What Company is Offering:
Yalicoo's unique platform offers professional, educational and entertaining online virtual stock trading competitions. You can win real monetary prizes, learn in real time from winning strategies of the top performers and view real time stock quotes.
How It Works:
Yalicoo is a simulator, not a real brokerage account. Therefore, the trades and their subsequent commissions are virtual and don't involve real money.
They have 4 types of games: daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly competitions. In each game you chose to play, you’ll get an initial amount of $100,000 to build and manage your own portfolio. All your trades are executed in real time without any delays. The winners in each game are the players with the highest account value (highest yield), i.e. the ones with the most profitable portfolios at the end of the game.
The daily game can be played every trading day of the week. The winners are the players with the highest account value at the end of the day. The weekly game is played for an entire week, and the monthly game is played for an entire month. The winners are the ones with the highest returns at the end of the game period.
To create an exciting financial arena, for investors of all levels, where subscribers share their know-how and best performers win cash rewards.The competition winners and their strategies are transparent for everyone to observe. There is always a winner and cash prizes are awarded to the first, second and third place. There is no minimum number of competitors. All top performing 10% of the players per competition that did not win a cash prize will receive a free game.
How Is It Different:
Yalicoo is the ONLY place on the net where you can watch all the other traders' real time portfolios and follow every trade they make, trade virtually with real time quotes and win cash prizes for creating a winning high yield virtual portfolio.
More at:http://www.yalicoo.com/
Monday, December 10, 2007
Ontri is a triathlon training social site which lets athletes with a passion for staying fit connect and make new friends
What Company Is Offering:
Ontri is a triathlon training social site which lets athletes with a passion for staying fit connect and make new friends too.
How It Works:
They offer both free and premium training plans for triathlons of all distances, marathon training programs online coaching and more. Our coaches are some of the best in the world.
You'll get free access to a wealth of online tools to track your workouts and nutrition, set goals and compete with other members in your club to help you stay motivated.Users are encouraged to get together, participate in the marathon and triathlon training programs, and compete in monthly online competitions. As a member you’ll be able to start your own club and set up challenges with your friends to keep them motivated. There both paid for and free training and nutrition programs available. Premium programs include unlimited coaching with world renowned BodyZen coaches who have been training athletes for over a decade. All levels of coaching are offered; there are also specific programs for sprint triathlons, Half Ironman, Ironman, marathon and century bike rides, and Olympic distance events.The site already has over 25,000 members from all around the world.
More at:http://www.ontri.com/
Ontri is a triathlon training social site which lets athletes with a passion for staying fit connect and make new friends too.
How It Works:
They offer both free and premium training plans for triathlons of all distances, marathon training programs online coaching and more. Our coaches are some of the best in the world.
You'll get free access to a wealth of online tools to track your workouts and nutrition, set goals and compete with other members in your club to help you stay motivated.Users are encouraged to get together, participate in the marathon and triathlon training programs, and compete in monthly online competitions. As a member you’ll be able to start your own club and set up challenges with your friends to keep them motivated. There both paid for and free training and nutrition programs available. Premium programs include unlimited coaching with world renowned BodyZen coaches who have been training athletes for over a decade. All levels of coaching are offered; there are also specific programs for sprint triathlons, Half Ironman, Ironman, marathon and century bike rides, and Olympic distance events.The site already has over 25,000 members from all around the world.
More at:http://www.ontri.com/
Languify is a translation management system for your software projects
What Company Is Offering:
Languify is a translation management system for your software projects. Those who have dealt with agile software projects, which support multiple languages, know: synchronizing feature development and localization is a nightmare. Languify reduces the barriers of entry to software internationalization (i18n) so significantly that the benefits of global accessibility now outweigh costs.
How It Works:
Globalize:
The display text in software applications, including web sites, is often embedded directly in the programming code. These bits of text are called “strings”, and include button & menu labels, tooltips, help text, error messages, and so on.
For software to support multiple languages, these strings need to be moved out of the code and into separate files. This step is called “globalizing” or “externalizing” the application.
Every software platform has its own mechanisms for globalizing. In the Java world, for instance, strings are externalized into .properties files and accessed through the ResourceBundle class.
Languify:
You can upload these externalized string files into Languify. Each file becomes a “locale”, which specifies the language and the region. For example, Brazilian Portugeuse or Canadian English. You may only have one locale to create if you have not had any translations done yet.
With your project and first locale(s) set up in Languify, you can now invite translators to use the web interface to add translations. Your translators may be professional translators, or perhaps passionate users of your application (aka “Crowdsourcing”).
Periodically you will export your Languify project back into your software application.
Languify also offers a full REST-style API, which allows other systems to programmatically interact with your projects, locales, keys, and translations.
More at:http://languify.com/
Languify is a translation management system for your software projects. Those who have dealt with agile software projects, which support multiple languages, know: synchronizing feature development and localization is a nightmare. Languify reduces the barriers of entry to software internationalization (i18n) so significantly that the benefits of global accessibility now outweigh costs.
How It Works:
Globalize:
The display text in software applications, including web sites, is often embedded directly in the programming code. These bits of text are called “strings”, and include button & menu labels, tooltips, help text, error messages, and so on.
For software to support multiple languages, these strings need to be moved out of the code and into separate files. This step is called “globalizing” or “externalizing” the application.
Every software platform has its own mechanisms for globalizing. In the Java world, for instance, strings are externalized into .properties files and accessed through the ResourceBundle class.
Languify:
You can upload these externalized string files into Languify. Each file becomes a “locale”, which specifies the language and the region. For example, Brazilian Portugeuse or Canadian English. You may only have one locale to create if you have not had any translations done yet.
With your project and first locale(s) set up in Languify, you can now invite translators to use the web interface to add translations. Your translators may be professional translators, or perhaps passionate users of your application (aka “Crowdsourcing”).
Periodically you will export your Languify project back into your software application.
Languify also offers a full REST-style API, which allows other systems to programmatically interact with your projects, locales, keys, and translations.
More at:http://languify.com/
ZAP Reader is a web based speed reading program that will change the way you read on your computer
What Company Is Offering:
ZAP Reader is a web based speed reading program that will change the way you read on your computer. Current beta testers report reading twice as much in half the time—that's a 300% increase in reading speed, without any loss in comprehension! There is nothing to install, it works with most popular browsers, and it's totally free.
How It Works:
Reader - If you have some text that you want to read fast, copy it onto your computer's clipboard, click this link, and follow the instructions to Zap read that text.
Settings - By default, Zap Reader allows you to read at 300 words per minute, one word at a time. Use the settings feature to configure Zap Reader with your own preferences.
Tools - Zap Reader is designed to be easy to integrate with other programs. Find out about browser bookmarklets, program ad-ins, and other integration tools here.
Blog - To keep up with the latest news about Zap Reader, read the Zap Reader Blog. Even better, subscribe to the RSS feed.
Forum - Want to submit a bug report, request an enhancement, or just talk to other Zap Reader users?
More at:http://www.zapreader.com/
ZAP Reader is a web based speed reading program that will change the way you read on your computer. Current beta testers report reading twice as much in half the time—that's a 300% increase in reading speed, without any loss in comprehension! There is nothing to install, it works with most popular browsers, and it's totally free.
How It Works:
Reader - If you have some text that you want to read fast, copy it onto your computer's clipboard, click this link, and follow the instructions to Zap read that text.
Settings - By default, Zap Reader allows you to read at 300 words per minute, one word at a time. Use the settings feature to configure Zap Reader with your own preferences.
Tools - Zap Reader is designed to be easy to integrate with other programs. Find out about browser bookmarklets, program ad-ins, and other integration tools here.
Blog - To keep up with the latest news about Zap Reader, read the Zap Reader Blog. Even better, subscribe to the RSS feed.
Forum - Want to submit a bug report, request an enhancement, or just talk to other Zap Reader users?
More at:http://www.zapreader.com/
Sunday, December 9, 2007
SkyLow.com--Your Cheap Flights Expert
What Company Is Offering:
SkyLow.com mission is to improve the way travelers reserve flights on the Internet. Moreover, enhance the technique cheap flights can be found and booked on the Web.
How It Works:
SkyLow searches a database of over 100 Low Cost Carriers to find the most suitable and cheapest flight for your client.
Low Cost Carriers are the new generation of airlines: they are much cheaper than traditional airlines, and cover more routes. On Low Cost Carriers, tickets can cost less than $1 !!
Traditional GDS (Global Distribution Systems) do not show Low Cost Carriers flights, and therefore travel agent are not aware that for the route needed. Their clients could be flying on a Low Cost Carrier and save an average of 80% of the ticket rate! This rule applies to all the online travel websites known as “Meta Search Engines.”
How It It Different:
SkyLow.com Competitive Edge; unlike the well established travel websites such as Expedia, Orbitz, and Travelocity that do NOT present Low Cost Airlines, www.skylow.com can search, compare, and book Low Cost Airlines.
SkyLow delivers the cheapest available airline ticket for any requested route around the world. SkyLow provides the ultimate search, compare, and book engine, serving Internet consumers. SkyLow is currently focused on the fastest growing market segment of Low Cost Airlines.
Why It Could Work:
The one ultimate solution that all travelers would need is a travel website that will allow them to: Search, Compare, and Book the cheapest available flight between any two places in the world.
More at:http://www.skylow.com/
SkyLow.com mission is to improve the way travelers reserve flights on the Internet. Moreover, enhance the technique cheap flights can be found and booked on the Web.
How It Works:
SkyLow searches a database of over 100 Low Cost Carriers to find the most suitable and cheapest flight for your client.
Low Cost Carriers are the new generation of airlines: they are much cheaper than traditional airlines, and cover more routes. On Low Cost Carriers, tickets can cost less than $1 !!
Traditional GDS (Global Distribution Systems) do not show Low Cost Carriers flights, and therefore travel agent are not aware that for the route needed. Their clients could be flying on a Low Cost Carrier and save an average of 80% of the ticket rate! This rule applies to all the online travel websites known as “Meta Search Engines.”
How It It Different:
SkyLow.com Competitive Edge; unlike the well established travel websites such as Expedia, Orbitz, and Travelocity that do NOT present Low Cost Airlines, www.skylow.com can search, compare, and book Low Cost Airlines.
SkyLow delivers the cheapest available airline ticket for any requested route around the world. SkyLow provides the ultimate search, compare, and book engine, serving Internet consumers. SkyLow is currently focused on the fastest growing market segment of Low Cost Airlines.
Why It Could Work:
The one ultimate solution that all travelers would need is a travel website that will allow them to: Search, Compare, and Book the cheapest available flight between any two places in the world.
More at:http://www.skylow.com/
Adomo delivers next generation voice messaging and communications/mobility applications to Global enterprises with complex telephony environments
What Company Is Offering:
Adomo delivers next generation voice messaging and communications/mobility applications to Global enterprises with complex telephony environments (TDM/IPT and multi-sites) or business processes running on legacy VM platforms.
The introduction of VoIP with its associated performance and reliability increases, along with end-of-life announcements by many vendors for legacy voice messaging systems, are driving enterprises to make major changes in their communications systems. When it’s time to upgrade, choose Adomo. Easily migrate and replace legacy voice messaging systems within your current telephony environment - without disrupting existing voice-enabled business processes.
How It Works:
Adomo is - 100% focused on Unified Messaging solutions that seamlessly integrate into telephony and data networks of large enterprises.
Adomo delivers - purpose built, modular architecture that leverages existing email and telephony technologies to deliver flexible, resilient Unified Messaging solutions.
Adomo serves - fortune 2000 companies with complex environments impacted by IT consolidation and IP telephony migration.
Adomo can be incorporated with standard comm software like MS Outlook and mobile devices. Users can opt to get their messages on their PC or mobile phone; they can also send voice mail messages to their email inbox; essentially they get anywhere access and a unified inbox. The Adomo platform integrates with any PBX—TDM and IPT. It’s flexible with low TCO and can be adjusted to fit any network topology.
More at:http://www.adomo.com/
Adomo delivers next generation voice messaging and communications/mobility applications to Global enterprises with complex telephony environments (TDM/IPT and multi-sites) or business processes running on legacy VM platforms.
The introduction of VoIP with its associated performance and reliability increases, along with end-of-life announcements by many vendors for legacy voice messaging systems, are driving enterprises to make major changes in their communications systems. When it’s time to upgrade, choose Adomo. Easily migrate and replace legacy voice messaging systems within your current telephony environment - without disrupting existing voice-enabled business processes.
How It Works:
Adomo is - 100% focused on Unified Messaging solutions that seamlessly integrate into telephony and data networks of large enterprises.
Adomo delivers - purpose built, modular architecture that leverages existing email and telephony technologies to deliver flexible, resilient Unified Messaging solutions.
Adomo serves - fortune 2000 companies with complex environments impacted by IT consolidation and IP telephony migration.
Adomo can be incorporated with standard comm software like MS Outlook and mobile devices. Users can opt to get their messages on their PC or mobile phone; they can also send voice mail messages to their email inbox; essentially they get anywhere access and a unified inbox. The Adomo platform integrates with any PBX—TDM and IPT. It’s flexible with low TCO and can be adjusted to fit any network topology.
More at:http://www.adomo.com/
Picktastic is an exciting web community blending competitive sports picking with social networking
What Company Is Offering:
Picktastic is an exciting web community blending competitive sports picking with social networking. The website is designed to bring people together who enjoy all types of sports to compete to see who is the best at picking winners, and to talk trash against everyone else in the process.
How It Works:
First you need to Sign Up. Then, see all of those glassy-looking buttons floating about everywhere? That's how you pick games. Click on the team you think will win. There's no need to click submit or reload the page. Once the button gets a checkmark and is highlighted with the team's color, then we've got your pick. Click on the title or anywhere on the Picks/Comments/Wagers links to see how many people picked which teams, post comments, or even make wagers. Now come back after the game is over to see if you won. If you did, you score some points which help you out with your overall standing against other Pickrs. If you pick enough games correctly, you might find yourself on a Leaderboard.
Picktastic.com features many different sports categories such as; the NFL, the NBA, the MLB, the NHL, the NCAA FB, and the NCAA BK. You can visit other people’s profiles to see how successful they are with their picks and wagers. You can also decide to trash someone which is to write comment about their pick. Your trash can be more than just text, you can add photos and videos if you like. You can visit the different leaderboards to see who has had the most luck picking teams.
More at:http://www.picktastic.com/
Picktastic is an exciting web community blending competitive sports picking with social networking. The website is designed to bring people together who enjoy all types of sports to compete to see who is the best at picking winners, and to talk trash against everyone else in the process.
How It Works:
First you need to Sign Up. Then, see all of those glassy-looking buttons floating about everywhere? That's how you pick games. Click on the team you think will win. There's no need to click submit or reload the page. Once the button gets a checkmark and is highlighted with the team's color, then we've got your pick. Click on the title or anywhere on the Picks/Comments/Wagers links to see how many people picked which teams, post comments, or even make wagers. Now come back after the game is over to see if you won. If you did, you score some points which help you out with your overall standing against other Pickrs. If you pick enough games correctly, you might find yourself on a Leaderboard.
Picktastic.com features many different sports categories such as; the NFL, the NBA, the MLB, the NHL, the NCAA FB, and the NCAA BK. You can visit other people’s profiles to see how successful they are with their picks and wagers. You can also decide to trash someone which is to write comment about their pick. Your trash can be more than just text, you can add photos and videos if you like. You can visit the different leaderboards to see who has had the most luck picking teams.
More at:http://www.picktastic.com/
Gatherama is a social voting website that combines news and opinion polls with Web 2.0
What Company Is Offering:
Gatherama is a social voting website that combines news and opinion polls with Web 2.0. Traditionally, opinion polls are boring and expensive to collect the data. We want to change that. Gatherama provides a natural way for people to read the news, vote and discuss the issues, and connect with other people with similar interests.
How It Works:
Gatherama is aim to be an instant reflection of the world's opinion on current events that are happening. As current events are happening around the world, people can post the news on Gatherama and other people can vote and discuss about the issues related to the news article. They all have a natural tendency of wanting to know what other people think about things that are happening. For example, what percentage of the people is going to see a certain movie or going to buy the first iPhone release or going to vote for Republicans or Democrats. Gatherama also has a "What's New" section where people can post a short heading and a link to the latest breaking news. All contents of the website are user-generated.Their users receive points for posting, commenting, and voting. The more they contribute the more points they will receive. Gatherama wants to provide a natural, fun and efficient way for people to read about the current events and discover what others are thinking and saying about the issues that are important in our society.
More at:http://www.gatherama.com/
Gatherama is a social voting website that combines news and opinion polls with Web 2.0. Traditionally, opinion polls are boring and expensive to collect the data. We want to change that. Gatherama provides a natural way for people to read the news, vote and discuss the issues, and connect with other people with similar interests.
How It Works:
Gatherama is aim to be an instant reflection of the world's opinion on current events that are happening. As current events are happening around the world, people can post the news on Gatherama and other people can vote and discuss about the issues related to the news article. They all have a natural tendency of wanting to know what other people think about things that are happening. For example, what percentage of the people is going to see a certain movie or going to buy the first iPhone release or going to vote for Republicans or Democrats. Gatherama also has a "What's New" section where people can post a short heading and a link to the latest breaking news. All contents of the website are user-generated.Their users receive points for posting, commenting, and voting. The more they contribute the more points they will receive. Gatherama wants to provide a natural, fun and efficient way for people to read about the current events and discover what others are thinking and saying about the issues that are important in our society.
More at:http://www.gatherama.com/
FogBugz helps teams work together by tracking, prioritizing, and coordinating the thousands of small tasks a development team has to do
What Company Is Offering:
FogBugz helps teams work together by tracking, prioritizing, and coordinating the thousands of small tasks a development team has to do.FogBugz helps you make better software. It’s web based, so everyone on the team always sees the whole picture. Feature requests, customer email, bugs, even high level design discussions are instantly searchable and trackable.
How It Works:
FogBugz encourages you to make a very detailed list of specific tasks: what functions you’re going to implement, what code you’re going to change, algorithms you need to implement, etc. Each task can be assigned to developers and tracked individually.
Entering work items into FogBugz is easier than using a text editor. You just click “Add Case” and then enter your list of work items, hitting enter after each one. Hitting enter submits the case to the FogBugz server in the background without interrupting your typing. After you’ve entered the list of cases, with one click you can edit them all—to assign them to someone to work on, set priorities, etc.
Unique Features:
1.FogBugz includes a wiki to keep all your documentation in one place. It’s an easy-to-use team writing system you’ll use for functional and technical specifications, design documents, knowledge base articles, and even lunch menus—just about anything you write and share as a team. It lets the whole team edit documents right in their web browsers, using a WYSIWYG editor just like a word processor. Anyone can edit any document (even simultaneously) and FogBugz merges and tracks the changes.
2.FogBugz displays a probability curve of ship dates, showing you the probability that you’ll ship on any given date. You can find out how realistic that official date is, so you can tell your boss with a straight face: “Yes, we can ship on time. With 4% probability.
More at:http://www.fogcreek.com/
FogBugz helps teams work together by tracking, prioritizing, and coordinating the thousands of small tasks a development team has to do.FogBugz helps you make better software. It’s web based, so everyone on the team always sees the whole picture. Feature requests, customer email, bugs, even high level design discussions are instantly searchable and trackable.
How It Works:
FogBugz encourages you to make a very detailed list of specific tasks: what functions you’re going to implement, what code you’re going to change, algorithms you need to implement, etc. Each task can be assigned to developers and tracked individually.
Entering work items into FogBugz is easier than using a text editor. You just click “Add Case” and then enter your list of work items, hitting enter after each one. Hitting enter submits the case to the FogBugz server in the background without interrupting your typing. After you’ve entered the list of cases, with one click you can edit them all—to assign them to someone to work on, set priorities, etc.
Unique Features:
1.FogBugz includes a wiki to keep all your documentation in one place. It’s an easy-to-use team writing system you’ll use for functional and technical specifications, design documents, knowledge base articles, and even lunch menus—just about anything you write and share as a team. It lets the whole team edit documents right in their web browsers, using a WYSIWYG editor just like a word processor. Anyone can edit any document (even simultaneously) and FogBugz merges and tracks the changes.
2.FogBugz displays a probability curve of ship dates, showing you the probability that you’ll ship on any given date. You can find out how realistic that official date is, so you can tell your boss with a straight face: “Yes, we can ship on time. With 4% probability.
More at:http://www.fogcreek.com/
Visitor tracking and live chat tool
What Company Is Offering:
Visitor tracking and live chat tool, It captures the visitor’s info on a real time basis and provides opportunity to initiate a communication channel with the visitor to your web site. In other words LiveChatIndia is your virtual representative and keep watching the visitors and enables one-on-one chat assistance in real-time. Live Chat India provides a operator for 24x7x365 chat with visitors to generate online leads.
How It Will Helpful:
1.Increase sales - Help visitor proactively to convert him to buyer
By providing real time assistance, you can resolve issues at the point of sale enabling customers to complete their purchases. Live chat India also allows you to sell additional products and services by offering special deals and cross selling.
2.Better Understand Customer Needs.
Customers prefer live chat. By engaging customers instantly, your sales staff can ask more specific questions to better understand their needs. Customers can get answers to buying questions, enabling your sales staff to impact decisions at the point of purchase.
3.Generate More Sales Leads.
If a chat represents a potential sales opportunity that needs additional follow-up, create and capture contact information associated with the new sales lead, for later follow-up by phone or email.
More at:http://www.livechatindia.com/
Visitor tracking and live chat tool, It captures the visitor’s info on a real time basis and provides opportunity to initiate a communication channel with the visitor to your web site. In other words LiveChatIndia is your virtual representative and keep watching the visitors and enables one-on-one chat assistance in real-time. Live Chat India provides a operator for 24x7x365 chat with visitors to generate online leads.
How It Will Helpful:
1.Increase sales - Help visitor proactively to convert him to buyer
By providing real time assistance, you can resolve issues at the point of sale enabling customers to complete their purchases. Live chat India also allows you to sell additional products and services by offering special deals and cross selling.
2.Better Understand Customer Needs.
Customers prefer live chat. By engaging customers instantly, your sales staff can ask more specific questions to better understand their needs. Customers can get answers to buying questions, enabling your sales staff to impact decisions at the point of purchase.
3.Generate More Sales Leads.
If a chat represents a potential sales opportunity that needs additional follow-up, create and capture contact information associated with the new sales lead, for later follow-up by phone or email.
More at:http://www.livechatindia.com/
RateZip is smartest way for you to search interest rates online
What Company Is Offering:
RateZip is smartest way for you to search interest rates online. RateZip is free, and 100% Organic. All of the rates included in RateZip search are actual rates which have been already published on the internet by the bank. RateZip simply collects the rate information from hundreds of user-submitted bank web pages every day to compile the most comprehensive and unbiased interest rate search available.
How It Works:
RateZip is a smart search engine which uses patent-pending artificial intelligence to understand and organize interest rate information displayed on unique bank websites and organizes it into a search engine, structured by product. When a user submits a bank to RateZip, RateZip's bot visits the bank's rate's page or, if applicable, its RSS or XML feed of interest rate information. It then analyzes, classifies and indexes the information to be included in the search engine results.
More at:http://www.ratezip.com/
RateZip is smartest way for you to search interest rates online. RateZip is free, and 100% Organic. All of the rates included in RateZip search are actual rates which have been already published on the internet by the bank. RateZip simply collects the rate information from hundreds of user-submitted bank web pages every day to compile the most comprehensive and unbiased interest rate search available.
How It Works:
RateZip is a smart search engine which uses patent-pending artificial intelligence to understand and organize interest rate information displayed on unique bank websites and organizes it into a search engine, structured by product. When a user submits a bank to RateZip, RateZip's bot visits the bank's rate's page or, if applicable, its RSS or XML feed of interest rate information. It then analyzes, classifies and indexes the information to be included in the search engine results.
More at:http://www.ratezip.com/
Lockbin is a free service for sending private email messages like credit card information or confidential information
What Company Is Offering:
Lockbin is a free service for sending private email messages. People use it to send things like credit card information or confidential information.
How It Works:
Lockbin's cryptographic algorithm uses a Secret Word to encrypt messages. You invent the Secret Word and deliver it to the recipient using a phone, text message, instant message, smoke signals, homing pigeon, or as a last resort... another email.
When the encrypted message is received, it is destroyed from Lockbin's database, and decrypted in the recipient's browser, provided that they entered the Secret Word correctly.
Why Use It:
Network sniffers can spy on your email traffic. Using Secure Sockets helps, but there is no guarantee the recipient is taking the same precaution.
More at:https://lockbin.com/
Lockbin is a free service for sending private email messages. People use it to send things like credit card information or confidential information.
How It Works:
Lockbin's cryptographic algorithm uses a Secret Word to encrypt messages. You invent the Secret Word and deliver it to the recipient using a phone, text message, instant message, smoke signals, homing pigeon, or as a last resort... another email.
When the encrypted message is received, it is destroyed from Lockbin's database, and decrypted in the recipient's browser, provided that they entered the Secret Word correctly.
Why Use It:
Network sniffers can spy on your email traffic. Using Secure Sockets helps, but there is no guarantee the recipient is taking the same precaution.
More at:https://lockbin.com/
Saturday, December 8, 2007
The Banzai Way--Finance Managment Tool For Controlling Your Spending
What Company is Offering:
The Banzai Way is an entirely new approach to controlling your spending. Dissatisfied with traditional financial management tools, they began with a clean sheet of paper and created a system which gives your money a purpose. The Banzai Way is an invitation to try something different — there’s simply nothing else like it. They are committed to helping you make the transition to this new perspective on spending. One way they do this is by giving you personalized, one-on-one assistance.
How It Works:
Upon sign-up, you will be given the name and email address of your Banzai Coach—a real human being committed to helping you navigate The Banzai Way. Your coach will be available to you whenever you have a question or need assistance applying The Banzai Way to your individual circumstances.
Get your first month of Banzai for one dollar! After the trial, your subscription will continue for only $4.95/mo.
If you sign-up for six month billing, we'll send you a printed copy of The Banzai Way, our 124-page guide to the philosophy and website, at no additional charge.
In addition to your Banzai Coach, you will also have access to an extensive online support library and a user forum where you can discuss what works (and what doesn’t) with other followers of The Banzai Way.
More at:http://www.banzaiway.com/
The Banzai Way is an entirely new approach to controlling your spending. Dissatisfied with traditional financial management tools, they began with a clean sheet of paper and created a system which gives your money a purpose. The Banzai Way is an invitation to try something different — there’s simply nothing else like it. They are committed to helping you make the transition to this new perspective on spending. One way they do this is by giving you personalized, one-on-one assistance.
How It Works:
Upon sign-up, you will be given the name and email address of your Banzai Coach—a real human being committed to helping you navigate The Banzai Way. Your coach will be available to you whenever you have a question or need assistance applying The Banzai Way to your individual circumstances.
Get your first month of Banzai for one dollar! After the trial, your subscription will continue for only $4.95/mo.
If you sign-up for six month billing, we'll send you a printed copy of The Banzai Way, our 124-page guide to the philosophy and website, at no additional charge.
In addition to your Banzai Coach, you will also have access to an extensive online support library and a user forum where you can discuss what works (and what doesn’t) with other followers of The Banzai Way.
More at:http://www.banzaiway.com/
sportme is an innovative and completely free social network that assists grass root and semi-professional sports clubs, teams, individual athletes
What Company Is Offering:
sportme is an innovative and completely free social network that assists grass root and semi-professional sports clubs, teams, individual athletes and fans to interact online and share their sporting experiences with one another.
How It Works:
From football to archery, netball to bowls, sportme offers everyone involved in sports the chance to share their exploits with others in the sporting community.
Clubs, teams and individuals can create custom profiles and use the development functions to keep up to date with their sports schedules; coordinate practices, matches and tournaments and find local teams with whom they can compete.
Members can also communicate with their sports peers, develop friendships with other sporty people and promote themselves and their groups via the internet using sportme message boards, sports forums, blogs, calendar and photo/video sharing functions.To use (and even get detailed information about) sportme, you’ll need to sign up. Once you’ve done this, you begin by creating your profile and uploading a photo. The profiles are heavily sports-related and detailed; you can even specify your teams, positions, duties, accomplishments, greatest moments, etc. From there, you can browse for your teams and clubs and join them, or create new ones if they don’t yet exist. Joining such groups lets you communicate with other team members, coaches, trainers, and fans; you can check out scheduling info, upload photos and videos, create posts, and more. You’ll probably find some of your team members here, whom you can friend and/or message to expand your network.
More at:http://www.sportme.org/
sportme is an innovative and completely free social network that assists grass root and semi-professional sports clubs, teams, individual athletes and fans to interact online and share their sporting experiences with one another.
How It Works:
From football to archery, netball to bowls, sportme offers everyone involved in sports the chance to share their exploits with others in the sporting community.
Clubs, teams and individuals can create custom profiles and use the development functions to keep up to date with their sports schedules; coordinate practices, matches and tournaments and find local teams with whom they can compete.
Members can also communicate with their sports peers, develop friendships with other sporty people and promote themselves and their groups via the internet using sportme message boards, sports forums, blogs, calendar and photo/video sharing functions.To use (and even get detailed information about) sportme, you’ll need to sign up. Once you’ve done this, you begin by creating your profile and uploading a photo. The profiles are heavily sports-related and detailed; you can even specify your teams, positions, duties, accomplishments, greatest moments, etc. From there, you can browse for your teams and clubs and join them, or create new ones if they don’t yet exist. Joining such groups lets you communicate with other team members, coaches, trainers, and fans; you can check out scheduling info, upload photos and videos, create posts, and more. You’ll probably find some of your team members here, whom you can friend and/or message to expand your network.
More at:http://www.sportme.org/
Bueno Investments Limited to offer cutting edge deals for investors as they diversify into growth fields
What Company Is Offering:
Bueno Investments Limited to offer cutting edge deals for investors as they diversify into growth fields. Much of this is made possible by their unique team - made up of professional and experienced key members.This company provides a complete service for those looking to prosper from investment in property, whether it is through residential buy-to-lets, commercial property, or structured investment funds. Property Investment Specialists, providing buy-to-let, discounted, no money down, 100% financed, low deposit, guaranteed rental, high yielding and commercial investment properties. In addition, they offer income schemes, funds, investment schemes, tax advice, investment guidelines, investment articles, property buying guides and financial services.
How It Works:
Bueno Investments Limited offer a wide range of property investment services for all levels of investor from the first time buy-to-let investor to the experienced commercial investor to those looking to profit passively from structured funds. Our services also include full support on legal, financial and taxation aspects of any deal.
Their network of property finders and contacts with developers, combined with our understanding of the property industry ensures that the investment opportunities on offer to investors are amongst the best on the market. We also have an excellent team of in-house advisors, solicitors and brokers to ensure every deal proceeds as smoothly as possible.
Whether you are looking to purchase your first buy-to-let or expand an existing portfolio we are on hand to help. Specialising in sourcing high yielding investment opportunities and creative finance, we have the expertise to maximise your returns from property whilst offering complete support from choosing the right investment for you through to letting your property.
The returns available through investment within property are phenomenal.
More at:http://www.buenoinvestments.com/
Bueno Investments Limited to offer cutting edge deals for investors as they diversify into growth fields. Much of this is made possible by their unique team - made up of professional and experienced key members.This company provides a complete service for those looking to prosper from investment in property, whether it is through residential buy-to-lets, commercial property, or structured investment funds. Property Investment Specialists, providing buy-to-let, discounted, no money down, 100% financed, low deposit, guaranteed rental, high yielding and commercial investment properties. In addition, they offer income schemes, funds, investment schemes, tax advice, investment guidelines, investment articles, property buying guides and financial services.
How It Works:
Bueno Investments Limited offer a wide range of property investment services for all levels of investor from the first time buy-to-let investor to the experienced commercial investor to those looking to profit passively from structured funds. Our services also include full support on legal, financial and taxation aspects of any deal.
Their network of property finders and contacts with developers, combined with our understanding of the property industry ensures that the investment opportunities on offer to investors are amongst the best on the market. We also have an excellent team of in-house advisors, solicitors and brokers to ensure every deal proceeds as smoothly as possible.
Whether you are looking to purchase your first buy-to-let or expand an existing portfolio we are on hand to help. Specialising in sourcing high yielding investment opportunities and creative finance, we have the expertise to maximise your returns from property whilst offering complete support from choosing the right investment for you through to letting your property.
The returns available through investment within property are phenomenal.
More at:http://www.buenoinvestments.com/
Nazara is a leading mobile entertainment company focused on the 100 million+ mobile subscriber base in India
What Company Is Offering:
Nazara is a leading mobile entertainment company focused on the 100 million+ mobile subscriber base in India. They develop a range of branded and original mobile content that is highly relevant to the culturally diverse consumer base in the country.
How It Works:
Nazara Technologies is brand led mobile entertainment content in India. Nazara develops a range of mobile entertainment content including games and personalization content geared towards the rapidly growing mobile consumer base in India. The product range includes brand led content based on the likes of Sachin Tendulkar and MS Dhoni and sales channels include direct to consumer and carriers.
They combine technology with a compelling experience to create innovate applications in the mobile environment. Nazara also provides complete solutions for the development, deployment, targeting and tracking of promotional campaigns on emerging mobile platforms.Our wireless solutions integrate content of media companies, marketing messages and the consumer reach of wireless carriers.
More at:http://www.nazara.com/
Nazara is a leading mobile entertainment company focused on the 100 million+ mobile subscriber base in India. They develop a range of branded and original mobile content that is highly relevant to the culturally diverse consumer base in the country.
How It Works:
Nazara Technologies is brand led mobile entertainment content in India. Nazara develops a range of mobile entertainment content including games and personalization content geared towards the rapidly growing mobile consumer base in India. The product range includes brand led content based on the likes of Sachin Tendulkar and MS Dhoni and sales channels include direct to consumer and carriers.
They combine technology with a compelling experience to create innovate applications in the mobile environment. Nazara also provides complete solutions for the development, deployment, targeting and tracking of promotional campaigns on emerging mobile platforms.Our wireless solutions integrate content of media companies, marketing messages and the consumer reach of wireless carriers.
More at:http://www.nazara.com/
GameFly is the smartest way to rent, play and buy video games
What Company Is Offering:
GameFly is the smartest way to rent, play and buy video games. For one flat monthly fee, you can rent as many games as you want, with no due dates, no late fees, and pre-paid mail both ways. You get all the hottest titles from all the top players -- PlayStation 2, Xbox, Xbox 360, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, and PSP. If you like a game, "Keep it" for our low pre-played game price.
How It Works:
As a GameFly member, you can rent as many games as you want and play them as long as you want for only $22.95 per month. Manage your own personal wish list of games, what we call "My GameQ." Check out 2 games at a time. When you're done, send your games back to us and the next picks in your GameQ will automatically be sent to you.
They have the best selection of video games for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, PSP, Xbox 360, Xbox, Wii, GameCube, Nintendo DS, and Game Boy Advance. Open 24 hours every day, our rental library of over 5,000 titles makes renting hard-to-find classics and hot new releases as simple as a few clicks of your mouse. You can also find upcoming titles to add to your GameQ.
More at:http://www.gamefly.com/
GameFly is the smartest way to rent, play and buy video games. For one flat monthly fee, you can rent as many games as you want, with no due dates, no late fees, and pre-paid mail both ways. You get all the hottest titles from all the top players -- PlayStation 2, Xbox, Xbox 360, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, and PSP. If you like a game, "Keep it" for our low pre-played game price.
How It Works:
As a GameFly member, you can rent as many games as you want and play them as long as you want for only $22.95 per month. Manage your own personal wish list of games, what we call "My GameQ." Check out 2 games at a time. When you're done, send your games back to us and the next picks in your GameQ will automatically be sent to you.
They have the best selection of video games for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, PSP, Xbox 360, Xbox, Wii, GameCube, Nintendo DS, and Game Boy Advance. Open 24 hours every day, our rental library of over 5,000 titles makes renting hard-to-find classics and hot new releases as simple as a few clicks of your mouse. You can also find upcoming titles to add to your GameQ.
More at:http://www.gamefly.com/
56.com--Chines Video Sharing Site Got US$20 million In VCs Funding
What Company Is Offering:
56.com is a consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos worldwide through a Web experience.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Chinese video site 56.com officially announced that it has completed second round capital raising lead by HIKARI Private Equity, Inc. (HPE) and existing investor Susquehanna International Group China (SIG) with US$20 million, reports 163.com. Adobe Systems Incorporated, CID Capital, Sequoia Capital and Steamboat Ventures also participated in second round fundraising.
More at:http://www.56.com/
56.com is a consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos worldwide through a Web experience.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Chinese video site 56.com officially announced that it has completed second round capital raising lead by HIKARI Private Equity, Inc. (HPE) and existing investor Susquehanna International Group China (SIG) with US$20 million, reports 163.com. Adobe Systems Incorporated, CID Capital, Sequoia Capital and Steamboat Ventures also participated in second round fundraising.
More at:http://www.56.com/
There.com--Lush 3D Environment Virtual World
What Company is Offering:
There is an online getaway where you can hang out with your friends and meet new ones -- all in a lush 3D environment that's yours to explore and help build.Create your own fully customizable avatar - then get in There and join the crowd.
How It Works:
Once you've installed the There software, you'll be prompted to register and create a starter look for your avatar. It's easy! Once you're in There, you can customize your avatar further to create your own unique look.
There offers two membership plans - a BASIC membership and a PREMIUM membership.BASIC Membership is absolutely FREE! It includes your fully customizable avatar, your own unique name, a set of new member clothes and a new hoverboard. Once in There, you can explore the world, chat with friends via text and IM, participate in a variety of events and games, shop in the catalog and auctions, listen to streamed Internet radio, join up to 50 Clubs, and begin leveling up in the skill system.
Our PREMIUM Membership costs a one time fee of $9.95. Along with everything from the Basic Membership, Premium Membership includes extra goodies like Voice Chat, the ability to save teleport locations, event hosting and club leader privileges, and full skilling abilities. You'll also be able to earn Therebucks by becoming a Neighborhood owner and collecting rent from tenants, or by creating and selling items like custom avatar clothing, vehicles and home furnishings to other members in the auctions. View a comparison chart of BASIC and PREMIUM benefits.
Recent Updates:
Coca Cola ,the beverages company has moved on to There.com. CC Metro is the island Coke has created in this virtual world, where avatars can hang out. There’s a virtual movie theater for viewing short films (this seems to be very popular in virtual worlds), a diner, and shopping stores where you can use your Coke Rewards points to redeem items for your avatar to don on themselves or in their homes.
More at:http://www.there.com/
There is an online getaway where you can hang out with your friends and meet new ones -- all in a lush 3D environment that's yours to explore and help build.Create your own fully customizable avatar - then get in There and join the crowd.
How It Works:
Once you've installed the There software, you'll be prompted to register and create a starter look for your avatar. It's easy! Once you're in There, you can customize your avatar further to create your own unique look.
There offers two membership plans - a BASIC membership and a PREMIUM membership.BASIC Membership is absolutely FREE! It includes your fully customizable avatar, your own unique name, a set of new member clothes and a new hoverboard. Once in There, you can explore the world, chat with friends via text and IM, participate in a variety of events and games, shop in the catalog and auctions, listen to streamed Internet radio, join up to 50 Clubs, and begin leveling up in the skill system.
Our PREMIUM Membership costs a one time fee of $9.95. Along with everything from the Basic Membership, Premium Membership includes extra goodies like Voice Chat, the ability to save teleport locations, event hosting and club leader privileges, and full skilling abilities. You'll also be able to earn Therebucks by becoming a Neighborhood owner and collecting rent from tenants, or by creating and selling items like custom avatar clothing, vehicles and home furnishings to other members in the auctions. View a comparison chart of BASIC and PREMIUM benefits.
Recent Updates:
Coca Cola ,the beverages company has moved on to There.com. CC Metro is the island Coke has created in this virtual world, where avatars can hang out. There’s a virtual movie theater for viewing short films (this seems to be very popular in virtual worlds), a diner, and shopping stores where you can use your Coke Rewards points to redeem items for your avatar to don on themselves or in their homes.
More at:http://www.there.com/
ListenToYourWife.com
What Company is Saying:
ListenToYourWife.com you ask? The idea for this site started when I shared a NPR Radio story to my husband. My background is in Art, and I didn't have much knowledge on the subject, so it thrilled me because it gave me an opportunityto share an insightful story about HIS industry (IT).
However, from the moment that I was sharing the story, I felt a sense of skepticism in Howard's big eyes. He didn't believe a thing that I was saying!!! Worse was that he had the nerve to hop on to the computer in front of me and start Googling for the story. I couldn't believe what I was seeing!! When has my story become a fairy tale? Just because he has been in the industry for such a long time, it wasn't fair for him to automatically discredit it just because it came from me! Had the story come from his friends, co-workers, or even Sports Radio he would've believed it!!!
When he realized that the story was true, he turned to me and added, 'I guess you were right...'. I commented in an annoyed and sarcastic tone, 'Do you ever believe me?. Since you need the internet to validate my story, perhaps you should go to ListenToYourWife.com." Again Howard went to the computer and typed in listentoyourwife.com. At that time such a site did not exist. But it certainly gave us ideas.
I guess you could say something clicked in our heads after that experience. Howard and I were sure that I wasn't the only wife that felt this way. There must be thousands, if not millions of other wives with similar experiences. Why isn't there a site where I can go to share my marriage experiences? I needed a place to BE HEARD!! There was MySpace and FaceBook for teens and college students; LinkedIn for business professional. What about wives? Why not a destination portal where wives can freely go to express themselves?
Well, I guess you could say the rest is history. With the help from other business partner and my wonderful husband, (who now pays more attention to what I say), We've created this website to allow wives and future wives to connect, share their expertise and stories, and their life experience.
More at:http://www.listentoyourwife.com/
ListenToYourWife.com you ask? The idea for this site started when I shared a NPR Radio story to my husband. My background is in Art, and I didn't have much knowledge on the subject, so it thrilled me because it gave me an opportunityto share an insightful story about HIS industry (IT).
However, from the moment that I was sharing the story, I felt a sense of skepticism in Howard's big eyes. He didn't believe a thing that I was saying!!! Worse was that he had the nerve to hop on to the computer in front of me and start Googling for the story. I couldn't believe what I was seeing!! When has my story become a fairy tale? Just because he has been in the industry for such a long time, it wasn't fair for him to automatically discredit it just because it came from me! Had the story come from his friends, co-workers, or even Sports Radio he would've believed it!!!
When he realized that the story was true, he turned to me and added, 'I guess you were right...'. I commented in an annoyed and sarcastic tone, 'Do you ever believe me?. Since you need the internet to validate my story, perhaps you should go to ListenToYourWife.com." Again Howard went to the computer and typed in listentoyourwife.com. At that time such a site did not exist. But it certainly gave us ideas.
I guess you could say something clicked in our heads after that experience. Howard and I were sure that I wasn't the only wife that felt this way. There must be thousands, if not millions of other wives with similar experiences. Why isn't there a site where I can go to share my marriage experiences? I needed a place to BE HEARD!! There was MySpace and FaceBook for teens and college students; LinkedIn for business professional. What about wives? Why not a destination portal where wives can freely go to express themselves?
Well, I guess you could say the rest is history. With the help from other business partner and my wonderful husband, (who now pays more attention to what I say), We've created this website to allow wives and future wives to connect, share their expertise and stories, and their life experience.
More at:http://www.listentoyourwife.com/
Grouptivity provides publishers with a free service to increase their page ranking and referral traffic
What Company Is Offering:
Grouptivity is a "Publisher Centric" web service that provides publishers with additional users and a great environment to share and discuss web content.
The benefits for the publishers are increased traffic from better page rankings and referral, creating a community around their content, and increased monetization opportunities.
How It Works:
Grouptivity provides publishers with a free service to increase their page ranking and referral traffic, while providing their users with simple but powerful tools to share, discuss and track their content.
All content that is emailed via Grouptivity is automatically added to iPond- the first discovery website for finding the most shared content on the web. Grouptivity provides a host of tools for your users to stay connected with you no matter where they are online.
The Grouptivity-powered EmailPlus link/button allows any user to share content they find on your website via email, bookmarking or cut and paste. Features like "Contact Book" enable a quicker easier experience of sharing content. One click sharing replicates the traditional "Email This" functionality, providing a familiar user experience.
Each user receives a personalized account with a Dashboard, giving them anytime anywhere access to all their shared content, discussions and Contact Book online. Users are instantly notified when the user’s community members respond to the shared content.
More at:http://www.grouptivity.com/
Grouptivity is a "Publisher Centric" web service that provides publishers with additional users and a great environment to share and discuss web content.
The benefits for the publishers are increased traffic from better page rankings and referral, creating a community around their content, and increased monetization opportunities.
How It Works:
Grouptivity provides publishers with a free service to increase their page ranking and referral traffic, while providing their users with simple but powerful tools to share, discuss and track their content.
All content that is emailed via Grouptivity is automatically added to iPond- the first discovery website for finding the most shared content on the web. Grouptivity provides a host of tools for your users to stay connected with you no matter where they are online.
The Grouptivity-powered EmailPlus link/button allows any user to share content they find on your website via email, bookmarking or cut and paste. Features like "Contact Book" enable a quicker easier experience of sharing content. One click sharing replicates the traditional "Email This" functionality, providing a familiar user experience.
Each user receives a personalized account with a Dashboard, giving them anytime anywhere access to all their shared content, discussions and Contact Book online. Users are instantly notified when the user’s community members respond to the shared content.
More at:http://www.grouptivity.com/
Friday, December 7, 2007
OUTSHOUTS--Send Audio Messages
What Company is Offering:
OUTSHOUTS is the best way to intro your favorite audio with your own voice and make someone's day. Just upload your favorite audio track, add your message, and press send…to anyone with an email address or a mobile phone number.
You can even post OUTSHOUTS on other websites (like your blog or your social network pages), and send OUTSHOUTS directly from your mobile phone.
How It Works:
You can send OUTSHOUTS to anyone with a mobile phone or an email address - they don’t have to be registered.
You can mark your OUTSHOUTS public (let the world hear what you have to say), or private (only your recipients get to hear)
And you don’t even have to be on the web to send an OUTSHOUT -- just load up some tracks in your SHOUT List and dial 415-294-2225 to send directly from your mobile!
OUTSHOUTS is totally FREE -- you send as many as you like, to one friend at a time, or to a whole group of friends.
Features:
1.Anyone can receive and play OUTSHOUTS - they don’t have to be registered. If your friend sent an OUTSHOUT to your mobile phone, you should receive a text message directing your to dial 415-294-2225 to listen to your OUTSHOUT. If they sent it via email, you can just click on the link provided (if you don't see it in your inbox, be sure to check your junk or bulk mail folder). If you missed an OUTSHOUT that someone has sent to you, you can enter your email or mobile number on the homepage and we’ll go find it for you.
2.Find the BUY IT button in the OUTSHOUT player and click on either "iTunes" or "Amazon." You can purchase and download either a single song or the entire album as a download from iTunes, or you can purchase the entire album on CD and have it shipped from Amazon.
More at:http://www.outshouts.com/
OUTSHOUTS is the best way to intro your favorite audio with your own voice and make someone's day. Just upload your favorite audio track, add your message, and press send…to anyone with an email address or a mobile phone number.
You can even post OUTSHOUTS on other websites (like your blog or your social network pages), and send OUTSHOUTS directly from your mobile phone.
How It Works:
You can send OUTSHOUTS to anyone with a mobile phone or an email address - they don’t have to be registered.
You can mark your OUTSHOUTS public (let the world hear what you have to say), or private (only your recipients get to hear)
And you don’t even have to be on the web to send an OUTSHOUT -- just load up some tracks in your SHOUT List and dial 415-294-2225 to send directly from your mobile!
OUTSHOUTS is totally FREE -- you send as many as you like, to one friend at a time, or to a whole group of friends.
Features:
1.Anyone can receive and play OUTSHOUTS - they don’t have to be registered. If your friend sent an OUTSHOUT to your mobile phone, you should receive a text message directing your to dial 415-294-2225 to listen to your OUTSHOUT. If they sent it via email, you can just click on the link provided (if you don't see it in your inbox, be sure to check your junk or bulk mail folder). If you missed an OUTSHOUT that someone has sent to you, you can enter your email or mobile number on the homepage and we’ll go find it for you.
2.Find the BUY IT button in the OUTSHOUT player and click on either "iTunes" or "Amazon." You can purchase and download either a single song or the entire album as a download from iTunes, or you can purchase the entire album on CD and have it shipped from Amazon.
More at:http://www.outshouts.com/
Navigenics' flagship service provides members with knowledge of their genetic predispositions and encourages them to act on the information
What Company Is Offering:
Navigenics offers personalized, preventive health and wellness services to their members. Navigenics' flagship service provides members with knowledge of their genetic predispositions and encourages them to act on the information to prevent the onset of disease, achieve earlier diagnosis, appropriately manage disease, or otherwise lessen its impact.
How It Works:
At Navigenics, they use the latest genetic science to illuminate the future of your health and arm you with the knowledge to change it for the better.
Thanks to advances in genomic research, medicine and technology, they can now determine your genetic predisposition for certain diseases, perhaps years or decades before they develop. These insights enable you to take action before a disorder strikes to delay or even prevent the illness altogether.
Their laboratory is certified under federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) standards. There they screen your whole genome and compare it to the most up-to-date research on the genetic bases of conditions such as diabetes, cancer and heart disease. They then provide you with clinically based knowledge to help you take positive steps to live as long and healthy a life as possible.
More at:http://www.navigenics.com/
Navigenics offers personalized, preventive health and wellness services to their members. Navigenics' flagship service provides members with knowledge of their genetic predispositions and encourages them to act on the information to prevent the onset of disease, achieve earlier diagnosis, appropriately manage disease, or otherwise lessen its impact.
How It Works:
At Navigenics, they use the latest genetic science to illuminate the future of your health and arm you with the knowledge to change it for the better.
Thanks to advances in genomic research, medicine and technology, they can now determine your genetic predisposition for certain diseases, perhaps years or decades before they develop. These insights enable you to take action before a disorder strikes to delay or even prevent the illness altogether.
Their laboratory is certified under federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) standards. There they screen your whole genome and compare it to the most up-to-date research on the genetic bases of conditions such as diabetes, cancer and heart disease. They then provide you with clinically based knowledge to help you take positive steps to live as long and healthy a life as possible.
More at:http://www.navigenics.com/
Mixaloo--Mix Music And Earn
What Company Is Offering:
In the Age of the Cassette, mix-tapes functioned as more than just music. They were sonic messages written in secret code, obsessively created and received with awe. Mixaloo's mission is to spin this ritual for a digital generation, by offering cash rewards and choice merchandise to mix-makers who successfully market their handiwork. They offer a library of over 3 million songs, and intuitive software for making mixes and then promoting them in both private and public arenas.
How It Works:
Just go the homepage and fill in Album Title, Upload Cover Art, and Mix Description. Once you click Add Tracks to my Mix button you will be taken to the track picker page. If you need help with the track picker, click on the Help link in the upper right.Once you click “Add Tracks to My Mix” on the homepage or “Edit Mix” within the My Mixes section you will be taken to the Track Picker Page. If you need help from there, click “Show Help” button next to the artist search box.The track picker dynamically saves your mix each time you make a change. Clicking Preview /Promote is a good way to ensure your mix is saved though.
The promote button gives you the chance to promote your mix on your favorite social media sites by simply entering your log in information for that site. It is also where you can grab “Embed Code” which will give you HTML to place your widget anywhere you want.
Registering for Mixaloo is easy, just go to www.mixaloo.com and start building a Mix right on the homepage. You will be prompted to register as soon as you begin.
More at:http://www.mixaloo.com/
In the Age of the Cassette, mix-tapes functioned as more than just music. They were sonic messages written in secret code, obsessively created and received with awe. Mixaloo's mission is to spin this ritual for a digital generation, by offering cash rewards and choice merchandise to mix-makers who successfully market their handiwork. They offer a library of over 3 million songs, and intuitive software for making mixes and then promoting them in both private and public arenas.
How It Works:
Just go the homepage and fill in Album Title, Upload Cover Art, and Mix Description. Once you click Add Tracks to my Mix button you will be taken to the track picker page. If you need help with the track picker, click on the Help link in the upper right.Once you click “Add Tracks to My Mix” on the homepage or “Edit Mix” within the My Mixes section you will be taken to the Track Picker Page. If you need help from there, click “Show Help” button next to the artist search box.The track picker dynamically saves your mix each time you make a change. Clicking Preview /Promote is a good way to ensure your mix is saved though.
The promote button gives you the chance to promote your mix on your favorite social media sites by simply entering your log in information for that site. It is also where you can grab “Embed Code” which will give you HTML to place your widget anywhere you want.
Registering for Mixaloo is easy, just go to www.mixaloo.com and start building a Mix right on the homepage. You will be prompted to register as soon as you begin.
More at:http://www.mixaloo.com/
GoLark is a website that helps you find the best Events and Activities in your area
What Company Is Offering:
GoLark is a website that helps you find the best Events and Activities in your area. Whether they're Concerts, Museum Exhibits, Lectures, Shows, or just some of the cool things to see in your area, if you submit it, others can find it! All Larks are submitted and voted on by the GoLark community so that the best ones get pushed to the top of the list.
How It Works:
Top Larks are the best events and activities voted up by the GoLark community. New Larks are events and activities that have just been submitted. If a Lark on the New page gets enough votes it will make it onto the Top Larks page.Events are Larks that can only be enjoyed at most a few times. Re-Larkables are Larks that happen for quite some time, so you have many chances to enjoy them.By Voting on a Lark you will affect its ranking in the overall list. The more you vote, the better the list will get. Voting also helps GoLark keep track of the things you like and dislike for better recommendations. Submitting larks is a great way to share fun things to do with the rest of the GoLark community. Submitting Larks is also a great way to promote an event or activity, whether it be a local band playing or a pleasant hike through the woods.
GoLark is free to join. All you need is to verify your email address. Once your email is verified you can begin using all of GoLark's features.
More at:http://www.golark.com/
GoLark is a website that helps you find the best Events and Activities in your area. Whether they're Concerts, Museum Exhibits, Lectures, Shows, or just some of the cool things to see in your area, if you submit it, others can find it! All Larks are submitted and voted on by the GoLark community so that the best ones get pushed to the top of the list.
How It Works:
Top Larks are the best events and activities voted up by the GoLark community. New Larks are events and activities that have just been submitted. If a Lark on the New page gets enough votes it will make it onto the Top Larks page.Events are Larks that can only be enjoyed at most a few times. Re-Larkables are Larks that happen for quite some time, so you have many chances to enjoy them.By Voting on a Lark you will affect its ranking in the overall list. The more you vote, the better the list will get. Voting also helps GoLark keep track of the things you like and dislike for better recommendations. Submitting larks is a great way to share fun things to do with the rest of the GoLark community. Submitting Larks is also a great way to promote an event or activity, whether it be a local band playing or a pleasant hike through the woods.
GoLark is free to join. All you need is to verify your email address. Once your email is verified you can begin using all of GoLark's features.
More at:http://www.golark.com/
RealityAllStarz --Making You Reality Star
What Company is Offering:
RealityAllStarz is a community site where you play the game of life and become a Reality All Star! To play, share stories about how you have completed various challenges, ranging from acts of silliness to amazing life adventures, and earn trophies by getting the highest votes.
How It Works:
Tell stories about all the amazing challenges you're attempting in life! You get more points by attempting challenges that are deemed more difficult. People (and that means you) rate challenges based on difficulty. Pick the harder ones. Then, look at what others have done and try to out do them. We add up all the points from all your attempts and that’s your score. You have the highest score, you become The Reality All Star. Hint: invite your friends to vote on your performance, they'll be kinder than strangers. Good story telling and video evidence probably works better than photos alone.
Trophies are little rewards you collect when you do certain things. There are lots of different kinds of trophies for things like being the highest point earner for a challenge or being watched by 25 fans. Collect more trophies, impress your friends. Throw a party! Have fun!
There are two kinds of trophies. One kind is for when you do something as part of the game, like win a challenge or have lots of friends. The other kind is offered by someone sponsoring a challenge.
This game is a lot more fun when people you know start doing things you never knew they could. To challenge a friend, just find or create a challenge you think they'd enjoy, then click challenge friends. We'll send them a one time email with your challenge inviting them to play.
More at:http://realityallstarz.com/
RealityAllStarz is a community site where you play the game of life and become a Reality All Star! To play, share stories about how you have completed various challenges, ranging from acts of silliness to amazing life adventures, and earn trophies by getting the highest votes.
How It Works:
Tell stories about all the amazing challenges you're attempting in life! You get more points by attempting challenges that are deemed more difficult. People (and that means you) rate challenges based on difficulty. Pick the harder ones. Then, look at what others have done and try to out do them. We add up all the points from all your attempts and that’s your score. You have the highest score, you become The Reality All Star. Hint: invite your friends to vote on your performance, they'll be kinder than strangers. Good story telling and video evidence probably works better than photos alone.
Trophies are little rewards you collect when you do certain things. There are lots of different kinds of trophies for things like being the highest point earner for a challenge or being watched by 25 fans. Collect more trophies, impress your friends. Throw a party! Have fun!
There are two kinds of trophies. One kind is for when you do something as part of the game, like win a challenge or have lots of friends. The other kind is offered by someone sponsoring a challenge.
This game is a lot more fun when people you know start doing things you never knew they could. To challenge a friend, just find or create a challenge you think they'd enjoy, then click challenge friends. We'll send them a one time email with your challenge inviting them to play.
More at:http://realityallstarz.com/
Paperspine--Connecting Book Lovers
What Company Is Offering:
Paperspine is revolutionizing the way book readers around the country read, meet, and discuss books. They believe that by offering a cost-effective, convenient, and simple-to-use rental service people can read more and save money at the same time.
How It Works:
They came up with Paperspine by looking at the drawbacks conventional book options offer. Libraries can be cost effective but very inconvenient to use. Most of us have had the experience of waiting a long time for a newly released title, trekking back and forth to the library in all types of weather, or perhaps even worse, forgetting to return the book and accruing late charges. Online retailers such as Barnes and Noble and Amazon provide a good selection of books, but purchasing these books is expensive and, for most of us, the book has little value after we’ve read it. Over time books accumulate throughout the house until, one day, we finally gather them off our shelves, floor, or nightstand and donate them.
Unique features:
Their book rental model aims to give you the best of all worlds. They offer a huge selection of books - over 150,000 - to choose from, they get shipped conveniently right to your door, and you don’t accrue any late fees. Even better, when you’re done with the book just drop it in the mail using our pre-paid postage mailer. Not only will you be saving money, you’ll reduce BCS (Book Clutter Syndrome) around your house.
More at: http://www.paperspine.com/
Paperspine is revolutionizing the way book readers around the country read, meet, and discuss books. They believe that by offering a cost-effective, convenient, and simple-to-use rental service people can read more and save money at the same time.
How It Works:
They came up with Paperspine by looking at the drawbacks conventional book options offer. Libraries can be cost effective but very inconvenient to use. Most of us have had the experience of waiting a long time for a newly released title, trekking back and forth to the library in all types of weather, or perhaps even worse, forgetting to return the book and accruing late charges. Online retailers such as Barnes and Noble and Amazon provide a good selection of books, but purchasing these books is expensive and, for most of us, the book has little value after we’ve read it. Over time books accumulate throughout the house until, one day, we finally gather them off our shelves, floor, or nightstand and donate them.
Unique features:
Their book rental model aims to give you the best of all worlds. They offer a huge selection of books - over 150,000 - to choose from, they get shipped conveniently right to your door, and you don’t accrue any late fees. Even better, when you’re done with the book just drop it in the mail using our pre-paid postage mailer. Not only will you be saving money, you’ll reduce BCS (Book Clutter Syndrome) around your house.
More at: http://www.paperspine.com/
Copenda is a revolutionary people search engine which will allow you to search for your soul mate or meet new friends from all over the network
What Company Is Offering:
Copenda is a new way to search and meet people on the Internet.
Their unique search engine scans popular social networks and dating sites such as Myspaces, Facebook, hi5, friendster, match, plentyoffish and more.
How It Works:
Copenda is a revolutionary people search engine which will allow you to search for your soul mate or meet new friends from all over the network.
Copenda ,it's more than just love - it's a new way to search and meet people on the Internet.
Just type your preferences ...and Copenda will find the match, your next match can be from any site such as yahoo personal, mate1, Ocupid, plentyoffish, Singlesnet or Kisscafe.
With Copenda your next date can be as soon as today !!! and it is 100% Free !
More at:http://copenda.com/
Copenda is a new way to search and meet people on the Internet.
Their unique search engine scans popular social networks and dating sites such as Myspaces, Facebook, hi5, friendster, match, plentyoffish and more.
How It Works:
Copenda is a revolutionary people search engine which will allow you to search for your soul mate or meet new friends from all over the network.
Copenda ,it's more than just love - it's a new way to search and meet people on the Internet.
Just type your preferences ...and Copenda will find the match, your next match can be from any site such as yahoo personal, mate1, Ocupid, plentyoffish, Singlesnet or Kisscafe.
With Copenda your next date can be as soon as today !!! and it is 100% Free !
More at:http://copenda.com/
Future Scanner, essentially scans the web for the best future-focused content
What Company Is Offering:
Future Scanner, essentially scans the web for the best future-focused content (predictions by experts, discoveries that will impact future events, product prototypes, industry forecasts, useful resources, etc.) and then sorts it by future Year and Category.
How It Works:
When Community members locate these types of cool links, they tag them accordingly and submit them to site via their personal accounts. Other users then vote on the material they find most interesting or beneficial and the best content ends up being featured on the front page. Users are also encouraged to link together related scans and resources, so that it becomes easier to find more information on a given topic.
As you navigate through the Future Scanner during this they encourage you to spend some time voting up the links that appeal to you, carefully tag and title the links that you submit, and enter any related links and resources that you may be aware of. Your feedback is important so if you encounter any bugs or glitches, or have suggestions that would make the site work better for you, please let us know by posting comments in the MemeBox forums.
More at:http://memebox.com/
Future Scanner, essentially scans the web for the best future-focused content (predictions by experts, discoveries that will impact future events, product prototypes, industry forecasts, useful resources, etc.) and then sorts it by future Year and Category.
How It Works:
When Community members locate these types of cool links, they tag them accordingly and submit them to site via their personal accounts. Other users then vote on the material they find most interesting or beneficial and the best content ends up being featured on the front page. Users are also encouraged to link together related scans and resources, so that it becomes easier to find more information on a given topic.
As you navigate through the Future Scanner during this they encourage you to spend some time voting up the links that appeal to you, carefully tag and title the links that you submit, and enter any related links and resources that you may be aware of. Your feedback is important so if you encounter any bugs or glitches, or have suggestions that would make the site work better for you, please let us know by posting comments in the MemeBox forums.
More at:http://memebox.com/
Ihavethebest.com
What Company Is Offering:
They challenge you to Upload Yours and discover if you have the best at Ihavethebest.com.
How It Works:
Ihavethebest.com functions to both entertain, and also become a creative tool in broadcasting talent, originality, and ultimately what is to be considered the best by exposing the great variety of interesting people, talent, and prized possessions that make up the world. Do you have what it takes to be the best…then Upload Yours!
Using three mediums - Image, Video, and Audio, users have the ability to upload and broadcast what they believe should contend to be the best and most popular by category. What’s more, allowing users the control over the creation of new categories an infinite amount of contest possibilities exist. Just surfing? You also play a key role by having the option to comment, contact, or vote on what you and the world consider to be the best.
More at:http://www.ihavethebest.com/
They challenge you to Upload Yours and discover if you have the best at Ihavethebest.com.
How It Works:
Ihavethebest.com functions to both entertain, and also become a creative tool in broadcasting talent, originality, and ultimately what is to be considered the best by exposing the great variety of interesting people, talent, and prized possessions that make up the world. Do you have what it takes to be the best…then Upload Yours!
Using three mediums - Image, Video, and Audio, users have the ability to upload and broadcast what they believe should contend to be the best and most popular by category. What’s more, allowing users the control over the creation of new categories an infinite amount of contest possibilities exist. Just surfing? You also play a key role by having the option to comment, contact, or vote on what you and the world consider to be the best.
More at:http://www.ihavethebest.com/
Keibi Moderation Suite is a comprehensive solution for the moderation and classification of user generated content
What Company Is Offering:
The Keibi Technologies vision took root in early 2006 while its founders were working for a large social network located in San Francisco. This online community was experiencing massive viral growth and saw its user generated content increasing at a rate of over 20% per month.
How It Works:
Keibi Moderation Suite is a comprehensive solution for the moderation and classification of user generated content (UGC). Online Communities can quickly rid their network of low-value, inappropriate content while increasing advertiser-friendly inventory and improving their revenue opportunity.
Manages the four basic UGC types - Images, Animations, Text and Video
Classifies primary violations as Obscene, Racist, Violent, or Abusive
Incorporates item score, account history and prior decisions for more effective, holistic approach
Delivers as a scalable subscription based solution
Keibi Technologies was founded to help the growing number of companies leveraging user generated content -- social networks, content publishers and advertisers -- to protect their brands and improve advertising revenue. Their customers benefit from better member experiences, higher monetization of content and increased moderator productivity.
More at:http://www.keibitech.com/
The Keibi Technologies vision took root in early 2006 while its founders were working for a large social network located in San Francisco. This online community was experiencing massive viral growth and saw its user generated content increasing at a rate of over 20% per month.
How It Works:
Keibi Moderation Suite is a comprehensive solution for the moderation and classification of user generated content (UGC). Online Communities can quickly rid their network of low-value, inappropriate content while increasing advertiser-friendly inventory and improving their revenue opportunity.
Manages the four basic UGC types - Images, Animations, Text and Video
Classifies primary violations as Obscene, Racist, Violent, or Abusive
Incorporates item score, account history and prior decisions for more effective, holistic approach
Delivers as a scalable subscription based solution
Keibi Technologies was founded to help the growing number of companies leveraging user generated content -- social networks, content publishers and advertisers -- to protect their brands and improve advertising revenue. Their customers benefit from better member experiences, higher monetization of content and increased moderator productivity.
More at:http://www.keibitech.com/
SkiSpace is a new social networking and information site just for skiers, snowboarders and winter sports hounds
What Company Is Offering:
SkiSpace is a new social networking and information site just for skiers, snowboarders and winter sports hounds. Bode Miller in conjunction with PathConnect, LLC created SkiSpace to answer a need in the community for an all-encompassing customized experience that puts members right where you want to be.
How It Works:
SkiSpace was developed to let you connect with other skiers, boarders and snow sports fanatics, while keeping you up to date on the latest news and snow reports. Their features also give you the ability to share photos and videos, even from your mobile phone. But they wanted to go a lot further and make this a primo site for helping you plan your snow adventures, snag the best travel deals and hottest resorts, and outfit you with the greatest selection of gear you can find. The whole reason we’re here is to make your ski-centric life as easy as it is exciting.
How Is It Different:
SkiSpace takes the party to the next dimension. While other sites give you the news and views, the products and some simple chat room or forum features, SkiSpace lets you live the lifestyle larger by creating a community of people you can hook up and share the experience with. The SkiSpace platform enables you to define your own experience and stay connected anywhere. You can keep up with what’s going on in the ski world around the globe or create a regional network to connect with people in your area. With SkiSpace the possibilities are endless!
More at:http://skispace.com/
SkiSpace is a new social networking and information site just for skiers, snowboarders and winter sports hounds. Bode Miller in conjunction with PathConnect, LLC created SkiSpace to answer a need in the community for an all-encompassing customized experience that puts members right where you want to be.
How It Works:
SkiSpace was developed to let you connect with other skiers, boarders and snow sports fanatics, while keeping you up to date on the latest news and snow reports. Their features also give you the ability to share photos and videos, even from your mobile phone. But they wanted to go a lot further and make this a primo site for helping you plan your snow adventures, snag the best travel deals and hottest resorts, and outfit you with the greatest selection of gear you can find. The whole reason we’re here is to make your ski-centric life as easy as it is exciting.
How Is It Different:
SkiSpace takes the party to the next dimension. While other sites give you the news and views, the products and some simple chat room or forum features, SkiSpace lets you live the lifestyle larger by creating a community of people you can hook up and share the experience with. The SkiSpace platform enables you to define your own experience and stay connected anywhere. You can keep up with what’s going on in the ski world around the globe or create a regional network to connect with people in your area. With SkiSpace the possibilities are endless!
More at:http://skispace.com/
Adknowledge is the single destination for advertisers looking for quality clicks beyond Google and Yahoo
What Company Is Offering:
Adknowledge is the single destination for advertisers looking for quality clicks beyond Google® and Yahoo®. Adknowledge operates an online marketplace that allows advertisers to bid for traffic in websites, email and smaller search engines. To date, more than 50,000 advertisers have used the Adknowledge ad marketplace. Additionally, publishers can show Adknowledge ads by utilizing AdStation™ on their website, email list, or search engine.
How It Works:
Expand your reach beyond Google and Yahoo by accessing Adknowledge's multi-channel behavioral targeting network. Bid for clicks in thousands of venues including display, email and smaller search engines.
Recent Updates:
The company has just acquired Cubics for an undisclosed amount, which is Adknowledge’s second acquisition in the past month. Having already brought Mediarun’s ad network into the mix, Adknowledge is hoping to gain an extended reach deeper into social networks with the purchase of Cubics.
The Cubics ad network targets developers for applications that run on Facebook and Friendster. The company has indicated that support for Bebo is on the way, and as part of the Adknowledge family, it’s planning on taking advantage of MySpace and the rest of the OpenSocial participants as well. Cubics claims over 1 billion ad impressions on Facebook alone.
http://www.adknowledge.com/
Adknowledge is the single destination for advertisers looking for quality clicks beyond Google® and Yahoo®. Adknowledge operates an online marketplace that allows advertisers to bid for traffic in websites, email and smaller search engines. To date, more than 50,000 advertisers have used the Adknowledge ad marketplace. Additionally, publishers can show Adknowledge ads by utilizing AdStation™ on their website, email list, or search engine.
How It Works:
Expand your reach beyond Google and Yahoo by accessing Adknowledge's multi-channel behavioral targeting network. Bid for clicks in thousands of venues including display, email and smaller search engines.
Recent Updates:
The company has just acquired Cubics for an undisclosed amount, which is Adknowledge’s second acquisition in the past month. Having already brought Mediarun’s ad network into the mix, Adknowledge is hoping to gain an extended reach deeper into social networks with the purchase of Cubics.
The Cubics ad network targets developers for applications that run on Facebook and Friendster. The company has indicated that support for Bebo is on the way, and as part of the Adknowledge family, it’s planning on taking advantage of MySpace and the rest of the OpenSocial participants as well. Cubics claims over 1 billion ad impressions on Facebook alone.
http://www.adknowledge.com/
Moxi TV--Turn Your Windows XP PC Into The Hub Of Your Digital Entertainment
What Company Is Offering:
Moxi TV for PC is an easy-to-use video software application that lets you turn your Windows XP PC into the hub of your digital entertainment. All with a single solution that offers you the benefits of a DVR and a multimedia experience.
How It Works:
Record and control live TV by pausing, rewinding and fast forwarding. Play back DVD and CDs and enjoy your PC-based digital photos and music with the Emmy® Award-winning Moxi Menu. You can even play games and schedule recordings from the web when you're away from home.
Watch what you want, when you want to, wherever you are, with your programming all in one place. Everything you love about Moxi, now on your computer too.
Popular Features:
The Emmy® Award-winning Moxi Menu – in full HD – connects you to your favorite movies, music, photos and TV shows faster. And it sees about two weeks into the future, so you're never caught off guard.
Intelligent search and filtering helps you search smarter by title, category or keyword.
Digital media recorder features lets you pause, rewind, and fast forward through live TV and recorded programming.
Web Scheduling allows you to remotely schedule the recording of your favorite shows anywhere you have web access. Moxi also alerts you if you have any scheduling conflicts.
Favorites and personalized channel lists bring channel surfing to a new level.
Category menus give you easy access to recorded TV, HD content, news, kids, sports, movies, photos, and games.
Parental controls let you decide what's okay for the kids to watch.
More at:http://www.moxi.com/
Moxi TV for PC is an easy-to-use video software application that lets you turn your Windows XP PC into the hub of your digital entertainment. All with a single solution that offers you the benefits of a DVR and a multimedia experience.
How It Works:
Record and control live TV by pausing, rewinding and fast forwarding. Play back DVD and CDs and enjoy your PC-based digital photos and music with the Emmy® Award-winning Moxi Menu. You can even play games and schedule recordings from the web when you're away from home.
Watch what you want, when you want to, wherever you are, with your programming all in one place. Everything you love about Moxi, now on your computer too.
Popular Features:
The Emmy® Award-winning Moxi Menu – in full HD – connects you to your favorite movies, music, photos and TV shows faster. And it sees about two weeks into the future, so you're never caught off guard.
Intelligent search and filtering helps you search smarter by title, category or keyword.
Digital media recorder features lets you pause, rewind, and fast forward through live TV and recorded programming.
Web Scheduling allows you to remotely schedule the recording of your favorite shows anywhere you have web access. Moxi also alerts you if you have any scheduling conflicts.
Favorites and personalized channel lists bring channel surfing to a new level.
Category menus give you easy access to recorded TV, HD content, news, kids, sports, movies, photos, and games.
Parental controls let you decide what's okay for the kids to watch.
More at:http://www.moxi.com/
Music Intelligence Solutions has got a $7 million funding round, led by a group of angel investors
What Company Is Offering:
Music Intelligence Solutions, Inc., is a global digital media corporation with offices in San Francisco, CA; Savannah, GA; and Barcelona, Spain. The Company uses patent-approved technology to enhance the consumer experience with digital content including music and video. Ecosystem partners and customers include major music labels, digital media companies, mobile services providers and web 2.0 Internet services companies such as social networks and online retail portals.
How It Works:
Music Intelligence Solutions and its predecessor Polyphonic Human Media Interface (PHMI) have developed patented approaches to music and visual media discovery that can create the most compelling digital media destination for a broad consumer base of consumers, artists and businesses.
Unique Features:
Consumers find music they love.
Artists — both emerging and established — gain visibility and an ever-growing fan base.
Unique revenue and business solutions drive return on investment for on-line music aggregators, mobile service providers, and leading music labels and producers across the globe.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Music Intelligence Solutions has got a $7 million funding round, led by a group of angel investors. As the provider of software and analytics tools for search and discovery and marketing of music, MIS will be using the round of funding for global expansion and the launch of its web 2.0 personalization and networking tools.
From personalized radio stations to hit song science for artists and labels, MIS has found itself knee-deep in the online world of distribution tools.
More at:http://www.uplaya.com/
Music Intelligence Solutions, Inc., is a global digital media corporation with offices in San Francisco, CA; Savannah, GA; and Barcelona, Spain. The Company uses patent-approved technology to enhance the consumer experience with digital content including music and video. Ecosystem partners and customers include major music labels, digital media companies, mobile services providers and web 2.0 Internet services companies such as social networks and online retail portals.
How It Works:
Music Intelligence Solutions and its predecessor Polyphonic Human Media Interface (PHMI) have developed patented approaches to music and visual media discovery that can create the most compelling digital media destination for a broad consumer base of consumers, artists and businesses.
Unique Features:
Consumers find music they love.
Artists — both emerging and established — gain visibility and an ever-growing fan base.
Unique revenue and business solutions drive return on investment for on-line music aggregators, mobile service providers, and leading music labels and producers across the globe.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Music Intelligence Solutions has got a $7 million funding round, led by a group of angel investors. As the provider of software and analytics tools for search and discovery and marketing of music, MIS will be using the round of funding for global expansion and the launch of its web 2.0 personalization and networking tools.
From personalized radio stations to hit song science for artists and labels, MIS has found itself knee-deep in the online world of distribution tools.
More at:http://www.uplaya.com/
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Utterz is the first way you can instantly blog your experiences, thoughts and ideas, anywhere, using all the capabilities of your mobile phone
What Company Is Offering:
Utterz is the first way you can instantly blog your experiences, thoughts and ideas, anywhere, using all the capabilities of your mobile phone. Utterz mashes together the voice, video, pictures, and text you call or send in and creates an 'Utter' that can immediately update your existing web pages on sites like Blogger, Facebook, LiveJournal, MySpace and more.
How It Works:
An utter is any combination of voice, video, pictures, and text. Send them in whatever order you want, they'll figure it out.You can use the utterz service by e-mailing video, audio, pictures and text to go@utterz.com. You can also upload your utterz by clicking "Upload Utterz Here." We will be rolling utterz voice services out worldwide in the coming months. If you'd like to request we come quickly to your country, shoot an e-mail to sim@utterz.com! The easiest way to get started is just call 712-432-Mooo (6666) and record a voice Utter. Then snap a picture or video from your phone and send with some text to go@utterz.com. We'll mash it all together instantly and post it. You can choose to have it posted to Utterz and your blog or webpage, to just your web page or to just yourself.You can send voice, pix, videos and text in any order.Utterz is free because they have relationships with phone companies to get a small portion of what you are paying your cell phone company for your calling plan.
More at: http://www.utterz.com/
Utterz is the first way you can instantly blog your experiences, thoughts and ideas, anywhere, using all the capabilities of your mobile phone. Utterz mashes together the voice, video, pictures, and text you call or send in and creates an 'Utter' that can immediately update your existing web pages on sites like Blogger, Facebook, LiveJournal, MySpace and more.
How It Works:
An utter is any combination of voice, video, pictures, and text. Send them in whatever order you want, they'll figure it out.You can use the utterz service by e-mailing video, audio, pictures and text to go@utterz.com. You can also upload your utterz by clicking "Upload Utterz Here." We will be rolling utterz voice services out worldwide in the coming months. If you'd like to request we come quickly to your country, shoot an e-mail to sim@utterz.com! The easiest way to get started is just call 712-432-Mooo (6666) and record a voice Utter. Then snap a picture or video from your phone and send with some text to go@utterz.com. We'll mash it all together instantly and post it. You can choose to have it posted to Utterz and your blog or webpage, to just your web page or to just yourself.You can send voice, pix, videos and text in any order.Utterz is free because they have relationships with phone companies to get a small portion of what you are paying your cell phone company for your calling plan.
More at: http://www.utterz.com/
itsourtree.com, your brandnew free base for the exploration and discovery of your family tree
What Company Is Offering:
itsourtree.com, your brandnew free base for the exploration and discovery of your family tree.
How It Works:
Itsourtree lets you create your family tree by entering in information that you already know about your ancestors (names, birth and death dates, photos etc). By inviting more relatives, you’ll be able to collaborate to fill in the blanks on the chart, and track down more of your relatives. Once your tree is built, you can view it from your perspective, or you can click on a random relative and see how the chart would look from their point of view. Itsourtree operates several different sites which cater to different languages and countries (Brazil, Italy, Great Britain, Germany, Poland, and Spain). Signing up is free, and currently the site doesn’t charge any fees for any of its services.
More at:http://www.itsourtree.com/
itsourtree.com, your brandnew free base for the exploration and discovery of your family tree.
How It Works:
Itsourtree lets you create your family tree by entering in information that you already know about your ancestors (names, birth and death dates, photos etc). By inviting more relatives, you’ll be able to collaborate to fill in the blanks on the chart, and track down more of your relatives. Once your tree is built, you can view it from your perspective, or you can click on a random relative and see how the chart would look from their point of view. Itsourtree operates several different sites which cater to different languages and countries (Brazil, Italy, Great Britain, Germany, Poland, and Spain). Signing up is free, and currently the site doesn’t charge any fees for any of its services.
More at:http://www.itsourtree.com/
CrossLoop, Inc., creator of the world's easiest to use secure desktop sharing,announced that it has raised $3 Million in a Series A financing
What Company Is Offering:
CrossLoop is a consumer Internet company that empowers everyone to help someone anywhere in the world with its free and easy-to-use desktop sharing software application. CrossLoop connects computer users with trusted, qualified service providers and friends who can provide the support they need quickly and conveniently. With over 10 million help minutes served and over 300,000 unique users, CrossLoop is available in 21 languages and is used by individuals and businesses in over 150 countries for technical support, training and collaboration.
How Much They Got From VCs:
CrossLoop, Inc., creator of the world's easiest to use secure desktop sharing software, announced that it has raised $3 Million in a Series A financing led by El Dorado Ventures.
How They Are Progressing:
Since launching last November, CrossLoop has seen rapid adoption with hundreds of thousands of user sessions connecting people in over 150 countries worldwide," said Tom Peterson. "We are excited to partner with the CrossLoop team to help them achieve their vision of solving the frequent computer support problems that every computer user has experienced."
About VCs:
About El Dorado Ventures
El Dorado Ventures (EDV) is a leading entrepreneur-focused, early-stage venture capital firm with over two decades of success. Entrepreneurs see EDV as a trusted investment partner who shares their vision and helps them succeed by providing ongoing strategic guidance and access to a wealth of industry contacts. With $750 million in capital under management, the firm invests across the information technology spectrum, from semiconductors and systems to communications, software and services, targeting both consumers and the enterprise. El Dorado's early-stage investments have included Compellent Technologies, Cyras Systems, EarthLink, Efficient Networks, Novellus and NuSpeed Internet Systems. Numerous EDV portfolio companies have gone public or been acquired by major technology companies including AT&T, Ciena, Cisco Systems, nVidia, Siemens, Texas Instruments and Yahoo.
VCs website detail at:http://www.eldorado.com/
Product detail at:https://www.crossloop.com/
CrossLoop is a consumer Internet company that empowers everyone to help someone anywhere in the world with its free and easy-to-use desktop sharing software application. CrossLoop connects computer users with trusted, qualified service providers and friends who can provide the support they need quickly and conveniently. With over 10 million help minutes served and over 300,000 unique users, CrossLoop is available in 21 languages and is used by individuals and businesses in over 150 countries for technical support, training and collaboration.
How Much They Got From VCs:
CrossLoop, Inc., creator of the world's easiest to use secure desktop sharing software, announced that it has raised $3 Million in a Series A financing led by El Dorado Ventures.
How They Are Progressing:
Since launching last November, CrossLoop has seen rapid adoption with hundreds of thousands of user sessions connecting people in over 150 countries worldwide," said Tom Peterson. "We are excited to partner with the CrossLoop team to help them achieve their vision of solving the frequent computer support problems that every computer user has experienced."
About VCs:
About El Dorado Ventures
El Dorado Ventures (EDV) is a leading entrepreneur-focused, early-stage venture capital firm with over two decades of success. Entrepreneurs see EDV as a trusted investment partner who shares their vision and helps them succeed by providing ongoing strategic guidance and access to a wealth of industry contacts. With $750 million in capital under management, the firm invests across the information technology spectrum, from semiconductors and systems to communications, software and services, targeting both consumers and the enterprise. El Dorado's early-stage investments have included Compellent Technologies, Cyras Systems, EarthLink, Efficient Networks, Novellus and NuSpeed Internet Systems. Numerous EDV portfolio companies have gone public or been acquired by major technology companies including AT&T, Ciena, Cisco Systems, nVidia, Siemens, Texas Instruments and Yahoo.
VCs website detail at:http://www.eldorado.com/
Product detail at:https://www.crossloop.com/
TuVox has closed $20 million of financing
What Company Is Offering:
TuVox speech applications deliver world-class customer service through the phone channel and achieve the highest levels of caller adoption.
TuVox also offers over 50 award winning self-service speech applications, and powerful knowledge voice base applications - all deployed rapidly and updated in short, efficient cycles. The TuVox advantage: leading edge technology combined with deep expertise.
How It Works:
TuVox Perfect Router a conversational call routing application, determines caller intent and routes the call to the appropriate self-service application or agent.
All TuVox applications are available hosted through their low risk, high availability hosting. Customers limit risk, up-front capital investment and benefit from faster response to market changes through TuVox's rapid updates to the application.
All TuVox applications are also deployable on-premise. Customers can maintain the applications using TuVox life cycle software or outsource maintenance and tuning to TuVox.
How Much They Got From VCs:
They have announced that it has closed $20 million of financing. This additional capital provides TuVox the ability to accelerate expansion of its core business and invest in new areas of growth. The financing included new investor Glynn Capital Management and the continued participation of all of TuVox’s institutional investors, including Norwest Venture Partners, Foundation Capital, Granite Ventures, and Adobe Ventures.
More at:http://www.tuvox.com/
TuVox speech applications deliver world-class customer service through the phone channel and achieve the highest levels of caller adoption.
TuVox also offers over 50 award winning self-service speech applications, and powerful knowledge voice base applications - all deployed rapidly and updated in short, efficient cycles. The TuVox advantage: leading edge technology combined with deep expertise.
How It Works:
TuVox Perfect Router a conversational call routing application, determines caller intent and routes the call to the appropriate self-service application or agent.
All TuVox applications are available hosted through their low risk, high availability hosting. Customers limit risk, up-front capital investment and benefit from faster response to market changes through TuVox's rapid updates to the application.
All TuVox applications are also deployable on-premise. Customers can maintain the applications using TuVox life cycle software or outsource maintenance and tuning to TuVox.
How Much They Got From VCs:
They have announced that it has closed $20 million of financing. This additional capital provides TuVox the ability to accelerate expansion of its core business and invest in new areas of growth. The financing included new investor Glynn Capital Management and the continued participation of all of TuVox’s institutional investors, including Norwest Venture Partners, Foundation Capital, Granite Ventures, and Adobe Ventures.
More at:http://www.tuvox.com/
FlyRig is New York City's community-based apartment rental site
What Company Is Offering:
FlyRig is New York City's community-based apartment rental site, where apartment hunters are given the tools to make their searches quickly and with confidence.
Renting an apartment in New York City is expensive, time-consuming, and chaotic. It's their goal to fix these issues by creating a listing service where the community has a voice and trustworthy brokers are rewarded.
How It Works:
They're building a set of tools so you can quickly assess a property by map, transportation routes, local interest information, pictures, and opinions shared by fellow apartment hunters. Since most of New York's apartments can be found through a broker, it's important that you connect with one you can trust. They're giving the community a voice by asking them to share their views on individual listings and the brokers they've worked with so you can get a better understanding of what's available. In addition, they've enabled the brokers to easily communicate with you so there's no time wasted.
How Is It Different:
They have a large portfolio of fresh listings, maps, transportation information, and several community-based features. All visitors are encouraged to post comments and reviews on both listings and brokers. This way, you'll know what the properties are really like and be able to work with brokers you trust.
More at:http://www.flyrig.com/
FlyRig is New York City's community-based apartment rental site, where apartment hunters are given the tools to make their searches quickly and with confidence.
Renting an apartment in New York City is expensive, time-consuming, and chaotic. It's their goal to fix these issues by creating a listing service where the community has a voice and trustworthy brokers are rewarded.
How It Works:
They're building a set of tools so you can quickly assess a property by map, transportation routes, local interest information, pictures, and opinions shared by fellow apartment hunters. Since most of New York's apartments can be found through a broker, it's important that you connect with one you can trust. They're giving the community a voice by asking them to share their views on individual listings and the brokers they've worked with so you can get a better understanding of what's available. In addition, they've enabled the brokers to easily communicate with you so there's no time wasted.
How Is It Different:
They have a large portfolio of fresh listings, maps, transportation information, and several community-based features. All visitors are encouraged to post comments and reviews on both listings and brokers. This way, you'll know what the properties are really like and be able to work with brokers you trust.
More at:http://www.flyrig.com/
Tesly is a web-based test plan management system
What Company Is Offering:
Tesly is a web-based test plan management system that allows you not only to store and track the results your test cases, but also to share the testing responsibility among members of your team. After creating your team, you can assign test cases to be executed by your team-mates, who will receive a notice of the test case assignment via email. Every time a test case is executed, you will immediately get the results of that test run via email. When you come back to the site, you'll be able to see at a glance the status of your testing, as well as review the history of testing activity.Tesly, LLC creates web-based software aimed at helping teams collaborate to solve problems and deliver results. Aside from delivering products such as Tesly and Tesly Jr., Tesly LLC also provides consulting and development for custom web applications. Get in touch to learn how your business can realize success with the help of web applications custom-built to suit your needs.
How It Works:
Tesly is provided both as a hosted service and as a licensed product you can install on your own server. The hosted Tesly service has both free and paid subscription levels. With your free account you will be able to manage one project and have as many people as you wish on your team. Your team-mates will be able to see all the test documentation that you create, and you can assign tests to particular individuals or just make them available for others to view and run. If you wish to manage more than one project, or if you'd like to have the ability to create attachments and track issues, you can create a paid subscription.
More at:http://www.tesly.com/
Tesly is a web-based test plan management system that allows you not only to store and track the results your test cases, but also to share the testing responsibility among members of your team. After creating your team, you can assign test cases to be executed by your team-mates, who will receive a notice of the test case assignment via email. Every time a test case is executed, you will immediately get the results of that test run via email. When you come back to the site, you'll be able to see at a glance the status of your testing, as well as review the history of testing activity.Tesly, LLC creates web-based software aimed at helping teams collaborate to solve problems and deliver results. Aside from delivering products such as Tesly and Tesly Jr., Tesly LLC also provides consulting and development for custom web applications. Get in touch to learn how your business can realize success with the help of web applications custom-built to suit your needs.
How It Works:
Tesly is provided both as a hosted service and as a licensed product you can install on your own server. The hosted Tesly service has both free and paid subscription levels. With your free account you will be able to manage one project and have as many people as you wish on your team. Your team-mates will be able to see all the test documentation that you create, and you can assign tests to particular individuals or just make them available for others to view and run. If you wish to manage more than one project, or if you'd like to have the ability to create attachments and track issues, you can create a paid subscription.
More at:http://www.tesly.com/
ClickTale, the analytics tool for measuring your site visitors’ browsing sessions, has secured an undisclosed amount of funding fromYL Ventures
What Company Is Offering:
ClickTale is a brand new approach to website analysis and optimization. While traditional web analytics provide aggregated visitor data across web pages, we provide information about individual visitor behavior inside the web page. We show website owners movies of browsing sessions, as well as meaningful reports of behavior inside their webpage by aggregating thousands of visitor sessions. Now, website owners can gain a deeper understanding of visitor behavior, which leads to improved website usability, enhanced navigation, and increased overall website effectiveness.
How It Works:
ClickTale is a hosted service, so no software installation on the server or client side is needed and visitors can browse your website as they always have. Account setup takes only a few minutes. As with other web analytics packages, website owners add a small piece of JavaScript code to their web pages. The JavaScript collects browsing data and transmits it to the ClickTale servers for processing. ClickTale creates movies of browsing sessions in minutes, and website owners can log-in securely at any time to view these movies.
How is it different:
ClickTale-enabled pages have been visited over 100 million times and over one million pages have been recorded. They offer Heatmaps for an aggregate view of your data, advanced search capabilities, automatic tagging, and recording of https pages such as checkout and login pages.
Unlike other solutions, they cache your pages' HTML at the time of the recording, so the movies you see are absolutely accurate. They are also the only solution that works with member-only, password protected, session based and intranet websites.
How Much They Got From VCs:
ClickTale, the analytics tool for measuring your site visitors’ browsing sessions, has secured an undisclosed amount of funding from European venture capital firm YL Ventures.
More at:http://www.clicktale.com/
ClickTale is a brand new approach to website analysis and optimization. While traditional web analytics provide aggregated visitor data across web pages, we provide information about individual visitor behavior inside the web page. We show website owners movies of browsing sessions, as well as meaningful reports of behavior inside their webpage by aggregating thousands of visitor sessions. Now, website owners can gain a deeper understanding of visitor behavior, which leads to improved website usability, enhanced navigation, and increased overall website effectiveness.
How It Works:
ClickTale is a hosted service, so no software installation on the server or client side is needed and visitors can browse your website as they always have. Account setup takes only a few minutes. As with other web analytics packages, website owners add a small piece of JavaScript code to their web pages. The JavaScript collects browsing data and transmits it to the ClickTale servers for processing. ClickTale creates movies of browsing sessions in minutes, and website owners can log-in securely at any time to view these movies.
How is it different:
ClickTale-enabled pages have been visited over 100 million times and over one million pages have been recorded. They offer Heatmaps for an aggregate view of your data, advanced search capabilities, automatic tagging, and recording of https pages such as checkout and login pages.
Unlike other solutions, they cache your pages' HTML at the time of the recording, so the movies you see are absolutely accurate. They are also the only solution that works with member-only, password protected, session based and intranet websites.
How Much They Got From VCs:
ClickTale, the analytics tool for measuring your site visitors’ browsing sessions, has secured an undisclosed amount of funding from European venture capital firm YL Ventures.
More at:http://www.clicktale.com/
TomTom WORKS---Tracking And Tracing --your vehicles in real time on street level maps and know the exact locations
What Company Is Offering:
TomTom WORK, a division of the industry leading TomTom NV, is a provider of tracking and tracing solutions for fleet management combined with navigation and communication products and services to the business to business market.
How It Works:
TomTom WORK offers a connected navigation solution that combines plug and play tracking & tracing technology, with smart navigation and communication tools. It helps to improve the management (and control) of vehicles and day to day planning. All you need is a mobile navigation system connected to the web-based TomTom WEBFLEET vehicle management and communication service. No special software or interference from IT is needed. Therefore TomTom WORK is for any sort and any size of fleet. Surveil and guide your vehicles and staff, manage and plan your business, communicate with your drivers and help them to find their way the easy way!
TomTom WORKS' business activities is throughout Europe, focusing on all professional multi car users, which make TomTom WORK suitable for pretty well any size or type of businesses.
Features:
View your vehicles in real time on street level maps and know the exact locations. Identify where the vehicle is located against your planning and pick the best vehicles to manage a new task.
Navigation by order with destination address makes the driver's job a lot easier and less stressfull.
Send (standard) text messages from and to the office, give client orders and locations or send tasks with navigation coordinates via the PC in the office to the drivers. Simple and Quick.
Make automatic logbooks of driving time, times of standstill and habits for tax, for KM registration, pay roll and expense accounting. Receive daily, weekly or monthly reports containing exact data your company requires.
Recent Updates:
TomTom, team up with Google to provide greater utility in TomTom’s portable GPS devices.Google and TomTom is actually a major step for TomTom, and GPS navigation as a whole. Live business data and points of interest from the Google business listings as well as certain crowd-sourced Google Maps data for points of interest will be available via Internet capable TomTom devices.
More at:http://www.tomtomwork.com/
TomTom WORK, a division of the industry leading TomTom NV, is a provider of tracking and tracing solutions for fleet management combined with navigation and communication products and services to the business to business market.
How It Works:
TomTom WORK offers a connected navigation solution that combines plug and play tracking & tracing technology, with smart navigation and communication tools. It helps to improve the management (and control) of vehicles and day to day planning. All you need is a mobile navigation system connected to the web-based TomTom WEBFLEET vehicle management and communication service. No special software or interference from IT is needed. Therefore TomTom WORK is for any sort and any size of fleet. Surveil and guide your vehicles and staff, manage and plan your business, communicate with your drivers and help them to find their way the easy way!
TomTom WORKS' business activities is throughout Europe, focusing on all professional multi car users, which make TomTom WORK suitable for pretty well any size or type of businesses.
Features:
View your vehicles in real time on street level maps and know the exact locations. Identify where the vehicle is located against your planning and pick the best vehicles to manage a new task.
Navigation by order with destination address makes the driver's job a lot easier and less stressfull.
Send (standard) text messages from and to the office, give client orders and locations or send tasks with navigation coordinates via the PC in the office to the drivers. Simple and Quick.
Make automatic logbooks of driving time, times of standstill and habits for tax, for KM registration, pay roll and expense accounting. Receive daily, weekly or monthly reports containing exact data your company requires.
Recent Updates:
TomTom, team up with Google to provide greater utility in TomTom’s portable GPS devices.Google and TomTom is actually a major step for TomTom, and GPS navigation as a whole. Live business data and points of interest from the Google business listings as well as certain crowd-sourced Google Maps data for points of interest will be available via Internet capable TomTom devices.
More at:http://www.tomtomwork.com/
Organic Incentive--User Generated Marketing
What Company Is Offering:
Organic: like organic search marketing (SEO), Incentive: the natural incentive visitors have to share your widget because of its compelling content. They provide organic incentives to market your product.
How It Works:
Organic Incentive is the Clearspring killer. They provide tools so users with absolutely no programming experience can create viral widgets. All you do is enter the URL of your flash widget, and drag and drop a "share" button on to it, customize it, and customize the popup with all the share options that appears when your users click "share."
They have a widget ad system in the works, as well as complete widget creation for all sorts of widgets, media players, widgets with forms, chat rooms, messaging widgets, chat widgets, comment widgets, etc. Our system also lets you combine them together, or upload your own widget and combine it with that.
The main thing though, regardless of however many flash widgets you can drag, drop and customize, is THE CUSTOMIZEABILITY! It's almost endless, and for the first time you can create completely custom branded flash widgets without knowing actionscript
You simply put your widget into the marketplace, choose how much you want to pay for every time someone clicks & "share" on the widget. Then top bloggers scoop it up to make some extra bread, and they get paid every time one of their loyal readders "shares" it. It's a payperpost sorta twist....The good part though is that you don't need to pay any time it is shared after this first degree of separation (or wait, is that the 0th degree...well whatever).
More at:http://www.organicincentive.com/
Organic: like organic search marketing (SEO), Incentive: the natural incentive visitors have to share your widget because of its compelling content. They provide organic incentives to market your product.
How It Works:
Organic Incentive is the Clearspring killer. They provide tools so users with absolutely no programming experience can create viral widgets. All you do is enter the URL of your flash widget, and drag and drop a "share" button on to it, customize it, and customize the popup with all the share options that appears when your users click "share."
They have a widget ad system in the works, as well as complete widget creation for all sorts of widgets, media players, widgets with forms, chat rooms, messaging widgets, chat widgets, comment widgets, etc. Our system also lets you combine them together, or upload your own widget and combine it with that.
The main thing though, regardless of however many flash widgets you can drag, drop and customize, is THE CUSTOMIZEABILITY! It's almost endless, and for the first time you can create completely custom branded flash widgets without knowing actionscript
You simply put your widget into the marketplace, choose how much you want to pay for every time someone clicks & "share" on the widget. Then top bloggers scoop it up to make some extra bread, and they get paid every time one of their loyal readders "shares" it. It's a payperpost sorta twist....The good part though is that you don't need to pay any time it is shared after this first degree of separation (or wait, is that the 0th degree...well whatever).
More at:http://www.organicincentive.com/
WildTangent is the fastest growing online game propertyhas raised $20 million in venture debt funding from Hercules Technology Growth Capital
What Company Is Offering:
WildTangent is the fastest growing online game property in the world with 11.5 million unique monthly gamers (comScore July 2007) offering hundreds of the most popular online and downloadable games from the world's top developers and publishers including its own WildStudios which publishes Polar Bowler, Penguins, Fate and many more.
The WildTangent Games Console ships directly on the desktops of leading PC manufacturers including Dell, HP, Gateway and Toshiba, representing more than 25 million new consumer PCs annually in North America. Gamers of all ages and demographics play more than 250 million game sessions a month across the WildTangent game network.
How Much They Got From VCs:
WildTangent Inc., a Redmond, Wash.-based online gaming network, has raised $20 million in venture debt funding from Hercules Technology Growth Capital. The company previously has raised $67 million in VC funding since 1999, from firms like Advanced Technology Ventures, ATI, CIBC Capital Partners, Grelock, IDG Ventures, Madrona Venture Group, Millennium Technology Ventures, New Millennium Partners, Sony Corp. and Washington Mutual.
What VCs Says About Company:
The casual gaming market is growing exponentially, and WildTangent has proven to be a key player," said Sam Bhaumik, senior managing director and group head of technology at Hercules. "WildTangent is a leader in developing new and exciting business models in the online games space," Bhaumik said. "They have invented an industry-leading platform that provides unparalleled opportunities for marketers to appeal to gamers, while enhancing and adding value to the overall gaming experience
About VCs:
Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. is a NASDAQ traded specialty finance company providing debt and equity growth capital to technology and life science companies at all stages of development. Founded in December 2003, the company primarily finances privately held companies backed by leading venture capital and private equity firms. Hercules invests in a broad range of ventures active in technology and life science industries and offers a full suite of growth capital products up and down the capital structure. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif. and has additional offices in the Boston, Boulder, Los Angeles and Chicago areas. Providing capital to publicly-traded or privately-held companies backed by leading venture capital and private equity firms involves a high degree of credit risk and may result in potential losses of capital. For more www.HTGC.com.
More at:http://www.wildtangent.com/
WildTangent is the fastest growing online game property in the world with 11.5 million unique monthly gamers (comScore July 2007) offering hundreds of the most popular online and downloadable games from the world's top developers and publishers including its own WildStudios which publishes Polar Bowler, Penguins, Fate and many more.
The WildTangent Games Console ships directly on the desktops of leading PC manufacturers including Dell, HP, Gateway and Toshiba, representing more than 25 million new consumer PCs annually in North America. Gamers of all ages and demographics play more than 250 million game sessions a month across the WildTangent game network.
How Much They Got From VCs:
WildTangent Inc., a Redmond, Wash.-based online gaming network, has raised $20 million in venture debt funding from Hercules Technology Growth Capital. The company previously has raised $67 million in VC funding since 1999, from firms like Advanced Technology Ventures, ATI, CIBC Capital Partners, Grelock, IDG Ventures, Madrona Venture Group, Millennium Technology Ventures, New Millennium Partners, Sony Corp. and Washington Mutual.
What VCs Says About Company:
The casual gaming market is growing exponentially, and WildTangent has proven to be a key player," said Sam Bhaumik, senior managing director and group head of technology at Hercules. "WildTangent is a leader in developing new and exciting business models in the online games space," Bhaumik said. "They have invented an industry-leading platform that provides unparalleled opportunities for marketers to appeal to gamers, while enhancing and adding value to the overall gaming experience
About VCs:
Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. is a NASDAQ traded specialty finance company providing debt and equity growth capital to technology and life science companies at all stages of development. Founded in December 2003, the company primarily finances privately held companies backed by leading venture capital and private equity firms. Hercules invests in a broad range of ventures active in technology and life science industries and offers a full suite of growth capital products up and down the capital structure. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif. and has additional offices in the Boston, Boulder, Los Angeles and Chicago areas. Providing capital to publicly-traded or privately-held companies backed by leading venture capital and private equity firms involves a high degree of credit risk and may result in potential losses of capital. For more www.HTGC.com.
More at:http://www.wildtangent.com/
Get Gift Ideas
What Company Is Offering:
Ilan and friends will help you find meaningful gift ideas for your loved ones, friends or other acquaintances. They are searching for gifts all the time on the web and offline, and are by our selves gifters of some experience.
How It Works:
This is the place to ask for Advice.
Whether these are luxurious gifts you are looking for or sentimental presents or even poker gifts.If you click on the "Gift Ideas" Link or the grey button at the top of page. The gift advice table would open and there you can tell us a little about the gift - recipient's tastes. The reason for the gift and whatever information you wish to add.Give them a few days to scratch their heads, and they'll do best to impress you with the perfect gift idea.
Visitors who need an advice are asked to describe the gift recipient and circumstances in short, and they usually receive an email response within 3 days. It is strictly human operated, and the advice is based on surveying gift sites and new product announcements. They also offer a gift-site review service for e-stores giving them some improvement tips and quality badges. All the site's services are free, there are some ads throughout the pages and the occasional text ad embedded in the emails.
More at:http://www.getgifting.com/
Ilan and friends will help you find meaningful gift ideas for your loved ones, friends or other acquaintances. They are searching for gifts all the time on the web and offline, and are by our selves gifters of some experience.
How It Works:
This is the place to ask for Advice.
Whether these are luxurious gifts you are looking for or sentimental presents or even poker gifts.If you click on the "Gift Ideas" Link or the grey button at the top of page. The gift advice table would open and there you can tell us a little about the gift - recipient's tastes. The reason for the gift and whatever information you wish to add.Give them a few days to scratch their heads, and they'll do best to impress you with the perfect gift idea.
Visitors who need an advice are asked to describe the gift recipient and circumstances in short, and they usually receive an email response within 3 days. It is strictly human operated, and the advice is based on surveying gift sites and new product announcements. They also offer a gift-site review service for e-stores giving them some improvement tips and quality badges. All the site's services are free, there are some ads throughout the pages and the occasional text ad embedded in the emails.
More at:http://www.getgifting.com/
Online Print Ordering
What Company Is Offering:
Personalise and download graphic designs as PDF, JPEG, GIF and PNG files. Anything from website banners to real estate signs. Design products like business cards, posters, etc. Supplied by printing companies from all over the globe.
How it Works:
1.Find printers to meet your requirements and request quotes for your designs. Use your own files or designs from this website.2.Personalise and download graphic designs as PDF, JPEG, GIF and PNG files. Anything from website banners to real estate signs.3.Design products like business cards, posters, etc. Supplied by printing companies from all over the globe.4.Find publications and ad agencies to reach your markets. Send them your files or use design from this website.
It is an open service where anyone can upload a graphic design for others substitute texts and images. The system outputs PDF for print, JPEG for photo printing and GIF/PNG for viewing on screen. If you are not willing to pay $100 for a banner that will run for a week you can pick one for $10 on ZetaPrints.com, put your text and photos in it and download it in minutes. The personalization process is completely automated. Design authors get 50% commissions from all sales.
More at:http://zetaprints.com/
Personalise and download graphic designs as PDF, JPEG, GIF and PNG files. Anything from website banners to real estate signs. Design products like business cards, posters, etc. Supplied by printing companies from all over the globe.
How it Works:
1.Find printers to meet your requirements and request quotes for your designs. Use your own files or designs from this website.2.Personalise and download graphic designs as PDF, JPEG, GIF and PNG files. Anything from website banners to real estate signs.3.Design products like business cards, posters, etc. Supplied by printing companies from all over the globe.4.Find publications and ad agencies to reach your markets. Send them your files or use design from this website.
It is an open service where anyone can upload a graphic design for others substitute texts and images. The system outputs PDF for print, JPEG for photo printing and GIF/PNG for viewing on screen. If you are not willing to pay $100 for a banner that will run for a week you can pick one for $10 on ZetaPrints.com, put your text and photos in it and download it in minutes. The personalization process is completely automated. Design authors get 50% commissions from all sales.
More at:http://zetaprints.com/
bmorgz---Web Organizer
What Company Is Offering:
bmorgz has been created for those people who want to manage their time more effectively and easier then ever. For all who need application which will enable creating categorized notes, planning and writing events in the calendar or such thanks to which they will be able to save information about their clients and friends - everything in one easy accessed place. Try out our system right now - registration is 100% free.
How It Works:
To start work with bmorgz - all you have to do is have a justbemore account. Which means that you have to register in any of their product or service. Registration is fairly simple and 100% free. Using this account you will be able to log into all their products and services.
This system will enable you to create categorized notes in web note pad, plan your meetings or tasks using web calendar, keep all of your contacts in one place using internet address book. Also you can co edit all sections of the organizer with other users; publish notes; export notes to PDF; import/export tasks using iCalendar format; import/export contacts from/to programs like Thunderbird, Outlook, Gmail; send mails to contacts from address book and keep history of sent mails; and more.
More at:http://www.bmorgz.com/
bmorgz has been created for those people who want to manage their time more effectively and easier then ever. For all who need application which will enable creating categorized notes, planning and writing events in the calendar or such thanks to which they will be able to save information about their clients and friends - everything in one easy accessed place. Try out our system right now - registration is 100% free.
How It Works:
To start work with bmorgz - all you have to do is have a justbemore account. Which means that you have to register in any of their product or service. Registration is fairly simple and 100% free. Using this account you will be able to log into all their products and services.
This system will enable you to create categorized notes in web note pad, plan your meetings or tasks using web calendar, keep all of your contacts in one place using internet address book. Also you can co edit all sections of the organizer with other users; publish notes; export notes to PDF; import/export tasks using iCalendar format; import/export contacts from/to programs like Thunderbird, Outlook, Gmail; send mails to contacts from address book and keep history of sent mails; and more.
More at:http://www.bmorgz.com/
Yokl’d.com is a "Best Of" local business ranking social platform
What Company Is Offering:
Yokl’d.com is a "Best Of" local business ranking social platform that is 100% compiled and commented on by users. The idea is simple - the more times a business gets "Yokl’d" (voted) the higher in the rankings it will be listed.
How It Works:
Share local knowledge with a social network of friends, family and business associates. Discover the best local businesses recommended and ranked by the user community. Benefit from trusted friend’s personal pages to see what they recommend
Never get lost -- detailed maps pinpoint each location. Add favorite local businesses to the site. Vote through a 1-click process for preferred local businesses. Build and maintain a portfolio of elite local businesses that can be shared with others. Post positive or negative comments about a business
Rank user comments based on usefulness and accuracy.
How Is It Different:
Local search sites like CitySearch and Yelp! provide user generated content for local businesses using a controversial five-star rating system. Users debate the use of the five-star rating because people within the general population have very different tastes. This ranking system provides no way to tell if a group of people ranking a business shares the same tastes as a specific user. While,Yokl’d provides a better solution for the discriminating consumer, business traveler, or weekend connoisseur.
More at:http://www.yokld.com/
Yokl’d.com is a "Best Of" local business ranking social platform that is 100% compiled and commented on by users. The idea is simple - the more times a business gets "Yokl’d" (voted) the higher in the rankings it will be listed.
How It Works:
Share local knowledge with a social network of friends, family and business associates. Discover the best local businesses recommended and ranked by the user community. Benefit from trusted friend’s personal pages to see what they recommend
Never get lost -- detailed maps pinpoint each location. Add favorite local businesses to the site. Vote through a 1-click process for preferred local businesses. Build and maintain a portfolio of elite local businesses that can be shared with others. Post positive or negative comments about a business
Rank user comments based on usefulness and accuracy.
How Is It Different:
Local search sites like CitySearch and Yelp! provide user generated content for local businesses using a controversial five-star rating system. Users debate the use of the five-star rating because people within the general population have very different tastes. This ranking system provides no way to tell if a group of people ranking a business shares the same tastes as a specific user. While,Yokl’d provides a better solution for the discriminating consumer, business traveler, or weekend connoisseur.
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bizot.ch --Social Networking News
What Company Is Offering:
bizot.ch is whatever you want it to be - a news site, an information source, a social networking community... With more things to gradually be added you won't need to look at any other website.
How It Works:
bizot.ch gives you power and enables you, the reader, to edit the news however you want. So, if you think we've been too harsh by referring to Pete Doherty as a junkie scumbag you can change it to something more pleasant. Equally, if you think junkie scumbag is not harsh enough for the Babyshambles singer and can think of something a lot worse to call him, go for it! The world is your oyster.
bizotching is easy. Once you've signed up you can get crackin! Find a story you want to bizotch. Read the story, which may be either the previous person's version of the news or our original source (you can click on the "view original" or "view latest bizotch" button to alternate between the two versions). Once you feel inspired enough, click on the main bulk of the text. This will then change into an edit box where the magic happens.
Re-write the story however you feel. Change words, add sentences, insert paragraphs, heighten subjectiveness, scrap it all and start the whole thing over. The only thing we ask of you is to loosely stick to the main story as an inspiration point.
More at:http://bizot.ch/
bizot.ch is whatever you want it to be - a news site, an information source, a social networking community... With more things to gradually be added you won't need to look at any other website.
How It Works:
bizot.ch gives you power and enables you, the reader, to edit the news however you want. So, if you think we've been too harsh by referring to Pete Doherty as a junkie scumbag you can change it to something more pleasant. Equally, if you think junkie scumbag is not harsh enough for the Babyshambles singer and can think of something a lot worse to call him, go for it! The world is your oyster.
bizotching is easy. Once you've signed up you can get crackin! Find a story you want to bizotch. Read the story, which may be either the previous person's version of the news or our original source (you can click on the "view original" or "view latest bizotch" button to alternate between the two versions). Once you feel inspired enough, click on the main bulk of the text. This will then change into an edit box where the magic happens.
Re-write the story however you feel. Change words, add sentences, insert paragraphs, heighten subjectiveness, scrap it all and start the whole thing over. The only thing we ask of you is to loosely stick to the main story as an inspiration point.
More at:http://bizot.ch/
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