Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Picture Postbox is a unique social network for photographers, artists, and other producers of digital imagery

What Company Is Offering:
Picture Postbox is a unique social network for photographers, artists, and other producers of digital imagery.

Unlike other image hosting services, Picture Postbox aims to build a community of skilled image producers and provide them with a medium for sharing their work.

Developed voluntarily by Richard Grant, QWeb, Picture Postbox is maintained and hosted by Mary Grant.

How It Works:

Browse through the public image albums submitted by users of Picture Postbox.
Here you can browse through the public image albums submitted by users of Picture Postbox. To help speed up the loading time of this listing, only 20 albums are shown per page.Select an album to view a gallery of its images.

Browse through the Picture Postbox members list.

Here you can browse through the Picture Postbox members list to find talented artists, photographers and other image producers that interest you.

More at:http://picturepostbox.com/

YCD---Connect With Local Contractors

What Company Is Offering:
Their Mission is to provide home owners and businesses an opportunity to connect with local contractors who can fulfill any home improvement project and or commercial. Their detailed profiles enable contractors to showcase their company and provided users with much more information than just a listing.

How It Works:
Find local contractors for your home improvement or commercial projects. Detail profiles, ratings, reviews, images and video.
Offering users the opportunity to rate and review and share with others their experiences provides a unique opportunity for users to make the right choices. Their unique design and software enables users to have direct interaction with the contractor(s) of their choice. Their advancements in search technology enable users to find contractors near their location by searching using our zip code radius software technology. In addition they bring informational home improvement and construction industry related articles, classifieds and events all in one user friendly place.

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

Mom Corps works to match professionals with flexible job opportunities suited to candidates' qualifications and scheduling needs

What Company Is Offering:

Mom Corps works to match professionals with flexible job opportunities suited to candidates' qualifications and scheduling needs. Candidates fill out a detailed profile specifying their professional experience and needs for flexibility, as well as upload their resume into our database.

How It Works:

Once registered, candidates can search and apply directly to active jobs. In turn, employers search the database for candidates matching their qualifications, view resumes, and notify the select candidates they wish to have apply.Mom Corps offer a variety of flexible employment opportunities. You choose when you work, how long you work, and how much time you take in between projects, and our database matches you with jobs suited to your scheduling needs. The more flexible you choose to be, the more opportunities you will find.

Getting started with Mom Corps is easy - go to the candidate homepage, and click on 'Register with Mom Corps'. Create a username (your email) and unique password and fill out our detailed candidate questionnaire to help us determine your experience and your needs for flexibility. You will also be asked to upload your resume which will be saved to your account and in our candidate database.

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

Jobmixi.com

What Company Is Offering:
Jobmixi searches thousands of company career pages along with job boards and indexes the results to the user as per the search query. These job listings are continuously updated in real time and all the expired job listings are deleted from the database.

Jobmixi team has in-depth experience in building technology products and services. understand technology, understand information (and the pain associated with overload and irrelevancy) and we understand service delivery.

How It Works:

Jobmixi.com pioneered with vertical search engine technology is trying to solve a different, more specific problem than a generalist one, focusing on the needs of job market and more specifically on job listings by visiting websites containing jobs and collecting details of the jobs to build a searchable index for Jobmixi database.


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

MyCommittee Is Collaborative tool for business

What Company Is Offering:
Committees and meetings dominate the way in which we do business and make decisions today, but they are typically thought of as inefficient. Much of the waste is due to lack of clear objectives, poorly managed meetings and unprepared members.

MyCommittee brings the committee process on-line and provides an innovative and long needed communication and management framework for transforming the committee into an efficient collaborative tool for business. It provides groups, wherever there members are, a central location for the management and communication of committee work.

How It Works:

MyCommittee keeps track for you of all action items, deferred items, etc. Meeting after meeting... For instance, when an agenda item was not completed during a meeting, it will show up again on a future agenda. Nothing is ever lost or forgotten!

When you schedule a new meeting, all members will receive a personalized notification email with a link to the online agenda. Members can add notes and comments and can RSVP directly from this page. The same will happen after the minutes are created.

All this is organized by providing your team with its own private web site. The intelligent Agenda and Minutes wizards will assist you with creating meeting agendas and minutes saving you plenty of valuable time!

No more documents to mail or email around. No more lost notes with ideas or comments. No more forgotten agenda items.

Members can communicate via threaded discussions and comments. You can even attach comments and notes to individual agenda items.

You will still meet with the same people in the same place but everything is now organized, online and available from any computer with Internet access.

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

MortgageSum.com is a site dedicated to providing the most comprehensive collection of free mortgage calculators on the web

What Company Is Offering:

MortgageSum.com is a site dedicated to providing the most comprehensive collection of free mortgage calculators on the web. Their mission is to help educate people about all aspects of mortgages, loans and financing calculations and provide tools and resources to simplify the process. They are offering all of their tools & resources FREE to their users, and strive to bring their users new and exciting services that are often a pay service elsewhere. It is also a quick way to check out different scenarios given any type of loan situation.

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

Aria Networks that enables telecoms companies to plan, design and optimise their converging Next-Generation Networks got VCs funding

What Company Is Offering:
Aria Networks develops and markets Operational Support System (OSS) software that enables telecoms companies to plan, design and optimise their converging Next-Generation Networks. Aria's technology enables telecoms companies to design, plan, and optimise their Next-Generation Networks. Using its iVNT software suite, Aria is capable of doing in minutes what it takes large teams of engineers and planners months to achieve. Furthermore, the functionality provided by Aria enables telecom operators to economically build their network and to reliably deliver the myriad of services they offer.

Aria's technology is highly disruptive and has the capability to fundamentally change the economics of a telecom operator's business.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Aria Networks, a leading provider of planning and optimisation solutions for Next-Generation Networks today announce it has secured an investment of Gbp2Million ($4Million) from Seraphim Capital, a Gbp30Million ($60Million) venture capital fund based in London, England.

"We are pleased to have completed this round of investment", said Tony Fallows CEO of Aria Networks. "Over the last year we have made significant progress with our customers and partners around the world. With Seraphim's backing, we now have the capability to further execute on our unique technology and business strategy".

More at:www.seraphimcapital.co.uk

CitizenHawk is a leading provider of digital brand management solutionshas raised $3 million

What Company Is Offering:

CitizenHawk is a leading provider of digital brand management solutions that enable companies to monitor, protect and enforce proper use of their brand online. CitizenHawk’s patent-pending technology identifies instances of cybersquatting that infringe on a company’s trademark, sends notices of fraudulent activity to domain owners, interrupts the flow of money being paid to cybersquatters and automates legal action to get fraudulent sites stopped for good.

CitizenHawk’s mission is to allow companies to protect one of their most valuable assets – their brand – and to reclaim millions in revenues lost through “accidental traffic” currently monetized by fraudulent domain holders through PPC advertising, porn ads, gambling, pop-ups, spyware, affiliate fraud and other spurious means.


How Much They Got From VCs:

CitizenHawk Inc., an Aliso Viejo, Calif.based provider of technology that helps protect brands from cybersquatters, has raised $3 million in Series B funding led by seed backer Maveron.

More:www.citizenhawk.com

Social Gaming Network, is developer of games for social networks like Facebook, has raised $15 million in Series A funding

What Company Is Offering:

Social Gaming Network (SGN) is the leading global development platform for social game distribution. SGN has created a complete ecosystem for social game developers to easily distribute and monetize their games across the social web. These games transcend traditional game play, by giving players a highly personalized, engaging, competitive, and portable user experience. Since its inception, SGN's games have attracted over 1 billion page views, 54 million installs and nearly 1.1 milion daily active users across Facebook, Bebo, hi5, and MySpace. Popular titles include, Warbook, FightClub, StreetRace, Jetman, and Free Gifts.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Social Gaming Network, is developer of games for social networks like Facebook, has raised $15 million in Series A funding. Backers include Greylock Partners, Founders Fund, Columbia Capital and Novak Biddle Venture Partners.

Social Gaming Network, (SGN) first gained wide acclaim and user adoption through their first Facebook game, Warbook, which was the first Facebook application to take advantage of the social graph and create a true social gaming experience on that network. The company, led by Shervin Pishevar, has since moved quickly to capitalize on social gaming, a space that has become one of the fastest growing verticals on the social web. Since their launch, SGN has quickly secured its position as one of the leading publishers and become the platform of choice for social game developers who want to quickly distribute and monetize their games. Seizing the opportunity, SGN has nurtured and will continue to expand its expertise and leadership in the social gaming community.



SGN's development team is creating the most dynamic and simple ecosystem for the creation and publication of games on the social web. With the current financing, the company will allocate even greater resources to research and development of its gaming platform, and produce more tools for social game developers who want to create a richer gaming experience on the social networks and the social web. SGN has also become the marquee sponsor of the very first social gaming conference: InterPlay: the Business of Gaming on the Social Web.

More at:www.sgn.com

Sprout, the premier platform for easily creating, publishing and managing rich media Web content, has closed a $5 million Series B financing

What Company Is Offering:
Sprout is the premier platform for easily creating, publishing and managing sophisticated rich media content on the Web. With Sprout, anyone can quickly and easily build widgets, minisites, banners and other rich media content for their blog, social networking profile or web site.

How Much They Got From VCs:
Sprout, the premier platform for easily creating, publishing and managing rich media Web content, has closed a $5 million Series B financing led by Polaris Venture Partners. Mike Hirshland, general partner at Polaris, has joined Sprout's board of directors. Existing investor Global Venture Capital (gvc) and legendary entrepreneur Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Development Corporation and designer of Lotus 1-2-3, also participated in the round.

About VCs:
Polaris Venture Partners

A national venture capital firm with over $3 billion under management, Polaris invests in seed, early stage and growth equity businesses in the technology, life science, digital media, enertech and consumer sectors. Other digital media investments in Polaris' portfolio include Automattic/Wordpress, BlackArrow, Heavy, JibJab Media, Quantcast and Turbine Entertainment.

Through a philosophy of lead investing and active, long-term partnering with entrepreneurs and management teams, Polaris has helped many companies achieve outstanding success.

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

Greentech Media is an integrated online media company designed to deliver the highest-quality content in the greentech industry has raised $2.75M

What Company Is Offering:
Greentech Media is an integrated online media company designed to deliver the highest-quality content in the greentech industry, whether it is research, news or critical networking events. Greentech Media is headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., New England’s educational- and technology-innovation center, with operations in New York City and San Francisco.

How Much They Got From VCs:
Greentech Media, Inc., the industry leading online media company covering green technology news and analysis today announced that it has raised $2.75M in Series B financing. New investors EGORA Holding and The Massachusetts Green Energy Fund co-led the round. Existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners and Northport Private Equity also participated, along with King Hill Capital a new investor as part of the Series B round.

How They Will Use Raised Funds:
Greentech Media will use the funds to expand its team, increase focused coverage on key greentech markets, grow its product offering and scale its sales efforts domestically and internationally. “In under a year we have quickly become the go-to source for information on green technology trends,” said Scott Clavenna, President and CEO of Greentech Media. “We’re at the start of an exciting transformation in the industry, where green technology trends have become part of the social consciousness, presenting real opportunity for growth, value creation and environmental change.”

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

WORKetc Is For Small Business Solutions

What Company Is Offering:
WORKetc combines all the business software you need into a single, access anywhere, web intranet.

Critical business process tools such as time tracking, billing, project management, online calendars, shared documents and help desk software have now been integrated into a single, easy-to-use web 2.0 application.WORKetc is for small and medium businesses who want access to best practice, business management software, without the cost or complexity of traditional systems.

How It Works:

WORKetc is an online team and small business solution that helps you to work more efficiently and make more money.
Access your Business Worldwide. Free up more personal time by being able to access the "engine room" of your business from your home office, from the airport or from any internet-enabled device.

Maximize Sales Potential. Keep a constant eye on sales and never let another sales opportunity slip away. How many sales would you lose tomorrow should your top sales guy leave? WORKetc moves crucial sales information from specific employees and into a searchable system.

Capture Knowledge. How many minutes a day, hours a week would you spend looking for information or duplicating existing information? WORKetc stores conversations, documents and important reference material in a central, searchable location.

Manage & Store Documents. Don't get caught out spending thousands of dollars setting up and maintaining a local area network and server. WORKetc's document management software lets you store, search and collaborate on important business documents.

Collaborate with Your Team Online. Work online, share resources, project manage, share calendars and transcribe important conversations all within the WORKetcsoftware.

Manage Support Requests. Integrate your contact management, with customer support, sales pipeline, document management and C.R.M for a complete view of your business.

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

Trackur is an online reputation monitoring tool

What Company Is Offering:
Trackur is an online reputation monitoring tool. With Trackur you can setup searches and automatically monitor the web for keywords that are important to you.

How It Works:
Trackur monitors many more web channels than just Google. In addition, Trackur allows you to save items, sort them, share them via email, and subscribe to an RSS feed--Google Alerts offers none of these features

How It Will Be Helpful:
Trackur is the perfect solution for anyone that wants to track news, blogs, and other social media. You can track your own name, your company brands, industry trends, or even your competitor's news! In fact, you can monitor any keywords you wish.

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

Google Friend Connect lets you grow traffic by easily adding social features to your website

What Company Is Offering:
Google Friend Connect lets you grow traffic by easily adding social features to your website. With just a few snippets of code, you get more people engaging more deeply with your site.

How It Works:
Google Friend Connect integrates with contact lists for social networks like Facebook, orkut and Google Talk. This means users who join your site are instantly connected with friends who are already members, and can invite friends from other networks to visit. They can opt in to broadcasting their activities to friends in their social networks. A post to your message board, for example, can instantly be visible to people in multiple social networks, along with links leading to your site. These instant networks, combined with the wealth of OpenSocial gadgets, can form potent new online communities, very quickly and very easily.

And when a visitor goes to a second site with Friend Connect, the process is even simpler. The visitor simply clicks "Accept", sets privacy options for the site, and they're in. There's no need to set up their account or link in their social networks again.

More at:http://www.google.com/friendconnect/