What Company Is Offering:
BookLamp.org is a system for matching readers to books through an analysis of writing styles, similar to the way that Pandora.com matches music lovers to new music. Do you like Stephen King’s It, but thought it was too long?
The technology behind BookLamp allows you to find books that are written with a similar tone, tense, perspective, action level, description level, and dialog level, while at the same time allowing you to specify details like... half the length. It’s impervious to outside influences - like advertising - that impact socially driven recommendation systems and isn’t reliant on a large user base to work.
How It Works:
BookLamp is a book recommendation system that uses the full text of a book to match it to other books based on scene-by-scene measurements of elements such as pacing, density, action, dialog, description, perspective, and genre, among others. In other words, BookLamp.org is a Pandora.com for books, based on an author's writing style. If you match against multiple books, the self-learning system adjusts your formulas to make the match specific to your tastes. As the system moves out of beta, it will also incorporate human feedback into the recommendation systems, blending the strengths of social networks with the strengths of computer analysis. Ultimately, they want users to be able to create and share their own formulas, creating a community of book lovers that have tools to discover and share books in a way never before possible.
Because the system matches books through objective data from the text itself instead of relying solely on social networks to generate recommendations, the recommendations are impervious to outside influences such as advertising or author marketing. It also allows you to match to a far greater detail than alternative systems. With BookLamp, you can request a book similar to Stephen King's The Stand, but half the length, first person, literary mainstream fiction, with slightly more dialog, less description, and a rising action level across the first 10 scenes. If that's what you're looking for.
More at:http://beta.booklamp.org/
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Zipcars are as ubiquitous as ATMs
What Company Says:
Zipcars are as ubiquitous as ATMs. Z2B (business) and personal drivers alike are loving the freedom and cost savings a Zipcar brings to their life - many have even achieved transportation nirvana. That's why over 30% of our customers have either sold their car or have stopped their purchasing decision. The revolution is underway, at least in the minds of members who no longer give a second thought to how they will get where they need to go. With a Zipcard in your pocket, a car is only a wireless signal away. Viva la revolution!
How It Works:
Just apply online today. It only takes a few minutes.
Once you're approved, you get your very own Zipcard.
Reserve one of their hundreds of cars – for a couple hours or the entire day. Do it online or use a phone.
Walk to the car, then just hold your Zipcard to the windshield.
The doors will unlock, and it's all yours!
Drive away... and return to the same reserved parking spot at the end of your reservation. It's that simple. And remember, gas and insurance are included too.
More at:http://www.zipcar.com/
Zipcars are as ubiquitous as ATMs. Z2B (business) and personal drivers alike are loving the freedom and cost savings a Zipcar brings to their life - many have even achieved transportation nirvana. That's why over 30% of our customers have either sold their car or have stopped their purchasing decision. The revolution is underway, at least in the minds of members who no longer give a second thought to how they will get where they need to go. With a Zipcard in your pocket, a car is only a wireless signal away. Viva la revolution!
How It Works:
Just apply online today. It only takes a few minutes.
Once you're approved, you get your very own Zipcard.
Reserve one of their hundreds of cars – for a couple hours or the entire day. Do it online or use a phone.
Walk to the car, then just hold your Zipcard to the windshield.
The doors will unlock, and it's all yours!
Drive away... and return to the same reserved parking spot at the end of your reservation. It's that simple. And remember, gas and insurance are included too.
More at:http://www.zipcar.com/
Passively Multiplayer Online Game
What Company Is Offering:
PMOG is an infinite game built on individual network histories, transforming our web surfing into ongoing social play. With a game head-up display in Firefox, players can bomb each other, wage war over web sites, and lead other users on web missions. Ordinary web sites become caches for items and currency. PMOG fuses an MMO into our WWW.
How It Works:
PMOG stands for Passively Multiplayer Online Game. Players play without playing; clicking around the internet turns into experience points and currency.
This unconventional massively multiplayer online game merges your web life with an alternate, hidden reality. The mundane takes on a layer of fantastic achievement. Player behavior generates characters and alliances, triggers interactions in the environment, and earns the player points to spend online beefing up their inventory. Suddenly the internet is not a series of untouchable exhibits, but a hackable, rewarding environment.
More at:http://pmog.com/
PMOG is an infinite game built on individual network histories, transforming our web surfing into ongoing social play. With a game head-up display in Firefox, players can bomb each other, wage war over web sites, and lead other users on web missions. Ordinary web sites become caches for items and currency. PMOG fuses an MMO into our WWW.
How It Works:
PMOG stands for Passively Multiplayer Online Game. Players play without playing; clicking around the internet turns into experience points and currency.
This unconventional massively multiplayer online game merges your web life with an alternate, hidden reality. The mundane takes on a layer of fantastic achievement. Player behavior generates characters and alliances, triggers interactions in the environment, and earns the player points to spend online beefing up their inventory. Suddenly the internet is not a series of untouchable exhibits, but a hackable, rewarding environment.
More at:http://pmog.com/
A brand new solution for building video sharing communities on your own website
What Company Says:
A brand new solution for building video sharing communities on your own website. Video has gained a huge market on the web, and there is no better time than now to get started with a highly profitable video site of your own.
How It Works:
A brand new solution for building video sharing communities on your own website.By accessing the YouTube API, videOlive can increase the visibility of your community and its videos.With multiple video encoding options, you are now able to run videOlive from shared hosts that do not support FFmpeg.
When you install videOlive for the first time, your license will be paired with the domain where you are installing it on. But at any time, and for any reason, you can request an domain name update for your license if you need to change domains.
More at:http://www.monoeci.net/
A brand new solution for building video sharing communities on your own website. Video has gained a huge market on the web, and there is no better time than now to get started with a highly profitable video site of your own.
How It Works:
A brand new solution for building video sharing communities on your own website.By accessing the YouTube API, videOlive can increase the visibility of your community and its videos.With multiple video encoding options, you are now able to run videOlive from shared hosts that do not support FFmpeg.
When you install videOlive for the first time, your license will be paired with the domain where you are installing it on. But at any time, and for any reason, you can request an domain name update for your license if you need to change domains.
More at:http://www.monoeci.net/
NewsTrust helps people find good journalism online
What Company Is Offering:
NewsTrust helps people find good journalism online, so they can make informed decisions as citizens. To that end, our nonprofit organization offers an integrated online service, which includes a quality news filter, media literacy tools and a trust network.
How It Works:
NewsTrust's mission is to help people find and share quality journalism online, so they can make more informed decisions as citizens. NewsTrust will accomplish its mission by empowering an online community of citizens, students and journalists to collaboratively evaluate the quality of journalism. To that end, the NewsTrust service will provide:
The free NewsTrust.net website features daily feeds of quality news and opinions, which are carefully rated by our members, using our unique review tools. We rate the news based on quality, not just popularity. NewsTrust reviewers evaluate each article against core journalistic principles such as fairness, evidence, sourcing and context.
More at:http://www.newstrust.net/
NewsTrust helps people find good journalism online, so they can make informed decisions as citizens. To that end, our nonprofit organization offers an integrated online service, which includes a quality news filter, media literacy tools and a trust network.
How It Works:
NewsTrust's mission is to help people find and share quality journalism online, so they can make more informed decisions as citizens. NewsTrust will accomplish its mission by empowering an online community of citizens, students and journalists to collaboratively evaluate the quality of journalism. To that end, the NewsTrust service will provide:
The free NewsTrust.net website features daily feeds of quality news and opinions, which are carefully rated by our members, using our unique review tools. We rate the news based on quality, not just popularity. NewsTrust reviewers evaluate each article against core journalistic principles such as fairness, evidence, sourcing and context.
More at:http://www.newstrust.net/
MochiBot is a Flash traffic monitoring tool
What Company Is Offering:
MochiBot is a Flash traffic monitoring tool (similar to a hit counter) that tracks the performance of individual Flash content files (SWFs) no matter where they end up on the web. If your SWF is on 5 different servers, then MochiBot will count the number of views that SWF got for all 5 servers. It's perfect for tracking how viral your Flash content is.
MochiBot is made up of just four lines of ActionScript code that sit harmlessly in your Flash content. Wherever that SWF goes, MochiBot will follow. This method ensures accurate traffic data no matter what website your SWF ends up on. MochiBot.com knows about each view of your SWF, and makes it available as simple and easy to understand reports that show you just how popular your Flash content is.
How It Works:
You simply copy and paste a few lines of ActionScript from MochiBot.com into your Flash file (FLA), and publish the SWF. Every time your Flash content is played, MochiBot sends a signal to our servers indicating where it is and that it's being played. MochiBot is completely unobtrusive, and will work with any type of Flash content: games, animations, banner ads, videos, or anything you can think up! The best part of all is that it has no effect on your content whatsoever.
More at:http://www.mochibot.com/
MochiBot is a Flash traffic monitoring tool (similar to a hit counter) that tracks the performance of individual Flash content files (SWFs) no matter where they end up on the web. If your SWF is on 5 different servers, then MochiBot will count the number of views that SWF got for all 5 servers. It's perfect for tracking how viral your Flash content is.
MochiBot is made up of just four lines of ActionScript code that sit harmlessly in your Flash content. Wherever that SWF goes, MochiBot will follow. This method ensures accurate traffic data no matter what website your SWF ends up on. MochiBot.com knows about each view of your SWF, and makes it available as simple and easy to understand reports that show you just how popular your Flash content is.
How It Works:
You simply copy and paste a few lines of ActionScript from MochiBot.com into your Flash file (FLA), and publish the SWF. Every time your Flash content is played, MochiBot sends a signal to our servers indicating where it is and that it's being played. MochiBot is completely unobtrusive, and will work with any type of Flash content: games, animations, banner ads, videos, or anything you can think up! The best part of all is that it has no effect on your content whatsoever.
More at:http://www.mochibot.com/
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