What Company Is Offering:
OneSpot allows anyone to discover and publish the best Web content for targeted online audiences. The company’s patent-pending Publishing as a Service™ platform provides a fundamentally new and better model for media sites, traditional publishers, business brands and bloggers to leverage third party content that drives site traffic, audience engagement, SEO performance and email response rates.
OneSpot makes it easy to publish the content it discovers for you and your audience.
OneSpot’s breakthrough system finds top stories for a specific topic area by evaluating story linking patterns across the Web, an approach that consistently provides you with the content that is the best and most current for your online audience. This approach also lets you complement your own content without requiring a large existing archive of previously published work.
Unique Features:
* You identify a few trusted sites that reflect the interests of your audience, and OneSpot automatically finds thousands of related sources with similar content, continuously identifying the best articles, stories and posts from among them.
* Top content is displayed to you in an online editor interface, where individual stories can be approved, featured or blocked.
* You specify publishing frequency and how the content will be compiled, with options including a content headlines Web page, a story widget, an HTML email newsletter or RSS feed.
* Content delivered to online audiences includes the article’s headline, a short excerpt of the original article, and a link to the original story or site, giving full credit to the original author and source.
* Every published story receives its own detail page, dense with relevant keywords and phrases, and is assigned a permanent URL optimized for search engine results.
* Each story detail page contains relevant comments from the original content, and encourages further reader participation via discussion and voting features.
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
OctaGate SiteTimer aims at web site developers that needs to get a birds eye view of their work
What Company Is Offering:
OctaGate and this service called OctaGate SiteTimer. OctaGate SiteTimer aims at web site developers that needs to get a birds eye view of their work.
Web Monitor allows you to monitor how long it takes for a user to download one or more of your web site pages.
As the pages are downloaded, SiteTimer stores statistics on how long time each item takes to download, and how much data they contained. This information is then presented in a grid.
Web Monitor correctly handles http compressed material (see OctaGate Switch), and it also honors keep-alive requests to give an accurate indication of the times a real browser would spend downloading the content.
More at:http://www.octagate.com/
OctaGate and this service called OctaGate SiteTimer. OctaGate SiteTimer aims at web site developers that needs to get a birds eye view of their work.
Web Monitor allows you to monitor how long it takes for a user to download one or more of your web site pages.
As the pages are downloaded, SiteTimer stores statistics on how long time each item takes to download, and how much data they contained. This information is then presented in a grid.
Web Monitor correctly handles http compressed material (see OctaGate Switch), and it also honors keep-alive requests to give an accurate indication of the times a real browser would spend downloading the content.
More at:http://www.octagate.com/
Workology is a community of professionals, organisations and businesses who create work opportunities for each other
What Company Is Offering:
Workology is a community of professionals, organisations and businesses who create work opportunities for each other - flexible, contract, project-partners, voluntary.
How It Works:
Anyone can post any work-related opportunity for free on Workology. Opportunities can range from short-term projects (even if it’s for a few hours) to permanent positions that are flexible. They could be for a service or straight-forward employment. We all both of these expertise. To post an opportunity, all you need to do is go to the Knowledge Market and post a comment or click on work opportunities in the “what do I want to do today box” in your personal workspace. You need to sign-up with Workology in order to do so.
Workology works for individuals in all sorts of employment situations and for organisations. What brings us all together though is the common desire to design our own way of working. If you’re an organisation, this could be using Workology to find talent, using the site as a platform to market your services, events and publish content. Any individual can use Workology to showcase their expertise, get support to sustain their workstyle and connect with other members to fulfil their aims on the site. Workology is a flexible platform too so you can use it in the way that best suits you.
More at:http://www.workology.com/
Workology is a community of professionals, organisations and businesses who create work opportunities for each other - flexible, contract, project-partners, voluntary.
How It Works:
Anyone can post any work-related opportunity for free on Workology. Opportunities can range from short-term projects (even if it’s for a few hours) to permanent positions that are flexible. They could be for a service or straight-forward employment. We all both of these expertise. To post an opportunity, all you need to do is go to the Knowledge Market and post a comment or click on work opportunities in the “what do I want to do today box” in your personal workspace. You need to sign-up with Workology in order to do so.
Workology works for individuals in all sorts of employment situations and for organisations. What brings us all together though is the common desire to design our own way of working. If you’re an organisation, this could be using Workology to find talent, using the site as a platform to market your services, events and publish content. Any individual can use Workology to showcase their expertise, get support to sustain their workstyle and connect with other members to fulfil their aims on the site. Workology is a flexible platform too so you can use it in the way that best suits you.
More at:http://www.workology.com/
WeMix---Create And Record Your Original Own Music
What Company Is Offering:
WeMix is a new media company.WeMix is a better way for the world to share and create original music. Together.
How It Works:
It's a simple deal: you sign up, create your page, upload your original songs, beats, vocals, riffs, and more. As a member you can collaborate on songs, offer feedback, and share ideas for new music with others. Most importantly you can vote for your favorite songs.
The top performers get a shot to turn their demos into real records—by collaborating with star musicians like Luda and with the entire WeMix community. And they'll put the whole thing on TV.
More at:http://www.wemix.com/
WeMix is a new media company.WeMix is a better way for the world to share and create original music. Together.
How It Works:
It's a simple deal: you sign up, create your page, upload your original songs, beats, vocals, riffs, and more. As a member you can collaborate on songs, offer feedback, and share ideas for new music with others. Most importantly you can vote for your favorite songs.
The top performers get a shot to turn their demos into real records—by collaborating with star musicians like Luda and with the entire WeMix community. And they'll put the whole thing on TV.
More at:http://www.wemix.com/
Keskidi is a wiki service build to add and edit video subtitles in a collaborative manner
What Company Is Offering:
Keskidi is a wiki service build to add and edit video subtitles in a collaborative manner. It was build to fit a gap, that there are plenty of videos on the Internet, plenty of good documentaries, shows, food recipes, high-level free courses, but many of them don't benefit to the rest of the world because of language barriers.
How It Works:
They strive to bring a simple tool that, let's say, your grandma would be able to quickly handle. Once you get your account, which is free to create, all you need to do is to import a video located a video sharing platform like YouTube or MySpace, and start captioning it. Users of the site will spot your initiative and will help you get it fully captioned, while others will translate the texts into their own language. Whenever you want, you could embed the video into a web page by copy-pasting a short code given on each single video page. This way, you could provide a sort of DVD-ish video player fulled of different languages to your friends or your blog readers.
More at:http://keskidi.org/
Keskidi is a wiki service build to add and edit video subtitles in a collaborative manner. It was build to fit a gap, that there are plenty of videos on the Internet, plenty of good documentaries, shows, food recipes, high-level free courses, but many of them don't benefit to the rest of the world because of language barriers.
How It Works:
They strive to bring a simple tool that, let's say, your grandma would be able to quickly handle. Once you get your account, which is free to create, all you need to do is to import a video located a video sharing platform like YouTube or MySpace, and start captioning it. Users of the site will spot your initiative and will help you get it fully captioned, while others will translate the texts into their own language. Whenever you want, you could embed the video into a web page by copy-pasting a short code given on each single video page. This way, you could provide a sort of DVD-ish video player fulled of different languages to your friends or your blog readers.
More at:http://keskidi.org/
Roundbox is the world leader in mobile broadcast software got VCs funding
What Company Is Offering:
Roundbox is the world leader in mobile broadcast software. Roundbox is passionately focused on providing the world with great software, services, and infrastructure to deliver "mobile broadcast" applications.
Mobile broadcast applications afford mobile users a rich experience with fast, real-time, data-intensive, "always on" capabilities. The number of mobile broadcast applications are limitless. Some include mobile television, mobile radio, emergency alerts, breaking news, sports, weather, social networking, and many others.
How It Works:
Roundbox provides end-to-end software solutions for mobile and broadcast network operators deploying mobile broadcast services, supporting existing 3G, 4G, and new emerging broadcast/multicast networks.
How Much They Got From VCs:
RoundBox Inc., a Florham Park, N.J.-based provider of mobile broadcast software, has called down $12 million of a $20 million Series C round, according to a regulatory filing. Montagu Newhall Associates was joined by return backers Core Capital Partners, Polaris Venture Partners and RRE Ventures.
The company previously raised $23 million over two rounds.
More at: www.roundbox.com
Roundbox is the world leader in mobile broadcast software. Roundbox is passionately focused on providing the world with great software, services, and infrastructure to deliver "mobile broadcast" applications.
Mobile broadcast applications afford mobile users a rich experience with fast, real-time, data-intensive, "always on" capabilities. The number of mobile broadcast applications are limitless. Some include mobile television, mobile radio, emergency alerts, breaking news, sports, weather, social networking, and many others.
How It Works:
Roundbox provides end-to-end software solutions for mobile and broadcast network operators deploying mobile broadcast services, supporting existing 3G, 4G, and new emerging broadcast/multicast networks.
How Much They Got From VCs:
RoundBox Inc., a Florham Park, N.J.-based provider of mobile broadcast software, has called down $12 million of a $20 million Series C round, according to a regulatory filing. Montagu Newhall Associates was joined by return backers Core Capital Partners, Polaris Venture Partners and RRE Ventures.
The company previously raised $23 million over two rounds.
More at: www.roundbox.com
TeleSphere that delivers an innovative package of IP telephone service and internet access to business has closed on an additional $10 million
What Company Is Offering:
TeleSphere is a Phoenix-based managed services provider that delivers an innovative package of IP telephone service and internet access to business throughout the United States. TeleSphere’s services allow small to medium businesses to enjoy all of the latest voice and data features of large businesses without the costly investment of on-premise equipment. TeleSphere fully manages its customers’ services over a private IP facilities-based network. TeleSphere customers that are spread across multiple offices throughout the country, from small business, medium business, and even home business, function seamlessly as if they were in the same location.
How Much They Got From VCs:
TeleSphere, a Phoenix-based managed telecommunications and network services provider, announced today it has closed on an additional $10 million of private equity funding. The private investment will be used to continue TeleSphere’s national expansion, including multiple market launches planned for 2008 and 2009.
“The additional funding is an important statement from our investors about their belief that TeleSphere’s technology and service offering are the smart choice in today’s market,” said TeleSphere’s Chief Executive Officer, Clark Peterson. “Customers are seeking the latest in telephone and network services to make them more productive, cost-effective, and to focus more of their capital on their core business -- especially in today’s economic climate.”
More at:http://www.telesphere.com/
TeleSphere is a Phoenix-based managed services provider that delivers an innovative package of IP telephone service and internet access to business throughout the United States. TeleSphere’s services allow small to medium businesses to enjoy all of the latest voice and data features of large businesses without the costly investment of on-premise equipment. TeleSphere fully manages its customers’ services over a private IP facilities-based network. TeleSphere customers that are spread across multiple offices throughout the country, from small business, medium business, and even home business, function seamlessly as if they were in the same location.
How Much They Got From VCs:
TeleSphere, a Phoenix-based managed telecommunications and network services provider, announced today it has closed on an additional $10 million of private equity funding. The private investment will be used to continue TeleSphere’s national expansion, including multiple market launches planned for 2008 and 2009.
“The additional funding is an important statement from our investors about their belief that TeleSphere’s technology and service offering are the smart choice in today’s market,” said TeleSphere’s Chief Executive Officer, Clark Peterson. “Customers are seeking the latest in telephone and network services to make them more productive, cost-effective, and to focus more of their capital on their core business -- especially in today’s economic climate.”
More at:http://www.telesphere.com/
PlantSense, a pioneer in Internet-enabled gardening tools, has received $3.5 million in Series A funding
What Company Is Offering:
PlantSense is smart, Internet-connected device that reveals exactly what plants will thrive in a specific location. By applying proven, scientific techniques used by professional winemakers and greenhouse growers, PlantSense allows anyone to enjoy a beautiful indoor or outdoor garden -- from a single bedroom begonia to a backyard bed of roses.
Gardeners place the PlantSense tool anywhere they'd like a thriving plant, for example on a windowsill or in a shady spot in the backyard. After 24 hours the user plugs the device into a USB port on a PC or Mac, and the PlantSense Web site analyzes the collected data (soil conditions, sunlight, moisture and temperature) against a large database to recommend plants that will thrive in that particular spot.
How Much They Got From VCs:
PlantSense, a pioneer in Internet-enabled gardening tools, has received $3.5 million in Series A funding from Gabriel Ventures and independent investors. Working in combination with its free Internet service, the PlantSense tool recommends which plants will thrive in a specific location and diagnoses what is wrong with ailing plants. The device, due to be launched later this year, can be used year round in homes and gardens.
"Americans spend $21 billion annually on plants, but a third of those plants die within a year," said Matthew Glenn, chief executive officer of PlantSense. "For many people, gardening, and especially figuring out what to plant where, is a frustrating and expensive process of trial and error. PlantSense's device will be like having a botanist in your pocket, making it easier and less work to enjoy thriving plants."
More at:http://www.plantsense.com
PlantSense is smart, Internet-connected device that reveals exactly what plants will thrive in a specific location. By applying proven, scientific techniques used by professional winemakers and greenhouse growers, PlantSense allows anyone to enjoy a beautiful indoor or outdoor garden -- from a single bedroom begonia to a backyard bed of roses.
Gardeners place the PlantSense tool anywhere they'd like a thriving plant, for example on a windowsill or in a shady spot in the backyard. After 24 hours the user plugs the device into a USB port on a PC or Mac, and the PlantSense Web site analyzes the collected data (soil conditions, sunlight, moisture and temperature) against a large database to recommend plants that will thrive in that particular spot.
How Much They Got From VCs:
PlantSense, a pioneer in Internet-enabled gardening tools, has received $3.5 million in Series A funding from Gabriel Ventures and independent investors. Working in combination with its free Internet service, the PlantSense tool recommends which plants will thrive in a specific location and diagnoses what is wrong with ailing plants. The device, due to be launched later this year, can be used year round in homes and gardens.
"Americans spend $21 billion annually on plants, but a third of those plants die within a year," said Matthew Glenn, chief executive officer of PlantSense. "For many people, gardening, and especially figuring out what to plant where, is a frustrating and expensive process of trial and error. PlantSense's device will be like having a botanist in your pocket, making it easier and less work to enjoy thriving plants."
More at:http://www.plantsense.com
Jivox, the first self-service online video advertising platform for local businesses has closed a $10.7 million Series A
What Company Is Offering:
Jivox, the self-service online video advertising platform for local businesses, gives smaller and local advertisers access to online video advertising by making it easy to create, target and deliver online video ads. The Jivox platform combines a self-service video ad creation tool, proprietary targeting technology, and a growing network of publishers to offer advertisers a complete, do-it-yourself service for online video advertising.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Jivox, the first self-service online video advertising platform for local businesses, announced that it has closed a $10.7 million Series A round of financing led by Opus Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm. New investor Helion Venture Partners, an India-focused venture fund, also participated in the round, along with Jivox's existing investors. The funds will be used to continue development of the Jivox online video advertising platform, as well as to expand the company's sales and marketing efforts.
The Jivox online video ad platform enables smaller and local businesses to harness the power of online video advertising by reducing the cost and complexity of developing and placing online video ads. Since its launch in March 2008, Jivox has seen broad adoption of its self-service online video ad platform by advertisers in a wide variety of industries, including travel sites, financial and real estate services, transportation companies and restaurants. Jivox has also gained significant traction with publishers, who are eager to monetize the content on their sites and tap into a huge pool of smaller advertisers that would otherwise be confined to banner or search ads. The Jivox Video Network now reaches more than 40 million viewers.
More at:www.jivox.com
Jivox, the self-service online video advertising platform for local businesses, gives smaller and local advertisers access to online video advertising by making it easy to create, target and deliver online video ads. The Jivox platform combines a self-service video ad creation tool, proprietary targeting technology, and a growing network of publishers to offer advertisers a complete, do-it-yourself service for online video advertising.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Jivox, the first self-service online video advertising platform for local businesses, announced that it has closed a $10.7 million Series A round of financing led by Opus Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm. New investor Helion Venture Partners, an India-focused venture fund, also participated in the round, along with Jivox's existing investors. The funds will be used to continue development of the Jivox online video advertising platform, as well as to expand the company's sales and marketing efforts.
The Jivox online video ad platform enables smaller and local businesses to harness the power of online video advertising by reducing the cost and complexity of developing and placing online video ads. Since its launch in March 2008, Jivox has seen broad adoption of its self-service online video ad platform by advertisers in a wide variety of industries, including travel sites, financial and real estate services, transportation companies and restaurants. Jivox has also gained significant traction with publishers, who are eager to monetize the content on their sites and tap into a huge pool of smaller advertisers that would otherwise be confined to banner or search ads. The Jivox Video Network now reaches more than 40 million viewers.
More at:www.jivox.com
Track your friends with blummi
What Company Is Offering:
Track your friends and get alerted when they are nearby. Discover favorite places
explore what's going on around you and what's recommended by friends. Meet new friends around you or who have the same interests and habits.
How It works:
Share your favorite places ,tell your friends about your favorite places, where you are, what are you doing there and show them photos made with your mobile device.
Follow your friends ,write them private messages, invite them to your events, ask them for an opinion and organize your weekend with them
Use the blummi!com mobile software to combine the power of your mobile phone with the power of blummi!com. They support all MIDP2.0 devices, IPhone, Blackberry, S60, ...
More at:http://www.blummi.com/
Track your friends and get alerted when they are nearby. Discover favorite places
explore what's going on around you and what's recommended by friends. Meet new friends around you or who have the same interests and habits.
How It works:
Share your favorite places ,tell your friends about your favorite places, where you are, what are you doing there and show them photos made with your mobile device.
Follow your friends ,write them private messages, invite them to your events, ask them for an opinion and organize your weekend with them
Use the blummi!com mobile software to combine the power of your mobile phone with the power of blummi!com. They support all MIDP2.0 devices, IPhone, Blackberry, S60, ...
More at:http://www.blummi.com/
Archive-It allows institutions to build and preserve their own web archive of born digital content, through a user friendly web application
What Company Is Offering:
Archive-It allows institutions to build and preserve their own web archive of born digital content, through a user friendly web application, without requiring any technical expertise or hosting facilities. Subscribers can harvest, catalog, and archive their collections, and then search and browse the collections when complete. Collections are hosted at the Internet Archive data center, and accessible to the public with full text search.
With the rapid growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web, millions of people have grown accustomed to using these tools as resources to acquire information; and the availability of electronic information is taken for granted. However, it is a fallacy that if something is on the web, it will be there forever. The average lifespan of a web page is 44 -75 days. There's an urgent need for people to understand that that web is who we are. It's our culture and our social fabric, and we don't want to lose any of it. What is here today might be gone tomorrow.
Archive-It is designed to fit the needs of many types of organizations and individuals. The over 50 partners include: state archives, university libraries, federal institutions, state libraries, non government non profits, museums, historians, and independent researchers.
More at:http://www.archive.org/
Archive-It allows institutions to build and preserve their own web archive of born digital content, through a user friendly web application, without requiring any technical expertise or hosting facilities. Subscribers can harvest, catalog, and archive their collections, and then search and browse the collections when complete. Collections are hosted at the Internet Archive data center, and accessible to the public with full text search.
With the rapid growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web, millions of people have grown accustomed to using these tools as resources to acquire information; and the availability of electronic information is taken for granted. However, it is a fallacy that if something is on the web, it will be there forever. The average lifespan of a web page is 44 -75 days. There's an urgent need for people to understand that that web is who we are. It's our culture and our social fabric, and we don't want to lose any of it. What is here today might be gone tomorrow.
Archive-It is designed to fit the needs of many types of organizations and individuals. The over 50 partners include: state archives, university libraries, federal institutions, state libraries, non government non profits, museums, historians, and independent researchers.
More at:http://www.archive.org/
Explode is an easy way to find friends and those with common interests, no matter what social network or service they use
What Company Is Offering:
Explode is an easy way to find friends and those with common interests, no matter what social network or service they use.
You can use the Explode widget to stay linked to friends regardless of which network they are on.
How It Works:
Explode is a search engine that gets its data from information that has been made publically available. Their crawlers respect robot.txt and they do not attempt to gather any infomration that has been marked as anything other than 'public'.
Therefore, if you appear in an Explode search, this is because you have made your information available to the public.
More at:http://explode.elgg.org/
Explode is an easy way to find friends and those with common interests, no matter what social network or service they use.
You can use the Explode widget to stay linked to friends regardless of which network they are on.
How It Works:
Explode is a search engine that gets its data from information that has been made publically available. Their crawlers respect robot.txt and they do not attempt to gather any infomration that has been marked as anything other than 'public'.
Therefore, if you appear in an Explode search, this is because you have made your information available to the public.
More at:http://explode.elgg.org/
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