Monday, May 5, 2008

Ebuga .com----The Automotive Social Network

What Company Is Offering:

Ebuga is a vertical motor site. In essence: users helping other users to buy a car.
A site fully focussed on helping future car buyers.An international site, with activity in many countries. A site with user-generated content; the vast majority of content on ebuga.com will be generated by users motivated to help other users by sharing their opinions.

Users can contact each other if they want to, based on common interests and they can also create groups to discuss their interests.

They will to help suppliers (car dealers, car manufacturers, motor classified portals, financing and insurance companies, etc) to reach our users with their best possible offers.

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

Analysis-one assists any business to measure, monitor and manage financial and non-financial performance

What Company Is Offering:

analysis-one is an online tool for decision makers, providing quick, visual reports on your organization's health, weaknesses and value.


How It Works:

Analysis-one is a sophisticated, yet simple to use tool developed by leading business performance specialists. Analysis-one assists any business to measure, monitor and manage financial and non-financial performance.

Turn accounting data into powerful visual reports. Utilize analysis-one to calculate and monitor key management ratios, then communicate performance using scorecards and other unique visual presentations.

Understand & visualize the impact of key drivers on business value. Formulate strategies to achieve business targets and avoid the default ‘hit & miss’ approach.

More at:http://www.analysis-one.com/

DefineItFast .com ----The fastest online dictionary on the world wide web

What Company Is Offering:

DefineItFast .com aims to make everyone's search for definitions easier and faster and become the fastest online dictionary on the world wide web.


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

Project Vino is an Australian website all about enhancing your wine experiences

What Company Is Offering:

Project Vino is an Australian website all about enhancing your wine experiences. Sydney based team is busy producing great tools and features to do just that. Project Vino is a website dedicated to enhanceing your Australian and New Zealand wine experiences - both online and offline.

How It Works:

Simple Search with the box in the left hand column.Browse by Variety, Winery or Region. Rate, Tag and Comment on wines you drink. Record your own review . Comment on wineries and regions you’ve been to. Recommendations of new wines automatically based on your reviews.Keep a Wishlist of wines you want to try.Print the Project Vino Wine Tasting Notebook to help review wine.

More at:http://www.projectvino.com.au/

WORKetc is for small and medium businesses who want access to best practice, business management software

What Company Is Offering:
WORKetc is for small and medium businesses who want access to best practice, business management software, without the cost or complexity of traditional systems.

Their typical customer is a service business with less than 20 employees or contractors, working from multiple locations. Business owners and management love the level of reporting detail and operational control offered by WORKetc, while employees appreciate the freedom to work remotely and access tools quickly.

How It Works:

WORKetc is a total small business software management tool and intranet. WORKetc systemises many of your daily activities such as tracking billable time, managing customer support, marketing and invoicing - making them easily accessible through the single interface.

For example, your contractors can sign into your WORKetcweb site and record their work hours using the time tracking software. Data from the time sheets is then used by the billing software to generate professional invoices. At the same time, project management software takes this information to update the progress of a client project. And via the management reports you can review financial and projects in real time.

More at:http://worketc.com/

Radian6 created tools to help remove the barriers to effective social media monitoring and analysis

What Company Is Offering:
Radian6 is focused on building the complete monitoring and analysis solution for PR and advertising professionals so they can be the experts in social media.Radian6 created tools to help remove the barriers to effective social media monitoring and analysis.

How It Works:

Radian6's user-friendly web dashboard allows topics to be quickly setup for monitoring, queries and analysis. Use it to uncover seemingly hidden issues and trends that could affect strategic directions for clients. Easily share analysis with clients and others to support your recommendations and proposals.

Once setup is complete the system automatically collects and tracks content for the topic. It monitors all forms of social media including blogs, top video sharing sites, forums, opinion and review sites, image sharing sites, microblogging sites, online mainstream media and other sites as they become available. The process of discovery and collection is a 24/7 process, with data pushed to your dashboard in real-time, as it is captured.

More at:http://www.radian6.com/

NetinaClick.com---To find, discounted internet services including website hosting solutions, internet marketing services, website tools

What Company Is Offering:
NetinaClick.com offers customers easy to find, discounted internet services including website hosting solutions, internet marketing services, website tools, internet business website design and internet payment processing solutions.

Netinaclick provides you with almost everything that you can think of on one platform. From searching the net for discounted products and services to looking for new web hosts to driving more traffic to your website almost anything can be found on this website. Now you will not need to go to different resources for all of these services. This will save the users of Netinaclick.com lots of precious time as well as precious finances that can be used on something else.

How It Works:

Whether you wish to get information about the prices that are offered by different web hosts or any other web related services you can get it from Netinaclick.com. Netinaclick.com can be used to compare web hosting solutions so that the business entities can find the right host for their business.

Netinaclick.com provides link and other useful websites and other services as well like providing you with sources that you can use to advertise your website. This can help you in not only getting more web traffic but also generate revenues if you use the services of websites that uses tools such as pay-per-click, content search, in line search, ad search, entire website search and much more.

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

Yoono is “instant people-rated web"

What Company Is Offering:
Yoono is “instant people-rated web”. This means that while you surf, yoono displays a list of other web pages. These are “people-rated” - others have classified them in their favorites. You can also get suggestions for your favorites folders .
Click the Surprise! button to get a random suggestion based on your favorites.


How It Works:

Find other users who have a particular web page in their favorites (via suggestions or via a user you already know). Yoono IE Bar only: When you have found a user, you can subscribe to on of their shared folders - you’ll be informed when they add to the folder. The subscribed folder is displayed ion the Favorites tab.

If you have more than 1 computer, yoono synchronizes your bookmarks between them.


If I’m viewing the page http://www.finedarkchocolate.com/. Yoono returns the following :

other web pages - these are bookmarks that users have classified next to that chocolate page in their favorites. Try them out - they’ll probably interest you too ! (Tip: to keep the suggestions displayed while changing pag, click on “Lock the suggestions” - top left button in the Suggestions tab)
users (yoosers) - who have bookmarked the page in a “Shared” favorites folder. You can see their folder which will have many related sites. (Tip:see the user’s profile by clicking on the underlined username)
resources - blogs and other resources which talk about the site you’re visiting.

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

CustomizedGirl is revolutionizing fashion by personalizing fashion

What Company Is Offering:

CustomizedGirl is revolutionizing fashion by personalizing fashion. They believe in encouraging creative expression in any form, and that includes clothes. Fashion is more exciting when you can be your own personal designer. Keeping that in mind, they developed the CustomizedGirl Collection and interactive website.

Their goal is to exceed your expectations. They select items and materials based on quality, and they take great pride in each and every item that they make.

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

PortableApps.com

What Company Is Offering:
PortableApps.com Suite is a collection of portable apps including a web browser, email client, office suite, calendar/scheduler, instant messaging client, antivirus, sudoku game, backup utility and integrated menu, all preconfigured to work portably. Just drop it on your portable device and you're ready to go.


Who Is Backing Them:

PortableApps.com is a community site devoted to the development, promotion and use of portable applications. The site was created by John T. Haller, the developer behind numerous portable applications (like Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition and OpenOffice.org Portable) as a way to centralize the knowledge and development efforts of multiple portable application efforts.

More at:http://portableapps.com/

Buzzd, a location-based mobile startup has raised around $3 million in Series A funding

What Company Is Offering:
Buzzd is a location-sensitive entertainment listings service with branded editorial and real-time user generated content on the mobile device."Your city, in real-time," buzzd allows consumers to know what's happening at any venue right now, rate events, and connect with friends and people in the area. Buzzd is based in New York City and backed by Monitor Ventures and Greycroft Partners.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Buzzd, a location-based mobile startup headquartered in New York, has raised around $3 million in Series A funding (including convertible securities), according to a regulatory filing. It had previously disclosed the round, but not the dollar amount. Backers include Greycroft Partners and Monitor Venture Partners.

More at: www.buzzd.com

Goodrec Inc is Web 2.0 company focused on helping users remember, share and find recommendations, has secured $900,000

what Company Is Offering:

Goodrec is building an innovative way to remember, share, and find recommendations. Goodrec is currently invite-only. Please submit your email and they will send you an invitation when they launch to the public.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Goodrec Inc., a San Francisco-based Web 2.0 company focused on helping users remember, share and find recommendations, has secured $900,000 of a $1.05 million Series A round, according to a regulatory filing. Backers include SoftTech VC and Chance Technologies Seed.

More at: www.goodrec.com

Bigfoot Networks Inc is maker of a hardware PC card that reduces in-game lag for video games, has raised $8.75 million

What Company Is Offering:

Bigfoot Networks develops technologies designed to fight Lag in online games. Their products are designed to enhance the online gaming experience in multiplayer action games, providing smoother, more responsive gameplay.
Based on LLR Technology, they offer software and hardware solutions for game developers, online gamers, PC and board manufacturers, and system builders.


How Much They Got From Vcs:

Bigfoot Networks Inc., an Austin, Texas-based maker of a hardware PC card that reduces in-game lag for video games, has raised $8.75 million in Series B funding, according to a regulatory filing. Palomar Ventures and North Bridge Venture Partners were joined by return backer Venio Capital Partners. It had previously raised a $4 million Series A round in 2006.

More at:www.bigfootnetworks.com

Surchur.com ---Search multiple sites from a single place

What Company Is Offering:
Surchur.com does their very best to filter content that may not be appropriate for the public at large (i.e. adult, gambling, cursing etc.). Though they allow surches for any topic they filter out caching those that some might find offensive - they know your list of topics is probably very different, but at least they have a start!

How It Works:
Surchur is a great source for the latest and the greatest on topics that are in the now. For example, want to learn the latest about your favorite pop star. Type their name into Surchur and you'll be amazed at all of the nitty gritty you'll find. Surchur.com isn't so good for that narrow, topical Surch that you might make on one of those big leviathan search engines. For example, type in "toby's cinnamon spice peach cobbler" into Surchur.com and they're pretty sure you'll be disappointed.


They put the most common recent surches up on their home page so that you can see what others are surching for. Click on them and they will take you to the surch for that specific topic. Plus they will be cached so they should load lickety split!


You can click on the link at the top of the page that says "news" and it will take you to your surch with just news and up to 30 results per source. That way you'll have as much news as we've got available for you to browse through. This works for other content types as well such as pages, videos, pictures or products.

More at:http://surchur.com/

Adverstore is the definitive creative advertising store for the micro and small businesses online campaigns

What Company Is Offering:
Adverstore is the definitive creative advertising store for the micro and small businesses online campaigns.

Simply put, it is the path for individual, micro and small companies to access the same high quality professional advertising designs big companies do, at an inexpensive cost and through an extremely easy process.

They have upsided-down the process of creating online advertising creative campaigns, in order to make it more efficient, fast and inexpensive for the micro and small companies.


How It Works:

They select hundreds of different businesses from all industry sectors and then research and design different possible communication approaches for each specific business.

Then, through their inhouse and worldwide network of Professional Ad Designers

They design different creative campaigns for each communication approach.
They develop different creative pieces in different formats (static, animated, flash, etc.) and sizes for each campaign and they create templates ready to be easily customized by you.

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

Silkfair is an online marketplace where you can buy and sell anything from anywhere

What Company Is Offering:

Silkfair is an online marketplace where you can buy and sell anything from anywhere. Silkfair makes the experience of buying and selling fun and easy! Silkfair is designed to be faster, easier and very cost effective in selling. There are no startup costs to start selling. Are you going to let this opportunity pass by?

At Silkfair, they aim to be the premier e-commerce site for users to buy and sell their goods online. They are always looking to innovate and provide more great features and tools to their users.

Silkfair makes virtual stores more fun than ever with its new features, which allow you to promote your store and items with your creative ads, commercials or demos, using the video player application. It allows you to customize your store, so that you, with your creativity, can have a direct impact on customers. Don’t wait any longer, join Silkfair today!


How Is It Different:

Silkfair is the only marketplace where sellers can effectively showcase products without feeling like being at a crowded and cluttered flea market. Silkfair provides a space for you to customize and showcase your products. They bring the latest in technology to help you sell, and to enable you to engage and interact directly with customers. It is the only marketplace that gives you all the advanced tools you need to sell online that you can set up quickly. You can set up your own store, with your own name and it will even give you your own URL, under the Silkfair domain. If you wish, you can also bring your own domain name.

Silkfair has a unique user-friendly interface - Tired of going through page after page just to list or edit an item? - We don’t like that either, hence we have designed our user interface so that sellers can edit listings directly. Just log in with your ID, get to the item you want to edit and click on any field. Hovering your mouse/cursor over the editable fields will give you gentle highlighted signals to let you know that it’s an editable field and go on, make your change.

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