Wikinvest is an online community where users can add their two cents about the stock market. The community of course operates around wikis that are created and modified by all the users of Wikinvest.
This set up allows for users to submit their working knowledge of various aspects of investing. Write an entry regarding a particular company, or add your opinion on why you think it’s for a bull or bear market. You can do this for concepts or actual stocks. In addition, you don’t have to be logged in or even registered in order to contribute to Wikinvest. Anonymous contributions are tied to the ISP address. Information you’re looking through can be filtered by users or anonymous entries, company category, most popular, recently added, and more.
From your profile you can add bio information about yourself, include external links to your website, and add your blog feed so others can read your content. While you can’t add friends, you can send a public or private message to other users. In leiu of adding buddies to your profile, you can bookmark a user and stay updated with their activity in this manner. Wikinvest will suggest bookmarks for you along your profile sidebar, and you can choose to keep a bookmark permanantly here for easy access. The more active you are within the website, the higher your ranking will be, pushing you up to various “positions” like analyst or senior director.
More at:http://www.wikinvest.com/
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
OleOle is a new social network for soccer fans
OleOle is a new social network for soccer fans. The site is currently in public beta.
The site is based in New Zealand and focuses on soccer teams around the globe. There are three main components to the site: resources, social networking, and “experience,” which lets you participate in fantasy football leagues or buy tickets to games. The resources section focuses on stories submitted by users, which can be voted up, like Digg. There’s also a way to keep track of your favorite players and teams in this section as well, offering info on players and teams as each has its own profile with videos, stories, and more.
The social networking component of OleOle includes profiles, blogs, groups, forums and media-sharing. Users can connect based on interests, befriend them, etc. In addition, you can get quick access to live scores for worldwide games, check out the detailed information regarding different soccer leagues, and be informed about events going on in different countries.
More at:http://www.oleole.com/
The site is based in New Zealand and focuses on soccer teams around the globe. There are three main components to the site: resources, social networking, and “experience,” which lets you participate in fantasy football leagues or buy tickets to games. The resources section focuses on stories submitted by users, which can be voted up, like Digg. There’s also a way to keep track of your favorite players and teams in this section as well, offering info on players and teams as each has its own profile with videos, stories, and more.
The social networking component of OleOle includes profiles, blogs, groups, forums and media-sharing. Users can connect based on interests, befriend them, etc. In addition, you can get quick access to live scores for worldwide games, check out the detailed information regarding different soccer leagues, and be informed about events going on in different countries.
More at:http://www.oleole.com/
With Jinity you can start your own internet portal where people can meet, communicate and share media in different ways
With Jinity you can start your own internet portal where people can meet, communicate and share media in different ways. Jinity is not an online community but a free service where you can start your own online community web site filled with functions like forums, blogs, chats, filesharing, videos etc. A technical description would be a hosted content management system, CMS.
Jinity makes it possible for you to make just the kind of web community you desire. You can choose to add a huge range of features, including live chat, a forum, user search, guestbooks, file sharing, statistics, polls, newsletters, and a whole bunch more. This is all free if you include advertising on the site. Otherwise, there are two other versions, one eliminating the ads and the other changing those ads to the business’s ads that you desire.
More at:http://www.jinity.com/
Jinity makes it possible for you to make just the kind of web community you desire. You can choose to add a huge range of features, including live chat, a forum, user search, guestbooks, file sharing, statistics, polls, newsletters, and a whole bunch more. This is all free if you include advertising on the site. Otherwise, there are two other versions, one eliminating the ads and the other changing those ads to the business’s ads that you desire.
More at:http://www.jinity.com/
With Anywhere.FM you can upload your entire iTunes library with their handy uploading tool and save it for easy access from anywhere with internet
With Anywhere.FM you can upload your entire iTunes library with their handy uploading tool and save it for easy access from anywhere with internet. This is great if you have a song you want to play for someone or don’t have your iPod accessible, making it easy to reach the music you love from anywhere. You listen to songs via playlists, and you can listen to other members’ playlists as well. This is great for discovering new music if you like the music tastes of particular users. The site lets you know how similar your music tastes are based on your music libraries so that you have a better idea without even looking of whose playlists you might enjoy more.
More at:http://www.anywhere.fm/
More at:http://www.anywhere.fm/
TekTag is a technical knowledgebase created by users
TekTag is a technical knowledgebase created by users. They use social bookmarking - with a few bells and whistles - to let users save, share, and discover technical information that's useful to them.
The knowledgebase at TekTag has been created by the users, and they deal with quite a bit of social bookmarking to make it more convenient for its users to find the content they are seeking and to locate it later. At the site you can search the posts in the order that they were posted, you can search the most popular posts or you can also type in your search criteria.
More at:http://www.tektag.com/
The knowledgebase at TekTag has been created by the users, and they deal with quite a bit of social bookmarking to make it more convenient for its users to find the content they are seeking and to locate it later. At the site you can search the posts in the order that they were posted, you can search the most popular posts or you can also type in your search criteria.
More at:http://www.tektag.com/
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
AdPerk is a new advertising network that offers direct rewards to consumers for watching commercials online
AdPerk is a new advertising network that offers direct rewards to consumers for watching commercials online. Popular Science has signed on for AdPerk’s service, and Dwell magazine debuted along with AdPerk’s launch last month.
So this is how it works: Popular Science offers a free annual subscription (that’s one year of free magazines) in exchange for the consumer to watch video ads, pulled in from a variety of marketers. The consumers will have to perform a verification sequence within 30 seconds of watching each video, and provide their names and addresses upon checkout. They’ll also receive a digital version of Popular Science’s current edition directly after the completion of their tasks. Popular Science in turn gets a new customer, as well as future marketing data for targeted campaigns.
Consumers do get to choose the videos they’d like to watch, and don’t have to watch them all immediately. But the whole purpose here is to get people’s attention long enough to actually watch the video ads. That’s always a daunting task. AdPerks will also bring in the advertisers on behalf of the publishing companies that go along with its service, so there’s also no correlation between the magazine’s advertisers and this particular set up.
More at:http://www.adperk.com/
So this is how it works: Popular Science offers a free annual subscription (that’s one year of free magazines) in exchange for the consumer to watch video ads, pulled in from a variety of marketers. The consumers will have to perform a verification sequence within 30 seconds of watching each video, and provide their names and addresses upon checkout. They’ll also receive a digital version of Popular Science’s current edition directly after the completion of their tasks. Popular Science in turn gets a new customer, as well as future marketing data for targeted campaigns.
Consumers do get to choose the videos they’d like to watch, and don’t have to watch them all immediately. But the whole purpose here is to get people’s attention long enough to actually watch the video ads. That’s always a daunting task. AdPerks will also bring in the advertisers on behalf of the publishing companies that go along with its service, so there’s also no correlation between the magazine’s advertisers and this particular set up.
More at:http://www.adperk.com/
Google Will Pay You
There’s a new way to earn a few extra bucks from Google without inserting code into your site or hoping you get enough clicks to warrant a payout this month. Sign on to be a business referral representative.
Here’s the deal: Google is looking to provide even more useful information when it comes to business information on Google Maps, like hours of operation, types of payment accepted, photos of the location, etc. It’s offering the job to you, making you an independent contractor of Google. And you’ll get paid! Each approved and verified approval can earn you up to $10. Verification happens when a business referral is approved by Google (that will get you $2) or by the business itself ($8 for this one). You will, however, still have to earn enough to get that sweet payout. Rack up at least $25 in referrals in one month, and Google will send a check.
Between the business referral system and Google Maps street views, I think we’ll all be working for Google one day.
More at:http://maps.google.com/
Here’s the deal: Google is looking to provide even more useful information when it comes to business information on Google Maps, like hours of operation, types of payment accepted, photos of the location, etc. It’s offering the job to you, making you an independent contractor of Google. And you’ll get paid! Each approved and verified approval can earn you up to $10. Verification happens when a business referral is approved by Google (that will get you $2) or by the business itself ($8 for this one). You will, however, still have to earn enough to get that sweet payout. Rack up at least $25 in referrals in one month, and Google will send a check.
Between the business referral system and Google Maps street views, I think we’ll all be working for Google one day.
More at:http://maps.google.com/
Chokti is a travel resource site that lets you search for podcasts and other information regarding the location you’re looking up
Chokti is a travel resource site that lets you search for podcasts and other information regarding the location you’re looking up. Podcasts can be downloaded and saved to an iPod to have a street-level tour when you travel to various locations.
The information on Chokti is submitted by users, and is kept up via RSS. As a user, you can add a pushpin on the Chokti map, which is really just a place marker for a location where you’d like to see more information. The basics you can add include the address, hours of operation, prices, website URL, phone number, holidays and closures, and more. The additional information, like photos and podcasts, must be requested. There’s a section where all of these tour requests reside, and you can respond to these requests by adding a feed.
More at:http://chokti.com/
The information on Chokti is submitted by users, and is kept up via RSS. As a user, you can add a pushpin on the Chokti map, which is really just a place marker for a location where you’d like to see more information. The basics you can add include the address, hours of operation, prices, website URL, phone number, holidays and closures, and more. The additional information, like photos and podcasts, must be requested. There’s a section where all of these tour requests reside, and you can respond to these requests by adding a feed.
More at:http://chokti.com/
Read Books In Your E-mail Via DailyLit
They created DailyLit because we spent hours each day on email but could not find the time to read a book. Now the books come to us by email. Problem solved. The Idea We got the idea for DailyLit after the New York Times serialized a few classic works in special supplements a few summers ago. We wound up reading books that we had always meant to simply by virtue of making them part of our daily routine of reading the newspaper. The only thing we do more consistently than read the paper is read email. Bingo! We put together a first version and began reading "War of the Worlds" and "Pride and Prejudice". We showed it to friends, added more books and features at their request, and presto, DailyLit was born.
You can search for books by title, author, or category to find what you’re looking for. Once you’ve found a book that’s appealing to you, you can check out the forums and see what others have said about that book, read a few of the lines from the book to see if it’s what you’re expecting and something that interests you, and see how many installments it will take to finish the book. When you’ve had a section mailed to you, you can choose to go straight to the next installment, or just wait till it arrives in your mailbox (or feed reader). So if you have a hard time finding a few minutes to enjoy a book, you’ve found your solution with DailyLit.
More at:http://www.dailylit.com/
You can search for books by title, author, or category to find what you’re looking for. Once you’ve found a book that’s appealing to you, you can check out the forums and see what others have said about that book, read a few of the lines from the book to see if it’s what you’re expecting and something that interests you, and see how many installments it will take to finish the book. When you’ve had a section mailed to you, you can choose to go straight to the next installment, or just wait till it arrives in your mailbox (or feed reader). So if you have a hard time finding a few minutes to enjoy a book, you’ve found your solution with DailyLit.
More at:http://www.dailylit.com/
Car-4-me is all in one place of used cars classifieds
Car-4-me is all in one place of used cars classifieds. Here you can find all cars from the entire internet, their details, images and prices. More then 4 Million cars from more then 7.000 websites are ready to be found. Enjoy and good luck.
Car 4 me is one of the largest used cars database on the Internet. More than 4,000,000 cars from whole Internet gather on one place and arranged within 190 makes and 4900 models. Advanced or quick search capabilities are guaranty that you will find the car that you are looking for. If you want to stay in touch with new cars that are coming on this website you can set custom alerts and you will start receiving fresh cars on email.
More at:http://www.car-4-me.com/
Car 4 me is one of the largest used cars database on the Internet. More than 4,000,000 cars from whole Internet gather on one place and arranged within 190 makes and 4900 models. Advanced or quick search capabilities are guaranty that you will find the car that you are looking for. If you want to stay in touch with new cars that are coming on this website you can set custom alerts and you will start receiving fresh cars on email.
More at:http://www.car-4-me.com/
Tabbed Searching
NoFoodHere is a futuristic search engine created by time-travelling chickens from the 4.5th dimension. Just kidding. It's not quite that exciting. NoFoodHere is an experiment in creating a new, improved search engine. Since the beginning of the internet (and web searching), the web has changed, but search engine pages largely haven't. NoFoodHere is a modern search engine that uses Web 2.0 technology to stream search results, instead of displaying them page-by-page. It incorporates tabbed searching.
What sets NoFoodHere apart from other search engines is that it allows tabbed searching. In the same web page, you can search for eight different queries, and they are all easily accessible. Also, the results are shown all on the same page.
More at:http://nofoodhere.com/
What sets NoFoodHere apart from other search engines is that it allows tabbed searching. In the same web page, you can search for eight different queries, and they are all easily accessible. Also, the results are shown all on the same page.
More at:http://nofoodhere.com/
Megavideo is aiming to replace YouTube as the leader in online video
Megavideo is aiming to replace YouTube as the leader in online video. Megavideo was built by the same people who brought you Megaupload.com. We allow our partners and users to keep 100% of all advertising earnings. Your content, your money. We just charge a little fee for bandwidth and coffee.
With Megavideo, you can earn money from your videos through their reward system (although you can really only get cash from them if you pay for their premium service), as well as add a personal Adbrite account to your video channel and keep all the revenue from that partnership. Their premium membership is $10 a month or $50 a year. Megavideo also touts that you get 'quick seeking' of videos, you can upload video in 20 languages, you can customize their video players to match your website or blog, upload videos faster, and download the original video files. All videos are categorized for easy search, they list the most popular and highest rated videos.
More at;http://www.megavideo.com/
With Megavideo, you can earn money from your videos through their reward system (although you can really only get cash from them if you pay for their premium service), as well as add a personal Adbrite account to your video channel and keep all the revenue from that partnership. Their premium membership is $10 a month or $50 a year. Megavideo also touts that you get 'quick seeking' of videos, you can upload video in 20 languages, you can customize their video players to match your website or blog, upload videos faster, and download the original video files. All videos are categorized for easy search, they list the most popular and highest rated videos.
More at;http://www.megavideo.com/
Monday, August 6, 2007
Search For The Young Rural Entrepreneur of 2007.
Time is running out in the search for the Young Rural Entrepreneur of 2007.
Lycetts, the UK’s premier countryside insurance broker, is today urging entrepreneurs not to miss out on the prize of £10,000, to be awarded to this year’s Young Rural Entrepreneur.
The closing date for entries of 12th August is fast approaching for the prize to be given to an individual, under the age of 35, in recognition for their outstanding contribution to the UK’s rural economy.
Working in partnership with The Field magazine, the search to find the UK’s Young Rural Entrepreneur focuses specifically on businesses with a rural theme, and on the individuals behind them who have demonstrated entrepreneurial spirit coupled with a clear commitment to sustaining the rural economy.
If you, or someone you know, is making a lasting contribution to the benefit of the rural economy and communities, ensure that you don’t miss this opportunity by completing a short entry form online at www.thefield.co.uk. Five entries will be short-listed in August to present informally to a panel of judges in London on 12th September. All short-listed entries will benefit from being profiled in the October edition of The Field.
Angus Keate, chief executive of Lycetts, explains: “Already we have received a number of outstanding entries from a wide range of sectors. The winning entrepreneur can come from any type of business, whether as a result of farm diversification into more commercially orientated activities, or be it simply a new business start-up. What we are really interested to hear about is how the entrepreneur interacts with the countryside through their business.”
A panel of judges which includes: ‘The Black Farmer’, Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones; Caroline Dickinson, co-founder of The Real Soup Company; Nicholas Wheeler, founder of international tailor, Charles Tyrwhitt; Jonathan Young, editor of The Field; Angus Keate, chief executive of Lycetts; and Charles Seymour, managing director of Lycetts Rural Division, will choose the winner, to be announced at a reception in London on 18th October.
Nominations can be submitted by or on behalf of an individual who meets the awards criteria. For further information, please visit www.thefield.co.uk.
Lycetts, the UK’s premier countryside insurance broker, is today urging entrepreneurs not to miss out on the prize of £10,000, to be awarded to this year’s Young Rural Entrepreneur.
The closing date for entries of 12th August is fast approaching for the prize to be given to an individual, under the age of 35, in recognition for their outstanding contribution to the UK’s rural economy.
Working in partnership with The Field magazine, the search to find the UK’s Young Rural Entrepreneur focuses specifically on businesses with a rural theme, and on the individuals behind them who have demonstrated entrepreneurial spirit coupled with a clear commitment to sustaining the rural economy.
If you, or someone you know, is making a lasting contribution to the benefit of the rural economy and communities, ensure that you don’t miss this opportunity by completing a short entry form online at www.thefield.co.uk. Five entries will be short-listed in August to present informally to a panel of judges in London on 12th September. All short-listed entries will benefit from being profiled in the October edition of The Field.
Angus Keate, chief executive of Lycetts, explains: “Already we have received a number of outstanding entries from a wide range of sectors. The winning entrepreneur can come from any type of business, whether as a result of farm diversification into more commercially orientated activities, or be it simply a new business start-up. What we are really interested to hear about is how the entrepreneur interacts with the countryside through their business.”
A panel of judges which includes: ‘The Black Farmer’, Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones; Caroline Dickinson, co-founder of The Real Soup Company; Nicholas Wheeler, founder of international tailor, Charles Tyrwhitt; Jonathan Young, editor of The Field; Angus Keate, chief executive of Lycetts; and Charles Seymour, managing director of Lycetts Rural Division, will choose the winner, to be announced at a reception in London on 18th October.
Nominations can be submitted by or on behalf of an individual who meets the awards criteria. For further information, please visit www.thefield.co.uk.
Mediabistro.com
Mediabistro.com is dedicated to anyone who creates or works with content, or who is a non-creative professional working in a content/creative industry. That includes editors, writers, producers, graphic designers, book publishers, and others in industries including magazines, television, film, radio, newspapers, book publishing, online media, advertising, PR, and design. Our mission is to provide opportunities to meet, share resources, become informed of job opportunities and interesting projects and news, improve career skills, and showcase your work.
At MediaBistro you can also see the latest info about which journalists are changing from one magazine to another and a brief analysis of why they think it will be a better fit and why. But if you plan on reading any of the How to Pitch files from this site be prepared to spend $49 for a one year subscription or $78 for two.
More at:http://mediabistro.com/
At MediaBistro you can also see the latest info about which journalists are changing from one magazine to another and a brief analysis of why they think it will be a better fit and why. But if you plan on reading any of the How to Pitch files from this site be prepared to spend $49 for a one year subscription or $78 for two.
More at:http://mediabistro.com/
Venture Which Could Be Big
Compete provides website analytics available for free to all.
Compete is a competitor to Alexa. Finally Alexa has a competitor. Obviously there are closed systems such as Nielson and Comscore, however another free competitor to Alexa was long overdue.
Compete claims that they analyze the web browsing statistics of over 2,000,000 users click traffic. They provide information for the top 1,000,000 web sites in the United States. The free information you can find includes site traffic history and competitive analytics; a list of available promotional codes across thousands of online retailers; and site-specific trust scores based on up-to-the-minute data from Compete and third-party security services.
To participate and have your browsing habits compiled along with others you only need to install their compete toolbar found here. Every time you visit a new site, the toolbar will provide you with information about the site, whether it is considered safe, how many other people have visited the site, and other information. Compete works in both Internet Explorer and Firefox.
Nielson and Comscore may be known as the small yet highly targeted sample size, typically polling the user with demographic and other questions before tracking their web usage. Sites such as Alexa and Compete may be known as the much larger sample size with less specific data about each user. That does not mean that Alexa, Compete or others using the toolbar and various other approaches are not valid or possibly more accurate. See the following chart provided by Compete.
They Raised:Compete received $10 Million from Charles River Ventures, Split Rock Partners, Idealab and William Blair Capital Partners.
More at:http://www.compete.com/
Compete is a competitor to Alexa. Finally Alexa has a competitor. Obviously there are closed systems such as Nielson and Comscore, however another free competitor to Alexa was long overdue.
Compete claims that they analyze the web browsing statistics of over 2,000,000 users click traffic. They provide information for the top 1,000,000 web sites in the United States. The free information you can find includes site traffic history and competitive analytics; a list of available promotional codes across thousands of online retailers; and site-specific trust scores based on up-to-the-minute data from Compete and third-party security services.
To participate and have your browsing habits compiled along with others you only need to install their compete toolbar found here. Every time you visit a new site, the toolbar will provide you with information about the site, whether it is considered safe, how many other people have visited the site, and other information. Compete works in both Internet Explorer and Firefox.
Nielson and Comscore may be known as the small yet highly targeted sample size, typically polling the user with demographic and other questions before tracking their web usage. Sites such as Alexa and Compete may be known as the much larger sample size with less specific data about each user. That does not mean that Alexa, Compete or others using the toolbar and various other approaches are not valid or possibly more accurate. See the following chart provided by Compete.
They Raised:Compete received $10 Million from Charles River Ventures, Split Rock Partners, Idealab and William Blair Capital Partners.
More at:http://www.compete.com/
Voki release in order to provide better avatar tools to be used with communities and social networks
Voki (pronounced voe-kee), was created for individual and non-commercial use, allowing you to develop an avatar to be used repeatedly. This platform allows for more ownership of one’s “digital persona,” leveraging their existing speaking avatar technology platform. Their redesigned editor reveals a new user interface for users, making the creation of avatars intuitive and easier than before. They’ve also done some backend improvements to make their avatars work better with user profiles, such as those found on social networks and their Partner communities for their API. Some of these improvements for partner integrations will not be released until later this year.
What this comes down to is a free offering of a speaking avatar for you to put on your MySpace profile. This looks like it includes more accessories and features than Oddcast’s SitePal service, too. Voki offers Anime, animal and celebrity avatars to play with, more customization and animation for your avatar’s “world” and better integration with other applications such as your Instant Messenger and mobile phone.
More at:http://www.voki.com/
What this comes down to is a free offering of a speaking avatar for you to put on your MySpace profile. This looks like it includes more accessories and features than Oddcast’s SitePal service, too. Voki offers Anime, animal and celebrity avatars to play with, more customization and animation for your avatar’s “world” and better integration with other applications such as your Instant Messenger and mobile phone.
More at:http://www.voki.com/
Webcall
Webacall.com is a VoIP Service Provider aiming to bring the lowest possible cost at the best possible quality to both businesses and regular users alike. Looking into the needs and requirements of users the goal is to bundle the potential of VoIP services into a digestible format. Based on SIP technology Webacall.com aims to an expanding portfolio of services and to constitute itself to the extend possible to a one stop VoIP Service Provider.Add to that they have DID incoming numbers, hosted voip for businesses and reselling options. All that and they still provide per second billing. A very useful website for users looking for a solution for expensive communication.
more at:http://www.webacall.com/
more at:http://www.webacall.com/
Trettech.com is a website that offers users all types of electronics, from computer hardware to kitchen stuff
Trettech.com is definetively the place to find all type of electric gadgets. Trettech.com is a website that offers users all types of electronics, from computer hardware to kitchen stuff. It works on a very user-friendly system. It has a very effective product search engine for the users to easily find the products they are looking for, and the best of all is that it is supported by PayPal. Very user-friendly and useful website for people that are looking for electrical products.
More at:http://www.trettech.com/
More at:http://www.trettech.com/
HRCrossing features the largest collection of active human resources jobs in the world
HRCrossing works on a very user-friendly system. A user just has to enter the website, enter a keyword for their search, the state in which they are willing to work, and then they just have to wait for results and once they have them mail their CV. HRCrossing.com also has a very usefil feature and it is that employers can post jobs. This gives them the possibility to pick employees from a large pool of the job seeking users. So if you are looking for a job or an employee, HRCrossing.com might be a good website to start your search.
HRCrossing features the largest collection of active human resources jobs in the world. We are driven by the fact that there is no substitute for human resources. People are invaluable, and they decide the pace at which an organization grows. Therefore, we strive to get jobs for you that will place you on the fast track to professional growth.
More at:http://www.hrcrossing.com/
HRCrossing features the largest collection of active human resources jobs in the world. We are driven by the fact that there is no substitute for human resources. People are invaluable, and they decide the pace at which an organization grows. Therefore, we strive to get jobs for you that will place you on the fast track to professional growth.
More at:http://www.hrcrossing.com/
Get paid big money playing in online pool league
Get paid big money playing in our unique, online pool league - even if you are not great at playing pool. That's because to earn money in our league, you don't have to "win" by coming in first, you just have to finish in the top 50%! Recruit an unlimited amount of players to play on your team and get paid a bonus equal to 80% of what every player on your team earns. And using the the league's Player Draft, you can build as large a team as you want without having to do the work of personally recruiting players. Whether you field a team of 5 players or 50,000 players, you get paid 80% of the purses earned by every player on your team. Do the math. It gives you the unlimited earning potential of a real pro sports franchise without the $700 million price tag.
More at: http://www.luxota.com/
More at: http://www.luxota.com/
Sunday, August 5, 2007
Web Reality Show Called "The Next Internet Millionaire"
The Next Internet Millionaire is a web reality show based on starting an Internet business.
"Twelve contestants will receive an all expenses paid trip to learn from the masters of marketing while they compete for cash, prizes, and the ultimate joint venture with Joel Comm."
Rich Schefren, Mike Filsaime, Mark Joyner and Jeff Walker are included in this project as teachers, so it’s certainly got the backing of the experts.
If you are interested to read more, check out the website, there are a ton of videos and info about what the project is all about and also audition videos with the 12 finalists.
More at:http://www.nextinternetmillionaire.com/
"Twelve contestants will receive an all expenses paid trip to learn from the masters of marketing while they compete for cash, prizes, and the ultimate joint venture with Joel Comm."
Rich Schefren, Mike Filsaime, Mark Joyner and Jeff Walker are included in this project as teachers, so it’s certainly got the backing of the experts.
If you are interested to read more, check out the website, there are a ton of videos and info about what the project is all about and also audition videos with the 12 finalists.
More at:http://www.nextinternetmillionaire.com/
Big Business Opportunities For VCs
Vringo provides audio tones and video ring tones.
Ring tones are big business, the idea of video ring tones is interesting. As long as the Vringo software is installed you can send video clips along with your calls.
Apparently they have filed at least 15 patents. While video tones are not new even more competition must be right around the corner. Avatars, photos and greeting cards are also available.
They raised: Vring received $12 Million from Warburg Pincus.
more at:http://www.vringo.com/
Ring tones are big business, the idea of video ring tones is interesting. As long as the Vringo software is installed you can send video clips along with your calls.
Apparently they have filed at least 15 patents. While video tones are not new even more competition must be right around the corner. Avatars, photos and greeting cards are also available.
They raised: Vring received $12 Million from Warburg Pincus.
more at:http://www.vringo.com/
SendPO is a site which was developed to help companies send, confirm and track purchase orders
SendPO is an online service that takes the frustration and worry out of the ordering process by providing confirmation that your PO was received. As entrepreneurs we've been involved in a lot of small businesses from manufacturing to software. We're passionate about small business and one common problem has been the frustration over parts that don't show up or orders that are never received. We hope we've created a simple yet elegant solution that will meet your needs.
SendPO is a site which was developed to help companies send, confirm and track purchase orders. It works thusly: you, a small to midsized business, upload your purchase order to SendPO. Next the vendor receives the email with a link to download the order; SendPO communicates and tracks the PO’s progress. Finally you’ll receive confirmation once the order is shipped. SendPO comes with a web printer feature to convert your PO’s to PDF files for easier uploading.
More at:http://www.sendpo.com/
SendPO is a site which was developed to help companies send, confirm and track purchase orders. It works thusly: you, a small to midsized business, upload your purchase order to SendPO. Next the vendor receives the email with a link to download the order; SendPO communicates and tracks the PO’s progress. Finally you’ll receive confirmation once the order is shipped. SendPO comes with a web printer feature to convert your PO’s to PDF files for easier uploading.
More at:http://www.sendpo.com/
Get Played And Get Paid
YourMelodyTV BETA is Where Serious Artists Meet Some Serious Rewards, musicians and others can connect, converse and share their music content with each other. That's the platform for YourMelodyTV , whether your a music artist, music critic or someone that enjoys watching music videos you've finally found the right place, don't get suckered into posting your music vids on Youtube. YourMelodyTV is absolutely FREE, so get your sh*t up, A-S-A-P. Get Played & Get Paid.
Choose the genre aka channel on which you’d like your video displayed. Tag it and that’s it. Every ad click means you get paid (fully 50% of the Google adsense rev). If you’re a music connoisseur, rather than a creator, you can still enjoy and share the videos you find with a little copy+paste action. Or download your fav vids in their beautiful entirety.
more at:http://www.yourmelody.tv/
Choose the genre aka channel on which you’d like your video displayed. Tag it and that’s it. Every ad click means you get paid (fully 50% of the Google adsense rev). If you’re a music connoisseur, rather than a creator, you can still enjoy and share the videos you find with a little copy+paste action. Or download your fav vids in their beautiful entirety.
more at:http://www.yourmelody.tv/
Saturday, August 4, 2007
Richard Branson's Latest Venture
The Entrepreneur: Sir Richard Branson, 57
Background: At 16, British-born Branson launched his first business: a magazine called Student. He then established a mail-order record business that turned into a chain of music shops and eventually became the Virgin Megastores.
The Company: Since his first venture, Branson's Virgin Group has grown to include some 200 companies, including airlines and mobile phones, with an estimated $20 billion in revenue. On Aug. 8, Branson plans to launch Virgin America, a stateside domestic air service.
Making a Difference: The very essence of an entrepreneur; competitive, flamboyant, and always ready to take a risk, Branson was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of England in 1999 for his "services to entrepreneurship." Now he is hoping to help spearhead a movement to use entrepreneurship to alleviate a number of global problems.
Last week, business leaders celebrated record highs on Wall Street, with the Dow Jones industrial average rising nearly 300 points (see BusinessWeek.com, 7/20/07, "Dow 14,000"). While consumption and profits are growing, far less enviable statistics are also escalating: A staggering half the planet lives on less than $2 per day. Some one billion people lack access to clean water. In Africa alone, 40 billion working hours are lost each year to time spent carrying water long distances. A quarter of a billion people live in overcrowded urban squatter settlements without adequate shelter. And, tragically, 16,000 people die every day from preventable, treatable diseases like AIDS, TB, and malaria.
Every time I travel to Africa, I am impressed by the tremendous entrepreneurial spirit of its people. But I am also saddened by the destructiveness of poverty and health crises like AIDS. It's not unusual in a place like South Africa to see hundreds of signs for funeral services in townships and rural areas in the place of the signs for small businesses that were once a symbol of hope for a future free from poverty.
There are many efforts underway aimed at solving these global issues. But we must do more, and I believe that as entrepreneurs we have a unique role to play. Having spent the last 30 years launching businesses in everything from music to airlines, financial services to health clubs, telecommunications to commercial space travel, I'm a firm believer in the power of entrepreneurship to transform the global marketplace. As entrepreneurs, we are trained to spot possibilities where others see only obstacles and to never mind the bollocks driven by bureaucracy and red tape.
Never Mind the Theories
Entrepreneurs just tend to get on with making things happen. The same unconventional approaches that enabled icons like Steve Jobs to revolutionize personal computing, or Pierre Omidyarand Jeff Skoll to develop an ingenious online marketplace, can be leveraged to alleviate the tremendous suffering that persists in the world.
There is a debate raging about whether activities in the area of driving such change should be for profit or not for profit (see BusinessWeek.com, 7/9/07, "Microfinance Draws Mega Players"). To be honest, the issues in the world are too big to be debating about the methods of delivery—it's like fiddling about with a plug when the whole pipe just burst. It's not that black and white; we need to look at all kinds of solutions ranging from philanthropic to profit-making. The focus should be on the number of people we can give choices to in life—not on theoretical structures.
The good news is that this is beginning to happen—there is a fascinating shift bringing the public and private sectors together that has the potential to finally break the cycle of poverty and create solutions for crises such as climate change and the AIDS epidemic.
One Man's Waste…
As Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus wisely points out, "Many of the problems in the world remain unresolved because we continue to interpret capitalism too narrowly." It's true that capitalism has traditionally concentrated vast wealth in the hands of a select few. But more and more, entrepreneurs are leveraging the power of markets to address imbalances.
Entrepreneurs can instigate change in the social sector in the same way that they do in the business world, but they must not lose the characteristics that made their businesses successful when they step into the social and environmental sectors. As I've mentioned, entrepreneurs turn problems into opportunities. But what does this mean when it comes to problems like poverty or climate change?
Consider Dhaka, Bangladesh. Its 6.5 million residents produce between 3,000 and 3,500 metric tons of solid waste daily, less than half of which is collected. The rest is literally left to rot in the streets, resulting in serious health risks and pollution. But entrepreneurs like Iftekhar Enayetullah and Maqsood Sinha see value where others see garbage. Their organization, Waste Concern, started community-based composting plants for local residents to turn household waste into high-quality fertilizer sold for a profit. This network has created jobs and meets the great demand by farmers for organic fertilizer.
Similarly, climate change can seem like an overwhelming problem, but there are opportunities here as well for business approaches to arrive at solutions. We've launched Virgin Fuels, which will invest up to $400 million in the renewable-energy and resource efficiency sectors in the U.S. and Europe to fuel expansion and growth of promising products and technologies. It's part of our commitment to using up to $3 billion of the Virgin Group's future proceeds from all transportation interests over the next 10 years to tackle global warming.
Crisis Becomes Opportunity
With the right business model, social entrepreneurs can also leap-frog barriers. Take Aravind Eye Hospital in India. Aimed at eradicating blindness, Aravind focuses on principles of high volume, low cost, and operational efficiencies such as local manufacturing of medical supplies and use of telemedicine. An Aravind doctor typically performs 2,000 surgeries a year, 10 times the national average. The model allows hospitals to provide 70% of their services free or at highly discounted rates. Over 270,000 cataract surgeries were completed in 2006. Home to nearly one-quarter of the world's blind, this five-hospital system in India turned a national crisis into a massive business opportunity.
Simple ideas go a long way. Social businesses like KickStart and the Sustainable Healthcare Foundation (SHEF) have built franchise systems to help grassroots entrepreneurs get started. In Africa, KickStart has helped create 50,000 businesses through small-scale enterprise opportunities with new technologies such as its micro-irrigation foot pump and oil press. Kenya-based SHEF has developed 64 community-owned and -operated clinics in areas where there was previously no access to health care.
One of the key characteristics of an entrepreneur is to think big—and to never accept no for an answer. This has got me, and probably you, into trouble many times in our lives, but it's also created incredible businesses around the world that have changed how we live.
Peter Gabriel and I started a journey with Nelson Mandela several years back when we felt the world was rapidly becoming a global village, yet we had no advisers who were driven by what's best for humanity rather than what's best for the military, the economy, or a political group. You can only imagine the feedback we got when we first started to try and get people on board to help us bring this dream to life—people thought we had lost our minds! But we truly believe that there must be a new way to approach global issues and a need for fresh, independent thinking.
Elders For a Global Village
In July of this year, we launched the Elders, a remarkable group of leaders to tackle the world's problems, including: Mandela, Graca Machel, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mary Robinson, Kofi Annan, former President Jimmy Carter, Yunus, Ela Bhatt, Li Xhaoxing, and Gro Harlem Brundtland.
We hope this group will become the elders of our global village and play a role in alleviating human suffering. As Mandela put it, "This group can speak freely and boldly, working both publicly and behind the scenes on whatever actions need to be taken. Together we will work to support courage where there is fear, foster agreement where there is conflict and inspire hope where there is despair."
Thinking big and coming up with ideas that might seem ludicrous at the start are all going to be important if we want to radically change the path the world is headed toward to make sure that we build a far healthier, more equitable and peaceful planet for our children.
Inspiration From Nora
To help the Virgin Group do our bit, Virgin Unite was started in 2004. The charitable group uses our staff and customers to works on a range of projects, including launching a new school for entrepreneurship, creating a rural transport network, setting up a small- to medium-size, business-venture fund in South Africa, and helping set up the Elders.
Thinking big doesn't mean forgetting about the smaller gems that can be scaled up. I am constantly motivated by a woman named Nora I met in South Africa on a trip with Virgin Unite. Nora has dedicated her whole life to using entrepreneurial ways to support hundreds of children in South Africa who have been orphaned by AIDS. If she can feed over 200 children every single day out of a one-room, tin shack, imagine what she could do if she had resources behind her.
As entrepreneurs, we have a wonderful opportunity and responsibility to give Nora and others like her a chance to expand their work and help make it sustainable so that everyone has the right to a life free from the shackles of poverty.
(as told to Stacy Perman)
Background: At 16, British-born Branson launched his first business: a magazine called Student. He then established a mail-order record business that turned into a chain of music shops and eventually became the Virgin Megastores.
The Company: Since his first venture, Branson's Virgin Group has grown to include some 200 companies, including airlines and mobile phones, with an estimated $20 billion in revenue. On Aug. 8, Branson plans to launch Virgin America, a stateside domestic air service.
Making a Difference: The very essence of an entrepreneur; competitive, flamboyant, and always ready to take a risk, Branson was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of England in 1999 for his "services to entrepreneurship." Now he is hoping to help spearhead a movement to use entrepreneurship to alleviate a number of global problems.
Last week, business leaders celebrated record highs on Wall Street, with the Dow Jones industrial average rising nearly 300 points (see BusinessWeek.com, 7/20/07, "Dow 14,000"). While consumption and profits are growing, far less enviable statistics are also escalating: A staggering half the planet lives on less than $2 per day. Some one billion people lack access to clean water. In Africa alone, 40 billion working hours are lost each year to time spent carrying water long distances. A quarter of a billion people live in overcrowded urban squatter settlements without adequate shelter. And, tragically, 16,000 people die every day from preventable, treatable diseases like AIDS, TB, and malaria.
Every time I travel to Africa, I am impressed by the tremendous entrepreneurial spirit of its people. But I am also saddened by the destructiveness of poverty and health crises like AIDS. It's not unusual in a place like South Africa to see hundreds of signs for funeral services in townships and rural areas in the place of the signs for small businesses that were once a symbol of hope for a future free from poverty.
There are many efforts underway aimed at solving these global issues. But we must do more, and I believe that as entrepreneurs we have a unique role to play. Having spent the last 30 years launching businesses in everything from music to airlines, financial services to health clubs, telecommunications to commercial space travel, I'm a firm believer in the power of entrepreneurship to transform the global marketplace. As entrepreneurs, we are trained to spot possibilities where others see only obstacles and to never mind the bollocks driven by bureaucracy and red tape.
Never Mind the Theories
Entrepreneurs just tend to get on with making things happen. The same unconventional approaches that enabled icons like Steve Jobs to revolutionize personal computing, or Pierre Omidyarand Jeff Skoll to develop an ingenious online marketplace, can be leveraged to alleviate the tremendous suffering that persists in the world.
There is a debate raging about whether activities in the area of driving such change should be for profit or not for profit (see BusinessWeek.com, 7/9/07, "Microfinance Draws Mega Players"). To be honest, the issues in the world are too big to be debating about the methods of delivery—it's like fiddling about with a plug when the whole pipe just burst. It's not that black and white; we need to look at all kinds of solutions ranging from philanthropic to profit-making. The focus should be on the number of people we can give choices to in life—not on theoretical structures.
The good news is that this is beginning to happen—there is a fascinating shift bringing the public and private sectors together that has the potential to finally break the cycle of poverty and create solutions for crises such as climate change and the AIDS epidemic.
One Man's Waste…
As Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus wisely points out, "Many of the problems in the world remain unresolved because we continue to interpret capitalism too narrowly." It's true that capitalism has traditionally concentrated vast wealth in the hands of a select few. But more and more, entrepreneurs are leveraging the power of markets to address imbalances.
Entrepreneurs can instigate change in the social sector in the same way that they do in the business world, but they must not lose the characteristics that made their businesses successful when they step into the social and environmental sectors. As I've mentioned, entrepreneurs turn problems into opportunities. But what does this mean when it comes to problems like poverty or climate change?
Consider Dhaka, Bangladesh. Its 6.5 million residents produce between 3,000 and 3,500 metric tons of solid waste daily, less than half of which is collected. The rest is literally left to rot in the streets, resulting in serious health risks and pollution. But entrepreneurs like Iftekhar Enayetullah and Maqsood Sinha see value where others see garbage. Their organization, Waste Concern, started community-based composting plants for local residents to turn household waste into high-quality fertilizer sold for a profit. This network has created jobs and meets the great demand by farmers for organic fertilizer.
Similarly, climate change can seem like an overwhelming problem, but there are opportunities here as well for business approaches to arrive at solutions. We've launched Virgin Fuels, which will invest up to $400 million in the renewable-energy and resource efficiency sectors in the U.S. and Europe to fuel expansion and growth of promising products and technologies. It's part of our commitment to using up to $3 billion of the Virgin Group's future proceeds from all transportation interests over the next 10 years to tackle global warming.
Crisis Becomes Opportunity
With the right business model, social entrepreneurs can also leap-frog barriers. Take Aravind Eye Hospital in India. Aimed at eradicating blindness, Aravind focuses on principles of high volume, low cost, and operational efficiencies such as local manufacturing of medical supplies and use of telemedicine. An Aravind doctor typically performs 2,000 surgeries a year, 10 times the national average. The model allows hospitals to provide 70% of their services free or at highly discounted rates. Over 270,000 cataract surgeries were completed in 2006. Home to nearly one-quarter of the world's blind, this five-hospital system in India turned a national crisis into a massive business opportunity.
Simple ideas go a long way. Social businesses like KickStart and the Sustainable Healthcare Foundation (SHEF) have built franchise systems to help grassroots entrepreneurs get started. In Africa, KickStart has helped create 50,000 businesses through small-scale enterprise opportunities with new technologies such as its micro-irrigation foot pump and oil press. Kenya-based SHEF has developed 64 community-owned and -operated clinics in areas where there was previously no access to health care.
One of the key characteristics of an entrepreneur is to think big—and to never accept no for an answer. This has got me, and probably you, into trouble many times in our lives, but it's also created incredible businesses around the world that have changed how we live.
Peter Gabriel and I started a journey with Nelson Mandela several years back when we felt the world was rapidly becoming a global village, yet we had no advisers who were driven by what's best for humanity rather than what's best for the military, the economy, or a political group. You can only imagine the feedback we got when we first started to try and get people on board to help us bring this dream to life—people thought we had lost our minds! But we truly believe that there must be a new way to approach global issues and a need for fresh, independent thinking.
Elders For a Global Village
In July of this year, we launched the Elders, a remarkable group of leaders to tackle the world's problems, including: Mandela, Graca Machel, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mary Robinson, Kofi Annan, former President Jimmy Carter, Yunus, Ela Bhatt, Li Xhaoxing, and Gro Harlem Brundtland.
We hope this group will become the elders of our global village and play a role in alleviating human suffering. As Mandela put it, "This group can speak freely and boldly, working both publicly and behind the scenes on whatever actions need to be taken. Together we will work to support courage where there is fear, foster agreement where there is conflict and inspire hope where there is despair."
Thinking big and coming up with ideas that might seem ludicrous at the start are all going to be important if we want to radically change the path the world is headed toward to make sure that we build a far healthier, more equitable and peaceful planet for our children.
Inspiration From Nora
To help the Virgin Group do our bit, Virgin Unite was started in 2004. The charitable group uses our staff and customers to works on a range of projects, including launching a new school for entrepreneurship, creating a rural transport network, setting up a small- to medium-size, business-venture fund in South Africa, and helping set up the Elders.
Thinking big doesn't mean forgetting about the smaller gems that can be scaled up. I am constantly motivated by a woman named Nora I met in South Africa on a trip with Virgin Unite. Nora has dedicated her whole life to using entrepreneurial ways to support hundreds of children in South Africa who have been orphaned by AIDS. If she can feed over 200 children every single day out of a one-room, tin shack, imagine what she could do if she had resources behind her.
As entrepreneurs, we have a wonderful opportunity and responsibility to give Nora and others like her a chance to expand their work and help make it sustainable so that everyone has the right to a life free from the shackles of poverty.
(as told to Stacy Perman)
He Made Millions With Bike Rental Idea
The day starts at 7:30 a.m. for Wayne du Pied, when he arrives at his Salt Lake City EagleRiderlocation. The first order of business is inspecting his Harley-Davidsons, ATVs, snowmobiles and boats to make sure they're ready for renters.
When du Pied took over the franchise in 2006, he decided to move closer to the airport to make it easier for him to pick up his customers. After transporting them from the airport to EagleRider, he rents them their bikes and they go on their way--whether for just a few hours or a few weeks.
Then the real work begins. Du Pied, 40, gets calls about flat tires, breakdowns and bikes that customers have mistakenly filled up with diesel instead of gasoline. But all the mishaps seem worth it when the customers return at the end of the day. "It's the type of business that puts smiles on people's faces," du Pied says. "They come back and say, 'We had the best ride!'"
As an EagleRider franchisee, du Pied also offers tours, and customers who want to take a spin on their own can drop bikes off at any EagleRider location instead of returning them to his store. But the benefits of the franchise don't stop at his customers: Du Pied earned revenue of $250,000 in 2006 and projects a $100,000 increase this year. "The learning curve's a lot shorter," he says, "when you've got people [behind you] who've done it for years."
More at:http://eaglerider.com/
When du Pied took over the franchise in 2006, he decided to move closer to the airport to make it easier for him to pick up his customers. After transporting them from the airport to EagleRider, he rents them their bikes and they go on their way--whether for just a few hours or a few weeks.
Then the real work begins. Du Pied, 40, gets calls about flat tires, breakdowns and bikes that customers have mistakenly filled up with diesel instead of gasoline. But all the mishaps seem worth it when the customers return at the end of the day. "It's the type of business that puts smiles on people's faces," du Pied says. "They come back and say, 'We had the best ride!'"
As an EagleRider franchisee, du Pied also offers tours, and customers who want to take a spin on their own can drop bikes off at any EagleRider location instead of returning them to his store. But the benefits of the franchise don't stop at his customers: Du Pied earned revenue of $250,000 in 2006 and projects a $100,000 increase this year. "The learning curve's a lot shorter," he says, "when you've got people [behind you] who've done it for years."
More at:http://eaglerider.com/
For Kidpreneurs
ING's Postbank is encouraging children to find their inner entrepreneurs and learn how earn, save and deal with money. This week, the bank opened a Bizznizz Lounge in Habbo Hotel, the online community that welcomes 7 million unique tween and teen visitors to its virtual rooms every month.
The Bizznizz lounge will be open to Habbo users who want to chat with other kidpreneurs about money, exchanging tips on how to run a part-time lawn mowing business, or the best way to advertise a dog walking service. Postbank will also be organizing fun and educational activities in the Bizznizz Lounge over the next few months. The bank sees Habbo as a natural fit for its Bizznizz activities, since Habbo players already actively participate in their own barter economy, trading furniture and other items with other players. Fun example of creating a relevant presence in a virtual community, targeting a specific audience in its natural habitat.
Website: http://bizznizz.postbank.nl and www.habbo.nl/entertainment/postbank
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The Bizznizz lounge will be open to Habbo users who want to chat with other kidpreneurs about money, exchanging tips on how to run a part-time lawn mowing business, or the best way to advertise a dog walking service. Postbank will also be organizing fun and educational activities in the Bizznizz Lounge over the next few months. The bank sees Habbo as a natural fit for its Bizznizz activities, since Habbo players already actively participate in their own barter economy, trading furniture and other items with other players. Fun example of creating a relevant presence in a virtual community, targeting a specific audience in its natural habitat.
Website: http://bizznizz.postbank.nl and www.habbo.nl/entertainment/postbank
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CafeScribe is a new service that lets you download electronic copies of your textbook, in an effort to save students money
CafeScribe is a new service that lets you download electronic copies of your textbook, in an effort to save students money and help save some trees, too.
The text books are offered at about half the price as you’ll find at the bookstore. Access and organize your electronic books in the same way you file music on your computer. There are some other useful features included in CafeScribe, like note annotation and highlighting functions. You can indicate what type of note you’re leaving, such as “important” or “ask?” These tools will help you keep track of what you’re studying–they can be tagged, and searched simultaneously across CafeScribe, Google and your desktop.
There are a couple of social networking features in CafeScribe as well, such as the ability to add friends, publish your notes and share them with others. Start or join a group to find study buddies, too. While you can sell the book back to CafeScribe, you can’t sell them to other students. There’s a limit to the amount of content you can print or copy and paste–the limit is set at 30%. It would be helpful to be able to export notes to a Word file, or even a Facebook application.
More at:http://www.cafescribe.com/
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The text books are offered at about half the price as you’ll find at the bookstore. Access and organize your electronic books in the same way you file music on your computer. There are some other useful features included in CafeScribe, like note annotation and highlighting functions. You can indicate what type of note you’re leaving, such as “important” or “ask?” These tools will help you keep track of what you’re studying–they can be tagged, and searched simultaneously across CafeScribe, Google and your desktop.
There are a couple of social networking features in CafeScribe as well, such as the ability to add friends, publish your notes and share them with others. Start or join a group to find study buddies, too. While you can sell the book back to CafeScribe, you can’t sell them to other students. There’s a limit to the amount of content you can print or copy and paste–the limit is set at 30%. It would be helpful to be able to export notes to a Word file, or even a Facebook application.
More at:http://www.cafescribe.com/
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BookSwim.com is an online book rental library club
BookSwim is the first online "BOOK RENTAL LIBRARY CLUB" lending you paperbacks and hardcovers directly to your house without the need of purchase. Whether it's New Releases, Bestsellers, or Classics, we've got 150,000 titles to choose from, with free shipping both ways. Read your books as long as you want. -- no late fees Even choose to purchase and keep the titles you love.
BookSwim.com is an online book rental library club. A common bestselller would cost around $20 dollars. But with bookswim.com you can rent the books, read them and then change them for others!!! So users can read many books and pay far mor less. Another very cool feature of this website is that users end up reading books of unknown authors, so it gives them a chance to know new authors, that they couldn't afford to because books are simply too expensive! BookSwim.com has over 150,000 books so it is a very cool place to rent books.
More at:http://www.bookswim.com/
BookSwim.com is an online book rental library club. A common bestselller would cost around $20 dollars. But with bookswim.com you can rent the books, read them and then change them for others!!! So users can read many books and pay far mor less. Another very cool feature of this website is that users end up reading books of unknown authors, so it gives them a chance to know new authors, that they couldn't afford to because books are simply too expensive! BookSwim.com has over 150,000 books so it is a very cool place to rent books.
More at:http://www.bookswim.com/
Zenrec.net is a business to business recruitment solution
Zenrec.net is a business to business recruitment solution. It saves employers time having to call around recruitment agencies to source quality candidates to interview. Employers submit their job vacancies to zenrec.net for free. Zenrec.net instantly notifies all the recruitment consultants who operate in the specific location and sectors of the employer. The recruitment consultants can then submit candidate profiles to the employer via a private online account. The recruitment consultants are charged a small fee every time we connect them with an employer who wants to interview one or more of their candidates. Zenrec.net saves employers time and brings them a wider pool of quality candidates and does not cost employers a penny.They want to help you succeed and find the best candidates to take your business forward. Zenrec.net is committed to creating a win/win situation for all our users. They want to provide an excellent service alongside a simple and easy to use internet experience.
Detail at;http://www.zenrec.net/
Detail at;http://www.zenrec.net/
SocialXperience takes a new approach to the social networking / web 2.0 blog by inviting those in the industry to be the authors
SocialXperience takes a new approach to the social networking / web 2.0 blog by inviting those in the industry to be the authors. No one knows more about the inner workings of the web 2.0 industry than the companies themselves. This means that all reports of newly launched social networks, acquisition announcements, company updates, or general social web industry news will be authentic insider information directly from the teams at your favorite web 2.0 companies.
SXP is completely customizable so you can change the look, add the content you want, and arrange your news sources all courtesy of some clever widgets. The site doubles as a social network—it’s got all the usual stuff: photo sharing, video, mobile, plus some extras like professional tools, bookmarks, chat and email as well as start pages.
More at:http://ww.socialxperience.com/
SXP is completely customizable so you can change the look, add the content you want, and arrange your news sources all courtesy of some clever widgets. The site doubles as a social network—it’s got all the usual stuff: photo sharing, video, mobile, plus some extras like professional tools, bookmarks, chat and email as well as start pages.
More at:http://ww.socialxperience.com/
Friday, August 3, 2007
Killer Cotton is "For Only Retail Search"
Killer Cotton is a free service that tracks down the best independent, underground, and hard-to-find retailers on the web, then publishes them right here for all the world to see. We are driven to connect deserving grass roots retailers with discerning online shoppers just like you.
This indie-friendly site provides info about smaller, niche businesses by compiling hundreds upon thousands of user reviews and profiles. You, the consumer, suggest sites to add to the database, you rate listings, you submit reviews. All sites start out with an even 50 rating, thereby assuring Killer Cotton’s neutrality. Ratings are purely influenced by user reviews—Cotton is all about giving power to the people. Search for items by style—try some earthy sandals, or collegiate sweater vest; by special interest: activist, art friendly, duct tape even; by price, and finally by type. The service is free to retailers and consumers alike.
This indie-friendly site provides info about smaller, niche businesses by compiling hundreds upon thousands of user reviews and profiles. You, the consumer, suggest sites to add to the database, you rate listings, you submit reviews. All sites start out with an even 50 rating, thereby assuring Killer Cotton’s neutrality. Ratings are purely influenced by user reviews—Cotton is all about giving power to the people. Search for items by style—try some earthy sandals, or collegiate sweater vest; by special interest: activist, art friendly, duct tape even; by price, and finally by type. The service is free to retailers and consumers alike.
TeamDesk for effective management and sharing of business information
TeamDesk is a hosted web-based system that empowers teams with easy-to-design web based database applications and predefined solutions for effective management and sharing of business information. Powerful and flexible, easy to learn and convenient to use, customizable and completely web-based, TeamDesk gives you a centralized searchable environment to organize your business.
They provide an application templates library that contains the set of applications in various business areas allowing quick start. Every application can be customized to the needs of particular business. Even if there is no matching template in the library, you may easily create an application by importing the data from the files or spreadsheet programs. Views, reports and charts will help you to organize your data. E-mail notification system and RSS feeds will help to keep your team informed. Document generation feature provides an ability to create personalized documents from templates. A very user-friendly and useful website.
More at:http://www.teamdesk.net/
They provide an application templates library that contains the set of applications in various business areas allowing quick start. Every application can be customized to the needs of particular business. Even if there is no matching template in the library, you may easily create an application by importing the data from the files or spreadsheet programs. Views, reports and charts will help you to organize your data. E-mail notification system and RSS feeds will help to keep your team informed. Document generation feature provides an ability to create personalized documents from templates. A very user-friendly and useful website.
More at:http://www.teamdesk.net/
Wurkpal is a new site that lets you anonymously communicate with others about your workplace
Wurkpal is a new site that lets you anonymously communicate with others about your workplace.
Unlike other “anonymity” sites, wurkpal protects even your host name, and creates an “unknown” user name for you, relieving you of the necessity of offering the slightest bit of personal information to the site, such as email address, or user name of your making. There are groups formed around a company, and those employees working there can let loose here, asking questions, participating in the rumor mills, making remarks and sharing documents they wouldn’t dream of doing without the cloak of anonymity. You don’t have to be an employee to read or even participate in other’s networks, though for the creation of one, a company must have a standard IP Address block installed, ensuring that no one’s identification is ever revealed.
The end goal of wurkpal is to provide an online gathering place for professionals to communicate freely amongst each other. Outside of advertising, the company is looking to make money through a job placement system, where recruiters can find information and potential leads, and no one has to worry about being caught looking for a new job. The “idealism” associated with this free-for-all network will be difficult to achieve for wurkpal, and while precautions are taken, it may be too much for users to keep up with their anonymous accounts as well as the many groups created for various topics and companies.
More at:http://www.wurkpal.com/
Unlike other “anonymity” sites, wurkpal protects even your host name, and creates an “unknown” user name for you, relieving you of the necessity of offering the slightest bit of personal information to the site, such as email address, or user name of your making. There are groups formed around a company, and those employees working there can let loose here, asking questions, participating in the rumor mills, making remarks and sharing documents they wouldn’t dream of doing without the cloak of anonymity. You don’t have to be an employee to read or even participate in other’s networks, though for the creation of one, a company must have a standard IP Address block installed, ensuring that no one’s identification is ever revealed.
The end goal of wurkpal is to provide an online gathering place for professionals to communicate freely amongst each other. Outside of advertising, the company is looking to make money through a job placement system, where recruiters can find information and potential leads, and no one has to worry about being caught looking for a new job. The “idealism” associated with this free-for-all network will be difficult to achieve for wurkpal, and while precautions are taken, it may be too much for users to keep up with their anonymous accounts as well as the many groups created for various topics and companies.
More at:http://www.wurkpal.com/
For Venture Capitalists
NowPublic is a site providing citizen journalism.
NowPublic is a news network using the public to cover events. As of the writing of this article they had over 120,000 users in over 3,000 cities.
If you would like to join you may do so for free, they provide a page for you to share pictures and video as well as your stories. They also provide a mechanism for the public to tip you, pay you.
They claim they are one of the fastest growing news organizations in 12 months, with thousands of reporters in over 140 countries. During Hurricane Katrina, NowPublic had more reporters in the affected area than most news organizations have on their entire staff.
They raised:NowPublic received $10.6 Million from Rho Ventures, Rho Canada, Brightspark and Working Opportunity Fund.
More at:http://www.nowpublic.com/
NowPublic is a news network using the public to cover events. As of the writing of this article they had over 120,000 users in over 3,000 cities.
If you would like to join you may do so for free, they provide a page for you to share pictures and video as well as your stories. They also provide a mechanism for the public to tip you, pay you.
They claim they are one of the fastest growing news organizations in 12 months, with thousands of reporters in over 140 countries. During Hurricane Katrina, NowPublic had more reporters in the affected area than most news organizations have on their entire staff.
They raised:NowPublic received $10.6 Million from Rho Ventures, Rho Canada, Brightspark and Working Opportunity Fund.
More at:http://www.nowpublic.com/
Business Opportunities
From textile manufacturers in India to Chinese organic food suppliers to property investments in Eastern Europe... there are 1000s of trade opportunities, partnerships and opportunities at www.Ubops.com
Ubops.com - Business Opportunities Marketplace
more at:http://www.ubops.com/
Ubops.com - Business Opportunities Marketplace
more at:http://www.ubops.com/
Online Marketing For SMEs In Australia
Ad It Last is free, and provides you with access to hundreds of last-minute online deals that are available from leading publishers and media suppliers across Australia. In this way, you can advertise for lower cost. You can use already existing artwork or use the site to create a new design - for no cost. Also, AdItLast wants to promote an idea within Australia called "community conscious" business. Companies who follow the rules of this charter will be endorsed by the foundation and will be able to promote themselves as a Community Conscious Company.
Many media companies have last minute advertising that needs to be sold prior to production . This provides an ideal way for SMEs (small medium enterprises) to try out a new marketing medium for the first time; that is, search for what is available to advertise to their target market and buy at a greatly reduced price. The problem herein was how these SMEs could then accesses this distressed media, and similarly how the media companies could contact the vast number of SMEs wanting to advertise. Last minute advertising has been around for a long time but ad it last is unique as it is a shop front for all media companies to give SMEs access to their distressed advertising. Then came the virtual marketer... A resource tool that gives you the skills of a marketer at your finger tips 24 hours a day. We wanted to somehow provide SMEs with our knowledge and skills but at no cost…small businesses need marketing specialists the most but have the least funds to hire a professional ongoing. Ad it last was the perfect solution. Our services will grow over time and you can come back again and again and use our tools. Most importantly, ad it last is a Community Conscious Company.
More at:http://www.aditlast.com.au/
Many media companies have last minute advertising that needs to be sold prior to production . This provides an ideal way for SMEs (small medium enterprises) to try out a new marketing medium for the first time; that is, search for what is available to advertise to their target market and buy at a greatly reduced price. The problem herein was how these SMEs could then accesses this distressed media, and similarly how the media companies could contact the vast number of SMEs wanting to advertise. Last minute advertising has been around for a long time but ad it last is unique as it is a shop front for all media companies to give SMEs access to their distressed advertising. Then came the virtual marketer... A resource tool that gives you the skills of a marketer at your finger tips 24 hours a day. We wanted to somehow provide SMEs with our knowledge and skills but at no cost…small businesses need marketing specialists the most but have the least funds to hire a professional ongoing. Ad it last was the perfect solution. Our services will grow over time and you can come back again and again and use our tools. Most importantly, ad it last is a Community Conscious Company.
More at:http://www.aditlast.com.au/
LinkBidr is about promoting your site and products on the web for a price you set
LinkBidr is about promoting your site and products on the web for a price you set, forget about paying for clicks and impressions. All you do is sign up on LinkBidr, and then bid on a link position, if you win, you’ll get a full 24 day’s worth of advertisement on their website for the price you are willing to pay, and probably less! On LinkBidr, you can propose your bidding price, and then enter in the amount that you would, hypothetically pay at the maximum. Other bidders won’t be able to see this amount. They’ll even give you $5 to dump into your LinkBidr account to start logging on, having fun, and promoting your link.
Linkbidr is all about having fun. Your final price gets you unlimited clicks. Never pay for each click again. Just bid on a link position to win your way to 24 hours of fame on the front page. Customize your link any way you want. It's so easy, anyone can do it. Just follow the six steps below to get started and watch your traffic soar.
More at:http://www.linkbidr.com/
Linkbidr is all about having fun. Your final price gets you unlimited clicks. Never pay for each click again. Just bid on a link position to win your way to 24 hours of fame on the front page. Customize your link any way you want. It's so easy, anyone can do it. Just follow the six steps below to get started and watch your traffic soar.
More at:http://www.linkbidr.com/
GroupSystems is an industrial leader in technology powered collaboration, decision making and brainstorming tools
GroupSystems is an industrial leader in technology powered collaboration, decision making and brainstorming tools. With their group intelligence technology led by their ThinkTank product, GroupSystems has developed software that’s valuable where anonymity and structured dialogues are key in team and project development. GroupSystems offers a suite of tools that includes web conferencing, instant messaging, email, and content/document management.
Leverage the power of your team with ThinkTank, technology for brainstorming, decision-making, collaboration and virtual interactive meetings. Best of all, GroupSystems' products complement many of the ways your organization works today, helping it gain significant productivity with our group intelligence software: ?Web conferencing: we make asynchronous meetings easy, empower the creation of fresh new content, and provide a unique many-to-many web or virtual interactive based meetings space. ?Instant Messaging: our online meetings tools provide structure in the form of easy-to-create workflows, but also the additional value of anonymity when you need it. ?Content/Document Management: we provide your groups the group interactive technology to generate fresh, authentic content that reflects the wisdom of many, which then can be managed in familiar content systems. ?eMail: rather than simply mailing information, GroupSystems enables groups to create and improve information for creativity and productivity. ?Traditional Face-to-Face meetings: many organizations use our group intelligence software to slash 50-75% of the cost and time associated with traditional meetings.
More at:http://www.groupsystems.com/
Leverage the power of your team with ThinkTank, technology for brainstorming, decision-making, collaboration and virtual interactive meetings. Best of all, GroupSystems' products complement many of the ways your organization works today, helping it gain significant productivity with our group intelligence software: ?Web conferencing: we make asynchronous meetings easy, empower the creation of fresh new content, and provide a unique many-to-many web or virtual interactive based meetings space. ?Instant Messaging: our online meetings tools provide structure in the form of easy-to-create workflows, but also the additional value of anonymity when you need it. ?Content/Document Management: we provide your groups the group interactive technology to generate fresh, authentic content that reflects the wisdom of many, which then can be managed in familiar content systems. ?eMail: rather than simply mailing information, GroupSystems enables groups to create and improve information for creativity and productivity. ?Traditional Face-to-Face meetings: many organizations use our group intelligence software to slash 50-75% of the cost and time associated with traditional meetings.
More at:http://www.groupsystems.com/
Financial Search
Market Simplified is the finest brew of technology and information, Market Simplified has been designed keeping in mind the needs of people to access and control their portfolio and to monitor the market wherever they go. Another very cool feature of this website is that it is available on the user's mobile phone. So if you are interested in financial search MarketSimplified.com might be a very useful website.
Market Simplified does away with the contemporary method accessing financial information; it has done away with constraint in information, time and place. Something which has been a want among retail investors but was not addressed…till now. Many of us in the team being traders ourselves, you can be sure that every want of yours is taken care…to know more just register yourself with www.marketsimplified.com.
More at:http://www.marketsimplified.com/
Market Simplified does away with the contemporary method accessing financial information; it has done away with constraint in information, time and place. Something which has been a want among retail investors but was not addressed…till now. Many of us in the team being traders ourselves, you can be sure that every want of yours is taken care…to know more just register yourself with www.marketsimplified.com.
More at:http://www.marketsimplified.com/
Thursday, August 2, 2007
Unwired Nation is a new service that lets your turn your web content into an audio recording for people to listen to on their cell phones
Unwired Nation is a new service that lets your turn your web content into an audio recording for people to listen to on their cell phones.
Using its API, you can utilize the Unwired Nation service to create a podcast of sorts, which others can listen to with their mobile phones. If you have a blog that you’d like to offer in this manner, Unwired Nation will turn the text into a voice recording and read through your blog post titles. Similar to dialing into a movie theater for show times, users can push a number to indicate which blog post they’d like to listen to. The voice sounds kind of hokey, like a commercial voiceover, so it’s rather amusing to hear if you’ve got any silly or unconventional text that’s being converted. Users can “subscribe” to your content to be delivered as an audio recording by providing their phone number.
Unwired Nation makes money by incorporating your ads into the recording, as well as inserting its own ads, and splitting revenue with you. So Unwired Nation is also in the mobile marketing arena, and promotes several uses for its service other than having blog content read out loud. Some of these services include touch pad interaction for users that don’t have access to a computer with the Internet, to do things like bid for an eBay listing.
In this sense, Unwired Nation is looking to bring a highly integrated level of website interaction on the mobile phone, without using a mobile browser, or even SMS. The potential downfall of this sort of advertising model is the difference in audio “commercials” versus online marketing, which vary greatly, and leave listeners with no direct way to access the advertisers’ content.
More at:http://www.unwirednation.com/
Via-Mash
Using its API, you can utilize the Unwired Nation service to create a podcast of sorts, which others can listen to with their mobile phones. If you have a blog that you’d like to offer in this manner, Unwired Nation will turn the text into a voice recording and read through your blog post titles. Similar to dialing into a movie theater for show times, users can push a number to indicate which blog post they’d like to listen to. The voice sounds kind of hokey, like a commercial voiceover, so it’s rather amusing to hear if you’ve got any silly or unconventional text that’s being converted. Users can “subscribe” to your content to be delivered as an audio recording by providing their phone number.
Unwired Nation makes money by incorporating your ads into the recording, as well as inserting its own ads, and splitting revenue with you. So Unwired Nation is also in the mobile marketing arena, and promotes several uses for its service other than having blog content read out loud. Some of these services include touch pad interaction for users that don’t have access to a computer with the Internet, to do things like bid for an eBay listing.
In this sense, Unwired Nation is looking to bring a highly integrated level of website interaction on the mobile phone, without using a mobile browser, or even SMS. The potential downfall of this sort of advertising model is the difference in audio “commercials” versus online marketing, which vary greatly, and leave listeners with no direct way to access the advertisers’ content.
More at:http://www.unwirednation.com/
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CompanyLoop is a new site that lets businesses create groups for coworkers to connect online.
CompanyLoop is a new site that lets businesses create groups for coworkers to connect online. This operates somewhat like a white label version of LinkedIn, limiting functionality to only those included in the company.
In order to join CompanyLoop, you must find your company if it’s already included on the list, or create a group for your company. Any company that is created will be approved by CompanyLoop before becoming available on its site. If you do find your company, you can join by entering your company email address, which will then be verified by CompanyLoop. Once you’ve joined a company group, you can tag others in your company, or applaud them, as a sort of recommendation tool for peers. Find others that can help you with a work-related issue, and pose questions to coworkers. You can invite others from your company to join.
CompanyLoop is a very private way to connect with coworkers. There is no way to see the profiles of others in company groups outside of your own, and you cannot connect or befriend others outside your groups either. There are many ways in which business-oriented applications are looking to become more social, and this could be considered one way. While other services may have provided a license or a software download for the internal use within a company, CompanyLoop is providing a free, web-based tool with which to perform the same actions.
More at:http://www.companyloop.com/
Via-Mash
In order to join CompanyLoop, you must find your company if it’s already included on the list, or create a group for your company. Any company that is created will be approved by CompanyLoop before becoming available on its site. If you do find your company, you can join by entering your company email address, which will then be verified by CompanyLoop. Once you’ve joined a company group, you can tag others in your company, or applaud them, as a sort of recommendation tool for peers. Find others that can help you with a work-related issue, and pose questions to coworkers. You can invite others from your company to join.
CompanyLoop is a very private way to connect with coworkers. There is no way to see the profiles of others in company groups outside of your own, and you cannot connect or befriend others outside your groups either. There are many ways in which business-oriented applications are looking to become more social, and this could be considered one way. While other services may have provided a license or a software download for the internal use within a company, CompanyLoop is providing a free, web-based tool with which to perform the same actions.
More at:http://www.companyloop.com/
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How To Run Successful Startup
Company name: TreatHer
Website: www.TreatHer.com
Founder: Jignesh Ghaghada
Age: 29
Based: London
Staff Numbers: 5 plus contract staff
Date started: Company created in Nov 2005, site launched in July 2006
Turnover: £150k
Tell us what your business does:
Treat Her is a wonderful new gift service that specialises in delivering unusual and exciting gifts for women directly to her door. We have a wide range of gift ideas including everything from jewellery and homewares, to pampering days out and flying lessons.
Where did the idea come from?
I actually came up with the idea when I was working in the city. We typically worked long hours and didn’t get much time to pop out during the day. One day it suddenly struck me that I’d forgotten to buy something for my girlfriend, Serina, for the second anniversary of the day we’d met and I only had until that evening to get something. I ended up not being able to get a gift that day – and this planted the seed for the concept.
Have you always wanted to run your own business?
Ever since I left university I knew I would eventually run my own business. However, I also knew there was a lot I wanted to learn first and directed my career more towards gaining exactly the right skills I thought I would need, rather than worrying too much about climbing the career ladder.
The most appealing thing about working for yourself is knowing that every ounce of energy you put into your business will translate into something tangible - either growth of the business, or learning something new.
What planning did you do before starting up?
I researched the existing online gift market thoroughly and discovered that although there was a very competitive market already in place, there were good opportunities for niche players. I attended several trade shows and travelled to the Far East to meet gift manufacturers and exporters.
I also spoke to many people already involved in e-commerce to understand how they had started up – on reflection this was invaluable and probably saved me from a number of potential pitfalls, especially in setting up the infrastructure for the site.
What challenges have you faced how have you overcome them?
A major challenge when we started was time management. A month after launching TreatHer.com, I married Serina and bought a new house which meant we were suddenly juggling a huge number of tasks (and wedding guests!). I was even checking in every few hours whilst we were out on honeymoon! Fortunately she was very understanding and, in fact, found the business very exciting. When we got back to London, Serina left her career in fashion and joined TreatHer.com to take on responsibility for our buying and supplier relationships. She has quickly become a key figure in the business and her amazing eye for trends and detail has undoubtedly been a catalyst to our growth.
What has your growth been like?
Our growth has been phenomenal over the last 12 months. When we launched in July 2006, we were getting around 100 visitors a day for the first month. This has now increased to 25,000-30,000 visitors per month. Our initial business plan forecasted we would not be profitable until the latter part of Year2 – however, we now expect to be profitable by the end of this year.
Where do you want to be in five years’ time?
We want to branch out to cover a number of other niche markets and become a household name. Our next gift site TreatHim.com will be launching in 2 months and there are a few more already waiting in the pipeline!
More at:www.TreatHer.com
Via-http://startups.co.uk/TreatHer_com.YbWAM6ho3k4OPg.html
Website: www.TreatHer.com
Founder: Jignesh Ghaghada
Age: 29
Based: London
Staff Numbers: 5 plus contract staff
Date started: Company created in Nov 2005, site launched in July 2006
Turnover: £150k
Tell us what your business does:
Treat Her is a wonderful new gift service that specialises in delivering unusual and exciting gifts for women directly to her door. We have a wide range of gift ideas including everything from jewellery and homewares, to pampering days out and flying lessons.
Where did the idea come from?
I actually came up with the idea when I was working in the city. We typically worked long hours and didn’t get much time to pop out during the day. One day it suddenly struck me that I’d forgotten to buy something for my girlfriend, Serina, for the second anniversary of the day we’d met and I only had until that evening to get something. I ended up not being able to get a gift that day – and this planted the seed for the concept.
Have you always wanted to run your own business?
Ever since I left university I knew I would eventually run my own business. However, I also knew there was a lot I wanted to learn first and directed my career more towards gaining exactly the right skills I thought I would need, rather than worrying too much about climbing the career ladder.
The most appealing thing about working for yourself is knowing that every ounce of energy you put into your business will translate into something tangible - either growth of the business, or learning something new.
What planning did you do before starting up?
I researched the existing online gift market thoroughly and discovered that although there was a very competitive market already in place, there were good opportunities for niche players. I attended several trade shows and travelled to the Far East to meet gift manufacturers and exporters.
I also spoke to many people already involved in e-commerce to understand how they had started up – on reflection this was invaluable and probably saved me from a number of potential pitfalls, especially in setting up the infrastructure for the site.
What challenges have you faced how have you overcome them?
A major challenge when we started was time management. A month after launching TreatHer.com, I married Serina and bought a new house which meant we were suddenly juggling a huge number of tasks (and wedding guests!). I was even checking in every few hours whilst we were out on honeymoon! Fortunately she was very understanding and, in fact, found the business very exciting. When we got back to London, Serina left her career in fashion and joined TreatHer.com to take on responsibility for our buying and supplier relationships. She has quickly become a key figure in the business and her amazing eye for trends and detail has undoubtedly been a catalyst to our growth.
What has your growth been like?
Our growth has been phenomenal over the last 12 months. When we launched in July 2006, we were getting around 100 visitors a day for the first month. This has now increased to 25,000-30,000 visitors per month. Our initial business plan forecasted we would not be profitable until the latter part of Year2 – however, we now expect to be profitable by the end of this year.
Where do you want to be in five years’ time?
We want to branch out to cover a number of other niche markets and become a household name. Our next gift site TreatHim.com will be launching in 2 months and there are a few more already waiting in the pipeline!
More at:www.TreatHer.com
Via-http://startups.co.uk/TreatHer_com.YbWAM6ho3k4OPg.html
Job Finder
Hound.com is the website for free job search engine locates all of its jobs from employer’s career web pages. Hound.com does not post the usual mix of over-publicized and limited commercial job board and recruiter jobs. All that users have to do to find their job is, when they enter Hound.com's frontpage, fill in the two spaces provided by the website. The user must let the website know what job he is looking for, and in what area of the USA he can work. After that all the user has to do is choose the job that he likes.
Hound.com, quite simply, is the world's largest and best collection of jobs. With a worldwide staff of 600+ employees working around the clock to find virtually every job opening in existence, we employ proven, effective, and results-oriented methods to get you the job of your dreams. Hound.com and its partner companies have helped literally thousands of professionals like yourself find employment.
More at:http://www.hound.com/
Hound.com, quite simply, is the world's largest and best collection of jobs. With a worldwide staff of 600+ employees working around the clock to find virtually every job opening in existence, we employ proven, effective, and results-oriented methods to get you the job of your dreams. Hound.com and its partner companies have helped literally thousands of professionals like yourself find employment.
More at:http://www.hound.com/
Send Files Via Email
With JustUpIt.com all you need to do to use the site is to go to the site, plug in the file you wish to send and the email addresses of the people you want the file to be sent to. Thats it. No signing up for anything or passwords or sign ins at all. Go to the send and send the file, it couldn't be any easier. Send any type of file up to 100mb.
There is no registration and no fees. Basic use requires no registration and is free of charge. There is nothing to install and no special software required. All you need is the browser you are using right now. A file can be up to 100mb!! and no download restrictions! (unlimited downloads).
Since the service is free and this remedies an ongoing problem for people trying to send files via email, this site could get usership for many, and quickly.
More at:http://justupit.com/
There is no registration and no fees. Basic use requires no registration and is free of charge. There is nothing to install and no special software required. All you need is the browser you are using right now. A file can be up to 100mb!! and no download restrictions! (unlimited downloads).
Since the service is free and this remedies an ongoing problem for people trying to send files via email, this site could get usership for many, and quickly.
More at:http://justupit.com/
Video Resume For Media People
Cubetakes.com is the first video resume site that is geared toward those in film, radio, television, and multimedia. From hosting your demo reel to your portfolio - cubetakes.com has it all along with a job search function showcasing jobs from around the world. So Cubetakes.com is a very useful websites for employers to find a pool of possible employees and for potential employees to show their work. But that's just part of it, Cubetakes.com is a free internet website!!! That's right, post your videos so employers can see your work in action for free.
How many times do we send out a resume, whether by mail or email, only to receive the all-too-common HR form letter "We have your resume on file, should a position arise matching your capabilities, someone will contact you." Yeah, right! More likely, the letter should read, "we just threw your resume in the trash, or filed it in some neglected cabinet in our human resources department that never gets opened except for once a year cleaning. We'll contact you on a snowy day in summer." That reply is more truthful, from experience, because when that letter is received it nets an interview a whopping .01% of the time. Disheartening? Sure, if you follow the "masses approach" to job-hunting. What's that exactly? The old resume format - whether it is sent on paper, faxed, or electronically sent. Break the mold! Send a video resume to the employer to show off your skills and personality - don't be another "resume kept on file". You can achieve this by uploading your video resume to cubetakes.com today. If you have a video portfolio (i.e. animation works, films, broadcasts, web design, etc.) upload them to cubetakes.com as well! Cubetakes.com is 100% free and there is never a charge. Send your video link rather than an emailed resume - impress the employer and save yourself time from going to interviews in person. Visit http://www.cubetakes.com now to get started.
More at:http://www.cubetakes.com/
How many times do we send out a resume, whether by mail or email, only to receive the all-too-common HR form letter "We have your resume on file, should a position arise matching your capabilities, someone will contact you." Yeah, right! More likely, the letter should read, "we just threw your resume in the trash, or filed it in some neglected cabinet in our human resources department that never gets opened except for once a year cleaning. We'll contact you on a snowy day in summer." That reply is more truthful, from experience, because when that letter is received it nets an interview a whopping .01% of the time. Disheartening? Sure, if you follow the "masses approach" to job-hunting. What's that exactly? The old resume format - whether it is sent on paper, faxed, or electronically sent. Break the mold! Send a video resume to the employer to show off your skills and personality - don't be another "resume kept on file". You can achieve this by uploading your video resume to cubetakes.com today. If you have a video portfolio (i.e. animation works, films, broadcasts, web design, etc.) upload them to cubetakes.com as well! Cubetakes.com is 100% free and there is never a charge. Send your video link rather than an emailed resume - impress the employer and save yourself time from going to interviews in person. Visit http://www.cubetakes.com now to get started.
More at:http://www.cubetakes.com/
ePerks.com, the site is dedicated to finding people who will give you incentives to do business through them
ePerks.com, the site is dedicated to finding people who will give you incentives to do business through them, sometimes cash back, sometimes free gas, sometimes added extra services, it all depends on what exactly you are looking for. If you are searching for a REALTOR there are people offering to give back 15.5% of the transaction should they be chosen. If these people are willing to slash their own prices and advertise this, there is no doubt a ton of internet surfers and clients ready to use these discounted services.
This site could be a great help to bargain shoppers all over the country, with savings as high as 20% on a real estate transaction, that will keep customers searching for savings with the company. The company profits from the advertising of the service providers.
More at:http://eperks.com/
This site could be a great help to bargain shoppers all over the country, with savings as high as 20% on a real estate transaction, that will keep customers searching for savings with the company. The company profits from the advertising of the service providers.
More at:http://eperks.com/
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Fellowforce.com is a platform to connect innovators and organizations. "A platform for open innovation"
Fellowforce.com is a platform to connect innovators and organizations. A platform for open innovation. Any organization worldwide can run innovation challenges or connect via Fellowforce's Innovation Box with their consumers. In other words, the organization posts the challenge, and many innovators start looking for a solution. The one that comes up with a solution sells it to the organization. The best part of it all is that Fellowforce.com does not charge commisions.
With Fellowforce.com the opportunities of open innovation and problem solving is available to any organization worldwide. This is the first open platform in all business areas such as business & strategy, marketing, innovation management, design, engineering, IT, and Supply chain. This is the first platform where the best talent can be harnessed for both top brands as SME-companies.
More at:http://www.fellowforce.com
With Fellowforce.com the opportunities of open innovation and problem solving is available to any organization worldwide. This is the first open platform in all business areas such as business & strategy, marketing, innovation management, design, engineering, IT, and Supply chain. This is the first platform where the best talent can be harnessed for both top brands as SME-companies.
More at:http://www.fellowforce.com
Betabug is the first Integrated Bug tracking system
Betabug is the first Integrated Bug tracking system and a community all together Bringing you a powerful Bug tracking solution and a top notch community to go along with it. Search for bugs, get solutions, consult. Enjoy the power of a community tighted by bugs.
With BetaBug.com those little bugs that you catch can be reported with just a few clicks of the keyboard, we all know calling or emailing is way too much trouble. With this technology any person can easy report the bugs they encounter so the maker of the site can make the adjustments that they need to make sure that the problem is corrected and the site can be navigated through as easily as possible.
More at:http://betabug.com/
With BetaBug.com those little bugs that you catch can be reported with just a few clicks of the keyboard, we all know calling or emailing is way too much trouble. With this technology any person can easy report the bugs they encounter so the maker of the site can make the adjustments that they need to make sure that the problem is corrected and the site can be navigated through as easily as possible.
More at:http://betabug.com/
Searchhedgefunds.com is the first vertical financial search engine designed solely for the hedge fund industry
Searchhedgefunds.com is the first vertical financial search engine designed solely for the hedge fund industry. This new product marks a significant development in the world of advanced search engines and will be the first of a number of ground breaking products from Institutional Investor. More than one year in development, this revolutionary, finely tuned search engine provides information that is relevant just for this sector, providing far superior results and targeting than more generic search engines. The sites searched, the search parameters and taxonomies have been programmed to produce highly targeted results. Quite simply, if you work in hedge funds, you will use this free search engine before anything else - Searchhedgefunds.com will be the primary destination for any user looking to search for information on hedge funds.
More at:http://www.searchhedgefunds.com/
More at:http://www.searchhedgefunds.com/
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