What Company Is Offering:
Smilebox makes it easy to connect with friends and family in a more creative and compelling way.Smilebox creates a new category of service called "creative messaging," which draws from related categories including photo services, scrapbooking and ecards; delivering a new medium for communication that is unparalleled in its ability to convey mood, thought and emotion.
How Is It Different:
Unlike other solutions that focus on organizing, editing, and sharing photos or sending pre-packaged ecards, the Smilebox online service enables users to create something truly powerful by choosing from hundreds of unique multimedia designs, easily personalizing them with their photos, video, music, words, and style, and then sharing them via email, blog, or print.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Smilebox, the leader in multimedia expressions technology, announced it has raised $7 million in Series B financing. Bessemer Venture Partners led the round and was joined by existing investor Frazier Technology Ventures. Rob Stavis, Managing Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, will join the Smilebox board of directors.
How This Product Is Progressing:
The Series B financing comes at a time when more than 1.8 million users have installed the Smilebox service since its launch in June 2006 and more than 1.3 million unique users worldwide access it monthly.
More at:http://www.smilebox.com/about/
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
MOG music community is launching with Rhapsody digital music, for providing MOG with full song playbacks
What Company Is Offering:
MOG, your personalized gateway for music discovery. With MOG, you can find, share, and talk about the music you’re into, from Abba to Zappa.
Whether you’re a die-hard music junkie, or just looking for inspiration for your latest party playlist, MOG is your essential online music source. Created by a passionate community of music lovers and powered by cutting edge music discovery technology, MOG makes it ridiculously easy to find new music, watch music videos, and read news and reviews that match your personal taste in music.
Recent Updates:
MOG music community is launching a full-site integration with Rhapsody digital music, for providing MOG with full song playbacks. This announcement comes alongside new search functionality that MOG is rolling out today as well. While MOG already began to offer full-length music with its relaunch a couple of months back, the Rhapsody integration, however, is still pretty important. It lets MOG utilize Rhapsody’s music license agreements and adds another layer of music capabilities to MOG, which revolves around the shared media and wisdom from users and others in the music industry.
And being integrated throughout the entire MOG site means that Rhapsody’s music offering will be made available in multiple ways and through various access points: the yellow “play icon beside any song title, the MOG-O-MATIC auto-profiling software and recommendations “play all” options, widgets, playlists, an legacy blog posts. Additionally, tags with blog posts that include song and artist information will automatically add Rhapsody links so other MOG users can have quick access to the full-length clips.
More at:http://mog.com/
Via-Mashable
MOG, your personalized gateway for music discovery. With MOG, you can find, share, and talk about the music you’re into, from Abba to Zappa.
Whether you’re a die-hard music junkie, or just looking for inspiration for your latest party playlist, MOG is your essential online music source. Created by a passionate community of music lovers and powered by cutting edge music discovery technology, MOG makes it ridiculously easy to find new music, watch music videos, and read news and reviews that match your personal taste in music.
Recent Updates:
MOG music community is launching a full-site integration with Rhapsody digital music, for providing MOG with full song playbacks. This announcement comes alongside new search functionality that MOG is rolling out today as well. While MOG already began to offer full-length music with its relaunch a couple of months back, the Rhapsody integration, however, is still pretty important. It lets MOG utilize Rhapsody’s music license agreements and adds another layer of music capabilities to MOG, which revolves around the shared media and wisdom from users and others in the music industry.
And being integrated throughout the entire MOG site means that Rhapsody’s music offering will be made available in multiple ways and through various access points: the yellow “play icon beside any song title, the MOG-O-MATIC auto-profiling software and recommendations “play all” options, widgets, playlists, an legacy blog posts. Additionally, tags with blog posts that include song and artist information will automatically add Rhapsody links so other MOG users can have quick access to the full-length clips.
More at:http://mog.com/
Via-Mashable
Celebitrix is a self-promotional website
What Company Is Offering:
Celebitrix is the ultimate place to seek connections and network with your closest online users. Within their subculture they believe that the extraordinary and the ordinary deserve to be a celebrity. With Celebitrix you can post video snippets, comment to friends, bling your products, blog and create stories, browse news, and much more.
How It Works:
Their aim is to supply user-generated content as well as strategic services and products to promote identity for individuals or groups in any facet of business development. Whether you're a male, female, pet, or band they'll make sure you're connected with the right people safely. Their networking system allows full privacy options.
People are using their Bling-It(TM) service to sell their bling items. This specialized service is allowing users to search for bling nation-wide and set their own pricing for ad displays. Bling-It continues to integrate new user-friendly features to create the ultimate ad posting portal online.
When you visit Celebitrix you'll soon discover a wide variety of Web Templates to initiate your web presence. Within their web template nest, startups are purchasing their ideal template design in a matter of a minutes thanks to their specific searching capability. They're adding templates daily and their inventory is forever increasing. They make templates easy to integrate for non-developers by detailing FAQ information in our highly dynamic support area.
More at:http://www.mycelebritywebsite.com/
Celebitrix is the ultimate place to seek connections and network with your closest online users. Within their subculture they believe that the extraordinary and the ordinary deserve to be a celebrity. With Celebitrix you can post video snippets, comment to friends, bling your products, blog and create stories, browse news, and much more.
How It Works:
Their aim is to supply user-generated content as well as strategic services and products to promote identity for individuals or groups in any facet of business development. Whether you're a male, female, pet, or band they'll make sure you're connected with the right people safely. Their networking system allows full privacy options.
People are using their Bling-It(TM) service to sell their bling items. This specialized service is allowing users to search for bling nation-wide and set their own pricing for ad displays. Bling-It continues to integrate new user-friendly features to create the ultimate ad posting portal online.
When you visit Celebitrix you'll soon discover a wide variety of Web Templates to initiate your web presence. Within their web template nest, startups are purchasing their ideal template design in a matter of a minutes thanks to their specific searching capability. They're adding templates daily and their inventory is forever increasing. They make templates easy to integrate for non-developers by detailing FAQ information in our highly dynamic support area.
More at:http://www.mycelebritywebsite.com/
PriceAdvance is the easiest way to compare prices while you shop, with the most accurate product matches
What Company is Offering:
PriceAdvance is the easiest way to compare prices while you shop, with the most accurate product matches.
If a product doesn't match exactly, they won't display it. This means you won't find an Angel costume if you're trying to compare prices on Halo 3.
PriceAdvance is a product of MediaNext, Inc., founded by Adam Gotterer and Roddy Richards.
How It Works:
The PriceAdvance Plugin finds you better prices for the products you're already viewing while you shop. Save time, save money. After installing the PriceAdvance FireFox addon, browse to a product page on one of our supported merchants' sites (for example, Amazon.com, Buy.com, BestBuy.com, or CircuitCity.com).
A list of merchants and prices will appear top left. These are the other merchants with the product you're already browsing, sorted by price.
More at:http://www.priceadvance.com/
PriceAdvance is the easiest way to compare prices while you shop, with the most accurate product matches.
If a product doesn't match exactly, they won't display it. This means you won't find an Angel costume if you're trying to compare prices on Halo 3.
PriceAdvance is a product of MediaNext, Inc., founded by Adam Gotterer and Roddy Richards.
How It Works:
The PriceAdvance Plugin finds you better prices for the products you're already viewing while you shop. Save time, save money. After installing the PriceAdvance FireFox addon, browse to a product page on one of our supported merchants' sites (for example, Amazon.com, Buy.com, BestBuy.com, or CircuitCity.com).
A list of merchants and prices will appear top left. These are the other merchants with the product you're already browsing, sorted by price.
More at:http://www.priceadvance.com/
HollywoodPrize--The online entertainment marketing, lead generation, CRM, mobile messaging, social networking portal
What Company Is Offering:
HollywoodPrize is a lead generation, viral loyalty rewards and direct online entertainment marketing promotions portal.
Submit or Add A Sweepstakes Contest to the new HollywoodPrize.com Daily Sweeps Directory! Simply sign up today and drive more targeted traffic to your contest. HollywoodPrize is the most comprehensive sweepstakes contest portal on the net today.
How It Works:
They offer data management and online registration solutions for various entertainment brands and companies (i.e. independent record labels, bands/musicians, filmmakers, solo artists, comedians, performance/fine artists, classical dance, theatre, casting directors, event organizers, managers, tv/film production companies, gaming, sports/athletics, book/magazine publishers and performance/fine art organizations).
Artists can run sweepstakes contests, manage online street teams and mobile marketing campaigns. Managers and agents can submit actors / actresses to casting directors while festival organizers can manage call for entries from filmmakers. HollywoodPrize is simple and easy to use. By entering into one contest, you can create an entertainment marketing profile that is a snapshot in time of your entertainment interests. Whether you are an artist, fan, consumer, manager, or general entertainment enthusiast, HollywoodPrize is the premiere portal for online entertainment and artistic registration. You can also refer a friend to each contest and earn points for each quality referral. Once you reach a certain point level, you can earn free prizes. Just create a contestant profile today and you can create your own MySummary page and share your latest promotions with friends.
More at:http://www.hollywoodprize.com/
HollywoodPrize is a lead generation, viral loyalty rewards and direct online entertainment marketing promotions portal.
Submit or Add A Sweepstakes Contest to the new HollywoodPrize.com Daily Sweeps Directory! Simply sign up today and drive more targeted traffic to your contest. HollywoodPrize is the most comprehensive sweepstakes contest portal on the net today.
How It Works:
They offer data management and online registration solutions for various entertainment brands and companies (i.e. independent record labels, bands/musicians, filmmakers, solo artists, comedians, performance/fine artists, classical dance, theatre, casting directors, event organizers, managers, tv/film production companies, gaming, sports/athletics, book/magazine publishers and performance/fine art organizations).
Artists can run sweepstakes contests, manage online street teams and mobile marketing campaigns. Managers and agents can submit actors / actresses to casting directors while festival organizers can manage call for entries from filmmakers. HollywoodPrize is simple and easy to use. By entering into one contest, you can create an entertainment marketing profile that is a snapshot in time of your entertainment interests. Whether you are an artist, fan, consumer, manager, or general entertainment enthusiast, HollywoodPrize is the premiere portal for online entertainment and artistic registration. You can also refer a friend to each contest and earn points for each quality referral. Once you reach a certain point level, you can earn free prizes. Just create a contestant profile today and you can create your own MySummary page and share your latest promotions with friends.
More at:http://www.hollywoodprize.com/
ChannelMe is the best place to register a .TV domain name for your business
What Company Is Offering:
Demand MediaTM is building a different type of new media company.
With a proprietary media platform that powers the company's highly-trafficked domains and wholly-owned content media properties, Demand Media leverages cutting edge, user-driven publishing, community and monetization tools in its quest to define the next generation of new media companies
The .TV domain extension is open to anyone, just like .COM or .NET. You don't have to be a television mogul to own one . But unlike .COM where the best names disappeared shortly after dinosaurs, fabulous .TV domains are still available. Many domain registrars offer .TV names. GoDaddy, for instance, charges $39.99. But since Demand Media owns the primary .TV engine, including a vast inventory of premium names.Thats why its free.
How It Works:
ChannelMe is the best place to register a .TV domain name for your business since you get an all-in-one channel building kit free with a $24.95 registration that will allow you to:
Program your channel: Upload your own videos, or link to others on the web. Let customers, prospects and other visitors rate and comment on your channel's content.
Create and customize your business profile: Select a channel design template; customize an avatar, display "About" text and more.
Start a blog, forum or survey: It's never been easier. Talk to your customers. Make entries public or private, with moderated or unmoderated comments.
Post photos of your products, place of business, customers, staff or whatever you like.Start your own business ( "social") network: Invite customers and prospects to view, join and participate in your business channel. Share links and build a community.Make some money: Turn on the advertising feature to include search ads on your site and share in the revenue.
More at:http://domains.channelme.tv/
Demand MediaTM is building a different type of new media company.
With a proprietary media platform that powers the company's highly-trafficked domains and wholly-owned content media properties, Demand Media leverages cutting edge, user-driven publishing, community and monetization tools in its quest to define the next generation of new media companies
The .TV domain extension is open to anyone, just like .COM or .NET. You don't have to be a television mogul to own one . But unlike .COM where the best names disappeared shortly after dinosaurs, fabulous .TV domains are still available. Many domain registrars offer .TV names. GoDaddy, for instance, charges $39.99. But since Demand Media owns the primary .TV engine, including a vast inventory of premium names.Thats why its free.
How It Works:
ChannelMe is the best place to register a .TV domain name for your business since you get an all-in-one channel building kit free with a $24.95 registration that will allow you to:
Program your channel: Upload your own videos, or link to others on the web. Let customers, prospects and other visitors rate and comment on your channel's content.
Create and customize your business profile: Select a channel design template; customize an avatar, display "About" text and more.
Start a blog, forum or survey: It's never been easier. Talk to your customers. Make entries public or private, with moderated or unmoderated comments.
Post photos of your products, place of business, customers, staff or whatever you like.Start your own business ( "social") network: Invite customers and prospects to view, join and participate in your business channel. Share links and build a community.Make some money: Turn on the advertising feature to include search ads on your site and share in the revenue.
More at:http://domains.channelme.tv/
fatfoogoo provides a player-2-player marketplace for the trading of virtual goods and services
What Company Is Offering
fatfoogoo provides a player-2-player marketplace for the trading of virtual goods and services as extension to major virtual worlds and multiplayer games. The fatfoogoo.com portal offers in-game-services, e.g. support for challenging missions or virtual tour guides to online worlds as well as virtual game goods such as weapons, currency, characters or virtual buildings.
fatfoogoo thus explores a completely new business field within a strongly growing new market setting international standards for the secondary trade with virtual goods and services.
How It Works:
fatfoogoo's revenue is generated from a cut of every transaction that runs through the platform. Creating a shop and listing articles is free. The platform offers extensive capabilities to be marketed virally through gaming clans and guildes. Integrating the feedback of the community, user ratings and votings allows to create a fair and trustful market place.
What's Market For That Kind Of Product:
The global market for trading virtual game goods and services generated revenues of around 1 billion USD in 2006 and will rise dramatically to a 7 billion Dollar market in 2009. (see Nielsen 2006 and ScreenDigest 2007). This makes electronic commerce and virtual goods/services trading an important alternative business model to classical subscription programs that are currently the dominating business pattern for projects such as World of WarcraftTM and Second LifeTM.
More at:http://www.fatfoogoo.com/
fatfoogoo provides a player-2-player marketplace for the trading of virtual goods and services as extension to major virtual worlds and multiplayer games. The fatfoogoo.com portal offers in-game-services, e.g. support for challenging missions or virtual tour guides to online worlds as well as virtual game goods such as weapons, currency, characters or virtual buildings.
fatfoogoo thus explores a completely new business field within a strongly growing new market setting international standards for the secondary trade with virtual goods and services.
How It Works:
fatfoogoo's revenue is generated from a cut of every transaction that runs through the platform. Creating a shop and listing articles is free. The platform offers extensive capabilities to be marketed virally through gaming clans and guildes. Integrating the feedback of the community, user ratings and votings allows to create a fair and trustful market place.
What's Market For That Kind Of Product:
The global market for trading virtual game goods and services generated revenues of around 1 billion USD in 2006 and will rise dramatically to a 7 billion Dollar market in 2009. (see Nielsen 2006 and ScreenDigest 2007). This makes electronic commerce and virtual goods/services trading an important alternative business model to classical subscription programs that are currently the dominating business pattern for projects such as World of WarcraftTM and Second LifeTM.
More at:http://www.fatfoogoo.com/
IDC Finds Strong Demand for Archiving and Data Protection and Recovery Software Driving Market Growth
According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker, the worldwide storage software market experienced its 16th consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth in the third quarter of 2007 with revenues of $2.8 billion, a 9.8% increase over the same quarter one year ago.
"Overall market growth was driven by strong performance in both the archiving and data protection and recovery markets," according to Michael Margossian, research analyst, Storage Software at IDC. "Customer demand for storage replication seems to be cooling off, while the need for archiving appears to be picking up."
The archiving market grew 13.6% year over year, driven by e-discovery, regulatory compliance, and overall storage optimization needs. Data protection and recovery, while down from 2Q07, had strong year-over-year growth of 13.1%. This growth was perpetuated by five out of the top six vendors having double-digit growth over 3Q06.
EMC led the overall market with 25.6% revenue share in the third quarter of 2007. Symantec took the second position with 17.0% revenue share, while IBM finished in the third position with 12.4% revenue share. Network Appliance finished in the fourth position with 10.9% revenue share. Again, CA and HP rounded out the top 5 in a statistical tie, with both having a 4.3% revenue share.
"Overall market growth was driven by strong performance in both the archiving and data protection and recovery markets," according to Michael Margossian, research analyst, Storage Software at IDC. "Customer demand for storage replication seems to be cooling off, while the need for archiving appears to be picking up."
The archiving market grew 13.6% year over year, driven by e-discovery, regulatory compliance, and overall storage optimization needs. Data protection and recovery, while down from 2Q07, had strong year-over-year growth of 13.1%. This growth was perpetuated by five out of the top six vendors having double-digit growth over 3Q06.
EMC led the overall market with 25.6% revenue share in the third quarter of 2007. Symantec took the second position with 17.0% revenue share, while IBM finished in the third position with 12.4% revenue share. Network Appliance finished in the fourth position with 10.9% revenue share. Again, CA and HP rounded out the top 5 in a statistical tie, with both having a 4.3% revenue share.
RivalMap let us immediately setup a competitive intelligence platform for tracking key competitors
What Company is Offering:
RivalMap is web-based collaboration software that gives companies a central place to share and address information about competitors and their industry. If your company spends any time watching competitors and their activities, RivalMap will make the management and communication of competitive information much easier and more effective.
How It Works:
RivalMap enables new forms of communication for uncovering and sharing critical information.Break down communication barriers. Share news, files and important information. Work together to address concerns. Get information from the right people.
RivalMap let us immediately setup a competitive intelligence platform for tracking key competitors, discussing events, and sharing facts, tips, and rumors. As a hosted service, we didn't need to go through the IT and the capital planning process. We were up and running immediately and able to share this resource globally across organizational functions. RivalMap has been particularly helpful in sharing competitive intelligence with our international offices.
More at:http://www.rivalmap.com/
RivalMap is web-based collaboration software that gives companies a central place to share and address information about competitors and their industry. If your company spends any time watching competitors and their activities, RivalMap will make the management and communication of competitive information much easier and more effective.
How It Works:
RivalMap enables new forms of communication for uncovering and sharing critical information.Break down communication barriers. Share news, files and important information. Work together to address concerns. Get information from the right people.
RivalMap let us immediately setup a competitive intelligence platform for tracking key competitors, discussing events, and sharing facts, tips, and rumors. As a hosted service, we didn't need to go through the IT and the capital planning process. We were up and running immediately and able to share this resource globally across organizational functions. RivalMap has been particularly helpful in sharing competitive intelligence with our international offices.
More at:http://www.rivalmap.com/
Kenshoo, is a provider of end-to-end search marketing automated technology
What Company is Offering:
Kenshoo, is a provider of end-to-end search marketing automated technology for advertisers and agencies worldwide.
The company's flagship product KENSHOO SEARCH(TM) provides automated Quality Management for cross- platform search campaigns. Kenshoo's unique technology and approach enables advertisers and agencies worldwide to reach high volumes, optimize campaigns and to boost ROI.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Sequoia Capital and Kenshoo, provider of innovative Search Marketing Automated Solutions, announced a strategic collaboration upon official closing of the institutional funding round. The investment by Sequoia Capital will be used to accelerate the company's rapid growth in key global markets, including the launch of an office in the UK in early 2008, and roll out to other global markets through the year.
About VCs:
Sequoia Capital, based in Palo Alto, California has provided startup venture capital for very smart people who want to turn ideas into companies. As the "Entrepreneurs Behind the Entrepreneurs," Sequoia Capital's Partners have worked with innovators such as Sandy Lerner and Len Bozack of Cisco Systems, Jerry Yang and David Filo of Yahoo!, Gaurav Garg of Redback Networks, Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, Dan Warmenhoven of Network Appliance, T.J. Rodgers of Cypress Semiconductor, Lou Tomasetta of Vitesse Semiconductor, Steve Jobs of Apple Computer and Larry Ellison of Oracle. The companies organized by Sequoia Capital now account for about 12% of the value of NASDAQ. To learn more about Sequoia Capital visit http://www.sequoiacap.com/
More at:
http://www.kenshoo.com
Kenshoo, is a provider of end-to-end search marketing automated technology for advertisers and agencies worldwide.
The company's flagship product KENSHOO SEARCH(TM) provides automated Quality Management for cross- platform search campaigns. Kenshoo's unique technology and approach enables advertisers and agencies worldwide to reach high volumes, optimize campaigns and to boost ROI.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Sequoia Capital and Kenshoo, provider of innovative Search Marketing Automated Solutions, announced a strategic collaboration upon official closing of the institutional funding round. The investment by Sequoia Capital will be used to accelerate the company's rapid growth in key global markets, including the launch of an office in the UK in early 2008, and roll out to other global markets through the year.
About VCs:
Sequoia Capital, based in Palo Alto, California has provided startup venture capital for very smart people who want to turn ideas into companies. As the "Entrepreneurs Behind the Entrepreneurs," Sequoia Capital's Partners have worked with innovators such as Sandy Lerner and Len Bozack of Cisco Systems, Jerry Yang and David Filo of Yahoo!, Gaurav Garg of Redback Networks, Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, Dan Warmenhoven of Network Appliance, T.J. Rodgers of Cypress Semiconductor, Lou Tomasetta of Vitesse Semiconductor, Steve Jobs of Apple Computer and Larry Ellison of Oracle. The companies organized by Sequoia Capital now account for about 12% of the value of NASDAQ. To learn more about Sequoia Capital visit http://www.sequoiacap.com/
More at:
http://www.kenshoo.com
Twenga is the leading next generation shopping search engine got VCs funding
What Company is Offering :
Twenga is the leading next generation shopping search engine, committed to giving consumers the largest choice of products and retailers online, and the tools to make smarter decisions. Twenga, meaning "straight to the point" in Swahili, prides itself on its true impartiality, listing search results by relevance. Its comprehensive product catalogue is fuelled by a proprietary crawl technology that enables the indexing of all products and retailers on the web. Founded in September 2006 and headquartered in Paris, France, Twenga currently has sites in the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and, Poland. Listing 40 million products from over 25,000 merchants, the Twenga sites are growing rapidly.
How Much They Got In VCs Funding:
3i today announces a Euro2.6m investment in Twenga SA, a next generation shopping search engine, enabling consumers to compare, review and purchase the most complete range of products online.
About VCs:
3i is a world leader in private equity and venture capital. They focus on Buyouts, Growth Capital, Venture Capital, Infrastructure and Quoted Private Equity ("QPE") and invest across Europe, the United States and Asia. Their competitive advantage comes from their international network and the strength and breadth of their business relationships. These underpin the value that we deliver to our portfolio and to our shareholders.
3i's Venture Capital partners focus on investing in scaleable early to late stage technology and healthcare businesses on a global basis. The business currently manages investments across Europe, US, Asia and Israel. 3i VC plans to invest $1.5bn funds over the next five years in exciting and ambitious companies in the following areas: IT (digital media, enterprise IT and semiconductors), healthcare (biotech, medtech and specialty pharma) and clean technology.
More at:http://www.twenga.com/
Twenga is the leading next generation shopping search engine, committed to giving consumers the largest choice of products and retailers online, and the tools to make smarter decisions. Twenga, meaning "straight to the point" in Swahili, prides itself on its true impartiality, listing search results by relevance. Its comprehensive product catalogue is fuelled by a proprietary crawl technology that enables the indexing of all products and retailers on the web. Founded in September 2006 and headquartered in Paris, France, Twenga currently has sites in the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and, Poland. Listing 40 million products from over 25,000 merchants, the Twenga sites are growing rapidly.
How Much They Got In VCs Funding:
3i today announces a Euro2.6m investment in Twenga SA, a next generation shopping search engine, enabling consumers to compare, review and purchase the most complete range of products online.
About VCs:
3i is a world leader in private equity and venture capital. They focus on Buyouts, Growth Capital, Venture Capital, Infrastructure and Quoted Private Equity ("QPE") and invest across Europe, the United States and Asia. Their competitive advantage comes from their international network and the strength and breadth of their business relationships. These underpin the value that we deliver to our portfolio and to our shareholders.
3i's Venture Capital partners focus on investing in scaleable early to late stage technology and healthcare businesses on a global basis. The business currently manages investments across Europe, US, Asia and Israel. 3i VC plans to invest $1.5bn funds over the next five years in exciting and ambitious companies in the following areas: IT (digital media, enterprise IT and semiconductors), healthcare (biotech, medtech and specialty pharma) and clean technology.
More at:http://www.twenga.com/
REVShare specializes in Cost-per-Action Got $20 million VCs Funding
About Company:
REVShare specializes in Cost-per-Action (CPA) television advertising. Reaching 110 million U.S. households, REVShare has relationships with more than 1,500 combined English and Spanish local market television stations, cable systems, syndicators, and networks that are willing to provide television time on a results basis. With a customer-oriented team, proven client results, state-of-the-art technology and marketing acumen, REVShare continues to lead the industry in the evolution of television advertising models to meet the challenges of the next generation of convergence and interactivity.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Global private equity firm The Carlyle Group and H.I.G. Ventures today announced they co-led a $20 million investment in REVShare, an exchange that allows advertisers to bid for television time on a Cost-per-Action (CPA) basis (akin to the Cost-per-Click method of web advertisers), versus the traditional method of charging based on projected audience size.
How This Company Is Progressing:
REVShare has created an innovative product and a broad network of 1,500 local market television properties that reach over 110 million U.S. households," said Josh Ofstein, a Carlyle Principal. "Similar to the Pay-per-Click model that has been so successful on the Internet, REVShare delivers a performance-based solution to advertisers, which we believe has tremendous growth potential."
About VCs:
1.The Carlyle Group.
The Carlyle Group is a global private equity firm with $74.9 billion under management committed to 57 funds. Carlyle invests in buyouts, venture & growth capital, real estate and leveraged finance in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America focusing on aerospace & defense, automotive & transportation, consumer & retail, energy & power, financial services, healthcare, industrial, infrastructure, technology & business services and telecommunications & media. Since 1987, the firm has invested $37.6 billion of equity in 734 transactions for a total purchase price of $212.8 billion. The Carlyle Group employs more than 990 people in 21 countries. In the aggregate, Carlyle portfolio companies have more than $87 billion in revenue and employ more than 286,000 people around the world. www.carlyle.com .
2.H.I.G. Ventures.
H.I.G. Ventures partners with entrepreneurs to provide the capital, expertise and relationships necessary to build market-leading businesses. With over $550 million in dedicated venture and growth capital under management, the firm's team invests nationally in early to later-stage information technology, life science and service businesses. H.I.G. Ventures is the venture capital affiliate of H.I.G. Capital, a leading private equity investment firm with over $4 billion of capital under management. H.I.G. Ventures has offices in Atlanta, GA and Miami, FL. www.higventures.com .
More at:www.revshare.com
REVShare specializes in Cost-per-Action (CPA) television advertising. Reaching 110 million U.S. households, REVShare has relationships with more than 1,500 combined English and Spanish local market television stations, cable systems, syndicators, and networks that are willing to provide television time on a results basis. With a customer-oriented team, proven client results, state-of-the-art technology and marketing acumen, REVShare continues to lead the industry in the evolution of television advertising models to meet the challenges of the next generation of convergence and interactivity.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Global private equity firm The Carlyle Group and H.I.G. Ventures today announced they co-led a $20 million investment in REVShare, an exchange that allows advertisers to bid for television time on a Cost-per-Action (CPA) basis (akin to the Cost-per-Click method of web advertisers), versus the traditional method of charging based on projected audience size.
How This Company Is Progressing:
REVShare has created an innovative product and a broad network of 1,500 local market television properties that reach over 110 million U.S. households," said Josh Ofstein, a Carlyle Principal. "Similar to the Pay-per-Click model that has been so successful on the Internet, REVShare delivers a performance-based solution to advertisers, which we believe has tremendous growth potential."
About VCs:
1.The Carlyle Group.
The Carlyle Group is a global private equity firm with $74.9 billion under management committed to 57 funds. Carlyle invests in buyouts, venture & growth capital, real estate and leveraged finance in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America focusing on aerospace & defense, automotive & transportation, consumer & retail, energy & power, financial services, healthcare, industrial, infrastructure, technology & business services and telecommunications & media. Since 1987, the firm has invested $37.6 billion of equity in 734 transactions for a total purchase price of $212.8 billion. The Carlyle Group employs more than 990 people in 21 countries. In the aggregate, Carlyle portfolio companies have more than $87 billion in revenue and employ more than 286,000 people around the world. www.carlyle.com .
2.H.I.G. Ventures.
H.I.G. Ventures partners with entrepreneurs to provide the capital, expertise and relationships necessary to build market-leading businesses. With over $550 million in dedicated venture and growth capital under management, the firm's team invests nationally in early to later-stage information technology, life science and service businesses. H.I.G. Ventures is the venture capital affiliate of H.I.G. Capital, a leading private equity investment firm with over $4 billion of capital under management. H.I.G. Ventures has offices in Atlanta, GA and Miami, FL. www.higventures.com .
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Searchles is a highly scaleable "social search" platform
What Company is Offering:
Searchles is a highly scaleable "social search" platform that showcases expertise, enables collaboration with peers and instantly captures it in searchable knowledge indexes. The platform is a hybrid, combining aspects of "social bookmarking" and "social networking" technology with analytical "social search" capability.
How It Works:
Network search allows you to discover content with personalized filtering features that include tags, keywords or a combination of both, as well as the ability to apply these same filters to search all postings, groups, friends, or friends' friends based on your own criteria. By analyzing the associations and patterns between trusted people, sources, tags and content, Searchles is able to deliver more precise, relevant results while suggesting content and people related to your interests.
The proprietary technology behind Searchles is an evolution of the search engine Dumbfind, developed by veteran search technologist and Searchles' founder and CTO Chris Seline. Both brands are wholly-owned by Searchles, Inc., a privately-held company based in Washington, D.C. backed by angel investors.
Who Is Backing The Company :
1.Chris Seline, Founder & CTO (aka dumbfounder).
7 years in the internet industry with particular expertise in search, data-mining and analytics. Co-founder/CTO of venture backed search engine 2wrongs.com which was acquired by Cyveillance, Inc. VP of R&D at Cyveillance. Graduate of Johns Hopkins University/B.S. degree in mechanical engineering.
2.Elias Shams, CEO (aka caveman).
MS in Telecommunication Engineering from George Washington University. BS in Electrical Engineering from University of Maryland. Experienced technologist and business manager with 16 years expertise in the telecommunications, internet, ecommerce and networking industries. A Strategist with a successful history identifying opportunities, delivering solutions and breaking into some of the most competitive markets worldwide. Shams was founder and CTO of telezoo.com, a telecom solution search platform backed by $5 M in institutional and angel investment. He elevated the company into the top five B2B internet sites in the world next to cisco.com for three consecutive years, and brought the company to cash flow positive in 2001 with revenue of $1 M when most dot com companies were struggling. Prior to Telezoo, Shams was a project manager with a top secret security clearance at Yurie Systems, in charge of managing the mission-critical design and rapid deployment of the ATM over Satellite network used to support U.S. troops on the ground in Bosnia - the first of its kind. Yurie was subsequently acquired by Lucent Technologies for $1.1 billion
3.Amy M. Smith (aka mindspeakr).
19 years as a business strategist helping companies leverage strengths to gain significant market-share from large, powerful and better funded concerns through integrated grassroots PR, marketing and business development strategies. Private consultant for technology, professional services, governmental and non profit advocacy concerns. Internal leadership roles with startup and established companies. University of Georgia.
More at:http://www.searchles.com/
Searchles is a highly scaleable "social search" platform that showcases expertise, enables collaboration with peers and instantly captures it in searchable knowledge indexes. The platform is a hybrid, combining aspects of "social bookmarking" and "social networking" technology with analytical "social search" capability.
How It Works:
Network search allows you to discover content with personalized filtering features that include tags, keywords or a combination of both, as well as the ability to apply these same filters to search all postings, groups, friends, or friends' friends based on your own criteria. By analyzing the associations and patterns between trusted people, sources, tags and content, Searchles is able to deliver more precise, relevant results while suggesting content and people related to your interests.
The proprietary technology behind Searchles is an evolution of the search engine Dumbfind, developed by veteran search technologist and Searchles' founder and CTO Chris Seline. Both brands are wholly-owned by Searchles, Inc., a privately-held company based in Washington, D.C. backed by angel investors.
Who Is Backing The Company :
1.Chris Seline, Founder & CTO (aka dumbfounder).
7 years in the internet industry with particular expertise in search, data-mining and analytics. Co-founder/CTO of venture backed search engine 2wrongs.com which was acquired by Cyveillance, Inc. VP of R&D at Cyveillance. Graduate of Johns Hopkins University/B.S. degree in mechanical engineering.
2.Elias Shams, CEO (aka caveman).
MS in Telecommunication Engineering from George Washington University. BS in Electrical Engineering from University of Maryland. Experienced technologist and business manager with 16 years expertise in the telecommunications, internet, ecommerce and networking industries. A Strategist with a successful history identifying opportunities, delivering solutions and breaking into some of the most competitive markets worldwide. Shams was founder and CTO of telezoo.com, a telecom solution search platform backed by $5 M in institutional and angel investment. He elevated the company into the top five B2B internet sites in the world next to cisco.com for three consecutive years, and brought the company to cash flow positive in 2001 with revenue of $1 M when most dot com companies were struggling. Prior to Telezoo, Shams was a project manager with a top secret security clearance at Yurie Systems, in charge of managing the mission-critical design and rapid deployment of the ATM over Satellite network used to support U.S. troops on the ground in Bosnia - the first of its kind. Yurie was subsequently acquired by Lucent Technologies for $1.1 billion
3.Amy M. Smith (aka mindspeakr).
19 years as a business strategist helping companies leverage strengths to gain significant market-share from large, powerful and better funded concerns through integrated grassroots PR, marketing and business development strategies. Private consultant for technology, professional services, governmental and non profit advocacy concerns. Internal leadership roles with startup and established companies. University of Georgia.
More at:http://www.searchles.com/
Wikio is a personalized News Portal that combs media sites and blogs for stories
What Company Is Offering:
Wikio is a personalized News Portal that combs media sites and blogs for stories and topics that you find interesting.
How It Works:
With Wikio, you can create your own pages to follow information that interests you. All news is continuously updated!
Wikio is an interactive service: you can publish an item directly onto Wikio or comment on an existing item.
You can also vote for an item or group of items that you find interesting in order to increase the news’ visibility on the site.
Each page contains an RSS feed that allows subscribing and receiving information into the reader of your choice.
Recent Updates:
They are officially launching their "memetracker" in the US .
What Is Memetracker:
There are three main features to the Wikio interface – News, Blogs, and the option to create an unlimited amount of custom views. “Blogs” is the one most like the memetrackers you’re already familiar with, as it looks to identify the original source of a story, and then lists “discussion” links under it. Wikio also tries to build a bit of a community around the news, giving each story its own page where users can engage in discussion.
More at:http://www.wikio.com/
Wikio is a personalized News Portal that combs media sites and blogs for stories and topics that you find interesting.
How It Works:
With Wikio, you can create your own pages to follow information that interests you. All news is continuously updated!
Wikio is an interactive service: you can publish an item directly onto Wikio or comment on an existing item.
You can also vote for an item or group of items that you find interesting in order to increase the news’ visibility on the site.
Each page contains an RSS feed that allows subscribing and receiving information into the reader of your choice.
Recent Updates:
They are officially launching their "memetracker" in the US .
What Is Memetracker:
There are three main features to the Wikio interface – News, Blogs, and the option to create an unlimited amount of custom views. “Blogs” is the one most like the memetrackers you’re already familiar with, as it looks to identify the original source of a story, and then lists “discussion” links under it. Wikio also tries to build a bit of a community around the news, giving each story its own page where users can engage in discussion.
More at:http://www.wikio.com/
Zoomomail is a type of media software that enables you to share photos with your close friends and family all with a simple touch of the hand
What Company Is Offering:
Zoomomail is a type of media software that enables you to share photos with your close friends and family all with a simple touch of the hand.
Capture special moments, happy celebrations or simply the latest addition to the family's newborn smile.
Zoomomail also allows you to artistically arrange your photos to create personal, one-of-a-kind photo albums which can be sent to family and friends.
You no longer have to wait forever to download photos one by one in your inbox and then wait to open each one separately. Zoomomail takes care of all of that by providing you with a URL that you copy and paste in your email- it's that simple!
How It Works:
With Zoomomail you can share your unique photo album highlighting family celebrations, the office party or any amazing happening with all your acquaintances, while it's still fresh in their memory. It's quick and easy because your images are accessible in just a simple click.
Zoomorama is for everyone who seeks an easy, quick way to share images without overloading anyone's inbox with heavy or non-open able attachments. With Zoomorama lost attachments, overloaded inboxes, or endless waits for downloads are a thing of the past.
Zoomorama is totally FREE. All our services, including the storing of your images are at no cost to you. Zoomorama is completely financed by advertising that we do our utmost to keep to a minimum. In addition, soon we will be offering a variety of premium products and services that can be purchased for a small charge.
More at:http://www.zoomorama.com/
Zoomomail is a type of media software that enables you to share photos with your close friends and family all with a simple touch of the hand.
Capture special moments, happy celebrations or simply the latest addition to the family's newborn smile.
Zoomomail also allows you to artistically arrange your photos to create personal, one-of-a-kind photo albums which can be sent to family and friends.
You no longer have to wait forever to download photos one by one in your inbox and then wait to open each one separately. Zoomomail takes care of all of that by providing you with a URL that you copy and paste in your email- it's that simple!
How It Works:
With Zoomomail you can share your unique photo album highlighting family celebrations, the office party or any amazing happening with all your acquaintances, while it's still fresh in their memory. It's quick and easy because your images are accessible in just a simple click.
Zoomorama is for everyone who seeks an easy, quick way to share images without overloading anyone's inbox with heavy or non-open able attachments. With Zoomorama lost attachments, overloaded inboxes, or endless waits for downloads are a thing of the past.
Zoomorama is totally FREE. All our services, including the storing of your images are at no cost to you. Zoomorama is completely financed by advertising that we do our utmost to keep to a minimum. In addition, soon we will be offering a variety of premium products and services that can be purchased for a small charge.
More at:http://www.zoomorama.com/
Whereboutz is a service that allows you to share your location with friends
What Company Is Offering:
Whereboutz is a service that allows you to share your location with friends and let them know what you’re up to—it is available as a Facebook application and a free mobile application.
Once you start using Whereboutz, you’ll realize just how easy it is to meet up with friends near you. Use Whereboutz every day (many times a day!) to tell your Facebook friends where you are and what you’re up to—either from your computer, or from your cell phone. When you post, your friends can find you on a map on Facebook or their cell phone.
How It Works:
Signing up for Whereboutz is easy once you have a Facebook account. Just click the Applications link in the left-hand menu of your Facebook page, click ‘Browse Applications’ then search for Whereboutz.
Only your Facebook friends can see the history of locations that you post. However, other users may be able to see your most recent posting on your Profile page, depending on your Facebook privacy settings.
More at:http://www.whereboutz.com/
Whereboutz is a service that allows you to share your location with friends and let them know what you’re up to—it is available as a Facebook application and a free mobile application.
Once you start using Whereboutz, you’ll realize just how easy it is to meet up with friends near you. Use Whereboutz every day (many times a day!) to tell your Facebook friends where you are and what you’re up to—either from your computer, or from your cell phone. When you post, your friends can find you on a map on Facebook or their cell phone.
How It Works:
Signing up for Whereboutz is easy once you have a Facebook account. Just click the Applications link in the left-hand menu of your Facebook page, click ‘Browse Applications’ then search for Whereboutz.
Only your Facebook friends can see the history of locations that you post. However, other users may be able to see your most recent posting on your Profile page, depending on your Facebook privacy settings.
More at:http://www.whereboutz.com/
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
TechForward Got VCs Funding
What Company Is Offering:
TechForward empowers customers to keep pace with innovation while protecting the environment by promoting reuse and recycling. If you have ever had the experience of buying a device, and then finding out weeks later that something new is coming out that you want more, you should look into Guaranteed Buyback™. They currently offer Guaranteed Buybacks™ for laptops and iPods, and will soon be adding similar services for other consumer electronics devices. TechForward, Inc. is a privately-funded company based in Los Angeles.
How Much They Got From VCs:
It has raised a second round of funding from New Enterprise Associates. Prior investor First Round Capital also participated in the round. Financial terms of the funding was not disclosed. TechForward sells plans--similar to an extended warranty--which allows people purchasing computers and consumer electronics to guarantee a specific trade-in value on those items. The firm said the funding will go towards expanding the reach of its product.
http://www.techforward.com/
TechForward empowers customers to keep pace with innovation while protecting the environment by promoting reuse and recycling. If you have ever had the experience of buying a device, and then finding out weeks later that something new is coming out that you want more, you should look into Guaranteed Buyback™. They currently offer Guaranteed Buybacks™ for laptops and iPods, and will soon be adding similar services for other consumer electronics devices. TechForward, Inc. is a privately-funded company based in Los Angeles.
How Much They Got From VCs:
It has raised a second round of funding from New Enterprise Associates. Prior investor First Round Capital also participated in the round. Financial terms of the funding was not disclosed. TechForward sells plans--similar to an extended warranty--which allows people purchasing computers and consumer electronics to guarantee a specific trade-in value on those items. The firm said the funding will go towards expanding the reach of its product.
http://www.techforward.com/
Green Shopping
What Company Is Offering:
The EVO Tree is intended to be a fun, engaging way to give people a sense of their environmental impact and get them thinking about their daily habits and choices. While it is a simple, visual representation, it is based on the integration of several complex data models used to assess a wide range of environmental impacts.
How It Works:
They do not sell products on their site. Rather, they connect you directly with online sellers. Their focus is on aggregating and presenting valuable content along with green products and services. Their intention is to make it easy and accessible for everyone to make better choices and go green.
EVO has partnered with Trees For The Future. In honor of their site launch, they have committed to planting 100,000 trees. Since 1988, Trees for the Future has helped thousands of communities in Central America, Africa, and Asia improve their livelihoods and their environment by planting nearly 50 million trees. They calculate that these trees remove approximately one million tons of CO2 from the atmosphere each year.
EVO believes that offering people green alternatives to everyday products and services along with a tangible measurement of both their individual and collective impact on our ecosystem will engage consumers to make progressively better choices. Start by offering eco-alternatives but aim to raise awareness and reduce consumption. For the long-term viability of our planet, less is truly more.
More at:http://www.evo.com/
The EVO Tree is intended to be a fun, engaging way to give people a sense of their environmental impact and get them thinking about their daily habits and choices. While it is a simple, visual representation, it is based on the integration of several complex data models used to assess a wide range of environmental impacts.
How It Works:
They do not sell products on their site. Rather, they connect you directly with online sellers. Their focus is on aggregating and presenting valuable content along with green products and services. Their intention is to make it easy and accessible for everyone to make better choices and go green.
EVO has partnered with Trees For The Future. In honor of their site launch, they have committed to planting 100,000 trees. Since 1988, Trees for the Future has helped thousands of communities in Central America, Africa, and Asia improve their livelihoods and their environment by planting nearly 50 million trees. They calculate that these trees remove approximately one million tons of CO2 from the atmosphere each year.
EVO believes that offering people green alternatives to everyday products and services along with a tangible measurement of both their individual and collective impact on our ecosystem will engage consumers to make progressively better choices. Start by offering eco-alternatives but aim to raise awareness and reduce consumption. For the long-term viability of our planet, less is truly more.
More at:http://www.evo.com/
Six Disciplines offers unlimited potential for those suited to own one or more of their franchises
What Company Is Offering:
Six Disciplines offers unlimited potential for those suited to own one or more of their franchises.
These benefits include the freedom to:
Own and operate a new type of coaching business that is revolutionizing the industry
Be a part of a select member of the best coaches in America.
Make a difference in your community.
Experience the thrill of getting an early start in this business opportunity with huge growth potential.
How It Works:
Own a franchise and profit from a program that is revolutionizing the way Small to Medium Size Businesses are formulating and executing strategies and growing their businesses.
Six Disciplines for Excellence, the program uniquely combines a proven methodology, continuous accountability coaching, web-based activity management technology and facilitates individual accountability and organizational alignment to help ambitious businesses reach AND sustain a desired level of performance improvement.
More at:http://www.bison.com/Six_Disciplines
Six Disciplines offers unlimited potential for those suited to own one or more of their franchises.
These benefits include the freedom to:
Own and operate a new type of coaching business that is revolutionizing the industry
Be a part of a select member of the best coaches in America.
Make a difference in your community.
Experience the thrill of getting an early start in this business opportunity with huge growth potential.
How It Works:
Own a franchise and profit from a program that is revolutionizing the way Small to Medium Size Businesses are formulating and executing strategies and growing their businesses.
Six Disciplines for Excellence, the program uniquely combines a proven methodology, continuous accountability coaching, web-based activity management technology and facilitates individual accountability and organizational alignment to help ambitious businesses reach AND sustain a desired level of performance improvement.
More at:http://www.bison.com/Six_Disciplines
ReQall, the mobile tool that helps you remember your task lists
What Company Is Offering:
Busy lifestyle? Lots to remember? reQall remembers when you can't - ideas, images, appointments, anything! It links together your digital data to remind you -- save you time -- help you get more done. Pick up the phone to reQall - no software required, just your voice! It works with any phone or web browser.
How It Works:
ReQall converts what you say to text, remembering is as easy as searching the web. And you can add to-dos and to-remembers right online. Then, playback via phone as you move through your day.reQall has lots of different ways to give you your data whenever you need it, wherever you are. In My ReQall settings (selected after you login to My reQall), you can chose to get an email or a text message whenever you add something to reQall. You can also get a daily summary email, kind of a daily to-do list. reQall can send you reminders via email or text message for any item that has a time associated with it. You can also always see what you have in reQall via the web or hear what you have via your phone.
More at:http://www.reqall.com/
Busy lifestyle? Lots to remember? reQall remembers when you can't - ideas, images, appointments, anything! It links together your digital data to remind you -- save you time -- help you get more done. Pick up the phone to reQall - no software required, just your voice! It works with any phone or web browser.
How It Works:
ReQall converts what you say to text, remembering is as easy as searching the web. And you can add to-dos and to-remembers right online. Then, playback via phone as you move through your day.reQall has lots of different ways to give you your data whenever you need it, wherever you are. In My ReQall settings (selected after you login to My reQall), you can chose to get an email or a text message whenever you add something to reQall. You can also get a daily summary email, kind of a daily to-do list. reQall can send you reminders via email or text message for any item that has a time associated with it. You can also always see what you have in reQall via the web or hear what you have via your phone.
More at:http://www.reqall.com/
Wetpaint powers free wiki websites that are available to anyone and easy to use
What Company Is Offering:
Wetpaint powers free wiki websites that are available to anyone and easy to use. In fact, that’s one of the many things that sets Wetpaint apart from other wikis on the web. Creating a Wetpaint wiki is as simple as 1-2-3, so anyone can start a free wiki website they can then share with their family, friends, and the friends they haven’t even met...yet.
How It Works:
Once your site is launched, adding content is easy with the EasyEdit Toolbar. You’ll see that editing a Wetpaint wiki page works very much like a word processor: You can “click” on any open page and start typing. Even better, you can also add photos, YouTube videos, polls . . . it’s all as simple as “click and type.
Start by choosing what topic you want your site to be about, then pick from a variety of site styles, whether you want your wiki to be public or private, and who you want to contribute (everyone, or just a few friends?).
Benifits Of Partners:
Just Add Wetpaint is a simple, all-in-one community solution that delivers key benefits to each partner.
Benefit 1: Increased User Engagement
Deepen user engagement by providing fans a place to connect and build a body of knowledge about your product or brand.
Partner Case Study: 4,000+ User-Generated Pages on the CSI Wiki .
Benefit 2: Wider Reach
Extend audience reach through SEO services built right in to the Wetpaint platform, along with cross-promotion of your brand throughout the Wetpaint network of over 600,000 user-generated wikis.
Partner Case Study: 50% of traffic to the wiki originates from outside the partner’s preexisting network.
Benefit 3: Increased Revenue
Increase revenue opportunities with high-quality content that results in significantly higher CPMs than social networking and forums.
Partner Case Study:T-Mobile launched a wiki sweepstakes to promote their new Sidekick phone, drive user engagement and brand loyalty, and increase phone sales.
More at:http://www.wetpaintcentral.com/
Wetpaint powers free wiki websites that are available to anyone and easy to use. In fact, that’s one of the many things that sets Wetpaint apart from other wikis on the web. Creating a Wetpaint wiki is as simple as 1-2-3, so anyone can start a free wiki website they can then share with their family, friends, and the friends they haven’t even met...yet.
How It Works:
Once your site is launched, adding content is easy with the EasyEdit Toolbar. You’ll see that editing a Wetpaint wiki page works very much like a word processor: You can “click” on any open page and start typing. Even better, you can also add photos, YouTube videos, polls . . . it’s all as simple as “click and type.
Start by choosing what topic you want your site to be about, then pick from a variety of site styles, whether you want your wiki to be public or private, and who you want to contribute (everyone, or just a few friends?).
Benifits Of Partners:
Just Add Wetpaint is a simple, all-in-one community solution that delivers key benefits to each partner.
Benefit 1: Increased User Engagement
Deepen user engagement by providing fans a place to connect and build a body of knowledge about your product or brand.
Partner Case Study: 4,000+ User-Generated Pages on the CSI Wiki .
Benefit 2: Wider Reach
Extend audience reach through SEO services built right in to the Wetpaint platform, along with cross-promotion of your brand throughout the Wetpaint network of over 600,000 user-generated wikis.
Partner Case Study: 50% of traffic to the wiki originates from outside the partner’s preexisting network.
Benefit 3: Increased Revenue
Increase revenue opportunities with high-quality content that results in significantly higher CPMs than social networking and forums.
Partner Case Study:T-Mobile launched a wiki sweepstakes to promote their new Sidekick phone, drive user engagement and brand loyalty, and increase phone sales.
More at:http://www.wetpaintcentral.com/
FrontPageBids.com automatically place the ad with highest bid on your site just as it hits the front page
What Company is Offering:
FrontPageBids.com was created to help writers of popular articles monetize the tremendous amount of traffic generated by social networks. Advertisers can place ads on popular articles found on the front page of popular social news sites such as Digg and Reddit dynamically.
How It Works:
FrontPageBids.com automatically place the ad with highest bid on your site just as it hits the front page. They give you 60% of the final bid amount. Now you don't have to hope that your users click on your ads in order to monetize. FrontPageBids.com will give you the opportunity to place your ads on popular articles within categories of your choice. If there are other advertisers bidding on the same category, your position will be determined by the amount of your bid. They will notify you instantly, by email, when your ad is displayed.
More at:http://frontpagebids.com/
FrontPageBids.com was created to help writers of popular articles monetize the tremendous amount of traffic generated by social networks. Advertisers can place ads on popular articles found on the front page of popular social news sites such as Digg and Reddit dynamically.
How It Works:
FrontPageBids.com automatically place the ad with highest bid on your site just as it hits the front page. They give you 60% of the final bid amount. Now you don't have to hope that your users click on your ads in order to monetize. FrontPageBids.com will give you the opportunity to place your ads on popular articles within categories of your choice. If there are other advertisers bidding on the same category, your position will be determined by the amount of your bid. They will notify you instantly, by email, when your ad is displayed.
More at:http://frontpagebids.com/
Piczo will be offering SMS and MMS messaging on the mobile site, along with the ability to upload images directly from their handsets
What Company Is Offering:
Piczo empowers teens worldwide to creatively express themselves, build personal communities, and share ideas and experiences with their friends in a safe online environment. Piczo's customizable content, colorful graphics, glitter text, video, and photo tools spotlight member creativity without requiring technical skills.
How It Works:
Piczo's customizable content, colorful graphics, glitter text, video, and photo tools spotlight member creativity without requiring technical skills. Members share their life stories with friends by designing their sites with multiple pages featuring photos, graphics, videos, music, comment boards, games, and more. Each site can be linked to other friends' sites and users can interact with them and their friends, and meet new people online. And, the "first of its kind" Piczo Zone allows members to share their customizable content with the rest of the Piczo Community. The end results is a vibrant, creative community where members are given the complete freedom to make a site, make friends, or make whatever.
How They Are Progressing:
Piczo has grown to roughly 12 million monthly unique visitors and over a billion monthly page views solely through the viral efforts of loyal members. Rave reviews from these members claim that Piczo is unmatched in the control, ease-of-use, and flexibility it offers them when building their websites.
Recent Updates:
Piczo is the latest to turn to Intercasting Corp. for the development of a mobile network on its Anthem platform. Piczo will be offering SMS and MMS messaging on the mobile site, along with the ability to upload images directly from their handsets, and post comments onto Piczo pages.
More at:http://www.piczoinc.com/
Piczo empowers teens worldwide to creatively express themselves, build personal communities, and share ideas and experiences with their friends in a safe online environment. Piczo's customizable content, colorful graphics, glitter text, video, and photo tools spotlight member creativity without requiring technical skills.
How It Works:
Piczo's customizable content, colorful graphics, glitter text, video, and photo tools spotlight member creativity without requiring technical skills. Members share their life stories with friends by designing their sites with multiple pages featuring photos, graphics, videos, music, comment boards, games, and more. Each site can be linked to other friends' sites and users can interact with them and their friends, and meet new people online. And, the "first of its kind" Piczo Zone allows members to share their customizable content with the rest of the Piczo Community. The end results is a vibrant, creative community where members are given the complete freedom to make a site, make friends, or make whatever.
How They Are Progressing:
Piczo has grown to roughly 12 million monthly unique visitors and over a billion monthly page views solely through the viral efforts of loyal members. Rave reviews from these members claim that Piczo is unmatched in the control, ease-of-use, and flexibility it offers them when building their websites.
Recent Updates:
Piczo is the latest to turn to Intercasting Corp. for the development of a mobile network on its Anthem platform. Piczo will be offering SMS and MMS messaging on the mobile site, along with the ability to upload images directly from their handsets, and post comments onto Piczo pages.
More at:http://www.piczoinc.com/
Search Office Space Worldwide--An Office Finder Company
What Company Is Offering:
They are an office finder company. They offer you an impartial advice concerning your office requirements. They will liaise between you and the office brokers they are currently dealing with, the main office brokers around the world, to find you the best suitable office space, location and price. Their services consist in assisting businesses seeking for an office space to rent or office brokers seeking for tenants. They offer you an online service as well as a helpline.
How It Works:
They can take care of the entire process for you from search to the signing of contract and moving in. As part of their professional service they will select your locations, Compare available business centres, Select those of interest and Add to List .It will cost you nothing! They will provide you with a free service. They act as brokers between you and the business centre owners/managers. Theirr aim is to match your needs to the right centre. When the deal is done and you move in they receive commission from the business centre as a pre determine standard rate – nothing is passed onto you.You will receive a detailed applicant report with all the centres you have selected. Your dedicated SOS consultant will contact you to discuss your requirements fully and recommend a shortlist of centres and arrange viewings. We also contact each individual business centre you select to make them aware of your interest and requirements.
More at:http://www.searchofficespace.com/
They are an office finder company. They offer you an impartial advice concerning your office requirements. They will liaise between you and the office brokers they are currently dealing with, the main office brokers around the world, to find you the best suitable office space, location and price. Their services consist in assisting businesses seeking for an office space to rent or office brokers seeking for tenants. They offer you an online service as well as a helpline.
How It Works:
They can take care of the entire process for you from search to the signing of contract and moving in. As part of their professional service they will select your locations, Compare available business centres, Select those of interest and Add to List .It will cost you nothing! They will provide you with a free service. They act as brokers between you and the business centre owners/managers. Theirr aim is to match your needs to the right centre. When the deal is done and you move in they receive commission from the business centre as a pre determine standard rate – nothing is passed onto you.You will receive a detailed applicant report with all the centres you have selected. Your dedicated SOS consultant will contact you to discuss your requirements fully and recommend a shortlist of centres and arrange viewings. We also contact each individual business centre you select to make them aware of your interest and requirements.
More at:http://www.searchofficespace.com/
ClixConnect is a live-chat service that combines a 24/7 online sales and support team with a proprietary live-chat application
What Company Is Offering:
ClixConnect is a live-chat service that combines a 24/7 online sales and support team with a proprietary live-chat application, enabling online merchants to personally engage and actively sell products to every visitor to their website.
How It Works:
ClixConnect combines a call-center with a proprietary live-chat application. ClixConnect enables you to offer live customer support chat to visitors of your website. With the ClixConnect application, you can field incoming chat requests when you're available, and a ClixConnect operator will take care of them when you're not available.
With ClixConnect, you can respond to chat inquiries from visitors to your website when you are available, and when you're not available, a ClixConnect live-chat rep will respond to them on your behalf, 24/7/365.
The ClixConnect application has an innovative technology built into it which enables automated chat recommendations for customers, based upon the product they are viewing. So say someone is looking at a red t-shirt on your website, an automated chat window can appear recommending a blue pair of pants to them.
Upon signing up for the ClixConnect service, you will be prompted to complete a questionnaire. This questionnaire will contain all the necessary information to handle most inquiries. In addition, the ClixConnect operator can search the internet to find the answer to the customer's inquiry. If the ClixConnect operator cannot determine a solution to the customer's problem with the given information, and information available on the internet, the ClixConnect operator can contact you using our Chat-to-Phone service.
More at:http://www.clixconnect.com/
ClixConnect is a live-chat service that combines a 24/7 online sales and support team with a proprietary live-chat application, enabling online merchants to personally engage and actively sell products to every visitor to their website.
How It Works:
ClixConnect combines a call-center with a proprietary live-chat application. ClixConnect enables you to offer live customer support chat to visitors of your website. With the ClixConnect application, you can field incoming chat requests when you're available, and a ClixConnect operator will take care of them when you're not available.
With ClixConnect, you can respond to chat inquiries from visitors to your website when you are available, and when you're not available, a ClixConnect live-chat rep will respond to them on your behalf, 24/7/365.
The ClixConnect application has an innovative technology built into it which enables automated chat recommendations for customers, based upon the product they are viewing. So say someone is looking at a red t-shirt on your website, an automated chat window can appear recommending a blue pair of pants to them.
Upon signing up for the ClixConnect service, you will be prompted to complete a questionnaire. This questionnaire will contain all the necessary information to handle most inquiries. In addition, the ClixConnect operator can search the internet to find the answer to the customer's inquiry. If the ClixConnect operator cannot determine a solution to the customer's problem with the given information, and information available on the internet, the ClixConnect operator can contact you using our Chat-to-Phone service.
More at:http://www.clixconnect.com/
Imeem Partnering with Universal Music Group that will allow users of the social networking site to stream full-length tracks and videos for free
What Company is Offering:
imeem is an online community where millions of fans and artists discover new music, videos, and photos, and share their tastes with friends.
How It Works:
Enjoy the latest videos, music, photos, or blogs posted on imeem. Stay up-to-date with your personal network of fans and friends with "What's New" notifications .Get in-depth stats for all your content and track their popularity. Tag, comment, rate, and share any of your friends' cool (or embarrassing) content. Create or join groups for your favorite band, event, topic, and more. Start discussions with other imeem users and make new friends. Embed your media on other pages (such as your blog, Bebo, etc.). Recommend stuff to your friends or add it to your "Favorites" list
Easily add media to your Del.icio.us, Wordpress, Blogger, or Typepad account (to name a few).
Recent Updates:
Imeem has announced a partnership with Universal Music Group that will allow users of the social networking site to stream full-length tracks and videos for free. The company now has deals with all four major record labels (EMI, Sony BMG, and Warner Music being the other three previously signed agreements) to stream music and videos on an ad-supported basis, becoming the first company in the space to do so.
http://www.imeem.com/
imeem is an online community where millions of fans and artists discover new music, videos, and photos, and share their tastes with friends.
How It Works:
Enjoy the latest videos, music, photos, or blogs posted on imeem. Stay up-to-date with your personal network of fans and friends with "What's New" notifications .Get in-depth stats for all your content and track their popularity. Tag, comment, rate, and share any of your friends' cool (or embarrassing) content. Create or join groups for your favorite band, event, topic, and more. Start discussions with other imeem users and make new friends. Embed your media on other pages (such as your blog, Bebo, etc.). Recommend stuff to your friends or add it to your "Favorites" list
Easily add media to your Del.icio.us, Wordpress, Blogger, or Typepad account (to name a few).
Recent Updates:
Imeem has announced a partnership with Universal Music Group that will allow users of the social networking site to stream full-length tracks and videos for free. The company now has deals with all four major record labels (EMI, Sony BMG, and Warner Music being the other three previously signed agreements) to stream music and videos on an ad-supported basis, becoming the first company in the space to do so.
http://www.imeem.com/
European social network Bahu has secured $1 million in its first round of funding
What Company is Offering:
Bahu is a private social networking site for students from all around the world.
Created by students for students, the site helps you keep in touch with your friends and your school life, meet new people, create and develop your personal page, your own online clubs, listen and share your music playlists, create photo and video albums, decide who are the talents of tomorrow... and much more.
How It Works:
Express yourself, show your talents and stay in touch with your friends !
You'll be able to upload your pics, share your favorite songs, your videos and passions.
How Much They Got From VCs:
European social network Bahu has secured $1 million in its first round of funding, led by Lightspeed-Gemini Internet Lab. Started by students and targeting a student demographic, Bahu plans on expanding further across Europe to France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Russia, Germany, Poland and the Baltic countries, in addition to South America and Asia.
More at:http://www.bahu.com/
Bahu is a private social networking site for students from all around the world.
Created by students for students, the site helps you keep in touch with your friends and your school life, meet new people, create and develop your personal page, your own online clubs, listen and share your music playlists, create photo and video albums, decide who are the talents of tomorrow... and much more.
How It Works:
Express yourself, show your talents and stay in touch with your friends !
You'll be able to upload your pics, share your favorite songs, your videos and passions.
How Much They Got From VCs:
European social network Bahu has secured $1 million in its first round of funding, led by Lightspeed-Gemini Internet Lab. Started by students and targeting a student demographic, Bahu plans on expanding further across Europe to France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Russia, Germany, Poland and the Baltic countries, in addition to South America and Asia.
More at:http://www.bahu.com/
Flavorpill--City Guide
What Company Is Offering:
Flavorpill loves culture. They embrace the high-brow, the underground, the low-brow, and the mainstream, and everything in between – as long as it's good.
How It Works:
A city guide for those who like to go out, Flavorpill publishes a daily update of worthwhile cultural event listings, from art exhibits and readings to concerts, plays, and festivals. Every day our teams of editors comb through stacks of emails, sites, papers, and magazines looking for the must-see happenings in their city -- and then get off their computers and go out. We only write about events we personally vouch for and have seen, or plan to go to, ourselves.
Flavorpill is for all of us. It exists to help us to get to know our cities better, to find and experience brilliant artists, musicians, groups, and spaces we weren't aware of – while helping us avoid the derivative, always seeking out the things that inspire us.They invite you to give the site a good pass, subscribe to their weekly email(s), read the listings, and check out the pictures – they think you'll find something worthy, maybe even discover something new.
Recent Updates:
Flavorpill is going mobile. In partnership with mobile local service BuzzD and support from Nokia Nseries, Flavorpill Mobile is the latest piece of its growing network. With the mobile tool, users will get real-time reviews and ratings as well as events listings. The first cities to get FlavorPill Mobile are New York, L.A., San Francisco, Chicago and Miami.
More at:http://flavorpill.com/
Flavorpill loves culture. They embrace the high-brow, the underground, the low-brow, and the mainstream, and everything in between – as long as it's good.
How It Works:
A city guide for those who like to go out, Flavorpill publishes a daily update of worthwhile cultural event listings, from art exhibits and readings to concerts, plays, and festivals. Every day our teams of editors comb through stacks of emails, sites, papers, and magazines looking for the must-see happenings in their city -- and then get off their computers and go out. We only write about events we personally vouch for and have seen, or plan to go to, ourselves.
Flavorpill is for all of us. It exists to help us to get to know our cities better, to find and experience brilliant artists, musicians, groups, and spaces we weren't aware of – while helping us avoid the derivative, always seeking out the things that inspire us.They invite you to give the site a good pass, subscribe to their weekly email(s), read the listings, and check out the pictures – they think you'll find something worthy, maybe even discover something new.
Recent Updates:
Flavorpill is going mobile. In partnership with mobile local service BuzzD and support from Nokia Nseries, Flavorpill Mobile is the latest piece of its growing network. With the mobile tool, users will get real-time reviews and ratings as well as events listings. The first cities to get FlavorPill Mobile are New York, L.A., San Francisco, Chicago and Miami.
More at:http://flavorpill.com/
MessageDance
What Company Is Offering:
MessageDance enables you to invite friends, family, and co-workers to post messages through email to your Facebook profile, MySpace profile, blog, or any website that you control. You can post messages by email to your own sites as well. Using just one email address, the message goes to all of the places you have MessageDance.
How It Works:
MessageDance will give you an email address that your friends can use to send you a message directly from their email client, and the message will appear on your widget.
Now looking back at the MessageDance community: here you can keep track of all your messages. They’re public, and other MessageDance users can see them, so make sure you have nice friends.All comments (messages) on the site are treated as individual pieces of media, meaning you can respond to them on an individual level, and leave comments. This isn’t possible directly from the widgets (no threaded comments here), but it is possible on MessageDance’s main site.
More at:http://messagedance.com/
MessageDance enables you to invite friends, family, and co-workers to post messages through email to your Facebook profile, MySpace profile, blog, or any website that you control. You can post messages by email to your own sites as well. Using just one email address, the message goes to all of the places you have MessageDance.
How It Works:
MessageDance will give you an email address that your friends can use to send you a message directly from their email client, and the message will appear on your widget.
Now looking back at the MessageDance community: here you can keep track of all your messages. They’re public, and other MessageDance users can see them, so make sure you have nice friends.All comments (messages) on the site are treated as individual pieces of media, meaning you can respond to them on an individual level, and leave comments. This isn’t possible directly from the widgets (no threaded comments here), but it is possible on MessageDance’s main site.
More at:http://messagedance.com/
LogiXML Is Web-based Business Intelligence Got $5 million from Updata Partners In VCs Funding
What Company is Offering:
LogiXML, the leader in interactive, Web-based Business Intelligence empowers enterprises to turn data into business-critical information with pure Web-based reporting and analysis products. The Company offers a comprehensive platform that addresses all key areas of BI - managed reporting, ad hoc reporting, analysis and data services. Used by thousands of organizations worldwide, LogiXML products are built on standards-based technologies for easy integration, implementation and upgrade. LogiXML's per server pricing model makes its powerful technology the most affordable BI solution on the market.
How Much They Got From VCs:
LogiXML, Inc. , the leader in Web-based Business Intelligence announced that it has secured $5 million from Updata Partners. The company has enjoyed dramatic growth over the last three years and is now adding venture funding to take advantage of domestic and international market opportunities for the Logi 8 Business Intelligence platform. In conjunction with the funding, Carter Griffin, Partner at Updata Partners, has joined LogiXML's Board of Directors.
About VCs:
Based in Reston, Virginia and Edison, New Jersey, Updata Partners is a leading venture capital firm that invests in growth stage information technology companies with innovative intellectual property enabling market-leading products and services. Led by an investment team averaging more than 20 years of operational and private equity experience in the technology industry, Updata Partners seeks investments where the combination of our financial backing and operating expertise will accelerate growth. With nearly $500 million under management, the firm also selectively provides recapitalization and management buyout financing. For more information, visit www.updatapartners.com.
Recent Achievements:
The Web Marketing Association has awarded LogiXML, Inc. a 2007 WEBAWARD for Outstanding Achievement in Website Development in recognition of the graphical, technical and usability features of the www.logixml.com Web site.
More at:www.logixml.com
LogiXML, the leader in interactive, Web-based Business Intelligence empowers enterprises to turn data into business-critical information with pure Web-based reporting and analysis products. The Company offers a comprehensive platform that addresses all key areas of BI - managed reporting, ad hoc reporting, analysis and data services. Used by thousands of organizations worldwide, LogiXML products are built on standards-based technologies for easy integration, implementation and upgrade. LogiXML's per server pricing model makes its powerful technology the most affordable BI solution on the market.
How Much They Got From VCs:
LogiXML, Inc. , the leader in Web-based Business Intelligence announced that it has secured $5 million from Updata Partners. The company has enjoyed dramatic growth over the last three years and is now adding venture funding to take advantage of domestic and international market opportunities for the Logi 8 Business Intelligence platform. In conjunction with the funding, Carter Griffin, Partner at Updata Partners, has joined LogiXML's Board of Directors.
About VCs:
Based in Reston, Virginia and Edison, New Jersey, Updata Partners is a leading venture capital firm that invests in growth stage information technology companies with innovative intellectual property enabling market-leading products and services. Led by an investment team averaging more than 20 years of operational and private equity experience in the technology industry, Updata Partners seeks investments where the combination of our financial backing and operating expertise will accelerate growth. With nearly $500 million under management, the firm also selectively provides recapitalization and management buyout financing. For more information, visit www.updatapartners.com.
Recent Achievements:
The Web Marketing Association has awarded LogiXML, Inc. a 2007 WEBAWARD for Outstanding Achievement in Website Development in recognition of the graphical, technical and usability features of the www.logixml.com Web site.
More at:www.logixml.com
EdgeCast--Helping You Grow Your Business Online Got $6 million in Series B financing
What Company Is Offering:
EdgeCast offers a superior, cost-effective global content delivery service that gives our customers competitive advantage in the delivery of digital media. Their world-class content delivery platform provides customers the cost benefits and flexibility of controlling their own content delivery network while liberating them from bandwidth contracts, capital investments and operational hassles.
How It Works:
All content types can be delivered on the EdgeCast CDN, and you can leverage EdgeCast's All Edge technology to ensure that your content is always on the edge, close to your global user base. Images, files, home pages, entire websites, and more are delivered lightning-fast from EdgeCast's worldwide Points of Presence (POPs), with 100% guaranteed performance and uptime. E-commerce websites can take special advantage of the EdgeCast network, as their images, files, and other content will load immediately from locations next to the end user in order to enhance the shopping experience, provide fewer abandoned shopping carts, and increase overall e-commerce ROI. EdgeCast clients can also take advantage of our "EdgeRAM" technology, enabling storage of the most mission-critical content directly into the server RAM of the EdgeCast caching servers at our worldwide POPs.
How Much They Got From VCs:
EdgeCast Networks, the superior, cost-effective rich media content delivery network (CDN), today announced that it has secured $6 million in Series B financing led by Steamboat Ventures, a venture capital firm affiliated with The Walt Disney Company.
About VCs:
Steamboat Ventures is a global venture capital fund that invests in digital media, consumer and technology companies in the U.S. and Asia. Steamboat Ventures pursues a distinctive investment strategy, cultivating investment opportunities that are simultaneously financially promising and also possess the potential to have significant strategic interest to The Walt Disney Company. Founded in 2000, Steamboat Ventures has invested in a range of leading digital media and consumer technology companies, including: Fastclick (acquired by VCLK), Iridigm Display Corporation (acquired by QCOM), Pure Digital Technologies, Quigo Technologies, Move Networks, 56.com, and UUSee. For more information, please visit www.steamboatvc.com .
More at:http://www.edgecast.com/
EdgeCast offers a superior, cost-effective global content delivery service that gives our customers competitive advantage in the delivery of digital media. Their world-class content delivery platform provides customers the cost benefits and flexibility of controlling their own content delivery network while liberating them from bandwidth contracts, capital investments and operational hassles.
How It Works:
All content types can be delivered on the EdgeCast CDN, and you can leverage EdgeCast's All Edge technology to ensure that your content is always on the edge, close to your global user base. Images, files, home pages, entire websites, and more are delivered lightning-fast from EdgeCast's worldwide Points of Presence (POPs), with 100% guaranteed performance and uptime. E-commerce websites can take special advantage of the EdgeCast network, as their images, files, and other content will load immediately from locations next to the end user in order to enhance the shopping experience, provide fewer abandoned shopping carts, and increase overall e-commerce ROI. EdgeCast clients can also take advantage of our "EdgeRAM" technology, enabling storage of the most mission-critical content directly into the server RAM of the EdgeCast caching servers at our worldwide POPs.
How Much They Got From VCs:
EdgeCast Networks, the superior, cost-effective rich media content delivery network (CDN), today announced that it has secured $6 million in Series B financing led by Steamboat Ventures, a venture capital firm affiliated with The Walt Disney Company.
About VCs:
Steamboat Ventures is a global venture capital fund that invests in digital media, consumer and technology companies in the U.S. and Asia. Steamboat Ventures pursues a distinctive investment strategy, cultivating investment opportunities that are simultaneously financially promising and also possess the potential to have significant strategic interest to The Walt Disney Company. Founded in 2000, Steamboat Ventures has invested in a range of leading digital media and consumer technology companies, including: Fastclick (acquired by VCLK), Iridigm Display Corporation (acquired by QCOM), Pure Digital Technologies, Quigo Technologies, Move Networks, 56.com, and UUSee. For more information, please visit www.steamboatvc.com .
More at:http://www.edgecast.com/
Monday, December 10, 2007
Doba simplifies and streamlines product sourcing for the emerging market of millions of web-based entrepreneurs
What Company Is Offering:
Doba simplifies and streamlines product sourcing for the emerging market of millions of web-based entrepreneurs delving into the fray of starting and/or growing a retail business.
How It Works:
Doba is what people in the retail industry refer to as a product sourcing marketplace or drop-ship aggregator. Their members are online retail merchants and entrepreneurs who buy products at wholesale prices and sell them at retail prices without having to deal with the hassle and expense of storing products, managing inventory, packing and shipping products, and handling returns. Doba members can find wholesale priced products on our website, market and sell those products to their customers, collect payments, and then place an order on our site to have those products shipped directly to their customers. Doba's single interface puts retailers in touch with hundreds of wholesale suppliers featuring a combined product line of over 1,200,000 quality products.
Doba's members gain access to over 1,200,000 wholesale products from numerous suppliers. Instead of having to register and work with individual suppliers—each of which has its own way of processing orders and keeping records—our members have uniform access to all of our suppliers through a single and simple interface.
For suppliers, Doba offers the ability to increase sales and distribution by tapping into the marketing efforts of over 30,000 web-based small to medium size retail entrepreneurs. If you are a distributor, manufacturer, wholesaler, or drop shipper, Doba can allow you to gain access to this emerging large distribution and sales channel without the risk and complexities of dealing with small-volume retailers. (For more information about our supplier services,
To complement their growing product catalog, they provide retailers and suppliers with premium services, including advanced tools, resources, and training and education that empower them to maximize sales and profits and manage their businesses more effectively and efficiently.
How This Company is Progressing:
Currently, over 30,000 small to medium size retail businesses and entrepreneurs use our simplified product sourcing solutions to process millions of dollars of transactions annually.
More at:http://www.doba.com/
Doba simplifies and streamlines product sourcing for the emerging market of millions of web-based entrepreneurs delving into the fray of starting and/or growing a retail business.
How It Works:
Doba is what people in the retail industry refer to as a product sourcing marketplace or drop-ship aggregator. Their members are online retail merchants and entrepreneurs who buy products at wholesale prices and sell them at retail prices without having to deal with the hassle and expense of storing products, managing inventory, packing and shipping products, and handling returns. Doba members can find wholesale priced products on our website, market and sell those products to their customers, collect payments, and then place an order on our site to have those products shipped directly to their customers. Doba's single interface puts retailers in touch with hundreds of wholesale suppliers featuring a combined product line of over 1,200,000 quality products.
Doba's members gain access to over 1,200,000 wholesale products from numerous suppliers. Instead of having to register and work with individual suppliers—each of which has its own way of processing orders and keeping records—our members have uniform access to all of our suppliers through a single and simple interface.
For suppliers, Doba offers the ability to increase sales and distribution by tapping into the marketing efforts of over 30,000 web-based small to medium size retail entrepreneurs. If you are a distributor, manufacturer, wholesaler, or drop shipper, Doba can allow you to gain access to this emerging large distribution and sales channel without the risk and complexities of dealing with small-volume retailers. (For more information about our supplier services,
To complement their growing product catalog, they provide retailers and suppliers with premium services, including advanced tools, resources, and training and education that empower them to maximize sales and profits and manage their businesses more effectively and efficiently.
How This Company is Progressing:
Currently, over 30,000 small to medium size retail businesses and entrepreneurs use our simplified product sourcing solutions to process millions of dollars of transactions annually.
More at:http://www.doba.com/
Unusual Business Idea
What Company is Offering:
TCF is a dedicated network for college students on which they publish and view academic resources: outlines, study guides, notes, formula sheets, essays, and other student generated documents.
TCF enables offline student sharing of documents to go online. Online students will have access to more documents of potentially higher quality and greater breadth in more courses, departments, and schools. TCF organizes these documents to enable easy search. For example, TCF requires standardized file tagging by content providers, which makes finding files by content seekers more effective.
How It Works:
Content seekers acquire documents from their peers that they can't get from professors, textbooks, or course websites.
Content providers share their documents, anonymously, by real name or by alias, if they wish. They may also choose to share with the general public, their Facebook friends, a selected group of their Facebook friends, and/or the users from whom they have downloaded documents.
Anyone can access and view documents posted on TCF. Only those logged in with their facebook account information can upload, rate, and comment on documents.
More at:http://www.thecollegefreeway.com/
TCF is a dedicated network for college students on which they publish and view academic resources: outlines, study guides, notes, formula sheets, essays, and other student generated documents.
TCF enables offline student sharing of documents to go online. Online students will have access to more documents of potentially higher quality and greater breadth in more courses, departments, and schools. TCF organizes these documents to enable easy search. For example, TCF requires standardized file tagging by content providers, which makes finding files by content seekers more effective.
How It Works:
Content seekers acquire documents from their peers that they can't get from professors, textbooks, or course websites.
Content providers share their documents, anonymously, by real name or by alias, if they wish. They may also choose to share with the general public, their Facebook friends, a selected group of their Facebook friends, and/or the users from whom they have downloaded documents.
Anyone can access and view documents posted on TCF. Only those logged in with their facebook account information can upload, rate, and comment on documents.
More at:http://www.thecollegefreeway.com/
Show Me How To Play---The Future Of Learning To Play Music And Instruments
What Company Is Offering:
Show Me How To Play, the conceptual idea of Mark Flannery, has taken shape and has re-written the future of learning to play music and instruments.
Based in Brighton, England; the company has worked with some leading media companies to create a styled, innovative proposition.
How It Works:
At ShowMeHowToPlay.com you can take a look at the live lesson section and choose a song and submit it for a life lesson. The multiplayer has many features that help you learn how to play an instrument. Once you choose a song the screen is divided into four sections that focus on four instruments. You can choose the instrument that you are learning how to play and focus on that screen. If you focus on one instrument you can choose to hear the audio of only that instrument. You can replay section of the song and have it play slower so you can learn the part. Once you think you have learned the song you can mute your instrument and play with the band. Besides learning how to play an instrument ShowMeHowToPlay.com has lots of great information on different artist, songs, and albums.
More at:http://www.showmehowtoplay.com/
Show Me How To Play, the conceptual idea of Mark Flannery, has taken shape and has re-written the future of learning to play music and instruments.
Based in Brighton, England; the company has worked with some leading media companies to create a styled, innovative proposition.
How It Works:
At ShowMeHowToPlay.com you can take a look at the live lesson section and choose a song and submit it for a life lesson. The multiplayer has many features that help you learn how to play an instrument. Once you choose a song the screen is divided into four sections that focus on four instruments. You can choose the instrument that you are learning how to play and focus on that screen. If you focus on one instrument you can choose to hear the audio of only that instrument. You can replay section of the song and have it play slower so you can learn the part. Once you think you have learned the song you can mute your instrument and play with the band. Besides learning how to play an instrument ShowMeHowToPlay.com has lots of great information on different artist, songs, and albums.
More at:http://www.showmehowtoplay.com/
PayCycle is the leader in on-demand payroll for small businesses Is Upgrading It With PayToday and Peachtree integration
What Company Is Offering:
PayCycle is the leader in on-demand payroll for small businesses and for the accounting professionals who serve them. Our company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with a second location in Schaumburg, Illinois.PayCycle's mission is to make paper-based payroll obsolete. Using our unique Do-It-With-YouSM (DIWYSM) technology platform, PayCycle guides users through the entire payroll process online, from setup to paychecks to W-2s. There's no other service like it, whether you're comparing PayCycle to fully-outsourced payroll companies or in-house accounting software.
How It Works:
After you contract with an online payroll firm, you key in the personal data of each employee—including salary, date of hire and bank account information.
Each month, at a time you specify, the online firm withdraws payroll from your company’s account and deposits salaries directly into each employee’s account. It’s completely paperless.
PayCycle also withholds taxes from employees’ checks, deposits withholdings in a separate account we use to pay taxes, and processes sales commissions and bonuses.
When salaries are paid, employees get an e-mail letting them know their online stub is ready to be downloaded. Employees log onto their personal PayCycle Web page, where they can review and print out their stub.
Recent Updates:
Online payroll service PayCycle is launching a new version (2008) with two major upgrades: PayToday and Peachtree integration. The PayToday offering lets users signup with PayCycle and run payroll the same day. This should really help on the new customer front, as several businesses seeking payroll services are in immediate need to use the payroll tool, so the PayToday option will appeal to potential businesses and help PayCycle’s growth efforts.
Via-Mash
More at:https://www.paycycle.com/
PayCycle is the leader in on-demand payroll for small businesses and for the accounting professionals who serve them. Our company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with a second location in Schaumburg, Illinois.PayCycle's mission is to make paper-based payroll obsolete. Using our unique Do-It-With-YouSM (DIWYSM) technology platform, PayCycle guides users through the entire payroll process online, from setup to paychecks to W-2s. There's no other service like it, whether you're comparing PayCycle to fully-outsourced payroll companies or in-house accounting software.
How It Works:
After you contract with an online payroll firm, you key in the personal data of each employee—including salary, date of hire and bank account information.
Each month, at a time you specify, the online firm withdraws payroll from your company’s account and deposits salaries directly into each employee’s account. It’s completely paperless.
PayCycle also withholds taxes from employees’ checks, deposits withholdings in a separate account we use to pay taxes, and processes sales commissions and bonuses.
When salaries are paid, employees get an e-mail letting them know their online stub is ready to be downloaded. Employees log onto their personal PayCycle Web page, where they can review and print out their stub.
Recent Updates:
Online payroll service PayCycle is launching a new version (2008) with two major upgrades: PayToday and Peachtree integration. The PayToday offering lets users signup with PayCycle and run payroll the same day. This should really help on the new customer front, as several businesses seeking payroll services are in immediate need to use the payroll tool, so the PayToday option will appeal to potential businesses and help PayCycle’s growth efforts.
Via-Mash
More at:https://www.paycycle.com/
Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package
What Company Is Offering:
Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities.
How It Works:
You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a University with 200,000 students. This site itself is created using Moodle, so check out the Moodle Demonstration Courses or read the latest Moodle Buzz.Moodle has a large and diverse user community with over 330,000 registered users on this site alone, speaking over 70 languages in 196 countries . The best place to start is Using Moodle, which is where the main international discussions are held in English, but they have a variety of groups discussing other topics and in other languages.They have a long list of developers who contribute towards the development of Moodle. Start with our developer information as well as the roadmap, the coding guide and CVS guide to access our source code. Most discussion can be found in Using Moodle, but we also have a Tracker where you should report general bugs, feature requests, fixes and other issues. Sensitive security problems should be posted to the Moodle Security site, so we can deal with them appropriately.
More at:http://moodle.org/
Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities.
How It Works:
You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a University with 200,000 students. This site itself is created using Moodle, so check out the Moodle Demonstration Courses or read the latest Moodle Buzz.Moodle has a large and diverse user community with over 330,000 registered users on this site alone, speaking over 70 languages in 196 countries . The best place to start is Using Moodle, which is where the main international discussions are held in English, but they have a variety of groups discussing other topics and in other languages.They have a long list of developers who contribute towards the development of Moodle. Start with our developer information as well as the roadmap, the coding guide and CVS guide to access our source code. Most discussion can be found in Using Moodle, but we also have a Tracker where you should report general bugs, feature requests, fixes and other issues. Sensitive security problems should be posted to the Moodle Security site, so we can deal with them appropriately.
More at:http://moodle.org/
Just-Posted--Vertical Job Search Engine --Find The Perfect Job
What Company Is Offering:
Just-Posted Inc. - an online media and technology solutions company - specializes in, and is passionate about, vertical search.
How It Works:
The Company’s proprietary vertical search technology, business intelligence platforms and innovative advertising solutions combine to deliver unparalleled search results relevance.
Extensible to an infinite number of vertical domains and easily syndicated/licensed to business partners - the search engine has quickly become the Web’s leading vertical job search engine.
To learn more about Just-Posted Inc, its vertical search engine technology, advertising, licensing opportunities, etc., call: 1.585.315.2027.
More at:http://www.just-posted.com/
Just-Posted Inc. - an online media and technology solutions company - specializes in, and is passionate about, vertical search.
How It Works:
The Company’s proprietary vertical search technology, business intelligence platforms and innovative advertising solutions combine to deliver unparalleled search results relevance.
Extensible to an infinite number of vertical domains and easily syndicated/licensed to business partners - the search engine has quickly become the Web’s leading vertical job search engine.
To learn more about Just-Posted Inc, its vertical search engine technology, advertising, licensing opportunities, etc., call: 1.585.315.2027.
More at:http://www.just-posted.com/
Docoloco--Broadcasting The Best Places Near You
What Company Is Offering:
Looking for a hairdresser? A nice restaurant to take a new flame? Use Docoloco to ask friends and locals for recommendations. Get recommendations for anything you need. Start by wording a request below. Give it a whirl!
You need to login or join to ask for recommendations.
How It Works:
Looking for a gift shop, cafe or a good vet to take your sick budgie? Ask friends and locals for recommendations.Share all the local places you love and love to hate. Locals (and Karma) will love you for it.Follow people, topics, places and local areas to receive recommendations for stuff you're interested in.Get in on the action and join Docoloco. It's free, super quick and easy to sign up.
More at:http://www.docoloco.com/
Looking for a hairdresser? A nice restaurant to take a new flame? Use Docoloco to ask friends and locals for recommendations. Get recommendations for anything you need. Start by wording a request below. Give it a whirl!
You need to login or join to ask for recommendations.
How It Works:
Looking for a gift shop, cafe or a good vet to take your sick budgie? Ask friends and locals for recommendations.Share all the local places you love and love to hate. Locals (and Karma) will love you for it.Follow people, topics, places and local areas to receive recommendations for stuff you're interested in.Get in on the action and join Docoloco. It's free, super quick and easy to sign up.
More at:http://www.docoloco.com/
SVB Analytics Research Series
About SVB Analytics
SVB Analytics offers valuation and corporate equity administration services to private, venture capital-backed companies and venture capital firms. SVB Analytics' initial services offerings include fair market 409A valuations and corporate equity tracking and administrative services. SVB Analytics is a member of global financial services firm SVB Financial Group, with SVB Silicon Valley Bank, SVB Capital, SVB Global and SVB Private Client Services, which serve the unique needs of technology, life sciences and private equity firms.
SVB Analytics, a leading provider of valuation and corporate equity management services, released Volume 2 of its research series that analyzes the value drivers in the world of private equity and venture capital. The research is based on examinations of valuation data for thousands of venture-backed technology and life science companies. The latest report takes an in-depth look at the explosion of late-stage technology investing, identifying the funding recipients and the impact they are having on their investors' portfolios.
Contrary to the belief that the bulk of private technology companies left over from the boom are on the verge of fizzling out, the research reveals that companies conceived during the 2000 bubble-era comprise one-third of all private technology companies today, and the bulk of them -- 70 percent -- have received fresh funding within the last three years. A large percentage of those companies are playing a significant role in investment portfolios and dominating technology merger and acquisition activity, according to the report.
"It's not unheard of for successful technology companies to go through five, six or even seven rounds of venture funding today," said Jim Anderson, president of SVB Analytics. "What no one really expected was that so many of these companies were born during the bubble and are significantly impacting today's venture portfolios. Popular opinion says the bubble burst and everything imploded, but our data reveals that's not the whole story."
SVB Analytics Research Series is authored by theoretical mathematician and SVB Analytics Research Director Cindy Moore and edited by SVB Analytics founder and President Jim Anderson. The research was funded by SVB Analytics, a member of SVB Financial Group (Nasdaq: SIVB).
SVB Analytics was formed to respond to clients' demand for assistance with analytical tasks resulting from new tax regulations and accounting standards. As part of this effort SVB Analytics helps companies comply with the exigencies of IRS Code Section 409A, which requires a formal valuation opinion for private companies every 12 months.
Volume 3 of the SVB Analytics Research Series is expected to be available in the first quarter of 2008.
For a complete copy of SVB Analytics Research Series, Volume 2 please visit http://www.svb.com/pdfs/SVBAnalytics_Research_Vol2.pdf
More information on the company can be found at http://www.svb.com/svbanalytics.
SVB Analytics offers valuation and corporate equity administration services to private, venture capital-backed companies and venture capital firms. SVB Analytics' initial services offerings include fair market 409A valuations and corporate equity tracking and administrative services. SVB Analytics is a member of global financial services firm SVB Financial Group, with SVB Silicon Valley Bank, SVB Capital, SVB Global and SVB Private Client Services, which serve the unique needs of technology, life sciences and private equity firms.
SVB Analytics, a leading provider of valuation and corporate equity management services, released Volume 2 of its research series that analyzes the value drivers in the world of private equity and venture capital. The research is based on examinations of valuation data for thousands of venture-backed technology and life science companies. The latest report takes an in-depth look at the explosion of late-stage technology investing, identifying the funding recipients and the impact they are having on their investors' portfolios.
Contrary to the belief that the bulk of private technology companies left over from the boom are on the verge of fizzling out, the research reveals that companies conceived during the 2000 bubble-era comprise one-third of all private technology companies today, and the bulk of them -- 70 percent -- have received fresh funding within the last three years. A large percentage of those companies are playing a significant role in investment portfolios and dominating technology merger and acquisition activity, according to the report.
"It's not unheard of for successful technology companies to go through five, six or even seven rounds of venture funding today," said Jim Anderson, president of SVB Analytics. "What no one really expected was that so many of these companies were born during the bubble and are significantly impacting today's venture portfolios. Popular opinion says the bubble burst and everything imploded, but our data reveals that's not the whole story."
SVB Analytics Research Series is authored by theoretical mathematician and SVB Analytics Research Director Cindy Moore and edited by SVB Analytics founder and President Jim Anderson. The research was funded by SVB Analytics, a member of SVB Financial Group (Nasdaq: SIVB).
SVB Analytics was formed to respond to clients' demand for assistance with analytical tasks resulting from new tax regulations and accounting standards. As part of this effort SVB Analytics helps companies comply with the exigencies of IRS Code Section 409A, which requires a formal valuation opinion for private companies every 12 months.
Volume 3 of the SVB Analytics Research Series is expected to be available in the first quarter of 2008.
For a complete copy of SVB Analytics Research Series, Volume 2 please visit http://www.svb.com/pdfs/SVBAnalytics_Research_Vol2.pdf
More information on the company can be found at http://www.svb.com/svbanalytics.
LocateTV is to let you find TV shows available where you live in the world, be they on broadcast TV, online or on recorded media
What Company Is Offering:
LocateTV is to let you find TV shows available where you live in the world, be they on broadcast TV, online or on recorded media (DVD, HD-DVD etc).
How It Works:
They provide tools to assist you when you contribute on the web. For example, if you want to recommend a TV show, movie or actor in a blog you can use our embed service to provide an easy way to tell your readers where they can view the content you are talking about. Placing an embed makes it easier for your readers to find out where they can view the content in their region, and will always be up-to-date.
They have created a couple of short videos to help you get the best from LocateTV:
A guide to LocateTV - searching for help in using the site .
A guide to LocateTV - embedding to understand how useful embeds can be on your own web pages .
More at:http://www.locatetv.com/
LocateTV is to let you find TV shows available where you live in the world, be they on broadcast TV, online or on recorded media (DVD, HD-DVD etc).
How It Works:
They provide tools to assist you when you contribute on the web. For example, if you want to recommend a TV show, movie or actor in a blog you can use our embed service to provide an easy way to tell your readers where they can view the content you are talking about. Placing an embed makes it easier for your readers to find out where they can view the content in their region, and will always be up-to-date.
They have created a couple of short videos to help you get the best from LocateTV:
A guide to LocateTV - searching for help in using the site .
A guide to LocateTV - embedding to understand how useful embeds can be on your own web pages .
More at:http://www.locatetv.com/
CNR.com is a free one-click software
What Company Is Offering:
CNR.com is a free one-click software delivery service designed to standardize the process and eliminate the complexity of finding, installing and managing Linux software for the most popular desktop Linux distributions, both Debian and RPM based. Please note that CNR.com is currently in beta stage.
How It Works:
With CNR.com you get the most extensive free resource available anywhere for desktop Linux software. Search from tens of thousands of Linux software programs, packages and libraries by title, popularity, similar software, category, Who's Who, or function, and with just one click install the software on to your computer.The basic CNR Service provides supported desktop Linux distributions a free, simple one-click CNR Client (currently in beta stage) that allows you to begin installing software from CNR.com immediately as well as get involved with the community.The Premium CNR Service offers CNR.com users everything that comes with the basic CNR Service, plus a number of added services and benefits, including great discounts on all commercial Linux Software and more.
More at:http://www.cnr.com/
CNR.com is a free one-click software delivery service designed to standardize the process and eliminate the complexity of finding, installing and managing Linux software for the most popular desktop Linux distributions, both Debian and RPM based. Please note that CNR.com is currently in beta stage.
How It Works:
With CNR.com you get the most extensive free resource available anywhere for desktop Linux software. Search from tens of thousands of Linux software programs, packages and libraries by title, popularity, similar software, category, Who's Who, or function, and with just one click install the software on to your computer.The basic CNR Service provides supported desktop Linux distributions a free, simple one-click CNR Client (currently in beta stage) that allows you to begin installing software from CNR.com immediately as well as get involved with the community.The Premium CNR Service offers CNR.com users everything that comes with the basic CNR Service, plus a number of added services and benefits, including great discounts on all commercial Linux Software and more.
More at:http://www.cnr.com/
Luxry Homes For Sale
What Company Says:
A warm Welsh welcome to the Homes of Distinction Wales’ website!
Here you will find homes that form part the vivid tapestry that is Wales. The Principality is rich in an architecture that only history can produce. My colleagues and I pride ourselves on a one-to-one service and will handle your sale or purchase with total discretion.
How It Works:
At Homes of Distinction Wales, it is their policy to offer clients selling their homes a structured plan that will hopefuly lead to a stress free and successful sale.
The strategy required will be discussed with each client and tailor made to fit the marketing requirements of each property.
The Welsh countryside offers a varied selection of homes including country houses, large estates, equestrian properties and even rugged cliff top mansions! In the cities, town and villages there are houses of stature and character. Cardiff, with its theatres, concert halls and Millennium Stadium has modern city apartments and fine town dwellings.
Wales has a number of fine restaurants, some with Michelin stars, world class golf courses and country sports including shooting, fresh water game fishing and riding.
More at:http://www.luxury-homes-for-sale.co.uk/
A warm Welsh welcome to the Homes of Distinction Wales’ website!
Here you will find homes that form part the vivid tapestry that is Wales. The Principality is rich in an architecture that only history can produce. My colleagues and I pride ourselves on a one-to-one service and will handle your sale or purchase with total discretion.
How It Works:
At Homes of Distinction Wales, it is their policy to offer clients selling their homes a structured plan that will hopefuly lead to a stress free and successful sale.
The strategy required will be discussed with each client and tailor made to fit the marketing requirements of each property.
The Welsh countryside offers a varied selection of homes including country houses, large estates, equestrian properties and even rugged cliff top mansions! In the cities, town and villages there are houses of stature and character. Cardiff, with its theatres, concert halls and Millennium Stadium has modern city apartments and fine town dwellings.
Wales has a number of fine restaurants, some with Michelin stars, world class golf courses and country sports including shooting, fresh water game fishing and riding.
More at:http://www.luxury-homes-for-sale.co.uk/
Yalicoo's unique platform offers professional, educational and entertaining online virtual stock trading competitions
What Company is Offering:
Yalicoo's unique platform offers professional, educational and entertaining online virtual stock trading competitions. You can win real monetary prizes, learn in real time from winning strategies of the top performers and view real time stock quotes.
How It Works:
Yalicoo is a simulator, not a real brokerage account. Therefore, the trades and their subsequent commissions are virtual and don't involve real money.
They have 4 types of games: daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly competitions. In each game you chose to play, you’ll get an initial amount of $100,000 to build and manage your own portfolio. All your trades are executed in real time without any delays. The winners in each game are the players with the highest account value (highest yield), i.e. the ones with the most profitable portfolios at the end of the game.
The daily game can be played every trading day of the week. The winners are the players with the highest account value at the end of the day. The weekly game is played for an entire week, and the monthly game is played for an entire month. The winners are the ones with the highest returns at the end of the game period.
To create an exciting financial arena, for investors of all levels, where subscribers share their know-how and best performers win cash rewards.The competition winners and their strategies are transparent for everyone to observe. There is always a winner and cash prizes are awarded to the first, second and third place. There is no minimum number of competitors. All top performing 10% of the players per competition that did not win a cash prize will receive a free game.
How Is It Different:
Yalicoo is the ONLY place on the net where you can watch all the other traders' real time portfolios and follow every trade they make, trade virtually with real time quotes and win cash prizes for creating a winning high yield virtual portfolio.
More at:http://www.yalicoo.com/
Yalicoo's unique platform offers professional, educational and entertaining online virtual stock trading competitions. You can win real monetary prizes, learn in real time from winning strategies of the top performers and view real time stock quotes.
How It Works:
Yalicoo is a simulator, not a real brokerage account. Therefore, the trades and their subsequent commissions are virtual and don't involve real money.
They have 4 types of games: daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly competitions. In each game you chose to play, you’ll get an initial amount of $100,000 to build and manage your own portfolio. All your trades are executed in real time without any delays. The winners in each game are the players with the highest account value (highest yield), i.e. the ones with the most profitable portfolios at the end of the game.
The daily game can be played every trading day of the week. The winners are the players with the highest account value at the end of the day. The weekly game is played for an entire week, and the monthly game is played for an entire month. The winners are the ones with the highest returns at the end of the game period.
To create an exciting financial arena, for investors of all levels, where subscribers share their know-how and best performers win cash rewards.The competition winners and their strategies are transparent for everyone to observe. There is always a winner and cash prizes are awarded to the first, second and third place. There is no minimum number of competitors. All top performing 10% of the players per competition that did not win a cash prize will receive a free game.
How Is It Different:
Yalicoo is the ONLY place on the net where you can watch all the other traders' real time portfolios and follow every trade they make, trade virtually with real time quotes and win cash prizes for creating a winning high yield virtual portfolio.
More at:http://www.yalicoo.com/
Ontri is a triathlon training social site which lets athletes with a passion for staying fit connect and make new friends
What Company Is Offering:
Ontri is a triathlon training social site which lets athletes with a passion for staying fit connect and make new friends too.
How It Works:
They offer both free and premium training plans for triathlons of all distances, marathon training programs online coaching and more. Our coaches are some of the best in the world.
You'll get free access to a wealth of online tools to track your workouts and nutrition, set goals and compete with other members in your club to help you stay motivated.Users are encouraged to get together, participate in the marathon and triathlon training programs, and compete in monthly online competitions. As a member you’ll be able to start your own club and set up challenges with your friends to keep them motivated. There both paid for and free training and nutrition programs available. Premium programs include unlimited coaching with world renowned BodyZen coaches who have been training athletes for over a decade. All levels of coaching are offered; there are also specific programs for sprint triathlons, Half Ironman, Ironman, marathon and century bike rides, and Olympic distance events.The site already has over 25,000 members from all around the world.
More at:http://www.ontri.com/
Ontri is a triathlon training social site which lets athletes with a passion for staying fit connect and make new friends too.
How It Works:
They offer both free and premium training plans for triathlons of all distances, marathon training programs online coaching and more. Our coaches are some of the best in the world.
You'll get free access to a wealth of online tools to track your workouts and nutrition, set goals and compete with other members in your club to help you stay motivated.Users are encouraged to get together, participate in the marathon and triathlon training programs, and compete in monthly online competitions. As a member you’ll be able to start your own club and set up challenges with your friends to keep them motivated. There both paid for and free training and nutrition programs available. Premium programs include unlimited coaching with world renowned BodyZen coaches who have been training athletes for over a decade. All levels of coaching are offered; there are also specific programs for sprint triathlons, Half Ironman, Ironman, marathon and century bike rides, and Olympic distance events.The site already has over 25,000 members from all around the world.
More at:http://www.ontri.com/
Languify is a translation management system for your software projects
What Company Is Offering:
Languify is a translation management system for your software projects. Those who have dealt with agile software projects, which support multiple languages, know: synchronizing feature development and localization is a nightmare. Languify reduces the barriers of entry to software internationalization (i18n) so significantly that the benefits of global accessibility now outweigh costs.
How It Works:
Globalize:
The display text in software applications, including web sites, is often embedded directly in the programming code. These bits of text are called “strings”, and include button & menu labels, tooltips, help text, error messages, and so on.
For software to support multiple languages, these strings need to be moved out of the code and into separate files. This step is called “globalizing” or “externalizing” the application.
Every software platform has its own mechanisms for globalizing. In the Java world, for instance, strings are externalized into .properties files and accessed through the ResourceBundle class.
Languify:
You can upload these externalized string files into Languify. Each file becomes a “locale”, which specifies the language and the region. For example, Brazilian Portugeuse or Canadian English. You may only have one locale to create if you have not had any translations done yet.
With your project and first locale(s) set up in Languify, you can now invite translators to use the web interface to add translations. Your translators may be professional translators, or perhaps passionate users of your application (aka “Crowdsourcing”).
Periodically you will export your Languify project back into your software application.
Languify also offers a full REST-style API, which allows other systems to programmatically interact with your projects, locales, keys, and translations.
More at:http://languify.com/
Languify is a translation management system for your software projects. Those who have dealt with agile software projects, which support multiple languages, know: synchronizing feature development and localization is a nightmare. Languify reduces the barriers of entry to software internationalization (i18n) so significantly that the benefits of global accessibility now outweigh costs.
How It Works:
Globalize:
The display text in software applications, including web sites, is often embedded directly in the programming code. These bits of text are called “strings”, and include button & menu labels, tooltips, help text, error messages, and so on.
For software to support multiple languages, these strings need to be moved out of the code and into separate files. This step is called “globalizing” or “externalizing” the application.
Every software platform has its own mechanisms for globalizing. In the Java world, for instance, strings are externalized into .properties files and accessed through the ResourceBundle class.
Languify:
You can upload these externalized string files into Languify. Each file becomes a “locale”, which specifies the language and the region. For example, Brazilian Portugeuse or Canadian English. You may only have one locale to create if you have not had any translations done yet.
With your project and first locale(s) set up in Languify, you can now invite translators to use the web interface to add translations. Your translators may be professional translators, or perhaps passionate users of your application (aka “Crowdsourcing”).
Periodically you will export your Languify project back into your software application.
Languify also offers a full REST-style API, which allows other systems to programmatically interact with your projects, locales, keys, and translations.
More at:http://languify.com/
ZAP Reader is a web based speed reading program that will change the way you read on your computer
What Company Is Offering:
ZAP Reader is a web based speed reading program that will change the way you read on your computer. Current beta testers report reading twice as much in half the time—that's a 300% increase in reading speed, without any loss in comprehension! There is nothing to install, it works with most popular browsers, and it's totally free.
How It Works:
Reader - If you have some text that you want to read fast, copy it onto your computer's clipboard, click this link, and follow the instructions to Zap read that text.
Settings - By default, Zap Reader allows you to read at 300 words per minute, one word at a time. Use the settings feature to configure Zap Reader with your own preferences.
Tools - Zap Reader is designed to be easy to integrate with other programs. Find out about browser bookmarklets, program ad-ins, and other integration tools here.
Blog - To keep up with the latest news about Zap Reader, read the Zap Reader Blog. Even better, subscribe to the RSS feed.
Forum - Want to submit a bug report, request an enhancement, or just talk to other Zap Reader users?
More at:http://www.zapreader.com/
ZAP Reader is a web based speed reading program that will change the way you read on your computer. Current beta testers report reading twice as much in half the time—that's a 300% increase in reading speed, without any loss in comprehension! There is nothing to install, it works with most popular browsers, and it's totally free.
How It Works:
Reader - If you have some text that you want to read fast, copy it onto your computer's clipboard, click this link, and follow the instructions to Zap read that text.
Settings - By default, Zap Reader allows you to read at 300 words per minute, one word at a time. Use the settings feature to configure Zap Reader with your own preferences.
Tools - Zap Reader is designed to be easy to integrate with other programs. Find out about browser bookmarklets, program ad-ins, and other integration tools here.
Blog - To keep up with the latest news about Zap Reader, read the Zap Reader Blog. Even better, subscribe to the RSS feed.
Forum - Want to submit a bug report, request an enhancement, or just talk to other Zap Reader users?
More at:http://www.zapreader.com/
Sunday, December 9, 2007
SkyLow.com--Your Cheap Flights Expert
What Company Is Offering:
SkyLow.com mission is to improve the way travelers reserve flights on the Internet. Moreover, enhance the technique cheap flights can be found and booked on the Web.
How It Works:
SkyLow searches a database of over 100 Low Cost Carriers to find the most suitable and cheapest flight for your client.
Low Cost Carriers are the new generation of airlines: they are much cheaper than traditional airlines, and cover more routes. On Low Cost Carriers, tickets can cost less than $1 !!
Traditional GDS (Global Distribution Systems) do not show Low Cost Carriers flights, and therefore travel agent are not aware that for the route needed. Their clients could be flying on a Low Cost Carrier and save an average of 80% of the ticket rate! This rule applies to all the online travel websites known as “Meta Search Engines.”
How It It Different:
SkyLow.com Competitive Edge; unlike the well established travel websites such as Expedia, Orbitz, and Travelocity that do NOT present Low Cost Airlines, www.skylow.com can search, compare, and book Low Cost Airlines.
SkyLow delivers the cheapest available airline ticket for any requested route around the world. SkyLow provides the ultimate search, compare, and book engine, serving Internet consumers. SkyLow is currently focused on the fastest growing market segment of Low Cost Airlines.
Why It Could Work:
The one ultimate solution that all travelers would need is a travel website that will allow them to: Search, Compare, and Book the cheapest available flight between any two places in the world.
More at:http://www.skylow.com/
SkyLow.com mission is to improve the way travelers reserve flights on the Internet. Moreover, enhance the technique cheap flights can be found and booked on the Web.
How It Works:
SkyLow searches a database of over 100 Low Cost Carriers to find the most suitable and cheapest flight for your client.
Low Cost Carriers are the new generation of airlines: they are much cheaper than traditional airlines, and cover more routes. On Low Cost Carriers, tickets can cost less than $1 !!
Traditional GDS (Global Distribution Systems) do not show Low Cost Carriers flights, and therefore travel agent are not aware that for the route needed. Their clients could be flying on a Low Cost Carrier and save an average of 80% of the ticket rate! This rule applies to all the online travel websites known as “Meta Search Engines.”
How It It Different:
SkyLow.com Competitive Edge; unlike the well established travel websites such as Expedia, Orbitz, and Travelocity that do NOT present Low Cost Airlines, www.skylow.com can search, compare, and book Low Cost Airlines.
SkyLow delivers the cheapest available airline ticket for any requested route around the world. SkyLow provides the ultimate search, compare, and book engine, serving Internet consumers. SkyLow is currently focused on the fastest growing market segment of Low Cost Airlines.
Why It Could Work:
The one ultimate solution that all travelers would need is a travel website that will allow them to: Search, Compare, and Book the cheapest available flight between any two places in the world.
More at:http://www.skylow.com/
Adomo delivers next generation voice messaging and communications/mobility applications to Global enterprises with complex telephony environments
What Company Is Offering:
Adomo delivers next generation voice messaging and communications/mobility applications to Global enterprises with complex telephony environments (TDM/IPT and multi-sites) or business processes running on legacy VM platforms.
The introduction of VoIP with its associated performance and reliability increases, along with end-of-life announcements by many vendors for legacy voice messaging systems, are driving enterprises to make major changes in their communications systems. When it’s time to upgrade, choose Adomo. Easily migrate and replace legacy voice messaging systems within your current telephony environment - without disrupting existing voice-enabled business processes.
How It Works:
Adomo is - 100% focused on Unified Messaging solutions that seamlessly integrate into telephony and data networks of large enterprises.
Adomo delivers - purpose built, modular architecture that leverages existing email and telephony technologies to deliver flexible, resilient Unified Messaging solutions.
Adomo serves - fortune 2000 companies with complex environments impacted by IT consolidation and IP telephony migration.
Adomo can be incorporated with standard comm software like MS Outlook and mobile devices. Users can opt to get their messages on their PC or mobile phone; they can also send voice mail messages to their email inbox; essentially they get anywhere access and a unified inbox. The Adomo platform integrates with any PBX—TDM and IPT. It’s flexible with low TCO and can be adjusted to fit any network topology.
More at:http://www.adomo.com/
Adomo delivers next generation voice messaging and communications/mobility applications to Global enterprises with complex telephony environments (TDM/IPT and multi-sites) or business processes running on legacy VM platforms.
The introduction of VoIP with its associated performance and reliability increases, along with end-of-life announcements by many vendors for legacy voice messaging systems, are driving enterprises to make major changes in their communications systems. When it’s time to upgrade, choose Adomo. Easily migrate and replace legacy voice messaging systems within your current telephony environment - without disrupting existing voice-enabled business processes.
How It Works:
Adomo is - 100% focused on Unified Messaging solutions that seamlessly integrate into telephony and data networks of large enterprises.
Adomo delivers - purpose built, modular architecture that leverages existing email and telephony technologies to deliver flexible, resilient Unified Messaging solutions.
Adomo serves - fortune 2000 companies with complex environments impacted by IT consolidation and IP telephony migration.
Adomo can be incorporated with standard comm software like MS Outlook and mobile devices. Users can opt to get their messages on their PC or mobile phone; they can also send voice mail messages to their email inbox; essentially they get anywhere access and a unified inbox. The Adomo platform integrates with any PBX—TDM and IPT. It’s flexible with low TCO and can be adjusted to fit any network topology.
More at:http://www.adomo.com/
Picktastic is an exciting web community blending competitive sports picking with social networking
What Company Is Offering:
Picktastic is an exciting web community blending competitive sports picking with social networking. The website is designed to bring people together who enjoy all types of sports to compete to see who is the best at picking winners, and to talk trash against everyone else in the process.
How It Works:
First you need to Sign Up. Then, see all of those glassy-looking buttons floating about everywhere? That's how you pick games. Click on the team you think will win. There's no need to click submit or reload the page. Once the button gets a checkmark and is highlighted with the team's color, then we've got your pick. Click on the title or anywhere on the Picks/Comments/Wagers links to see how many people picked which teams, post comments, or even make wagers. Now come back after the game is over to see if you won. If you did, you score some points which help you out with your overall standing against other Pickrs. If you pick enough games correctly, you might find yourself on a Leaderboard.
Picktastic.com features many different sports categories such as; the NFL, the NBA, the MLB, the NHL, the NCAA FB, and the NCAA BK. You can visit other people’s profiles to see how successful they are with their picks and wagers. You can also decide to trash someone which is to write comment about their pick. Your trash can be more than just text, you can add photos and videos if you like. You can visit the different leaderboards to see who has had the most luck picking teams.
More at:http://www.picktastic.com/
Picktastic is an exciting web community blending competitive sports picking with social networking. The website is designed to bring people together who enjoy all types of sports to compete to see who is the best at picking winners, and to talk trash against everyone else in the process.
How It Works:
First you need to Sign Up. Then, see all of those glassy-looking buttons floating about everywhere? That's how you pick games. Click on the team you think will win. There's no need to click submit or reload the page. Once the button gets a checkmark and is highlighted with the team's color, then we've got your pick. Click on the title or anywhere on the Picks/Comments/Wagers links to see how many people picked which teams, post comments, or even make wagers. Now come back after the game is over to see if you won. If you did, you score some points which help you out with your overall standing against other Pickrs. If you pick enough games correctly, you might find yourself on a Leaderboard.
Picktastic.com features many different sports categories such as; the NFL, the NBA, the MLB, the NHL, the NCAA FB, and the NCAA BK. You can visit other people’s profiles to see how successful they are with their picks and wagers. You can also decide to trash someone which is to write comment about their pick. Your trash can be more than just text, you can add photos and videos if you like. You can visit the different leaderboards to see who has had the most luck picking teams.
More at:http://www.picktastic.com/
Gatherama is a social voting website that combines news and opinion polls with Web 2.0
What Company Is Offering:
Gatherama is a social voting website that combines news and opinion polls with Web 2.0. Traditionally, opinion polls are boring and expensive to collect the data. We want to change that. Gatherama provides a natural way for people to read the news, vote and discuss the issues, and connect with other people with similar interests.
How It Works:
Gatherama is aim to be an instant reflection of the world's opinion on current events that are happening. As current events are happening around the world, people can post the news on Gatherama and other people can vote and discuss about the issues related to the news article. They all have a natural tendency of wanting to know what other people think about things that are happening. For example, what percentage of the people is going to see a certain movie or going to buy the first iPhone release or going to vote for Republicans or Democrats. Gatherama also has a "What's New" section where people can post a short heading and a link to the latest breaking news. All contents of the website are user-generated.Their users receive points for posting, commenting, and voting. The more they contribute the more points they will receive. Gatherama wants to provide a natural, fun and efficient way for people to read about the current events and discover what others are thinking and saying about the issues that are important in our society.
More at:http://www.gatherama.com/
Gatherama is a social voting website that combines news and opinion polls with Web 2.0. Traditionally, opinion polls are boring and expensive to collect the data. We want to change that. Gatherama provides a natural way for people to read the news, vote and discuss the issues, and connect with other people with similar interests.
How It Works:
Gatherama is aim to be an instant reflection of the world's opinion on current events that are happening. As current events are happening around the world, people can post the news on Gatherama and other people can vote and discuss about the issues related to the news article. They all have a natural tendency of wanting to know what other people think about things that are happening. For example, what percentage of the people is going to see a certain movie or going to buy the first iPhone release or going to vote for Republicans or Democrats. Gatherama also has a "What's New" section where people can post a short heading and a link to the latest breaking news. All contents of the website are user-generated.Their users receive points for posting, commenting, and voting. The more they contribute the more points they will receive. Gatherama wants to provide a natural, fun and efficient way for people to read about the current events and discover what others are thinking and saying about the issues that are important in our society.
More at:http://www.gatherama.com/
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