What Company Is Offering:
MyPlayList uses the XSPF xml format to combine images from the Flickr image sharing service, with music that is hosted across the internet.
How It Works:
Enter any band, (and if we haven't already made one) the system will automatically compile a Flickr - music extravaganza, then when it has finished playing through it will make you a new playlist for a similar band.You CANNOT upload music or images, Myplaylist simply organises the content that is already available on the internet.
More at:http://www.myplaylist.biz/
Sunday, January 6, 2008
endeve is an online application for invoices management
What Company Is Offering:
endeve is an online application for invoices management. endeve allows any professional or business to issue their own invoices, email them, check revenues and manage clients from any place at any time.
How It Works:
endeve is a Web application. All you need is a Web browser and an Internet connection to manage your invoices.
endeve doesn't access to your invoices or clients data under any circumstances, unless you ask for it formally. endeve is free. You will be able to create your own invoices after filling a simple form. No charges. No fees.
More at:http://endeve.com/
endeve is an online application for invoices management. endeve allows any professional or business to issue their own invoices, email them, check revenues and manage clients from any place at any time.
How It Works:
endeve is a Web application. All you need is a Web browser and an Internet connection to manage your invoices.
endeve doesn't access to your invoices or clients data under any circumstances, unless you ask for it formally. endeve is free. You will be able to create your own invoices after filling a simple form. No charges. No fees.
More at:http://endeve.com/
Saturday, January 5, 2008
TrackerSuite.Net
What Company is Offering:
TrackerSuite.Net is a suite of integrated Web applications which can be licensed on a modular or package basis. It includes solutions for project management, time & expense reporting, purchasing, personnel management, invoicing, CRM and reporting. Site visitors can register online for immediate access to a free evaluation site.
How It Works:
TrackerSuite.Net applications integrate with Microsoft Project, most popular CRM applications and virtually any other SOA-compatible enterprise platform. TrackerSuite.Net can also integrate with most email platforms, including Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes and Web based services such as Gmail.
TrackerSuite.Net applications are flexible, allowing organizations to individualize their solutions for various initiatives, including:
Project Portfolio Management
Sarbanes Oxley Compliance: Connecting Purchase Tracker.Net with the organization's accounting system to institute a purchase-to-pay compliance platform. Workflows can be assembled that link purchase requisition forms to the purchase-to-pay cycle, establishing an authorization trail for compliance reporting.
Job Costing: Integrating Project Tracker.Net with a project request engine enables the organization to track time against organizational objectives.
HRIS: Combining Personnel Tracker.Net, Time Tracker.Net and the Tracker Data Warehouse provides organizations with a comprehensive HR system which simplifies and automates processes including payroll, time and labor management, benefit management and personnel tracking.
More at:http://www.trackersuite.net/
TrackerSuite.Net is a suite of integrated Web applications which can be licensed on a modular or package basis. It includes solutions for project management, time & expense reporting, purchasing, personnel management, invoicing, CRM and reporting. Site visitors can register online for immediate access to a free evaluation site.
How It Works:
TrackerSuite.Net applications integrate with Microsoft Project, most popular CRM applications and virtually any other SOA-compatible enterprise platform. TrackerSuite.Net can also integrate with most email platforms, including Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes and Web based services such as Gmail.
TrackerSuite.Net applications are flexible, allowing organizations to individualize their solutions for various initiatives, including:
Project Portfolio Management
Sarbanes Oxley Compliance: Connecting Purchase Tracker.Net with the organization's accounting system to institute a purchase-to-pay compliance platform. Workflows can be assembled that link purchase requisition forms to the purchase-to-pay cycle, establishing an authorization trail for compliance reporting.
Job Costing: Integrating Project Tracker.Net with a project request engine enables the organization to track time against organizational objectives.
HRIS: Combining Personnel Tracker.Net, Time Tracker.Net and the Tracker Data Warehouse provides organizations with a comprehensive HR system which simplifies and automates processes including payroll, time and labor management, benefit management and personnel tracking.
More at:http://www.trackersuite.net/
Hyplet--For Your Online Signature
What Company Is offering:
Hyplet is a Web service, which enables you to create personal IDs and online Flyers and add them to emails and Web pages.
How It Works:
Hyplet ID is your online ID card. It can include your picture and any personal detail [name, email, phone number, etc.] you choose to have on it. The Hyplet IDs come in various sizes and designs. Once you select a design, you can personalize it by inserting your details, adding or deleting elements, changing text attributes, replacing the background, etc. Alternatively, you can create your Hyplet ID from scratch by selecting Create Freestyle Hyplet. Once you save it, you can publish your Hyplet ID through the Publish section or the Hyplet Browser Add-on:
Insert it to the emails you send.
Set it as your email signature on Outlook, Outlook Express, Yahoo Mail and Windows Live Hotmail.
Post it on Web pages, blogs, message boards, etc.
More at:http://www.hyplet.com/
Hyplet is a Web service, which enables you to create personal IDs and online Flyers and add them to emails and Web pages.
How It Works:
Hyplet ID is your online ID card. It can include your picture and any personal detail [name, email, phone number, etc.] you choose to have on it. The Hyplet IDs come in various sizes and designs. Once you select a design, you can personalize it by inserting your details, adding or deleting elements, changing text attributes, replacing the background, etc. Alternatively, you can create your Hyplet ID from scratch by selecting Create Freestyle Hyplet. Once you save it, you can publish your Hyplet ID through the Publish section or the Hyplet Browser Add-on:
Insert it to the emails you send.
Set it as your email signature on Outlook, Outlook Express, Yahoo Mail and Windows Live Hotmail.
Post it on Web pages, blogs, message boards, etc.
More at:http://www.hyplet.com/
thesixtyone --Music Adventure
What Company is Offering:
thesixtyone is a music discovery game that rewards those who help others listen to good new music. Any artist can add their music to thesixtyone in a process that's fast and simple.
How It Works:
Musicians upload their music for listening, but rather than allowing the Simon Cowells of the world decide which songs go on the homepage, the listeners do. How, you say? If you like a song you've found on thesixtyone, just click the "bump" button to increase its bump count. Doing so will cost you points, but if songs you bump get bumped by others, you can earn more points! Collecting points increases your level and reflects your skill in picking top songs in your favorite genre!
By listening to songs through the lens of the collective community on thesixtyone, you'll always find good new music. We're committed to giving every bit of music on the web the opportunity to find its audience.
More at:http://www.thesixtyone.com/
thesixtyone is a music discovery game that rewards those who help others listen to good new music. Any artist can add their music to thesixtyone in a process that's fast and simple.
How It Works:
Musicians upload their music for listening, but rather than allowing the Simon Cowells of the world decide which songs go on the homepage, the listeners do. How, you say? If you like a song you've found on thesixtyone, just click the "bump" button to increase its bump count. Doing so will cost you points, but if songs you bump get bumped by others, you can earn more points! Collecting points increases your level and reflects your skill in picking top songs in your favorite genre!
By listening to songs through the lens of the collective community on thesixtyone, you'll always find good new music. We're committed to giving every bit of music on the web the opportunity to find its audience.
More at:http://www.thesixtyone.com/
subAvatar is the Avatar Service for lazy Blog Commenters
What Company Is Offering:
subAvatar is the Avatar Service for lazy Blog Commenters.
subAvatar assigns every user (email) a unique system generated avatar, and records all comments by the user (via HTTP referers).
Since the user doesn't have to register or even know about subAvatar, it's perfect for the lazy commenter.
How It Works:
To create a profile, just start commenting on the Homepage or any other subAvatar enabled blog.
Click the "Claim Profile" link and enter your Email ID.
You will receive an email with instructions to claim the profile.
You can then add your name, blog and a custom avatar to your profile.
Click on the report link on the preview window to report any blog.
When a certain number of people report a blog, it is banned.
There are plugins for various blog software.
In case your blog software has not been listed, you can still implement subAvatar by following instructions.
More at:http://subavatar.com/
subAvatar is the Avatar Service for lazy Blog Commenters.
subAvatar assigns every user (email) a unique system generated avatar, and records all comments by the user (via HTTP referers).
Since the user doesn't have to register or even know about subAvatar, it's perfect for the lazy commenter.
How It Works:
To create a profile, just start commenting on the Homepage or any other subAvatar enabled blog.
Click the "Claim Profile" link and enter your Email ID.
You will receive an email with instructions to claim the profile.
You can then add your name, blog and a custom avatar to your profile.
Click on the report link on the preview window to report any blog.
When a certain number of people report a blog, it is banned.
There are plugins for various blog software.
In case your blog software has not been listed, you can still implement subAvatar by following instructions.
More at:http://subavatar.com/
Game Discovery
What Company Is Offering:
Every gamer has one time in his or her life come up with an idea for a new video game. Their game idea section is the biggest collection of video game ideas in the world submitted by gamers. Their game idea database has thousands of game ideas in many different categories.
How It Works:
Game Discovery presents low budget game productions where everybody is welcome to join. Gamers can upload their own composed game music, character and monster sketches or whatever material is needed for each project. All submitted material will be available at the website for other people to see. The lead game designer for each project will regularly surf the submitted material and use what he see fits his project. Material that has been used in someway will get its status code changed, so everybody can see that it has been used. This is both fun and exciting for gamers who have contributed with material. It is also a great way for amateur development teams to promote their projects. All used material will be credited.
If you don’t want to program your games from scratch, there are plenty of programs and editors out there that can be of help. We have put together this list of programs, making it easier to find the program that is right for your game projects.
Complete with a Game Idea search engine so you more easily can find the type of Game Ideas you are looking for. Daily visited by both amateur and professional game developers who are looking for ideas or inspiration.
More at:http://www.gamediscovery.com/
Every gamer has one time in his or her life come up with an idea for a new video game. Their game idea section is the biggest collection of video game ideas in the world submitted by gamers. Their game idea database has thousands of game ideas in many different categories.
How It Works:
Game Discovery presents low budget game productions where everybody is welcome to join. Gamers can upload their own composed game music, character and monster sketches or whatever material is needed for each project. All submitted material will be available at the website for other people to see. The lead game designer for each project will regularly surf the submitted material and use what he see fits his project. Material that has been used in someway will get its status code changed, so everybody can see that it has been used. This is both fun and exciting for gamers who have contributed with material. It is also a great way for amateur development teams to promote their projects. All used material will be credited.
If you don’t want to program your games from scratch, there are plenty of programs and editors out there that can be of help. We have put together this list of programs, making it easier to find the program that is right for your game projects.
Complete with a Game Idea search engine so you more easily can find the type of Game Ideas you are looking for. Daily visited by both amateur and professional game developers who are looking for ideas or inspiration.
More at:http://www.gamediscovery.com/
Pudding Media provides solutions for intelligent placement of content and targeted advertising in voice servicessecured Series A funding of $8 m
What Company Is Offering:
Pudding Media provides solutions for intelligent placement of content and targeted advertising in voice services. Pudding Media enables communication providers to generate new revenue stream from ad-supported phone calls and empowers advertisers and publishers to deliver relevant ads and content to consumers.
How It Works:
Pudding Media is focused on monetizing voice services through smart, targeted ads. Pudding Media’s platform is designed to maximize ad revenue for communication providers and provide complementary revenue streams to operators of mobile networks, voice-over-IP networks, voice-over-IM networks, Web widgets, and traditional carriers.
Using demographic data, location information, or our patented VoiceSense technology, they provide tools for effective targeting and delivery of ads for voice services. Advertisers have full control of their message, and they can now influence conversations.
Pudding Media enables advertisers and Web publishers to deliver real-time advertising and content that is immediately relevant and valuable to consumers. By creating a personalized, immersive and engaging experience, Pudding Media’s platform promotes quantifiable brand benefits, increased brand awareness and sales.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Pudding Media, the voice monetization company, announced that it has secured Series A funding of $8 million led by Opus Capital and BRM Capital. The company will use this funding to expand its product suite of advertising solutions for voice monetization to cover all forms of voice services - mobile carriers, VoIP operators and Web voice applications.
More at:http://puddingmedia.com/
Pudding Media provides solutions for intelligent placement of content and targeted advertising in voice services. Pudding Media enables communication providers to generate new revenue stream from ad-supported phone calls and empowers advertisers and publishers to deliver relevant ads and content to consumers.
How It Works:
Pudding Media is focused on monetizing voice services through smart, targeted ads. Pudding Media’s platform is designed to maximize ad revenue for communication providers and provide complementary revenue streams to operators of mobile networks, voice-over-IP networks, voice-over-IM networks, Web widgets, and traditional carriers.
Using demographic data, location information, or our patented VoiceSense technology, they provide tools for effective targeting and delivery of ads for voice services. Advertisers have full control of their message, and they can now influence conversations.
Pudding Media enables advertisers and Web publishers to deliver real-time advertising and content that is immediately relevant and valuable to consumers. By creating a personalized, immersive and engaging experience, Pudding Media’s platform promotes quantifiable brand benefits, increased brand awareness and sales.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Pudding Media, the voice monetization company, announced that it has secured Series A funding of $8 million led by Opus Capital and BRM Capital. The company will use this funding to expand its product suite of advertising solutions for voice monetization to cover all forms of voice services - mobile carriers, VoIP operators and Web voice applications.
More at:http://puddingmedia.com/
Shutterfly makes it fun and easy to be thoughtful and creative with your memories
What Company Is Offering:
Shutterfly makes it fun and easy to be thoughtful and creative with your memories.
How It Works:
They deliver award-winning prints from your digital camera right to your door. But delivering prints is just one thing they do. From start to finish, they make it easy to enhance, share and store your digital photos. They also make memory-keeping and gift-giving easy with their personalized Photo Books, Greeting Cards, and dozens of photo gifts suitable for any occasion.
Unique Features:
Free online photo storage: Shutterfly has never deleted a photo.
Free online photo sharing: Your friends and family can view pictures you want to share without having to log in or sign up. They just click on a link in your email and instantly view a slideshow of your newest memories.
Free photo software: Shutterfly Studio lets you easily organize, edit and share your growing picture collections directly from your desktop. Plus quickly add your favorites to Shutterfly and order prints.
Photo borders: Enhance your prints for free with more than 400 colorful, festive and seasonal borders that range from new baby to birthday, wedding to so much more. You can even add personalized captions.
Back-of-print messaging: Every photo you order from Shutterfly can be personalized for free with a short message on the reverse side. This ensures that you and future generations will always remember the who, what and where of special times.
More at:http://www.shutterfly.com/
Shutterfly makes it fun and easy to be thoughtful and creative with your memories.
How It Works:
They deliver award-winning prints from your digital camera right to your door. But delivering prints is just one thing they do. From start to finish, they make it easy to enhance, share and store your digital photos. They also make memory-keeping and gift-giving easy with their personalized Photo Books, Greeting Cards, and dozens of photo gifts suitable for any occasion.
Unique Features:
Free online photo storage: Shutterfly has never deleted a photo.
Free online photo sharing: Your friends and family can view pictures you want to share without having to log in or sign up. They just click on a link in your email and instantly view a slideshow of your newest memories.
Free photo software: Shutterfly Studio lets you easily organize, edit and share your growing picture collections directly from your desktop. Plus quickly add your favorites to Shutterfly and order prints.
Photo borders: Enhance your prints for free with more than 400 colorful, festive and seasonal borders that range from new baby to birthday, wedding to so much more. You can even add personalized captions.
Back-of-print messaging: Every photo you order from Shutterfly can be personalized for free with a short message on the reverse side. This ensures that you and future generations will always remember the who, what and where of special times.
More at:http://www.shutterfly.com/
FindMeOn is an online profile management service that connects your identities across social networks, blogs & more
What Company Is Offering:
FindMeOn is an online profile management service that connects your identities across social networks, blogs & more.FindMeOn.com is an exicting new service for internet users and developers. Some people might call them an identity aggregator, but they think they’re much more.
How It Works:
FindMeOn helps you manage your circles of friends, family, colleagues and others… respecting the divisions of your real life online.
Unique Features:
Link and verify your online identities.
use widgets to syndicate your identities and shouts across sites.
Centrally manage your profiles.
Open id services.
How Is It Different:
FindMeOn, is compltely different from OpenID. They’re focused on being able to claim an ID through a specific ‘lens’ of another ID, and shielding it from the rest.
Lets say you have a myspace page thats a little ’sketchy’ — you probably don’t want your mom& dad googling you, finding that profile, and seeing you flirting with 16 yr old girls who make jokes about you buying them beer the night before.
You probably also don’t want those people on myspace seeing your family photos on flickr ( maybe your regular photos are ok, but the ones with pix of your house, and your brother & little sister )…
So thats why they have FindMeOn. Using public/private key cryptography, instead of linking accounts to one another, we link accounts to keys — and then we can control which account can see the other accounts through the keys.
More at:http://findmeon.com/
FindMeOn is an online profile management service that connects your identities across social networks, blogs & more.FindMeOn.com is an exicting new service for internet users and developers. Some people might call them an identity aggregator, but they think they’re much more.
How It Works:
FindMeOn helps you manage your circles of friends, family, colleagues and others… respecting the divisions of your real life online.
Unique Features:
Link and verify your online identities.
use widgets to syndicate your identities and shouts across sites.
Centrally manage your profiles.
Open id services.
How Is It Different:
FindMeOn, is compltely different from OpenID. They’re focused on being able to claim an ID through a specific ‘lens’ of another ID, and shielding it from the rest.
Lets say you have a myspace page thats a little ’sketchy’ — you probably don’t want your mom& dad googling you, finding that profile, and seeing you flirting with 16 yr old girls who make jokes about you buying them beer the night before.
You probably also don’t want those people on myspace seeing your family photos on flickr ( maybe your regular photos are ok, but the ones with pix of your house, and your brother & little sister )…
So thats why they have FindMeOn. Using public/private key cryptography, instead of linking accounts to one another, we link accounts to keys — and then we can control which account can see the other accounts through the keys.
More at:http://findmeon.com/
Friday, January 4, 2008
Sharedconfession, Is a site where users can confess there deepest darkest secrets
What Company Is Offering:
Sharedconfession, Is a site where users can confess there deepest darkest secrets.
How It Works:
Just submit your confession and let others tell you if its interesting or not by the votes. Anybody willing to share their confession is welcome to submit it. We reserve the right to remove any confession for any reason we see fit. This power will be used with the utmost caution and be reserved for removing offensive, hate, other demeaning types of confessions.
More at:http://sharedconfession.com/
Sharedconfession, Is a site where users can confess there deepest darkest secrets.
How It Works:
Just submit your confession and let others tell you if its interesting or not by the votes. Anybody willing to share their confession is welcome to submit it. We reserve the right to remove any confession for any reason we see fit. This power will be used with the utmost caution and be reserved for removing offensive, hate, other demeaning types of confessions.
More at:http://sharedconfession.com/
BigFilebox is designed to eliminate problems frequently encountered by businesses when exchanging large files or folder structures
What Company Is Offering:
BigFilebox is designed to eliminate problems frequently encountered by businesses when exchanging large files or folder structures. When email, FTP or sending via the post is not an option you can easily subscribe to one of our four flexible plans and get that data sent within minutes. Need data from a colleague or associate? No problem - all you need to do is issue a token via email giving them one-click access to a Filebox. How long a token lasts and whether access is read only or read/write is controlled by you. If a token has been issued in error it can be revoked at any time.
How It Works:
When you set up an account with BigFilebox.com, you are issued with a secure online file exchange facility exclusive to you, and a direct access web domain name of your choosing.
It will look like this: https://yourcompanyname.bigfilebox.com
You can then create Fileboxes to organise your content, and within a Filebox you can create folder and file structures.
Choose one of their premium plans and you can create Projects, groups of fileboxes, which help you to keep data segregated and organised more effectively and efficiently.
Most of their plans also allow you to replace the default graphic with your own logo, setting your business apart from the rest of the crowd.
More at:http://www.bigfilebox.com/
BigFilebox is designed to eliminate problems frequently encountered by businesses when exchanging large files or folder structures. When email, FTP or sending via the post is not an option you can easily subscribe to one of our four flexible plans and get that data sent within minutes. Need data from a colleague or associate? No problem - all you need to do is issue a token via email giving them one-click access to a Filebox. How long a token lasts and whether access is read only or read/write is controlled by you. If a token has been issued in error it can be revoked at any time.
How It Works:
When you set up an account with BigFilebox.com, you are issued with a secure online file exchange facility exclusive to you, and a direct access web domain name of your choosing.
It will look like this: https://yourcompanyname.bigfilebox.com
You can then create Fileboxes to organise your content, and within a Filebox you can create folder and file structures.
Choose one of their premium plans and you can create Projects, groups of fileboxes, which help you to keep data segregated and organised more effectively and efficiently.
Most of their plans also allow you to replace the default graphic with your own logo, setting your business apart from the rest of the crowd.
More at:http://www.bigfilebox.com/
Dashwire’s free service automatically mirrors your mobile phone to the web
What Company Is Offering:
Dashwire’s free service automatically mirrors your mobile phone to the web, making it significantly easier to manage, enhance, and share the memories captured on your phone with others — no cables or instruction manual required.
How It Works:
Dashwire Mobile is a super small application that is installed on your mobile phone to allow you to use the Dashwire service.
It sends updates from your phone (text messages, call history, photos, videos, etc.) to Dashwire servers, which are then mirrored on the Web when you log in to your personal Dashwire account. In order for Dashwire to work, you need to have Dashwire Mobile installed on your phone.
To install the Dashwire Mobile, visit http://www.dashwire.com on your computer browser and walk through the steps that follow.Dashwire is designed to take up as little space as possible on your phone. Depending on the phone you have, the size will vary, but the application download is approximately 300Kb, and approximately 600Kb when unpacked on your phone or storage card.
More at:http://www.dashwire.com/
Dashwire’s free service automatically mirrors your mobile phone to the web, making it significantly easier to manage, enhance, and share the memories captured on your phone with others — no cables or instruction manual required.
How It Works:
Dashwire Mobile is a super small application that is installed on your mobile phone to allow you to use the Dashwire service.
It sends updates from your phone (text messages, call history, photos, videos, etc.) to Dashwire servers, which are then mirrored on the Web when you log in to your personal Dashwire account. In order for Dashwire to work, you need to have Dashwire Mobile installed on your phone.
To install the Dashwire Mobile, visit http://www.dashwire.com on your computer browser and walk through the steps that follow.Dashwire is designed to take up as little space as possible on your phone. Depending on the phone you have, the size will vary, but the application download is approximately 300Kb, and approximately 600Kb when unpacked on your phone or storage card.
More at:http://www.dashwire.com/
Globrix allow users to search nearly every property for sale or to rent in the UK down to the last detail
What Company Is Offering
Globrix exists to allow users to search nearly every property for sale or to rent in the UK down to the last detail.
How It Works:
They do more than just list the homes that are for sale or rent. Globrix allows users to sort through results by keywords. Looking for a house with a pool? Or off-street parking? Or even a nuclear bunker? Globrix now allows you to do this, saving you time and helping you find your perfect home.
You should also know that they don't accept paid placement or listing fees from estate agents. They can't buy their way into their search results. They're completely independent and unbiased that way. Instead, they make their money by only allowing targeted and relevant ads down the side of the page.
More at:http://www.globrix.com/
Globrix exists to allow users to search nearly every property for sale or to rent in the UK down to the last detail.
How It Works:
They do more than just list the homes that are for sale or rent. Globrix allows users to sort through results by keywords. Looking for a house with a pool? Or off-street parking? Or even a nuclear bunker? Globrix now allows you to do this, saving you time and helping you find your perfect home.
You should also know that they don't accept paid placement or listing fees from estate agents. They can't buy their way into their search results. They're completely independent and unbiased that way. Instead, they make their money by only allowing targeted and relevant ads down the side of the page.
More at:http://www.globrix.com/
EveryScape lets businesses and organizations build engaging, immersive relationships with consumers
What Company Is offering:
EveryScape lets businesses and organizations build engaging, immersive relationships with consumers through three-dimensional, photo-realistic experiences of cities and towns, streets and sidewalks, building exteriors and interiors. EveryScape's patented HyperMedia Technology Platform allows anyone with a browser to experience a first-person, eye-level walk down a scaped street, gathering and sharing information on businesses and attractions, entering a store and shopping, checking the menu and reviews of a restaurant or the upcoming performances of a theater. It is the real world, online.
Who Is Backing Them:
Jim Schoonmaker - Chief Executive Officer
Jim Schoonmaker has spent the last 17 years in the high technology industry, the last ten of which founding and leading technology based start-ups. He joined Mok3 Inc. in March of 2005 after four years as President & CEO of Liquid Machines Inc. During his tenure at Liquid Machines the company grew from inception to market leader in enterprise rights management solutions, formed strategic partnerships with Microsoft and EMC, acquired Ominiva Policy Systems and won accolades for its revolutionary Document and Email Control product lines. Prior to Liquid Machines Jim was president and founder of NerveWire Ventures. As a founding member of NerveWire's management team, he helped grow the company to more than 300 employees and first year revenues of $34M. Prior to NerveWire, Jim was the founding CEO of InterSense Incorporated a pioneer in applications for visual simulation and immersion. Prior to receiving an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, he held senior management roles in product marketing, operations, and product development at Textron Corporation.
2.Mok Oh, Ph.D. - Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Mok Oh has 15 years of experience in computer science and computer graphics R&D. He is the founder of Mok3 Inc./EveryScape.com in 2002, and is the inventor of the Mok3 technology based on his doctoral dissertation work from the Computer Graphics Group at MIT. In EveryScape, he is responsible for product and technology development, functioning as software architect and leading intellectual property development. He holds multiple patents and publications in image-based modeling, image and photo editing, and 3D-related technologies. His research and development further spans into 3D modeling, ray tracing and light-transport algorithms, interactive tools, and image processing. He was an invited speaker at multiple venues, such as MIT Lecture Series, Harvard School of Architecture, and internationally in various universities in South Korea and in the Asia-Pacific Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conference. Prior to his doctoral work at MIT, he worked for Accenture as an Information Systems Analyst, where he developed business software for AT&T. Mok also earned a Masters of Science and Engineering degree in Computer Information Sciences from University of Pennsylvania, and multiple Bachelor of Arts degrees in Computer Science, Art History and Studio Art from Oberlin College.
More at:http://www.everyscape.com/
EveryScape lets businesses and organizations build engaging, immersive relationships with consumers through three-dimensional, photo-realistic experiences of cities and towns, streets and sidewalks, building exteriors and interiors. EveryScape's patented HyperMedia Technology Platform allows anyone with a browser to experience a first-person, eye-level walk down a scaped street, gathering and sharing information on businesses and attractions, entering a store and shopping, checking the menu and reviews of a restaurant or the upcoming performances of a theater. It is the real world, online.
Who Is Backing Them:
Jim Schoonmaker - Chief Executive Officer
Jim Schoonmaker has spent the last 17 years in the high technology industry, the last ten of which founding and leading technology based start-ups. He joined Mok3 Inc. in March of 2005 after four years as President & CEO of Liquid Machines Inc. During his tenure at Liquid Machines the company grew from inception to market leader in enterprise rights management solutions, formed strategic partnerships with Microsoft and EMC, acquired Ominiva Policy Systems and won accolades for its revolutionary Document and Email Control product lines. Prior to Liquid Machines Jim was president and founder of NerveWire Ventures. As a founding member of NerveWire's management team, he helped grow the company to more than 300 employees and first year revenues of $34M. Prior to NerveWire, Jim was the founding CEO of InterSense Incorporated a pioneer in applications for visual simulation and immersion. Prior to receiving an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, he held senior management roles in product marketing, operations, and product development at Textron Corporation.
2.Mok Oh, Ph.D. - Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Mok Oh has 15 years of experience in computer science and computer graphics R&D. He is the founder of Mok3 Inc./EveryScape.com in 2002, and is the inventor of the Mok3 technology based on his doctoral dissertation work from the Computer Graphics Group at MIT. In EveryScape, he is responsible for product and technology development, functioning as software architect and leading intellectual property development. He holds multiple patents and publications in image-based modeling, image and photo editing, and 3D-related technologies. His research and development further spans into 3D modeling, ray tracing and light-transport algorithms, interactive tools, and image processing. He was an invited speaker at multiple venues, such as MIT Lecture Series, Harvard School of Architecture, and internationally in various universities in South Korea and in the Asia-Pacific Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conference. Prior to his doctoral work at MIT, he worked for Accenture as an Information Systems Analyst, where he developed business software for AT&T. Mok also earned a Masters of Science and Engineering degree in Computer Information Sciences from University of Pennsylvania, and multiple Bachelor of Arts degrees in Computer Science, Art History and Studio Art from Oberlin College.
More at:http://www.everyscape.com/
Shareapic---Get Paid For Sharing
What Company Is Offering:
Shareapic is a free service that allows its users to upload and host images on our servers. What makes us different from the rest? Shareapic has a unique revenue sharing model that compensates users for directing their friends and family to see their hosted images. When a member hosts a gallery, they can then show this gallery to others. Each time this is done, the member is paid.
How It Works:
Earnings vary each month based off the amount of income Shareapic generates from advertising. Once this number is finalized a percentage of that is distributed throughout Shareapic members depending on how many image views they have accrued.
For example, if in month one Shareapic calculates to distribute $1,000 to our members, they will first tally up the total number of image views for that month. Using these two numbers they can determine the respective payouts for each user. If there were a total of 500,000 image views for the month, image views will equate to $0.002 each (1,000 divided by 500,000), or $2 per 1000 image views. If you're posting lots of pics in forums, MySpace or eBay, you can see how easy it is to earn quite a bit of money.
More at:http://www.shareapic.net/
Shareapic is a free service that allows its users to upload and host images on our servers. What makes us different from the rest? Shareapic has a unique revenue sharing model that compensates users for directing their friends and family to see their hosted images. When a member hosts a gallery, they can then show this gallery to others. Each time this is done, the member is paid.
How It Works:
Earnings vary each month based off the amount of income Shareapic generates from advertising. Once this number is finalized a percentage of that is distributed throughout Shareapic members depending on how many image views they have accrued.
For example, if in month one Shareapic calculates to distribute $1,000 to our members, they will first tally up the total number of image views for that month. Using these two numbers they can determine the respective payouts for each user. If there were a total of 500,000 image views for the month, image views will equate to $0.002 each (1,000 divided by 500,000), or $2 per 1000 image views. If you're posting lots of pics in forums, MySpace or eBay, you can see how easy it is to earn quite a bit of money.
More at:http://www.shareapic.net/
Whrrl is all about tapping into your friends' knowledge about the real world and sharing your own with them
What Company Is Offering:
Whrrl helps you answer questions like "Where should we go for dinner tonight?" or "What fun stuff can I do around here?" whether you are in your home town or traveling. Whrrl organizes everything your friends know about people, places, and events and puts that information at your fingertips. You can use Whrrl on the Web or on your mobile phone.
How It Works:
Whrrl is all about tapping into your friends' knowledge about the real world and sharing your own with them.
But let's just say for the moment that you don't yet have any friends in Whrrl. Try this: find a couple of places you love. While you're contributing your own reviews for those places, look at others who have reviewed them and share your opinions. Then become a fan of these folks. Suddenly, everything they review is at your fingertips—now you can see interesting places they like displayed right on your map. You'll also be able to sift based on the reviews of people you became a fan of.
You'll also notice that there's a special group of people in your Whrrld Lens called Top Whrrlers. When you select this group in your Whrrld Lens, you'll see the opinions of Whrrl's most active contributors across all of Whrrl's supported metro areas. Imagine how fun this all becomes when you actually start to connect with your real friends!
Once you connect up with a few friends in Whrrl, you'll notice that everything they have touched through Whrrl is at your fingertips—you can see interesting places displayed right on your map and you can "sift" based on the places they like by choosing from "highly rated by" in the Whrrld Sifter. If you have a few friends who you trust the most for restaurant recommendations, you can put just those folks into your Whrrld Lens. The map and the Whrrld Sifter now reflect only those friends' likes and dislikes.
More at:http://www.whrrl.com/
Whrrl helps you answer questions like "Where should we go for dinner tonight?" or "What fun stuff can I do around here?" whether you are in your home town or traveling. Whrrl organizes everything your friends know about people, places, and events and puts that information at your fingertips. You can use Whrrl on the Web or on your mobile phone.
How It Works:
Whrrl is all about tapping into your friends' knowledge about the real world and sharing your own with them.
But let's just say for the moment that you don't yet have any friends in Whrrl. Try this: find a couple of places you love. While you're contributing your own reviews for those places, look at others who have reviewed them and share your opinions. Then become a fan of these folks. Suddenly, everything they review is at your fingertips—now you can see interesting places they like displayed right on your map. You'll also be able to sift based on the reviews of people you became a fan of.
You'll also notice that there's a special group of people in your Whrrld Lens called Top Whrrlers. When you select this group in your Whrrld Lens, you'll see the opinions of Whrrl's most active contributors across all of Whrrl's supported metro areas. Imagine how fun this all becomes when you actually start to connect with your real friends!
Once you connect up with a few friends in Whrrl, you'll notice that everything they have touched through Whrrl is at your fingertips—you can see interesting places displayed right on your map and you can "sift" based on the places they like by choosing from "highly rated by" in the Whrrld Sifter. If you have a few friends who you trust the most for restaurant recommendations, you can put just those folks into your Whrrld Lens. The map and the Whrrld Sifter now reflect only those friends' likes and dislikes.
More at:http://www.whrrl.com/
Domodomain--on-demand website lead prospecting and generation tool for identifying and profiling the business visitors to their company web site
What Company Is Offering:
Domodomain on-line, sensorize your web pages and look who's clicking now.
Domodomain provides an innovative solution that enables B2B companies to not only see which businesses are visiting their website, but also provides an in depth analysis of the prospect, intelligently profiling their interests, and providing insight for effective follow-up.
How It Works:
Domodomain Professional is an on-demand website lead prospecting and generation tool for anyone who would benefit from identifying and profiling the business visitors to their company web site.
Domodomain's easy-to-use service provides actionable web visitor intelligence to enhance any CRM platform, marketing or sales activity. Domodomain provides visitor company names and information, playback of the visit and an intuitive analysis of the products and services in which the
Unique Features:
With Domodomain, you can :
Identify by name the companies that are browsing your website (prospects, customers, competitors, analysts, press .
At a glance obtain detailed information on your visitors such as company description, address, main phone numbers, industry type, latest news, blog and forum entries, etc.
Understand the interests of your visitors for particular products and services.
Replay the movie of your visitors' experience on your website.
Boost your CRM and sales force management platform with enhanced Web Lead generation and visitor interest.
More at:http://www.domodomain.com/
Domodomain on-line, sensorize your web pages and look who's clicking now.
Domodomain provides an innovative solution that enables B2B companies to not only see which businesses are visiting their website, but also provides an in depth analysis of the prospect, intelligently profiling their interests, and providing insight for effective follow-up.
How It Works:
Domodomain Professional is an on-demand website lead prospecting and generation tool for anyone who would benefit from identifying and profiling the business visitors to their company web site.
Domodomain's easy-to-use service provides actionable web visitor intelligence to enhance any CRM platform, marketing or sales activity. Domodomain provides visitor company names and information, playback of the visit and an intuitive analysis of the products and services in which the
Unique Features:
With Domodomain, you can :
Identify by name the companies that are browsing your website (prospects, customers, competitors, analysts, press .
At a glance obtain detailed information on your visitors such as company description, address, main phone numbers, industry type, latest news, blog and forum entries, etc.
Understand the interests of your visitors for particular products and services.
Replay the movie of your visitors' experience on your website.
Boost your CRM and sales force management platform with enhanced Web Lead generation and visitor interest.
More at:http://www.domodomain.com/
The academic organization tool for students to organize their school life and to network with classmates
The academic organization tool for students to organize their school life and to network with classmates.The Student Concourse is a web-based student organizer for students in the higher grades of middle school and those in high school. Although becoming educated can be difficult, it does not have to be. With just a dose of effort and organization, life can become much simpler.
The Student Concourse is far superior to many of the popular desktop based student organization programs because of their access. Students can access their application from any computer connected to the internet whether it be at home, at school, or at the library. Without this access anywhere students will likely fall behind on their organization resulting in a drop in grades.
They are a web startup based in the Boston, MA area and are looking to stretch so that our application becomes popular in many more states.
More at:http://studentconcourse.com/
The Student Concourse is far superior to many of the popular desktop based student organization programs because of their access. Students can access their application from any computer connected to the internet whether it be at home, at school, or at the library. Without this access anywhere students will likely fall behind on their organization resulting in a drop in grades.
They are a web startup based in the Boston, MA area and are looking to stretch so that our application becomes popular in many more states.
More at:http://studentconcourse.com/
Cooking.com offers user-generated cooking content and online tools got $7 million in VCs funding
What Company is Offering:
Cooking.com operates six uniquely branded websites: Cooking.com, FoodNetworkStore.com, StarbucksStore.com, KitchenEtc.com, PillsburyStore.com, and BettyCrockerStore.com. Cooking.com offers its customers over 90,000 products for the kitchen as well as recipes, menus, articles and a growing library of user-generated cooking content and online tools. Cooking.com is committed to providing customers with an exceptional experience and is the recipient of the 2006 i.Merchant Gold award for overall excellence as an online retailer.
How much they got From VCs:
Cooking.com, a privately-held internet marketplace and community for the kitchen, announced that it has entered into a $7 million loan agreement with ORIX Venture Finance.
What's Purpose Of Raising Fund:
The venture debt credit facilities will be used by Cooking.com to expand operations, enhance its community content, and support continued acceleration of its private label online programs.
About VCs:
1.The DiBari Group is a financial advisory and consulting firm dedicated to procuring debt capital for both public and private companies in various stages of development. The firm has supported high growth companies for over 10 years with an emphasis in media, communication, software, technology, healthcare and life sciences. http://www.dibarigroup.com.
2.ORIX Venture Finance provides enterprise financing to mid- and late-stage venture-capital-backed companies via acquisition financing, expansion capital, working-capital term loans and credit lines, and equity co-investments.
http://www.orixventurefinance.com.
Cooking.com operates six uniquely branded websites: Cooking.com, FoodNetworkStore.com, StarbucksStore.com, KitchenEtc.com, PillsburyStore.com, and BettyCrockerStore.com. Cooking.com offers its customers over 90,000 products for the kitchen as well as recipes, menus, articles and a growing library of user-generated cooking content and online tools. Cooking.com is committed to providing customers with an exceptional experience and is the recipient of the 2006 i.Merchant Gold award for overall excellence as an online retailer.
How much they got From VCs:
Cooking.com, a privately-held internet marketplace and community for the kitchen, announced that it has entered into a $7 million loan agreement with ORIX Venture Finance.
What's Purpose Of Raising Fund:
The venture debt credit facilities will be used by Cooking.com to expand operations, enhance its community content, and support continued acceleration of its private label online programs.
About VCs:
1.The DiBari Group is a financial advisory and consulting firm dedicated to procuring debt capital for both public and private companies in various stages of development. The firm has supported high growth companies for over 10 years with an emphasis in media, communication, software, technology, healthcare and life sciences. http://www.dibarigroup.com.
2.ORIX Venture Finance provides enterprise financing to mid- and late-stage venture-capital-backed companies via acquisition financing, expansion capital, working-capital term loans and credit lines, and equity co-investments.
http://www.orixventurefinance.com.
Merlin Securities is a broker dealer providing advanced reporting, trading, and operational services to hedge funds through technology got $20mm
What Company Is Offering:
Merlin Securities is a broker dealer providing advanced reporting, trading, and operational services to hedge funds through technology driven Prime Brokerage Services. Merlin’s advanced reporting platform for single and multi-primed hedge funds provides managers with a dynamic fund transparency reporting tool that includes customizable reporting, performance attribution models (absolute and relative), risk management components and multi-prime portfolio aggregation. The firm has both Agency and Outsourced trading desks that provide clients with trading flexibility and access to all markets. Merlin Securities was named the number one Prime Broker in North America.
How Much They Got From VCs:
They announced that Sequoia Capital has made a $20mm investment in an expansion round of financing.
How This Company Is Progressing:
In 2007, Merlin was ranked the #1 Prime Broker in surveys of hedge fund managers including the Global Custodian Magazine Survey of Prime Brokers and Institutional Investor’s Alpha Awards.
What VCs Says About Company:
Sequoia Capital’s Scott Carter said, “We took a close look at the financial technology, prime brokerage and hedge fund spaces and believe that Merlin’s model of delivering superior reporting and trading technology combined with outstanding customer service to the hedge fund industry is the way of the future. As the hedge fund industry continues to be dominated by institutional investors, the reporting technologies, dedication to service and tight product integration offered by Merlin will provide an increasingly compelling value proposition.”
About VCs:
Sequoia Capital has provided early stage and growth stage venture capital for very smart founders and executives who have turned great ideas into sustainable companies of enduring value. As the "Entrepreneurs Behind the Entrepreneurs," Sequoia Capital's Partners have worked with accomplished innovators and operators who built great franchises such as Apple Computer, Cisco Systems, Flextronics, Google, LSI Logic, PayPal, Yahoo!, and YouTube.
More at: visit http://www.sequoiacap.com/.
Detail of Company:www.merlinsecurities.com.
Merlin Securities is a broker dealer providing advanced reporting, trading, and operational services to hedge funds through technology driven Prime Brokerage Services. Merlin’s advanced reporting platform for single and multi-primed hedge funds provides managers with a dynamic fund transparency reporting tool that includes customizable reporting, performance attribution models (absolute and relative), risk management components and multi-prime portfolio aggregation. The firm has both Agency and Outsourced trading desks that provide clients with trading flexibility and access to all markets. Merlin Securities was named the number one Prime Broker in North America.
How Much They Got From VCs:
They announced that Sequoia Capital has made a $20mm investment in an expansion round of financing.
How This Company Is Progressing:
In 2007, Merlin was ranked the #1 Prime Broker in surveys of hedge fund managers including the Global Custodian Magazine Survey of Prime Brokers and Institutional Investor’s Alpha Awards.
What VCs Says About Company:
Sequoia Capital’s Scott Carter said, “We took a close look at the financial technology, prime brokerage and hedge fund spaces and believe that Merlin’s model of delivering superior reporting and trading technology combined with outstanding customer service to the hedge fund industry is the way of the future. As the hedge fund industry continues to be dominated by institutional investors, the reporting technologies, dedication to service and tight product integration offered by Merlin will provide an increasingly compelling value proposition.”
About VCs:
Sequoia Capital has provided early stage and growth stage venture capital for very smart founders and executives who have turned great ideas into sustainable companies of enduring value. As the "Entrepreneurs Behind the Entrepreneurs," Sequoia Capital's Partners have worked with accomplished innovators and operators who built great franchises such as Apple Computer, Cisco Systems, Flextronics, Google, LSI Logic, PayPal, Yahoo!, and YouTube.
More at: visit http://www.sequoiacap.com/.
Detail of Company:www.merlinsecurities.com.
BeeMood--Create your network of friends and tell them which is your mood
What Company is Offering:
Create your network of friends and tell them which is your mood, what are you doing, what are you thinking, by web, mobile, instant messaging, wherever you are!
Choose a nickname and a password and in a few seconds you’ll be a member, for free.
Don't wait, sign up!
How It Works:
BeeMood's map shows that where recent updates are coming from geographically.
More at:http://www.beemood.com/
Create your network of friends and tell them which is your mood, what are you doing, what are you thinking, by web, mobile, instant messaging, wherever you are!
Choose a nickname and a password and in a few seconds you’ll be a member, for free.
Don't wait, sign up!
How It Works:
BeeMood's map shows that where recent updates are coming from geographically.
More at:http://www.beemood.com/
DeaLoco.com simply aggregates the hottest deals available from reputable merchants
What Company is Offering:
The DeaLoco team and their users search far and wide each day to deliver you the best deals available. While their primary focus is on consumer electronics, they are also a great source of deals on apparel, baby products and toys. DeaLoco's innovative filters and advanced search features will have you saving money in no time.
How It Works:
DeaLoco.com simply aggregates the hottest deals available from reputable merchants. When you click the "Buy It" button, you are leaving DeaLoco.com and are redirected directly to the merchant's site.
Simply click the orange "Post a Deal" button on the top right of the site. If you are not yet registered on Dealoco, you will be asked to sign up first ,it's free.
You can start by using their search bar (located top center). If you'd like to refine your search, check out their Power Search.
Unique Features:
Their category filters on the home page will quickly pull back the most recent deals for a given category. This is done in real-time, and the data is constantly refreshed.
Power Search - An invaluable search tool that only brings back the results you want. You won't find that on ANY other deal site.
They have a nearly endless supply of RSS feeds. You can subscribe to their homepage feed, or to any forum thread, or even to any particular search terms you have entered.
Reviews Button - A quick reference providing you the best sources for product reviews and/or user comments.
Price Comparison Button - In just one click you can see what other popular stores are charging for the same item.
More at:http://dealoco.com/
The DeaLoco team and their users search far and wide each day to deliver you the best deals available. While their primary focus is on consumer electronics, they are also a great source of deals on apparel, baby products and toys. DeaLoco's innovative filters and advanced search features will have you saving money in no time.
How It Works:
DeaLoco.com simply aggregates the hottest deals available from reputable merchants. When you click the "Buy It" button, you are leaving DeaLoco.com and are redirected directly to the merchant's site.
Simply click the orange "Post a Deal" button on the top right of the site. If you are not yet registered on Dealoco, you will be asked to sign up first ,it's free.
You can start by using their search bar (located top center). If you'd like to refine your search, check out their Power Search.
Unique Features:
Their category filters on the home page will quickly pull back the most recent deals for a given category. This is done in real-time, and the data is constantly refreshed.
Power Search - An invaluable search tool that only brings back the results you want. You won't find that on ANY other deal site.
They have a nearly endless supply of RSS feeds. You can subscribe to their homepage feed, or to any forum thread, or even to any particular search terms you have entered.
Reviews Button - A quick reference providing you the best sources for product reviews and/or user comments.
Price Comparison Button - In just one click you can see what other popular stores are charging for the same item.
More at:http://dealoco.com/
Thursday, January 3, 2008
PriceMe
What Company Is Offering:
PriceMe enables consumers like yourself to independently compare prices, product reviews and specifications for thousands of products.
How It Works:
The company provides online shopping information like price and product comparison, reviews as well as other value added services to consumers in New Zealand. The goal of the company is to empower the consumer with the information he or she needs to find the right product from a reliable retailer at the lowest price.
Whatever it is you are looking for, you can quickly work out which model best meets your needs, where it is available, and at the lowest possible price from a reliable retailer. Whether you wish to purchase on or offline, PriceMe will point you to the best deal. An integral part of the decision-making is the information provided by the PriceMe community of online users. Reviews about products and retailers that you are interested further enhance the buying decision.
More at:http://www.priceme.co.nz/
PriceMe enables consumers like yourself to independently compare prices, product reviews and specifications for thousands of products.
How It Works:
The company provides online shopping information like price and product comparison, reviews as well as other value added services to consumers in New Zealand. The goal of the company is to empower the consumer with the information he or she needs to find the right product from a reliable retailer at the lowest price.
Whatever it is you are looking for, you can quickly work out which model best meets your needs, where it is available, and at the lowest possible price from a reliable retailer. Whether you wish to purchase on or offline, PriceMe will point you to the best deal. An integral part of the decision-making is the information provided by the PriceMe community of online users. Reviews about products and retailers that you are interested further enhance the buying decision.
More at:http://www.priceme.co.nz/
Bang Ventures gets into the projects evaluating and helping entrepreneurs to develop strong companies from the idea inception phase
What Company Is Offering:
Bang Ventures is a Cambridge-based investment firm with offices in New York and Krakow and is focused on early stage emerging technology companies.
Bang Ventures isn't a VC firm. They help smart and driven people co-found fantastic new companies, providing entrepreneurs with a roof over their heads, mentoring, a deep network of contacts, marketing support, professional services and other technical support....and yes, funding as well.
How It Works:
Bang Ventures gets into the projects evaluating and helping entrepreneurs to develop strong companies from the idea inception phase. Bang Ventures is focused on the emerging Web 2.0 sector of software, web services and wireless services, as well as investments in cleantech, and medical devices.
Who Is Backing Them
The firm is lead by F. Mark Modzelewski, a noted technology evangelist, executive and investor.
He Co-founded New Europe Ventures, a Polish-based Venture Capital firm, as well as the Benet Group, Leonardo BioSystems, Lux Research, and the NanoBusiness Alliance. He has served as a senior executive at NanoDynamics (and continues to advise the company), Opion, GolinHarris and NRW. In addition, he has consulted for companies ranging from NanoSys to Engelhard to Mastercard to Yahoo to eSpeed to Pixar to DaimlerChrysler.
Mark is a member of the Nanotechnology Technical Advisory Group to the President Council of Advisers on Science and Technology (PCAST). He is among the most well known figures in technology and was recognized by Forbes as a "powerbroker" and has been featured in Time, Newsweek, US News, ABC, BBC, NY Times, Business Week, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, among others. Mark also appeared regularly as CNBC technology commentator and on occasion as a co-host of SquawkBox.
More at:http://www.bangventures.com/
Bang Ventures is a Cambridge-based investment firm with offices in New York and Krakow and is focused on early stage emerging technology companies.
Bang Ventures isn't a VC firm. They help smart and driven people co-found fantastic new companies, providing entrepreneurs with a roof over their heads, mentoring, a deep network of contacts, marketing support, professional services and other technical support....and yes, funding as well.
How It Works:
Bang Ventures gets into the projects evaluating and helping entrepreneurs to develop strong companies from the idea inception phase. Bang Ventures is focused on the emerging Web 2.0 sector of software, web services and wireless services, as well as investments in cleantech, and medical devices.
Who Is Backing Them
The firm is lead by F. Mark Modzelewski, a noted technology evangelist, executive and investor.
He Co-founded New Europe Ventures, a Polish-based Venture Capital firm, as well as the Benet Group, Leonardo BioSystems, Lux Research, and the NanoBusiness Alliance. He has served as a senior executive at NanoDynamics (and continues to advise the company), Opion, GolinHarris and NRW. In addition, he has consulted for companies ranging from NanoSys to Engelhard to Mastercard to Yahoo to eSpeed to Pixar to DaimlerChrysler.
Mark is a member of the Nanotechnology Technical Advisory Group to the President Council of Advisers on Science and Technology (PCAST). He is among the most well known figures in technology and was recognized by Forbes as a "powerbroker" and has been featured in Time, Newsweek, US News, ABC, BBC, NY Times, Business Week, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, among others. Mark also appeared regularly as CNBC technology commentator and on occasion as a co-host of SquawkBox.
More at:http://www.bangventures.com/
5min is a place to find short video solutions for practical questions raised $5 million in a Series A financing round from Spark Capital
What Company Is Offering:
5min is a place to find short video solutions for practical questions and a place for people to share their knowledge.
How It Works:
The idea behind 5min is very simple: any solution can be visually explained in no more than 5 minutes. Their goal is to create the first communal Life Videopedia allowing users from all over the globe to contribute their knowledge by sharing visual guides in areas such as arts, business, fashion, sports, health, tech, food, and much more.
To compliment the Videopedia vision and bridge the gap between textual and visual information, they developed a special player that allows viewers to watch the video in slow motion or frame by frame, zoom in and out, and more. It also gives the video creator the option to make a storyboard that helps others better understand the demonstration.
In addition, 5min gives each creator a personal promotional Studio – a space to showcase their skills and share their secrets.
How Much They Got From VCs:
They have raised $5 million in a Series A financing round from Spark Capital.
More at:http://www.5min.com/
5min is a place to find short video solutions for practical questions and a place for people to share their knowledge.
How It Works:
The idea behind 5min is very simple: any solution can be visually explained in no more than 5 minutes. Their goal is to create the first communal Life Videopedia allowing users from all over the globe to contribute their knowledge by sharing visual guides in areas such as arts, business, fashion, sports, health, tech, food, and much more.
To compliment the Videopedia vision and bridge the gap between textual and visual information, they developed a special player that allows viewers to watch the video in slow motion or frame by frame, zoom in and out, and more. It also gives the video creator the option to make a storyboard that helps others better understand the demonstration.
In addition, 5min gives each creator a personal promotional Studio – a space to showcase their skills and share their secrets.
How Much They Got From VCs:
They have raised $5 million in a Series A financing round from Spark Capital.
More at:http://www.5min.com/
PeerApp is a leading supplier of peer-to-peer infrastructure solutions raised $3 million in new VC funding
What Company Is Offering:
PeerApp is a leading supplier of peer-to-peer infrastructure solutions for Internet service providers. PeerApp solutions reduce Peer-to-Peer (P2P) related bandwidth costs without impacting subscriber experience; support service provider network/subscriber growth and enable new revenue-generating services The company is headquartered in Newton, MA, US with research and development operations in Tel Aviv, Israel.
How Much They Got From VCs:
PeerApp Ltd., a Newton, Mass.-based provider of P2P infrastructure solutions, has raised $3 million in new VC funding . Backers include Pilot House Ventures, Evergreen and Cedar Fund. The company's board includes Peter Bell of Highland Capital Partners.
How It Works:
PeerApp UltraBand™ gives ISPs the power to increase P2P application capacity without investing in additional transit bandwidth or compromising overall subscriber quality of service and satisfaction.
Using patented P2P caching technology, UltraBand enables ISPs to reliably handle the impact of dramatic P2P traffic growth on their networks, while providing a platform to monetize P2P through new service offerings.
PeerApp UltraBand is purpose-built for ISPs with carrier-grade reliability, scalability, and multi-gigabit performance built into its fully distributed architecture.
More at:http://www.peerapp.com/
PeerApp is a leading supplier of peer-to-peer infrastructure solutions for Internet service providers. PeerApp solutions reduce Peer-to-Peer (P2P) related bandwidth costs without impacting subscriber experience; support service provider network/subscriber growth and enable new revenue-generating services The company is headquartered in Newton, MA, US with research and development operations in Tel Aviv, Israel.
How Much They Got From VCs:
PeerApp Ltd., a Newton, Mass.-based provider of P2P infrastructure solutions, has raised $3 million in new VC funding . Backers include Pilot House Ventures, Evergreen and Cedar Fund. The company's board includes Peter Bell of Highland Capital Partners.
How It Works:
PeerApp UltraBand™ gives ISPs the power to increase P2P application capacity without investing in additional transit bandwidth or compromising overall subscriber quality of service and satisfaction.
Using patented P2P caching technology, UltraBand enables ISPs to reliably handle the impact of dramatic P2P traffic growth on their networks, while providing a platform to monetize P2P through new service offerings.
PeerApp UltraBand is purpose-built for ISPs with carrier-grade reliability, scalability, and multi-gigabit performance built into its fully distributed architecture.
More at:http://www.peerapp.com/
Tamarac---web-based, global rebalancing and trade order generation system got $7.17 million of a $10.45 million Series A round funding
What Company Is Offering:
Tamarac Advisor is a robust, web-based, global rebalancing and trade order generation system that provides customized, tax-efficient rebalancing across an unlimited number of accounts or families.
A web-based Investment Strategy Management Platform that automates portfolio rebalancing, cash management and directed trading.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Tamarac Inc., a Seattle-based provider of financial portfolio management software, has secured $7.17 million of a $10.45 million Series A round, Backers include Optimal Ventures.
How It Works:
The Tamarac system can simultaneously rebalance many individual accounts or families of accounts at the same time, greatly reducing the time commitment for rebalancing. Each account or family is rebalanced in the most advantageous way possible according to advisor preferences and rebalancing factors such as risk, taxes and costs. Tamarac automatically creates uploadable, multi-custodian trade order files and supports a wide variety of security types including stocks, bonds, mutual funds, ETFs and alternative investments.
They support a wide variety of security types including stocks, bonds, mutual funds, ETFs and alternative investments.
Advisor automatically creates uploadable, custodian-ready trade order files - saving you time and reducing errors.
Unique Features:
Cash Capability - Automatically raise or invest cash simultaneously across multiple accounts.
Restriction Capabilities - Legacy positions can be eliminated or restricted during rebalance.
Tax Loss Harvesting - Tamarac automatically identifies tax lots that can be sold in the most tax-efficient manner for each account or across families of accounts. Automates Tax Managed Core portfolios and Taxable Transition Management (TTM).
Help individual investors shift smoothly from high-fee, high-tax, high-risk stock portfolios to index-oriented portfolios with lower fees, lower taxes and less risk.
Fee Tracking - Tracks and controls mutual fund redemption fees at both the broker/dealer and mutual fund levels.
More at:http://www.tamaracinc.com/
Tamarac Advisor is a robust, web-based, global rebalancing and trade order generation system that provides customized, tax-efficient rebalancing across an unlimited number of accounts or families.
A web-based Investment Strategy Management Platform that automates portfolio rebalancing, cash management and directed trading.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Tamarac Inc., a Seattle-based provider of financial portfolio management software, has secured $7.17 million of a $10.45 million Series A round, Backers include Optimal Ventures.
How It Works:
The Tamarac system can simultaneously rebalance many individual accounts or families of accounts at the same time, greatly reducing the time commitment for rebalancing. Each account or family is rebalanced in the most advantageous way possible according to advisor preferences and rebalancing factors such as risk, taxes and costs. Tamarac automatically creates uploadable, multi-custodian trade order files and supports a wide variety of security types including stocks, bonds, mutual funds, ETFs and alternative investments.
They support a wide variety of security types including stocks, bonds, mutual funds, ETFs and alternative investments.
Advisor automatically creates uploadable, custodian-ready trade order files - saving you time and reducing errors.
Unique Features:
Cash Capability - Automatically raise or invest cash simultaneously across multiple accounts.
Restriction Capabilities - Legacy positions can be eliminated or restricted during rebalance.
Tax Loss Harvesting - Tamarac automatically identifies tax lots that can be sold in the most tax-efficient manner for each account or across families of accounts. Automates Tax Managed Core portfolios and Taxable Transition Management (TTM).
Help individual investors shift smoothly from high-fee, high-tax, high-risk stock portfolios to index-oriented portfolios with lower fees, lower taxes and less risk.
Fee Tracking - Tracks and controls mutual fund redemption fees at both the broker/dealer and mutual fund levels.
More at:http://www.tamaracinc.com/
Mint put together a list of the 10 most interesting start-ups to watch in 2008
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Mint put together a list of the 10 most interesting start-ups to watch in 2008, we decided to use those shortlists as a reference point. The forums we picked our 10 start-ups from include Proto.in, MoDeMo, the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) annual list of innovators and TiE-ISB Connect. Proto.in was born out of BarCamp Chennai and is possible the only start-up showcase of its kind in the country. It does not declare winners but shortlists 20 business plans, which are showcased to venture capitalists. MoDeMo, a mobile application demo event was born out of Mobile Monday Bangalore. About 20 start-ups made it to Nasscom’s annual list of innovators. TiE-ISB Connect, the annual business plan showcase by The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) and the Indian School of Business (ISB), saw 400 initial entries, virtually double the number it received in 2006.
It has been tough arriving at the final 10, more so because there are bound to be several other interesting companies that did not feature in any of these contests or showcases. The final 10, we think, stood out from the rest in terms of the products or services offered, founder experience and credentials, differentiated business models and potential market opportunity. We put them forward not just as interesting companies to watch for but also as representatives of the infectious and powerful wave of entrepreneurship that is now sweeping the country.
1. Sloka Telecom Pvt. Ltd
Founder(s):Sujai Karampuri and Venkata Subbaiah
Space: Telecom infrastructure
Funding: Self-funded
Description:Sloka Telecom Pvt. Ltd makes wireless equipment for WiMAX and 3G (third generation telecom) networks. The Bangalore-based company, which was shortlisted for Proto and Nasscom’s 100 IT Innovators 2007, claims its technology will help reduce operator capital expenditure (capex) by up to 50%. It recently rolled out its first WiMAX network in Saint Medard en Jalles in France.
2. Dim Dim Inc.
Founder(s):D.D. Ganguly, Jayant Pandit, Saurav Mohapatra, Sundar Subramanian and Rohit Shankar.
Space:Online Web conferencing
Funding:$2.4 million (Rs9.4 crore) first round funding by Nexus India Capital and Index Ventures.
Dim Dim Inc. offers free online Web conferencing solutions based on open source software. Its founders, scattered across the globe, came up with the idea while trying to communicate with each other. Shortlisted for DEMO, the Silicon Valley-based product showcase, and the TiE-ISB business plan showcase, Dim Dim is up against larger players such as Cisco Systems Inc., which owns Web conferencing company WebEX Communications, and Microsoft Corp.
3. Ziva Software Pvt. Ltd
Founder(s):and Ajay SethiSameer Shishodia
Space: Mobile search
Funding:$1.7 million by Nadathur Holdings and Investments Pvt. Ltd
Description: The Bangalore-based start-up, which offers mobile search services under the brand Zook, has recently launched a service to answer any question posed by users, using a combination of database and mobile social communities. Incubated at the NS Raghavan Cell for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL) on the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore campus, Ziva Software Pvt. Ltd was shortlisted for the second edition of Proto.
4. Novatium Solutions (P) Ltd
Founder(s):Rajesh Jain, Ray Stata and Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Space: PC hardware
Funding:Undisclosed investment by NEA and NEA IndoUS Ventures
Description:Novatium Solutions (P) Ltd, which was shortlisted for Proto, makes thin client personal computers. Its founders come from impressive backgrounds—Stata is chairman of Analog Devices Inc.; Jain is a serial entrepreneur best known for his Internet company Indiaworld.com, which was acquired bySify Ltd for $115 million in 1999; Jhunjhunwala established the TeNeT (Telecommunications and computer Networking) Group at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai. Novatium recently tied up with Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) to offer low cost, Internet-enabled PC’s in Delhi.
5. iXiGO.com (Le Travenues Technology Pvt. Ltd)
Founder(s): Aloke Bajpai, Rajnish Kumar and Jens Schutter
Space: Online travel
Funding: Closing pre-series A funding
Description: iXiGO.com, a late entrant in the online travel space, says its differentiated business model helps reduce cost of operations, which allows it to scale faster. Instead of booking tickets on its site, it re-directs customers to airlines’ home pages, for which it collects a fee from the airlines. Its founders worked for several years at European travel site Amadeus.net before moving to India in 2006. The company was shortlisted for Proto and Nasscom’s 100 IT Innovators 2007.
Mint put together a list of the 10 most interesting start-ups to watch in 2008, we decided to use those shortlists as a reference point. The forums we picked our 10 start-ups from include Proto.in, MoDeMo, the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) annual list of innovators and TiE-ISB Connect. Proto.in was born out of BarCamp Chennai and is possible the only start-up showcase of its kind in the country. It does not declare winners but shortlists 20 business plans, which are showcased to venture capitalists. MoDeMo, a mobile application demo event was born out of Mobile Monday Bangalore. About 20 start-ups made it to Nasscom’s annual list of innovators. TiE-ISB Connect, the annual business plan showcase by The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) and the Indian School of Business (ISB), saw 400 initial entries, virtually double the number it received in 2006.
It has been tough arriving at the final 10, more so because there are bound to be several other interesting companies that did not feature in any of these contests or showcases. The final 10, we think, stood out from the rest in terms of the products or services offered, founder experience and credentials, differentiated business models and potential market opportunity. We put them forward not just as interesting companies to watch for but also as representatives of the infectious and powerful wave of entrepreneurship that is now sweeping the country.
1. Sloka Telecom Pvt. Ltd
Founder(s):Sujai Karampuri and Venkata Subbaiah
Space: Telecom infrastructure
Funding: Self-funded
Description:Sloka Telecom Pvt. Ltd makes wireless equipment for WiMAX and 3G (third generation telecom) networks. The Bangalore-based company, which was shortlisted for Proto and Nasscom’s 100 IT Innovators 2007, claims its technology will help reduce operator capital expenditure (capex) by up to 50%. It recently rolled out its first WiMAX network in Saint Medard en Jalles in France.
2. Dim Dim Inc.
Founder(s):D.D. Ganguly, Jayant Pandit, Saurav Mohapatra, Sundar Subramanian and Rohit Shankar.
Space:Online Web conferencing
Funding:$2.4 million (Rs9.4 crore) first round funding by Nexus India Capital and Index Ventures.
Dim Dim Inc. offers free online Web conferencing solutions based on open source software. Its founders, scattered across the globe, came up with the idea while trying to communicate with each other. Shortlisted for DEMO, the Silicon Valley-based product showcase, and the TiE-ISB business plan showcase, Dim Dim is up against larger players such as Cisco Systems Inc., which owns Web conferencing company WebEX Communications, and Microsoft Corp.
3. Ziva Software Pvt. Ltd
Founder(s):and Ajay SethiSameer Shishodia
Space: Mobile search
Funding:$1.7 million by Nadathur Holdings and Investments Pvt. Ltd
Description: The Bangalore-based start-up, which offers mobile search services under the brand Zook, has recently launched a service to answer any question posed by users, using a combination of database and mobile social communities. Incubated at the NS Raghavan Cell for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL) on the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore campus, Ziva Software Pvt. Ltd was shortlisted for the second edition of Proto.
4. Novatium Solutions (P) Ltd
Founder(s):Rajesh Jain, Ray Stata and Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Space: PC hardware
Funding:Undisclosed investment by NEA and NEA IndoUS Ventures
Description:Novatium Solutions (P) Ltd, which was shortlisted for Proto, makes thin client personal computers. Its founders come from impressive backgrounds—Stata is chairman of Analog Devices Inc.; Jain is a serial entrepreneur best known for his Internet company Indiaworld.com, which was acquired bySify Ltd for $115 million in 1999; Jhunjhunwala established the TeNeT (Telecommunications and computer Networking) Group at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai. Novatium recently tied up with Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) to offer low cost, Internet-enabled PC’s in Delhi.
5. iXiGO.com (Le Travenues Technology Pvt. Ltd)
Founder(s): Aloke Bajpai, Rajnish Kumar and Jens Schutter
Space: Online travel
Funding: Closing pre-series A funding
Description: iXiGO.com, a late entrant in the online travel space, says its differentiated business model helps reduce cost of operations, which allows it to scale faster. Instead of booking tickets on its site, it re-directs customers to airlines’ home pages, for which it collects a fee from the airlines. Its founders worked for several years at European travel site Amadeus.net before moving to India in 2006. The company was shortlisted for Proto and Nasscom’s 100 IT Innovators 2007.
Plusmo is a FREE service that lets you run cool mobile widgets on your phone
What Company is Offering:
Plusmo is a FREE service that lets you run cool mobile widgets on your phone. Mobile widgets are tiny killer apps that offer a much better mobile experience for a specific purpose. There are over 20,000 widgets on Plusmo, most of them created and
shared by users like you.
How It Works:
All you need is a browser on your mobile device. Just go to plusmo.com/m from your mobile phone browser and download the client. Plusmo is free to use. But, your mobile operator may charge you for data downloaded if you do not have a data plan. We recommend that you get an unlimited data plan to avoid getting charged per download. See below for few examples.
Your email address is used to log in to www.plusmo.com to manage your mobile content subscriptions. On email-enabled devices they use the email to send you an install link. If instead you want an SMS be sent to you with an install link, they'll ask you for your phone number and operator during the registration. An either case, your email address is the primary mechanism to log in. They will only use your email address for support and inform you of new releases.
More at:http://plusmo.com/
Plusmo is a FREE service that lets you run cool mobile widgets on your phone. Mobile widgets are tiny killer apps that offer a much better mobile experience for a specific purpose. There are over 20,000 widgets on Plusmo, most of them created and
shared by users like you.
How It Works:
All you need is a browser on your mobile device. Just go to plusmo.com/m from your mobile phone browser and download the client. Plusmo is free to use. But, your mobile operator may charge you for data downloaded if you do not have a data plan. We recommend that you get an unlimited data plan to avoid getting charged per download. See below for few examples.
Your email address is used to log in to www.plusmo.com to manage your mobile content subscriptions. On email-enabled devices they use the email to send you an install link. If instead you want an SMS be sent to you with an install link, they'll ask you for your phone number and operator during the registration. An either case, your email address is the primary mechanism to log in. They will only use your email address for support and inform you of new releases.
More at:http://plusmo.com/
io9 For Science Fiction Lovers
What Company is Offering:
io9s were marketed as cheap time machines in the 2070s. They were actually just low-grade input/output devices for the brain that tuned tachyon waves and gave users vivid images of possible futures. The things were so addictive, and drove so many people insane, that io9s were eventually outlawed. Today the word is just slang. io9ers are the early implanters who obsessively upgrade themselves with beta tech. People who tweak out on buggy brainware are sometimes said to have "gone io9." Science fiction writer Ken McLeod has another term for io9ers. He calls them rapture fuckers.
How It Works;
If you want to comment on a post and you aren't already a registered user, you'll need to be approved by our alien overlords. Here's how. First, sign in as a new user. Then, you'll be prompted to make a comment. An actual alien from another world will evaluate your comment for signs of mind control or nano-contamination. If you are clean, the alien will approve you as a user, your comment will be published, and you can comment freely from then on.
Their alien overlords also reserve the right to terminate your comment privileges if you are an asshat. See Lifehacker's excellent guidelines to commenting on blogs if you wish to avoid asshattery. Got a problem with that? This is what we say to you.
How to Make Friends with Other Commenters
Next time you see a comment that makes you go "squee!" or "hmmm" or "how brilliant," you should start following the other comments of the person who wrote it. Click the "Follow Commenter" link next to it, which looks like a plus sign. From there on in, each time that person comments again, you'll get a little inline notification so you can collect even more gems. The folks you're following will be listed on your profile page.
You can also friend commenters, and their names will show up on your commenter profile page.
How to Be Anonymous on io9
You can't leave anonymous comments on io9, but you can leave pseudonymous ones. They don't ever require you to give your real name or any identifying information when you sign up as a new user.
To keep your privacy intact, pick a name that can't be traced back to you. Don't make comments that reveal where you live or where you work. Don't use your friends' real names in comments. To learn more about anonymity in the blogging world, read this handy guide from our pals at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
More at:http://io9.com/
io9s were marketed as cheap time machines in the 2070s. They were actually just low-grade input/output devices for the brain that tuned tachyon waves and gave users vivid images of possible futures. The things were so addictive, and drove so many people insane, that io9s were eventually outlawed. Today the word is just slang. io9ers are the early implanters who obsessively upgrade themselves with beta tech. People who tweak out on buggy brainware are sometimes said to have "gone io9." Science fiction writer Ken McLeod has another term for io9ers. He calls them rapture fuckers.
How It Works;
If you want to comment on a post and you aren't already a registered user, you'll need to be approved by our alien overlords. Here's how. First, sign in as a new user. Then, you'll be prompted to make a comment. An actual alien from another world will evaluate your comment for signs of mind control or nano-contamination. If you are clean, the alien will approve you as a user, your comment will be published, and you can comment freely from then on.
Their alien overlords also reserve the right to terminate your comment privileges if you are an asshat. See Lifehacker's excellent guidelines to commenting on blogs if you wish to avoid asshattery. Got a problem with that? This is what we say to you.
How to Make Friends with Other Commenters
Next time you see a comment that makes you go "squee!" or "hmmm" or "how brilliant," you should start following the other comments of the person who wrote it. Click the "Follow Commenter" link next to it, which looks like a plus sign. From there on in, each time that person comments again, you'll get a little inline notification so you can collect even more gems. The folks you're following will be listed on your profile page.
You can also friend commenters, and their names will show up on your commenter profile page.
How to Be Anonymous on io9
You can't leave anonymous comments on io9, but you can leave pseudonymous ones. They don't ever require you to give your real name or any identifying information when you sign up as a new user.
To keep your privacy intact, pick a name that can't be traced back to you. Don't make comments that reveal where you live or where you work. Don't use your friends' real names in comments. To learn more about anonymity in the blogging world, read this handy guide from our pals at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
More at:http://io9.com/
Goalmigo is a social website that motivates people to reach their goals
What Company is Offering:
Goalmigo is a social website that motivates people to reach their goals. The website offers a complete online system for setting, tracking, sharing, and achieving goals. Goalmigo is the flagship product of Curiosity Media, a web design and development firm based in Atlanta, GA.The name Goalmigo is a combination of "goal" and "migo", "migo" taken from the Spanish word amigo meaning friend. Goalmigo encourages users to share their goals and progress with their friends.
How It Works:
Goalmigo gives you the tools you need to achieve your goals. We recommend the following steps to use Goalmigo to its fullest:Clearly define your goal, that way you'll know when you've made it. Describe why you are pursuing this goal and how you will achieve it. Commit to your goal by letting friends and family know. Use Goalmigo groups to get support from users with similar goals. Track your progress and update your supporters regularly.
When creating your goal, check the last box on the form, Keep Private, to make the goal private. If your goal has already been created, click on the goal, click Edit goal under the goal's name and then check the Keep Private box on the bottom of the form. Now click the Update Goal button and your goal will be private.
To join a closed group, click on the group name and then the Request to Join link under the group name. The group creator will receive an email with your request and will choose whether to allow you to join. Should they allow your membership, you will appear as a member of the group.
More at:http://www.goalmigo.com/
Goalmigo is a social website that motivates people to reach their goals. The website offers a complete online system for setting, tracking, sharing, and achieving goals. Goalmigo is the flagship product of Curiosity Media, a web design and development firm based in Atlanta, GA.The name Goalmigo is a combination of "goal" and "migo", "migo" taken from the Spanish word amigo meaning friend. Goalmigo encourages users to share their goals and progress with their friends.
How It Works:
Goalmigo gives you the tools you need to achieve your goals. We recommend the following steps to use Goalmigo to its fullest:Clearly define your goal, that way you'll know when you've made it. Describe why you are pursuing this goal and how you will achieve it. Commit to your goal by letting friends and family know. Use Goalmigo groups to get support from users with similar goals. Track your progress and update your supporters regularly.
When creating your goal, check the last box on the form, Keep Private, to make the goal private. If your goal has already been created, click on the goal, click Edit goal under the goal's name and then check the Keep Private box on the bottom of the form. Now click the Update Goal button and your goal will be private.
To join a closed group, click on the group name and then the Request to Join link under the group name. The group creator will receive an email with your request and will choose whether to allow you to join. Should they allow your membership, you will appear as a member of the group.
More at:http://www.goalmigo.com/
DeterminedToQuit.com --gives smokers a multi-functional Quit Companion tool that allows them to update and monitor their quit attempts
What Company Is Offering:
DeterminedToQuit.com and the breakthrough Quit Companion were created with you - a tobacco user who knows it’s time to quit - specifically in mind. You know quitting is the smart thing to do for yourself, your family and your friends, but it’s a challenge.
DeterminedToQuit.com to provide an online community that gives smokers a multi-functional Quit Companion tool that allows them to update and monitor their quit attempts as their quit attempt progresses, enter their lapses via an email form or text messaging from their mobile phone, schedule messages to be delivered automatically to their cell phones at specific times to help themselves fend off potential lapses during normal smoking breaks and receive messages of encouragement from loved ones, and view video blogs featuring fellow smokers currently trying to quit.
How It Works:
Using the Quit Companion, you can chart your progress over time, send yourself supportive and motivating messages when you like, have your friends and family send you messages, and calculate the amount of money you have saved in a given time period by quitting smoking.
Getting started with the Quit Companion is simple. Just complete the registration form and you're ready to begin using the tool.Any information you share with DeterminedToQuit.com will remain strictly confidential. You don't need a wireless device to use the Quit Companion - you can use your email account to receive messages. The text messaging feature of the Quit Companion uses text messaging to relay communications. It is compatible with most wireless devices that can receive text messages.
During the sign-up process, you can enter your mobile phone number to activate the text messaging feature of the Quit Companion. With this enabled, you’ll have the ability to utilize the Companion even when you’re away from your computer; a handy feature for sure.
More at:http://www.determinedtoquit.com/
DeterminedToQuit.com and the breakthrough Quit Companion were created with you - a tobacco user who knows it’s time to quit - specifically in mind. You know quitting is the smart thing to do for yourself, your family and your friends, but it’s a challenge.
DeterminedToQuit.com to provide an online community that gives smokers a multi-functional Quit Companion tool that allows them to update and monitor their quit attempts as their quit attempt progresses, enter their lapses via an email form or text messaging from their mobile phone, schedule messages to be delivered automatically to their cell phones at specific times to help themselves fend off potential lapses during normal smoking breaks and receive messages of encouragement from loved ones, and view video blogs featuring fellow smokers currently trying to quit.
How It Works:
Using the Quit Companion, you can chart your progress over time, send yourself supportive and motivating messages when you like, have your friends and family send you messages, and calculate the amount of money you have saved in a given time period by quitting smoking.
Getting started with the Quit Companion is simple. Just complete the registration form and you're ready to begin using the tool.Any information you share with DeterminedToQuit.com will remain strictly confidential. You don't need a wireless device to use the Quit Companion - you can use your email account to receive messages. The text messaging feature of the Quit Companion uses text messaging to relay communications. It is compatible with most wireless devices that can receive text messages.
During the sign-up process, you can enter your mobile phone number to activate the text messaging feature of the Quit Companion. With this enabled, you’ll have the ability to utilize the Companion even when you’re away from your computer; a handy feature for sure.
More at:http://www.determinedtoquit.com/
Slopsbox---Keep Your Record Clean And Your Inbox Cleaner
What Company Is Offering:
Slopsbox is a tweaked translations of the site's Swedish predecessor Slaskpost. Slopsbox is the e-mail address you give out to anyone, the e-mail address you use to register for random services that requires you to submit one. It's a long-finger up the butt to spammers who think they can fool you into giving them your real one. Slopsbox is the inbox you don't care about. But Slopsbox cares about you, your privacy and they want your spam, because they think it's tasty.
How It Works:
When someone asks for your e-mail address, give them anything@slopsbox.com (or one of the other add-on domain names). You can replace "anything" with, well anything, i.e. douglas@slopsbox.com, trump@slopsbox.com or arrgh@slopsbox.com. The e-mail will then be available for you by entering the address and pressing enter.
You can now retrieve the information in the e-mail. However, bear in mind that they don't accept any attachments and received mail automatically get deleted after 24 hours.
More at:http://slopsbox.com/
Slopsbox is a tweaked translations of the site's Swedish predecessor Slaskpost. Slopsbox is the e-mail address you give out to anyone, the e-mail address you use to register for random services that requires you to submit one. It's a long-finger up the butt to spammers who think they can fool you into giving them your real one. Slopsbox is the inbox you don't care about. But Slopsbox cares about you, your privacy and they want your spam, because they think it's tasty.
How It Works:
When someone asks for your e-mail address, give them anything@slopsbox.com (or one of the other add-on domain names). You can replace "anything" with, well anything, i.e. douglas@slopsbox.com, trump@slopsbox.com or arrgh@slopsbox.com. The e-mail will then be available for you by entering the address and pressing enter.
You can now retrieve the information in the e-mail. However, bear in mind that they don't accept any attachments and received mail automatically get deleted after 24 hours.
More at:http://slopsbox.com/
Mjelly is a mobile music thing which lets you download bare amounts of mp3s and ringtones to your phone
What Company Is Offering:
Mjelly is a mobile music thing which lets you download bare amounts of mp3s and ringtones to your phone
To get started browse the music online or just hit m.mjelly.com on your phone browser.
How It Works:
To download the tones go to their mobile site at http://m.mjelly.com on your phone handset.
You can find out all the latest news and stuff about mobile music on their Blog
mjelly is based in London, UK.If you’re in the UK then send an SMS “getmjelly plus the code of the ringtone you want”.
More at:http://www.mjelly.com/
Mjelly is a mobile music thing which lets you download bare amounts of mp3s and ringtones to your phone
To get started browse the music online or just hit m.mjelly.com on your phone browser.
How It Works:
To download the tones go to their mobile site at http://m.mjelly.com on your phone handset.
You can find out all the latest news and stuff about mobile music on their Blog
mjelly is based in London, UK.If you’re in the UK then send an SMS “getmjelly plus the code of the ringtone you want”.
More at:http://www.mjelly.com/
Phozi --Use the phozi photobooth to create fun snapshots with your webcam, photos from your computer or using the camera on your mobile phone
What Company Is Offering:
Phozi is a fun way to take photobooth pictures by yourself or with friends! You can send photos to your friends or post them anywhere on the web using a widget from widgetbox.
How It Works:
You can use the phozi photobooth to create fun snapshots with your webcam, photos from your computer or using the camera on your mobile phone.
The phozi widgets work with any site that allows you to embed html codes. Popular sites include myspace, facebook, piczo, iGoogle, and freewebs. Phozi also works with popular blogging software like Blogger and TypePad as well as any webpage!
More at:http://www.phozi.com/
Phozi is a fun way to take photobooth pictures by yourself or with friends! You can send photos to your friends or post them anywhere on the web using a widget from widgetbox.
How It Works:
You can use the phozi photobooth to create fun snapshots with your webcam, photos from your computer or using the camera on your mobile phone.
The phozi widgets work with any site that allows you to embed html codes. Popular sites include myspace, facebook, piczo, iGoogle, and freewebs. Phozi also works with popular blogging software like Blogger and TypePad as well as any webpage!
More at:http://www.phozi.com/
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
How To Consolidate Debt Loans
What Company Is Offering:
A debt consolidation loan is a type of loan that is taken out by those that want to clear their existing smaller debts by paying them all off with one larger loan. This type of loan is also commonly used to combine unsecured debt, making it easier to manage your overall budget and stick to a repayment plan.
How It Works:
At Debt Consolidation, they use a panel of lenders who specialise in helping people like you. If you have bad credit issues, you may pay a little more for your loan or mortgage than people with a good credit history, so it’s important to find the right advice as to the right debt consolidation solution for you.
When applying to consolidate you debt, you need to look around for a suitable consolidation loan, and these loans are available from a number of lenders.
The rates attached to a consolidation loan can vary from one lender to another, so it is important to compare different deals in order to get the best rates and repayments that suit your pocket. A consolidation loan can suit many people, although in some cases it may not prove the ideal solution – for instance if you are in severe levels of debt – in which case you may need to see further debt advice.
Whether its secured or unsecured loans, the debt consolidation loans available to you will depend on your credit rating. Those people with poor credit can still access debt consolidation loans, however, and over time can even improve their credit rating by diligently making payments on time and in full.
Why To Use It And How It Will Be Helpful:
There are many reasons why you might want to seek a debt consolidation loan. The main reason for seeking a consolidation is simply beacause you may want to reduce the total of your monthly debt payment and simplify your budget by making just one payment to a single lender. Or, you may be having trouble keeping current on your existing debts and need a way to make your payments affordable while repairing your credit rating over time.
Many people struggle to juggle their various loans and debts, and having to deal with a high level of debt can be very stressful. When you consolidate your debts you won’t have to worry about juggling a range of debts, as all of your smaller debts will be rolled into one larger loan. Many people that juggle a range of debts also end up missing repayments or making late repayments, which can be damaging to your credit. Consolidation helps to reduce the risks of this happening, and can help to ensure that your monthly outgoings are not too high.
More at:http://www.howtoconsolidatedebtloans.com/
A debt consolidation loan is a type of loan that is taken out by those that want to clear their existing smaller debts by paying them all off with one larger loan. This type of loan is also commonly used to combine unsecured debt, making it easier to manage your overall budget and stick to a repayment plan.
How It Works:
At Debt Consolidation, they use a panel of lenders who specialise in helping people like you. If you have bad credit issues, you may pay a little more for your loan or mortgage than people with a good credit history, so it’s important to find the right advice as to the right debt consolidation solution for you.
When applying to consolidate you debt, you need to look around for a suitable consolidation loan, and these loans are available from a number of lenders.
The rates attached to a consolidation loan can vary from one lender to another, so it is important to compare different deals in order to get the best rates and repayments that suit your pocket. A consolidation loan can suit many people, although in some cases it may not prove the ideal solution – for instance if you are in severe levels of debt – in which case you may need to see further debt advice.
Whether its secured or unsecured loans, the debt consolidation loans available to you will depend on your credit rating. Those people with poor credit can still access debt consolidation loans, however, and over time can even improve their credit rating by diligently making payments on time and in full.
Why To Use It And How It Will Be Helpful:
There are many reasons why you might want to seek a debt consolidation loan. The main reason for seeking a consolidation is simply beacause you may want to reduce the total of your monthly debt payment and simplify your budget by making just one payment to a single lender. Or, you may be having trouble keeping current on your existing debts and need a way to make your payments affordable while repairing your credit rating over time.
Many people struggle to juggle their various loans and debts, and having to deal with a high level of debt can be very stressful. When you consolidate your debts you won’t have to worry about juggling a range of debts, as all of your smaller debts will be rolled into one larger loan. Many people that juggle a range of debts also end up missing repayments or making late repayments, which can be damaging to your credit. Consolidation helps to reduce the risks of this happening, and can help to ensure that your monthly outgoings are not too high.
More at:http://www.howtoconsolidatedebtloans.com/
BlogBookmark.com is a place to discover cool new blogs
What Company Is Offering:
BlogBookmark.com is a place to discover cool new blogs! Check BlogBookmark.com every day to find the hottest news, gossip, and blog chatter from around the web! Our user submitted blog posts give you the visitor an opportunity to find awesome new blogs to subscribe to while giving you the power to vote up or down on the best blogs on the web.
How To Use It:
Registering gives you the ability to participate in their community. Non-registered visitors to their website cannot vote on blog posts or post comments. Registering allows you the ability to do all of those things and more including a personal profile to store all of your favorite blog bookmarks. And, it's FREE! They don't now, nor do ever plan to charge membership fees to search, discover, and subscribe to all the blogs and feeds you can stand!
When you are logged in, any blog post that you vote for is automatically added to your bookmarks on your profile page under the "Voted" tab. If you would like to bookmark a blog post without actually voting for it simply use the "Save" link located beneath each blog post description, next to the tell a friend link.
Your profile here on BB is what identifies you to the community. Whether you're a blogger or an avid blog reader or both, your profile can speak volumes about who you are. Once you are logged in, you can modify this information about yourself by clicking on the Profile button at the top right of this page. You can also use your personal profile page to view your bookmarks.
More at:http://www.blogbookmark.com/
BlogBookmark.com is a place to discover cool new blogs! Check BlogBookmark.com every day to find the hottest news, gossip, and blog chatter from around the web! Our user submitted blog posts give you the visitor an opportunity to find awesome new blogs to subscribe to while giving you the power to vote up or down on the best blogs on the web.
How To Use It:
Registering gives you the ability to participate in their community. Non-registered visitors to their website cannot vote on blog posts or post comments. Registering allows you the ability to do all of those things and more including a personal profile to store all of your favorite blog bookmarks. And, it's FREE! They don't now, nor do ever plan to charge membership fees to search, discover, and subscribe to all the blogs and feeds you can stand!
When you are logged in, any blog post that you vote for is automatically added to your bookmarks on your profile page under the "Voted" tab. If you would like to bookmark a blog post without actually voting for it simply use the "Save" link located beneath each blog post description, next to the tell a friend link.
Your profile here on BB is what identifies you to the community. Whether you're a blogger or an avid blog reader or both, your profile can speak volumes about who you are. Once you are logged in, you can modify this information about yourself by clicking on the Profile button at the top right of this page. You can also use your personal profile page to view your bookmarks.
More at:http://www.blogbookmark.com/
CommandShift3 is where websites do battle!
What Company Is Offering:
On CommandShift3, you are presented with the screenshots of two websites side by side. If you click the screenshot of the site you think looks best, the page reloads and you start all over again. It never ends.
So far there have been 597281 clicks. The energy it took to click 597281 times raised the earth's temperature by .0000000000000000087265081 degrees, contributing to the melting of the polar ice caps.
How It Works:
The best & worst page is where they add up all those clicks and display the winners and losers. You can also browse winners by tag, and by month or week. You can also see the worst ever.
Sites are ranked based both on their percentage of wins and the number of battles they have engaged in.
Two sites may have equal winning percentages, but may be ranked differently because one has participated in more battles than the other.
More at:http://commandshift3.com/
On CommandShift3, you are presented with the screenshots of two websites side by side. If you click the screenshot of the site you think looks best, the page reloads and you start all over again. It never ends.
So far there have been 597281 clicks. The energy it took to click 597281 times raised the earth's temperature by .0000000000000000087265081 degrees, contributing to the melting of the polar ice caps.
How It Works:
The best & worst page is where they add up all those clicks and display the winners and losers. You can also browse winners by tag, and by month or week. You can also see the worst ever.
Sites are ranked based both on their percentage of wins and the number of battles they have engaged in.
Two sites may have equal winning percentages, but may be ranked differently because one has participated in more battles than the other.
More at:http://commandshift3.com/
Catch the Best
What Company Is Offering:
Catch the Best is a collaborative applicant tracking system (ATS) built just for small businesses. Basically, that means it gives you a place to track your job postings and the applicants for your open positions, but without all the extra junk (and extra cost!) that you get from the guys trying to sell you an "enterprise-class" product.
How It Works:
Once you’ve created a Catch the Best account, you can enable a public listing of all your open positions by visiting the Career Site link via the account settings. Once enabled, copying and pasting one line of javascript from the Career Site page into a page hosted at your web site will load all of your open positions listed in Catch the Best on your own jobs page. Each listing on your page will have a link back to Catch the Best for candidates to apply directly from your web site.
More at:http://catchthebest.com/
Catch the Best is a collaborative applicant tracking system (ATS) built just for small businesses. Basically, that means it gives you a place to track your job postings and the applicants for your open positions, but without all the extra junk (and extra cost!) that you get from the guys trying to sell you an "enterprise-class" product.
How It Works:
Once you’ve created a Catch the Best account, you can enable a public listing of all your open positions by visiting the Career Site link via the account settings. Once enabled, copying and pasting one line of javascript from the Career Site page into a page hosted at your web site will load all of your open positions listed in Catch the Best on your own jobs page. Each listing on your page will have a link back to Catch the Best for candidates to apply directly from your web site.
More at:http://catchthebest.com/
Tvinci provides a complete end-to-end solution, starting from developing your broadband strategy, to creating your Internet TV plan etc
What Company Is Offering:
Tvinci provides services to video content owners, broadcasting channels and publishers while always keeping their users in mind. Tvinci offers platform to manage media while making the content smarter and richer. Tvinci can improve the Internet TV viewing experience.
How It Works:
They offer a complete end-to-end solution, starting from developing your broadband strategy, to creating your Internet TV plan, integrating your site and existing content, and of course, maximizing your content monetization.
Using the Tvinci video dashboard, editors can tag content and users can create layers of textual information. The combination of editor and user added content with analysis of how its used, shows what and how much users viewed, as well as what they liked, what they added to their playlists, and how popular their playlists are amongst their friends. This and more enriches the content even further.
The interactive, personalized, social experience is achieved with a state-of-the-art user interface. Tvinci’s patent-pending video dashboard method offers users a multi-tasking viewing experience, where they can enjoy the use of a number of widgets surrounding the content. The widgets help users add to the original content, meet and communicate with friends, and create their own personal channels.
In the Web 2.0 world of social networking and communities, we believe that users wish to connect with new content through their friends and to share their favorite content with their friends. They can with the use of the Tvinci widgets for saving playlists, sharing playlists, editing friends’ playlists, chat and viewing friends’ related content, etc.
More at:http://www.tvinci.com/
Tvinci provides services to video content owners, broadcasting channels and publishers while always keeping their users in mind. Tvinci offers platform to manage media while making the content smarter and richer. Tvinci can improve the Internet TV viewing experience.
How It Works:
They offer a complete end-to-end solution, starting from developing your broadband strategy, to creating your Internet TV plan, integrating your site and existing content, and of course, maximizing your content monetization.
Using the Tvinci video dashboard, editors can tag content and users can create layers of textual information. The combination of editor and user added content with analysis of how its used, shows what and how much users viewed, as well as what they liked, what they added to their playlists, and how popular their playlists are amongst their friends. This and more enriches the content even further.
The interactive, personalized, social experience is achieved with a state-of-the-art user interface. Tvinci’s patent-pending video dashboard method offers users a multi-tasking viewing experience, where they can enjoy the use of a number of widgets surrounding the content. The widgets help users add to the original content, meet and communicate with friends, and create their own personal channels.
In the Web 2.0 world of social networking and communities, we believe that users wish to connect with new content through their friends and to share their favorite content with their friends. They can with the use of the Tvinci widgets for saving playlists, sharing playlists, editing friends’ playlists, chat and viewing friends’ related content, etc.
More at:http://www.tvinci.com/
GyPSii allows users to share their real life experiences in the virtual world using mobile devices and the web
What Company Is Offering:
GyPSii allows users to share their real life experiences in the virtual world using mobile devices and the web. It is a user generated content, social networking, search & location based suite of integrated mobile and web applications - for users to share, view & upload pictures, video, text and POI (points of interest) with a geo-tag (location data) - place and track each other in their select communities.
How It Works:
Capture, create & geo-tag your photos, video, audio & text to create Places with location context, recorded for future easy access & sharing with you, your family and your friends.
A Personal e Diary - stored centrally for easy access with both mobile phones & on the web. Use the web & mobile device to further enhance, edit, rate and comment on yours & others' Places.
Social Networking - configure GyPSii to automatically communicate with web sites like FaceBook, Digg, Del.icio.us, MySpace etc; send & share Places from your mobile device & the web to your social network groups.
Unique Features:
Mobile Proximity Search
Proximity based area search, similar to a local directory search.
Find user generated content, Places and other points of interest.
Ideal for the leisurely or business user, simple & easy to use, find a point of interest or Place, and get a map to it, all within one user experience.
Share with your group or friends by simply sending the destination details
Maps & Navigation.
Maps with Routing directions.
After finding your point of interest, Place or person, get directions directly to your destination.
Integrate with Personal Navigation .
More at:http://www.gypsii.com/
GyPSii allows users to share their real life experiences in the virtual world using mobile devices and the web. It is a user generated content, social networking, search & location based suite of integrated mobile and web applications - for users to share, view & upload pictures, video, text and POI (points of interest) with a geo-tag (location data) - place and track each other in their select communities.
How It Works:
Capture, create & geo-tag your photos, video, audio & text to create Places with location context, recorded for future easy access & sharing with you, your family and your friends.
A Personal e Diary - stored centrally for easy access with both mobile phones & on the web. Use the web & mobile device to further enhance, edit, rate and comment on yours & others' Places.
Social Networking - configure GyPSii to automatically communicate with web sites like FaceBook, Digg, Del.icio.us, MySpace etc; send & share Places from your mobile device & the web to your social network groups.
Unique Features:
Mobile Proximity Search
Proximity based area search, similar to a local directory search.
Find user generated content, Places and other points of interest.
Ideal for the leisurely or business user, simple & easy to use, find a point of interest or Place, and get a map to it, all within one user experience.
Share with your group or friends by simply sending the destination details
Maps & Navigation.
Maps with Routing directions.
After finding your point of interest, Place or person, get directions directly to your destination.
Integrate with Personal Navigation .
More at:http://www.gypsii.com/
24im is the smarter, faster, easier way to deliver enterprise-grade IM to your private group
What Company Is Offering:
24im is the smarter, faster, easier way to deliver enterprise-grade IM to your private group. Its for Free.
How It Works:
You can access 24im using their web application, or you can access it using their windows download.
24im is built for your group, but they do all the work. Since 24im is hosted on their fast and reliable servers, you don't need to worry about a thing.
Safe, Encrypted Messaging.
You see "Hey Bob", bad-guys see garbled text. 24im uses AES Encryption to protect your group from prying eyes.
More at:http://www.24im.com/
24im is the smarter, faster, easier way to deliver enterprise-grade IM to your private group. Its for Free.
How It Works:
You can access 24im using their web application, or you can access it using their windows download.
24im is built for your group, but they do all the work. Since 24im is hosted on their fast and reliable servers, you don't need to worry about a thing.
Safe, Encrypted Messaging.
You see "Hey Bob", bad-guys see garbled text. 24im uses AES Encryption to protect your group from prying eyes.
More at:http://www.24im.com/
Top 10 Things That Won't Happen in 2008
For those who aren't already punch-drunk with prediction lists, here's a list of the Top 10 Things That Won't Happen in 2008:
1. The writers won't win the current strike. Considering that I'm a writer, I'd really love to see the guys with the ideas get their due, not to mention a hefty stake in the new media riches (are ya listening BusinessWeek editors?). But frankly, the Writers Guild of America has handled the current eight-week strike as poorly as one can imagine, especially by throwing in the red herring issue of demanding to represent reality-show writers not already under contract with them. This is a strike that legitimately should be about whether writers can get a chunk of residuals from the streaming of TV shows on the Net and other kinds of digital distribution. But the studio owners have stockpiled movies that take them through 2009 and are already making noises that they'll save money by airing reruns on the tube, shifting shows from cable channels (that they already just happen to own), and likely ending expensive producer deals. The result? When the studios settle with the much less demanding directors' guild —maybe in the next month—the writers will get the crumbs: a small piece of the digital action.
2. DreamWorks isn't going to leave Paramount after all. O.K, so I was among the first to write that Steven Spielberg was unhappy with his deal to make movies for Paramount, and might bolt. And he can, by late in 2008. But I've got the feeling that Spielberg's business partner, the endlessly imaginative David Geffen, may just have another game plan in mind. Sure, he'll take meetings with NBC (he's already had a very public dinner with Jeff Immelt, CEO of NBC parent General Electric (GE)). But pique is really a Geffen ploy to bring Paramount parent Viacom (VIA) and its chairman Sumner Redstone back to the table and maybe to get him to buy the other piece of DreamWorks (DWA), its animation studio, that Redstone didn't buy in 2005.
3. Apple won't reinvent TV viewing. Not that Steve Jobs won't try. But the buzz is that Apple (AAPL) will revamp its weak Apple TV this fall, giving folks a more elegant way to download movies directly from the Internet to TVs. And Jobs is lining up much of Hollywood to give him their first-run movies. So far only Disney (DIS), among the major studios, does that. If you're gonna bet on one guy to figure out how to merge TV and the computer it would be the bearded one. But, Steve, get used to the fact that folks aren't clamoring for unlimited access to movies and TV shows from the Net. That's what they make cable TV for.
4. Juno won't win an Academy Award. Anyone who has seen the small-budget comedy about a teenage pregnancy knows that I'm talking about. It's got warmth, soul, and a heart as large as star Ellen Page.
Made for a very un-Hollywood-sized budget of under $25 million, the Jason Reitman-directed film is everything you'd want in a movie, especially that it is over-the-moon entertaining. But Academy voters often vote on the basis of heft, as in Lord of the Rings, or star power, and this film has neither. Last year's Little Miss Sunshine may show that fun little films can get nominated, and Juno already has a Golden Globes nomination, so maybe I'm wrong. Then again, maybe everyone will watch an overblown saga like American Gangster waltz away this year, just as Warner Bros.' (TWX) The Departed did last year.
5. Google (GOOG) won't buy a media company. The hot buzz for months has the Internet search giant using its hyperinflated stock and mountains of cash to buy a media company, perhaps a movie studio like MGM or another company with a treasure trove of content that Google can monetize with its newfound ability to sell advertising. The big question: Why? Google already has the pick of all the content it could ever want; it gets more eyeballs than any company on earth. Why mess it up with content companies that, frankly, are just as likely to lose money on new TV shows or movies than make it? Google is too smart for that.
6. Indiana Jones won't be the biggest film of 2008. Hard to bet against an American classic, brought back again this year after a 19-year hiatus by box-office magnets Steven Spielberg and George Lucas? O.K., so it will make beaucoup box office bucks. Maybe $200 million. But next year is chockablock with potential blockbusters, including Disney's next Chronicles of Narnia sequel and Paramount's first Marvel-made franchise, Iron Man. With Spielberg, Lucas, and Harrison Ford all back, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will get plenty of promo power when it's released on May 22. But Harrison Ford may not be the only one that's starting to look a little old.
7. Katie Couric won't quit. The boo-birds are already out, hissing that the former Today Show host has pulled CBS's evening news—now an ugly third—even further into the rear. Some of it isn't her fault: The show's new set is, well, just plain unattractive and the show's stilted format doesn't suit Katie's natural talents as a lively, almost bubbly TV persona. On top of that, CBS (CBS) CEO Leslie Moonves hates to lose and hates to admit defeat even more. Katie will hang around till Leslie can't stand it any longer. Maybe 2009.
8. The Disney-Pixar deal won't implode, Part Three. Critics of Disney CEO Bob Iger have been waiting since Iger's $7 billion acquisition of Steve Jobs' Pixar Animation studio in 2006 for the pricey deal to hit a brick wall. Last year was supposed to be that year, when Ratatouille arrived with a very un-Pixar opening. But the film has picked up steam, and has serious legs, having stuck around theaters for six months and raked in $200 million at the U.S. box office and more than $600 million worldwide. This year's Pixar offering, Wall-E, about a robot, is from Finding Nemo director Andrew Stanton. Say no more.
More at:http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/dec2007/db20071226_465312_page_2.htm
1. The writers won't win the current strike. Considering that I'm a writer, I'd really love to see the guys with the ideas get their due, not to mention a hefty stake in the new media riches (are ya listening BusinessWeek editors?). But frankly, the Writers Guild of America has handled the current eight-week strike as poorly as one can imagine, especially by throwing in the red herring issue of demanding to represent reality-show writers not already under contract with them. This is a strike that legitimately should be about whether writers can get a chunk of residuals from the streaming of TV shows on the Net and other kinds of digital distribution. But the studio owners have stockpiled movies that take them through 2009 and are already making noises that they'll save money by airing reruns on the tube, shifting shows from cable channels (that they already just happen to own), and likely ending expensive producer deals. The result? When the studios settle with the much less demanding directors' guild —maybe in the next month—the writers will get the crumbs: a small piece of the digital action.
2. DreamWorks isn't going to leave Paramount after all. O.K, so I was among the first to write that Steven Spielberg was unhappy with his deal to make movies for Paramount, and might bolt. And he can, by late in 2008. But I've got the feeling that Spielberg's business partner, the endlessly imaginative David Geffen, may just have another game plan in mind. Sure, he'll take meetings with NBC (he's already had a very public dinner with Jeff Immelt, CEO of NBC parent General Electric (GE)). But pique is really a Geffen ploy to bring Paramount parent Viacom (VIA) and its chairman Sumner Redstone back to the table and maybe to get him to buy the other piece of DreamWorks (DWA), its animation studio, that Redstone didn't buy in 2005.
3. Apple won't reinvent TV viewing. Not that Steve Jobs won't try. But the buzz is that Apple (AAPL) will revamp its weak Apple TV this fall, giving folks a more elegant way to download movies directly from the Internet to TVs. And Jobs is lining up much of Hollywood to give him their first-run movies. So far only Disney (DIS), among the major studios, does that. If you're gonna bet on one guy to figure out how to merge TV and the computer it would be the bearded one. But, Steve, get used to the fact that folks aren't clamoring for unlimited access to movies and TV shows from the Net. That's what they make cable TV for.
4. Juno won't win an Academy Award. Anyone who has seen the small-budget comedy about a teenage pregnancy knows that I'm talking about. It's got warmth, soul, and a heart as large as star Ellen Page.
Made for a very un-Hollywood-sized budget of under $25 million, the Jason Reitman-directed film is everything you'd want in a movie, especially that it is over-the-moon entertaining. But Academy voters often vote on the basis of heft, as in Lord of the Rings, or star power, and this film has neither. Last year's Little Miss Sunshine may show that fun little films can get nominated, and Juno already has a Golden Globes nomination, so maybe I'm wrong. Then again, maybe everyone will watch an overblown saga like American Gangster waltz away this year, just as Warner Bros.' (TWX) The Departed did last year.
5. Google (GOOG) won't buy a media company. The hot buzz for months has the Internet search giant using its hyperinflated stock and mountains of cash to buy a media company, perhaps a movie studio like MGM or another company with a treasure trove of content that Google can monetize with its newfound ability to sell advertising. The big question: Why? Google already has the pick of all the content it could ever want; it gets more eyeballs than any company on earth. Why mess it up with content companies that, frankly, are just as likely to lose money on new TV shows or movies than make it? Google is too smart for that.
6. Indiana Jones won't be the biggest film of 2008. Hard to bet against an American classic, brought back again this year after a 19-year hiatus by box-office magnets Steven Spielberg and George Lucas? O.K., so it will make beaucoup box office bucks. Maybe $200 million. But next year is chockablock with potential blockbusters, including Disney's next Chronicles of Narnia sequel and Paramount's first Marvel-made franchise, Iron Man. With Spielberg, Lucas, and Harrison Ford all back, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will get plenty of promo power when it's released on May 22. But Harrison Ford may not be the only one that's starting to look a little old.
7. Katie Couric won't quit. The boo-birds are already out, hissing that the former Today Show host has pulled CBS's evening news—now an ugly third—even further into the rear. Some of it isn't her fault: The show's new set is, well, just plain unattractive and the show's stilted format doesn't suit Katie's natural talents as a lively, almost bubbly TV persona. On top of that, CBS (CBS) CEO Leslie Moonves hates to lose and hates to admit defeat even more. Katie will hang around till Leslie can't stand it any longer. Maybe 2009.
8. The Disney-Pixar deal won't implode, Part Three. Critics of Disney CEO Bob Iger have been waiting since Iger's $7 billion acquisition of Steve Jobs' Pixar Animation studio in 2006 for the pricey deal to hit a brick wall. Last year was supposed to be that year, when Ratatouille arrived with a very un-Pixar opening. But the film has picked up steam, and has serious legs, having stuck around theaters for six months and raked in $200 million at the U.S. box office and more than $600 million worldwide. This year's Pixar offering, Wall-E, about a robot, is from Finding Nemo director Andrew Stanton. Say no more.
More at:http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/dec2007/db20071226_465312_page_2.htm
11870.com
What Company Is Offering:
The idea of turning the business classified advertising sector around. We want to transform the way people - as well as their folks and pals - know, look for, recommend and share their knowledge of and experience with professionals and businesses worldwide.
How It Works;
Each user is assigned a personal page where she/he can store the businesses they're interested in, either publicly or privately. You can write reviews, upload pictures and videos, or assign tags to each entry. And, even though you can use the system individually, its true potential is realized when you share it with your circle of friends. After all, our friends' advice is often more valuable than that of strangers', isn't it?
More at:http://11870.com/
The idea of turning the business classified advertising sector around. We want to transform the way people - as well as their folks and pals - know, look for, recommend and share their knowledge of and experience with professionals and businesses worldwide.
How It Works;
Each user is assigned a personal page where she/he can store the businesses they're interested in, either publicly or privately. You can write reviews, upload pictures and videos, or assign tags to each entry. And, even though you can use the system individually, its true potential is realized when you share it with your circle of friends. After all, our friends' advice is often more valuable than that of strangers', isn't it?
More at:http://11870.com/
Pediaphon which generates MP3 audio files playlists and podcasts automatically from Wikipedia
What Company Is Offering:
MP3 files, playlists and podcasts automatically generated from Wikipedia.
How It Works:
Pediaphon is a free service by Andreas Bischoff, which generates MP3 audio files from Wikipedia articles by speech synthesis. The service is operated at the University of Hagen, Germany. These files can be played immediately in the webbrowser or be downloaded for later use in a MP3-Player. A podcast will be generated for each inquiry.
The Pediaphon can be attained under the address www.pediaphon.de. The service was realized by use of FreeSpeech, MBROLA and the MP3-Encoder LAME. It is a contribution to the WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia.
Pediaphon can be used for E- and M-learning.
More at:http://pediaphon.fernuni-hagen.de/
MP3 files, playlists and podcasts automatically generated from Wikipedia.
How It Works:
Pediaphon is a free service by Andreas Bischoff, which generates MP3 audio files from Wikipedia articles by speech synthesis. The service is operated at the University of Hagen, Germany. These files can be played immediately in the webbrowser or be downloaded for later use in a MP3-Player. A podcast will be generated for each inquiry.
The Pediaphon can be attained under the address www.pediaphon.de. The service was realized by use of FreeSpeech, MBROLA and the MP3-Encoder LAME. It is a contribution to the WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia.
Pediaphon can be used for E- and M-learning.
More at:http://pediaphon.fernuni-hagen.de/
LivePads -- it allows home buyers, sellers, and real estate professionals the ability to search and host houses on their Facebook profile
What Company Is Offering:
LivePads provides real estate professionals, home buyers, and home
sellers the necessary tools for all real estate needs. People can search
for homes, sell their homes, utilize social networking, and find
valuable web resources for real estate.
How It Works:
People can search for homes, sell their homes, utilize social networking, and find valuable web resources for real estate.
LivePads has also created the industry’s first real estate Facebook Application thatthat allows home buyers, sellers, and real estate professionals the ability to search and host houses on their Facebook profile.
LivePads is also the home to the real estate industry's best blog. Their blog showcases many services from around the internet. They showcase popular real estate tools, web 2.0 startups, and many more resources for real estate professional, home buyers, home sellers, and apartment information. Their goal is to present a minimum of 25 sites a week to their social audience.
More at:http://www.livepads.com/
LivePads provides real estate professionals, home buyers, and home
sellers the necessary tools for all real estate needs. People can search
for homes, sell their homes, utilize social networking, and find
valuable web resources for real estate.
How It Works:
People can search for homes, sell their homes, utilize social networking, and find valuable web resources for real estate.
LivePads has also created the industry’s first real estate Facebook Application thatthat allows home buyers, sellers, and real estate professionals the ability to search and host houses on their Facebook profile.
LivePads is also the home to the real estate industry's best blog. Their blog showcases many services from around the internet. They showcase popular real estate tools, web 2.0 startups, and many more resources for real estate professional, home buyers, home sellers, and apartment information. Their goal is to present a minimum of 25 sites a week to their social audience.
More at:http://www.livepads.com/
Tootoo.com---complete trade solution for suppliers and buyers
What Company Is Offering:
Tootoo.com is the third generation of online business-to-business (B2B) platforms, combining an international trade portal with vertical search engine technology to provide the complete trade solution for suppliers and buyers.
How It Works:
Their unrivalled search technology doesn't rely on a database of registered clients, but instead gets the results you want from all B2B networks and trade portals on the World Wide Web. Whether searching by product, industry, or company name, Tootoo.com's unbiased results let you compare potential trading partners easily and efficiently.Tootoo.com has no bias towards buyers or suppliers, so that all the results returned are ordered by relevance and quality, not on how much sponsorship a company gives.
Unique Features:
For buyers – To make specialized B2B purchases.
Develop a long-term love of Tootoo.com's search engine and comparison tools.
Allow purchases to run smoothly and with mutual trust.
For sellers – Increase overseas exposure and marketing capabilities.
Develop and promote suppliers' quality and service.
Let the highest quality suppliers top our search results "first time, every time".
More at:http://www.tootoo.com/
Tootoo.com is the third generation of online business-to-business (B2B) platforms, combining an international trade portal with vertical search engine technology to provide the complete trade solution for suppliers and buyers.
How It Works:
Their unrivalled search technology doesn't rely on a database of registered clients, but instead gets the results you want from all B2B networks and trade portals on the World Wide Web. Whether searching by product, industry, or company name, Tootoo.com's unbiased results let you compare potential trading partners easily and efficiently.Tootoo.com has no bias towards buyers or suppliers, so that all the results returned are ordered by relevance and quality, not on how much sponsorship a company gives.
Unique Features:
For buyers – To make specialized B2B purchases.
Develop a long-term love of Tootoo.com's search engine and comparison tools.
Allow purchases to run smoothly and with mutual trust.
For sellers – Increase overseas exposure and marketing capabilities.
Develop and promote suppliers' quality and service.
Let the highest quality suppliers top our search results "first time, every time".
More at:http://www.tootoo.com/
2pad--Private Media Sharing
What Company Is Offering:
Keep your personal photos & videos private. Easily distribute them to your friends & family. Discover 2pad's unique combination of email and web technology.
How It Works:
2pad's services allow users to store, organize and share photos and videos.
There are three levels of service: Free, Enhanced and Premium, with varying amounts of bandwidth, storage space and other specifications.There is no limit to the number of pictures or videos that you store on the site. However, there is a limit to the size of the pictures stored on the site. With their Free service, you may store up to 1 GB. Your maximum file size for a single picture or video is 20 MB, and videos are limited to 5 minutes in length. With their Enhanced service, you may store up to 5 GB. Your maximum file size for a single picture or video is 100 MB, and videos are limited to 10 minutes in length. With their Premium service, you may store up to 20 GB. Your maximum file size for a single picture or video is 200 MB, and videos are limited to 20 minutes in length.
Who Is Backing Them:
Aaron Boublil brings 20+ years marketing expertise to 2pad. From 1985-1995, he owned and operated a software servicing company. In 1995, Aaron founded Mediaquest, a web based marketing company. Four years later, he sold his company to the worldwide marketing giant Ogilvy. He remained with Ogilvy until 2005, first heading their dot-com marketing division in France, and later working on the accounts of industry leaders IBM, Nestle and Unilever, just to name a few.
The other two partners each bring 20+ years hardware expertise to 2pad. Ary Tebeka and Philippe Lumbroso co-founded Kortex in 1985, a leader in the French modem manufacturing industry. In 1996, they co-founded Aplio, a VoIP hardware manufacturer, which they later sold to IDT / Net2Phone in 2000 for $50 million. They remained at IDT until 2002. In 2004, they closed Kortex and began their next project: Emailbased and 2pad.
More at:http://www.2pad.com/
Keep your personal photos & videos private. Easily distribute them to your friends & family. Discover 2pad's unique combination of email and web technology.
How It Works:
2pad's services allow users to store, organize and share photos and videos.
There are three levels of service: Free, Enhanced and Premium, with varying amounts of bandwidth, storage space and other specifications.There is no limit to the number of pictures or videos that you store on the site. However, there is a limit to the size of the pictures stored on the site. With their Free service, you may store up to 1 GB. Your maximum file size for a single picture or video is 20 MB, and videos are limited to 5 minutes in length. With their Enhanced service, you may store up to 5 GB. Your maximum file size for a single picture or video is 100 MB, and videos are limited to 10 minutes in length. With their Premium service, you may store up to 20 GB. Your maximum file size for a single picture or video is 200 MB, and videos are limited to 20 minutes in length.
Who Is Backing Them:
Aaron Boublil brings 20+ years marketing expertise to 2pad. From 1985-1995, he owned and operated a software servicing company. In 1995, Aaron founded Mediaquest, a web based marketing company. Four years later, he sold his company to the worldwide marketing giant Ogilvy. He remained with Ogilvy until 2005, first heading their dot-com marketing division in France, and later working on the accounts of industry leaders IBM, Nestle and Unilever, just to name a few.
The other two partners each bring 20+ years hardware expertise to 2pad. Ary Tebeka and Philippe Lumbroso co-founded Kortex in 1985, a leader in the French modem manufacturing industry. In 1996, they co-founded Aplio, a VoIP hardware manufacturer, which they later sold to IDT / Net2Phone in 2000 for $50 million. They remained at IDT until 2002. In 2004, they closed Kortex and began their next project: Emailbased and 2pad.
More at:http://www.2pad.com/
HighBeam to enable individuals to conduct convenient online research
What Company Is Offering:
HighBeam is a magazine and newspaper archive, online library and research tool for individuals, students and small businesses. They collect millions of research articles from published sources you know and trust – and put them all in one place.
Whether you have a specific research need or just want to read about topics of interest, HighBeam gives you unlimited access to newspaper archives, journal articles, magazine back issues, reference works and more.
How It Works:
HighBeam Research to enable individuals to conduct convenient online research. By combining an editorially selected collection of thousands of authoritative sources, including millions of credible free and paid articles, with tools to find, organize and share information, HighBeam offers an innovative and efficient approach to online research.
Unique Features:
With more than 500,000 articles, HighBeam Reference offers unprecedented access to top reference works, including:
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia.
Reference works from Oxford University Press.
ColumbiaEncyclopedia.
Dictionaries.
Thesauruses.
Almanacs.
Reference works covering science, technology,literature, finance, history, the arts and more.
More at:http://www.highbeam.com/
HighBeam is a magazine and newspaper archive, online library and research tool for individuals, students and small businesses. They collect millions of research articles from published sources you know and trust – and put them all in one place.
Whether you have a specific research need or just want to read about topics of interest, HighBeam gives you unlimited access to newspaper archives, journal articles, magazine back issues, reference works and more.
How It Works:
HighBeam Research to enable individuals to conduct convenient online research. By combining an editorially selected collection of thousands of authoritative sources, including millions of credible free and paid articles, with tools to find, organize and share information, HighBeam offers an innovative and efficient approach to online research.
Unique Features:
With more than 500,000 articles, HighBeam Reference offers unprecedented access to top reference works, including:
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia.
Reference works from Oxford University Press.
ColumbiaEncyclopedia.
Dictionaries.
Thesauruses.
Almanacs.
Reference works covering science, technology,literature, finance, history, the arts and more.
More at:http://www.highbeam.com/
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