Tuesday, July 22, 2008

OrderMotion is a Boston-based technology company serving small and mid-sized e-Commerce merchants with an order management solution

What Company Is Offering:

OrderMotion is a Boston-based technology company serving small and mid-sized e-Commerce merchants with an order management solution to help them meet the demands of a growing business. Specializing in companies with 5-10 employees processing more than 25 orders per day, OrderMotion’s Web-based software enables merchants to take orders, manage inventory and process payments via one easy-to-use interface.

OrderMotion's award-winning technology has contributed to the rapid growth of known brands including Ronco, Zabar’s, Wolfgang Puck, Goldspeed.com and thousands of others. Designed by Web entrepreneurs for Web entrepreneurs, OrderMotion is the best solution for growing companies that are ready to move beyond manual or email-based processes.


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

LiveSalary is a free real-time salary comparison website that allows people to calculate their true market value

What Company Is Offering:
LiveSalary is a free real-time salary comparison website that allows people to calculate their true market value by sharing anonymous remuneration data with other employees.

LiveSalary is a free community-based website where people exchange salary data. The site contains REAL salaries entered by Australian employees FOR Australian employees. Help maximise the richness of this data by contributing today and please return in the near future to see how salaries in your area of expertise change over time.

How It Works:


The site enables you to get accurate, real-time salary data based on information relevant to your specific situation such as your job title, location, gender, education and experience.

LiveSalary operates a “give to get” model. Put simply, it's a form of sharing - you provide accurate and anonymous salary data and in return you get access to all the salary information shared by our community.

LiveSalary aims to throw light on information that has always been hard to find. By anonymously adding your salary you become part of a community of employees helping each other by anonymously sharing salary information. To date, this kind of detailed salary information has simply not been available to Australian employees in real time nor has it been available free of charge.

More at:http://www.livesalary.com.au/

FlexJobs

What Company Is Offering:

They are jobs that fall outside of the traditional full-time, on-site, 9-to-5 job. There are many types, such as telecommuting (or work from home, telework, virtual work, etc.), part-time, flex-time, contract, consulting, project-based, seasonal, volunteer... or a combination of these!

How Is It Different:

FlexJobs is one of the few job services completely free of commercial and other paid advertising. That means you won’t have to be constantly suspicious about which jobs are real... and which are scams or schemes “posing” as jobs to take advantage of you.

They believe that it's better -- and critical to the integrity of their company -- to have a database of both high quality professionals AND high quality jobs, and they work hard to accomplish that.
FlexJobs has a clean, easy-to-use, 2.0 website that utilizes top search and privacy technologies.

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

Appirio provides products and services that help enterprises accelerate their adoption of on-demand

What Company Is Offering:
Appirio provides products and services that help enterprises accelerate their adoption of on-demand. Appirio has a proven track record of delivering business value to customers by implementing mission-critical Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions based on platforms such as Salesforce and Google Apps, and developing innovative applications that connect and extend today's leading on-demand platforms.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Appirio , the leader in delivering products and professional services that help businesses accelerate their adoption of on-demand solutions, today announced it has secured Series B financing of $5.6 million. The funding was led by Sequoia Capital, the investment firm behind Google, Yahoo!, LinkedIn, and PayPal. This round of financing follows a Series A investment earlier this year, which brought in $1.1 million from salesforce.com and angel investors.

Appirio has a proven track record of delivering both products and professional services using Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) technologies from industry leaders such as Google and salesforce.com. Appirio's service offerings have helped many large enterprises and forward-thinking companies to lower operational costs and improve business agility through on-demand systems that better meet the needs of their business. Appirio also offers a growing product portfolio that "connects the clouds" between Google, Salesforce and Amazon, enabling customers of all sizes to more easily adopt and extend these on-demand solutions within their organization.

More at:www.appirio.com

10gen is creating a new platform to let developers quickly and easily build complex and scalable Web applications

What Company Is Offering:
10gen is creating a new platform to let developers quickly and easily build complex and scalable Web applications. The 10gen cloud computing architecture will enable developers to write Web applications and automatically scale as demand increases without re-architecting code. The 10gen stack includes a powerful database and application server.

How Much They Got From VCs:

10gen , creator of a new Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) technology that helps developers more quickly and easily build dynamic, scalable Web sites and applications, today announced $1.5 million in Series A financing from Union Square Ventures. The cloud computing company, founded earlier this year by DoubleClick veterans Kevin Ryan, Dwight Merriman and Eliot Horowitz, and former Joost engineering VP, Geir Magnusson Jr., aims to provide significant time and cost saving advantages by allowing developers to focus on solving business problems and delivering functionality rather than expending effort on infrastructure, scaling and system management.

"At 10gen we are building a cloud stack from the ground up -- including a database and application server -- with the design goal of running sites and services of all sizes," noted Dwight Merriman, Founder and CEO. "Rather than porting existing tools into the cloud, Web development can only prosper by building new technologies for this environment, technologies which are available in an open way such that many companies and other entities can collaborate on their development."

More at:http://www.10gen.com/

LivingSocial enables you to catalog your interests, browse what your friends enjoy, and find others with similar tastes

What Company Is Offering:

LivingSocial enables you to catalog your interests, browse what your friends enjoy, and find others with similar tastes. LivingSocial is now helping more than 6.4 million users catalogue their interests, seamlessly integrating with Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, hi5, and Orkut.


How Much They Got From VCs:

LivingSocial.com, a social discovery and cataloging network for reviewing and sharing common interests, today announced the company has closed more than $5 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Grotech Ventures and includes a personal investment from Steve and Jean Case. Since launching in February 2008, 6.4 million beta users have catalogued more than 80 million reviews of movies, books, music, games, restaurants and beers.

LivingSocial lets users manage and catalogue their interests and share reviews with peers across its themed vertical websites ReelSocial, ReadingSocial, TuneSocial, GamingSocial, DiningSocial and BrewSocial. Once posted on LivingSocial.com, users’ catalogued items and reviews are seamlessly integrated and easily accessed across top social networks, including Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Orkut and hi5. With their first round of funding, the company is poised for aggressive user acquisition – continuing momentum from the significant growth achieved since its beta launch.

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

AGORACOM is the Web 2.0 online marketplace and forum for citizens of the small-cap investment community

What Company Is Offering:

AGORACOM is the Web 2.0 online marketplace and forum for citizens of the small-cap investment community. Public companies, shareholders and prospective shareholders amalgamate for the purposes of communicating in a monitored and secure environment free of bashing, hyping, spam and profanity that have plagued other small-cap communities for far too long.

Through the use of dedicated communities, blogging, webcasting, podcasting and other Web 2.0 tools, AGORACOM fills the information void created by the lack of small-cap coverage in the financial media. In addition, through strict enforcement of their 6 Rules Of Use, they eliminate stock promotion techniques such as spam, hyping and bashing whose sole purpose is to manipulate share prices.


AGORACOM derives more than 95% of revenues from public companies that engage them via annual contracts to utilize their superior Web 2.0 community and communications tools.
They believe in small entrepreneurs and small investors. They serve them by widely disseminating great information and then providing current and prospective investors with unsurpassed management access to conduct the best due diligence possible, leading to the most informed investment decision possible.

A Web 2.0 marketplace, forum and community for small-cap citizens.

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

Sendible lets you connect with people by scheduling and receiving messages at a time you choose

What Company Is Offering:

Sendible lets you connect with people by scheduling and receiving messages at a time you choose. Sendible allows you to create targeted ads that will appear in the messages that our users are sending. Your ads will appear in Email, SMS, Facebook and other social messages that people are sending to.

Unique Features:

Send messages to your friends, customers or colleagues in the future.
Schedule reminders for things you might forget.
Organise and manage your contacts.
Jot down notes and have them sent at a time you choose.
Schedule appointment reminders for your customers.
Subscribe to content that interests you most and choose how to receive it.

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

On Lifebooker you can search, browse, and book appointments at the top health and beauty spots in your city for free

What Company Is Offering:
On Lifebooker you can search, browse, and book appointments at the top health and beauty spots in your city for free. You'll not only find exclusive deals, but you'll earn rewards towards your next appointment each time you book.

How It Works:

They've got the best places and the best deals. They negotiate exclusive deals at the city's top health and beauty spots, in order to make sure they offer appointments at dramatically discounted prices to their Lifebooker clients.

Every time you rate an appointment you've honored, you'll receive reward dollars towards any service on their site. For example, book and rate a $100 facial for your first appointment and they'll give you $5 in rewards.

Unlike other online directories, they only display ratings and reviews from clients who have actually honored appointments. Their system also records the specific service your fellow Lifebooker client received, so you'll know if a rating refers to a manicure or a haircut.

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

Selfcast is a place to create your own live broadcasts and interact live with a global audience through your own Channel

What Company Is Offering:
Selfcast is a place to create your own live broadcasts and interact live with a global audience through your own Channel.

You can create and broadcast your own live Casts or Schedule them for later. Anyone from around the Web can come to view your own personal Channel on Selfcast and embed your Channel into other websites and social networks.

How It Works:

When you register with Selfcast you’re automatically given your own Web page on the site, called a Channel. From here people can see all the Shows or Casts you’ve already made, as well as any that are scheduled for the future. Your Channel can also include information about yourself, including content from other sites on the multimedia “Wall”.
People use Selfcast to create live broadcasts, interact with friends and share their life. Musicians and DJs use Selfcast to broadcast music and chat with their fans. Artists use Selfcast to promote their work. Comedians and entertainers use Selfcast to host interactive talk shows. The only limit is your imagination.

More at:http://www.selfcast.com/StaticPages/

Preople.com is the ultimate ego booster or perhaps the ultimate ego buster. Preople shows you what you are really worth in the digital age

What Company Is Offering:
Preople.com is the ultimate ego booster or perhaps the ultimate ego buster. Preople shows you what you are really worth in the digital age. Get your Preople.com Rank and let the world know were you stand.
Preople is a new venture of Meganova BV in Amsterdam, the innovative investment company of Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten and Caspar Wenckbach and the driving force behind companies such as HubHop (Netherlands' first wireless internet service provider), SMSeenhuis (text-a-house.com), TAGnames (interactive marketing with textmessaging for mobile phones)and Junker (the first antispam service in the Netherlands based on challenge response technology).

How It Works:

They visit a few search engines, search for your name, get the number of times your name is found online and perform a complicated calculation to extract a Preople Rank. They guard this formula with their lives because it is what makes their service, and your Preople Rank, unique. Your Preople Rank is calculated based on search results from a few major search engines. Those search indexes are updated all the time and our formula uses a few parameters which might give different results based on the time of day of your search and your popularity at that exact moment.

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

ToldYa

What Company Is Offering:

ToldYa advertising widget that's tied directly to your existing offers and offers an unbeatable interactive experience complete with text, images, audio, video, browsing, search and more.ToldYa widgets from the ultimate top-tier advertisers. Maximize your real-estate while improving your visitor's experience and keeping them longer. Use your existing affiliate network publisher id to earn your commissions.


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