What Company Is Offering:
Boddit makes it simple for you to discover deals for what you want by aggregating deals from a huge selection of bargain hunting websites.
How It Works:
It funnels deals from a variety of shopping sites and puts them all into one frequently updated website so that you can easily shop for deals. You can narrow your search by category, keyword, or most popular product. The deals move fast with updates coming about every three minutes.
As you may realize, the stuff that is considered deals change very often so many new products pop in & out of Boddit's database all the time. To measure how new a deal is, Boddit lets you sort stuff by time.
Boddit only lists things that are deals. So most likely, the stuff you want does not have a deal for it right now. So, you should check back later to see if a deal comes.
More at:http://www.boddit.com/
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
OneCoach--provide entrepreneurs with customized solutions they need to grow their small businesses
What Company Is Offering:
OneCoach is the world’s leading franchiser for small-business growth services. Their franchisees provide entrepreneurs with customized solutions they need to grow their small businesses, including interactive coaching, best practices and networking. The OneCoach Process combines the latest scientific research with proven business-growth strategies to give every small-business owner the best chance for achieving success. Founded by John Assaraf and Murray Smith, OneCoach is based in San Diego and has franchise operations serving a growing number of members worldwide.
Recent Updates:
OneCoach is small-business growth services, has announced the sale of a master franchise in Los Angeles to Regional Owner Rick Lugash along with his Business Partners and Co-Owners, Spencer Tyler, Jennifer Tyler, David Shevel and Adam Shevel. As new franchisees, the team has been granted ownership of the OneCoach brand and will provide Los Angeles area entrepreneurs customized solutions to help them attract more business, more money and more life.
Lugash has more than 15 years of experience and is committed to helping entrepreneurs grow their businesses while they live passionate and purposeful lives. His ability to lead with strength, inspire with passion, and motivate with engaging personal charisma has turned the teams he has coached into high-performance organizations.
More at:
Hanin Khaireddin
858-792-1250 x106
hkhaireddin@OneCoach.com
www.onecoach.com
OneCoach is the world’s leading franchiser for small-business growth services. Their franchisees provide entrepreneurs with customized solutions they need to grow their small businesses, including interactive coaching, best practices and networking. The OneCoach Process combines the latest scientific research with proven business-growth strategies to give every small-business owner the best chance for achieving success. Founded by John Assaraf and Murray Smith, OneCoach is based in San Diego and has franchise operations serving a growing number of members worldwide.
Recent Updates:
OneCoach is small-business growth services, has announced the sale of a master franchise in Los Angeles to Regional Owner Rick Lugash along with his Business Partners and Co-Owners, Spencer Tyler, Jennifer Tyler, David Shevel and Adam Shevel. As new franchisees, the team has been granted ownership of the OneCoach brand and will provide Los Angeles area entrepreneurs customized solutions to help them attract more business, more money and more life.
Lugash has more than 15 years of experience and is committed to helping entrepreneurs grow their businesses while they live passionate and purposeful lives. His ability to lead with strength, inspire with passion, and motivate with engaging personal charisma has turned the teams he has coached into high-performance organizations.
More at:
Hanin Khaireddin
858-792-1250 x106
hkhaireddin@OneCoach.com
www.onecoach.com
Gigya delivers innovative discovery and monetization solutions to the social media got $9.5 million Series B round of financing
What Company Is Offering:
Gigya delivers innovative discovery and monetization solutions to the social media ecosystem, connecting brand advertisers, content publishers and an enormous audience of active social media users. Gigya serves the world’s largest brands with a full-service widget advertising model covering design, development, hosting, distribution, viral promotion and tracking. Gigya’s Wildfire technology installs hundreds of thousands of widgets per day and tracks over three billion impressions per month.
How Much They Got From VCs;
Gigya, the largest performance-based widget distribution network and provider of tools and technologies for distributing, tracking and analyzing widgets, today announced the completion of a $9.5 million Series B round of financing led by Mayfield Fund, with additional investment from existing investors Benchmark Capital and First Round Capital. Gigya’s Wildfire technology currently installs hundreds of thousands of widgets per day, and tracks over three billion widget impressions per month for its clients, including Kimberly-Clark, MTV, Levis, Sprint and Toyota.
What's Aim Of Raising Funds:
Gigya will use the funds to continue its rapid growth, including the enhancement of its core Wildfire technology, its pay-per-install widget distribution network, as well as the development of additional products that facilitate the discovery and monetization of the social web.
About VCs:
Mayfield Fund has been at the forefront of investing in emerging businesses that have grown into industry leaders. Mayfield Fund invests in the U.S., China and India and currently has $2.7 billion under management. It has invested in over 480 companies of which 105 have had initial public offerings and another 160 have been acquired. Some of Mayfield past impact investments include Compaq, Amgen, SGI, 3COM, Sandisk, Citrix, Cypress Semiconductor, Intuitive Surgical, Web Methods, Tibco, 3PAR and LSI Logic. To learn more, please visit http://www.mayfield.com.
More at:http://www.gigya.com
Gigya delivers innovative discovery and monetization solutions to the social media ecosystem, connecting brand advertisers, content publishers and an enormous audience of active social media users. Gigya serves the world’s largest brands with a full-service widget advertising model covering design, development, hosting, distribution, viral promotion and tracking. Gigya’s Wildfire technology installs hundreds of thousands of widgets per day and tracks over three billion impressions per month.
How Much They Got From VCs;
Gigya, the largest performance-based widget distribution network and provider of tools and technologies for distributing, tracking and analyzing widgets, today announced the completion of a $9.5 million Series B round of financing led by Mayfield Fund, with additional investment from existing investors Benchmark Capital and First Round Capital. Gigya’s Wildfire technology currently installs hundreds of thousands of widgets per day, and tracks over three billion widget impressions per month for its clients, including Kimberly-Clark, MTV, Levis, Sprint and Toyota.
What's Aim Of Raising Funds:
Gigya will use the funds to continue its rapid growth, including the enhancement of its core Wildfire technology, its pay-per-install widget distribution network, as well as the development of additional products that facilitate the discovery and monetization of the social web.
About VCs:
Mayfield Fund has been at the forefront of investing in emerging businesses that have grown into industry leaders. Mayfield Fund invests in the U.S., China and India and currently has $2.7 billion under management. It has invested in over 480 companies of which 105 have had initial public offerings and another 160 have been acquired. Some of Mayfield past impact investments include Compaq, Amgen, SGI, 3COM, Sandisk, Citrix, Cypress Semiconductor, Intuitive Surgical, Web Methods, Tibco, 3PAR and LSI Logic. To learn more, please visit http://www.mayfield.com.
More at:http://www.gigya.com
Invoke Solutions--provider of real-time online and mobile research technology and services received $7 million in funding
What Company is Offering:
Invoke Solutions is the leading innovator of real-time researching technologies that help businesses gain instant insight into the opinions, views, and dynamics of their customers, employees, and other constituents. Unlike traditional, costly, and decades old research methodologies, Invoke’s Engage Family of mobile and online research solutions have been developed specifically to provide a more engaging experience for participants and give businesses faster, more useful results.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Invoke Solutions, the premier provider of real-time online and mobile research technology and services, announced that it received $7 million in funding led by Portland, ME based North Atlantic Capital and its existing investors Bain Capital and BEV Capital.
Invoke partners with many of the most innovative research organizations in the world including Millward Brown, Greenfield Online, C&R Research, and Harris Interactive to deliver a better participant experience and fast, usable insights for their clients.
About VCs:
Portland, Maine based North Atlantic Capital is an expansion stage venture capital firm investing primarily in tech-enabled business service, information technology and communications companies. Established in 1986, North Atlantic manages a pool of capital in excess of $200 million, and is currently investing its fourth fund, raised in 2006. In addition to growth capital and board level guidance, North Atlantic offers its portfolio companies free research and M&A services along with annual executive education programs at leading business schools.www.northatlanticcapital.com.
More at:www.invoke.com.
Invoke Solutions is the leading innovator of real-time researching technologies that help businesses gain instant insight into the opinions, views, and dynamics of their customers, employees, and other constituents. Unlike traditional, costly, and decades old research methodologies, Invoke’s Engage Family of mobile and online research solutions have been developed specifically to provide a more engaging experience for participants and give businesses faster, more useful results.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Invoke Solutions, the premier provider of real-time online and mobile research technology and services, announced that it received $7 million in funding led by Portland, ME based North Atlantic Capital and its existing investors Bain Capital and BEV Capital.
Invoke partners with many of the most innovative research organizations in the world including Millward Brown, Greenfield Online, C&R Research, and Harris Interactive to deliver a better participant experience and fast, usable insights for their clients.
About VCs:
Portland, Maine based North Atlantic Capital is an expansion stage venture capital firm investing primarily in tech-enabled business service, information technology and communications companies. Established in 1986, North Atlantic manages a pool of capital in excess of $200 million, and is currently investing its fourth fund, raised in 2006. In addition to growth capital and board level guidance, North Atlantic offers its portfolio companies free research and M&A services along with annual executive education programs at leading business schools.www.northatlanticcapital.com.
More at:www.invoke.com.
GridNetworks, the leading provider of managed Internet television delivery services raised a total of $9.5 million in its Series A financing
What Company Is Offering:
GridNetworks, based in Seattle, Washington, is a leading provider of managed Internet television services. Targeted primarily at media and entertainment companies, GridNetworks’ GridCasting technology allows media companies to cost-effectively and reliably stream full-screen, HD quality, video content over the Internet.GridNetworks provides a compelling business proposition for content providers looking to deliver programming via the Internet, while retaining the high quality viewing experience their viewers are accustomed to.
How It Will Be Helpful To Companies:
Media companies working with GridNetworks can deliver a true television experience, via existing broadband connections, for a small fraction of what they are paying today in distribution costs. For the first time, content providers can also scale distribution to Nielsen-level audiences on the Internet, and receive the Nielsen-type data and analytics they need to develop compelling advertising and sponsorship packages.
How Much They Got From VCs:
GridNetworks, the leading provider of managed Internet television delivery services, announced that Cisco Systems, Inc. has made an investment as a strategic investor in GridNetwork’s Series A funding previously announced by Panorama Capital in October. With this latest investment, GridNetworks raised a total of $9.5 million in its Series A financing.
More at:http://www.gridnetworks.com.
GridNetworks, based in Seattle, Washington, is a leading provider of managed Internet television services. Targeted primarily at media and entertainment companies, GridNetworks’ GridCasting technology allows media companies to cost-effectively and reliably stream full-screen, HD quality, video content over the Internet.GridNetworks provides a compelling business proposition for content providers looking to deliver programming via the Internet, while retaining the high quality viewing experience their viewers are accustomed to.
How It Will Be Helpful To Companies:
Media companies working with GridNetworks can deliver a true television experience, via existing broadband connections, for a small fraction of what they are paying today in distribution costs. For the first time, content providers can also scale distribution to Nielsen-level audiences on the Internet, and receive the Nielsen-type data and analytics they need to develop compelling advertising and sponsorship packages.
How Much They Got From VCs:
GridNetworks, the leading provider of managed Internet television delivery services, announced that Cisco Systems, Inc. has made an investment as a strategic investor in GridNetwork’s Series A funding previously announced by Panorama Capital in October. With this latest investment, GridNetworks raised a total of $9.5 million in its Series A financing.
More at:http://www.gridnetworks.com.
Layered Technologies, Inc., a leading worldwide provider of "on demand" IT infrastructure got $11 million in funding
What Company Is Offering:
Layered Technologies, Inc. is a leading global provider of on-demand hosting, utility computing solutions and Web services. By providing high quality technology, infrastructure and support we enable customers to forego capital expenses and save on operating costs while focusing on core business issues. Layered Technologies' scalable infrastructure powers millions of sites and Internet enabled applications including e-Commerce, Software as a Service ("SaaS"), content distribution and more.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Layered Technologies, Inc., a leading worldwide provider of "on demand" IT infrastructure, announces the completion of an investment round of $11 million, led by US private equity firm Enhanced Equity Fund, LP (EEF) and the founding investor, Pangloss International.
"We are proud to support Layered Tech's continued growth in the fast moving hosting services market," said David Howe, Managing General Partner for Enhanced Equity Fund. "We see great potential for Layered Technologies to play a key role in shaping the future of grid computing and virtualized services within the hosting marketplace."
About VCs;
Enhanced Equity Fund manages a $225 million equity fund, focused on private US growth companies in two sectors: healthcare services and information technology services. See www.enhancedequity.com for more details.
More at:www.layeredtechnologies.com
Layered Technologies, Inc. is a leading global provider of on-demand hosting, utility computing solutions and Web services. By providing high quality technology, infrastructure and support we enable customers to forego capital expenses and save on operating costs while focusing on core business issues. Layered Technologies' scalable infrastructure powers millions of sites and Internet enabled applications including e-Commerce, Software as a Service ("SaaS"), content distribution and more.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Layered Technologies, Inc., a leading worldwide provider of "on demand" IT infrastructure, announces the completion of an investment round of $11 million, led by US private equity firm Enhanced Equity Fund, LP (EEF) and the founding investor, Pangloss International.
"We are proud to support Layered Tech's continued growth in the fast moving hosting services market," said David Howe, Managing General Partner for Enhanced Equity Fund. "We see great potential for Layered Technologies to play a key role in shaping the future of grid computing and virtualized services within the hosting marketplace."
About VCs;
Enhanced Equity Fund manages a $225 million equity fund, focused on private US growth companies in two sectors: healthcare services and information technology services. See www.enhancedequity.com for more details.
More at:www.layeredtechnologies.com
Fluid Entertainment, a California based interactive entertainment developer has secured $3.2 million in Series A funding
What Company Is Offering:
Fluid Entertainment is an independent children’s interactive entertainment developer by industry veteran Scott Mathews. With experience creating high profile licensed interactive products based on properties including Harry Potter™, Disney, the Powerpuff Girls, Pokémon and many others, Fluid Entertainment is currently developing an original MMO title for children.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Fluid Entertainment, a California based interactive entertainment developer, announced it has secured $3.2 million in Series A funding led by Trinity Ventures. These funds will support the development and launch of a new, entirely original MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online) game for children. Fluid Entertainment will announce more game details in the coming months.
“Fluid Entertainment is led by a creative team with more than a decade of experience developing interactive, educational, and - most importantly - fun entertainment for kids,” remarked Tim McAdam, general partner at Trinity Ventures. “The company has been in business since the late 90s, and is widely known for developing well regarded games for children. With three other gaming investments in our current portfolio, we were looking for the right play in the children’s MMO area, which is an open canvas with only a few incumbents. Fluid has a veteran team, a great history, and a clear and progressive vision that positions the company to become a leader in this arena.”
About VCs:
Trinity Ventures (http://www.trinityventures.com/), a 21-year veteran in the venture business with more than $1 billion under management, partners with exceptional entrepreneurs to build great companies. Trinity Ventures focuses on early-stage technology investment opportunities with a particular emphasis on the digital media, Internet services, mobility, security and software markets.
More at:http://www.fluidentertainment.com
Fluid Entertainment is an independent children’s interactive entertainment developer by industry veteran Scott Mathews. With experience creating high profile licensed interactive products based on properties including Harry Potter™, Disney, the Powerpuff Girls, Pokémon and many others, Fluid Entertainment is currently developing an original MMO title for children.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Fluid Entertainment, a California based interactive entertainment developer, announced it has secured $3.2 million in Series A funding led by Trinity Ventures. These funds will support the development and launch of a new, entirely original MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online) game for children. Fluid Entertainment will announce more game details in the coming months.
“Fluid Entertainment is led by a creative team with more than a decade of experience developing interactive, educational, and - most importantly - fun entertainment for kids,” remarked Tim McAdam, general partner at Trinity Ventures. “The company has been in business since the late 90s, and is widely known for developing well regarded games for children. With three other gaming investments in our current portfolio, we were looking for the right play in the children’s MMO area, which is an open canvas with only a few incumbents. Fluid has a veteran team, a great history, and a clear and progressive vision that positions the company to become a leader in this arena.”
About VCs:
Trinity Ventures (http://www.trinityventures.com/), a 21-year veteran in the venture business with more than $1 billion under management, partners with exceptional entrepreneurs to build great companies. Trinity Ventures focuses on early-stage technology investment opportunities with a particular emphasis on the digital media, Internet services, mobility, security and software markets.
More at:http://www.fluidentertainment.com
LocalHarvest--- Find information on direct marketing family farms
What Company is Offering:
LocalHarvest is America's #1 organic and local food website. They maintain a definitive and reliable "living" public nationwide directory of small farms, farmers markets, and other local food sources. Our search engine helps people find products from family farms, local sources of sustainably grown food, and encourages them to establish direct contact with small farms in their local area. Their online store helps small farms develop markets for some of their products beyond their local area.
How It Works:
LocalHarvest is now the number one informational resource for the Buy Local movement and the top place on the Internet where people find information on direct marketing family farms. They now have about 9000 members, and are growing by about 8 new members every day. Through their servers, their website and those of their partners serve about one and a half million page views per month to the public interested in buying food from family farms.
The LocalHarvest Store brings the products of family farmers home to you. While their farmers focus on selling fresh produce and meats directly to their local communities, many of them offer some of their products via mail order through them. They currently offer 4832 products.
You can participate in their building process by encouraging your farmer, market manager, and restauranteur friends to visit localharvest.org and sign themselves up!
More at:http://www.localharvest.org/
LocalHarvest is America's #1 organic and local food website. They maintain a definitive and reliable "living" public nationwide directory of small farms, farmers markets, and other local food sources. Our search engine helps people find products from family farms, local sources of sustainably grown food, and encourages them to establish direct contact with small farms in their local area. Their online store helps small farms develop markets for some of their products beyond their local area.
How It Works:
LocalHarvest is now the number one informational resource for the Buy Local movement and the top place on the Internet where people find information on direct marketing family farms. They now have about 9000 members, and are growing by about 8 new members every day. Through their servers, their website and those of their partners serve about one and a half million page views per month to the public interested in buying food from family farms.
The LocalHarvest Store brings the products of family farmers home to you. While their farmers focus on selling fresh produce and meats directly to their local communities, many of them offer some of their products via mail order through them. They currently offer 4832 products.
You can participate in their building process by encouraging your farmer, market manager, and restauranteur friends to visit localharvest.org and sign themselves up!
More at:http://www.localharvest.org/
Apatar is the leading provider of open source software tools for the data integration market
What Company is Offering:
Apatar is the leading provider of open source software tools for the data integration market. Apatar brings data integration to the companies who previously found proprietary solutions expensive and difficult to implement. Apatar’s goal is to provide more than 100,000 users with its freely downloadable product by the end of 2008. Apatar provides support, training, and consulting services for its integration solutions.
Why To Use It:
Apatar is an innovative and powerful suite of software tools designed to provide extraordinary productivity benefits to those organizations that need to move data in and out of different sources. Applications include data warehousing, data migration, synchronization and application integration.
Why It Could Work:
The Gartner Group estimates that corporate developers spend 65 percent of their effort building bridges between applications. Apatar effectively integrates data and applications, and provides data cleansing and validation capabilities to the developer saving time while integrating information between heterogeneous databases, files, and applications.
Business users, developers, and technology enthusiasts can download the latest version of Apatar Data Integration/ETL at SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.php?group_id=189179
More at:http://apatar.com/
Apatar is the leading provider of open source software tools for the data integration market. Apatar brings data integration to the companies who previously found proprietary solutions expensive and difficult to implement. Apatar’s goal is to provide more than 100,000 users with its freely downloadable product by the end of 2008. Apatar provides support, training, and consulting services for its integration solutions.
Why To Use It:
Apatar is an innovative and powerful suite of software tools designed to provide extraordinary productivity benefits to those organizations that need to move data in and out of different sources. Applications include data warehousing, data migration, synchronization and application integration.
Why It Could Work:
The Gartner Group estimates that corporate developers spend 65 percent of their effort building bridges between applications. Apatar effectively integrates data and applications, and provides data cleansing and validation capabilities to the developer saving time while integrating information between heterogeneous databases, files, and applications.
Business users, developers, and technology enthusiasts can download the latest version of Apatar Data Integration/ETL at SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.php?group_id=189179
More at:http://apatar.com/
AllSmackTalk is the premier online social utility for sports fans
What Company Is Offering:
AllSmackTalk is the premier online social utility for sports fans on the web allowing you to discuss your favorite teams and sports, upload videos and photos, win awards and prizes and make rivals.
How It Works:
To view other team boards please use the main menu at the left of every page and select Teams > Conference > and then the exact team board you wish to visit. You can also click View All Posts to view every post across all team boards.
Adding other users as rivals allows you to track their posts and smack backs through the rival section of the site. When you add a user as a rival he will receive an email notifying him that someone has added him as a rival, but no name will be given. When rivalries are mutual, both parties will have the rival listed in their rival list.
The Season Ticket page is the portion of AllSmackTalk.com that is completely customizable to the user. From the preferences section you can determine exactly what tags and teams you would like to read most about, as well as add RSS feeds to the page to build a fully custom experience with all the news and posts on your favorite sports and teams.
A tag is a brief description word that relates to your post. For example, if you were doing a post about Player X, you would want to include the team the player belongs to as one of the tags. Tags should be included in every post as they are a great way to sort and search posts.
More at:http://www.allsmacktalk.com/
AllSmackTalk is the premier online social utility for sports fans on the web allowing you to discuss your favorite teams and sports, upload videos and photos, win awards and prizes and make rivals.
How It Works:
To view other team boards please use the main menu at the left of every page and select Teams > Conference > and then the exact team board you wish to visit. You can also click View All Posts to view every post across all team boards.
Adding other users as rivals allows you to track their posts and smack backs through the rival section of the site. When you add a user as a rival he will receive an email notifying him that someone has added him as a rival, but no name will be given. When rivalries are mutual, both parties will have the rival listed in their rival list.
The Season Ticket page is the portion of AllSmackTalk.com that is completely customizable to the user. From the preferences section you can determine exactly what tags and teams you would like to read most about, as well as add RSS feeds to the page to build a fully custom experience with all the news and posts on your favorite sports and teams.
A tag is a brief description word that relates to your post. For example, if you were doing a post about Player X, you would want to include the team the player belongs to as one of the tags. Tags should be included in every post as they are a great way to sort and search posts.
More at:http://www.allsmacktalk.com/
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Topicle is a search engine community
What Company Is Offering:
Topicle is a search engine community.
Every Topicle search engine only searches handpicked URLs, instead of the whole Web.
You - the community - can create new Topicle search engines and maintain all existing ones.
How It Works:
Their goal is to enable users to easily find more relevant information on the Internet, with you - the Topicle community - as experts. They want to generate more precise and useful search results with sources recommended by humans than solely with computer-generated algorithms.
With Topicle, you can create a new vertical search engine with a few clicks. In Topicle's world, a vertical search engine is a topic search engine, like Digital Camera Reviews, Parenting or Diabetes. Each Topicle search engine only searches handpicked URLs, instead of the whole Web.
All Topicle search engines are open, and everyone can contribute by adding URLs and rating existing URLs. Just like anyone can author articles on Wikipedia, anyone can create and enhance search engines on Topicle. With everyone's help, Topicle search engines will get better and better over time.
More at:http://www.topicle.com/
Topicle is a search engine community.
Every Topicle search engine only searches handpicked URLs, instead of the whole Web.
You - the community - can create new Topicle search engines and maintain all existing ones.
How It Works:
Their goal is to enable users to easily find more relevant information on the Internet, with you - the Topicle community - as experts. They want to generate more precise and useful search results with sources recommended by humans than solely with computer-generated algorithms.
With Topicle, you can create a new vertical search engine with a few clicks. In Topicle's world, a vertical search engine is a topic search engine, like Digital Camera Reviews, Parenting or Diabetes. Each Topicle search engine only searches handpicked URLs, instead of the whole Web.
All Topicle search engines are open, and everyone can contribute by adding URLs and rating existing URLs. Just like anyone can author articles on Wikipedia, anyone can create and enhance search engines on Topicle. With everyone's help, Topicle search engines will get better and better over time.
More at:http://www.topicle.com/
FINVIZ.com offers the fastest, and the most advanced stock screener available online
What Company Is Offering:
FINVIZ.com offers the fastest, and the most advanced stock screener available online, interactive markets maps, inovative market analysis and custom market intelligence solutions.
How It Works:
FINVIZ.com gives you everything you need to keep track of the stock market.There are interactive market maps as well as several market intelligence solutions. There’s also a search option for finding information pertaining to different companies listed on the stock market.
Unique Features:
Analysis & Visualisation Tools - licensing, development, integration.
Custom Financial Research - data mining, backtesting, realtime monitoring.
Automated Trading Systems - design, development, deployment.
More at:http://finviz.com/
FINVIZ.com offers the fastest, and the most advanced stock screener available online, interactive markets maps, inovative market analysis and custom market intelligence solutions.
How It Works:
FINVIZ.com gives you everything you need to keep track of the stock market.There are interactive market maps as well as several market intelligence solutions. There’s also a search option for finding information pertaining to different companies listed on the stock market.
Unique Features:
Analysis & Visualisation Tools - licensing, development, integration.
Custom Financial Research - data mining, backtesting, realtime monitoring.
Automated Trading Systems - design, development, deployment.
More at:http://finviz.com/
Encyclopedia of Life is an ecosystem of websites that makes all key information about all life on Earth accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world
What Company Is Offering:
Encyclopedia of Life is an ecosystem of websites that makes all key information about all life on Earth accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world.
How It Works:
* Create a constantly evolving encyclopedia that lives on the Internet, with contributions from scientists and amateurs alike.
* Transform the science of biology, and inspire a new generation of scientists, by aggregating virtually all known data about every living species.
* Engage a wide audience of schoolchildren, educators, citizen scientists, academics and those who are just curious about Earth's species.
* Increase our collective understanding of life on Earth, and safeguard the richest possible spectrum of biodiversity.
Unique Features:
* About 25 exemplar species pages. These pages show the kind of rich environment, with extensive information, to which all the species pages will eventually grow. These pages have been authenticated (endorsed) by scientists.
* Tens of thousands of additional species pages. These pages are authenticated, but do not contain the rich array of information found on the exemplar pages.
* About 1 million minimal species pages contain the scientific and common names for a species and often have a distribution map, but lack other authenticated information.
More at:http://www.eol.org/
Encyclopedia of Life is an ecosystem of websites that makes all key information about all life on Earth accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world.
How It Works:
* Create a constantly evolving encyclopedia that lives on the Internet, with contributions from scientists and amateurs alike.
* Transform the science of biology, and inspire a new generation of scientists, by aggregating virtually all known data about every living species.
* Engage a wide audience of schoolchildren, educators, citizen scientists, academics and those who are just curious about Earth's species.
* Increase our collective understanding of life on Earth, and safeguard the richest possible spectrum of biodiversity.
Unique Features:
* About 25 exemplar species pages. These pages show the kind of rich environment, with extensive information, to which all the species pages will eventually grow. These pages have been authenticated (endorsed) by scientists.
* Tens of thousands of additional species pages. These pages are authenticated, but do not contain the rich array of information found on the exemplar pages.
* About 1 million minimal species pages contain the scientific and common names for a species and often have a distribution map, but lack other authenticated information.
More at:http://www.eol.org/
Hulu's ambitious and never-ending mission is to help you find and enjoy the world's premium content when, where and how you want it
What Company Is Offering:
Hulu's ambitious and never-ending mission is to help you find and enjoy the world's premium content when, where and how you want it. They hope to provide you with the web's most comprehensive selection of premium programming across all genres and formats – television shows, feature films, clips, and more. Additionally, they want to give you more choices of when and where you can enjoy your favorite programming, while creating innovative experiences that let you watch and participate in online video in new and exciting ways.
For now, videos are available for streaming from the U.S. only. Their intention is to make Hulu's growing content lineup available worldwide and will continue to work with our content partners to clear rights internationally to make great programming available across the globe.
How It Works:
At Hulu, you'll find a vast selection of premium programming across all genres and content types including hit shows, movies, clips and more.
Hulu offers current primetime shows like The Office, Prison Break, Bionic Woman, House and Bones, and episodes from TV classics like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Miami Vice, Arrested Development and more. We've also partnered with premier content owners like E! Entertainment, FUEL TV, SciFi Network and USA Networks to add to our growing collection of premium programming.
Hulu is designed with a singular focus on providing an exceptional, online video viewing experience. You can customize the experience to fit your viewing preferences - watch videos in full screen, or pop out the video player and place it anywhere on your computer screen and re-size it if you're multi-tasking. You can even dim the lights and mute the rest of the browser window so nothing distracts you from the video you're watching.
Hulu lets you easily share your favorite videos via email or embed them on your own website. You can even choose to share the entire video or just one scene. By selecting the share or embed feature, you have the option of selecting your own start and stop point in a video to create your own fun video clips.
Hulu lets you enjoy your favorite videos at websites where you are already spending your time online. Visit our partner sites: AOL, Comcast, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo, to view the same selection of premium programming available at Hulu.com. Each partner features content in its own customized video player to provide a seamless viewing experience on their sites.
More at:http://www.hulu.com/
Hulu's ambitious and never-ending mission is to help you find and enjoy the world's premium content when, where and how you want it. They hope to provide you with the web's most comprehensive selection of premium programming across all genres and formats – television shows, feature films, clips, and more. Additionally, they want to give you more choices of when and where you can enjoy your favorite programming, while creating innovative experiences that let you watch and participate in online video in new and exciting ways.
For now, videos are available for streaming from the U.S. only. Their intention is to make Hulu's growing content lineup available worldwide and will continue to work with our content partners to clear rights internationally to make great programming available across the globe.
How It Works:
At Hulu, you'll find a vast selection of premium programming across all genres and content types including hit shows, movies, clips and more.
Hulu offers current primetime shows like The Office, Prison Break, Bionic Woman, House and Bones, and episodes from TV classics like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Miami Vice, Arrested Development and more. We've also partnered with premier content owners like E! Entertainment, FUEL TV, SciFi Network and USA Networks to add to our growing collection of premium programming.
Hulu is designed with a singular focus on providing an exceptional, online video viewing experience. You can customize the experience to fit your viewing preferences - watch videos in full screen, or pop out the video player and place it anywhere on your computer screen and re-size it if you're multi-tasking. You can even dim the lights and mute the rest of the browser window so nothing distracts you from the video you're watching.
Hulu lets you easily share your favorite videos via email or embed them on your own website. You can even choose to share the entire video or just one scene. By selecting the share or embed feature, you have the option of selecting your own start and stop point in a video to create your own fun video clips.
Hulu lets you enjoy your favorite videos at websites where you are already spending your time online. Visit our partner sites: AOL, Comcast, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo, to view the same selection of premium programming available at Hulu.com. Each partner features content in its own customized video player to provide a seamless viewing experience on their sites.
More at:http://www.hulu.com/
Zivity, a company creating a new category of subscription-based social networking has raised $7 million in Series B
What Company Is Offering:
Zivity empowers women to feel their most beautiful and comfortable. With helpful guides on makeup, hair, and photo shoots, Zivity is the place to unleash your inner model. They offer cool social tools to track your fans, tally your votes, share your photos with friends, and even collect royalties.Zivity’s collection of models from every walk of life is uncensored, advertising-free, and different from online photo sites because you can actually interact with the real models and photographers you’re voting for. Connect with stars, become a top fan, and chat with photographers about upcoming photo shoots with new models.
How It Works:
Zivity pay $10 per month and distribute 40 percent of their subscription fee to the participating models and photographers via Zivity’s innovative dollar-backed voting system. Each vote cast delivers cash to the content creators.
Your profile on Zivity is a portfolio of your work showcasing your beauty. You get to create your very own social magazine of your hottest images.
You and your favorite photographer get together and make a photo set – starring you! A photo set ranges from 15-35 photographs. In these photos, we want to see who YOU are and we want that personality of yours to shine. What the pictures look like and what you are wearing is entirely up to you! Tell a story, because the photograph, frame by frame, is your stage.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Zivity, a company creating a new category of subscription-based social networking for the 18 and over market, has raised $7 million in Series B financing from venture capital firms BlueRun Ventures and Founders Fund.
John Malloy, partner and a founder of BlueRun Ventures, and Luke Nosek, managing partner at Founders Fund, will join Zivity co-founders Scott Banister, Cyan Banister and Jeffrey Wescott on the company’s board of directors.
More at:http://zivity.com/
Zivity empowers women to feel their most beautiful and comfortable. With helpful guides on makeup, hair, and photo shoots, Zivity is the place to unleash your inner model. They offer cool social tools to track your fans, tally your votes, share your photos with friends, and even collect royalties.Zivity’s collection of models from every walk of life is uncensored, advertising-free, and different from online photo sites because you can actually interact with the real models and photographers you’re voting for. Connect with stars, become a top fan, and chat with photographers about upcoming photo shoots with new models.
How It Works:
Zivity pay $10 per month and distribute 40 percent of their subscription fee to the participating models and photographers via Zivity’s innovative dollar-backed voting system. Each vote cast delivers cash to the content creators.
Your profile on Zivity is a portfolio of your work showcasing your beauty. You get to create your very own social magazine of your hottest images.
You and your favorite photographer get together and make a photo set – starring you! A photo set ranges from 15-35 photographs. In these photos, we want to see who YOU are and we want that personality of yours to shine. What the pictures look like and what you are wearing is entirely up to you! Tell a story, because the photograph, frame by frame, is your stage.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Zivity, a company creating a new category of subscription-based social networking for the 18 and over market, has raised $7 million in Series B financing from venture capital firms BlueRun Ventures and Founders Fund.
John Malloy, partner and a founder of BlueRun Ventures, and Luke Nosek, managing partner at Founders Fund, will join Zivity co-founders Scott Banister, Cyan Banister and Jeffrey Wescott on the company’s board of directors.
More at:http://zivity.com/
TeachStreet Inc., a Seattle-based online marketplace for teaching and coaching services, has raised $2.25 million in Series A funding
What Company Is Offering:
Their goal is to encourage life-long learning by connecting inquiring minds with inspiring instructors via an insanely easy-to-use website. They’re creating an effortless way for curious folks to find great local instructors (whether they want to learn photography or square dancing!), and for teachers to find motivated students.
They hope that by making it easy to connect learners and teachers, in their own small way they can help build stronger communities and contribute to smarter and more interesting humans out there in the world.
How Much They Got From VCs:
TeachStreet Inc., a Seattle-based online marketplace for teaching and coaching services, has raised $2.25 million in Series A funding led by Madrona Venture Group, according to a regulatory filing.
Who Is Backing Them:
Dave Schappell | President & CEO
Dave focuses on developing the product vision, building the team and making TeachStreet an inspirational place to accomplish great things.
Dave developed his experience creating customer-focused marketplace initiatives at Amazon, JibJab and Unitus. He has deep experience in online marketing, search engine optimization (SEO), affiliate marketing, and high-impact public relations– yes, he spends a LOT of time online. As a Director at Amazon.com from '98-'04, he was a driving force in the emergence of the marketplace platform (used and new product sales by third-party merchants) that grew from 0% to more than 24% of Amazon’s unit sales today.
Prior to joining Amazon, Dave was a CPA and consultant with Arthur Andersen LLP. Dave attended the MBA program at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and has a BS from the Pennsylvania State University.
2.Fred Sadaghiani | Chief Technology Officer
Fred manages the team of mad technical geniuses building the TeachStreet experience.
Fred has extensive experience building large-scale, consumer-facing web applications at both Zillow (where he was Product Team Lead) and Amazon (where he was a software engineer). In addition to his experiences building user-friendly Web 2.0 products, his background includes years of experience developing real-time marketplace systems, including services and applications for information retrieval, knowledge representation and data mining.
Fred (barely) graduated from the University of Toronto with a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics.
More at:http://www.teachstreet.com/
Their goal is to encourage life-long learning by connecting inquiring minds with inspiring instructors via an insanely easy-to-use website. They’re creating an effortless way for curious folks to find great local instructors (whether they want to learn photography or square dancing!), and for teachers to find motivated students.
They hope that by making it easy to connect learners and teachers, in their own small way they can help build stronger communities and contribute to smarter and more interesting humans out there in the world.
How Much They Got From VCs:
TeachStreet Inc., a Seattle-based online marketplace for teaching and coaching services, has raised $2.25 million in Series A funding led by Madrona Venture Group, according to a regulatory filing.
Who Is Backing Them:
Dave Schappell | President & CEO
Dave focuses on developing the product vision, building the team and making TeachStreet an inspirational place to accomplish great things.
Dave developed his experience creating customer-focused marketplace initiatives at Amazon, JibJab and Unitus. He has deep experience in online marketing, search engine optimization (SEO), affiliate marketing, and high-impact public relations– yes, he spends a LOT of time online. As a Director at Amazon.com from '98-'04, he was a driving force in the emergence of the marketplace platform (used and new product sales by third-party merchants) that grew from 0% to more than 24% of Amazon’s unit sales today.
Prior to joining Amazon, Dave was a CPA and consultant with Arthur Andersen LLP. Dave attended the MBA program at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and has a BS from the Pennsylvania State University.
2.Fred Sadaghiani | Chief Technology Officer
Fred manages the team of mad technical geniuses building the TeachStreet experience.
Fred has extensive experience building large-scale, consumer-facing web applications at both Zillow (where he was Product Team Lead) and Amazon (where he was a software engineer). In addition to his experiences building user-friendly Web 2.0 products, his background includes years of experience developing real-time marketplace systems, including services and applications for information retrieval, knowledge representation and data mining.
Fred (barely) graduated from the University of Toronto with a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics.
More at:http://www.teachstreet.com/
Universal Ad, Inc., a leading provider of highly innovative retail Advertising, Marketing and Promotions software and service solutions got$8.5 m
What Company Is Offering:
Universal Ad provides retailers, wholesalers, advertising agencies and printers with highly innovative advertising, marketing and promotions software and service solutions. The On Demand Promotions Suite is the first system to automate and integrate the planning, management and production of retail ad campaigns, helping our customers significantly reduce both time-to-market and operational costs. The patented technology enables the creation of a virtually unlimited number of ad versions, as well as their instant reuse across all media channels, including print, online and in-store.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Universal Ad, Inc., a leading provider of highly innovative retail Advertising, Marketing and Promotions software and service solutions, announced the completion of $8.5 million in Round B financing. The funding will help support new customer deployments, further advance the company's patented ad production automation technology and drive expanded sales and marketing activities.
How It Will Help Companies:
"Universal Ad's product suite allows the company to position itself as a leading player in the market for cross-channel advertising automation solutions for retailers, wholesalers, ad agencies and printers. The rapid growth in the number of multi-channel promotional ad campaigns ensures that automating the ad planning and production process is quickly becoming a must-have for these companies," said Elisheva Yakobovich, Partner at Vertex Venture Capital. "Their unique technology solves a critical pain point for these companies when it comes to planning, managing and producing their ads and other promotional materials across multiple channels, including print, online, digital signage, Point of Sale and mobile,."
About VCs:
1.Vertex Venture Capital is a unique top-tier Israeli VC with $600 million under management, a strong international investor base, an experienced multi-disciplinary team of professionals and an impressive track record of exits through M&A and IPO. Vertex provides unparalleled possibilities for companies in facilitating potential growth, business opportunities and leveraging synergies throughout Israel, Europe, USA, Japan and Asia. Vertex invests in Israeli and Israel-related companies in early stages of development in information networking and communications systems, software and components, digital media and enterprise software.
For more about Vertex, http://www.vertexvc.com .
2.Walden Israel is Israel's top-performing venture capital fund of its vintage. Focusing on fields of communications and IT, the Walden Israel investment team has funded more than 40 early-stage start-ups to date. Its most recent exits include Passave (NASDAQ: PMCS), nLayers (NYSE:EMC), Ex Libris (acquired by Francisco Partners) and Mellanox (NASDAQ: MLNX).
For additional information about Walden, please visit www.walden.co.il .
3.Western Technology Investment (WTI) specializes in venture lending, providing debt financing to venture-backed technology and life science companies. WTI's recently closed 12(th) fund builds upon the success of the firm's 28-year history, which featured portfolio companies such as Juniper Networks, Brocade Communications Systems, Google, Cerent, Infoseek, IDEC Pharmaceuticals, Facebook, IronPort Systems, Volcano Corporation, and many others.
For more: www.westerntech.com
More at: www.universal-ad.com
Universal Ad provides retailers, wholesalers, advertising agencies and printers with highly innovative advertising, marketing and promotions software and service solutions. The On Demand Promotions Suite is the first system to automate and integrate the planning, management and production of retail ad campaigns, helping our customers significantly reduce both time-to-market and operational costs. The patented technology enables the creation of a virtually unlimited number of ad versions, as well as their instant reuse across all media channels, including print, online and in-store.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Universal Ad, Inc., a leading provider of highly innovative retail Advertising, Marketing and Promotions software and service solutions, announced the completion of $8.5 million in Round B financing. The funding will help support new customer deployments, further advance the company's patented ad production automation technology and drive expanded sales and marketing activities.
How It Will Help Companies:
"Universal Ad's product suite allows the company to position itself as a leading player in the market for cross-channel advertising automation solutions for retailers, wholesalers, ad agencies and printers. The rapid growth in the number of multi-channel promotional ad campaigns ensures that automating the ad planning and production process is quickly becoming a must-have for these companies," said Elisheva Yakobovich, Partner at Vertex Venture Capital. "Their unique technology solves a critical pain point for these companies when it comes to planning, managing and producing their ads and other promotional materials across multiple channels, including print, online, digital signage, Point of Sale and mobile,."
About VCs:
1.Vertex Venture Capital is a unique top-tier Israeli VC with $600 million under management, a strong international investor base, an experienced multi-disciplinary team of professionals and an impressive track record of exits through M&A and IPO. Vertex provides unparalleled possibilities for companies in facilitating potential growth, business opportunities and leveraging synergies throughout Israel, Europe, USA, Japan and Asia. Vertex invests in Israeli and Israel-related companies in early stages of development in information networking and communications systems, software and components, digital media and enterprise software.
For more about Vertex, http://www.vertexvc.com .
2.Walden Israel is Israel's top-performing venture capital fund of its vintage. Focusing on fields of communications and IT, the Walden Israel investment team has funded more than 40 early-stage start-ups to date. Its most recent exits include Passave (NASDAQ: PMCS), nLayers (NYSE:EMC), Ex Libris (acquired by Francisco Partners) and Mellanox (NASDAQ: MLNX).
For additional information about Walden, please visit www.walden.co.il .
3.Western Technology Investment (WTI) specializes in venture lending, providing debt financing to venture-backed technology and life science companies. WTI's recently closed 12(th) fund builds upon the success of the firm's 28-year history, which featured portfolio companies such as Juniper Networks, Brocade Communications Systems, Google, Cerent, Infoseek, IDEC Pharmaceuticals, Facebook, IronPort Systems, Volcano Corporation, and many others.
For more: www.westerntech.com
More at: www.universal-ad.com
Motorola Ventures announced a strategic investment in Quantum SPA, a leading provider of portable media mobility players
What Company Is Offering:
1.Motorola is known around the world for innovation in communications. The company develops technologies, products and services that make mobile experiences possible. Our portfolio includes communications infrastructure, enterprise mobility solutions, digital set-tops, cable modems, mobile devices and Bluetooth accessories. Motorola is committed to delivering next generation communication solutions to people, businesses and governments. A Fortune 100 company with global presence and impact, Motorola had sales of US $36.6 billion in 2007. http://www.motorola.com .
2.Quantum develops innovative multimedia digital devices and Software for the up-coming mobile entertainment market. The Quantum DVB-H Portable TV Media Players have been adopted as a reference standard by major Pay-TV Broadcasters and MNOs for trial services worldwide. Based in Milan, Italy, with a product range that focuses on Mobile and Personal TV, Quantum has the objective to make it simple to consumers to enjoy the preferred video entertainment content "anywhere", "anytime", and "media independent". For more information, please visit http://www.qtm.it .
About VCs Deal:
Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) through Motorola Ventures, its strategic venture capital arm announced a strategic investment in Quantum SPA, a leading provider of portable media mobility players. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed.
"As the Mobile TV market continues to grow significantly, Motorola is committed to supporting innovative companies, such as Quantum, that strive to seamlessly deliver multimedia digital content to consumers on the go," said John O'Donohue, managing director, Motorola Ventures. "Motorola will leverage its relationship with Quantum to enable Pay TV Broadcasters and Mobile Network Operators to offer their subscribers compelling services leveraging the convergence of Mobile TV."
1.Motorola is known around the world for innovation in communications. The company develops technologies, products and services that make mobile experiences possible. Our portfolio includes communications infrastructure, enterprise mobility solutions, digital set-tops, cable modems, mobile devices and Bluetooth accessories. Motorola is committed to delivering next generation communication solutions to people, businesses and governments. A Fortune 100 company with global presence and impact, Motorola had sales of US $36.6 billion in 2007. http://www.motorola.com .
2.Quantum develops innovative multimedia digital devices and Software for the up-coming mobile entertainment market. The Quantum DVB-H Portable TV Media Players have been adopted as a reference standard by major Pay-TV Broadcasters and MNOs for trial services worldwide. Based in Milan, Italy, with a product range that focuses on Mobile and Personal TV, Quantum has the objective to make it simple to consumers to enjoy the preferred video entertainment content "anywhere", "anytime", and "media independent". For more information, please visit http://www.qtm.it .
About VCs Deal:
Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) through Motorola Ventures, its strategic venture capital arm announced a strategic investment in Quantum SPA, a leading provider of portable media mobility players. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed.
"As the Mobile TV market continues to grow significantly, Motorola is committed to supporting innovative companies, such as Quantum, that strive to seamlessly deliver multimedia digital content to consumers on the go," said John O'Donohue, managing director, Motorola Ventures. "Motorola will leverage its relationship with Quantum to enable Pay TV Broadcasters and Mobile Network Operators to offer their subscribers compelling services leveraging the convergence of Mobile TV."
Drop.io--The simple private exchange platform got $2.7M Series A-1 financing
What Company Is Offering:
Drop.io allows consumers to create their own private online spaces where they can easily share photos, videos, documents, and other types of media with others. By default, drops are "private" -- consumers control how and with whom drops are shared. Drop.io never requires any type of account registration, and all drops can be password-protected and set to expire after a period of time.
How It Works:
Drop.io provides multiple methods of sharing content -- by uploading through the Web site, sending email or MMS messages to the drop email address, faxing assets in and out, or by calling the drop voicemail number to leave a voice notes. The service is used by an incredibly wide range of users ranging from mothers sharing baby photos to large companies using 'drops' as collaborative workspace.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Drop.io, Inc. , the simple private exchange platform, announced that it closed a $2.7M Series A-1 financing led by New York venture capital firms DFJ Gotham and RRE Ventures. The capital will be used to support Drop.io's continued infrastructure and engineering team growth, as well as some expanded marketing efforts. Jed Katz, Managing Director of DFJ Gotham, will be joining Stuart Ellman, Managing Partner at RRE Ventures, Andrew Weinreich, founder of Sixdegrees.com and CEO of Meetmoi, and Sam Lessin and Darshan Somashekar, the founders of Drop.io, on the Board of Directors.
About VCs:
1.
RRE Ventures has been dedicated to helping talented management teams build leading companies in the software, communications, and financial services industries. With $850 million in assets, the firm backs entrepreneurs and management teams that possess the knowledge, vision, and discipline to create market-dominating companies. RRE's team offers a unique combination of management, operations, and investment expertise, as well as an unrivaled network of relationships that has helped build over ninety companies. For more information, visit: www.rre.com
2.
DFJ Gotham Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in New York City focused primarily on investments in information technology startups based in the Northeast U.S. and Israel. The firm partners with extraordinary teams of entrepreneurs to build strong and successful businesses that make a huge impact in their industries. DFJ Gotham takes pride in being an active partner, leveraging our experience, knowledge and relationships to provide substantial value to our portfolio companies. DFJ Gotham is part of the Draper Fisher Jurvetson Global Network, the largest venture capital network in the world.
More at:http://drop.io
Drop.io allows consumers to create their own private online spaces where they can easily share photos, videos, documents, and other types of media with others. By default, drops are "private" -- consumers control how and with whom drops are shared. Drop.io never requires any type of account registration, and all drops can be password-protected and set to expire after a period of time.
How It Works:
Drop.io provides multiple methods of sharing content -- by uploading through the Web site, sending email or MMS messages to the drop email address, faxing assets in and out, or by calling the drop voicemail number to leave a voice notes. The service is used by an incredibly wide range of users ranging from mothers sharing baby photos to large companies using 'drops' as collaborative workspace.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Drop.io, Inc. , the simple private exchange platform, announced that it closed a $2.7M Series A-1 financing led by New York venture capital firms DFJ Gotham and RRE Ventures. The capital will be used to support Drop.io's continued infrastructure and engineering team growth, as well as some expanded marketing efforts. Jed Katz, Managing Director of DFJ Gotham, will be joining Stuart Ellman, Managing Partner at RRE Ventures, Andrew Weinreich, founder of Sixdegrees.com and CEO of Meetmoi, and Sam Lessin and Darshan Somashekar, the founders of Drop.io, on the Board of Directors.
About VCs:
1.
RRE Ventures has been dedicated to helping talented management teams build leading companies in the software, communications, and financial services industries. With $850 million in assets, the firm backs entrepreneurs and management teams that possess the knowledge, vision, and discipline to create market-dominating companies. RRE's team offers a unique combination of management, operations, and investment expertise, as well as an unrivaled network of relationships that has helped build over ninety companies. For more information, visit: www.rre.com
2.
DFJ Gotham Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in New York City focused primarily on investments in information technology startups based in the Northeast U.S. and Israel. The firm partners with extraordinary teams of entrepreneurs to build strong and successful businesses that make a huge impact in their industries. DFJ Gotham takes pride in being an active partner, leveraging our experience, knowledge and relationships to provide substantial value to our portfolio companies. DFJ Gotham is part of the Draper Fisher Jurvetson Global Network, the largest venture capital network in the world.
More at:http://drop.io
Edmodo is a brand new company creating free online tools for the education
What Company is Offering:
Edmodo is a brand new company creating free online tools for the education community. The first tool they are building is a communications tool for Schools, Teachers, Students, and parents for use in the classroom.
More at:http://www.edmodo.com/
Edmodo is a brand new company creating free online tools for the education community. The first tool they are building is a communications tool for Schools, Teachers, Students, and parents for use in the classroom.
More at:http://www.edmodo.com/
Zoomabet connects people from around the world with the shared passion to bet on life
What Company Is Offering:
Zoomabet connects people from around the world with the shared passion to bet on life. Zoomabet allows people to actually prove themselves when they say, “I bet you that…” without risking any actual money. Through Zoomabet, people simultaneously stay up-to-date with current events from around the world and their friends’ lives in a fun and engaging atmosphere.
How It Works:
Zoomabet allows people with common interests from across the world to interact in an exciting and unique way: betting on the future!
When bets close, Zoomabet uses a secure procedure to fairly determine the winners. If a dispute over the results arises, elected Judges determine the bets’ final outcome, distinguishing Zoomabet from other betting platforms.
Everyone can join Zoomabet. Because the members create the bets, it is guaranteed that there is something for everyone to bet on. People can bet on the weather, award shows, elections, sports events, and even whether or not their friends will pass their driving tests.
Zoomabet is also an online social community. Members can share photos and communicate with other members via live chat and messaging.
More at:More at:http://www.zoomabet.com/
Zoomabet connects people from around the world with the shared passion to bet on life. Zoomabet allows people to actually prove themselves when they say, “I bet you that…” without risking any actual money. Through Zoomabet, people simultaneously stay up-to-date with current events from around the world and their friends’ lives in a fun and engaging atmosphere.
How It Works:
Zoomabet allows people with common interests from across the world to interact in an exciting and unique way: betting on the future!
When bets close, Zoomabet uses a secure procedure to fairly determine the winners. If a dispute over the results arises, elected Judges determine the bets’ final outcome, distinguishing Zoomabet from other betting platforms.
Everyone can join Zoomabet. Because the members create the bets, it is guaranteed that there is something for everyone to bet on. People can bet on the weather, award shows, elections, sports events, and even whether or not their friends will pass their driving tests.
Zoomabet is also an online social community. Members can share photos and communicate with other members via live chat and messaging.
More at:More at:http://www.zoomabet.com/
Jigjak----Discover The Best Of Web
What Company Is Offering:
Relevant Web content can be difficult to locate among the mountain of sub-standard content. JigJak eliminates this problem by combining social bookmarking, blogging, RSS and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control. All the sites listed on JigJak have been reviewed, recommended and rated by users just like you based on innovations, usefulness and creativity. The fact is, humans can determine the best sites better than computers or algorithms.
How it Works:
JigJak membership is free of charge and you can:
Import and store your browser bookmarks on JigJak from your home or work PC and access them from anywhere.
Their Browser bookmarklet let's you easily tag a website while browsing the web with just one click.
Add recommended mobile sites to your "favorites" and view this list from your mobile phone.
Use a powerful search engine that returns results based on keywords, user rating, popularity and tag, which makes searching for relevant content a breeze.
Use the Social Network: Allows you to have a personal album of pictures, videos from youTube, a list of friends, a public wall for messages(scraps) , create/belong to communities and much much more. You will be able to easily make social connections with other individuals interested in just about any topic by adding them to your network.
More at: http://www.jigjak.com/
Relevant Web content can be difficult to locate among the mountain of sub-standard content. JigJak eliminates this problem by combining social bookmarking, blogging, RSS and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control. All the sites listed on JigJak have been reviewed, recommended and rated by users just like you based on innovations, usefulness and creativity. The fact is, humans can determine the best sites better than computers or algorithms.
How it Works:
JigJak membership is free of charge and you can:
Import and store your browser bookmarks on JigJak from your home or work PC and access them from anywhere.
Their Browser bookmarklet let's you easily tag a website while browsing the web with just one click.
Add recommended mobile sites to your "favorites" and view this list from your mobile phone.
Use a powerful search engine that returns results based on keywords, user rating, popularity and tag, which makes searching for relevant content a breeze.
Use the Social Network: Allows you to have a personal album of pictures, videos from youTube, a list of friends, a public wall for messages(scraps) , create/belong to communities and much much more. You will be able to easily make social connections with other individuals interested in just about any topic by adding them to your network.
More at: http://www.jigjak.com/
lunchn.com ---"Where are we going for lunch?"
What Company Is Offering:
lunchn.com helps provide an answer to the question that you and your friends ask each other almost every single day. "Where are we going for lunch?".
How It Works:
Search your local area for existing lunch locations. If you do not find the restaurants that you enjoy for lunch, feel free to add the restaurant yourself! Others who visit lunchn.com in your area will see the restaurants that you have added, and will have the option to add it to their own groups for voting!lunchn.com now includes a mobile version for members to vote for lunch on the go!
Every day that you log in and vote on what you want for lunch that day, you will earn a point which you may spend in our Contest Area for chances to win great prizes for you and your lunch crew! Send your friends and favorite restaurants to lunchn.com, and earn more points to spend on contests!
More at:http://www.lunchn.com/
lunchn.com helps provide an answer to the question that you and your friends ask each other almost every single day. "Where are we going for lunch?".
How It Works:
Search your local area for existing lunch locations. If you do not find the restaurants that you enjoy for lunch, feel free to add the restaurant yourself! Others who visit lunchn.com in your area will see the restaurants that you have added, and will have the option to add it to their own groups for voting!lunchn.com now includes a mobile version for members to vote for lunch on the go!
Every day that you log in and vote on what you want for lunch that day, you will earn a point which you may spend in our Contest Area for chances to win great prizes for you and your lunch crew! Send your friends and favorite restaurants to lunchn.com, and earn more points to spend on contests!
More at:http://www.lunchn.com/
all-rankings.com---enables its users to create, vote and share all kinds of rankings with the community
What Company Says:
Anything can be ranked. That is the premise that lies at the heart of all-rankings.com
Founded in February 2008, all-rankings enables its users to create, vote and share all kinds of rankings with the community. Everyone can do rankings ... and about anything! Share experiences, preferences and knowledge with other rankers.
How It Works:
They provide you, a space where you can create all the rankings about whatever you want, but also, you can vote on other rankings, make comments with other rankers , create your favorite groups, discusss with other users and meet other people different from you.
This project aims to create a space for recreation and dialogue between different rankers, beyond a simple social network. Here, the hobbies and preferences are shared directly and this allows you to have fun and learn.
More at:http://www.all-rankings.com/
Anything can be ranked. That is the premise that lies at the heart of all-rankings.com
Founded in February 2008, all-rankings enables its users to create, vote and share all kinds of rankings with the community. Everyone can do rankings ... and about anything! Share experiences, preferences and knowledge with other rankers.
How It Works:
They provide you, a space where you can create all the rankings about whatever you want, but also, you can vote on other rankings, make comments with other rankers , create your favorite groups, discusss with other users and meet other people different from you.
This project aims to create a space for recreation and dialogue between different rankers, beyond a simple social network. Here, the hobbies and preferences are shared directly and this allows you to have fun and learn.
More at:http://www.all-rankings.com/
Woopra is a robust web-tracking & analysis tool that works perfectly on any website
What Company Is Offering:
Woopra is a robust web-tracking & analysis tool that works perfectly on any website. It is mainly targeted for small to medium websites ranging from few hundreds up to tens of thousands of daily page views.
Essentially, it is targeted for blogs interested in the most minuscule details of every single action. In addition, Woopra provides a precise real-time streaming of every single activity on the website.
Woopra also features a clean interface, including many graphical visualization components, such as charts, maps, panels… Along with many other clean and advanced options that make Woopra an ideal solution for webmasters who desire to discern all the aspects of their website.
How It Works:
Simply create an account, and you will be able to add/remove websites from the members’ area. For each website you add, you will be given a small JavaScript code to place on your website. For further details on how to insert the code on your website, refer to the installation guide in your account page.
Note that during the beta period, you might have to wait for our approval after adding a website.
If you remove a website from your account, make sure to remove the code from the website as well, because this can slow down the load time of your pages.
More at:http://www.woopra.com/
Woopra is a robust web-tracking & analysis tool that works perfectly on any website. It is mainly targeted for small to medium websites ranging from few hundreds up to tens of thousands of daily page views.
Essentially, it is targeted for blogs interested in the most minuscule details of every single action. In addition, Woopra provides a precise real-time streaming of every single activity on the website.
Woopra also features a clean interface, including many graphical visualization components, such as charts, maps, panels… Along with many other clean and advanced options that make Woopra an ideal solution for webmasters who desire to discern all the aspects of their website.
How It Works:
Simply create an account, and you will be able to add/remove websites from the members’ area. For each website you add, you will be given a small JavaScript code to place on your website. For further details on how to insert the code on your website, refer to the installation guide in your account page.
Note that during the beta period, you might have to wait for our approval after adding a website.
If you remove a website from your account, make sure to remove the code from the website as well, because this can slow down the load time of your pages.
More at:http://www.woopra.com/
Monday, March 10, 2008
Unique Business Idea---Data travels through the user's clothing
Telecom giant Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) is planning a commercial launch of a system to enter rooms that frees users from the trouble of rummaging in their pockets or handbags for ID cards or keys.
It uses technology to turn the surface of the human body itself into a means of data transmission.
As data travels through the user's clothing, handbag or shoes, anyone carrying a special card can unlock the door simply by touching the knob or standing on a particular spot without taking the card out.
"In everyday life, you're always touching things. Even if you are standing, you are stepping on something," research engineer Mitsuru Shinagawa told AFP.
"These simple touches can result in communication," said Shinagawa, senior research engineer at the company's NTT Microsystem Integration Laboratories.
He said future applications could include a walk-through ticket gate, a cabinet that opens only to authorised people and a television control that automatically chooses favourite programmes.
The system also improves security. It ensures that only drivers can open their cars by touching the doors if the keys are in their pockets, not people around them.
NTT has already developed technology that allows swapping data as heavy as motion pictures through a handshake, although it has not been put into commercial use.
NTT Electronics Corp., a group company, plans to start sales of the room-entry system in the coming months, probably in the spring, said NTT business creation official Toshiaki Asahi.
It will be the world's first commercial application of human body communication using electric fields, rather than sending electric currents into the human body, according to NTT.
"There is demand for hands-free entry as there are workplaces where you always have your hands occupied or can't touch things for hygiene or medical reasons. In some factories it's simply dangerous to dangle something from your neck," Asahi said.
The price is yet to be announced but will be "a bit pricier" than the conventional IC card system, he said, adding the group expects to start only with a limited market.
Full Text:http://www.physorg.com/news122793751.html
It uses technology to turn the surface of the human body itself into a means of data transmission.
As data travels through the user's clothing, handbag or shoes, anyone carrying a special card can unlock the door simply by touching the knob or standing on a particular spot without taking the card out.
"In everyday life, you're always touching things. Even if you are standing, you are stepping on something," research engineer Mitsuru Shinagawa told AFP.
"These simple touches can result in communication," said Shinagawa, senior research engineer at the company's NTT Microsystem Integration Laboratories.
He said future applications could include a walk-through ticket gate, a cabinet that opens only to authorised people and a television control that automatically chooses favourite programmes.
The system also improves security. It ensures that only drivers can open their cars by touching the doors if the keys are in their pockets, not people around them.
NTT has already developed technology that allows swapping data as heavy as motion pictures through a handshake, although it has not been put into commercial use.
NTT Electronics Corp., a group company, plans to start sales of the room-entry system in the coming months, probably in the spring, said NTT business creation official Toshiaki Asahi.
It will be the world's first commercial application of human body communication using electric fields, rather than sending electric currents into the human body, according to NTT.
"There is demand for hands-free entry as there are workplaces where you always have your hands occupied or can't touch things for hygiene or medical reasons. In some factories it's simply dangerous to dangle something from your neck," Asahi said.
The price is yet to be announced but will be "a bit pricier" than the conventional IC card system, he said, adding the group expects to start only with a limited market.
Full Text:http://www.physorg.com/news122793751.html
Diferior is a multi-purpose content management system, meaning that it provides all the necessary tools to easily publish and organize your content
What Company Is Offering:
Diferior is a flexible, customizable, both user and developer-friendly open-source, multi-purpose PHP content management system.
How It Works;
Diferior is a multi-purpose content management system, meaning that it provides all the necessary tools to easily publish and organize your content.It is capable of distributing files via BitTorrent, HTTP and FTP protocols, has inbuilt forums, a sophisticated user system and many many more features that each can be tweaked, customized or disabled altogether.
You can run torrent trackers, blogs, forums and other community-based sites with it.
More at:http://diferior.com/
Diferior is a flexible, customizable, both user and developer-friendly open-source, multi-purpose PHP content management system.
How It Works;
Diferior is a multi-purpose content management system, meaning that it provides all the necessary tools to easily publish and organize your content.It is capable of distributing files via BitTorrent, HTTP and FTP protocols, has inbuilt forums, a sophisticated user system and many many more features that each can be tweaked, customized or disabled altogether.
You can run torrent trackers, blogs, forums and other community-based sites with it.
More at:http://diferior.com/
Anonymous Employee---To fill the communication gap that exists in most workplaces
What Company Is Offering:
Anonymous Employee was created to fill the communication gap that exists in most workplaces. They provide employees and employers an opportunity to discuss issues that affect productivity and morale. When issues such as sexual harassment, bullying, or discrimination, affect your workplace, speak out early before the problem grows too large. They are here to help both employer and employee resolve concerns.
How It Works:
They provide you with an opportunity to express yourself without taking the risk you normally would by sticking up your hand and openly raising issues. Let's face it, there is a time and a place for everything. Sometimes the time is now, and the place is an anonymous forum. Often, they know what changes need to be made in order to create a better company and a happier work environment. It is up to you to communicate those needs to your employer.
The mission of Anonymous Employee is to assist and facilitate the discussion and resolution of concerns in the workplace. They provide a method to help reduce fraud, improve health and safety, increase communication, improve morale, increase productivity and lower turnover.
Anonymous Employee can provide your company with a complete Employee Assistance Program including a powerful online communication process, a state of the art call centre solution, professional mediation services, a Sarbanes-Oxley solution, and professional counseling for employees who are seeking assistance. They are dedicated to helping provide you with the resources, services, and information you need to be successful.
More at:http://www.anonymousemployee.com/
Anonymous Employee was created to fill the communication gap that exists in most workplaces. They provide employees and employers an opportunity to discuss issues that affect productivity and morale. When issues such as sexual harassment, bullying, or discrimination, affect your workplace, speak out early before the problem grows too large. They are here to help both employer and employee resolve concerns.
How It Works:
They provide you with an opportunity to express yourself without taking the risk you normally would by sticking up your hand and openly raising issues. Let's face it, there is a time and a place for everything. Sometimes the time is now, and the place is an anonymous forum. Often, they know what changes need to be made in order to create a better company and a happier work environment. It is up to you to communicate those needs to your employer.
The mission of Anonymous Employee is to assist and facilitate the discussion and resolution of concerns in the workplace. They provide a method to help reduce fraud, improve health and safety, increase communication, improve morale, increase productivity and lower turnover.
Anonymous Employee can provide your company with a complete Employee Assistance Program including a powerful online communication process, a state of the art call centre solution, professional mediation services, a Sarbanes-Oxley solution, and professional counseling for employees who are seeking assistance. They are dedicated to helping provide you with the resources, services, and information you need to be successful.
More at:http://www.anonymousemployee.com/
Entriq develops and manages Pay Media infrastructure,has acquired DayPort,a company that deals with video publishing, content
What Company Is Offering:
Entriq develops and manages Pay Media infrastructure. Their goal is to provide enabling technology and services that expand the business opportunities for Pay Media. They've been doing that successfully, with their IBS system, for more than 20 years in broadcast, cable, and satellite. Now theye're doing it for broadband, Internet TV, and mobile.
How It Works:
MediaSphere from Entriq is the only all-in-one pay media solution that makes turning your content into cash as simple as DragDropSell™. Whether you have movie, music, or sports content you want to sell, we have the technology to securely deliver it to your platform of choice—broadband, mobile, and Internet TV. And we promise you won't lose control of your content in the process.
MediaSphere is the most comprehensive feature-rich pay media solution in the industry. Hands down. We have the proven technology to get your content to market. Fast. And we have the most pay media and video experience in the field. 20 years and counting. That means no more hassling with multiple vendors. No more hidden costs. And no more headaches. Just one solution to help you profit from your media.
MediaSphere can deliver it to the right channel, at the right time. Best of all, they provide an all-in-one solution that covers every aspect of pay media—from content management and security to commerce and tracking. Which means all you have to do is think about the profits.
Recent Updates:
Entriq has acquired DayPort,a company that deals with video publishing, content, work-flow and syndication solutions, for an undisclosed amount. Cory Factor, CEO of DayPort, will be joining Entriq as the company’s new CTO.
More at:
http://www.entriq.com/
Entriq develops and manages Pay Media infrastructure. Their goal is to provide enabling technology and services that expand the business opportunities for Pay Media. They've been doing that successfully, with their IBS system, for more than 20 years in broadcast, cable, and satellite. Now theye're doing it for broadband, Internet TV, and mobile.
How It Works:
MediaSphere from Entriq is the only all-in-one pay media solution that makes turning your content into cash as simple as DragDropSell™. Whether you have movie, music, or sports content you want to sell, we have the technology to securely deliver it to your platform of choice—broadband, mobile, and Internet TV. And we promise you won't lose control of your content in the process.
MediaSphere is the most comprehensive feature-rich pay media solution in the industry. Hands down. We have the proven technology to get your content to market. Fast. And we have the most pay media and video experience in the field. 20 years and counting. That means no more hassling with multiple vendors. No more hidden costs. And no more headaches. Just one solution to help you profit from your media.
MediaSphere can deliver it to the right channel, at the right time. Best of all, they provide an all-in-one solution that covers every aspect of pay media—from content management and security to commerce and tracking. Which means all you have to do is think about the profits.
Recent Updates:
Entriq has acquired DayPort,a company that deals with video publishing, content, work-flow and syndication solutions, for an undisclosed amount. Cory Factor, CEO of DayPort, will be joining Entriq as the company’s new CTO.
More at:
http://www.entriq.com/
Yaplet adds a chat room to every site on the internet
What Company Is Offering:
Yaplet adds a chat room to every site on the internet.
Yaplet requires no installation and no registration.
With the click of a bookmark, you can chat directly with other people viewing the same page as you.
How It Works:
Click on that user's name.
Type your message.
Press ENTER.
When you're done sending private messages, uncheck the Send private message box.
How It Will Be Helpful:
Yaplet can be used to:
Chat with friends, Make new friends ,Build new communities, Find dates Collaborate on group work. Telepresent ,Provide customer service ,Offer real-time support,Educate over distance ,Play games ,Read/write reviews
and more...
More at:http://www.yaplet.com/
Yaplet adds a chat room to every site on the internet.
Yaplet requires no installation and no registration.
With the click of a bookmark, you can chat directly with other people viewing the same page as you.
How It Works:
Click on that user's name.
Type your message.
Press ENTER.
When you're done sending private messages, uncheck the Send private message box.
How It Will Be Helpful:
Yaplet can be used to:
Chat with friends, Make new friends ,Build new communities, Find dates Collaborate on group work. Telepresent ,Provide customer service ,Offer real-time support,Educate over distance ,Play games ,Read/write reviews
and more...
More at:http://www.yaplet.com/
EDGEWEBTV.COM --The Global Real Estate Marketplace
What Company Is Offering:
EDGEWEBTV.COM ,(The Global Real Estate Marketplace). Set in a truly innovative and interactive environment, and through the use of HD-digital quality video presentations, this revolutionary multimedia site has been designed to showcase affluent real estate developments on a global level and capture audiences from around the world.
What Company Says:
“We created EDGE WebTV so we could offer our clients a new international online marketing vehicle that presents a unique opportunity to portray their picturesque virtual presentations globally, says Scott Allcock, President of EDGE Media Group. Now we directly connect an array of spectacular real estate developments with worldwide audiences and international brokers and investors through the use of HD-digital quality video presentations. By making these essential connections, we are instilling valuable emotional connections along with an in-depth look inside various developments with our viewers long before they arrive at our clients sales centers.”
More at:http://www.edgewebtv.com/
EDGEWEBTV.COM ,(The Global Real Estate Marketplace). Set in a truly innovative and interactive environment, and through the use of HD-digital quality video presentations, this revolutionary multimedia site has been designed to showcase affluent real estate developments on a global level and capture audiences from around the world.
What Company Says:
“We created EDGE WebTV so we could offer our clients a new international online marketing vehicle that presents a unique opportunity to portray their picturesque virtual presentations globally, says Scott Allcock, President of EDGE Media Group. Now we directly connect an array of spectacular real estate developments with worldwide audiences and international brokers and investors through the use of HD-digital quality video presentations. By making these essential connections, we are instilling valuable emotional connections along with an in-depth look inside various developments with our viewers long before they arrive at our clients sales centers.”
More at:http://www.edgewebtv.com/
E-Lawyer.com allows attorneys to post articles, qualifications, photos and other important information to their given website
What Company Is Offering:
Conceived as a unique legal directory serving attorneys and their clients, E-Lawyer continually strives to assist attorneys in the business and practice of law.
How It Works:
The free website offered by E-Lawyer.com allows attorneys to post articles, qualifications, photos and other important information to their given website. “We set no limit to the amount of material our members can post. The more useful and meaningful content our attorneys post, the more the public will benefit.” Larsen says. “Attorneys don’t need to use web programmers to create and change their sites. Our interface is so easy to use, anyone, even an attorney, can figure it out.”
Recent Updates:
E-Lawyer.com announces the launch of a landmark package of web services offering attorneys a free and fully functional ad-free website featuring a free “Ask Attorneys” interface, directing potential client inquiries to participating attorneys by state and practice area.
More at:
E-Lawyer Technology Resources
Louis Larsen
772 283 8496
llarsen@e-lawyer.com
www.e-lawyer.com
Conceived as a unique legal directory serving attorneys and their clients, E-Lawyer continually strives to assist attorneys in the business and practice of law.
How It Works:
The free website offered by E-Lawyer.com allows attorneys to post articles, qualifications, photos and other important information to their given website. “We set no limit to the amount of material our members can post. The more useful and meaningful content our attorneys post, the more the public will benefit.” Larsen says. “Attorneys don’t need to use web programmers to create and change their sites. Our interface is so easy to use, anyone, even an attorney, can figure it out.”
Recent Updates:
E-Lawyer.com announces the launch of a landmark package of web services offering attorneys a free and fully functional ad-free website featuring a free “Ask Attorneys” interface, directing potential client inquiries to participating attorneys by state and practice area.
More at:
E-Lawyer Technology Resources
Louis Larsen
772 283 8496
llarsen@e-lawyer.com
www.e-lawyer.com
Geeks On Call Holdings, Inc., a premier national provider of on-site computer service and solutions to small business and residential markets
What Company Is Offering:
TechSectorStocks.com, an investor and industry news portal within the InvestorIdeas.com® content umbrella, does not make recommendations, but offers free investor content including research, news, articles, links, Podcasts and a stock directory for the Tech sector.
Recent Updates:
TechSectorStocks.com, a Technology Stocks Investor Portal within Investorideas.com, announces new technology showcase company, Geeks On Call Holdings, Inc., a premier national provider of on-site computer service and solutions to small business and residential markets. The computer service market is growing globally, with both home and office user trends indicating no signs of this growth slowing down.
With the advent of new technologies for personal computers ranging from social networking to online shopping, users are more and more dependent on their PC to live their daily lives. If their computer has a problem, service that is on-site, affordable and results in minimal disruption is critical.
For business users, distributed workforces and remote access is a growing trend that has resulted from urban growth, compounded by environmental and commuting cost issues. According to a 2007 Gartner report, "The worldwide corporate teleworking population of individuals that spend at least one day a month teleworking from home is expected to show a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.3 percent between 2007 and 2011."
About Geeks On Call Holdings, Inc.:
Geeks On Call America is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Geeks On Call Holdings, Inc. Through its trade names 1-800-905-GEEK and Geeks On Call, the company is a premier national provider of on-site computer service and solutions to small business and residential customers. More Info: Visit the Company Showcase on Investorideas.com or the Company Website.
More at:
TechSectorStocks.com
Dawn Van Zant
800-665-0411
dvanzant@investorideas.com
www.techsectorstocks.com
TechSectorStocks.com, an investor and industry news portal within the InvestorIdeas.com® content umbrella, does not make recommendations, but offers free investor content including research, news, articles, links, Podcasts and a stock directory for the Tech sector.
Recent Updates:
TechSectorStocks.com, a Technology Stocks Investor Portal within Investorideas.com, announces new technology showcase company, Geeks On Call Holdings, Inc., a premier national provider of on-site computer service and solutions to small business and residential markets. The computer service market is growing globally, with both home and office user trends indicating no signs of this growth slowing down.
With the advent of new technologies for personal computers ranging from social networking to online shopping, users are more and more dependent on their PC to live their daily lives. If their computer has a problem, service that is on-site, affordable and results in minimal disruption is critical.
For business users, distributed workforces and remote access is a growing trend that has resulted from urban growth, compounded by environmental and commuting cost issues. According to a 2007 Gartner report, "The worldwide corporate teleworking population of individuals that spend at least one day a month teleworking from home is expected to show a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.3 percent between 2007 and 2011."
About Geeks On Call Holdings, Inc.:
Geeks On Call America is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Geeks On Call Holdings, Inc. Through its trade names 1-800-905-GEEK and Geeks On Call, the company is a premier national provider of on-site computer service and solutions to small business and residential customers. More Info: Visit the Company Showcase on Investorideas.com or the Company Website.
More at:
TechSectorStocks.com
Dawn Van Zant
800-665-0411
dvanzant@investorideas.com
www.techsectorstocks.com
AmericanTowns.com--Unique “community webspace” for each town in America
What Company Is Offering:
AmericanTowns is a national network of community-based websites where residents can find and share local information. For every town in America, AmericanTowns has created a “community webspace” that brings together the nation's most extensive online database of community events, community groups, news, local resources and special tools for organizations. Dedicated to connecting citizens, community organizations and locally-focused businesses and strengthening the bonds of our nation's communities, AmericanTowns has featured more than 10 million community events in the last 12 months, and offers powerful tools to help more than 120,000 listed community organizations interact more effectively with local citizens.
Recent Updates:
AmericanTowns.com raised the bar in the hyperlocal space by launching a new version of AmericanTowns.com. This version, which features a new and unique “community webspace” for each town in America, lets local residents find and share an unprecedented combination of local information: community events, local news, train schedules, charitable organizations, local videos, farmers’ markets, jobs, real estate, privacy protection, “sales and savings,” local services and a host of online and previously offline community resources.
Each “community webspace” is accessible at AmericanTowns.com and features new content, new partners, a new user interface and a new technology framework - all built on AmericanTowns’ established strength in community events and other hyper-local information.
More at:
AmericanTowns.com
Caroline Langley
212-481-2826
cl@leachcommunications.com
www.americantowns.com
AmericanTowns is a national network of community-based websites where residents can find and share local information. For every town in America, AmericanTowns has created a “community webspace” that brings together the nation's most extensive online database of community events, community groups, news, local resources and special tools for organizations. Dedicated to connecting citizens, community organizations and locally-focused businesses and strengthening the bonds of our nation's communities, AmericanTowns has featured more than 10 million community events in the last 12 months, and offers powerful tools to help more than 120,000 listed community organizations interact more effectively with local citizens.
Recent Updates:
AmericanTowns.com raised the bar in the hyperlocal space by launching a new version of AmericanTowns.com. This version, which features a new and unique “community webspace” for each town in America, lets local residents find and share an unprecedented combination of local information: community events, local news, train schedules, charitable organizations, local videos, farmers’ markets, jobs, real estate, privacy protection, “sales and savings,” local services and a host of online and previously offline community resources.
Each “community webspace” is accessible at AmericanTowns.com and features new content, new partners, a new user interface and a new technology framework - all built on AmericanTowns’ established strength in community events and other hyper-local information.
More at:
AmericanTowns.com
Caroline Langley
212-481-2826
cl@leachcommunications.com
www.americantowns.com
Shoetube.tv will be the destination on the web where women will gather to share their passion for shoes
What Company Is Offering:
Shoetube is produced by Powderhouse Productions, their television production (and now new media) company.Shoetube.tv will be the destination on the web where women will gather to share their passion for shoes.
More at:
Shoetube is produced by Powderhouse Productions, their television production (and now new media) company.Shoetube.tv will be the destination on the web where women will gather to share their passion for shoes.
More at:
The Awesome Highlighter allows you to highlight text in a webpage so that when you send a link you can be certain the recipient will know why
What Company Is Offering:
The Awesome Highlighter allows you to highlight text in a webpage so that when you send a link you can be certain the recipient will know why.
How It Works:
steps
1. insert a web page's url above and click the button.
2. select text with your mouse on the following page.
3. click the highlight selected text button.
4. copy the small url in an email, forum or blog.
More at: http://www.awesomehighlighter.com/
The Awesome Highlighter allows you to highlight text in a webpage so that when you send a link you can be certain the recipient will know why.
How It Works:
steps
1. insert a web page's url above and click the button.
2. select text with your mouse on the following page.
3. click the highlight selected text button.
4. copy the small url in an email, forum or blog.
More at: http://www.awesomehighlighter.com/
Testseek’s main purpose is to inform consumers about the quality and performance of products
What Company Is Offering:
Testseek’s main purpose is to inform consumers about the quality and performance of products. Testseek.com is also a gathering place for all kinds of product information that is relevant to consumers. Their vision is to create the ultimate online purchase decision machine.
Testseek.com is actually today the world’s most complete database for expert reviews of consumer related products.
How It works:
They aggregate expert reviews from more than a thousand high quality content web sites. Through their partnerships they also list review information from physical magazines. Their main focus has always been and will always be expert reviews. An unbiased expert review is always preferable next to an user review. There are several reasons for this:
-First, an "expert reviewer" always has greater knowledge and wider experience dealing with products within the field of his expertise. An expert reviewer in the area of digital cameras has often reviewed hundreds of cameras, while a normal consumer only have tested one ore two in detail. Who would you rather listen to?
-Second, we have noticed that regular users often rate products in strange ways. For instance; the submitted rate is often 0/10 or 10/10, i.e. the product either "sucks" or "rules". As an example, we find that users often give a product the rate 0/10 if they received a DOA (Dead On Arrival) product. This is skew because it is very possible that the product is in fact great and the consumer just had a case of bad luck.
User reviews
User reviews give you a picture of the collective experience from other consumers like yourself. We would however like to remind you of that user reviews are seldom as objective and informative as expert reviews. But they do beleive that user reviews can be an excellent complement to expert reviews. They would like to encourage all members of the Testseek.com community to write their product reviews with the purpose to help their fellow consumers to make better purchase decisions.
Best Prices
The prices that are shown at Testseek.com are delivered by their price comparison partners. In the US and UK their price comparison partner is Pricerunner.com. The prices are updated several times a day which enables us to provide their visitors with a real-time-lowest-price experience with a quality as high as any other price comparison site.
More at:http://www.testseek.com/
Testseek’s main purpose is to inform consumers about the quality and performance of products. Testseek.com is also a gathering place for all kinds of product information that is relevant to consumers. Their vision is to create the ultimate online purchase decision machine.
Testseek.com is actually today the world’s most complete database for expert reviews of consumer related products.
How It works:
They aggregate expert reviews from more than a thousand high quality content web sites. Through their partnerships they also list review information from physical magazines. Their main focus has always been and will always be expert reviews. An unbiased expert review is always preferable next to an user review. There are several reasons for this:
-First, an "expert reviewer" always has greater knowledge and wider experience dealing with products within the field of his expertise. An expert reviewer in the area of digital cameras has often reviewed hundreds of cameras, while a normal consumer only have tested one ore two in detail. Who would you rather listen to?
-Second, we have noticed that regular users often rate products in strange ways. For instance; the submitted rate is often 0/10 or 10/10, i.e. the product either "sucks" or "rules". As an example, we find that users often give a product the rate 0/10 if they received a DOA (Dead On Arrival) product. This is skew because it is very possible that the product is in fact great and the consumer just had a case of bad luck.
User reviews
User reviews give you a picture of the collective experience from other consumers like yourself. We would however like to remind you of that user reviews are seldom as objective and informative as expert reviews. But they do beleive that user reviews can be an excellent complement to expert reviews. They would like to encourage all members of the Testseek.com community to write their product reviews with the purpose to help their fellow consumers to make better purchase decisions.
Best Prices
The prices that are shown at Testseek.com are delivered by their price comparison partners. In the US and UK their price comparison partner is Pricerunner.com. The prices are updated several times a day which enables us to provide their visitors with a real-time-lowest-price experience with a quality as high as any other price comparison site.
More at:http://www.testseek.com/
Just txt what's on your mind and txtmarks adds it to your computer's bookmarks
What Company Is Offering:
Anything you txt from your registered mobile phone to txtmarks gets added as a new txtmark.
txtmarks is quite clever and can recognise certain things and adds special txtmarks for them.
How It Works:
txtmarks is the best way to remember things you want on the Internet when you're not at your computer. Just txt what's on your mind and txtmarks adds it to your computer's bookmarks.
txtmarks works by using your browser's live feeds functionality. You can add your txtmarks feed to your bookmarks menu or bookmarks toolbar - which ever you prefer. You can also add txtmarks to popular RSS readers, including Google Reader, Bloglines, Feedburner, My Yahoo! and many more.
More at:http://www.txtmarks.net/
Anything you txt from your registered mobile phone to txtmarks gets added as a new txtmark.
txtmarks is quite clever and can recognise certain things and adds special txtmarks for them.
How It Works:
txtmarks is the best way to remember things you want on the Internet when you're not at your computer. Just txt what's on your mind and txtmarks adds it to your computer's bookmarks.
txtmarks works by using your browser's live feeds functionality. You can add your txtmarks feed to your bookmarks menu or bookmarks toolbar - which ever you prefer. You can also add txtmarks to popular RSS readers, including Google Reader, Bloglines, Feedburner, My Yahoo! and many more.
More at:http://www.txtmarks.net/
FilterMyRSS is a simple feed filter to sort out the unwanted information from an XML or RSS feed and provide only the information which is relevant
What Company Is Offering:
FilterMyRSS is a simple feed filter to sort out the unwanted information from an XML or RSS feed and provide only the information which is relevant to you.
How It Works:
This RSS utility filter was created as an exclusive tool for gathering information to be used on my other websites. When the tool was shared with other bloggers, they strongly recommended I create a website so [they] could use. Thus FilterMyRSS was born.
The advantage with this tool is no sign-in requirements, no registration fees or feed limitations - just a simple tool that will make your life infinitely more productive and stream line.
FilterMyRSS supports all RSS versions. FilterMyRSS also supports XML. At this time we do not support Atom feeds.
More at:http://www.filtermyrss.com/
FilterMyRSS is a simple feed filter to sort out the unwanted information from an XML or RSS feed and provide only the information which is relevant to you.
How It Works:
This RSS utility filter was created as an exclusive tool for gathering information to be used on my other websites. When the tool was shared with other bloggers, they strongly recommended I create a website so [they] could use. Thus FilterMyRSS was born.
The advantage with this tool is no sign-in requirements, no registration fees or feed limitations - just a simple tool that will make your life infinitely more productive and stream line.
FilterMyRSS supports all RSS versions. FilterMyRSS also supports XML. At this time we do not support Atom feeds.
More at:http://www.filtermyrss.com/
Internet Explorer® 8 Readiness Toolkit, the first place to look when you’re ready to optimize web sites and applications for Internet Explorer 8
What Company is Offering:
Internet Explorer® 8 Readiness Toolkit, the first place to look when you’re ready to optimize web sites and applications for Internet Explorer 8.
Unique Features:
Here are some end-user features you can expect to see in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1.
Activities,
WebSlices,
Favorites Bar,
Automatic Crash Recovery,
Improved Phishing Filter.
Activities
Activities are contextual services to quickly access a service from any webpage. Users typically copy and paste from one webpage to another. Internet Explorer 8 Activities make this common pattern easier to do.
Activities typically involve two types of scenarios: "look up" information within a webpage or "send" web content to a web application. For example, a user is interested in a restaurant and wants to see the location of it. This is the form of a "look up" Activity where the user selects the address and views an in-place view of the map using his favorite map service.
An example of a "send" Activity is a user reads an interesting article and wants to blog about a portion of the article. The user can select a portion of the article and uses the blog Activity. This navigates to the user’s blog site with the selection already available in the edit field.
Activities are services that the user can install and manage. Users can install them from the Internet Explorer 8 Service Guide or through any website that advertises Activities.
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WebSlices
WebSlices is a new feature for websites to connect to their users by subscribing to content directly within a webpage. WebSlices behave just like feeds where clients can subscribe to get updates and notify the user of changes.
Internet Explorer 8 Users can discover WebSlices within a webpage and add them to the Favorites bar, a dedicated row below the Address bar for easy access to links. Internet Explorer 8 subscribes to the webpage, detects changes in the WebSlice, and notifies the user of updates. Users can preview these updates directly from the Favorites bar and click-through to the website to get more information.
More at:http://www.microsoft.com/
Internet Explorer® 8 Readiness Toolkit, the first place to look when you’re ready to optimize web sites and applications for Internet Explorer 8.
Unique Features:
Here are some end-user features you can expect to see in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1.
Activities,
WebSlices,
Favorites Bar,
Automatic Crash Recovery,
Improved Phishing Filter.
Activities
Activities are contextual services to quickly access a service from any webpage. Users typically copy and paste from one webpage to another. Internet Explorer 8 Activities make this common pattern easier to do.
Activities typically involve two types of scenarios: "look up" information within a webpage or "send" web content to a web application. For example, a user is interested in a restaurant and wants to see the location of it. This is the form of a "look up" Activity where the user selects the address and views an in-place view of the map using his favorite map service.
An example of a "send" Activity is a user reads an interesting article and wants to blog about a portion of the article. The user can select a portion of the article and uses the blog Activity. This navigates to the user’s blog site with the selection already available in the edit field.
Activities are services that the user can install and manage. Users can install them from the Internet Explorer 8 Service Guide or through any website that advertises Activities.
return to top
WebSlices
WebSlices is a new feature for websites to connect to their users by subscribing to content directly within a webpage. WebSlices behave just like feeds where clients can subscribe to get updates and notify the user of changes.
Internet Explorer 8 Users can discover WebSlices within a webpage and add them to the Favorites bar, a dedicated row below the Address bar for easy access to links. Internet Explorer 8 subscribes to the webpage, detects changes in the WebSlice, and notifies the user of updates. Users can preview these updates directly from the Favorites bar and click-through to the website to get more information.
More at:http://www.microsoft.com/
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Standout Jobs provides RECEPTION, a suite of Web-based tools to power companies’ online recruiting efforts
What Company is Offering:
Standout Jobs provides RECEPTION, a suite of Web-based tools to power companies’ online recruiting efforts. Using social media tools and principles, Standout Jobs brings the latest Web consumer experience – easy, personal and dynamic – to the recruiting process.
How It Works:
Standout Jobs, Inc. is a startup based in Montreal, QC Canada that makes Reception, a suite of web-based tools to power companies online recruiting. Reception allows companies to create interactive, content-rich Career Sites that build employer brand and active talent networks. Companies can promote themselves more effectively, market jobs, gain metrics on job board spending, track candidates through the hiring process and build on-going relationships with prospects. The goal is to help companies develop and promote their employment brand, in order to find and hire the best talent. RECEPTION also includes candidate relationship management tools enabling HR managers to identify, interact with and track candidates effectively.
Unique Features:
Companies can seamlessly integrate video into their job postings and create behind-the-scenes tours, to showcase their culture and present a more in-depth view of themselves to candidates.
Job posts are automatically distributed to a multitude of free and paying job boards, saving companies time. RECEPTION includes metrics on the efficacy of the job boards, helping companies evaluate and adjust their job board spending.
Web-based applications from candidates can be shared with all the people involved in the hiring process, allowing for a central tracking of resumes, interview notes and candidate status. By moving applications out of email and costly applicant tracking systems, RECEPTION allows companies to manage their candidate application process more easily and efficiently. RECEPTION has no seat limits, so entire teams can now be involved in the hiring process.
More at:http://standoutjobs.com/
Standout Jobs provides RECEPTION, a suite of Web-based tools to power companies’ online recruiting efforts. Using social media tools and principles, Standout Jobs brings the latest Web consumer experience – easy, personal and dynamic – to the recruiting process.
How It Works:
Standout Jobs, Inc. is a startup based in Montreal, QC Canada that makes Reception, a suite of web-based tools to power companies online recruiting. Reception allows companies to create interactive, content-rich Career Sites that build employer brand and active talent networks. Companies can promote themselves more effectively, market jobs, gain metrics on job board spending, track candidates through the hiring process and build on-going relationships with prospects. The goal is to help companies develop and promote their employment brand, in order to find and hire the best talent. RECEPTION also includes candidate relationship management tools enabling HR managers to identify, interact with and track candidates effectively.
Unique Features:
Companies can seamlessly integrate video into their job postings and create behind-the-scenes tours, to showcase their culture and present a more in-depth view of themselves to candidates.
Job posts are automatically distributed to a multitude of free and paying job boards, saving companies time. RECEPTION includes metrics on the efficacy of the job boards, helping companies evaluate and adjust their job board spending.
Web-based applications from candidates can be shared with all the people involved in the hiring process, allowing for a central tracking of resumes, interview notes and candidate status. By moving applications out of email and costly applicant tracking systems, RECEPTION allows companies to manage their candidate application process more easily and efficiently. RECEPTION has no seat limits, so entire teams can now be involved in the hiring process.
More at:http://standoutjobs.com/
Fashionfreax stands the idea to share own creations with the community and to get inspired by other styles
What companny is Offering:
Fashionfreax is anything but a shopping guide for luxus brands. They want to watch your styles, you create or wear. How do you combine your clothes and accessories? To get new ideas you can browse through other fashionfreax - new ideas from Helsinki to Barcelona. They are the freax who inspire others. Here you find fresh ideas and a platform where people cavort who fancy style, fashion and expeditions.
Designers and labels can use fashionfreax to get discovered by a premium audience or just investigate new trends.
How It Works;
Behind fashionfreax stands the idea to share own creations with the community and to get inspired by other styles. Here you are not covarting through expensive luxuary fashion which gets sold by fashion magazines - but you see outfits and creations which are worn by fashionfreax. Upload your outfit or single pieces or add new shops which you find on your last expedition through down town.
In the news section you can read the latest fashion news. For this you get an overview of selected blogs in your language. If you are faster than other you will get the possibility to add own fashion news!
In the group area you can exclude every possibility of doubt concering style. Participate in groups or create your own groups. Register now for free to discover other fashionfreax!
More at:http://www.fashionfreax.net/
Fashionfreax is anything but a shopping guide for luxus brands. They want to watch your styles, you create or wear. How do you combine your clothes and accessories? To get new ideas you can browse through other fashionfreax - new ideas from Helsinki to Barcelona. They are the freax who inspire others. Here you find fresh ideas and a platform where people cavort who fancy style, fashion and expeditions.
Designers and labels can use fashionfreax to get discovered by a premium audience or just investigate new trends.
How It Works;
Behind fashionfreax stands the idea to share own creations with the community and to get inspired by other styles. Here you are not covarting through expensive luxuary fashion which gets sold by fashion magazines - but you see outfits and creations which are worn by fashionfreax. Upload your outfit or single pieces or add new shops which you find on your last expedition through down town.
In the news section you can read the latest fashion news. For this you get an overview of selected blogs in your language. If you are faster than other you will get the possibility to add own fashion news!
In the group area you can exclude every possibility of doubt concering style. Participate in groups or create your own groups. Register now for free to discover other fashionfreax!
More at:http://www.fashionfreax.net/
Zicasso is a free personalized online travel service that provides customized itinerary bids
What Company Is Offering:
Zicasso is a free personalized online travel service that provides customized itinerary bids from a carefully-selected global network of quality travel companies. To ensure quality, they've spent thousands of hours to pre-qualify and select each tour operator and travel agent member. Zicasso is ideal for busy, discerning travelers who want a hassle-free experience in planning & booking a trip.
How It Works:
Their company is built on a unique idea: getting the vacation you want, no matter what your requirements, can be hassle free. Finding quality at the best prices can be easy. Knowing where to go for authentic experiences can be simple.
A personalized online travel service. They match travelers with relevant, quality travel companies which compete by bidding Trip Plans to meet all your trip’s needs. Depending on your needs, these Trip Plans can include itineraries with expert advice on where to visit, lodging, flights, airport transfers, cruises, other forms of transportation, tour guides, etc. Travel companies (tour operators and travel agencies) are pre-screened by us to ensure quality, and over time, rated by our community of travelers. Just a few simple steps:
Traveler fills out a simple form to describe the trip he or she wants. Zicasso then matches and notifies relevant pre-screened quality travel companies
Up to four travel companies use Zicasso’s online system to submit personalized Trip Plans and prices to traveler, typically within two business days
Traveler compares and refines Trip Plans with travel companies
Traveler books the Trip Plan(s) that best meets his or her needs.
More at:http://www.zicasso.com/
Zicasso is a free personalized online travel service that provides customized itinerary bids from a carefully-selected global network of quality travel companies. To ensure quality, they've spent thousands of hours to pre-qualify and select each tour operator and travel agent member. Zicasso is ideal for busy, discerning travelers who want a hassle-free experience in planning & booking a trip.
How It Works:
Their company is built on a unique idea: getting the vacation you want, no matter what your requirements, can be hassle free. Finding quality at the best prices can be easy. Knowing where to go for authentic experiences can be simple.
A personalized online travel service. They match travelers with relevant, quality travel companies which compete by bidding Trip Plans to meet all your trip’s needs. Depending on your needs, these Trip Plans can include itineraries with expert advice on where to visit, lodging, flights, airport transfers, cruises, other forms of transportation, tour guides, etc. Travel companies (tour operators and travel agencies) are pre-screened by us to ensure quality, and over time, rated by our community of travelers. Just a few simple steps:
Traveler fills out a simple form to describe the trip he or she wants. Zicasso then matches and notifies relevant pre-screened quality travel companies
Up to four travel companies use Zicasso’s online system to submit personalized Trip Plans and prices to traveler, typically within two business days
Traveler compares and refines Trip Plans with travel companies
Traveler books the Trip Plan(s) that best meets his or her needs.
More at:http://www.zicasso.com/
A workspace is an online place where you can save, access, and share documents and files
What Company Is Offering:
A workspace is an online place where you can save, access, and share documents and files. Use it to group related information for work, school, or personal projects. Sharing is easy – all you need is a person’s e-mail address and you can invite them to your workspace. You decide if they can edit or simply review. You can access your workspace from any computer with an Internet connection and a Web browser.
How It Works:
You only need an Internet connection, a Web browser, and a Windows Live ID with a valid e-mail inbox. You can upload many file types, from Microsoft Office documents to pictures and PDFs. In fact, you can save over 1,000 Office documents in your workspace, based on the average file size and use of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint by students, work, and home users. For your protection, they don’t allow the uploading of files that could cause security issues such as .exe files.Your workspace comes with 500 MB of storage, which means you can save more than 1000 average sized Microsoft Office documents. Individual documents can be as large as 25 MB.
A workspace is an online place where you can save, access, and share documents and files. Use it to group related information for work, school, or personal projects. Sharing is easy – all you need is a person’s e-mail address and you can invite them to your workspace. You decide if they can edit or simply review. You can access your workspace from any computer with an Internet connection and a Web browser.
How It Works:
You only need an Internet connection, a Web browser, and a Windows Live ID with a valid e-mail inbox. You can upload many file types, from Microsoft Office documents to pictures and PDFs. In fact, you can save over 1,000 Office documents in your workspace, based on the average file size and use of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint by students, work, and home users. For your protection, they don’t allow the uploading of files that could cause security issues such as .exe files.Your workspace comes with 500 MB of storage, which means you can save more than 1000 average sized Microsoft Office documents. Individual documents can be as large as 25 MB.
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Songpull.com is the website that's used to introduce unique songpulls and individual pullers to music lovers around the world
What Company Is Offering:
Songpulls offer songwriters a place to gather and try new songs in an encouraging environment. Inspired by the classic "guitar pull" of the past, the Songpull community gives genuine feedback and recognition on every performance. Finish your songs by joining a Songpull today
How It Works:
Songpull.com is the website that's used to introduce unique songpulls and individual pullers to music lovers around the world. Because Songpull.com has a worldwide audience and will be structured in such a way that songs are rated by the members on many levels, it will ensure that certain songs will begin to rise in rank and therefore be seen by more and more people. This could include people in the music industry looking for brand new artists or brand new songs!
Based on member popularity, visitors will quickly see who is ranked highest directly from the Songpull.com homepage. Members of Songpull.com can easily rank and comment on their favorite singer-songwriter. In addition to the performance, members will be able to view outtakes and extras from the entire Songpull gathering. As Songpull.com evolves so will the interactive tools, which will enrich members listening and viewing experiences. Each singer-songwriter will have a profile page that will allow the member to learn more about that performer. Whether you have a band, practice, business, or even offer hot air balloon rides, people can find you, be inspired by you, and even contact you if that is what you want.
More at:http://www.songpull.com/
Songpulls offer songwriters a place to gather and try new songs in an encouraging environment. Inspired by the classic "guitar pull" of the past, the Songpull community gives genuine feedback and recognition on every performance. Finish your songs by joining a Songpull today
How It Works:
Songpull.com is the website that's used to introduce unique songpulls and individual pullers to music lovers around the world. Because Songpull.com has a worldwide audience and will be structured in such a way that songs are rated by the members on many levels, it will ensure that certain songs will begin to rise in rank and therefore be seen by more and more people. This could include people in the music industry looking for brand new artists or brand new songs!
Based on member popularity, visitors will quickly see who is ranked highest directly from the Songpull.com homepage. Members of Songpull.com can easily rank and comment on their favorite singer-songwriter. In addition to the performance, members will be able to view outtakes and extras from the entire Songpull gathering. As Songpull.com evolves so will the interactive tools, which will enrich members listening and viewing experiences. Each singer-songwriter will have a profile page that will allow the member to learn more about that performer. Whether you have a band, practice, business, or even offer hot air balloon rides, people can find you, be inspired by you, and even contact you if that is what you want.
More at:http://www.songpull.com/
Chatterous is a service that lets you talk to your friends across the web, im, email and your phone
What Company Is Offering:
Chatterous is a service that lets you talk to your friends across the web, im, email and your phone.
How It Works:
Once you create a group, you can chat with your friends through im, email or your phone. No need to use the website! Your friends don't need to sign up to chat with you! They can reply right on their im, email or phone. Once you've created a group for your friends, everyone in the group can reach each other whether they're on im, email or out and about on their phone. You don't have to install any software! Just use your existing im client, email or phone!
More at:http://www.chatterous.com/
Chatterous is a service that lets you talk to your friends across the web, im, email and your phone.
How It Works:
Once you create a group, you can chat with your friends through im, email or your phone. No need to use the website! Your friends don't need to sign up to chat with you! They can reply right on their im, email or phone. Once you've created a group for your friends, everyone in the group can reach each other whether they're on im, email or out and about on their phone. You don't have to install any software! Just use your existing im client, email or phone!
More at:http://www.chatterous.com/
NavXS lets you exchange location based information
What Company Is Offering:
NavXS (short for Navigation Exchange Service) is a system that lets people build a network of contacts, kind of like Skype, ICQ etc. But instead of exchanging just text messages, NavXS lets you exchange location based information:The current position of every online contact is continuously exchanged. Thus you can track the movements of your contacts in real time relative to your own movements.
How It Works:
You can define your own "Locations" and share them with your contacts. A Location is in essence a "Map Bookmark". For instance you can use it to mark a nice bar that you just found, so that you can quickly relocate it in the future. If you share it with your contacts, they'll find it just as easily. The location based information is shown on a map on your phone, as well as on the phone of your contacts.
All this is obviously not much fun if the people in your contact network don't know exactly where they are, but thanks to the new generation of mobile phones and PDAs that comes with embedded GPS based positioning module, chances are that they do.
Thus, with NavXS you can keep track of what your friends, colleagues acts whom you have granted the explicit right to do so will be able to see where you are.Only contacts whom you have granted the explicit right to do so will be able to see where you are. Secondly, as soon as you log out or turn off the positioning module, nobody will be able to follow your moves (except your network operator: The only way to hide from them is to turn off your mobile phone).
The NavXS software can be downloaded here free of charge. Currently they support Java-enabled mobile phones and Windows Mobile based PDAs and smartphones.
More at:http://www.navxs.com/
NavXS (short for Navigation Exchange Service) is a system that lets people build a network of contacts, kind of like Skype, ICQ etc. But instead of exchanging just text messages, NavXS lets you exchange location based information:The current position of every online contact is continuously exchanged. Thus you can track the movements of your contacts in real time relative to your own movements.
How It Works:
You can define your own "Locations" and share them with your contacts. A Location is in essence a "Map Bookmark". For instance you can use it to mark a nice bar that you just found, so that you can quickly relocate it in the future. If you share it with your contacts, they'll find it just as easily. The location based information is shown on a map on your phone, as well as on the phone of your contacts.
All this is obviously not much fun if the people in your contact network don't know exactly where they are, but thanks to the new generation of mobile phones and PDAs that comes with embedded GPS based positioning module, chances are that they do.
Thus, with NavXS you can keep track of what your friends, colleagues acts whom you have granted the explicit right to do so will be able to see where you are.Only contacts whom you have granted the explicit right to do so will be able to see where you are. Secondly, as soon as you log out or turn off the positioning module, nobody will be able to follow your moves (except your network operator: The only way to hide from them is to turn off your mobile phone).
The NavXS software can be downloaded here free of charge. Currently they support Java-enabled mobile phones and Windows Mobile based PDAs and smartphones.
More at:http://www.navxs.com/
BudgetPulse.Com is the new financial management service designed to help tracking your budget and managing your money
What Company Is Offering:
BudgetPulse.Com is the new financial management service designed to help tracking your budget and managing your money. Apart from tracking expenses, assets and bills against income, it helps to build an ideal budget by laying down millstones in expenses above regular intervals of time. So BudgetPulse is a key to have smart spending and savings over your earnings.
How It Works:
BudgetPulse.com provides the pictorial representation of all your expenses, income, assets and accounts in various different forms of charts classifying over different time periods. This is self-explanatory and very effective way of assessing your financial scenario and the age-old known fact that figures and more lasting over digits. BudgetPulse also gives the user effective tools like calculator, expenses search, and calendar and import/export data from excel. BudgetPulse also provides aggregation of news and trends in Financial Market with the curtsey of top search engines.
After logged in to BudgetPulse, You can see the Dashboard, nice feature of the application, shows financial status in a comprehensive scenario. Dashboard shows the upcoming expenses for the next 30 days and over-budget expenses which are over 80% of the budgeted amount. This quick summary gains your attention so that you can make appropriate decisions.
Under the Tracking page, you can create, edit or remove the line of expenses, income, assets and accounts under various heads like bank, debit, credit and food. Under the Budget page, you can set a goal or target for your accounts (e.g. balance with $10,000 each month), set a limit for your expenses categories (e.g. $300 limit on food each month) and set a target for income (e.g. $10,000 income for part time job each month).Under the Summary page, you can view in-depth summary of all Income and expenses. The data can be based as per your preference to track your financial activities over specified period of intervals apart from calendar months.
More at:http://budgetpulse.com/
BudgetPulse.Com is the new financial management service designed to help tracking your budget and managing your money. Apart from tracking expenses, assets and bills against income, it helps to build an ideal budget by laying down millstones in expenses above regular intervals of time. So BudgetPulse is a key to have smart spending and savings over your earnings.
How It Works:
BudgetPulse.com provides the pictorial representation of all your expenses, income, assets and accounts in various different forms of charts classifying over different time periods. This is self-explanatory and very effective way of assessing your financial scenario and the age-old known fact that figures and more lasting over digits. BudgetPulse also gives the user effective tools like calculator, expenses search, and calendar and import/export data from excel. BudgetPulse also provides aggregation of news and trends in Financial Market with the curtsey of top search engines.
After logged in to BudgetPulse, You can see the Dashboard, nice feature of the application, shows financial status in a comprehensive scenario. Dashboard shows the upcoming expenses for the next 30 days and over-budget expenses which are over 80% of the budgeted amount. This quick summary gains your attention so that you can make appropriate decisions.
Under the Tracking page, you can create, edit or remove the line of expenses, income, assets and accounts under various heads like bank, debit, credit and food. Under the Budget page, you can set a goal or target for your accounts (e.g. balance with $10,000 each month), set a limit for your expenses categories (e.g. $300 limit on food each month) and set a target for income (e.g. $10,000 income for part time job each month).Under the Summary page, you can view in-depth summary of all Income and expenses. The data can be based as per your preference to track your financial activities over specified period of intervals apart from calendar months.
More at:http://budgetpulse.com/
Jowba-- For Startup Companies And Startup Jobs
What Company Is Offering:
Jowba is here to do two things:
Help the right job seekers find you.Make the whole team–building process as easy as possible.
They have a whole strategy to drive high quality, startup–type folks to you, and our product itself is definitely a part of that plan. Your company profile is one of the main angles of attack: sure, tell people about your mission and your products, but also about your team and what it's like to actually work at your startup. Job seekers want to know how big you are, how much funding you have, who your investors are, what your revenue picture looks like, what the office itself looks like (pictures!) and whether or not it's cool to wear sandals to work. You can share as much or as little as you like – every descriptor has a stealth option for all you super secretive operators – but we encourage you to open up as much as post.They've tried to build a great opportunity for you to sell yourselves, so take advantage of it!
How It Works:
Build your profile, and they integrate it with every job posting. Post a job once, and it automatically reposts after thirty days (that's right). When someone applies for one of your jobs, we'll send you the whole resume and cover letter, just a notification, or nothing at all – it's up to you. We store all of the applications in a user–friendly, sortable menu, and make it simple to update your profile, add team comments to job postings, and add new office locations (yep, you can post jobs for multiple company branches, all under the same profile). We think you'll like it, but check it out for yourself.
To help you learn as much as possible about growing startups so you can find where you fit best.To make the job search process as fun and easy as possible.
One of the key additions they bring to the table is the company profile. Where a generic job description tells you diddly about the company itself, Jowba profiles provide an in–depth, behind the scenes look at startups who are hiring. Beyond mission statements and product overviews, don't you want to know how many people are on the team, how much funding they have (and from whom), what their revenue picture looks like, and what it's actually like to work there? We sure do. Check out photos, get to know where the office is, learn more about the team and the environment, and much more. more...
In terms of design and usability, we've tried to include the features and functionality that they have all come to expect from our digital tools. Startup profiles are integrated with the job postings themselves – pretty smoothly, if we do say so ourselves – and we've including capabilities such as social bookmarking, email, RSS feeds (both general and for specific searches), and maps. Everything is searchable, and almost everything is sortable, too. Our detailed search is pretty cool, too – try adjusting your search options to find startups and jobs that are right in your sweet spot.
The point is that it takes a certain type of person to work in a startup, to lead this type of life, and to build something important and lasting. This is why we're here. Jowba is about startup companies, startup jobs, and the startup people who grow them.
The most basic building blocks are company profiles, so that job seekers can find the startup that fits them best. Startups build their profile once, and it's attached to every job they post.
More at:http://jowba.com/
Jowba is here to do two things:
Help the right job seekers find you.Make the whole team–building process as easy as possible.
They have a whole strategy to drive high quality, startup–type folks to you, and our product itself is definitely a part of that plan. Your company profile is one of the main angles of attack: sure, tell people about your mission and your products, but also about your team and what it's like to actually work at your startup. Job seekers want to know how big you are, how much funding you have, who your investors are, what your revenue picture looks like, what the office itself looks like (pictures!) and whether or not it's cool to wear sandals to work. You can share as much or as little as you like – every descriptor has a stealth option for all you super secretive operators – but we encourage you to open up as much as post.They've tried to build a great opportunity for you to sell yourselves, so take advantage of it!
How It Works:
Build your profile, and they integrate it with every job posting. Post a job once, and it automatically reposts after thirty days (that's right). When someone applies for one of your jobs, we'll send you the whole resume and cover letter, just a notification, or nothing at all – it's up to you. We store all of the applications in a user–friendly, sortable menu, and make it simple to update your profile, add team comments to job postings, and add new office locations (yep, you can post jobs for multiple company branches, all under the same profile). We think you'll like it, but check it out for yourself.
To help you learn as much as possible about growing startups so you can find where you fit best.To make the job search process as fun and easy as possible.
One of the key additions they bring to the table is the company profile. Where a generic job description tells you diddly about the company itself, Jowba profiles provide an in–depth, behind the scenes look at startups who are hiring. Beyond mission statements and product overviews, don't you want to know how many people are on the team, how much funding they have (and from whom), what their revenue picture looks like, and what it's actually like to work there? We sure do. Check out photos, get to know where the office is, learn more about the team and the environment, and much more. more...
In terms of design and usability, we've tried to include the features and functionality that they have all come to expect from our digital tools. Startup profiles are integrated with the job postings themselves – pretty smoothly, if we do say so ourselves – and we've including capabilities such as social bookmarking, email, RSS feeds (both general and for specific searches), and maps. Everything is searchable, and almost everything is sortable, too. Our detailed search is pretty cool, too – try adjusting your search options to find startups and jobs that are right in your sweet spot.
The point is that it takes a certain type of person to work in a startup, to lead this type of life, and to build something important and lasting. This is why we're here. Jowba is about startup companies, startup jobs, and the startup people who grow them.
The most basic building blocks are company profiles, so that job seekers can find the startup that fits them best. Startups build their profile once, and it's attached to every job they post.
More at:http://jowba.com/
VisibleLogistics is an on-demand order and shipment management service
What Company Is Offering:
VisibleLogistics is an on-demand order and shipment management service. It automatically sends order status notifications to you and your partners via e-mail or SMS.
How It Works:
With VisibleLogistics, smaller businesses can cut down this time spent on communicating. VisibleLogistics combines the processes linked to orders, inventory and communication with the other partners of the supply chain into one on-line on-demand application. VisibleLogistics monitors order and shipment status, and automatically sends e-mails to the relevant parties when important changes are made.
Unlike the track-and-trace systems provided by the express carriers and large shipping companies, you can use VisibleLogistics to monitor shipments across different carriers and transport modes. This can be useful if agents are moving shipments with a variety of different carriers. VisibleLogistics is indeed used by small forwarders to provide shipment monitoring and status updates to their customers. It enables them to provide service levels that match those of their larger competitors.
The benefits of VisibleLogistics are improved accuracy, round the clock availability of information for customers and a single view of all order and shipment activity.
More at:https://www.visiblelogistics.com/
VisibleLogistics is an on-demand order and shipment management service. It automatically sends order status notifications to you and your partners via e-mail or SMS.
How It Works:
With VisibleLogistics, smaller businesses can cut down this time spent on communicating. VisibleLogistics combines the processes linked to orders, inventory and communication with the other partners of the supply chain into one on-line on-demand application. VisibleLogistics monitors order and shipment status, and automatically sends e-mails to the relevant parties when important changes are made.
Unlike the track-and-trace systems provided by the express carriers and large shipping companies, you can use VisibleLogistics to monitor shipments across different carriers and transport modes. This can be useful if agents are moving shipments with a variety of different carriers. VisibleLogistics is indeed used by small forwarders to provide shipment monitoring and status updates to their customers. It enables them to provide service levels that match those of their larger competitors.
The benefits of VisibleLogistics are improved accuracy, round the clock availability of information for customers and a single view of all order and shipment activity.
More at:https://www.visiblelogistics.com/
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