Saturday, April 26, 2008

The BBC Sound Index is a massive index of the hottest bands and tracks that are being talked about on the internet right now

What Company Is Offering:
The BBC Sound Index is a massive index of the hottest bands and tracks that are being talked about on the internet right now.

Every six hours the Sound Index crawls some of the biggest music sites on the internet - Bebo, MySpace, Last.FM, iTunes, Google and YouTube - to find out what people are writing about, listening to, watching, downloading and logging on to. It then counts and analyses this data to make an instant list of the most popular 1000 artists and tracks on the web. The more blog mentions, comments, plays, downloads and profile views an artist or track has, the higher up the Sound Index they are. So, the Sound Index is a music buzz index controlled entirely by the public.



How It Works:

All the demographic data they collect and use is entirely anonymous, so they can never attribute any age or location data to any specific person. So, if you are a user of any of these sites, you don't need to worry that the Sound Index has any information about you. However, if you are concerned, or want more details, please contact us at soundindex@bbc.co.uk.

You can also watch some of the newest bands hottest new tracks on Sound, the music show on BBC every Saturday.

The Sound Index is currently in a public service beta phase, with data sources being finalised. During this beta phase we shall also be implementing and tweaking the data currently in the Index, and investigating a weighting system, to allow the more active forms of interaction to contribute more heavily to the Index.

More at:http://www.bbc.co.uk/soundindex/soundindex/

xRank keeps track of notable people and puts them in order for you

What Company Is Offering:
xRank keeps track of notable people and puts them in order for you. They count Live Search web searches for movie stars, musicians, and other famous people. Then, they compile their findings into an insightful ranking formula that tells you who the world is searching for most. The result is a cultural snapshot of who's hot and who's not!

How It Works:

View a person's popularity over the past six months on the xRank History chart. Under the xRank History chart, find the top-moving searches. These are real searches from users on the day the person peaked in popularity on xRank.

Look over the rankings for names that interest you. Arrow icons show how their movement is trending. Movement at the top of the list means more than it does near the bottom.

Discover relationships among notable people. Thumbnail photos at the bottom of xRank show you the associates, friends, enemies, and romances, of the person you're interested in.Explore a celebrity's latest videos, images, movies, albums, and more.

More at:http://search.live.com/xrank/results.aspx

Wakozi is a portal that allows stores who offer delivery to be included in their search engine

About Company:

Wakozi is a portal that allows stores who offer delivery to be included in their search engine. Simply enter your zip code, address and apartment number into the search engine, and Wakozi spits out a list of stores that will deliver your favorite drink right to your door.

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

Minggl is a toolbar that brings your social sites together in one place

What Company Is Offering:

Minggl is a toolbar that brings your social sites together in one place, feeding you the latest activities of friends, no matter where you are on the web.

How It Works:

Minggl is moving freely around the web while staying connected to multiple social networks. The Minggl toolbar monitors your networks for key events and friend activity to keep you posted as you browse other sites. It also enables you to manage content, friends, and your online identities across profiles from wherever you are.

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

A metronome is a practice tool that produces a steady pulse (or beat) to help musicians play rhythms accurately

What Company Is Offering:

A metronome is a practice tool that produces a steady pulse (or beat) to help musicians play rhythms accurately. The pulses are measured in beats-per-minute (BPM). Most metronomes are capable of playing beats from 35 to 250 BPM. Common uses of the metronome are helping you to maintain an established tempo while practicing, and learning difficult passages.

How It Works:

The first step in metronome use is to understand time signatures. Time signatures are found at the beginning of a musical piece, after the clef and the key signature. Time signatures (also called meter signatures) consist of two numbers. The top number indicates the number of beats in a measure, while the bottom number corresponds to the value of the beat. Most often, you will see 2, 3, 4 or 6 beats per measure. Beats are commonly half notes (the bottom number of the meter signature is “2”), quarter notes (“4”) or dotted quarter notes (“8”).

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

ProjectLocker is to provide on-demand tools for software developers

What Company Is Offering:
ProjectLocker is to provide on-demand tools for software developers. Guided by the simple mission of helping companies build better software, ProjectLocker's services have expanded to include services for the complete lifecycle of software projects, from requirements documentation to build and test automation.

How It Works:

ProjectLocker serves companies from startups to Fortune 1000 multinationals.
ProjectLocker is an innovator in the on-demand development space. Recent additions are ProjectLocker Analytics and BuildLocker. ProjectLocker Analytics works with ProjectLocker Subversion Hosting to help managers analyze developer activity, so they can better manage their projects. ProjectLocker Analytics is the first hosted source code analytics system. BuildLocker is also an industry first: a virtualized hosted continuous integration solution.

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

Macrocasa is a web-based software: let you manage your business in the best and simplest way ever

What Company Is Offering:
Macrocasa is a web-based software: let you manage your business in the best and simplest way ever. With a mobile device is like carrying your office in the palm of your hand.

Unique Features:

A complete list of your real estates paginated and sortable by type, date, name, owner, city and price.

Fully customizable property information such as typologies, notes, images, documents, Google Maps based address, rent/sell management...

Specific request could be associated to clients, in order to find out in a click properties matching their criteria.

Every sale/rent will be recorded in order to track the agent, the seller and the new owner. A simple statistics module let you find the best vendor, most sold typologies, most active agencies...

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