What Company Is Offering:
Heroku provides a full stack platform. No decisions necessary, just get straight to coding your app. Heroku is built on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), so your apps have access to unlimited computing power.
When you create or import an app with Heroku, it's already live on the web. No configuration or deployment necessary. With a full Ruby and Rails runtime environment, you can run any Ruby code you can write, no limits. Install any gem or plugin directly into your app with one click. Pull from the standard gem and plugin directories, or upload your own.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Heroku, a San Francisco-based provider of Ruby on Rails application tools, has raised $3 million led by Redpoint Ventures.
More at:www.heroku.com
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Zazengo is a shared online platform for tracking social action and aggregating impact
What Company Is Offering:
Zazengo is a shared online platform for tracking social action and aggregating impact.
Zazengo enables all organizations with a desire for social action to attract, inspire and empower their members with a revenue-generating, easy-to-use, shared platform that provides project matching, tracking, action and impact across multiple projects and organizations.
How It Works:
Zazengo’s widgets enable syndication for embedding action wherever it makes sense - including on social networking sites such as Facebook, media sites and corporate sites. Zazengo provides tools to create and organize campaigns, activities and projects that transform awareness into action.
Non-profit organizations including 4H USA and America’s Promise among others have committed to using the Zazengo Platform.
Zazengo leverages the ’social web’ by enabling users to invite friends, join projects, report impact, keep friends up-to-date on projects, share stories, rate and rank friends’ projects and turn social networks into an impact engine. Zazengo projects are created by a user, managed by a project organization, sponsored by a sponsor and syndicated out through media partners.
Zazengo allows advertisers and sponsors to “brand impact” by associating their brand with highly dynamic communities of action, getting something done and making a difference.
More at:http://www.zazengo.com/
Zazengo is a shared online platform for tracking social action and aggregating impact.
Zazengo enables all organizations with a desire for social action to attract, inspire and empower their members with a revenue-generating, easy-to-use, shared platform that provides project matching, tracking, action and impact across multiple projects and organizations.
How It Works:
Zazengo’s widgets enable syndication for embedding action wherever it makes sense - including on social networking sites such as Facebook, media sites and corporate sites. Zazengo provides tools to create and organize campaigns, activities and projects that transform awareness into action.
Non-profit organizations including 4H USA and America’s Promise among others have committed to using the Zazengo Platform.
Zazengo leverages the ’social web’ by enabling users to invite friends, join projects, report impact, keep friends up-to-date on projects, share stories, rate and rank friends’ projects and turn social networks into an impact engine. Zazengo projects are created by a user, managed by a project organization, sponsored by a sponsor and syndicated out through media partners.
Zazengo allows advertisers and sponsors to “brand impact” by associating their brand with highly dynamic communities of action, getting something done and making a difference.
More at:http://www.zazengo.com/
Medstory's mission is to enable users to search complex fields on the Web intelligently
What Company Is Offering:
Medstory's mission is to enable users to search complex fields on the Web intelligently. They're starting with health and medicine – an area where many people will appreciate a service that helps them quickly get high value information, and a field where we have expertise based on our work with health-related organizations.
To them, providing intelligent search means supporting an understanding of both a user's intent behind a search and the results that are delivered. For a field like health and medicine, they believe that search engines should deliver more to users than just a list of Web pages. Their approach is to try to synthesize the meaning of every user search in the context of health and medicine, and then share this knowledge with the user to help refine and guide their search.
How It Works:
When you use Medstory to search for health information, your results page will usually contain much more than just links to relevant pages on the Web. This quick guide will help you get the most out of your Medstory search experience.
When Medstory presents Information that Matters, it puts this information in categories (like drugs, conditions and personal health) to help you quickly find what matters most. To learn more about the categories that Medstory uses.
Within each information category, every item is followed by a bar that represents how relevant Medstory thinks that item is to your search. For each category, the longer the bar, the more relevant.
More at:http://www.medstory.com/
Medstory's mission is to enable users to search complex fields on the Web intelligently. They're starting with health and medicine – an area where many people will appreciate a service that helps them quickly get high value information, and a field where we have expertise based on our work with health-related organizations.
To them, providing intelligent search means supporting an understanding of both a user's intent behind a search and the results that are delivered. For a field like health and medicine, they believe that search engines should deliver more to users than just a list of Web pages. Their approach is to try to synthesize the meaning of every user search in the context of health and medicine, and then share this knowledge with the user to help refine and guide their search.
How It Works:
When you use Medstory to search for health information, your results page will usually contain much more than just links to relevant pages on the Web. This quick guide will help you get the most out of your Medstory search experience.
When Medstory presents Information that Matters, it puts this information in categories (like drugs, conditions and personal health) to help you quickly find what matters most. To learn more about the categories that Medstory uses.
Within each information category, every item is followed by a bar that represents how relevant Medstory thinks that item is to your search. For each category, the longer the bar, the more relevant.
More at:http://www.medstory.com/
Monkiri is a user friendly tool that enables a web user to have clippings of a webpage and comment on the same
What Company Is Offering:
Monkiri is a user friendly tool that enables a web user to have clippings of a webpage and comment on the same. Literally Monkiri means the Japanese art of paper cutting. Newspaper clippings are always a means amongst any knowledge enthusiasts to store a piece of information. In the web world Monkiri meets the same need. Monkiri lets one read and write blogs about any item published on a website.
How It Works:
With the help of Monkiri button a user can snap required portion of the item on the webpage and blog it. The user can then give a comprehensive review of the same and add on his comments. The ‘View Entries’ feature from Monkiri menu enables other interested users to visit the blogged item and comment on the same. In this way everyone visiting that page can review the comments giving one a potentially large audience. Over a period of time users can build up an online journal of articles of interest. In other words, Monkiri makes blogging and sharing a simple affair.
One of the main features of Web 2.0 is the democratization of the web where web users are no longer content to be passive observers of information that has been fed to them – they want to be active participants. Monkiri has been developed to take this advantage of Web 2.0.
More at:http://www.monkiri.com/
Monkiri is a user friendly tool that enables a web user to have clippings of a webpage and comment on the same. Literally Monkiri means the Japanese art of paper cutting. Newspaper clippings are always a means amongst any knowledge enthusiasts to store a piece of information. In the web world Monkiri meets the same need. Monkiri lets one read and write blogs about any item published on a website.
How It Works:
With the help of Monkiri button a user can snap required portion of the item on the webpage and blog it. The user can then give a comprehensive review of the same and add on his comments. The ‘View Entries’ feature from Monkiri menu enables other interested users to visit the blogged item and comment on the same. In this way everyone visiting that page can review the comments giving one a potentially large audience. Over a period of time users can build up an online journal of articles of interest. In other words, Monkiri makes blogging and sharing a simple affair.
One of the main features of Web 2.0 is the democratization of the web where web users are no longer content to be passive observers of information that has been fed to them – they want to be active participants. Monkiri has been developed to take this advantage of Web 2.0.
More at:http://www.monkiri.com/
MintEmail.com gives you a four hour temporary email address
What Company Is Offering:
MintEmail.com gives you a four hour temporary email address. Your new temporary email address has been already saved to your clipboard (no need to press Ctrl+C). All incoming emails will be displayed on this page.
How It Works:
Their website robot will automatically verify the email address for most websites. This means you no longer have to click on the URL link to verify the email (This feature currently works for most but not all websites).
Simply visit the website mintemail.com and a random email address will be automatically generated and copied to your clipboard. There's no need to press Ctrl+C. You can then go ahead and paste the email wherever its desired.
Once your email is received the title bar will automatically be updated. You don't need to constantly refresh the page to check if your email has arrived.
More at:http://www.mintemail.com/
MintEmail.com gives you a four hour temporary email address. Your new temporary email address has been already saved to your clipboard (no need to press Ctrl+C). All incoming emails will be displayed on this page.
How It Works:
Their website robot will automatically verify the email address for most websites. This means you no longer have to click on the URL link to verify the email (This feature currently works for most but not all websites).
Simply visit the website mintemail.com and a random email address will be automatically generated and copied to your clipboard. There's no need to press Ctrl+C. You can then go ahead and paste the email wherever its desired.
Once your email is received the title bar will automatically be updated. You don't need to constantly refresh the page to check if your email has arrived.
More at:http://www.mintemail.com/
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