Friday, May 23, 2008

ScribbleLive

What Company Is Offering:
ScribbleLive allows broadcasters, publishers, educators, corporations, social groups, writers, students, bloggers and individuals to be instant publishers, live to your screen.

how It Works:

Logging in is a snap. They seamlessly integrate with your FaceBook, MSN Live or your Open ID account so you don’t have to remember another ID and password. Since there is no need to install software or learn some complicated back end, you can create your event in seconds. Give it a name and off you go. Now, send out the invitation to your friends to help you cover the full story. They instantly become your team or writers, photographers and editors and ScribbleLive ensure you are all on the same page.

Once that post hits the page, in seconds I might add, you can instantly edit your text right in the post without the need to leave the comfort of the browser. The update instantly appears on everyone’s screen. How cool is that!


ScribbleLive is not a chat line; this is a collaborative, real time journaling of events as they unfold.

Its easy to use, you have instant access, the posts appear in seconds without the need to reload, you can edit instantly, you have unlimited users that can watch the event and its totally new!

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

Professional on the Web

What Company Is Offering:
Professional on the Web is a fresh directory where web agencies and freelancers can list their profiles and easily manage showcase of their projects. They manage to keep the directory as focused as possible to get the most number of professionals listed in our directory.

How It Works:

After signing up you can complete your profile using in_place_editors and you can arrange projects and tags by drag&drop .

Users can search web professionals by tag and also rate projects instantly. No need to register or sign in.

You can subscribe to the ever increasing list of designers and projects being added to Professional on the web via RSS.

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

Track contacts, leads, customers, vendors, and others with Highrise

What Company Is Offering:
Track contacts, leads, customers, vendors, and others with Highrise.Every contact in Highrise gets a page. You and your co-workers can add notes from calls,
conversations, meetings, or any other historic information about this person.

How It Works:

Tasks help you get things done. Assign tasks to yourself or to others. Add action categories (Call,
Thank You, Demo, Fax, Email) for quick scanning. Check’em off when they're done.

Highrise will even send reminders to your email account or mobile phone!
Highrise lets you specify who can see which people, companies, notes, and cases. It’s your call.

Adding a person manually takes just a few seconds. You can also upload vCards
to add people even faster or import people from your Basecamp account.

Highrise works hand in hand with email. You can send, BCC, or forward emails to
Highrise and they'll automatically be attached to the right person’s page.

Company pages aggregate notes, files, and emails from people that are part of that company.
Now you can see everyone your company knows at any company in your account.

Highrise gets better the more people in your organization that use it. The users section lets you invite people to create accounts on your system. Groups let you set batch permissions on people, notes, and cases.

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

ComfyPage is the tool you need to create simple, smart and super quick websites

What Company Is Offering:

ComfyPage is the tool you need to create simple, smart and super quick websites without the worry of hiring expensive web developers and designers. You can use it for absolutely any purpose provided it doesn't break any Australian laws.

How It Works:

After registration they take you through their easy setup wizard, then provide any help you need placing content on your new site.

You get everything you need to build a website and have it live to the world.


More at:http://comfypage.com/

BugWiki is bug tracking without all the confusing bells and whistles

What Company Is Offering:

BugWiki is bug tracking without all the confusing bells and whistles. If you want to track bugs without spending time installing, configuring and exploring a bug tracking tool, BugWiki is made for you.

How It Works:

Once you decide to try BugWiki, you are ready to report your first bug in seconds. Just a quick sign up and you're good to go.BugWiki offers you only the small set of features you really need. This makes BugWiki easy to adopt for new users.
Every user in your organisation can see and do everything. Yes, everything.You can stay logged in forever, and the "New bug" page is fully bookmarkable. Only one field is required, so to make a quick note of a bug comes at a very low price. You can always add more info later.

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

Macroaxis Corporation specializes in providing software solutions for the financial services sector

What Company Is Offering:
Macroaxis Corporation specializes in providing software solutions for the financial services sector, facilitating rapid distribution of financial analytics to larger audiences. Unique in the industry, Macroaxis Corporation's financial engineering platform delivers measurable value in the form of improved return on clients' intellectual property, productivity and managed assets for financial institutions.

How It Works:

The Five Star Portfolio Optimization technique refers to the simple methodology we use to achieve better diversification. Using the Portfolio Optimization Pitchlet, you can evaluate the One-Day Value At Risk of the optimal portfolio along with total risk, expected return, Sharpe ratio and Treynor ratio. The model picks the optimal portfolio from the efficient frontier given your specified level of risk, and a set of constraints on weight and return. The resulting portfolio is then compared to your existing portfolio. As a rational investor, your main objective is to outperform your existing portfolio in all 5 categories. For each category in which you outperform your existing portfolio, you will get one star. The best optimization is achieved when, after several iterations, you get all five stars.

More at:http://macroaxis.com/

Vibstars is a social network of socialbuzzing that lets you easily spread your ideas and discoveries on the Web

What Company Is Offering:
Vibstars is a social network of socialbuzzing that lets you easily spread your ideas and discoveries on the Web.
Vibstars is not a digg-like or a platform of miniblogging but paves the way for buzz2buzz.

How It Works:

You propose an idea, a link to an article, a video of youtube or the images found on the Web at all your contacts and your friends can with one click send your news to their own networks and so forth. The best buzz appear on the homepage.

More at:http://vibstars.com/

PolicyMap is an innovative geographic information system

What Company Is Offering:
PolicyMap is an innovative geographic information system which allows you to easily create custom maps, tables, and charts.Provides over 4,000 indicators plus the ability to plot your own data with our mapping services.Available from any Web browser on any operating system.Backed by the resources, expertise and integrity of The Reinvestment Fund.

How It Works:

Once you've created a map, table or report that you want, save it and export it as a jpeg or a pdf for use in your presentation or reports.Search any location by address, census tract, county, state, zip code, school district, or Congressional district. Subscribers also can create custom regions.
PolicyMap currently offers over 4,000 indicators related to demographics, real estate, crime, health, schools, housing affordability, employment, energy, and public investments.

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

Stitcher service enables you to hear the audio content you care about

What Company Is Offering:
Their service enables you to hear the audio content you care about. They “stitch” it into personalized, always-current stations that you can easily listen to on your iPhone or computer.

How It Works:

An example user's commute might include SF weather, NY Knicks scores, the Onion Radio News, VentureBeat Headlines and CNN News. Each day, the latest segments stream to your iPhone or computer automatically, without you having to manually refresh anything.

Stitcher revolutionizes information radio because it is:Customized: they learn what you like and don't like - so they can serve you better and better content
Easy: just start listening, they'll take care of the rest
Portable: stream Stitcher anywhere: no satellite device, Wi-Fi or syncing required.

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

Flock - The Social Web Browser got VCs funding

What company Is Offering:

Flock - The Social Web Browser - is built on Mozilla's constantly improving Firefox architecture . It is free to download and use at http://www.flock.com. Flock simplifies and extends the use of social and web-based applications to enable the richest user experience possible across information-gathering, sharing, communication, self-expression and interaction. Flock delivers a more personal experience of the web, where its users are in control and more connected to what they value. The company is based in Redwood City, CA, with an office in Victoria, British Columbia.


How Much they Got From VCs:

Flock, a Redwood City, Calif.-based developer of a social Web browser, has raised $15 million in Series D funding. Fidelity Ventures led the round, and was joined by return backers Bessemer Venture Partners, Catamount Ventures and Shasta Ventures.

This new funding exceeds the amounts raised in all prior rounds combined and will be used to provide growth capital to expand Flock's business, including research and development, marketing and expansion into new global markets. According to Datamonitor, there are currently over 230 million members of social networks globally, and revenues are projected to reach $2.4 billion by 20121. Fidelity Ventures brings the advantages of its tremendous global reach and experience to assist in growing Flock's business.



"We are thrilled to close this significant round of financing," said Shawn Hardin, CEO of Flock. "Following the tremendous market response to Flock's commercial release, this new funding will enable us to continue our browser innovation � making engagement and participation across social networks and the Web as effortless as consumption."



"The browser is strategic because it enables nearly everything users do online," said Larry Cheng, Partner at Fidelity Ventures. "Flock's social browser is the most compelling innovation in the browser market in over a decade. The reasons we invested are simple: great product, fantastic user adoption, and excellent revenue growth."
More at: www.flock.com

SmartSynch, a global leader in public wireless smart metering technology has raised $20 million dollars

What Company Is Offering:
SmartSynch’s SmartMeters represent future-proof investments in technology. The standards-based IP connectivity enabled in every SmartMeter deployed makes them adaptable and remotely upgradeable to support today’s sensor and communications needs, as well as tomorrow’s opportunities, better than any alternative.

How Much They Got From VCs:

SmartSynch, a global leader in public wireless smart metering technology, announced today that it has raised $20 million dollars in expansion financing. New investor Credit Suisse, a leading international financial institution based in New York, invested in the financing through its Customized Fund Investment Group. This round also provided an opportunity for a new investor, Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance Company, to participate in SmartSynch’s success, along with a host of existing investors, such as: Battelle Ventures, Beacon Group, Endeavor Capital Management, GulfSouth Capital, Innovation Valley Partners, Kinetic Ventures, OPG Ventures and Siemens Venture Capital. To date, SmartSynch has raised a total of $80 million since its inception in 2000. It will use this latest round to fund working capital growth, expand market presence and accelerate the product roadmap for new Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and Smart Grid Intelligence solutions.

“Utilities are deploying smart meter technology at a rapid rate to avoid the difficulty of building and permitting new power plants, to prepare for impending carbon regulation and more importantly because managing electricity use at a granular level opens up new business opportunities with customers,” said Nadim Barakat, a Managing Director in Credit Suisse’s Customized Fund Investment Group. “We chose SmartSynch because of its deep customer base, innovative technology and compelling value proposition for utilities looking to gain the highest possible return on investment in smart meter systems.”

More at:www.smartsynch.com.

TimeBucks.org ---- For donating, trading, or finding services

What Company Is Offering:
TimeBucks.org is to share your skills and find services you need. Posted services are usually less formal and less profit-oriented than other directories. Most people who provide services just want to share a talent or support an organization they care about.

They encourage the non-commercial nature of their community by setting a one-price-for-everybody policy: 15 "time-bucks" is equal to one hour of service. That can be broken down into larger or smaller amounts. For example, 7.50 time-bucks is equal to a half an hour, and so on.


How It Works:

Members can earn time-bucks by providing a service or purchasing time-bucks online at $1 to 1 time-buck. When you exchange dollars for time-bucks, you're taking your money out of the financial system that rewards profits above people, and putting it into a system that supports nonprofits and communities. Click the Get Tab to order your time-bucks.


Members trade time-bucks for a wide variety of services. Post a service yourself or look under the Trade tab to view services by category.

More at:http://www.timebucks.org/

eduFire is a community of people passionate about teaching and learning languages

What Company Is Offering:
eduFire is a community of people passionate about teaching and learning languages. As a student you find outstanding language tutors from all around the world and learn from them from the comfort of your home. As a teacher you'll be able to connect with students and can teach them without having to travel.

How It Works:

Sign up and create your profile (the better and more complete your profile the more likely you'll be to get new students). You'll soon receive messages from students interested in learning a language from you.

You just need an Internet connection (broadband recommended) and a web browser. If you don't have flash installed then you'll want to install Flash 9. When you're ready, you can check your audio and video settings here to confirm that you're all set!
You don't need a webcam, but learning a language online is much better if your student can see you. If you have a desktop computer, they recommend this Logitech Quickcam, and if you have a laptop, they recommend this camera.

More at:http://edufire.com/

The Industry Standard is a prediction market, intersected with a reputation-based social network

What Company Is Offering:
Their prediction market is a place where, for entertainment purposes, you can bet on the chances of future events occurring or not occurring, using a virtual currency called "Standard Dollars". The predictions listed on the market are all related to the online economy, which touches nearly all businesses these days. If you see a prediction on the site where you believe you know the future outcome, place a bet and see if you are right. If your bet is correct, you’ll win more "Standard Dollars" to bet on other predictions, and your community rank will increase. If you’re really good, you may also win prizes.

How It Works:

When you are logged into the site, you can track your predictions where you’ve wagered bets by clicking on “My Predictions”, which may be found at the top of every page.
If you want to see a prediction on the site that you think would be relevant to The Industry Standard’s mission, you can suggest one at any time. The community will then vote to see if your suggestion should be added to the site. If the suggestion is well received, The Industry Standard team may convert the Suggestion into a Prediction. Once this happens, you will instantly be awarded S$25,000 to your account!
Your Net Worth is an indicator of how well you are doing in placing bets and suggesting predictions on The Industry Standard. You start at S$100,000 when you register. If you make good decisions on the predictions you bet on, your Net Worth will go up as your bets pay off. If you make bad decisions, your Net Worth will go down. This will impact your Industry Rank.

When a prediction is judged, you are credited with Standard Dollars for each bet that you get right. If the odds were already high that an event would occur when you placed your bet, you wouldn’t earn as much if you were right, compared to what you would earn if you bet on a long shot, where the odds were low. However, the most important thing is to be right. When the event’s closing date occurs (the date on which the event will be judged to see if an event has occurred or not), The Industry Standard will review the prediction and determine if the prediction has come true. As soon as we make that judgment, your account will be updated accordingly, depending on how you bet.

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

DiscRevolt provides physical solutions for digital delivery of media

What Company Is Offering:

DiscRevolt provides physical solutions for digital delivery of media. For artists, DiscRevolt is a way to deliver DRM-free digital music through artist-specific download cards. DiscRevolt also provides promotional services to artists, labels, events and third-parties through download cards for backend delivery of samplers, pre-releases and other exclusive content.

DiscRevolt also provides promotional services to artists, labels, events and third-parties through download cards for backend delivery of samplers, pre-releases and other exclusive content. Their extensive reporting system gives clients access to detailed sales and non-identifying demographic information that no other download service can match.


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