Friday, June 27, 2008

Soungle---Easily find and search sound effects and musical instruments samples.

What Company Is Offering:

Soungle is NOT a Web search engine. It only searches in their growing monster database. Their goals are to keep it simple to use (search, preview and download) and to keep it free.

Keyword searches are performed by entering any word or phrase in a search box. The retrieved results of a keyword search are displayed ten to a page. Clicking on play icon allows you to preview a file. Download button instantly downloads the sound effect or musical instrument sample file. A short description of the sound appears on top of every sound , followed by the frame rate, duration and bit rate. Remember, all of their sound effects and samples are royalty free for downloading.

More at:http://soungle.com/

Affinity Circles Is Trusted Social Network

About Company:

Affinity Circles, is one of the first online social networks as a way to stay in contact with friends and colleagues from Stanford. Unlike other public social networks developing at the time, the Stanford network was a trusted and secure community accessible only to Stanford students and alumni.

In 2003, the original Affinity Circles founders took the private social networking application and marketed it to other alumni associations and organizations that could benefit from member-based online communities. While the application and customer needs continue to evolve, the company remains committed to creating trusted social networks.

Affinity Circles continues to grow it's customer base exponentially year over year and add employees that will help the company grow to serve more membership-based organizations with interactive and engaging features and services.

More at:http://affinitycircles.com/

Dizzed----Talent Search Site

What Company Is Offering:
Dizzed is an online community that banks on user-generated content of the latest news that hit the web. Dizzed's content are categorized according to news, technology, sport, travel, media, science, lifestyle, television, internet marketing, music, entertainment, gaming and the revolutionary talent spool where you can showcase your talent. The members of Dizzed are given full control over the type of content that is uploaded on their account as long as it complies with Dizzed's terms of service. Users of Dizzed can also vote in terms of the popularity or unpopularity of the content being uploaded.

How It Works:

Registration is required if you want to be able to upload content or leave comments. It is very easy to register at Dizzed and wont take much of your time, so it is recommended for you to register. However, if you just want to see the latest news, no registration is required.



Compared to other sites, Dizzed is largely a social community that provides information by allowing their users to submit original links to the stories or talent that they want published. Dizzed has a simple interface that is very user-friendly to its members that even first time users will have no problem navigating and submitting their stories. Searching for friends is even made easier with Dizzed's user search function.

More at:http://www.dizzed.com/
What Company Is Offering:
InverSearch is a search engine that bills its business users by the number of responses they make to consumer inquiries rather than by the number of hits they receive. InverSearch utilizes a Pay-Per-Response business model that does not affect the relevancy of search results or devour the budgets of advertisers.



How It Works:
InverSearch provides businesses with the most credible, cost-effective means to obtain customers, and provides consumers with the easiest, most reliable way to receive relevant search results. Individuals and businesses post confidential categorized inquiries, and the system immediately distributes the queries to businesses that have registered and want to respond to such inquiries. InverSearch allows businesses to control their marketing costs and achieve the highest possible advertising conversion rates while connecting with potential customers. Users can post an inquiry in a fraction of the time it takes to conduct a traditional Web search, and receive relevant results from genuinely interested self-identified sources.

How Is It Different:
This method is different from the Pay-Per-Click system used by many search engines. A consumer Internet user who wishes to use InverSearch establishes, at no charge, a password-protected consumer account. Once the consumer account is established, the user has access to a personalized My Account page. This graphical interface is used for submitting natural language search queries, managing queries, and reading incoming responses. Business accounts are established by businesses that wish to be queried by consumers with established accounts.

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

InGameNow allows users to connect with other sports fans and get real-time scores, banter, news and gossip

What Company Is Offering:

InGameNow allows users to connect with other sports fans and get real-time scores, banter, news and gossip. Staying atop of the sports world is now simple... and more importantly - interactive and fun.


More at:http://www.ingamenow.com/
What Company Is Offering:

Commily is a free site for parents in their local communities. It is a place where families go online to better communicate and give to their community.

How It Works:

In your family profile, you can easily upload pictures to represent your family and each family member. To do this choose “Edit” for a family photo and “Edit Family Settings” to give each family member of your family a photo.

Profiles on Commily are all about your family. You can decide to have one profile for your entire family or you can create a page for each family member. In these pages, you can share information with your Commily friends about what they like to do. This info should help your in planning playdates and theme events.

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

Initiate Systems, Inc is master data management solutions got $26 million financing

What Company Is Offering:
Initiate Systems, Inc. enables organizations to strategically leverage and share critical data assets. Its master data management (MDM) software and experience as an information exchange leader provide organizations with complete, accurate and real-time views of data spread across multiple systems or databases, even outside the firewall. This allows companies to unlock the value of their data assets for competitive advantages or operational improvements. Initiate Systems operates globally through its subsidiaries, with corporate headquarters in Chicago and offices across the U.S., and Toronto, London and Sydney.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Initiate Systems, Inc., a leader in master data management (MDM) solutions, announced today completion of a $26 million financing. Paladin Capital Group led the round, which also included participation from new investors Dunrath Capital, EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC - News) and Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ:INFA - News) as well as existing investors, Sigma Partners, Apex Venture Partners and First Analysis Group.

“Investors have been very enthusiastic about participating in this round of funding,” said Bill Conroy, Initiate’s president and CEO. “The influence of these investors is a strategic advantage, as we capitalize on new opportunities and extend our leadership in MDM. This funding empowers us in our mission: Helping customers unlock the value of their data assets.”

More at:www.InitiateSystems.com

Instinctiv Shuffle is the first product by Instinctiv, a company dedicated to changing the way that consumers experience their entertainment

What Company Is Offering:
Instinctiv Shuffle is the first product by Instinctiv, a company dedicated to changing the way that consumers experience their entertainment. Instinctiv Shuffle gives consumers a smart alternative to the iTunes Shuffle feature on iPhones.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Instinctiv, a company dedicated to changing the way that consumers experience their entertainment, emerged from stealth mode today to announce its financing and the launch of its first product, Instinctiv Shuffle. The round was funded by Cayuga Venture Fund, Rosetech Ventures and a group of strategic angels.

Instinctiv Shuffle, which can be downloaded to the iPhone, helps consumers to rediscover their music libraries by learning what individuals want to hear in the moment. Consumers simply download the application, start iTunes, select Instinctiv Shuffle, skip the songs they don't want to hear at that time, and Instinctiv Shuffle does the rest, learning what consumers want to hear next.

More at:www.instinctiv.com

Miyowa is next generation solutions enable service providers to liberate their networks, deliver aggregated rich content and services to end users

What Company Is Offering:
Miyowa is a dynamic global company whose next generation solutions enable service providers to liberate their networks, deliver aggregated rich content and services to end users. A Red Herring Top 100 company, Miyowa's award winning technology is innovative and proven, and relied on by leading mobile operators around the world, processing over 3 million interactions per day. Cited as the global industry leader for Mobile IM, it is also number 1 in Mobile Messaging Clients.

Miyowa created the first handset independent universal end-to-end client messaging technology (MoveMessenger(TM)), compliant with all major existing standards and systems and provides mobile operators and communities with a white-labeled, scalable range of Mobile Web 2.0 Instant messaging related content and services.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Miyowa, a dynamic global company providing compelling instant messaging and presence enriched Mobile Web 2.0 technologies, today announced completion of a second round of financing of $8 million bringing the company's total financing to date to $12.7 million. The funding round was participated in by Techfund, who funded Miyowa's first round of financing in September 2006, and Credit Agricole Private Equity, a new investor. Combined with revenue derived from increased mobile operator contract wins, the additional financing will be used to accelerate commercialization of Miyowa's existing products, bring to market a revolutionary enriched mobile instant messaging solution, and expand operations into the U.S. and Asia.

"Global mobile usage patterns are changing. Mobile users now want to have access to all of their social desktop PC applications anywhere and at anytime," said Michel de Lempdes, investment director at Credit Agricole Private Equity. "The unique technology of Miyowa answers the mobile operators' needs as they look for new mobile web usages, made possible by the launch and quick adoption of unlimited data subscriptions. We think Miyowa's ability to offer innovative, new services in an unrestrictive fashion with almost no infrastructure investment, places it in prime position to take advantage of this market change, and provide the mobile applications that operators are seeking."

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

VistaZoo is a customizable portal from where you can create stunning, professional Virtual Tours combining panoramas, pictures, video, audio in 3D

What Company Is Offering:

VistaZoo is a customizable portal from where you can create stunning, professional Virtual Tours combining panoramas, pictures, video, audio, floorplans and objects in 3D. Your tours will be uploaded and placed on a map instantly.


How It Works:

Once the tour has been created, you can easily embed it into any website in seconds. It works just like YouTube. Create and share instantly.

You can also have your own version of the VistaZoo portal and customize it to your liking. Forget about coding and hassles with servers and databases. VistaZoo takes care of it all for you. Feel free to use for either personal or commercial use.

Your portal and the content uploaded on it can be viewed from any computer and several mobile devices, making it a very powerful marketing tool.

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

Science News

What Company Is Offering:

There is no human editor behind e! Science News; it is powered by the Eureka! news engine, a fully automated artificial intelligence.

Its sole purpose is to ensure that you have access to the very latest and popular science breakthroughs. To achieve this, it constantly surfs the web to gather, regroup, categorize, tag and rank science news from all major science news sources.

It computes relationships between science articles and news found on the web using a vector space model and hierarchical clustering. It then automatically determines in which category each news item belongs using a Naive Bayes classifier. Finally, it examines multiple parameters (such as timeliness, rate of appearance on the web, number of sources reporting the news, etc) for each news group. The result is an e! score which represents the relative importance of a news item.

More at:http://esciencenews.com/