Saturday, May 3, 2008

Addictomatic searches the best live sites on the web for the latest news, blog posts, videos and images

What Company Is Offering:
Addictomatic searches the best live sites on the web for the latest news, blog posts, videos and images. It's the perfect tool to keep up with the hottest topics, perform ego searches and feed your addiction for what's up and what's now.


How It Works:

After you search, you can personalize your results dashboard by moving around the source boxes. When you're done, bookmark the page and keep coming back to your personaized results dashboard for that search.

Their newsfix pages provide the latest headlines on topics such as entertainment, politics, shopping, sports and more. You get all the feeds from the best sources in each category. And like your search results dashboard, you can personalize the layout of the headline boxes, delete ones you don't like and bookmark your personalized page.

More at:http://addictomatic.com/

OntoWiki is a tool providing support for agile, distributed knowledge engineering scenarios

What Company Is Offering:
OntoWiki is a tool providing support for agile, distributed knowledge engineering scenarios.

OntoWiki facilitates the visual presentation of a knowledge base as an information map, with different views on instance data. It enables intuitive authoring of semantic content, with an inline editing mode for editing RDF content, similar to WYSIWIG for text documents.

How It Works:

It fosters social collaboration aspects by keeping track of changes, allowing to comment and discuss every single part of a knowledge base, enabling to rate and measure the popularity of content and honoring the activity of users.
OntoWiki enhances the browsing and retrieval by offering semantic enhanced search strategies. All these techniques are applied with the ultimate goal of decreasing the entrance barrier for projects and domain experts to collaborate using semantic technologies. In the spirit of the Web 2.0 OntoWiki implements an “architecture of participation” that allows users to add value to the application as they use it.


More at:http://ontowiki.net/

IdeaCrossing---Connecting Entrepreneurs,Investors,VCs

What Company Is Offering:
IdeaCrossing’s mission is to create the connections that build businesses. They do this by helping Entrepreneurs find the assistance and investment capital they need to launch promising new business ventures, while simultaneously serving the Angel and Venture Capital Community by identifying and screening new investment opportunities. IdeaCrossing also provides greater visibility to the numerous assets located throughout a given region, including universities, economic development organizations, chambers of commerce, foundations, and professional service providers.

How It Works:

Upon registration, you will be required to provided the following personal information: first and last name, username and password, screen name, title, email address, business address, phone number; and the following company information: company name, website, description, number of employees in your company, years in business, industry, and logo if desired. You will also be asked to read and agree to the Term of Use and asked your preferences regarding receipt of IdeaCrossing and JumpStart emails.

For Entrepreneurs, Investors, Service Providers and Business Mentors, connections are key. IdeaCrossing offers the intersection where ideas meet capital, where deal flow flourishes, and where resources, services and support facilitate growth and opportunities. As a Registered User, you will have access to a customizable Resource Center complete with current news, articles, event listings, and a service directory. You can also participate in ongoing dialogue with other registered Users through the Resource Center Discussion Forums. By registering and creating a profile as an Entrepreneur, Investor or Business Mentor your profile will be subject to matching through Elise, the IdeaCrossing matching engine.


The funding resources available through IdeaCrossing are dependent on the Investors who post Investment Profiles. Sources we expect to become available through IdeaCrossing are equity, grants and loans.

More at:https://www.ideacrossing.org/

Sharetrip.com

What Company Is Offering:
Sharetrip.com offers you the opportunity of writing your own blog related to travel.
A blog is a web page made up of usually short, frequently updated posts that are arranged chronologically.

Sharetrip.com's members are sharing stories, insider tips, news from the most popular destinations, and unique advice to prepare, and be ready for your future trips.

How It Works:

Sharetrip.com's free membership connects travelers with each other and with relevant travel information.

The content and purposes of blogs varies greatly — from links and commentary about other web sites, to news about a company/person/idea, to diaries, photos, poetry, mini-essays, project updates, even fiction.
But in Sharetrip.com all post are related to travel experiences, resort reviews, restaurant comments, destination advice...
Blog posts are like instant messages to the web. They help small groups communicate in a way that is simpler and easier to follow than email or discussion forums.

With Sharetrip.com service you can also publish and share your travel photos and videos.

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

Sanriotown develops and distributes a unique line of over 12,000 children’s gifts, stationery and accessory items

What Company Is Offering:
Sanriotown develops and distributes a unique line of over 12,000 children’s gifts, stationery and accessory items. Hello Kitty is the company’s flagship character. Sanrio’s principal business activities include the design and sale of social communication gifts and greeting cards, publication and distribution of books and magazines, character licensing and adaptation services, and others. Consumers are primarily women of all ages. Sanrio was established in 1960, and has built a strong offline brand with a large consumer base and growing online following.


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

FreeAgent is an online money management and accounting tool intended for small, service businesses

What Company Is Offering:
FreeAgent is an online money management and accounting tool intended for small, service businesses of 1-3 employees. This will include most kinds of freelancers, contractors and consultants. Whether you are just getting started, or are already in business as a sole trader or limited company, VAT registered or not, FreeAgent can save you time.

How It Works:

FreeAgent will probably not be for you if you tend to sell lots of products rather than services, hold materials and stock, or handle cash as part of your business.

All accounts start with a free 30-day trial. We have 2 basic types of price plans: our Universal Account which can be used by anyone, but is general used by businesses outside the UK, and our UK business plans for Sole Traders, Partnerships and Limited Companies

You can find full details of the cost structure on our pricing page. The short answer is £15 per month for UK Sole Traders, £20 per month for UK Partnerships/LLPs and £25 per month for UK Limited Companies while the Universal Account costs US $20 per month.

The main difference between our UK business accounts and the international Universal Account, is the calculation of certain UK tax liabilities, which has been built specifically for UK companies.

Universal accounts can still take advantage of all of the other money management features of FreeAgent and in time we'll be releasing localised versions of FreeAgent for other countries around the world, with tax functionality designed specifically for them.

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