Thursday, May 8, 2008

PCTuneupTools.com

What Company Is Offering:

A plethora of helpful PC speed up tips & tricks that can help you keep your computer running at optimum performance. Download a PC Tuneup Toolbar that will allow you to locate the best online resources to aide in getting the life back to your PC.
Find out how to deal with all those pesky vista problems without pulling your hair out and without switching back to a previous operating system.
Find out what PC tools you should consider using, what tools you won't ever need, and which tools you should never be without! Find out why you should back-up your windows registry and how to do so easily and quickly.

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

3GP Video Converter

What Company Is Offering:

iSkysoft 3GP Video Converter for Mac is a professional 3GP converter for Mac OS users. It can convert all sorts of video formats to 3GP videos that can be played on video cell phones of various bands for 3GP cell phone users. It supports most common video formats and it is an MPEG to 3GP Converter, an MOV to 3GP Converter, a WMV to 3GP converter and so on. iSkysoft 3GP Converter for Mac has various practical features such as batch conversion, setting video brightness, contrast, saturation, video file trim, video crop, video trim, and joining multiple files into one file. Enjoy videos on your 3GP cell phones with iSkysoft 3GP Video Converter for Mac!

More:http://pocket.qweas.com/

Short URL service's main purpose is to ease forum posting or to hide your affiliate links from your site's visitors

What Company Is Offering:

Short URL service's main purpose is to ease forum posting or to hide your affiliate links from your site's visitors.

How It Works:

This site provides you easy-to-use yet very powerful interface with custom tags, bulk URL submission, password-protected links, both IP- and password-based authorization, links editing and statistics include IPs and sources of your visitors.

More at:http://linkslash.com/

Instant domain name search tool

About Company:

Domize is a secure, instant domain name search tool. As you type a domain name into the query box they immediately check its availability.

As available domain names become increasingly scarce it's important to have better tools at hand. Domize not only allows you to quickly search through available domain names, but it does so in a secure environment. All Domize traffic is secured over SSL, making sure your queries stay private and away from snooping eyes.

More at:https://domize.com/

Centrespread is to be a central place where every can share their opinions on recent issues, the content, the advertisements that appear

What Company Is Offering:

The aim of the site is to be a central place where every can share their opinions on recent issues, the content, the advertisements that appear and our overall impression of that issue. It will be a great place to share comments with fellow readers that share the same interests. Now you can share your comments with them.


A unique format, they represent a medium that combines a number of essential elements - portabliity, tactility, repetitiveness and a combination of text and images. Today, there are more magazines than ever available, and more continue to be launched. Here at centrespread we only focus on consumer magazines (the ones you buy in your local shop). There are almost 3,000 titles in the UK.

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

Budket is an easy, fun, and affordable financial planning application for budgeting and cash flow analysis

What Company Is Offering:

Budket is an easy, fun, and affordable financial planning application for budgeting and cash flow analysis.


With Budket you can easily calculate cash flows for your chosen period of time. Design your budget, click Cash flow, set initial cash, the time period, and the effective days for each budget row, and let the application calculate your cash flow.


Budgeting with Excel or other spreadsheets is possible and unfortunately de-facto way for many companies. It's perfectly fine if only one person is doing the complete budgeting, but if you work together with your team to plan the budget, mastering the Excel chaos is time consuming and frankly, not necessary.

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

readbag is a nifty tool to store links you find

About Company:

readbag is a nifty tool to store links you find, but want to read later.
in your browser, phone, e-mail, feed reader, via API or even an offline mode.

More at:http://readbag.com/

Parature Inc is provider of online customer support software, has raised $16 million in Series B funding

What Company Is Offering:
Parature is the global leader in on-demand customer service software, making it possible for any business to leverage the Internet to provide outstanding customer service.

Parature provides the smartest, most efficient way to serve, support, retain, engage with and maximize the value of every customer. Our software-as-a-service (SaaS) delivery and integrated, intuitive design enable organizations to get up and running quickly, easily and efficiently.

Parature is the only company dedicated solely to on-demand customer service and support software. Our flagship product, Parature Customer Service™, integrates a customer portal, rich knowledgebase and full ticketing system in one dynamic system that streamlines and strengthens ongoing customer responsiveness and communication.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Parature Inc., a Vienna, Va.-based provider of online customer support software, has raised $16 million in Series B funding. Accel Partners led the round, and was joined by return backers Sierra Ventures and Valhalla Partners. Parature had previously raised around $28 million.

More at:www.parature.com

Kontiki is P2P delivery platform powers the world's largest media companies broadband video on-demand download services got VCs funding

What Company Is Offering:
Kontiki's secure, scalable, and legitimate P2P delivery platform powers the world's largest media companies broadband video on-demand download services including the BBC iPlayer, and BSkyB's Sky Anytime on PC service, in the UK. Kontiki's ISP-friendly protocol, fine network controls, security, edge throttling capabilities and client application flexibility are ideal for all constituents in the broadband video delivery value chain ,Content Owners, Network Operators and Consumers.
mpany Is Offering:

Kontiki provides complete content delivery solutions for large enterprises including corporate communications, training, customer support and software delivery. Kontiki's patented Grid Delivery technology allows companies to securely deliver high quality video and software updates at a fraction of the cost of traditional delivery solutions. Some of the largest and most well known Enterprises rely on Kontiki for high quality video and large file delivery to all employees worldwide.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Kontiki, the leading provider of managed peer-assisted delivery for high-quality video and digital content, announced today that it has completed the anticipated divestiture from VeriSign, Inc. As a result, the assets previously comprising VeriSign's Broadband Content Services business unit will be re-launched as Kontiki Inc., with funding from MK Capital.



The Kontiki Delivery Management System is a patented peer-assisted content delivery technology which enables the delivery of high quality video and other rich media securely and efficiently at very large scale. Built on an award-winning peer-assisted content delivery and management platform, Kontiki is used by Fortune 500 companies for its massive scalability and network efficiency.

Iceberg is a powerful platform for building high-quality, dynamic business software

What Company Is Offering:
Iceberg is a powerful platform for building high-quality, dynamic business software. Beyond this, Iceberg is a platform for marketing these applications to others with similar business challenges.
Iceberg is a powerful web-based tool for the creation and usage of custom-built business software. Beyond this, Iceberg is a platform for sharing and marketing this software to others who may have the same business needs.

How It Works:

Iceberg allows you to use and create complex, reliable business applications.
Unlike many off-the-shelf applications, an Iceberg application is custom-built specifically for your business and is, therefore, highly dynamic and adaptable to your own personal needs.An Iceberg application is also highly reliable. Because Iceberg doesn't rely on any hand-written-code, there is little likelihood for human-error in the creation of an Iceberg application.


More at:http://geticeberg.com/

SlideShare is the best way to share your presentations with the world has raised $3 million in Series A funding

What Company Is Offering:
SlideShare is the best way to share your presentations with the world. Let your ideas reach a broad audience. Share publicly or privately. Add audio to create a webinar. SlideShare is the world's largest community for sharing presentations.
Individuals & organizations upload presentations to share their ideas, connect with others, and generate leads for their businesses.
Anyone can find presentations on topics that interest them. They can tag, download, or embed presentations into their own blogs & websites.
SlideShare is the best way to get your slides out there on the web, so your ideas can be found and shared by a wide audience. Do you want to get the word out about your product or service? Do you want your slides to reach people who could not make it to your talk? Are you a teacher looking to share your lesson plans? It only takes a moment - start uploading now, and let your slides do the talking!

How Much They Got From VCs:

SlideShare has raised $3 million in Series A funding, led by Venrock. David Siminoff, a partner at Venrock, has also joined SlideShare’s board of directors. Siminoff has joined the ranks of some of the other industry vets that make up SlideShare’s investors and advisory board, which currently includes Guy Kawasaki (founder of Truemors and Alltop), Dave McClure (angel investor), Mark Cuban, and Saul Klein (founding partner of The Accelerator Group) to name a few.

More at;http://www.slideshare.net/

Jinni Ltd,provider of personalized content search solutions, has raised $1 million in first-round funding

What Company Is Offering:
Jinni’s innovative content discovery solution for professional and semi-professional videos organizes metadata across multidimensional parameters of plot and experience, reflecting how people really think about entertainment. Our video data brain gives precise, succinct, and highly personalized search-and-recommendation results.

With content discovery powered by Jinni, TV Operators and Internet Content Providers can maximize content assets and user satisfaction. The soon-to-launch Jinni site showcases the service. Users can search the catalogue of online video content, develop a personal profile, meet like-minded viewers, and much more.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Jinni Ltd., an Israeli provider of personalized content search solutions, has raised $1 million in first-round funding from Start-Up Factory.

More at:www.jinni.com

InnoCentive, Inc., the global innovation marketplace has closed $6.5 million in a Series B

What Company Is Offering:
InnoCentive built the first global web community for open innovation, enabling scientists, engineers, professionals and entrepreneurs to collaborate to deliver breakthrough solutions for innovative R&D-driven organizations. InnoCentive Seekers, who collectively spend billions of dollars on R&D, submit challenges to the InnoCentive Marketplace where more than 140,000 engineers, scientists, inventors, business people, and research organizations in more than 175 countries are invited to solve them. Solvers who deliver the most innovative solutions receive financial awards ranging up to US$1,000,000.

How Much They Got From VCs:

InnoCentive, Inc., the global innovation marketplace, announced that it has closed $6.5 million in a Series B venture capital investment by Spencer Trask Ventures, Inc., a New York-based venture firm.

The latest round of funding will be used to drive InnoCentive's strategic goals for growth in 2008 and beyond, further building the company's plans to increase its solver base and offer additional support and opportunities for organizations seeking to have their challenges solved through InnoCentive.

About VCs:
Spencer Trask Ventures is a leading venture capital firm discovering ideas for the 21st century. With a network of co-investors and business leaders, Spencer Trask Ventures provides entrepreneurs with financial and intellectual capital to transform bright ideas into world-changing companies. Headquartered in New York City, Spencer Trask Ventures invests in early stage and emerging growth companies in the communications, information technology and life sciences fields. For more information please visit www.spencertrask.com


More at:www.innocentive.com.

Hobnox is a next-generation online entertainment and rich media-publishing platform

What Company Is Offering:
Hobnox is a next-generation online entertainment and rich media-publishing platform, uniting broadcast-quality web media with cutting edge community-enabling technology.


How It Works:

With Hobnox, an international media corporation is born. They combine the best of current web entertainment with the newest technological possibilities of the internet to create fascinating opportunities for both artists and audiences.

Hobnox launched by calling on artists to submit their projects to the "Hobnox Evolution”, an artist-development program that encouraged over 1,300 projects to be submitted for review. Three lucky winners were selected to now become part of the Hobnox creative community. In March 2008, Hobnox will launch the next stage in its development process - a community, stage, library for artists and the first web-based production tools are now online in our closed beta-phase.

Hobnox will evolve to become a content publishing platform that is built by artists for artists. This is the place where artists can present their content to the community, work on creative projects and connect with like-minded artists. Hobnox will be the online platform for the creation and presentation of sophisticated web-entertainment. It will be a meeting point, a stage, a workshop and eventually a marketplace for creative content.

Hobnox-channels feature in-house productions, as well as features from our partners. Through our beta phase, Hobnox will go beyond this content and begin to highlight the best projects and ideas from our community within the channels. Special talents will be assisted and supported by the Hobnox editorial team, responsible for the program content and the quality control of our channels.

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

SeenON is changing the way viewers watch and shop television, film, music videos, sports merchandise, celebrity style

What Company Is Offering:
SeenON is changing the way viewers watch and shop television, film, music videos, sports merchandise, celebrity style… well, pretty much everything. With SeenOn, viewers are able to purchase the pieces they see on screen - armed with the knowledge that they can log on to SeenON!™ immediately after each show, find the items they spotted and get their hands on them, along with behind-the-scenes scoop, previews, special offers, product giveaways and exclusive merchandise.

How It Works:
SeenON! provides consumers access into the world of shopping-enabled entertainment through its relationships with major networks, media partners, celebrities and brand marketers. As the leader in shoppable television, SeenON! connects fans with their favorite brands after the credits roll. Consumers essentially have a back-stage pass to a catalog of all the products seen on TV, in films, music videos, sports and on the red carpet. Powered by parent company, Delivery Agent Inc., founded in 2002, SeenON!™ boasts a partner roster including: ABC Entertainment, CBS Paramount, NBC Universal, Twentieth Century Fox, Viacom MTV Networks, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, The UFC and The Weinstein Company and over 7,000 brands covering categories including health and beauty, apparel and housewares.

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