What Company Is Offering:
eToro makes it faster and easier than ever to execute trades, watch your trading activity, share, and enjoy financial information - using real or virtual money. It is a unique and user-friendly platform, which combines multidisciplinary expertise from the fields of finance, software development, and design to bring you the next generation of trading.
How It Works:
Trades are visually represented so you can watch your trades run marathons, rise and fall between countries and more. Apply your trading skills with real-market rates on virtual money. Various free-to-enter championships are held so you can get a chance to win top prizes and become the top trader. Interact with friends and fellow traders either privately or publicly. Trade for real money with real-time trade execution and without dealer intervention.
For Whom It Will Helpful:
eToro’s trading platform was developed in order to serve the emerging retail segment of the Forex community. Novice Forex enthusiasts that like to experience trading are no longer required to deal with complicated trading systems, and can now enjoy Forex trading via eToro‘s exciting visual trading platform.
Their commitment to providing traders with innovative and easy to use currency trading technology, fair dealing practices, and excellent customer service establish eToro as the perfect platform for traders worldwide.
More at:http://www.etoro.com/#
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Saturday, December 1, 2007
Free Online Library
The Free Library has offered free, full-text versions of classic literary works from hundreds of celebrated authors, whose biographies, images, and famous quotations can also be found on the site. Recently, The Free Library has been expanded to include a massive collection of periodicals from hundreds of leading publications covering Business and Industry, Communications, Entertainment, Health, Humanities, Law, Government, Politics, Recreation and Leisure, Science and Technology, and Social Sciences. This collection includes millions of articles dating back to 1984 as well as newly-published articles that are added to the site daily.
The Free Library is an invaluable research tool and the fastest, easiest way to locate useful information on virtually any topic. Explore the site through a keyword search, or simply browse the enormous collection of literary classics and up-to-date periodicals to find exactly what you need.
TheFreeLibrary.com now allows you to create your own personal homepage by adding and removing, dragging and dropping, and "using or losing" existing content windows. In addition, you can add your own bookmarks, weather information, horoscope, and RSS feeds from anywhere on the web.
More at:http://www.thefreelibrary.com/
The Free Library is an invaluable research tool and the fastest, easiest way to locate useful information on virtually any topic. Explore the site through a keyword search, or simply browse the enormous collection of literary classics and up-to-date periodicals to find exactly what you need.
TheFreeLibrary.com now allows you to create your own personal homepage by adding and removing, dragging and dropping, and "using or losing" existing content windows. In addition, you can add your own bookmarks, weather information, horoscope, and RSS feeds from anywhere on the web.
More at:http://www.thefreelibrary.com/
The Savvy Source for Parents was an idea conceived by parents, for parents
What Company Says:
The Savvy Source for Parents was an idea conceived by parents, for parents.
After giving birth to her daughter, our founder, Stacey Boyd, quickly realized that there are very few resources to help parents navigate choosing and gaining admission to preschools. So she turned to friends who already had children in preschool and realized that her parent friends were a treasure trove of useful information. Not one to keep the inside scoop to herself, she wondered if there was a way to harness all of the information she had gathered in a format from which other parents could benefit. Stacey talked up the idea with some friends, and over some of her famous goat cheese tarts last spring, a small group met at Stacey's home to begin making Stacey's brainchild a reality - and thus The Savvy Source for Parents was born!.
How It Works:
They started with about a half dozen moms in San Francisco and in less than one year, they have spread to 17 cities across the country, with many more cities in the pipeline. They have been able to spread so quickly because thousands of parents have been generous enough to share their experiences with other parents. With the help of leading childhood development experts, they created a survey for school directors to complete. As you will see, the director survey asks directors to provide parents with all sorts of useful tidbits from what "a day in the life" is like at their preschool to how the school handles discipline, to teacher/student ratios, and much more.
They believe that the depth and quantity of parent reviews and the first-hand information from school directors makes this the most informative web site about preschools in the country.
More at:http://www.savvysource.com/
The Savvy Source for Parents was an idea conceived by parents, for parents.
After giving birth to her daughter, our founder, Stacey Boyd, quickly realized that there are very few resources to help parents navigate choosing and gaining admission to preschools. So she turned to friends who already had children in preschool and realized that her parent friends were a treasure trove of useful information. Not one to keep the inside scoop to herself, she wondered if there was a way to harness all of the information she had gathered in a format from which other parents could benefit. Stacey talked up the idea with some friends, and over some of her famous goat cheese tarts last spring, a small group met at Stacey's home to begin making Stacey's brainchild a reality - and thus The Savvy Source for Parents was born!.
How It Works:
They started with about a half dozen moms in San Francisco and in less than one year, they have spread to 17 cities across the country, with many more cities in the pipeline. They have been able to spread so quickly because thousands of parents have been generous enough to share their experiences with other parents. With the help of leading childhood development experts, they created a survey for school directors to complete. As you will see, the director survey asks directors to provide parents with all sorts of useful tidbits from what "a day in the life" is like at their preschool to how the school handles discipline, to teacher/student ratios, and much more.
They believe that the depth and quantity of parent reviews and the first-hand information from school directors makes this the most informative web site about preschools in the country.
More at:http://www.savvysource.com/
Product Clash
What Company Is Offering:
Product Clash is looking to become a fun place for internet users to stop by when looking for in-season items as well as some top-selling consumer electronics.With ProductClash they look to combine and structure direct competitive information together with user generated content.They will also serve their users with purchasing options. By the way, people who do not believe in the power of e-Commerce are ignorant.We can only engage our users (and ourselves) properly if there is a fun aspect involved. The fun of Product Clash is not mutually exclusive to the information purpose, so "dull" people are perfectly able to enjoy the site experience.
How It Works:
Product clash addresses the new dimension, by adding the social prioritization to the information overload on the internet.1. The Influential Power of other people
2. Emotional Connection to the brand or product category.
3. The underlying rational need for a product or a service.
More at:http://www.productclash.com/
Product Clash is looking to become a fun place for internet users to stop by when looking for in-season items as well as some top-selling consumer electronics.With ProductClash they look to combine and structure direct competitive information together with user generated content.They will also serve their users with purchasing options. By the way, people who do not believe in the power of e-Commerce are ignorant.We can only engage our users (and ourselves) properly if there is a fun aspect involved. The fun of Product Clash is not mutually exclusive to the information purpose, so "dull" people are perfectly able to enjoy the site experience.
How It Works:
Product clash addresses the new dimension, by adding the social prioritization to the information overload on the internet.1. The Influential Power of other people
2. Emotional Connection to the brand or product category.
3. The underlying rational need for a product or a service.
More at:http://www.productclash.com/
Create Your Own Mobile Device With "Bug Labs " And Become Entrepreneur
What Company Is Offering:
BUG is a collection of easy-to-use, open source hardware modules, each capable of producing one or more Web services. These modules snap together physically and the services connect together logically to enable users to easily build, program and share innovative devices and applications. With BUG, we don't define the final products - you do.
US start-up Bug Labs wants to harness some of that same creativity by enabling tech-savvy do-it-yourselfers to create their own mobile devices. The company has designed several basic hardware modules that snap together like building blocks to perform whatever mobile function their owners can think of. “There are so many great gadget ideas that haven't been thought of yet,” the founders note. “We want to unlock and inspire the discovery and creation of as many of these devices as possible.” Besides letting them add whatever they want, the snap-together components also let consumers leave out what they don't want, which is a far cry from many pre-packaged mobile phones and PDAs that come crammed with features their buyers have no use for.
How it works:
Bug Labs is a new kind of technology company, enabling a new generation of engineers to tap their creativity and build any type of device they want, without having to solder, learn solid state electronics, or go to China. Bug Labs envisions a future where CE stands for Community Electronics, the term "mashups" applies equally to hardware as it does to Web services, and entrepreneurs can appeal to numerous markets by inventing "The Long Tail" of devices.
Would-be product designers start with Bug Labs’ basic module—in essence, a Linux-based mobile computer. Then, they add other modules to give the basic device fresh capabilities. Want a camera that tags photos with a GPS-derived location and then uploads them to the web? All it takes is fitting the necessary components together. The software to run the device is also modular, though customizing it may require some minor coding. Bug Labs aims to start selling both the basic module and the first four add-ons (GPS, digital camera/videocam, colour LCD touchscreen and an accelerometer/motion sensor) by the end of 2007.
Gadgets built with Bug Lab’s block-like components may not satisfy those who lust after branded mobile devices poured into seamlessly sleek designs. It will, however, appeal to people who enjoy making things,* and like having control over elements of a product’s design. Whether or not the component approach succeeds with mobile devices, plenty of other manufactured products would do well to study the concept and see if they can make their own products modular and stackable. Let them build it, and they will come! ;-)
More at: www.buglabs.net
BUG is a collection of easy-to-use, open source hardware modules, each capable of producing one or more Web services. These modules snap together physically and the services connect together logically to enable users to easily build, program and share innovative devices and applications. With BUG, we don't define the final products - you do.
US start-up Bug Labs wants to harness some of that same creativity by enabling tech-savvy do-it-yourselfers to create their own mobile devices. The company has designed several basic hardware modules that snap together like building blocks to perform whatever mobile function their owners can think of. “There are so many great gadget ideas that haven't been thought of yet,” the founders note. “We want to unlock and inspire the discovery and creation of as many of these devices as possible.” Besides letting them add whatever they want, the snap-together components also let consumers leave out what they don't want, which is a far cry from many pre-packaged mobile phones and PDAs that come crammed with features their buyers have no use for.
How it works:
Bug Labs is a new kind of technology company, enabling a new generation of engineers to tap their creativity and build any type of device they want, without having to solder, learn solid state electronics, or go to China. Bug Labs envisions a future where CE stands for Community Electronics, the term "mashups" applies equally to hardware as it does to Web services, and entrepreneurs can appeal to numerous markets by inventing "The Long Tail" of devices.
Would-be product designers start with Bug Labs’ basic module—in essence, a Linux-based mobile computer. Then, they add other modules to give the basic device fresh capabilities. Want a camera that tags photos with a GPS-derived location and then uploads them to the web? All it takes is fitting the necessary components together. The software to run the device is also modular, though customizing it may require some minor coding. Bug Labs aims to start selling both the basic module and the first four add-ons (GPS, digital camera/videocam, colour LCD touchscreen and an accelerometer/motion sensor) by the end of 2007.
Gadgets built with Bug Lab’s block-like components may not satisfy those who lust after branded mobile devices poured into seamlessly sleek designs. It will, however, appeal to people who enjoy making things,* and like having control over elements of a product’s design. Whether or not the component approach succeeds with mobile devices, plenty of other manufactured products would do well to study the concept and see if they can make their own products modular and stackable. Let them build it, and they will come! ;-)
More at: www.buglabs.net
Avail Media, the provider of content aggregation and IPTV transport services got $25 million in VCs funding
What Company Is Offering:
Avail Media is the only company today to deliver a combined MPEG-4 linear TV and Video On Demand (VOD) IPTV solution. Avail Media, the provider of content aggregation and IPTV transport services, delivers to its customers a full line-up of live television programming with hundreds of channels, all quality encoded in MPEG-4, IP encapsulated, encrypted, combined with VOD and designed for future value-added services. Avail Media's system has been designed for use by broadband network operators of all types. Whether triple-play, quad-play, or pure video play, Avail Media offers the broadest and deepest set of IPTV services, technologies and solutions available in the marketplace today.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Avail Media, Inc., a provider of IPTV and advanced media services to broadband operators, announced it has closed the final tranche of a $25 million Series B equity round. First time investor Valhalla Partners joined Columbia Capital, Novak Biddle Venture Partners, and Pioneer Ventures in the round.
The financing, along with $5 million in debt financing from a strategic investor and Silicon Valley Bank, brings the total capital raised this year to $30 million, which will provide Avail Media with sufficient resources to execute on its vision, create value-added services, and effectively position its customers for success in the market.
What VCs Says About Company's Growth Prospects:
Avail Media has made significant strides in supporting its expanding customer base. Avail's ability to bring telecom, cable, and Internet service providers cost-effective, customizable IPTV technology quickly and seamlessly is unmatched in this emerging space. There is tremendous market opportunity here and under the direction of its experienced, highly respected management team, Avail is well positioned to be a key player in the industry," said Art Marks, general partner, Valhalla Partners and Avail Media new board member.
What Company's CEO Says:
We've made some significant advances this year which indicate that 2008 will be a year of continued expansion and productivity for us. First, our customer installation rate is already exceeding expectations. Second, because we operate the only MPEG 4 linear and video on demand (VOD) platform, we have an excellent foundation upon which to build value added services," said Ramu Potarazu, CEO, Avail Media. "Valhalla brings additional industry and operating experience as well as critical resources within their team which will be valuable during this growth phase," Potarazu added.
More at:http://www.availmedia.com/
Avail Media is the only company today to deliver a combined MPEG-4 linear TV and Video On Demand (VOD) IPTV solution. Avail Media, the provider of content aggregation and IPTV transport services, delivers to its customers a full line-up of live television programming with hundreds of channels, all quality encoded in MPEG-4, IP encapsulated, encrypted, combined with VOD and designed for future value-added services. Avail Media's system has been designed for use by broadband network operators of all types. Whether triple-play, quad-play, or pure video play, Avail Media offers the broadest and deepest set of IPTV services, technologies and solutions available in the marketplace today.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Avail Media, Inc., a provider of IPTV and advanced media services to broadband operators, announced it has closed the final tranche of a $25 million Series B equity round. First time investor Valhalla Partners joined Columbia Capital, Novak Biddle Venture Partners, and Pioneer Ventures in the round.
The financing, along with $5 million in debt financing from a strategic investor and Silicon Valley Bank, brings the total capital raised this year to $30 million, which will provide Avail Media with sufficient resources to execute on its vision, create value-added services, and effectively position its customers for success in the market.
What VCs Says About Company's Growth Prospects:
Avail Media has made significant strides in supporting its expanding customer base. Avail's ability to bring telecom, cable, and Internet service providers cost-effective, customizable IPTV technology quickly and seamlessly is unmatched in this emerging space. There is tremendous market opportunity here and under the direction of its experienced, highly respected management team, Avail is well positioned to be a key player in the industry," said Art Marks, general partner, Valhalla Partners and Avail Media new board member.
What Company's CEO Says:
We've made some significant advances this year which indicate that 2008 will be a year of continued expansion and productivity for us. First, our customer installation rate is already exceeding expectations. Second, because we operate the only MPEG 4 linear and video on demand (VOD) platform, we have an excellent foundation upon which to build value added services," said Ramu Potarazu, CEO, Avail Media. "Valhalla brings additional industry and operating experience as well as critical resources within their team which will be valuable during this growth phase," Potarazu added.
More at:http://www.availmedia.com/
FeedWard.com is a Video Search Engine
FeedWard.com is a Video ?Search Engine? that enables the user to search through various video sites. The main idea was conceived and implemented by Nick Nt. on 2007 and the purpose of the whole project is to create a single web site that combines the results of the most popular web2.0 video sites. FeedWard is coming out supporting 5 of the biggest and fastest growing sites, such as youtube, veoh, google video, livevideo and metacafe. Later on, many more sites will be added on our engine.
More at:http://www.feedward.com/
More at:http://www.feedward.com/
Bloove is an online phone management service
What Company Is Offering:
Bloove is an online phone management service. It allows you to edit address book contacts and speed dial settings, initiate calls and work with messages - all from your favorite browser. It is like PC Suite for the web.
How It Works:
Bloove communicates with a mobile phone via wireless data connection: GPRS, EDGE, WCDMA, Wi-Fi etc. So, no cable, infrared or Bluetooth hardware is needed. You will need to install Bloove Agent application on your phone, no installs are required on the desktop. You may manage your phone everywhere you have just a browser, without cumbersome desktop application.
Open http://bloove.com/m on your mobile. It will determine a compatible version for your phone automatically.
For Symbian phones you will need to agree with all warnings and just run the agent. For J2ME you will need to grant access to network and your contacts for the Agent to work properly prior to running application. Access settings are specific to phone vendor.
On Nokia phones open Application, choose Bloove Agent, choose Options/Application Access and set Communication/Network Access to Always allowed. Repeat Always allowed setting for Data access/Read user data and Data access/Add and edit data.
On Sony-Ericsson phones open File manager/Applications, choose Bloove Agent, choose More/Permissions and set Internet access to Never ask. Repeat Never ask setting for Read user data and Write user data. If your phone allows you to do so, set Never ask to Messaging as well.
The free version is currently available. With the free version you can't connect more then one mobile phone to you account and Contact Archive is limited to 15 items. All other features are unrestricted: you may manage an unlimited number of contacts on the phone, and there is no time limit - basic functions will be free forever. We plan to introduce premium options with more number of mobile phones and archive items allowed.
More at:http://www.bloove.com/
Bloove is an online phone management service. It allows you to edit address book contacts and speed dial settings, initiate calls and work with messages - all from your favorite browser. It is like PC Suite for the web.
How It Works:
Bloove communicates with a mobile phone via wireless data connection: GPRS, EDGE, WCDMA, Wi-Fi etc. So, no cable, infrared or Bluetooth hardware is needed. You will need to install Bloove Agent application on your phone, no installs are required on the desktop. You may manage your phone everywhere you have just a browser, without cumbersome desktop application.
Open http://bloove.com/m on your mobile. It will determine a compatible version for your phone automatically.
For Symbian phones you will need to agree with all warnings and just run the agent. For J2ME you will need to grant access to network and your contacts for the Agent to work properly prior to running application. Access settings are specific to phone vendor.
On Nokia phones open Application, choose Bloove Agent, choose Options/Application Access and set Communication/Network Access to Always allowed. Repeat Always allowed setting for Data access/Read user data and Data access/Add and edit data.
On Sony-Ericsson phones open File manager/Applications, choose Bloove Agent, choose More/Permissions and set Internet access to Never ask. Repeat Never ask setting for Read user data and Write user data. If your phone allows you to do so, set Never ask to Messaging as well.
The free version is currently available. With the free version you can't connect more then one mobile phone to you account and Contact Archive is limited to 15 items. All other features are unrestricted: you may manage an unlimited number of contacts on the phone, and there is no time limit - basic functions will be free forever. We plan to introduce premium options with more number of mobile phones and archive items allowed.
More at:http://www.bloove.com/
With Cataplt---Your affordable email campaign... in seconds!
What Company Is Offering:
Cataplt™ is the first web-based middle market email solution on Earth. They designed it because emailing larger lists from Microsoft© Outlook© can be painful, but larger enterprise solutions are complicated and expensive. They know you wanted the best of both worlds.
How It Works:
With Cataplt, you can email up to 5,000 recipients. Simply upload your list, cut and paste your text or html message, then send. It's that simple! About 48 hours later they'll send you a report of how many emails reached your audience, how many emails were opened, and how many links were clicked. (real metrics that show your email campaign success).
For any email campaign up to 5000 addresses, the price is only $10! Your affordable email campaign... in seconds!
More at:http://www.cataplt.com/
Cataplt™ is the first web-based middle market email solution on Earth. They designed it because emailing larger lists from Microsoft© Outlook© can be painful, but larger enterprise solutions are complicated and expensive. They know you wanted the best of both worlds.
How It Works:
With Cataplt, you can email up to 5,000 recipients. Simply upload your list, cut and paste your text or html message, then send. It's that simple! About 48 hours later they'll send you a report of how many emails reached your audience, how many emails were opened, and how many links were clicked. (real metrics that show your email campaign success).
For any email campaign up to 5000 addresses, the price is only $10! Your affordable email campaign... in seconds!
More at:http://www.cataplt.com/
Friday, November 30, 2007
IRSeek The most comprehensive chat search engine
What Company Is Offering:
IRSeek utilizies the power of the people on IRC and brings it to the rest of the community to enjoy and learn from.
IRC (Internet Relay Chat) remains one of the most active platforms for sharing knowledge and collaborating on the Internet.
How it Works:
www.IRSeek.com strives to make this hidden gem available to the entire Internet community. By constantly archiving thousands of active, highly-focused, public chat-rooms in a wide variety of topics (e.g. Linux, soccer, Christianity, poker, business and others) then indexing, processing and publishing the content on the web using advanced Web 2.0 technologies while maintaining the privacy of the users, we are creating a knowledge base different from any other.
Who Is Backing Them:
Eran Cohen, Chief Executive Officer
Eran cohen has over 13 years of experience in the computing industry. Prior to co-founding B&C Advanced Solutions LTD, Mr. Cohen skillfully lead several large-scale client-server projects which are extensively used throughout the world today. During his time in iWeb LTD, Mr. Cohen served as a senior web-application developer. He then served as a consultant and project leader for Computest LTD. Mr. Cohen then served as the head of the e-payment backoffice system at Random-Logic LTD. Mr. Cohen completed his military service at the Israeli Air-Force as a computer-systems expert.
Ariel Berkman, Chief Technical Officer
Ariel Berkman has over 15 years of experience in the computing industry. Prior to co-founding B&C Advanced Solutions LTD, Mr. Berkman had extensive experience consulting and implementing complex systems with emphasis on reliability, availability, and security. During his time in Contact- NOW LTD, Ariel served as a senior Unix system-administrator. At Envara LTD (acquired by Intel), Ariel served as a the head of the IT department. He then served as a technology consultant for Metacafe LTD and the Computer- Science IT department at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
More at:http://www.irseek.com/
IRSeek utilizies the power of the people on IRC and brings it to the rest of the community to enjoy and learn from.
IRC (Internet Relay Chat) remains one of the most active platforms for sharing knowledge and collaborating on the Internet.
How it Works:
www.IRSeek.com strives to make this hidden gem available to the entire Internet community. By constantly archiving thousands of active, highly-focused, public chat-rooms in a wide variety of topics (e.g. Linux, soccer, Christianity, poker, business and others) then indexing, processing and publishing the content on the web using advanced Web 2.0 technologies while maintaining the privacy of the users, we are creating a knowledge base different from any other.
Who Is Backing Them:
Eran Cohen, Chief Executive Officer
Eran cohen has over 13 years of experience in the computing industry. Prior to co-founding B&C Advanced Solutions LTD, Mr. Cohen skillfully lead several large-scale client-server projects which are extensively used throughout the world today. During his time in iWeb LTD, Mr. Cohen served as a senior web-application developer. He then served as a consultant and project leader for Computest LTD. Mr. Cohen then served as the head of the e-payment backoffice system at Random-Logic LTD. Mr. Cohen completed his military service at the Israeli Air-Force as a computer-systems expert.
Ariel Berkman, Chief Technical Officer
Ariel Berkman has over 15 years of experience in the computing industry. Prior to co-founding B&C Advanced Solutions LTD, Mr. Berkman had extensive experience consulting and implementing complex systems with emphasis on reliability, availability, and security. During his time in Contact- NOW LTD, Ariel served as a senior Unix system-administrator. At Envara LTD (acquired by Intel), Ariel served as a the head of the IT department. He then served as a technology consultant for Metacafe LTD and the Computer- Science IT department at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
More at:http://www.irseek.com/
Shopit is a marriage of e-commerce and social networking
What Company Is Offering:
Shopit is designed to be a faster, easier and more cost effective selling and trading environment than any other available today. It is the world′s first and largest peer-to-peer social commerce network that enables users to buy, sell and trade anything, anywhere on the Internet.
How It Works:
Shopit is a marriage of e-commerce and social networking. This website is the only e-commerce exchange that allows users to build personalized Mini-Stores™, quickly upload items and list them for sale or trade. These Mini-Stores™ can be displayed millions of places on the Web, including social networks, blogs and e-mails.
Best of all, doing business on Shopit is absolutely FREE! You can buy, sell, trade, and list items without any fees. Shopit also allows users to promote products with photos and video on their own profiles.
Who Is Backing Them:
The Shopit team is a group of Internet users who decided that buyers and sellers needed better tools for Web commerce. The site is backed and managed by a team of Internet visionaries with expertise spanning e-commerce, social networking, advertising, online marketing and affiliate marketing. Together, they realized that the next evolution in e-commerce involves empowering every Internet user to be a merchant. You are able to browse for free without registering but in order to purchase or sell an item you must register.
More at:http://www.shopit.com/
Shopit is designed to be a faster, easier and more cost effective selling and trading environment than any other available today. It is the world′s first and largest peer-to-peer social commerce network that enables users to buy, sell and trade anything, anywhere on the Internet.
How It Works:
Shopit is a marriage of e-commerce and social networking. This website is the only e-commerce exchange that allows users to build personalized Mini-Stores™, quickly upload items and list them for sale or trade. These Mini-Stores™ can be displayed millions of places on the Web, including social networks, blogs and e-mails.
Best of all, doing business on Shopit is absolutely FREE! You can buy, sell, trade, and list items without any fees. Shopit also allows users to promote products with photos and video on their own profiles.
Who Is Backing Them:
The Shopit team is a group of Internet users who decided that buyers and sellers needed better tools for Web commerce. The site is backed and managed by a team of Internet visionaries with expertise spanning e-commerce, social networking, advertising, online marketing and affiliate marketing. Together, they realized that the next evolution in e-commerce involves empowering every Internet user to be a merchant. You are able to browse for free without registering but in order to purchase or sell an item you must register.
More at:http://www.shopit.com/
PeekYou Is People Search Engine
What Company Is Offering:
A PeekYou profile helps other people find your websites, social-networking pages, photos or anything else about you online. You can also create a profile for friends or relatives to ensure that they may also be easily found online.
You can also register to become a full Contributor which allows you to track your edits to PeekYou and gives you other benefits as well.
How it Works:
Everyone can browse through PeekYou or create new profiles. However, in order to edit or submit information on existing profiles you need to be a registered user. PeekYou will prompt you to log in to your account when you attempt to make changes to a profile. After you have logged in, you can easily edit the "info", "tags", "bio", "photo", and "weblinks" fields by clicking on the appropriate edit buttons. Submitting links into the correct categories ensures easy navigation on the profile. Please note that there can be up to 25 tags on every category, so choose only the most relevant descriptions for the person whose profile you are editing.
PeekYou contributors can link more than one location to a profile. The key is for each added location to be relevant to the person on the profile, and not merely a transient locality. Good examples of relevant locations include birthplace, college town, and any place where that person has lived for a few years. Location therefore does not need to be limited to current locality. When in doubt whether a specific location should be added, consider whether someone who knows that person could plausibly relate him/her principally to the location under consideration. If yes, then that location is a good candidate for being added to the profile.
Why Is It In News Again:
PeekYou.com, the “people search” engine, announced a new way to search Google. This application improves Google’s results by displaying the people who own the websites or those who are referenced within them. The service is available at http://google.peekyou.com/
More at:http://www.peekyou.com/
A PeekYou profile helps other people find your websites, social-networking pages, photos or anything else about you online. You can also create a profile for friends or relatives to ensure that they may also be easily found online.
You can also register to become a full Contributor which allows you to track your edits to PeekYou and gives you other benefits as well.
How it Works:
Everyone can browse through PeekYou or create new profiles. However, in order to edit or submit information on existing profiles you need to be a registered user. PeekYou will prompt you to log in to your account when you attempt to make changes to a profile. After you have logged in, you can easily edit the "info", "tags", "bio", "photo", and "weblinks" fields by clicking on the appropriate edit buttons. Submitting links into the correct categories ensures easy navigation on the profile. Please note that there can be up to 25 tags on every category, so choose only the most relevant descriptions for the person whose profile you are editing.
PeekYou contributors can link more than one location to a profile. The key is for each added location to be relevant to the person on the profile, and not merely a transient locality. Good examples of relevant locations include birthplace, college town, and any place where that person has lived for a few years. Location therefore does not need to be limited to current locality. When in doubt whether a specific location should be added, consider whether someone who knows that person could plausibly relate him/her principally to the location under consideration. If yes, then that location is a good candidate for being added to the profile.
Why Is It In News Again:
PeekYou.com, the “people search” engine, announced a new way to search Google. This application improves Google’s results by displaying the people who own the websites or those who are referenced within them. The service is available at http://google.peekyou.com/
More at:http://www.peekyou.com/
Fotolog Acquired By French Internet company Hi-Media At $90 million
What Company is Offering:
Fotolog is the world's leading photo-blogging site, one of the world's largest social networking sites and a global cultural phenomenon. More than 10 million members in more than 200 countries use Fotolog as a simple and fun way to express themselves through online photo diaries or photo blogs.
What makes Fotolog special is not just the ability to post photos, but the ability to connect with others — whether simply staying in touch with friends and family or exploring the diverse Fotolog universe, discovering photos of new people from different cultures, participating in the site's fascinating special-interest communities and, perhaps most important, receiving personal feedback on their photos from around the world.
How It Works:
Just click the "create your own free Fotolog photo-blog" link that you'll see all over the place and fill out the short registration form. It should take less than a minute and you'll be on your way. After that, you'll be able to upload a photo any time you want in less than a minute.Once you've created your free Fotolog photo-blog, go to your page, and click on the upload link that you see in the navigation bar. Then click on the browse button to find the photo you'd like to upload from your computer's hard drive. Remember: photos must be JPGs or GIFs, and they need to be 2,000 KB or less. Most digital cameras out there today create photo files that are less than 2,000 K, so you should be good to go. But, for you folks with super-duper gazillion mega-pixel cameras, any basic image-editing software (check out this list at CNET) will allow you to resize your photos to the proper size to upload. Fotolog will ultimately convert your photo to a JPG, no larger than 500x500 pixels.
How Much They Got From VCs:
French Internet company Hi-Media,operator of one of Europe’s largest ad networks and micro-payment services, completed its acquisition today of Fotolog.
The $90 million deal was first announced last August. Since then, Fotolog has added two million more members for a total of 13 million, and claims 3.9 billion page views a month.
Fotolog trails behind MySpace’s PhotoBucket and Yahoo’s Flickr. CEO John Borthwick is moving on to his incubator/investment fund Betaworks.
More at:http://www.fotolog.com/
http://www.hi-media.com/
Fotolog is the world's leading photo-blogging site, one of the world's largest social networking sites and a global cultural phenomenon. More than 10 million members in more than 200 countries use Fotolog as a simple and fun way to express themselves through online photo diaries or photo blogs.
What makes Fotolog special is not just the ability to post photos, but the ability to connect with others — whether simply staying in touch with friends and family or exploring the diverse Fotolog universe, discovering photos of new people from different cultures, participating in the site's fascinating special-interest communities and, perhaps most important, receiving personal feedback on their photos from around the world.
How It Works:
Just click the "create your own free Fotolog photo-blog" link that you'll see all over the place and fill out the short registration form. It should take less than a minute and you'll be on your way. After that, you'll be able to upload a photo any time you want in less than a minute.Once you've created your free Fotolog photo-blog, go to your page, and click on the upload link that you see in the navigation bar. Then click on the browse button to find the photo you'd like to upload from your computer's hard drive. Remember: photos must be JPGs or GIFs, and they need to be 2,000 KB or less. Most digital cameras out there today create photo files that are less than 2,000 K, so you should be good to go. But, for you folks with super-duper gazillion mega-pixel cameras, any basic image-editing software (check out this list at CNET) will allow you to resize your photos to the proper size to upload. Fotolog will ultimately convert your photo to a JPG, no larger than 500x500 pixels.
How Much They Got From VCs:
French Internet company Hi-Media,operator of one of Europe’s largest ad networks and micro-payment services, completed its acquisition today of Fotolog.
The $90 million deal was first announced last August. Since then, Fotolog has added two million more members for a total of 13 million, and claims 3.9 billion page views a month.
Fotolog trails behind MySpace’s PhotoBucket and Yahoo’s Flickr. CEO John Borthwick is moving on to his incubator/investment fund Betaworks.
More at:http://www.fotolog.com/
http://www.hi-media.com/
VerticalSearch.com---For B2B Community
What Company Is Offering:
VerticalSearch.com's mission is to provide the B2B community with the best search experience on the web. They accomplish this first by focusing their search engine on the most relevant web sites for the B2B user.
How It Works:
To begin with, They have indexed over 4,000 of the B2B trade press sites, including many online -only publishers of B2B information. These sites offer a wealth of content and editorial expertise in the whole range of B2B verticals, from Agriculture to Mining, Construction to Transportation. Soon they will be adding tens of thousands of B2B company sites to augment the B2B trade press sites. And, as VerticalSearch.com evolves, watch for useful community tools and features that will allow each vertical B2B community to share domain expertise, product offerings, and business and job opportunities by sector.
Who Is Backing Them:
VerticalSearch.com LLC is a privately held company founded by Jeffrey Dearth, one of the pioneers of the commercial Internet. Partners in the venture include Planet Discover, a customized search engine provider, and DeSilva & Phillips, LLC, a media investment bank. But VerticalSearch.com is also YOU, the B2B user. With your help, VerticalSearch.com can become one of your major partners in developing new leads, delivering relevant content, and putting you in touch with your industry colleagues worldwide. Click here to find out how to submit your web site to VerticalSearch.com.
More at:http://www.verticalsearch.com/
VerticalSearch.com's mission is to provide the B2B community with the best search experience on the web. They accomplish this first by focusing their search engine on the most relevant web sites for the B2B user.
How It Works:
To begin with, They have indexed over 4,000 of the B2B trade press sites, including many online -only publishers of B2B information. These sites offer a wealth of content and editorial expertise in the whole range of B2B verticals, from Agriculture to Mining, Construction to Transportation. Soon they will be adding tens of thousands of B2B company sites to augment the B2B trade press sites. And, as VerticalSearch.com evolves, watch for useful community tools and features that will allow each vertical B2B community to share domain expertise, product offerings, and business and job opportunities by sector.
Who Is Backing Them:
VerticalSearch.com LLC is a privately held company founded by Jeffrey Dearth, one of the pioneers of the commercial Internet. Partners in the venture include Planet Discover, a customized search engine provider, and DeSilva & Phillips, LLC, a media investment bank. But VerticalSearch.com is also YOU, the B2B user. With your help, VerticalSearch.com can become one of your major partners in developing new leads, delivering relevant content, and putting you in touch with your industry colleagues worldwide. Click here to find out how to submit your web site to VerticalSearch.com.
More at:http://www.verticalsearch.com/
FreeTVonline.com-- Watch More Than 1000 Channels Free
What Company Is Offering:
This site is made for enjoying TV and videos online in a variety of different formats. They believe that their directory has indexed more video links than any other website, and they strive to deliver the best interactive video-watching experience online. They do not host any of the video files.
FreeTVonline.com is a young startup with a passion for creating a thriving internet video community. They are currently in public beta, and they plan to release many new and exciting site features in the near future.
How It Works;
Their goal is to provide users with a highly interactive and engaging video finding and viewing experience. They believe that the emerging worldwide interest in online video and web 2.0 communities, coupled with the changing nature of traditional video and TV viewing habits, requires fresh ideas. They hope to be part of an industry solution that respects content creators while providing a fun, interactive online platform for users to experience video content.All the videos are hosted by third party video hosting websites (ie YouTube). You may need to download and install the appropriate video player (see below). Otherwise, some video hosting websites take a long time to load videos. Please be patient. If the video hasn't started loading after 1 minute, then the video has most likely been removed from the host website, and you can report it as a dead link (must be logged in to the members area).
FreeTVonline.com is wholly owned and operated by FreeTVonline.com Inc, a registered corporation in the Republic of Panama. They are a small company, currently funded by individual investors.
More at:http://www.freetvonline.com/
This site is made for enjoying TV and videos online in a variety of different formats. They believe that their directory has indexed more video links than any other website, and they strive to deliver the best interactive video-watching experience online. They do not host any of the video files.
FreeTVonline.com is a young startup with a passion for creating a thriving internet video community. They are currently in public beta, and they plan to release many new and exciting site features in the near future.
How It Works;
Their goal is to provide users with a highly interactive and engaging video finding and viewing experience. They believe that the emerging worldwide interest in online video and web 2.0 communities, coupled with the changing nature of traditional video and TV viewing habits, requires fresh ideas. They hope to be part of an industry solution that respects content creators while providing a fun, interactive online platform for users to experience video content.All the videos are hosted by third party video hosting websites (ie YouTube). You may need to download and install the appropriate video player (see below). Otherwise, some video hosting websites take a long time to load videos. Please be patient. If the video hasn't started loading after 1 minute, then the video has most likely been removed from the host website, and you can report it as a dead link (must be logged in to the members area).
FreeTVonline.com is wholly owned and operated by FreeTVonline.com Inc, a registered corporation in the Republic of Panama. They are a small company, currently funded by individual investors.
More at:http://www.freetvonline.com/
Find your CD or DVD cover fast with this searchengine
Find your CD or DVD cover fast with this searchengine. Searches through millions of covers instantly.
Type the name of a CD/DVD or artist in the searchfield and Albumart.org will find lots of high quality CD and DVD covers within seconds!
More at:http://albumart.org/
Type the name of a CD/DVD or artist in the searchfield and Albumart.org will find lots of high quality CD and DVD covers within seconds!
More at:http://albumart.org/
Martinair-- Mobile Travel Guide Talk In Your Language
What Company is Offering:
Martinair's mobile travel guides combine several elements to create a helpful tool for their holiday-bound customers. The Dutch charter company is the first airline to offer its passengers a travel guide they can install on their web-enabled mobile phones.
How it Works:
Customers can buy a destination guide for EUR 6.50, and they're free for anyone booking in December. A link is sent to the user's phone by text message, and they can download the entire guide—approximately 400 KB—within minutes. Since all of the information is copied to their phone's memory, travellers are able to avoid expensive roaming charges when they want to look up a local hotspot.
The travel guides are based on content provided by Leads2Travel's travel editors and include local tips from Martinair crew members. Current destinations on offer are Curaçao, Miami and Havana, with two dozen other cities to follow over the next few months. While Dutch people won't have much trouble getting by on the primarily Dutch speaking island of Curaçao, the guides for Miami and Havana offer an extra tool—a talking vocabulary. This service, built by Steape and accessible from within the travel guide, offers a host of useful phrases shown in Dutch and English or Spanish. Users who have trouble communicating with the locals can let their phones do the talking. Click on a button, and a friendly voice speaks the selected phrase.
On the mobile front, British travel business lastminute.com offers a Talking Translator—a free service that provides text and audio translations of holiday phrases from English into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and German.
Still—we like Martinair's integrated approach, bundling tailor-made travel information with a talking translator, and offering it to customers when they book their tickets. Other airlines to follow?
More at: www.martinair.com
Martinair's mobile travel guides combine several elements to create a helpful tool for their holiday-bound customers. The Dutch charter company is the first airline to offer its passengers a travel guide they can install on their web-enabled mobile phones.
How it Works:
Customers can buy a destination guide for EUR 6.50, and they're free for anyone booking in December. A link is sent to the user's phone by text message, and they can download the entire guide—approximately 400 KB—within minutes. Since all of the information is copied to their phone's memory, travellers are able to avoid expensive roaming charges when they want to look up a local hotspot.
The travel guides are based on content provided by Leads2Travel's travel editors and include local tips from Martinair crew members. Current destinations on offer are Curaçao, Miami and Havana, with two dozen other cities to follow over the next few months. While Dutch people won't have much trouble getting by on the primarily Dutch speaking island of Curaçao, the guides for Miami and Havana offer an extra tool—a talking vocabulary. This service, built by Steape and accessible from within the travel guide, offers a host of useful phrases shown in Dutch and English or Spanish. Users who have trouble communicating with the locals can let their phones do the talking. Click on a button, and a friendly voice speaks the selected phrase.
On the mobile front, British travel business lastminute.com offers a Talking Translator—a free service that provides text and audio translations of holiday phrases from English into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and German.
Still—we like Martinair's integrated approach, bundling tailor-made travel information with a talking translator, and offering it to customers when they book their tickets. Other airlines to follow?
More at: www.martinair.com
Satisfaction lets consumers participate in conversations about customer service issues specific to particular companies or products
What Company Is Offering:
Satisfaction is people-powered customer service for absolutely everything. More specifically, though, it's a place where communities of customers come together to answer each others questions, share ideas with each other or with an organization, report and solve problems and generally talk about about what matters to them around these products or services.
When the organization or company is involved too it gives them a way to engage with their customers around the issues that matter to their customers most. Satisfaction provides a neutral playing ground where companies and customers can interact to everybody's benefit.
How It Works:
Satisfaction lets consumers participate in conversations about customer service issues specific to particular companies or products. A recent post in the Twitter section, for example, describes a problem one consumer had getting a Twitter application to update in Facebook. In the Timbuk2 section, another contributor asks for advice about laptop messenger bags. Participants in the conversations can include both customers and company employees (clearly labelled as such), and the posts ranked as most useful get propelled to the top of the list. Discussions are controlled by the community, free of impersonal contact forms or company censorship. Marketers who choose to join in, meanwhile, are freed from repetitive support tasks and able to engage their customers in a more collaborative way. The service is currently free for those on both sides of the equation.
Find the company that makes the product you want to talk about and click it.
Ask a question or start a topic in the Hey Satisfaction Unlimited! box above. If there's a similar topic already, you can join the conversation in progress. They'll notify you via email whenever people reply to the topic you posted.
More at:http://getsatisfaction.com/
Satisfaction is people-powered customer service for absolutely everything. More specifically, though, it's a place where communities of customers come together to answer each others questions, share ideas with each other or with an organization, report and solve problems and generally talk about about what matters to them around these products or services.
When the organization or company is involved too it gives them a way to engage with their customers around the issues that matter to their customers most. Satisfaction provides a neutral playing ground where companies and customers can interact to everybody's benefit.
How It Works:
Satisfaction lets consumers participate in conversations about customer service issues specific to particular companies or products. A recent post in the Twitter section, for example, describes a problem one consumer had getting a Twitter application to update in Facebook. In the Timbuk2 section, another contributor asks for advice about laptop messenger bags. Participants in the conversations can include both customers and company employees (clearly labelled as such), and the posts ranked as most useful get propelled to the top of the list. Discussions are controlled by the community, free of impersonal contact forms or company censorship. Marketers who choose to join in, meanwhile, are freed from repetitive support tasks and able to engage their customers in a more collaborative way. The service is currently free for those on both sides of the equation.
Find the company that makes the product you want to talk about and click it.
Ask a question or start a topic in the Hey Satisfaction Unlimited! box above. If there's a similar topic already, you can join the conversation in progress. They'll notify you via email whenever people reply to the topic you posted.
More at:http://getsatisfaction.com/
Cutcaster is the first dynamic marketplace - a creative exchange
What Company Is Offering:
Cutcaster is a marketplace where all forms of video, short films, stock footage, b-roll, motion graphics, animation, audio clips and photos can be securely bought, sold or requested from the Cutcaster community.
Cutcaster is the first dynamic marketplace - a creative exchange - that allows buyers and sellers to have an impact on licensing conditions, market pricing, and community sourcing for content like digital video, motion graphics, audio, and photos. Upload content and choose your own price or use the Cutcaster Algorithm to find the right price based on current market conditions.
How It Works:
Creators of video footage, photos, short films, stock footage, b-roll, motion graphics, animation, or audio clips can upload their work to the Cutcaster site and sell them at a price determined by them or by using the powerful Cutcaster Algorithm to determine the correct market price. All footage must be up to standard broadcast quality formats e.g. super 16mm, 16mm, DigiBeta, HD, HDV and even NTSC and PAL; trademarks, logos, brands and entities with trademarks/copyright should be removed. CutCaster pays 40% of the collected royalty payment to the producer for non-exclusive rights and 60% of the collected royalty for exclusive rights to sell your content. On the other hand, buyers can search for works via category and topic; they can also specify what kind of royalty/rights agreements they want.
More at:http://www.cutcaster.com/
Cutcaster is a marketplace where all forms of video, short films, stock footage, b-roll, motion graphics, animation, audio clips and photos can be securely bought, sold or requested from the Cutcaster community.
Cutcaster is the first dynamic marketplace - a creative exchange - that allows buyers and sellers to have an impact on licensing conditions, market pricing, and community sourcing for content like digital video, motion graphics, audio, and photos. Upload content and choose your own price or use the Cutcaster Algorithm to find the right price based on current market conditions.
How It Works:
Creators of video footage, photos, short films, stock footage, b-roll, motion graphics, animation, or audio clips can upload their work to the Cutcaster site and sell them at a price determined by them or by using the powerful Cutcaster Algorithm to determine the correct market price. All footage must be up to standard broadcast quality formats e.g. super 16mm, 16mm, DigiBeta, HD, HDV and even NTSC and PAL; trademarks, logos, brands and entities with trademarks/copyright should be removed. CutCaster pays 40% of the collected royalty payment to the producer for non-exclusive rights and 60% of the collected royalty for exclusive rights to sell your content. On the other hand, buyers can search for works via category and topic; they can also specify what kind of royalty/rights agreements they want.
More at:http://www.cutcaster.com/
I Love Rewards , a Web-based reward program provider, has completed a $3.3 million Series A financing
What Company Is Offering:
I Love Rewards is one of North America's leading incentive marketing companies. They develop, design and implement innovative incentive solutions for small and medium-sized companies as well as Fortune 1000 businesses. Their solutions focus on driving employee motivation, increasing customer loyalty, and rewarding valued behaviors.
How It Works:
I Love Rewards has developed an online points-based platform suitable for all business sizes.
Give points to your employees and empower them to choose the rewards they want. After all, that is what makes a great rewards program.
I Love Rewards' solutions are delivered via a web-based points engine that allows clients to achieve their unique business goals in a variety of ways. I Love Rewards' success is based on building both standard and customized programs to support our clients' business objectives. Users are able to redeem their points for brand name rewards from our industry-leading product catalog.With a solutions-driven approach and a focus on client service, I Love Rewards has demonstrated unprecedented success in helping other organizations improve their employee recognition and sales programs.
How Much They Got From VCs:
I Love Rewards Inc., a Web-based reward program provider, has completed a $3.3 million Series A financing round with JLA Ventures, Laurence Capital and other angel investors
More at:http://www.iloverewards.com/
I Love Rewards is one of North America's leading incentive marketing companies. They develop, design and implement innovative incentive solutions for small and medium-sized companies as well as Fortune 1000 businesses. Their solutions focus on driving employee motivation, increasing customer loyalty, and rewarding valued behaviors.
How It Works:
I Love Rewards has developed an online points-based platform suitable for all business sizes.
Give points to your employees and empower them to choose the rewards they want. After all, that is what makes a great rewards program.
I Love Rewards' solutions are delivered via a web-based points engine that allows clients to achieve their unique business goals in a variety of ways. I Love Rewards' success is based on building both standard and customized programs to support our clients' business objectives. Users are able to redeem their points for brand name rewards from our industry-leading product catalog.With a solutions-driven approach and a focus on client service, I Love Rewards has demonstrated unprecedented success in helping other organizations improve their employee recognition and sales programs.
How Much They Got From VCs:
I Love Rewards Inc., a Web-based reward program provider, has completed a $3.3 million Series A financing round with JLA Ventures, Laurence Capital and other angel investors
More at:http://www.iloverewards.com/
Snooth , a wine review site, today announced $1 million in angel funding
What Company Is Offering:
Snooth is a revolutionary web-based social shopping experience that is simplifying how people select, interact with and purchase their favorite wines.
Snooth is the world's most comprehensive wine database, featuring millions of reviews and hundreds of thousands of wines. It offers both casual and aspiring wine drinkers personalized wine recommendations, ratings & reviews, as well as a wine information search tool that seamlessly connects users to the websites of top online merchants and wineries worldwide.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Snooth Inc., a wine review site, today announced $1 million in angel funding from the company's initial backers, as well as a new group of international investors. This is the company's second round, following an initial $300,000 raised in December 2006. The new funds will be used to scale the development team, integrate the current backlog of merchants that have already partnered with Snooth, and add new retailers worldwide.
How Is It Different:
Unlike sites that make recommendations strictly by selecting wines of similar price, region, or varietals as wines you have purchased in the past, Snooth strives to understand your personal taste in great detail so that it can recommend the wines that are best-suited to you. In order to understand your preferences, Snooth needs a sample of at least 5 wines that you like or dislike. Although 5 wines is the minimum, the more wines that you rate, the more accurate your recommendations will become.Snooth does not sell wine, however, you can buy wine that you find on Snooth's site through our merchant partners. Once you have found a wine you'd like to purchase, you can click on the "buy now" link which will redirect you to the site of Snooth's partners.
More at:http://www.snooth.com/
Snooth is a revolutionary web-based social shopping experience that is simplifying how people select, interact with and purchase their favorite wines.
Snooth is the world's most comprehensive wine database, featuring millions of reviews and hundreds of thousands of wines. It offers both casual and aspiring wine drinkers personalized wine recommendations, ratings & reviews, as well as a wine information search tool that seamlessly connects users to the websites of top online merchants and wineries worldwide.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Snooth Inc., a wine review site, today announced $1 million in angel funding from the company's initial backers, as well as a new group of international investors. This is the company's second round, following an initial $300,000 raised in December 2006. The new funds will be used to scale the development team, integrate the current backlog of merchants that have already partnered with Snooth, and add new retailers worldwide.
How Is It Different:
Unlike sites that make recommendations strictly by selecting wines of similar price, region, or varietals as wines you have purchased in the past, Snooth strives to understand your personal taste in great detail so that it can recommend the wines that are best-suited to you. In order to understand your preferences, Snooth needs a sample of at least 5 wines that you like or dislike. Although 5 wines is the minimum, the more wines that you rate, the more accurate your recommendations will become.Snooth does not sell wine, however, you can buy wine that you find on Snooth's site through our merchant partners. Once you have found a wine you'd like to purchase, you can click on the "buy now" link which will redirect you to the site of Snooth's partners.
More at:http://www.snooth.com/
By spending five minutes filling in some basic details about yourself, your pay and status, you can find out if you are entitled to any gov.benefits
What Company Is Offering:
Entitledto has unique experience in helping people find out about entitlements online. They have provided a free web-based calculator to help people work out their entitlement to benefits and tax credits. Their public calculator www.entitledto.co.uk currently performs over 1 million calculations a year.
Entitledto has been Sunday Times website of the week and was featured on BBC Radio 4's Moneybox programme and has also been mentioned many times on National Radio, TV and in the press.
How It Works:
By spending five minutes filling in some basic details about yourself, your pay and status, you can find out if you are entitled to any government benefits. The site, which is free and funded by the sales of software to local authorities and other organisations, will list all the tax credits and benefits you should be claiming. Well worth a look considering the amount going unclaimed.
Their products include:
E2Adviser Web based benefit calculator designed for use by benefit advisers. It provides sophisticated 'what if' calculations and case management functions.
E2Mobile Smartphone based add-on to the E2Adviser product for mobile workers and home visitors.
E2Calc A benefits calculator designed for local authorities and other organisations which can seamless integrate into their own websites.
E2Claim A complete claims solution allowing a Claim Form to be generated as a PDF or electronically transfered to an organisations back office systems.
More at:http://www.entitledto.co.uk/
Entitledto has unique experience in helping people find out about entitlements online. They have provided a free web-based calculator to help people work out their entitlement to benefits and tax credits. Their public calculator www.entitledto.co.uk currently performs over 1 million calculations a year.
Entitledto has been Sunday Times website of the week and was featured on BBC Radio 4's Moneybox programme and has also been mentioned many times on National Radio, TV and in the press.
How It Works:
By spending five minutes filling in some basic details about yourself, your pay and status, you can find out if you are entitled to any government benefits. The site, which is free and funded by the sales of software to local authorities and other organisations, will list all the tax credits and benefits you should be claiming. Well worth a look considering the amount going unclaimed.
Their products include:
E2Adviser Web based benefit calculator designed for use by benefit advisers. It provides sophisticated 'what if' calculations and case management functions.
E2Mobile Smartphone based add-on to the E2Adviser product for mobile workers and home visitors.
E2Calc A benefits calculator designed for local authorities and other organisations which can seamless integrate into their own websites.
E2Claim A complete claims solution allowing a Claim Form to be generated as a PDF or electronically transfered to an organisations back office systems.
More at:http://www.entitledto.co.uk/
Search And Compare Shopping Sites
What Company Is Offering:
Their goal is to make shopping easier starting from product research to price comparison to coupon search and helping making final purchase. Their goal is to give you a shortcut to online retailers, you get information direct and realtime, unlike delayed or scraped information you get from shopping NextTag, Shopping.com and shopping engines.
How It Works:
You can compare shopping sites.Its for your complete shopping soultions from product research ,price comparison to coupan search and at last helping final purchase.
More at:http://shoppingvale.com/
Their goal is to make shopping easier starting from product research to price comparison to coupon search and helping making final purchase. Their goal is to give you a shortcut to online retailers, you get information direct and realtime, unlike delayed or scraped information you get from shopping NextTag, Shopping.com and shopping engines.
How It Works:
You can compare shopping sites.Its for your complete shopping soultions from product research ,price comparison to coupan search and at last helping final purchase.
More at:http://shoppingvale.com/
Pulse is a web-based cash flow management tool that allows you to easily monitor the heartbeat of your small business
What Company Is Offering:
Pulse is a web-based cash flow management tool that allows you to easily monitor the heartbeat of your small business - your cash. Say goodbye to unmanageable spreadsheets, and hello to an intuitive interface with the power to quickly manage and evaluate your income and expenses. Pulse makes tracking the health of your business simple, accurate and efficient.
How It Works:
Pulse lets you categorize your income and expenses, your cash flow has never been so organized. Quickly pull in all your companies and projects from the popular project management web software Basecamp and Pulse will automatically organize your projects based upon company.The main cash flow page lets you view your income and expenses over an 8 month time period. Scroll through past and future months with just a click of a button.From the "Add income" page instead of entering a title, click on the "Select a project" link. The drop-down box that appears will list out all of your projects organized by company. If you want to delete ,Click on the "Edit" link next to an item on the main Cash Flow page. On the edit page you will find a delete link in the top right hand corner.Pulse is 100% free. There is a good chance that a paid subscription plan (including more features) will become available in the future. However, a base set of features will always be provided for free.
More at:http://pulseapp.com/
Pulse is a web-based cash flow management tool that allows you to easily monitor the heartbeat of your small business - your cash. Say goodbye to unmanageable spreadsheets, and hello to an intuitive interface with the power to quickly manage and evaluate your income and expenses. Pulse makes tracking the health of your business simple, accurate and efficient.
How It Works:
Pulse lets you categorize your income and expenses, your cash flow has never been so organized. Quickly pull in all your companies and projects from the popular project management web software Basecamp and Pulse will automatically organize your projects based upon company.The main cash flow page lets you view your income and expenses over an 8 month time period. Scroll through past and future months with just a click of a button.From the "Add income" page instead of entering a title, click on the "Select a project" link. The drop-down box that appears will list out all of your projects organized by company. If you want to delete ,Click on the "Edit" link next to an item on the main Cash Flow page. On the edit page you will find a delete link in the top right hand corner.Pulse is 100% free. There is a good chance that a paid subscription plan (including more features) will become available in the future. However, a base set of features will always be provided for free.
More at:http://pulseapp.com/
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Give or Take is an online shopping centre where you earn cashback on your purchases
What Company Is Offering:
Give or Take is an online shopping centre where you earn cashback on your purchases at over 500 stores listed on the site which you can either donate to your chosen charity or keep for yourself.
Give or Take is an extensive online shopping centre that brings together over 500 leading online stores, including familiar high street names such as John Lewis, Marks and Spencer, WHSmith, Waterstones and Currys, and 60 charity partners, including Shelter, Samaritans and RNID.
Give or Take’s aim is to make it effortlessly simple for people to save masses of money on their shopping bills, or raise oodles of cash for charity for free.
How It Works:
Sign up for an account.Type your email address and name in the sign up box above.Go Shopping.Click on the 'Stores' page and choose a store you'd like to look at.
Purchase Tracking
A notice will appear to tell you that your purchases are being tracked (this is so we can track and put all the cashback you earn into your account). You will then be transferred to the store's Home Page.
Shop in the usual way
Look at products and services you're interested in, and check out your purchases as usual on the store's checkout area.
Each store displays the amount of cashback you will receive as a member. This can be either a lump sum amount, or a percentage of the purchase price. This is the same fee the store will pay us, and we've chosen to GIVE BACK 100% of this fee to YOU or your chosen charity.
The only thing you have to do is SIGN UP NOW so that we can track your cashback, then you're free to START SHOPPING.Every time you make a purchase, Give or Take earns a referral fee from the store you buy through. We create ‘cashback’ by passing the fee we earn from the store back to the member who made the purchase.
More at:http://www.giveortake.com/
Give or Take is an online shopping centre where you earn cashback on your purchases at over 500 stores listed on the site which you can either donate to your chosen charity or keep for yourself.
Give or Take is an extensive online shopping centre that brings together over 500 leading online stores, including familiar high street names such as John Lewis, Marks and Spencer, WHSmith, Waterstones and Currys, and 60 charity partners, including Shelter, Samaritans and RNID.
Give or Take’s aim is to make it effortlessly simple for people to save masses of money on their shopping bills, or raise oodles of cash for charity for free.
How It Works:
Sign up for an account.Type your email address and name in the sign up box above.Go Shopping.Click on the 'Stores' page and choose a store you'd like to look at.
Purchase Tracking
A notice will appear to tell you that your purchases are being tracked (this is so we can track and put all the cashback you earn into your account). You will then be transferred to the store's Home Page.
Shop in the usual way
Look at products and services you're interested in, and check out your purchases as usual on the store's checkout area.
Each store displays the amount of cashback you will receive as a member. This can be either a lump sum amount, or a percentage of the purchase price. This is the same fee the store will pay us, and we've chosen to GIVE BACK 100% of this fee to YOU or your chosen charity.
The only thing you have to do is SIGN UP NOW so that we can track your cashback, then you're free to START SHOPPING.Every time you make a purchase, Give or Take earns a referral fee from the store you buy through. We create ‘cashback’ by passing the fee we earn from the store back to the member who made the purchase.
More at:http://www.giveortake.com/
Livescreen's original content discovery service displays dynamic, fresh and engaging content teasers on Idle screens
What Company Is Offering:
Celltick, pioneer of Active Content Marketing, has introduced a new mass reach medium into the mobile space. Its flagship product, LiveScreen Media, allows content providers and advertisers to broadcast targeted content messages to millions of mobile phone idle screens, turning them into a network of interactive personal billboards and creating a strong revenue stream for operators. Celltick Races Ahead in Deloitte Technology Fast 500 - Ranked 2nd Place.
How It Works:
With LiveScreen™ Media, Celltick took the service a step further. It now collects not only content but also marketing messages from multiple sources and matches them to dynamic user segments.
While the mobile industry braces itself for the day mobile marketing establishes its place in the digital marketing mix, advertisers are already paying real money to use LiveScreen Media. Leading operators around the world have adopted Celltick's vision and created a new medium for content and advertising.
Celltick cooperates with mobile operators to turn their mobile screen medium into a powerful revenue driver.
Livescreen's original content discovery service displays dynamic, fresh and engaging content teasers on Idle screens - that is when - and only when - they are not in use. News headlines, sport reports, weather updates, music stories, gossip or games entice users to react - and when they do, they are just two clicks from requested content.
Celltick systems are already deployed by more than 20 mobile operators. The company has close relations with all network infrastructure companies, all major SIM vendors and the leading handset manufacturers.
More at:http://www.celltick.com/
Celltick, pioneer of Active Content Marketing, has introduced a new mass reach medium into the mobile space. Its flagship product, LiveScreen Media, allows content providers and advertisers to broadcast targeted content messages to millions of mobile phone idle screens, turning them into a network of interactive personal billboards and creating a strong revenue stream for operators. Celltick Races Ahead in Deloitte Technology Fast 500 - Ranked 2nd Place.
How It Works:
With LiveScreen™ Media, Celltick took the service a step further. It now collects not only content but also marketing messages from multiple sources and matches them to dynamic user segments.
While the mobile industry braces itself for the day mobile marketing establishes its place in the digital marketing mix, advertisers are already paying real money to use LiveScreen Media. Leading operators around the world have adopted Celltick's vision and created a new medium for content and advertising.
Celltick cooperates with mobile operators to turn their mobile screen medium into a powerful revenue driver.
Livescreen's original content discovery service displays dynamic, fresh and engaging content teasers on Idle screens - that is when - and only when - they are not in use. News headlines, sport reports, weather updates, music stories, gossip or games entice users to react - and when they do, they are just two clicks from requested content.
Celltick systems are already deployed by more than 20 mobile operators. The company has close relations with all network infrastructure companies, all major SIM vendors and the leading handset manufacturers.
More at:http://www.celltick.com/
Laaik.it is a social news and bookmarking service that lets you decide which issues and stories are important and which are not
What Company Is Offering:
Laaik.it is a social news and bookmarking service that lets you decide which issues and stories are important (those you “laaik”) and which aren’t worth your time (those you “dislaaik”). As you and thousands of other users “laaik” and “dislaaik” stories, a community driven picture of the day’s (and week’s and month’s) news emerges.
How It Works:
You can either submit a link to a story or picture or video that you consider relevant or vote on an existing entry. You can also comment on stories and save interesting stuff to your personal bookmarks area.
More at:http://laaikit.24.com/
Laaik.it is a social news and bookmarking service that lets you decide which issues and stories are important (those you “laaik”) and which aren’t worth your time (those you “dislaaik”). As you and thousands of other users “laaik” and “dislaaik” stories, a community driven picture of the day’s (and week’s and month’s) news emerges.
How It Works:
You can either submit a link to a story or picture or video that you consider relevant or vote on an existing entry. You can also comment on stories and save interesting stuff to your personal bookmarks area.
More at:http://laaikit.24.com/
Submit your photos or video clips to ANN and get paid every time your content is used
What Company Is Offering:
Submit your photos or video clips to ANN and get paid every time your content is used.The Amateur News Network is different than any other video clip sharing communities. They sell your content to news & media outlets around the world for you. TV Stations are willing to pay for content such as: news worthy material, funny clips, bizarre clips, rescues, accidents, celebrities, storm footage and many other topics. Your videos or photos could be worth thousands. The next time you are an eyewitness to a news event; film it, send it to us and start making money.
Turn your hobby into cash with this exciting NEW program. For more information check out Frequently Asked Questions and Terms Of Use..
How It Works:
If you have personally filmed or took photos of something which you think is of interest to others, simply up-load up your video clips or images and we take care of the rest. Your content will then be offered to stations around the world and at the end of every month we will send you a check or a payment with pay Pal. Its that simple!ANN will take care of the whole sales process for you. They negotiate prices with media outlets, invoice for the materials and make sure you get paid. They are your agent and it is their job to negotiate for you. For their services they charge 40% of all revenues, the other 60% will be paid out directly to you.They do not own or buy your media (including without limitation text, video, photographs, graphics, images, music and sound that you have created) they are yours. They only act as an agent for you. Remember everyone that uses your material, whether Internet, TV, Newspapers or magazines has to pay royalties to you.
More at:http://amateurnewsnetwork.info/
Submit your photos or video clips to ANN and get paid every time your content is used.The Amateur News Network is different than any other video clip sharing communities. They sell your content to news & media outlets around the world for you. TV Stations are willing to pay for content such as: news worthy material, funny clips, bizarre clips, rescues, accidents, celebrities, storm footage and many other topics. Your videos or photos could be worth thousands. The next time you are an eyewitness to a news event; film it, send it to us and start making money.
Turn your hobby into cash with this exciting NEW program. For more information check out Frequently Asked Questions and Terms Of Use..
How It Works:
If you have personally filmed or took photos of something which you think is of interest to others, simply up-load up your video clips or images and we take care of the rest. Your content will then be offered to stations around the world and at the end of every month we will send you a check or a payment with pay Pal. Its that simple!ANN will take care of the whole sales process for you. They negotiate prices with media outlets, invoice for the materials and make sure you get paid. They are your agent and it is their job to negotiate for you. For their services they charge 40% of all revenues, the other 60% will be paid out directly to you.They do not own or buy your media (including without limitation text, video, photographs, graphics, images, music and sound that you have created) they are yours. They only act as an agent for you. Remember everyone that uses your material, whether Internet, TV, Newspapers or magazines has to pay royalties to you.
More at:http://amateurnewsnetwork.info/
mbuzzy is a place for consumers and content publishers alike to create new experiences
What Company Is Offering:
mbuzzy is a place for consumers and content publishers alike to create new experiences through pictures, videos, and sounds across both the mobile phone and the PC.
Whether for personalization of one's own phone, sharing with friends, or connecting with others in new and interesting ways, mbuzzy creates a seamless experience regardless of wireless carrier or mobile phone.
How It Works:
With mbuzzy you can use your own personal content to personalize your phone with Ringtones, Wallpaper, and Videos. Share your personal content with your friends and the mbuzzy community.Browse hundreds of thousands of shared pictures and videos from the mbuzzy community. Watch videos on your PC or your mobile phone.Connect with friends by sharing and recommending content, and seeing what your friends are sharing. Capture pictures and videos directly from your mobile phone to share with friends and the community, or keep private .While most mbuzzy services are completely free, some premium content-related services are offered as well. mbuzzy partners with many in the mobile entertainment industry to offer the best premium content catalog available.
More at:http://www.mbuzzy.com/
mbuzzy is a place for consumers and content publishers alike to create new experiences through pictures, videos, and sounds across both the mobile phone and the PC.
Whether for personalization of one's own phone, sharing with friends, or connecting with others in new and interesting ways, mbuzzy creates a seamless experience regardless of wireless carrier or mobile phone.
How It Works:
With mbuzzy you can use your own personal content to personalize your phone with Ringtones, Wallpaper, and Videos. Share your personal content with your friends and the mbuzzy community.Browse hundreds of thousands of shared pictures and videos from the mbuzzy community. Watch videos on your PC or your mobile phone.Connect with friends by sharing and recommending content, and seeing what your friends are sharing. Capture pictures and videos directly from your mobile phone to share with friends and the community, or keep private .While most mbuzzy services are completely free, some premium content-related services are offered as well. mbuzzy partners with many in the mobile entertainment industry to offer the best premium content catalog available.
More at:http://www.mbuzzy.com/
docstoc is a user generated community for sharing professional documents raised $750,000 in a Series A round of funding
What Company Is Offering:
docstoc is a user generated community for sharing professional documents.
Find a vast quantity of high quality legal, business, technology, educational, and creative documents for free. docstoc allows users to upload their documents for all the world to share.
In addition, users can store their documents in their own personal online folders for anytime, anywhere access.
How It Works:
Simply create a profile (only username and email required) and you can download any document on docstoc. Users can upload an unlimited amount of documents. Just make sure that they are valuable for the community and that you have the copyright to do so. Currently we are supporting the following file types: .doc, .pdf, .xls, .ppt, .ppt, .txt
How Much They Got From VCs:
They raised $750,000 in a Series A round of funding. This comes months after its angel funding which was for an undisclosed amount.
more at:http://tnr.tribes.cc/
docstoc is a user generated community for sharing professional documents.
Find a vast quantity of high quality legal, business, technology, educational, and creative documents for free. docstoc allows users to upload their documents for all the world to share.
In addition, users can store their documents in their own personal online folders for anytime, anywhere access.
How It Works:
Simply create a profile (only username and email required) and you can download any document on docstoc. Users can upload an unlimited amount of documents. Just make sure that they are valuable for the community and that you have the copyright to do so. Currently we are supporting the following file types: .doc, .pdf, .xls, .ppt, .ppt, .txt
How Much They Got From VCs:
They raised $750,000 in a Series A round of funding. This comes months after its angel funding which was for an undisclosed amount.
more at:http://tnr.tribes.cc/
Amobee--Mobile Advertising Company Got VCs Funding From Vodafone
What Company is Offering:
Amobee is the first company to deliver a unified, telco-grade system for funding mobile content and communications through advertising revenues.
Amobee Media Systems is, enabling all players in the mobile content and data value chain to generate new revenues from advertising. Its software solution supports digital ad delivery to all mobile content and communication types, including WAP and mobile web, mobile games, mobile video and mobile messaging. The company launched its first live consumer trial in March of 2006 and has now several commercial operator launches including Vodafone in Greece, Czech Republic and Spain.
How Much They Got From VCs Funding:
Amobee Media Systems, the world leader in mobile advertising solutions for mobile operators today announced that Vodafone has made a strategic minority investment in the company, joining Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners and Globespan in funding Amobee through its next stage of development.
What's Market Of That Kind Of Product:
Mobile advertising presents an unprecedented potential to increase reach for advertisers. According to Pyramid Research, by 2010, one billion new mobile subscribers will join the current base of 2.8 billion. Further, according to Informa, worldwide mobile advertising will rise to $11.35 billion in 2011.
What VCs Says:
Mobile internet is fast emerging as a mainstream information, entertainment and transaction source for people on the move. We see a tremendous opportunity for brands to target segments that traditional media reach less efficiently and help them run truly integrated communication campaigns.” says Frank Boulben, Vodafone’s Director of Strategic marketing & Communication Planning. “We’re working with Amobee in three markets to develop mobile advertising approaches that will deliver revenue for Vodafone whilst ensuring our customers enjoy a richer mobile experience, “
More at:http://www.amobee.com/
Amobee is the first company to deliver a unified, telco-grade system for funding mobile content and communications through advertising revenues.
Amobee Media Systems is, enabling all players in the mobile content and data value chain to generate new revenues from advertising. Its software solution supports digital ad delivery to all mobile content and communication types, including WAP and mobile web, mobile games, mobile video and mobile messaging. The company launched its first live consumer trial in March of 2006 and has now several commercial operator launches including Vodafone in Greece, Czech Republic and Spain.
How Much They Got From VCs Funding:
Amobee Media Systems, the world leader in mobile advertising solutions for mobile operators today announced that Vodafone has made a strategic minority investment in the company, joining Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners and Globespan in funding Amobee through its next stage of development.
What's Market Of That Kind Of Product:
Mobile advertising presents an unprecedented potential to increase reach for advertisers. According to Pyramid Research, by 2010, one billion new mobile subscribers will join the current base of 2.8 billion. Further, according to Informa, worldwide mobile advertising will rise to $11.35 billion in 2011.
What VCs Says:
Mobile internet is fast emerging as a mainstream information, entertainment and transaction source for people on the move. We see a tremendous opportunity for brands to target segments that traditional media reach less efficiently and help them run truly integrated communication campaigns.” says Frank Boulben, Vodafone’s Director of Strategic marketing & Communication Planning. “We’re working with Amobee in three markets to develop mobile advertising approaches that will deliver revenue for Vodafone whilst ensuring our customers enjoy a richer mobile experience, “
More at:http://www.amobee.com/
Entrepreneur Challenge Launches, Web 2.0 Company to Help Start-Ups Gain Funding
What Company Is Offering:
spigit is a platform that provides professionals the ability to showcase new ideas and innovations and in the process build their professional network. Companies and Entrepreneurs can obtain feedback-contributions-ratings from employees, partners and customers. Through our proprietary simulation they can build and refine an idea, find the right resources to contribute, create buzz, and calculate a multitude of targeted metrics to provide insight into viability and simulate the likelihood of success.
The spigit simulation engine measures and quantifies interactions on social networks. The spigit simulation engine captures dynamic feedback from all participants, tracking hundreds of dynamic events and through a series of algorithms, computes results producing valuable predictions and identifies key social connections to maximize professional and economic gains.
The Entrepreneur Challenge invites entrepreneurs to showcase their start- ups on the website, develop ideas, business plans and leadership teams, and connect with industry leaders and investors worldwide utilizing the spigit platform. Some 1,000 companies registered for the competition and 130 have been chosen at this point to participate on spigit's platform for innovation, which incorporates a market-tested, seven-step process where entrepreneurs build their reputation based on the quality of their ideas and contributions to the ideas of others, earn badges and expert approval, and finally, launch their company on a virtual stock market.
How It Works:
The top six startups will be awarded prizes by industry leaders to help make their dream a reality: Keiretsu Forum SoCal, one of the nation's leading angel investment communities and premier sponsor, will offer the opportunity to present live in front of the forum; Sun Microsystems will supply hardware; Southwest Airlines will provide nationwide air travel; and Mashable, the popular social networking news site, will publish live, on-going coverage of the event and its winners.
The Innovation Challenge for Entrepreneurs is now live at: http://innovation.spigit.com/
"spigit's Entrepreneur Challenge is the first online platform competition that will truly give an insider's view on the funding process. The capabilities of outsiders, insiders and experts to engage in discussion and push one company ahead of another is the true meaning of Web 2.0 technology at work. The opportunity for the participants is not only measurable by their success throughout the competition, but the buzz that is generated from the platform," said Adam Hirsch, Mashable Community & Marketing Director.
More at:http://innovation.spigit.com/
spigit is a platform that provides professionals the ability to showcase new ideas and innovations and in the process build their professional network. Companies and Entrepreneurs can obtain feedback-contributions-ratings from employees, partners and customers. Through our proprietary simulation they can build and refine an idea, find the right resources to contribute, create buzz, and calculate a multitude of targeted metrics to provide insight into viability and simulate the likelihood of success.
The spigit simulation engine measures and quantifies interactions on social networks. The spigit simulation engine captures dynamic feedback from all participants, tracking hundreds of dynamic events and through a series of algorithms, computes results producing valuable predictions and identifies key social connections to maximize professional and economic gains.
The Entrepreneur Challenge invites entrepreneurs to showcase their start- ups on the website, develop ideas, business plans and leadership teams, and connect with industry leaders and investors worldwide utilizing the spigit platform. Some 1,000 companies registered for the competition and 130 have been chosen at this point to participate on spigit's platform for innovation, which incorporates a market-tested, seven-step process where entrepreneurs build their reputation based on the quality of their ideas and contributions to the ideas of others, earn badges and expert approval, and finally, launch their company on a virtual stock market.
How It Works:
The top six startups will be awarded prizes by industry leaders to help make their dream a reality: Keiretsu Forum SoCal, one of the nation's leading angel investment communities and premier sponsor, will offer the opportunity to present live in front of the forum; Sun Microsystems will supply hardware; Southwest Airlines will provide nationwide air travel; and Mashable, the popular social networking news site, will publish live, on-going coverage of the event and its winners.
The Innovation Challenge for Entrepreneurs is now live at: http://innovation.spigit.com/
"spigit's Entrepreneur Challenge is the first online platform competition that will truly give an insider's view on the funding process. The capabilities of outsiders, insiders and experts to engage in discussion and push one company ahead of another is the true meaning of Web 2.0 technology at work. The opportunity for the participants is not only measurable by their success throughout the competition, but the buzz that is generated from the platform," said Adam Hirsch, Mashable Community & Marketing Director.
More at:http://innovation.spigit.com/
Gilt Groupe, a provider of invite-only high-fashion "sample sales" to its members, has raised $5 million in VCs funding
What Company Is Offering:
Gilt Groupe is a private online community dedicated to providing its members with access to coveted fashion and luxury lifestyle brands at sample sale prices.
Gilt Groupe hand selects both established and up and coming brands relevant to our membership base.
How It works:
The 'sample sale', a New York phenomenon where consumers line up around the block on a single day to buy top designer items at steep discounts, is now available for the first time online and to shoppers nationally through Gilt Groupe.
Each Gilt Groupe Shopping Event is designer-specific and held over a one day period. The Gilt Groupe production team creates a short video reel to introduce each designer and brand to our membership.
There is no fee associated with joining Gilt Groupe, membership is by invitation only.
For each friend you invite, Gilt Groupe will credit your account with $25.00 after your referral's first purchase.
Working directly with the designer or brand, Gilt Groupe ensures the best product mix and often showcases top end designers who never discount their products or sell online. Membership is by referral, and there is no fee associated with joining Gilt Groupe. The existing membership base hails from all 50 states and since the Company's November launch multiple thousands of members join daily.
How Much They Got From VCs Funding:
Gilt Groupe (www.gilt.com), which brings invitation only 'sample sales' to its national membership, announced that it has secured $5.0 million in financing from top venture capital firm Matrix Partners..
more at:http://www.gilt.com/
Gilt Groupe is a private online community dedicated to providing its members with access to coveted fashion and luxury lifestyle brands at sample sale prices.
Gilt Groupe hand selects both established and up and coming brands relevant to our membership base.
How It works:
The 'sample sale', a New York phenomenon where consumers line up around the block on a single day to buy top designer items at steep discounts, is now available for the first time online and to shoppers nationally through Gilt Groupe.
Each Gilt Groupe Shopping Event is designer-specific and held over a one day period. The Gilt Groupe production team creates a short video reel to introduce each designer and brand to our membership.
There is no fee associated with joining Gilt Groupe, membership is by invitation only.
For each friend you invite, Gilt Groupe will credit your account with $25.00 after your referral's first purchase.
Working directly with the designer or brand, Gilt Groupe ensures the best product mix and often showcases top end designers who never discount their products or sell online. Membership is by referral, and there is no fee associated with joining Gilt Groupe. The existing membership base hails from all 50 states and since the Company's November launch multiple thousands of members join daily.
How Much They Got From VCs Funding:
Gilt Groupe (www.gilt.com), which brings invitation only 'sample sales' to its national membership, announced that it has secured $5.0 million in financing from top venture capital firm Matrix Partners..
more at:http://www.gilt.com/
iotum, a pioneer and leader in voice services for social networks Got VCs Funding
What Company Is Offering:
iotum is a company which empowers conversations by connecting people where, when and how they choose. iotum’s software platform immediately makes people more productive, accessible and in control of their communications.
In other words, iotum is a Voice 2.0 company setting out to shape a world of relevant communications where devices, social networks and web services work seamlessly together to let people communicate with whom they want, when they want and on the device they want. Iotum has been awarded the prestigious CATA Alliance Innovation Award for Emerging Technology Achievement as the best emerging technology company of the year in Canada; was named a DEMOgod at DEMO2006, and was named to the Branham 25 Emerging Companies in Canada as well as to Business 2.0's Next Net 25. iotum and its innovative products, including the iotum Relevance Engine, iotum Talk-Now for Blackberry, and most recently iotum Free Conference Calls for Facebook, have garnered accolades from industry and users alike.
How Much They Got From VCs:
iotum, a pioneer and leader in voice services for social networks, announced today that it has received new investment funding from boutique investment and management consulting firm VERDEXUS. Financial details were not disclosed.
Who Is Backing Them:
VERDEXUS General Partner Randall Howard has joined iotum's Board of Directors and has been appointed Chairman of the Board.Howard, a founding partner of VERDEXUS, brings a global network of senior-level business contacts based on his deep executive experience in international technology markets. As founder, Chairman and CEO of MKS Inc. (www.mks.com) (TSX: MKX), one of Canada's leading enterprise software vendors, he led growth to more than $40 million revenue annually and 350 employees worldwide, including seven acquisitions. From May 2004 to April 2006, Howard served as CEO of VERDEXUS' portfolio company, Software Innovation (www.softinn.com).
Howard's extensive board and advisor experience has included Necho Systems Corp, GoodContacts, Whitehill Technologies, Waterloo Maple Software, Arise Technologies and Nanodesign.
About VCs:
VERDEXUS (www.verdexus.com) is an international, strategic management and financial boutique dedicated to turning great technologies into globally competitive companies. We leverage our extensive management know how, finance partners and international networks to build technology ventures faster and further. Founded in 2001 by international technology entrepreneurs who have founded and built global technology companies, VERDEXUS uses a hands-on investment model that provides seasoned operational executives who turn strategy into execution and build new levels of strategic market value for technology companies.
More at:http://www.iotum.com/
iotum is a company which empowers conversations by connecting people where, when and how they choose. iotum’s software platform immediately makes people more productive, accessible and in control of their communications.
In other words, iotum is a Voice 2.0 company setting out to shape a world of relevant communications where devices, social networks and web services work seamlessly together to let people communicate with whom they want, when they want and on the device they want. Iotum has been awarded the prestigious CATA Alliance Innovation Award for Emerging Technology Achievement as the best emerging technology company of the year in Canada; was named a DEMOgod at DEMO2006, and was named to the Branham 25 Emerging Companies in Canada as well as to Business 2.0's Next Net 25. iotum and its innovative products, including the iotum Relevance Engine, iotum Talk-Now for Blackberry, and most recently iotum Free Conference Calls for Facebook, have garnered accolades from industry and users alike.
How Much They Got From VCs:
iotum, a pioneer and leader in voice services for social networks, announced today that it has received new investment funding from boutique investment and management consulting firm VERDEXUS. Financial details were not disclosed.
Who Is Backing Them:
VERDEXUS General Partner Randall Howard has joined iotum's Board of Directors and has been appointed Chairman of the Board.Howard, a founding partner of VERDEXUS, brings a global network of senior-level business contacts based on his deep executive experience in international technology markets. As founder, Chairman and CEO of MKS Inc. (www.mks.com) (TSX: MKX), one of Canada's leading enterprise software vendors, he led growth to more than $40 million revenue annually and 350 employees worldwide, including seven acquisitions. From May 2004 to April 2006, Howard served as CEO of VERDEXUS' portfolio company, Software Innovation (www.softinn.com).
Howard's extensive board and advisor experience has included Necho Systems Corp, GoodContacts, Whitehill Technologies, Waterloo Maple Software, Arise Technologies and Nanodesign.
About VCs:
VERDEXUS (www.verdexus.com) is an international, strategic management and financial boutique dedicated to turning great technologies into globally competitive companies. We leverage our extensive management know how, finance partners and international networks to build technology ventures faster and further. Founded in 2001 by international technology entrepreneurs who have founded and built global technology companies, VERDEXUS uses a hands-on investment model that provides seasoned operational executives who turn strategy into execution and build new levels of strategic market value for technology companies.
More at:http://www.iotum.com/
Spotzer ,the world's first provider of affordable multi-media video advertising campaigns got Euro 10 million in financing
What Company Is Offering:
Spotzer is the first global advertising agency dedicated to making high quality video advertising fast, affordable and highly targeted.
They offer an online library of creative, ready-to-air commercials produced by industry-leading professionals from around the world.
Spotzer offers local businesses turn-key, multi-media, video advertising campaigns at remarkably low costs. Clients can use advanced search and mapping tools to configure and purchase highly targeted campaigns across television, Web and out-of-home TV networks. Clients also have access to an online library of high-quality, "ready-to-air" video commercials that can be personalized with their unique logos, photos, slogans and other branding materials.
How It Works:
They help you plan and buy spots across multiple advertising media, including television, the web, and narrow cast networks (location specific, out-of-home networks). They use the latest technologies for targeting advertising to limited geographic areas and well defined demographic audiences. This helps you better target your customers and brings efficiency and cost-effectiveness to your video advertising.
Best of all, Spotzer manages your campaign from beginning to end freeing you to focus your time and energy on growing your business.
How Much They Got From VCs Funding:
Spotzer Media Group, BV, the world's first provider of affordable multi-media video advertising campaigns, today announced the closing of Euro 10 million in financing led by Sierra Ventures of Menlo Park, Calif. European Directories, operator of leading yellow page publishers in nine countries, also invested.
What's The Purpose Of Raising Funds:
Spotzer will primarily use the new capital to extend its innovative rich media advertising services into the U.S. market. The company has recently opened offices in New York and California and now plans aggressive build-out of its sales and client services capabilities. Strategic partnerships with a number of major U.S. television, Web and out-of-home TV networks are also under development. The expansion is timed to fully leverage the company's new online advertising platform (www.spotzer.com), which was recently opened to clients globally.
About VCs:
1.Sierra Ventures, founded in 1982, is a privately held venture capital firm focused on investments across all areas of the information technology sector from semiconductors to enterprise software. Sierra Ventures has managed nine venture capital partnerships and currently has more than $1.5 billion of capital under management. Some of the firm's investments include 360Commerce (acquired by Oracle), Active Software (acquired by WebMethods), AmeriGroup (AGP), Authentec (AUTH), Centex (acquired by WorldCom), ConvergeNet (acquired by Dell), FatBrain (acquired by Barnes & Noble), Frontbridge (acquired by Microsoft), Healtheon (merged with WebMD), Interact Commerce (acquired by Sage), Intuit (INTU), Micromuse (acquired by IBM), OnAssignment (ASGN), OnLink (acquired by Siebel), Quinta (acquired by Seagate), StrataCom (acquired by Cisco), Sourcefire (FIRE), Sychip (acquired by Murata Manufacturing) and Teradata (acquired by NCR). More information is available at http://www.sierraventures.com.
2.European Directories (www.europeandirectories.com) is a pan-European directory services group, operating in printed directories, online and mobile searches and directory assistance. It holds the leading market position in the Netherlands, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Czech Republic and Slovakia and has a strong presence in Sweden, Poland and Gibraltar. The company has approximately 4,500 employees and services over 750,000 advertisers with long established brands including De Telefoongids, Herold, De Gule Sider, Fonecta and Zlat鼯SPAN> StrἯSPAN>nky.
More at:http://www.spotzer.com/
Spotzer is the first global advertising agency dedicated to making high quality video advertising fast, affordable and highly targeted.
They offer an online library of creative, ready-to-air commercials produced by industry-leading professionals from around the world.
Spotzer offers local businesses turn-key, multi-media, video advertising campaigns at remarkably low costs. Clients can use advanced search and mapping tools to configure and purchase highly targeted campaigns across television, Web and out-of-home TV networks. Clients also have access to an online library of high-quality, "ready-to-air" video commercials that can be personalized with their unique logos, photos, slogans and other branding materials.
How It Works:
They help you plan and buy spots across multiple advertising media, including television, the web, and narrow cast networks (location specific, out-of-home networks). They use the latest technologies for targeting advertising to limited geographic areas and well defined demographic audiences. This helps you better target your customers and brings efficiency and cost-effectiveness to your video advertising.
Best of all, Spotzer manages your campaign from beginning to end freeing you to focus your time and energy on growing your business.
How Much They Got From VCs Funding:
Spotzer Media Group, BV, the world's first provider of affordable multi-media video advertising campaigns, today announced the closing of Euro 10 million in financing led by Sierra Ventures of Menlo Park, Calif. European Directories, operator of leading yellow page publishers in nine countries, also invested.
What's The Purpose Of Raising Funds:
Spotzer will primarily use the new capital to extend its innovative rich media advertising services into the U.S. market. The company has recently opened offices in New York and California and now plans aggressive build-out of its sales and client services capabilities. Strategic partnerships with a number of major U.S. television, Web and out-of-home TV networks are also under development. The expansion is timed to fully leverage the company's new online advertising platform (www.spotzer.com), which was recently opened to clients globally.
About VCs:
1.Sierra Ventures, founded in 1982, is a privately held venture capital firm focused on investments across all areas of the information technology sector from semiconductors to enterprise software. Sierra Ventures has managed nine venture capital partnerships and currently has more than $1.5 billion of capital under management. Some of the firm's investments include 360Commerce (acquired by Oracle), Active Software (acquired by WebMethods), AmeriGroup (AGP), Authentec (AUTH), Centex (acquired by WorldCom), ConvergeNet (acquired by Dell), FatBrain (acquired by Barnes & Noble), Frontbridge (acquired by Microsoft), Healtheon (merged with WebMD), Interact Commerce (acquired by Sage), Intuit (INTU), Micromuse (acquired by IBM), OnAssignment (ASGN), OnLink (acquired by Siebel), Quinta (acquired by Seagate), StrataCom (acquired by Cisco), Sourcefire (FIRE), Sychip (acquired by Murata Manufacturing) and Teradata (acquired by NCR). More information is available at http://www.sierraventures.com.
2.European Directories (www.europeandirectories.com) is a pan-European directory services group, operating in printed directories, online and mobile searches and directory assistance. It holds the leading market position in the Netherlands, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Czech Republic and Slovakia and has a strong presence in Sweden, Poland and Gibraltar. The company has approximately 4,500 employees and services over 750,000 advertisers with long established brands including De Telefoongids, Herold, De Gule Sider, Fonecta and Zlat鼯SPAN> StrἯSPAN>nky.
More at:http://www.spotzer.com/
Small Cap Directory ---Investment Made Easy
What Company Is Offering:
Small Cap Directory manages a rich database of over 18,000 publicly-traded companies with market caps under $2 billion, making it the most comprehensive research tool of its kind. Its ground-breaking niche technology meets the research needs of small cap investors and the investor awareness needs of small cap companies. Merging the best elements of search engines with the ease-of-use of directory listings, Small Cap Directory’s innovative approach to stock research dramatically improves the relevance & manageability of small cap searches.
How It Works:
Small Cap Directory help self-directed investors find companies more efficiently than ever before—allowing searches by name, symbol, keyword, industry, market cap, exchange & even location—it also leverages the exciting potential of collaborative social technologies to track popular searches by other investors, expanding search horizons and leading site users to interesting, if unexpected, discoveries.
As a self-directed investor using Small Cap Directory, you won’t get 8,678,431 results for your search term—an all-too-familiar & frustrating deficiency that plagues traditional search engines. You will get a concise list of publicly-traded small caps that match your search criteria. And from this manageable and relevant list, you will have one-click access to important company profile information, including corporate & IR contacts, as well as financials, SEC filings & news. For companies with premium listings in our directory, you will also get (where available) a calendar of events, investor kits, other supporting investor documentation, audio & video podcasts, webcasts, etc.
More at:http://www.smallcapdirectory.com/
Small Cap Directory manages a rich database of over 18,000 publicly-traded companies with market caps under $2 billion, making it the most comprehensive research tool of its kind. Its ground-breaking niche technology meets the research needs of small cap investors and the investor awareness needs of small cap companies. Merging the best elements of search engines with the ease-of-use of directory listings, Small Cap Directory’s innovative approach to stock research dramatically improves the relevance & manageability of small cap searches.
How It Works:
Small Cap Directory help self-directed investors find companies more efficiently than ever before—allowing searches by name, symbol, keyword, industry, market cap, exchange & even location—it also leverages the exciting potential of collaborative social technologies to track popular searches by other investors, expanding search horizons and leading site users to interesting, if unexpected, discoveries.
As a self-directed investor using Small Cap Directory, you won’t get 8,678,431 results for your search term—an all-too-familiar & frustrating deficiency that plagues traditional search engines. You will get a concise list of publicly-traded small caps that match your search criteria. And from this manageable and relevant list, you will have one-click access to important company profile information, including corporate & IR contacts, as well as financials, SEC filings & news. For companies with premium listings in our directory, you will also get (where available) a calendar of events, investor kits, other supporting investor documentation, audio & video podcasts, webcasts, etc.
More at:http://www.smallcapdirectory.com/
ihound--- Your Device Tracker For Getting Your Digital Life Back
What Company Is Offering:
ihound™ is revolutionary software that helps protect your devices by alerting you when your USB digital device is connected to another individual's computer.
How It Works:
ihound™ Software will alert you via email as soon as someone else tries to connect your device to a computer.Once your device has been located, you can print a report for the authorities that contains your device's information as well as the location where your device has been tracked.You will know where your device is at all times via ihound™ Software's "Device Tracker". See your device's location on a map and "Get your digital life back". ihound™ Software works on most USB devices that you need to connect to your computer to update. i.e. MP3 players, Flash Cards, Jump Drives, Phones, iPods.
More at:http://www.ihoundsoftware.com/
ihound™ is revolutionary software that helps protect your devices by alerting you when your USB digital device is connected to another individual's computer.
How It Works:
ihound™ Software will alert you via email as soon as someone else tries to connect your device to a computer.Once your device has been located, you can print a report for the authorities that contains your device's information as well as the location where your device has been tracked.You will know where your device is at all times via ihound™ Software's "Device Tracker". See your device's location on a map and "Get your digital life back". ihound™ Software works on most USB devices that you need to connect to your computer to update. i.e. MP3 players, Flash Cards, Jump Drives, Phones, iPods.
More at:http://www.ihoundsoftware.com/
Product Clash offers products at low prices
What Company Is Offering:
Product Clash offers products at low prices. Comparison shopping has never been such good value for products. Now you can clash and compare your best consumer products for low price offers. Product Clash features cheap cameras, cheap cell phones, cheap computers, cool gadgets, cheap home entertainment, cheap peripherals and portable media comparison clashes! Clashing is fun for movies, music, games and DVDs.
How It Works:
A purchasing decision is based on three main criteria: The influential power of other people, the emotional connection to the brand or product category, and the underlying rational need for a product or a service. ProductClash addresses the first two of these dimensions, by adding social prioritization to the information overload on the internet. People can vote between cell phones, computers, cameras, gadgets, and more. Meanwhile, you can see all the specifications of each product so you can compare. If you have your own clash, you can submit it for others to vote on them.
More at:http://www.productclash.com/
Product Clash offers products at low prices. Comparison shopping has never been such good value for products. Now you can clash and compare your best consumer products for low price offers. Product Clash features cheap cameras, cheap cell phones, cheap computers, cool gadgets, cheap home entertainment, cheap peripherals and portable media comparison clashes! Clashing is fun for movies, music, games and DVDs.
How It Works:
A purchasing decision is based on three main criteria: The influential power of other people, the emotional connection to the brand or product category, and the underlying rational need for a product or a service. ProductClash addresses the first two of these dimensions, by adding social prioritization to the information overload on the internet. People can vote between cell phones, computers, cameras, gadgets, and more. Meanwhile, you can see all the specifications of each product so you can compare. If you have your own clash, you can submit it for others to vote on them.
More at:http://www.productclash.com/
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
NASDAQ Launched NASDAQ Internet Index(sm) (Nasdaq:QNET)
What Company Is Offering:
NASDAQ Internet Index(sm) (Nasdaq:QNET). The Index is a new benchmark designed to track the performance of companies engaged in a broad range of internet-related services including internet access providers, internet search engines, web hosting, website design, and internet retail commerce.
How It Works:
The NASDAQ Internet Index is comprised of securities of companies that are at the forefront of internet technology. They are leading innovators in providing faster internet access, creating more intuitive e-commerce experiences, and developing the second generation Web.The NASDAQ Internet Index contains some of the most exciting internet companies traded on NASDAQ and other U.S. exchanges," said NASDAQ Senior Vice President Steven Bloom. "Given the strength of NASDAQ's brand association with innovation and its market share of internet company listings, it is logical for NASDAQ to extend investment opportunities through a new benchmark for this dynamic, evolving sector."
NASDAQ Financial Products (NFP) is engaged in the design, development, calculation, licensing, and marketing of NASDAQ indexes. NFP specializes in the development of indexes focusing on NASDAQ's brand themes of innovation, technology, growth, and globalization. NFP also provides custom index services and design solutions as a third-party provider to selected financial organizations.
Given that the index contains some of the most exciting internet companies traded on NASDAQ this index is likley to become a great benchmark for the internet world.
More at: www.nasdaq.com/indexes.( Nasdaq:QNET)
NASDAQ Internet Index(sm) (Nasdaq:QNET). The Index is a new benchmark designed to track the performance of companies engaged in a broad range of internet-related services including internet access providers, internet search engines, web hosting, website design, and internet retail commerce.
How It Works:
The NASDAQ Internet Index is comprised of securities of companies that are at the forefront of internet technology. They are leading innovators in providing faster internet access, creating more intuitive e-commerce experiences, and developing the second generation Web.The NASDAQ Internet Index contains some of the most exciting internet companies traded on NASDAQ and other U.S. exchanges," said NASDAQ Senior Vice President Steven Bloom. "Given the strength of NASDAQ's brand association with innovation and its market share of internet company listings, it is logical for NASDAQ to extend investment opportunities through a new benchmark for this dynamic, evolving sector."
NASDAQ Financial Products (NFP) is engaged in the design, development, calculation, licensing, and marketing of NASDAQ indexes. NFP specializes in the development of indexes focusing on NASDAQ's brand themes of innovation, technology, growth, and globalization. NFP also provides custom index services and design solutions as a third-party provider to selected financial organizations.
Given that the index contains some of the most exciting internet companies traded on NASDAQ this index is likley to become a great benchmark for the internet world.
More at: www.nasdaq.com/indexes.( Nasdaq:QNET)
Mamma.com is a "smart" metasearch engine ---Mother Of All Search Engines
About Company:
Mamma.com is metasearch engine a site owned and operated by Copernic Inc. (formerly known as Mamma.com Inc.).
How It Works:
Mamma.com is a "smart" metasearch engine — every time you type in a query Mamma simultaneously searches a variety of engines, directories, and deep content sites, properly formats the words and syntax for each, compiles their results in a virtual database, eliminates duplicates, and displays them in a uniform manner according to relevance. It's like using multiple search engines, all at the same time.
How It Works:
What Is MetaSearch:
Every time you type in a query at a metasearch engine, they search a series of other search and content sites at the same time, compile their results, and display them either by source or by integrating them in a uniform manner, eliminating duplicates, and resorting them according to relevance. It's like using multiple search engines, all at the same time.
By using a metasearch engine, you get a snapshot of the top results from a variety of search engines (including a variety of types of search engines), providing you with a broad scope of information. Metasearch engines are tolerant of imprecise search terms or inexact use of operators, and tend to return fewer results, but with a greater degree of relevance. They're best used when you've got a general search, as metasearch engines return broad results. Instead of returning every possible result that contains your search term, metasearch will return the most trusted results on the Internet for your search. Metasearch engines also allow you to compare what kinds of results are available on different engine types (indexes, directories, pay-for-placement, etc), or to verify that you haven't missed a great resource provided by another site, other than your favourite search engine (acting as a backup). Overall, they're a great way to save time and find exactly what you're looking for.
More at:http://www.mamma.com/
Mamma.com is metasearch engine a site owned and operated by Copernic Inc. (formerly known as Mamma.com Inc.).
How It Works:
Mamma.com is a "smart" metasearch engine — every time you type in a query Mamma simultaneously searches a variety of engines, directories, and deep content sites, properly formats the words and syntax for each, compiles their results in a virtual database, eliminates duplicates, and displays them in a uniform manner according to relevance. It's like using multiple search engines, all at the same time.
How It Works:
What Is MetaSearch:
Every time you type in a query at a metasearch engine, they search a series of other search and content sites at the same time, compile their results, and display them either by source or by integrating them in a uniform manner, eliminating duplicates, and resorting them according to relevance. It's like using multiple search engines, all at the same time.
By using a metasearch engine, you get a snapshot of the top results from a variety of search engines (including a variety of types of search engines), providing you with a broad scope of information. Metasearch engines are tolerant of imprecise search terms or inexact use of operators, and tend to return fewer results, but with a greater degree of relevance. They're best used when you've got a general search, as metasearch engines return broad results. Instead of returning every possible result that contains your search term, metasearch will return the most trusted results on the Internet for your search. Metasearch engines also allow you to compare what kinds of results are available on different engine types (indexes, directories, pay-for-placement, etc), or to verify that you haven't missed a great resource provided by another site, other than your favourite search engine (acting as a backup). Overall, they're a great way to save time and find exactly what you're looking for.
More at:http://www.mamma.com/
RedZee 2.0---Website Search Instead Of Text
What Company is Offering:
A search engine with Web sites as the results instead of plain ordinary text, allowing you to sift through massive data quickly.
With RedZee 2.0 you have a choice of up to 100 results which you can zip through lightning fast! The Web sites are the results instead of plain ordinary text, allowing you to sift through massive data quickly. Search 2.0 will take your search deeper where the best results are.
How It Works:
Conventional search engines use text as the main focus of their results, only bringing back 10 results per page. Almost 85% of searchers settle on what they find on that first page, often leaving them unsuccessful in finding what they truly were looking for. Although the desired results are more than likely buried deep, most people do not have the time or the patience to read through page after page of text based listings. They end up settling on the results that seem the closest and most convenient.
More at:http://www.redzee.com/
A search engine with Web sites as the results instead of plain ordinary text, allowing you to sift through massive data quickly.
With RedZee 2.0 you have a choice of up to 100 results which you can zip through lightning fast! The Web sites are the results instead of plain ordinary text, allowing you to sift through massive data quickly. Search 2.0 will take your search deeper where the best results are.
How It Works:
Conventional search engines use text as the main focus of their results, only bringing back 10 results per page. Almost 85% of searchers settle on what they find on that first page, often leaving them unsuccessful in finding what they truly were looking for. Although the desired results are more than likely buried deep, most people do not have the time or the patience to read through page after page of text based listings. They end up settling on the results that seem the closest and most convenient.
More at:http://www.redzee.com/
SoftVoter is where people vote for the best PC software
What Company Is Offering:
SoftVoter is where people vote for the best PC software. All software is submitted and voted by their visitors. Rate, share and discover the best applications.
SoftVoter is a place where people discover and share software titles socially, the best of which are voted on to the top by their users.
How It Works:
First you have to create free account before posting your listing.
No "sponsored listings". No "promotion links". Forget about "regular" software archives. Only actual user feedback.
More at:http://www.softvoter.com/
SoftVoter is where people vote for the best PC software. All software is submitted and voted by their visitors. Rate, share and discover the best applications.
SoftVoter is a place where people discover and share software titles socially, the best of which are voted on to the top by their users.
How It Works:
First you have to create free account before posting your listing.
No "sponsored listings". No "promotion links". Forget about "regular" software archives. Only actual user feedback.
More at:http://www.softvoter.com/
AgentCasts creates stunning real estate video tours for your property listings
What Company is Offering:
AgentCasts creates stunning real estate video tours for your property listings, delivering you and your clients a serious advantage on the Web. Our range of real estate video services will help you save time and sell more efficiently, while truly igniting your real estate business and listings online.
How It Works:
Each video tour AgentCasts produces and distributes for you online will rise to the top of the most relevant searches in the most relevant locations on the web, wherever your potential clients may be searching online. Search engines like Google will list your video tours as results for targeted organic searches.Web video sites will return your video tours as results for searches that match your keywords. Podcasting sites like iTunes will index your video podcasts and display them for relevant searches.
Why It Could Work:
Video tours offer your prospective customers a clear visual display of your real estate listings without having to schedule preview appointments or open houses, and allow for them to visually walk through your listings without having to be there. By offering video tours of your property listings, you give your clients a means of finding out if they are interested before they take the next step of scheduling an appointment - saving everyone countless hours in the early decision making process. In truth, buyers who view video tours typically take up to three times less time making a purchase decision with a Realtor.Their video tour distribution strategy helps to immediately improve your own website's organic and direct referral traffic from search engines, while presenting your video listings in as many places as possible in order to get them in front of your potential customers. As you can see, the benefits of video extend well beyond simply providing a better representation of your real estate listings online - they're rather an entire web marketing strategy within themselves!
More at:http://www.agentcasts.com/
AgentCasts creates stunning real estate video tours for your property listings, delivering you and your clients a serious advantage on the Web. Our range of real estate video services will help you save time and sell more efficiently, while truly igniting your real estate business and listings online.
How It Works:
Each video tour AgentCasts produces and distributes for you online will rise to the top of the most relevant searches in the most relevant locations on the web, wherever your potential clients may be searching online. Search engines like Google will list your video tours as results for targeted organic searches.Web video sites will return your video tours as results for searches that match your keywords. Podcasting sites like iTunes will index your video podcasts and display them for relevant searches.
Why It Could Work:
Video tours offer your prospective customers a clear visual display of your real estate listings without having to schedule preview appointments or open houses, and allow for them to visually walk through your listings without having to be there. By offering video tours of your property listings, you give your clients a means of finding out if they are interested before they take the next step of scheduling an appointment - saving everyone countless hours in the early decision making process. In truth, buyers who view video tours typically take up to three times less time making a purchase decision with a Realtor.Their video tour distribution strategy helps to immediately improve your own website's organic and direct referral traffic from search engines, while presenting your video listings in as many places as possible in order to get them in front of your potential customers. As you can see, the benefits of video extend well beyond simply providing a better representation of your real estate listings online - they're rather an entire web marketing strategy within themselves!
More at:http://www.agentcasts.com/
XSCapacity.com online marketplace
What Company is offering:
XSCapacity.com gives you access to the thousands of trucks traveling the nation's highways everyday with little to no freight in their trailers. This all too common practice drives up the cost of freight.
How It Works:
By filling out one simple form only one time, XSCapacity.com will bring the entire trucking industry to your doorsteps, whether your freight shipping needs are LTL (less than truck load) or full truck loads. XSCapacity.com, you no longer have to wait for days to receive critical information about shipping rates. In fact, most companies have that answer within hours, directly from our extensive directory of certified DOT truckers. There are no barriers between you and the carriers...By using our application to book your freight, you can drive savings directly to your bottom line.
Your company can be trained to post loads on the XSCapacity.com online marketplace within minutes. The system is easy to use and there are no costs or obligations for shippers. Our user-friendly portal makes your shipping request available to thousands of trucking companies with real-time access to the same information...This innovative and simple to use platform will streamline your shipping operations and save you lots of time and money.
More at:http://xscapacity.com/
XSCapacity.com gives you access to the thousands of trucks traveling the nation's highways everyday with little to no freight in their trailers. This all too common practice drives up the cost of freight.
How It Works:
By filling out one simple form only one time, XSCapacity.com will bring the entire trucking industry to your doorsteps, whether your freight shipping needs are LTL (less than truck load) or full truck loads. XSCapacity.com, you no longer have to wait for days to receive critical information about shipping rates. In fact, most companies have that answer within hours, directly from our extensive directory of certified DOT truckers. There are no barriers between you and the carriers...By using our application to book your freight, you can drive savings directly to your bottom line.
Your company can be trained to post loads on the XSCapacity.com online marketplace within minutes. The system is easy to use and there are no costs or obligations for shippers. Our user-friendly portal makes your shipping request available to thousands of trucking companies with real-time access to the same information...This innovative and simple to use platform will streamline your shipping operations and save you lots of time and money.
More at:http://xscapacity.com/
2collab is a social bookmarking site where you can store and organize your favorite internet resource
What Company Is Offering:
2collab is a social bookmarking site where you can store and organize your favorite internet resources – such as blogs, websites, research articles, and more. Then, in private or public groups you can decide to share your bookmarks with others – stimulating debate and discussion. Members of groups can evaluate these resources (by rating bookmarks, tagging and adding comments), or add their own bookmarks. You can browse public groups and bookmarks, but must register (your name and email address) to access the full functionality – such as creating groups, adding comments, and adding bookmarks.
How It Works:
You can start using 2collab now, just register to start adding bookmarks, creating groups and much more – or you browse the site as a guest user.
In addition to the create bookmark form they also provide an easy to use 2collab browser button to add a bookmark from anywhere on the web with the touch of a button.
More:http://www.2collab.com/
2collab is a social bookmarking site where you can store and organize your favorite internet resources – such as blogs, websites, research articles, and more. Then, in private or public groups you can decide to share your bookmarks with others – stimulating debate and discussion. Members of groups can evaluate these resources (by rating bookmarks, tagging and adding comments), or add their own bookmarks. You can browse public groups and bookmarks, but must register (your name and email address) to access the full functionality – such as creating groups, adding comments, and adding bookmarks.
How It Works:
You can start using 2collab now, just register to start adding bookmarks, creating groups and much more – or you browse the site as a guest user.
In addition to the create bookmark form they also provide an easy to use 2collab browser button to add a bookmark from anywhere on the web with the touch of a button.
More:http://www.2collab.com/
Sendori --Sending Web Traffic To You Got $2.12 million Series A-1 round VCs Funding
What Company is Offering:
Sendori is in the business of connecting generic-term domains with leading advertisers. Their patent-pending solution optimizes these connections for the benefit of advertisers and domain owners.
How It Works;
The Sendori domain monetization service is unlike what you are used to. They have created a zero-click service; Sendori sends all of your visitors to paying advertisers, and reduces your reliance on ads and click rates. They provide detailed reports that show the domain activity, including total visitors sent to advertisers, average pay per visitor, and RPM (Revenue per 1000 visitors). In addition, They include your total parked page views and revenues, in cases when they create your parked page using their parking parters. Domains that are listed by domain owners as being for sale will be marketed to advertisers. Sendori charges the domain owner 5% of the final sale price. Payments can be made using PayPal, check, or bank transfer. The minimum payout is $50. The maximum payout via PayPal is $10,000. We use Mass Pay, so you pay no PayPal fees. You receive in your PayPal account exactly what you earn on redirects. If your application is accepted, please sign in and select your preferred method of receiving payments, by visiting the My Account tab.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Sendori, that drives online traffic from generic domains to specific Web advertisers, has secured $800,000 of a $2.12 million Series A-1 round.Backers include First Round Capital, Baseline Ventures, Maples Investments and Felices Ventures.
https://www.sendori.com/pubsite/owner_faq#protect_strategy
Sendori is in the business of connecting generic-term domains with leading advertisers. Their patent-pending solution optimizes these connections for the benefit of advertisers and domain owners.
How It Works;
The Sendori domain monetization service is unlike what you are used to. They have created a zero-click service; Sendori sends all of your visitors to paying advertisers, and reduces your reliance on ads and click rates. They provide detailed reports that show the domain activity, including total visitors sent to advertisers, average pay per visitor, and RPM (Revenue per 1000 visitors). In addition, They include your total parked page views and revenues, in cases when they create your parked page using their parking parters. Domains that are listed by domain owners as being for sale will be marketed to advertisers. Sendori charges the domain owner 5% of the final sale price. Payments can be made using PayPal, check, or bank transfer. The minimum payout is $50. The maximum payout via PayPal is $10,000. We use Mass Pay, so you pay no PayPal fees. You receive in your PayPal account exactly what you earn on redirects. If your application is accepted, please sign in and select your preferred method of receiving payments, by visiting the My Account tab.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Sendori, that drives online traffic from generic domains to specific Web advertisers, has secured $800,000 of a $2.12 million Series A-1 round.Backers include First Round Capital, Baseline Ventures, Maples Investments and Felices Ventures.
https://www.sendori.com/pubsite/owner_faq#protect_strategy
BDMetrics Got $ 15 Million In VCs Funding
What Company is Offering:
BDMetrics, headquartered in Baltimore, MD, is the creator of You-Based? personalization technology for leading trade shows and associations and the Event365? year-round event community technology. Specifically, BDMetrics provides the technology to power the search, personalization, media and lead generation functionality for a trade show or community's online presence. This enables the trade show owner to monetize its member base year-round through an interactive channel whereby exhibitors can place media or generate leads through the show's website or the trade show's product locator kiosks.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Greenhill SAVP ("GSAVP") announced today it has invested in BDMetrics, Inc. ("BDMetrics"). Greenhill SAVP led this Series C financing of $15 million with participation from existing institutional investors which included: Valhalla Partners, Grosvenor Funds, New Markets Growth Fund and Maryland DBED. As a result of this financing, Brian Hirsch, Managing Director of Greenhill SAVP, will join the BDMetrics Board of Directors.
How They Are Progressing:
In a relatively short period of time, BDMetrics has become the market leader in providing B2B lead generation and online media solutions to the $10 billion trade show industry.
About VC Detail:
Greenhill SAVP (www.gsavp.com) is an early stage venture fund focused on investments in technology enabled services and business information services. Greenhill & Co., Inc. (NYSE:GHL), is a leading independent investment bank It acts for clients located throughout the world from its offices in New York, London, Frankfurt, Toronto and Dallas and its website is www.greenhill.com.
More at:http://www.bdmetrics.com/
BDMetrics, headquartered in Baltimore, MD, is the creator of You-Based? personalization technology for leading trade shows and associations and the Event365? year-round event community technology. Specifically, BDMetrics provides the technology to power the search, personalization, media and lead generation functionality for a trade show or community's online presence. This enables the trade show owner to monetize its member base year-round through an interactive channel whereby exhibitors can place media or generate leads through the show's website or the trade show's product locator kiosks.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Greenhill SAVP ("GSAVP") announced today it has invested in BDMetrics, Inc. ("BDMetrics"). Greenhill SAVP led this Series C financing of $15 million with participation from existing institutional investors which included: Valhalla Partners, Grosvenor Funds, New Markets Growth Fund and Maryland DBED. As a result of this financing, Brian Hirsch, Managing Director of Greenhill SAVP, will join the BDMetrics Board of Directors.
How They Are Progressing:
In a relatively short period of time, BDMetrics has become the market leader in providing B2B lead generation and online media solutions to the $10 billion trade show industry.
About VC Detail:
Greenhill SAVP (www.gsavp.com) is an early stage venture fund focused on investments in technology enabled services and business information services. Greenhill & Co., Inc. (NYSE:GHL), is a leading independent investment bank It acts for clients located throughout the world from its offices in New York, London, Frankfurt, Toronto and Dallas and its website is www.greenhill.com.
More at:http://www.bdmetrics.com/
Listomi is a new online service based on lists and list management
What Company is Offering:
Listomi is a new online service based on lists and list management. Listomi aims to be the leading site for online list repositories.
How It Works:
Listomi is the place to go for all data that can be organized into a list. It is the next generation of list repositories, possibly the first true, dedicated list repository.
Listomi in the forefront of list repositories and list data management. The goal of Listomi is to become the known place to go to for lists of all shapes and sizes. Need a list of US States to use on your website? Want to browse through thousands of baby names all in one place? Need to settle an argument about the works of a particular author? Everyday people search for lists of things, the types of lists that people search for is virtually infinite. The results for these searches return a multitude of different sites that may or may not contain a suitable list. If there was single site, an online repository of all the possible lists in the universe that someone could go to find the list they are looking for, then the amount of traffic is equally as infinite. Listomi.com is that place.
More at:http://www.listomi.com/
Listomi is a new online service based on lists and list management. Listomi aims to be the leading site for online list repositories.
How It Works:
Listomi is the place to go for all data that can be organized into a list. It is the next generation of list repositories, possibly the first true, dedicated list repository.
Listomi in the forefront of list repositories and list data management. The goal of Listomi is to become the known place to go to for lists of all shapes and sizes. Need a list of US States to use on your website? Want to browse through thousands of baby names all in one place? Need to settle an argument about the works of a particular author? Everyday people search for lists of things, the types of lists that people search for is virtually infinite. The results for these searches return a multitude of different sites that may or may not contain a suitable list. If there was single site, an online repository of all the possible lists in the universe that someone could go to find the list they are looking for, then the amount of traffic is equally as infinite. Listomi.com is that place.
More at:http://www.listomi.com/
Work At Home Moms For Hire
What Company Is Offering:
Their aim is to unite work home moms to build long lasting relationships and partnerships. There is something for everybody here.Business owners can post their jobs or opportunities.
Working Moms can hire other experienced Moms to help them with a problem or task.
Newbie WAHMS or Business Owners can request advice to help them get started with their own business. Working Moms can show off their talents and gain experience by doing work for other Business Owners and earn money.
How It Works:
Wahms or Work atHome Moms for Hire are folks who have a talent or specialty and can perform tasks for other new business owners or WAHM's. THey are also people who want to help out other business owners or want to help promote their own business by making a presence by completing jobs. This category of members will bid on projects and come up with a fee they think will suit their needs. Once they perform the task, the customer releases funds to them and they can cash out using PayPal.
WAHMs can sign up and post a project or a task for other WAHMs to bid on and earn cash. Very fun and good way to promote your business or talent, this is the place for you to gain some experience by performing certain tasks and projects for other business, or Work at Home Moms. If you have something to offer, then browse the open projects to see if you qualify. If so try bidding on the project to see if you are chosen. If you are chosen, then you can earn some nice cash upon completion of the project.
More at:http://www.wahmsforhire.com/faq.php
Their aim is to unite work home moms to build long lasting relationships and partnerships. There is something for everybody here.Business owners can post their jobs or opportunities.
Working Moms can hire other experienced Moms to help them with a problem or task.
Newbie WAHMS or Business Owners can request advice to help them get started with their own business. Working Moms can show off their talents and gain experience by doing work for other Business Owners and earn money.
How It Works:
Wahms or Work atHome Moms for Hire are folks who have a talent or specialty and can perform tasks for other new business owners or WAHM's. THey are also people who want to help out other business owners or want to help promote their own business by making a presence by completing jobs. This category of members will bid on projects and come up with a fee they think will suit their needs. Once they perform the task, the customer releases funds to them and they can cash out using PayPal.
WAHMs can sign up and post a project or a task for other WAHMs to bid on and earn cash. Very fun and good way to promote your business or talent, this is the place for you to gain some experience by performing certain tasks and projects for other business, or Work at Home Moms. If you have something to offer, then browse the open projects to see if you qualify. If so try bidding on the project to see if you are chosen. If you are chosen, then you can earn some nice cash upon completion of the project.
More at:http://www.wahmsforhire.com/faq.php
CoveritLive's web based software takes your next live blog to a new level
What Company Is Offering:
CoveritLive's web based software takes your next live blog to a new level. Your commentary publishes in real time like an instant message. Our ‘one-click’ publishing lets you drop polls, videos, pictures, ads and audio clips as soon as they come to mind. Comments and questions from your readers instantly appear but you control what gets published. Try our software for your next live blog. Your readers will love it.
How It Works:
CoveritLive took the concept of instant messaging and combined it with the idea that an informed, smart writer could make a live blog worth watching. From there, content (video, audio, images) and interactive (polls, viewer questions) features began to fall into place.
Who Is Behind The Idea:
CoveritLive is led by Keith McSpurren. Keith founded web based software startup Salesdriver which was later purchased by Carlson Marketing and has had other leadership roles such as CEO of Durham Furniture and Vice President of Flagstone Capital a small private equity fund based in Toronto.
Bob Barnard leads the technology effort. Bob created the web based software company Analyzer Software and has been managing technology projects through BBMG Digital which has delivered leading technology websites during the last 4 years. Prior to running his own companies, Bob was head of technology/engineering at Organic's Toronto office.
More at:http://www.coveritlive.com/
CoveritLive's web based software takes your next live blog to a new level. Your commentary publishes in real time like an instant message. Our ‘one-click’ publishing lets you drop polls, videos, pictures, ads and audio clips as soon as they come to mind. Comments and questions from your readers instantly appear but you control what gets published. Try our software for your next live blog. Your readers will love it.
How It Works:
CoveritLive took the concept of instant messaging and combined it with the idea that an informed, smart writer could make a live blog worth watching. From there, content (video, audio, images) and interactive (polls, viewer questions) features began to fall into place.
Who Is Behind The Idea:
CoveritLive is led by Keith McSpurren. Keith founded web based software startup Salesdriver which was later purchased by Carlson Marketing and has had other leadership roles such as CEO of Durham Furniture and Vice President of Flagstone Capital a small private equity fund based in Toronto.
Bob Barnard leads the technology effort. Bob created the web based software company Analyzer Software and has been managing technology projects through BBMG Digital which has delivered leading technology websites during the last 4 years. Prior to running his own companies, Bob was head of technology/engineering at Organic's Toronto office.
More at:http://www.coveritlive.com/
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