Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Gnip is standardizing the way companies access and integrate the web's data

What Company Is Offering:
Gnip is standardizing the way companies access and integrate the web's data. Using Gnip's on-demand extensible messaging platform companies can simplify how they access and integrate business and social data from across the Internet. Gnip makes it easy to access, filter and integrate the web’s data that companies are now using as the basis for providing compelling business and social applications.

How Much They Got From VCs:
Gnip, an on-demand extensible messaging solution that is standardizing the way companies access and integrate the web’s data, today announced that it has closed a second round of financing. The investors in this $3.5 million round include Foundry Group, First Round Capital and SoftTech VC, all of whom also participated in Gnip’s initial seed round earlier this year.

Gnip will leverage its new funding to invest in the further development of its extensible messaging platform, to deliver new products and to develop additional partnerships where companies are building applications that benefit from the ability to easily access, filter and integrate business and social data from across the Internet.

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

Open-Xchange Inc. is the innovator of scalable and integrated open source email and collaboration solutions for enterprises

What Company Is Offering:
Open-Xchange Inc. is the innovator of scalable and integrated open source email and collaboration solutions for enterprises, academic institutions, and government authorities. It provides an on-premise version called Open-Xchange Server Edition, along with Open-Xchange Hosting Edition, which enables web hosting companies to provide an easy-to-use and feature-rich application delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS). The Open-Xchange Hosting Edition is architected to integrate into a hosting provider's existing infrastructure such as authentication, provisioning, billing, and email storage and does not require that these systems be replaced.


How Much They Got From VCs:
Open-Xchange Inc. , the leading provider of open source collaboration software, has closed a Series B round of venture funding totaling $9 million.

The company will use the funds to further develop its software and continue expanding its business in the U.S., Europe and emerging markets.

More at:http://www.open-xchange.com

xat.com is a fun social networking site with the coolest online chat box

What Company Is Offering:

xat.com is a fun social networking site with the coolest online chat box. Make friends, join a group, run your own chat - 10,000s online now.


More at:http://web.xat.com/

Sendeo is a single dashboard for your digital life

What Company Is Offering:
Sendeo is a single dashboard for your digital life. Sendeo looks and feels like a lookup window for all of your people, places, and things. Sendeo is your hard drive on the web and everything is securely stored and managed.

How It Works:

With Sendeo, you can instantly share any type of file with family, friends, classmates, neighbors etc including documents, photos, and videos that are too large for email. Everything is drag and drop, just like on your own computer's desktop applications.

When you upload you digital stuff to Sendeo you can enjoy it anywhere with their embedded flash viewers. You can share and work from any computer public or private because there's nothing to download — it’s all in your browser, on the web, and secure.

When you want a link to create a unique website address (URL) which can be safely accessed by anyone, there are a lot of online places to turn, but none as attractive or easy to use as the one-click publishing feature of Sendeo.

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