Friday, November 28, 2008

WikiPik is the place where consumers and professionals alike connect and exchange opinions and data

What Company Is Offering:
wiki" means it's collaborative, and "pik" stands for three things: "pick" as in "pick the best", "peak" meaning "top" or "best", and "PIK" = "Payment In Kind" which stands for WikiPik's reward point system . WikiPik is also a word that is easy to pronouce in just about any language, emphasizing WikiPik's global reach..
WikiPik is the place to make lightning fast educated decisions. WikiPik is the place where consumers and professionals alike connect and exchange opinions and data on products, services, places, people, you name it. WikiPik is truly international, multilingual, ad free and open licensed, that means it's free information forever.

How Is It Different:

Meaningful, Bias Compensated Rankings WikiPik uses a novel ranking algorithm, to display information in the order that is relevant to you. DeltaRank™ is different in that it can compensate for bias in users ratings, by basing its scoring on how contributors perceive quality differences between items rather than just averaging uncorrelated opinions.

Customizable Grid Views WikiPik's powerful grid-based ranking/sorting/filtering interface allows you to quickly manipulate information and identify the item that is best for you. No more sifting through pages and pages of review text to tediously extract the information you need. WikiPik finally has it all at your fingertips!
Performance Database Beyond subjective opinions on quality aspects, users can also share own physical performance measurements, such as such as battery life or power consumption, in a plethora of quantities and units, and convert them between US and metric. Such way you can use WikiPik as a collaborative research database, go beyond whitewashed manufacturer's specs and get your hands on real world data.

Open Structure WikiPik allows you not only contribute content, but also collaborate on how this content is represented and organized. If something is not in the database yet, simply add it! Create new items, categories, rating criteria, technical specs whenever you need them and build WikiPik right then and there.

Open License All contributed content is published under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license. So anything you contribute to WikiPik stays free information available to mankind forever, and can be re-distributed and altered by anyone, free of charge, even for commercial purposes, under the terms of this license.

Ad Free Consistent with the vow to strict neutrality and trust, WikiPik is a 100% ad-free web site. WikiPik puts mission first and money second so we can all enjoy a truly informational experience.

Multilingual Having a name that is easy to pronounce in just about any language, and a multilingual interface & database, WikiPik makes it easy for anyone from any culture to contribute.

More at:Wikipik

MIVA is all about helping your business grow through performance marketing services

What Company Is Offering:

MIVA is all about helping your business grow through performance marketing services. From setting up storefronts to delivering customers to your website, MIVA can help in multiple ways. To achieve these objectives, we have established three main divisions, each complementing the other and each offering their own unique products and services:

MIVA Direct helps businesses develop direct relationships with users through private-branded consumer desktop software supported by robust underlying contextual and search technologies.

They offer popular consumer desktop software tailored to the needs of specific audiences, customized with a partner brand and buttons. Consumer software options include a search toolbar with ad-blocker and custom links tailored to site content, rich messaging capabilities via RSS and XML, and custom integrations with additional features such as weather, finance and communications. Desktop software can link to a site's most active and engaging content. For example, this could include a popular sports icon that resides on the desktop which offers instant information and quick access to a fantasy football league, or a stock ticker that provides immediate market updates. Partners can earn additional revenue, extend their brand beyond the traditional web site, and interact with their consumers in new ways. Users benefit from a better, more interactive experience with their favorite online or offline brand.

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

Industry Trends Exercise

Why is Wayne Gretzky one of pro hockey's all-time greats? Gretzky says the trick is "skating to where the puck's going to be, not where it is." Anticipating his teammates' moves and competitors' reactions, he dynamically positions himself to take the shot. This time-tested strategy landed Gretzky among the National Hockey League's leading scorers for over ten years.
Your company can glide to the top using a similar approach, dynamically positioning itself to anticipate the market's direction and competitors' responses. That's one way strategic planning gives you an edge. Unlike operational planning, strategic planning focuses on where you need to be in three to five years.

Failing to look ahead is like skating blindfolded. You never know how close you are to the goal.

Understanding industry trends There are various approaches to understanding trends in your industry-gathering and analyzing secondary data already available, for example, or collecting primary data from your customers, suppliers, and other key stakeholders.

Too many companies overlook one of the best and most convenient sources of industry insight-the management team. If your managers are up on your industry, you have a storehouse of information at your fingertips.

You can do the same Industry Trends Exercise that enables our clients to tap the knowledge and expertise of their managers. Through this structured exercise the management team

Identifies and prioritizes key trends that are likely to affect the company - for all key stakeholder groups within the industry (customers, suppliers, governments, and others).
Outlines strategies to take advantage of favorable trends.
Develops strategies to minimize the impact of unfavorable trends.

If your industry is in flux, facing environmental changes that could affect your future success, try the Industry Trends Exercise. It will help you reach your goals as you grow and your industry evolves.

Click For Industry Trend Exercise..

Futurecovery .com---Discover Your Future

What Company Is Offering:

Futurecovery is a simple mini app which is Ajax based. People are always guessing what they will become in ten years time, what they will be doing in a week, or indeed next year. Futurecovery simply lets the user choose a date, write what they think they will be, have become, or want to be, type in their e-mail and click send.

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

Cebase is a web based database that allows you to manage and share your data on the web

What Company Is Offering:
Cebase is a web based database that allows you to manage and share your data on the web. In cebase your data is stored in lists. A list is much like a table in a traditional database like Microsoft Access or FileMaker but without the hassles of having to create primary keys, foreign keys or any other low-level database object.


How It Works:

To get started you first have to create an application. You can create an application by clicking on the Create New Application button that is located on your account home page. In the page that is loaded, enter a name for your application and click Create Application to let cebase create your application.

You can either create a new list by entering a list name and defining one or more fields - or - by importing your data. If you have no data to import and want to start from scratch then select Create a New List. Enter a descriptive term (like contacts or tasks) for the items in your list. The term you enter should be the plural noun that best describes the data you want to keep track of. If for example you want to keep track of your contacts then you should enter the plural noun Contacts. Next define the information you want to store for each item in your list. You can do so by entering one or more field names and selecting an appropriate data type. Some example field names are First Name, Last Name, Street, etc... If you are done entering field names then click the Create List button to create your list.



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

Free IQ is an online community where streaming video is used to share knowledge and information with others…at no cost

What Company Is Offering:

Free IQ is an online community where streaming video is used to share knowledge and information with others…at no cost.


At Free IQ, the emphasis is placed on exchanging valuable information not frivolous entertainment. They believe that everyone knows something that is of value to someone else. They let people share that knowledge through video.

A unique feature enables site visitors to make purchases directly from a content provider. The product purchased could be additional video information (which can be downloaded directly from Free IQ or sent via DVD), audio CD’s, E-zines, E-newsletters or even physical products. Free IQ processes each transaction and collects a modest commission.

How Is It Different:

Free IQ allows a user to upload any video, regardless of length. You can also upload audio, PDF’s…almost any media. A proprietary search engine allows users to quickly select only relevant content. The search algorithm—which has two patents pending—also incorporates a sophisticated user rating system which considers direct input, review quality and actual user experience with each piece of content.

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