Monday, June 16, 2008

Lucid Commerce provides on-demand business intelligence that combines automatic data consolidation, organization, and analysis for marketing companies

What Company Is Offering:

Lucid Commerce provides on-demand business intelligence that combines automatic data consolidation, organization, and analysis for direct marketing companies. Lucid provides the clear insights and visible results that direct marketers need to make smart, confident decisions.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Lucid Commerce, an industry-leading provider of on-demand business intelligence, announced today it has raised $2.5 million in Series A funding in a round led by OVP Venture Partners. The funding will be used to add capacity, scale the company's operations and enable it to meet demand for its services.

"The funding and expertise
that OVP brings will accelerate the enhancement of our existing platform, allowing us to deliver more value to our clients while penetrating additional channels for our services," said Tyson Roberts, co-founder and President of Lucid Commerce.

"Technology has finally caught up to the old marketing panacea of 1:1 marketing," said OVP Venture Partners Managing Director Lucinda Stewart, who will join Lucid's Board of Directors. "The next key will be simplicity and results for the marketer. Lucid Commerce is bringing to market an analytics solution that ties online and offline insights into actions for the marketer, immediately impacting their bottom line -- a powerful value proposition tied to results. Their solution will do for data warehousing and analytics what Cost per Click did for online performance marketing."

This round of financing was led by OVP Venture Partners and also included key partners and advisors. One such advisor, Neil V. Sunderland, is Chairman of Adconion Media Group Limited and Xing AG (DAX). He is Executive Chairman of Adinvest AG and specializes in promoting rapidly growing internet/mobile/digital media businesses.

More at:www.lucidcommerce.com

WooMe is the world's largest live introductions platform and extends the concept of speed dating online got VCs funding

What Company Is Offering:

WooMe is the world's largest live introductions platform and extends the concept of speed dating online to allow users to meet live in timed sessions via webcam. There are no questionnaires, lengthy profile descriptions or software to download, users can simply find a speed session that interests them, join and meet five people in five minutes. WooMe is easy, fast and free allowing users to meet new people around any shared interest for fun, to hook up, or for pure entertainment. With WooMe, meeting people online is transformed into a face-to-face experience that makes sifting through static profiles a thing of the past.

How Much They Got From VCs:

WooMe, the world's largest live introductions platform, announced the closing of a Series B, totaling $12.5 million. The round was led by Index Ventures with existing investors Atomico and Mangrove Capital Partners also participating. The new capital will go toward supporting user growth, expanding internationally and introducing new functionality to the site.

"WooMe is pleased to be working with such established and well-regarded investors in its mission to evolve social networking and bring real time introductions to the world," said Stephen Stokols, co-founder and CEO of WooMe. "Users are signing on to meet new friends, travel partners and even soul mates; we are certainly well-positioned to succeed in this market by establishing a strong first mover advantage and reaching a critical mass of users.

With these strategic investments and partner relationships, WooMe is expanding its reach rapidly. Within the first six months of launch WooMe has demonstrated significant user traction.

More at: www.woome.com.

AdChina is China's leading online ad networks focusing on women, teenager, auto, finance, and consumer electronics sectors

What Company Is Offering:
AdChina is China's leading online ad networks focusing on women, teenager, auto, finance, and consumer electronics sectors. With its proprietary AdManager, AdTarget, and AdContent platform and technologies, AdChina commits to become the first choice of online ad network for major brands.

How Much They Got From VCs:


AdChina, a Shanghai-based online advertising network, announced that it has closed its first round funding of $10 million led by Mayfield China.

AdChina was founded in April 2007 by a team of executives from the Internet and advertising technology space. AdChina has built the best targeting technology solution in China, serving brand advertising into verticals like women, teenager, auto, finance, and consumer electronics, etc. Headquartered in Shanghai, the company has established regional sales offices in the major tier one cities, and signed up premium brand advertisers like Unilever, L'Oreal, Adidas, etc.

Powered by a robust consumer market and growing number of Internet users, online advertising has been growing at exponential speed in China in the last few years. In 2007, brand-focused advertising accounted for over 50% of the $1.37 billion market in China, according to iResearch, with search ad spend accounting for the remainder.

More at:www.adchina.com

WatchDoit.com--the new Web site poised to become the premier place for “how-to” videos – with an entertainment edge

What Company Is Offering:
WatchDoit, Inc. manages www.WatchDoit.com, the new Web site poised to become the premier place for “how-to” videos – with an entertainment edge.
Using a combination of original, user-created content and the best how-to video clips available on the Internet, www.WatchDoit.com has created a community – and a hub – designed to teach web users how to perfect a craft, master a new skill, or simply learn something new in a visual way.

How It Works:

Once a video is uploaded to the WatchDoit website, it goes through an encoding process that can take up to 24 Hours.

A published movie file should be in the format .wmv or .avi when using Windows Movie maker. If it is .mswmm it is still a project file and will need to be published before uploading to the WatchDoit website.

You can upload the files in the following formats (.wmv, .mpg, .mpeg, .avi, .mp4, .3gp, .flv, .asf, .mpeg, .qt, .mov).


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

Trustcash is a proven alternative payment system that enables consumers to buy content, services, and merchandise on the Internet privately and secure

What Company Is Offering:
Trustcash is a proven alternative payment system that enables consumers to buy content, services, and merchandise on the Internet privately and securely. Trustcash may be purchased at retail outlets across the U.S.

Trustcash is for people who are concerned about providing their sensitive, personal and financial information over the internet as well as for those who wish for their online purchases to be private just like cash purchases.

How It Works:
Trustcash provides consumers with the ability to make private purchases over the Internet while protecting their identity and maintaining their anonymity. Trustcash therefore eliminates the possibility of credit card fraud, recurring charges, and identity theft. Trustcash is an alternative payment system for those who do not have or do not wish to use a credit card to make payments on the internet. Trustcash is convenient. There is no need to set up an account with every merchant you want to do business with, saving time and decreasing the risk that your personal information will fall into the hands of the wrong people.

If you purchase Trustcash directly at Trustcash.com or a partner site, you will receive your Trustcash code instantly. You will also receive an e-mail confirmation with your Trustcash code and serial number (you will need your serial number only if you require customer support). Once you have your Trustcash code, go to the desired merchant site and click on the Trustcash badge or Icon on their site. You will then be asked to enter your code at that point. If you need a password to enter the site you will be given this once you enter your Trustcash code. All purchases are deducted from the remaining Trustcash balance. click here to see an illustration of how Trustcash works.

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

eteamz has been connecting coaches, players, families, friends and fans in over 120 countries

What Company Is Offering:
eteamz is the resource for team sports. Through a comprehensive set of easy, do-it-yourself website design, communication, and group management tools, eteamz simplifies the website building process, allowing you to focus on what is most important: having fun!

At eteamz, they believe taking part in recreational sports should be an enjoyable and rewarding experience for all - they've built their tools with that in mind.

How It Works:

With eteamz you can build or search for websites, collect player and team fees online, access online registration and payment tools, find great fundraising services, participate on sport specific message boards, search and register for camps, tournaments, teams and other events, read great sport tips, view instructional videos and more!

eteamz has been connecting coaches, players, families, friends and fans in over 120 countries. From baseball to badminton, scouting to student unions, eteamz is dedicated to providing the tools and services you need to create a fun and engaging website for your team, league or organization.

With no time-consuming downloads or installations, eteamz makes it easy to have your site online in less than 5 minutes. All you need is a web browser and an Internet connection! Build an eteamz website for your team, league, club or organization today to start taking advantage of industry-leading online communication and organization tools right away!

eteamz is part of The Active Network, Inc. Active provides technology and marketing services to thousands of organizations and is the leader for online registration and online communities for active lifestyles, serving millions of participants worldwide.

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

Crowd Science Demographics is a new audience measurement service that gives website publishers insight into the demographics and attitudes of audience

What Company Is Offering:
Crowd Science Demographics is a new audience measurement service that gives website publishers insight into the demographics and attitudes of their audience. Focusing on more than page views, clicks and behavior, Crowd Science Demographics builds an audience profile including age, gender, income level and other demos that provide you insight to your audience. Using fundamental research principals, data collection occurs by inviting a small number of visitors to take a short, inline survey. Results can be viewed in our reporting interface, exported for further analysis, or shared using our media kit hosting service. It's your audience, your data and Crowd Science helps you learn more. No panels, no spam, no sweepstakes, just data.


How It Works:
All you need to do is create an account, add your site, tag your pages (just like existing analytics/ad/widget services available), and you are done. No worries, we are compatible with existing ad systems, so you can sit back and enjoy.

As a publisher, advertiser or blogger, you can use Crowd Science Demographics to gather demographic information about your website's traffic. By using painstakingly designed topic-area-specific surveys, Crowd Science Demographics will reveal both general and specific data about your users, which will be collected and provided in a findings report in your account page. All you have to do is enable it, wait for it to gather the data, then decide what to do with the information - Crowd Science Demographics imposes no limitation there.

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

StockNewsGame

What Company Is Offering:
The StockNewsGame allows a fun, educating (and hopefully not too addictive) 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:

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/

Omega Media Player is an all-in-one media manager that enables professionals to aggregate and distribute all their digital music & video content

What Company Is Offering:
Omega Media Player is an all-in-one media manager that enables professionals to aggregate and distribute all their digital music & video content on their customer's PC through a single application.

Omega supports many kinds of distribution methods, it targets virtually all digital devices including mobile handsets and portable media players; it delivers and synchs music, videos as well as video-games; it gives access to new and existing content portals and online stores.

The software provides a high added-value to the end-user: it is destined to become his preferred PC media manager, aggregating both your company's content and his personal media files.

Intuitive interface and drag-and-drop controls, embedded online store, playlist creation and podcast management all pave the way for an optimal end-user experience. Hence, Omega Media Player will become the best way to access all your digital content.

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

Silobreaker is an online search service for news and current events that delivers meaning and relevance beyond traditional search and aggregation

What Company Is Offering:

Silobreaker is an online search service for news and current events that delivers meaning and relevance beyond traditional search and aggregation engines. Its relational analysis and explanatory graphics provide users with unparalleled contextual insight into the news stories of the day.



How It Works:

Silobreaker provides relevance by looking at the data it finds like a person does. It recognises people, companies, topics, places and keywords; understands how they relate to each other in the news flow, and puts them in context for the user. The graphical search results enables users to quickly and easily understand connections, trends and topics or navigate deeper into the most relevant stories for them. No other news search service provides such an extensive suite of contextual tools in the industry today.



Silobreaker pulls content on global issues, science, technology and business from approximately 10,000 news, blog, research and multimedia sources. With the engine’s focus on finding and connecting related data in the information flow, Silobreaker’s user tools and visualisations are ideal for bringing meaning to content from either today’s Web or the evolving Semantic Web, or both.

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

Filtrbox searches thousands of online news sources

What Company Is Offering:
Filtrbox searches thousands of online news sources— from the New York Times to the Pitkin County Tribune—along with the entire blogosphere for new content. . They constantly add new sources, and you can also add your own via RSS.
Filtrs are essentially search terms or phrases, similar in function to a search text box. Filtrs become much more than simple search terms as you add additional terms to refine the results or add context. Filtrs also learn over time and calculate your feedback on sources to help FiltrRank deliver incredibly accurate scoring, customized to you.



How It Works:

Filtrbox is based on intelligent persistent search technology. This means the system searches, and re-searches its sources around the clock looking for new articles that contain the search terms you have entered. What we do once we find a potential new article is the "intelligent" bit.
Filtrbox enables the generation of custom RSS feeds, and what makes this special is the granular control over what gets included in the feed. FiltrFeed is our name for these user specific, custom RSS feeds. With FiltrFeeds you can control a number of important elements of the feed such as Filtrs, date range, minimum score, and total articles to be included. This control becomes very valuable when you integrate a feed into a reader or turn it into a widget and display the articles on a website, dashboard, or blog.

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

Paltalk is the premier real-time, video-based chat community

What Company Is Offering:
Paltalk is the premier real-time, video-based chat community. With more than 4 million members and thousands of chat rooms to choose from on virtually every subject. Members interact with each other through real-time voice, text and video chat.

How It Works:
Find the Paltalk icon on your desktop and double click on it to launch the program ,the login screen appears
Select your nickname from the list if it is not currently displayed using the pull-down arrow to the right side of the nickname box.
Download and save the installer
Download the OFFICIAL version of Paltalk from http://www.paltalk.com by clicking .

You will see a 'Download Now' button to the top right of your browser screen.

hover over the 'Download Now' button with your mouse button and 'right click'

select 'save target as' from the menu that appears


Step 2 - Save the installation file
Once the download starts a security warning may appear and ask you what you wish to do with the Paltalk installation file.


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

RateMyProfessors.com is the Internet's largest listing of collegiate professor ratings

What Company Is Offering:
RateMyProfessors.com is the Internet's largest listing of collegiate professor ratings, with more than 6.8 million student-generated ratings of over 1 million professors. Each year, millions of college students use the site to help plan their class schedules and rate current and past professors on attributes such as helpfulness and clarity. RateMyProfessors.com currently offers ratings on college and university professors from over 6,000 schools across the United States, Canada, England, Scotland and Wales with thousands of new ratings added each day.

How It Works:

You can select your school by picking your state or province from the drop-down list on the front page. You'll then see a list of schools; just click on your school's name to bring up the list of professors in that school. If your professor is listed on your school's page, click on the name and rate them. If your professor is not listed, there is a link to where you can add and rate them.

The purpose of the site is to be a resource for students. Where else can you find out what others think of an instructor? When you have the option of choosing a teacher, wouldn't you really like some information? It also gives you, the user, a place to voice your opinion. It gives you a place to make a difference in your education.

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