What Company Is Offering:
Find a shortcut in directory for something you do on the web all the time from sites like Amazon. Google, Netflix, Paypal, and others…
Add it to your personal list of shortcuts and name it something easy to remember.Send them a message that starts with the name of your shortcut and any necessary info. Get a message back from them letting you know what happened.
More at:http://www.txtful.com/
Saturday, January 31, 2009
TE aggregates and presents employee opinions about their workplaces and salaries
What Company Is Offering:
TE aggregates and presents employee opinions about their workplaces and salaries. The users can anonymously read and write reviews about their current or previous employers. Since the reviews are completely anonymous, they are honest and forthright.
TE already has a collection of 18000 reviews on companies and salaries covering a wide range of Indian companies.
How It Works:
The process is simple, anonymous and free. You can click here to review your current salary and organisation. You may also wish to review any or all of your previous employment. Your reviews along with your colleagues, friends and industry help in creating & structuring uniform salary bands, industry wise. TalentEquity values your privacy. A visitor to your review will be able to read your opinion, only. No personally identifiable information is ever disclosed along with it.
More at:http://www.talentequity.in/
TE aggregates and presents employee opinions about their workplaces and salaries. The users can anonymously read and write reviews about their current or previous employers. Since the reviews are completely anonymous, they are honest and forthright.
TE already has a collection of 18000 reviews on companies and salaries covering a wide range of Indian companies.
How It Works:
The process is simple, anonymous and free. You can click here to review your current salary and organisation. You may also wish to review any or all of your previous employment. Your reviews along with your colleagues, friends and industry help in creating & structuring uniform salary bands, industry wise. TalentEquity values your privacy. A visitor to your review will be able to read your opinion, only. No personally identifiable information is ever disclosed along with it.
More at:http://www.talentequity.in/
VisualPin is a website which lets you geocode videos every step of the way
What Company Is Offering:
It is location based company specialising in unique and innovative GPS services and solutions.VisualPin is a website which lets you geocode videos every step of the way!
Geocode the video and show the locations as it plays showing you where the video is each second as it plays!
Unique Features:
Delivering real time location data for horse racing to provide average speed of the horses live during the race .
Delivering distance to finish forvarious sportingevents.
Live geocoding of high definintion video forpost processing intofull location based video for various companies.
Many small and complex locaiton based solutions for different project.
More at:http://www.visualpin.com/
It is location based company specialising in unique and innovative GPS services and solutions.VisualPin is a website which lets you geocode videos every step of the way!
Geocode the video and show the locations as it plays showing you where the video is each second as it plays!
Unique Features:
Delivering real time location data for horse racing to provide average speed of the horses live during the race .
Delivering distance to finish forvarious sportingevents.
Live geocoding of high definintion video forpost processing intofull location based video for various companies.
Many small and complex locaiton based solutions for different project.
More at:http://www.visualpin.com/
MyToons is one of the hottest animation websites
What Company Is Offering:
MyToons is one of the hottest animation websites and features new and classic cartoons, animation contests, and an online animation community for toons creators and fans around the world.
More at:http://www.mytoons.com/
MyToons is one of the hottest animation websites and features new and classic cartoons, animation contests, and an online animation community for toons creators and fans around the world.
More at:http://www.mytoons.com/
Email promotion tool for musicians, promoters and venues
What Company Is Offering:
Email promotion tool for musicians, promoters and venues. Champion Sound offers email marketing services, newsletter management and email promotions for musicians, bands, DJs, promoters and venues.
How It Works:
You're a musician, or a promoter, or a venue and you wanna let EVERYONE you know that you have a new show coming up. Or, maybe you wanna let 'em know you have an a new album. Perhaps you have a new drink special and band line-up on Taco Tuesdays? Or maybe, just maybe, you wanna just say "Hi" to your beloved fans.
Now you can with Champion Sound! All you gotta do is figure out the sentence structure [similar to chord structure] and what you wanna say into that Champion Sound metaphoric microphone, and the world is your audience with just one click. Seriously! You can even reach people in France if you wanna.
Sign up now, no strings attached [except for the six strings on yer ax, of course] and the Champion Sound Rockstar's will all be here to hold your spike-studded bracelet laden wrist through this little tool. If you know how to turn on a computer, though, you're already a step ahead.
More at:http://www.championsound.com/
Email promotion tool for musicians, promoters and venues. Champion Sound offers email marketing services, newsletter management and email promotions for musicians, bands, DJs, promoters and venues.
How It Works:
You're a musician, or a promoter, or a venue and you wanna let EVERYONE you know that you have a new show coming up. Or, maybe you wanna let 'em know you have an a new album. Perhaps you have a new drink special and band line-up on Taco Tuesdays? Or maybe, just maybe, you wanna just say "Hi" to your beloved fans.
Now you can with Champion Sound! All you gotta do is figure out the sentence structure [similar to chord structure] and what you wanna say into that Champion Sound metaphoric microphone, and the world is your audience with just one click. Seriously! You can even reach people in France if you wanna.
Sign up now, no strings attached [except for the six strings on yer ax, of course] and the Champion Sound Rockstar's will all be here to hold your spike-studded bracelet laden wrist through this little tool. If you know how to turn on a computer, though, you're already a step ahead.
More at:http://www.championsound.com/
Friday, January 30, 2009
Buskka is a Google-powered search engine
What Company Is Offering:
Buskka is a Google-powered search engine that lets you search popular file-sharing websites for all sort of files including mp3s and movies. These sites are: Rapidshare, Megaupload, Badongo, Mediafire, Gigasize, Seriesyonkis, Filefactory, Filefront and Peliculasyonkis. You can either search all sites at once or select and search only the ones you want.
More at:http://www.buskka.com/
Buskka is a Google-powered search engine that lets you search popular file-sharing websites for all sort of files including mp3s and movies. These sites are: Rapidshare, Megaupload, Badongo, Mediafire, Gigasize, Seriesyonkis, Filefactory, Filefront and Peliculasyonkis. You can either search all sites at once or select and search only the ones you want.
More at:http://www.buskka.com/
Facebook Grader lets you instantly grade your profile
What Company Is Offering:
Facebook Grader lets you instantly grade your profile based on a variety of factors including the power of your network and your activity. Compare your grade to that of your friends and to that of the larger Facebook community. See demographic iinformation. It's fun and instant.
More at:http://facebook.grader.com/
Facebook Grader lets you instantly grade your profile based on a variety of factors including the power of your network and your activity. Compare your grade to that of your friends and to that of the larger Facebook community. See demographic iinformation. It's fun and instant.
More at:http://facebook.grader.com/
BoardTracker.com is an innovative forum search engine
What Company Is Offering:
BoardTracker.com is an innovative forum search engine, message tracking and instant alerts system designed to provide relevant information quickly and efficiently while ensuring you never miss an important forum thread no matter where or when it is posted. Boardtracker brings the most targeted audience closer to the boards, by being a search engine only for boards and by supplying a categorized and highly effective searching and browsing experience to users.
More at:http://www.boardtracker.com/
BoardTracker.com is an innovative forum search engine, message tracking and instant alerts system designed to provide relevant information quickly and efficiently while ensuring you never miss an important forum thread no matter where or when it is posted. Boardtracker brings the most targeted audience closer to the boards, by being a search engine only for boards and by supplying a categorized and highly effective searching and browsing experience to users.
More at:http://www.boardtracker.com/
Find links to audio files on the Web
What Company Is Offering:
Find links to audio files on the Web; huffduff the links (add them to your podcast); subscribe to podcasts of other found sounds.
More at:http://www.huffduffer.com/
Find links to audio files on the Web; huffduff the links (add them to your podcast); subscribe to podcasts of other found sounds.
More at:http://www.huffduffer.com/
Smarta is a new support platform for anyone starting or running a small business
What Company Is Offering:
Smarta is a new support platform for anyone starting or running a small business. By entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, Smarta provides a one-stop-shop where you can access the business advice you need, when you need it.
Their network of entrepreneurs and experts, videos, guides and tools are here to inspire and support you at every stage of your business journey, from business planning to raising finance and growth strategies.
More at:http://www.smarta.com/
Smarta is a new support platform for anyone starting or running a small business. By entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, Smarta provides a one-stop-shop where you can access the business advice you need, when you need it.
Their network of entrepreneurs and experts, videos, guides and tools are here to inspire and support you at every stage of your business journey, from business planning to raising finance and growth strategies.
More at:http://www.smarta.com/
mycontags is a social bookmarking website focused on IT conferences and events
What Company Is Offering:
mycontags is a social bookmarking website focused on IT conferences and events. You can submit, tag, share, blog and promote events on mycontags.
How It Works:
Once you've registered and signed in, simply click on 'Submit Event' and enter the name of the event you would like to submit. Then fill out the name of the event organizer, event city, country, the start and end dates of the event, the URL of the event web site and any keywords that will help other users to search and locate the event. Should you encounter a potential duplicate, please tag the original event and do not submit a duplicate event.
More at:http://www.mycontags.com/
mycontags is a social bookmarking website focused on IT conferences and events. You can submit, tag, share, blog and promote events on mycontags.
How It Works:
Once you've registered and signed in, simply click on 'Submit Event' and enter the name of the event you would like to submit. Then fill out the name of the event organizer, event city, country, the start and end dates of the event, the URL of the event web site and any keywords that will help other users to search and locate the event. Should you encounter a potential duplicate, please tag the original event and do not submit a duplicate event.
More at:http://www.mycontags.com/
Audiolife----Sell Your Digital And Physical Products Directly To Your Fans
What Company Is Offering:
With Audiolife, you can sell all of your digital and physical products – downloads, ringtones, CDs, and merchandise- directly to your fans on an unlimited number of websites, blogs and social networks.
How It Works:
Create your own store with an unlimited number of downloads, ringtones, CDs and merchandise. * Sell directly to your fans on any website, blog or social network on the web like MySpace and Facebook. * Let us handle manufacturing, distribution, customer service and accounting. * Have one central place to manage all of your e-commerce. * Easily buy high quality, affordable CDs and merchandise with no minimums for live shows and events.
More at:http://www.audiolife.com/
With Audiolife, you can sell all of your digital and physical products – downloads, ringtones, CDs, and merchandise- directly to your fans on an unlimited number of websites, blogs and social networks.
How It Works:
Create your own store with an unlimited number of downloads, ringtones, CDs and merchandise. * Sell directly to your fans on any website, blog or social network on the web like MySpace and Facebook. * Let us handle manufacturing, distribution, customer service and accounting. * Have one central place to manage all of your e-commerce. * Easily buy high quality, affordable CDs and merchandise with no minimums for live shows and events.
More at:http://www.audiolife.com/
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Litmos is a web-based training platform
What Company Is Offering:
Litmos is a web-based training platform that makes it easy to create, deliver and manage online training courses, communicate with trainees and track their results.There is no software to download, Litmos is a hosted on-demand training system. You can build, deliver and track training from anywhere you have access to the internet. Litmos has been specifically designed to overcome the often difficult task of building engaging training courses.
How It Works:
With Litmos you can rapidly build training courses by uploading your existing training material. Simply upload your PowerPoint presentations, PDF, Word, Excel and other related training documents and Litmos will automatically create a training framework around your information.
More at:http://www.litmos.com/
Litmos is a web-based training platform that makes it easy to create, deliver and manage online training courses, communicate with trainees and track their results.There is no software to download, Litmos is a hosted on-demand training system. You can build, deliver and track training from anywhere you have access to the internet. Litmos has been specifically designed to overcome the often difficult task of building engaging training courses.
How It Works:
With Litmos you can rapidly build training courses by uploading your existing training material. Simply upload your PowerPoint presentations, PDF, Word, Excel and other related training documents and Litmos will automatically create a training framework around your information.
More at:http://www.litmos.com/
swagbucks.com ---Search And Earn
What Company Is Offering:
www.swagbucks.com is an online portal dedicated to helping you earn digital dollars called "Swag Bucks," which can be redeemed for exclusive swagbucks.com merchandise.
How It Works:
If yours is a winning search, you will see a large Swag Buck immediately above your search results. You will never be directed away from your search.
You can win multiple Swag Bucks every day. Every search is a chance to win! Swag Bucks can be won in denominations $1-$5, $10, $20, $50 and $100. Recommend friends to maximize your winnings.
You do not need to register to receive www.swagbucks.com search results. However, registration is required to begin collecting Swag Bucks, which can be redeemed for exclusive swagbucks.com sweepstakes and prizes.
More at:http://swagbucks.com/
www.swagbucks.com is an online portal dedicated to helping you earn digital dollars called "Swag Bucks," which can be redeemed for exclusive swagbucks.com merchandise.
How It Works:
If yours is a winning search, you will see a large Swag Buck immediately above your search results. You will never be directed away from your search.
You can win multiple Swag Bucks every day. Every search is a chance to win! Swag Bucks can be won in denominations $1-$5, $10, $20, $50 and $100. Recommend friends to maximize your winnings.
You do not need to register to receive www.swagbucks.com search results. However, registration is required to begin collecting Swag Bucks, which can be redeemed for exclusive swagbucks.com sweepstakes and prizes.
More at:http://swagbucks.com/
Interacto is an e-mail(video) marketing
What Company Is Offering:
Interacto is an online, user-friendly solution for contact management (CRM), e-mail marketing, video e-mail, video streaming and SMS.
How It Works:
Users have the possibility to effectively manage their contacts, exchange data with other applications, set out actions to other users, manage files and add categorized messages.
In just a few steps a professional mailing can be made and sent. For each sent mailing contact extensive statistics will be available. Increase the response to mailings by using Video e-mail. Interacto converts video’s online to a Flash file after which these can instantly be used in e-mail campaigns and/or on websites.
Interacto uses a pricing plan based on the amount of contacts an account can manage and uses a 1 year contract term. All accounts can send free and unlimited mailings to your contacts. For the use of Video and SMS services the user can purchase credits in the application.
More at:http://www.interacto.eu/
Interacto is an online, user-friendly solution for contact management (CRM), e-mail marketing, video e-mail, video streaming and SMS.
How It Works:
Users have the possibility to effectively manage their contacts, exchange data with other applications, set out actions to other users, manage files and add categorized messages.
In just a few steps a professional mailing can be made and sent. For each sent mailing contact extensive statistics will be available. Increase the response to mailings by using Video e-mail. Interacto converts video’s online to a Flash file after which these can instantly be used in e-mail campaigns and/or on websites.
Interacto uses a pricing plan based on the amount of contacts an account can manage and uses a 1 year contract term. All accounts can send free and unlimited mailings to your contacts. For the use of Video and SMS services the user can purchase credits in the application.
More at:http://www.interacto.eu/
The Shopnics website is a next generation shopping site
What Company Is Offering:
The Shopnics website is a next generation shopping site which aims to take comparison shopping to a whole new level. The main differentiation factor is to use A.I. in shopping context. This is done by taking into account nothing but the objective characteristics of the product as presented using a graph which has been developed to these purposes.
How It Works:
The “Shopnics Decision Graph” will help you visually compare your product and as you could expect there is sizable information about the product. It will also let you compare multiple products at the very same time and apply smart filters to see the effects on all the products. Moreover, you can reduce your decision cycle by means of applying importance scales based on your needs until you arrive at the ideal product for you.
More at:http://shopnics.com/
The Shopnics website is a next generation shopping site which aims to take comparison shopping to a whole new level. The main differentiation factor is to use A.I. in shopping context. This is done by taking into account nothing but the objective characteristics of the product as presented using a graph which has been developed to these purposes.
How It Works:
The “Shopnics Decision Graph” will help you visually compare your product and as you could expect there is sizable information about the product. It will also let you compare multiple products at the very same time and apply smart filters to see the effects on all the products. Moreover, you can reduce your decision cycle by means of applying importance scales based on your needs until you arrive at the ideal product for you.
More at:http://shopnics.com/
Odiogo converts dynamic web pages into high-quality audio files
What Company Is Offering:
Odiogo's media-shifting technology expands the reach of your content: It transforms news sites and blog posts into high fidelity, near human quality audio files ready to download and play anywhere, anytime, on any device.
How It Works:
Odiogo converts dynamic web pages into high-quality audio files.Odiogo uses sophisticated algorithms to filter-out the non-content item (links, legends, ads, etc.) of your web pages. This "cleaned" content is then processed by advanced text-to-speech technology to produce nearly human quality audio output. The files Odiogo produces can be easily uploaded into an iPod/MP3 player, listened to on a mobile phone or played on a PC or Mac.
With Odiogo, your content is no longer limited to screen or printed output. iPod/Mp3 owners can subscribe to your Odiogo-enabled feeds and get the audible version of your content uploaded automatically every time they synchronize their device. You can promote your content on the ever-increasing multitude of podcast directories.
More at:http://www.odiogo.com/
Odiogo's media-shifting technology expands the reach of your content: It transforms news sites and blog posts into high fidelity, near human quality audio files ready to download and play anywhere, anytime, on any device.
How It Works:
Odiogo converts dynamic web pages into high-quality audio files.Odiogo uses sophisticated algorithms to filter-out the non-content item (links, legends, ads, etc.) of your web pages. This "cleaned" content is then processed by advanced text-to-speech technology to produce nearly human quality audio output. The files Odiogo produces can be easily uploaded into an iPod/MP3 player, listened to on a mobile phone or played on a PC or Mac.
With Odiogo, your content is no longer limited to screen or printed output. iPod/Mp3 owners can subscribe to your Odiogo-enabled feeds and get the audible version of your content uploaded automatically every time they synchronize their device. You can promote your content on the ever-increasing multitude of podcast directories.
More at:http://www.odiogo.com/
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Juice.com---Intelligent Discovery Engine
What Company Is Offering:
Juice is a free browser plugin that delivers rich, contextually relevant content to a sidebar area of your browser. Just drag a keyword to see Juice in action!
Juice's discovery mechanism is grounded on Linkool Labs' proprietary intelligent discovery engine. This engine, comprised of a natural language processing system and a dictionary management system, helps to evolve the semantic web by connecting keywords with the most relevant, rich content from third-party web services.
How It Works:
You can bookmark and organize rich content discovered for you! For example, when Juice delivers a video to you, you can simply add the video into your personal video playlist – for current or future viewing! You can also do this with the videos and images you discover yourself while browsing the web, by dragging the image or tab attached to the videos.
Grab a chunk of text, image or video and Juice will start performing its tricks. When dropping text into Juice, they'll try to understand its meaning and serve you with context-relevant information. In the case of images or videos, they'll let you store them for later viewing, while you keep browsing just the way you like!
More at:http://juiceapp.com/
Juice is a free browser plugin that delivers rich, contextually relevant content to a sidebar area of your browser. Just drag a keyword to see Juice in action!
Juice's discovery mechanism is grounded on Linkool Labs' proprietary intelligent discovery engine. This engine, comprised of a natural language processing system and a dictionary management system, helps to evolve the semantic web by connecting keywords with the most relevant, rich content from third-party web services.
How It Works:
You can bookmark and organize rich content discovered for you! For example, when Juice delivers a video to you, you can simply add the video into your personal video playlist – for current or future viewing! You can also do this with the videos and images you discover yourself while browsing the web, by dragging the image or tab attached to the videos.
Grab a chunk of text, image or video and Juice will start performing its tricks. When dropping text into Juice, they'll try to understand its meaning and serve you with context-relevant information. In the case of images or videos, they'll let you store them for later viewing, while you keep browsing just the way you like!
More at:http://juiceapp.com/
YouIntern.com brings students and employers together
What Company Is Offering:
You need an internship. But you need a great internship, one that moves your career forward. That’s where YouIntern come in.YouIntern.com brings students and employers together.
More at:http://new.youintern.com/
You need an internship. But you need a great internship, one that moves your career forward. That’s where YouIntern come in.YouIntern.com brings students and employers together.
More at:http://new.youintern.com/
Seemile.com-----Buy And Sell Your Knowledge
What Company Is Offering:
It is an open educational space where everyone, including teachers and students, can participate.It is a place where students can meet teachers specialized in various subjects.
How It Works:
At Seemile, everyone can sell their educational/knowledge contents. That means everyone can become a teacher.Here, educational contents of various topics and subjects are supplied, and you can learn from them.For instance
all language lectures : Korean, English, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, French and etc.
school subjects (K-12) : English, Math, Geometry, Algebra, Number Theory, Discrete, Mathematics, Boolean, Algebra, Trigonometry, Statistics and Probability, Calculus, Physics, Science, Statistics, Biology, Chemistry, SAT, SSAT
Technical knowledge : educational contents such as medical, science that are related to current user’s profession can be introduced and sold to other users.
Educational contents are privided as voice and video clips.At Seemile.com, teachers and students can develop their relationship through the instance messenger.
More at:http://www.seemile.com/
It is an open educational space where everyone, including teachers and students, can participate.It is a place where students can meet teachers specialized in various subjects.
How It Works:
At Seemile, everyone can sell their educational/knowledge contents. That means everyone can become a teacher.Here, educational contents of various topics and subjects are supplied, and you can learn from them.For instance
all language lectures : Korean, English, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, French and etc.
school subjects (K-12) : English, Math, Geometry, Algebra, Number Theory, Discrete, Mathematics, Boolean, Algebra, Trigonometry, Statistics and Probability, Calculus, Physics, Science, Statistics, Biology, Chemistry, SAT, SSAT
Technical knowledge : educational contents such as medical, science that are related to current user’s profession can be introduced and sold to other users.
Educational contents are privided as voice and video clips.At Seemile.com, teachers and students can develop their relationship through the instance messenger.
More at:http://www.seemile.com/
BannerSnack Is To Create Flash Banner Ads
What Company Is Offering:
BannerSnack is an online tool that allows you to create flash banner ads and cool flash animations… in a snack break time!
How It Works:
The banner maker incorporates templates for quick and easy banner design.BannerSnack is an online banner generator that allows you to easily create animated banner ads and cool flash animations without flash programming.
Banner Snack is a free flash banner maker that enables you to create banner ads without Flash. The BannerSnack banner maker works online and allows anyone to make a banner for free. The software is suited both for banner advertising professionals and for those who want to make flash animations.
More at:http://www.bannersnack.com/
BannerSnack is an online tool that allows you to create flash banner ads and cool flash animations… in a snack break time!
How It Works:
The banner maker incorporates templates for quick and easy banner design.BannerSnack is an online banner generator that allows you to easily create animated banner ads and cool flash animations without flash programming.
Banner Snack is a free flash banner maker that enables you to create banner ads without Flash. The BannerSnack banner maker works online and allows anyone to make a banner for free. The software is suited both for banner advertising professionals and for those who want to make flash animations.
More at:http://www.bannersnack.com/
Feedmytorrents.com---Download The Latest Episode Of Your Favorite Tv-Shows
What Company Is Offering:
What if you could automatically download the latest episode of your favorite TV-show? You can use any of our TV-show RSS Feeds, and add them to your favorite BitTorrent program or media center. These RSS Feeds are filtered, and contain no duplicates. You get the correct file, without hassle.You can even create own RSS Feeds. This allows you to remotely add torrents, so they are downloaded while you're away! Independent of your favorite tracker, this works for The Pirate Bay, Mininova, btjunkie.You can also create a personal Feed out of multiple FeedMyTorrent Feeds and add it to your media center, share it with friends.
More at:http://feedmytorrents.com/
What if you could automatically download the latest episode of your favorite TV-show? You can use any of our TV-show RSS Feeds, and add them to your favorite BitTorrent program or media center. These RSS Feeds are filtered, and contain no duplicates. You get the correct file, without hassle.You can even create own RSS Feeds. This allows you to remotely add torrents, so they are downloaded while you're away! Independent of your favorite tracker, this works for The Pirate Bay, Mininova, btjunkie.You can also create a personal Feed out of multiple FeedMyTorrent Feeds and add it to your media center, share it with friends.
More at:http://feedmytorrents.com/
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Internet and Mobile Advertising
A report by IMRB International and the Internet and Mobile Advertising Association of India (IAMAI) estimates that online advertising—including display, search-based and other methods—increased from Rs 425 crore in 2006-07 to Rs 700 crore in the current year. The 250-million mobile user population too makes mobile marketing a lucrative communication channel for brands.
Digital marketing firm Pinstorm estimates that the mobile advertising industry including WAP and SMS has grown from Rs 20 crore in 2006-07 to Rs 50 crore in 2008-09. And while the digital advertising industry has not observed shrinkage its current rate of growth at 24% is slower than the anticipated 35%.
Ask Samsung’s director marketing for South-West Asia YY Kim who’s sold on the benefits of this new age medium. “Online advertising works very well for our technology-based products like MP3 players, notebook PCs, mobile phones, LCD and Plasma TVs. Our online campaign for notebook PCs in November, 2008 was a success as it doubled visitor traffic to one lakh in the following month,” he says. Online advertising comprises 1% of Samsung adspend in India and is likely to grow to 2% this year.
All this spells good news for the scores of startup firms that have emerged around Internet and mobile advertising in India. Aashish Solanki, founder of yet another Bangalore company Net Bramha Studio is among them. It works with other startups to help build their online brand presence from scratch.
“We work for startup companies like Game Kraver, My Piction and Nemo Solutions, helping position them and conducting viral marketing campaigns. It helps them get better ROI,” says Solanki. “Even our big clients like Shell are investing in online advertising.”
Accountability is one of the biggest draws of such tech-based media. “Today every advertiser wants to know where each dollar is being spent and the result of it. In a recessionary time, advertisers move money to more measurable mediums,” says Naveen Tewari, CEO of mKhoj, a mobile advertising firm started two years year ago.
“We have grown 10 times in the last six months and expanded to 25 countries.” mKhoj’s campaign for Reebok involved creating a WAP portal where visitors could participate in a lucky draw to get a phone call from their favorite stars, and also allowed them to locate the nearest exclusive outlet. According to the company’s website, this campaign drove 450,000 visits to the WAP portal, with over 12% of them locating the nearest Reebok store.
“Around 70 to 80 per cent of a brand’s audience can be reached on internet and hence it is up to advertisers, agencies and publishers to churn out innovative ways to address the users effectively. Only then we can hope that the medium can grow faster,” agrees Rahul J Jethva, CEO of Spring Communications, which is also into this space.
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Digital marketing firm Pinstorm estimates that the mobile advertising industry including WAP and SMS has grown from Rs 20 crore in 2006-07 to Rs 50 crore in 2008-09. And while the digital advertising industry has not observed shrinkage its current rate of growth at 24% is slower than the anticipated 35%.
Ask Samsung’s director marketing for South-West Asia YY Kim who’s sold on the benefits of this new age medium. “Online advertising works very well for our technology-based products like MP3 players, notebook PCs, mobile phones, LCD and Plasma TVs. Our online campaign for notebook PCs in November, 2008 was a success as it doubled visitor traffic to one lakh in the following month,” he says. Online advertising comprises 1% of Samsung adspend in India and is likely to grow to 2% this year.
All this spells good news for the scores of startup firms that have emerged around Internet and mobile advertising in India. Aashish Solanki, founder of yet another Bangalore company Net Bramha Studio is among them. It works with other startups to help build their online brand presence from scratch.
“We work for startup companies like Game Kraver, My Piction and Nemo Solutions, helping position them and conducting viral marketing campaigns. It helps them get better ROI,” says Solanki. “Even our big clients like Shell are investing in online advertising.”
Accountability is one of the biggest draws of such tech-based media. “Today every advertiser wants to know where each dollar is being spent and the result of it. In a recessionary time, advertisers move money to more measurable mediums,” says Naveen Tewari, CEO of mKhoj, a mobile advertising firm started two years year ago.
“We have grown 10 times in the last six months and expanded to 25 countries.” mKhoj’s campaign for Reebok involved creating a WAP portal where visitors could participate in a lucky draw to get a phone call from their favorite stars, and also allowed them to locate the nearest exclusive outlet. According to the company’s website, this campaign drove 450,000 visits to the WAP portal, with over 12% of them locating the nearest Reebok store.
“Around 70 to 80 per cent of a brand’s audience can be reached on internet and hence it is up to advertisers, agencies and publishers to churn out innovative ways to address the users effectively. Only then we can hope that the medium can grow faster,” agrees Rahul J Jethva, CEO of Spring Communications, which is also into this space.
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WireFrames Ideas
What Company Is Offering:
Iplotz allows you to rapidly create clickable, navigable mockups and wireframes for prototyping websites and software applications.
How It Works:
With iplotz you can create clickable, navigable wireframes to create the experience of a real website or software application. You can also invite others to comment on the designs, and once ready, you can then manage the tasks for developers and designers to build the project.
More at:http://www.iplotz.com/
Iplotz allows you to rapidly create clickable, navigable mockups and wireframes for prototyping websites and software applications.
How It Works:
With iplotz you can create clickable, navigable wireframes to create the experience of a real website or software application. You can also invite others to comment on the designs, and once ready, you can then manage the tasks for developers and designers to build the project.
More at:http://www.iplotz.com/
Pixagogo--Prints photos online
What Company Is Offering:
Pixagogo Offers elegant online albums, a place to keep all your pictures together, easily access them from anywhere and share them with family and friends.
Unique Features:
* Self-organizing photo timeline
* Your photos kept safely and securely
* Your own online photo gallery
* No ads – just your photos
* Unlimited photo storage
More at:http://www.pixagogo.com/
Pixagogo Offers elegant online albums, a place to keep all your pictures together, easily access them from anywhere and share them with family and friends.
Unique Features:
* Self-organizing photo timeline
* Your photos kept safely and securely
* Your own online photo gallery
* No ads – just your photos
* Unlimited photo storage
More at:http://www.pixagogo.com/
AddInto is a free service that lets you easily submit a link in several systems
What Company Is Offering:
AddInto is a free service that lets you easily submit a link in several systems of favourites, social networks or RSS feed readers. Instead of having a link to each of them, you have a single link to all! The service aims to reduce the time and effort necessary to add a site, an article or an RSS feed.
More at:http://www.addinto.com/
AddInto is a free service that lets you easily submit a link in several systems of favourites, social networks or RSS feed readers. Instead of having a link to each of them, you have a single link to all! The service aims to reduce the time and effort necessary to add a site, an article or an RSS feed.
More at:http://www.addinto.com/
IMified aims to help developers build, deploy, and integrate instant messaging solutions
What Company Is Offering:
IMified aims to help developers build, deploy, and integrate instant messaging solutions into their exisitng applications. Their simple, web-based platform makes it easy to create and deploy interactive instant messaging agents or "bots".
Why To Use It:
IMified's API-based solution for creating and hosting instant messaging applications removes the complexity and provides a simple solution for building and deploying IM applications on multiple public IM networks using one API.
More at:http://new.imified.com/
IMified aims to help developers build, deploy, and integrate instant messaging solutions into their exisitng applications. Their simple, web-based platform makes it easy to create and deploy interactive instant messaging agents or "bots".
Why To Use It:
IMified's API-based solution for creating and hosting instant messaging applications removes the complexity and provides a simple solution for building and deploying IM applications on multiple public IM networks using one API.
More at:http://new.imified.com/
Eduslide.net----To create and deliver elearning content - free of charge
What Company Is Offering:
Eduslide has been developed to allow anyone to create and deliver elearning content - free of charge. Anyone can create their own courses, and either charge for them, restrict access to them, or deliver as public courses (on request)
More at:http://www.eduslide.net/
Eduslide has been developed to allow anyone to create and deliver elearning content - free of charge. Anyone can create their own courses, and either charge for them, restrict access to them, or deliver as public courses (on request)
More at:http://www.eduslide.net/
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Incentives are dangerous?
Incentives are dangerous, and not just because people game them. They often yield collateral damage. Remember the tale of the Darwin Award winner who strapped a jet engine to his car, dreaming of a joyride for the ages, and then met his sorry end as a human flapjack on the side of a mountain? Incentives are like that jet engine. There's no question the engine will take you somewhere, fast, but it's not always clear where. Or what you're going to mow down on the way. Yet incentives are still the first resort of most managers, perhaps because they all think they're smart enough to create the perfect carrot.
Take Merrill Lynch. In the book Riding the Bull, author Paul Stiles describes his experience as a new trader at the venerable investment bank. Merrill wanted Stiles, then 29, to trade complex international bonds in volatile markets. He tried asking advice of the seasoned traders, but they ignored him -- a minute spent helping Stiles was a minute spent not adding to their monthly bonuses. They kept barking into their phones for hours at a time and yelled at Stiles every time his shadow fell across their computer screens. Eventually, Stiles was reduced to silently observing their behavior from a distance, like a rogue MBA anthropologist. It surely never dawned on the person who set up Merrill Lynch's incentive system that the traders' bonuses would make training new employees impossible.
Why are we so bad at anticipating the effects of our well-intentioned incentive plans? The answer has to do with something that psychologists call a "focusing illusion." Behavioral economist Daniel Kahneman and management professor David Schkade surveyed Midwestern students and asked them to predict the satisfaction of students in California on several dimensions, such as "job prospects," "climate," "personal safety," and overall life satisfaction. They also asked the Midwesterners to rate their own satisfaction. The professors then posed the same questions to actual California students and compared the answers. The Midwest students correctly predicted that the Californians would be happier about their weather.
But the Midwestern students wrongly predicted that California students would be happier with their lives in general than Midwestern students. The overall scores are identical. Schkade and Kahneman showed that, in essence, the Midwestern students erred by focusing too much on a single variable. When you're a Midwesterner contemplating a long, cold winter, you can't help but think that Californians must be happier. But you're ignoring the larger happiness portfolio, in which weather recedes to insignificance among the other things that may influence a Californian's satisfaction -- good friends, terrible traffic, career opportunities, laundry, and a governor who compulsively repeats Terminator jokes.
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Take Merrill Lynch. In the book Riding the Bull, author Paul Stiles describes his experience as a new trader at the venerable investment bank. Merrill wanted Stiles, then 29, to trade complex international bonds in volatile markets. He tried asking advice of the seasoned traders, but they ignored him -- a minute spent helping Stiles was a minute spent not adding to their monthly bonuses. They kept barking into their phones for hours at a time and yelled at Stiles every time his shadow fell across their computer screens. Eventually, Stiles was reduced to silently observing their behavior from a distance, like a rogue MBA anthropologist. It surely never dawned on the person who set up Merrill Lynch's incentive system that the traders' bonuses would make training new employees impossible.
Why are we so bad at anticipating the effects of our well-intentioned incentive plans? The answer has to do with something that psychologists call a "focusing illusion." Behavioral economist Daniel Kahneman and management professor David Schkade surveyed Midwestern students and asked them to predict the satisfaction of students in California on several dimensions, such as "job prospects," "climate," "personal safety," and overall life satisfaction. They also asked the Midwesterners to rate their own satisfaction. The professors then posed the same questions to actual California students and compared the answers. The Midwest students correctly predicted that the Californians would be happier about their weather.
But the Midwestern students wrongly predicted that California students would be happier with their lives in general than Midwestern students. The overall scores are identical. Schkade and Kahneman showed that, in essence, the Midwestern students erred by focusing too much on a single variable. When you're a Midwesterner contemplating a long, cold winter, you can't help but think that Californians must be happier. But you're ignoring the larger happiness portfolio, in which weather recedes to insignificance among the other things that may influence a Californian's satisfaction -- good friends, terrible traffic, career opportunities, laundry, and a governor who compulsively repeats Terminator jokes.
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WebbyChat turns your entire website into a chat room
What Company Is Offering:
WebbyChat turns your entire website into a chat room. The chat sits outside your page content and works from page to page.
More at:http://www.webbychat.com/
WebbyChat turns your entire website into a chat room. The chat sits outside your page content and works from page to page.
More at:http://www.webbychat.com/
How To Automatically Retrieves Photos And Videos Buried In Webmails
What Company Is Offering:
2pad automatically retrieves photos and videos buried in Webmails folders and stores them in a private online gallery.Automatically turn photos & videos from your emails in a gallery!
2pad is the best way to share privately and securely your photos and videos with your friends and family.
More at:http://www.2pad.com/
2pad automatically retrieves photos and videos buried in Webmails folders and stores them in a private online gallery.Automatically turn photos & videos from your emails in a gallery!
2pad is the best way to share privately and securely your photos and videos with your friends and family.
More at:http://www.2pad.com/
theSUGGESTR.com is a new and exciting way to find places to go
What Company Is Offering:
theSUGGESTR.com is a new and exciting way to find places to go. Through its own unique suggestion system they are able to determine places you will like based off of your ratings and ratings of users similar to you. Imagine being notified about a place to go and being told WHY you will like it. Sounds much better than having to scroll through endless reviews from people you know nothing about. It is free and simple to get start, just register and start rating places and let them do the rest!
How It Works:
This site is unique in they personalize your recommendations for you. Using your friend network and your personal ratings they find places that you will enjoy all over the world. Whether you are looking for new places in your hometown, places to try on your next vacation or a reliable recommendation from a friend they can help. Without being registered you miss out on a lot of great features such as personalized recommendations, similarity meters, earning rewards in its rewards program and being part of an exciting new community.
More at:http://www.thesuggestr.com/
theSUGGESTR.com is a new and exciting way to find places to go. Through its own unique suggestion system they are able to determine places you will like based off of your ratings and ratings of users similar to you. Imagine being notified about a place to go and being told WHY you will like it. Sounds much better than having to scroll through endless reviews from people you know nothing about. It is free and simple to get start, just register and start rating places and let them do the rest!
How It Works:
This site is unique in they personalize your recommendations for you. Using your friend network and your personal ratings they find places that you will enjoy all over the world. Whether you are looking for new places in your hometown, places to try on your next vacation or a reliable recommendation from a friend they can help. Without being registered you miss out on a lot of great features such as personalized recommendations, similarity meters, earning rewards in its rewards program and being part of an exciting new community.
More at:http://www.thesuggestr.com/
MyFolio is a new (FREE) online community of artists and creatives
What Company Is Offering:
MyFolio is a new (FREE) online community of artists and creatives. Upload your artwork, create your portfolio, and share.MyFolio is a new online community of artists and creatives.
How It Works:
Its website allows users to upload and share their videos, images, audios, files and to also build a personalized portfolio. While MyFolio was created with a single vision of becoming one of the largest art sharing websites, its purpose is anything but singular. Designed by the creative mind, for the creative mind, MyFolio.com is the ultimate destination for creatives and art enthusiasts looking to connect with other artists, prospective employers, and the general public.
More at:http://myfolio.com/
MyFolio is a new (FREE) online community of artists and creatives. Upload your artwork, create your portfolio, and share.MyFolio is a new online community of artists and creatives.
How It Works:
Its website allows users to upload and share their videos, images, audios, files and to also build a personalized portfolio. While MyFolio was created with a single vision of becoming one of the largest art sharing websites, its purpose is anything but singular. Designed by the creative mind, for the creative mind, MyFolio.com is the ultimate destination for creatives and art enthusiasts looking to connect with other artists, prospective employers, and the general public.
More at:http://myfolio.com/
Friday, January 23, 2009
Integrate brand advertising
What Company Is Offering
Integrate brand advertising seamlessly into video content, transforming it into an interactive experience for viewers to engage with. Engage users in a creative way; connect with your target audience, leaving a positive and meaningful impression. Measure engagement and control your campaign’s success rate with ease, using a powerful platform to generate detailed time-based reports.
More at:http://www.innovid.com/
Integrate brand advertising seamlessly into video content, transforming it into an interactive experience for viewers to engage with. Engage users in a creative way; connect with your target audience, leaving a positive and meaningful impression. Measure engagement and control your campaign’s success rate with ease, using a powerful platform to generate detailed time-based reports.
More at:http://www.innovid.com/
OneSeason.com is a virtual sports trading platform
What Company Is Offering:
OneSeason.com is a virtual sports trading platform with social features and content for sports fans. The system provides sports enthusiasts with a way to compete, interact and have a vested interest in their passion.
Use real money to acquire and trade virtual sports shares called SOIs. Free market system driven by supply and demand. Valuee’s based on public perception. Realize gains and losses based on your skill trading.
More at:http://www.oneseason.com/
OneSeason.com is a virtual sports trading platform with social features and content for sports fans. The system provides sports enthusiasts with a way to compete, interact and have a vested interest in their passion.
Use real money to acquire and trade virtual sports shares called SOIs. Free market system driven by supply and demand. Valuee’s based on public perception. Realize gains and losses based on your skill trading.
More at:http://www.oneseason.com/
Aperfolio is a simple digital portfolio for photographers
What Company Is Offering:
Aperfolio gives you everything you need and nothing you don’t to create and manage your digital portfolio.Aperfolio is a simple digital portfolio for photographers. Upload, sort, edit, and present your images with tools that actually feel good to use. The end result is a stunning portfolio with nearly effortless updating capabilities. Aperfolio is fully-hosted, highly secure, and includes gads of storage (8 GB) for your images. You can even use your own domain name.
How It Works:
Aperfolio is all about keeping things simple. An interface that lets your images speak for themselves and management tools that don’t get in your way. There are plenty of services out there that provide countless templates, customization options, and piles of other features. Some of those services are great, but Aperfolio skips the clutter and gives you just what you need to display your images in a beautiful, professional interface.
More at:http://aperfolio.com/
Aperfolio gives you everything you need and nothing you don’t to create and manage your digital portfolio.Aperfolio is a simple digital portfolio for photographers. Upload, sort, edit, and present your images with tools that actually feel good to use. The end result is a stunning portfolio with nearly effortless updating capabilities. Aperfolio is fully-hosted, highly secure, and includes gads of storage (8 GB) for your images. You can even use your own domain name.
How It Works:
Aperfolio is all about keeping things simple. An interface that lets your images speak for themselves and management tools that don’t get in your way. There are plenty of services out there that provide countless templates, customization options, and piles of other features. Some of those services are great, but Aperfolio skips the clutter and gives you just what you need to display your images in a beautiful, professional interface.
More at:http://aperfolio.com/
Big Cartel helps you create a shop to sell your goods online
What Company Is Offering:
Big Cartel helps you create a shop to sell your goods online with as little fuss as possible.
More at:http://www.bigcartel.com/
Big Cartel helps you create a shop to sell your goods online with as little fuss as possible.
More at:http://www.bigcartel.com/
HyperPot is the new generation instant hyperlink tool
What Company Is Offering:
HyperPot is the new generation instant hyperlink tool that enables website and blog owners to redefine specific keywords for higher search engine results. It is very important nowadays to have hyperlinks from websites especially if they allow search engine bots to visit the links they have. HyperPot aims to be a one-stop SEO Resource center and it is always good to have a backlink in these kind of websites.
More at:www.hyperpot.com
HyperPot is the new generation instant hyperlink tool that enables website and blog owners to redefine specific keywords for higher search engine results. It is very important nowadays to have hyperlinks from websites especially if they allow search engine bots to visit the links they have. HyperPot aims to be a one-stop SEO Resource center and it is always good to have a backlink in these kind of websites.
More at:www.hyperpot.com
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Trellia is a Mobile Policy Management and Enforcement Solutions
What Company Is Offering:
Trellia is a leading provider of Mobile Policy Management and Enforcement (MPME) solutions. The software enables organizations to achieve flexible, secure and cost-effective workforce mobility. Through Trellia's Mobile Policy Manager, IT can centrally manage, automate and enforce mobile policies.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Trellia Networks ,a provider of Mobile Policy Management and Enforcement (MPME) software, announced that it received USD $2M from Skypoint Capital and BDR Capital, a venture firm created by the Solidarity Fund QFL, to support Trellia’s growth strategy. Building on a rapidly growing Canadian customer base and strong momentum with Bell Mobility, Trellia will continue its growth path in the United States.
“These funds will allow us to expand our sales and marketing efforts initially into the US through key hires and the development of strategic partnerships,” said Giovanni Forte, CEO of Trellia. “We are very pleased to benefit from Skypoint and BDR’s continued support, especially in the current economic climate. Their investment is further validation of Trellia’s business strategy and both organizations’ belief that enterprise mobility will remain a strategic component of corporate IT, despite the downturn.”
“Enterprises are migrating to mobility either deliberately or organically as laptops continue to replace desktops, wireless access becomes ubiquitous and today’s workforce demands the flexibility to work from anywhere,” says Andy Katz, Partner at Skypoint Capital. “Trellia is uniquely positioned to capitalize on this trend through its mobile policy enforcement solutions that address the need of organizations to manage the new mobile reality.”
More at:http://www.trellia.com/
Trellia is a leading provider of Mobile Policy Management and Enforcement (MPME) solutions. The software enables organizations to achieve flexible, secure and cost-effective workforce mobility. Through Trellia's Mobile Policy Manager, IT can centrally manage, automate and enforce mobile policies.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Trellia Networks ,a provider of Mobile Policy Management and Enforcement (MPME) software, announced that it received USD $2M from Skypoint Capital and BDR Capital, a venture firm created by the Solidarity Fund QFL, to support Trellia’s growth strategy. Building on a rapidly growing Canadian customer base and strong momentum with Bell Mobility, Trellia will continue its growth path in the United States.
“These funds will allow us to expand our sales and marketing efforts initially into the US through key hires and the development of strategic partnerships,” said Giovanni Forte, CEO of Trellia. “We are very pleased to benefit from Skypoint and BDR’s continued support, especially in the current economic climate. Their investment is further validation of Trellia’s business strategy and both organizations’ belief that enterprise mobility will remain a strategic component of corporate IT, despite the downturn.”
“Enterprises are migrating to mobility either deliberately or organically as laptops continue to replace desktops, wireless access becomes ubiquitous and today’s workforce demands the flexibility to work from anywhere,” says Andy Katz, Partner at Skypoint Capital. “Trellia is uniquely positioned to capitalize on this trend through its mobile policy enforcement solutions that address the need of organizations to manage the new mobile reality.”
More at:http://www.trellia.com/
Global Surfari provides free surf forecasts, reports, predictions
What Company Is Offering:
Global Surfari provides free surf forecasts, reports, predictions, weather forecasts and surf accommodation for global surfing locations.
More at:http://globalsurfari.com/
Global Surfari provides free surf forecasts, reports, predictions, weather forecasts and surf accommodation for global surfing locations.
More at:http://globalsurfari.com/
BlindSpeak allows you to send digitally synthesized messages to anywhere in the world
What Company Is Offering:
BlindSpeak allows you to send digitally synthesized messages to anywhere in the world. The service gives individuals the ability to think ‘outside the box’ when the need arises, to send funny or informative messages to others.
As this is only the initial launch of the BlindSpeak service, the extent of the features included is minimal. However, expect to see a wide arrange of additional features to be added within the near future, including TTY/TTD services, sending personalized (and synthesized) voice mail messages, a mobile version, a more advanced text-to-speech (TTS) engine, and more!
More at:http://beta.blindspeak.com/
BlindSpeak allows you to send digitally synthesized messages to anywhere in the world. The service gives individuals the ability to think ‘outside the box’ when the need arises, to send funny or informative messages to others.
As this is only the initial launch of the BlindSpeak service, the extent of the features included is minimal. However, expect to see a wide arrange of additional features to be added within the near future, including TTY/TTD services, sending personalized (and synthesized) voice mail messages, a mobile version, a more advanced text-to-speech (TTS) engine, and more!
More at:http://beta.blindspeak.com/
Cricket360 is a platform for bringing like-minded cricket lovers and fanatics together
What Company Is Offering:
Cricket360 is a platform for bringing like-minded cricket lovers and fanatics together and provide them with the opportunities to share and contribute rather than just passively read news content. Cricket360 members can create profiles, private and instant message, live video chat, blog, use forums, write articles and editorials and commentaries and much, much more!
More at:http://www.cricket360.com/
Cricket360 is a platform for bringing like-minded cricket lovers and fanatics together and provide them with the opportunities to share and contribute rather than just passively read news content. Cricket360 members can create profiles, private and instant message, live video chat, blog, use forums, write articles and editorials and commentaries and much, much more!
More at:http://www.cricket360.com/
ClipClipSave---Small Business Tools
What Company Is Offering:
Your account includes a unique web address that displays all your active coupons. Share it with your customers and link to it from your website.
Unique Features:
Boost your business: More Americans are using and sharing coupons to save money. Customers with coupons often spend more too. You can boost business by giving customers printable coupons they can use in-store.
CCS makes it easy: With ClipClipSave, you can create an elegant, printable coupon in a matter of seconds. Choose a theme, set the discount and conditions, and you’re all set.
Barcodes: ClipClipSave has built-in barcode support. Choose a code for each coupon–or let us generate one for you.
More at:http://www.clipclipsave.com/
Your account includes a unique web address that displays all your active coupons. Share it with your customers and link to it from your website.
Unique Features:
Boost your business: More Americans are using and sharing coupons to save money. Customers with coupons often spend more too. You can boost business by giving customers printable coupons they can use in-store.
CCS makes it easy: With ClipClipSave, you can create an elegant, printable coupon in a matter of seconds. Choose a theme, set the discount and conditions, and you’re all set.
Barcodes: ClipClipSave has built-in barcode support. Choose a code for each coupon–or let us generate one for you.
More at:http://www.clipclipsave.com/
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
United Sample is a provider of online sample solutions to the global marketing research industry
What Company Is Offering:
United Sample is a leading provider of online sample solutions to the global marketing research industry. Using proprietary technology with an emphasis on data quality, United Sample builds double opt-in Internet survey panels. These panels allow United Sample to supply its clients with targeted and unique respondents, providing demographically representative survey research facts.
How Much They Got From VCs:
United Sample, a provider of innovative online sample solutions for the market research industry, announced the closing of a $3M Series B round of venture capital financing led by Greycroft Partners .Previous investor DFJ Frontier also participated in the round. The new funds will be used to grow sales, increase marketing efforts, develop technology, and enhance operations. In connection with the financing, Dana Settle, a partner at Greycroft, will join the company’s board of directors. United Sample also announced its business metrics for the second half of 2008, revealing a rapidly growing number of panelists and strong web traffic.
More at:www.UnitedSample.com
United Sample is a leading provider of online sample solutions to the global marketing research industry. Using proprietary technology with an emphasis on data quality, United Sample builds double opt-in Internet survey panels. These panels allow United Sample to supply its clients with targeted and unique respondents, providing demographically representative survey research facts.
How Much They Got From VCs:
United Sample, a provider of innovative online sample solutions for the market research industry, announced the closing of a $3M Series B round of venture capital financing led by Greycroft Partners .Previous investor DFJ Frontier also participated in the round. The new funds will be used to grow sales, increase marketing efforts, develop technology, and enhance operations. In connection with the financing, Dana Settle, a partner at Greycroft, will join the company’s board of directors. United Sample also announced its business metrics for the second half of 2008, revealing a rapidly growing number of panelists and strong web traffic.
More at:www.UnitedSample.com
SendMeHome.com --Tracking And Recovery Service
What Company Is Offering:
SendMeHome.com is a premier item tracking and recovery service. It allows users to label any physical item with a unique SendMeHome ID. With the launch of its lost and found service in September - the first free service of its kind in the world - SendMeHome.com allowed its users to safeguard their valuables from loss. With the addition of SendMeHome Stories, users can now use labeled items as a catalyst to inspire online communication in new and creative ways.
How It Works:
A SendMeHome story can be created by anyone for free - all that is needed is an interesting object, an internet connection, and some creativity. To begin a story, a user must register an object at SendMeHome.com. The object is then passed from person to person; each person who receives the item can use its unique SendMeHome ID as a key to add a chapter to the online story. For example, an artist could register a blank canvas and ask each of its recipients to contribute in order to eventually form a finished painting. Each recipient would add to the painting, post a photograph of the progress, and pass it on to another painter. Users would then be able to watch the painting evolve over time and connect with the other contributors.
SendMeHome.com allows story creators to set detailed objectives and specific destinations for their objects. In addition, it provides a rich interface for writing each chapter - complete with images, videos, maps, and a full-featured text editor - with one of the fastest and most intuitive interfaces available online.
More at:http://www.sendmehome.com/
SendMeHome.com is a premier item tracking and recovery service. It allows users to label any physical item with a unique SendMeHome ID. With the launch of its lost and found service in September - the first free service of its kind in the world - SendMeHome.com allowed its users to safeguard their valuables from loss. With the addition of SendMeHome Stories, users can now use labeled items as a catalyst to inspire online communication in new and creative ways.
How It Works:
A SendMeHome story can be created by anyone for free - all that is needed is an interesting object, an internet connection, and some creativity. To begin a story, a user must register an object at SendMeHome.com. The object is then passed from person to person; each person who receives the item can use its unique SendMeHome ID as a key to add a chapter to the online story. For example, an artist could register a blank canvas and ask each of its recipients to contribute in order to eventually form a finished painting. Each recipient would add to the painting, post a photograph of the progress, and pass it on to another painter. Users would then be able to watch the painting evolve over time and connect with the other contributors.
SendMeHome.com allows story creators to set detailed objectives and specific destinations for their objects. In addition, it provides a rich interface for writing each chapter - complete with images, videos, maps, and a full-featured text editor - with one of the fastest and most intuitive interfaces available online.
More at:http://www.sendmehome.com/
MobIncentive.com is all about collective incentives
What Company Is Offering:
MobIncentive.com is all about collective incentives. They allow people to set up an incentive for getting something done and let everyone else in the world "pile on" to the idea. The hope is that if enough people get behind an idea and "put their money where their mouths are", things will get done.
How It Works:
MobIncentive.com works through collective incentives. Anyone can post an idea or challenge, and anyone can "pile on" to ideas they like with fame and/or fortune. As people "put their money where their mouths are" the reward for taking action on that idea grows.
More at:http://mobincentive.com/
MobIncentive.com is all about collective incentives. They allow people to set up an incentive for getting something done and let everyone else in the world "pile on" to the idea. The hope is that if enough people get behind an idea and "put their money where their mouths are", things will get done.
How It Works:
MobIncentive.com works through collective incentives. Anyone can post an idea or challenge, and anyone can "pile on" to ideas they like with fame and/or fortune. As people "put their money where their mouths are" the reward for taking action on that idea grows.
More at:http://mobincentive.com/
Adobe products with insider tips, innovative techniques
What Company Is Offering:
Adobe products with insider tips, innovative techniques, and behind-the-scenes tours delivered on video, on demand. Get to know Adobe personalities by tuning in to Russell Brown revealing Adobe Photoshop secrets, Greg Rewis taming the web, or Jason Levine editing video. See the favorite tricks of design luminaries, take tours of cutting-edge creative shops, and find out what Adobe employees do with technology in their spare time. The best of Adobe’s expertise and community is now in one place. Watch when you want and where you want, save episodes, subscribe to your favorite channel, and post shows on your blog. And it’s not only the talent that’s in action – Adobe TV itself is produced and delivered using Adobe product and technologies. From planning to playback, Adobe TV is brought to you by Adobe.
More at:http://tv.adobe.com/
Adobe products with insider tips, innovative techniques, and behind-the-scenes tours delivered on video, on demand. Get to know Adobe personalities by tuning in to Russell Brown revealing Adobe Photoshop secrets, Greg Rewis taming the web, or Jason Levine editing video. See the favorite tricks of design luminaries, take tours of cutting-edge creative shops, and find out what Adobe employees do with technology in their spare time. The best of Adobe’s expertise and community is now in one place. Watch when you want and where you want, save episodes, subscribe to your favorite channel, and post shows on your blog. And it’s not only the talent that’s in action – Adobe TV itself is produced and delivered using Adobe product and technologies. From planning to playback, Adobe TV is brought to you by Adobe.
More at:http://tv.adobe.com/
Sports Coach Network is a social network designed for coaches
What Company Is Offering:
Sports Coach Network is a social network designed for coaches, athletes, clubs and businesses. Where everyone can network, share and find the information they need, when they need it. Pages are organized in a wiki style so that everyone can contribute more information, videos and photos. Sports Coach Network is currently in beta, but is open to sign-ups, and feedback.
More at:http://www.thescn.com/
Sports Coach Network is a social network designed for coaches, athletes, clubs and businesses. Where everyone can network, share and find the information they need, when they need it. Pages are organized in a wiki style so that everyone can contribute more information, videos and photos. Sports Coach Network is currently in beta, but is open to sign-ups, and feedback.
More at:http://www.thescn.com/
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
My30seconds.com is online video sharing meets taxicab confessions and speakers corner
What Company Is Offering:
My30seconds.com is online video sharing meets taxicab confessions and speakers corner.Passengers, who hail a taxicab outfitted with one of our custom designed screens with integrated camera, will have the ability to record a 30 second video – on just about any subject they wish.
My30seonds.com will also have road crews. The road crews will be at every event in every major city with a host and a camera to catch all the wild and wonderful moments. The road crews add a grassroots feeling to the site and another way to broadcast a message. The messages will then be downloaded to the website, screened and also added as content across all of its networks.
How It Works:
Online members can interact with others from all over the world, record additional videos directly from their webcam or mobile phone, embed videos on popular social networking profiles or blogs – as well as watch, rate and comment on the best videos and contest entries from other members. While entries generated from the taxicab screens and road crew are limited to 30 seconds, videos created online can be any length.
More at:http://www.my30seconds.com/
My30seconds.com is online video sharing meets taxicab confessions and speakers corner.Passengers, who hail a taxicab outfitted with one of our custom designed screens with integrated camera, will have the ability to record a 30 second video – on just about any subject they wish.
My30seonds.com will also have road crews. The road crews will be at every event in every major city with a host and a camera to catch all the wild and wonderful moments. The road crews add a grassroots feeling to the site and another way to broadcast a message. The messages will then be downloaded to the website, screened and also added as content across all of its networks.
How It Works:
Online members can interact with others from all over the world, record additional videos directly from their webcam or mobile phone, embed videos on popular social networking profiles or blogs – as well as watch, rate and comment on the best videos and contest entries from other members. While entries generated from the taxicab screens and road crew are limited to 30 seconds, videos created online can be any length.
More at:http://www.my30seconds.com/
SocialCatch.com ---Social Intelligence
What Company Is Offering:
SocialCatch.com is a networked social dashboard linking multiple platforms together. SocialCatch will allow users to integrate, update and manage their social identity from a centralized web app. Built from the ground up with the users and security as its top focus, they are now accepting registration for its alpha release.
More at:http://www.socialcatch.com/
SocialCatch.com is a networked social dashboard linking multiple platforms together. SocialCatch will allow users to integrate, update and manage their social identity from a centralized web app. Built from the ground up with the users and security as its top focus, they are now accepting registration for its alpha release.
More at:http://www.socialcatch.com/
Ticket Predator.com-- Cheapest Tickets Finder
What Company Is Offering:
Ticket Predator is a search engine and comparison website for sports, concerts and theater tickets in the USA and Canada. They compare tickets from hundreds of ticket brokers and provide you the best deals and the greatest seats available. Use its powerful search engine to find even the cheapest tickets or the hard to find ones.
The company's mission is to enable Ticket shoppers to quickly and easily find compare and buy any tickets, sold by virtually All major ticket brokers, anywhere.Ticketpredator.com connects consumers with hunderds of ticket brokers worldwide. They specialize mainly in premium and hard to get tickets as well as tickets to all biggest entertainment and sporting events including MLB, NBA, NFL, and NHL.
More at:http://www.ticketpredator.com/
Ticket Predator is a search engine and comparison website for sports, concerts and theater tickets in the USA and Canada. They compare tickets from hundreds of ticket brokers and provide you the best deals and the greatest seats available. Use its powerful search engine to find even the cheapest tickets or the hard to find ones.
The company's mission is to enable Ticket shoppers to quickly and easily find compare and buy any tickets, sold by virtually All major ticket brokers, anywhere.Ticketpredator.com connects consumers with hunderds of ticket brokers worldwide. They specialize mainly in premium and hard to get tickets as well as tickets to all biggest entertainment and sporting events including MLB, NBA, NFL, and NHL.
More at:http://www.ticketpredator.com/
Strands helps people discover new things from people they care
What Company Is Offering:
Strands helps people discover new things from people they care about. Strands gives users the ability to record their activities and keep track of their friends across multiple social networks and services. Based on your aggregated activities, Strands enables discovery of new things based on your own behaviors as well as those of your friends and influencers.
How It Works:
With Strands, you just tell them all of the services and networks you use, and they do the rest. They create a single aggregated "activity stream" that others can track… your favorite videos on YouTube, your recently played songs from Last.fm, your latest bookmarks from Delicious, stories and articles you have “dugg”, your photos from Flickr, your status updates from Facebook and Twitter. They pull it all together so others can have a single view into what you are into, up to and down with.
More at:http://www.strands.com/
Strands helps people discover new things from people they care about. Strands gives users the ability to record their activities and keep track of their friends across multiple social networks and services. Based on your aggregated activities, Strands enables discovery of new things based on your own behaviors as well as those of your friends and influencers.
How It Works:
With Strands, you just tell them all of the services and networks you use, and they do the rest. They create a single aggregated "activity stream" that others can track… your favorite videos on YouTube, your recently played songs from Last.fm, your latest bookmarks from Delicious, stories and articles you have “dugg”, your photos from Flickr, your status updates from Facebook and Twitter. They pull it all together so others can have a single view into what you are into, up to and down with.
More at:http://www.strands.com/
Monday, January 19, 2009
Perssonas lets you follow your friends on the most popular social networks
What Company Is Offering:
Perssonas lets you follow your friends on the most popular social networks without all the noise. Show updates from all your sites on one page. Get live updates from friends. Perssonas makes it fun, free and easy. Share content from MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Flickr, blogs and more.
More at:http://perssonas.com/
Perssonas lets you follow your friends on the most popular social networks without all the noise. Show updates from all your sites on one page. Get live updates from friends. Perssonas makes it fun, free and easy. Share content from MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Flickr, blogs and more.
More at:http://perssonas.com/
Memopal is online backup and online storage software
What Company Is Offering:
Memopal is online backup and online storage software that archives your files in real-time to a remote server. It doesn’t matter how many times you change computers: You will always know where your data is. You can browse all your files from any internet location or internet-ready cell phone. You can share with friends and co-workers files that are too big to send through email.
More at:http://www.memopal.com/
Memopal is online backup and online storage software that archives your files in real-time to a remote server. It doesn’t matter how many times you change computers: You will always know where your data is. You can browse all your files from any internet location or internet-ready cell phone. You can share with friends and co-workers files that are too big to send through email.
More at:http://www.memopal.com/
BonzoBox --Redefine Your Internet Experience
What Company Is Offering:
BonzoBox will redefine your internet experience! Instantly save your favorite websites as real-time images and save time by clicking through to your favorite websites without having to retype your log-in information.
How It Works:
BonzoBox is an interactive web tool that allows people to build their own customized “BonzoBox” home page with links to their favorite websites.
Just think, instead of typing in numerous web addresses, you can just click on your BonzoBoxes and refer back to your own customized page to navigate the web. How Easy! BozoBox also offers a specialized email application for users to have complete access to all of their personal email accounts and a BonzoBuddies tab so you can chat and stay in touch without the garbage. On top of that, BonzoBox allows users to enter in any web address of their preference to generate a live thumbnail of any site from anywhere on the web. Awesome!
BonzoBox operates on a very simple Drag and Drop function. Just grab a Website from one of our specially tailored tabs and drag the site into your BonzoBox! If you wish, set BonzoBox as your homepage so that the next time you open the internet, all your favorite sites and email accounts are saved for you ready to be clicked on.
More at:http://bonzobox.com/
BonzoBox will redefine your internet experience! Instantly save your favorite websites as real-time images and save time by clicking through to your favorite websites without having to retype your log-in information.
How It Works:
BonzoBox is an interactive web tool that allows people to build their own customized “BonzoBox” home page with links to their favorite websites.
Just think, instead of typing in numerous web addresses, you can just click on your BonzoBoxes and refer back to your own customized page to navigate the web. How Easy! BozoBox also offers a specialized email application for users to have complete access to all of their personal email accounts and a BonzoBuddies tab so you can chat and stay in touch without the garbage. On top of that, BonzoBox allows users to enter in any web address of their preference to generate a live thumbnail of any site from anywhere on the web. Awesome!
BonzoBox operates on a very simple Drag and Drop function. Just grab a Website from one of our specially tailored tabs and drag the site into your BonzoBox! If you wish, set BonzoBox as your homepage so that the next time you open the internet, all your favorite sites and email accounts are saved for you ready to be clicked on.
More at:http://bonzobox.com/
MelZoo is a Meta Search engine offers “visual previews” of the search results
What Company Is Offering:
This Meta search engine, offers “visual previews” of the search results. In other words users will receive much more relevant, quality information.
MelZoo is a Meta Search engine because this engine displays the results of different searches in one place.MelZoo is confident that this time-saving and result-increasing feature will invite a lot of internet surfers to switch from their traditional search engine to MelZoo.
How It Works:
This preview feature has an enormous impact on the ‘quality of traffic’ delivered to advertisers: the traditional search engines are offering typically only text as a teaser. Chances are that users who enjoy the luxury of a detailed thumbnail preview, will be a lot more selective in visiting the sites they are interested in. This results in a higher effectiveness of use. The chances of "conversion" (i.e. from hit to buy) is currently estimated 5 times higher than with traditional search engines.
MelZoo is a virtual place where "top level professionals" can collaborate with the objective of creating the world's leading Search Engine. MelZoo is a unique place where top skilled: Software Programmers, Managers, e-marketers, etc... can contribute to the growth of MelZoo as volunteers. Their motivation to do this voluntary work for the MelZoo project: adding a high-value reference to their list, getting to know new high-profile individuals, gathering experience, know-how and expertise and of course the thrill and fun of joining and being part of this "huge" project
More at:http://melzoo.com/
This Meta search engine, offers “visual previews” of the search results. In other words users will receive much more relevant, quality information.
MelZoo is a Meta Search engine because this engine displays the results of different searches in one place.MelZoo is confident that this time-saving and result-increasing feature will invite a lot of internet surfers to switch from their traditional search engine to MelZoo.
How It Works:
This preview feature has an enormous impact on the ‘quality of traffic’ delivered to advertisers: the traditional search engines are offering typically only text as a teaser. Chances are that users who enjoy the luxury of a detailed thumbnail preview, will be a lot more selective in visiting the sites they are interested in. This results in a higher effectiveness of use. The chances of "conversion" (i.e. from hit to buy) is currently estimated 5 times higher than with traditional search engines.
MelZoo is a virtual place where "top level professionals" can collaborate with the objective of creating the world's leading Search Engine. MelZoo is a unique place where top skilled: Software Programmers, Managers, e-marketers, etc... can contribute to the growth of MelZoo as volunteers. Their motivation to do this voluntary work for the MelZoo project: adding a high-value reference to their list, getting to know new high-profile individuals, gathering experience, know-how and expertise and of course the thrill and fun of joining and being part of this "huge" project
More at:http://melzoo.com/
Samepoint is a conversation search engine
What Company Is Offering:
Samepoint is a conversation search engine that lets you see what people are talking about. Discover, learn and share new web sites and ideas.
How It Works:
Samepoint.com utilizes it's unique technology to bring conversations together from multiple sources to one defined point.
SamePoint.com is presently tracking millions of conversations, taking place across in more than tens of thousands blogs and social media sites. User-generated discussions are typically not indexed by major search engines, such as Google, as they do not reside on static pages. SamePoint.com converts these discussions into web pages, or permalinks, and organizes them within a tag cloud. As an aggregator, we are able to serve as the nexus where these conversations meet, providing a common point, or samepoint, of all discussions on a specific topic.
Conversational search represents the next wave in search technology, as user-generated content becomes an increasingly important form of online expression.
More at:http://samepoint.com/
Samepoint is a conversation search engine that lets you see what people are talking about. Discover, learn and share new web sites and ideas.
How It Works:
Samepoint.com utilizes it's unique technology to bring conversations together from multiple sources to one defined point.
SamePoint.com is presently tracking millions of conversations, taking place across in more than tens of thousands blogs and social media sites. User-generated discussions are typically not indexed by major search engines, such as Google, as they do not reside on static pages. SamePoint.com converts these discussions into web pages, or permalinks, and organizes them within a tag cloud. As an aggregator, we are able to serve as the nexus where these conversations meet, providing a common point, or samepoint, of all discussions on a specific topic.
Conversational search represents the next wave in search technology, as user-generated content becomes an increasingly important form of online expression.
More at:http://samepoint.com/
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Affluence.org is an exclusive network for affluent people
What Company Is Offering:
Affluence.org is an exclusive network for affluent people who desire to make life better for themselves and other people.
As a member of Affluence.org you will have the ability to find and interact with other affluent people from around the world. Within this elite community you will be provided with access to a dedicated Affluence Concierge, have the ability to evaluate charities or promote your own causes, receive priority access to the world's most exclusive nightclubs, parties, hotels, events and much more.
Membership to Affluence.org is completely free but requires a demonstrated minimum household net worth of $3 million US; or a minimum annual household income of $300,000; or successful invitation of 5 other people that qualify for membership.
More at:http://www.affluence.org/
Affluence.org is an exclusive network for affluent people who desire to make life better for themselves and other people.
As a member of Affluence.org you will have the ability to find and interact with other affluent people from around the world. Within this elite community you will be provided with access to a dedicated Affluence Concierge, have the ability to evaluate charities or promote your own causes, receive priority access to the world's most exclusive nightclubs, parties, hotels, events and much more.
Membership to Affluence.org is completely free but requires a demonstrated minimum household net worth of $3 million US; or a minimum annual household income of $300,000; or successful invitation of 5 other people that qualify for membership.
More at:http://www.affluence.org/
Zappr is in a simple web photo management service
What Company Is Offering:
Zappr is in a simple web photo management service that makes easy to sort and administer your photos online.
More at:http://www.zappr.net/
Zappr is in a simple web photo management service that makes easy to sort and administer your photos online.
More at:http://www.zappr.net/
GoSquared---Online Advertising Tool
What Company Is Offering:
GoSquared makes it easy, fast, and affordable to get seen online. A Square is 19,600 pixels of advertising space shown across a growing number of popular Sites.
How It Works:
It's easy to start tracking your SIte with GoSquared. Just type in your URL, give it a name, description and a few keywords, and you're ready to go. GoSquared provides a small snippet of code to paste into your website, which contains a unique key. This means you can get advanced feedback on who visits your website, and directly corresponds to your Site's GoSquared Reputation.
You can choose to show certain elements of data with the rest of the World. Advertisers want to know as much as possible about a Site before they close a deal. With honest, transparent data tracking from GoSquared, your chance of gaining new advertising deals has never looked so good.
More at:http://www.gosquared.com/
GoSquared makes it easy, fast, and affordable to get seen online. A Square is 19,600 pixels of advertising space shown across a growing number of popular Sites.
How It Works:
It's easy to start tracking your SIte with GoSquared. Just type in your URL, give it a name, description and a few keywords, and you're ready to go. GoSquared provides a small snippet of code to paste into your website, which contains a unique key. This means you can get advanced feedback on who visits your website, and directly corresponds to your Site's GoSquared Reputation.
You can choose to show certain elements of data with the rest of the World. Advertisers want to know as much as possible about a Site before they close a deal. With honest, transparent data tracking from GoSquared, your chance of gaining new advertising deals has never looked so good.
More at:http://www.gosquared.com/
Friday, January 16, 2009
Gootodo is a Web-based todo list
What Company Is Offering:
Gootodo is a Web-based todo list that can radically boost your productivity. It lets you forward e-mails to future days, so you don't have to deal with them today.
How It Works:
1. Each todo is associated with a particular day.
If you don't need to finish a todo today, redate it to a future day, so that it doesn't clutter your todo list today. (This is a paradigm shift from Outlook's task list, where every todo from now into the ages is shown, incredibly, on today's list!)
Here's something you don't generally hear in discussions about productivity: it's good to procrastinate. In Gootodo, you should move todos as far in the future as possible (remember, "let the bits go"). This way, today's list is filtered to the fewest, and most important, todos.
2. Each todo has a ranking within its day.
For example, in today's todo list (see first image below), you can use the arrow buttons to re-order the todos so that the highest-priority item is always on top.
A good exercise at 9:00 a.m. every morning is to filter the todos for today: redating non-critical todos into future days, and sorting today's todos from most to least important. You then have an ordered list of everything you need to get done today - and you always know what you should be working on at any moment: the todo on top!
3. Any e-mail program can create new todos - for today or a day in the future.
This is perhaps the most important advance that Gootodo offers over any other productivity tool. Easy example: if you're in a meeting with your Blackberry and think of a new todo, just e-mail today's todo list address. Gootodo reads the e-mail and creates a new todo: the subject line of the e-mail becomes the summary, and the body of the e-mail becomes the detail.
Another example: If you e-mail someone a question, just BCC the Gootodo address (for today or in the future), which will create a todo item, on the correct day, reminding you to follow up with that person to make sure you got a response.
Linking your e-mail - whether Outlook, Gmail, Blackberry, or any other mailer - to your todo list and a calendar allows for a significant jump in productivity. I personally use this feature all the time, every day.
More at:http://www.gootodo.com/
Gootodo is a Web-based todo list that can radically boost your productivity. It lets you forward e-mails to future days, so you don't have to deal with them today.
How It Works:
1. Each todo is associated with a particular day.
If you don't need to finish a todo today, redate it to a future day, so that it doesn't clutter your todo list today. (This is a paradigm shift from Outlook's task list, where every todo from now into the ages is shown, incredibly, on today's list!)
Here's something you don't generally hear in discussions about productivity: it's good to procrastinate. In Gootodo, you should move todos as far in the future as possible (remember, "let the bits go"). This way, today's list is filtered to the fewest, and most important, todos.
2. Each todo has a ranking within its day.
For example, in today's todo list (see first image below), you can use the arrow buttons to re-order the todos so that the highest-priority item is always on top.
A good exercise at 9:00 a.m. every morning is to filter the todos for today: redating non-critical todos into future days, and sorting today's todos from most to least important. You then have an ordered list of everything you need to get done today - and you always know what you should be working on at any moment: the todo on top!
3. Any e-mail program can create new todos - for today or a day in the future.
This is perhaps the most important advance that Gootodo offers over any other productivity tool. Easy example: if you're in a meeting with your Blackberry and think of a new todo, just e-mail today's todo list address. Gootodo reads the e-mail and creates a new todo: the subject line of the e-mail becomes the summary, and the body of the e-mail becomes the detail.
Another example: If you e-mail someone a question, just BCC the Gootodo address (for today or in the future), which will create a todo item, on the correct day, reminding you to follow up with that person to make sure you got a response.
Linking your e-mail - whether Outlook, Gmail, Blackberry, or any other mailer - to your todo list and a calendar allows for a significant jump in productivity. I personally use this feature all the time, every day.
More at:http://www.gootodo.com/
Chat with visitors to your website for free
What Company Is Offering:
Chat with visitors to your website for free using a standard Jabber client.
Hab.la is Easy & Free
Paste a snippet of code onto your site.
Start a live chat using your favorite IM client.
More at:http://www.hab.la/
Chat with visitors to your website for free using a standard Jabber client.
Hab.la is Easy & Free
Paste a snippet of code onto your site.
Start a live chat using your favorite IM client.
More at:http://www.hab.la/
Video-Alerts
What Company Is Offering:
Video-Alerts is a service that allows you to get an email notification when new videos are uploaded to YouTube, on whatever topic you choose. Be the first to watch!
Unique Features:
Follow up on your favorite artists and performers.
Stay updated about your industry, market and competition.
Learn when someone reviews your product, or just mentions it in his video.
Be the first to learn about new videos and post it to your blog.
Quick notification on any subject that interests you.
More at:http://www.video-alerts.com/
Video-Alerts is a service that allows you to get an email notification when new videos are uploaded to YouTube, on whatever topic you choose. Be the first to watch!
Unique Features:
Follow up on your favorite artists and performers.
Stay updated about your industry, market and competition.
Learn when someone reviews your product, or just mentions it in his video.
Be the first to learn about new videos and post it to your blog.
Quick notification on any subject that interests you.
More at:http://www.video-alerts.com/
OpenInviter Is An Free Import Contacts
What Company Is Offering:
Open source OpenInviter (Open Inviter) is an free import contacts (addressbook) script from email providers like Gawab, Wp.pt, Netaddress, Web.de, Lycos, Mail.com, Yahoo!, Apropo, Uk2, Nz11, Evite, Sapo.pt, Inbox.com, Bigstring, Popstarmail, Mail.ru, Mail.in, Clevergo, Care2, Mynet.com, Walla, GMail, Rediff, Abv, Terra, FastMail, OperaMail, IndiaTimes, Rambler, GMX.net, Libero, Hushmail, Yandex, 5Fm, Azet, Doramail, Zapakmail, AOL, Live/Hotmail, KataMail or social portals like Bebo, Flixster, MySpace, Vimeo, Flickr, Cyworld, Friendster, Xanga, Tagged, Xing, Plaxo, Plurk, Meinvz, Facebook, Skyrock, Twitter, LinkedIn, Hyves, Orkut, Perfspot, Hi5, Last.fm. This contacts importer script is integrating with content management systems (aka CMS) like Joomla, JamRoom, Wordpress, vBulletin, PhpBB, Social Engine, Joomla1.0, Drupal, PunBB, SimpleMachines Forum (SMF). Open Inviter is written in PHP 5 (no database required but cURL or wget required) and running on any webserver (tested on Apache) offering advanced tell a friend features. OpenInviter is a free self hosted solution that does not use a third party gateway (or API) to import contacts.
Unique Features:
Easy access to your visitors address book in all major email providers and social networks around the world.
Completely painless and easy way of integrating in your website. It takes virtually not more than 5 minutes to have your own OpenInviter up and running on your site.
Constant updates so that you can sit back and relax and always have access to the latest ways to get your visitor's address book.
Real time access to the service statuses so you can know if there is an email provider that is not working right with OpenInviter.
More at:http://openinviter.com/
Open source OpenInviter (Open Inviter) is an free import contacts (addressbook) script from email providers like Gawab, Wp.pt, Netaddress, Web.de, Lycos, Mail.com, Yahoo!, Apropo, Uk2, Nz11, Evite, Sapo.pt, Inbox.com, Bigstring, Popstarmail, Mail.ru, Mail.in, Clevergo, Care2, Mynet.com, Walla, GMail, Rediff, Abv, Terra, FastMail, OperaMail, IndiaTimes, Rambler, GMX.net, Libero, Hushmail, Yandex, 5Fm, Azet, Doramail, Zapakmail, AOL, Live/Hotmail, KataMail or social portals like Bebo, Flixster, MySpace, Vimeo, Flickr, Cyworld, Friendster, Xanga, Tagged, Xing, Plaxo, Plurk, Meinvz, Facebook, Skyrock, Twitter, LinkedIn, Hyves, Orkut, Perfspot, Hi5, Last.fm. This contacts importer script is integrating with content management systems (aka CMS) like Joomla, JamRoom, Wordpress, vBulletin, PhpBB, Social Engine, Joomla1.0, Drupal, PunBB, SimpleMachines Forum (SMF). Open Inviter is written in PHP 5 (no database required but cURL or wget required) and running on any webserver (tested on Apache) offering advanced tell a friend features. OpenInviter is a free self hosted solution that does not use a third party gateway (or API) to import contacts.
Unique Features:
Easy access to your visitors address book in all major email providers and social networks around the world.
Completely painless and easy way of integrating in your website. It takes virtually not more than 5 minutes to have your own OpenInviter up and running on your site.
Constant updates so that you can sit back and relax and always have access to the latest ways to get your visitor's address book.
Real time access to the service statuses so you can know if there is an email provider that is not working right with OpenInviter.
More at:http://openinviter.com/
News me back --citizen journalism
What Company Is Offering:
News me back is the place for everyone who likes citizen journalism, a place for you where you can put your news, events from everyday life, something interesting that happened somewhere in your life or else. Share the things that made you smile, cry, worry or even run and join this growing community and most of all have fun.
More at:http://www.newsmeback.com/
News me back is the place for everyone who likes citizen journalism, a place for you where you can put your news, events from everyday life, something interesting that happened somewhere in your life or else. Share the things that made you smile, cry, worry or even run and join this growing community and most of all have fun.
More at:http://www.newsmeback.com/
Thursday, January 15, 2009
View My Build is a new builder management software
What Company Is Offering:
VMB simplifies the home building project, making it more effective and enjoyable.View My Build can be described as a new builder management software that attempts to simplify the home process as a whole, by connecting all the concerned parties in a setting that makes for the supple and immediate exchange of information. The site itself is subdivided in two main sections – one is geared towards Home Builders, whereas the other is obviously aimed at homebuyers.
More at:http://www.viewmybuild.com/
VMB simplifies the home building project, making it more effective and enjoyable.View My Build can be described as a new builder management software that attempts to simplify the home process as a whole, by connecting all the concerned parties in a setting that makes for the supple and immediate exchange of information. The site itself is subdivided in two main sections – one is geared towards Home Builders, whereas the other is obviously aimed at homebuyers.
More at:http://www.viewmybuild.com/
Offerpal Media
What Company Is Offering:
Offerpal Media is built on the science of delivering highly relevant consumer offers and precisely targets millions of social network users based on their user profiles and the social graph.
How It Works:
For Merchants:
Increase conversions with its Alternate Payment Platform.
Start realizing incremental revenue right away.
Get new customers from social networks.
For Social Publisher:
Monetize your application on Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, hi5 or others.
Get more installs.
Highest effective CPM rates.
For Advertiser:
Reach new consumers via social networks.
High quality targeted leads.
Pay only for performance.
More at: http://www.offerpalmedia.com/
Offerpal Media is built on the science of delivering highly relevant consumer offers and precisely targets millions of social network users based on their user profiles and the social graph.
How It Works:
For Merchants:
Increase conversions with its Alternate Payment Platform.
Start realizing incremental revenue right away.
Get new customers from social networks.
For Social Publisher:
Monetize your application on Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, hi5 or others.
Get more installs.
Highest effective CPM rates.
For Advertiser:
Reach new consumers via social networks.
High quality targeted leads.
Pay only for performance.
More at: http://www.offerpalmedia.com/
Myoats is a community where people create designs using an online drawing application
What Company Is Offering:
Myoats is a community where people create designs using an online drawing application. These designs can be rated, downloaded, and archived. The Most Liked designs are rewarded by being featured on the home page.Myoats is a place where you can create simple or complex designs, shapes and patterns..
How To Use It:
The designs that you create can be:
Downloaded as an image.
Downloaded as a transparent png.
Saved to your personal account, which allows for editing and re-saving.
Made into a wallpaper.
More at:http://www.myoats.com/
Myoats is a community where people create designs using an online drawing application. These designs can be rated, downloaded, and archived. The Most Liked designs are rewarded by being featured on the home page.Myoats is a place where you can create simple or complex designs, shapes and patterns..
How To Use It:
The designs that you create can be:
Downloaded as an image.
Downloaded as a transparent png.
Saved to your personal account, which allows for editing and re-saving.
Made into a wallpaper.
More at:http://www.myoats.com/
Swift is a free mobile site creation tool
What Company Is Offering:
Swift is a free mobile site creation tool that allows you to create a website that works on any mobile phone in just minutes. Swift is the first product to allow professional-grade mobile site creation with a self-service Web-based tool.Extend existing content to the mobile world, including news feeds, blog posts, photos and much more. Or create a custom site to get your message out, extend your brand or share with your friends.
How It Works:
With Swift, you can be as creative as you want to be. Extend your blog or journal into the mobile world, organize an event, capture data, disseminate information... the possibilities are endless! You can edit and update your site as often as you want. You can do all this without knowing a lick of HTML code. No downloading of software is necessary to view a Swift site; your visitors will be able to access your site from any mobile phone browser. Plus, Swift is fully hosted and backed by the expertise of 2ergo. And it's free?
More at:http://www.swiftmob.com/
Swift is a free mobile site creation tool that allows you to create a website that works on any mobile phone in just minutes. Swift is the first product to allow professional-grade mobile site creation with a self-service Web-based tool.Extend existing content to the mobile world, including news feeds, blog posts, photos and much more. Or create a custom site to get your message out, extend your brand or share with your friends.
How It Works:
With Swift, you can be as creative as you want to be. Extend your blog or journal into the mobile world, organize an event, capture data, disseminate information... the possibilities are endless! You can edit and update your site as often as you want. You can do all this without knowing a lick of HTML code. No downloading of software is necessary to view a Swift site; your visitors will be able to access your site from any mobile phone browser. Plus, Swift is fully hosted and backed by the expertise of 2ergo. And it's free?
More at:http://www.swiftmob.com/
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Countdown to the Closing Bell
About Alpha Theory
Alpha Theory, the investment industry’s leading Fundamental Portfolio Optimization tool, is the premier solution used by hedge and mutual fund portfolio managers to develop an efficient portfolio using the concept of risk-adjusted return. Alpha Theory leverages research and instinct to build a repeatable system for optimally sizing positions.
Recently In News:
Alpha Theory Founder and CEO, Cameron Hight, was recently featured on Fox Business News’ “Countdown to the Closing Bell.” Mr. Hight discussed an article he authored called “8 Mistakes that Money Managers Make.” The response to the article has been tremendous because every investor has fallen victim to at least one of these mistakes.
The 8 Mistakes:
1. Confidence Bias
2. Good Stock Paradox
3. Value Trap
4. Risk/Reward
5. Dealing with Losers
6. ETF Hedge
7. Best Idea
8. Position Overload
“Of the many firms that we have worked with in the past, there is not a single one that has been immune to all of these mistakes,” said Cameron Hight, Founder of Alpha Theory. “All firms can benefit from reading the “8 Mistakes” article and evaluating if they are exposed to any of these performance-draining issues.”
More at:Alpha Theory..
Alpha Theory, the investment industry’s leading Fundamental Portfolio Optimization tool, is the premier solution used by hedge and mutual fund portfolio managers to develop an efficient portfolio using the concept of risk-adjusted return. Alpha Theory leverages research and instinct to build a repeatable system for optimally sizing positions.
Recently In News:
Alpha Theory Founder and CEO, Cameron Hight, was recently featured on Fox Business News’ “Countdown to the Closing Bell.” Mr. Hight discussed an article he authored called “8 Mistakes that Money Managers Make.” The response to the article has been tremendous because every investor has fallen victim to at least one of these mistakes.
The 8 Mistakes:
1. Confidence Bias
2. Good Stock Paradox
3. Value Trap
4. Risk/Reward
5. Dealing with Losers
6. ETF Hedge
7. Best Idea
8. Position Overload
“Of the many firms that we have worked with in the past, there is not a single one that has been immune to all of these mistakes,” said Cameron Hight, Founder of Alpha Theory. “All firms can benefit from reading the “8 Mistakes” article and evaluating if they are exposed to any of these performance-draining issues.”
More at:Alpha Theory..
Go2.me to take any long link (URL) and convert it to a shorter one
What Company Is Offering:
You can use Go2.me to take any long link (URL) and convert it to a shorter one that you can send in Twitter, IM, or Email messages. Your link will not only display the page you want to share, but also add an information box where your readers can comment on your link.
Unique Features:
Comments - Exchange comments with your readers on every link page.
Feedback - see how many people are reading your links.
Personalized - Use a nickname, and get a summary of all your shared links.
Promote - Promote your link by adding one or more "[tags]" to any comment - the most popular links for each tag are listed in their own page
, for example:
http://go2.me/tag/video
Shorter than TinyURL - Go2.me links are only 16 characters long - perfect for Twitter messages.
It's Free - add the Bookmarklet to get started.
More at:http://go2.me/
You can use Go2.me to take any long link (URL) and convert it to a shorter one that you can send in Twitter, IM, or Email messages. Your link will not only display the page you want to share, but also add an information box where your readers can comment on your link.
Unique Features:
Comments - Exchange comments with your readers on every link page.
Feedback - see how many people are reading your links.
Personalized - Use a nickname, and get a summary of all your shared links.
Promote - Promote your link by adding one or more "[tags]" to any comment - the most popular links for each tag are listed in their own page
, for example:
http://go2.me/tag/video
Shorter than TinyURL - Go2.me links are only 16 characters long - perfect for Twitter messages.
It's Free - add the Bookmarklet to get started.
More at:http://go2.me/
Channels.com is the first web-based video RSS aggregator
What Company Is Offering:
Channels.com is a free Web service that's like a DVR for Web video. Just as you use your DVR to subscribe to TV shows, you can subscribe to Web videos with Channels.
How It Works:
Channels.com is the first web-based video RSS aggregator. Channels.com has put together all the pieces for a very consumer-friendly experience with video feeds. They maintain the Web's largest (and growing) searchable index of video RSS feeds. They run a server farm that is constantly updating their database of feeds as new video items are posted to the thousands of feeds in its index. They have developed a web application for consumers to manage personal feed subscriptions and view videos.
More at:http://www.channels.com/
Channels.com is a free Web service that's like a DVR for Web video. Just as you use your DVR to subscribe to TV shows, you can subscribe to Web videos with Channels.
How It Works:
Channels.com is the first web-based video RSS aggregator. Channels.com has put together all the pieces for a very consumer-friendly experience with video feeds. They maintain the Web's largest (and growing) searchable index of video RSS feeds. They run a server farm that is constantly updating their database of feeds as new video items are posted to the thousands of feeds in its index. They have developed a web application for consumers to manage personal feed subscriptions and view videos.
More at:http://www.channels.com/
RememberingThat helps you share your stories
What Company Is Offering:
RememberingThat helps you share your stories, memories, or whatever else you have on your mind. It seeks to collect and present your memories and stories. Think of it as a bit of an historical archive and window to our past. Stop by and just read and reminisce, or engage yourself in the community and keep the memories flowing.
More at:http://rememberingthat.com/
RememberingThat helps you share your stories, memories, or whatever else you have on your mind. It seeks to collect and present your memories and stories. Think of it as a bit of an historical archive and window to our past. Stop by and just read and reminisce, or engage yourself in the community and keep the memories flowing.
More at:http://rememberingthat.com/
PingVine is a free service that takes an Atom or RSS feed from your blog
What Company Is Offering:
PingVine is a free service that takes an Atom or RSS feed from your blog, lifestream or favorite website and posts it to Twitter, Ping.fm or Identi.ca. PingVine consumes messages from the feed url you provide and rebroadcasts those messages to your Ping.fm microblogs. If the url you provide is similiar to a microblog enabled in your Ping.fm account then PingVine will warn you that you may have a circular reference. It is possible for messages rebroadcasted by pingvine to show up in the original feed causing an endless messaging loop.
More at:http://www.pingvine.com/
PingVine is a free service that takes an Atom or RSS feed from your blog, lifestream or favorite website and posts it to Twitter, Ping.fm or Identi.ca. PingVine consumes messages from the feed url you provide and rebroadcasts those messages to your Ping.fm microblogs. If the url you provide is similiar to a microblog enabled in your Ping.fm account then PingVine will warn you that you may have a circular reference. It is possible for messages rebroadcasted by pingvine to show up in the original feed causing an endless messaging loop.
More at:http://www.pingvine.com/
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
TryMyFashion is a fashion microblogging service
What Company Is Offering:
TryMyFashion is a fashion microblogging service. Users post short (140 character) notices about their daily fashion, which are broadcast to their friends and fans using the Web, Twitter, RSS, or instant messages.
TryMyFashion is a fashion micro-blogging service. You can use it to write short notices describing your daily fashion, and those notices will be sent to all your friends and fans.
More at:http://trymyfashion.com/
TryMyFashion is a fashion microblogging service. Users post short (140 character) notices about their daily fashion, which are broadcast to their friends and fans using the Web, Twitter, RSS, or instant messages.
TryMyFashion is a fashion micro-blogging service. You can use it to write short notices describing your daily fashion, and those notices will be sent to all your friends and fans.
More at:http://trymyfashion.com/
YourGlobalGrid.com enables users to create their own unique views of information
What Company Is Offering:
YourGlobalGrid.com enables users to create their own unique views of information with an emphasis on time and location. Maps can be created using our intuitive web interface or programmatically using customized web crawlers, software API’s, or a large number of feed formats including RSS.
Maps can be viewed on-line or output in a huge array of formats including Keyhole Markup Language (KML).YourGlobalGrid.com incorporates standards-based resource management in response to events. Evolving computing paradigms are improving the way resources from around the globe can be managed in an automated fashion and allocated in response to events. Whether for broader reaching business interactions, information exchange, or crises management, they strive to bring visibility to the standards and technologies capable of expanding the way we communicate.
More at:http://www.yourglobalgrid.com/
YourGlobalGrid.com enables users to create their own unique views of information with an emphasis on time and location. Maps can be created using our intuitive web interface or programmatically using customized web crawlers, software API’s, or a large number of feed formats including RSS.
Maps can be viewed on-line or output in a huge array of formats including Keyhole Markup Language (KML).YourGlobalGrid.com incorporates standards-based resource management in response to events. Evolving computing paradigms are improving the way resources from around the globe can be managed in an automated fashion and allocated in response to events. Whether for broader reaching business interactions, information exchange, or crises management, they strive to bring visibility to the standards and technologies capable of expanding the way we communicate.
More at:http://www.yourglobalgrid.com/
Vidilife is a free video hosting site with a social networking feature
What Company Is Offering:
Vidilife is a free video hosting site with a social networking feature.
More at:http://www.vidilife.com/
Vidilife is a free video hosting site with a social networking feature.
More at:http://www.vidilife.com/
Monday, January 12, 2009
Minixr is microblogging service
What Company Is Offering:
Minixr is microblogging service that allows you to share rich content, links, files and events to your friends, or simply add a text update on what you did today. It also allows the users to share through the website events they want their friends to know about. You can also automatically drag other users activity from a number of many other websites like Digg, Last.fm, Delicious, Flickr, YouTube, etc.
More at:http://minixr.com/
Minixr is microblogging service that allows you to share rich content, links, files and events to your friends, or simply add a text update on what you did today. It also allows the users to share through the website events they want their friends to know about. You can also automatically drag other users activity from a number of many other websites like Digg, Last.fm, Delicious, Flickr, YouTube, etc.
More at:http://minixr.com/
Reading Trails offers tools to organize books in a new way
What Company Is Offering:
Reading Trails is the Internet's most innovative social network of passionate readers. Reading Trails offers tools to organize books in a new way. They are a community of passionate, thoughtful readers who use social networking and trails to share their reading experiences and create new ones.
How It Works:
At Reading Trails, discover trails of books linked by any possible theme, topic or whim, from guides to bread baking to classics of Brazilian poetry. At trail "intersections," wander from trail to trail to find unexpected reading pleasures. Join now to create trails, meet interesting new people and share your thoughts and tastes.
More at:http://www.readingtrails.com/
Reading Trails is the Internet's most innovative social network of passionate readers. Reading Trails offers tools to organize books in a new way. They are a community of passionate, thoughtful readers who use social networking and trails to share their reading experiences and create new ones.
How It Works:
At Reading Trails, discover trails of books linked by any possible theme, topic or whim, from guides to bread baking to classics of Brazilian poetry. At trail "intersections," wander from trail to trail to find unexpected reading pleasures. Join now to create trails, meet interesting new people and share your thoughts and tastes.
More at:http://www.readingtrails.com/
Touropia gives an overview of tourist attractions around the world
What Company Is Offering:
Touropia gives an overview of tourist attractions around the world. It provides interactive maps with interesting destinations on topics such as cities, beaches, national parks and cultural heritage sites.
More at:http://www.touropia.com/
Touropia gives an overview of tourist attractions around the world. It provides interactive maps with interesting destinations on topics such as cities, beaches, national parks and cultural heritage sites.
More at:http://www.touropia.com/
PolloO is an opening poll pool
What Company Is Offering:
PolloO is an opening poll pool. Any opinion could be posted in PolloO. The poster is responsible for the content who posted it in PolloO. The results of the total posted opinions will show the basic preference or trend for the topic posted on PolloO from the population posting on PolloO. PolloO also cares about the reason why you are happy or not. Just write down anything you want to say. You will find the same people as your reason. You are not alone in the world.
More at:http://www.polloo.com/
PolloO is an opening poll pool. Any opinion could be posted in PolloO. The poster is responsible for the content who posted it in PolloO. The results of the total posted opinions will show the basic preference or trend for the topic posted on PolloO from the population posting on PolloO. PolloO also cares about the reason why you are happy or not. Just write down anything you want to say. You will find the same people as your reason. You are not alone in the world.
More at:http://www.polloo.com/
HypeTracker.com --showing the trends and usage of key terms in various news websites
What Company Is Offering:
HypeTracker.com is a website dedicated to tracking and discussing key terms in the news. HypeTracker.com provides discussion forums and daily graphs showing the trends and usage of key terms in various news websites over time along with a ranking of which are popular and which aren't.The various graphs show the number of times in which the given keyword shows up within news articles on various news websites over a period of time.The terms and graphs on the main page of the site are ordered based upon today's volume, or count, of the key terms across all of the selected websites. Further, if two terms have the same volume, then those terms are sorted by volume of change with those going up listed first.
More at:http://www.hypetracker.com/
HypeTracker.com is a website dedicated to tracking and discussing key terms in the news. HypeTracker.com provides discussion forums and daily graphs showing the trends and usage of key terms in various news websites over time along with a ranking of which are popular and which aren't.The various graphs show the number of times in which the given keyword shows up within news articles on various news websites over a period of time.The terms and graphs on the main page of the site are ordered based upon today's volume, or count, of the key terms across all of the selected websites. Further, if two terms have the same volume, then those terms are sorted by volume of change with those going up listed first.
More at:http://www.hypetracker.com/
Saturday, January 10, 2009
MeetingWave is a free business and social networking tool
What Company Is Offering:
MeetingWave is a free business and social networking tool that helps you connect offline with people you want to meet in the places you will be-- whether traveling or near home or work.
How It Works:
MeetingWave focuses on developing your business and social networks through face-to-face meetings. Whether you would like to make contacts where you work or live, or even while you are traveling, MeetingWave.com can bring you together with the people you want to meet.
Whether you’re looking for your next client, sales leads, investors, beta testers, team members, a new job, professional connections or new friends, try posting an invite to meet new people. It’s free! MeetingWave.com gives you the tools so that you decide who can attend your networking meetings-- even when your meetings are open to new people!
More at:http://www.meetingwave.com/
On the flip side, you can browse invites posted by others on MeetingWave.com and accept proposed meetings that interest you. If the meeting organizer approves your acceptance, you may attend!
With MeetingWave.com, meetings can be arranged for purposes of social networking, business networking, sharing common interests, or any other purpose. MeetingWave.com will be a valuable resource to you, whether you are striving to further your professional or business goals or are simply interested in meeting new people or making new friends. Use MeetingWave.com to:
MeetingWave is a free business and social networking tool that helps you connect offline with people you want to meet in the places you will be-- whether traveling or near home or work.
How It Works:
MeetingWave focuses on developing your business and social networks through face-to-face meetings. Whether you would like to make contacts where you work or live, or even while you are traveling, MeetingWave.com can bring you together with the people you want to meet.
Whether you’re looking for your next client, sales leads, investors, beta testers, team members, a new job, professional connections or new friends, try posting an invite to meet new people. It’s free! MeetingWave.com gives you the tools so that you decide who can attend your networking meetings-- even when your meetings are open to new people!
More at:http://www.meetingwave.com/
On the flip side, you can browse invites posted by others on MeetingWave.com and accept proposed meetings that interest you. If the meeting organizer approves your acceptance, you may attend!
With MeetingWave.com, meetings can be arranged for purposes of social networking, business networking, sharing common interests, or any other purpose. MeetingWave.com will be a valuable resource to you, whether you are striving to further your professional or business goals or are simply interested in meeting new people or making new friends. Use MeetingWave.com to:
Are My Sites Up ?
What Company Is Offering:
Are My Sites Up is a very simple service to help you keep an eye on your sites and warn you if they go down. Sign up for an account, add your sites, and you are done. You can pop back to the site anytime to get a quick look at your sites. By default, you will be notified by email if any of your sites goes down.
More at:http://www.aremysitesup.com/
Are My Sites Up is a very simple service to help you keep an eye on your sites and warn you if they go down. Sign up for an account, add your sites, and you are done. You can pop back to the site anytime to get a quick look at your sites. By default, you will be notified by email if any of your sites goes down.
More at:http://www.aremysitesup.com/
Prezi allows anyone who can sketch an idea
What Company Is Offering:
Prezi allows anyone who can sketch an idea on a napkin to create and perform stunning non-linear presentations with relations, zooming into details, and adjusting to the time left without the need to skip slides. With the help of Prezi you can create maps of texts, images, videos, PDFs, drawings and present in a nonlinear way.
More at:http://prezi.com/
Prezi allows anyone who can sketch an idea on a napkin to create and perform stunning non-linear presentations with relations, zooming into details, and adjusting to the time left without the need to skip slides. With the help of Prezi you can create maps of texts, images, videos, PDFs, drawings and present in a nonlinear way.
More at:http://prezi.com/
Trusty--Find Local Service Providers
What Company Is Offering:
Trusty’s is a FREE services network: a localized directory where service providers and small business owners create profiles, cultivate their reputations, and encourage references (reviews and ratings) from clients. Everyone who joins can provide feedback and share knowledge about who provides good service (and who doesn't).
How It Works:
Members can search, browse and sort for service providers based on a reputation, location, price, quality of service, and specialties. They can communicate, share advice, seek referrals or build relationships across the community. Trusty's replicates traditional, small-town, word-of-mouth recommendations for help, but on a much broader scale.Trusty’s relies on a simple truth: service businesses are built on reputations. By building a transparent system for comparing the relative strengths of service businesses, and a social network for sharing recommendations and reviews, members can make informed decisions about who they hire.
More at:http://www.trustys.com/
Trusty’s is a FREE services network: a localized directory where service providers and small business owners create profiles, cultivate their reputations, and encourage references (reviews and ratings) from clients. Everyone who joins can provide feedback and share knowledge about who provides good service (and who doesn't).
How It Works:
Members can search, browse and sort for service providers based on a reputation, location, price, quality of service, and specialties. They can communicate, share advice, seek referrals or build relationships across the community. Trusty's replicates traditional, small-town, word-of-mouth recommendations for help, but on a much broader scale.Trusty’s relies on a simple truth: service businesses are built on reputations. By building a transparent system for comparing the relative strengths of service businesses, and a social network for sharing recommendations and reviews, members can make informed decisions about who they hire.
More at:http://www.trustys.com/
Castpost--Video hosting services for user-generated content
What Company Is Offering:
Video hosting services for user-generated content.People all over the world use Castpost to share their personal video and audio clips with friends and family.
How It Works:
With Castpost, it's easy to share your personal media with others:
• Point them to your Castpost media blog (ex: http://yourname.castpost.com).
• Point them to your Castpost RSS feed.
• Point them to the page for a specific item (with the permalink).
• Post the item to an existing blog.
• Post the item to an existing Web page.
More at:http://castpost.com/
Video hosting services for user-generated content.People all over the world use Castpost to share their personal video and audio clips with friends and family.
How It Works:
With Castpost, it's easy to share your personal media with others:
• Point them to your Castpost media blog (ex: http://yourname.castpost.com).
• Point them to your Castpost RSS feed.
• Point them to the page for a specific item (with the permalink).
• Post the item to an existing blog.
• Post the item to an existing Web page.
More at:http://castpost.com/
thinqfitness.com
What Company Is Offering:
You decide what you would like to try * You decide what level suits you * You click on the fitness video to play and join in
They then show you what other fitness videos are similar to the one you have chosen, matching the level you have selected. So you never have to watch the same fitness video twice to get healthy, unless of course you want to.
More at:http://thinqfitness.com/
You decide what you would like to try * You decide what level suits you * You click on the fitness video to play and join in
They then show you what other fitness videos are similar to the one you have chosen, matching the level you have selected. So you never have to watch the same fitness video twice to get healthy, unless of course you want to.
More at:http://thinqfitness.com/
Code Riser is a catalog of pre-built web engines
What Company Is Offering:
Code Riser is a catalog of pre-built web engines and apps that amplify you web presence faster and more affordably than custom development.
More at:http://www.coderiser.com/
Code Riser is a catalog of pre-built web engines and apps that amplify you web presence faster and more affordably than custom development.
More at:http://www.coderiser.com/
Friday, January 9, 2009
Eleven Strategies That Will Make Your Company Boom
Every day we hear doom and gloom in the markets and the media. “The sky is falling” appears to be the refrain repeated around the world. Entrepreneurs, business owners, and their senior executive teams could easily succumb to the fear factor generated by all this coverage of market changes.
Market corrections can be a superb time for companies to take advantage of incredible opportunities to not just thrive, but to grow and succeed beyond their wildest dreams. David J. Greer surveyed over two hundred entrepreneurs with experience in downturns to discover the best ways to manage through the current business cycle. In this article, he provides eleven strategies that you can use today to make your company successful, not despite the current market conditions, but because of them.
We may not have all the answers, but in this article we have tried to ask the right questions. The eleven business strategies we focus on are:
1.
Business Cycles
2.
Leadership
3.
Strategy and Focus
4.
Cash Is King
5.
Business Model
6.
Communications
7.
Human Capital
8.
Marketing
9.
Customers
10.
Layoffs
11.
Product Innovation
Business Cycle
Remember that these business cycles have been repeated many times in the past several decades. We don’t know when the current downturn will hit the bottom, how long before growth starts, and how fast markets will grow once they have recovered. If this downturn follows previous ones, markets will recover and they will start growing. While you need to survive through the downturn, make sure that your planning window includes the hoped for return of the good times. Entrepreneurs I spoke with for this article say that the good times will return.
In the short term, you do need to manage through the short term adjustments, especially cash (which we cover in Cash Is King). It will take hyper focus on Eleven Strategies That Will Make Your Company Boom 1
customers and revenue, along with careful management of expenses. Gordon Smythe of Propel Partners says “Running out of cash is the only way that companies go out of business.”
You are not the only one impacted by the changing market landscape. Your suppliers, partners, competitors, and especially your customers are also being impacted by lowering GDP and spending. When you are planning on future corporate directions, keep this in mind. There may be an equal set of opportunities to go along with the challenges of the market changes.
All of these impacts and all of the changes you instigate will take time. Probably more time than you realize. Be realistic about your timelines and how hard it will be to make changes. Monitor your progress carefully (weekly even) to see if you are staying on track.
Leadership
Recent market changes have all of us attempting to figure out what it means to our companies. As the downturn accelerates, you must act now to plan your future. The key is getting into action, but doing so with a plan that recognizes the new reality.
For entrepreneurs and senior executives there is a tendency to try and make all the decisions. In challenging times, mine your human capital for creativity and ideas. Someone will have the answer. Find ways to brainstorm and get ideas on the table. Are there individuals who are showing creativity and leadership? Put them together as a team with a deadline for coming up with five ideas from the eleven strategies listed here in the next week.
Look around your organization. Who is rising to the current challenges? Who look like they are running away or burying their heads in the sand? The leaders will rise to the top. Look for those individuals and support them.
In crisis situations, leaders often feel the world on their shoulders, especially if you are the entrepreneur or business owner. All those employees. All those customers. You can’t support the whole world. Do you usually go to the gym three times a week? Go five times a week in the crisis. If you don’t have peak physical performance, you can’t have peak work performance. Do you go to yoga once a week? Go more, both for the physical and mental aspects. Look after yourself, so that you can be there for your families, your friends, your employees, and your customers.
Work on teamwork. This is a time for everyone to pull together and work as a team. Stay positive. You will get through this time and you and your teams will be more experienced people for having risen to the challenges. Karen Luniw, founder of the Law of Attraction Center says it well. “The most crucial area of focus for entrepreneurs is on keeping a positive mindset. This is not just about positive thinking but really about believing in yourself and your product or service. It's important to keep asking ‘what's the opportunity’ as opposed to 'how am I going to survive'. These are two completely different mindsets that will create different outcomes in one's business. If you can keep your eye towards opportunity - you can see it and create it.”
Strategy and Focus
The changes in the market have been so large and so fast that pretty much every plan needs to be thrown out the window. It’s time to start with a clean piece of paper and rethink the whole strategic plan for the business. It’s time to reevaluate your positioning, competitors, services, products, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
The downturn in the business cycle will end. Start your thinking three years from now. When the cycle is over where do you want to be? What will your company look like then? Focus on where you can win. What goods and services will you be offering? What will your markets be? How much market share will you have?
After you are clear on where you want to be in three years, focus on what you need to do in the next year to be positioned for where you want to be in three years. Once that is clear, figure out your detailed plans for the next quarter. Make those decisions that will get you through the near term, but keep your company strong for the medium and long term.
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Market corrections can be a superb time for companies to take advantage of incredible opportunities to not just thrive, but to grow and succeed beyond their wildest dreams. David J. Greer surveyed over two hundred entrepreneurs with experience in downturns to discover the best ways to manage through the current business cycle. In this article, he provides eleven strategies that you can use today to make your company successful, not despite the current market conditions, but because of them.
We may not have all the answers, but in this article we have tried to ask the right questions. The eleven business strategies we focus on are:
1.
Business Cycles
2.
Leadership
3.
Strategy and Focus
4.
Cash Is King
5.
Business Model
6.
Communications
7.
Human Capital
8.
Marketing
9.
Customers
10.
Layoffs
11.
Product Innovation
Business Cycle
Remember that these business cycles have been repeated many times in the past several decades. We don’t know when the current downturn will hit the bottom, how long before growth starts, and how fast markets will grow once they have recovered. If this downturn follows previous ones, markets will recover and they will start growing. While you need to survive through the downturn, make sure that your planning window includes the hoped for return of the good times. Entrepreneurs I spoke with for this article say that the good times will return.
In the short term, you do need to manage through the short term adjustments, especially cash (which we cover in Cash Is King). It will take hyper focus on Eleven Strategies That Will Make Your Company Boom 1
customers and revenue, along with careful management of expenses. Gordon Smythe of Propel Partners says “Running out of cash is the only way that companies go out of business.”
You are not the only one impacted by the changing market landscape. Your suppliers, partners, competitors, and especially your customers are also being impacted by lowering GDP and spending. When you are planning on future corporate directions, keep this in mind. There may be an equal set of opportunities to go along with the challenges of the market changes.
All of these impacts and all of the changes you instigate will take time. Probably more time than you realize. Be realistic about your timelines and how hard it will be to make changes. Monitor your progress carefully (weekly even) to see if you are staying on track.
Leadership
Recent market changes have all of us attempting to figure out what it means to our companies. As the downturn accelerates, you must act now to plan your future. The key is getting into action, but doing so with a plan that recognizes the new reality.
For entrepreneurs and senior executives there is a tendency to try and make all the decisions. In challenging times, mine your human capital for creativity and ideas. Someone will have the answer. Find ways to brainstorm and get ideas on the table. Are there individuals who are showing creativity and leadership? Put them together as a team with a deadline for coming up with five ideas from the eleven strategies listed here in the next week.
Look around your organization. Who is rising to the current challenges? Who look like they are running away or burying their heads in the sand? The leaders will rise to the top. Look for those individuals and support them.
In crisis situations, leaders often feel the world on their shoulders, especially if you are the entrepreneur or business owner. All those employees. All those customers. You can’t support the whole world. Do you usually go to the gym three times a week? Go five times a week in the crisis. If you don’t have peak physical performance, you can’t have peak work performance. Do you go to yoga once a week? Go more, both for the physical and mental aspects. Look after yourself, so that you can be there for your families, your friends, your employees, and your customers.
Work on teamwork. This is a time for everyone to pull together and work as a team. Stay positive. You will get through this time and you and your teams will be more experienced people for having risen to the challenges. Karen Luniw, founder of the Law of Attraction Center says it well. “The most crucial area of focus for entrepreneurs is on keeping a positive mindset. This is not just about positive thinking but really about believing in yourself and your product or service. It's important to keep asking ‘what's the opportunity’ as opposed to 'how am I going to survive'. These are two completely different mindsets that will create different outcomes in one's business. If you can keep your eye towards opportunity - you can see it and create it.”
Strategy and Focus
The changes in the market have been so large and so fast that pretty much every plan needs to be thrown out the window. It’s time to start with a clean piece of paper and rethink the whole strategic plan for the business. It’s time to reevaluate your positioning, competitors, services, products, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
The downturn in the business cycle will end. Start your thinking three years from now. When the cycle is over where do you want to be? What will your company look like then? Focus on where you can win. What goods and services will you be offering? What will your markets be? How much market share will you have?
After you are clear on where you want to be in three years, focus on what you need to do in the next year to be positioned for where you want to be in three years. Once that is clear, figure out your detailed plans for the next quarter. Make those decisions that will get you through the near term, but keep your company strong for the medium and long term.
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SonicPages.com --Business Owners Contact Information
What Company Is Offering:
SonicPages.com began, providing a platform for business owners to share their contact information, industry type, hours of business and a map to their location.
With the basic system in place, feature after feature was added. Soon business owners could customize their listings to include accepted methods of payment, products sold, services provided, upcoming events, job vacancies, coupons and more. The list continues to grow.
SonicPages.com is concentrating on small businesses, providing the opportunity to create a rich online presence in a time when more people are using the Internet to research their purchases and the companies they do business with.
More at:http://sonicpages.com/
SonicPages.com began, providing a platform for business owners to share their contact information, industry type, hours of business and a map to their location.
With the basic system in place, feature after feature was added. Soon business owners could customize their listings to include accepted methods of payment, products sold, services provided, upcoming events, job vacancies, coupons and more. The list continues to grow.
SonicPages.com is concentrating on small businesses, providing the opportunity to create a rich online presence in a time when more people are using the Internet to research their purchases and the companies they do business with.
More at:http://sonicpages.com/
Klout allows you to track the impact of your opinions, links and recommendations
What Company Is Offering:
Klout allows you to track the impact of your opinions, links and recommendations across your social graph. It collect data about the content you create, how people interact with that content and the size and composition of your network. From there, they analyze the data to find indicators of influence and then provide you with innovative tools to interact with and interpret the data.
More at:http://www.klout.net/
Klout allows you to track the impact of your opinions, links and recommendations across your social graph. It collect data about the content you create, how people interact with that content and the size and composition of your network. From there, they analyze the data to find indicators of influence and then provide you with innovative tools to interact with and interpret the data.
More at:http://www.klout.net/
The Resumator --Applicant Tracking System
What Company Is Offering:
Replace your recruiting email address with The Resumator widget to instantly gain access to a simple, yet surprisingly robust applicant tracking system.The Resumator is an elegantly-designed applicant tracking system (ATS) that publishes your open jobs to the Web while also recommending job boards to help drive traffic.
Unique Features:
It manages all the jobs you need to advertise on the Web.
It parses all your resumes and helps you engage applicants.
It helps you advertise on job boards that best fit your job.
It’s installed with one line of code and saves you time and money.
More at:http://www.theresumator.com/
Replace your recruiting email address with The Resumator widget to instantly gain access to a simple, yet surprisingly robust applicant tracking system.The Resumator is an elegantly-designed applicant tracking system (ATS) that publishes your open jobs to the Web while also recommending job boards to help drive traffic.
Unique Features:
It manages all the jobs you need to advertise on the Web.
It parses all your resumes and helps you engage applicants.
It helps you advertise on job boards that best fit your job.
It’s installed with one line of code and saves you time and money.
More at:http://www.theresumator.com/
Microsoft Tag --for making interactive communications an instant, entertaining part of life
What Company Is Offering:
Microsoft Tag creates unlimited possibilities for making interactive communications an instant, entertaining part of life. They tranform physical media (print advertising, billboards,product packages, information signs, in-store merchandising, or even video images)—into live links for accessing information and entertainment online.
With the Microsoft Tag application, just aim your camera phone at a Tag and instantly access mobile content, videos, music, contact information, maps, social networks, promotions, and more. Nothing to type, no browsers to launch!
More at:http://www.microsoft.com/
Microsoft Tag creates unlimited possibilities for making interactive communications an instant, entertaining part of life. They tranform physical media (print advertising, billboards,product packages, information signs, in-store merchandising, or even video images)—into live links for accessing information and entertainment online.
With the Microsoft Tag application, just aim your camera phone at a Tag and instantly access mobile content, videos, music, contact information, maps, social networks, promotions, and more. Nothing to type, no browsers to launch!
More at:http://www.microsoft.com/
Simplweb --Instant Website That Works For Your Business
What Company Is Offering:
Simplweb offers turnkey hosting and instant website creation. It has various templates you can choose from.
More at: http://www.simplweb.com
Simplweb offers turnkey hosting and instant website creation. It has various templates you can choose from.
More at: http://www.simplweb.com
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Widgetfinger
What Company Is Offering:
Widgetfinger is a CMS made for web design firms who provide maintenance and hosting for their clients' "brochure-style" websites (sites with 'Home,' 'About,' 'Service' and 'Contact us' pages -- and not much else). The application handles all of the things you're currently doing yourself to host these sites, while giving your clients the one simple thing they ask for -- the ability to edit their website content without emailing you.
More at:http://www.widgetfinger.com/
Widgetfinger is a CMS made for web design firms who provide maintenance and hosting for their clients' "brochure-style" websites (sites with 'Home,' 'About,' 'Service' and 'Contact us' pages -- and not much else). The application handles all of the things you're currently doing yourself to host these sites, while giving your clients the one simple thing they ask for -- the ability to edit their website content without emailing you.
More at:http://www.widgetfinger.com/
DontBreakTheChain is a motivational tool
What Company Is Offering:
DontBreakTheChain is a motivational tool developed by comedian Jerry Seinfeld. Use the app to set yourself a goal and a date to achieve it by then mark off the days on the calendar that you work towards your goal.
More at:http://dontbreakthechain.com/
DontBreakTheChain is a motivational tool developed by comedian Jerry Seinfeld. Use the app to set yourself a goal and a date to achieve it by then mark off the days on the calendar that you work towards your goal.
More at:http://dontbreakthechain.com/
IAC-EZ is to manage your books easily and affordably
What Company Is Offering:
IAC-EZ is the perfect choice if you want to manage your books easily and affordably without having to learn a thing about bookkeeping. It's the one and only web-based application that lets you do your bookkeeping without any special skills or knowledge required.
How It Works:
Take care of your bookkeeping quickly, easily and accurately without wasting time, struggling with numbers or worrying whether you've made a costly mistake. IAC-EZ helps you stay in control of your business with no accounting skills or knowledge required. Manage your books confidently without an accountant and generate easy-to-understand, useful reports.
More at:https://www.iacez.com/
IAC-EZ is the perfect choice if you want to manage your books easily and affordably without having to learn a thing about bookkeeping. It's the one and only web-based application that lets you do your bookkeeping without any special skills or knowledge required.
How It Works:
Take care of your bookkeeping quickly, easily and accurately without wasting time, struggling with numbers or worrying whether you've made a costly mistake. IAC-EZ helps you stay in control of your business with no accounting skills or knowledge required. Manage your books confidently without an accountant and generate easy-to-understand, useful reports.
More at:https://www.iacez.com/
HopToad
What Company Is Offering:
HopToad is an online application that plugs directly into your Rails application and collects all errors that are thrown in your app in a neat and readable UI. Send your Rails application errors to their hosted service and reclaim your inbox.
More at:http://www.hoptoadapp.com/
HopToad is an online application that plugs directly into your Rails application and collects all errors that are thrown in your app in a neat and readable UI. Send your Rails application errors to their hosted service and reclaim your inbox.
More at:http://www.hoptoadapp.com/
WhosTalkin.com is a social media search tool
What Company Is Offering:
WhosTalkin.com is a social media search tool that allows users to search for conversations surrounding the topics that they care about most. Whether it be your favorite sport, favorite food, celebrity, or your company’s brand name; Whostalkin.com can help you join in on the conversations that you care about most. It aims to deliver the most relevant and current conversations happening in the world of social media.
How It Works:
Their search and sorting algorithms combine data taken from over 60 of the internet’s most popular social media gateways. They take this data and display it to you through carefully designed interface that harnesses the power of AJAX to give you a seamlessly well organized user experience.
More at:http://www.whostalkin.com/
WhosTalkin.com is a social media search tool that allows users to search for conversations surrounding the topics that they care about most. Whether it be your favorite sport, favorite food, celebrity, or your company’s brand name; Whostalkin.com can help you join in on the conversations that you care about most. It aims to deliver the most relevant and current conversations happening in the world of social media.
How It Works:
Their search and sorting algorithms combine data taken from over 60 of the internet’s most popular social media gateways. They take this data and display it to you through carefully designed interface that harnesses the power of AJAX to give you a seamlessly well organized user experience.
More at:http://www.whostalkin.com/
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
EasyPushButtonTraffic.com has become the latest high profile service provider to offer substantial discounts to JointWinWin members
What Company Is Offering:
JointWinWin.com is a growing business community whose aim is to shink poverty.JointWinWin is a free business directory offering businesses and consumers alike special offers whilst at the same time ensuring charities around the world benefit.
Recent Updates:
EasyPushButtonTraffic.com has become the latest high profile service provider to offer substantial discounts to JointWinWin members. Discounts for the service are available only to JointWinWin members through the JointWinWin Advantage Rewards club which is free to join. The services offered by EasyPushButtonTraffic allow website owners to publish their content to a variety of distribution points across the internet in a simple, reliable fashion. Rather than logging into individual content syndication sites, now a website owner need only setup the login accounts once, upload their content once and broadcast their content to many syndication sites. EasyPushButtonTraffic grew out of the video distribution service TrafficMom.com to include extra syndication options to leverage the Web 2.0 marketing model.
More at:http://jointwinwin.com
JointWinWin.com is a growing business community whose aim is to shink poverty.JointWinWin is a free business directory offering businesses and consumers alike special offers whilst at the same time ensuring charities around the world benefit.
Recent Updates:
EasyPushButtonTraffic.com has become the latest high profile service provider to offer substantial discounts to JointWinWin members. Discounts for the service are available only to JointWinWin members through the JointWinWin Advantage Rewards club which is free to join. The services offered by EasyPushButtonTraffic allow website owners to publish their content to a variety of distribution points across the internet in a simple, reliable fashion. Rather than logging into individual content syndication sites, now a website owner need only setup the login accounts once, upload their content once and broadcast their content to many syndication sites. EasyPushButtonTraffic grew out of the video distribution service TrafficMom.com to include extra syndication options to leverage the Web 2.0 marketing model.
More at:http://jointwinwin.com
Team and a Dream helps Internet entrepreneurs accelerate the launch of their web business
What Company Is Offering:
Team and a Dream helps Internet entrepreneurs accelerate the launch of their web business by providing Internet Strategies and Virtual Marketing Teams tailored to its clients’ needs. Using a model-based approach, Team and a Dream creates a holistic Web marketing strategy and a corresponding metrics dashboard for its clients to manage their progress.
New Updates
Team and a Dream, a service company that helps web startups and young Internet businesses accelerate the launch of their web business, is announcing a Teleseminar workshop on January 12, 2009 entitled “Is your Web Business Failing to Capture Clients?.” In partnership with Transformation Coach Rob Scott of Fundamental Shift, the teleseminar is designed to help entrepreneurs choose the right goals and build the right habits to pursue their web business objectives.
Team and a Dream noticed an opportunity while working with Internet startups. “It’s not always easy to pursue the vision you want on a budget – and it can be a very lonely process.” stated Skip Shuda, founder of Team and a Dream. “We decided to initiate this project to help Web entrepreneurs tackle their web business dreams with support and at an affordable price-point. The New Year is the right time to start thinking about how to increase the odds for building your web business and this teleseminar will do just that.”
Using a proprietary mixture of Web business coaching and proven habit-building skills, the teleseminar provides the framework for achieving goals to accomplish the mission of the business, adapts targeted metrics to track progress, and also identifies the habits necessary to achieve those goals. Working with execution coach, Rory Cohen of Take10Now, the team plans to provide ongoing “Accountability Circles” to support the work Web business owners perform as part of this workshop. The Circles allow business owners to be held accountable for their actions and progress which increases the likelihood of achieving their goals.
More at:www.TeamAndADream.com
Team and a Dream helps Internet entrepreneurs accelerate the launch of their web business by providing Internet Strategies and Virtual Marketing Teams tailored to its clients’ needs. Using a model-based approach, Team and a Dream creates a holistic Web marketing strategy and a corresponding metrics dashboard for its clients to manage their progress.
New Updates
Team and a Dream, a service company that helps web startups and young Internet businesses accelerate the launch of their web business, is announcing a Teleseminar workshop on January 12, 2009 entitled “Is your Web Business Failing to Capture Clients?.” In partnership with Transformation Coach Rob Scott of Fundamental Shift, the teleseminar is designed to help entrepreneurs choose the right goals and build the right habits to pursue their web business objectives.
Team and a Dream noticed an opportunity while working with Internet startups. “It’s not always easy to pursue the vision you want on a budget – and it can be a very lonely process.” stated Skip Shuda, founder of Team and a Dream. “We decided to initiate this project to help Web entrepreneurs tackle their web business dreams with support and at an affordable price-point. The New Year is the right time to start thinking about how to increase the odds for building your web business and this teleseminar will do just that.”
Using a proprietary mixture of Web business coaching and proven habit-building skills, the teleseminar provides the framework for achieving goals to accomplish the mission of the business, adapts targeted metrics to track progress, and also identifies the habits necessary to achieve those goals. Working with execution coach, Rory Cohen of Take10Now, the team plans to provide ongoing “Accountability Circles” to support the work Web business owners perform as part of this workshop. The Circles allow business owners to be held accountable for their actions and progress which increases the likelihood of achieving their goals.
More at:www.TeamAndADream.com
A Kizzog is a semi-custom personal blog for parents who want to write about their kids
What Company Is Offering:
A Kizzog is a semi-custom personal blog for parents who want to write about their kids, but don't have the time to set-up a blog all by themselves! The name "Kizzog" came from the combining of the words "kids" and "blog." For $49.95 per year, parents purchase all of the following: A custom domain name, one year of web hosting, all of the semi customizable Kizzog Themes already installed and pre-installed WordPress blogging software. Parents can upload up to three photos of their children to be plugged in to the blog's header and sidebar design. The Kizzog hosting account comes with built in security features like the option to password-protect the site, making it available to only those who are given the password.
Kizzogs are perfect for parents who want to share their children's milestones with their friends and families especially those that don't live nearby. WordPress allows users to upload photos and video into blog posts without hassle. The Kizzog helps parents capture and share life's most precious moments to look back on forever.
"A Kizzog will help capture the memories that will soon fade. Whether it's capturing your son's first steps or your daughter's first soccer game the Kizzog helps you do this via your child's own personal website. Kizzogs are the best way to share these memories with your family and friends." Says Stuart McHenry.
More at: www.mckremie.com
A Kizzog is a semi-custom personal blog for parents who want to write about their kids, but don't have the time to set-up a blog all by themselves! The name "Kizzog" came from the combining of the words "kids" and "blog." For $49.95 per year, parents purchase all of the following: A custom domain name, one year of web hosting, all of the semi customizable Kizzog Themes already installed and pre-installed WordPress blogging software. Parents can upload up to three photos of their children to be plugged in to the blog's header and sidebar design. The Kizzog hosting account comes with built in security features like the option to password-protect the site, making it available to only those who are given the password.
Kizzogs are perfect for parents who want to share their children's milestones with their friends and families especially those that don't live nearby. WordPress allows users to upload photos and video into blog posts without hassle. The Kizzog helps parents capture and share life's most precious moments to look back on forever.
"A Kizzog will help capture the memories that will soon fade. Whether it's capturing your son's first steps or your daughter's first soccer game the Kizzog helps you do this via your child's own personal website. Kizzogs are the best way to share these memories with your family and friends." Says Stuart McHenry.
More at: www.mckremie.com
Binding.com announces the addition of Trade Show Displays
What Company Is Offering:
Binding.com offers a new line of binding machines, binding supplies and binding solutions at competitive prices.
New Updates:
Binding.com announces the addition of Trade Show Displays to their expanding line of expo, office, business and retail display products.
Trade show displays are perfect for trade shows, expositions, exhibits, booths, large business meetings or conventions. Portable trade show displays are excellent for branding, special events or new product launches.
More at:http://www.binding.com/
Binding.com offers a new line of binding machines, binding supplies and binding solutions at competitive prices.
New Updates:
Binding.com announces the addition of Trade Show Displays to their expanding line of expo, office, business and retail display products.
Trade show displays are perfect for trade shows, expositions, exhibits, booths, large business meetings or conventions. Portable trade show displays are excellent for branding, special events or new product launches.
More at:http://www.binding.com/
Tvosz.com
What Company Is Offering:
Tvosz.com is a place for people who love videos. It lets anyone upload, download, view, share and experience everything from short clips captured on mobile phones all the way up to full-length, high-definition feature films.
More at:www.Tvosz.com
Tvosz.com is a place for people who love videos. It lets anyone upload, download, view, share and experience everything from short clips captured on mobile phones all the way up to full-length, high-definition feature films.
More at:www.Tvosz.com
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
SCOTBLOG Launched By 13 Year Old BoyEntrepreneur
A young tech-savvy entrepreneur has announced his latest venture. Scott Campbell, 13, is launching his first startup, ScotBlog.net. The site is one of the internet’s first socially focused blogging sites, a community to produce and share new content with others. ScotBlog has many features, including allowing the user to create a profile, join user created groups, send private messages, add friends and most importantly, blog.
However, the site has one additional twist. ScotBlog is for anyone who has Scottish ancestory or lives in Scotland.
“Our user base is very diverse,” says Scott, who has the official title ‘Creative Randomist’ on the website. “We have some users in Glasgow, while we have some from South Carolina and even California”.
“The main aim of the website is to create a safe, fun community for anybody to use, from tech savvy users to silver surfers.”
Clearly, users are finding the site easy to use and very enjoyable. One user, Jason Clark, said, “ScotBlog has a very easy, simple user interface! It’s one of the best and most helpful communities around,” while another user thought that “ScotBlog is the best website to have your views and make friends at the same time.”
More at:www.ScotBlog.net
However, the site has one additional twist. ScotBlog is for anyone who has Scottish ancestory or lives in Scotland.
“Our user base is very diverse,” says Scott, who has the official title ‘Creative Randomist’ on the website. “We have some users in Glasgow, while we have some from South Carolina and even California”.
“The main aim of the website is to create a safe, fun community for anybody to use, from tech savvy users to silver surfers.”
Clearly, users are finding the site easy to use and very enjoyable. One user, Jason Clark, said, “ScotBlog has a very easy, simple user interface! It’s one of the best and most helpful communities around,” while another user thought that “ScotBlog is the best website to have your views and make friends at the same time.”
More at:www.ScotBlog.net
Minimum Noise is a service that enables musicians to help each other create great music
What Company Is Offering:
Minimum Noise is a service that enables musicians to help each other create great music.It lets you have customized beats, vocals or accompaniments made to match your specifications.
How It Works:
Simply create a project with your request on Minimum Noise.
Describe the details and state a prize that you are willing to pay for the audio. Producers can now participate in your project, either by uploading actual suggestions to the completed work or examples of previous work to illustrate their style.
When you have found a submission that you like, declare it to be the winner. Transfer the prize to the producer and receive audio material along with all rights to use it.
If you sing, play instruments or have other music production skills, you can put your creative abilities to use and make a profit.
Participate in the projects that fit your talents by uploading audio material that either illustrates your style or suggests a completed version of the requested material.
If the project owner chooses your work, you will receive the prize and transfer the audio material along with all rights to the project owner.
More at:http://www.minimumnoise.com/
Minimum Noise is a service that enables musicians to help each other create great music.It lets you have customized beats, vocals or accompaniments made to match your specifications.
How It Works:
Simply create a project with your request on Minimum Noise.
Describe the details and state a prize that you are willing to pay for the audio. Producers can now participate in your project, either by uploading actual suggestions to the completed work or examples of previous work to illustrate their style.
When you have found a submission that you like, declare it to be the winner. Transfer the prize to the producer and receive audio material along with all rights to use it.
If you sing, play instruments or have other music production skills, you can put your creative abilities to use and make a profit.
Participate in the projects that fit your talents by uploading audio material that either illustrates your style or suggests a completed version of the requested material.
If the project owner chooses your work, you will receive the prize and transfer the audio material along with all rights to the project owner.
More at:http://www.minimumnoise.com/
People Ripple
What Company Is Offering:
People Ripple was setup as an offline event management system. It has evolved to include online components, tracking and prizes for these real world.
More at:http://www.peopleripple.com/
People Ripple was setup as an offline event management system. It has evolved to include online components, tracking and prizes for these real world.
More at:http://www.peopleripple.com/
SkyGrid For Traders And Investors
What Company Is Offering:
SkyGrid continuosly searches & analyzes millions of news sources to delivers comprehensive, filtered, and personalized content to institutional investors.
More at:http://www.skygrid.com/
SkyGrid continuosly searches & analyzes millions of news sources to delivers comprehensive, filtered, and personalized content to institutional investors.
More at:http://www.skygrid.com/
Woosabi is a web based relationship management and activity collaboration resource
What Company Is Offering:
Woosabi is a web based relationship management and activity collaboration resource that can serve any new or existing business. Designed to streamline the needs of small business individuals, partners and teams, Woosabi will supply meaningful real-time information and dynamic features that eliminate make shift tools, isolated activity and static documents. Collaborate with your colleagues around a single easy to use application that automates and simplifies essential day-to-day business management, all without time, location or security limitations.
How It Works:
With Woosabi, it's easy to view where your money is coming from and when it should be paid. Track services you perform and quickly create, send and track quotes, invoices, part payments and refunds all in one place.In one click Woosabi will allow you to convert a message in your inbox in to an auto-scheduled job. Team members stay aware of each other's activities which makes it simple and easy for the business to track overall progress.
More at:http://www.woosabi.com/
Woosabi is a web based relationship management and activity collaboration resource that can serve any new or existing business. Designed to streamline the needs of small business individuals, partners and teams, Woosabi will supply meaningful real-time information and dynamic features that eliminate make shift tools, isolated activity and static documents. Collaborate with your colleagues around a single easy to use application that automates and simplifies essential day-to-day business management, all without time, location or security limitations.
How It Works:
With Woosabi, it's easy to view where your money is coming from and when it should be paid. Track services you perform and quickly create, send and track quotes, invoices, part payments and refunds all in one place.In one click Woosabi will allow you to convert a message in your inbox in to an auto-scheduled job. Team members stay aware of each other's activities which makes it simple and easy for the business to track overall progress.
More at:http://www.woosabi.com/
BlogTalkRadio allows users to create free online radio stations
What Company Is Offering:
BlogTalkRadio allows users to create free online radio stations and listen to thousands of original internet radio shows. Join the social media podcast revolution.
How It Works:
BlogTalkRadio is the social radio network that allows users to connect quickly and directly with their audience. Using an ordinary telephone and computer hosts can create free, live, call-in talk shows with unlimited participants that are automatically archived and made available as podcasts. No software download is required. Listeners can subscribe to shows via RSS into iTunes and other feed readers.
More at:http://www.blogtalkradio.com/
BlogTalkRadio allows users to create free online radio stations and listen to thousands of original internet radio shows. Join the social media podcast revolution.
How It Works:
BlogTalkRadio is the social radio network that allows users to connect quickly and directly with their audience. Using an ordinary telephone and computer hosts can create free, live, call-in talk shows with unlimited participants that are automatically archived and made available as podcasts. No software download is required. Listeners can subscribe to shows via RSS into iTunes and other feed readers.
More at:http://www.blogtalkradio.com/
Monday, January 5, 2009
Voice From God Predicts U.S. will embrace socialism, economy will recover in ’09
Citing information he says is from God, Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson said Friday that America is headed for veritable socialism as well as an economic rebound under President-elect Barack Obama in 2009. "What the Lord was saying, the people are willing to accept socialism to alleviate their pain," Robertson said on a broadcast of "The 700 Club." Robertson hosts the program, which is aired from the Christian Broadcasting Network studios in Virginia Beach. Robertson...Robertson said the economy, particularly the stock market, could start rebounding by the second quarter.
Cast off the gloom and the doom because things are getting ready to turn around," he said. "I’m flying in the face of all of the experts or most of the experts who say, ’Oh no, no, no, it’s going to get worse,’ but I don’t think so."
Robertson’s prophecies are an annual tradition at CBN and Regent University, where he unveils his predictions at a New Year’s Day chapel service. Robertson is founder, president and chancellor of Regent.
More at:http://hawk.heraldinteractive.com/news/us_politics/view/2009_01_03_Pat_Robertson_predicts_U_S__will_embrace_socialism__economy_will_recover_in__09/
Cast off the gloom and the doom because things are getting ready to turn around," he said. "I’m flying in the face of all of the experts or most of the experts who say, ’Oh no, no, no, it’s going to get worse,’ but I don’t think so."
Robertson’s prophecies are an annual tradition at CBN and Regent University, where he unveils his predictions at a New Year’s Day chapel service. Robertson is founder, president and chancellor of Regent.
More at:http://hawk.heraldinteractive.com/news/us_politics/view/2009_01_03_Pat_Robertson_predicts_U_S__will_embrace_socialism__economy_will_recover_in__09/
Who are you - Where are you is a photographic search library
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The site where you can search for anyone and anything. Upload a photo and you can use the search box to define who or what you want to find.Who are you - Where are you is a photographic search library and an online photo sharing community. It allows you to upload a photo to ask who are you and where are you. It also enables you to search and respond to any image on the site. Free Membership Registration gives you FULL access to the site, enabling you to search and respond to any image and add your own. By registering you receive 10 FREE photo uploads to get you started.
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The site where you can search for anyone and anything. Upload a photo and you can use the search box to define who or what you want to find.Who are you - Where are you is a photographic search library and an online photo sharing community. It allows you to upload a photo to ask who are you and where are you. It also enables you to search and respond to any image on the site. Free Membership Registration gives you FULL access to the site, enabling you to search and respond to any image and add your own. By registering you receive 10 FREE photo uploads to get you started.
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LinkLike gives you a place to build cross promotion partnerships with like-minded web sites
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LinkLike gives you a place to build cross promotion partnerships with like-minded web sites. It also provides a metered ad exchange service that you and your partners can use to pool online traffic. LinkLike's metered ad exchange service lets you and your partners confidently link to each other online. It works by maintaining a balanced click flow between you and each of your partners. For every customer you send to your partner, you can be sure that she will send a customer to you.
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LinkLike gives you a place to build cross promotion partnerships with like-minded web sites. It also provides a metered ad exchange service that you and your partners can use to pool online traffic. LinkLike's metered ad exchange service lets you and your partners confidently link to each other online. It works by maintaining a balanced click flow between you and each of your partners. For every customer you send to your partner, you can be sure that she will send a customer to you.
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WatchThatPage--- Automatically collect new information from your favorite pages on the Internet
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WatchThatPage is a service that enables you to automatically collect new information from your favorite pages on the Internet. You select which pages to monitor, and WatchThatPage will find which pages have changed, and collect all the new content for you. The new information is presented to you in an email and/or a personal web page. You can specify when the changes will be collected, so they are fresh when you want to read them.
How It Works:
With WatchThatPage you can make your own newsletter customized with the information important to you, from the sources of your choice. Competitors, partners, online news and magazines, reports, events. Any page on the Internet can be watched. There is nothing to download to use WatchThatPage. All the heavy work is done on our server. All you have to do is to register your profile, and add the pages you want to watch. From now on, just lean back and let the updates come to you.
More at:http://www.watchthatpage.com/
WatchThatPage is a service that enables you to automatically collect new information from your favorite pages on the Internet. You select which pages to monitor, and WatchThatPage will find which pages have changed, and collect all the new content for you. The new information is presented to you in an email and/or a personal web page. You can specify when the changes will be collected, so they are fresh when you want to read them.
How It Works:
With WatchThatPage you can make your own newsletter customized with the information important to you, from the sources of your choice. Competitors, partners, online news and magazines, reports, events. Any page on the Internet can be watched. There is nothing to download to use WatchThatPage. All the heavy work is done on our server. All you have to do is to register your profile, and add the pages you want to watch. From now on, just lean back and let the updates come to you.
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