What Company Is Offering:
LeadPoint is the first online marketplace optimized for the lead industry. LeadPoint neither influences pricing nor competes with lead sellers. LeadPoint ensures the integrity of the transaction (the transfer and the format of the leads and the financial exchange) and the quality of the leads, buyers and sellers operating in the marketplace.
As a free-market exchange, the value of leads is based on quality, demand and performance. Lead sellers are rewarded for high performing leads, and lead buyers establish their own bid prices, and purchase leads according to their true value based on performance. There is no direct contact between buyer and seller.
How It Works:
With LeadPoint, lead buyers now have a single location where they can purchase qualified leads from multiple sources without the fear of fraud or of paying too much for poor quality leads. Lead sellers now have a single marketplace to sell quality leads at the highest price the market yields.
As an exchange that operates in real-time, both buyers and sellers can get an instant view of the price and performance of leads. Fresh leads are supplied by sellers and sold to buyers instantly. The exchange is always open and the community of buyers and sellers is always growing.
More at:http://www.leadpoint.com/
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
coComment has found another way to let you follow your comments across the web
coComment has found another way to let you follow your comments across the web. It has two new Facebook applications that will track and display the comments from blogs and websites that you participate in. One app is for individual users, while the other is for publishers. So no matter what your purpose behind comment-tracking, you can share it with friends on Facebook.
The good thing about the application designed for individual users is the ability to customize which blogs’ comments display in the app. This of course will also be displayed on your profile, so all your friends can see your comments from across the web. Now, setting up the Facebook apps for coComment is a different story. It’s not so easy if you don’t already have a coComment account, and of course you’ll need to register and install the coComment application prior to starting with your app on Facebook.
More at:http://www.cocomment.com/
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The good thing about the application designed for individual users is the ability to customize which blogs’ comments display in the app. This of course will also be displayed on your profile, so all your friends can see your comments from across the web. Now, setting up the Facebook apps for coComment is a different story. It’s not so easy if you don’t already have a coComment account, and of course you’ll need to register and install the coComment application prior to starting with your app on Facebook.
More at:http://www.cocomment.com/
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Audiotube--an online portal that lets you access high quality music videos Acquired by Sputnik7 network
What Company is Offering
audiotube is an online portal that lets you access high quality music videos.
How It Works:
Create a private community on audiotube and you can share video playlists and interests with your growing network of mutual friends as well as access the latest in Music News. They also provide a section for true Indie Artists.
1. First, Sign Up and Create a Profile
(Your Profile is Your Space on the Web, where you can describe yourself, and your favourite kinds of music and or Artist. You can even upload pics and write journals.)
2. Second, invite your Friends to join Your Personal Network.
OR, Search the site for your Friends who are already Members of audiotube.
3. Third, View the Connections you create between Your Friend and Their Friends.
Who Acquired Them:
Audiotube, a video-on-demand portal has acquired the Sputnik7 network from Palm Entertainment Properties LLC. The Sputnik7 network is host to on-demand audio/video Internet entertainment, sputnik7.com, and the world's first DRM free online indie music catalogue, Epitonic.com.
What Were Purpose Of Acquisition:
The acquisition will expand Audiotube's online reach by capitalizing on Sputnik7's search engine ranking and traffic. It will also fuel the growth of the company's network by linking the communities. The acquisition provides Audiotube with a large catalogue of pre-cleared content and routes into hundreds of indie music record labels as the Sputnik7 and Epitonic brands and online following hold major weight in the indie world.
More at:http://audiotube.com/
audiotube is an online portal that lets you access high quality music videos.
How It Works:
Create a private community on audiotube and you can share video playlists and interests with your growing network of mutual friends as well as access the latest in Music News. They also provide a section for true Indie Artists.
1. First, Sign Up and Create a Profile
(Your Profile is Your Space on the Web, where you can describe yourself, and your favourite kinds of music and or Artist. You can even upload pics and write journals.)
2. Second, invite your Friends to join Your Personal Network.
OR, Search the site for your Friends who are already Members of audiotube.
3. Third, View the Connections you create between Your Friend and Their Friends.
Who Acquired Them:
Audiotube, a video-on-demand portal has acquired the Sputnik7 network from Palm Entertainment Properties LLC. The Sputnik7 network is host to on-demand audio/video Internet entertainment, sputnik7.com, and the world's first DRM free online indie music catalogue, Epitonic.com.
What Were Purpose Of Acquisition:
The acquisition will expand Audiotube's online reach by capitalizing on Sputnik7's search engine ranking and traffic. It will also fuel the growth of the company's network by linking the communities. The acquisition provides Audiotube with a large catalogue of pre-cleared content and routes into hundreds of indie music record labels as the Sputnik7 and Epitonic brands and online following hold major weight in the indie world.
More at:http://audiotube.com/
AmericanTowns--Connecting Everyone
What Company is Offering:
AmericanTowns, your local link to the people, issues and activities that matter most in YOUR daily life.The AmericanTowns site is an indispensable practical tool and the most effective way to bring neighbors together.
How it Works:
By organizing a town's many internet resources under a single umbrella, AmericanTowns helps people quickly find out what's happening in their local government, schools, libraries and community groups. It's the place to instantly find recreation, entertainment, fun places to take the kids, restaurants, movies, realtors, businesses and other professional services.
They connect you to the community like nothing else. AmericanTowns is a virtual "town square," plugging you in to the information and resources related to your neighborhood. Whether it's town issues and community activism or school calendars and sports schedules, AmericanTowns delivers the info faster and helps you use it better.
Enter your zip code or click on your state to get started.
More at:http://www.americantowns.com/
AmericanTowns, your local link to the people, issues and activities that matter most in YOUR daily life.The AmericanTowns site is an indispensable practical tool and the most effective way to bring neighbors together.
How it Works:
By organizing a town's many internet resources under a single umbrella, AmericanTowns helps people quickly find out what's happening in their local government, schools, libraries and community groups. It's the place to instantly find recreation, entertainment, fun places to take the kids, restaurants, movies, realtors, businesses and other professional services.
They connect you to the community like nothing else. AmericanTowns is a virtual "town square," plugging you in to the information and resources related to your neighborhood. Whether it's town issues and community activism or school calendars and sports schedules, AmericanTowns delivers the info faster and helps you use it better.
Enter your zip code or click on your state to get started.
More at:http://www.americantowns.com/
HireThings--NewZealand 's Hire And Rental Marketplace
What Company is Offering:
Hire Things is proudly brought to you by the team at Let Use It Limited, a business founded on the vision of establishing and operating resource sharing marketplaces around the world.
They aim to make Hire Things a useful tool for businesses, clubs, groups, and individuals to find what they need, when they need it, and to promote what they have that others can use. You can download a Brief Sheet here.
How it Works:
They work to make hiring a renting an option that, more and more, you consider a smart alternative to buying, storing, insuring, and maintaining everything you just need to use from time to time.
And for those things you do buy, hiring out lets you justify buying things of much better quality, that will last longer, and that many people can use
Unique Features:
* After you have registered, you can list specific products, goods, places, and services you have for hire, rent, lease or let.
o Make sure you profile is up to date, with a description of your business or yourself, and your contact details
o You may include a detailed description, photos, and even bond/deposit requirements.
o You define the hire rates and optionally the quantity you have on offer.
+ Currently you can define any or all of theses:
# Hourly rate, 4-hour rate, daily rate, week rate, and month rate
+ You can indicate if this is just a single item, or if you have a set number of these available, or if you just have lots
# if it is just a single item, the Hire Things booking system will show potential customers when the item is already booked out, to avoid duplicate bookings
# if you indicate you have more than one of these items, then the system will not show other bookings to customers on the calendar
o Any special rates, discounts, or terms can be entered in the description or terms.
* Customers can view your listing's details and can submit a quote or booking request
o requests will include the dates, quantity, and any other requirements they have.
o The Hire Things website will calculate an estimated cost for the booking for you and the customer
o You are notified by email of the new request, and upon viewing may confirm the booking or respond with a firmer quote.
* Once a booking is confirmed, the contact details of the customer are shown to you on the booking, and vice versa to the customer, so you can both work out any final details.
* The customer pays you directly for the hire.
* Once the hire period is completed, or after 2 weeks if it is a longer hire, we will deduct a success fee from your Hire Things account.
More at;http://www.hirethings.co.nz/
Hire Things is proudly brought to you by the team at Let Use It Limited, a business founded on the vision of establishing and operating resource sharing marketplaces around the world.
They aim to make Hire Things a useful tool for businesses, clubs, groups, and individuals to find what they need, when they need it, and to promote what they have that others can use. You can download a Brief Sheet here.
How it Works:
They work to make hiring a renting an option that, more and more, you consider a smart alternative to buying, storing, insuring, and maintaining everything you just need to use from time to time.
And for those things you do buy, hiring out lets you justify buying things of much better quality, that will last longer, and that many people can use
Unique Features:
* After you have registered, you can list specific products, goods, places, and services you have for hire, rent, lease or let.
o Make sure you profile is up to date, with a description of your business or yourself, and your contact details
o You may include a detailed description, photos, and even bond/deposit requirements.
o You define the hire rates and optionally the quantity you have on offer.
+ Currently you can define any or all of theses:
# Hourly rate, 4-hour rate, daily rate, week rate, and month rate
+ You can indicate if this is just a single item, or if you have a set number of these available, or if you just have lots
# if it is just a single item, the Hire Things booking system will show potential customers when the item is already booked out, to avoid duplicate bookings
# if you indicate you have more than one of these items, then the system will not show other bookings to customers on the calendar
o Any special rates, discounts, or terms can be entered in the description or terms.
* Customers can view your listing's details and can submit a quote or booking request
o requests will include the dates, quantity, and any other requirements they have.
o The Hire Things website will calculate an estimated cost for the booking for you and the customer
o You are notified by email of the new request, and upon viewing may confirm the booking or respond with a firmer quote.
* Once a booking is confirmed, the contact details of the customer are shown to you on the booking, and vice versa to the customer, so you can both work out any final details.
* The customer pays you directly for the hire.
* Once the hire period is completed, or after 2 weeks if it is a longer hire, we will deduct a success fee from your Hire Things account.
More at;http://www.hirethings.co.nz/
Disaboom--social network aimed specifically at consumers whose lives have been touched by disabilities
What Company is Offering:
Disaboom, aims to change all that with a social network aimed specifically at consumers whose lives have been touched by disabilities.
Disaboom was founded by J. Glen House, who graduated from medical school after a skiing accident left him quadriplegic at the age of 20. Its mission is to develop the first interactive online community dedicated to improving the lives of people with disabilities or functional limitations. In so doing, it aims to serve not just those who have disabilities themselves but also caregivers and families.
How It Works:
Disaboom.com strives to provide you the tools and guidance you need to live active, engaged lives.The Denver-based site brings together content and tools ranging from specialized health information to social networking to daily living resources, including medical news, career advice, dating resources and travel tips. Ford, Netflix and Johnson & Johnson are among the advertisers that have enthusiastically flocked to the site, which also features video, chat and city-by-city accessibility reviews. Disaboom recently acquired Lovebyrd—a dating site for disabled singles—and just before launch it raised more than USD 5 million in a common stock offering. The site already boasts a network of more than 180 million people.
Disaboom.com community is as diverse as the communities we live in, made up of mothers and models, surfers and surgeons, babies and baby boomers.
As populations age throughout the industrialized world, the number of people with disabilities of one sort or another will only increase—and so, too, will their collective spending power. Marketers, take note!
more at: www.disaboom.com
Disaboom, aims to change all that with a social network aimed specifically at consumers whose lives have been touched by disabilities.
Disaboom was founded by J. Glen House, who graduated from medical school after a skiing accident left him quadriplegic at the age of 20. Its mission is to develop the first interactive online community dedicated to improving the lives of people with disabilities or functional limitations. In so doing, it aims to serve not just those who have disabilities themselves but also caregivers and families.
How It Works:
Disaboom.com strives to provide you the tools and guidance you need to live active, engaged lives.The Denver-based site brings together content and tools ranging from specialized health information to social networking to daily living resources, including medical news, career advice, dating resources and travel tips. Ford, Netflix and Johnson & Johnson are among the advertisers that have enthusiastically flocked to the site, which also features video, chat and city-by-city accessibility reviews. Disaboom recently acquired Lovebyrd—a dating site for disabled singles—and just before launch it raised more than USD 5 million in a common stock offering. The site already boasts a network of more than 180 million people.
Disaboom.com community is as diverse as the communities we live in, made up of mothers and models, surfers and surgeons, babies and baby boomers.
As populations age throughout the industrialized world, the number of people with disabilities of one sort or another will only increase—and so, too, will their collective spending power. Marketers, take note!
more at: www.disaboom.com
CrowdFunder
What Company Is Offering:
CrowdFunder recently launched a beta site focusing on the Boulder area that aims to make it easy to collectively fund many kinds of community projects, charitable and otherwise.
How It Works:
Fundable endeavours can range from giving to local nonprofits to refurbishing a playground to hosting a big party—only investment and business uses are prohibited. Current examples on CrowdFunder include establishing a scholarship for a local Boulder school, helping an artist finish recording her CD, installing bus-stop benches and supporting a 7-year-old local gymnast. People posting projects indicate a financial goal and deadline, and the site tracks how much is raised over time. As with Fundable, if the goal amount is not met by the deadline, all contributors get their money back. The entire process is free during the startup phase, but eventually CrowdFunder will charge a transaction fee of 7.5 percent of the funds raised for each project that succeeds in meeting its goal.
How Is It Different:
CrowdFunder's founders are banking on the site's local focus to set it apart. They explain: "CrowdFunder is a platform that we believe works best locally, where people who know each other and can vouch for each other and see and enjoy each other's works will have more confidence to make financial contributions to members of the community."
CrowdFunder aims to expand both geographically and topically in other directions. One to bring to a community near you?
More at: www.crowdfunder.com
CrowdFunder recently launched a beta site focusing on the Boulder area that aims to make it easy to collectively fund many kinds of community projects, charitable and otherwise.
How It Works:
Fundable endeavours can range from giving to local nonprofits to refurbishing a playground to hosting a big party—only investment and business uses are prohibited. Current examples on CrowdFunder include establishing a scholarship for a local Boulder school, helping an artist finish recording her CD, installing bus-stop benches and supporting a 7-year-old local gymnast. People posting projects indicate a financial goal and deadline, and the site tracks how much is raised over time. As with Fundable, if the goal amount is not met by the deadline, all contributors get their money back. The entire process is free during the startup phase, but eventually CrowdFunder will charge a transaction fee of 7.5 percent of the funds raised for each project that succeeds in meeting its goal.
How Is It Different:
CrowdFunder's founders are banking on the site's local focus to set it apart. They explain: "CrowdFunder is a platform that we believe works best locally, where people who know each other and can vouch for each other and see and enjoy each other's works will have more confidence to make financial contributions to members of the community."
CrowdFunder aims to expand both geographically and topically in other directions. One to bring to a community near you?
More at: www.crowdfunder.com
Use Jott For Calling Your Amazon Orders
What Company Is Offering:
When you Jott, they translate your voice to text, and can deliver your jott to someone in BOTH email and text. In email, they will be able to easily click on a link to hear your voice. In text, not only will they see the text translated, but they can simply dial our number [866-JOTT-BOX or 866-568-8269] given in the text message, and hear your Jott.The voice messaging tool that’s slowly integrating itself into social networking in various and unique ways, is getting ready to launch a service for Amazon users. Dial the number 1-866-JOTT-123, and say “Amazon.” You’ll then be prompted to say the name of the product you’d like to remind yourself to spend money on later.
How It works:
Theye use a combination of machine and human transcription to convert your voice to text. The quality of this transcription is affected by many factors, including recording quality, noise, accents, pronunciation, etc. At times, the quality of the recording will be so bad that we will simply ask you to listen because of Low Transcription Confidence.
Their transcribers have no way of associating your personally identifiable information with the recorded jotts they are transcribing (unless, of course, you make that information part of the recording). They operate in a “clean” environment that is also used for transcribing sensitive medical dictations, with no tools or other equipment that would allow them to record or make use of this information. Finally, they have very strict confidentiality guidelines for our employees and agents. Violations of these guidelines can lead to termination or other legal action. Nevertheless, they understand if you would like to transcribe your own jotts. If this is the case, simply go to the jott.com setting page, and click the checkbox next to "Do not transcribe my jotts".
More at:http://.jott.com.
When you Jott, they translate your voice to text, and can deliver your jott to someone in BOTH email and text. In email, they will be able to easily click on a link to hear your voice. In text, not only will they see the text translated, but they can simply dial our number [866-JOTT-BOX or 866-568-8269] given in the text message, and hear your Jott.The voice messaging tool that’s slowly integrating itself into social networking in various and unique ways, is getting ready to launch a service for Amazon users. Dial the number 1-866-JOTT-123, and say “Amazon.” You’ll then be prompted to say the name of the product you’d like to remind yourself to spend money on later.
How It works:
Theye use a combination of machine and human transcription to convert your voice to text. The quality of this transcription is affected by many factors, including recording quality, noise, accents, pronunciation, etc. At times, the quality of the recording will be so bad that we will simply ask you to listen because of Low Transcription Confidence.
Their transcribers have no way of associating your personally identifiable information with the recorded jotts they are transcribing (unless, of course, you make that information part of the recording). They operate in a “clean” environment that is also used for transcribing sensitive medical dictations, with no tools or other equipment that would allow them to record or make use of this information. Finally, they have very strict confidentiality guidelines for our employees and agents. Violations of these guidelines can lead to termination or other legal action. Nevertheless, they understand if you would like to transcribe your own jotts. If this is the case, simply go to the jott.com setting page, and click the checkbox next to "Do not transcribe my jotts".
More at:http://.jott.com.
Clearstone Venture Partnersplans to invest $30-40 million in companies focussing on India’s consumer market
Venture capital (VC) investor Clearstone Venture Partners, which has two offices in California and one in Mumbai, plans to invest $30-40 million (about Rs119-158 crore) in companies focussing on India’s consumer market in fiscal 2008.
Clearstone, which has $650 million in committed capital under management, has invested a total of $21 million in three Indian companies with partners since 2006. The company mainly looks to provide seed money to technology companies and business innovators. In the next 30 days, Clearstone is expected to announce an investment in a consumer company.
The VC firm also has two-three investments in the pipeline, which could be finalized as soon as in the next six months, says Rahul Khanna, director, Clearstone. Khanna, however, refused to divulge the name of the companies.
Although we are seeing some pulling out right now, there is no proof of a slowdown yet.Rahul Khanna
Clearstone Venture PartnersClearstone, which plans to focus on India’s high-growth, consumer-driven market, says the sector is not overcrowded with investors, although some sluggishness is visible compared with 2001-03, when foreign investors flooded Indian markets.
“Investment business thrives on exits also,” says Khanna. “Although we are seeing some pulling out right now, there is no proof of a slowdown yet. There was a mad rush earlier to invest due to the flood of new investors. However, investments are happening at a much manageable rate right now. The market is still underplayed. It can take more investors.” Clearstone currently is investing in India from its global Clearstone Fund III.
Khanna says Clearstone will stay out of auction deals and would ideally like to invest in partnerships. Even with just three investments in the past one year, the firm says it is sticking to its game plan for Indian market.
“We are in no hurry to strike deals,” Khanna adds.
“We take our own time on deciding where we want to invest and what that investment would mean for the firm.”
Clearstone officials says it is open for investments in the range of $1-10 million. In terms of stakes, they could be from 26% to not more than 49% in terms of holdings.
Venture capital firms in the US have raised close to $2 billion for investment in India since January 2006, according to informal industry estimates.
More at:http://www.clearstone.com/
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Clearstone, which has $650 million in committed capital under management, has invested a total of $21 million in three Indian companies with partners since 2006. The company mainly looks to provide seed money to technology companies and business innovators. In the next 30 days, Clearstone is expected to announce an investment in a consumer company.
The VC firm also has two-three investments in the pipeline, which could be finalized as soon as in the next six months, says Rahul Khanna, director, Clearstone. Khanna, however, refused to divulge the name of the companies.
Although we are seeing some pulling out right now, there is no proof of a slowdown yet.Rahul Khanna
Clearstone Venture PartnersClearstone, which plans to focus on India’s high-growth, consumer-driven market, says the sector is not overcrowded with investors, although some sluggishness is visible compared with 2001-03, when foreign investors flooded Indian markets.
“Investment business thrives on exits also,” says Khanna. “Although we are seeing some pulling out right now, there is no proof of a slowdown yet. There was a mad rush earlier to invest due to the flood of new investors. However, investments are happening at a much manageable rate right now. The market is still underplayed. It can take more investors.” Clearstone currently is investing in India from its global Clearstone Fund III.
Khanna says Clearstone will stay out of auction deals and would ideally like to invest in partnerships. Even with just three investments in the past one year, the firm says it is sticking to its game plan for Indian market.
“We are in no hurry to strike deals,” Khanna adds.
“We take our own time on deciding where we want to invest and what that investment would mean for the firm.”
Clearstone officials says it is open for investments in the range of $1-10 million. In terms of stakes, they could be from 26% to not more than 49% in terms of holdings.
Venture capital firms in the US have raised close to $2 billion for investment in India since January 2006, according to informal industry estimates.
More at:http://www.clearstone.com/
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Selling A Personal DNA Test For $999 By 23 And Me
Reuters Reports:23andMe, an online company funded by Google that is selling a personal DNA test for $999, has made its debut as a kind of genetics-focused MySpace or Facebook, but with the more serious aim of allowing medicine someday to target Americans' ills more precisely.
Users sign up for the DNA saliva test online and receive and return it by mail. Four to six weeks later, their results are online, allowing them to learn about their inherited traits, their ancestry and - with the help of a professional to look at the data, in most cases - some of their personal disease risks.
The Web site, which takes its name from the 23 pairs of chromosomes that make up the human genome, says it will display more than 500,000 data points in users' genomes in a format they can visualize and understand.
"Compare your genetic blueprint to your friends and family," the site invites.
Later, when the company's database is much larger, users will have the option of taking part in scientific studies that could help researchers determine things like who is in danger of having a life-threatening drug reaction or who may be more likely to benefit from a specific cancer treatment.
"The mission of 23andMe is to take the genetic revolution to a new level," said one of its founders, Linda Avey.
"There wasn't an effective way for people to contribute," said Anne Wojcicki, a fellow founder who has a background in health care investing and is married to Sergey Brin, a Google co-founder.
The site does not make interpretations about a user's risk for getting cancers, Alzheimer's disease or diabetes, although in some cases, users could get help from genetic counselors or other experts to make basic assessments.
As technology has made it easier to find and share information, security and privacy issues have become critical. The protection of genetic information is particularly important to many consumers, who fear that insurers or other groups may use genetic data to deny coverage to or discriminate against people predisposed to develop a serious disease.
23andMe's founders say the personal data in their system is secure and under the user's control, protected by more than a dozen levels of authentication and encryption from the lab to the user.
The two women said that aggregated genomic data would eventually be made available to people outside 23andMe for study, but would never be sold.
"The data will not leave 23andMe," said Avey, who came to the project with sales and business development experience in the biopharmaceutical industry.
While the project's goal is to tackle dreaded diseases and is in early stages on projects with Autism Speaks and the Parkinson's Institute, Avey said one of the company's primary aims was to make a complex subject more appealing by giving individuals information about their own genes.
For example, users could begin to understand why they dislike certain flavors or foods, or whether they share a maternal ancestor with celebrities like the singer Jimmy Buffett, a 23andMe user.
Besides Google, the company's other early investors include the biotechnology company Genentech and New Enterprise Associates, a venture capital company.
Competitors to 23andMe include deCODE Genetics of Iceland and Navigenics, a company based in Silicon Valley and backed by $25 million in funding from the top-flight venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Sequoia Capital and Mohr Davidow Ventures.
More at:https://www.23andme.com/
Users sign up for the DNA saliva test online and receive and return it by mail. Four to six weeks later, their results are online, allowing them to learn about their inherited traits, their ancestry and - with the help of a professional to look at the data, in most cases - some of their personal disease risks.
The Web site, which takes its name from the 23 pairs of chromosomes that make up the human genome, says it will display more than 500,000 data points in users' genomes in a format they can visualize and understand.
"Compare your genetic blueprint to your friends and family," the site invites.
Later, when the company's database is much larger, users will have the option of taking part in scientific studies that could help researchers determine things like who is in danger of having a life-threatening drug reaction or who may be more likely to benefit from a specific cancer treatment.
"The mission of 23andMe is to take the genetic revolution to a new level," said one of its founders, Linda Avey.
"There wasn't an effective way for people to contribute," said Anne Wojcicki, a fellow founder who has a background in health care investing and is married to Sergey Brin, a Google co-founder.
The site does not make interpretations about a user's risk for getting cancers, Alzheimer's disease or diabetes, although in some cases, users could get help from genetic counselors or other experts to make basic assessments.
As technology has made it easier to find and share information, security and privacy issues have become critical. The protection of genetic information is particularly important to many consumers, who fear that insurers or other groups may use genetic data to deny coverage to or discriminate against people predisposed to develop a serious disease.
23andMe's founders say the personal data in their system is secure and under the user's control, protected by more than a dozen levels of authentication and encryption from the lab to the user.
The two women said that aggregated genomic data would eventually be made available to people outside 23andMe for study, but would never be sold.
"The data will not leave 23andMe," said Avey, who came to the project with sales and business development experience in the biopharmaceutical industry.
While the project's goal is to tackle dreaded diseases and is in early stages on projects with Autism Speaks and the Parkinson's Institute, Avey said one of the company's primary aims was to make a complex subject more appealing by giving individuals information about their own genes.
For example, users could begin to understand why they dislike certain flavors or foods, or whether they share a maternal ancestor with celebrities like the singer Jimmy Buffett, a 23andMe user.
Besides Google, the company's other early investors include the biotechnology company Genentech and New Enterprise Associates, a venture capital company.
Competitors to 23andMe include deCODE Genetics of Iceland and Navigenics, a company based in Silicon Valley and backed by $25 million in funding from the top-flight venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Sequoia Capital and Mohr Davidow Ventures.
More at:https://www.23andme.com/
Don'tApply.com--Check Companies Background
What Company is Offering:
This site is not only to talk about your past or present employers. It also reconnects you to old coworkers and friends. Through their member profile feature, members are able to login at anytime. This feature also comes with a buddy list and a message center where members can exchange messages with buddies.
How It Works:
This site is all about writing reviews for your current or previous place of employment. The site is not only for negativity, but can also be for positive responses. If you feel that you have worked for the same company as someone else and have a different opinion. You should also leave your views on that company.
You can say anything that you would like to say. However, don’t use foul language or write in ALL CAPS. The use of foul language is prohibited and is going against our policy agreement.
Companies do background check on their applicants, so why not have the applicants get legitimate referenced background on the company. The site not only allows you to review your old companies, but you can also do so anonymously. This website is designed for any and everyone to write reviews about their past and present employers. Whether you love, hate, and just don’t care about your job, this is the spot to talk about it. Read what others have to say and share your thoughts.
More at:http://dontapply.com/
This site is not only to talk about your past or present employers. It also reconnects you to old coworkers and friends. Through their member profile feature, members are able to login at anytime. This feature also comes with a buddy list and a message center where members can exchange messages with buddies.
How It Works:
This site is all about writing reviews for your current or previous place of employment. The site is not only for negativity, but can also be for positive responses. If you feel that you have worked for the same company as someone else and have a different opinion. You should also leave your views on that company.
You can say anything that you would like to say. However, don’t use foul language or write in ALL CAPS. The use of foul language is prohibited and is going against our policy agreement.
Companies do background check on their applicants, so why not have the applicants get legitimate referenced background on the company. The site not only allows you to review your old companies, but you can also do so anonymously. This website is designed for any and everyone to write reviews about their past and present employers. Whether you love, hate, and just don’t care about your job, this is the spot to talk about it. Read what others have to say and share your thoughts.
More at:http://dontapply.com/
Yodle,a New York-based provider of local online advertising and lead generation got$12 million in second-round funding
What Company Is Offering:
Yodle provides local businesses with a simple way to get more customers and phone calls using online marketing. Yodle, a company funded by Bessemer Venture Partners and Draper Fisher Jurvetson, is transforming local online advertising by connecting local business owners with consumers in a simple, measurable and relevant way. Yodle has developed an integrated approach to signing up and serving local businesses that are transitioning their marketing budgets online. Yodle operates offices out of New York, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Atlanta and Boston.
Yodle's aim is to make buying online ads simple and easy for small businesses and to offer a high-performing, cost-effective alternative to the outdated Yellow Pages, previously the standard for small business advertising.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Yodle,a New York-based provider of local online advertising and lead generation, has raised $12 million in second-round funding. Draper Fisher Jurvetson led the deal, and was joined by return backer Bessemer Venture Partners.
What's Market Of That Kind Of Product:
"Today, 63 percent of consumers primarily search for local businesses online; Yodle is tapping this enormous advertising market to drive customers to businesses in a way that has never been done before. With Draper Fisher Jurvetson's financing, they will be able to complete national rollout and offer their services to small businesses across the country," said Court Cunningham, CEO of Yodle.
How It Works:
Yodle provides local businesses with a simple way to get more customers and phone calls using online marketing
Yodle delivers tangible results for its customers, focusing on generating phone calls instead of web clicks. It's estimated that $1 invested with Yodle results in $8 in additional profit for small businesses such as electricians, lawyers, doctors, roofers and even florists.
Andreas Stavropoulos, managing director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, added: "What impressed us about Yodle was its ability to deliver a high and steady volume of quality consumer phone calls to small businesses in a simple yet reliable way. Customer loyalty to the Yodle product is higher than that of any competitor in the market we have seen."
In addition, Yodle has developed a proprietary media buying platform to squeeze maximum performance out of every dollar it spends in online advertising for clients.
"Yodle now offers small business owners something they have never had before; they know exactly what their return on investment is using Yodle's industry leading Call Tracking and integrated Lead Manager tools. This level of transparency is new to small business owners who traditionally advertise in the Yellow Pages. With no long-term contracts and a clear method to track performance, this is low risk and potentially high reward investment for any small business to make," said Cunningham.
How Much They Are Progressing:
Yodle is experiencing dynamic and rapid growth: 400% in the third quarter 2007 vs. third quarter 2006. Yodle was founded in Philadelphia in 2005 by Nathaniel Stevens, a recent finalist for Business Week's "America's Best Young Entrepreneurs 2007." Yodle now operates offices out of New York, Washington DC, Boston, Atlanta, as well as Philadelphia.
About VCs:
1.Draper Fisher Jurvetson is a leading venture capital firm with a global presence through a network of affiliated funds, with offices in more than 30 cities around the world and approximately $6 Billion in capital commitments. DFJ's mission is to identify, serve and provide capital for extraordinary entrepreneurs anywhere who are determined to change the world. Over the past twenty years, DFJ has been proud to back over 500 companies across many sectors including such industry changing catalysts as Hotmail (acquired by MSFT), Baidu (BIDU), Skype (acquired by EBAY), EnerNOC (ENOC), athenahealth (ATHN), Focus Media (FMCN), Mobile 365 (acquired by Sybase), xFire (acquired by Viacom), United Online (UNTD), Overture (acquired by YHOO), Interwoven (IWOV), Four11 (acquired by YHOO), Massive (acquired by MSFT), Parametric (PMTC) and Mozy (acquired by EMC).
2.
As the oldest venture capital practice in the U.S., Bessemer has carried on a tradition of hands-on, early-stage investing since 1911. With offices in New York, California, Massachusetts, Shanghai and Mumbai, Bessemer Venture Partners ( www.bvp.com ) now manages more than a billion dollars of venture funds. Over 100 Bessemer startups have gone public, including Ciena, Gartner, Ingersoll Rand, International Paper, Maxim, Parametric, Staples, WR Grace, Verisign, and Veritas. Wikia is one of many Web2.0 companies whose first venture rounds were led by Bessemer; others include Skype, Yelp, Zopa, Revver and Flock.
More at:www.yodle.com
Yodle provides local businesses with a simple way to get more customers and phone calls using online marketing. Yodle, a company funded by Bessemer Venture Partners and Draper Fisher Jurvetson, is transforming local online advertising by connecting local business owners with consumers in a simple, measurable and relevant way. Yodle has developed an integrated approach to signing up and serving local businesses that are transitioning their marketing budgets online. Yodle operates offices out of New York, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Atlanta and Boston.
Yodle's aim is to make buying online ads simple and easy for small businesses and to offer a high-performing, cost-effective alternative to the outdated Yellow Pages, previously the standard for small business advertising.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Yodle,a New York-based provider of local online advertising and lead generation, has raised $12 million in second-round funding. Draper Fisher Jurvetson led the deal, and was joined by return backer Bessemer Venture Partners.
What's Market Of That Kind Of Product:
"Today, 63 percent of consumers primarily search for local businesses online; Yodle is tapping this enormous advertising market to drive customers to businesses in a way that has never been done before. With Draper Fisher Jurvetson's financing, they will be able to complete national rollout and offer their services to small businesses across the country," said Court Cunningham, CEO of Yodle.
How It Works:
Yodle provides local businesses with a simple way to get more customers and phone calls using online marketing
Yodle delivers tangible results for its customers, focusing on generating phone calls instead of web clicks. It's estimated that $1 invested with Yodle results in $8 in additional profit for small businesses such as electricians, lawyers, doctors, roofers and even florists.
Andreas Stavropoulos, managing director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, added: "What impressed us about Yodle was its ability to deliver a high and steady volume of quality consumer phone calls to small businesses in a simple yet reliable way. Customer loyalty to the Yodle product is higher than that of any competitor in the market we have seen."
In addition, Yodle has developed a proprietary media buying platform to squeeze maximum performance out of every dollar it spends in online advertising for clients.
"Yodle now offers small business owners something they have never had before; they know exactly what their return on investment is using Yodle's industry leading Call Tracking and integrated Lead Manager tools. This level of transparency is new to small business owners who traditionally advertise in the Yellow Pages. With no long-term contracts and a clear method to track performance, this is low risk and potentially high reward investment for any small business to make," said Cunningham.
How Much They Are Progressing:
Yodle is experiencing dynamic and rapid growth: 400% in the third quarter 2007 vs. third quarter 2006. Yodle was founded in Philadelphia in 2005 by Nathaniel Stevens, a recent finalist for Business Week's "America's Best Young Entrepreneurs 2007." Yodle now operates offices out of New York, Washington DC, Boston, Atlanta, as well as Philadelphia.
About VCs:
1.Draper Fisher Jurvetson is a leading venture capital firm with a global presence through a network of affiliated funds, with offices in more than 30 cities around the world and approximately $6 Billion in capital commitments. DFJ's mission is to identify, serve and provide capital for extraordinary entrepreneurs anywhere who are determined to change the world. Over the past twenty years, DFJ has been proud to back over 500 companies across many sectors including such industry changing catalysts as Hotmail (acquired by MSFT), Baidu (BIDU), Skype (acquired by EBAY), EnerNOC (ENOC), athenahealth (ATHN), Focus Media (FMCN), Mobile 365 (acquired by Sybase), xFire (acquired by Viacom), United Online (UNTD), Overture (acquired by YHOO), Interwoven (IWOV), Four11 (acquired by YHOO), Massive (acquired by MSFT), Parametric (PMTC) and Mozy (acquired by EMC).
2.
As the oldest venture capital practice in the U.S., Bessemer has carried on a tradition of hands-on, early-stage investing since 1911. With offices in New York, California, Massachusetts, Shanghai and Mumbai, Bessemer Venture Partners ( www.bvp.com ) now manages more than a billion dollars of venture funds. Over 100 Bessemer startups have gone public, including Ciena, Gartner, Ingersoll Rand, International Paper, Maxim, Parametric, Staples, WR Grace, Verisign, and Veritas. Wikia is one of many Web2.0 companies whose first venture rounds were led by Bessemer; others include Skype, Yelp, Zopa, Revver and Flock.
More at:www.yodle.com
Human Brain Cloud ----Multiplayer
What Company Is Offering:
Human Brain Cloud - a massively multiplayer word association "game" or experiment ... or something. The idea is that given a word, a player types in the first thing that comes to mind and the results are combined into a giant network.
How Is It Works:
For instance given the word "volcano", a common word people might submit would be "lava", and this would result in a very strong connection between "volcano" and "lava". On the other hand, given the word "volcano", fewer people might associate it with something like "birthday party", resulting in a very weak connection or no connection at all. Over time and with many players, I hope the cloud will gradually grow to represent words and phrases people tend to associate with other words and phrases, assuming it doesn't get inundated with spam. The cloud started with just one word, "volcano". All other words were submitted by visitors to this site.
This isn't academically rigorous or anything, so set your expectations accordingly and have fun seeing what people subconsciously think about stuff!
More at:http://www.humanbraincloud.com/
Human Brain Cloud - a massively multiplayer word association "game" or experiment ... or something. The idea is that given a word, a player types in the first thing that comes to mind and the results are combined into a giant network.
How Is It Works:
For instance given the word "volcano", a common word people might submit would be "lava", and this would result in a very strong connection between "volcano" and "lava". On the other hand, given the word "volcano", fewer people might associate it with something like "birthday party", resulting in a very weak connection or no connection at all. Over time and with many players, I hope the cloud will gradually grow to represent words and phrases people tend to associate with other words and phrases, assuming it doesn't get inundated with spam. The cloud started with just one word, "volcano". All other words were submitted by visitors to this site.
This isn't academically rigorous or anything, so set your expectations accordingly and have fun seeing what people subconsciously think about stuff!
More at:http://www.humanbraincloud.com/
ClearWiki--A truly easy way for your organization to share information
What Company Is Offering:
ClearWiki is feature rich, yet extremely intuitive and easy to use. Organize your information logically and easily. A private wiki for your business, accessible only by people that you invite. It is hosted by them, so there is nothing for you to install or maintain. ClearWiki is feature rich, yet extremely intuitive and easy to use. Your users don't need to learn a special wiki language. Navigating through your information has never been so easy.
How It Works:
ClearWiki has structured content, so wiki pages can be organised in a logical hierarchy just like the folders on your computer. As you create the hierarchy a topographical sitemap is generated automatically.ClearWiki makes an ideal and cost effective Intranet solution. You can create departments and teams, each with their own area of the Intranet, and restrict access using our Access Control Lists. Departments can have their own home pages or blogs as can your employees. What's more, your employees can access your Intranet at home as well as at work.
Your data is stored in a completely separate database to all other ClearWiki customers providing you with extra security. A backup option lets you download an archive your wiki.ClearWiki allows you to pay for only the features you need. You can add and reduce the number of users you need when you need to, and can increase the the amount of storage you need when you need to at very competitive prices.
More at:http://www.clearwiki.com/
ClearWiki is feature rich, yet extremely intuitive and easy to use. Organize your information logically and easily. A private wiki for your business, accessible only by people that you invite. It is hosted by them, so there is nothing for you to install or maintain. ClearWiki is feature rich, yet extremely intuitive and easy to use. Your users don't need to learn a special wiki language. Navigating through your information has never been so easy.
How It Works:
ClearWiki has structured content, so wiki pages can be organised in a logical hierarchy just like the folders on your computer. As you create the hierarchy a topographical sitemap is generated automatically.ClearWiki makes an ideal and cost effective Intranet solution. You can create departments and teams, each with their own area of the Intranet, and restrict access using our Access Control Lists. Departments can have their own home pages or blogs as can your employees. What's more, your employees can access your Intranet at home as well as at work.
Your data is stored in a completely separate database to all other ClearWiki customers providing you with extra security. A backup option lets you download an archive your wiki.ClearWiki allows you to pay for only the features you need. You can add and reduce the number of users you need when you need to, and can increase the the amount of storage you need when you need to at very competitive prices.
More at:http://www.clearwiki.com/
Monday, November 26, 2007
Global Business Networking
What Company Is Offering:
Global Business Networking is an online business networking website dedicated to giving its members the best online networking experience possible. They concentrate on enabling users to business network, gain business contacts, network online, discuss business-related issues and broaden their business horizons. There are news and events sections within GlobalBusinessNetworking.com, a seperate networking area where members can start their own mini-networks to discuss issues specific to them, an area to hire and be hired, online business chat, recommendations and extensive networking tools.
How It Works:
When you first login you'll see a button on the menu called "Search Members". If you click that button you can search through every member of Global Business Networking.com. Have a look through the list, and if there's anyone in a business sector you'd like to network with then click the link to their profile or click the green + sign next to their name to invite them into your contacts.
When you see someone else's profile who is not already a member of your network at the top of the page you'll see a button called "Invite this member to your network". Click on this to invite that member to your network.
One interesting way to network is to look through other people's networks. When you click on a link to see a person's profile you'll see their network in the info bar on the right of the screen. You can then click on any of those names to see their profile and also their network. This can lead to searching through a number of networks and some interesting contacts!
More at:http://www.globalbusinessnetworking.com/
Global Business Networking is an online business networking website dedicated to giving its members the best online networking experience possible. They concentrate on enabling users to business network, gain business contacts, network online, discuss business-related issues and broaden their business horizons. There are news and events sections within GlobalBusinessNetworking.com, a seperate networking area where members can start their own mini-networks to discuss issues specific to them, an area to hire and be hired, online business chat, recommendations and extensive networking tools.
How It Works:
When you first login you'll see a button on the menu called "Search Members". If you click that button you can search through every member of Global Business Networking.com. Have a look through the list, and if there's anyone in a business sector you'd like to network with then click the link to their profile or click the green + sign next to their name to invite them into your contacts.
When you see someone else's profile who is not already a member of your network at the top of the page you'll see a button called "Invite this member to your network". Click on this to invite that member to your network.
One interesting way to network is to look through other people's networks. When you click on a link to see a person's profile you'll see their network in the info bar on the right of the screen. You can then click on any of those names to see their profile and also their network. This can lead to searching through a number of networks and some interesting contacts!
More at:http://www.globalbusinessnetworking.com/
GIFUP.com is your personal GIF animation and avatar generator
What Company Is Offering:
GIFUP.com is your personal GIF animation and avatar generator.
How It Works:
Simply upload images from your computer or get them from Flickr or any web site and let GIFUP do all the magic. You get your animated avatar, banner or GIF slideshow in a sec! You may then save it to your computer, share it with your friends or post it on Myspace, Hi5, Friendster, Blogs, Forums, etc.
What Is GIF:
The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) is an 8-bit-per-pixel bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability.
The format uses a palette of up to 256 distinct colors from the 24-bit RGB color space. It also supports animations and allows a separate palette of 256 colors for each frame. The color limitation makes the GIF format unsuitable for reproducing color photographs and other images with continuous color, but it is well-suited for more simple images such as graphics or logos with solid areas of color.
GIF images are compressed using the Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) lossless data compression technique to reduce the file size without degrading the visual quality.
More at:http://www.gifup.com/
GIFUP.com is your personal GIF animation and avatar generator.
How It Works:
Simply upload images from your computer or get them from Flickr or any web site and let GIFUP do all the magic. You get your animated avatar, banner or GIF slideshow in a sec! You may then save it to your computer, share it with your friends or post it on Myspace, Hi5, Friendster, Blogs, Forums, etc.
What Is GIF:
The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) is an 8-bit-per-pixel bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability.
The format uses a palette of up to 256 distinct colors from the 24-bit RGB color space. It also supports animations and allows a separate palette of 256 colors for each frame. The color limitation makes the GIF format unsuitable for reproducing color photographs and other images with continuous color, but it is well-suited for more simple images such as graphics or logos with solid areas of color.
GIF images are compressed using the Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) lossless data compression technique to reduce the file size without degrading the visual quality.
More at:http://www.gifup.com/
Best of eBay
What Company Is Offering:
Best of eBay is a community driven website dedicated to show the most eccentric listings on eBay. With Best of eBay you can nominate the most eccentric listings you find and eBay to be voted by fellow community members. In order to nominate and vote for a Best Of eBay listing you must be a registered eBay member.
How It Works:
You can nominate an interesting listing to best of eBay by using the yellow "Nominate to Best of eBay" button located in the left column. After you click on Nominate an listing, you will be asked to insert an item number for the listing you would like to nominate. You can find this number located at the top right side of each eBay listing as shown in the screenshot below.
The administration will purge nominations which don't fit the "strangest, funniest, or eccentric" criterion or do not have a complete description on why the listing deserves to be nominated.
You can support items that have already been nominated to Best of eBay by voting. Voting is very easy, just click on the "Vote for this item" icon located to the right of each item. After you have voted for a listing, the icon changes its color to purple.
You view and add your comments to a Best of eBay nominee by clicking on the 'comment' link at the bottom of each listing. eBay content rules apply to all comments and submissions.
More at:http://bestof.ebay.com/
Best of eBay is a community driven website dedicated to show the most eccentric listings on eBay. With Best of eBay you can nominate the most eccentric listings you find and eBay to be voted by fellow community members. In order to nominate and vote for a Best Of eBay listing you must be a registered eBay member.
How It Works:
You can nominate an interesting listing to best of eBay by using the yellow "Nominate to Best of eBay" button located in the left column. After you click on Nominate an listing, you will be asked to insert an item number for the listing you would like to nominate. You can find this number located at the top right side of each eBay listing as shown in the screenshot below.
The administration will purge nominations which don't fit the "strangest, funniest, or eccentric" criterion or do not have a complete description on why the listing deserves to be nominated.
You can support items that have already been nominated to Best of eBay by voting. Voting is very easy, just click on the "Vote for this item" icon located to the right of each item. After you have voted for a listing, the icon changes its color to purple.
You view and add your comments to a Best of eBay nominee by clicking on the 'comment' link at the bottom of each listing. eBay content rules apply to all comments and submissions.
More at:http://bestof.ebay.com/
SeeToo allows Internet users to share videos stored on their computers without the burden of uploading them to another site
What Company Is Offering:
SeeToo is a web-based application that allows individuals to invite their online buddies to watch videos together with them in real time. Founded in 2007, SeeToo allows Internet users to share videos stored on their computers without the burden of uploading them to another site.
How It Works:
Whether the video is generated by your digital camera, camcorder or webcam, using SeeToo is simple:
* Select a video, or any multimedia file, from your computer. SeeToo requires no upload or any preparation work and can easily handle file of any size: 500Mb, 2Gb and greater.
* Send an automatically generated invitation to your buddy over the instant message network of your choice (e.g. AIM, ICQ, Live Messenger, Google Talk, Skype, etc.) or simply send the link to your buddy in an email. Your buddies don't have to install anything to start watching videos with you, all they need is a browser and an Internet connection.
* Once your buddy clicks on the link in the IM or email, the simultaneous viewing experience begins!
More at:http://www.seetoo.com/
SeeToo is a web-based application that allows individuals to invite their online buddies to watch videos together with them in real time. Founded in 2007, SeeToo allows Internet users to share videos stored on their computers without the burden of uploading them to another site.
How It Works:
Whether the video is generated by your digital camera, camcorder or webcam, using SeeToo is simple:
* Select a video, or any multimedia file, from your computer. SeeToo requires no upload or any preparation work and can easily handle file of any size: 500Mb, 2Gb and greater.
* Send an automatically generated invitation to your buddy over the instant message network of your choice (e.g. AIM, ICQ, Live Messenger, Google Talk, Skype, etc.) or simply send the link to your buddy in an email. Your buddies don't have to install anything to start watching videos with you, all they need is a browser and an Internet connection.
* Once your buddy clicks on the link in the IM or email, the simultaneous viewing experience begins!
More at:http://www.seetoo.com/
Dabble's is to help you find and collect videos from all over the web, no matter where they are hosted
What Company Is Offering:
Dabble's is to help you find and collect videos from all over the web, no matter where they are hosted.
How It Works:
Videos get put on the web in lots of different ways: uploaded from people's home computers, mobile phones, and digital cameras, as well as professionally produced and posted by the company that made them (or others who enjoy them).
All of this video has to be "hosted" (stored and served from) somewhere online. Along with all the websites that just feature a clip or two, hundreds of video hosting sites now exist to store and serve these videos to you.
Dabble gathers video data from hundreds of hosting sites, as well as from tens of thousands of other websites. Dabble keeps a record of where web videos are located, descriptions about the video, who made it, what it's about, how popular it is, and so on.
This record, called "metadata", makes it easy to search and find video. The community of Dabble members adds details and notes, correcting mistakes, and sharing what is valuable to them about the media, enhancing the metadata in a massive team effort that goes far beyond what any one site can do alone.
You don't need to join Dabble to find videos using our search service, but once you have a membership in Dabble, you can start collecting and organizing your favorite videos. Wherever you travel on the web, you can quickly and easily import links to the videos you discover into your own personal Dabble collection. You can also add your own comments and "tags" (keywords) to share with our member community, and you can organize videos into playlists, like all the web videos about a favorite person or topic.
Because all the other Dabble members are organizing videos too, chances are you can find existing playlists in the Dabble community about whatever you're interested in, and find new videos that way. People also use Dabble to collect and organize other sorts of media, like audio and photographs. Dabble doesn't directly host any media.
More at:http://dabble.com/
Dabble's is to help you find and collect videos from all over the web, no matter where they are hosted.
How It Works:
Videos get put on the web in lots of different ways: uploaded from people's home computers, mobile phones, and digital cameras, as well as professionally produced and posted by the company that made them (or others who enjoy them).
All of this video has to be "hosted" (stored and served from) somewhere online. Along with all the websites that just feature a clip or two, hundreds of video hosting sites now exist to store and serve these videos to you.
Dabble gathers video data from hundreds of hosting sites, as well as from tens of thousands of other websites. Dabble keeps a record of where web videos are located, descriptions about the video, who made it, what it's about, how popular it is, and so on.
This record, called "metadata", makes it easy to search and find video. The community of Dabble members adds details and notes, correcting mistakes, and sharing what is valuable to them about the media, enhancing the metadata in a massive team effort that goes far beyond what any one site can do alone.
You don't need to join Dabble to find videos using our search service, but once you have a membership in Dabble, you can start collecting and organizing your favorite videos. Wherever you travel on the web, you can quickly and easily import links to the videos you discover into your own personal Dabble collection. You can also add your own comments and "tags" (keywords) to share with our member community, and you can organize videos into playlists, like all the web videos about a favorite person or topic.
Because all the other Dabble members are organizing videos too, chances are you can find existing playlists in the Dabble community about whatever you're interested in, and find new videos that way. People also use Dabble to collect and organize other sorts of media, like audio and photographs. Dabble doesn't directly host any media.
More at:http://dabble.com/
3LUXE---Refine Top Three For Shoppers
What Company Is Offering:
At 3LUXE, they do the research for you and they limit their results to the three things that they identify as the “Best Ofs” in each category. If you’re looking for the “Best Of” digital cameras, they give you the three best options, not millions of search results. And while their reviews are certainly subjective (they have real people actually researching the products, not algorithms), they are also completely objective in that no one can buy their way onto the list.
They intend that their “Best Ofs” will be very fluid and reflect the latest information available. As you bring better products to our attention, or as we uncover them ourselves with ongoing research, they’ll continually update categories to keep the site relevant, useful and most important, simple.
How It Works:
They do the same painstaking research you’d do if you had more time. They thoroughly review all the available information. Including, but not limited to, online reviews, magazine articles, company literature, and our own consumers’ feedback. Where possible, our team does rely on personal use, but for many items (large size jets anyone?) that’s just not practical.
All of the research and review work is done completely independent of any advertiser or outside company influence. This editorial independence is an incredibly important part of what we do to ensure the 3LUXE experience accomplishes what you want – giving you unbiased perspective on the best in any given category.
3LUXE is an advertising supported site. By creating an audience of people who are interested in possibly purchasing in a category, they create a valuable and targeted environment for companies to place their advertising message. They also hope to make money by referring people to other sites such as Shopzilla or Amazon as our 3LUXE consumers take the next step in the purchase process.
More at:http://www.3luxe.com/
At 3LUXE, they do the research for you and they limit their results to the three things that they identify as the “Best Ofs” in each category. If you’re looking for the “Best Of” digital cameras, they give you the three best options, not millions of search results. And while their reviews are certainly subjective (they have real people actually researching the products, not algorithms), they are also completely objective in that no one can buy their way onto the list.
They intend that their “Best Ofs” will be very fluid and reflect the latest information available. As you bring better products to our attention, or as we uncover them ourselves with ongoing research, they’ll continually update categories to keep the site relevant, useful and most important, simple.
How It Works:
They do the same painstaking research you’d do if you had more time. They thoroughly review all the available information. Including, but not limited to, online reviews, magazine articles, company literature, and our own consumers’ feedback. Where possible, our team does rely on personal use, but for many items (large size jets anyone?) that’s just not practical.
All of the research and review work is done completely independent of any advertiser or outside company influence. This editorial independence is an incredibly important part of what we do to ensure the 3LUXE experience accomplishes what you want – giving you unbiased perspective on the best in any given category.
3LUXE is an advertising supported site. By creating an audience of people who are interested in possibly purchasing in a category, they create a valuable and targeted environment for companies to place their advertising message. They also hope to make money by referring people to other sites such as Shopzilla or Amazon as our 3LUXE consumers take the next step in the purchase process.
More at:http://www.3luxe.com/
Millions in Sales
Even though he broke his foot dancing at his brother’s wedding one recent weekend, life is still good for Bert Jacobs.
Mr. Jacobs is the 42-year-old co-founder of Life is good, a popular apparel brand based in Boston that is on track to break $100 million in sales this year. This is rarefied air for Mr. Jacobs, who a dozen years ago was selling T-shirts out of a battered van on the streets of Boston with his brother John, now 39.
From a single childlike drawing of a character they named Jake and their uplifting three-word slogan, the brothers have developed a fashion brand sold in 4,500 independent retail outlets in the United States and 27 other countries.
Since 1994, they have sold nearly 20 million Life is good T-shirts and now have a product line with more than 900 items, from hats to dog beds, and the company continues to grow 30 to 40 percent annually. There are now 93 independently owned Life is good retail shops selling only their merchandise, and the company plans to have a total of 200 by the end of 2009. With all that, Life is good has just 250 employees.
Life is good, which rations its use of capital letters, offers one more example of a small company creating a big brand. Though most consumers associate great brands with marketing giants like Procter & Gamble, General Motors, Apple and Nike, the ability to build a powerful brand is no longer reserved for the big spenders. Small companies with great ideas and well-planned strategies — Kryptonite bicycle locks, Stonyfield Farm yogurt, Zipcar — have spawned prominent brands.
“A big brand comes from big insights about culture and consumers and what it is that they need,” said Susan Fournier, a brand expert and associate professor of marketing at the School of Management at Boston University. “To me, that has nothing to do with big budgets.”
“Life is good tapped into an emotional ethos that struck a chord with where the culture was at a certain point in time. That is not done by a marketing budget but by their customers who become evangelists and give the brand visibility and credibility.”
Internet start-ups like Google, YouTube, Craigslist and Facebook used the Web to promote themselves and have now grown into giants themselves. Facebook, the popular social networking Web site, for example, was started in a Harvard dormitory room by three undergraduates less than four years ago, and today, with just over 300 employees, has nearly 50 million active users and has been signing up 200,000 new ones a day since January. New brands can be started online with stunning speed and efficiency by small groups of entrepreneurs who understand the impact of the viral environment of the Web.
Creating that ubiquity for a brand in the nondigital world is tougher. Though they had been reasonably content to sell enough of their wares to pay a meager rent and avoid taking real jobs, the Jacobs brothers always believed that they could make a better T-shirt and turn it into a bona fide business.
They posted their own drawings and slogans on the wall of their apartment near Boston and regularly polled friends at their frequent keg parties for feedback about their ideas. “It was truly like a focus group,” Bert Jacobs recalled.
In search of something that would resonate with a broad audience, they created Jake, a crudely drawn stick character not all that far removed from the Smiley Face, and were amazed at how he inspired an intensely positive reaction.
“This guy has life figured out,” wrote one friend next to the drawing.
They later posted a list of 50 slogans they had compiled and got a similar reaction to the unremarkable phrase “life is good.” A girlfriend concluded that the slogan with three simple words “kind of says it all.”
The brothers printed 48 test T-shirts that combined the slogan with the drawing for a street fair in Cambridge, Mass., in 1994, and sold the entire lot in 45 minutes.
That night, the brothers huddled and decided that the gold they had seemingly struck was a result of their message of optimism. “The reason people bought those shirts was because they understood it instantly,” Bert Jacobs said. “It made them smile, and it was tangible. They could reach out and get a little sunshine.”
Doug Gladstone, chief executive of Brand Content, an ad agency in Boston, agreed. “They tapped into something positive yet benign,” he said. “The product makes you feel good but it’s not over the top.”
By the end of 1994, the brothers had sold $82,000 of Life is good shirts through a couple of willing retail outlets. Within four years, they broke the $1 million barrier and believed they had found the small business they had always dreamed of and that they were sitting on an emerging brand.
The outside world did not see it that way. “It was a real uphill battle to get other people to say we had a brand,” Bert Jacobs said. “At $10 million and even $20 million in sales, they were still asking us when we were going to launch something different.”
With no business acumen, the brothers sought out successful retailers and peppered them with questions. Bert Jacobs acknowledged that smarter businessmen could have expanded the company more quickly but that was never the point.
Prof. Fournier said that slow growth is an asset for small companies trying to build brands.
“People with deep pockets put the pedal to the metal and do too much too quickly,” she said. “Big companies try to do everything in the first two years but often fall off the cliff. Small companies have to hold back and build the brand more carefully and diligently. Slow and steady often wins the race.”
The Jacobs brothers considered a consumer advertising campaign several years ago but decided to wait until growth slowed to start it. Growth has never slowed. Instead of advertising, the company spends its money on charitable fund-raising festivals for children’s causes.
“People who are facing adversity embrace our message the most,” Bert Jacobs said.
Skeptics have warned the brothers that their concept has a limited shelf life, and, indeed, they plan to extend the brand to try to keep it vibrant. Next spring, Life is good plans to start several apparel and product lines like Good Karma, Good Kids, Good Dog and Good Vibes that will aim at specific audiences. Good Karma, for example, is an environmentally sustainable clothing line. Good Kids will extend the product line for children.
Bert Jacobs is confident the brand has legs. “So much of fashion and culture is cyclical. It comes and goes,” he said. “When the trend tails off, so does your business. But optimism is not a trend. It’s empowering to celebrate life’s simple pleasures.”
More at:http://www.lifeisgood.com/
Via-NY Times
Mr. Jacobs is the 42-year-old co-founder of Life is good, a popular apparel brand based in Boston that is on track to break $100 million in sales this year. This is rarefied air for Mr. Jacobs, who a dozen years ago was selling T-shirts out of a battered van on the streets of Boston with his brother John, now 39.
From a single childlike drawing of a character they named Jake and their uplifting three-word slogan, the brothers have developed a fashion brand sold in 4,500 independent retail outlets in the United States and 27 other countries.
Since 1994, they have sold nearly 20 million Life is good T-shirts and now have a product line with more than 900 items, from hats to dog beds, and the company continues to grow 30 to 40 percent annually. There are now 93 independently owned Life is good retail shops selling only their merchandise, and the company plans to have a total of 200 by the end of 2009. With all that, Life is good has just 250 employees.
Life is good, which rations its use of capital letters, offers one more example of a small company creating a big brand. Though most consumers associate great brands with marketing giants like Procter & Gamble, General Motors, Apple and Nike, the ability to build a powerful brand is no longer reserved for the big spenders. Small companies with great ideas and well-planned strategies — Kryptonite bicycle locks, Stonyfield Farm yogurt, Zipcar — have spawned prominent brands.
“A big brand comes from big insights about culture and consumers and what it is that they need,” said Susan Fournier, a brand expert and associate professor of marketing at the School of Management at Boston University. “To me, that has nothing to do with big budgets.”
“Life is good tapped into an emotional ethos that struck a chord with where the culture was at a certain point in time. That is not done by a marketing budget but by their customers who become evangelists and give the brand visibility and credibility.”
Internet start-ups like Google, YouTube, Craigslist and Facebook used the Web to promote themselves and have now grown into giants themselves. Facebook, the popular social networking Web site, for example, was started in a Harvard dormitory room by three undergraduates less than four years ago, and today, with just over 300 employees, has nearly 50 million active users and has been signing up 200,000 new ones a day since January. New brands can be started online with stunning speed and efficiency by small groups of entrepreneurs who understand the impact of the viral environment of the Web.
Creating that ubiquity for a brand in the nondigital world is tougher. Though they had been reasonably content to sell enough of their wares to pay a meager rent and avoid taking real jobs, the Jacobs brothers always believed that they could make a better T-shirt and turn it into a bona fide business.
They posted their own drawings and slogans on the wall of their apartment near Boston and regularly polled friends at their frequent keg parties for feedback about their ideas. “It was truly like a focus group,” Bert Jacobs recalled.
In search of something that would resonate with a broad audience, they created Jake, a crudely drawn stick character not all that far removed from the Smiley Face, and were amazed at how he inspired an intensely positive reaction.
“This guy has life figured out,” wrote one friend next to the drawing.
They later posted a list of 50 slogans they had compiled and got a similar reaction to the unremarkable phrase “life is good.” A girlfriend concluded that the slogan with three simple words “kind of says it all.”
The brothers printed 48 test T-shirts that combined the slogan with the drawing for a street fair in Cambridge, Mass., in 1994, and sold the entire lot in 45 minutes.
That night, the brothers huddled and decided that the gold they had seemingly struck was a result of their message of optimism. “The reason people bought those shirts was because they understood it instantly,” Bert Jacobs said. “It made them smile, and it was tangible. They could reach out and get a little sunshine.”
Doug Gladstone, chief executive of Brand Content, an ad agency in Boston, agreed. “They tapped into something positive yet benign,” he said. “The product makes you feel good but it’s not over the top.”
By the end of 1994, the brothers had sold $82,000 of Life is good shirts through a couple of willing retail outlets. Within four years, they broke the $1 million barrier and believed they had found the small business they had always dreamed of and that they were sitting on an emerging brand.
The outside world did not see it that way. “It was a real uphill battle to get other people to say we had a brand,” Bert Jacobs said. “At $10 million and even $20 million in sales, they were still asking us when we were going to launch something different.”
With no business acumen, the brothers sought out successful retailers and peppered them with questions. Bert Jacobs acknowledged that smarter businessmen could have expanded the company more quickly but that was never the point.
Prof. Fournier said that slow growth is an asset for small companies trying to build brands.
“People with deep pockets put the pedal to the metal and do too much too quickly,” she said. “Big companies try to do everything in the first two years but often fall off the cliff. Small companies have to hold back and build the brand more carefully and diligently. Slow and steady often wins the race.”
The Jacobs brothers considered a consumer advertising campaign several years ago but decided to wait until growth slowed to start it. Growth has never slowed. Instead of advertising, the company spends its money on charitable fund-raising festivals for children’s causes.
“People who are facing adversity embrace our message the most,” Bert Jacobs said.
Skeptics have warned the brothers that their concept has a limited shelf life, and, indeed, they plan to extend the brand to try to keep it vibrant. Next spring, Life is good plans to start several apparel and product lines like Good Karma, Good Kids, Good Dog and Good Vibes that will aim at specific audiences. Good Karma, for example, is an environmentally sustainable clothing line. Good Kids will extend the product line for children.
Bert Jacobs is confident the brand has legs. “So much of fashion and culture is cyclical. It comes and goes,” he said. “When the trend tails off, so does your business. But optimism is not a trend. It’s empowering to celebrate life’s simple pleasures.”
More at:http://www.lifeisgood.com/
Via-NY Times
Convergence Inc. Got $15 million in Series D funding
What Company Is Offering:
SBCs provide a means of interfacing VoIP traffic between service providers (the peering edge) or connecting users to their real-time services (the access edge). SBCs perform a variety of functions that may include NAT traversal, topology hiding, acting as a firewall for SIP traffic, or cooperating with the existing firewall, Denial-of-Service attack prevention, call routing, codec transcoding, protocol interworking, lawful intercept and other critical functions that are necessary to deliver a quality user experience over an IP network.
Covergence is the creator of Eclipse, the industry's first session border controller specifically designed to address the unique requirements of the VoIP access edge. The core of the development and leadership team has spent their careers working in the network equipment industry at companies such as Shiva, Cascade, Aptis, Bay Networks, Nortel, Tiburon Networks and other leading organizations. While this team has had a hand in creating almost every type of network solution imaginable, they are experts in solving high-performance routing and access problems found within the Global 2000 and service providers.
What's Market Of That Kind Of Product:
The first phase of VoIP has been reached as carriers have replaced their traditional TDM transport networks and Class 4 switches with more economical IP transport and softswitches. As a result a large percentage of long distance voice transport now relies on Session Border Controllers (SBCs) to manage peering between service providers. But a peering SBC may not meet the requirements found at the access edge. The access edge SBC has to process registration traffic, manage registration floods, authenticate users, protect the service from intrusions and attacks, encrypt and decrypt signaling and media, enforce user-defined policies, and manage thousands-to-millions of active endpoints - with negligible latency, jitter and loss. This is the reason the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) standard defines both an access-edge and peering-edge SBC.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Convergence Inc., a Maynard, Mass.-based provider of IP communications security, has raised $15 million in Series D funding. Backers include Highland Capital Partners, Globespan Capital Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners.
More at:http://www.covergence.com/
SBCs provide a means of interfacing VoIP traffic between service providers (the peering edge) or connecting users to their real-time services (the access edge). SBCs perform a variety of functions that may include NAT traversal, topology hiding, acting as a firewall for SIP traffic, or cooperating with the existing firewall, Denial-of-Service attack prevention, call routing, codec transcoding, protocol interworking, lawful intercept and other critical functions that are necessary to deliver a quality user experience over an IP network.
Covergence is the creator of Eclipse, the industry's first session border controller specifically designed to address the unique requirements of the VoIP access edge. The core of the development and leadership team has spent their careers working in the network equipment industry at companies such as Shiva, Cascade, Aptis, Bay Networks, Nortel, Tiburon Networks and other leading organizations. While this team has had a hand in creating almost every type of network solution imaginable, they are experts in solving high-performance routing and access problems found within the Global 2000 and service providers.
What's Market Of That Kind Of Product:
The first phase of VoIP has been reached as carriers have replaced their traditional TDM transport networks and Class 4 switches with more economical IP transport and softswitches. As a result a large percentage of long distance voice transport now relies on Session Border Controllers (SBCs) to manage peering between service providers. But a peering SBC may not meet the requirements found at the access edge. The access edge SBC has to process registration traffic, manage registration floods, authenticate users, protect the service from intrusions and attacks, encrypt and decrypt signaling and media, enforce user-defined policies, and manage thousands-to-millions of active endpoints - with negligible latency, jitter and loss. This is the reason the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) standard defines both an access-edge and peering-edge SBC.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Convergence Inc., a Maynard, Mass.-based provider of IP communications security, has raised $15 million in Series D funding. Backers include Highland Capital Partners, Globespan Capital Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners.
More at:http://www.covergence.com/
TargetProcess helps software development companies reduce the complexity of software project management and simplifies planning
What Company is Offering:
TargetProcess is agile project management software. Designed with simplicity in mind, TargetProcess helps software development companies reduce the complexity of software project management and simplifies planning, tracking and quality assurance activities.
How It Works:
Improves communication in your project team; allows agile development in distributed teams .
Real-time progress tracking; always know the current project state and next release date.
Full support of iterative development; use it for projects of all sizes.
Variety of productivity tools; execute common tasks faster.
More at:http://www.targetprocess.com/
TargetProcess is agile project management software. Designed with simplicity in mind, TargetProcess helps software development companies reduce the complexity of software project management and simplifies planning, tracking and quality assurance activities.
How It Works:
Improves communication in your project team; allows agile development in distributed teams .
Real-time progress tracking; always know the current project state and next release date.
Full support of iterative development; use it for projects of all sizes.
Variety of productivity tools; execute common tasks faster.
More at:http://www.targetprocess.com/
Muti--- For Those Interested In AFRICA
What Company Is Offering:
Muti is a social bookmarking site inspired by reddit and Digg but dedicated to content of interest to Africans or those interested in Africa.
How it Works:
Registered users submit links to news stories, articles or any item of interest. Other users have the opportunity of voting these submissions up or down. An up vote will increase a submission's score while a down vote will decrease its score.
Voting is achieved simply by clicking on the arrows (,) which appear to the left of the submitted items. Only registered users may vote. Voting also determines the "kudus" of a user. Kudus (a word play on both "Kudos", and also a southern african antelope) are similar to what many other sites refer to as "karma". Kudus are earned (or lost) by other users voting for a submission. Thus if I submit an article and ten people vote it up whilst three vote it down, I will earn seven kudus for that article.
There are a number of different views which show the submitted items in various ways. These are explained below.
hot - This is the default view. It lists submissions in order of a "hotness" or "heat", which is calculated based on the amount of voting within recent time periods. The more up votes an item has received within recent time periods, the higher it will appear on the list. Note that the "score" displayed below each item is NOT the same as the "heat" but is rather a composite score based on voting over all time AND the number of times the item has been viewed or read.
new - This view lists submissions in the reverse order in which they were submitted, in other words the newest submissions will always be at the top of this view.
top - The top view shows the submissions in order of a composite score based on total votes of all time and on number of times the item has been viewed or read.
More at:http://muti.co.za/
Muti is a social bookmarking site inspired by reddit and Digg but dedicated to content of interest to Africans or those interested in Africa.
How it Works:
Registered users submit links to news stories, articles or any item of interest. Other users have the opportunity of voting these submissions up or down. An up vote will increase a submission's score while a down vote will decrease its score.
Voting is achieved simply by clicking on the arrows (,) which appear to the left of the submitted items. Only registered users may vote. Voting also determines the "kudus" of a user. Kudus (a word play on both "Kudos", and also a southern african antelope) are similar to what many other sites refer to as "karma". Kudus are earned (or lost) by other users voting for a submission. Thus if I submit an article and ten people vote it up whilst three vote it down, I will earn seven kudus for that article.
There are a number of different views which show the submitted items in various ways. These are explained below.
hot - This is the default view. It lists submissions in order of a "hotness" or "heat", which is calculated based on the amount of voting within recent time periods. The more up votes an item has received within recent time periods, the higher it will appear on the list. Note that the "score" displayed below each item is NOT the same as the "heat" but is rather a composite score based on voting over all time AND the number of times the item has been viewed or read.
new - This view lists submissions in the reverse order in which they were submitted, in other words the newest submissions will always be at the top of this view.
top - The top view shows the submissions in order of a composite score based on total votes of all time and on number of times the item has been viewed or read.
More at:http://muti.co.za/
Kya Kare .com---Discover And Share Events In India
What Company Is Offering:
Kya Kare in Hindi means “What do I/we do?”. It’s a common question used in India to figure out what to do next. They thought this would be quite an apt name for an events listing site.This is an event listing site for for Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata covering Arts, theatre, plays, music, dance, seminars, workshops, TV, radio, and more.
How It Works:
For any event related information you can surf their data online, it would be quite useful to have a site that lists this information. They’ve kept the site quite simple and utilitarian, without fussing too much on look and graphic elements. The site is a platform for discovering and sharing events. It’s totally free of cost and a not for profit site.
They’ve built this site and has been launched on September 16th 2007.
More at:http://www.kyakare.com/
Kya Kare in Hindi means “What do I/we do?”. It’s a common question used in India to figure out what to do next. They thought this would be quite an apt name for an events listing site.This is an event listing site for for Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata covering Arts, theatre, plays, music, dance, seminars, workshops, TV, radio, and more.
How It Works:
For any event related information you can surf their data online, it would be quite useful to have a site that lists this information. They’ve kept the site quite simple and utilitarian, without fussing too much on look and graphic elements. The site is a platform for discovering and sharing events. It’s totally free of cost and a not for profit site.
They’ve built this site and has been launched on September 16th 2007.
More at:http://www.kyakare.com/
Survelio.com simplifies the online survey process by providing human and business intelligence
What Company Is Offering:
Survelio.com simplifies the online survey process by providing human and business intelligence with a combination of quality, speed, affordability, and service.
Survelio.com is a professional survey service provided by Saisient LLC- provides survey as a service not only to get you the right information related to an individual's work, growth capabilities but also allows you to analyze methods for optimum utilization of your resources/products/needs and many such factors.
Unique Features:
Quality
Attention to detail in every element of Client interaction.
Professional project management and communication.
Accurate and insightful analysis.
Sound processes and extensive research infrastructure.
Custom/Cost Effective.
Fraction of typical cost.
100% customized .
Highly scalable.
Flexible working relationship.
More at:http://www.survelio.com/
Survelio.com simplifies the online survey process by providing human and business intelligence with a combination of quality, speed, affordability, and service.
Survelio.com is a professional survey service provided by Saisient LLC- provides survey as a service not only to get you the right information related to an individual's work, growth capabilities but also allows you to analyze methods for optimum utilization of your resources/products/needs and many such factors.
Unique Features:
Quality
Attention to detail in every element of Client interaction.
Professional project management and communication.
Accurate and insightful analysis.
Sound processes and extensive research infrastructure.
Custom/Cost Effective.
Fraction of typical cost.
100% customized .
Highly scalable.
Flexible working relationship.
More at:http://www.survelio.com/
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Zumobi takes accessing, retrieving, and sharing Web-based content beyond traditional mobile browsers
What Company Is offering:
Zumobi takes accessing, retrieving, and sharing Web-based content beyond traditional mobile browsers. Through an intuitive, lush, high-framerate user interface called Tiles, Zumobi allows people to easily “bounce” in and out of snack-sized bits information they need throughout the day, and the targeted entertainment they enjoy, while offering advertisers a better way to connect with consumers through their mobile phones.
How It Works:
Zumobi’s open platform offers a better mobile experience for business partners and developers. Zumobi delivers a device-neutral platform for building and deploying rich content for mobile phones. We make it simple and profitable to build and deliver mobile applications through a single standard for development and deployment plus an attractive revenue sharing model.
Zumobi tiles are “always on, updating & waiting for you” so there’s no frustrating browser delays as you access the broad range of interactive content and customized experiences from top-tier providers and world-class partners. Plus, Tiles can be easily sent via phone form user to user, so that you can quickly share with your friends on the spot!
A Beta version of the Zumobi SDK will be available to developers simultaneously with the launch of the Beta Program in December. Zumobi Tiles can be easily sent to other Zumobi users, allowing communities of friends to quickly create, embrace, share and use Tiles targeted to their unique interests.
More at:http://www.zumobi.com/
Zumobi takes accessing, retrieving, and sharing Web-based content beyond traditional mobile browsers. Through an intuitive, lush, high-framerate user interface called Tiles, Zumobi allows people to easily “bounce” in and out of snack-sized bits information they need throughout the day, and the targeted entertainment they enjoy, while offering advertisers a better way to connect with consumers through their mobile phones.
How It Works:
Zumobi’s open platform offers a better mobile experience for business partners and developers. Zumobi delivers a device-neutral platform for building and deploying rich content for mobile phones. We make it simple and profitable to build and deliver mobile applications through a single standard for development and deployment plus an attractive revenue sharing model.
Zumobi tiles are “always on, updating & waiting for you” so there’s no frustrating browser delays as you access the broad range of interactive content and customized experiences from top-tier providers and world-class partners. Plus, Tiles can be easily sent via phone form user to user, so that you can quickly share with your friends on the spot!
A Beta version of the Zumobi SDK will be available to developers simultaneously with the launch of the Beta Program in December. Zumobi Tiles can be easily sent to other Zumobi users, allowing communities of friends to quickly create, embrace, share and use Tiles targeted to their unique interests.
More at:http://www.zumobi.com/
CatalystOffice----Your Office Anywhere
What Company Is Offering:
CatalystOffice is the only suite of enterprise-grade communication, document management, and other office productivity applications designed to relieve you of the headaches of other enterprise solutions:
High server costs and administrative demands.
Equipment requirements and space restrictions.
Complicated and expensive licensing.
How It Works:
The software was designed for the needs of small businesses, with multiple users in different locations, and has a lot of “little” features that are missing from Microsoft Outlook and Windows.
There are 4 pricing plans starting at $25 per month – companies can add as many users as they want and the price does not increase, it’s only dependent on how much storage you use for your files (for example you get 10 Gigs of file storage for $25/month)
The setup for the software is easy to setup and despite strong competition from HyperOffice, WebEx's WebOffice, Google, Zimbra and Zoho, the simple Catalyst interfaces should help them gain traction.
You can start using CatalystOffice after your very first login. Their applications are based on familiar functions and standard business applications. CatalystOffice is designed to let you set yourself up to work the way you’re most productive.
Your data is stored in the same data centers as some of the best known Web companies in the world. It’s monitored 24x7. And daily backups ensure your data is protected.
Unique Features:
Unlimited user licenses – add people without added cost.
Flexible pricing – buy only what you need.
Geographic expansion – our system lets you work anywhere, anytime.
Changing user roles and access – easy profile management lets you do it on the fly.
Free upgrades – get the latest features and newest versions for nothing .
more at:http://www.catalystweb.com/
CatalystOffice is the only suite of enterprise-grade communication, document management, and other office productivity applications designed to relieve you of the headaches of other enterprise solutions:
High server costs and administrative demands.
Equipment requirements and space restrictions.
Complicated and expensive licensing.
How It Works:
The software was designed for the needs of small businesses, with multiple users in different locations, and has a lot of “little” features that are missing from Microsoft Outlook and Windows.
There are 4 pricing plans starting at $25 per month – companies can add as many users as they want and the price does not increase, it’s only dependent on how much storage you use for your files (for example you get 10 Gigs of file storage for $25/month)
The setup for the software is easy to setup and despite strong competition from HyperOffice, WebEx's WebOffice, Google, Zimbra and Zoho, the simple Catalyst interfaces should help them gain traction.
You can start using CatalystOffice after your very first login. Their applications are based on familiar functions and standard business applications. CatalystOffice is designed to let you set yourself up to work the way you’re most productive.
Your data is stored in the same data centers as some of the best known Web companies in the world. It’s monitored 24x7. And daily backups ensure your data is protected.
Unique Features:
Unlimited user licenses – add people without added cost.
Flexible pricing – buy only what you need.
Geographic expansion – our system lets you work anywhere, anytime.
Changing user roles and access – easy profile management lets you do it on the fly.
Free upgrades – get the latest features and newest versions for nothing .
more at:http://www.catalystweb.com/
TheAutoLog.com provides a free online system for tracking and recording vehicle maintenance information
What Company is Offering:
TheAutoLog.com provides a free online system for tracking and recording vehicle maintenance information. TheAutoLog allows its members to easily organize repairs and maintenance that have been done to their vehicles. TheAutoLog keeps a shareable, customizable, personalized profile that can display photos, general information and maintenance records of a particular vehicle.
How It Works:
1.You'll need to Log-in. Go to 'Maintenance Records' and select "Upload maintenance record" for the vehicle of your choice. Your invoice must be stored on you computer and be of type .jpg, .gif or .png. Your invoice file can not be larger than 200KB. You can reduce the size of your invoice file by using a program such as MS Paint
2.To make your vehicle profile private (only viewable by you): Log-in and click on: "Customize Profile". Next, choose the desired vehicle and click on "Profile Settings". Simply change "Profile mode: Viewable" to "Profile mode: Private". Press "Save Changes."
3.Your maintenance records are defaulted to 'Private Mode' - only you can view them. If you want others to be able to view your maintenance history (ie. a repair shop), Log-in and go to 'Maintenance Records' and click on "Maintenance Settings". You'll now see an option to make your maintenance records public.
4.You must be logged into TheAutoLog. To vote for a paticular vehicle, simply go to that vehicle's profile and under the main photo click on: 'Vote'.
TheAutoLog.com provides all of it's current features for free.
More at:http://www.theautolog.com/
TheAutoLog.com provides a free online system for tracking and recording vehicle maintenance information. TheAutoLog allows its members to easily organize repairs and maintenance that have been done to their vehicles. TheAutoLog keeps a shareable, customizable, personalized profile that can display photos, general information and maintenance records of a particular vehicle.
How It Works:
1.You'll need to Log-in. Go to 'Maintenance Records' and select "Upload maintenance record" for the vehicle of your choice. Your invoice must be stored on you computer and be of type .jpg, .gif or .png. Your invoice file can not be larger than 200KB. You can reduce the size of your invoice file by using a program such as MS Paint
2.To make your vehicle profile private (only viewable by you): Log-in and click on: "Customize Profile". Next, choose the desired vehicle and click on "Profile Settings". Simply change "Profile mode: Viewable" to "Profile mode: Private". Press "Save Changes."
3.Your maintenance records are defaulted to 'Private Mode' - only you can view them. If you want others to be able to view your maintenance history (ie. a repair shop), Log-in and go to 'Maintenance Records' and click on "Maintenance Settings". You'll now see an option to make your maintenance records public.
4.You must be logged into TheAutoLog. To vote for a paticular vehicle, simply go to that vehicle's profile and under the main photo click on: 'Vote'.
TheAutoLog.com provides all of it's current features for free.
More at:http://www.theautolog.com/
Grocery Guide
What Company is Offering:
Grocery Guide collects the grocery sales from around the country. Those sales are processed to add ratings, recipes, charts, nutritional information, tracking, sale price alerts, coupon notifications, and more.
Simply put... If you buy groceries, they can save you a lot of money. Kiss those long trips up and down the isles goodbye.
How It Works:
Ratings -
Believe it or not, a sale does not mean savings. Either write down the prices for each product for the next 19 years (yep we use that much history), or look at our star ratings next to the sale price. The choice is your's.
Grocery Coupons -
They track all coupons relating to grocery products. Some people use coupons, others don't. Either way, they make it easy for you couponers.
Recipes
So what if Chicken is on sale if you don't know what to do with it. They help by showing you recipes for many of the sale items. It makes meal planning and shopping easy. Find a recipe that you like? Be sure to create a sales alert so we know to notify you when the main ingredients go on sale.
Price Charts -
Price are continually adjusting based on supply and demand. Using their vast archive of sale prices dating back 19 years, they are able show you relevant price points to help you know whether prices might be going up or down.
More at:http://www.groceryguide.com/
Grocery Guide collects the grocery sales from around the country. Those sales are processed to add ratings, recipes, charts, nutritional information, tracking, sale price alerts, coupon notifications, and more.
Simply put... If you buy groceries, they can save you a lot of money. Kiss those long trips up and down the isles goodbye.
How It Works:
Ratings -
Believe it or not, a sale does not mean savings. Either write down the prices for each product for the next 19 years (yep we use that much history), or look at our star ratings next to the sale price. The choice is your's.
Grocery Coupons -
They track all coupons relating to grocery products. Some people use coupons, others don't. Either way, they make it easy for you couponers.
Recipes
So what if Chicken is on sale if you don't know what to do with it. They help by showing you recipes for many of the sale items. It makes meal planning and shopping easy. Find a recipe that you like? Be sure to create a sales alert so we know to notify you when the main ingredients go on sale.
Price Charts -
Price are continually adjusting based on supply and demand. Using their vast archive of sale prices dating back 19 years, they are able show you relevant price points to help you know whether prices might be going up or down.
More at:http://www.groceryguide.com/
nerdynews.com ---Submit Story Or News To Them And Make Money
What Company is Offering:
nerdynews.com is an AdSense API partner, which means that Google has bestowed on us the ability to display ads on our users behalf (with a 50% revenue share). This means that you'll make 50% of the money made off your submissions comment pages, paid to your AdSense account, by Google.
How It Works:
First, you need to create a nerdynews.com account. During this process you will be asked to either create a new Google AdSense account (which we can do behind the scenes for you) or associate with an existing account. Once your account is all set up, you can post stories. If those stories are popular, they will recieve more prominent position on the site (perhaps making it to the homepage). Each story has its own comment page. The ads shown on a stories comment page are split 50/50 with the user who submitted that story. Eventually (depending on how you've set up your Google AdSense account), Google will mail send you the money you've earned.
More at:http://www.nerdynews.com/
nerdynews.com is an AdSense API partner, which means that Google has bestowed on us the ability to display ads on our users behalf (with a 50% revenue share). This means that you'll make 50% of the money made off your submissions comment pages, paid to your AdSense account, by Google.
How It Works:
First, you need to create a nerdynews.com account. During this process you will be asked to either create a new Google AdSense account (which we can do behind the scenes for you) or associate with an existing account. Once your account is all set up, you can post stories. If those stories are popular, they will recieve more prominent position on the site (perhaps making it to the homepage). Each story has its own comment page. The ads shown on a stories comment page are split 50/50 with the user who submitted that story. Eventually (depending on how you've set up your Google AdSense account), Google will mail send you the money you've earned.
More at:http://www.nerdynews.com/
InterviewStudio combines the newest online recruiting tools into one Web portal--Digital Interview
What Company is Offering:
InterviewStudio is the most comprehensive applicant screening tool on the market, offering an exciting new platform for executive hiring. InterviewStudio combines the newest online recruiting tools into one Web portal, including: candidate profiles, video interviews, online resumes, social networking profiles, professional assessment tests, business references, and data about the candidates from internet search engines.
How It Works:
InterviewStudio is a ground breaking new platform that brings speed, efficiency and effectiveness to the hiring manager and job seeker alike.
In the time it takes a Hiring Manager to review a traditional resume, he or she can now, using InterviewStudio, review the candidate's resume, evaluate the results of a nationally recognized assessment test, watch a video taped interview, look for public information on the candidate in Google and identify their social network via LinkedIn, all from the same platform and in a matter a minutes. Based on this broad base of information on the candidate, the hiring manager can quickly determine if the individual may be the right "fit" for their firm and warrant the time and expense of an in person interview.
For job seekers, the InterviewStudio platform offers a candidate the ability to uniquely showcase their complete skills, abilities and talents to a hiring manager and dramatically improve their ability to gain an in person interview.
Who is Behind This Company:
InterviewStudio is created by an award-winning, pioneering thought leader in the recruitment solutions industry, Colleen Aylward. Colleen has spent the last 15 years as President and Founder of Northwest recruiting firm Devon James Associates, Inc. whose clients have included such industry pioneers as Amazon, Visio, Spry/Compuserve, Xylo, Quintessent Communications, Rhapsody Networks, Avenue A, Cranium, Infospace. These startup companies have depended on her strategic thinking about recruiting solutions (such as her "Onsite Recruiting War Room" model of 1992 which has widespread adoption today) in order to grow their companies quickly and cost effectively.
More at:http://www.interviewstudio.com/
InterviewStudio is the most comprehensive applicant screening tool on the market, offering an exciting new platform for executive hiring. InterviewStudio combines the newest online recruiting tools into one Web portal, including: candidate profiles, video interviews, online resumes, social networking profiles, professional assessment tests, business references, and data about the candidates from internet search engines.
How It Works:
InterviewStudio is a ground breaking new platform that brings speed, efficiency and effectiveness to the hiring manager and job seeker alike.
In the time it takes a Hiring Manager to review a traditional resume, he or she can now, using InterviewStudio, review the candidate's resume, evaluate the results of a nationally recognized assessment test, watch a video taped interview, look for public information on the candidate in Google and identify their social network via LinkedIn, all from the same platform and in a matter a minutes. Based on this broad base of information on the candidate, the hiring manager can quickly determine if the individual may be the right "fit" for their firm and warrant the time and expense of an in person interview.
For job seekers, the InterviewStudio platform offers a candidate the ability to uniquely showcase their complete skills, abilities and talents to a hiring manager and dramatically improve their ability to gain an in person interview.
Who is Behind This Company:
InterviewStudio is created by an award-winning, pioneering thought leader in the recruitment solutions industry, Colleen Aylward. Colleen has spent the last 15 years as President and Founder of Northwest recruiting firm Devon James Associates, Inc. whose clients have included such industry pioneers as Amazon, Visio, Spry/Compuserve, Xylo, Quintessent Communications, Rhapsody Networks, Avenue A, Cranium, Infospace. These startup companies have depended on her strategic thinking about recruiting solutions (such as her "Onsite Recruiting War Room" model of 1992 which has widespread adoption today) in order to grow their companies quickly and cost effectively.
More at:http://www.interviewstudio.com/
Pouchons is the first real Hip-Hop social networking website
What Company is Offering:
Pouchons is the first real Hip-Hop social networking website where members stay in touch with their homies, connect with homies, share photos, discover new interests and just hang out.Pouchons.com was founded by Thierry Bellevue and launched in August of 2005 as a french only website. One year and half later, Thierry decided to work on an improved version of the website, bringing Pouchons.com to another level.
In the peak of fall, in November 2007, the old and the new platforms were merged and branded to become the first Hip-Hop social network on the Web.
Pouchons, Inc. is based in Montreal, Canada.
How It works:
Accessing your account with your email (avoiding you to forgot the handle that you just changed).
Many privacy options such as make your profile visible only to your friends.
Blocking access to your profile to an age range users.
Receiving private shout outs only or public only .
See who’s online by age or by gender .
All members are kept in the same zone (country) - United-States, Canada, France
Search on all website (powered by Google) .
Improved profile - you can now change the colors and the fonts of your profile .
Improved friends system - it works now by requests .
Improved ratings system - send rating automatically .
Improved Control Panel.
Chat System.
Uploading up to 20 pictures (Up to unlimited eventually) .
You can write comments on users’ pictures.
And many more…
Pouchons is the first real Hip-Hop social networking website where members stay in touch with their homies, connect with homies, share photos, discover new interests and just hang out.Pouchons.com was founded by Thierry Bellevue and launched in August of 2005 as a french only website. One year and half later, Thierry decided to work on an improved version of the website, bringing Pouchons.com to another level.
In the peak of fall, in November 2007, the old and the new platforms were merged and branded to become the first Hip-Hop social network on the Web.
Pouchons, Inc. is based in Montreal, Canada.
How It works:
Accessing your account with your email (avoiding you to forgot the handle that you just changed).
Many privacy options such as make your profile visible only to your friends.
Blocking access to your profile to an age range users.
Receiving private shout outs only or public only .
See who’s online by age or by gender .
All members are kept in the same zone (country) - United-States, Canada, France
Search on all website (powered by Google) .
Improved profile - you can now change the colors and the fonts of your profile .
Improved friends system - it works now by requests .
Improved ratings system - send rating automatically .
Improved Control Panel.
Chat System.
Uploading up to 20 pictures (Up to unlimited eventually) .
You can write comments on users’ pictures.
And many more…
Exhibit 2.0
What company is Offering:
Create interactive data-rich web pages without ever touching a database or a web server, or doing any programming.
How It works:
Exhibit is a three-tier web application framework written in Javascript, which you can include like you would include Google Maps.
If you just want to show a few hundred records of data on maps, timelines, scatter plots, interactive tables, etc., why bother learning SQL, ASP, PHP, CGI, or whatever when you can just use Exhibit?
To use Exhibit, you write: a simple data file, and an HTML file in which you specify how the data should be shown. Data + Presentation. That's all there is to publishing, as it should be.
Actually, there is nothing to download—you didn't have to download Google Maps, did you?! Exhibit is also a Web API. All you need is reference its Javascript. Nothing to download; nothing to install. Welcome to a new era of software development.
But if you absolutely have to download something just to feel better about it, or if you have extra disk space to waste, sure, here's how to download Exhibit's source code.
More at:http://simile.mit.edu/
Create interactive data-rich web pages without ever touching a database or a web server, or doing any programming.
How It works:
Exhibit is a three-tier web application framework written in Javascript, which you can include like you would include Google Maps.
If you just want to show a few hundred records of data on maps, timelines, scatter plots, interactive tables, etc., why bother learning SQL, ASP, PHP, CGI, or whatever when you can just use Exhibit?
To use Exhibit, you write: a simple data file, and an HTML file in which you specify how the data should be shown. Data + Presentation. That's all there is to publishing, as it should be.
Actually, there is nothing to download—you didn't have to download Google Maps, did you?! Exhibit is also a Web API. All you need is reference its Javascript. Nothing to download; nothing to install. Welcome to a new era of software development.
But if you absolutely have to download something just to feel better about it, or if you have extra disk space to waste, sure, here's how to download Exhibit's source code.
More at:http://simile.mit.edu/
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Christmas Tree Company
What Company Is Offering:
CRE Loaded Standard Version is the perfect application to power your e-Commerce websites. However, if you need features that only a Pro-level application can deliver, please take a look at all the powerful options our Pro Version adds. If you are looking to deploy a powerful Business to Business solution, our Pro B2B has added features to enhance sales and productivity.
How it Works;
Tannenbaum's sells farm fresh wreaths and Christmas trees all across the United States. Order a fresh tree from Tannenbaum's today and enjoy the soft needles and fresh pine scent of a real Christmas tree. The founding of Tannenbaum’s was motivated to promote a convenient and eco-friendly traditional Christmas celebration. Its founders have more than 20 years collective experience in internet retailing, marketing and search engine optimization. By venturing with experienced and well-established tree growers nationwide, Tannenbaum’s is able to offer its customers with a variety of premium, freshly-cut Christmas trees delivered to their front door directly from the growers.
More at:http://www.premiumchristmastree.com/
CRE Loaded Standard Version is the perfect application to power your e-Commerce websites. However, if you need features that only a Pro-level application can deliver, please take a look at all the powerful options our Pro Version adds. If you are looking to deploy a powerful Business to Business solution, our Pro B2B has added features to enhance sales and productivity.
How it Works;
Tannenbaum's sells farm fresh wreaths and Christmas trees all across the United States. Order a fresh tree from Tannenbaum's today and enjoy the soft needles and fresh pine scent of a real Christmas tree. The founding of Tannenbaum’s was motivated to promote a convenient and eco-friendly traditional Christmas celebration. Its founders have more than 20 years collective experience in internet retailing, marketing and search engine optimization. By venturing with experienced and well-established tree growers nationwide, Tannenbaum’s is able to offer its customers with a variety of premium, freshly-cut Christmas trees delivered to their front door directly from the growers.
More at:http://www.premiumchristmastree.com/
HDRJapan---Travel Information For Japan
what Company is Offering:
While specializing in artistic and editorial images, we utilize various media and provide general information about the following: HDR Photography: Okinawa Travel : Okinawa Japan : Japan Pictures : Okinawa Map : Naha Okinawa : Okinawa Weather : Okinawa Travel Agencies : Okinawa Aquarium : Okinawa Pictures : Okinawa Schools : Okinawa News : Flight to Okinawa : Okinawa Hotels : Battle of Okinawa : Okinawa Marine : Blog Hosting : Image Hosting : Picture Hosting, and more.
How It Works:
Members can post blogs, maintain a personal profile, stay connected with friends in Japan, and upload HDR images in the photo gallery. As a community resource HDR Japan features high dynamic range photography of Japan in an attempt to provide a visually stunning travel resource for this region. Unlike other online guides who can't really guide you through Japan, we want to make sure that you get a taste of this beautiful region. HDR Japan provides a comprehensive, integrated and unique infrastructure, for all types of information about HDR Photography in Japan. It’s the first community based website featuring HDR Photography from Japan.
More at:http://www.hdrjapan.com/
While specializing in artistic and editorial images, we utilize various media and provide general information about the following: HDR Photography: Okinawa Travel : Okinawa Japan : Japan Pictures : Okinawa Map : Naha Okinawa : Okinawa Weather : Okinawa Travel Agencies : Okinawa Aquarium : Okinawa Pictures : Okinawa Schools : Okinawa News : Flight to Okinawa : Okinawa Hotels : Battle of Okinawa : Okinawa Marine : Blog Hosting : Image Hosting : Picture Hosting, and more.
How It Works:
Members can post blogs, maintain a personal profile, stay connected with friends in Japan, and upload HDR images in the photo gallery. As a community resource HDR Japan features high dynamic range photography of Japan in an attempt to provide a visually stunning travel resource for this region. Unlike other online guides who can't really guide you through Japan, we want to make sure that you get a taste of this beautiful region. HDR Japan provides a comprehensive, integrated and unique infrastructure, for all types of information about HDR Photography in Japan. It’s the first community based website featuring HDR Photography from Japan.
More at:http://www.hdrjapan.com/
RealPing Is Conversion Tool For E- Marketing
What Company is Offering:
RealPING is a consumer focused communications tool that empowers real-time assistance for your website visitors. When questions arise and prospects are on your site, looking at tours, reading your email, they need help now. Not tomorrow, not by an email, they demand immediacy. VOIP Widget that connects web site caller with button owner. Once bridged the button owner can control the screen of the calling party with their cell phone- this process has a patent on it. Over 17,000 users as of last week- launched for realtors now going into other industries.
How It Works:
realPING service starts with offering an e- button on all your web-pages,tours, listings and in your email signature. When you determine what hours you want to be reachable, your button will display and be clickable. The consumer on your site enters their phone number where they are NOW, their phone will ring NOW and your desired phone number, perhaps your cell phone, will ring NOW. You have just delivered on the promise that the two of you will talk NOW. So far they are WOWed at how instant the service is. But there is more.
It's 8 PM and your realPING button is ON, so it is clickable in your email, on your website, next to your listings and virtual tours. You are not in the office, or maybe in your car. Your cell rings and the caller ID shows "REALPING". You know that there is someone on your site NOW that needs help. You take the call and handle the inquiry.... but imagine being able to control their screen from your phone! NOW, you can push virtual tours, webpages anything that you want them to see all by pushing pre-set buttons on your Cell phone!
More at:http://www.realping.com/
RealPING is a consumer focused communications tool that empowers real-time assistance for your website visitors. When questions arise and prospects are on your site, looking at tours, reading your email, they need help now. Not tomorrow, not by an email, they demand immediacy. VOIP Widget that connects web site caller with button owner. Once bridged the button owner can control the screen of the calling party with their cell phone- this process has a patent on it. Over 17,000 users as of last week- launched for realtors now going into other industries.
How It Works:
realPING service starts with offering an e- button on all your web-pages,tours, listings and in your email signature. When you determine what hours you want to be reachable, your button will display and be clickable. The consumer on your site enters their phone number where they are NOW, their phone will ring NOW and your desired phone number, perhaps your cell phone, will ring NOW. You have just delivered on the promise that the two of you will talk NOW. So far they are WOWed at how instant the service is. But there is more.
It's 8 PM and your realPING button is ON, so it is clickable in your email, on your website, next to your listings and virtual tours. You are not in the office, or maybe in your car. Your cell rings and the caller ID shows "REALPING". You know that there is someone on your site NOW that needs help. You take the call and handle the inquiry.... but imagine being able to control their screen from your phone! NOW, you can push virtual tours, webpages anything that you want them to see all by pushing pre-set buttons on your Cell phone!
More at:http://www.realping.com/
Redbaby Got $25 million in new VC funding
VCS Funding:
Redbaby Information Technology Co. Ltd., an ecommerce company focused on baby products for the China market, reportedly has raised $25 million in new VC funding.
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers led the deal, and was joined by return backers NEA and Northern Light Venture Capital It plans to go public next year on an overseas exchange. www.redbaby.com.cn.
More at:www.redbaby.com.cn
Redbaby Information Technology Co. Ltd., an ecommerce company focused on baby products for the China market, reportedly has raised $25 million in new VC funding.
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers led the deal, and was joined by return backers NEA and Northern Light Venture Capital It plans to go public next year on an overseas exchange. www.redbaby.com.cn.
More at:www.redbaby.com.cn
PMbuzz is built for the nightlife community
What Company is Offering:
PMbuzz is built for the nightlife community. Its where the out late crowd mixes it up with clubs, DJs, promoters and entertainers. Get the word (pictures, music and video) on the street from the people making the scene.
Join your favorite clubs crowd (sort of a friends list for clubs) to get notified of events as theyre listed. Use your calendar to find out which of your friends is planning to be there. Blast a message out to your crew to let them know where to meet and when.
PMbuzz.com is targeted at nightlife enthusiasts, club venues, promoters, and entertainers to interact.
How It Works:
Members of the website can create user profiles, identify "friends", share media, blog, peruse photos from past club events, and discover what's going on in the New York night scene.
Members can see who's going where, who's "spinning" and promoting where, and how to get on the VIP lists to ensure door entrance.
A page on PMbuzz lets you reach out to your patrons and attract new ones. It gives your publicity people a place to connect with patrons one-on-one. Youll be listed in a separate navigation for clubs, meaning youre easier to find and always in good company.
And because PMbuzz is focused exclusively on nightlife, its a great place to advertise events and specials and to showcase your clubs vibe.
Its totally free.
More at:http://www.pmbuzz.com/
PMbuzz is built for the nightlife community. Its where the out late crowd mixes it up with clubs, DJs, promoters and entertainers. Get the word (pictures, music and video) on the street from the people making the scene.
Join your favorite clubs crowd (sort of a friends list for clubs) to get notified of events as theyre listed. Use your calendar to find out which of your friends is planning to be there. Blast a message out to your crew to let them know where to meet and when.
PMbuzz.com is targeted at nightlife enthusiasts, club venues, promoters, and entertainers to interact.
How It Works:
Members of the website can create user profiles, identify "friends", share media, blog, peruse photos from past club events, and discover what's going on in the New York night scene.
Members can see who's going where, who's "spinning" and promoting where, and how to get on the VIP lists to ensure door entrance.
A page on PMbuzz lets you reach out to your patrons and attract new ones. It gives your publicity people a place to connect with patrons one-on-one. Youll be listed in a separate navigation for clubs, meaning youre easier to find and always in good company.
And because PMbuzz is focused exclusively on nightlife, its a great place to advertise events and specials and to showcase your clubs vibe.
Its totally free.
More at:http://www.pmbuzz.com/
Game Hunt---Hunt Down Your Game
What Company Is Offering:
Game-Hunt is the only search engine in the world where you can find games based on what you like best in them. All the criteria is compared to games in the database. The games that match the most criteria are listed. That means if you want a free game, that's all you will see.
How It Works:
Game-Hunt is a user goverened search engine.
Anyone can add games, anyone can modify games, and anyone can report games without having to register.
If you see something that needs to be changed, you have the power to change it. This creates a unique environment that you can only find at Game-Hunt.
More at:http://www.game-hunt.com/
Game-Hunt is the only search engine in the world where you can find games based on what you like best in them. All the criteria is compared to games in the database. The games that match the most criteria are listed. That means if you want a free game, that's all you will see.
How It Works:
Game-Hunt is a user goverened search engine.
Anyone can add games, anyone can modify games, and anyone can report games without having to register.
If you see something that needs to be changed, you have the power to change it. This creates a unique environment that you can only find at Game-Hunt.
More at:http://www.game-hunt.com/
Yamli is the tool that finally allows you to easily access and expand the Arabic Web
What Company Is Offering:
Yamli is the tool that finally allows you to easily access and expand the Arabic Web.
Yamli, in Arabic "يملي", comes from the noun "إملاء" which refers to dictation or transcription of spoken text.
How It Works:
Using Yamli is very easy. Simply spell out each Arabic word the way you would pronounce it, and Yamli will convert it to the corresponding Arabic word using its patent pending technology.
You can also use common shortcut characters. For example "3" for "ع", "2" for "Ø¡", "7" for "Ø", etc ...
You can easily search for Arabic content on the web using our search tool, including web sites, news, images, videos, and blogs, powered by Google.
Yamli Editor allows you to write multiple lines of text in Arabic. You can then copy and paste into the application of your choice.
More at:http://www.yamli.com/
Yamli is the tool that finally allows you to easily access and expand the Arabic Web.
Yamli, in Arabic "يملي", comes from the noun "إملاء" which refers to dictation or transcription of spoken text.
How It Works:
Using Yamli is very easy. Simply spell out each Arabic word the way you would pronounce it, and Yamli will convert it to the corresponding Arabic word using its patent pending technology.
You can also use common shortcut characters. For example "3" for "ع", "2" for "Ø¡", "7" for "Ø", etc ...
You can easily search for Arabic content on the web using our search tool, including web sites, news, images, videos, and blogs, powered by Google.
Yamli Editor allows you to write multiple lines of text in Arabic. You can then copy and paste into the application of your choice.
More at:http://www.yamli.com/
Camerarenter--Rent A Digital Cameras
What Company Is Offering:
Camerarenter's easy-to-use digital photo/video cameras, convenient photo and video sharing, and Custom DVD Movies provide a great opportunity for weddings with smaller budgets and are excellent complements to professional wedding photographers.
How it works:
1.Cameras delivered to your doorstep
Sit back and relax. You have enough to plan and worry about. CameraRenter mails easy-to-use digital photo/video cameras right to you along with return postage.
2. Give cameras to your friends and family
Have fun. Your friends and family have a great time capturing every aspect of your event with high quality digital pictures and videos.
3. Remember and share everything
Treasure your event forever. We create a Custom Event Website with all of your pictures and videos for easy print ordering, viewing, downloading, and sharing.
4.Remember everything with a Custom DVD
CameraRenter also offers Custom DVD Movies containing your favorite pictures and movies from your event. What better way to enjoy all of your cherished moments than sitting down with your friends and family and watching a DVD of them? And what better way to say thank you than with a DVD movie of all of the memories your friends and family helped you make?
More at:http://www.camerarenter.com/
Camerarenter's easy-to-use digital photo/video cameras, convenient photo and video sharing, and Custom DVD Movies provide a great opportunity for weddings with smaller budgets and are excellent complements to professional wedding photographers.
How it works:
1.Cameras delivered to your doorstep
Sit back and relax. You have enough to plan and worry about. CameraRenter mails easy-to-use digital photo/video cameras right to you along with return postage.
2. Give cameras to your friends and family
Have fun. Your friends and family have a great time capturing every aspect of your event with high quality digital pictures and videos.
3. Remember and share everything
Treasure your event forever. We create a Custom Event Website with all of your pictures and videos for easy print ordering, viewing, downloading, and sharing.
4.Remember everything with a Custom DVD
CameraRenter also offers Custom DVD Movies containing your favorite pictures and movies from your event. What better way to enjoy all of your cherished moments than sitting down with your friends and family and watching a DVD of them? And what better way to say thank you than with a DVD movie of all of the memories your friends and family helped you make?
More at:http://www.camerarenter.com/
XAKASHA--Present Your Life And Its Experience
What Company Is Offering:
You can present your life and experiences with xakasha, and link yourself with other people around you. This will comprise a world memory- consisting of individual life paths and events.
How It Works:
Create your personal life path (=akasha) with photos, videos and event descriptions.
Link your akasha with others.
Explore the life paths of other people that you know or don't know (yet).
Find people that you are similar to.
Assign privacy levels to your events.
More at:http://beta.xakasha.com/
You can present your life and experiences with xakasha, and link yourself with other people around you. This will comprise a world memory- consisting of individual life paths and events.
How It Works:
Create your personal life path (=akasha) with photos, videos and event descriptions.
Link your akasha with others.
Explore the life paths of other people that you know or don't know (yet).
Find people that you are similar to.
Assign privacy levels to your events.
More at:http://beta.xakasha.com/
Friday, November 23, 2007
Countrysize--Find out how big a country is by comparing it to somewhere you know well.
What Company is Offering:
Find out how big a country is by comparing it to somewhere you know well.
Countrysize is a personal attempt to make it easier to understand events - natural disasters, wars, politics - which take place on a scale which is hard to understand.
How It Works:
The idea is that you can compare the area of interest to an area you are more familiar with. It can only be a rough approximation of the true scale.
CIA has given most of the data and maps used on this site. The global factbook is a comprehensive resource which I believe they are required to make available to the public because of US laws. I'm sure this obligation doesn't extend to non Americans like me, so I hope they don't mind ;-O
Maps of Scotland, England, and Wales were found on the Wikimedia Commons project.
More at:http://www.countrysize.com/
Find out how big a country is by comparing it to somewhere you know well.
Countrysize is a personal attempt to make it easier to understand events - natural disasters, wars, politics - which take place on a scale which is hard to understand.
How It Works:
The idea is that you can compare the area of interest to an area you are more familiar with. It can only be a rough approximation of the true scale.
CIA has given most of the data and maps used on this site. The global factbook is a comprehensive resource which I believe they are required to make available to the public because of US laws. I'm sure this obligation doesn't extend to non Americans like me, so I hope they don't mind ;-O
Maps of Scotland, England, and Wales were found on the Wikimedia Commons project.
More at:http://www.countrysize.com/
Carbonrally is a web-based activism platform offering individuals and groups a fun, simple and social way to have a measurable impact on climate chang
What Company is Offering:
Carbonrally is a web-based activism platform offering individuals and groups a fun, simple and social way to have a measurable impact on climate change.
How It Works:
They would create a place where many people could discover and commit to small, positive actions over time. People on the site could propose great ideas for reducing carbon dioxide emissions, and the community would choose the best ideas to pursue as a team. They’d track the collective impacts, and show the power of many people getting the job done together. Bit by bit, the community would learn the connections between climate and lifestyle, and rack-up literally tons of carbon benefits along the way. The Internet would make the process surprisingly fun and social… they’d celebrate and we’d compete!
They’ll post a Featured Challenge every few weeks on the site, and they’ll notify you by email when thye do. Most challenges are easy, short-term actions, but theye’ll throw in a doozy from time to time to keep it interesting. If the Featured Challenge doesn’t apply to you, or is something you’re already in the habit of doing, then you can look at the Previous Challenges where you might find some other actions that make more sense for you.
You can see how you’re doing by visiting your My Carbon Page. Or, view the Total Impact Map for a real-time snapshot of Rally results in different parts of the country. There are also impact maps associated with each challenge. On any map, you can click on a green bar to learn more about the people and action in a certain city.
more at:http://carbonrally.com/
Carbonrally is a web-based activism platform offering individuals and groups a fun, simple and social way to have a measurable impact on climate change.
How It Works:
They would create a place where many people could discover and commit to small, positive actions over time. People on the site could propose great ideas for reducing carbon dioxide emissions, and the community would choose the best ideas to pursue as a team. They’d track the collective impacts, and show the power of many people getting the job done together. Bit by bit, the community would learn the connections between climate and lifestyle, and rack-up literally tons of carbon benefits along the way. The Internet would make the process surprisingly fun and social… they’d celebrate and we’d compete!
They’ll post a Featured Challenge every few weeks on the site, and they’ll notify you by email when thye do. Most challenges are easy, short-term actions, but theye’ll throw in a doozy from time to time to keep it interesting. If the Featured Challenge doesn’t apply to you, or is something you’re already in the habit of doing, then you can look at the Previous Challenges where you might find some other actions that make more sense for you.
You can see how you’re doing by visiting your My Carbon Page. Or, view the Total Impact Map for a real-time snapshot of Rally results in different parts of the country. There are also impact maps associated with each challenge. On any map, you can click on a green bar to learn more about the people and action in a certain city.
more at:http://carbonrally.com/
TopNetPix is the ultimate "Aggrecilitator" on the Internet--Human Powered Search
What Company is Offering:
TopNetPix is the ultimate "Aggrecilitator" on the Internet! They aggregate best-of-breed sites from the entire 'world' in a way which significantly improves your efficiency online for both searches and overall browsing, a significant improvement over the major players. They are part of ETR Group, LLC, which is a Wisconsin company. Our primary office is in Scottsdale, Arizona, although our staff works from different locations throughout the United States.
How it Works:
TopNetPix is the ultimate aggregator of human-powered search, exceptional content and customized personalization tools. Think of a combination of Mahalo, Yahoo, and Netvibes. Their goal is to become everyone's starting home page.
As a business model, the TopNetPix solution is a 'thin application' over the content of hundreds of other providers, aggregating best-of-breed. The application is currently monetized through paid advertising located on the search destination pages.
In Future They Promise To ADD:
To create hyper-narrow verticals for your search experience. But for the time being, we're dedicated to creating a search engine and content page that is far more satisfying than the major players now.
If we haven't convinced you to make us your home starting page, then we have a lot of work ahead of us.
More at:http://www.topnetpix.com/
TopNetPix is the ultimate "Aggrecilitator" on the Internet! They aggregate best-of-breed sites from the entire 'world' in a way which significantly improves your efficiency online for both searches and overall browsing, a significant improvement over the major players. They are part of ETR Group, LLC, which is a Wisconsin company. Our primary office is in Scottsdale, Arizona, although our staff works from different locations throughout the United States.
How it Works:
TopNetPix is the ultimate aggregator of human-powered search, exceptional content and customized personalization tools. Think of a combination of Mahalo, Yahoo, and Netvibes. Their goal is to become everyone's starting home page.
As a business model, the TopNetPix solution is a 'thin application' over the content of hundreds of other providers, aggregating best-of-breed. The application is currently monetized through paid advertising located on the search destination pages.
In Future They Promise To ADD:
To create hyper-narrow verticals for your search experience. But for the time being, we're dedicated to creating a search engine and content page that is far more satisfying than the major players now.
If we haven't convinced you to make us your home starting page, then we have a lot of work ahead of us.
More at:http://www.topnetpix.com/
palabea connects people around the world who share the same interest in learning languages and discovering different cultures
What Company is Offering:
As an international community, palabea connects people around the world who share the same interest in learning languages and discovering different cultures.
How It works:
Just like any other community but it is primarily dedicated to different languages and cultures.
Every language shows us new countries, helps us make new friends and breaks down barriers.
Let's share our languages to create a speaking world.
More at:http://www.palabea.net/
As an international community, palabea connects people around the world who share the same interest in learning languages and discovering different cultures.
How It works:
Just like any other community but it is primarily dedicated to different languages and cultures.
Every language shows us new countries, helps us make new friends and breaks down barriers.
Let's share our languages to create a speaking world.
More at:http://www.palabea.net/
The Web 2.0 Marketplace
The Web 2.0 Marketplace is a place to list Web 2.0 and “New Media” websites for sale, job offers, consulting services, Facebook development services and more.
New Listings
SXP.com Website and Domain for Sale
SXP.com, also SocialXperience.com, is a new take on the web 2.0/Social Networking Blog. We partner …
XWiki is looking for sales partners.
XWiki is pleased to announce that we are opening up a comprehensive partner program to select consul…
Flagxo.com - Travel & Review Site FOR SALE
Flagxo.com. provides user-generated content to the world’s most sophisticated travelers. Uou can r…
Vavaz.com - Custom Bags & Packaging FOR SALE!
Vavaz.com Inc. (Vavaz) is an internet manufacturer of custom packaging. Target Customer is the Smal…
Video Sharing - Film and Entertainment
Liberatedfilms.com is a video sharing site with a film and entertainment focus, although we accept n…
Via-Mashable
New Listings
SXP.com Website and Domain for Sale
SXP.com, also SocialXperience.com, is a new take on the web 2.0/Social Networking Blog. We partner …
XWiki is looking for sales partners.
XWiki is pleased to announce that we are opening up a comprehensive partner program to select consul…
Flagxo.com - Travel & Review Site FOR SALE
Flagxo.com. provides user-generated content to the world’s most sophisticated travelers. Uou can r…
Vavaz.com - Custom Bags & Packaging FOR SALE!
Vavaz.com Inc. (Vavaz) is an internet manufacturer of custom packaging. Target Customer is the Smal…
Video Sharing - Film and Entertainment
Liberatedfilms.com is a video sharing site with a film and entertainment focus, although we accept n…
Via-Mashable
Tagiton "6 Degrees of Separation"
What Company is Offering:
Based on the theory of "6 Degrees of Separation" you're now able to reach your 1st, 2nd and 3rd degree of friends.
By building on the successful elements of email and integrating your social circle you'll be able to ask questions, help your friends and communicate online like never before.
Tagiton was developed to provide users with an efficient method of communication with their circle of friends. Through our clean design we have implemented a service that leverages the unique theory of "Six Degrees of Separation". Now by sending and receiving Tags from your 1st, 2nd and 3rd degree, you have access to three layers of your social circle.
How It Works:
Communicating on a Tag allows a user to get trusted advice from friends, ask questions, plan events, stay in touch, share information, find old friends and make new ones without compromising personal privacy. Finally there is an improvement in social communication.
By building on the successful fundamentals of email and integrating a user's social circle. The power is back in the user's hands and the possibilities are endless.
More at:http://www.tagiton.com/
Based on the theory of "6 Degrees of Separation" you're now able to reach your 1st, 2nd and 3rd degree of friends.
By building on the successful elements of email and integrating your social circle you'll be able to ask questions, help your friends and communicate online like never before.
Tagiton was developed to provide users with an efficient method of communication with their circle of friends. Through our clean design we have implemented a service that leverages the unique theory of "Six Degrees of Separation". Now by sending and receiving Tags from your 1st, 2nd and 3rd degree, you have access to three layers of your social circle.
How It Works:
Communicating on a Tag allows a user to get trusted advice from friends, ask questions, plan events, stay in touch, share information, find old friends and make new ones without compromising personal privacy. Finally there is an improvement in social communication.
By building on the successful fundamentals of email and integrating a user's social circle. The power is back in the user's hands and the possibilities are endless.
More at:http://www.tagiton.com/
On Lootist, you can discover the best products
What Company is Offering:
On Lootist, you can discover the best products by hobby or interest
with guidance from real-life specialists.on Lootist, people looking for great products can get recommendations from real-world specialists. This guidance comes in handy when you know who you’re shopping for, but not necessarily what you’re shopping for. For instance, if you’re looking for a gift for a friend who enjoys cooking, wouldn’t it be helpful to get shopping advice from a professional chef?
How It Works:
All the product recommendations on Lootist are submitted by their community, which is made up of real people, like you. They display every specialist’s qualifications, and the endorsements he or she has received from others in the community.
Looting is the act of recommending a product from any site on the Web. All of your recommendations are displayed in your Lootist profile. Lootist provides several ways for you to get the recognition you deserve for your knowledge and helpfulness. When you declare a specialty, you can earn endorsements from other Lootists, get featured on the home page, get badges for your profile, and show up in relevant search results.
As a specialist, you can also showcase your specialty and endorsements on your blog or personal Web site with a Lootist widget.
To declare a specialty, click the "My Specialties" tab at the top of any page. You can declare up to three specialties, and you can declare, edit, or undeclare them at any time.
More at:http://www.lootist.com/
On Lootist, you can discover the best products by hobby or interest
with guidance from real-life specialists.on Lootist, people looking for great products can get recommendations from real-world specialists. This guidance comes in handy when you know who you’re shopping for, but not necessarily what you’re shopping for. For instance, if you’re looking for a gift for a friend who enjoys cooking, wouldn’t it be helpful to get shopping advice from a professional chef?
How It Works:
All the product recommendations on Lootist are submitted by their community, which is made up of real people, like you. They display every specialist’s qualifications, and the endorsements he or she has received from others in the community.
Looting is the act of recommending a product from any site on the Web. All of your recommendations are displayed in your Lootist profile. Lootist provides several ways for you to get the recognition you deserve for your knowledge and helpfulness. When you declare a specialty, you can earn endorsements from other Lootists, get featured on the home page, get badges for your profile, and show up in relevant search results.
As a specialist, you can also showcase your specialty and endorsements on your blog or personal Web site with a Lootist widget.
To declare a specialty, click the "My Specialties" tab at the top of any page. You can declare up to three specialties, and you can declare, edit, or undeclare them at any time.
More at:http://www.lootist.com/
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