What Company Is Offering:
Remember The Milk is the best way to manage your tasks online.Remember The Milk is free to use.
How It Works:
An intuitive interface makes managing tasks fun. Set due dates easily with next Friday or in 2 weeks. Extensive keyboard shortcuts make task management quicker than ever.Use the map to see where your tasks are located in the real world. See what's nearby or on your way, and plan the best way to get things done.Access your tasks on your web-enabled mobile device. Print your entire list or a handy weekly planner which shows upcoming tasks. View your tasks on your calendar with Apple iCal or Google Calendar. Subscribe to feeds with Atom/RSS.
Receive reminders via email, SMS, and instant messenger (AIM, Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Skype and Yahoo! are all supported). Share, send and publish tasks and lists with your contacts or the world. Remind your significant other to do their household chores.See what's due today and tomorrow, and the things you've missed. Prioritize, estimate your time, and postpone with ease. Set tasks to repeat every week or after 2 months.
Create as many lists as you need. Into tagging? Use the task cloud to easily see what you have to do. Want to store notes along with your tasks? You can do that too.Adding tasks is as simple as firing off an email (even from your phone). See an important date on the web? Add it to your list with Quick Add.
Recent Updates:
Remember The Milk, which is for finding useful ways in which to integrate its functionality into third-party applications, is now available for Gmail.
More at:http://www.rememberthemilk.com/
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007
QSecure,an innovator in payment card authentication solutions got $5 million In VCs funding
What Company Is Offering:
QSecure is the platform company whose SmartStripe electronic powered credit cards prevent the use of stolen card data without changing retail systems or card holder behavior. QSecure's patented, magnetic media chip and authentication solutions are designed to allow card issuers to deliver solutions to protect card data without requiring changes to the card processing environment.QSecure's initial solution is based on a proprietary chip that is embedded in the magnetic stripe and creates a unique number on the magnetic stripe each time the card is used. The unique number for each transaction is authenticated by the card issuer in real time using QSecure's patented authentication technology.
How Much They Got From VCs:
QSecure, Inc. an innovator in payment card authentication solutions announced that it has closed a Series C Preferred Stock financing round totaling $5 million.
Who Is Backing Them:
Backed by established venture investors and strategic partners, the company has completed Series A and Series B financings, raising in excess of $17 million.
About VCs:
1.Allegis Capital focuses on investments in early stage information technology companies in California. Allegis has raised $500 million in capital and is a leader in working with major corporations to create strategic advantage for its investors and portfolio companies.
www.allegiscapital.com
2.Worldview Technology Partners is a leading venture capital firm focused on investing in and building leading U.S. technology companies. Its comprehensive, industry-leading business development services help portfolio companies succeed in U.S. and international markets.
With a 12-year track record of successful technology investing and more than $1.3 billion under management, the Worldview team has both the experience and the resources to invest in a broad range of information technology markets, including communications, semiconductors, digital media, enterprise infrastructure and software. www.worldview.com
3.UMC Capital is the corporate venture arm of UMC, a leading semiconductor foundry based in Taiwan. UMC Capital invests in innovative technology companies worldwide. UMC was founded in 1980 as Taiwan's first semiconductor company and is listed on NYSE under UMC, and on the Taiwan Stock Exchange under 2303. www.umc.com.
4.Société Générale is one of the largest financial services groups in the euro-zone.
www.socgen.com
More at:http://www.qsecure.com/
QSecure is the platform company whose SmartStripe electronic powered credit cards prevent the use of stolen card data without changing retail systems or card holder behavior. QSecure's patented, magnetic media chip and authentication solutions are designed to allow card issuers to deliver solutions to protect card data without requiring changes to the card processing environment.QSecure's initial solution is based on a proprietary chip that is embedded in the magnetic stripe and creates a unique number on the magnetic stripe each time the card is used. The unique number for each transaction is authenticated by the card issuer in real time using QSecure's patented authentication technology.
How Much They Got From VCs:
QSecure, Inc. an innovator in payment card authentication solutions announced that it has closed a Series C Preferred Stock financing round totaling $5 million.
Who Is Backing Them:
Backed by established venture investors and strategic partners, the company has completed Series A and Series B financings, raising in excess of $17 million.
About VCs:
1.Allegis Capital focuses on investments in early stage information technology companies in California. Allegis has raised $500 million in capital and is a leader in working with major corporations to create strategic advantage for its investors and portfolio companies.
www.allegiscapital.com
2.Worldview Technology Partners is a leading venture capital firm focused on investing in and building leading U.S. technology companies. Its comprehensive, industry-leading business development services help portfolio companies succeed in U.S. and international markets.
With a 12-year track record of successful technology investing and more than $1.3 billion under management, the Worldview team has both the experience and the resources to invest in a broad range of information technology markets, including communications, semiconductors, digital media, enterprise infrastructure and software. www.worldview.com
3.UMC Capital is the corporate venture arm of UMC, a leading semiconductor foundry based in Taiwan. UMC Capital invests in innovative technology companies worldwide. UMC was founded in 1980 as Taiwan's first semiconductor company and is listed on NYSE under UMC, and on the Taiwan Stock Exchange under 2303. www.umc.com.
4.Société Générale is one of the largest financial services groups in the euro-zone.
www.socgen.com
More at:http://www.qsecure.com/
RightsAgent is a provider of copyright management solutions for user-generated content
What Company Is Offering:
RightsAgent is a provider of copyright management solutions for user-generated content. The initial release of their platform allows publishers to register where they publish online, consolidate their work into a personal feed for their readers to subscribe to, and perform copyright transactions with those who wish to license their work. Subsequent releases will add further levels of control to the personal feed, provide additional support for more photo and video hosting platforms, allow publishers to syndicate their feed to social networks, and display relevant statistics and metrics.
How It Works:
First, create a free account at www.rightsagent.com. A confirmation code will be sent to your e-mail address. If you don't see it immediately, wait a minute or two and be sure to check your spam folder! Once you have your confirmation code, enter it the next time you log in and you'll be taken to your user profile page.
This is where you manage your account. You can update information about yourself, upload a picture, and most importantly add sources. The user profile page consists currently of four modules:
1.Biographical Information.
2.This is where you can enter in your name, location, a picture, and a brief personal statement about yourself.
Sources.
3.This is where the various places you publish your work are listed.
Reputation.
4.This is where the reputation points for each source are viewable. The blue column reflects social points that accumulate when people license your work for free, under a Creative Commons license. The green column reflects cash points that accumulate when people license your work for a fee you select.
At regular intervals they check your sources for updates. When you make a new blog post or upload a new photo or video it will appear .
More at:http://rightsagent.com/
RightsAgent is a provider of copyright management solutions for user-generated content. The initial release of their platform allows publishers to register where they publish online, consolidate their work into a personal feed for their readers to subscribe to, and perform copyright transactions with those who wish to license their work. Subsequent releases will add further levels of control to the personal feed, provide additional support for more photo and video hosting platforms, allow publishers to syndicate their feed to social networks, and display relevant statistics and metrics.
How It Works:
First, create a free account at www.rightsagent.com. A confirmation code will be sent to your e-mail address. If you don't see it immediately, wait a minute or two and be sure to check your spam folder! Once you have your confirmation code, enter it the next time you log in and you'll be taken to your user profile page.
This is where you manage your account. You can update information about yourself, upload a picture, and most importantly add sources. The user profile page consists currently of four modules:
1.Biographical Information.
2.This is where you can enter in your name, location, a picture, and a brief personal statement about yourself.
Sources.
3.This is where the various places you publish your work are listed.
Reputation.
4.This is where the reputation points for each source are viewable. The blue column reflects social points that accumulate when people license your work for free, under a Creative Commons license. The green column reflects cash points that accumulate when people license your work for a fee you select.
At regular intervals they check your sources for updates. When you make a new blog post or upload a new photo or video it will appear .
More at:http://rightsagent.com/
The easiest and safest way to get your personal health data on real-time worldwide
What Company Is Offering:
Keyose is a personal health record (PHR) management service.The easiest and safest way to get your personal health data on real-time worldwide. It allows you to store the basic medical data of a patient (allergies, main diseases and medications) on Internet so that they are available on real time in any place (through Internet connection, mobile phone or other devices).
How It Works:
1.Users (patients or one of their caregivers or doctors) connect to Keyose and fill the basic data (allergies, medications, main diseases). They never introduce a patient's identification data (name, driving license, passport). They also select a private password.
2.Keyose generates a code that will identify from that moment that clinical record (for example AYKB345).
3.Users print at home a card with the generated code (AYKB345) and a public password that includes information about their allergies and blood type.
4.Users keep the card in their wallet or print the Keyose code on an identification badge.
5.When patients visit healthcare professionals they show them their Keyose code (AYKB345).
6.The healthcare professionals visit www.keyose.com. They enter the patients’ code (AYKB345) and their public password, and gain access to the personal health record. Doing this they can obtain basic data about their patients even if they are unconscious or unable to recall it.
7.The private password, which is not present on the card and only the patient knows, allows the creation of the personal health record (adding or removing treatments for example). It is also needed in order to access particularly sensitive data (under the patient's criteria).
The basic service of a “personal health record” is offered for free to the patient by recrea and ANCO. They consider it to be a useful tool that can save lives and want to offer it for free.
More at:http://www.keyose.com/
Keyose is a personal health record (PHR) management service.The easiest and safest way to get your personal health data on real-time worldwide. It allows you to store the basic medical data of a patient (allergies, main diseases and medications) on Internet so that they are available on real time in any place (through Internet connection, mobile phone or other devices).
How It Works:
1.Users (patients or one of their caregivers or doctors) connect to Keyose and fill the basic data (allergies, medications, main diseases). They never introduce a patient's identification data (name, driving license, passport). They also select a private password.
2.Keyose generates a code that will identify from that moment that clinical record (for example AYKB345).
3.Users print at home a card with the generated code (AYKB345) and a public password that includes information about their allergies and blood type.
4.Users keep the card in their wallet or print the Keyose code on an identification badge.
5.When patients visit healthcare professionals they show them their Keyose code (AYKB345).
6.The healthcare professionals visit www.keyose.com. They enter the patients’ code (AYKB345) and their public password, and gain access to the personal health record. Doing this they can obtain basic data about their patients even if they are unconscious or unable to recall it.
7.The private password, which is not present on the card and only the patient knows, allows the creation of the personal health record (adding or removing treatments for example). It is also needed in order to access particularly sensitive data (under the patient's criteria).
The basic service of a “personal health record” is offered for free to the patient by recrea and ANCO. They consider it to be a useful tool that can save lives and want to offer it for free.
More at:http://www.keyose.com/
NOZA---Find new donors for your nonprofit organization
What Company Is Offering:
They help charities identify who to ask. The way we do this is rather simple. They have built a searchable database containing more than 26 million charitable donation records (growing by 1,000,000 records monthly). Charities access our database through our website and search for prospective donors for their organizations.
Whether you use NOZA for our Free Foundation Grant Searching or their $25 package that allows you to search millions of people and companies, they think you’ll agree that NOZA stands by its mission.
Whom It Will Be Helpful:
Any nonprofit organization that needs to raise money from individuals, foundations or businesses will find NOZA extremely valuable.
Startup and early stage nonprofits will benefit from finding new sources of seed funding, while larger established institutions will benefit from finding new major gift prospects from within their ranks of existing annual donors.
Organizations planning for capital campaigns can use NOZA to create customized prospect lists to assist in solicitation planning.
How It Works:
If you are logged in, NOZA will auto-save full donation records into a folder with the date and time of the search. (All times are Pacific Time.) Click `rename` to give the folder a name of your own choosing. Select `move to folder` to move selected records from one folder to another. You may also create new folders or remove folders.
Use Search by Name: This is for researching the giving histories and giving patterns of current or prospective donors (if you already have the names of the donors you want to research). Some of the ways our customers are using this feature are as follows:
To determine which of their annual donors have a history of making major gifts to other organizations.
To determine which of their newly acquired donors have major gift giving patterns with other organizations.
More at:https://www.nozasearch.com/
They help charities identify who to ask. The way we do this is rather simple. They have built a searchable database containing more than 26 million charitable donation records (growing by 1,000,000 records monthly). Charities access our database through our website and search for prospective donors for their organizations.
Whether you use NOZA for our Free Foundation Grant Searching or their $25 package that allows you to search millions of people and companies, they think you’ll agree that NOZA stands by its mission.
Whom It Will Be Helpful:
Any nonprofit organization that needs to raise money from individuals, foundations or businesses will find NOZA extremely valuable.
Startup and early stage nonprofits will benefit from finding new sources of seed funding, while larger established institutions will benefit from finding new major gift prospects from within their ranks of existing annual donors.
Organizations planning for capital campaigns can use NOZA to create customized prospect lists to assist in solicitation planning.
How It Works:
If you are logged in, NOZA will auto-save full donation records into a folder with the date and time of the search. (All times are Pacific Time.) Click `rename` to give the folder a name of your own choosing. Select `move to folder` to move selected records from one folder to another. You may also create new folders or remove folders.
Use Search by Name: This is for researching the giving histories and giving patterns of current or prospective donors (if you already have the names of the donors you want to research). Some of the ways our customers are using this feature are as follows:
To determine which of their annual donors have a history of making major gifts to other organizations.
To determine which of their newly acquired donors have major gift giving patterns with other organizations.
More at:https://www.nozasearch.com/
SciLink™ is an online community with the goal of helping you to discover scientists, authors, and relationships
What Company Is Offering:
SciLink™ is an online community with the goal of helping you to discover scientists, authors, and relationships.
SciLink's network of 106,264,967 relationships is built by mining scientific data that exist on the web. Our databases currently contain over 5.8 million scientists and 14 million articles.
Who Is Backing Them:
Andy Palmer
With a track record of five successful startups in the past 12 years, Andy Palmer specializes in founding and accelerating the growth of early-stage companies. In early 2005, Palmer partnered with Dr. Stonebraker to found Vertica®. Prior to co-founding Vertica, Palmer served as the senior vice president of operations at Infinity Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ : INFI) , where he was a member of the initial startup team. At Infinity, he was responsible for information technology, informatics, operations, finance, human resources, and organizational development as the company raised over $140 million in financing, grew to more than 100 employees, and put its first compound into the clinic for the treatment of cancer. Prior to joining Infinity, as a member of the startup team and vice president of sales and marketing at Bowstreet, Palmer led the creation and execution of all early sales, marketing, and professional services initiatives as the company grew from 3 employees to more than 300 employees. Before joining Bowstreet, Palmer was the first vice president of marketing at pcOrder.com (NASDAQ: PCOR), where he was directly responsible for dramatic revenue growth and rapid customer acquisition in preparation for a successful initial public offering as the company grew from 5 employees to more than 250 employees. Prior to joining pcOrder, Palmer served as marketing director for pcOrder's parent company, Trilogy Software, Inc. Palmer earned an M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and bachelor's degrees in English, history, and computer science from Bowdoin College.
More at:http://scilink.com/
SciLink™ is an online community with the goal of helping you to discover scientists, authors, and relationships.
SciLink's network of 106,264,967 relationships is built by mining scientific data that exist on the web. Our databases currently contain over 5.8 million scientists and 14 million articles.
Who Is Backing Them:
Andy Palmer
With a track record of five successful startups in the past 12 years, Andy Palmer specializes in founding and accelerating the growth of early-stage companies. In early 2005, Palmer partnered with Dr. Stonebraker to found Vertica®. Prior to co-founding Vertica, Palmer served as the senior vice president of operations at Infinity Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ : INFI) , where he was a member of the initial startup team. At Infinity, he was responsible for information technology, informatics, operations, finance, human resources, and organizational development as the company raised over $140 million in financing, grew to more than 100 employees, and put its first compound into the clinic for the treatment of cancer. Prior to joining Infinity, as a member of the startup team and vice president of sales and marketing at Bowstreet, Palmer led the creation and execution of all early sales, marketing, and professional services initiatives as the company grew from 3 employees to more than 300 employees. Before joining Bowstreet, Palmer was the first vice president of marketing at pcOrder.com (NASDAQ: PCOR), where he was directly responsible for dramatic revenue growth and rapid customer acquisition in preparation for a successful initial public offering as the company grew from 5 employees to more than 250 employees. Prior to joining pcOrder, Palmer served as marketing director for pcOrder's parent company, Trilogy Software, Inc. Palmer earned an M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and bachelor's degrees in English, history, and computer science from Bowdoin College.
More at:http://scilink.com/
Carjoy--For Car Search And Stay informed per video about new and used cars
What Company Is Offering:
Stay informed per video about new and used cars. You will find other users' and professionals´ test, experience and driving reports on carjoy. Rate and comment videos in order to support other members. Win cars, cash and more! Find numerous competition on carjoy. Participate and win the car of your dreams or the loose cash to afford the car of your dreams.Enjoy videos in car profiles and find your new car like you have never done it before. Motivate others to upload videos to their profiles via comment box.
How It Works:
Present your car to the community. Upload images and videos and qualify cars. Members can rate and comment your car, send you price proposals or contact you directly. If you present your car online all year round you will surely find your matching buyer.
Create an experience or test report about your car and share it with others. Have your video rated and commented and get in touch with other interesting members.
You want to sell your car but you don´t know how much you can charge? Register your car and have it professionally appraised for free (in Swiss Francs (CHF) only ).
Advertise your car without time or cost pressure. Add images and videos to your free profile to present your car during the whole year and benefit from a special price.
Film your car´s interiour, exteriour or show how you´re driving it and add it to your car profile. Show advantages and inconveniences and find your matching buyer. Link also to other communities or your own website.
More at:http://www.carjoy.tv/
Stay informed per video about new and used cars. You will find other users' and professionals´ test, experience and driving reports on carjoy. Rate and comment videos in order to support other members. Win cars, cash and more! Find numerous competition on carjoy. Participate and win the car of your dreams or the loose cash to afford the car of your dreams.Enjoy videos in car profiles and find your new car like you have never done it before. Motivate others to upload videos to their profiles via comment box.
How It Works:
Present your car to the community. Upload images and videos and qualify cars. Members can rate and comment your car, send you price proposals or contact you directly. If you present your car online all year round you will surely find your matching buyer.
Create an experience or test report about your car and share it with others. Have your video rated and commented and get in touch with other interesting members.
You want to sell your car but you don´t know how much you can charge? Register your car and have it professionally appraised for free (in Swiss Francs (CHF) only ).
Advertise your car without time or cost pressure. Add images and videos to your free profile to present your car during the whole year and benefit from a special price.
Film your car´s interiour, exteriour or show how you´re driving it and add it to your car profile. Show advantages and inconveniences and find your matching buyer. Link also to other communities or your own website.
More at:http://www.carjoy.tv/
Unite with people who are looking for the same things you are. Ask a question when Google lets you down
What Company Is Offering:
Unite with people who are looking for the same things you are. Ask a question when Google lets you down. Find people with similar interests andUNITE! .Stay up-to-date with the latest search queries of your friends. Be inspired by the diversity of search terms and discover new bands, websites etc.
More at:http://beta.andunite.com/
Unite with people who are looking for the same things you are. Ask a question when Google lets you down. Find people with similar interests andUNITE! .Stay up-to-date with the latest search queries of your friends. Be inspired by the diversity of search terms and discover new bands, websites etc.
More at:http://beta.andunite.com/
Forex-Affiliate.com is a world leading and highly paying Forex Affiliate Program
What Company Is Offering:
Forex-Affiliate.com is a world leading and highly paying Forex Affiliate Program. With their Affiliate Program you simply route your traffic to one or more of their partner Forex Trading Platforms (such as the Easy-Forex™ Trading Platform), and earn significant commissions for every new customer you refer.
How It Works:
Under their commission programs you are paid flat fees for introducing referrals, and a share percentage of the revenue generated by your referrals. They call such program tracks CPA (commission per Active referral) and Rev-Share (Revenue Sharing). The commission per Forex revenues generated by the customers you send - will be paid continuously during the lifetime of the customer's account. It's a terrific way to monetize your existing customer base and traffic.
Moreover, with the Forex-Affiliate's 2-tier program, any time you refer webmasters and Forex affiliates to us, you will be paid a commission for that: here too, you'll get a combined commission of CPA (commission per Active affiliate you refer) and Comm-Share (a percentage of the commission earned by your 2nd-tier referral).
Forex-Affiliate.com provides all its affiliates and referrers with a live personal support, and so do their Forex partners (the Trading Platforms). They are available to answer any questions you have pertaining to your account, payments, marketing support or any other relevant question. As well, you can set a chat contact with your affiliate account manager.
They provide all affiliates and referrers a password-protected access to their Forex-Affiliate.com Stats System. Their affiliates can monitor statistical records, evaluate their progress and optimize their performance using their program's features. This page is accessible to AFFILIATE members (registered affiliates) only.
More at: http://www.forex-affiliate.com/
Forex-Affiliate.com is a world leading and highly paying Forex Affiliate Program. With their Affiliate Program you simply route your traffic to one or more of their partner Forex Trading Platforms (such as the Easy-Forex™ Trading Platform), and earn significant commissions for every new customer you refer.
How It Works:
Under their commission programs you are paid flat fees for introducing referrals, and a share percentage of the revenue generated by your referrals. They call such program tracks CPA (commission per Active referral) and Rev-Share (Revenue Sharing). The commission per Forex revenues generated by the customers you send - will be paid continuously during the lifetime of the customer's account. It's a terrific way to monetize your existing customer base and traffic.
Moreover, with the Forex-Affiliate's 2-tier program, any time you refer webmasters and Forex affiliates to us, you will be paid a commission for that: here too, you'll get a combined commission of CPA (commission per Active affiliate you refer) and Comm-Share (a percentage of the commission earned by your 2nd-tier referral).
Forex-Affiliate.com provides all its affiliates and referrers with a live personal support, and so do their Forex partners (the Trading Platforms). They are available to answer any questions you have pertaining to your account, payments, marketing support or any other relevant question. As well, you can set a chat contact with your affiliate account manager.
They provide all affiliates and referrers a password-protected access to their Forex-Affiliate.com Stats System. Their affiliates can monitor statistical records, evaluate their progress and optimize their performance using their program's features. This page is accessible to AFFILIATE members (registered affiliates) only.
More at: http://www.forex-affiliate.com/
Streamezzo's superlative range of rich media mobile solutions has secured Round C financing totaling more than $22 million
What Company Says:
Streamezzo's superlative range of rich media mobile solutions guarantees an intuitive, original and compelling experience for any user.
To develop and deliver premium services, boost revenue, and increase customer loyalty. Take advantage of our unmatched experience to reduce rollout costs and deploy rich media services in record time.
What This Will Do Or Solutins Which They Provides Are:
1. Streamezzo's rich media technology, Interactive Mobile TV offers attractive new market opportunities for mobile operators, content providers, and broadcasters. Innovative new business models will generate fresh revenue streams as Interactive Mobile TV changes the way customers use TV and Video On Demand (VOD) services. Interactive Mobile TV's user-friendly interface also enables viewers to access premium contextual services.
Interactive Mobile TV is not only available for fixed/cellular networks - streaming unicast over EDGE or 3G - it can also be adapted for convergent solutions that handle any broadcasting protocol, e.g. DVB-H, S-DMB, Mediaflo etc. This allows mobile TV customers to switch seamlessly between different networks.
2.Streamezzo's Rich Media technologies, Music Jukebox transforms a mobile device into a portable music player. Users can access their favorite music whenever and wherever they want via an intuitive interface that changes very little across a broad array of mobile devices.
3.For mobile operators and MVNOs, the on-device portal is essential to long-term success. It creates new revenue streams to fund development, boosts subscriptions, and is a powerful incentive for customer loyalty. As rival networks compete for traction in the marketplace, there is arguably no service that differentiates your offering more effectively than a first-rate mobile on-device portal - offering customers what they want, when they want it.
4.The Rich Media User Interface enhances branding and boosts the usage of mobile portals and services. It gives mobile operators and manufacturers a single, unified abstraction layer for the mobile device that supports vertical applications and a rich media portal. Using configurable widgets, operators can give customers direct access to specific services and applications.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Streamezzo, a Paris-based provider of rich media solutions and platforms for mobile communications, has secured Round C financing totaling more than $22 million. To date, the company has raised a total of $48 million from a roster of top-tier investors. Kuwaiti investment group NTEC (National Technology Enterprise Co.) joins the latest round, along with all of Streamezzo's existing investors
More at:
http://www.streamezzo.com/
Streamezzo's superlative range of rich media mobile solutions guarantees an intuitive, original and compelling experience for any user.
To develop and deliver premium services, boost revenue, and increase customer loyalty. Take advantage of our unmatched experience to reduce rollout costs and deploy rich media services in record time.
What This Will Do Or Solutins Which They Provides Are:
1. Streamezzo's rich media technology, Interactive Mobile TV offers attractive new market opportunities for mobile operators, content providers, and broadcasters. Innovative new business models will generate fresh revenue streams as Interactive Mobile TV changes the way customers use TV and Video On Demand (VOD) services. Interactive Mobile TV's user-friendly interface also enables viewers to access premium contextual services.
Interactive Mobile TV is not only available for fixed/cellular networks - streaming unicast over EDGE or 3G - it can also be adapted for convergent solutions that handle any broadcasting protocol, e.g. DVB-H, S-DMB, Mediaflo etc. This allows mobile TV customers to switch seamlessly between different networks.
2.Streamezzo's Rich Media technologies, Music Jukebox transforms a mobile device into a portable music player. Users can access their favorite music whenever and wherever they want via an intuitive interface that changes very little across a broad array of mobile devices.
3.For mobile operators and MVNOs, the on-device portal is essential to long-term success. It creates new revenue streams to fund development, boosts subscriptions, and is a powerful incentive for customer loyalty. As rival networks compete for traction in the marketplace, there is arguably no service that differentiates your offering more effectively than a first-rate mobile on-device portal - offering customers what they want, when they want it.
4.The Rich Media User Interface enhances branding and boosts the usage of mobile portals and services. It gives mobile operators and manufacturers a single, unified abstraction layer for the mobile device that supports vertical applications and a rich media portal. Using configurable widgets, operators can give customers direct access to specific services and applications.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Streamezzo, a Paris-based provider of rich media solutions and platforms for mobile communications, has secured Round C financing totaling more than $22 million. To date, the company has raised a total of $48 million from a roster of top-tier investors. Kuwaiti investment group NTEC (National Technology Enterprise Co.) joins the latest round, along with all of Streamezzo's existing investors
More at:
http://www.streamezzo.com/
Animoto, a web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos using their own patent-pending technology and high-end motion
What Company Is Offering:
Animoto Productions is a bunch of techies and film/tv producers who decided to lock themselves in a room together and nerd out.
Their first release is Animoto, a web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos using their own patent-pending technology and high-end motion design. Each video is a fully customized orchestration of user-selected images and music. Produced on a widescreen format, Animoto videos have the visual energy of a music video and the emotional impact of a movie trailer.
How It Works:
The heart of Animoto is its newly developed Cinematic Artificial Intelligence technology that thinks like an actual director and editor. It analyzes and combines user-selected images and music with the same sophisticated post-production skills & techniques that are used in television and film.
Based in New York City with an office in San Francisco, the founders of Animoto are veterans of the entertainment industry and have produced shows for MTV, Comedy Central, & ABC, studied music in London, and played in indie rock bands in Seattle. They continue to innovate in the field of creative artificial intelligence.
Recent Updates:
Animoto now gives you the option of downloading your videos in MP4 video format for Macs or PCs. The additional service is still free.
By allowing users to download their videos, Animoto is broadening the way in which content can be experienced and shared. Downloading content seems like a pretty basic ting to offer, but several web-based services, especially those that offer slide show creation tools, don’t in fact allow you to save the items for your own use on your own computer.
More at:http://animoto.com/
Animoto Productions is a bunch of techies and film/tv producers who decided to lock themselves in a room together and nerd out.
Their first release is Animoto, a web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos using their own patent-pending technology and high-end motion design. Each video is a fully customized orchestration of user-selected images and music. Produced on a widescreen format, Animoto videos have the visual energy of a music video and the emotional impact of a movie trailer.
How It Works:
The heart of Animoto is its newly developed Cinematic Artificial Intelligence technology that thinks like an actual director and editor. It analyzes and combines user-selected images and music with the same sophisticated post-production skills & techniques that are used in television and film.
Based in New York City with an office in San Francisco, the founders of Animoto are veterans of the entertainment industry and have produced shows for MTV, Comedy Central, & ABC, studied music in London, and played in indie rock bands in Seattle. They continue to innovate in the field of creative artificial intelligence.
Recent Updates:
Animoto now gives you the option of downloading your videos in MP4 video format for Macs or PCs. The additional service is still free.
By allowing users to download their videos, Animoto is broadening the way in which content can be experienced and shared. Downloading content seems like a pretty basic ting to offer, but several web-based services, especially those that offer slide show creation tools, don’t in fact allow you to save the items for your own use on your own computer.
More at:http://animoto.com/
Shoeboxed--Tracking What You Buy
What Company Is Offering:
Shoeboxed wants to be there for everybody-from large companies to Grandma-and help them reinvent how they shop. Our powerful web app organizes receipts securely, and allows sharing information about purchases with other users in our active site community.
Each user's purchase history continuously updates itself, and every user has total control over what information they share with others. Shoeboxed.com will help to simplify your life and give you more control over your personal online shopping data. And it may save you a few bucks from time to time
How It Works:
Scan in paper receipts and send e-mail receipts to your Shoeboxed account. They'll automatically organize them into a useful overview of your spending, breaking it down to the specific items you bought. Friends don't let friends spend time organizing receipts. Let us do it for you. With an innovative program called Shoeboxed Mail-In, you can mail us your receipts and we'll scan them in for you.
Take a photo of your paper receipts and Shoeboxed will automatically organize them in a clean, tabular format. Give online stores your Shoeboxed e-mail address and shoeboxed.com will filter your receipt e-mails, classify them as receipts or spam messages, and organize them accordingly. Online advertisements and spam will be stored and managed separately from receipt data to help you filter unwanted messages that normally clog your personal e-mail inbox. It's fun, it's free, and it's just the beginning.
Once you have all those pesky receipts organized, they can start doing work for you. They give you valuable information about what you're buying. By sharing this info and experience with other shoppers on the site, you can be part of our vibrant community of shoppers, who are fighting the good fight in support of more consumer control.
More at:http://www.shoeboxed.com/
Shoeboxed wants to be there for everybody-from large companies to Grandma-and help them reinvent how they shop. Our powerful web app organizes receipts securely, and allows sharing information about purchases with other users in our active site community.
Each user's purchase history continuously updates itself, and every user has total control over what information they share with others. Shoeboxed.com will help to simplify your life and give you more control over your personal online shopping data. And it may save you a few bucks from time to time
How It Works:
Scan in paper receipts and send e-mail receipts to your Shoeboxed account. They'll automatically organize them into a useful overview of your spending, breaking it down to the specific items you bought. Friends don't let friends spend time organizing receipts. Let us do it for you. With an innovative program called Shoeboxed Mail-In, you can mail us your receipts and we'll scan them in for you.
Take a photo of your paper receipts and Shoeboxed will automatically organize them in a clean, tabular format. Give online stores your Shoeboxed e-mail address and shoeboxed.com will filter your receipt e-mails, classify them as receipts or spam messages, and organize them accordingly. Online advertisements and spam will be stored and managed separately from receipt data to help you filter unwanted messages that normally clog your personal e-mail inbox. It's fun, it's free, and it's just the beginning.
Once you have all those pesky receipts organized, they can start doing work for you. They give you valuable information about what you're buying. By sharing this info and experience with other shoppers on the site, you can be part of our vibrant community of shoppers, who are fighting the good fight in support of more consumer control.
More at:http://www.shoeboxed.com/
SheKnows.com--providing current information on topics relevant to women's lives
What Company is Offering:
SheKnows.com, one of the top 10 most-visited websites for women, has been providing current information on topics relevant to women's lives.
SheKnows, LLC knows what women are looking for and has attracted more than 1.2 million monthly uniques with stimulating, up-to-the-minute coverage of health and beauty, personal style, human connections and other highly sought-after topics aimed at providing the visitor with a positive, well-rounded online experience.
How It Works:
With SheKnows.com's easy access to multiple top-visited sites, concentrating on a single portal is a cost-effective way to reach the female market.And with the female user's high interest in social connections, entertainment, cooking and recipes, games and more, repeat visitorship possibilities are endless. And the endless vault of information provided by SheKnows.com lends itself to longer session times and leads to increased impressions. SheKnows LLC, a division of AtomicOnline LLC is based out of Scottsdale, Arizona.
AtomicOnline is a diversified online media company that develops leading consumer internet brands that connect online communities. Atomic brands serve as demographic and psychographic hubs for men (CraveOnline.com ), women (SheKnows.com ) and teens (Teencrunch.com ), and their large collection of affinity sites. Atomic properties are distinguished by their presentation of both broad general and deep niche content, exposing users to subject matter they otherwise would not explore. AtomicOnline is headquartered in Los Angeles and is owned and operated by Pegasus, LLC, a global online media holding company.
Recent Updates:
SheKnows is continuing to build up its network with its second acquisition, LovingYou, a network for marriage and relationships, is the latest addition to the SheKnows family. Having just bought Soaps.com last month, SheKnows is ramping up its content reach through acquisitions and not partnerships.
More at:http://www.sheknows.com/
http://lovingyou.com/
SheKnows.com, one of the top 10 most-visited websites for women, has been providing current information on topics relevant to women's lives.
SheKnows, LLC knows what women are looking for and has attracted more than 1.2 million monthly uniques with stimulating, up-to-the-minute coverage of health and beauty, personal style, human connections and other highly sought-after topics aimed at providing the visitor with a positive, well-rounded online experience.
How It Works:
With SheKnows.com's easy access to multiple top-visited sites, concentrating on a single portal is a cost-effective way to reach the female market.And with the female user's high interest in social connections, entertainment, cooking and recipes, games and more, repeat visitorship possibilities are endless. And the endless vault of information provided by SheKnows.com lends itself to longer session times and leads to increased impressions. SheKnows LLC, a division of AtomicOnline LLC is based out of Scottsdale, Arizona.
AtomicOnline is a diversified online media company that develops leading consumer internet brands that connect online communities. Atomic brands serve as demographic and psychographic hubs for men (CraveOnline.com ), women (SheKnows.com ) and teens (Teencrunch.com ), and their large collection of affinity sites. Atomic properties are distinguished by their presentation of both broad general and deep niche content, exposing users to subject matter they otherwise would not explore. AtomicOnline is headquartered in Los Angeles and is owned and operated by Pegasus, LLC, a global online media holding company.
Recent Updates:
SheKnows is continuing to build up its network with its second acquisition, LovingYou, a network for marriage and relationships, is the latest addition to the SheKnows family. Having just bought Soaps.com last month, SheKnows is ramping up its content reach through acquisitions and not partnerships.
More at:http://www.sheknows.com/
http://lovingyou.com/
Naspers is a multinational media company with principal operations in electronic media acquired Tradus at nearly $2 billion
About Company:
Naspers is a multinational media company with principal operations in electronic media (including pay-television, internet and instant-messaging subscriber platforms and the provision of related technologies) and print media (including the publishing, distribution and printing of magazines, newspapers and books, and the provision of private education services). Naspers’ most significant operations are located in South Africa, where it generates approximately 76.4% of its revenues, with other operations located elsewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa, Greece, Cyprus, the Netherlands, the United States, Thailand and China. Naspers creates media content, builds brand names around it, and manages the platforms distributing the content. Naspers delivers its content in a variety of forms and through a variety of channels, including television platforms, internet services, newspapers, magazines and books.
About Acquired Company :
Tradus provides online consumer trading platforms and related internet services in eleven European countries.
Abot VCs Deal:
At $36.32 per share, Naspers valued Tradus at nearly $2 billion, which is 26.7% higher than the average share price during Naspers’ most recent half-year, according to Paid Content. Naspers is looking to branch into another direction–namely transaction-based e-commerce services. The company, which acquired Polish IM client Gadu-Gadu in October, is also part of Naspers’ online businesses.
In focusing on Internet expansion, Naspers has established a new company called MIH Internet, which operates under its Myriad International Holdings division. This makes sense for MIH to handle the acquisition of Tradus, as MIH already dabbles in emerging markets on a global scale, including M-Web and Tencent, among others.
More at:http://www.naspers.com/
http://www.qxl.com/
Naspers is a multinational media company with principal operations in electronic media (including pay-television, internet and instant-messaging subscriber platforms and the provision of related technologies) and print media (including the publishing, distribution and printing of magazines, newspapers and books, and the provision of private education services). Naspers’ most significant operations are located in South Africa, where it generates approximately 76.4% of its revenues, with other operations located elsewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa, Greece, Cyprus, the Netherlands, the United States, Thailand and China. Naspers creates media content, builds brand names around it, and manages the platforms distributing the content. Naspers delivers its content in a variety of forms and through a variety of channels, including television platforms, internet services, newspapers, magazines and books.
About Acquired Company :
Tradus provides online consumer trading platforms and related internet services in eleven European countries.
Abot VCs Deal:
At $36.32 per share, Naspers valued Tradus at nearly $2 billion, which is 26.7% higher than the average share price during Naspers’ most recent half-year, according to Paid Content. Naspers is looking to branch into another direction–namely transaction-based e-commerce services. The company, which acquired Polish IM client Gadu-Gadu in October, is also part of Naspers’ online businesses.
In focusing on Internet expansion, Naspers has established a new company called MIH Internet, which operates under its Myriad International Holdings division. This makes sense for MIH to handle the acquisition of Tradus, as MIH already dabbles in emerging markets on a global scale, including M-Web and Tencent, among others.
More at:http://www.naspers.com/
http://www.qxl.com/
Lycos Network Europe is the latest to sign wunderloop for its targeted ad solutions
What Company Is Offering:
The wunderloop iCRM System enables customers like T-Online, AOL and Freenet to offer and carry out real-time targeting for their advertising and e-commerce content. The system targets Internet users at the moment of their actual interest with relevant advertising, content and appropriate products.
The wunderloop technology features:
The back-end is a modular software framework which enables „targeting applications“.
One system for targeting, whether it‘s for interactive marketing, content orbiting, traffic flow or product recommendation applications.
Modular toolbox for building applications.
Dynamically applying the right data at the right time to the right system.
The wunderloop technology integrates 3rd party data and leverages it Understands search mechanisms as well as CRM scoring data Integrates easily with external (legacy) systems.
The front-end is a flexible GUI which adapts to the needs of different users/user groups, working with the same system data.
What's Market Of That Company:
With more than four billion processed page impressions every month wunderloop is the market leader in integrated targeting solutions in Germany. TÜV Rhineland, in its latest test, confirms that the information and data processing by wunderloop conforms to data privacy legislation.
Recent Updates:
Lycos Network Europe is the latest to sign wunderloop for its targeted ad solutions. The European portal will be using wunderloop to target and manage the company’s online advertising. Wunderloop will be implementing its custom option for Lycos’ German, British, French and Danish markets. The financial details of this exclusive partnership have not been disclosed
Detail Info of Company at:http://wunderloop.com/
The wunderloop iCRM System enables customers like T-Online, AOL and Freenet to offer and carry out real-time targeting for their advertising and e-commerce content. The system targets Internet users at the moment of their actual interest with relevant advertising, content and appropriate products.
The wunderloop technology features:
The back-end is a modular software framework which enables „targeting applications“.
One system for targeting, whether it‘s for interactive marketing, content orbiting, traffic flow or product recommendation applications.
Modular toolbox for building applications.
Dynamically applying the right data at the right time to the right system.
The wunderloop technology integrates 3rd party data and leverages it Understands search mechanisms as well as CRM scoring data Integrates easily with external (legacy) systems.
The front-end is a flexible GUI which adapts to the needs of different users/user groups, working with the same system data.
What's Market Of That Company:
With more than four billion processed page impressions every month wunderloop is the market leader in integrated targeting solutions in Germany. TÜV Rhineland, in its latest test, confirms that the information and data processing by wunderloop conforms to data privacy legislation.
Recent Updates:
Lycos Network Europe is the latest to sign wunderloop for its targeted ad solutions. The European portal will be using wunderloop to target and manage the company’s online advertising. Wunderloop will be implementing its custom option for Lycos’ German, British, French and Danish markets. The financial details of this exclusive partnership have not been disclosed
Detail Info of Company at:http://wunderloop.com/
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
FohBoh is first restaurant industry social network
What Company is About:
It is a vertical social network dedicated exclusively to the restaurant industry, its employees, owners, operators, vendors, suppliers and service providers worldwide. Unlike other consumer or customer-centric social networks, they are for insiders. They are the restaurant industry social network.
For Whom It Will Be Helpful:
FohBoh is for Real Estate developers and brokers, architects, designers, lawyers, accountants, food and beverage vendors, wineries and boutique produce growers, bakers, chefs, cooks, managers, consultants, concept developers, investors, lenders, owners, franchisees, franchisers, operators, CEO's...you get the picture.
They are the first social network and business exchange exclusively for the restaurant and hospitality industries. They designed FohBoh for you to network, connect and socialize with other like-minded industry professionals and the companies that support your business.
Who Is Backing Them:
The two founders of FohBoh.com are Michael L. Atkinson and Ted Cohn. Michael has over 30 years of experience in restaurant concept development, corporate evelopment, investment banking, investment, operations, M&A, and as a consultant to a wide array of consumer businesses. Ted is a Silicon Valley veteran with over 20 years of experience working at companies such as Apple, NeXT, Excite. He also co-founded Ugobe. Ted and Michael are serial entrepreneurs have founded three companies together. They love food, wine and experiencing new restaurants and have a passion for, and a high-degree of respect for the industry and the people that make it work.
More at:http://fohboh.com/
It is a vertical social network dedicated exclusively to the restaurant industry, its employees, owners, operators, vendors, suppliers and service providers worldwide. Unlike other consumer or customer-centric social networks, they are for insiders. They are the restaurant industry social network.
For Whom It Will Be Helpful:
FohBoh is for Real Estate developers and brokers, architects, designers, lawyers, accountants, food and beverage vendors, wineries and boutique produce growers, bakers, chefs, cooks, managers, consultants, concept developers, investors, lenders, owners, franchisees, franchisers, operators, CEO's...you get the picture.
They are the first social network and business exchange exclusively for the restaurant and hospitality industries. They designed FohBoh for you to network, connect and socialize with other like-minded industry professionals and the companies that support your business.
Who Is Backing Them:
The two founders of FohBoh.com are Michael L. Atkinson and Ted Cohn. Michael has over 30 years of experience in restaurant concept development, corporate evelopment, investment banking, investment, operations, M&A, and as a consultant to a wide array of consumer businesses. Ted is a Silicon Valley veteran with over 20 years of experience working at companies such as Apple, NeXT, Excite. He also co-founded Ugobe. Ted and Michael are serial entrepreneurs have founded three companies together. They love food, wine and experiencing new restaurants and have a passion for, and a high-degree of respect for the industry and the people that make it work.
More at:http://fohboh.com/
VortexDNA has mapped the genome of human intention – the mind-DNA that predicts human characteristics
What Company Says:
With the recent publicity around online genetic testing services, especially 23andme, the question of whether or not our lives are predetermined is more important than ever. This information is intended to help you make an informed choice about the science you accept, the way you see the world, and ultimately what you believe about yourself.
VortexDNA has mapped the genome of human intention – the mind-DNA that predicts human characteristics. Advancing our understanding of how belief creates our world, the human intention genome opens up a new era of science and human empowerment.
How It Works:
The genome is easily created by downloading the mywebDNA Firefox extension. Coded as a seven digit number it reveals the true determinants of our lives – the beliefs, with the same helix/vortex structure as our physical DNA, that are the building blocks from which we create order and meaning.
MywebDNA:
When you download the mywebDNA plug-in for the Firefox™ browser, you'll be asked to complete a short, yet profound, survey to generate your numerical profile. This survey is entirely confidential and never shared with anyone other than at your request.
Once you've completed the survey, you can leave mywebDNA running invisibly in the background. Every time you run a Google search, mywebDNA will circle the two results most relevant to you, based on your numerical profile and the profile of the site.
But how does mywebDNA know the purpose and values of a website?
After all, it's not a person. How can a site even have purpose and values?
Let's say your numeric profile is 100,000. You visit a site. That site now has a profile of 100,000. Your friend, who has a profile of 70,000, visits the same site. The site's profile now becomes 85,000.
Now you run a Google search, and that site is one of the results. mywebDNA knows that you have an 85% relevance with the site—and if that is one of the two highest ratings in your search results, mywebDNA will circle it.
More at:http://www.mydnachoice.com/
With the recent publicity around online genetic testing services, especially 23andme, the question of whether or not our lives are predetermined is more important than ever. This information is intended to help you make an informed choice about the science you accept, the way you see the world, and ultimately what you believe about yourself.
VortexDNA has mapped the genome of human intention – the mind-DNA that predicts human characteristics. Advancing our understanding of how belief creates our world, the human intention genome opens up a new era of science and human empowerment.
How It Works:
The genome is easily created by downloading the mywebDNA Firefox extension. Coded as a seven digit number it reveals the true determinants of our lives – the beliefs, with the same helix/vortex structure as our physical DNA, that are the building blocks from which we create order and meaning.
MywebDNA:
When you download the mywebDNA plug-in for the Firefox™ browser, you'll be asked to complete a short, yet profound, survey to generate your numerical profile. This survey is entirely confidential and never shared with anyone other than at your request.
Once you've completed the survey, you can leave mywebDNA running invisibly in the background. Every time you run a Google search, mywebDNA will circle the two results most relevant to you, based on your numerical profile and the profile of the site.
But how does mywebDNA know the purpose and values of a website?
After all, it's not a person. How can a site even have purpose and values?
Let's say your numeric profile is 100,000. You visit a site. That site now has a profile of 100,000. Your friend, who has a profile of 70,000, visits the same site. The site's profile now becomes 85,000.
Now you run a Google search, and that site is one of the results. mywebDNA knows that you have an 85% relevance with the site—and if that is one of the two highest ratings in your search results, mywebDNA will circle it.
More at:http://www.mydnachoice.com/
Live Gamer --A Legitimate Place For Virtual Trading Got $24 million in venture funding
What Company is Offering:
Live Gamer provides a legitimate marketplace that brings a high level of security, integrity, and transparency to the fast-growing virtual trading economy.
Live Gamer enables a complete marketplace solution for the player-to-player trading of virtual items. Through their partnerships with leading publishers and developers worldwide, players now have a convenient, secure, and reliable outlet to buy and sell virtual goods and objects. Only Live Gamer provides virtual trading the way it should be: Safe. Simple. In Game.
How It Works:
Created in an environment where the game industry meets Wall Street, Live Gamer provides a fully legitimate, publisher-supported virtual trading marketplace with security, convenience, and quality of service to match any real-world market. Access Live Gamer from within the game itself — to conduct transaction backed powerful security and anti-fraud measures. Traded goods become available in real time for uninterrupted game play.
Recent Updates:
Live Gamer Inc today announced its introduction as the premier provider of a publisher-supported, secure platform for real money trading of virtual property. Live Gamer is partnering with top massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) publishers and virtual world operators worldwide, including Funcom GMBH, Sony Online Entertainment, 10TACLE STUDIOS, Acclaim, GoPets LTD, and Ping0 Interactive Limited.
How Much They Got From VCs:
The company was founded by industry veterans and backed with $24 million in venture funding from Charles River Ventures, Kodiak Venture Partners, and Pequot Ventures. The site is set up to be a legitimate marketplace for trading virtual goods–land, services, characters, etc. Targeting MMOGs and their loyal players, it’s a wonder eBay was so determined to miss out on this opportunity.
More at:http://www.livegamer.com/
Live Gamer provides a legitimate marketplace that brings a high level of security, integrity, and transparency to the fast-growing virtual trading economy.
Live Gamer enables a complete marketplace solution for the player-to-player trading of virtual items. Through their partnerships with leading publishers and developers worldwide, players now have a convenient, secure, and reliable outlet to buy and sell virtual goods and objects. Only Live Gamer provides virtual trading the way it should be: Safe. Simple. In Game.
How It Works:
Created in an environment where the game industry meets Wall Street, Live Gamer provides a fully legitimate, publisher-supported virtual trading marketplace with security, convenience, and quality of service to match any real-world market. Access Live Gamer from within the game itself — to conduct transaction backed powerful security and anti-fraud measures. Traded goods become available in real time for uninterrupted game play.
Recent Updates:
Live Gamer Inc today announced its introduction as the premier provider of a publisher-supported, secure platform for real money trading of virtual property. Live Gamer is partnering with top massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) publishers and virtual world operators worldwide, including Funcom GMBH, Sony Online Entertainment, 10TACLE STUDIOS, Acclaim, GoPets LTD, and Ping0 Interactive Limited.
How Much They Got From VCs:
The company was founded by industry veterans and backed with $24 million in venture funding from Charles River Ventures, Kodiak Venture Partners, and Pequot Ventures. The site is set up to be a legitimate marketplace for trading virtual goods–land, services, characters, etc. Targeting MMOGs and their loyal players, it’s a wonder eBay was so determined to miss out on this opportunity.
More at:http://www.livegamer.com/
Liftopia allows snow and mountain lovers to search for and purchase discount lift tickets at alpine resorts across the country
What Company Is Offering:
Liftopia, the new online marketplace where you’ll find discount lift tickets to top alpine resorts across the country.
How It Works:
Liftopia allows snow and mountain lovers to search for and purchase discount lift tickets at alpine resorts across the country. By planning your trip in advance, you can find exceptional lift ticket deals. Here’s how it works:
Step 1: Search for Discount Lift Tickets
Use our search engine to find lift ticket deals at your favorite resorts nationwide. You can search by region or by resort to find lift tickets that suit your travel plans.
Step 2: Purchase Your Discount Lift Tickets Online
Once you’ve confirmed your resort and ticket preferences, you can make your purchase immediately and securely at Liftopia’s online ticket booth. All tickets are non-refundable/non-exchangeable and must be purchased in advance for specific dates. These purchase conditions are what enable Liftopia to secure advance discounts from resorts.
Lift tickets can be purchased using a credit card or PayPal. Users must be 18 years of age or older in order to purchase tickets.
When purchasing lift tickets for the first time, you’ll create a personal user account at Liftopia. Log in to your account with your user name and password to check your order history, print out a Purchase Confirmation or update your personal information.
Step 3: Receive Your Confirmation
Once you’ve purchased your tickets, we will e-mail you a Purchase Confirmation, which will include the details of your order. You must print this document and bring it with you to the resort.
Step 4: Pick Up Your Lift Tickets at the Resort
You will need to bring your Liftopia Purchase Confirmation to the will call ticket counter/office at the mountain resort. When you arrive at the resort, you will need to present this confirmation as proof of purchase. Without the Liftopia Purchase Confirmation, you will not be able to obtain your lift tickets on the mountain. You will need both the Purchase Confirmation and a picture ID in order to claim your lift tickets.
More at:http://www.liftopia.com/
Liftopia, the new online marketplace where you’ll find discount lift tickets to top alpine resorts across the country.
How It Works:
Liftopia allows snow and mountain lovers to search for and purchase discount lift tickets at alpine resorts across the country. By planning your trip in advance, you can find exceptional lift ticket deals. Here’s how it works:
Step 1: Search for Discount Lift Tickets
Use our search engine to find lift ticket deals at your favorite resorts nationwide. You can search by region or by resort to find lift tickets that suit your travel plans.
Step 2: Purchase Your Discount Lift Tickets Online
Once you’ve confirmed your resort and ticket preferences, you can make your purchase immediately and securely at Liftopia’s online ticket booth. All tickets are non-refundable/non-exchangeable and must be purchased in advance for specific dates. These purchase conditions are what enable Liftopia to secure advance discounts from resorts.
Lift tickets can be purchased using a credit card or PayPal. Users must be 18 years of age or older in order to purchase tickets.
When purchasing lift tickets for the first time, you’ll create a personal user account at Liftopia. Log in to your account with your user name and password to check your order history, print out a Purchase Confirmation or update your personal information.
Step 3: Receive Your Confirmation
Once you’ve purchased your tickets, we will e-mail you a Purchase Confirmation, which will include the details of your order. You must print this document and bring it with you to the resort.
Step 4: Pick Up Your Lift Tickets at the Resort
You will need to bring your Liftopia Purchase Confirmation to the will call ticket counter/office at the mountain resort. When you arrive at the resort, you will need to present this confirmation as proof of purchase. Without the Liftopia Purchase Confirmation, you will not be able to obtain your lift tickets on the mountain. You will need both the Purchase Confirmation and a picture ID in order to claim your lift tickets.
More at:http://www.liftopia.com/
Ipsojobs is a job bank focused on urgent employment
What Company is Offering:
Ipsojobs is a job bank focused on urgent employment. When time is of the essence, Ipsojobs offers the swiftest and easiest means of finding employment or filling an urgent vacancy.
How It Works:
The company, organization or private individual posting the job will provide all the information candidates need to contact them in the field ‘conditions and contact information’. Recommended information to provide is an email address and telephone numbers.
In order to speed up the process and make it as easy as possible, all the information regarding the job is entered on one form. There is no need to register to post or view a job offer. The information needed to post a job offer is as follows: job title, industry sector, description, conditions and contact information. We have also included a validation code in order to prevent jobs being posted automatically by web “robots”.
Unique Features:
A job bank specializing in urgent employment. When time is of the essence.
- Job offers are posted free of charge.
- There is no need to register to use the system. You do not need to create an account.
- Complete user-friendliness: there is just one form to fill out for job postings.
- RSS for each combination of city and sector.
- Ipsojobs is a multi-city, multilingual service.
- WE DO NOT SPAM: We do not store email addresses, so no advertising information will be sent to you.
More at:http://www.ipsojobs.com/
Ipsojobs is a job bank focused on urgent employment. When time is of the essence, Ipsojobs offers the swiftest and easiest means of finding employment or filling an urgent vacancy.
How It Works:
The company, organization or private individual posting the job will provide all the information candidates need to contact them in the field ‘conditions and contact information’. Recommended information to provide is an email address and telephone numbers.
In order to speed up the process and make it as easy as possible, all the information regarding the job is entered on one form. There is no need to register to post or view a job offer. The information needed to post a job offer is as follows: job title, industry sector, description, conditions and contact information. We have also included a validation code in order to prevent jobs being posted automatically by web “robots”.
Unique Features:
A job bank specializing in urgent employment. When time is of the essence.
- Job offers are posted free of charge.
- There is no need to register to use the system. You do not need to create an account.
- Complete user-friendliness: there is just one form to fill out for job postings.
- RSS for each combination of city and sector.
- Ipsojobs is a multi-city, multilingual service.
- WE DO NOT SPAM: We do not store email addresses, so no advertising information will be sent to you.
More at:http://www.ipsojobs.com/
Goodreads has raised an angel round of funding
What Company Is Offering:
Goodreads' mission is to improve the process of reading and learning throughout the world. Goodreads' mission is to make reading fun by letting you see what your friends are reading. Whenever you view a book, we always show you your friends' reviews first. When you login, the home page will show all the latest reviews from your friends. If you decide to browse you can see popular and unpopular books in your friend network.
How It Works:
Goodreads is a free website that allows you to see what your friends are reading. You can add and review books that you are currently reading, going to read, or already read. You can also read reviews by people who aren't in your friend network.
Signing up is simple — you just enter your name, email, and a password.
You can create your own bookshelves. From classics and canadabooks to childrenslit and geek, you can create any category that suits your personal taste. Our favorite shelves out there? To-read, to-reread, guiltypleasures, chicklit and overrated-drivel. Have you tried out the covers view in "my books"? It's brilliant — if we may say so. Also check out the reviews view for faster book shelving.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Goodreads has raised an angel round of funding, the firm said Monday. Amount of the round was not announced. The funding came from James Currier of Ooga Labs, Michael Birch of Bebo.com, Chris Michel of Military.com, Mike Jones of Userplane, along with True Ventures and Stand Chudnovsky, also of Ooga Labs.
More at:http://www.goodreads.com/
Goodreads' mission is to improve the process of reading and learning throughout the world. Goodreads' mission is to make reading fun by letting you see what your friends are reading. Whenever you view a book, we always show you your friends' reviews first. When you login, the home page will show all the latest reviews from your friends. If you decide to browse you can see popular and unpopular books in your friend network.
How It Works:
Goodreads is a free website that allows you to see what your friends are reading. You can add and review books that you are currently reading, going to read, or already read. You can also read reviews by people who aren't in your friend network.
Signing up is simple — you just enter your name, email, and a password.
You can create your own bookshelves. From classics and canadabooks to childrenslit and geek, you can create any category that suits your personal taste. Our favorite shelves out there? To-read, to-reread, guiltypleasures, chicklit and overrated-drivel. Have you tried out the covers view in "my books"? It's brilliant — if we may say so. Also check out the reviews view for faster book shelving.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Goodreads has raised an angel round of funding, the firm said Monday. Amount of the round was not announced. The funding came from James Currier of Ooga Labs, Michael Birch of Bebo.com, Chris Michel of Military.com, Mike Jones of Userplane, along with True Ventures and Stand Chudnovsky, also of Ooga Labs.
More at:http://www.goodreads.com/
Internet Trends
Internet users are becoming more aware of their digital footprint; 47% have searched for information about themselves online, up from just 22% five years ago. However, few monitor their online presence with great regularity. Just 3% of self-searchers report that they make a regular habit of it and 74% have checked up on their digital footprints only once or twice.
Indeed, most internet users are not concerned about the amount of information available about them online, and most do not take steps to limit that information. Fully 60% of internet users say they are not worried about how much information is available about them online. Similarly, the majority of online adults (61%) do not feel compelled to limit the amount of information that can be found about them online.
In addition to providing national telephone survey data, this report includes quotes from online survey respondents as well as experts in the fields of privacy, online identity management and search.
Via-Pew
Indeed, most internet users are not concerned about the amount of information available about them online, and most do not take steps to limit that information. Fully 60% of internet users say they are not worried about how much information is available about them online. Similarly, the majority of online adults (61%) do not feel compelled to limit the amount of information that can be found about them online.
In addition to providing national telephone survey data, this report includes quotes from online survey respondents as well as experts in the fields of privacy, online identity management and search.
Via-Pew
JuiceCaster is a mobile social networking community got $6M in new venture capital funding
What Company Is Offering:
JuiceCaster is a mobile social networking community which lets anyone who has a cell phone connect with friends and meet new people. JuiceCaster allows the user to publish content right from their phone to any person, group, Web site or desktop. People can view content on their phone to make new friends and stay in touch with current buddies. JuiceCaster makes rich-media content a part of mobile communications.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Juice Wireless, the pioneer in mobile social networking, closed $6M in new venture capital funding in their third funding round, led by 21Ventures. The company’s investors now include 21Ventures, Qualcomm and Citizen’s Communications.
What VCs says About Company:
The future of social networking and social media is mobile. JuiceCaster is the best way for people to share their social experiences and broadcast their lives, while on the go,” said David Anthony, managing partner at 21Ventures. “CEO Nick Desai and his talented team have made very impressive traction over the last 12 months. The product is the best I’ve seen on the market and the company has already signed several deals with leading domestic and international carriers. This signals a very strong foundation for growth and success in 2008.
Where They Will Use Raised Money:
The investment will be used to further the development of the JuiceCaster product and expand its user base. Juice Wireless will accelerate its recruitment drive, with a focus on building the marketing and engineering teams as well as a focus on direct user acquisition.
More at:http://www.juicecaster.com/
JuiceCaster is a mobile social networking community which lets anyone who has a cell phone connect with friends and meet new people. JuiceCaster allows the user to publish content right from their phone to any person, group, Web site or desktop. People can view content on their phone to make new friends and stay in touch with current buddies. JuiceCaster makes rich-media content a part of mobile communications.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Juice Wireless, the pioneer in mobile social networking, closed $6M in new venture capital funding in their third funding round, led by 21Ventures. The company’s investors now include 21Ventures, Qualcomm and Citizen’s Communications.
What VCs says About Company:
The future of social networking and social media is mobile. JuiceCaster is the best way for people to share their social experiences and broadcast their lives, while on the go,” said David Anthony, managing partner at 21Ventures. “CEO Nick Desai and his talented team have made very impressive traction over the last 12 months. The product is the best I’ve seen on the market and the company has already signed several deals with leading domestic and international carriers. This signals a very strong foundation for growth and success in 2008.
Where They Will Use Raised Money:
The investment will be used to further the development of the JuiceCaster product and expand its user base. Juice Wireless will accelerate its recruitment drive, with a focus on building the marketing and engineering teams as well as a focus on direct user acquisition.
More at:http://www.juicecaster.com/
Ribbit--An open marketplace for telephony innovation
What Company Is Offering:
Ribbit technology allows developers to not only create interesting new Flash phones and consumer facing applications, they can also create rich high-value enterprise applications, as demonstrated by the Ribbit integration into Salesforce.com.
Ribbit is the result of a group of Silicon Valley phone and Web veterans coming together, in a distinctly new way, to create a distinctly new company.
Ribbit is comprised of traditional telephony experts, "Voice 2.0" experts as well as various web development, social media and infrastructure experts.
At the core of Ribbit's technology is the Ribbit SmartSwitch™, a sophisticated multi-protocol soft-switch that bridges the worlds of traditional telephony with next generation networks and protocols.
How It Works:
The Ribbit model is built on Internet business principles, such as revenue-sharing between partners. When developers create useful applications on the Ribbit platform, they will be free to market them in accordance to their value in their market. Developers will pay Ribbit in accordance to the value we provide them and their users. Developers are exhibiting remarkable creativity and have created functionality that is already solving very real communication problems for end users - creating solutions that were literally never before feasible.
Ribbit is an open platform for telephony innovation. Unlike any other phone company, we are giving our developers unprecedented access to our technology, through the Ribbit API and allowing them to innovate at will. Our business is built more like a software company than a phone company. Rather than thinking we can do it all ourselves, we are counting on our developers to create the next generation communications solutions we have all been waiting for.
The result of this thinking is Ribbit - Silicon Valley's first Phone Company. Created to change the way we all think about communications. A company dedicated to advancing communications by empowering developers to rethink what's possible by giving them an open API to build the future we've all been waiting for.
An open platform for telephony innovation.
As Silicon Valley's first phone company, they will give developers the tools to let communication transcend carriers, networks, devices and technologies, and let it integrate into the way they actually live, work and play today.
The Opportunity
Ribbit fills a gap in the communication marketplace. To date, next generation solutions can be characterized as either being very expensive custom applications - starting at $250,000 and running into the millions - or relatively simple and limited "spot solutions" such as internet "click-to-call" deployments. The Ribbit solution satisfies the middle ground between these alternatives. Now developers can create high-value enterprise-class communication solutions with virtually no knowledge of telephony.
More at:http://www.ribbit.com/
Ribbit technology allows developers to not only create interesting new Flash phones and consumer facing applications, they can also create rich high-value enterprise applications, as demonstrated by the Ribbit integration into Salesforce.com.
Ribbit is the result of a group of Silicon Valley phone and Web veterans coming together, in a distinctly new way, to create a distinctly new company.
Ribbit is comprised of traditional telephony experts, "Voice 2.0" experts as well as various web development, social media and infrastructure experts.
At the core of Ribbit's technology is the Ribbit SmartSwitch™, a sophisticated multi-protocol soft-switch that bridges the worlds of traditional telephony with next generation networks and protocols.
How It Works:
The Ribbit model is built on Internet business principles, such as revenue-sharing between partners. When developers create useful applications on the Ribbit platform, they will be free to market them in accordance to their value in their market. Developers will pay Ribbit in accordance to the value we provide them and their users. Developers are exhibiting remarkable creativity and have created functionality that is already solving very real communication problems for end users - creating solutions that were literally never before feasible.
Ribbit is an open platform for telephony innovation. Unlike any other phone company, we are giving our developers unprecedented access to our technology, through the Ribbit API and allowing them to innovate at will. Our business is built more like a software company than a phone company. Rather than thinking we can do it all ourselves, we are counting on our developers to create the next generation communications solutions we have all been waiting for.
The result of this thinking is Ribbit - Silicon Valley's first Phone Company. Created to change the way we all think about communications. A company dedicated to advancing communications by empowering developers to rethink what's possible by giving them an open API to build the future we've all been waiting for.
An open platform for telephony innovation.
As Silicon Valley's first phone company, they will give developers the tools to let communication transcend carriers, networks, devices and technologies, and let it integrate into the way they actually live, work and play today.
The Opportunity
Ribbit fills a gap in the communication marketplace. To date, next generation solutions can be characterized as either being very expensive custom applications - starting at $250,000 and running into the millions - or relatively simple and limited "spot solutions" such as internet "click-to-call" deployments. The Ribbit solution satisfies the middle ground between these alternatives. Now developers can create high-value enterprise-class communication solutions with virtually no knowledge of telephony.
More at:http://www.ribbit.com/
Frengo is a community where people share buzz - a steady stream of opinions, updates, questions, predictions, games
What Company Is Offering:
Frengo is a community where people share buzz - a steady stream of opinions, updates, questions, predictions, games. Find Buzz by checking out our public Buzz directory. Or see what other people are doing on the homepage by watching the "What's Buzzing Now" board. Join or leave any Buzz through the web or your phone. Read messages online or on-the-go.
How It Works:
You can create Buzz using their easy-to-use Create Buzz templates - everything from simple updates and alerts to interactive events like polling, predictions and quizzes. You can schedule stop and start times or run different Buzz for different groups. Create as many Buzz channels as you like. Best part - build a Buzz followership and we'll give you rewards. All publishers get points to redeem for things like ringtones, cameras and movie tickets!
They also recognize that sometimes the hottest Buzz is the Buzz kept secret. With Frengo you can build groups of friends and share messages privately. Private Buzz will only show up for your friends and in your My Frengo account. Invite your friends and all their Buzz will automatically show up on your My Frengo homepage.
Recent Updates:
Flirtable has been extended through Frengo’s Mobile Toolkit, granting more integrated mobile tools for the growing Facebook application. As with most services that build on top of the Facebook platform, a stand alone version of their application is often the next step for attempting to leverage Facebook’s user base.
Frengo’s Flirtable, which is being directly tied into Frengo’s already established use of the mobile phone for networking purposes. Using the Mobile Toolkit API, as several other Facebook applications do, enables better integration with the Facebook app. All the functionality you get with Flirtable will be translated to the mobile version.
More at:http://frengo.com/
https://register.facebook.com/
Frengo is a community where people share buzz - a steady stream of opinions, updates, questions, predictions, games. Find Buzz by checking out our public Buzz directory. Or see what other people are doing on the homepage by watching the "What's Buzzing Now" board. Join or leave any Buzz through the web or your phone. Read messages online or on-the-go.
How It Works:
You can create Buzz using their easy-to-use Create Buzz templates - everything from simple updates and alerts to interactive events like polling, predictions and quizzes. You can schedule stop and start times or run different Buzz for different groups. Create as many Buzz channels as you like. Best part - build a Buzz followership and we'll give you rewards. All publishers get points to redeem for things like ringtones, cameras and movie tickets!
They also recognize that sometimes the hottest Buzz is the Buzz kept secret. With Frengo you can build groups of friends and share messages privately. Private Buzz will only show up for your friends and in your My Frengo account. Invite your friends and all their Buzz will automatically show up on your My Frengo homepage.
Recent Updates:
Flirtable has been extended through Frengo’s Mobile Toolkit, granting more integrated mobile tools for the growing Facebook application. As with most services that build on top of the Facebook platform, a stand alone version of their application is often the next step for attempting to leverage Facebook’s user base.
Frengo’s Flirtable, which is being directly tied into Frengo’s already established use of the mobile phone for networking purposes. Using the Mobile Toolkit API, as several other Facebook applications do, enables better integration with the Facebook app. All the functionality you get with Flirtable will be translated to the mobile version.
More at:http://frengo.com/
https://register.facebook.com/
ScientificMatch.com--Science Of Love Or DNA Dating
What Company Is Offering:
Once you sign up at ScientificMatch, they send you the swabs and an email with your customer number. You write your customer number on your DNA envelope, and you put your loaded swabs inside it. After you drop it in the mail, your DNA results will be uploaded to their computers and you should be able to see your matches.
How It Works:
When you first sign up to join their service, they send you a DNA collection kit, the main component of which is just a couple of sterilized, sealed cotton swabs.
With these swabs, you simply rub the insides of you cheeks. It's quick, easy, and painless.
They also give a pre-addressed, pre-stamped envelope into which you deposit your loaded swabs.
Probably the most complicated part of the process is writing your customer number on the envelope. In order to protect your security and anominity, the laboratory that analyzes your DNA never knows who you are. The only way they can refer to you is with your customer number. Typically, nobody in their organization ever knows your name and your customer number at the same time. Only our computers ever link the two together. That's why you have to write your customer number on your DNA envelope. Their computers generate the relationship, and they send the customer number directly to you, in an email. You then write the customer number on the envelope. Theirr lab technicians upload your number and your DNA results together, when are computers then associate your DNA results with your dating profile. Your DNA is never posted in your profile--it's only used to generate your matches.
It can take up to two weeks for your DNA results to be generated by our laboratory, but in terms of your membership, that doesn't cost you any time. Your membership period only begins after your account has been fully activated, and uploading your DNA results is usually the final step in the activation process.
More at: http://www.scientificmatch.com/
Once you sign up at ScientificMatch, they send you the swabs and an email with your customer number. You write your customer number on your DNA envelope, and you put your loaded swabs inside it. After you drop it in the mail, your DNA results will be uploaded to their computers and you should be able to see your matches.
How It Works:
When you first sign up to join their service, they send you a DNA collection kit, the main component of which is just a couple of sterilized, sealed cotton swabs.
With these swabs, you simply rub the insides of you cheeks. It's quick, easy, and painless.
They also give a pre-addressed, pre-stamped envelope into which you deposit your loaded swabs.
Probably the most complicated part of the process is writing your customer number on the envelope. In order to protect your security and anominity, the laboratory that analyzes your DNA never knows who you are. The only way they can refer to you is with your customer number. Typically, nobody in their organization ever knows your name and your customer number at the same time. Only our computers ever link the two together. That's why you have to write your customer number on your DNA envelope. Their computers generate the relationship, and they send the customer number directly to you, in an email. You then write the customer number on the envelope. Theirr lab technicians upload your number and your DNA results together, when are computers then associate your DNA results with your dating profile. Your DNA is never posted in your profile--it's only used to generate your matches.
It can take up to two weeks for your DNA results to be generated by our laboratory, but in terms of your membership, that doesn't cost you any time. Your membership period only begins after your account has been fully activated, and uploading your DNA results is usually the final step in the activation process.
More at: http://www.scientificmatch.com/
Speed Trap
What Company Is Offering:
Speed Trap, a mashup (Web application hybrid) that combines Microsoft Live Maps and the ability to pinpoint and review speed traps located anywhere on the planet. The information shared by its members is placed into a database and can be viewed by anyone.
How It Works:
The application combines Microsoft Live Maps with user-submitted data about where police speed traps are located, how often they are setup, and even what methods of detection are used to catch offending drivers.
Members can post detailed information such as the type of speed detection used, posted speed limit, and level of enforcement. Membership is totally free. Speeding tickets are not. Insurance price quotes for a car/auto after a ticket is even worse. Inform yourself and others. Future revisions of the site will allow for uploading to mobile GPS devices and GPS Enabled Phones.
More at:http://njection.com/
Speed Trap, a mashup (Web application hybrid) that combines Microsoft Live Maps and the ability to pinpoint and review speed traps located anywhere on the planet. The information shared by its members is placed into a database and can be viewed by anyone.
How It Works:
The application combines Microsoft Live Maps with user-submitted data about where police speed traps are located, how often they are setup, and even what methods of detection are used to catch offending drivers.
Members can post detailed information such as the type of speed detection used, posted speed limit, and level of enforcement. Membership is totally free. Speeding tickets are not. Insurance price quotes for a car/auto after a ticket is even worse. Inform yourself and others. Future revisions of the site will allow for uploading to mobile GPS devices and GPS Enabled Phones.
More at:http://njection.com/
Roll A Name --Self Promoting Yourself
What Company is Offering:
Roll A Name lets you maximize your friends' network. The bigger your network is, the higher you and your profile are listed and visible. Use this visibility to start promoting yourself, your business, events, websites, parties, books, blogs, video and audio and much more. Be Creative!
How It Works:
Invite your friends and start your Roll A Name community. Be on top. Takeover. Get Noticed!
The more connected friends you have, the more popular (higher) you are in the search results. The number of connected friends you have does not affect your name's font size or type. These are generated randomly.
More at:http://www.rollaname.com/
Roll A Name lets you maximize your friends' network. The bigger your network is, the higher you and your profile are listed and visible. Use this visibility to start promoting yourself, your business, events, websites, parties, books, blogs, video and audio and much more. Be Creative!
How It Works:
Invite your friends and start your Roll A Name community. Be on top. Takeover. Get Noticed!
The more connected friends you have, the more popular (higher) you are in the search results. The number of connected friends you have does not affect your name's font size or type. These are generated randomly.
More at:http://www.rollaname.com/
FreeAlert is a completely free email and text-messaging alert service that locates the free items Or Emails Search Tools
What Company Is Offering:
FreeAlert is a completely free email and text-messaging alert service that locates the free items you're looking for; from dressers to cars to cookbooks.
How It Works:
You might be looking for a laptop, a stereo, software, a couch, a stroller, French doors, garage sale giveaways, storage bins, moving boxes, or even a free car or truck (yes, many people have gotten cars!).
FreeAlert tracks them all for you and then provides you instant notification! FreeAlert is your instant alert service for finding any and all special items you're searching for in your area.
And at the very moment FreeAlert finds your item, we send an alert directly to your email address (or a text alert to your cell phone or both).
Unique Features:
* Early responder advantages.
* Free, automatic alerts of your favorite free items. Instead of monitoring the Internet 24 hours per day for the free things everyone is searching for, they provide you the immediate information you need to get what you want.
More at:http://freealert.org/
FreeAlert is a completely free email and text-messaging alert service that locates the free items you're looking for; from dressers to cars to cookbooks.
How It Works:
You might be looking for a laptop, a stereo, software, a couch, a stroller, French doors, garage sale giveaways, storage bins, moving boxes, or even a free car or truck (yes, many people have gotten cars!).
FreeAlert tracks them all for you and then provides you instant notification! FreeAlert is your instant alert service for finding any and all special items you're searching for in your area.
And at the very moment FreeAlert finds your item, we send an alert directly to your email address (or a text alert to your cell phone or both).
Unique Features:
* Early responder advantages.
* Free, automatic alerts of your favorite free items. Instead of monitoring the Internet 24 hours per day for the free things everyone is searching for, they provide you the immediate information you need to get what you want.
More at:http://freealert.org/
Monday, December 17, 2007
Ideeli, the closed shopping network where consumers get the scoop on luxury brands just secured $3.8 million in Series A funding
Ideeli, the closed shopping network where consumers get the scoop on luxury brands at discounted prices, has just secured $3.8 million in Series A funding, led by Kodiak Ventures and angel investors. The network operates by alerting members to sales across its site, email or text message, the shoppers get the excitement while the retailers get a more engaged user base (and cleared inventory).
Combined with pre-sale editorial coverage and giveaways, ideeli’s shopping site has a social component to its site as well as a good amount of appeal to its main demographic. Set up as a tiered service, ideeli also offers a premium account option for those that would like early notice of products for sale.
This elitist approach to a privileged group seems to work very well with this type of shopping network. With Internet shopping becoming more and more commonplace, even more types of shoppers, retailers and business models can take advantage of e-commerce. Gilt, another closed network shoppers delight, was recently received funding as well, while Jellyfish’s social shopping model was very attractive to Microsoft.
Via-Mashable
Combined with pre-sale editorial coverage and giveaways, ideeli’s shopping site has a social component to its site as well as a good amount of appeal to its main demographic. Set up as a tiered service, ideeli also offers a premium account option for those that would like early notice of products for sale.
This elitist approach to a privileged group seems to work very well with this type of shopping network. With Internet shopping becoming more and more commonplace, even more types of shoppers, retailers and business models can take advantage of e-commerce. Gilt, another closed network shoppers delight, was recently received funding as well, while Jellyfish’s social shopping model was very attractive to Microsoft.
Via-Mashable
Musigy--Connecting Musicans Across The World With Virtual Jamming
What Company Is Offering:
Their technology makes it possible for people to make live music together over the Internet. Just plug in your guitar, keyboard, microphone or whatever you’ve got, and make music with other members of the Musigy community. It’s as if you’re in the same room! You see each other on a video screen and play in synch. Musigy Maker offers high-quality sound and ultra-low delays. And best of all, it’s free!
How It Works:
With the Musigy Maker you can record yourself or your distributed jamming session - and upload it to www.musigy.com! You can record both videos or just sound. After testing and proving their technology, they now offer it for free so that EVERYONE CAN MAKE MUSIGY. They’re tremendously excited about the world community that Musigy makes possible, with new connections forming, new music happening, and new stars emerging
How This Company is Going:
Musigy has demonstrated the power of its vision at several huge events: During live broadcast on Russian National TV, 50 million viewers cheered as Musigy enabled musicians in Moscow to play with musicians in Georgia — 1,000 miles away. Musigy also enabled “Jazz@the Speed of Light,” where world-famous jazz stars performed together from different locations thousands of miles apart.
More at:http://musigy.com/
Their technology makes it possible for people to make live music together over the Internet. Just plug in your guitar, keyboard, microphone or whatever you’ve got, and make music with other members of the Musigy community. It’s as if you’re in the same room! You see each other on a video screen and play in synch. Musigy Maker offers high-quality sound and ultra-low delays. And best of all, it’s free!
How It Works:
With the Musigy Maker you can record yourself or your distributed jamming session - and upload it to www.musigy.com! You can record both videos or just sound. After testing and proving their technology, they now offer it for free so that EVERYONE CAN MAKE MUSIGY. They’re tremendously excited about the world community that Musigy makes possible, with new connections forming, new music happening, and new stars emerging
How This Company is Going:
Musigy has demonstrated the power of its vision at several huge events: During live broadcast on Russian National TV, 50 million viewers cheered as Musigy enabled musicians in Moscow to play with musicians in Georgia — 1,000 miles away. Musigy also enabled “Jazz@the Speed of Light,” where world-famous jazz stars performed together from different locations thousands of miles apart.
More at:http://musigy.com/
RootZoo is a user-based sports community where sports fans create the content
What Company is Offering:
RootZoo is a user-based sports community where sports fans create the content. Fans talk and write about sports through threads, articles, and more to bring the state of being a sports fan to the next level. Through a competitive point system, community members earn free prizes simply for their success and participation.
How it Works:
Talk sports on fast-paced threads without having to wait hours and days for responses. Connect with fans of your teams. Talk smack to rival fans to rub in the pain of the burn when their team fails. Write articles and put yourself on the map as a knowledgeable fan. Create the polls that you want to see, to get the answers you want to know. See the best sports video highlights around the web. Find tickets straight from fellow fans, and so much more.
But that's not all. To sweeten the deal, they've got rewards for you. To ensure that their biggest and best contributors are rewarded for their efforts, they've created a point system. As you earn points and hit new levels, privileges are unlocked and your influence as a fan becomes that much stronger. Not bad, huh? There’s more though. As you hit higher levels, there are prizes for you. T-shirts. Free tickets (no, not the nosebleeds).
RootZoo is giving away $100 ticket gift certificates (to be used to see any team you please – even the Grand Rapids rampage if that’s your thing) to the first 250 fans to reach 10,000 points. Through a combination of participation, quality posts, spreading the word about our site and more, you'll be there before you can say Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean Jacque Wamutombo (yes, that's his real full name).
Full Detail Of Company: http://www.rootzoo.com/
RootZoo is a user-based sports community where sports fans create the content. Fans talk and write about sports through threads, articles, and more to bring the state of being a sports fan to the next level. Through a competitive point system, community members earn free prizes simply for their success and participation.
How it Works:
Talk sports on fast-paced threads without having to wait hours and days for responses. Connect with fans of your teams. Talk smack to rival fans to rub in the pain of the burn when their team fails. Write articles and put yourself on the map as a knowledgeable fan. Create the polls that you want to see, to get the answers you want to know. See the best sports video highlights around the web. Find tickets straight from fellow fans, and so much more.
But that's not all. To sweeten the deal, they've got rewards for you. To ensure that their biggest and best contributors are rewarded for their efforts, they've created a point system. As you earn points and hit new levels, privileges are unlocked and your influence as a fan becomes that much stronger. Not bad, huh? There’s more though. As you hit higher levels, there are prizes for you. T-shirts. Free tickets (no, not the nosebleeds).
RootZoo is giving away $100 ticket gift certificates (to be used to see any team you please – even the Grand Rapids rampage if that’s your thing) to the first 250 fans to reach 10,000 points. Through a combination of participation, quality posts, spreading the word about our site and more, you'll be there before you can say Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean Jacque Wamutombo (yes, that's his real full name).
Full Detail Of Company: http://www.rootzoo.com/
Global Media Fund--Provider Of National Media Exposer For Emerging Growth Companies Which Lacks Multi-Million Dollor Marketing Budget
What Company Is Offering:
Global Media Fund, Inc. specializes in providing massive national media exposure for emerging growth companies that do not have a multi-million dollar marketing budget.
They allow cash-starved emerging-growth companies to compete via national media campaigns.Utilizes the same creative, development, and distribution staff that works on Fortune 1000 client’s accounts to work on equity accounts.No hidden fees. All costs covered in agreements.Media results are guaranteed.
Monthly reports of media campaign, proof of service such as newspaper clippings, magazine clippings, tv ads and radio play logs are provided.Global Media Fund is the ONLY reputable media provider that accepts restricted stock as payment and has NO hidden fees.
How It Works:
Global Media Fund is committed to your business success. They essentially become an investor in your company while providing you with strategic resources to achieve your goals and benchmarks. They provide you with necessary tools for your success — media and financial market exposure — by simply taking stock, not cash, for their services. That means you can use your cash to keep your business growing. Meanwhile, they provide a variety of services that are integral to ensuring your company exceeds its potential. Global Media Fund works with you to develop the right stories about your products, as well as helps you choose the right media vehicles to get you maximum visibility. Seeing your products and services in the newspapers and magazines, on television and on the internet will give your company the third party credibility it needs to attract investors and enhance market awareness. According to a Columbia University study, GMF’s media features are 4 times more effective than traditional .
How Is It Different:
They buy media in bulk and pass the savings on to their clients
Their services include promoting you in 10,250 newspapers, 6,000 arbitron radio stations, national television, internet optimization ,e-mail campaigns ,press release and wire services , exposure in trade magazines related to your products,they help their clients create nationwide campaigns and brand awareness.
They handle all aspects of the campaign including story development, production, copywriting, and placement of the features.Their portfolio companies always have final approval.
Full Detail Of Company:http://www.globalmediafund.com/
Global Media Fund, Inc. specializes in providing massive national media exposure for emerging growth companies that do not have a multi-million dollar marketing budget.
They allow cash-starved emerging-growth companies to compete via national media campaigns.Utilizes the same creative, development, and distribution staff that works on Fortune 1000 client’s accounts to work on equity accounts.No hidden fees. All costs covered in agreements.Media results are guaranteed.
Monthly reports of media campaign, proof of service such as newspaper clippings, magazine clippings, tv ads and radio play logs are provided.Global Media Fund is the ONLY reputable media provider that accepts restricted stock as payment and has NO hidden fees.
How It Works:
Global Media Fund is committed to your business success. They essentially become an investor in your company while providing you with strategic resources to achieve your goals and benchmarks. They provide you with necessary tools for your success — media and financial market exposure — by simply taking stock, not cash, for their services. That means you can use your cash to keep your business growing. Meanwhile, they provide a variety of services that are integral to ensuring your company exceeds its potential. Global Media Fund works with you to develop the right stories about your products, as well as helps you choose the right media vehicles to get you maximum visibility. Seeing your products and services in the newspapers and magazines, on television and on the internet will give your company the third party credibility it needs to attract investors and enhance market awareness. According to a Columbia University study, GMF’s media features are 4 times more effective than traditional .
How Is It Different:
They buy media in bulk and pass the savings on to their clients
Their services include promoting you in 10,250 newspapers, 6,000 arbitron radio stations, national television, internet optimization ,e-mail campaigns ,press release and wire services , exposure in trade magazines related to your products,they help their clients create nationwide campaigns and brand awareness.
They handle all aspects of the campaign including story development, production, copywriting, and placement of the features.Their portfolio companies always have final approval.
Full Detail Of Company:http://www.globalmediafund.com/
Pingg offers consumers, professional and businesses stylish online invitation
What Company is Offering:
They offers consumers, professional and businesses stylish online invitation creation, event management, guest list creation and event reporting
They set out to build a better online invite and event management tool that would provide all that we were looking for, something that would make our lives easier but not force us to compromise on style. They are introducing you to pingg and to share with you the next generation of free digital invitations and online event management tools.
How It Works:
Communicate with your guests at any time in any way. With pingg's SurroundSend™, you can schedule all your event communications and choose your delivery method. SurroundSend™ will automatically email, SMS or mail your invitations as well as notifications and reminders. You can easily create a sophisticated event web page and even post your event to your Facebook profile. With pingg's SurroundSend™ your event is well sent!
SurroundSend™ seamlessly manages all your communications from the first save the date to the final thank you note. The pingg Event Manager provides unprecedented flexibility in organizing your event. You can email, text and/or mail printed invitations, reminders and other communications to your guests. With SurroundSend™ you can also easily notify your guests of changes when the unexpected happens.
Full Detail Of Company:http://www.pingg.com/
They offers consumers, professional and businesses stylish online invitation creation, event management, guest list creation and event reporting
They set out to build a better online invite and event management tool that would provide all that we were looking for, something that would make our lives easier but not force us to compromise on style. They are introducing you to pingg and to share with you the next generation of free digital invitations and online event management tools.
How It Works:
Communicate with your guests at any time in any way. With pingg's SurroundSend™, you can schedule all your event communications and choose your delivery method. SurroundSend™ will automatically email, SMS or mail your invitations as well as notifications and reminders. You can easily create a sophisticated event web page and even post your event to your Facebook profile. With pingg's SurroundSend™ your event is well sent!
SurroundSend™ seamlessly manages all your communications from the first save the date to the final thank you note. The pingg Event Manager provides unprecedented flexibility in organizing your event. You can email, text and/or mail printed invitations, reminders and other communications to your guests. With SurroundSend™ you can also easily notify your guests of changes when the unexpected happens.
Full Detail Of Company:http://www.pingg.com/
Social Design Network
What Company Is Offering:
The Social Design Network is your new common ground that will connect you with people and organizations around the world. This niche community will provide you with resources to form groups and participate in projects, giving you access to their entire network of people who are interested in working with designers like you.
How It Works:
Once you have registered for an account, a confirmation email will be sent to the email address you provided. You will then need to click on the link in the confirmation email to activate your account. Your profile offers you a place to network and connect with their members. The profile also offers you a blog to initiate discussions and respond to members and supporters, serving as your own interactive tool. Their design competitions will challenge you to create smart solutions to social problems using design. They want your participation!
How Is It Different:
In one central location, DESIGN 21 will keep you in the know about how people everywhere are using design to make a difference.
Giving yourself a presence on DESIGN 21 shows your support of social design in this new forum that is THE resource for social design today.
Through your free profile, you may connect and communicate with other designers, non-profit organizations, socially conscious individuals, companies, special interest groups and more.
You can post and respond to the latest design news and share your opinions and concerns.
Organizations (non-profits, companies, government agencies) and individuals in this new community will get to see your designer portfolio, broadening your professional network.
More at:http://www.design21sdn.com/
The Social Design Network is your new common ground that will connect you with people and organizations around the world. This niche community will provide you with resources to form groups and participate in projects, giving you access to their entire network of people who are interested in working with designers like you.
How It Works:
Once you have registered for an account, a confirmation email will be sent to the email address you provided. You will then need to click on the link in the confirmation email to activate your account. Your profile offers you a place to network and connect with their members. The profile also offers you a blog to initiate discussions and respond to members and supporters, serving as your own interactive tool. Their design competitions will challenge you to create smart solutions to social problems using design. They want your participation!
How Is It Different:
In one central location, DESIGN 21 will keep you in the know about how people everywhere are using design to make a difference.
Giving yourself a presence on DESIGN 21 shows your support of social design in this new forum that is THE resource for social design today.
Through your free profile, you may connect and communicate with other designers, non-profit organizations, socially conscious individuals, companies, special interest groups and more.
You can post and respond to the latest design news and share your opinions and concerns.
Organizations (non-profits, companies, government agencies) and individuals in this new community will get to see your designer portfolio, broadening your professional network.
More at:http://www.design21sdn.com/
MyAdSouce gives real communities a leg up by empowering their local newspaper with the technology and tools needed to compete on the global web
What Company Is Offering:
MyAdSouce gives real communities a leg up by empowering their local newspaper with the technology and tools needed to compete on the global web.
How It Works:
The perfect solution for newspapers and print publications losing the online classified battle. Loaded with a variety of user rich features and products to create “stickiness” and new revenue, this technology also comes with powerful back end tools needed for receiving, managing, charging and accepting self service print classified submissions. With this Marketplace you provide your advertisers the ability to utilize the power of print and online in a cross functional user friendly format.With a Servicefront website. Servicefronts provide a 24/7 website that is fully customizable and allows you to advertise your products, services, hours of operation, rates and much more.
Have an inventory of products for sale? Sell them online with a Storefront e-commerce site. No transaction fees, inventory management, credit card acceptance and more! Best of all, we'll bring customers to you with our ActiveMatch technology.
More at:http://www.myadsource.com/
MyAdSouce gives real communities a leg up by empowering their local newspaper with the technology and tools needed to compete on the global web.
How It Works:
The perfect solution for newspapers and print publications losing the online classified battle. Loaded with a variety of user rich features and products to create “stickiness” and new revenue, this technology also comes with powerful back end tools needed for receiving, managing, charging and accepting self service print classified submissions. With this Marketplace you provide your advertisers the ability to utilize the power of print and online in a cross functional user friendly format.With a Servicefront website. Servicefronts provide a 24/7 website that is fully customizable and allows you to advertise your products, services, hours of operation, rates and much more.
Have an inventory of products for sale? Sell them online with a Storefront e-commerce site. No transaction fees, inventory management, credit card acceptance and more! Best of all, we'll bring customers to you with our ActiveMatch technology.
More at:http://www.myadsource.com/
Simkl automatically saves all of your important IM conversations on a secured web server
What Company Is Offering:
Simkl automatically saves all of your important IM conversations on a secured web server, the same way you save your e-mails. And more importantly Simkl does not ask you to install any software, so no viruses or adware ever. Sign up and you will have easy access to your IM conversations from any computer.
Unique Features:
Save IM conversations.
Backup IM contacts.
Web 2.0 style Access to your conversations from anywhere in the world.
Work on multiple computers and have combined history.
Easy access to viewer through history.im.
They are constantly developing new features to suit your needs, such as Full Search capability and ability to Share any conversation with your business partners.
More at:http://www.simkl.com/
Simkl automatically saves all of your important IM conversations on a secured web server, the same way you save your e-mails. And more importantly Simkl does not ask you to install any software, so no viruses or adware ever. Sign up and you will have easy access to your IM conversations from any computer.
Unique Features:
Save IM conversations.
Backup IM contacts.
Web 2.0 style Access to your conversations from anywhere in the world.
Work on multiple computers and have combined history.
Easy access to viewer through history.im.
They are constantly developing new features to suit your needs, such as Full Search capability and ability to Share any conversation with your business partners.
More at:http://www.simkl.com/
Fore Score Golf Stats--Game Managment:
What Company Is Offering:
Fore Score Golf Stats has something for everyone. Whether you are an experienced golfer looking to establish a handicap to use for league play or a novice looking to track your progress and set benchmarks for improvement, you'll find the tools you need at Fore Score Golf Stats.
How It Works:
Click on 'Course' and select 'New Course' to bring up a blank course page. You'll need to enter the course name and information on each hole (par, yardage and hole handicap). If you plan on tracking your personal handicap you'll need to enter the course index and the slope index (you can find this information on your scorecard).
You'll only need to enter each course once. Fore Score Golf Stats will save your course information so you don't have to re-enter it each time you submit a new score.
When you have your course information entered you can start to submit your scores. Click on 'Round' and select 'New Round.' Pick the course you just played from your list of entered courses and you'll be ready to enter your round information. You can enter your scores, number of putts, number of "duffs", number of hazards and whether or not you hit the fairway on your drive. Fore Score Golf Stats will use the information that you provide to offer up dozens of statistics based on your scores.
More at:http://www.forescoregolfstats.com/
Fore Score Golf Stats has something for everyone. Whether you are an experienced golfer looking to establish a handicap to use for league play or a novice looking to track your progress and set benchmarks for improvement, you'll find the tools you need at Fore Score Golf Stats.
How It Works:
Click on 'Course' and select 'New Course' to bring up a blank course page. You'll need to enter the course name and information on each hole (par, yardage and hole handicap). If you plan on tracking your personal handicap you'll need to enter the course index and the slope index (you can find this information on your scorecard).
You'll only need to enter each course once. Fore Score Golf Stats will save your course information so you don't have to re-enter it each time you submit a new score.
When you have your course information entered you can start to submit your scores. Click on 'Round' and select 'New Round.' Pick the course you just played from your list of entered courses and you'll be ready to enter your round information. You can enter your scores, number of putts, number of "duffs", number of hazards and whether or not you hit the fairway on your drive. Fore Score Golf Stats will use the information that you provide to offer up dozens of statistics based on your scores.
More at:http://www.forescoregolfstats.com/
Silicon Valley's best-known venture capitalists's most unusual company
What Company Says:
If you’ve decided to lose weight and get in shape — and if you’ve ever sung along to a song at the top of your lungs because it really meant something to you — then SkinnySongs is made for you........
"Roizen, 49, is one of Silicon Valley's best-known venture capitalists. She has been a pivotal player in the valley for years, and counts both Bill Gates and Warren Buffett among her friends. In the 1980s, Roizen co-founded a software company with her brother, and then came up with the idea of selling clip art--mini pictures in software. Clipart made money for her firm--and eventually became a staple of the Internet.
In the mid-1990s, Roizen joined Apple to try to rekindle enthusiasm among software developers for writing for the Mac platform. Roizen did it with flair, marching onto the stage at a developers' conference clutching a briefcase stuffed with cash to show how much Apple wanted to support developers. She helped orchestrate one of Microsoft's biggest acquisitions, the $1.1 billion purchase of Great Plains software.
But in May, Roizen scored a much more intimate big number. She climbed on the bathroom scale and watched as the numbers hit their highest value ever. Although she tried working out and dieting, the campaigns had fizzled. Worse, she was on her way to a board meeting at a startup company located next to a chocolate chip cookie factory. The meeting would feature delightful, fresh-baked cookies. It always did.
"Can't touch those cookies," she thought grimly, as she drove to the board meeting, flipping through the music choices in her car's system to find something to cheer her on. In past years, as she headed into difficult board meetings, she'd treat herself to a blast of defiant music, such as Pink's "18 Wheeler." But on this particular day, nothing suited her mood.
"I need that kind of music to lose weight," she thought. "I need chick empowerment music. I'm going to fit into my skinny jeans. And I wanted the music to be really cool!"
That's when the entrepreneur in Roizen kicked in. Another person might have just made due with, say, the theme song from the movie Flash Dance. But that wouldn't do for Roizen.
Over the next few months, Roizen, who majored in creative writing at Stanford University, scribbled lyrics for a handful of songs, naming the first "Skinny Jeans." Her words were laced with country music-style irony:
From the moment that I saw you, hangin' out at the mall
I had to own you, your rhinestones and all…
For years we were together, every Saturday night,
we'd go out dancin', you'd hold me in tight,
but you were unforgiving and you wouldn't let me grow
Now I can't put you on--but I can't let you go…."
Friends liked them, but electronic musician Thomas Dolby sat her down and asked her if she was just playing, or if she was serious. "He said: 'Is your goal 15 minutes of fame on YouTube?'" Roizen recalled.
Along with penning lyrics, Roizen started researching the business of weight loss. She encountered another set of big numbers: The Food and Drug Administration reports that about 50 million Americans typically say they're on a diet at any given time. About 76% of Americans say they'd like to lose weight.
Doctors told her the biggest challenge for dieters was finding a community that encourages and supports them. But music specially geared at helping people lose weight tended to be meditative or reflective--or worse, simply depressing about how rotten life is on a diet.
All this suggested to Roizen that her mission wasn't to get on the radio--but to develop a new market. "The niche is women who'd like to lose weight and who listen to music," she says. "It's a big, honking niche on the Venn diagram."
A recording goes "platinum" when it sells a million copies. But Roizen realized there are entire collections of recordings that churn out platinum-level sales without ever airing on the radio, namely boxed music sets for children. Roizen didn't want to be a pop star. She wanted to create a successful business. "I've done the math," she says. "I figured that if I was the publisher and lyricist and I owned the 'record label,' I can make the economics work."
Even so, Roizen recognized that the operation was a big gamble--and so decided to fund it entirely herself.
As soon as she realized she wanted to build a business, she started to hire professional help. With guidance from professional music producers, she zeroed in on well-known Nashville music producer and writer David Malloy. Malloy has had 40 songs picked as "No. 1" by various music tracking groups, like Billboard, including, "I Love A Rainy Night." He has worked with singers such as Tanya Tucker and Billy Gilman.
But write music for songs about losing weight? "At first, I thought it was crazy," Malloy admits.
Malloy's friend, recording industry veteran George Daly, "said a lady he had met approached him about some idea of writing song lyrics about losing weight and would I be interested in anything like that," Malloy recalls. "I said, 'I don't want to write songs about losing weight! That's not what I do!'"
Daly persuaded Malloy to give Roizen's lyrics a look.
Malloy read them and was charmed. "I thought the lyrics were really well-written. I could imagine putting some music behind them," he says.
Over the summer, Malloy and Roizen launched into a spirited collaboration: He wrote the music, she honed the verses. They had artistic tussles--she tried to slip the word "liposuction" into one song; Malloy refused.
"Some words just don't sing well," he points out. "'Liposuction! Liposuction!' Come on, I'm already tired of it."
Roizen nixed the liposuction.
Malloy put in "ear candy," including a background chorus singing something about: "I want to wear something sexy, something that barely fits me…."
Roizen objected. "I don't think my target demographic wants to wear something that 'barely fits me,'" she complained.
"Why is it always about your 'target demographic'?" Malloy shot back.
"Because that's what the album is about," Roizen retorted.
By autumn, Roizen and Malloy had put together a collection of 10 songs with musical styles that varied from country-western and pop to rap. Malloy signed up-and-coming musicians. At first, they hesitated about the idea of singing about weight loss, but the music and lyrics won them over.
"There were no strings attached to this project--no radio format. The only criteria I had was: Did the music make me feel good? Did I have fun with it? Was it the kind of music I wanted to play again?" Malloy says. It was, he says, the most artistic freedom he had had in years.
Roizen kept a tight hold on the business side. "There's a big piece of this that's exactly like any other business," she says, ticking off her to-do list: Get incorporated. Invent a catchy name. Hire the specialists. Work on the economics. Push the contributors to make their deadlines. Roizen created a Web site to sell the music (and in the future, possibly other merchandise, such as T-shirts). She got the music registered on iTunes.
By the end of the year, Roizen will have put "several hundred thousand dollars" into creating the Skinny Songs recording. She resigned from Mobius Venture Capital. Her husband even wound up writing this year's family holiday letter, because Roizen was too busy getting the CD ready to ship.
What remains to be seen is if her bet was a smart one--businesswise. Skinny Songs is just going on sale now, first on her website, then on iTunes. Roizen is also deep into plans for partnerships and promotions, particularly with health clubs.
Would she have funded someone else if they came to her, the venture capitalist, and pitched the idea of starting a music company that would produce music that inspired people to lose weight? "I don't know," Roizen concedes. "I see a lot of women my age, waking up and saying, 'I want to do something personally meaningful to me.' I say to them: 'Is this about personal gratification? Or is it a real business?"
Whatever the outcome of Skinny Songs, the entrepreneur in Roizen has no regrets. "I woke up and said, 'This is what I have to do--even if it fails.'" she says. "This idea is just too compelling for me to let it slip by."
And unlike the usual startup experience of late nights and pizza that pack on the pounds, this time, the entrepreneur lost weight. Roizen says she's down a full 30 pounds since that day in May.
Malloy admits he lost weight, too. "Don't you think I had to?" he asks. "You can't work on songs like this and not lose weight!"
More at:www.skinnysongs.com
Via-Uncommon
If you’ve decided to lose weight and get in shape — and if you’ve ever sung along to a song at the top of your lungs because it really meant something to you — then SkinnySongs is made for you........
"Roizen, 49, is one of Silicon Valley's best-known venture capitalists. She has been a pivotal player in the valley for years, and counts both Bill Gates and Warren Buffett among her friends. In the 1980s, Roizen co-founded a software company with her brother, and then came up with the idea of selling clip art--mini pictures in software. Clipart made money for her firm--and eventually became a staple of the Internet.
In the mid-1990s, Roizen joined Apple to try to rekindle enthusiasm among software developers for writing for the Mac platform. Roizen did it with flair, marching onto the stage at a developers' conference clutching a briefcase stuffed with cash to show how much Apple wanted to support developers. She helped orchestrate one of Microsoft's biggest acquisitions, the $1.1 billion purchase of Great Plains software.
But in May, Roizen scored a much more intimate big number. She climbed on the bathroom scale and watched as the numbers hit their highest value ever. Although she tried working out and dieting, the campaigns had fizzled. Worse, she was on her way to a board meeting at a startup company located next to a chocolate chip cookie factory. The meeting would feature delightful, fresh-baked cookies. It always did.
"Can't touch those cookies," she thought grimly, as she drove to the board meeting, flipping through the music choices in her car's system to find something to cheer her on. In past years, as she headed into difficult board meetings, she'd treat herself to a blast of defiant music, such as Pink's "18 Wheeler." But on this particular day, nothing suited her mood.
"I need that kind of music to lose weight," she thought. "I need chick empowerment music. I'm going to fit into my skinny jeans. And I wanted the music to be really cool!"
That's when the entrepreneur in Roizen kicked in. Another person might have just made due with, say, the theme song from the movie Flash Dance. But that wouldn't do for Roizen.
Over the next few months, Roizen, who majored in creative writing at Stanford University, scribbled lyrics for a handful of songs, naming the first "Skinny Jeans." Her words were laced with country music-style irony:
From the moment that I saw you, hangin' out at the mall
I had to own you, your rhinestones and all…
For years we were together, every Saturday night,
we'd go out dancin', you'd hold me in tight,
but you were unforgiving and you wouldn't let me grow
Now I can't put you on--but I can't let you go…."
Friends liked them, but electronic musician Thomas Dolby sat her down and asked her if she was just playing, or if she was serious. "He said: 'Is your goal 15 minutes of fame on YouTube?'" Roizen recalled.
Along with penning lyrics, Roizen started researching the business of weight loss. She encountered another set of big numbers: The Food and Drug Administration reports that about 50 million Americans typically say they're on a diet at any given time. About 76% of Americans say they'd like to lose weight.
Doctors told her the biggest challenge for dieters was finding a community that encourages and supports them. But music specially geared at helping people lose weight tended to be meditative or reflective--or worse, simply depressing about how rotten life is on a diet.
All this suggested to Roizen that her mission wasn't to get on the radio--but to develop a new market. "The niche is women who'd like to lose weight and who listen to music," she says. "It's a big, honking niche on the Venn diagram."
A recording goes "platinum" when it sells a million copies. But Roizen realized there are entire collections of recordings that churn out platinum-level sales without ever airing on the radio, namely boxed music sets for children. Roizen didn't want to be a pop star. She wanted to create a successful business. "I've done the math," she says. "I figured that if I was the publisher and lyricist and I owned the 'record label,' I can make the economics work."
Even so, Roizen recognized that the operation was a big gamble--and so decided to fund it entirely herself.
As soon as she realized she wanted to build a business, she started to hire professional help. With guidance from professional music producers, she zeroed in on well-known Nashville music producer and writer David Malloy. Malloy has had 40 songs picked as "No. 1" by various music tracking groups, like Billboard, including, "I Love A Rainy Night." He has worked with singers such as Tanya Tucker and Billy Gilman.
But write music for songs about losing weight? "At first, I thought it was crazy," Malloy admits.
Malloy's friend, recording industry veteran George Daly, "said a lady he had met approached him about some idea of writing song lyrics about losing weight and would I be interested in anything like that," Malloy recalls. "I said, 'I don't want to write songs about losing weight! That's not what I do!'"
Daly persuaded Malloy to give Roizen's lyrics a look.
Malloy read them and was charmed. "I thought the lyrics were really well-written. I could imagine putting some music behind them," he says.
Over the summer, Malloy and Roizen launched into a spirited collaboration: He wrote the music, she honed the verses. They had artistic tussles--she tried to slip the word "liposuction" into one song; Malloy refused.
"Some words just don't sing well," he points out. "'Liposuction! Liposuction!' Come on, I'm already tired of it."
Roizen nixed the liposuction.
Malloy put in "ear candy," including a background chorus singing something about: "I want to wear something sexy, something that barely fits me…."
Roizen objected. "I don't think my target demographic wants to wear something that 'barely fits me,'" she complained.
"Why is it always about your 'target demographic'?" Malloy shot back.
"Because that's what the album is about," Roizen retorted.
By autumn, Roizen and Malloy had put together a collection of 10 songs with musical styles that varied from country-western and pop to rap. Malloy signed up-and-coming musicians. At first, they hesitated about the idea of singing about weight loss, but the music and lyrics won them over.
"There were no strings attached to this project--no radio format. The only criteria I had was: Did the music make me feel good? Did I have fun with it? Was it the kind of music I wanted to play again?" Malloy says. It was, he says, the most artistic freedom he had had in years.
Roizen kept a tight hold on the business side. "There's a big piece of this that's exactly like any other business," she says, ticking off her to-do list: Get incorporated. Invent a catchy name. Hire the specialists. Work on the economics. Push the contributors to make their deadlines. Roizen created a Web site to sell the music (and in the future, possibly other merchandise, such as T-shirts). She got the music registered on iTunes.
By the end of the year, Roizen will have put "several hundred thousand dollars" into creating the Skinny Songs recording. She resigned from Mobius Venture Capital. Her husband even wound up writing this year's family holiday letter, because Roizen was too busy getting the CD ready to ship.
What remains to be seen is if her bet was a smart one--businesswise. Skinny Songs is just going on sale now, first on her website, then on iTunes. Roizen is also deep into plans for partnerships and promotions, particularly with health clubs.
Would she have funded someone else if they came to her, the venture capitalist, and pitched the idea of starting a music company that would produce music that inspired people to lose weight? "I don't know," Roizen concedes. "I see a lot of women my age, waking up and saying, 'I want to do something personally meaningful to me.' I say to them: 'Is this about personal gratification? Or is it a real business?"
Whatever the outcome of Skinny Songs, the entrepreneur in Roizen has no regrets. "I woke up and said, 'This is what I have to do--even if it fails.'" she says. "This idea is just too compelling for me to let it slip by."
And unlike the usual startup experience of late nights and pizza that pack on the pounds, this time, the entrepreneur lost weight. Roizen says she's down a full 30 pounds since that day in May.
Malloy admits he lost weight, too. "Don't you think I had to?" he asks. "You can't work on songs like this and not lose weight!"
More at:www.skinnysongs.com
Via-Uncommon
Clavardon allows visitors to chat with each other or with connected sales managers on a Website
What Company Is Offering:
Clavardon (from French Clavarder, to chat) is a very innovative tool targeted for companies that sell products and services online. Clavardon allows visitors to chat with each other or with connected sales managers on a Website.
How It Works:
Clavardon provides the possibility to co-navigate (co-browse) interactively: visitors are able to control each others' navigation. Unlike any live support solutions, Clavardon was not only made to support customers online but to provide your website with a tool that brings real interactivity and social exchange between visitors. Clavardon brings more life to your Website and helps you build an online community around your Website that will increase your sales and grow your online business.
How It Will Helpful:
Tranform any e-commerce in a real market place.
Attract new visitors.
Build customer loyalty.
Maximize your popularity.
Improve user experience.
First real co-browsing tool.
Based on reliable and secured technologies.
More at:http://www.clavardon.com/
Clavardon (from French Clavarder, to chat) is a very innovative tool targeted for companies that sell products and services online. Clavardon allows visitors to chat with each other or with connected sales managers on a Website.
How It Works:
Clavardon provides the possibility to co-navigate (co-browse) interactively: visitors are able to control each others' navigation. Unlike any live support solutions, Clavardon was not only made to support customers online but to provide your website with a tool that brings real interactivity and social exchange between visitors. Clavardon brings more life to your Website and helps you build an online community around your Website that will increase your sales and grow your online business.
How It Will Helpful:
Tranform any e-commerce in a real market place.
Attract new visitors.
Build customer loyalty.
Maximize your popularity.
Improve user experience.
First real co-browsing tool.
Based on reliable and secured technologies.
More at:http://www.clavardon.com/
Virtual Ventures, a revolutionary way to evaluate the commercial viability and value of ideas
What Company Is Offering:
Virtual VenturesSM, a revolutionary way to evaluate the commercial viability and value of ideas.
Virtual Ventures offers users an opportunity to Review new technologies, from major companies, to Predict their success for commercialization, Earn cash by networking and referring these technologies, and Watch the deals unfold.
How It Works:
Virtual Ventures -- predict the commercial success of new software products. "Invest" in the ones you think will succeed.
Virtual Ventures is an exciting online community that allows individuals to invest virtual dollars in real technologies from real companies and see real results as these technologies are brought to market.
Enterprises now have a scalable, efficient, and cost-effective solution to assess the viability of internal technologies and convert them into revenue-generating assets using a crowd of active predictors.
Virtual Ventures is the online idea market that leverages prediction market science to determine the commercial viability of technologies. With Virtual Ventures, organization can submit internal software technologies for evaluation by a crowd of interested participants that are members of the Virtual Ventures community.
More at:http://www.virtualventures.com/
Virtual VenturesSM, a revolutionary way to evaluate the commercial viability and value of ideas.
Virtual Ventures offers users an opportunity to Review new technologies, from major companies, to Predict their success for commercialization, Earn cash by networking and referring these technologies, and Watch the deals unfold.
How It Works:
Virtual Ventures -- predict the commercial success of new software products. "Invest" in the ones you think will succeed.
Virtual Ventures is an exciting online community that allows individuals to invest virtual dollars in real technologies from real companies and see real results as these technologies are brought to market.
Enterprises now have a scalable, efficient, and cost-effective solution to assess the viability of internal technologies and convert them into revenue-generating assets using a crowd of active predictors.
Virtual Ventures is the online idea market that leverages prediction market science to determine the commercial viability of technologies. With Virtual Ventures, organization can submit internal software technologies for evaluation by a crowd of interested participants that are members of the Virtual Ventures community.
More at:http://www.virtualventures.com/
Brightcove can help you grow your business
What Company Is Offering:
Brightcove empowers content owners—from independent producers to major broadcast networks—to reach their audiences directly through the Internet. At the same time, we help web publishers enrich their sites with syndicated video programming, and they give marketers more ways to communicate and engage with their consumers.
Most importantly, they give people the freedom to easily find, watch and participate in a broad range of video content—when and where they choose.
How It Works:
1. Publish Quickly
Create interactive video, audio, and image experiences without all of the overhead of web development and infrastructure. Focus on your content, programming and design - we'll take care of the rest.
2. Have Total Control
Create unique user experiences and run things on your own terms. You Have Control over everything from design of the user experience to distribution & monetization of your content.
3. Interact With Viewers
Accept video uploads from your audience and leverage sharing features to turn your uniques into contributors. Brightcove makes interacting with your audience straightforward and easy to control.
4. Grow Your Audience
Brightcove gives you powerful ways to broadcast your content across the web and grow your audience online. Turnkey distribution through major destination sites and automatic listing with search engines put your content in front of the largest audiences on the web.
5. Monetize Your Content
Generate revenue as your audience grows using state-of-the-art advertising capabilities and turnkey paid download services. Additionally, use rich media to drive traffic to related products & services on your site and unlock even more revenue potential.
More at:http://www.brightcove.com/
Brightcove empowers content owners—from independent producers to major broadcast networks—to reach their audiences directly through the Internet. At the same time, we help web publishers enrich their sites with syndicated video programming, and they give marketers more ways to communicate and engage with their consumers.
Most importantly, they give people the freedom to easily find, watch and participate in a broad range of video content—when and where they choose.
How It Works:
1. Publish Quickly
Create interactive video, audio, and image experiences without all of the overhead of web development and infrastructure. Focus on your content, programming and design - we'll take care of the rest.
2. Have Total Control
Create unique user experiences and run things on your own terms. You Have Control over everything from design of the user experience to distribution & monetization of your content.
3. Interact With Viewers
Accept video uploads from your audience and leverage sharing features to turn your uniques into contributors. Brightcove makes interacting with your audience straightforward and easy to control.
4. Grow Your Audience
Brightcove gives you powerful ways to broadcast your content across the web and grow your audience online. Turnkey distribution through major destination sites and automatic listing with search engines put your content in front of the largest audiences on the web.
5. Monetize Your Content
Generate revenue as your audience grows using state-of-the-art advertising capabilities and turnkey paid download services. Additionally, use rich media to drive traffic to related products & services on your site and unlock even more revenue potential.
More at:http://www.brightcove.com/
Trooker is an up-to-the-minute video viewing community
What Company Is Offering:
Trooker is an up-to-the-minute video viewing community. With Trooker you can find and watch videos continuously, get alerts when there are new videos on your topic of interest, and create your own sets of videos from anywhere on the net. With Trooker, you can trook your friends and share your watching experience by instantly exchanging videos with them.
How It Works:
Trooker currently searches real-time online video communities such as YouTube, MySpace, Metacafe, DailyMotion and LiveVideo.Sending your video choices to friends and instant messaging each other within Trooker is what they call “trooking”. You can trook individual videos or you could even trook complete video sets. Interesting videos make for some very interesting conversation. There are some who say that this is more addictive then…
Creating a Video Set is a way you can organize your favorite videos that you have saved to your Trooker viewer. If you create a set, you can choose which videos to include, move them around, and if you like, you can publish it. This makes the set available on the internet. You can embed your set onto your blog, MySpace or Facebook page. The people that visit your page will be able to see your choice of videos running continuously, as well as any additional images and comments that you want to incorporate.
More at:http://www.trooker.com/
Trooker is an up-to-the-minute video viewing community. With Trooker you can find and watch videos continuously, get alerts when there are new videos on your topic of interest, and create your own sets of videos from anywhere on the net. With Trooker, you can trook your friends and share your watching experience by instantly exchanging videos with them.
How It Works:
Trooker currently searches real-time online video communities such as YouTube, MySpace, Metacafe, DailyMotion and LiveVideo.Sending your video choices to friends and instant messaging each other within Trooker is what they call “trooking”. You can trook individual videos or you could even trook complete video sets. Interesting videos make for some very interesting conversation. There are some who say that this is more addictive then…
Creating a Video Set is a way you can organize your favorite videos that you have saved to your Trooker viewer. If you create a set, you can choose which videos to include, move them around, and if you like, you can publish it. This makes the set available on the internet. You can embed your set onto your blog, MySpace or Facebook page. The people that visit your page will be able to see your choice of videos running continuously, as well as any additional images and comments that you want to incorporate.
More at:http://www.trooker.com/
BlogCharm--Get Paid For Blogging
What Company Is Offering:
BlogCharm will pay members by splitting all advertising inventory and sponsorships. On member blogs the top thinbar will contain text ads where members will share 50% of the inventory and revenues generated from them. This will be a mixture of paid ads where members get paid each time their blog is seen and not just when somebody clicks on an advertisement which works much differently than programs like AdSense. Each time your blog is seen you get paid! BlogCharm even goes further to make money for members where they split site sponsorship revenues 50/50 as well. For example. If we sell a main page sponsorship for $500 per month members will split 50% of the total take.
How It Works:
BlogCharm will be introducing a whole new way for bloggers to enjoy building a blog and get paid doing it!
Get blogging and help them build up a network of blogs so they can demand more money for site sponsorships! As a blog network everyone will be included in the rewards and as the bigger the blog network grows the more we can sell sponsorships for. That means more money to you!.
More at:http://www.blogcharm.com/
BlogCharm will pay members by splitting all advertising inventory and sponsorships. On member blogs the top thinbar will contain text ads where members will share 50% of the inventory and revenues generated from them. This will be a mixture of paid ads where members get paid each time their blog is seen and not just when somebody clicks on an advertisement which works much differently than programs like AdSense. Each time your blog is seen you get paid! BlogCharm even goes further to make money for members where they split site sponsorship revenues 50/50 as well. For example. If we sell a main page sponsorship for $500 per month members will split 50% of the total take.
How It Works:
BlogCharm will be introducing a whole new way for bloggers to enjoy building a blog and get paid doing it!
Get blogging and help them build up a network of blogs so they can demand more money for site sponsorships! As a blog network everyone will be included in the rewards and as the bigger the blog network grows the more we can sell sponsorships for. That means more money to you!.
More at:http://www.blogcharm.com/
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Hi Everywhere! is a volunteer tour guide exchange network that connects people from all over the world
What Company Is Offering:
Hi Everywhere! is a volunteer tour guide exchange network that connects people from all over the world.
Hi Everywhere! aims at making trips exciting with local guides who enjoys hosting and having new friends. For travelers, a volunteer guide means not only a local perspective but also assistance when traveling; for local guides, touring with foreigners let you rediscover your home towns.
How It Works:
Their service is totally free! It only takes you a few minutes to create your profile which you can post a request, book a request and participate in the discussion forums. Whether you are interested in meeting local guide or hosting travelers, Hi Everywhere is where friendships happen.
More at:http://www.hieverywhere.com/
Hi Everywhere! is a volunteer tour guide exchange network that connects people from all over the world.
Hi Everywhere! aims at making trips exciting with local guides who enjoys hosting and having new friends. For travelers, a volunteer guide means not only a local perspective but also assistance when traveling; for local guides, touring with foreigners let you rediscover your home towns.
How It Works:
Their service is totally free! It only takes you a few minutes to create your profile which you can post a request, book a request and participate in the discussion forums. Whether you are interested in meeting local guide or hosting travelers, Hi Everywhere is where friendships happen.
More at:http://www.hieverywhere.com/
PicoCool is a site that's dedicated to bringing you tiny bytes and obscure content from the world of peer media
What Company Is Offering:
PicoCool is a site that's dedicated to bringing you tiny bytes and obscure content from the world of peer media, social networks and subcultures. Cool content from real people.
How It Works:
PicoCool is the first site to focus on the content being created by people on social networks and through peer media. It's not about who's popular or who has the most points, it's about the things we create, the ideas we have, and the creative or daily minutiae that makes us human.
They cover underground trends, subcultures, art, human experiences, products, innovations, philosophies, digital living, the obscure and the tiny. Somewhere in the undiscovered and the mundane lives real brilliance. PicoCool is about uncovering these microscopic moments when things first begin.
More at:http://picocool.com/
PicoCool is a site that's dedicated to bringing you tiny bytes and obscure content from the world of peer media, social networks and subcultures. Cool content from real people.
How It Works:
PicoCool is the first site to focus on the content being created by people on social networks and through peer media. It's not about who's popular or who has the most points, it's about the things we create, the ideas we have, and the creative or daily minutiae that makes us human.
They cover underground trends, subcultures, art, human experiences, products, innovations, philosophies, digital living, the obscure and the tiny. Somewhere in the undiscovered and the mundane lives real brilliance. PicoCool is about uncovering these microscopic moments when things first begin.
More at:http://picocool.com/
MadWhips lets you easily upload, store, organize and showcase your priceless car pictures
What Company Is Offering:
MadWhips lets you easily upload, store, organize and showcase your priceless car pictures.
Are you an avid photographer or gifted car spotter? Can you identify any sports car on the
street in under 0.25 seconds? When you return from a vacation, are 80% of your photos
pictures of nice cars? Do you frequent car shows or race tracks?
At MadWhips, they understand that spotting a special car on the street is truly an exhilarating
and emotional experience, often creating a vivid memory that lasts a lifetime. Our system
allows you to upload your pictures, easily classify them, and showcase them to the world.
How It Works:
MadWhips lets you quickly upload as many photos as you like of your car, your friend’s
car, your neighbour's new Ferrari, or even the 150 photos you took at the car show, tuner-
fest, or car cruise last weekend.
At MadWhips your submissions are highly valued and they take the responsibility of storing and showcasing your pictures very seriously. Your pictures will always be available, and easily accessible. Even 20 years from now, when a conversation comes up about that insane Lamborghini you once spotted while on vacation, you can quickly pull up the photo(s). If you have photos of a make or model that does not exist, upload your pictures into an unclassified album, and send a quick email to the MadWhips team with the new make and model information.
Think of car spotting as the equivalent of the paparazzi photographing celebrities. They photograph them profusely, and everywhere. Car spotting is no different. People all around the world love to take and see candid pictures of cool especially modified and exotic cars! MadWhips lets you upload all your awesome car photos online for everyone to enjoy for a long time.
More at:http://www.madwhips.com/
MadWhips lets you easily upload, store, organize and showcase your priceless car pictures.
Are you an avid photographer or gifted car spotter? Can you identify any sports car on the
street in under 0.25 seconds? When you return from a vacation, are 80% of your photos
pictures of nice cars? Do you frequent car shows or race tracks?
At MadWhips, they understand that spotting a special car on the street is truly an exhilarating
and emotional experience, often creating a vivid memory that lasts a lifetime. Our system
allows you to upload your pictures, easily classify them, and showcase them to the world.
How It Works:
MadWhips lets you quickly upload as many photos as you like of your car, your friend’s
car, your neighbour's new Ferrari, or even the 150 photos you took at the car show, tuner-
fest, or car cruise last weekend.
At MadWhips your submissions are highly valued and they take the responsibility of storing and showcasing your pictures very seriously. Your pictures will always be available, and easily accessible. Even 20 years from now, when a conversation comes up about that insane Lamborghini you once spotted while on vacation, you can quickly pull up the photo(s). If you have photos of a make or model that does not exist, upload your pictures into an unclassified album, and send a quick email to the MadWhips team with the new make and model information.
Think of car spotting as the equivalent of the paparazzi photographing celebrities. They photograph them profusely, and everywhere. Car spotting is no different. People all around the world love to take and see candid pictures of cool especially modified and exotic cars! MadWhips lets you upload all your awesome car photos online for everyone to enjoy for a long time.
More at:http://www.madwhips.com/
BeenVerified---Now You Can Trust Internt Profiles
What Company Is Offering:
The BeenVerified Identity and Credential Verification process is a patent pending system that starts by requiring all potential members to submit their credit card as part of the initial authentication process. Once they have confirmed that the person exists and is a real person, they then have them run through their Identity verification process which for US members is done by taking a 3 minute questionnaire with questions that only the holder of that credit card could possibly know. For international members, they are required to submit a substantial amount of documentation to authenticate them. They then run every potential member’s data through a 50-point risk based, scoring model that further decreases the likelihood of that user not being who they claim. Potential members who do not pass our margin of safety are not allowed into our system even if the possibility of them being who they claim is still likely.
How It Works:
They utilize their patent pending process to verify your identity, validate your credentials, and then help you present them to the world. Their sign up and verification process takes less than 5 minutes and is free for 6 months if you sign up before December 31st.
1.Sign up takes less than two minutes. You will first be allowed to choose your own personalized BeenVerified Profile Web Address. Then enter your personal information and credit card details which we will use as part of the identity verification process. We will NOT charge your credit card anything and simply request it as one of our many layers of security and verification.
2.After sign up, you will receive access to your BeenVerified Member Console. Members residing in the United States will have the ability to verify their identity through an automated questionnaire. Our international users are simply required to send physical documentation proving their identity. Once we have verified your identity you may start adding verified credentials to your profile.
How Is It Different:
A GetVerified request is better than a background check because it takes the liability, hassle, and cost of running a background check off of your shoulders. If the person you are hiring agrees to become a BeenVerified member, they are doing so voluntarily and on their own accord and using their own money to do so. Additionally, they also gain the benefit of having a BeenVerified account for life which can then be used by your business as a marketing tool. Instead of running the background check and never using it again, you turn it into a positive piece of marketing for your staff to present to potential clients and colleagues.
More at:http://www.beenverified.com/
The BeenVerified Identity and Credential Verification process is a patent pending system that starts by requiring all potential members to submit their credit card as part of the initial authentication process. Once they have confirmed that the person exists and is a real person, they then have them run through their Identity verification process which for US members is done by taking a 3 minute questionnaire with questions that only the holder of that credit card could possibly know. For international members, they are required to submit a substantial amount of documentation to authenticate them. They then run every potential member’s data through a 50-point risk based, scoring model that further decreases the likelihood of that user not being who they claim. Potential members who do not pass our margin of safety are not allowed into our system even if the possibility of them being who they claim is still likely.
How It Works:
They utilize their patent pending process to verify your identity, validate your credentials, and then help you present them to the world. Their sign up and verification process takes less than 5 minutes and is free for 6 months if you sign up before December 31st.
1.Sign up takes less than two minutes. You will first be allowed to choose your own personalized BeenVerified Profile Web Address. Then enter your personal information and credit card details which we will use as part of the identity verification process. We will NOT charge your credit card anything and simply request it as one of our many layers of security and verification.
2.After sign up, you will receive access to your BeenVerified Member Console. Members residing in the United States will have the ability to verify their identity through an automated questionnaire. Our international users are simply required to send physical documentation proving their identity. Once we have verified your identity you may start adding verified credentials to your profile.
How Is It Different:
A GetVerified request is better than a background check because it takes the liability, hassle, and cost of running a background check off of your shoulders. If the person you are hiring agrees to become a BeenVerified member, they are doing so voluntarily and on their own accord and using their own money to do so. Additionally, they also gain the benefit of having a BeenVerified account for life which can then be used by your business as a marketing tool. Instead of running the background check and never using it again, you turn it into a positive piece of marketing for your staff to present to potential clients and colleagues.
More at:http://www.beenverified.com/
Toggl is a free, online timetracker for consultants, programmers, designers, etc
What Company Is Offering:
Toggl is a free, online timetracker perfect for anyone who needs to manage their work hours: consultants, programmers, designers, etc.
With Toggl, there is no limit to the number of projects or users; this basic functionality is free. Users can invite as many people to Toggl as they wish with no charge.
How It Works:
In the text field you can enter words or parts of words that apply to the usernames, users' full names, clients' and projects' names. You can exclude results if you add a "-" sign in front of a word.
Toggl has some built-in filters you can use to view reports for certain time periods (such as today, yesterday, this week, last week etc), but you can also set the period manually using the date fields or calendar buttons. Then there are filters for viewing general user or project statistics for a given period as well as weekly views for both. There is also the custom filter described below.
The best way to use Toggl's time tracking is to divide your bigger tasks into smaller ones that you can track and complete independently. If the task is very time consuming but cannot be divided into smaller parts, you can create a new task with the same name each day and close it in the evening. That way you'll be able to keep track of how much time was spent on that task on a daily basis.
More at:http://www.toggl.com/
Toggl is a free, online timetracker perfect for anyone who needs to manage their work hours: consultants, programmers, designers, etc.
With Toggl, there is no limit to the number of projects or users; this basic functionality is free. Users can invite as many people to Toggl as they wish with no charge.
How It Works:
In the text field you can enter words or parts of words that apply to the usernames, users' full names, clients' and projects' names. You can exclude results if you add a "-" sign in front of a word.
Toggl has some built-in filters you can use to view reports for certain time periods (such as today, yesterday, this week, last week etc), but you can also set the period manually using the date fields or calendar buttons. Then there are filters for viewing general user or project statistics for a given period as well as weekly views for both. There is also the custom filter described below.
The best way to use Toggl's time tracking is to divide your bigger tasks into smaller ones that you can track and complete independently. If the task is very time consuming but cannot be divided into smaller parts, you can create a new task with the same name each day and close it in the evening. That way you'll be able to keep track of how much time was spent on that task on a daily basis.
More at:http://www.toggl.com/
Clippz.com is the first website to offer high quality mobile video to a massive audience, without the need for a mobile network
What Company Is Offering:
Clippz was formed to take advantage of the functionality gap between highly specified mobile devices and the relatively low specification wireless networks that are implemented by wireless carriers. As a result, Clippz has become the market leader in off-carrier mobile video.
How It Works:
Clippz.com is the first website to offer high quality mobile video to a massive audience, without the need for a mobile network. You can download videos to your PC and then transfer them to your mobile device using Bluetooth, USB or by writing to a memory card and inserting it into the device.
As you don't have to use a mobile network for delivery, none of the usual restrictions apply. Video quality is determined by the ability of each device and not by the restraints of the mobile network. The vast majority of devices we support are not on 3G mobile networks, yet the performance levels are usually better than 3G levels.
How Is It Different:
Clippz is network independent. Delivery of the video does not touch a mobile network, so your choice of carrier is irrelevant. The only exception to this rule is if you have a Verizon cell phone. Verizon is legendary for crippling its phones to disable Bluetooth file transfer. However you can still use the memory card option for Verizon phones.
More at:http://clippz.com/
Clippz was formed to take advantage of the functionality gap between highly specified mobile devices and the relatively low specification wireless networks that are implemented by wireless carriers. As a result, Clippz has become the market leader in off-carrier mobile video.
How It Works:
Clippz.com is the first website to offer high quality mobile video to a massive audience, without the need for a mobile network. You can download videos to your PC and then transfer them to your mobile device using Bluetooth, USB or by writing to a memory card and inserting it into the device.
As you don't have to use a mobile network for delivery, none of the usual restrictions apply. Video quality is determined by the ability of each device and not by the restraints of the mobile network. The vast majority of devices we support are not on 3G mobile networks, yet the performance levels are usually better than 3G levels.
How Is It Different:
Clippz is network independent. Delivery of the video does not touch a mobile network, so your choice of carrier is irrelevant. The only exception to this rule is if you have a Verizon cell phone. Verizon is legendary for crippling its phones to disable Bluetooth file transfer. However you can still use the memory card option for Verizon phones.
More at:http://clippz.com/
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