Thursday, February 19, 2009

OVGuide.com is the best way to easily find TV shows, movies, video clips

What Company Is Offering:
OVGuide.com is the best way to easily find TV shows, movies, video clips and other content on the Internet. As the ultimate guide to online video, OVGuide.com's powerful search engine and team of editors cut through the clutter of over 3,500 online video sites to discover, categorize and make recommendations on the best content that is available on the Web.

How Much They Got From VCs:

OVGuide.com, the Internet's most comprehensive portal for online video discovery and search, has received $5 million in venture capital funding from Baroda Ventures LLC, one of Los Angeles' leading VC firms. In addition, OVGuide.com in January 2009 saw its first operational month as a profit-making entity.

Business Model:
OVGuide.com's proprietary search technology helps those who watch online content cut through the clutter of the thousands of online video sites on the Internet. OVGuide.com's search engine delivers the best quality and most relevant video destination source for any search term. OVGuide.com categorizes online video content and its editors make independent recommendations to users, making the online video search process fast, efficient and, above all, human.

More at:www.ovguide.com

Get your business training with The 845 Club

What Company Is Offering:
Individuals and businesses of all sizes and sectors can learn techniques across key business areas in a simple, easy to watch video format, alongside e-books, links, downloadable documents, free software and podcasts.

Who has time to be sent on full day or week courses any more? Times are hard but people still need to be motivated, inspired and trained.

Learn as part of your day. Cut out the fluff and get your business training with The 845 Club.

More at:http://the845club.com/

Cuesense finds the most topical, trendiest bits of content

What Company Is Offering:
Cuesense finds the most topical, trendiest bits of content and excels in presenting them visually to users. To identify trends, Cuesense tracks rare and hot words used to tag shared content, and keeps anonymous statistics for user clicks. To expose trends to users, Cuesense offers a web site, a Facebook application and a browser add-in. Web site users get digests of hot topics and can research trends in tag popularity. The Cuesense Facebook application publishes trend digests to user’s Facebook news feed. The Cuesense browser add-in serves as a contextual filter. When the user opens a web page, the add-in performs natural language analysis of the web page, determines its theme and contextually matches cues() to the theme based on tags and other attributes. (- a cue is a bookmark, photo, opinion or status update shared by a friend).

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

Scout Labs is to help your team build better products

What Company Is Offering:
Scout Labs is a powerful, web-based application that finds signals in the noise to help your team build better products and stronger customer relationships.

Scout Labs is a product company, not an agency. They provide cutting-edge technology and a collaborative platform for companies and their agents to listen to customers and engage with them out across the Internet.

Unique Features:

With Scout Labs, its users:

Know when to tune in and what’s most important to pay attention to.
Hear what customers love and hate about brands.
Reach out to influential customers to build relationships.
Engage in proactive customer service.
Let the voice of the customer inspire new product and marketing ideas.

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

SodaHeads are opinionated, outspoken and creative web users

What Company Is Offering:
SodaHead is a community that offers a free and dynamic environment to share and gather opinions and meet friends – a place to ask questions, express ideas, and connect with like and not-so-like friends... SodaHeads, as we call them.

SodaHeads are opinionated, outspoken and creative web users. They vote on, comment on, and debate about topics ranging from music, movies, and celeb gossip to politics, religion, technology and business. Anyone can be a SodaHead: you, your best friend, your grandma, your favorite band or your favorite blogger. You don't need to be an expert... just a real person who wants to meet people and let the world know what's bubbling in your head…

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