What Company Is Offering:
GiftGen is the creation of two ex-college buddies both now in their thirties. The site took over 2 years to develop, which involved research of gift ideas, websites and high street shops. The site does not have its own products to promote and is therefore unbiased, and able to suggest any gift idea under the sun. Gift ideas range from free ideas like ‘Wash their car Voucher’, to top end ideas such as ‘A trip on the orient express’ and ethical ideas like ‘Some chicks for a 3rd world family’.
The Gift Ideas Generator was recently featured as the No. 1 'most useful shopping site' (beating eBay & Kelkoo) in the Telegraph's '101 most useful websites' article. They've also been featured on Radio 2's 'Website of the day' and on GMTV, where it was used for christmas gift ideas. They were also featured in the 'Best new websites' section of 'Web User' magazine , where they received 4 stars out of 5.
More at;http://www.giftgen.co.uk/
Friday, May 30, 2008
‘I Vote for Art’ is a brand new place to buy great art at a reasonable price
What Company Is Offering:
‘I Vote for Art’ is a brand new place to buy great art at a reasonable price. Please have a look around ... If you like a piece, make sure you click on the thumb to vote for it. Or perhaps you could even buy it!
How It Works:
It’s pretty simple. Just have a browse around the artwork. If you like something, click on that little thumb and cast your vote.
The artwork with the most votes gets promoted to the front page, where millions of people will see it.
Everything on ‘i vote for art’ is for sale. Simply ‘Add to cart’, hit the checkout and you’re on your way.
Their payments are managed by PayPal. It’s a well-known, widely used and allows you to make completely safe and secure online purchases.
They’ll ship your purchase to your door, ensuring that it arrives in perfect condition.
More at:http://www.ivoteforart.com/
‘I Vote for Art’ is a brand new place to buy great art at a reasonable price. Please have a look around ... If you like a piece, make sure you click on the thumb to vote for it. Or perhaps you could even buy it!
How It Works:
It’s pretty simple. Just have a browse around the artwork. If you like something, click on that little thumb and cast your vote.
The artwork with the most votes gets promoted to the front page, where millions of people will see it.
Everything on ‘i vote for art’ is for sale. Simply ‘Add to cart’, hit the checkout and you’re on your way.
Their payments are managed by PayPal. It’s a well-known, widely used and allows you to make completely safe and secure online purchases.
They’ll ship your purchase to your door, ensuring that it arrives in perfect condition.
More at:http://www.ivoteforart.com/
go2 Media is revolutionizing the ways consumers interact with their mobile devices and marketers connect with their audiences
What Company Is Offering;
go2 Media is revolutionizing the ways consumers interact with their mobile devices and marketers connect with their audiences. go2 Media's mobile broadcast network unleashes the true power of easy access to desired content through the ubiquitous mobile device. For marketers, the mobile phone has become the ultimate advertising medium, allowing brands to have a direct connection with their consumers and target audiences.
How It Works:
Using an everyday mobile phone, the go2 Media mobile broadcast network enables users to easily and instantly access desired information such as turn-by-turn directions, movies, business listings, news, weather conditions and more!
The 'Easy. Useful. Mobile.' model of go2 Media allows advertisers to effortlessly reach a direct consumer audience with desired informational content. Built for mobile from the ground up, go2 Media provides a highly customizable and intuitive mobile experience.
go2 Media understands the evolving dynamics of today's mobile environment -- they have delivered more than one billion WAP page views to date.
go2 Media's Management Team and Board collectively bring decades of experience in building successful companies in mobile communications, telecommunications, internet and consumer applications. go2 Media's team includes a graduate from Harvard Business School, an American Red Cross board member and volunteer, an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award winner and more.
More at:http://www.go2.com/
go2 Media is revolutionizing the ways consumers interact with their mobile devices and marketers connect with their audiences. go2 Media's mobile broadcast network unleashes the true power of easy access to desired content through the ubiquitous mobile device. For marketers, the mobile phone has become the ultimate advertising medium, allowing brands to have a direct connection with their consumers and target audiences.
How It Works:
Using an everyday mobile phone, the go2 Media mobile broadcast network enables users to easily and instantly access desired information such as turn-by-turn directions, movies, business listings, news, weather conditions and more!
The 'Easy. Useful. Mobile.' model of go2 Media allows advertisers to effortlessly reach a direct consumer audience with desired informational content. Built for mobile from the ground up, go2 Media provides a highly customizable and intuitive mobile experience.
go2 Media understands the evolving dynamics of today's mobile environment -- they have delivered more than one billion WAP page views to date.
go2 Media's Management Team and Board collectively bring decades of experience in building successful companies in mobile communications, telecommunications, internet and consumer applications. go2 Media's team includes a graduate from Harvard Business School, an American Red Cross board member and volunteer, an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award winner and more.
More at:http://www.go2.com/
Facesaerch
What Company Is Offering:
Facesaerch is an image search engine for faces powered by Google. All images (thumbnails) are provided, hosted and managed by Google.
Facesaerch is the brain-, love-, coding- and people search market child project of Franz Enzenhofer. The domain facesaerch.com is owned by him, too.
Facesaerch is powered by the Google API and visualized with a tuned version of the Protoflow software.The faces of 100+ celebrities.Some quite popular people - list.
The faces of 500+ common surnames.
More at:http://www.facesaerch.com/
Facesaerch is an image search engine for faces powered by Google. All images (thumbnails) are provided, hosted and managed by Google.
Facesaerch is the brain-, love-, coding- and people search market child project of Franz Enzenhofer. The domain facesaerch.com is owned by him, too.
Facesaerch is powered by the Google API and visualized with a tuned version of the Protoflow software.The faces of 100+ celebrities.Some quite popular people - list.
The faces of 500+ common surnames.
More at:http://www.facesaerch.com/
ImHONEST.com---Proactive approach by identifying and registering their valuables before they are lost and found
What Company Is Offering:
ImHONEST.com is not a traditional lost and found Web site. They help people take a proactive approach by identifying and registering their valuables before they are lost and found.
How It Works:
ImHONEST.com makes it easy for the finders of lost items to return valuables. Finders can take advantage of a convenient UPS pick-up from their home, business or a drop-off the lost item at any of The UPS Store® locations.
Good deeds do not go unrewarded. For their honesty, finders not only receive the reward of doing a good deed they also receive a tangible gift worth $30 of ImHONEST.com Personalized ID Labels, so they, too, can identify their personal valuables.
At ImHONEST.com, they're committed to offering an identification and recovery service for items of value that rewards honesty and donates a portion of proceeds to not-for-profit organizations.
More at:http://www.imhonest.com/
ImHONEST.com is not a traditional lost and found Web site. They help people take a proactive approach by identifying and registering their valuables before they are lost and found.
How It Works:
ImHONEST.com makes it easy for the finders of lost items to return valuables. Finders can take advantage of a convenient UPS pick-up from their home, business or a drop-off the lost item at any of The UPS Store® locations.
Good deeds do not go unrewarded. For their honesty, finders not only receive the reward of doing a good deed they also receive a tangible gift worth $30 of ImHONEST.com Personalized ID Labels, so they, too, can identify their personal valuables.
At ImHONEST.com, they're committed to offering an identification and recovery service for items of value that rewards honesty and donates a portion of proceeds to not-for-profit organizations.
More at:http://www.imhonest.com/
[x+1], the leader in predictive online marketing has secured $16 million in venture funding
What Company Is Offering:
[x+1] provides predictive online marketing solutions that equip online marketers with real time, automated decision making to improve engagement and lift conversion rates in media and onsite. [x+1]'s solutions simplify complex targeting in digital marketing and drive a greater return on marketing investment. Some of the top companies in financial services, telecommunications, online services and travel have significantly increased message relevance, customer response and marketing ROI by using the services of [x+1]. For more information.
How Much They Got From VCs:
[x+1], the leader in predictive online marketing, announced today that it has secured $16 million in venture funding led by Advanced Technology Ventures (ATV), with participation by current investors Hudson Venture Partners and Blue Chip Venture Company. The investment will accelerate [x+1]'s developmental initiatives in both media and website optimization as well as extend the application of [x+1]'s patented Predictive Optimization Engine (POE) to paid search and other market opportunities. Bob Hower of Advanced Technology Ventures has also joined the [x+1] board of directors.
"[x+1] already has a record of achievements in helping major brands improve their digital return on investment (ROI), and the new products in pipeline are just as exciting," said Bob Hower, a general partner at ATV. "The new round of funding will accelerate [x+1]'s release of these products to market, and help marketers and their agencies improve online marketing results."
More at:www.xplusone.com
[x+1] provides predictive online marketing solutions that equip online marketers with real time, automated decision making to improve engagement and lift conversion rates in media and onsite. [x+1]'s solutions simplify complex targeting in digital marketing and drive a greater return on marketing investment. Some of the top companies in financial services, telecommunications, online services and travel have significantly increased message relevance, customer response and marketing ROI by using the services of [x+1]. For more information.
How Much They Got From VCs:
[x+1], the leader in predictive online marketing, announced today that it has secured $16 million in venture funding led by Advanced Technology Ventures (ATV), with participation by current investors Hudson Venture Partners and Blue Chip Venture Company. The investment will accelerate [x+1]'s developmental initiatives in both media and website optimization as well as extend the application of [x+1]'s patented Predictive Optimization Engine (POE) to paid search and other market opportunities. Bob Hower of Advanced Technology Ventures has also joined the [x+1] board of directors.
"[x+1] already has a record of achievements in helping major brands improve their digital return on investment (ROI), and the new products in pipeline are just as exciting," said Bob Hower, a general partner at ATV. "The new round of funding will accelerate [x+1]'s release of these products to market, and help marketers and their agencies improve online marketing results."
More at:www.xplusone.com
Skyfire is the creator of the Skyfire mobile browser, which extends the PC Web to mobile phones got $13 million
What Company Is Offering:
Skyfire is the creator of the Skyfire mobile browser, which extends the PC Web to mobile phones so users can experience the mobile Web exactly like they do on their PCs.
How Much They Got from Vcs:
Skyfire Labs Inc., makers of the game-changing Skyfire mobile browser, which allows users to experience the PC Web on their handsets, today announced $13 million in Series B funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, a leading global venture capital firm. This round of funding also includes previous investors Matrix Partners and Trinity Ventures. The company will use the funds towards further rollout of its flagship browser and will add Jake Seid, Managing Director of Lightspeed, to its Board of Directors.
“We’re thrilled to welcome Lightspeed and get the continued commitment from Matrix and Trinity,” said Nitin Bhandari, CEO of Skyfire. "Lightspeed has fueled innovation in mobile and consumer portfolio companies, and we are certainly ready to take mobile browsing to the next level with their support and guidance. With these funds, we are poised to bring Skyfire to a large number of handsets and launch outside the U.S. Skyfire gives users the freedom to browse whatever they want, and now we can extend our efforts to get Skyfire on a significant market share of Smartphones – giving more people what they hunger for"
More at:www.skyfire.com.
Skyfire is the creator of the Skyfire mobile browser, which extends the PC Web to mobile phones so users can experience the mobile Web exactly like they do on their PCs.
How Much They Got from Vcs:
Skyfire Labs Inc., makers of the game-changing Skyfire mobile browser, which allows users to experience the PC Web on their handsets, today announced $13 million in Series B funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, a leading global venture capital firm. This round of funding also includes previous investors Matrix Partners and Trinity Ventures. The company will use the funds towards further rollout of its flagship browser and will add Jake Seid, Managing Director of Lightspeed, to its Board of Directors.
“We’re thrilled to welcome Lightspeed and get the continued commitment from Matrix and Trinity,” said Nitin Bhandari, CEO of Skyfire. "Lightspeed has fueled innovation in mobile and consumer portfolio companies, and we are certainly ready to take mobile browsing to the next level with their support and guidance. With these funds, we are poised to bring Skyfire to a large number of handsets and launch outside the U.S. Skyfire gives users the freedom to browse whatever they want, and now we can extend our efforts to get Skyfire on a significant market share of Smartphones – giving more people what they hunger for"
More at:www.skyfire.com.
Ontela, Inc is camera phone picture saving technology, announced today that it has secured funding from Steamboat Ventures
What Company is offering:
Ontela provides technology infrastructure to wireless carriers that allows consumers to unlock the photos in their camera phones. Currently available on carrier networks including Cellular South, Alltel, Cincinnati Bell, and nTelos, PicDeck™ technology allows consumers to automatically save their photos to their PC, email address, and/or favorite imaging web sites.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Ontela, Inc., provider of award-winning camera phone picture saving technology, announced today that it has secured funding from Steamboat Ventures with additional participation from existing investors Hunt Ventures, Oak Investment Partners and Voyager Capital. This funding will position the company to grow its product line and expand internationally.
Ontela provides a simple solution to a common problem: getting pictures off camera phones. A recent study reported in Wireless Week found that while 93% of people want a solution that will save their camera phone pictures to their computer, only 24% know how to do it. Ontela solves this with an easy-to-use service that automatically saves each picture on a camera phone to the user’s PC, e-mail, and/or favorite Web sites.
More at;www.ontela.com
Ontela provides technology infrastructure to wireless carriers that allows consumers to unlock the photos in their camera phones. Currently available on carrier networks including Cellular South, Alltel, Cincinnati Bell, and nTelos, PicDeck™ technology allows consumers to automatically save their photos to their PC, email address, and/or favorite imaging web sites.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Ontela, Inc., provider of award-winning camera phone picture saving technology, announced today that it has secured funding from Steamboat Ventures with additional participation from existing investors Hunt Ventures, Oak Investment Partners and Voyager Capital. This funding will position the company to grow its product line and expand internationally.
Ontela provides a simple solution to a common problem: getting pictures off camera phones. A recent study reported in Wireless Week found that while 93% of people want a solution that will save their camera phone pictures to their computer, only 24% know how to do it. Ontela solves this with an easy-to-use service that automatically saves each picture on a camera phone to the user’s PC, e-mail, and/or favorite Web sites.
More at;www.ontela.com
HowFlow is a community-based tricks and howtos popularity website
What Company Is Offering:
HowFlow is a community-based tricks and howtos popularity website. It combines social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control. Tricks, howtos and websites are submitted by users, and then promoted to the front page through a user-based ranking system.
How Is It Different:
This differs from the hierarchical editorial system that many other sites employ.Readers can view all of the tricks that have been submitted by fellow users in the "Upcoming" section. Once a trick has received enough votes, it appears on HowFlow's front page. Should the trick not receive enough votes, or if enough users report a problem with the submission, the trick will remain in the "upcoming" area, where it may eventually be removed. By the way: HowFlow is a pure Ruby on Rails Application.
More at:http://howflow.com/
HowFlow is a community-based tricks and howtos popularity website. It combines social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control. Tricks, howtos and websites are submitted by users, and then promoted to the front page through a user-based ranking system.
How Is It Different:
This differs from the hierarchical editorial system that many other sites employ.Readers can view all of the tricks that have been submitted by fellow users in the "Upcoming" section. Once a trick has received enough votes, it appears on HowFlow's front page. Should the trick not receive enough votes, or if enough users report a problem with the submission, the trick will remain in the "upcoming" area, where it may eventually be removed. By the way: HowFlow is a pure Ruby on Rails Application.
More at:http://howflow.com/
The StockNewsGame allows a fun, educating experience for you to gauge your market understanding and get better at it
What Company Is Offering:
The StockNewsGame allows a fun, educating experience for you to gauge your market understanding and get better at it. The free game presents investors, students or any other financial markets observers a series of company news. For every such news piece, you'll be asked for the company's price stock change.
How It Works:
Each game round is a serious of as many questions as you'd like. Each question should be answered within up-to 60 seconds. A question presents one public news piece on a traded company. They ask on the market implication by day's the closing bell (end of the trade day). Rating can be one of the following: Surge (+2%), Up (0% to +2%), Down (0% to -2%) or Drop (-2%).
For every question you got it right you're going to get the price difference between the stock price at news issue and the end price. For example: if the initial stock price was $10.23, the end-price is $12.26 and you picked the right positive outcome you are going to get 203 points!
Unfortunately, for every question you miss they're going to deduct the difference between the end-price and the price you expected.
More at:http://www.stocknewsgame.com/
The StockNewsGame allows a fun, educating experience for you to gauge your market understanding and get better at it. The free game presents investors, students or any other financial markets observers a series of company news. For every such news piece, you'll be asked for the company's price stock change.
How It Works:
Each game round is a serious of as many questions as you'd like. Each question should be answered within up-to 60 seconds. A question presents one public news piece on a traded company. They ask on the market implication by day's the closing bell (end of the trade day). Rating can be one of the following: Surge (+2%), Up (0% to +2%), Down (0% to -2%) or Drop (-2%).
For every question you got it right you're going to get the price difference between the stock price at news issue and the end price. For example: if the initial stock price was $10.23, the end-price is $12.26 and you picked the right positive outcome you are going to get 203 points!
Unfortunately, for every question you miss they're going to deduct the difference between the end-price and the price you expected.
More at:http://www.stocknewsgame.com/
lala.com --All your music in one place
What Company Is Offering:
lala.com is a venture funded group of software engineers with the single mission of making the Web a better experience for music. All your music in one place: on the web
Listen online as much as you want.Share music with your friends.Get MP3s for your iPod.More details to come when they complete our beta.
How It Works:
Search or browse by your favorite genre. They have over 5 million licensed songs. You'll find something you'll like. If you like what you hear, click the add button to buy it for 10¢. You've just put a web song in your lala collection! By the way, the first 50 web songs are free.
If you already have a music library on your computer, their Music Mover application gets your music online so fast it seems like magic. It's free and it works for Mac, too.
More at:http://next.lala.com/
lala.com is a venture funded group of software engineers with the single mission of making the Web a better experience for music. All your music in one place: on the web
Listen online as much as you want.Share music with your friends.Get MP3s for your iPod.More details to come when they complete our beta.
How It Works:
Search or browse by your favorite genre. They have over 5 million licensed songs. You'll find something you'll like. If you like what you hear, click the add button to buy it for 10¢. You've just put a web song in your lala collection! By the way, the first 50 web songs are free.
If you already have a music library on your computer, their Music Mover application gets your music online so fast it seems like magic. It's free and it works for Mac, too.
More at:http://next.lala.com/
SimulSays is the world’s first visual voicemail mobile handset application
What Company Is Offering:
SimulSays is the world’s first visual voicemail mobile handset application. SimulSays is a product developed by PhoneTag, the world’s leader in voicemail-to-text services.
How It Works:
SimulSays is a PhoneTag powered application that lets you experience visual voicemail directly on your handset. With SimulSays, voicemail is as easy as scroll, click, and listen.
SimulSays displays voicemail right on your handset screen. Listen now, listen later; find voicemails with ease—your messages are stored in chronological order and display the caller ID, date and time.
Voice messages can be replied to by email, SMS or phone by a simple scroll and click.
SimulSays with PhoneTag offers visual voicemail that you can READ and listen to right from your phone screen. Just click on the preview for complete transcription. Scroll, click and listen to your message with SimulSays and READ it with PhoneTag!
SimulSays is free with any PhoneTag automated transcription service.
More at:http://www.simulsays.com/
SimulSays is the world’s first visual voicemail mobile handset application. SimulSays is a product developed by PhoneTag, the world’s leader in voicemail-to-text services.
How It Works:
SimulSays is a PhoneTag powered application that lets you experience visual voicemail directly on your handset. With SimulSays, voicemail is as easy as scroll, click, and listen.
SimulSays displays voicemail right on your handset screen. Listen now, listen later; find voicemails with ease—your messages are stored in chronological order and display the caller ID, date and time.
Voice messages can be replied to by email, SMS or phone by a simple scroll and click.
SimulSays with PhoneTag offers visual voicemail that you can READ and listen to right from your phone screen. Just click on the preview for complete transcription. Scroll, click and listen to your message with SimulSays and READ it with PhoneTag!
SimulSays is free with any PhoneTag automated transcription service.
More at:http://www.simulsays.com/
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