Thursday, May 1, 2008

WiseStepp.com--Professional Networking site which have a unique way of rewarding its members

What Company Is Offering:
Founded by entrepreneurs with significant experience in Internet and Mobile industry, WiseStepp.com is built around a core networking platform that allows members to invite and connect with their friends, alumni, colleagues and professional acquaintances. WiseStepp.com has started incentivizing its members for referring people to jobs and professional opportunities.Job seekers will also have incentives in the form of sign on bonuses that are available to successful candidates after they engage with and join the recruiting organization.


How It Works:

Members can refer other members or non members to jobs listed on the website to earn rewards.

While browsing through the job section members can send a job referral by entering the email address of their friends or contacts. If the referred person accepts the referral and applies for the position, the process of interaction with the recruiter begins. The referral reward is paid out once a candidate is successful and joins the recruiting organization.

WiseStepp.com is putting member’s privacy ahead of everything else, the recruitment process kicks in only if the referred candidate accepts the referral.

Membership is free and rewards are paid out in case of a successful placement. The total referral rewards currently on the website aggregate in excess of US $150,000 in less than 2 months since launch.

More at:www.wisestepp.com

The fifth Sun Startup Camp

The fifth Sun Startup Camp(SM) will be hosted by Sun Startup Essentials on May 4-5 2008 at Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA.

What is it? Startup Camp is an interactive “unconference”, i.e., no large conference panels all day. Instead, Startup Camp involves leader-moderated discussions that everyone is free to contribute to.

Interested participants may also publish topic ideas for discussion sessions and view those that others are proposing by visiting the Discussion Ideas page.

Register for FREE here.

Confirmed Speakers/panelists include:
Pete Cashmore
Jonathan Schwartz
David Berlind
Om Malik
Matt Marshall
Brian Solis
S. Neil Vineberg
Jason Hoffman

The event also includes SpeedGeeking, where startup founders can compete in the Best Startup Contest by presenting a 5-minute pitch of their business to VC led groups of peers.

Via--Mashable

Boolify makes it easier for students to understand their web search by illustrating the logic of their search

What Company Is Offering:
Boolify makes it easier to for students to understand their web search by illustrating the logic of their search, and by showing them how each change to their search instantly changes their results.

It's simple, immediate and is easy and flexible to use with your class, no matter the subject matter.

Search results are presented through Google's "Safe Search STRICT" technology.

How It Works:

Refine your search by dragging AND, OR or NOT pieces to the puzzle. You can completely clear the search by clicking on the "X" on the right side of the board, or delete specific pieces by dragging them to the bucket icon.

More at:http://www.boolify.org/

Search for web results, news results or image results by selecting the appropraite icon from the puzzle menu.

Sezmi has developed the first complete TV 2.0 offering

What Company Is Offering:
Sezmi is to offer consumers a new choice in television entertainment that integrates the next generation of television features and content with the traditional television programming that people expect and want to watch. By re-thinking the home entertainment experience from the ground up, Sezmi has developed the first complete TV 2.0 offering that is designed to address the fundamental shifts in consumer television viewing behavior.

How It Works:

Sezmi’s next-generation television offering provides content providers, advertisers, broadcasters, and broadband providers, new opportunities to add value to existing services and transition through the current disruptions facing the industry.

To deliver the full range of content that consumers expect at an affordable price they created a network that cost effectively enables targeted, flexible delivery of content while overcoming the limitations of broadband. Their content distribution solution (known as FlexCast™) seamlessly combines the efficiency and scale of broadcast delivery with the interactivity and access of broadband.

The system utilizes available capacity in existing digital television broadcast networks and creates a private, secure content distribution platform. The private broadcast transmission is combined with existing broadband infrastructure to cost effectively route and deliver video content.

Sezmi has also developed a cutting edge, smart antenna indoor reception system that makes both its private broadcast and existing terrestrial TV broadcasts accessible in an unprecedented manner. This network-attached reception system can be placed in any location in the home and requires no user adjustments.

More at:http://www.building-b.com/sezmi/

WorkLight Inc., an Enterprise 2.0 company has closed a series B round of funding totaling $12 million

What Company Is Offering:

WorkLight Inc. develops and markets a line of server products that consumerize the corporate computing experience by making popular consumer services like iGoogle, MS Live, Netvibes, and Facebook "enterprise-ready." Through WorkLight, employees and consumers connect to protected enterprise data (and to each other) using Web 2.0 services.

How Much They Got From VCs:


WorkLight Inc., an Enterprise 2.0 company, today announced that it has closed a series B round of funding totaling $12 million led by Pitango Venture Capital, Israel's largest VC. The company's second round of financing also represents a renewed commitment from Genesis Partners, Index Ventures and Shlomo Kramer, a world renowned security expert and Imperva CEO.



Proceeds from WorkLight's series B round funding will be used to further expand its presence in North America, Europe and Asia, substantiating the company's vision for the consumerized workplace. As the world of the consumer blurs with that of workplace, corporations worldwide increasingly rely on popular internet tools, such as personalized homepages (iGoogle, Netvibes, etc.), social networks (like Facebook), desktop widgets and gadgets, social bookmarking, RSS and other Web 2.0 platforms and services, to get things done at work. Since its inception in 2006, WorkLight has pioneered the secure use of consumer technologies as business tools, enhancing employee productivity and fostering collaboration inside and outside the organization.

More at:www.myWorkLight.com.

Xactly Corporation, the leader in on-demand sales performance management has raised $30 million

What Company Is Offering:

Xactly Corporation is the market leader in on-demand sales performance management. The company's flagship product, Xactly Incent, enables sales and finance executives to design, implement, manage, audit and optimize sales compensation management programs easily and affordably. Xactly solutions automate the process of aggregating data from disparate systems into a secure, hosted repository, and enable companies to leverage this business data, which is the lifeblood of sales performance management. Xactly helps companies improve operational performance, optimize sales effectiveness, proactively manage risk and compliance, and maximize profits.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Xactly Corporation, the leader in on-demand sales performance management, today announced it has raised $30 million in additional capital to fund continued business growth and capitalize on its leadership role in the emerging Sales Performance Management (SPM) space, which Ventana Research forecasts to grow beyond $8.2 billion by 2010*. The new $30 million in capital includes a round of equity and a revolving credit facility.


"This financing represents a significant tipping point for Xactly, giving us the war chest we need to further capture market share and continue to dominate the SPM space," said Christopher Cabrera, president and CEO of Xactly Corporation. "We are pleased with the steadfast support from our existing investors and the participation from new investors Glynn Capital Management and Cheyenne Ventures. In addition to fueling our growth in North America and expansion into EMEA, the new funding will enable us to deliver key new products as outlined in our 18-month product roadmap, culminating in the market's most comprehensive suite of on-demand sales performance management solutions available from a single vendor."

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

Pontiflex Inc., creator of the online advertising industry’s first open and transparent lead generation marketplace got $2.5 million in Series A fund

What Company Is Offering:
Pontiflex is the industry's only open and transparent lead generation marketplace. Hundreds of publishers, advertisers and technology providers connect through Pontiflex to make lead generation marketing simple, effective and profitable.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Pontiflex Inc., creator of the online advertising industry’s first open and transparent lead generation marketplace, today announced the completion of $2.5 million in Series A funding led by New Atlantic Ventures and Greenhill SAVP. The new capital will be used to strengthen the company’s sales and marketing efforts to support its suite of offerings that will make online lead generation simple, effective and transparent.

With 71% growth annually, the online lead generation segment is the fastest growing segment of online advertising, as marketers find themselves under pressure to deliver measurable returns in tough economic times. Advertisers are attracted to CPL advertising because it allows them to pay only for customer lead data, instead of just clicks (CPC) or page views (CPM).

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

Oak Pacific Interactive ,the leading provider of Web 2.0 communities in China has got VCs funding

What Company Is Offering:
Oak Pacific Interactive is a leading next generation internet platform that provides web 2.0 communities, content creation and distribution, and integrated communication. The company has built an array of leading online platforms including xiaonei.com (the dominant social networking site focused on college students and white-collar workers), mop.com (the largest entertainment portal) and donews.com (the leading IT blogging site) through organic growth and acquisition, and a fast growing online game business line including the biggest browser based MMORPG in China. Total registered user base is about 50 million and the daily page views of all the internet assets are as high as 350 million as of early 2008.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Oak Pacific Interactive (OPI), the leading provider of Web 2.0 communities in China, announced today that SOFTBANK Corp. has agreed to lead an investment totaling $430 million for approximately 35% of the company. The investment will be used to augment the market leadership of Oak Pacific's Xiaonei.com, China's largest social-networking site. SBI and JOHO Capital also participated in the funding.

About VCs:

SOFTBANK GROUP offers its customers a range of services including mobile communications, broadband infrastructure, fixed-line telecommunications, internet culture, e-Commerce, and others.

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

Ardour is a digital audio workstation

What Company Is Offering:
Ardour is a digital audio workstation. You can use it to record, edit and mix multi-track audio. You can produce your own CDs, mix video soundtracks, or just experiment with new ideas about music and sound.

Ardour capabilities include: multichannel recording, non-destructive editing with unlimited undo/redo, full automation support, a powerful mixer, unlimited tracks/busses/plugins, timecode synchronization, and hardware control from surfaces like the Mackie Control Universal.

Ardour strives to meet the needs of professional users. This means implementing all the "hard stuff" that other DAWs ( even some leading commercial apps ) handle incorrectly or not at all. Ardour has a completely flexible "anything to anywhere" routing system, and will allow as many physical I/O ports as your system allows. Ardour supports a wide range of audio-for-video features such as video-synced playback and pullup/pulldown sample rates. You will also find powerful features such as "persistent undo", multi-language support, and destructive track punching modes that aren't available on other platforms.

More at:http://www.ardour.org/

WebAsyst is a suite of online services

What Company Is Offering:

WebAsyst is a suite of online services for group or personal use. All services are tightly integrated and can be accessed from one account that requires single login.



How It Works:

WebAsyst enables you to implement customer, project and file management in your web browser without downloading additional software.

WebAsyst consists of several web services which you can use in suite or separately.
WebAsyst supports multiple databases. You can create unlimited number of databases on the same server. A user must type his or her account name in a browser address line and then specify Username and Password to login to WebAsyst account. Every database has its own profile which specifies WebAsyst services installed in that particular database, available data storage space, maximum number of users, and many other parameters.

WebAsyst requires user authorization. Depending on assigned access rights, which are defined by administrator, any user can work with some or all services (e.g. WebAsyst Files, WebAsyst Contacts etc.) and have access to designated folders and functions.

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

NextBio's mission is to make the world's life sciences information universally accessible

What Company Is Offering:
NextBio's mission is to make the world's life sciences information universally accessible. Their goal is to empower researchers and clinicians to make new discoveries in science, find new and better cures to diseases, and work more collaboratively.

How It Works:

NextBio is designed to be used by anyone interested in basic and clinical research, drug discovery or biology. Through NextBio you can understand the function of your genes of interest and their roles in disease, identify novel biomarkers, discover associations between diseases, treatments and tissues, or place your own data within the context of the world's experimental results. The literature search enables you to quickly place any interesting findings within the context of published articles. You can also collaborate with other researchers using NextBio.

NextBio currently supports any type of gene-centric data (gene expression, proteomics, siRNA screens, etc.) for human, mouse, rat, fly, worm and yeast. They are actively working on adding support for monkey, plants and many other organisms.

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

BeamMe.Info that allows companies to deliver free-to-user, requested information from their websites directly to customers mobile phones

What Company Is Offering:
BeamMe.Info is a new SMS information service that allows companies to deliver free-to-user, requested information from their websites directly to customers mobile phones.A Beam is essentially a piece of website information that has our code installed so it can be sent to a mobile phone. Our service takes care of all the backend work of making sure it gets to the right phone in the right format. All that you see on a website is a small blue button next to the relevant piece of content. When clicked, a box appears allowing the user to enter their mobile number.

How It Works:

The primary focus of BeamMe.Info is to give Internet users the convenience of being able to send useful information from the web directly to their mobile phones. They want the process for users to be free and so simple that it will become part of their everyday workflows on the Internet.


By putting Beams on a website publishers are adding value to their content or service. Allowing visitors to mobilize their website content, saves them the hassle of printing things out or writing them down. This extends the interaction lifecycle long after the visitor has left the website. There are obvious environmental benefits as well.

You can use BeamMe.Info in 180 countries, they have deals with all the major carriers that allows us to send information to just about any SMS enabled phone in the world.

Their technology allows anybody to add this functionality to their website without the use of expensive applications or working out agreements with aggregators. You just take our code and plug it into your site. All of the billing and reporting takes place on the BeamMe.Info website.

More at:http://www.beamme.info/

VideoClix content are clickable, providing a next generation interactive video platform with a robust monetization solution

What Company Is Offering:
All objects in VideoClix content are clickable, providing a next generation interactive video platform with a robust monetization solution for content providers, and an effective non-intrusive media vehicle for advertisers.

How It Works:

VideoClix helps monetize content through the VideoClix Ad Delivery Network while enabling content providers to bring their own advertisers, sponsors and brand integration deals to the table.

VideoClix ensures a positive viewing experience, creating a far greater impact than traditional online advertising.

With VideoClix there is nothing standing between viewers and their video. The VideoClix player provides an intuitive, user-friendly interface with seamless interactivity and complete user control.

The company caters to top producers and advertisers with its end-to-end hypervideo solution that includes: authoring, content delivery network, HD quality player, metrics, syndication, social media and standard IAB display ads.


More at:http://www.videoclix.tv/