the home video recorder; the performance can be made all the more exciting by an audience or it can just be recorded in mp3 or avi to be watched back later.

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

Akken provides On Demand software solutions for staffing and recruiting companies to run their entire business with one simple, integrated, web-based

What Company Is Offering:
Akken provides On Demand software solutions for staffing and recruiting companies to run their entire business with one simple, integrated, web-based system. Their flagship product, Akken Staffing combines on-demand staffing and recruiting software with Email, Applicant Tracking, CRM, Accounting, Human Resource Management, Business Intelligence, and more. They help their clients automate processes across all business functions, allowing them to generate more revenues and profits faster and easier while providing unparalleled client service.

How It Works:

They can provide companies of any size an affordable, completely integrated and customizable system that automates their mundane, time consuming tasks and lets them focus on key revenue generating activities – building and strengthening relationships.
With no software or hardware to buy, install, maintain, or upgrade, the choice to go with an on-demand service offering makes sense for organizations that want to do more with less.

With Akken Staffing, you can realize the highest level of automation in the industry, all for a lower price than most spend on their applicant tracking software alone.

Earn money or free months of service with the all new Akken Referral Program. The Akken Referral Program is intended to reward Akken clients, business partners, consultants, and complementary product resellers who are constantly asked to recommend staffing and recruiting software.

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

TP2Location ---Resolve any telephone number to its geographical location.

About Company:
International format of a phone number is the format that some one from out side of your country used to call your number or the format that you use to call some one who live in another country.

Basically a phone number is composed of 4-5 parts. For example :

0044(0)20 8745 5555

00 - IDD Prefix
44 - Country Code
(0) - NDD Prefix (National Direct Dialing Prefix) - Used to call from one city to another city within a Country.
20 8745 5555 - Area Code + Subscriber Number

In the international format, the NDD prefix will NOT be used. Only the following portions are used.
IDD Prefix + Country Code + (Area Code + Subscriber Number)

* The NDD prefix and the IDD Prefix are varies from country to country. Here you can find more dialing rules.

So what happened if i insert a phone number in to TP2Location search box without considering these stuffs ?
Yes, You can insert any phone number without considering these stuffs. But we really need a country code has to be included in the phone number. We format the number you enter using our formula to match our pattern in the database. In case if you did not get the expected result, then you should try enter the number without the NDD Prefix.

More at:http://www.tp2location.com/

MyriadHealth, an internet software and services claims developer, announced a $1.5 million fund raise

What Company Is Offering:
MyriadHealth, focuses on internet delivery of software and services to healthcare claims administrators. The current management builds on over 25 years of experience in industry. The company has patents pending on its proprietary software. The MyriadHealth system is a web-based, real time claims management platform used by third party administrators and self-administered health plans.

How Much They Got From VCs:

MyriadHealth, an internet software and services claims developer, announced today a $1.5 million fund raise. The Innovation Ohio Fund (IOF), which was approved by the Development Financing Advisory Council on March 31 and is pending approval of the State Controlling Board, led the round with a $750,000 investment that was matched by angel investors. The funding will be used for real-time direct integration of Provider Electronic Medical Records with Practice Management Systems.

“The Innovation Ohio Fund and our angel investor have been very responsive and supportive of MyriadHealth’s mission to revolutionize healthcare through innovative technology,” said Pamela S. Priddy, President & CEO of MyriadHealth. “The increased funding will afford Myriad the opportunity to move our technology forward, not only on a local level but nationally also. BioEnterprise played a large role and has been a paramount partner; we are appreciative of the guidance and expertise provided by the organization.”

More at:http://myriadhealth.com/

Realtime Worlds, a leading independent video game developer, has raised $50 million

What Company Is Offering:
Realtime Worlds is one of the largest and most successful independent game developers in the world. With an exceptionally talented staff of more than 200, its experienced teams have a tremendous history of creating some of the world's bestselling video games, including the global hit franchises 'Lemmings' and 'Grand Theft Auto.' In 2006, Realtime Worlds received a US$31 million investment commitment from New Enterprise Associates, one of the world's leading venture capital firms.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Realtime Worlds, a leading independent video game developer, today announced that it has raised $50 million USD in Series B funding. Maverick Capital, the renowned investment firm founded by Lee Ainslie, led the new investment round with existing investor New Enterprise Associates and WPP, a world leader in marketing communications services. The Series B investment will support Realtime Worlds’ continued growth and expansion as the company develops new creative properties and brings innovative online gaming experiences to market.

More at:www.realtimeworlds.com

Move Networks, a leading provider of high definition online television services got $46 million Series C funding

What Company Is Offering:
Move Networks, Inc. is a leading provider of online television services that drive the growth and support of online audiences for leading broadcasters and publishers including ABC, the CW, Discovery, ESPN, and Fox. The video technologies and services developed and managed by Move Networks enable leading brands to cost-effectively and reliably deliver live and on-demand HD quality programming to millions of people without the buffering, stalling, and low-quality viewing experiences common with competing technologies.

How Much They Got From VCs:
Move Networks, a leading provider of high definition online television services, announced a $46 million Series C funding round led by Benchmark Capital that includes global technology leaders Cisco, Comcast Interactive Media (a division of Comcast Corp.), Televisa, as well as previous investors Steamboat Ventures and Hummer Winblad Venture Partners.

"Viewers are demanding higher quality video at anytime and any place. Move's platform provides a solution that maximizes quality while at the same time meeting the demands of scalability and profits," said John Edwards, CEO of Move Networks. "This funding round is further validation by leading digital new media companies and infrastructure providers that Move Networks has the delivery services uniquely designed to meet the online monetization mandate of the world's largest media companies."

"The consumer experience is a central component to the future growth of broadband video," said Ian Blaine, CEO of thePlatform, SVP Content Publishing for Comcast Interactive Media. "Consumers expect online video to mirror their television or DVD experience today. Companies such as Move Networks will play a key role going forward."

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

Dash Navigation Inc,provider of Internet-connected automotive GPS devices, has called down $30.2 million of a $35 million Series C round

What Company Is Offering:
Dash Express is the first GPS device designed from the ground up as a truly “connected” navigation experience. Unlike old school GPS devices, Dash isn't focused on giving you just a single route from A to B, but is instead driven to give you instant access to the most relevant information about everything in between and the best way to get there. Today that means offering you access to dynamic Web content and the most accurate and up to date traffic. Tomorrow, we believe the possibilities are endless.

At Dash, they're focused on delivering these solutions with daily relevance and optimized for a “65 MPH” interface. The unique server-based architecture we have created also lets us optimize how information is formatted and sent to your device, as well as allowing each device to be updated over the air with the very latest software and features. The two feature areas where they have put most of their initial focus are providing better traffic and better search/destination information.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Dash Navigation Inc., a Mountain View, Calif.-based provider of Internet-connected automotive GPS devices, has called down $30.2 million of a $35 million Series C round, according to a regulatory filing.

Return backers include Crescendo Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Sequoia Capital, Skymoon Ventures and ZenShin Capital Partners. www.dash.net


More at:http://www.dash.net/

CureHunter

What Company Is Offering:
CureHunter is not a doctor. It is a robot. A smart robot, but only a machine that knows nothing about you as a specific patient, and nothing about your specific health history, diagnosis, and clinical test results. It cannot give medical advice nor prescribe medication. CureHunter can only provide supporting information for review and consideration by your doctor.

How It Works:
CureHunter provides data for both Clinical and Biomedical research. Animal studies often provide leading indicators of what new drugs will be available in the future or critical insights into the behavior of important biologically active molecules influencing a drug's primary mechanism of action. CureHunter does not use the concept of "relevance ranking" at all. All its data extractions (search results) must be precisely relevant to start with. A very advanced natural language processing module has the task of reading the literature the same way a human scientist would. There are no "top 10 or 20" supposedly important articles followed by millions of "hits found" of totally irrelevant or weakly related information.

How Is It Different:

CureHunter is unlike Google and ordinary search engines used in general commerce and health information retrieval in several important ways--including its basic theory of operation. CureHunter is built on the model of scientific instruments. The machine must control samples and sample preparation. It must produce testable results consistently and be subject to test by other methods of analysis outside itself to provide 3rd party validation of its conclusions and returns. It must also have extremely large and carefully controlled technical medical dictionaries that are generally not found in common search engines that fail to recognize many words in the scientific research and thus deliver incorrect results

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

Eco-Libris enables people and organizations to take a simple step in support of environmental sustainability, fighting climate change

What Company Says:
Once upon a time there was Ex-Libris (a Latin phrase meaning ‘from the books’), a label people used to paste on their books to indicate ownership. They see Eco-Libris as the new, green version of Ex-Libris. In their vision people will balance out their books by planting trees and will indicate their commitment to sustainability by putting an Eco-Libris sticker on the sleeves of these books.
As people once showed their love for books with Ex-Libris, they hope to see people show their love for books and the environment with Eco-Libris.

How It Works:

A tree (actually 1.3 trees - for example, 13 trees are planted for every 10 you pay for, as detailed below) will be planted by our planting partners for every book you balance out. You will also receive an Eco-Libris sticker to put on your book and demonstrate your commitment to the environment, with the sticker saying "One tree was planted for this book."

Based on the expected time-frames of their planting partners, trees will be planted within a year of the date of your payment. They are proud to be working with planting partners who take their job seriously and therefore, even if it takes some time to see the trees you pay for being planted, knowing that the process is handled in the most professional way possible makes it worthwhile.

You can also rest assured every tree you pay for is 100% accretive - when you pay for a tree, a new tree will be planted (actually, 1.3 trees, to make sure at least one will survive). Without your contribution, this tree will not have been planted. Our planting partners are aware of the significance of this issue to us and our annual assessments will include a verification of their compliance to make sure our promise to you is kept.

More at:http://www.ecolibris.net/

Jodange--Predicting outcomes and planning strategy through deeper understanding of opinion holders' sentiment over time

What Company Is Offering:
Jodange is a unique, powerful, new search capability that goes beyond keywords and objective data and into the realm of opinions, or sentiment. Jodange provides the ability to isolate people's opinion and sentiment about key topics over time. Focusing on these elements allows a better understanding of who is worth listening to and how best to correlate their opinions to outcomes over time.Predicting outcomes and planning strategy through deeper understanding of opinion holders' sentiment over time.

Consider the ability to track 40 experts on oil prices or interest rates, find out when their opinions change and have the forensic ability not only to isolate their specific remarks, but to also track the change in sentiment relative to a specific market index such as crude oil or interest rate futures.

How It Works:
Jodange's service uses linguistic analysis to extract opinion data from documents and identify the opinion holder and topic each opinion expression. The relationship between Opinion Holder, Opinion, and Topic is the central theme underlying all our applications. By identifying and isolating peoples' opinions and sentiments about key topics over time, we are able to understand who is worth listening to and how best to correlate their opinions to outcomes over time. They ignore any sentence or phrase deemed to be factual, and instead focus on phrases that are subjective in order to determine the sentiment (positive, neutral, or negative) of the subjective statement.

The wealth of information that can be extracted from documents using Jodange's technology for identifying opinion holder, opinion, and topic can be used to answer questions such as:

What do CEO's worldwide think about subprime lending?.
What companies mentioned research and development in their earnings reports last quarter?.
What does Steve Jobs have to say on the topic of innovation?.

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

VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks

What Company Is Offering:
VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks.


How It Works:

The project's main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web. I truly hope this space can inspire, motivate and enlighten any person doing research on this field.
They either provide advancement in terms of visual depiction techniques/methods or show conceptual uniqueness and originality in the choice of a subject. Nevertheless, all projects have one trait in common: the whole is always more than the sum of its parts.

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

Infinity is a progressive finance organisation for UK

What Company Is Offering:

Infinity is a progressive finance organisation specialising in the finance of vehicles to consumers purchased through motor dealerships throughout the UK mainland.

How It Works:

Once you have chosen a vehicle you want to buy just call them with the details and they'll email the documents to the dealer for you to sign while you're there. They'll also speak to the dealer to ensure the process is dealt with quickly for you.
They then organise paying the dealer immediately. Once the dealer is in receipt of the funds, you'll drive the vehicle away. The process is simple, quick and if the dealer asks, you just tell them that Infinity will organise the deal and payment direct with them. As a matter of course we organise an HPI on the vehicle for you (free of charge) and will advise you if there are any issues.

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