Wednesday, May 21, 2008

YowTRIP is a social network site that connects you with other world travelers in your town or wherever you're traveling

What Company Is Offering:
YowTRIP is a social network site that connects you with other world travelers in your town or wherever you're traveling. Their goal is to promote cultural exchange by connecting world travelers and enabling them to share their travel experiences on this online community.

How It Works:

YowTRIP's innovative travel plan matching capabilities with the adventure package offerings of Adventure Central, the Denver-based leading provider of travel distribution and online booking services for the adventure and experiential travel industry, YowADVENTURES lets you book your adventure and find like-minded travelers to go with or hosts to stay with.

PatagoniaThe union is a seemingly natural marriage of missions, with Adventure Central working to connect the world to great adventures, and YowTRIP striving to connect world travelers. YowTRIP founder Felipe Coimbra says that's not the only reason the partnership is a perfect match for his service.

YowTRIP is not a site for simply sharing photos or reading hotel and restaurant reviews," says Coimbra. "Every service they add is designed to encourage and enable travelers to actually meet each other, in the real world."

Other enhancements to recently hit YowTRIP include YowGROUPS, whereby users can create a group to travel with, and YowEXPERTS, which allows people with significant knowledge of a destination to offer tips and advice about traveling there. Travelers can also add blogs, photos and videos to their YowTRIP profile as they travel, and share their upcoming trips via a widget on their own website.

As a new distribution partner of Adventure Central's, YowTRIP joins the company of well-known travel booking services CheapTickets.com and Orbitz.com.

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

ShopCorn is an exclusive ‘Buyer’s Community’ where customers can not only shop but also interact, express, search and multiply the charm of online buy

What Company is Offering:
ShopCorn is an exclusive ‘Buyer’s Community’ where customers can not only shop but also interact, express, search and multiply the charm of online buying. This community will provide our customers a remarkable opportunity to interact both in the online and the offline terrain.

How It Works:

At this one-stop shopping destination, buyers can easily pick and choose from an array of branded products at the click of mouse. Additionally this search experience will be coupled with a valuable comparison feature. That will enable them to purchase the best products at the cheapest prices.This community will be ‘Of the buyers’, ‘By the buyers’ and ‘For the buyers’. Such structure will promote free flow of information and guarantee an interactive shopping experience.

To aid supreme interactivity it will have an integrated facility of ‘Live audio/ video chat’. For ultimate deals customer will not only communicate amongst themselves but also pitch us on a one on one basis. This will help them to know the pros and cons of the selected products.

Over here customers can ask their queries and also state their resolutions pertaining to a selected product or service. Visitors will benefit from the information enlisted in the blog. This will assist to undertake informed buying decisions.

More at:http://www.shopcorn.in/

RestyleMe is the ultimate style advice community website that features a novel way to get style advice

What Company Is Offering:
RestyleMe is the ultimate style advice community website that features a novel way to get style advice. RestyleMe's unique style utilities are fun to use and provide quick, precise, and effective style advice.

Unique Features:

Send and receive votes based on style categories.
Write comments along with your style vote.
Mark on photos by clicking on the photo to give more precise feedback.
Upload and tag your photos for each style item or brand.
Filter advice and style votes you receive from people by gender, age or location.
Set up your style profile and show people your style.
Search for friends and add them on your profile.

More at:http://restyleme.com/

PearBudget is a really simple online budgeting service

What Company is Offering:

PearBudget is a really simple online budgeting service. It’s ideal for anyone new to budgeting, or for anyone who gave up on budgeting as “too hard to stay with” or “too complex to understand.”PearBudget uses an enhanced version of the envelope method of budgeting, where you allocate money to categories, and then make spending decisions based off of the money available to you.

They don’t tell you what to buy (or what not to buy), they don’t ask you for your bank passwords, and we don’t try to overwhelm you with information. They just help you make a spending plan, track your expenses, and help you plan for the future. It takes just 10 minutes a week, and costs only $3 a month.


More at:https://www.pearbudget.com/

VoiceCloud ---transcribe voicemail messages to text

What Company Is Offering:
The VoiceCloud solution combines VoiceCloud's patent-pending streaming audio technology with hardware that allows multiple concurrent connections to instantaneously transcribe voicemail messages to text.

How It Works;
Whether users are on a mobile
device or online, they can immediately see who has called and what was said – ensuring that critical voicemails are never missed.Compared to traditional voice transcription services,VoiceCloud's solution is completely turnkey. With allresources and operations managed in-house, processes are streamlined and the time and costs of dealing with third-parties are eliminated. This enables VoiceCloud to oversee total quality control and to pass cost-savings on tothe end-user in the way of competitive pricing and flexible billing options.Compatible with major US carriers and support for bothfixed and mobile networks, VoiceCloud's innovative solution also includes unlimited voice/transcription storage and retrieval, a specially designed interface for the iPhone and 24/7 customer service and support.

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

Outside.in the web's leading platform for neighborhood news and conversation got VCs funding

What Company Is Offering:
Outside.in is the web's leading platform for neighborhood news and conversation. Outside.in's technology dynamically maps web content to offline locations, which enables hyperlocal news discovery and sharing for consumers and provides powerful tools for content creators of all sizes. The company was founded by Web pioneer and bestselling author Steven Berlin Johnson and acclaimed social media creator John Geraci.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Outside.in the web's leading platform for neighborhood news and conversation, announced the hiring of Mark Josephson, former President of Seevast Corp. and General Manager of About.com. The company also announced a round of financing that includes existing investors Union Square Ventures, Milestone Venture Partners, Betaworks, and a group of prominent angel investors led by George Crowley. A new investor, the New York City Investment Fund, also joined the round.



This round of financing will fund the continued development of industry-leading consumer tools available at www.outside.in, as well as the expansion of the suite of products and services that empower content publishers of all sizes.

More at:www.outside.in

TopSchool Inc is provider of SaaS student information systems, has raised $3.2 million in Series A funding

What Company Is Offering:
At TopSchool, they believe there is a unique opportunity to provide educational institutions with an integrated, extensible, easy-to-manage and economical platform for Student Lifecycle Management delivered in a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) subscription model. Their approach represents a significant departure from traditional SIS vendors and focuses on providing rapid time-to-value by leveraging our highly flexible, industry-specific SaaS platform to address their clients' needs (with implementation times measured in weeks rather than months or years).

How Much They Got From VCs:

TopSchool Inc., a Denver-based provider of SaaS student information systems, has raised $3.2 million in Series A funding. Backers include Alsop Louie Partners and Sienna Equity Partners.

More at:www.topschoolinc.com

Agito Networks, Inc. is the technology leader in the enterprise mobility space

What Company Is Offering:
Agito Networks, Inc. is the technology leader in the enterprise mobility space. Its product, the RoamAnywhere Mobility Router, is an innovative platform for mobilizing business voice and data applications using RF-based, location-aware technologies and patent-pending algorithms. Agito delivers the industry’s only carrier agnostic, business class solution for fast and automatic network handoff between WiFi and cellular networks.

Agito Networks has introduced the industry’s first Mobility Router, the Agito Networks RoamAnywhere Mobility Router. This innovative, patent-pending solution represents the next generation of enterprise mobility products for enterprises seeking the promise of improved productivity and cost savings from enterprise fixed mobile convergence (eFMC). Agito Networks’ RoamAnywhere is the industry’s first and only business mobile convergence platform that uses RF-based, location-aware technologies to best mobilize voice and data applications, while remaining agnostic to enterprise customers’ choices of mobile carriers and equipment vendors.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Agito Networks Inc., a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based provider of enterprise mobility solutions, has raised $10 million in Series B funding, according to a regulatory filing. Castile Ventures led the round, and was joined by return backer Battery Ventures.



The company's debut product is a platform designed to mobilize "business voice and data applications using RF-based, location-aware technologies and patent-pending algorithms."

More at;www.agitonetworks.com

Minggl is a social interaction manager

What Company Is Offering:
Minggl is a social interaction manager. The Minggl toolbar makes it easy to manage information, communication, and navigation across social networks. Minggl...from anywhere on the web.

Unique Features:
* Consolidate friends from across sites into your sidebar
* Automatically log into all your profiles
* Update status on multiple sites from one place
* Get notifications of mail, comments, and friend activity no matter where you are on the web.
* Set privacy rules that allow you to display different content on your profiles based on which friends are viewing.

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

moblf, stands for Mobile Life. It is a service through which you can interact with various web services using SMS text message

What Company Is Offering:
moblf, stands for Mobile Life. It is a service through which you can interact with various web services using SMS text message. The goal of moblf is to make it easy for you to access the various web services over your mobile, using SMS / Text Message.
moblf, (Mobile Life) brings Web to SMS. It is a mobile interface that enables you to interact with web services using your mobile phone, particularly SMS text messaging. It empowers you to access your favorite web services anytime, anywhere from the mobile.

moblf integrates with published APIs of web services, such as FriendFeed, Twitter, Google, Get satisfaction, Yelp, LinkedIn and many more.

How It Works:

To access web services over moblf, you must have a Twitter account. You should also have an account with the web service you would like to interact with.moblf enables you to access FriendFeed from wherever you are, over SMS text message. You don’t need to depend on internet access anymore!

You can retrieve your messages on FriendFeed and view it directly on your mobile, or on other applications like Twitter, gtalk, Twhirl, etc. Through moblf you can view messages from a specific user or a specific web service or both.

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

IQ League For Which webiste is the smartest?

What Company Is Offering:
Ask your visitors to take an IQ test at www.iqleague.com. Test takes about 60 seconds and 100% free. You can place a banner, a text link or just redirect your users.For each visitor they remember were he came from and automatically enroll that visitor into "your-blog.com" group. Once they have 5 visitors from your website who passed the test they calculate IQ of your website and give you awards.


How It Works:

After that your website starts IQ competition with other sites.The URL of your website will be http://www.iqleague.com/group/mysite-com.Feel free to embed award HTML into your website to show the world how smart you are.
You need to bring at least 5 visitors who complete IQ test every 30 days to stay active. Our average conversion rate is about 30% so 15-20 redirects or clicks from your site should be enough.

To identify your site they use "referrer" value that is passed by the browser. So make sure you are not using IFrame's - they would not count.

They use full domain part of the referrer URL but drop all the folder structure. So "blog.mysite.com" and "mysite.com" will be counted as two different sites, but "mysite.com" and "mysite.com/blog" will be counted as the same site.

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

Witur is sharing your trips

What Company is Offering:

Witur is sharing your trips with your friends, and what a better way to do it than through a social network website such as Facebook. They have developed an application for Facebook so that you can show your trips to your network of friends and to other Facebook users. You will be allowed as well to search for other travelers’ experiences and add more trips from your Facebook profile. The application is called “My Trips“, and if you want to know how it looks like, check the following picture, and add the application to your profile!

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

ShoppingNotes.com ---Get Sale Alerts When Prices Are Down

What Company Is Offering:
ShoppingNotes.com is shopping bookmark powered with price watch engine. It is one central place to save all your favorite products you find anywhere on the Internet, and our powerful price watch engine can alert you whenever your favorite products change prices.

ShoppingNotes.com is for people who do any kinds of on-line shopping. It is like browser's "Favorites" for shopping.

How It Works:

They are the first ever web site that combines shopping bookmark with price watch that works with any product URLs. If you are a shopper, ShoppingNotes.com not only helps you organize all your shopping information, but also brings you significant savings with our powerful price watch feature. If you are a merchant, ShoppingNotes.com can retain customers and promote your merchandise in a highly targeted way like never before! You can access your Shopping Notes from home, office, or just anywhere you can access the Internet.Your Shopping Notes automatically come with images and prices, and in one click, it takes you right to the product pages.
No need to install anything to start using the price watch feature. Just enter the product page URLs and your email address, and we will start watching their prices for you. You’ll be the first to know when your favorite products go on sale.

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

Streema: the easiest way to tune into your favorite radios on the web

What Company Is Offering:
Streema: the easiest way to tune into your favorite radios on the web. They believe that listening to your favorite radio stations should be easy, fast, and fun. With Streema, you can search and organize your favorite radios with just a few clicks in an intuitive web-based platform. The result is radio tuning as simple as it should be!

It's a site to tune into all your favorite radios, directly from your browser, with no download required. It's also a place to share your favorite radios with your friends and discover hidden gems within the thousands of radios that are currently available on the Internet. And the best part is that it's free!

How It Works:

Just click on the radio station name (example: ORS Radio 90s Top Hits | Web). This will launch the stream and play it through the embedded player on our page. You may not find all of your favorite radios within their radio directory; so if there is anything missing, just click on the "Request a Radio" link within the blue horizontal bar. You will be taken to the Radio Request page, where you can provide them with the Radio Name, Homepage (URL), and other useful information. They'll add that radio as soon as they can!
Once you add a friend who is also using Streema, you will see how easy it is to tune in and check out what your friend is listening to. If you click on your friend's username, you'll be able to see what your friend has on their Favorites as well as who's on their friend list. You can look for people you know by browsing your friend's own friends lists or by using the search box on the bottom side of your Friends list. Also, feel free to invite friends who are currently not using Streema via the Invite section of the Home tab.

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

Plantwire is a fun, easy way to find and learn about plants

What Company Is Offering:

Plantwire is a fun, easy way to find and learn about plants.They provide information on many of the world's most beautiful, interesting, and important plants. You can search by plant name, flower color, or by tags. Our database now includes over 300 plants and is growing quickly. We provide general descriptive information, flower colors, and basic instructions on how to grow and propagate each plant. More than 6000 images are included.Plantwire uses images from Flickr, the online photo management and sharing application. They browse Flickr for plant images and select the best for inclusion on Plantwire. They only display images that are licensed for commercial use through a Creative Commons license. Flickr users are the owners of the photos they provide, and they respect their wishes regarding how the images should be used.

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