What Company is Offering:
MyShoppingPal.com, helps you find what is right for you by combining expert knowledge with user preferences from all online stores, including your favorite ones. The website has access to products from all premium stores and brands for five important product categories: clothing, shoes, bags, jewelry & watches, and health & beauty.
How It Works:
When you shop for clothes or shoes, MyShoppingPal.com gives you the feeling that you have the celebrity stylist to help find what looks on you. When you shop for jewelry , you have gemologists to guide you on the quality and price of the jewelry. When you shop beauty products, you have cosmetologists to analyze the colors and ingredients to find items that will look good on you and suit your skin, hair, etc.
Its Unique Features:
The heart of MyShoppingPal.com's technology is its patent pending intelligent shopping engine that calculates your personal score for every product. The personal score takes into consideration the attractiveness of products for you, your personal style and preferences, fashion and technology trends, and product reviews. They call this personalized score, a FAP (Fashion, Attractiveness, and Preferences) score. Their shopping engine automatically sifts through millions of the products and their reviews looking for products which have high FAP score for you. Their FAP scoring system figures out the attractiveness of a product for you using expert knowledge about a product category and customer ratings. We have consulted well known experts in various fields to incorporate their knowledge and expertise in the rating system. We have bots that crawl the Internet to figure out the overall customer perception for products. We have also taken advanatge of our partnership with Amazon.com and Shopping.com to incorporate their customer review data into the overall customer ratings for products.
In addition to its unique technology that helps user find what is right for them, MyShoppingPal.com also has a unique and very attractive reward program only for beta users. With the help of their technology you can buy from your favorite store and still save some money. They have partnered with all the premium merchants to bring the largest selection of the products to you.
More at:http://www.myshoppingpal.com/
Saturday, November 3, 2007
PickPackGo--Find, compare and book vacation rental homes, villas, condos
what Company is Offering:
They created a specialized vacation rental search site that makes it fast and easy for travelers to find the ideal vacation rental for their dates of travel and conveniently and securely book their rental. Our mission is to expedite and simplify the process of finding, comparing and renting vacation homes.
How It Works:
PickPackGo aggressively acquires renter traffic through targeted marketing programs and popular search engines, including Google and Yahoo!. Travelers visiting their site get the smartest vacation rental search results for location, travel dates and the property requirements they specify. By matching traveler preferences and travel dates with availability, PickPackGo delivers the most qualified inquiries to property managers and owners in the industry.
Property managers and individual owners may post as many detailed property listings as they like at PickPackGo for FREE. There are absolutely no set-up or annual listing fees—ever.
Why Is It Different:
Unlike a classified listing site, we invite owners and property managers to list as many properties as they like for free. Then, we work hard on their behalf to showcase their properties and deliver highly qualified inquiries and bookings that ultimately lead to increased rental income. It's a performance-driven model that really works.
More at :http://www.pickpackgo.com/
They created a specialized vacation rental search site that makes it fast and easy for travelers to find the ideal vacation rental for their dates of travel and conveniently and securely book their rental. Our mission is to expedite and simplify the process of finding, comparing and renting vacation homes.
How It Works:
PickPackGo aggressively acquires renter traffic through targeted marketing programs and popular search engines, including Google and Yahoo!. Travelers visiting their site get the smartest vacation rental search results for location, travel dates and the property requirements they specify. By matching traveler preferences and travel dates with availability, PickPackGo delivers the most qualified inquiries to property managers and owners in the industry.
Property managers and individual owners may post as many detailed property listings as they like at PickPackGo for FREE. There are absolutely no set-up or annual listing fees—ever.
Why Is It Different:
Unlike a classified listing site, we invite owners and property managers to list as many properties as they like for free. Then, we work hard on their behalf to showcase their properties and deliver highly qualified inquiries and bookings that ultimately lead to increased rental income. It's a performance-driven model that really works.
More at :http://www.pickpackgo.com/
Friday, November 2, 2007
Worktopia-Direct Online Booking Engine-Got $5 Million in Series A Funding Led by DFJ Gotham Ventures
What Company is offering:
Worktopia, the first direct online booking engine for meeting space in hotels, airport lounges and other venues.Worktopia enables companies to procure meeting space and office space when they want it, where they want it... On Demand.
How It Works:
At worktopia.com, visitors can search based on their specific requirements, compare live pricing proposals, and even book the workspace from our live database of availability...24/7. Our Service provides the tools you need, to save time and money while enhancing your options and increasing your team's productivity.Worktopia is the first and only global reservation system for short term workspace, including meeting and training rooms as well as instant office space. A perfect procurement service for a distributed workforce. Our supply partners include over 1,800 hotels, conference centers, business centers and traditional office properties around the world.
How Much They Got From VCs:
They announced that it has completed a $5 million financing from a syndicate led by New York-based DFJ Gotham Ventures and including Milestone Venture Partners and High Peaks Venture Partners.
What's The Purpose Of Raising Fund:
Worktopia will deploy the additional capital to drive expansion of its network of hotel partners, to build on its foundation of corporate travel distribution relationships and to extend its leadership position. Worktopia is the first service to allow meeting planners to search, compare and book meeting space, equipment and simple catering online in real-time, a $24 billion market that has until now been conducted over the telephone.
More at:http://www.worktopia.com/
Worktopia, the first direct online booking engine for meeting space in hotels, airport lounges and other venues.Worktopia enables companies to procure meeting space and office space when they want it, where they want it... On Demand.
How It Works:
At worktopia.com, visitors can search based on their specific requirements, compare live pricing proposals, and even book the workspace from our live database of availability...24/7. Our Service provides the tools you need, to save time and money while enhancing your options and increasing your team's productivity.Worktopia is the first and only global reservation system for short term workspace, including meeting and training rooms as well as instant office space. A perfect procurement service for a distributed workforce. Our supply partners include over 1,800 hotels, conference centers, business centers and traditional office properties around the world.
How Much They Got From VCs:
They announced that it has completed a $5 million financing from a syndicate led by New York-based DFJ Gotham Ventures and including Milestone Venture Partners and High Peaks Venture Partners.
What's The Purpose Of Raising Fund:
Worktopia will deploy the additional capital to drive expansion of its network of hotel partners, to build on its foundation of corporate travel distribution relationships and to extend its leadership position. Worktopia is the first service to allow meeting planners to search, compare and book meeting space, equipment and simple catering online in real-time, a $24 billion market that has until now been conducted over the telephone.
More at:http://www.worktopia.com/
Fortumo-For Set Up Of Your Own Sms Business
What Company Is Offering:
Fortumo’s goal is to make creating mobile services as easy as it is to create a blog or a home page. Anyone, from students and home-based workers to web entrepreneurs, can create their own SMS service in 5 minutes and start earning revenue. Moreover, Fortumo services have a number of advanced features and competitive revenue sharing, which makes it a good choice for large-volume mobile services.
How It Works:
At the moment, one user can create up to 30 services. If you need to create more than 30 services, please let them know (support@fortumo.com) and they will find a way how you individually can create additional services.Creating Fortumo services is free of charge and will remain so.You can also delete services on the service settings edit page. History of all deleted services is preserved, so you can always analyse the results of your services and view history.
Where They Are Working:
At the moment, the services function in the following countries: Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. They are planning to add new countries on a regular basis. SMS services created by Fortumo users function for the customers of all mobile operators of the above listed countries.
More at:http://www.fortumo.com/
Fortumo’s goal is to make creating mobile services as easy as it is to create a blog or a home page. Anyone, from students and home-based workers to web entrepreneurs, can create their own SMS service in 5 minutes and start earning revenue. Moreover, Fortumo services have a number of advanced features and competitive revenue sharing, which makes it a good choice for large-volume mobile services.
How It Works:
At the moment, one user can create up to 30 services. If you need to create more than 30 services, please let them know (support@fortumo.com) and they will find a way how you individually can create additional services.Creating Fortumo services is free of charge and will remain so.You can also delete services on the service settings edit page. History of all deleted services is preserved, so you can always analyse the results of your services and view history.
Where They Are Working:
At the moment, the services function in the following countries: Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. They are planning to add new countries on a regular basis. SMS services created by Fortumo users function for the customers of all mobile operators of the above listed countries.
More at:http://www.fortumo.com/
Complete Targeting Solutions -Specific Media is the only ad network to offer a complete suite of targeting capabilities on one platform.
What Company Is Offering:
Specific Media provides advertisers, marketers and agencies with leading-edge targeting technologies that enable them to reach specific target audiences on the Web.Specific Media offers a suite of services that enable advertisers to reach specific audiences online.
How It Works:
The company develops, targets and places online advertising campaigns that reach advertisers' desired audience segments, while driving advertising revenue for web publishers. The result is a win-win business model that benefits advertisers as well as web publishers. Specific Media delivers these services through its premium and performance ad networks.
Who is Behind The Company:
1.Tim Vanderhook
Co-founder, President and Chief Executive Officer
Tim Vanderhook co-founded Specific Media in July 1999 when he recognized a need in the industry for an ad network that offered premium-site publishers and delivered efficient ROI results for advertisers.
Tim was largely responsible for creating the pop-under ad unit in 2001, when the dot com fallout began. Web publishers needed a new source of revenue to continue operating their companies and advertisers lost sight of the value traditional banners offered.Since 2002, he has developed one of the most advanced ad serving platforms in the industry, which gives advertisers the unique ability to serve ads to users based on demographic, behavioral, contextual and geographic data across the web's most popular brand publishers. Today, Specific Media's Premium Network boasts the biggest roster of brand publishers on the web with brand names such as Yahoo, Marketwatch, ABCNews, FOX Sports, MLB.com and virtually every other major media company.
2.Chris Vanderhook
Co-Founder, Chief Operating Officer
Before assuming his current title, Chris served as the company's Senior Vice President, overseeing day-to-day operations including all aspects of sales, media buying and ad operations.
Prior to joining Specific Media, Chris was a Personal Banker specializing in small business financing at Bank of America. He became a top-ranked associate regionally and nationally for his outstanding achievement in the procurement of new business finance clientele.
For more at:http://www.specificmedia.com/about-us-our-team.php
Website:http://www.specificmedia.com/
Specific Media provides advertisers, marketers and agencies with leading-edge targeting technologies that enable them to reach specific target audiences on the Web.Specific Media offers a suite of services that enable advertisers to reach specific audiences online.
How It Works:
The company develops, targets and places online advertising campaigns that reach advertisers' desired audience segments, while driving advertising revenue for web publishers. The result is a win-win business model that benefits advertisers as well as web publishers. Specific Media delivers these services through its premium and performance ad networks.
Who is Behind The Company:
1.Tim Vanderhook
Co-founder, President and Chief Executive Officer
Tim Vanderhook co-founded Specific Media in July 1999 when he recognized a need in the industry for an ad network that offered premium-site publishers and delivered efficient ROI results for advertisers.
Tim was largely responsible for creating the pop-under ad unit in 2001, when the dot com fallout began. Web publishers needed a new source of revenue to continue operating their companies and advertisers lost sight of the value traditional banners offered.Since 2002, he has developed one of the most advanced ad serving platforms in the industry, which gives advertisers the unique ability to serve ads to users based on demographic, behavioral, contextual and geographic data across the web's most popular brand publishers. Today, Specific Media's Premium Network boasts the biggest roster of brand publishers on the web with brand names such as Yahoo, Marketwatch, ABCNews, FOX Sports, MLB.com and virtually every other major media company.
2.Chris Vanderhook
Co-Founder, Chief Operating Officer
Before assuming his current title, Chris served as the company's Senior Vice President, overseeing day-to-day operations including all aspects of sales, media buying and ad operations.
Prior to joining Specific Media, Chris was a Personal Banker specializing in small business financing at Bank of America. He became a top-ranked associate regionally and nationally for his outstanding achievement in the procurement of new business finance clientele.
For more at:http://www.specificmedia.com/about-us-our-team.php
Website:http://www.specificmedia.com/
DISCUS– Virtual Library
What Company is Offering:
DISCUS – South Carolina’s Virtual Library is the “information place” for all South Carolinians. DISCUS – which stands for Digital Information for South Carolina USers – provides free access to an electronic library that’s available 24/7.
How It Works:
DISCUS provides a variety of organized resources, called databases, for individuals of all ages, educational levels and interests. The databases include:
magazine, professional journals, newspapers, encyclopedias ,e-books, reference material,student and teacher resources ,maps, pictures, recommended Web links and much more.
How Is It Different From Google:
DISCUS resources use the Internet merely as a delivery tool to provide accurate information from recognized publishers. The DISCUS databases include high-quality publications and documents that are updated regularly and organized so you can quickly find the information you need. Google and other Internet search engines are designed to search the open Web.
More at:http://www.scdiscus.org/
DISCUS – South Carolina’s Virtual Library is the “information place” for all South Carolinians. DISCUS – which stands for Digital Information for South Carolina USers – provides free access to an electronic library that’s available 24/7.
How It Works:
DISCUS provides a variety of organized resources, called databases, for individuals of all ages, educational levels and interests. The databases include:
magazine, professional journals, newspapers, encyclopedias ,e-books, reference material,student and teacher resources ,maps, pictures, recommended Web links and much more.
How Is It Different From Google:
DISCUS resources use the Internet merely as a delivery tool to provide accurate information from recognized publishers. The DISCUS databases include high-quality publications and documents that are updated regularly and organized so you can quickly find the information you need. Google and other Internet search engines are designed to search the open Web.
More at:http://www.scdiscus.org/
Sharedreviews announced funding by Frank Schilling and Monster Venture Partners
What Company Is Offering:
Sharedreviews was born to solve the frustration of content creators in their attempts to monetize their contributions by marrying their efforts with a growing demand for targeted user generated content.
With established third party distribution partners looking to increase value within their advertising networks, SharedReviews is in a unique position to bridge the gap between market demand and content creators in an open, honest, transparency.
How Much They Got FRom VCs:
SharedReviews announced today the closing of a first round investment. The funding round was done by Frank Schilling and Monster Venture Partners. Also participating in the current round of financing is Internet Real Estate Group, a leading developer of premium Internet domain names.
Rob Monster, Managing Director of Monster Venture Partners, said, “The boundary between producers and consumers of digital content is blurring as user-generated content is playing an ever increasing role in influencing attitudes and behaviors of online consumers.
Frank Schilling, founder of Name Administration, is known to many as the world’s most successful domain portfolio manager with a portfolio of hundreds of thousands of high quality generic internet domains. Frank is also viewed as an authority on domain industry trends and is a frequent speaker on topics related to domain monetization.
Internet Real Estate Group rounded out the financing and also brings a network of Internet domains as well as deep knowledge of the Internet domain landscape.
Who Is Behind This Site:
1.Peter brings 13 years of leadership and entrepreneurial experience focused solely on technology and the Internet. Having founded multiple startups, he fits the classic definition of a "Serial" Entrepreneur.
His professional experience includes working as the President and Founder of 1001Canada.com, Channel Sales Manager for Tucows.com Inc., Regional Sales Manager for WWWI, Management and Operational Consultant for GoBIGmedia.com, and Vice President of Marketing and Sales for Tele-Global Direct Corp.
2.Frank is an Internet specialist who brings over 12 years of Business & Technology expertise in the Internet vertical, with many accomplishments building and consulting for Web Development projects since 1995.
His professional experience includes President and Founder of Degap Ltd., President and Founder of Cyberteam.com, Senior Sales Engineer at Tucows.com Inc., and publisher of the renowned DomainEditorial.com.
3.Michael started his career in Web development in early 1998 where he quickly began teaching his approach in Web design to college students enrolled in Multimedia.
Speaking more specifically to Community Development, Michael has created, managed and subsequently leveraged niche communities since 2000, where the largest generates approximately 110 million hits per year with an average of 25,000 unique users.
More at:http://www.sharedreviews.com/
Sharedreviews was born to solve the frustration of content creators in their attempts to monetize their contributions by marrying their efforts with a growing demand for targeted user generated content.
With established third party distribution partners looking to increase value within their advertising networks, SharedReviews is in a unique position to bridge the gap between market demand and content creators in an open, honest, transparency.
How Much They Got FRom VCs:
SharedReviews announced today the closing of a first round investment. The funding round was done by Frank Schilling and Monster Venture Partners. Also participating in the current round of financing is Internet Real Estate Group, a leading developer of premium Internet domain names.
Rob Monster, Managing Director of Monster Venture Partners, said, “The boundary between producers and consumers of digital content is blurring as user-generated content is playing an ever increasing role in influencing attitudes and behaviors of online consumers.
Frank Schilling, founder of Name Administration, is known to many as the world’s most successful domain portfolio manager with a portfolio of hundreds of thousands of high quality generic internet domains. Frank is also viewed as an authority on domain industry trends and is a frequent speaker on topics related to domain monetization.
Internet Real Estate Group rounded out the financing and also brings a network of Internet domains as well as deep knowledge of the Internet domain landscape.
Who Is Behind This Site:
1.Peter brings 13 years of leadership and entrepreneurial experience focused solely on technology and the Internet. Having founded multiple startups, he fits the classic definition of a "Serial" Entrepreneur.
His professional experience includes working as the President and Founder of 1001Canada.com, Channel Sales Manager for Tucows.com Inc., Regional Sales Manager for WWWI, Management and Operational Consultant for GoBIGmedia.com, and Vice President of Marketing and Sales for Tele-Global Direct Corp.
2.Frank is an Internet specialist who brings over 12 years of Business & Technology expertise in the Internet vertical, with many accomplishments building and consulting for Web Development projects since 1995.
His professional experience includes President and Founder of Degap Ltd., President and Founder of Cyberteam.com, Senior Sales Engineer at Tucows.com Inc., and publisher of the renowned DomainEditorial.com.
3.Michael started his career in Web development in early 1998 where he quickly began teaching his approach in Web design to college students enrolled in Multimedia.
Speaking more specifically to Community Development, Michael has created, managed and subsequently leveraged niche communities since 2000, where the largest generates approximately 110 million hits per year with an average of 25,000 unique users.
More at:http://www.sharedreviews.com/
movingmonkey.co.uk is A one stop shop for individuals wanting to obtain quotations from removal companies free of charge to customers
What company Is offering:
movingmonkey.co.uk is not a removal company, but is a free to client moving brokerage service that can be used by anyone who wants to move within the UK, Europe, or even to another continent. We do not undertake any removals ourselves, but match customers with contractors suited and available to undertake your move.
How It Works;
It will allow you to book your move with the confidence that you know you are getting the best possible price, whether you are moving down the road or around the world. A one stop shop for individuals wanting to obtain quotations from removal companies free of charge to customers. Clients enter details of the address they are moving from, and to, select items of furniture to be moved, and the information is submitted to removal companies who bid on the work. The client selects the contractor to work with, and moves house.Once you have submitted your details to movingmonkey.co.uk, we will automatically request local & national moving contractors who are skilled to undertake the work required, to submit a competitive price to you, so you can then pick the company and price that best suits your requirements and then deal with the selected company directly.
More at;http://movingmonkey.co.uk/
movingmonkey.co.uk is not a removal company, but is a free to client moving brokerage service that can be used by anyone who wants to move within the UK, Europe, or even to another continent. We do not undertake any removals ourselves, but match customers with contractors suited and available to undertake your move.
How It Works;
It will allow you to book your move with the confidence that you know you are getting the best possible price, whether you are moving down the road or around the world. A one stop shop for individuals wanting to obtain quotations from removal companies free of charge to customers. Clients enter details of the address they are moving from, and to, select items of furniture to be moved, and the information is submitted to removal companies who bid on the work. The client selects the contractor to work with, and moves house.Once you have submitted your details to movingmonkey.co.uk, we will automatically request local & national moving contractors who are skilled to undertake the work required, to submit a competitive price to you, so you can then pick the company and price that best suits your requirements and then deal with the selected company directly.
More at;http://movingmonkey.co.uk/
Gaia, the popular anime virtual world, has added a new feature that lets you bring online videos into your Gaia world
What company is offering:
Gaia, the popular anime virtual world, has added a new feature that lets you bring online videos into your Gaia world. The new tool is called Gaia VJ, and it lets you collect web videos to create your own channel of streaming content. This acts in a similar manner to online video aggregators that were oh so popular this year.
How It Works:
Gaia VJ is pulling content from the major video-sharing networks, including YouTube, Metacafe, EyeSpot, iFilm and Break. It’s own collection system has a bit of networking itself: you can find content by checking out playlists that other users have already created. Built on Adobe Flex, it’s pretty easy to make playlists.
You can search by video-sharing network, or keyword. A preview of the clip will play to the right, and just drag the clips you’d like in your playlist to the bottom of the screen. Once you’ve created your playlist, there’s an option to view it directly in a private cinema.
What’s fun about Gaia’s implementation of its VJ video aggregation feature is that it exists within the virtual world of Gaia. So once you’ve got your channel of video content, you can play it in your own, virtual private cinema. From there you can invite friends to join you, and then chat it up with each other for real-time commentary while the videos play on. And for those of you that have always wanted to throw tomatoes or popcorn at the screen when something really sucks, now you can, with Gaia VJ.
more at:http://www.gaiaonline.com/
Gaia, the popular anime virtual world, has added a new feature that lets you bring online videos into your Gaia world. The new tool is called Gaia VJ, and it lets you collect web videos to create your own channel of streaming content. This acts in a similar manner to online video aggregators that were oh so popular this year.
How It Works:
Gaia VJ is pulling content from the major video-sharing networks, including YouTube, Metacafe, EyeSpot, iFilm and Break. It’s own collection system has a bit of networking itself: you can find content by checking out playlists that other users have already created. Built on Adobe Flex, it’s pretty easy to make playlists.
You can search by video-sharing network, or keyword. A preview of the clip will play to the right, and just drag the clips you’d like in your playlist to the bottom of the screen. Once you’ve created your playlist, there’s an option to view it directly in a private cinema.
What’s fun about Gaia’s implementation of its VJ video aggregation feature is that it exists within the virtual world of Gaia. So once you’ve got your channel of video content, you can play it in your own, virtual private cinema. From there you can invite friends to join you, and then chat it up with each other for real-time commentary while the videos play on. And for those of you that have always wanted to throw tomatoes or popcorn at the screen when something really sucks, now you can, with Gaia VJ.
more at:http://www.gaiaonline.com/
FrameChannel is a free web-based tool that lets you select and manage image content for your wireless picture frame or desktop
What Company Is Offering:
FrameChannel is a free web-based tool that lets you select and manage image content for your wireless picture frame or desktop. With over 200 channels of dynamic content, FrameChannel allows you to easily combine your own photos with news and entertainment channels, feeds from popular photo sharing sites, as well as photos sent by your friends and family who you can invite to contribute directly to your frame. You set it up once, tell it your preferences, and it updates every fifteen minutes!
How it works:
It’s service is proposed as a way to create dynamic and interesting content for your digital picture frame, but this works for desktop widgets, web widgets and screen savers as well.
So anything that can be delivered via RSS can be placed on your digital picture frame using this service. That includes social networking items (like weekend recap pictures from Facebook), blog content, and more.
With Frame Media your feed delivery can be scheduled. You can have your weather and stock reports delivered in the morning, and your friends’ photos sent later on in the afternoon.
more at:http://www.framechannel.com/
FrameChannel is a free web-based tool that lets you select and manage image content for your wireless picture frame or desktop. With over 200 channels of dynamic content, FrameChannel allows you to easily combine your own photos with news and entertainment channels, feeds from popular photo sharing sites, as well as photos sent by your friends and family who you can invite to contribute directly to your frame. You set it up once, tell it your preferences, and it updates every fifteen minutes!
How it works:
It’s service is proposed as a way to create dynamic and interesting content for your digital picture frame, but this works for desktop widgets, web widgets and screen savers as well.
So anything that can be delivered via RSS can be placed on your digital picture frame using this service. That includes social networking items (like weekend recap pictures from Facebook), blog content, and more.
With Frame Media your feed delivery can be scheduled. You can have your weather and stock reports delivered in the morning, and your friends’ photos sent later on in the afternoon.
more at:http://www.framechannel.com/
Distillingfinance.com is a venue for the collaborative analysis of finance
What Company is Offering:
They created distillingfinance.com to solve a problem they faced themselves while managing their own personal investments: there's too much financial information out there. No one person can possibly sort through it all. Distillingfinance.com is a venue for the collaborative analysis of it.
How It Works:
They are building an online community with a common interest in understanding economics and the financial markets, two of the most complex fields ever developed in human history. Through this site, they can exchange ideas and views on the vast intricacies of modern finance to all of our mutual benefit. Nobody can possibly know it all; it's only by working together that we can realize our goals and ambitions.
Who Is Backing Them:
Paul Legato, the technical mastermind
Aman Singh, the business intelligence geek
Leroy Ratnayake, the business management guy
Greg Ross-Munro, the graphic designer responsible for our look and feel
More at;http://www.distillingfinance.com/
They created distillingfinance.com to solve a problem they faced themselves while managing their own personal investments: there's too much financial information out there. No one person can possibly sort through it all. Distillingfinance.com is a venue for the collaborative analysis of it.
How It Works:
They are building an online community with a common interest in understanding economics and the financial markets, two of the most complex fields ever developed in human history. Through this site, they can exchange ideas and views on the vast intricacies of modern finance to all of our mutual benefit. Nobody can possibly know it all; it's only by working together that we can realize our goals and ambitions.
Who Is Backing Them:
Paul Legato, the technical mastermind
Aman Singh, the business intelligence geek
Leroy Ratnayake, the business management guy
Greg Ross-Munro, the graphic designer responsible for our look and feel
More at;http://www.distillingfinance.com/
Brijit For Best Content On Net In Short "For Busy People"
What Company is Offering:
Brijit aggregates the world's best long-form content and abstracts it in 100 words or less, providing busy, omnivorous, and increasingly mobile readers with rich, qualitative summaries as well as better guideposts for what to read, watch or listen to now.
Brijit is a privately-owned, angel-financed online media startup with teams based in Washington, DC, Mountain View, CA and Beijing. The Company was founded in 2006 and employs a distributed team of editors and writers.
How It Works:
They produce these abstracts in concert with their readers, as one community of readers, writers and editors. Think of us as your well-read friend who leads you to that can't miss article, video clip or product. Brijit's mission is simple: make it easy for all of us to discover and access the world's best content, quickly, inexpensively and on our own terms.
more at:http://www.brijit.com/
Brijit aggregates the world's best long-form content and abstracts it in 100 words or less, providing busy, omnivorous, and increasingly mobile readers with rich, qualitative summaries as well as better guideposts for what to read, watch or listen to now.
Brijit is a privately-owned, angel-financed online media startup with teams based in Washington, DC, Mountain View, CA and Beijing. The Company was founded in 2006 and employs a distributed team of editors and writers.
How It Works:
They produce these abstracts in concert with their readers, as one community of readers, writers and editors. Think of us as your well-read friend who leads you to that can't miss article, video clip or product. Brijit's mission is simple: make it easy for all of us to discover and access the world's best content, quickly, inexpensively and on our own terms.
more at:http://www.brijit.com/
Easy Projects .NET -----For Managing And Tracking Your Projects
What Company is offering:
Easy Projects .NET — the latest generation web based application for managing and tracking software development, IT, manufacturing, financial and many other types of projects. It is called "Easy Projects" for a good reason - it was specifically designed to make project management hassle free and straightforward.
Easy Projects .NET is a product developed by Logic Software, Inc. - Toronto-based custom software development company. Logic Software has delivered hundreds of cost effective and high-quality software solutions for a wide range of industries and domains, including consumer and business software development, web hosting, retail, manufacturing, real estate, community service, and many others.
How It Works:
Easy Projects .NET has only those tools and features that you need. No bells and whistles. No need to worry about a sophisticated setup process. It is all easy as ABC. An intuitive interface and contextual tips will allow you to concentrate on your project instead of spending time trying to figure out how to use the system.
Its Features:
You will be able to track and organize virtually any type of project by using the following powerful features:
Projects with multi-nested tasks
Detailed statistics and reports
Email notifications and alerts
Issue and request tracking
Message board
Many other useful features
more at:http://www.easyprojects.net/
Easy Projects .NET — the latest generation web based application for managing and tracking software development, IT, manufacturing, financial and many other types of projects. It is called "Easy Projects" for a good reason - it was specifically designed to make project management hassle free and straightforward.
Easy Projects .NET is a product developed by Logic Software, Inc. - Toronto-based custom software development company. Logic Software has delivered hundreds of cost effective and high-quality software solutions for a wide range of industries and domains, including consumer and business software development, web hosting, retail, manufacturing, real estate, community service, and many others.
How It Works:
Easy Projects .NET has only those tools and features that you need. No bells and whistles. No need to worry about a sophisticated setup process. It is all easy as ABC. An intuitive interface and contextual tips will allow you to concentrate on your project instead of spending time trying to figure out how to use the system.
Its Features:
You will be able to track and organize virtually any type of project by using the following powerful features:
Projects with multi-nested tasks
Detailed statistics and reports
Email notifications and alerts
Issue and request tracking
Message board
Many other useful features
more at:http://www.easyprojects.net/
b2bCRM is a web-based CRM system
What Company is offering:
b2bCRM offers web-based CRM systems. b2bCRM is easy to start-up and easy to use in your daily business. Consequently your company can choose b2bCRM with significant benefits and avoid spending a lot of money and human resources to get started. Your b2bCRM system may fulfil only 98% of your requirements, but you may prefer this to a system where you only use 25% of its features and still pay 100%. Once you get started you can create and edit fields, screen images and reports your self - with no need for consultants.
How It Works:
With b2bCRM you get started within a few hours after you have received the link to your system. It is easy to import existing data from Excel or your current CRM system. Fields can be edited and created by yourself in order to match your requirements. You can also design and format reports as you please and all data can be downloaded to Excel as well as other formats.
more at:http://www.b2bcrm.net/
b2bCRM offers web-based CRM systems. b2bCRM is easy to start-up and easy to use in your daily business. Consequently your company can choose b2bCRM with significant benefits and avoid spending a lot of money and human resources to get started. Your b2bCRM system may fulfil only 98% of your requirements, but you may prefer this to a system where you only use 25% of its features and still pay 100%. Once you get started you can create and edit fields, screen images and reports your self - with no need for consultants.
How It Works:
With b2bCRM you get started within a few hours after you have received the link to your system. It is easy to import existing data from Excel or your current CRM system. Fields can be edited and created by yourself in order to match your requirements. You can also design and format reports as you please and all data can be downloaded to Excel as well as other formats.
more at:http://www.b2bcrm.net/
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Use Baynote Recommendations To Elevate Your Company's Business.
What Company is Offering:
Baynote delivers on-demand recommendation technology for websites. Businesses use Baynote to automatically display the best content and products to website visitors. Baynote increases the number of products purchased, impressions on the site and the number of leads generated.Baynote Recommendations tap into the collective wisdom of the silent majority without collecting any explicit feedback.
How It Works:
Based on the silently observed visitor actions, Baynote is able to identify and leverage the virtual communities of like-mided visitors on your site. The virtual community includes every visitor on your site and each visitor is completely anonymous. Baynote identifies emerging patterns among the visitors of your site thereby capturing the collective wisdom of the crowd.
Send them a little information about yourself and they'll put you on the path to experiencing Baynote Recommendations on your site.Over 60 ecommerce, media, and enterprise customers use Baynote Recommendations to elevate their business.
Who Is Backing Them:
Hummer Winblad
1.The firm's goal is to provide the capital, experience, and vision that will enable its companies to become leaders in the new software economy.
John Hummer is a member of Baynote's Board of Directors.
http://www.humwin.com
2.JK&B Capital
K&B was formed with the sponsorship of Charles Wang, the founder of Computer Associates, Inc., and financier George Soros, investing through Soros Fund Management LLC, (the Soros Group). JK&B currently manages $900 million in captial committments in the communications and software markets.
Tasha Seitz is a member of Baynote's Board of Directors.
http://www.jkbcapital.com
3.Steamboat Ventures
Steamboat Ventures is the venture arm of the Walt Disney Company. Steamboat invests in early- to mid-stage, technology-focused companies that are pursuing opportunities in emerging media and entertainment markets.Dan Beldy is a member of Baynote's Board of Directors.
http://www.steamboatvc.com
4.Chess Ventures
Chess Ventures is a private equity firm that invests in earlier-stage technology companies that have direct application to the financial services industry.Charles Schwab, Jr. is an investor with Baynote.
http://www.chessventures.com.
More detail at:http://www.baynote.com/
Baynote delivers on-demand recommendation technology for websites. Businesses use Baynote to automatically display the best content and products to website visitors. Baynote increases the number of products purchased, impressions on the site and the number of leads generated.Baynote Recommendations tap into the collective wisdom of the silent majority without collecting any explicit feedback.
How It Works:
Based on the silently observed visitor actions, Baynote is able to identify and leverage the virtual communities of like-mided visitors on your site. The virtual community includes every visitor on your site and each visitor is completely anonymous. Baynote identifies emerging patterns among the visitors of your site thereby capturing the collective wisdom of the crowd.
Send them a little information about yourself and they'll put you on the path to experiencing Baynote Recommendations on your site.Over 60 ecommerce, media, and enterprise customers use Baynote Recommendations to elevate their business.
Who Is Backing Them:
Hummer Winblad
1.The firm's goal is to provide the capital, experience, and vision that will enable its companies to become leaders in the new software economy.
John Hummer is a member of Baynote's Board of Directors.
http://www.humwin.com
2.JK&B Capital
K&B was formed with the sponsorship of Charles Wang, the founder of Computer Associates, Inc., and financier George Soros, investing through Soros Fund Management LLC, (the Soros Group). JK&B currently manages $900 million in captial committments in the communications and software markets.
Tasha Seitz is a member of Baynote's Board of Directors.
http://www.jkbcapital.com
3.Steamboat Ventures
Steamboat Ventures is the venture arm of the Walt Disney Company. Steamboat invests in early- to mid-stage, technology-focused companies that are pursuing opportunities in emerging media and entertainment markets.Dan Beldy is a member of Baynote's Board of Directors.
http://www.steamboatvc.com
4.Chess Ventures
Chess Ventures is a private equity firm that invests in earlier-stage technology companies that have direct application to the financial services industry.Charles Schwab, Jr. is an investor with Baynote.
http://www.chessventures.com.
More detail at:http://www.baynote.com/
Lookery Is Ad Network For Social Networks
What Company is Offering:
Lookery provides demographic marketing services in and around social networks. We’re working to fix the the basic economic problem that social networks face: great user profiling but unpredictable ad inventory. We make it safe and easy for social networks to distribute their data as targeting information outside their web sites, in order to make money in partnership with web sites that have great inventory but little or no user targeting information.
How It Works:
Lookery for the Web, a service to which social networks contribute basic, anonymized profile information and get paid when we use it for real-time ad targeting. The critical issue in designing the service is that user anonymity is strictly maintained. They’re sticking solely to Age, Sex, and Location in order to provide concrete value to marketers while holding absolutely no data in our system that puts users at risk.
More at:http://www.lookery.com/
Lookery provides demographic marketing services in and around social networks. We’re working to fix the the basic economic problem that social networks face: great user profiling but unpredictable ad inventory. We make it safe and easy for social networks to distribute their data as targeting information outside their web sites, in order to make money in partnership with web sites that have great inventory but little or no user targeting information.
How It Works:
Lookery for the Web, a service to which social networks contribute basic, anonymized profile information and get paid when we use it for real-time ad targeting. The critical issue in designing the service is that user anonymity is strictly maintained. They’re sticking solely to Age, Sex, and Location in order to provide concrete value to marketers while holding absolutely no data in our system that puts users at risk.
More at:http://www.lookery.com/
Unusual Business Idea Of Teen Ager Fraser
What Company Is Offering:
SuperJam is a range of no added sugar ‘super fruit’ spreads.These are made from the most nutritious fruits around; such asblueberries and cranberries and are sweetened with grape juice,rather than sugar or sweeteners.
How 18year Old Fraser Becomes Millionaire:
Fraser sells jams and preserves that target a new, younger audience. They stay true to his grandmother’s original recipe but attract more health-conscious consumers. For example, instead of using sweetener like the other, big name jams, Fraser uses grape juice. He also focuses on the “superfoods” like blackcurrants, blueberries and ginger which are attracting buyers looking for a healthier diet. “I think people are looking for something a bit healthier, and it’s more fun and modern. It appeals to people who might not normally buy jam.”
Despite the growing revenues, Fraser has not taken any money out of the company, preferring to pump it back into the business. “For me, it’s not really about making lots of money. You have to create something you enjoy and have a passion for. I genuinely do love jam. When I read that sales had been falling for a couple of decades, I was horrified by the idea of it becoming extinct.”
Fraser started the company four years ago at the age of 14, selling his jam door to door as a way to earn extra spending money. He expanded by setting up shop at a local farmer’s market and soon found that he could not keep up with the demand for his jams. “I think I’ve still got a lot to learn. It’s not easy to set up a business and you have to really believe in it. There were points when I thought it would never be ready to go on the shelves.”
With his recent success, Fraser is about to release a book that discusses his story called “How to be a Teenage Millionaire.” It just goes to show that if you have enough passion for your business and a product that is in genuine demand, you can create a real business no matter how old you are.
More at:http://superjams.co.uk/
SuperJam is a range of no added sugar ‘super fruit’ spreads.These are made from the most nutritious fruits around; such asblueberries and cranberries and are sweetened with grape juice,rather than sugar or sweeteners.
How 18year Old Fraser Becomes Millionaire:
Fraser sells jams and preserves that target a new, younger audience. They stay true to his grandmother’s original recipe but attract more health-conscious consumers. For example, instead of using sweetener like the other, big name jams, Fraser uses grape juice. He also focuses on the “superfoods” like blackcurrants, blueberries and ginger which are attracting buyers looking for a healthier diet. “I think people are looking for something a bit healthier, and it’s more fun and modern. It appeals to people who might not normally buy jam.”
Despite the growing revenues, Fraser has not taken any money out of the company, preferring to pump it back into the business. “For me, it’s not really about making lots of money. You have to create something you enjoy and have a passion for. I genuinely do love jam. When I read that sales had been falling for a couple of decades, I was horrified by the idea of it becoming extinct.”
Fraser started the company four years ago at the age of 14, selling his jam door to door as a way to earn extra spending money. He expanded by setting up shop at a local farmer’s market and soon found that he could not keep up with the demand for his jams. “I think I’ve still got a lot to learn. It’s not easy to set up a business and you have to really believe in it. There were points when I thought it would never be ready to go on the shelves.”
With his recent success, Fraser is about to release a book that discusses his story called “How to be a Teenage Millionaire.” It just goes to show that if you have enough passion for your business and a product that is in genuine demand, you can create a real business no matter how old you are.
More at:http://superjams.co.uk/
Millionaire's Saga
Jerry Alonzy figured he'd be working into his 70s at least.
As an independent handyman at the mercy of weather patterns near Hartford, Conn., he'd always made a decent income that rarely grew.
Then he found Google and his life changed. Alonzy, 57, now makes $120,000 a year from the ads Google places on his Natural Handyman website, and he couldn't be more thrilled.
"I put in two, maybe three hours a day on the site, and the checks pour in," he says. "What's not to like?"
In return for placing its ads on websites and blogs, Google pays Web publishers every time one of its ads are clicked. Those clicks help keep Alonzy and his wife living comfortably and talking about moving to Hawaii. "All I need is a laptop and a high-speed Internet connection, and I can live anywhere."
The Internet may be a young person's medium, but the retired and those nearing retirement such as Alonzy have found that they can work the Web just as well. Sometimes, such "Gray Googlers" can live a richer, more financially rewarding life than when they were supposedly working.
"Google isn't just for kids anymore," says Google executive Kim Scott, who runs the company's AdSense program, the ad platform that provides the income for Web publishers such as Alonzy and others.
Take Jerrold Foutz. The former Boeing engineer, 75, started a website a few years ago devoted to one of his passions — switching mode power supplies, which help drive, for instance, the inside of video cameras.
He put Google ads on his smpstech.com site four years ago. After just one month, the first Google check was for $800. The second check totaled $2,000.
"I thought, 'Wow,' " he said. "This was the most amazing thing that ever happened to me. Something I thought would make $50 a year now equals my Boeing retirement check."
That comes out to around $25,000 yearly.
Foutz's experience is not an anomaly.
After Hope Pryor's four kids left home, she grew intrigued with the Internet and learned how to design a Web page. She didn't want it to focus on just her, so she posted some of her favorite recipes on the site.
Now, her Cooks Recipes site is bringing in nearly $90,000 yearly, mostly from Google ads. The holidays are the biggest-producing months of the year.
"Last December alone, I netted $30,000 from Google," she says. "There's not too many people I know who can walk into a car dealership and buy two vehicles at one time. I did just that recently."
While the upside of working with AdSense sounds exhilarating, it's not that way for everybody.
Scott says she posted an unsold novel on Google and earns about $5 a month from the AdSense ads on the site. Al Needham, 74, who runs a site about the care of bees (bees-online.com) from his home near Boston, reaps about $250 a month.
"Forget about getting rich overnight," says Alonzy. "It takes time to learn."
Jennifer Slegg, a consultant whose JenSense blog is devoted to tips for using so-called contextual advertising, says the easy part is getting AdSense up and running. Google provides computer code that must be copied and pasted onto a website. Figuring out how to do that "is very easy for new publishers."
Foutz says even if you've never cut and pasted code before (hint: On Windows PCs, highlight the text, press Control C to copy, then Control V to paste it), "Just follow what Google says. They have very easy-to-understand instructions."
Hard work, big reward
Introduced in 2003, AdSense was an outgrowth of Google's AdWords program, which put sponsored ads at the top of search results at Google's own site. Google created AdSense as a way to expand beyond search listings and onto hundreds of thousands of websites and blogs.
Google rivals Yahoo and MSN have similar programs, but they have found limited acceptance on the Web, where Google dominates both search, with more than 50% market share, and search advertising, with 90%.
Now everyone from big sites such as the New York Times and CNN.com to mom and pop operations such as Cooks Recipes and Natural Handyman have the familiar "Ads by Google" text-box somewhere on their site.
"With AdSense, we fund creativity on any topic," says Google's Scott. "If you have a subject you know something about, write about it, find a like-minded audience on the Internet and we'll take care of monetizing the content."
Or, as Joel Comm, author of the AdSense guidebook The AdSense Code, puts it: "People are amazed. They say, 'Really, all I have to do is write, Google will put ads on my site and pay me?' Yes, it's that simple."
There is a little more to it. The folks who reap the biggest rewards put in long hours setting up their site and feeding it lots of content.
"Write about what you know, write like mad and often," says Alonzy. "The more you write, the more opportunities you have to make money. If you post 500 pages on a topic, you'll have 500 pages with ads, and many more potential clicks."
Google's computers scan the content on Web pages to match it with appropriate advertisers. Articles on Alonzy's website about how to keep mice away might result in ads for pest control services, while a recipe for turkey casserole at Cooks Recipes might generate ads for diet tips and beauty makeovers.
"The beauty of our system is that we have so many advertisers," says Scott. "The content may not change, but our ads change every day. So you'll always see something different there."
Slegg says the biggest mistake new AdSense publishers make is clicking on AdSense ads — their own or others. That's a big no-no in Googleland, and can get you dumped from the program.
The computer won't break
Alonzy and other Gray Googlers say they haven't experienced any problems working in a young person's world.
"Many people my age are scared of computers; they think they're going to break them," says Needham. "The computers aren't going to break. But you won't find out unless you get in there and try."
At $250 a month, Needham's site generates revenue in line with its niche audience of folks who want to learn about bees.
"I bring in enough to fund a free vacation to Key West every year for the family," says Needham, a retired Department of Defense employee.
One stumbling block for many people is translating a great idea into a nice-looking Web page.
In the past, creating a Web page required knowledge of complicated HTML computer code, or learning off-the-shelf Web design software such as Microsoft's FrontPage or Adobe's Dreamweaver.
Now, Google and Yahoo have free tools to create Web pages or blogs. And many Internet website-hosting companies (such as GoDaddy and Brinkster) have online site creators that come as part of their monthly fees. Apple's iWeb is another such tool. With these, AdSense can be automatically added to your pages with the click of a mouse.
"When you retire, you have to have some interests," says Needham. "This is my indoor activity. I did a search online for how to create a website and found lots of good help out there for nothing."
The Internet, he says, opened up a new world for him.
"I started searching for other sites about bees and met some people from Australia with similar interests. We've since become friends, and I went to Australia last year to visit."
The same thing happened with Gail Bjork, 63, who runs the Digicamhelp site from her home base near Tampa. She designed her site but made a friend online in Ireland who has since redesigned it for a more professional sheen.
"My background was art," says Bjork. "I was an art teacher. I didn't know about code. My friend does. So now she handles the design, and I operate the site."
Bjork is a former local school board member who ran a print shop with her husband. A camera buff, she started the site because her friends were always asking for photo tips.
"This started as something to help my friends, and I've gone from a 14-page site to one with over 700 pages," she says. "I'm legally retired now — but not mentally."
Her site brings in around $1,500 a month. Bjork's advice to others: "For anyone, no matter what age they are, if they find something they truly love, write about it. You have nothing to lose but time. And it could really pay off."
Via-USA Today
As an independent handyman at the mercy of weather patterns near Hartford, Conn., he'd always made a decent income that rarely grew.
Then he found Google and his life changed. Alonzy, 57, now makes $120,000 a year from the ads Google places on his Natural Handyman website, and he couldn't be more thrilled.
"I put in two, maybe three hours a day on the site, and the checks pour in," he says. "What's not to like?"
In return for placing its ads on websites and blogs, Google pays Web publishers every time one of its ads are clicked. Those clicks help keep Alonzy and his wife living comfortably and talking about moving to Hawaii. "All I need is a laptop and a high-speed Internet connection, and I can live anywhere."
The Internet may be a young person's medium, but the retired and those nearing retirement such as Alonzy have found that they can work the Web just as well. Sometimes, such "Gray Googlers" can live a richer, more financially rewarding life than when they were supposedly working.
"Google isn't just for kids anymore," says Google executive Kim Scott, who runs the company's AdSense program, the ad platform that provides the income for Web publishers such as Alonzy and others.
Take Jerrold Foutz. The former Boeing engineer, 75, started a website a few years ago devoted to one of his passions — switching mode power supplies, which help drive, for instance, the inside of video cameras.
He put Google ads on his smpstech.com site four years ago. After just one month, the first Google check was for $800. The second check totaled $2,000.
"I thought, 'Wow,' " he said. "This was the most amazing thing that ever happened to me. Something I thought would make $50 a year now equals my Boeing retirement check."
That comes out to around $25,000 yearly.
Foutz's experience is not an anomaly.
After Hope Pryor's four kids left home, she grew intrigued with the Internet and learned how to design a Web page. She didn't want it to focus on just her, so she posted some of her favorite recipes on the site.
Now, her Cooks Recipes site is bringing in nearly $90,000 yearly, mostly from Google ads. The holidays are the biggest-producing months of the year.
"Last December alone, I netted $30,000 from Google," she says. "There's not too many people I know who can walk into a car dealership and buy two vehicles at one time. I did just that recently."
While the upside of working with AdSense sounds exhilarating, it's not that way for everybody.
Scott says she posted an unsold novel on Google and earns about $5 a month from the AdSense ads on the site. Al Needham, 74, who runs a site about the care of bees (bees-online.com) from his home near Boston, reaps about $250 a month.
"Forget about getting rich overnight," says Alonzy. "It takes time to learn."
Jennifer Slegg, a consultant whose JenSense blog is devoted to tips for using so-called contextual advertising, says the easy part is getting AdSense up and running. Google provides computer code that must be copied and pasted onto a website. Figuring out how to do that "is very easy for new publishers."
Foutz says even if you've never cut and pasted code before (hint: On Windows PCs, highlight the text, press Control C to copy, then Control V to paste it), "Just follow what Google says. They have very easy-to-understand instructions."
Hard work, big reward
Introduced in 2003, AdSense was an outgrowth of Google's AdWords program, which put sponsored ads at the top of search results at Google's own site. Google created AdSense as a way to expand beyond search listings and onto hundreds of thousands of websites and blogs.
Google rivals Yahoo and MSN have similar programs, but they have found limited acceptance on the Web, where Google dominates both search, with more than 50% market share, and search advertising, with 90%.
Now everyone from big sites such as the New York Times and CNN.com to mom and pop operations such as Cooks Recipes and Natural Handyman have the familiar "Ads by Google" text-box somewhere on their site.
"With AdSense, we fund creativity on any topic," says Google's Scott. "If you have a subject you know something about, write about it, find a like-minded audience on the Internet and we'll take care of monetizing the content."
Or, as Joel Comm, author of the AdSense guidebook The AdSense Code, puts it: "People are amazed. They say, 'Really, all I have to do is write, Google will put ads on my site and pay me?' Yes, it's that simple."
There is a little more to it. The folks who reap the biggest rewards put in long hours setting up their site and feeding it lots of content.
"Write about what you know, write like mad and often," says Alonzy. "The more you write, the more opportunities you have to make money. If you post 500 pages on a topic, you'll have 500 pages with ads, and many more potential clicks."
Google's computers scan the content on Web pages to match it with appropriate advertisers. Articles on Alonzy's website about how to keep mice away might result in ads for pest control services, while a recipe for turkey casserole at Cooks Recipes might generate ads for diet tips and beauty makeovers.
"The beauty of our system is that we have so many advertisers," says Scott. "The content may not change, but our ads change every day. So you'll always see something different there."
Slegg says the biggest mistake new AdSense publishers make is clicking on AdSense ads — their own or others. That's a big no-no in Googleland, and can get you dumped from the program.
The computer won't break
Alonzy and other Gray Googlers say they haven't experienced any problems working in a young person's world.
"Many people my age are scared of computers; they think they're going to break them," says Needham. "The computers aren't going to break. But you won't find out unless you get in there and try."
At $250 a month, Needham's site generates revenue in line with its niche audience of folks who want to learn about bees.
"I bring in enough to fund a free vacation to Key West every year for the family," says Needham, a retired Department of Defense employee.
One stumbling block for many people is translating a great idea into a nice-looking Web page.
In the past, creating a Web page required knowledge of complicated HTML computer code, or learning off-the-shelf Web design software such as Microsoft's FrontPage or Adobe's Dreamweaver.
Now, Google and Yahoo have free tools to create Web pages or blogs. And many Internet website-hosting companies (such as GoDaddy and Brinkster) have online site creators that come as part of their monthly fees. Apple's iWeb is another such tool. With these, AdSense can be automatically added to your pages with the click of a mouse.
"When you retire, you have to have some interests," says Needham. "This is my indoor activity. I did a search online for how to create a website and found lots of good help out there for nothing."
The Internet, he says, opened up a new world for him.
"I started searching for other sites about bees and met some people from Australia with similar interests. We've since become friends, and I went to Australia last year to visit."
The same thing happened with Gail Bjork, 63, who runs the Digicamhelp site from her home base near Tampa. She designed her site but made a friend online in Ireland who has since redesigned it for a more professional sheen.
"My background was art," says Bjork. "I was an art teacher. I didn't know about code. My friend does. So now she handles the design, and I operate the site."
Bjork is a former local school board member who ran a print shop with her husband. A camera buff, she started the site because her friends were always asking for photo tips.
"This started as something to help my friends, and I've gone from a 14-page site to one with over 700 pages," she says. "I'm legally retired now — but not mentally."
Her site brings in around $1,500 a month. Bjork's advice to others: "For anyone, no matter what age they are, if they find something they truly love, write about it. You have nothing to lose but time. And it could really pay off."
Via-USA Today
Bunnybot is a new live shopping tool that lets you combine chat with shopping
What Company Is Offering;
Bunnybot is a new live shopping tool that lets you combine chat with shopping.
How It Works;
With a web-based application that shows your shopping activity on the left, and you chat conversations on the right. You can start by importing your buddies from Yahoo, AIM or MSN.
Click on an item’s details and you’ll see a “Share with Friends” button. Mind you, this will only work if you’ve already initiated a conversation with friends.
Once you click the share” button, the link to item details is automatically sent to your friend. There’s nothing really innovative about Bunnybot–it’s really just a faster way to share links with all your friends. And the biggest downfall for Bunnybot is the fact that you can’t surf any shopping website you’d like–you’re limited to the shopping items available through Bunnybot.
Bunnybot does seem to aggregate a good amount of third-party shopping sites for its application, which you’ll be directed to once you decide to purchase an item.
More at;https://bunnybot.com/
Bunnybot is a new live shopping tool that lets you combine chat with shopping.
How It Works;
With a web-based application that shows your shopping activity on the left, and you chat conversations on the right. You can start by importing your buddies from Yahoo, AIM or MSN.
Click on an item’s details and you’ll see a “Share with Friends” button. Mind you, this will only work if you’ve already initiated a conversation with friends.
Once you click the share” button, the link to item details is automatically sent to your friend. There’s nothing really innovative about Bunnybot–it’s really just a faster way to share links with all your friends. And the biggest downfall for Bunnybot is the fact that you can’t surf any shopping website you’d like–you’re limited to the shopping items available through Bunnybot.
Bunnybot does seem to aggregate a good amount of third-party shopping sites for its application, which you’ll be directed to once you decide to purchase an item.
More at;https://bunnybot.com/
eXelate received $4 million in first-round financing from Carmel Ventures
What company is offering;
eXelate is setting up eXelate Targeting eXchange, a marketplace that tells you what kind of users are likely to visit what site. So, if you need to deploy a baseball-related ad, they’ll tell you which sites in their network are visited by baseball fans. eXelate was created to address the deficiency in targeted data, which we believe delays the progress of web-based advertising as a whole. Unlike the other major targeting-related players, eXelate™ believes in sharing data and related revenues
Why Is It Different;
The ads aren’t contextual, like on Google AdSense, but behavioral. The user’s browsing habits and interests determine which ad will be shown, not the content of the site itself. This way - or so they say - ads work better, and ad networks get more money.
What's New Feature;
eXelate is also launching Delayed Ads, which are basically shown to the user later, when they visit a site that’s affiliated with your ad network.
How Much They Got From VCs;
They received $4 million in first-round financing from Carmel Ventures.
More at ;http://www.exelate.com/company.html
eXelate is setting up eXelate Targeting eXchange, a marketplace that tells you what kind of users are likely to visit what site. So, if you need to deploy a baseball-related ad, they’ll tell you which sites in their network are visited by baseball fans. eXelate was created to address the deficiency in targeted data, which we believe delays the progress of web-based advertising as a whole. Unlike the other major targeting-related players, eXelate™ believes in sharing data and related revenues
Why Is It Different;
The ads aren’t contextual, like on Google AdSense, but behavioral. The user’s browsing habits and interests determine which ad will be shown, not the content of the site itself. This way - or so they say - ads work better, and ad networks get more money.
What's New Feature;
eXelate is also launching Delayed Ads, which are basically shown to the user later, when they visit a site that’s affiliated with your ad network.
How Much They Got From VCs;
They received $4 million in first-round financing from Carmel Ventures.
More at ;http://www.exelate.com/company.html
YoungEntrepreneur.com
What Company is About:
YoungEntrepreneur.com is an award-winning small business website for entrepreneurs and small businesses and is comprised of entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs who are truly passionate about economic development and enjoy promoting the formation and success of innovative and growth-oriented companies.
How It Works:
On this site several topics discussed and some of the many features include networking with like-minded business professionals including venture capitalists, private investors, industry experts, business service providers, inventors, other up and coming and successful entrepreneurs. YoungEntrepreneur.com members understand that the future economic vitality of the World must come from the emergence of new businesses through entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs add new jobs, create new opportunities for prosperity, and also help support the World's creativity and cultural richness. Their goal is to help you start, manage or grow your successful business venture. In order for this to occur, there must be an entrepreneurial culture, a pool of resources to draw from, and successful models to follow.
More at:http://www.youngentrepreneur.com/
YoungEntrepreneur.com is an award-winning small business website for entrepreneurs and small businesses and is comprised of entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs who are truly passionate about economic development and enjoy promoting the formation and success of innovative and growth-oriented companies.
How It Works:
On this site several topics discussed and some of the many features include networking with like-minded business professionals including venture capitalists, private investors, industry experts, business service providers, inventors, other up and coming and successful entrepreneurs. YoungEntrepreneur.com members understand that the future economic vitality of the World must come from the emergence of new businesses through entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs add new jobs, create new opportunities for prosperity, and also help support the World's creativity and cultural richness. Their goal is to help you start, manage or grow your successful business venture. In order for this to occur, there must be an entrepreneurial culture, a pool of resources to draw from, and successful models to follow.
More at:http://www.youngentrepreneur.com/
Spigit Is A social network for ideas, entrepreneurs, developers, venture capitalists and collaborators helping to evolve ideas
What Company Is Offering:
An online simulator and social network for ideas, entrepreneurs, developers, venture capitalists and collaborators helping to evolve ideas
spigit's metrics give the best and brightest people and ideas a chance to shine, rather than relying on simple thumb's up/thumb's down measurements. spigit brings advanced metrics to social networking to create truly relevant ways of measuring user reputation and contribution.
How It Works:
User reputation and expert rankings determine how much "weight" a person's votes receive. spigit's calculations of conversation levels, buzz and weighted ratings result in a true measure of value.
More at:http://www.spigit.com/homepage
An online simulator and social network for ideas, entrepreneurs, developers, venture capitalists and collaborators helping to evolve ideas
spigit's metrics give the best and brightest people and ideas a chance to shine, rather than relying on simple thumb's up/thumb's down measurements. spigit brings advanced metrics to social networking to create truly relevant ways of measuring user reputation and contribution.
How It Works:
User reputation and expert rankings determine how much "weight" a person's votes receive. spigit's calculations of conversation levels, buzz and weighted ratings result in a true measure of value.
More at:http://www.spigit.com/homepage
InsideView automatically finds key selling opportunities for you and delivers proactive Opportunity Alerts
What Company says:
InsideView is a new class of sales performance technology called Opportunity Intelligence. Opportunity Intelligence transforms sales from a haphazard activity, dependent on cold calls and luck, into a highly targeted, efficient and effective process. InsideView’s Opportunity Intelligence solution was introduced in 2006.
How It Works:
InsideView automatically finds key selling opportunities for you and delivers proactive Opportunity Alerts. You never miss an opportunity and build a high-performance pipeline.And it provides the inside information you need to close the
deal—details on the target company, key decision makers and connections you can leverage to engage and sell.Using advanced technology, InsideView monitors hundreds of verified data sources on your customers and prospects, their personnel and activities. It automatically detects key selling opportunities such as leadership changes, new product offerings, acquisitions and expanding operations. When it finds an opportunity, it alerts you in real time.
More at:http://www.insideview.com/
InsideView is a new class of sales performance technology called Opportunity Intelligence. Opportunity Intelligence transforms sales from a haphazard activity, dependent on cold calls and luck, into a highly targeted, efficient and effective process. InsideView’s Opportunity Intelligence solution was introduced in 2006.
How It Works:
InsideView automatically finds key selling opportunities for you and delivers proactive Opportunity Alerts. You never miss an opportunity and build a high-performance pipeline.And it provides the inside information you need to close the
deal—details on the target company, key decision makers and connections you can leverage to engage and sell.Using advanced technology, InsideView monitors hundreds of verified data sources on your customers and prospects, their personnel and activities. It automatically detects key selling opportunities such as leadership changes, new product offerings, acquisitions and expanding operations. When it finds an opportunity, it alerts you in real time.
More at:http://www.insideview.com/
InsideView automatically finds key selling opportunities for you and delivers proactive Opportunity Alerts
What Company says:
InsideView is a new class of sales performance technology called Opportunity Intelligence. Opportunity Intelligence transforms sales from a haphazard activity, dependent on cold calls and luck, into a highly targeted, efficient and effective process. InsideView’s Opportunity Intelligence solution was introduced in 2006.
How It Works:
InsideView automatically finds key selling opportunities for you and delivers proactive Opportunity Alerts. You never miss an opportunity and build a high-performance pipeline.And it provides the inside information you need to close the
deal—details on the target company, key decision makers and connections you can leverage to engage and sell.Using advanced technology, InsideView monitors hundreds of verified data sources on your customers and prospects, their personnel and activities. It automatically detects key selling opportunities such as leadership changes, new product offerings, acquisitions and expanding operations. When it finds an opportunity, it alerts you in real time.
More at:http://www.insideview.com/
InsideView is a new class of sales performance technology called Opportunity Intelligence. Opportunity Intelligence transforms sales from a haphazard activity, dependent on cold calls and luck, into a highly targeted, efficient and effective process. InsideView’s Opportunity Intelligence solution was introduced in 2006.
How It Works:
InsideView automatically finds key selling opportunities for you and delivers proactive Opportunity Alerts. You never miss an opportunity and build a high-performance pipeline.And it provides the inside information you need to close the
deal—details on the target company, key decision makers and connections you can leverage to engage and sell.Using advanced technology, InsideView monitors hundreds of verified data sources on your customers and prospects, their personnel and activities. It automatically detects key selling opportunities such as leadership changes, new product offerings, acquisitions and expanding operations. When it finds an opportunity, it alerts you in real time.
More at:http://www.insideview.com/
"Sell it Speedy" The Fastest Way To Sell Anything
What Company is Offering:
Sell it Speedy Quicksale is designed to help you sell anything within 24-48 hours for less than the cost of a classified ad.
How It works:
You simply fill out the form and they do the rest. Within 24-48 hours they provide you with at least 3 persons contact information who are willing to buy what you are selling immediately at fair market value, GUARANTEE or you money back.SellItSpeedy has developed special, proprietary and very advanced software that searches through out the Internet, classifieds, and auctions to match up buyers and sellers.Sell it Speedy uses the latest custom search engine technology combined with good old fashion elbow grease.
That is all they tell you, and yes there is a PATENT PENDING on this technology.
More at:http://www.sellitspeedy.com/
Sell it Speedy Quicksale is designed to help you sell anything within 24-48 hours for less than the cost of a classified ad.
How It works:
You simply fill out the form and they do the rest. Within 24-48 hours they provide you with at least 3 persons contact information who are willing to buy what you are selling immediately at fair market value, GUARANTEE or you money back.SellItSpeedy has developed special, proprietary and very advanced software that searches through out the Internet, classifieds, and auctions to match up buyers and sellers.Sell it Speedy uses the latest custom search engine technology combined with good old fashion elbow grease.
That is all they tell you, and yes there is a PATENT PENDING on this technology.
More at:http://www.sellitspeedy.com/
Search Free Apps for entrepreneurs, small businesses, nonprofits, freelancers, home based businesses
What Company is Offering:
Search Free Apps is the first search engine dedicated to finding high quality 100% free applications on the Internet. Their team of experts has hand-picked over 500 valuable applications across the full spectrum of online services.
How It Works:
Search Free Apps includes sites offering the widest possible range of applications for users. To be included in this search engine, sites must meet one of two criteria:
First, the site must offer a valuable version of its service or product 100% free on a permanent basis. We are happy to include sites that offer valuable free services as well as even more valuable paid upgrades or variations of these services.
Second, we will include a site that offers a Free Trial of its service where no credit card is required, and no other obligations of any other kind are required. In such cases, the user must have the complete ability to use a product or service for a specific number of days 100% free with no need to cancel the service at the end of this free trial period. The Free Trial period simply ends with no consequences, of any kind, for the user.
For Whom It Will Help Most:
It is designed for entrepreneurs, small businesses, nonprofits, freelancers, home based businesses, and ad hoc project teams who are looking to access sophisticated services without adding costs.
More at:http://www.searchfreeapps.com/
Search Free Apps is the first search engine dedicated to finding high quality 100% free applications on the Internet. Their team of experts has hand-picked over 500 valuable applications across the full spectrum of online services.
How It Works:
Search Free Apps includes sites offering the widest possible range of applications for users. To be included in this search engine, sites must meet one of two criteria:
First, the site must offer a valuable version of its service or product 100% free on a permanent basis. We are happy to include sites that offer valuable free services as well as even more valuable paid upgrades or variations of these services.
Second, we will include a site that offers a Free Trial of its service where no credit card is required, and no other obligations of any other kind are required. In such cases, the user must have the complete ability to use a product or service for a specific number of days 100% free with no need to cancel the service at the end of this free trial period. The Free Trial period simply ends with no consequences, of any kind, for the user.
For Whom It Will Help Most:
It is designed for entrepreneurs, small businesses, nonprofits, freelancers, home based businesses, and ad hoc project teams who are looking to access sophisticated services without adding costs.
More at:http://www.searchfreeapps.com/
SLurl provides direct teleport links to locations in Second Life
What Company Is Offering:
SLurl provides direct teleport links to locations in Second Life. If you have Second Life installed, clicking on the map link will automatically teleport you to that location in-world.
How It Works:
It give you option to customized control over mapping locations in Second Life, SLurl also provides a better experience for web users who don't have Second Life. Instead of getting an error when clicking on web links that begin with "secondlife://", visiting a SLurl link gives potential new users a chance to sign up.
More at:http://slurl.com/
SLurl provides direct teleport links to locations in Second Life. If you have Second Life installed, clicking on the map link will automatically teleport you to that location in-world.
How It Works:
It give you option to customized control over mapping locations in Second Life, SLurl also provides a better experience for web users who don't have Second Life. Instead of getting an error when clicking on web links that begin with "secondlife://", visiting a SLurl link gives potential new users a chance to sign up.
More at:http://slurl.com/
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
ReelProerties.tv is a website that is geared toward real estate agents and promotes properties with videos
What Company is Offering:
ReelProerties.tv is an interesting website that is geared toward real estate agents and promotes properties with videos.
How It Works:
There are so many useful tools for sharing information about a property, including the ability to embed videos in other websites, and email them out to friends. You can also leave comments on a particular property, as well as questions. This is useful for the person selling or leasing the property, because now they have a centralized location in which to address everyone’s questions. It’s also good for users, because they can now benefit from the answers to questions that have already been asked.
The information included for each listing is what you’d expect, and can easily be accessed via tabs for amenities, desription, etc. Filtering options for search are helpful, and the browsing tool lets you set a good amount of parameters for finding a property. This seems to be limited at the moment–no matter what parameters I set for a search, I was always given New York properties. Perhaps ReelProperties hasn’t moved beyond it’s current city just yet.
ReelProperties is giving away 500 free property videos for New York City. There’s a catch: you’ll have to vote for ReelProperties on idealblob in order to get the free video. It’s a win-win situation (if not somewhat unethical) for ReelProperties, because the more votes it receives, the more likely it will be to win the business plan competition, so with the exchange of votes for free stuff on the site, it’s essentially bribing its way to the top.
How They Could Improve:
If the existing features on ReelProperties would be more options on the embedded video, which could allow for direct contact of the owner, or the ability to see other, related videos. The idea of displaying related videos throughout the ReelProperties website would be helpful as well.
One good thing about ReelProperties’ business plans for its site is the advertising displays, which will be location-based and more relevant to site visitors based on the properties they’re searching.
More at:http://www.reelproperties.tv/
ReelProerties.tv is an interesting website that is geared toward real estate agents and promotes properties with videos.
How It Works:
There are so many useful tools for sharing information about a property, including the ability to embed videos in other websites, and email them out to friends. You can also leave comments on a particular property, as well as questions. This is useful for the person selling or leasing the property, because now they have a centralized location in which to address everyone’s questions. It’s also good for users, because they can now benefit from the answers to questions that have already been asked.
The information included for each listing is what you’d expect, and can easily be accessed via tabs for amenities, desription, etc. Filtering options for search are helpful, and the browsing tool lets you set a good amount of parameters for finding a property. This seems to be limited at the moment–no matter what parameters I set for a search, I was always given New York properties. Perhaps ReelProperties hasn’t moved beyond it’s current city just yet.
ReelProperties is giving away 500 free property videos for New York City. There’s a catch: you’ll have to vote for ReelProperties on idealblob in order to get the free video. It’s a win-win situation (if not somewhat unethical) for ReelProperties, because the more votes it receives, the more likely it will be to win the business plan competition, so with the exchange of votes for free stuff on the site, it’s essentially bribing its way to the top.
How They Could Improve:
If the existing features on ReelProperties would be more options on the embedded video, which could allow for direct contact of the owner, or the ability to see other, related videos. The idea of displaying related videos throughout the ReelProperties website would be helpful as well.
One good thing about ReelProperties’ business plans for its site is the advertising displays, which will be location-based and more relevant to site visitors based on the properties they’re searching.
More at:http://www.reelproperties.tv/
Mobilestorm ,a leading provider of digital marketing products and services got Series A funding in which eonBusiness is the sole investor
What Company is Offering:
Mobilestorm ,a leading provider of digital marketing products and services.They provide a range of on-demand solutions designed for organizations spanning from small businesses to Global 2000 enterprises that helps them quickly, easily and reliably create, deliver and analyze successful email marketing, mobile marketing, voice, fax, and rss marketing campaigns.
How Much They Got From VCs:
They announced the successful conclusion of mobileStorm’s Series A funding in which eonBusiness is the sole investor.
What's The Purpose Of Raising Fund:
The capital resulting from eonBusiness’ investment will be used to further accelerate mobileStorm’s strategic growth, research and development, and to increase marketing and sales spending behind the mobileStorm brand.
About VCs:
Founded in 1997 as an Internet marketing strategy and web development company, eonBusiness has assisted many entrepreneurs in launching, developing and growing various web-based businesses. Our early success assisting others prompted us to make direct investments in and to operate our own e-commerce businesses, beginning as early as 1999.
We see our next opportunity as making supportive investments in seed and early-stage Web-based e-commerce businesses. Like the creative entrepreneur, we see a problem and want a solution. Our goal is to help fill the funding gap for entrepreneurs of seed and early-stage companies, so that necessary and available funding can be an appropriate match. As entrepreneurs, we understand what it takes to build a company from the ground up, and the challenges presented from concept through development and into the growth phase. While funding is necessary, it is not the only answer. The key to success is in the execution. Great concepts die due to mediocre execution. In addition to funding, we can add value to and enhance execution by participating in strategic planning, providing follow-on funding, and introducing new funding sources.
More at:http://www.mobilestorm.com/
About VC detail:http://www.eonbusiness.com/
Mobilestorm ,a leading provider of digital marketing products and services.They provide a range of on-demand solutions designed for organizations spanning from small businesses to Global 2000 enterprises that helps them quickly, easily and reliably create, deliver and analyze successful email marketing, mobile marketing, voice, fax, and rss marketing campaigns.
How Much They Got From VCs:
They announced the successful conclusion of mobileStorm’s Series A funding in which eonBusiness is the sole investor.
What's The Purpose Of Raising Fund:
The capital resulting from eonBusiness’ investment will be used to further accelerate mobileStorm’s strategic growth, research and development, and to increase marketing and sales spending behind the mobileStorm brand.
About VCs:
Founded in 1997 as an Internet marketing strategy and web development company, eonBusiness has assisted many entrepreneurs in launching, developing and growing various web-based businesses. Our early success assisting others prompted us to make direct investments in and to operate our own e-commerce businesses, beginning as early as 1999.
We see our next opportunity as making supportive investments in seed and early-stage Web-based e-commerce businesses. Like the creative entrepreneur, we see a problem and want a solution. Our goal is to help fill the funding gap for entrepreneurs of seed and early-stage companies, so that necessary and available funding can be an appropriate match. As entrepreneurs, we understand what it takes to build a company from the ground up, and the challenges presented from concept through development and into the growth phase. While funding is necessary, it is not the only answer. The key to success is in the execution. Great concepts die due to mediocre execution. In addition to funding, we can add value to and enhance execution by participating in strategic planning, providing follow-on funding, and introducing new funding sources.
More at:http://www.mobilestorm.com/
About VC detail:http://www.eonbusiness.com/
FORA.tv got seed round fund from Adobe Systems and venture capitalist Will Hearst
What company is Offering:
FORA.tv the leading provider of online video content focused on discourse, discussion and debates surrounding the world’s most compelling political, social and cultural issues.
How Much They Got From VCs:
They announced the closing of its seed round of financing with an investment from Adobe Systems Incorporated. Adobe joins noted investor and venture capitalist Will Hearst who has invested personally in the seed round.
How It Works:
FORA.tv enables a new, global media opportunity by aggregating a daily range of events, produced and electronically shipped by institutions or freelance producers, from around the world.
Its Features:
In addition to leveraging Adobe Flash® Player compatible video technology as its content delivery platform, FORA.tv is distributing video content via the new Adobe® Media Player. The Player offers high quality video and allows users to view their favorite content both online and offline via IPTV.
About VCs Deal:
“Adobe’s investment in FORA.tv signifies our belief in the company’s great opportunity to deliver a rich online media experience to consumers worldwide,” added John Leckrone, director of Venture Development for Adobe. “FORA.tv is making innovative use of Adobe’s Flash® Player compatible video technology. The fact that our shared vision for richer content delivery comes to life via the Adobe® Media Player is a win-win for us all.”
FORA.tv joins a noteworthy group of content publishers distributing video content via the Adobe® Media Player. Content available from FORA.tv includes each of FORA.tv’s channels as well as FORA Casts, representing featured content produced specifically for IPTV.
FORA.tv is based in San Francisco, California.
More at:http://www.fora.tv/
FORA.tv the leading provider of online video content focused on discourse, discussion and debates surrounding the world’s most compelling political, social and cultural issues.
How Much They Got From VCs:
They announced the closing of its seed round of financing with an investment from Adobe Systems Incorporated. Adobe joins noted investor and venture capitalist Will Hearst who has invested personally in the seed round.
How It Works:
FORA.tv enables a new, global media opportunity by aggregating a daily range of events, produced and electronically shipped by institutions or freelance producers, from around the world.
Its Features:
In addition to leveraging Adobe Flash® Player compatible video technology as its content delivery platform, FORA.tv is distributing video content via the new Adobe® Media Player. The Player offers high quality video and allows users to view their favorite content both online and offline via IPTV.
About VCs Deal:
“Adobe’s investment in FORA.tv signifies our belief in the company’s great opportunity to deliver a rich online media experience to consumers worldwide,” added John Leckrone, director of Venture Development for Adobe. “FORA.tv is making innovative use of Adobe’s Flash® Player compatible video technology. The fact that our shared vision for richer content delivery comes to life via the Adobe® Media Player is a win-win for us all.”
FORA.tv joins a noteworthy group of content publishers distributing video content via the Adobe® Media Player. Content available from FORA.tv includes each of FORA.tv’s channels as well as FORA Casts, representing featured content produced specifically for IPTV.
FORA.tv is based in San Francisco, California.
More at:http://www.fora.tv/
BetUknow is a totally free fantasy betting game, with over 1000 British Pounds in real monthly prizes,
What company is Offering:
BetUknow is the place where football bettors join to share their knowledge of the Premiership and other continental competitions, such as the Champions League. BetUknow it is a totally free fantasy betting game, with over 1000 British Pounds in real monthly prizes, directly from Amazon UK. So far so good, but BetUknow is more than just a game. It is a home for a growing network of bettors.
How It Works:
BetUknow leverages the collaborative powers of the modern web to discover the true wisdom of crowds. They claim that the mass opinion is a powerful tool. The crowd can predict the outcome of any event better than a single professional. There is no real money here but Fantasy pounds and a free friendly competition between football supporters. Each user that signs up receives a virtual £1000 to place fantasy bets on real matches with live odds from real bookies. Once the user placed his bet he can then has access to everyone’s picks in a simple graph. The user also enjoys a personal performance graph that demonstrates his wining and loosing throughout the season.
More at:http://www.betuknow.co.uk/
BetUknow is the place where football bettors join to share their knowledge of the Premiership and other continental competitions, such as the Champions League. BetUknow it is a totally free fantasy betting game, with over 1000 British Pounds in real monthly prizes, directly from Amazon UK. So far so good, but BetUknow is more than just a game. It is a home for a growing network of bettors.
How It Works:
BetUknow leverages the collaborative powers of the modern web to discover the true wisdom of crowds. They claim that the mass opinion is a powerful tool. The crowd can predict the outcome of any event better than a single professional. There is no real money here but Fantasy pounds and a free friendly competition between football supporters. Each user that signs up receives a virtual £1000 to place fantasy bets on real matches with live odds from real bookies. Once the user placed his bet he can then has access to everyone’s picks in a simple graph. The user also enjoys a personal performance graph that demonstrates his wining and loosing throughout the season.
More at:http://www.betuknow.co.uk/
IsIt20.com is for the reference to define the 2.0 in real life
What Company is saying:
This site is the reference to define the 2.0 in real life.
What is "2.0" for you ?
The Web has taken a step forward with the 2.0 patch few years ago, but it's still in beta stage. Some sites have definitly patched their Web and thus are know to be 2.0. However, separating deprecated and 2.0 in everyday life can be quite difficult. That's why isit20.com was created, you will finally be able to discern the real 2.0ness of everything. Submit pictures, rate them and define the 2.0 with the community.
How It Works:
IsIt20.com has many different categories such as; objects, humans, animals, countries, food, and houses. You rate these things out of 5 stars and you can comment on the 2.0ness. You can search for items by category or tag. Take a look and see which country is considered the most 2.0. You can browse the site all you want but if you want to be able to comment, vote, and add your own items to be voted on you must be a user. To submit an item you need to upload an image, then the IsIt20.com community will rate its 2.0ness and make comments. Go have fun and see which people and places are considered the most 2.0.
More at:http://www.isit20.com/
This site is the reference to define the 2.0 in real life.
What is "2.0" for you ?
The Web has taken a step forward with the 2.0 patch few years ago, but it's still in beta stage. Some sites have definitly patched their Web and thus are know to be 2.0. However, separating deprecated and 2.0 in everyday life can be quite difficult. That's why isit20.com was created, you will finally be able to discern the real 2.0ness of everything. Submit pictures, rate them and define the 2.0 with the community.
How It Works:
IsIt20.com has many different categories such as; objects, humans, animals, countries, food, and houses. You rate these things out of 5 stars and you can comment on the 2.0ness. You can search for items by category or tag. Take a look and see which country is considered the most 2.0. You can browse the site all you want but if you want to be able to comment, vote, and add your own items to be voted on you must be a user. To submit an item you need to upload an image, then the IsIt20.com community will rate its 2.0ness and make comments. Go have fun and see which people and places are considered the most 2.0.
More at:http://www.isit20.com/
MoveModern.com is a free online community of professionals, students and homeowners passionate about Modern design and architecture
What company is offering:
MoveModern.com is a free online community of professionals, students and homeowners passionate about Modern design and architecture.
How it works:
This site is designed to network diverse groups of modern enthusiasts across the country, while providing an interactive hub for modern design. We hope this community is a catalyst for greater interest in modern design and that it inspires and informs readers.
MoveModern differs from other design sites by having NO HIDDEN AGENDA. We sell no physical products or have direct affiliations with any particular line or brand. Our editorial staff vows to remain unbiased in our reviews and subject matter.
MoveModern is designed to be shaped by its members and encourage everyone to respond to threads, start a blog and create their own forum. MoveModern is whatever we make of it.
more at;http://www.movemodern.com/
MoveModern.com is a free online community of professionals, students and homeowners passionate about Modern design and architecture.
How it works:
This site is designed to network diverse groups of modern enthusiasts across the country, while providing an interactive hub for modern design. We hope this community is a catalyst for greater interest in modern design and that it inspires and informs readers.
MoveModern differs from other design sites by having NO HIDDEN AGENDA. We sell no physical products or have direct affiliations with any particular line or brand. Our editorial staff vows to remain unbiased in our reviews and subject matter.
MoveModern is designed to be shaped by its members and encourage everyone to respond to threads, start a blog and create their own forum. MoveModern is whatever we make of it.
more at;http://www.movemodern.com/
KushCash For Making Mobile Payments Easy
What Company is Offering:
Secure Wireless Transfers Corporation (SWT) is a leader in mobile commerce solutions enabling consumers to transfer money and make purchases through mobile phones while “on the go”. SWT provides the easiest, most secure, and most cost-effective means of mobile payment available today.
How It Works:
The company’s KushCash service, powered by SWT, allows instant, easily accessible cash transactions from anywhere through the use of its patent-pending User Interface and end-to-end payment processing system. Consumers can now send and receive money and make purchases more securely and inexpensively through its end-to-end authentication and payment processing system. The system uses SMS text messaging for instant notifications providing users with updated, timely account history and transaction alerts.Kushcash is backed by a fresh and vibrant team totally dedicated to making mobile payments easy, secure and fun.
More at:http://www.kushcash.com/
Secure Wireless Transfers Corporation (SWT) is a leader in mobile commerce solutions enabling consumers to transfer money and make purchases through mobile phones while “on the go”. SWT provides the easiest, most secure, and most cost-effective means of mobile payment available today.
How It Works:
The company’s KushCash service, powered by SWT, allows instant, easily accessible cash transactions from anywhere through the use of its patent-pending User Interface and end-to-end payment processing system. Consumers can now send and receive money and make purchases more securely and inexpensively through its end-to-end authentication and payment processing system. The system uses SMS text messaging for instant notifications providing users with updated, timely account history and transaction alerts.Kushcash is backed by a fresh and vibrant team totally dedicated to making mobile payments easy, secure and fun.
More at:http://www.kushcash.com/
Web2Carz For Easy Cars Loan
What company is offering:
Web2Carz was born when two software industry veterans joined forces to create a user friendly automotive web site. Our slogan states, "everything should be this easy" and our mission is to bring simplicity into the world of Online Full Service Automotive Portals. Unlike most Automotive Portals, Web2Carz is not directly affiliated with car dealerships. This gives us the freedom to advocate consumer causes and provide fair and balanced editorial content. We believe in the "User Created Constant" and we welcome feedback both positive and negative.
How They Are Different:
Drawing on years of industry experience, we built a national network of service providers. With these relationships we are able to provide our customers with the ability to search a nationwide network of dealerships, lenders, warranty organizations and other automotive related product offerings from a single online destination.
more at:http://www.web2carz.com/
Web2Carz was born when two software industry veterans joined forces to create a user friendly automotive web site. Our slogan states, "everything should be this easy" and our mission is to bring simplicity into the world of Online Full Service Automotive Portals. Unlike most Automotive Portals, Web2Carz is not directly affiliated with car dealerships. This gives us the freedom to advocate consumer causes and provide fair and balanced editorial content. We believe in the "User Created Constant" and we welcome feedback both positive and negative.
How They Are Different:
Drawing on years of industry experience, we built a national network of service providers. With these relationships we are able to provide our customers with the ability to search a nationwide network of dealerships, lenders, warranty organizations and other automotive related product offerings from a single online destination.
more at:http://www.web2carz.com/
GeeVee is a user submitted game-play video community
What Company is offering:
GeeVee is a user submitted game-play video community.
How It works;
Upload your videos and share them with other gamers around the world. View, vote, comment, and decide which videos become popular.
more at:http://www.geevee.com/
GeeVee is a user submitted game-play video community.
How It works;
Upload your videos and share them with other gamers around the world. View, vote, comment, and decide which videos become popular.
more at:http://www.geevee.com/
Veedow is a new way of looking at advertising
What company is offering:
Veedow is a new way of looking at advertising.
We believe that all kinds of information can be meaningful and useful when it's delivered to the right person, at the right time and in the right place without being intrusive. For this reason we created Veedow, a unique site shaped around users. We deliver valuable information directly linked to your interests, which you can then learn from and share with others. What you get is a virtual, multi-genre and multi-brand shop window constantly updated to giving you the opportunity to find new products, services, information, websites, promotions, events and so on: one page for one user.
How It works;
Veedow collects a wide range of commercial information from multiple sources and distributes it to you according to your specified interests. All you need to do is select your favourite topics from Veedow's comprehensive list and let the system design a personalized page that you can access whenever you want. The system continuously enhances the overall value of its contents thanks to the activity of its community, because Veedow is created for you and shaped by you! We just give you a little help with the framework so that you can get the best out of it and enjoy your visits.
more at:http://www.veedow.com/
Veedow is a new way of looking at advertising.
We believe that all kinds of information can be meaningful and useful when it's delivered to the right person, at the right time and in the right place without being intrusive. For this reason we created Veedow, a unique site shaped around users. We deliver valuable information directly linked to your interests, which you can then learn from and share with others. What you get is a virtual, multi-genre and multi-brand shop window constantly updated to giving you the opportunity to find new products, services, information, websites, promotions, events and so on: one page for one user.
How It works;
Veedow collects a wide range of commercial information from multiple sources and distributes it to you according to your specified interests. All you need to do is select your favourite topics from Veedow's comprehensive list and let the system design a personalized page that you can access whenever you want. The system continuously enhances the overall value of its contents thanks to the activity of its community, because Veedow is created for you and shaped by you! We just give you a little help with the framework so that you can get the best out of it and enjoy your visits.
more at:http://www.veedow.com/
Client Managment Website For Personal Trainer
What company is Offering:
Gympro is made to simplify/improve the way personal trainers manage their clients. Effective client management/training is based on good communication. Thats why we let your clients access their report and workout info and enable you to send them a message/comment about almost every feature in the syste.
How It Works:
Your clients have the freedom of signing up with Gympro and viewing their progress reports and their personal trainers schedule. Also clients are able to leave Gympro messages for their trainers ie. relating to a workout programme or maybe change of schedule. Since Gympro is a system for personal trainers and it stores private information, all clients must be invited by their trainer through a Gympro email.
You can choose to send your clients custom automatic notifications. Here are a few examples:
- You can send all your clients an email message to let them know if you are going on holiday. Or only select a few clients and let them know that you want to re-schedule.
- An automatic email is sent to your client when you have updated their workout programme
- You will be able to view notifications about when and what time your clients have logged in to Gympro.
- You will get a notification in the email whenever a client sends you a message in Gympro to enquire about something.
More at:http://gympro.co.nz/
Gympro is made to simplify/improve the way personal trainers manage their clients. Effective client management/training is based on good communication. Thats why we let your clients access their report and workout info and enable you to send them a message/comment about almost every feature in the syste.
How It Works:
Your clients have the freedom of signing up with Gympro and viewing their progress reports and their personal trainers schedule. Also clients are able to leave Gympro messages for their trainers ie. relating to a workout programme or maybe change of schedule. Since Gympro is a system for personal trainers and it stores private information, all clients must be invited by their trainer through a Gympro email.
You can choose to send your clients custom automatic notifications. Here are a few examples:
- You can send all your clients an email message to let them know if you are going on holiday. Or only select a few clients and let them know that you want to re-schedule.
- An automatic email is sent to your client when you have updated their workout programme
- You will be able to view notifications about when and what time your clients have logged in to Gympro.
- You will get a notification in the email whenever a client sends you a message in Gympro to enquire about something.
More at:http://gympro.co.nz/
Superbreak
What Company is offering:
Superbreak has specialised in UK short breaks and is the clear market leader in this sector. The business has developed to offer a complete range of short breaks, including theatre breaks, airport hotels, theme park and attraction breaks, luxury hotel accommodation and a wide range of overseas city and beach breaks to cater for the growing outbound short breaks market.
It is our aim to constantly grow our business by offering customers the widest choice of short breaks and the highest possible levels of service, backed by a guarantee of quality, satisfaction and value for money.
How It Works:
Superbreak has the distinct advantage that you can book directly with our reservations staff in York, through the travel agent or via the web site and various partner sites and clients will pay the same price with each.
We offer a selection of almost 5,000 hotels ranging from 5 star luxury to 2 star budget/motel. We hold allocations of rooms at all hotels and we can book up to and including the day of departure.
The Superbreak product range is also promoted in brochures of which 13 million are printed annually. You can order copies of our brochures online.
More at:http://www.superbreak.com/
Superbreak has specialised in UK short breaks and is the clear market leader in this sector. The business has developed to offer a complete range of short breaks, including theatre breaks, airport hotels, theme park and attraction breaks, luxury hotel accommodation and a wide range of overseas city and beach breaks to cater for the growing outbound short breaks market.
It is our aim to constantly grow our business by offering customers the widest choice of short breaks and the highest possible levels of service, backed by a guarantee of quality, satisfaction and value for money.
How It Works:
Superbreak has the distinct advantage that you can book directly with our reservations staff in York, through the travel agent or via the web site and various partner sites and clients will pay the same price with each.
We offer a selection of almost 5,000 hotels ranging from 5 star luxury to 2 star budget/motel. We hold allocations of rooms at all hotels and we can book up to and including the day of departure.
The Superbreak product range is also promoted in brochures of which 13 million are printed annually. You can order copies of our brochures online.
More at:http://www.superbreak.com/
ViaMichelin Is Your Traveling Planner
What company is offering;
ViaMichelin designs, develops and markets digital travel assistance products and services.
How it Works:
ViaMichelin shares the desire of its sole shareholder, the Michelin Group, to contribute to improving mobility by becoming a major European supplier of innovative services in the field of travel.
It combines Michelin's unique and renowned know-how in the publication of maps and guides with constantly changing technological expertise.
More at:http://www.viamichelin.com/
ViaMichelin designs, develops and markets digital travel assistance products and services.
How it Works:
ViaMichelin shares the desire of its sole shareholder, the Michelin Group, to contribute to improving mobility by becoming a major European supplier of innovative services in the field of travel.
It combines Michelin's unique and renowned know-how in the publication of maps and guides with constantly changing technological expertise.
More at:http://www.viamichelin.com/
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Buy And Sell Virtual Shares Of Celebrities At Hollywood Stock Exchange
What Company Is Offering:
Hollywood Stock Exchange is an integrated marketing, research and technology company driven by its patented entertainment stock market, HSX.com, the longest continuously operating commercial prediction market.
How It Works:
At HSX.com, visitors buy and sell virtual shares of celebrities and movies with a currency called the Hollywood Dollar®.The Company's Virtual SpecialistTM technology allows an unlimited number of consumers to trade thousands of virtual entertainment securities in a fair and orderly, supply-and-demand-based market. HSX syndicates the data collected from the Exchange as market research to entertainment, consumer product and financial institutions and as original content to radio, television and print media. Founded in 1996, HSX is now a subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P. HSX is headquartered in Century City, California.
More at:http://www.hsx.com/about/
Hollywood Stock Exchange is an integrated marketing, research and technology company driven by its patented entertainment stock market, HSX.com, the longest continuously operating commercial prediction market.
How It Works:
At HSX.com, visitors buy and sell virtual shares of celebrities and movies with a currency called the Hollywood Dollar®.The Company's Virtual SpecialistTM technology allows an unlimited number of consumers to trade thousands of virtual entertainment securities in a fair and orderly, supply-and-demand-based market. HSX syndicates the data collected from the Exchange as market research to entertainment, consumer product and financial institutions and as original content to radio, television and print media. Founded in 1996, HSX is now a subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P. HSX is headquartered in Century City, California.
More at:http://www.hsx.com/about/
GoodBusiness Is OneStop Place For Everything You Need To Run Your Online Business
What Company Is Offering:
GoodBusiness is a new way to host your business website. Beyond hosting your website, GoodBusiness helps you understand your customers, make better decisions and achieve real results.It's one, central console with everything you need to run your online business.
How It Works:
A one-stop, all-in-one solution for your website, online shop, email marketing, lead and contact management. Software designed and built by a business owner, for a business owner. Affordable (and even FREE) plans for every business.
How They Will Help You:
Concentrate on growing your profits, not on technology.
Build your online business in one central, organized place.
Avoid wrestling with disconnected and disparate business software.
Save money by using one tool instead of four.
More at:http://goodbarry.com/
GoodBusiness is a new way to host your business website. Beyond hosting your website, GoodBusiness helps you understand your customers, make better decisions and achieve real results.It's one, central console with everything you need to run your online business.
How It Works:
A one-stop, all-in-one solution for your website, online shop, email marketing, lead and contact management. Software designed and built by a business owner, for a business owner. Affordable (and even FREE) plans for every business.
How They Will Help You:
Concentrate on growing your profits, not on technology.
Build your online business in one central, organized place.
Avoid wrestling with disconnected and disparate business software.
Save money by using one tool instead of four.
More at:http://goodbarry.com/
RobotReplay lets you record and watch your website visitors in action
What Company is Offering:
RobotReplay lets you record and watch your website visitors in action. View recorded sessions of every mouse movement, click and keystroke.
How Its Useful And Works:
# Improve your site's usability.
# See where your readers get bored.
# Convert more visitors to buyers.
Its free and easy to use.
More at:http://www.robotreplay.com/
RobotReplay lets you record and watch your website visitors in action. View recorded sessions of every mouse movement, click and keystroke.
How Its Useful And Works:
# Improve your site's usability.
# See where your readers get bored.
# Convert more visitors to buyers.
Its free and easy to use.
More at:http://www.robotreplay.com/
nPost is a site devoted to tech entrepreneurship and startups.
What Company Is Offering:
nPost is a site devoted to tech entrepreneurship and startups. The nPost Tech Startup Job / Career Board features opportunities with Internet, Software, Hardware and Biotech startups.
How It Works:
nPost interviews startup entrepreneurs and CEOs about their businesses. Their interviews focus on their ideas, insights, experiences, and goals for each business. nPost also hosts tech networking events in Seattle, Portland and Vancouver, BC.To promote entrepreneurship by sharing insights from entrepreneurs, both good and bad, so that others can learn from them. Allow entrepreneurs to build their team in an effective and efficient manner as possible and bring enterpeneurs together, online and offline.
More:http://www.npost.com/
nPost is a site devoted to tech entrepreneurship and startups. The nPost Tech Startup Job / Career Board features opportunities with Internet, Software, Hardware and Biotech startups.
How It Works:
nPost interviews startup entrepreneurs and CEOs about their businesses. Their interviews focus on their ideas, insights, experiences, and goals for each business. nPost also hosts tech networking events in Seattle, Portland and Vancouver, BC.To promote entrepreneurship by sharing insights from entrepreneurs, both good and bad, so that others can learn from them. Allow entrepreneurs to build their team in an effective and efficient manner as possible and bring enterpeneurs together, online and offline.
More:http://www.npost.com/
YouMagix For Everyday Needs
What Company is offering:
YouMagix is a Unique & first of its kind social experiment. YouMagix provides a platform where you to create content around your needs, correct available content and provide helpful reviews. The generated content can power your search for options in your everyday life.
How It Works:
YouMagix is a completely “You” powered platform with no content borrowed from any where or created by youmagix staff. Every one is has an admin authority at YouMagix and any one can add, edit, comment or write a review on any item that is out there. Content creation and updates are as easy as clicking a button and hitting save. One does not even need an account to contribute content @ youmagix.com
Everyday Needs are starting point, You is the magic formula, the resulting place can be a very useful information repository for everyone.
more at:http://openyoumagix.youmagix.com
YouMagix is a Unique & first of its kind social experiment. YouMagix provides a platform where you to create content around your needs, correct available content and provide helpful reviews. The generated content can power your search for options in your everyday life.
How It Works:
YouMagix is a completely “You” powered platform with no content borrowed from any where or created by youmagix staff. Every one is has an admin authority at YouMagix and any one can add, edit, comment or write a review on any item that is out there. Content creation and updates are as easy as clicking a button and hitting save. One does not even need an account to contribute content @ youmagix.com
Everyday Needs are starting point, You is the magic formula, the resulting place can be a very useful information repository for everyone.
more at:http://openyoumagix.youmagix.com
Blitz Mobile is free mobile marketing services via text message ads
What Company is Offering:
Blitz Mobile provides FREE mobile marketing services.
How it Works:
Their service is delivered via text message ads.Text message ads provide you with a quick and easy way to reach customers. Your ad will be delivered in seconds right to your customers cell phone. Since customers opt-in to receive your message, they'll be anticipating it. Your offer will encourage them to patronize you and even forward your message to their friends. The service features unlimited messages. Start your campaign for FREE.
Whom It Will Help Most:
Their ideal customer is a business that wants to leverage its existing marketing efforts for greater impact. This includes Restaurants, Salons, Bars, Retailers, Banks, Schools, Advertising Agencies, News Papers and more.
Retail >> Specialty
Services >> Personal Services
Services >> Caterers / Restaurant
More at:http://www.fastpitchonline.com/
http://www.mytextad.com/
Blitz Mobile provides FREE mobile marketing services.
How it Works:
Their service is delivered via text message ads.Text message ads provide you with a quick and easy way to reach customers. Your ad will be delivered in seconds right to your customers cell phone. Since customers opt-in to receive your message, they'll be anticipating it. Your offer will encourage them to patronize you and even forward your message to their friends. The service features unlimited messages. Start your campaign for FREE.
Whom It Will Help Most:
Their ideal customer is a business that wants to leverage its existing marketing efforts for greater impact. This includes Restaurants, Salons, Bars, Retailers, Banks, Schools, Advertising Agencies, News Papers and more.
Retail >> Specialty
Services >> Personal Services
Services >> Caterers / Restaurant
More at:http://www.fastpitchonline.com/
http://www.mytextad.com/
Increase your productivity with Net-CATI 5.0
What Company is Offering:
Net-CATI 5.0 is the only full-featured CATI solution available on the market today that requires no major up-front investment, including the installation of hardware or software.The ease of installing and managing Net-CATI lets you focus your resources on the business you know best - market research. Net-CATI 5.0 is backed by Net-MR® and the GMI service team. GMI can help with all your telephone-based data collection needs.
How it Works:
Manage multiple projects across multiple call centers, all from the Net-CATI interface. The administration tool provides a cockpit view of all CATI projects in and out of field. Quickly zoom in on individual projects, monitor progress and adjust project details. Administrators can also manage sample, monitor activity, and assign surveys to new operators or groups of operators.
How It Will Help:
Increase interviewer productivity using the Net-CATI integrated dialer. With the Net-CATI integrated Voice over IP (VoIP) and predictive dialing technology, interviewers are up to 100% more efficient than with manual dialing, saving you time and improving your bottom line. Have a project that doesn't require a predictive dialer? Net-CATI lets you configure projects for the dialing mode that best suits your needs.
Thanks to GMI’s unique java operator interface, telephone interviewers experience no latency between screens or questions. This allows distributed call centers to be highly productive as they collaborate on a single CATI project. The interface is simple and uncluttered, with keyboard shortcuts for even greater efficiency.
More at:http://www.gmi-mr.com/cati/
Net-CATI 5.0 is the only full-featured CATI solution available on the market today that requires no major up-front investment, including the installation of hardware or software.The ease of installing and managing Net-CATI lets you focus your resources on the business you know best - market research. Net-CATI 5.0 is backed by Net-MR® and the GMI service team. GMI can help with all your telephone-based data collection needs.
How it Works:
Manage multiple projects across multiple call centers, all from the Net-CATI interface. The administration tool provides a cockpit view of all CATI projects in and out of field. Quickly zoom in on individual projects, monitor progress and adjust project details. Administrators can also manage sample, monitor activity, and assign surveys to new operators or groups of operators.
How It Will Help:
Increase interviewer productivity using the Net-CATI integrated dialer. With the Net-CATI integrated Voice over IP (VoIP) and predictive dialing technology, interviewers are up to 100% more efficient than with manual dialing, saving you time and improving your bottom line. Have a project that doesn't require a predictive dialer? Net-CATI lets you configure projects for the dialing mode that best suits your needs.
Thanks to GMI’s unique java operator interface, telephone interviewers experience no latency between screens or questions. This allows distributed call centers to be highly productive as they collaborate on a single CATI project. The interface is simple and uncluttered, with keyboard shortcuts for even greater efficiency.
More at:http://www.gmi-mr.com/cati/
CleverSet For Rapid Sales Conversion Improvement and Revenue Lift For Your Website
What company is offering:
CleverSet has one of leading technology services provider that improves the effectiveness of recommendations on eCommerce sites, reliably lifting revenue-per-visitor by 20% or more, and delivering the highest return on investment in the industry.More Effective Recommendations Yield Rapid Sales Conversion Improvement and Revenue Lift For Your Website.
How it works:
CleverSet’s recommendations service expertly assesses what each individual website visitor is interested in, shopping for, and most likely to purchase as they navigate through your website. Instead of using canned, static rules to suggest additional items to buy, CleverSet’s innovative technology platform makes merchandise recommendations based on powerful relational behavioral modeling logic. What makes CleverSet’s merchandise recommendations so relevant and so effective for our customers is the fact that our platform collects and analyzes the widest range of customer and clickstream information among any commercially available merchandise recommendations system. Simply put, more data allows CleverSet’s to deliver more relevant suggestions to your customers, increasing their ability to discover and purchase the specific items most interesting and appealing to them.
More at:http://www.cleverset.com/
CleverSet has one of leading technology services provider that improves the effectiveness of recommendations on eCommerce sites, reliably lifting revenue-per-visitor by 20% or more, and delivering the highest return on investment in the industry.More Effective Recommendations Yield Rapid Sales Conversion Improvement and Revenue Lift For Your Website.
How it works:
CleverSet’s recommendations service expertly assesses what each individual website visitor is interested in, shopping for, and most likely to purchase as they navigate through your website. Instead of using canned, static rules to suggest additional items to buy, CleverSet’s innovative technology platform makes merchandise recommendations based on powerful relational behavioral modeling logic. What makes CleverSet’s merchandise recommendations so relevant and so effective for our customers is the fact that our platform collects and analyzes the widest range of customer and clickstream information among any commercially available merchandise recommendations system. Simply put, more data allows CleverSet’s to deliver more relevant suggestions to your customers, increasing their ability to discover and purchase the specific items most interesting and appealing to them.
More at:http://www.cleverset.com/
SupportSpace's technical support services connect you directly to experts who can assist you with your technology needs
What Company is Offering:
SupportSpace's technical support services connect you directly to experts who can assist you with your technology needs in real-time.
SupportSpace has the first and only online support management and delivery platform that enables technology experts to collaborate, share their knowledge and deliver 24/7 unmatched real time service.
How It Works:
Every expert is certified by SupportSpace and is rated and reviewed by consumers. SupportSpace is all about choice - users can choose their expert, determine their price, and select from online, phone or in-person service. In addition to serving consumers directly, SupportSpace partners with vendors and retailers to deliver their customers world-class computers and gadget support.
Our proprietary Support Management and Delivery Platform empowers the expert with tools and information. It also allows them to collaborate with other experts in order to answer all your support requests.
It's all about changing the way people give and receive technical support in a technology-driven world.
More at:http://www.supportspace.com/
SupportSpace's technical support services connect you directly to experts who can assist you with your technology needs in real-time.
SupportSpace has the first and only online support management and delivery platform that enables technology experts to collaborate, share their knowledge and deliver 24/7 unmatched real time service.
How It Works:
Every expert is certified by SupportSpace and is rated and reviewed by consumers. SupportSpace is all about choice - users can choose their expert, determine their price, and select from online, phone or in-person service. In addition to serving consumers directly, SupportSpace partners with vendors and retailers to deliver their customers world-class computers and gadget support.
Our proprietary Support Management and Delivery Platform empowers the expert with tools and information. It also allows them to collaborate with other experts in order to answer all your support requests.
It's all about changing the way people give and receive technical support in a technology-driven world.
More at:http://www.supportspace.com/
Generate's business intelligence platform combines real-time company intelligence to deliver contextual information to business professionals
What Company is Offering:
Generate's business intelligence platform combines real-time company intelligence with integrated relationship-mapping technology to deliver contextual information to business professionals.
How It works:
Generate's technology crawls more than 75 million domains every day, extracting information about companies, executives, news, and trigger events -- alerts to actionable information, indicating the early stages of a purchasing decision. Generate's extraction and aggregation technology filters through more than 150,000 news articles from 25,000 news sources and more than 3 million blogs. Generate leverages this technology to maintain databases in real time containing deep profiles on companies, executives, and news.
Generate combines this comprehensive company intelligence with relationship-mapping technology to show users, and the users' organization, how they connect to each company and executive via three degrees of separation.
Whom It Will Help Most:
Generate's solutions are designed for:
Sales and business development professionals
Marketing professionals
Publishers, media, and content companies
Financial services, professional services, and technology companies
More at:http://www.generateinc.com/
Generate's business intelligence platform combines real-time company intelligence with integrated relationship-mapping technology to deliver contextual information to business professionals.
How It works:
Generate's technology crawls more than 75 million domains every day, extracting information about companies, executives, news, and trigger events -- alerts to actionable information, indicating the early stages of a purchasing decision. Generate's extraction and aggregation technology filters through more than 150,000 news articles from 25,000 news sources and more than 3 million blogs. Generate leverages this technology to maintain databases in real time containing deep profiles on companies, executives, and news.
Generate combines this comprehensive company intelligence with relationship-mapping technology to show users, and the users' organization, how they connect to each company and executive via three degrees of separation.
Whom It Will Help Most:
Generate's solutions are designed for:
Sales and business development professionals
Marketing professionals
Publishers, media, and content companies
Financial services, professional services, and technology companies
More at:http://www.generateinc.com/
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