What Company Is Offering:
Medioh Inc. launches medioh.tv – the comprehensive guide to web video, with applications ranging from the mashable web to devices like the iPhone.Located in Boulder, Colorado, the medioh! team is comprised of deeply experienced media creation and distribution business professionals, seasoned web developers and accomplished Internet technology experts.
How It Works:
medioh.tv aggregates video from thousands of sites across the web. Medioh! adds rich search and filtering tools, then displays them in an intuitive interface. This allows users to dig deeper to find exactly the content that suits their interests. Using RSS, users can subscribe to their own custom interest channels.
Developers can use the free API to plug medioh’s search and recommendations in to their web applications and devices. Device interfaces are easily optimized and results are filtered for device compatible videos.
With content ranging from full length HD video to niche interest to popular web clips, medioh! provides the complete solution to long tail video.
They bring broad experience in media, software, and telecom from such companies as Apple Computer, Echostar, MCI and Paramount Pictures.
More at:www.medioh.com
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Audiopoint announced an agreement With EarthLink
What Company Is Offering:
Audiopoint is a leading provider of innovative, voice services to
consumer-oriented businesses. The company designs, develops and deploys
large-scale Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) software and services. Audiopoint developed and launched the industry's first voice portal in 1999 and is currently releasing its newly developed Personal Voice Portal (PVP) platform. Audiopoint is a
privately held company based in Rockville, Maryland with office in
Middleburg, Virginia and Atlanta, Georgia .
Recent Updates:
Audiopoint, a speech
applications company developing products for businesses that reach consumer
markets, and EarthLink (Nasdaq: ELNK), one of the nation's leading Internet
service providers (ISPs), today announced an agreement that will give
EarthLink's subscribers the ability to define their own News and
Information Services leveraging Audiopoint's latest product release and
speech application service.
The popularity of EarthLink's Email By Phone has demonstrated that
people want access to a wider range of information on the go. News and
Information Services combines the existing functionality of Email By Phone
with natural voice-enabled Web content. Popular content such as Local News,
Weather and Stock Quotes, amongst other personalized services are now
available from any telephone using simple voice commands.
"The demand is growing for powerful new communications services as a
strategic way to enhance customer service and build a competitive edge,"
said Brian Lichorowic, CEO & President of Audiopoint. "At the center stage
of these new services is Audiopoint's next-generation Personal Voice
Portal. Using PVP, Earthlink customers will have a very real edge in the
marketplace. Today's announcement furthers Audiopoint's goal of providing
our customers with the most progressive speech applications on the market
today."
The new service provides an expanded access solution by voice enabling
web content for the individual subscriber. Information is retrieved by
phone through a voice activated menu system. In its most generic sense a
voice portal can be defined as "speech-enabled access to Web-based
information." In other words, a voice portal provides telephone users with
a natural language interface to access and retrieve Web content.
More at:
http://www.audiopoint.net
http://www.EarthLink.net
Audiopoint is a leading provider of innovative, voice services to
consumer-oriented businesses. The company designs, develops and deploys
large-scale Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) software and services. Audiopoint developed and launched the industry's first voice portal in 1999 and is currently releasing its newly developed Personal Voice Portal (PVP) platform. Audiopoint is a
privately held company based in Rockville, Maryland with office in
Middleburg, Virginia and Atlanta, Georgia .
Recent Updates:
Audiopoint, a speech
applications company developing products for businesses that reach consumer
markets, and EarthLink (Nasdaq: ELNK), one of the nation's leading Internet
service providers (ISPs), today announced an agreement that will give
EarthLink's subscribers the ability to define their own News and
Information Services leveraging Audiopoint's latest product release and
speech application service.
The popularity of EarthLink's Email By Phone has demonstrated that
people want access to a wider range of information on the go. News and
Information Services combines the existing functionality of Email By Phone
with natural voice-enabled Web content. Popular content such as Local News,
Weather and Stock Quotes, amongst other personalized services are now
available from any telephone using simple voice commands.
"The demand is growing for powerful new communications services as a
strategic way to enhance customer service and build a competitive edge,"
said Brian Lichorowic, CEO & President of Audiopoint. "At the center stage
of these new services is Audiopoint's next-generation Personal Voice
Portal. Using PVP, Earthlink customers will have a very real edge in the
marketplace. Today's announcement furthers Audiopoint's goal of providing
our customers with the most progressive speech applications on the market
today."
The new service provides an expanded access solution by voice enabling
web content for the individual subscriber. Information is retrieved by
phone through a voice activated menu system. In its most generic sense a
voice portal can be defined as "speech-enabled access to Web-based
information." In other words, a voice portal provides telephone users with
a natural language interface to access and retrieve Web content.
More at:
http://www.audiopoint.net
http://www.EarthLink.net
Insight's market analysis study, "Streaming Media, IPTV, and Broadband
Streaming video and music
distributed across the Internet, an IPTV network, or a mobile handset will
generate $70 billion in network-derived and content-derived revenue into
the US markets over the next six years, according to a new market research
study from The Insight Research Corporation. Streaming media refers to the
transmission of digital audio and video files over an IP network or
wireless network in real time or on-demand, while prohibiting users from
storing the files locally.
Insight's market analysis study, "Streaming Media, IPTV, and Broadband
Transport: Telecommunications Carriers and Entertainment Services
2008-2013," describes the technology and market forces underpinning the
network-derived revenues generated from distributing streamed content
across the public Internet, content distribution networks, cellular
networks, or telco IP networks. The study also estimates the revenue from
the various types of content-derived revenues, along with associated
advertising revenue. The streaming market is expected to grow at a compound
annual rate of nearly 29 percent over the next six years, driven by
on-demand audio, on-demand video, as well as the accompanying advertising
revenue.
"The outlook for streaming media has never been brighter. Questions
surrounding consumers' willingness to pay for content have been dispelled
by satellite radio and iTunes," says Robert Rosenberg, Insight Research
president. "The forecasts that we present are conservative and in line with
current performance. If, however, per-stream costs drop faster than
anticipated, we have quicker acceptance of IPTV, or improvements in 3G
delivery take place faster than expected, it could blow the doors off of
our forecasts, propelling this industry into explosive growth," Rosenberg
continues.
Via-PR Newswire
distributed across the Internet, an IPTV network, or a mobile handset will
generate $70 billion in network-derived and content-derived revenue into
the US markets over the next six years, according to a new market research
study from The Insight Research Corporation. Streaming media refers to the
transmission of digital audio and video files over an IP network or
wireless network in real time or on-demand, while prohibiting users from
storing the files locally.
Insight's market analysis study, "Streaming Media, IPTV, and Broadband
Transport: Telecommunications Carriers and Entertainment Services
2008-2013," describes the technology and market forces underpinning the
network-derived revenues generated from distributing streamed content
across the public Internet, content distribution networks, cellular
networks, or telco IP networks. The study also estimates the revenue from
the various types of content-derived revenues, along with associated
advertising revenue. The streaming market is expected to grow at a compound
annual rate of nearly 29 percent over the next six years, driven by
on-demand audio, on-demand video, as well as the accompanying advertising
revenue.
"The outlook for streaming media has never been brighter. Questions
surrounding consumers' willingness to pay for content have been dispelled
by satellite radio and iTunes," says Robert Rosenberg, Insight Research
president. "The forecasts that we present are conservative and in line with
current performance. If, however, per-stream costs drop faster than
anticipated, we have quicker acceptance of IPTV, or improvements in 3G
delivery take place faster than expected, it could blow the doors off of
our forecasts, propelling this industry into explosive growth," Rosenberg
continues.
Via-PR Newswire
EveryZing --Next-generation universal search technology to online audio and video content
What Company Is Offering:
EveryZing provides next-generation universal search technology and brings the benefits of search engine optimization (SEO) to online audio and video content.
How It Works:
Through their speech to text, search and optimization technologies, and consumer-facing website, they create greater opportunities for consumer and advertiser access to online content. The company’s best-in-class technology and comprehensive set of advertising services enable their partners to profit from their content by launching digital channels that deliver the entertainment, news and information that consumers crave.
By aggregating structured and unstructured digital content for faster, easier discovery, EveryZing improves the search experience and drives user consumption of multimedia content. EveryZing’s patented technology provides greater monetization opportunities and helps its customers – operators of “infotainment” web sites providing news, weather, sports, business and other professionally produced content – capture a larger share of the $4 billion online video advertising market.
More at:http://www.everyzing.com/
EveryZing provides next-generation universal search technology and brings the benefits of search engine optimization (SEO) to online audio and video content.
How It Works:
Through their speech to text, search and optimization technologies, and consumer-facing website, they create greater opportunities for consumer and advertiser access to online content. The company’s best-in-class technology and comprehensive set of advertising services enable their partners to profit from their content by launching digital channels that deliver the entertainment, news and information that consumers crave.
By aggregating structured and unstructured digital content for faster, easier discovery, EveryZing improves the search experience and drives user consumption of multimedia content. EveryZing’s patented technology provides greater monetization opportunities and helps its customers – operators of “infotainment” web sites providing news, weather, sports, business and other professionally produced content – capture a larger share of the $4 billion online video advertising market.
More at:http://www.everyzing.com/
Trackvia is an online database platform designed for non-technical people
What Company Is Offering:
Trackvia is an online database platform designed for non-technical people. It's similar to Microsoft Access, but web-based and easy to use. It allows people to manage lists, track projects, enable workflows, communicate, and collaborate. It includes intuitive data management features that people want (e.g. Quick Search or Find Duplicates) without the complexity that most don't want (e.g. structured query languages).
How It Works:
Trackvia can be used to track and manage: action items, clinical trial results, comments, complaints, consultant hours, contacts, custom home specs, documents, investments, job applicants, mailing lists, press mentions, product defects, project issues, requests, RFQs, RSVPs, sales leads, vehicles, and more.
With Trackvia, there is no software to download or install. It is inexpensive, and there's no risk – you can cancel at any time. It's easy to learn, easy to use, and fast. It's very flexible, and most important, Trackvia will let you save time, reduce mistakes, and improve collaboration when tracking and managing almost anything.
Trackvia can be accessed on-demand from anywhere, any time, without requiring a shared drive or virtual private network. Trackvia data can be updated by multiple people at the same time. Trackvia keeps track of what was changed, when, and by whom. It allows different users to have different permission levels. It can pull data in from emails or the Web, and push data out by email or the Web. It gives you custom views of your data that you can save and reuse. It has an amazingly simple and fast search tool, and makes it easy to perform common tasks like creating a drop-down list, annotating a record, or attaching a document.
More at:http://www.trackvia.com/
Trackvia is an online database platform designed for non-technical people. It's similar to Microsoft Access, but web-based and easy to use. It allows people to manage lists, track projects, enable workflows, communicate, and collaborate. It includes intuitive data management features that people want (e.g. Quick Search or Find Duplicates) without the complexity that most don't want (e.g. structured query languages).
How It Works:
Trackvia can be used to track and manage: action items, clinical trial results, comments, complaints, consultant hours, contacts, custom home specs, documents, investments, job applicants, mailing lists, press mentions, product defects, project issues, requests, RFQs, RSVPs, sales leads, vehicles, and more.
With Trackvia, there is no software to download or install. It is inexpensive, and there's no risk – you can cancel at any time. It's easy to learn, easy to use, and fast. It's very flexible, and most important, Trackvia will let you save time, reduce mistakes, and improve collaboration when tracking and managing almost anything.
Trackvia can be accessed on-demand from anywhere, any time, without requiring a shared drive or virtual private network. Trackvia data can be updated by multiple people at the same time. Trackvia keeps track of what was changed, when, and by whom. It allows different users to have different permission levels. It can pull data in from emails or the Web, and push data out by email or the Web. It gives you custom views of your data that you can save and reuse. It has an amazingly simple and fast search tool, and makes it easy to perform common tasks like creating a drop-down list, annotating a record, or attaching a document.
More at:http://www.trackvia.com/
Small World Labs is a proven enterprise social networking provider that helps customers better understand, engage and serve their key constituents
What Company Is Offering:
Small World Labs is a proven enterprise social networking provider, recognized as having a unique combination of technology and community building expertise that helps customers better understand, engage and serve their key constituents. Their customer engagements are collaborative relationships with their team taking a hands-on approach to creating successful, vibrant communities. Small World Labs was built from the ground up for social networking and has a proven track record, having created and grown communities for well known brands, organizations and associations.
Who Is Backing Them:
Michael Wilson, CEO
Prior to founding Small World Labs, Michael served as the Director of Product Management at Coremetrics, the leading provider of web analytics solutions. As head of the group, Michael’s responsibilities included delivering new products and services, evaluating new markets, and assessing partner technologies. Before Coremetrics, Michael founded Wilson & Company, a return on investment consulting company. Prior to that, Michael was a management consultant for R. B. Webber & Company (a spin-off of McKinsey and Boston Consulting Group associates) where he led projects for high-tech companies, including Hewlett-Packard, Sprint, FedEx, ReSound (a hearing assistance accessories provider), and several start ups that were later acquired by larger companies, such as Cisco and Vignette.
Michael holds a B.A. in economics with summa cum laude and departmental honors from Yale University, and has also completed studies at Oxford University.
Miles Sims, VP of Community Solutions
Prior to joining Small World Labs, Miles held various positions at AT&T including roles on the U-verse IPTV team and the product marketing team working on the AT&T Yahoo! Partnership. As part of the AT&T Yahoo! team, Miles responsibilities included delivering online security products and assessing partner technologies. Prior to AT&T Miles managed the VPN product line for Vectris, an SDSL broadband provider,as a key member of the product team. Before Vectris Miles spent time in the start-up arena working in various marketing and technology roles.
Miles holds a B.S. in communications from Tarleton State University.
More at:http://www.smallworldlabs.com/
Small World Labs is a proven enterprise social networking provider, recognized as having a unique combination of technology and community building expertise that helps customers better understand, engage and serve their key constituents. Their customer engagements are collaborative relationships with their team taking a hands-on approach to creating successful, vibrant communities. Small World Labs was built from the ground up for social networking and has a proven track record, having created and grown communities for well known brands, organizations and associations.
Who Is Backing Them:
Michael Wilson, CEO
Prior to founding Small World Labs, Michael served as the Director of Product Management at Coremetrics, the leading provider of web analytics solutions. As head of the group, Michael’s responsibilities included delivering new products and services, evaluating new markets, and assessing partner technologies. Before Coremetrics, Michael founded Wilson & Company, a return on investment consulting company. Prior to that, Michael was a management consultant for R. B. Webber & Company (a spin-off of McKinsey and Boston Consulting Group associates) where he led projects for high-tech companies, including Hewlett-Packard, Sprint, FedEx, ReSound (a hearing assistance accessories provider), and several start ups that were later acquired by larger companies, such as Cisco and Vignette.
Michael holds a B.A. in economics with summa cum laude and departmental honors from Yale University, and has also completed studies at Oxford University.
Miles Sims, VP of Community Solutions
Prior to joining Small World Labs, Miles held various positions at AT&T including roles on the U-verse IPTV team and the product marketing team working on the AT&T Yahoo! Partnership. As part of the AT&T Yahoo! team, Miles responsibilities included delivering online security products and assessing partner technologies. Prior to AT&T Miles managed the VPN product line for Vectris, an SDSL broadband provider,as a key member of the product team. Before Vectris Miles spent time in the start-up arena working in various marketing and technology roles.
Miles holds a B.S. in communications from Tarleton State University.
More at:http://www.smallworldlabs.com/
Gear6 delivers scalable, centralized storage caching solutions secured a $10 million dollar financing
What Company Is Offering:
Gear6 delivers scalable, centralized storage caching solutions that dramatically improve application performance while reducing total storage costs. By eliminating shared I/O bottlenecks, Gear6 appliances accelerate data center I/O performance and increase server utilization levels to help companies maximize storage and server investments. Gear6 provides unprecedented visibility into how application workloads are influenced by server virtualization, clustered computing and web-scale environments to dynamically improve and manage sustainable I/O performance, even under peak load conditions. The company's CACHEfx appliances provide real-time data delivery to Fortune 1000 customers in industries ranging from financial services to energy to animation.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Gear6, accelerating I/O for real time application performance, announced it has secured a $10 million dollar financing round led by Horizon Ventures. Existing investors U.S. Venture Partners and InterWest Partners also participated in the round. The funds will be used to bolster the company's market expansion being fueled by increasing demand for its CACHEfx line of scalable caching appliances. Centralized storage caching is rapidly emerging as the most simple and cost-effective way to increase data center application performance while dramatically reducing total storage costs.
More at:http://www.gear6.com
Gear6 delivers scalable, centralized storage caching solutions that dramatically improve application performance while reducing total storage costs. By eliminating shared I/O bottlenecks, Gear6 appliances accelerate data center I/O performance and increase server utilization levels to help companies maximize storage and server investments. Gear6 provides unprecedented visibility into how application workloads are influenced by server virtualization, clustered computing and web-scale environments to dynamically improve and manage sustainable I/O performance, even under peak load conditions. The company's CACHEfx appliances provide real-time data delivery to Fortune 1000 customers in industries ranging from financial services to energy to animation.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Gear6, accelerating I/O for real time application performance, announced it has secured a $10 million dollar financing round led by Horizon Ventures. Existing investors U.S. Venture Partners and InterWest Partners also participated in the round. The funds will be used to bolster the company's market expansion being fueled by increasing demand for its CACHEfx line of scalable caching appliances. Centralized storage caching is rapidly emerging as the most simple and cost-effective way to increase data center application performance while dramatically reducing total storage costs.
More at:http://www.gear6.com
Bubble Motion, the pioneer and global leader of ‘voice SMS’, announced $14 million in additional funding
What Company Is Offering:
Bubble Motion is the pioneer and global leader for 'voice SMS'. The company offers the award-winning BubbleTALK service, and works with mobile operators around the world to create a global network of asynchronous voice messaging and advanced voice content applications.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Bubble Motion, the pioneer and global leader of ‘voice SMS’, announced $14 million in additional funding from existing investors Sequoia Capital US and Sequoia Capital India, as well as new investors Comcast Interactive Capital and NCD Investors.
This additional funding will allow the company to further develop and expand the award-winning BubbleTALK platform, and will enable the company to focus on securing additional operator partnerships around the world.
What VCs Says About Company:
Gaurav Garg, Sequoia Capital US, said “Bubble Motion has continued to impress us with their developments over the past year and a half. With a solid track record of success, a seasoned and experienced leadership team in place, and some phenomenal usage statistics, it is not surprising that the company received so much interest from the VC community.”
How This Company Is Growing:
Over 135 million consumers currently use the BubbleTALK service, which provides a ‘click, talk, and send’ short voice messaging service that works on any mobile phone. Operators have been implementing the BubbleTALK service because it gives them a fun and easy-to-use new service that increases Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) without the need for any additional network infrastructure.
More at:www.bubblemotion.com.
Bubble Motion is the pioneer and global leader for 'voice SMS'. The company offers the award-winning BubbleTALK service, and works with mobile operators around the world to create a global network of asynchronous voice messaging and advanced voice content applications.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Bubble Motion, the pioneer and global leader of ‘voice SMS’, announced $14 million in additional funding from existing investors Sequoia Capital US and Sequoia Capital India, as well as new investors Comcast Interactive Capital and NCD Investors.
This additional funding will allow the company to further develop and expand the award-winning BubbleTALK platform, and will enable the company to focus on securing additional operator partnerships around the world.
What VCs Says About Company:
Gaurav Garg, Sequoia Capital US, said “Bubble Motion has continued to impress us with their developments over the past year and a half. With a solid track record of success, a seasoned and experienced leadership team in place, and some phenomenal usage statistics, it is not surprising that the company received so much interest from the VC community.”
How This Company Is Growing:
Over 135 million consumers currently use the BubbleTALK service, which provides a ‘click, talk, and send’ short voice messaging service that works on any mobile phone. Operators have been implementing the BubbleTALK service because it gives them a fun and easy-to-use new service that increases Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) without the need for any additional network infrastructure.
More at:www.bubblemotion.com.
Skydeck is an online service that helps people to take control of their cell phones and their cell phone bills
What Company Is Offering:
Skydeck is an online service that helps people to take control of their cell phones and their cell phone bills.
How It Works:
Skydeck first unlocks the valuable information hidden in your cell phone bill. Their secure software fetches your bills from your cell phone company and combines that information with your address book to show you your true social network: the people you talk to and text every day.
For the first time you can search your calls the way you've always been able to search your email. You can organize your address book by who is important to you and who you need to call back, not just alphabetical order. You can see where your money goes. And because their software also tracks your usage, you'll never get a surprise bill again.
More at:http://skydeck.com/
Skydeck is an online service that helps people to take control of their cell phones and their cell phone bills.
How It Works:
Skydeck first unlocks the valuable information hidden in your cell phone bill. Their secure software fetches your bills from your cell phone company and combines that information with your address book to show you your true social network: the people you talk to and text every day.
For the first time you can search your calls the way you've always been able to search your email. You can organize your address book by who is important to you and who you need to call back, not just alphabetical order. You can see where your money goes. And because their software also tracks your usage, you'll never get a surprise bill again.
More at:http://skydeck.com/
weplay is the ultimate destination for the youth sports community
What Company Is Offering:
weplay is the ultimate destination for the youth sports community. Their mission is to enable and enhance the joy of sports for kids, families, coaches and fans both online and on the field. They built a fun, educational, informative and safe site that allows people to connect, share, learn and have fun! They also bring this community together with their weplay pros: Derek Jeter, Jennie Finch, Lebron James and Peyton Manning and many more-- all of whom played on youth sports teams. They know firsthand what all the research says, that children learn valuable lessons by playing sports that benefit them later in life. They learn important skills like leadership, teamwork, winning, losing, good nutrition, good health and perseverance..
How It Works:
Once you're a registered weplay user, which takes just a matter of seconds, you'll find activities, teammates, friends and all sorts of groups that cater to your many diverse interests in youth sports and activities. Create a group and invite friends and family around common interests or specific teams and clubs. You can create private or public groups and invite friends and family members to join. And because you control all your information, you decide who sees or doesn't see it. weplay's industry leading security and privacy settings also ensure members of all ages can have a meaningful and safe experience interacting with friends online.
More at:http://www.weplay.com/
weplay is the ultimate destination for the youth sports community. Their mission is to enable and enhance the joy of sports for kids, families, coaches and fans both online and on the field. They built a fun, educational, informative and safe site that allows people to connect, share, learn and have fun! They also bring this community together with their weplay pros: Derek Jeter, Jennie Finch, Lebron James and Peyton Manning and many more-- all of whom played on youth sports teams. They know firsthand what all the research says, that children learn valuable lessons by playing sports that benefit them later in life. They learn important skills like leadership, teamwork, winning, losing, good nutrition, good health and perseverance..
How It Works:
Once you're a registered weplay user, which takes just a matter of seconds, you'll find activities, teammates, friends and all sorts of groups that cater to your many diverse interests in youth sports and activities. Create a group and invite friends and family around common interests or specific teams and clubs. You can create private or public groups and invite friends and family members to join. And because you control all your information, you decide who sees or doesn't see it. weplay's industry leading security and privacy settings also ensure members of all ages can have a meaningful and safe experience interacting with friends online.
More at:http://www.weplay.com/
Stickam is where you will find your friends and your fans, LIVE
What Company Is Offering:
Stickam is where you will find your friends and your fans, LIVE!
See and be seen at Stickam, the LIVE community.
How It Works:
First, if you want to use your Web Cam make sure no other application is using it. (e.g. MSN, AIM, Photo Booth, etc.) Usually only one application at a time can access your Web Cam. Be sure the camera you are using is plugged in and on before launching your web browser.
Go to your "Edit Videos" page and click on the "Record Video" button on the right. Videos recorded using this function will automatically be uploaded to your movie gallery page. You can also record while your are Live. Simply hit the record button to begin recording your live stream.If a visitor is viewing your web cam, you will see the number of viewers the right of the yellow "lurker" icon above the list of people in your host chat. If the visitor has entered chat mode, you will see the name of the person on the right-hand side of the chat box.
When you 'Go Live', the volume button to the left of your chat window controls the volume of your microphone. You can also adjust your microphone settings by right-clicking the chat window (on PC) or pressing CTRL + click (on a Mac) and clicking 'Settings'.
More at:http://www.stickam.com/
Stickam is where you will find your friends and your fans, LIVE!
See and be seen at Stickam, the LIVE community.
How It Works:
First, if you want to use your Web Cam make sure no other application is using it. (e.g. MSN, AIM, Photo Booth, etc.) Usually only one application at a time can access your Web Cam. Be sure the camera you are using is plugged in and on before launching your web browser.
Go to your "Edit Videos" page and click on the "Record Video" button on the right. Videos recorded using this function will automatically be uploaded to your movie gallery page. You can also record while your are Live. Simply hit the record button to begin recording your live stream.If a visitor is viewing your web cam, you will see the number of viewers the right of the yellow "lurker" icon above the list of people in your host chat. If the visitor has entered chat mode, you will see the name of the person on the right-hand side of the chat box.
When you 'Go Live', the volume button to the left of your chat window controls the volume of your microphone. You can also adjust your microphone settings by right-clicking the chat window (on PC) or pressing CTRL + click (on a Mac) and clicking 'Settings'.
More at:http://www.stickam.com/
UserVoice is a way to harness the innovation and ideas of customers and potential customers
What Company Is Offering:
UserVoice is a way to harness the innovation and ideas of customers and potential customers. UserVoice helps companies, bloggers and community leaders answer the question “What do users really want?”
How It Works:
It’s a way to improve the signal-to-noise of user opinion, and to moderate the ideas of one against the opinions of the many. It’s Satisfaction meets Digg. It’s focus groups for companies that can’t afford focus groups.
End users will see UserVoice as the best channel for customer feedback to any company. They will rely on UserVoice to voice opinions, suggestions, and complaints, because UserVoice will be more accessible and effective (through transparency and strength in numbers) than the official site.
More at:http://uservoice.com/
UserVoice is a way to harness the innovation and ideas of customers and potential customers. UserVoice helps companies, bloggers and community leaders answer the question “What do users really want?”
How It Works:
It’s a way to improve the signal-to-noise of user opinion, and to moderate the ideas of one against the opinions of the many. It’s Satisfaction meets Digg. It’s focus groups for companies that can’t afford focus groups.
End users will see UserVoice as the best channel for customer feedback to any company. They will rely on UserVoice to voice opinions, suggestions, and complaints, because UserVoice will be more accessible and effective (through transparency and strength in numbers) than the official site.
More at:http://uservoice.com/
CraveOnline.com is your source for everything that males crave on the net
What Company Is Offering:
CraveOnline.com is your source for everything that males crave on the net. They have everything you need from Videos and Music, to Video Games and Movie News & Trailers. They strive to get you the most up-to-date and coolest stuff around the web.
More at:http://www.craveonline.com/
CraveOnline.com is your source for everything that males crave on the net. They have everything you need from Videos and Music, to Video Games and Movie News & Trailers. They strive to get you the most up-to-date and coolest stuff around the web.
More at:http://www.craveonline.com/
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Viva Vision, a premier content and applications provider for mobile entertainment has raised an additional $2 million in funding
What Company Is Offering:
Viva Vision, a Santa Monica, CA based company, is the leading provider of entertainment applications and content for slide shows, video on demand, and live video for mobile phones. Viva Vision delivers programming to the broadest number of handsets through its suite of broadcast platforms, and also produces its own original consumer-driven content. Working with its world-class partners, Viva Vision is able to reach over 250 million wireless subscribers worldwide.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Viva Vision, a premier content and applications provider for mobile entertainment, announced that it raised an additional $2 million in funding from Medical Capital Corporation, a private equity company. Following a turn-around year for Viva Vision, the additional funding allows the company to scale its business, support its growing user base, and further grow distribution.
More at:www.vivavision.com
Viva Vision, a Santa Monica, CA based company, is the leading provider of entertainment applications and content for slide shows, video on demand, and live video for mobile phones. Viva Vision delivers programming to the broadest number of handsets through its suite of broadcast platforms, and also produces its own original consumer-driven content. Working with its world-class partners, Viva Vision is able to reach over 250 million wireless subscribers worldwide.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Viva Vision, a premier content and applications provider for mobile entertainment, announced that it raised an additional $2 million in funding from Medical Capital Corporation, a private equity company. Following a turn-around year for Viva Vision, the additional funding allows the company to scale its business, support its growing user base, and further grow distribution.
More at:www.vivavision.com
Become.com ,the Web’s fastest-growing site for comparison shopping got $17.5 million Series C
What Company Is Offering:
Become.com is a powerful search engine and comparison shopping service. Become.com helps people make better buying decisions and purchases online. Become.com searches over 5.6 billion web pages and uses its patent-pending AIR(Affinity Index Ranking) search technology to provide the Internet's most useful product reviews and guides, and then makes it easy to find and buy products from brand name retailers at the best prices. With over 25 million products from 5000 merchants, Become.com provides the Web's most robust and easy to use combination of relevant product research and comparison shopping. Founded by industry pioneers Michael Yang and Yeogirl Yun, creators of MySimon.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Become.com ,the Web’s fastest-growing site for comparison shopping, announced that TPG Growth has made a $17.5 million Series C investment in Become.com.
How Is Market Of That Kind Of Company:
A survey of shopping habits from Accenture found that 69 percent of respondents now research products online, 68 percent compare prices online before shopping in a physical store and 58 percent locate items online before going to a store to purchase.
· Independent firm comScore Media Metrix ranked Become.com the fourth-fastest-growing Website of any kind in October 2007. Become.com’s site traffic grew 260% from February 2007 to February 2008.
About VCs:
TPG Growth is the venture, growth and smaller buyout investment platform of TPG, the global private investment firm. With more than $2.5 billion under management, TPG Growth targets investments in technology, life science, biotechnology, renewables, and consumer companies utilizing venture capital, growth equity, public equity and leveraged buyout structures. The firm is backed by the resources of TPG with more than $50 billion of assets under management. TPG Growth has offices in the US, China and India. TPG also brings specific expertise in the retail industry, with a history of successful retail investment in leading companies such as J.Crew and Debenhams. For more information, please visit www.tpg.com.
More at: www.become.com.
Become.com is a powerful search engine and comparison shopping service. Become.com helps people make better buying decisions and purchases online. Become.com searches over 5.6 billion web pages and uses its patent-pending AIR(Affinity Index Ranking) search technology to provide the Internet's most useful product reviews and guides, and then makes it easy to find and buy products from brand name retailers at the best prices. With over 25 million products from 5000 merchants, Become.com provides the Web's most robust and easy to use combination of relevant product research and comparison shopping. Founded by industry pioneers Michael Yang and Yeogirl Yun, creators of MySimon.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Become.com ,the Web’s fastest-growing site for comparison shopping, announced that TPG Growth has made a $17.5 million Series C investment in Become.com.
How Is Market Of That Kind Of Company:
A survey of shopping habits from Accenture found that 69 percent of respondents now research products online, 68 percent compare prices online before shopping in a physical store and 58 percent locate items online before going to a store to purchase.
· Independent firm comScore Media Metrix ranked Become.com the fourth-fastest-growing Website of any kind in October 2007. Become.com’s site traffic grew 260% from February 2007 to February 2008.
About VCs:
TPG Growth is the venture, growth and smaller buyout investment platform of TPG, the global private investment firm. With more than $2.5 billion under management, TPG Growth targets investments in technology, life science, biotechnology, renewables, and consumer companies utilizing venture capital, growth equity, public equity and leveraged buyout structures. The firm is backed by the resources of TPG with more than $50 billion of assets under management. TPG Growth has offices in the US, China and India. TPG also brings specific expertise in the retail industry, with a history of successful retail investment in leading companies such as J.Crew and Debenhams. For more information, please visit www.tpg.com.
More at: www.become.com.
OpenService, a Marlborough, Mass.-based provider of enterprise event management solutions, has raised an undisclosed amount of Series D funding
What Company Is Offering:
OpenService improves the reliability, performance and security of the world's most complex enterprise networks. The company specializes in Enterprise Event Management (EEM) software that scales to high volume, global implementations in use by hundreds of the world's best-known enterprises. OpenService's InfoCenter is comprised of NerveCenter, LogCenter and ThreatCenter providing event correlation, log management, compliance solutions and security for the entire enterprise.
How Much They Got From VCs:
OpenService, a Marlborough, Mass.-based provider of enterprise event management solutions, has raised an undisclosed amount of Series D funding. Return backers include Advent International and Hudson Ventures. The company had previously raised around $19 million.
Where They Will Use Fund:
CEO Schmitt said the new round of investments "will provide us with the resources we need to promote one of the industry's best-kept secrets." Schmitt added, "Bill and I also look forward to expanding the company's efforts to help companies keep their businesses running by reducing IT risk without giving up comprising business agility."
More at:http://www.openservice.com/
OpenService improves the reliability, performance and security of the world's most complex enterprise networks. The company specializes in Enterprise Event Management (EEM) software that scales to high volume, global implementations in use by hundreds of the world's best-known enterprises. OpenService's InfoCenter is comprised of NerveCenter, LogCenter and ThreatCenter providing event correlation, log management, compliance solutions and security for the entire enterprise.
How Much They Got From VCs:
OpenService, a Marlborough, Mass.-based provider of enterprise event management solutions, has raised an undisclosed amount of Series D funding. Return backers include Advent International and Hudson Ventures. The company had previously raised around $19 million.
Where They Will Use Fund:
CEO Schmitt said the new round of investments "will provide us with the resources we need to promote one of the industry's best-kept secrets." Schmitt added, "Bill and I also look forward to expanding the company's efforts to help companies keep their businesses running by reducing IT risk without giving up comprising business agility."
More at:http://www.openservice.com/
Broadcast LIVE video from your mobile phone onto your website
What Company Is Offering:
Broadcast LIVE video from your mobile phone
over 3G or WiFi onto your website. Or use your phone as a bluetooth webcam in Mac OS X. Free and Open Source.
How It Works:
Open the application manager within the installations folder, choose settings from the menu, and set it to allow installation of "all" applications. You might also need to disable online certificate check at the same place.
You will also get this error if the phone's clock is set to a date earlier than the application's certificate creation date. Make sure your phone is configured with proper date and time.
Any program that can handle both the file format, the codecs and the transport method, should be able to play the stream if you know the URL of your stream. One way of finding the URL is to check the XML feed provided by the video server you are streaming through.
More at:http://www.movino.org/
Broadcast LIVE video from your mobile phone
over 3G or WiFi onto your website. Or use your phone as a bluetooth webcam in Mac OS X. Free and Open Source.
How It Works:
Open the application manager within the installations folder, choose settings from the menu, and set it to allow installation of "all" applications. You might also need to disable online certificate check at the same place.
You will also get this error if the phone's clock is set to a date earlier than the application's certificate creation date. Make sure your phone is configured with proper date and time.
Any program that can handle both the file format, the codecs and the transport method, should be able to play the stream if you know the URL of your stream. One way of finding the URL is to check the XML feed provided by the video server you are streaming through.
More at:http://www.movino.org/
SkillsTM to find skilled people
What Company Is Offering:
SkillsTM offers an advanced feature called "Broadcasting." Broadcasting allows a person to connect with a group of specifically skilled people on a variety of topics. For example, a user can broadcast an opportunity. Once posted, he/she will be immediately be presented with a list of potential matches to peruse proactively.
Unlike standard social networks that connect people together by who they know, SkillsTM connects people by what they know and do. Use SkillsTM to find skilled people. Use SkillsTM to be discovered based on your skills.
How It Works:
Student entrepreneurs can use SkillsTM to network and build up their team within their School or University. Use SkillsTM.com to leverage a community of specifically skilled people to find exactly who or what you need. They have a fully implemented Facebook application, so people can proudly display their skills on their Facebook page.
Based on the proprietary Lanxer Database engine, SkillsTM introduces Wiki Style Parametric Search. The search is not keywords based, but is rather hierarchically structured. Members can “Search Within” any combination of skills to find people with the exact skill set they desire. If the skills you want to search on aren’t there you can simply add them without even leaving the search screen. We also have standard keyword search but it is enhanced by our hierarchical structure.
Users don’t have to rely only on search to connect with skilled people. One does not have to rely on people finding the opportunity as qualified people are automatically informed. Users can also broadcast a question or a discussion in a similar fashion and generate a rapport with skilled professionals in our community.
They also provide fully integrated chat and messaging to further facilitating the networking process.
Who Is Backing Them:
Robert Lancer - President, Founder and Developer
Robert was not satisfied with the outmoded ridged relational database solutions, so he developed a new database architecture with its own engine to power it: the Lanxer Database Engine (Xerbase). Then, he set out to build applications with his new database technology to demonstrate its power. Robert has had the idea for SkillsTM.com for a long time. He always thought the standard ways of finding and connecting with skilled people were inadequate, and that a community such as SkillsTM.com could greatly help many people connect and become better informed.
Dan Roberts - Technology Analyst / Physicist and Co-founder
Dan immediately recognized the potential in Robert's idea and set out to make himself part of Lanxer. His role at Lanxer is multifaceted, from guiding the development of our products, doing research, testing, creating product demos, writing white-papers, and more. Outside of Lanxer, Dan is a fulltime Physics and ECE major at Duke University, where he conducts physics research in the field of transformation optics (which includes designing invisibility cloaks). When he is not working on SkillsTM or making objects invisible, he plays bass guitar in his band, Rosedale.
More at:http://skillstm.com/
SkillsTM offers an advanced feature called "Broadcasting." Broadcasting allows a person to connect with a group of specifically skilled people on a variety of topics. For example, a user can broadcast an opportunity. Once posted, he/she will be immediately be presented with a list of potential matches to peruse proactively.
Unlike standard social networks that connect people together by who they know, SkillsTM connects people by what they know and do. Use SkillsTM to find skilled people. Use SkillsTM to be discovered based on your skills.
How It Works:
Student entrepreneurs can use SkillsTM to network and build up their team within their School or University. Use SkillsTM.com to leverage a community of specifically skilled people to find exactly who or what you need. They have a fully implemented Facebook application, so people can proudly display their skills on their Facebook page.
Based on the proprietary Lanxer Database engine, SkillsTM introduces Wiki Style Parametric Search. The search is not keywords based, but is rather hierarchically structured. Members can “Search Within” any combination of skills to find people with the exact skill set they desire. If the skills you want to search on aren’t there you can simply add them without even leaving the search screen. We also have standard keyword search but it is enhanced by our hierarchical structure.
Users don’t have to rely only on search to connect with skilled people. One does not have to rely on people finding the opportunity as qualified people are automatically informed. Users can also broadcast a question or a discussion in a similar fashion and generate a rapport with skilled professionals in our community.
They also provide fully integrated chat and messaging to further facilitating the networking process.
Who Is Backing Them:
Robert Lancer - President, Founder and Developer
Robert was not satisfied with the outmoded ridged relational database solutions, so he developed a new database architecture with its own engine to power it: the Lanxer Database Engine (Xerbase). Then, he set out to build applications with his new database technology to demonstrate its power. Robert has had the idea for SkillsTM.com for a long time. He always thought the standard ways of finding and connecting with skilled people were inadequate, and that a community such as SkillsTM.com could greatly help many people connect and become better informed.
Dan Roberts - Technology Analyst / Physicist and Co-founder
Dan immediately recognized the potential in Robert's idea and set out to make himself part of Lanxer. His role at Lanxer is multifaceted, from guiding the development of our products, doing research, testing, creating product demos, writing white-papers, and more. Outside of Lanxer, Dan is a fulltime Physics and ECE major at Duke University, where he conducts physics research in the field of transformation optics (which includes designing invisibility cloaks). When he is not working on SkillsTM or making objects invisible, he plays bass guitar in his band, Rosedale.
More at:http://skillstm.com/
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Mogopop is a free web-based service where members and visitors can create, publish and download multimedia content for iPod
What Company Is Offering:
Mogopop is a free web-based service where members and visitors can create, publish and download multimedia content for iPod. This content that can incorporate audio, video, pictures, podcasts, text – whatever our members’ minds can imagine, they can create. Mogopop downloads are like mini-Websites for iPod that anyone can enjoy.
How It Works:
To register with Mogopop click "Sign Up/Log In" from the homepage. Then click "Register." After you've filled in your information, an email confirmation will be sent to you. In the email, click the confirmation link and you will be sent to the "Log In" page at Mogopop.com. You can now login using the Username and Password you've selected.Once signed in, click "My Mogopop" on the top of the homepage. Then click "My account." Find the "Your Password" tab, change your password, then click save.
More at:http://www.mogopop.com/
Mogopop is a free web-based service where members and visitors can create, publish and download multimedia content for iPod. This content that can incorporate audio, video, pictures, podcasts, text – whatever our members’ minds can imagine, they can create. Mogopop downloads are like mini-Websites for iPod that anyone can enjoy.
How It Works:
To register with Mogopop click "Sign Up/Log In" from the homepage. Then click "Register." After you've filled in your information, an email confirmation will be sent to you. In the email, click the confirmation link and you will be sent to the "Log In" page at Mogopop.com. You can now login using the Username and Password you've selected.Once signed in, click "My Mogopop" on the top of the homepage. Then click "My account." Find the "Your Password" tab, change your password, then click save.
More at:http://www.mogopop.com/
Monday, March 24, 2008
For Netrepreneur
If you read this article, chances are you are planning to start your own business online, but you are still in doubt whether it is right for you. Here’s a list of advantages of going online.
* Start on a shoestring. Building a business online, you may or may not need additional funding. There are many ways to start an online venture. If you are lack of capital to start a business, you can always start small and grow from there. A lot of Internet business models allow you to start on a shoestring. You may be surprised to know the figure. I used to start a business for under $50. My monthly spending for various necessity for the business doesn’t exceed $100. That, of course, doesn’t include advertising expense, because I think of that as an investment. It actually makes money instead of spending it. How many business can you start and maintain with that?
* You’re in control (or be your own boss.) Internet entrepreneurship is often illustrated with an individual working from home, in the bedroom or the kitchen, in underwear. That may not be an actual benefit for a lot of us, but at least it drives the point home. You can do what you want without the need to wear suit and all the formalities. Of course, the rest of it, like business relationship has a lot of similarities. As your own boss, you control your business. With it comes responsibilities though.
* Enormous earning potential. When it comes to the earning potential, solopreneur who works from home earns anywhere from four-, five- and even six-figure income. The sky is the limit. You can keep it small and manageable or hire a team to work for you and grow the business to any level you want.
* Automation possibilities. You can automate a lot of components of the business, including but not limited to, order and payment processing, inventory management, customer support, follow up via email, and so on.
* Global presence and reach. Brick and mortar business is limited by location. A huge factor of success of the business depends on the location of the business. On the Internet, this factor doesn’t event exist. By establish an online business, you have the possibilities to reach global market. Combining this with the minimal investment, it becomes a very lucrative venture.
* Measurable and effective marketing methods. There’s nothing that brings more measurable results than the Internet. Direct response marketers will be excited to jump on this medium. Best of all, you can start getting results of different tests in a few minutes. Compare it with traditional marketing which needs weeks, if not months, to get accurate results.
Link--Virtual Entrepreneur
* Start on a shoestring. Building a business online, you may or may not need additional funding. There are many ways to start an online venture. If you are lack of capital to start a business, you can always start small and grow from there. A lot of Internet business models allow you to start on a shoestring. You may be surprised to know the figure. I used to start a business for under $50. My monthly spending for various necessity for the business doesn’t exceed $100. That, of course, doesn’t include advertising expense, because I think of that as an investment. It actually makes money instead of spending it. How many business can you start and maintain with that?
* You’re in control (or be your own boss.) Internet entrepreneurship is often illustrated with an individual working from home, in the bedroom or the kitchen, in underwear. That may not be an actual benefit for a lot of us, but at least it drives the point home. You can do what you want without the need to wear suit and all the formalities. Of course, the rest of it, like business relationship has a lot of similarities. As your own boss, you control your business. With it comes responsibilities though.
* Enormous earning potential. When it comes to the earning potential, solopreneur who works from home earns anywhere from four-, five- and even six-figure income. The sky is the limit. You can keep it small and manageable or hire a team to work for you and grow the business to any level you want.
* Automation possibilities. You can automate a lot of components of the business, including but not limited to, order and payment processing, inventory management, customer support, follow up via email, and so on.
* Global presence and reach. Brick and mortar business is limited by location. A huge factor of success of the business depends on the location of the business. On the Internet, this factor doesn’t event exist. By establish an online business, you have the possibilities to reach global market. Combining this with the minimal investment, it becomes a very lucrative venture.
* Measurable and effective marketing methods. There’s nothing that brings more measurable results than the Internet. Direct response marketers will be excited to jump on this medium. Best of all, you can start getting results of different tests in a few minutes. Compare it with traditional marketing which needs weeks, if not months, to get accurate results.
Link--Virtual Entrepreneur
MindBites is a self-publishing platform that allows anyone to share what they know by means of audio and video lessons
What Company Is Offering:
MindBites is a place where anyone can design, create and post instructional content for sale. They offer real people, individuals like you, a self-publishing platform to share their knowledge, skills and passions with others through audio and video lessons. These lessons can be promoted and previewed across the web, where others can purchase and download them using credits costing as low as $1.69. The result is an inspiring community of discovery that hopes to revolutionize the way the world shares knowledge.
How It Works:
MindBites is a self-publishing platform that allows anyone to share what they know by means of audio and video lessons. Aided by our Author Enablement toolset, authors can create content utilizing basic consumer tools and upload them to our site via their home internet connection. With customized titles, descriptions, and preview images, your lessons are promoted with ease and professionalism to a worldwide audience. Additionally, authors can upload auxialliary materials to compliment their lesson, such as text documents, pictures, and graphs.
Users are then able to browse, preview and purchase the author's lessons using credits purchased at MindBites for as low as $1.69. Once purchased, the media files are available to be viewed in the user's browser or downloaded for future use. Documentation of these purchases can be found under your MyMindBites page.
More at:http://www.mindbites.com/
MindBites is a place where anyone can design, create and post instructional content for sale. They offer real people, individuals like you, a self-publishing platform to share their knowledge, skills and passions with others through audio and video lessons. These lessons can be promoted and previewed across the web, where others can purchase and download them using credits costing as low as $1.69. The result is an inspiring community of discovery that hopes to revolutionize the way the world shares knowledge.
How It Works:
MindBites is a self-publishing platform that allows anyone to share what they know by means of audio and video lessons. Aided by our Author Enablement toolset, authors can create content utilizing basic consumer tools and upload them to our site via their home internet connection. With customized titles, descriptions, and preview images, your lessons are promoted with ease and professionalism to a worldwide audience. Additionally, authors can upload auxialliary materials to compliment their lesson, such as text documents, pictures, and graphs.
Users are then able to browse, preview and purchase the author's lessons using credits purchased at MindBites for as low as $1.69. Once purchased, the media files are available to be viewed in the user's browser or downloaded for future use. Documentation of these purchases can be found under your MyMindBites page.
More at:http://www.mindbites.com/
picapp.com is a free online service for adding high-quality stock photos to blogs and websites
What Company Is Offering:
picapp.com is a free online service for adding high-quality stock photos to blogs and websites – without the copyright and legal headaches. Registration is free, and picapp.com members have legal access to the best and most current stock photo collections on the web. Inserting picapp.com images on your site is as easy as 1-2-3.
How It Works:
A picapp image enables publishers, bloggers, and website owners to incorporate high-end images from stock photography
leaders in their online destination. The content is licensed to the publisher free of charge under the website terms
and includes an advertising mechanism to facilitate royalties to the content owners.
More at:http://www.picapp.com/
picapp.com is a free online service for adding high-quality stock photos to blogs and websites – without the copyright and legal headaches. Registration is free, and picapp.com members have legal access to the best and most current stock photo collections on the web. Inserting picapp.com images on your site is as easy as 1-2-3.
How It Works:
A picapp image enables publishers, bloggers, and website owners to incorporate high-end images from stock photography
leaders in their online destination. The content is licensed to the publisher free of charge under the website terms
and includes an advertising mechanism to facilitate royalties to the content owners.
More at:http://www.picapp.com/
Track, compare and share data, free. Identify trends across social graphs and networks, realize the potential of p2p
What Company Is Offering:
Track, compare and share data, free. Identify trends across social graphs and networks, realize the potential of p2p, track engagement metrics, look at what is really happening, real time.
Track the popularity and awareness of trends across a variety of inputs, ranging from social networks, to blog buzz and video views downloads, all in real time. Compare trends to one another, monitoring and evaluating their status across a variety of sources. Share favorite trends with friends and other users and discover new trends that other users are already aware of and tracking.
How It Works:
Use Trendrr to monitor the popularity surrounding your favorite up and coming artist, new TV show, or movie that just went into development. Track just how many friends your candidate of choice has and just how many people are favoriting their latest video.Compare the popularity of anything, across any input, and draw your own conclusions. See what people are saying and project what you think the effects of this data will be.Blog about interesting data or trends you’ve identified and share and raise awareness regarding things you think are on the rise. Use Trendrr to support your claims with graphs and data.
More at:http://trendrr.com/
Track, compare and share data, free. Identify trends across social graphs and networks, realize the potential of p2p, track engagement metrics, look at what is really happening, real time.
Track the popularity and awareness of trends across a variety of inputs, ranging from social networks, to blog buzz and video views downloads, all in real time. Compare trends to one another, monitoring and evaluating their status across a variety of sources. Share favorite trends with friends and other users and discover new trends that other users are already aware of and tracking.
How It Works:
Use Trendrr to monitor the popularity surrounding your favorite up and coming artist, new TV show, or movie that just went into development. Track just how many friends your candidate of choice has and just how many people are favoriting their latest video.Compare the popularity of anything, across any input, and draw your own conclusions. See what people are saying and project what you think the effects of this data will be.Blog about interesting data or trends you’ve identified and share and raise awareness regarding things you think are on the rise. Use Trendrr to support your claims with graphs and data.
More at:http://trendrr.com/
Post your myHomeShop ---The first platform for Web cam classifieds
What Company Is Offering:
Post your myHomeShop with your webcam today. The first platform for Web cam classifieds.
How It Works:
To take down your video, sign in to the channel and select Show my Videos half way down the Manage Your Profile screen in Content. If you are already signed in, click the Manage Your Profile link, then Show my Videos. On the next page, you’ll see a Remove this Video link next to each clip.
More at:http://www.myhomeshop.info/
Post your myHomeShop with your webcam today. The first platform for Web cam classifieds.
How It Works:
To take down your video, sign in to the channel and select Show my Videos half way down the Manage Your Profile screen in Content. If you are already signed in, click the Manage Your Profile link, then Show my Videos. On the next page, you’ll see a Remove this Video link next to each clip.
More at:http://www.myhomeshop.info/
Act-On is an on-demand business service
What Company Is Offering:
Act-On is an on-demand business service that enables you to engage more effectively with prospects & customers at every stage of your sales funnel.
They provide a next-generation communication and collaboration service that transforms business e-mail into a true 24/7 customer interaction management service.
How It Works:
Act-On service is intended for use by every customer- and market-facing professional, it has been designed from the ground up to be easy to learn and use, while still providing a rich set of features and capabilities.
The pricing makes it simple for you. You pay a low monthly price based on your list size, and get a very rich set of features and capabilities. There are no per-message fees or other hidden fees, and there is no long term contract to sign.
More at:http://www.actonsoftware.com/
Act-On is an on-demand business service that enables you to engage more effectively with prospects & customers at every stage of your sales funnel.
They provide a next-generation communication and collaboration service that transforms business e-mail into a true 24/7 customer interaction management service.
How It Works:
Act-On service is intended for use by every customer- and market-facing professional, it has been designed from the ground up to be easy to learn and use, while still providing a rich set of features and capabilities.
The pricing makes it simple for you. You pay a low monthly price based on your list size, and get a very rich set of features and capabilities. There are no per-message fees or other hidden fees, and there is no long term contract to sign.
More at:http://www.actonsoftware.com/
Inspectd.com allows you to test your stock market skills against real historical data
What Company Is Offering:
Inspectd.com allows you to test your stock market skills against real historical data. They'll show you a random chart from the past, and you try to guess whether the stock rose or dropped. They'll even give you $100,000 in play money to test your skill.
More at:http://www.inspectd.com/
Inspectd.com allows you to test your stock market skills against real historical data. They'll show you a random chart from the past, and you try to guess whether the stock rose or dropped. They'll even give you $100,000 in play money to test your skill.
More at:http://www.inspectd.com/
What Company Is Offering:
Siterake allows site owners to chart the performance of their site in the search engines. Siterake is also a great tool for search engine optimisation consultants. Chart your high performance search phrases now.
How It Works:
You may upload log files of type: zip, gz, tar, and bzip only. Using 'grep' they record all referrers that match Google, Yahoo or Live Search. All bot referrers are removed. With each of the referrers, all the relevant information is ripped including time, search query, referring URL, region/country info and user agent.
Regional information is based on the domain of the referring search engine.
More at:http://siterake.com/
Siterake allows site owners to chart the performance of their site in the search engines. Siterake is also a great tool for search engine optimisation consultants. Chart your high performance search phrases now.
How It Works:
You may upload log files of type: zip, gz, tar, and bzip only. Using 'grep' they record all referrers that match Google, Yahoo or Live Search. All bot referrers are removed. With each of the referrers, all the relevant information is ripped including time, search query, referring URL, region/country info and user agent.
Regional information is based on the domain of the referring search engine.
More at:http://siterake.com/
Ping.fm is a simple service that cuts out the middle man when it comes to posting to your social services
About Company:
Ping.fm is a simple service that cuts out the middle man when it comes to posting to your social services such as Facebook, Twitter, Jaiku, Tumblr and Pownce with more being added soon.
Ping.fm was created for the sole purpose of making it as easy as possible to share your posts with the world. Now you don't have to fumble around the web in order to post anymore, you can just post once, and be done with it.
The idea came about when making some posts to Twitter and Tumblr. The idea of posting the exact same information in two places seemed a bit tedious, so Ping.fm was born.
More at:http://ping.fm/
Ping.fm is a simple service that cuts out the middle man when it comes to posting to your social services such as Facebook, Twitter, Jaiku, Tumblr and Pownce with more being added soon.
Ping.fm was created for the sole purpose of making it as easy as possible to share your posts with the world. Now you don't have to fumble around the web in order to post anymore, you can just post once, and be done with it.
The idea came about when making some posts to Twitter and Tumblr. The idea of posting the exact same information in two places seemed a bit tedious, so Ping.fm was born.
More at:http://ping.fm/
Friday, March 21, 2008
Ben Franklin to Invest $335,000 in Early-Stage Companies
The Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania (BFTP/NEP) board approved investments of $335,000 in three Pennsylvania companies. BFTP/NEP is a state-funded economic development organization that links early-stage companies and established manufacturers with experts, universities, funding, and other resources to help them prosper through innovation.
BFTP/NEP plans to invest in the following companies:
Advanced-Tec Materials Corporation, Hazleton
Investment: $35,000
Provide strategic direction to this manufacturer of specialized industrial materials derived from coal-combustion by-products. Products incorporating these formulations include thermal insulation and fireproofing, environmentally-friendly “green" construction materials, shoe insoles, and various consumables in the automotive and cosmetic markets. Advanced-Tec will further develop its comprehensive business plan and its intellectual property strategy, and conduct material testing requisite for UL and other certifications.
Element ID, Inc., Bethlehem
Investment: $150,000
Test a new Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) reader prototype at several trial sites, and begin commercializing with a full-scale sales launch. Element ID’s readers utilize proprietary software that provides superior read rates and eliminates interference problems associated with other readers on the market. These RFID tag readers will be sold to material-handling companies worldwide.
Third Eye Diagnostics, Inc., Bethlehem
Investment: $150,000
Conduct prototype development and clinical studies leading to the commercialization of a medical device for non-invasively monitoring intracranial pressure. Intracranial pressure monitoring is a common tool for physicians treating patients with a severe head injury, intracranial hemorrhage, or swelling due to a stroke. This non-invasive technique substantially lowers patient risk and associated costs.
Contact:
Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern
Pennsylvania (BFTP/NEP)
Laura S. Eppler, Director of Marketing, 610-758-5237
leppler@nep.benfranklin.org
BFTP/NEP plans to invest in the following companies:
Advanced-Tec Materials Corporation, Hazleton
Investment: $35,000
Provide strategic direction to this manufacturer of specialized industrial materials derived from coal-combustion by-products. Products incorporating these formulations include thermal insulation and fireproofing, environmentally-friendly “green" construction materials, shoe insoles, and various consumables in the automotive and cosmetic markets. Advanced-Tec will further develop its comprehensive business plan and its intellectual property strategy, and conduct material testing requisite for UL and other certifications.
Element ID, Inc., Bethlehem
Investment: $150,000
Test a new Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) reader prototype at several trial sites, and begin commercializing with a full-scale sales launch. Element ID’s readers utilize proprietary software that provides superior read rates and eliminates interference problems associated with other readers on the market. These RFID tag readers will be sold to material-handling companies worldwide.
Third Eye Diagnostics, Inc., Bethlehem
Investment: $150,000
Conduct prototype development and clinical studies leading to the commercialization of a medical device for non-invasively monitoring intracranial pressure. Intracranial pressure monitoring is a common tool for physicians treating patients with a severe head injury, intracranial hemorrhage, or swelling due to a stroke. This non-invasive technique substantially lowers patient risk and associated costs.
Contact:
Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern
Pennsylvania (BFTP/NEP)
Laura S. Eppler, Director of Marketing, 610-758-5237
leppler@nep.benfranklin.org
Retrevo, Inc., the matchmaking service between consumers and electronics that simplifies people’s relationship lifecycle with electronic products
What Company Is Offering:
Retrevo is the first matchmaking service for people and electronics that makes finding, buying and using electronics products simple and fun. Retrevo’s AI based service aggregates, classifies and summarizes relevant information on electronics products from both industry and social media sources including publishers, manufacturers, retailers, social networks, blogs, user reviews and even from inside Adobe PDF manuals. Consumers are presented with objective advice and answers in visually simple and actionable forms that give them the confidence and control throughout their entire electronics products relationship lifecycle.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Retrevo, Inc., the matchmaking service between consumers and electronics that simplifies people’s relationship lifecycle with electronic products, today announced it has secured $8 million in a second round of institutional funding. This round was led by Alloy Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) and will be used for product development, partnership expansion and consumer marketing.
"The consumer electronics purchase process can be daunting to the average consumer not because of an absence of information and recommendations, but rather the overwhelming, unorganized, and often contradictory advice that exists in retail channels, on the Internet and via word-of-mouth," said Kurt Scherf, vice president and principal analyst with Parks Associates, an internationally recognized consumer technology research firm. "Retrevo's role in organizing and summarizing the key research, opinions and comparisons of consumer electronics products will grow in importance as consumers seek the best available information in making a purchasing decision."
About VCs:
1.
Alloy Ventures invests primarily in seed and early stage companies in information technology and the life sciences. The firm's total committed capital under management exceeds $1 billion, including $368 million committed to Alloy Ventures in 2005. The firm's partners have been founders and CEOs of successful start-ups, officers of large companies, and have decades of venture capital experience. The firm offers entrepreneurs the experience, connections and capital necessary to build lasting, market-leading companies.
2.
Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) is a global venture capital firm that has actively partnered with entrepreneurs to build great businesses for more than 45 years. NVP focuses on investments in information technology including: software, services, enterprise and communications systems, semiconductor/components and Internet, media and consumer. The firm currently manages more than $2.5 billion in venture capital out of its office in Palo Alto, California. For more information, please visit www.nvp.com.
More at:www.retrevo.com
Retrevo is the first matchmaking service for people and electronics that makes finding, buying and using electronics products simple and fun. Retrevo’s AI based service aggregates, classifies and summarizes relevant information on electronics products from both industry and social media sources including publishers, manufacturers, retailers, social networks, blogs, user reviews and even from inside Adobe PDF manuals. Consumers are presented with objective advice and answers in visually simple and actionable forms that give them the confidence and control throughout their entire electronics products relationship lifecycle.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Retrevo, Inc., the matchmaking service between consumers and electronics that simplifies people’s relationship lifecycle with electronic products, today announced it has secured $8 million in a second round of institutional funding. This round was led by Alloy Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) and will be used for product development, partnership expansion and consumer marketing.
"The consumer electronics purchase process can be daunting to the average consumer not because of an absence of information and recommendations, but rather the overwhelming, unorganized, and often contradictory advice that exists in retail channels, on the Internet and via word-of-mouth," said Kurt Scherf, vice president and principal analyst with Parks Associates, an internationally recognized consumer technology research firm. "Retrevo's role in organizing and summarizing the key research, opinions and comparisons of consumer electronics products will grow in importance as consumers seek the best available information in making a purchasing decision."
About VCs:
1.
Alloy Ventures invests primarily in seed and early stage companies in information technology and the life sciences. The firm's total committed capital under management exceeds $1 billion, including $368 million committed to Alloy Ventures in 2005. The firm's partners have been founders and CEOs of successful start-ups, officers of large companies, and have decades of venture capital experience. The firm offers entrepreneurs the experience, connections and capital necessary to build lasting, market-leading companies.
2.
Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) is a global venture capital firm that has actively partnered with entrepreneurs to build great businesses for more than 45 years. NVP focuses on investments in information technology including: software, services, enterprise and communications systems, semiconductor/components and Internet, media and consumer. The firm currently manages more than $2.5 billion in venture capital out of its office in Palo Alto, California. For more information, please visit www.nvp.com.
More at:www.retrevo.com
Small World Labs, a leading provider of enterprise social media solutions and online community building expertise has received more than $1 million
What Company Is Offering:
Small World Labs is a proven enterprise social media solution provider, best known for its unique combination of technology and community building expertise that helps customers better understand, engage and serve their key constituents. Small World Labs takes a hands-on approach to community building, providing a robust social-networking architecture and best practices gained through years of experience, so that customers are best positioned to create a successful and vibrant community.
How Much They Got From VCs :
Small World Labs, a leading provider of enterprise social media solutions and online community building expertise, announced it has received more than $1 million toward a Series A funding round which it will closeout in the next 60 days. The funding will be used to further enhance Small World Labs' leadership in community management as well as augment its technology platform.
"By combining proven technology with community management expertise, Small World Labs provides a unique value to enterprises looking to implement an effective social media solution," said Jordan Rohan of Clearmeadow Partners, one of the participating investors in the Series A round. Previous to founding Clearmeadow Partners, Rohan served as Managing Director and Internet Analyst for RBC Capital Markets.
Small World Labs is a proven enterprise social media solution provider, best known for its unique combination of technology and community building expertise that helps customers better understand, engage and serve their key constituents. Small World Labs takes a hands-on approach to community building, providing a robust social-networking architecture and best practices gained through years of experience, so that customers are best positioned to create a successful and vibrant community.
How Much They Got From VCs :
Small World Labs, a leading provider of enterprise social media solutions and online community building expertise, announced it has received more than $1 million toward a Series A funding round which it will closeout in the next 60 days. The funding will be used to further enhance Small World Labs' leadership in community management as well as augment its technology platform.
"By combining proven technology with community management expertise, Small World Labs provides a unique value to enterprises looking to implement an effective social media solution," said Jordan Rohan of Clearmeadow Partners, one of the participating investors in the Series A round. Previous to founding Clearmeadow Partners, Rohan served as Managing Director and Internet Analyst for RBC Capital Markets.
mEgo was created with the mission to make managing and sharing your online selves a more coherent, fun and useful experience
What Company Says:
mEgo was created with the mission to make managing and sharing your online selves a more coherent, fun and useful experience.
We're very excited to bring this product to life, and your early participation and feedback will make a huge impact on the product as it develops.
mEgo is being developed for you so tell us what you want to see on it.
How It Works:
When you are creating your mEgo, you use the Looks editor to design the appearance of your mEgo. You can change your look as often as you want. You can also upload your own pictures, edit them with their Crop & Style photo editing tool and modify other background settings.
You then use the Feed and Content editors to further customize your mEgo with your own personal data.
For each pod, mEgo gives you the opportunity to add your own content-including text and personal links, as well as automatically updating feeds for photos, videos, play lists, wish lists and other services-all of the details you'd put on any social networking site, and more!
mEgo is being developed so that you will have extensive control over what you share and what you hide on various profiles. For now, you can set the privacy level for each content area by choosing whether to show or hide it.
More at:http://beta.mego.com/
mEgo was created with the mission to make managing and sharing your online selves a more coherent, fun and useful experience.
We're very excited to bring this product to life, and your early participation and feedback will make a huge impact on the product as it develops.
mEgo is being developed for you so tell us what you want to see on it.
How It Works:
When you are creating your mEgo, you use the Looks editor to design the appearance of your mEgo. You can change your look as often as you want. You can also upload your own pictures, edit them with their Crop & Style photo editing tool and modify other background settings.
You then use the Feed and Content editors to further customize your mEgo with your own personal data.
For each pod, mEgo gives you the opportunity to add your own content-including text and personal links, as well as automatically updating feeds for photos, videos, play lists, wish lists and other services-all of the details you'd put on any social networking site, and more!
mEgo is being developed so that you will have extensive control over what you share and what you hide on various profiles. For now, you can set the privacy level for each content area by choosing whether to show or hide it.
More at:http://beta.mego.com/
filmforay is a community of film makers and enthusiasts working together on an entirely new form of film production
What Company Is Offering:
filmforay is a community of film makers and enthusiasts working together on an entirely new form of film production. Collaboration is the key and they need an initial idea to start things off.filmforay is about collaboratively creating a Hollywood film from the ground up.
How It Works:
Stage 1 is all about dreaming up the big idea An-interview-with-Donny-Deutsch . Ever thought you had the next Star Wars rolling around in the back of your head? Maybe you're more into thrillers and you dreamed up a plot so creative and complex there's no way the studios would ever touch it. Or perhaps you have a great idea for a parody on recent events. filmforay is the place to share it. Who knows, it might just be you walking down the red carpet Academy-Awards on opening night.
More at:http://filmforay.com/
filmforay is a community of film makers and enthusiasts working together on an entirely new form of film production. Collaboration is the key and they need an initial idea to start things off.filmforay is about collaboratively creating a Hollywood film from the ground up.
How It Works:
Stage 1 is all about dreaming up the big idea An-interview-with-Donny-Deutsch . Ever thought you had the next Star Wars rolling around in the back of your head? Maybe you're more into thrillers and you dreamed up a plot so creative and complex there's no way the studios would ever touch it. Or perhaps you have a great idea for a parody on recent events. filmforay is the place to share it. Who knows, it might just be you walking down the red carpet Academy-Awards on opening night.
More at:http://filmforay.com/
LearnHub is a network of communities, each one built around a specific subject
What Company Is Offering:
LearnHub is a network of communities, each one built around a specific subject (ex. Algebra, History, Software Development). Search to find a community that fits your interest. You will find many communities offer a wealth of freely available information, created by expert teachers, and other students. The line between teacher and student is blurred, because a student in one subject, can be a teacher in another.
How It Works:
LearnHub is free to use. Sign up and build your profile, create lessons and tests, start a community, build and sell courses, even sell your tutoring time all for free. In time, we will introduce a small transaction fee for courses and tutoring sold through our marketplace. All early adopters (users who sign up before May 1) will not be charged any transaction fees in 2008.
Communities are a mixture of lessons (pages, videos, presentations, concept games), tests, discussions, debates and fun activities. You will also find a marketplace, where you can find courses and tutor offerings from expert teachers.
LearnHub not only helps you learn, but it helps you connect with other students and teachers. A comprehensive reputation system, authority, helps you find reputable teachers, who you can trust.
Cost
LearnHub is free to use. However, teachers may charge a fee for certain courses and for tutoring.
Unique Features:
LearnHub gives you the tools you need to effectively teach online.
* A comprehensive online presence create a profile, earn your authority, build your network.
* Powerful content authoring tools upload videos, author pages using a simple editor, upload your powerpoint presentations.
* Easy Testing create a test and track users' progress.
* Course creation combine lessons, tests, and activities into a restricted access course, complete with e-commerce integration.
* Live tutoring live video, voice, whiteboard and document sharing.
* Fun activities to make learning fun and engaging; challenging concept attainment, competitive debates and addictive trivia keep students coming back for more.
More at:http://learnhub.com/
LearnHub is a network of communities, each one built around a specific subject (ex. Algebra, History, Software Development). Search to find a community that fits your interest. You will find many communities offer a wealth of freely available information, created by expert teachers, and other students. The line between teacher and student is blurred, because a student in one subject, can be a teacher in another.
How It Works:
LearnHub is free to use. Sign up and build your profile, create lessons and tests, start a community, build and sell courses, even sell your tutoring time all for free. In time, we will introduce a small transaction fee for courses and tutoring sold through our marketplace. All early adopters (users who sign up before May 1) will not be charged any transaction fees in 2008.
Communities are a mixture of lessons (pages, videos, presentations, concept games), tests, discussions, debates and fun activities. You will also find a marketplace, where you can find courses and tutor offerings from expert teachers.
LearnHub not only helps you learn, but it helps you connect with other students and teachers. A comprehensive reputation system, authority, helps you find reputable teachers, who you can trust.
Cost
LearnHub is free to use. However, teachers may charge a fee for certain courses and for tutoring.
Unique Features:
LearnHub gives you the tools you need to effectively teach online.
* A comprehensive online presence create a profile, earn your authority, build your network.
* Powerful content authoring tools upload videos, author pages using a simple editor, upload your powerpoint presentations.
* Easy Testing create a test and track users' progress.
* Course creation combine lessons, tests, and activities into a restricted access course, complete with e-commerce integration.
* Live tutoring live video, voice, whiteboard and document sharing.
* Fun activities to make learning fun and engaging; challenging concept attainment, competitive debates and addictive trivia keep students coming back for more.
More at:http://learnhub.com/
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Mefeedia ---Online Video Search Tool
What Company Is Offering:
Mefeedia is your starting point to the Video Web - search, browse, and watch great videos and shows from over 15,000 sources across the Web. Mefeedia's mission is to make it easy to find and watch video that interests you. - no matter where that video is hosted or what platform or player you choose to watch it on.
Unique Features:
Discover
Search video across 15,000 video sources.
Browse Channels based on topics, events, and locations.
See what your personal network of friends (meeps) are watching and enjoying.
Collect
Join or create Channels for your favorite topic, event, location, and more!
Start a Video Playlist, then invite your friends to add their favorites too.
Automatically stay up-to-date on your favorite TV Shows and Web-only Series.
Watch
Enjoy the latest videos and video shows from thousands of sites across the Web.
Watch your favorite TV Shows and Web-only Series.
Put your personal video feed into iTunes or your iPod or any device you want.
Watch video on your TV through the Nintendo Wii, PS3, TiVo, or other set top box.
Share
Join or create Channels for your favorite topic, event, location, and more!
Start a Video Playlist, then invite your friends to add their favorites too.
Embed your Video Queue on any web page.
Recommend videos and shows to your friends.
More at:http://www.mefeedia.com/
Mefeedia is your starting point to the Video Web - search, browse, and watch great videos and shows from over 15,000 sources across the Web. Mefeedia's mission is to make it easy to find and watch video that interests you. - no matter where that video is hosted or what platform or player you choose to watch it on.
Unique Features:
Discover
Search video across 15,000 video sources.
Browse Channels based on topics, events, and locations.
See what your personal network of friends (meeps) are watching and enjoying.
Collect
Join or create Channels for your favorite topic, event, location, and more!
Start a Video Playlist, then invite your friends to add their favorites too.
Automatically stay up-to-date on your favorite TV Shows and Web-only Series.
Watch
Enjoy the latest videos and video shows from thousands of sites across the Web.
Watch your favorite TV Shows and Web-only Series.
Put your personal video feed into iTunes or your iPod or any device you want.
Watch video on your TV through the Nintendo Wii, PS3, TiVo, or other set top box.
Share
Join or create Channels for your favorite topic, event, location, and more!
Start a Video Playlist, then invite your friends to add their favorites too.
Embed your Video Queue on any web page.
Recommend videos and shows to your friends.
More at:http://www.mefeedia.com/
SpinVox captures spoken messages and cleverly converts them into text has raised $100 million
What Company Is Offering:
SpinVox captures spoken messages and cleverly converts them into text. It then delivers your message to a destination of your choice – inbox, blog, wall or space. Right in the moment. Giving you the power to Speak Freely.
Simply put, they do one thing – turn voice into text. But it's one thing that can be applied to the many ways you communicate, from your Voicemail to your Blog. Use the finder below to find the right one for you.
How It Works:
It captures spoken words and feeds them into a Voice Message Conversion System, known as ‘D2’ (the Brain), and spits them out as text content.
So D2’s pretty smart. It is a combination of artificial intelligence, voice recognition and natural linguistics. But it also learns from us humans. It learns all the time about how we speak, and what we say, from the mundane to the ridiculous.
How Much They Got From VCs:
It has raised $100 million from Goldman Sachs, along with GLG Partners, Blue Mountain Capital Management and Toscafund Asset Management. It brings the company’s total amount raised to $200 million. Christina Domecq told Reuters that the round valued the company in excess of $500 million.
More at:http://www.spinvox.com/
SpinVox captures spoken messages and cleverly converts them into text. It then delivers your message to a destination of your choice – inbox, blog, wall or space. Right in the moment. Giving you the power to Speak Freely.
Simply put, they do one thing – turn voice into text. But it's one thing that can be applied to the many ways you communicate, from your Voicemail to your Blog. Use the finder below to find the right one for you.
How It Works:
It captures spoken words and feeds them into a Voice Message Conversion System, known as ‘D2’ (the Brain), and spits them out as text content.
So D2’s pretty smart. It is a combination of artificial intelligence, voice recognition and natural linguistics. But it also learns from us humans. It learns all the time about how we speak, and what we say, from the mundane to the ridiculous.
How Much They Got From VCs:
It has raised $100 million from Goldman Sachs, along with GLG Partners, Blue Mountain Capital Management and Toscafund Asset Management. It brings the company’s total amount raised to $200 million. Christina Domecq told Reuters that the round valued the company in excess of $500 million.
More at:http://www.spinvox.com/
truequi.com--- Promote object exchange at a global level
What Company Is Offering:
It is an object exchange platform; they don't just barter, they bring the exchanged objects to life and they make socialising real.
The platform is well known for being: simple, safe and free of charge.
How It Works:
Promote object exchange at a global level, try to make the platform friendly and accessible, as well as safe and fast.Establish relationships through objects, collections or hobbies. Proliferating groups of people with the same tastes and interests. It is very simple and it can be summarised in 5 steps.
Sign up now to have your own website and resources.
Add your objects (the ones you have and the ones you would like to exchange).
Look for something you want to have and bid for it.
Create your own network of friends with same tastes and collections as you.
And the most important thing... have fun with everything.
More at:https://truequi.com/
It is an object exchange platform; they don't just barter, they bring the exchanged objects to life and they make socialising real.
The platform is well known for being: simple, safe and free of charge.
How It Works:
Promote object exchange at a global level, try to make the platform friendly and accessible, as well as safe and fast.Establish relationships through objects, collections or hobbies. Proliferating groups of people with the same tastes and interests. It is very simple and it can be summarised in 5 steps.
Sign up now to have your own website and resources.
Add your objects (the ones you have and the ones you would like to exchange).
Look for something you want to have and bid for it.
Create your own network of friends with same tastes and collections as you.
And the most important thing... have fun with everything.
More at:https://truequi.com/
AllSmackTalk is the premier online social utility for sports fans on the web
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:
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.
AllSmackTalk uses the information provide for statistical purposes only.
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.
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:
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.
AllSmackTalk uses the information provide for statistical purposes only.
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.
More at:http://www.allsmacktalk.com/
Interest-rates.org.uk offers simple, comprehensive and up-to-date information on interest rates for savers
What Company Is Offering:
Interest-rates.org.uk offers simple, comprehensive and up-to-date information on interest rates for savers, updating daily over 3,500 current international & British Bank & Building Society deposit account interest rates.
Choose UK, or offshore, savings account rates using the red buttons and follow the simple instructions for your instant, personalised list of relevant savings account interest rates.
How It Works:
Simply enter how much you want to save and for how long you can invest your cash. Then click the button below for your customised list of relevant offshore accounts. Of course high rate savings accounts appear higher in the list. See specimen reports for US Dollars, Euros, and Pounds Sterling. We even include a selection of interest rates for money market accounts - money market rates typically change from day to day.
Choose UK bank and building society accounts for interest rates on savings accounts from major UK banks and building societies, or just those with the highest credit ratings. The range of UK building societies is much greater than offshore. With a few exceptions you need to be UK resident to open a savings account in the UK. Unlike offshore savings accounts, UK banks and building societies routinely deduct full UK tax at source.
Choose Offshore savings accounts if you are an expat, senior, retired pensioner or just prefer your savings interest paid without full deduction of tax. Such savings accounts are typically offered in tax havens like the Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Bahamas, Bermuda, Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands; in some EU countries such as Belgium, Eire (Ireland), Gibraltar, Lithuania, Luxembourg etc; and more recently in countries such as India, Russia, Singapore and even the Cook Islands. Although EU residents should be able to open bank accounts in any EU State, most UK expats, at least, must use offshore savings accounts since many UK banks or building societies will not open savings accounts for expats as new customers. EU residents may well be affected by the European Savings Tax Directive.
More at:http://www.interest-rates.org.uk/
Interest-rates.org.uk offers simple, comprehensive and up-to-date information on interest rates for savers, updating daily over 3,500 current international & British Bank & Building Society deposit account interest rates.
Choose UK, or offshore, savings account rates using the red buttons and follow the simple instructions for your instant, personalised list of relevant savings account interest rates.
How It Works:
Simply enter how much you want to save and for how long you can invest your cash. Then click the button below for your customised list of relevant offshore accounts. Of course high rate savings accounts appear higher in the list. See specimen reports for US Dollars, Euros, and Pounds Sterling. We even include a selection of interest rates for money market accounts - money market rates typically change from day to day.
Choose UK bank and building society accounts for interest rates on savings accounts from major UK banks and building societies, or just those with the highest credit ratings. The range of UK building societies is much greater than offshore. With a few exceptions you need to be UK resident to open a savings account in the UK. Unlike offshore savings accounts, UK banks and building societies routinely deduct full UK tax at source.
Choose Offshore savings accounts if you are an expat, senior, retired pensioner or just prefer your savings interest paid without full deduction of tax. Such savings accounts are typically offered in tax havens like the Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Bahamas, Bermuda, Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands; in some EU countries such as Belgium, Eire (Ireland), Gibraltar, Lithuania, Luxembourg etc; and more recently in countries such as India, Russia, Singapore and even the Cook Islands. Although EU residents should be able to open bank accounts in any EU State, most UK expats, at least, must use offshore savings accounts since many UK banks or building societies will not open savings accounts for expats as new customers. EU residents may well be affected by the European Savings Tax Directive.
More at:http://www.interest-rates.org.uk/
23 Million Dollar Idea
New York City has always been a magnet for oversize ambitions and big dreams. When Laurel Touby showed up here, in 1985, her fantasy was to become a successful writer. She imagined spending her days in a big loft, hobnobbing with artists and the urban literati. In reality, breaking into journalism was a difficult and lonely affair. So Touby started throwing parties to cheer herself up and meet other writers. Good move, because she wound up building her parties into mediabistro.com, a hot job-posting and community site favored by journalists and media executives. So hot that last year, Touby sold her company to Jupitermedia, a digital content and research company, for $23 million.
I was born in Hawaii, and I grew up in Miami. I went to Smith College dreaming of becoming a writer. My father was the writer in my life, and I had put him on a pedestal. But I was forced to study economics by my grandfather. He was paying the tuition, and he wanted me to have a vocation.
I was the quintessential media outsider. If you look at the places the media elite all went to school, there is a commonality. They went to Harvard. They went to Brown. They went to Yale and Princeton. They got internships. I came to New York an unknown and unknowing.
Eventually, I got a job at Working Woman magazine. It wasn’t The New Yorker, but I was thrilled to write a caption under a photo or a little sidebar. And here’s the great part: I was learning about what made women’s businesses work.
At the same time, I was building a database of people. I looked at my career as a thing to nurture. You always want to send holiday cards. I went so far as to send Valentine’s Day cards. I was actively climbing. I call it making the best use of my resources.
Via-Virtual Entrepreneur
I was born in Hawaii, and I grew up in Miami. I went to Smith College dreaming of becoming a writer. My father was the writer in my life, and I had put him on a pedestal. But I was forced to study economics by my grandfather. He was paying the tuition, and he wanted me to have a vocation.
I was the quintessential media outsider. If you look at the places the media elite all went to school, there is a commonality. They went to Harvard. They went to Brown. They went to Yale and Princeton. They got internships. I came to New York an unknown and unknowing.
Eventually, I got a job at Working Woman magazine. It wasn’t The New Yorker, but I was thrilled to write a caption under a photo or a little sidebar. And here’s the great part: I was learning about what made women’s businesses work.
At the same time, I was building a database of people. I looked at my career as a thing to nurture. You always want to send holiday cards. I went so far as to send Valentine’s Day cards. I was actively climbing. I call it making the best use of my resources.
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Viddyou is the best place for sharing your personal videos
What Company Is Offering:
Viddyou is more than a video storage site – it's a custom built video tool that allows anyone to quickly and easily archive and express their life in short-form videos. Featuring intuitive organizational tools, Viddyou enables you to quickly record, organize, share and protect these video chronicles.
How It Works:
Viddyou is the best place for sharing your personal videos.
After logging in, press the "Home" button. From this screen, you should enter in a title as well as a brief description for the video you are about to upload. Then you can select where you'd like the video to upload to. If you intend to upload the video to a community, you can select one of your joined communities from the "Post Vidd To" menu, though for most cases you can probably just leave this at its default. You can also select your privacy group for the video. Public (anyone can see), Private (only you can see), Friends-Only (all of the people you've marked as friends on Viddyou can see), or you can use one of your custom privacy groups here to have full control over exactly who can, and can't see your video. Then select a file (you may want to read "What file formats do you accept?"), and press upload. You'll see an upload progress bar indicating how long it will take your video to reach our servers. After your upload is complete you are free to continue browsing. You will receive an email once your video is ready to be viewed.
More at:http://www.viddyou.com/
Viddyou is more than a video storage site – it's a custom built video tool that allows anyone to quickly and easily archive and express their life in short-form videos. Featuring intuitive organizational tools, Viddyou enables you to quickly record, organize, share and protect these video chronicles.
How It Works:
Viddyou is the best place for sharing your personal videos.
After logging in, press the "Home" button. From this screen, you should enter in a title as well as a brief description for the video you are about to upload. Then you can select where you'd like the video to upload to. If you intend to upload the video to a community, you can select one of your joined communities from the "Post Vidd To" menu, though for most cases you can probably just leave this at its default. You can also select your privacy group for the video. Public (anyone can see), Private (only you can see), Friends-Only (all of the people you've marked as friends on Viddyou can see), or you can use one of your custom privacy groups here to have full control over exactly who can, and can't see your video. Then select a file (you may want to read "What file formats do you accept?"), and press upload. You'll see an upload progress bar indicating how long it will take your video to reach our servers. After your upload is complete you are free to continue browsing. You will receive an email once your video is ready to be viewed.
More at:http://www.viddyou.com/
myminilife.com--virtual world + social networking
What Company Is Offering:
It is a virtual world + social networking. Imagine it's your friend's birthday and you place virtual balloons in his or her MiniHome. You can customize your MiniMe to be any person you desire. Add purses, shirts, skirts, and any other thing you want. Then best of all you can put either your MiniHome or your MiniMe into any other webpage.
How It Works:
To see a list of your MiniHomes please click MiniHomes on the left side. To see the specific MiniHome, please click on the individual MiniHome to see it. You have to have flash player installed. Please go to adobe's website to install flash.
To see your MiniMe, which is your virtual you, please click on MiniMe the left side. You should see a MiniMe client walking around. You can add clothing, hats, dresses, and pants to this MiniMe and rotate the MiniMe.MyMiniLife is governed by a virtual economy system. It's based on how active you are on MyMiniLife.
Every feature and function you currently see on the site is FREE. MyMiniLife is supported by advertising. In the future, MyMiniLife might add paid premium services, but all the features and functions you enjoy right now will always remain FREE!
More at:http://www.myminilife.com/
It is a virtual world + social networking. Imagine it's your friend's birthday and you place virtual balloons in his or her MiniHome. You can customize your MiniMe to be any person you desire. Add purses, shirts, skirts, and any other thing you want. Then best of all you can put either your MiniHome or your MiniMe into any other webpage.
How It Works:
To see a list of your MiniHomes please click MiniHomes on the left side. To see the specific MiniHome, please click on the individual MiniHome to see it. You have to have flash player installed. Please go to adobe's website to install flash.
To see your MiniMe, which is your virtual you, please click on MiniMe the left side. You should see a MiniMe client walking around. You can add clothing, hats, dresses, and pants to this MiniMe and rotate the MiniMe.MyMiniLife is governed by a virtual economy system. It's based on how active you are on MyMiniLife.
Every feature and function you currently see on the site is FREE. MyMiniLife is supported by advertising. In the future, MyMiniLife might add paid premium services, but all the features and functions you enjoy right now will always remain FREE!
More at:http://www.myminilife.com/
Dipiti’s goal is to help online users gain answers and support through available and hard to find online resources
What Company Says:
71% of online consumers use search engines to find health-related information, but only 16% find the information they need.
Dipiti means the gift of finding the valuable and helpful information that is not exactly easy to find or discover on the web today. Dipiti is derived from the word serendipity, which refers to the unexpected discovery of valuable things you weren't looking for.
Dipiti solves the problem by providing online users an immediate and trusted connection to answers and support across the web by aggregating valuable message board and service provider content relating to urgent life matters including health, legal, money and pet care.
How It Works:
Dipiti’s goal is to help online users gain answers and support through available and hard to find online resources.
Dipiti currently connects online users to 2,664 communities and 40,843,793 conversations. Dipiti does this by discovering, qualifying, and organizing thousands sites of all sizes across the web so online users can quickly and easily find the most relevant information, connect with others on communities and expert sites, and gain answers and support.
Message board and professional provider sites are an excellent source of helpful, unbiased information and professional connections – one can gain companionship, encouraging discussion, knowledge, and advice. Additionally, communities also allow one to access information and quickly disseminate ideas, providing social and emotional support.
More at:http://www.dipiti.com/
71% of online consumers use search engines to find health-related information, but only 16% find the information they need.
Dipiti means the gift of finding the valuable and helpful information that is not exactly easy to find or discover on the web today. Dipiti is derived from the word serendipity, which refers to the unexpected discovery of valuable things you weren't looking for.
Dipiti solves the problem by providing online users an immediate and trusted connection to answers and support across the web by aggregating valuable message board and service provider content relating to urgent life matters including health, legal, money and pet care.
How It Works:
Dipiti’s goal is to help online users gain answers and support through available and hard to find online resources.
Dipiti currently connects online users to 2,664 communities and 40,843,793 conversations. Dipiti does this by discovering, qualifying, and organizing thousands sites of all sizes across the web so online users can quickly and easily find the most relevant information, connect with others on communities and expert sites, and gain answers and support.
Message board and professional provider sites are an excellent source of helpful, unbiased information and professional connections – one can gain companionship, encouraging discussion, knowledge, and advice. Additionally, communities also allow one to access information and quickly disseminate ideas, providing social and emotional support.
More at:http://www.dipiti.com/
Retention Education, Inc that creates language acquisition solutions for adult learners of English as a Second Language got funding
What Company is Offering:
Retention Education, Inc. is an education company committed to the development and distribution of educational solutions, specifically the Sed de Saber product line, that help Hispanic adults improve their work skills and their daily lives. Sed de Saber is currently teaching conversational English to roughly 55,000 Hispanic workers in the foodservice, hospitality, and construction industries, as well as 10,000 Hispanic parents of English language-learning children via our nation's school systems. According to the U.S. Census data, there are currently between 10 and 15 million limited English-proficient Hispanic adults living in the United States.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Retention Education, Inc., a privately held educational company that creates language acquisition solutions for adult learners of English as a Second Language and Spanish as a Second Language, announced the completion of its Series B funding round from MK Capital, Ascend Venture Group, Ironwood Equity Fund and OCA Ventures.
"We are excited about the opportunity to support Retention Education in its quest to offer effective, innovative and engaging solutions to assist the Hispanic workforce, parents and adult students in language acquisition," said Karen Buckner, Partner and Chief Operating Officer of MK Capital.
About VCs:
MK Capital is a venture capital fund with headquarters in Chicago and an office in Los Angeles. MK Capital invests in emerging companies in education technology, software, digital media and outsourced services. Each of the Fund's principals has substantial operating experience and a proven track record of helping small business grow successfully. For more information, visit http://www.mkcapital.com .
More at:http://www.seddesaber.com
Retention Education, Inc. is an education company committed to the development and distribution of educational solutions, specifically the Sed de Saber product line, that help Hispanic adults improve their work skills and their daily lives. Sed de Saber is currently teaching conversational English to roughly 55,000 Hispanic workers in the foodservice, hospitality, and construction industries, as well as 10,000 Hispanic parents of English language-learning children via our nation's school systems. According to the U.S. Census data, there are currently between 10 and 15 million limited English-proficient Hispanic adults living in the United States.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Retention Education, Inc., a privately held educational company that creates language acquisition solutions for adult learners of English as a Second Language and Spanish as a Second Language, announced the completion of its Series B funding round from MK Capital, Ascend Venture Group, Ironwood Equity Fund and OCA Ventures.
"We are excited about the opportunity to support Retention Education in its quest to offer effective, innovative and engaging solutions to assist the Hispanic workforce, parents and adult students in language acquisition," said Karen Buckner, Partner and Chief Operating Officer of MK Capital.
About VCs:
MK Capital is a venture capital fund with headquarters in Chicago and an office in Los Angeles. MK Capital invests in emerging companies in education technology, software, digital media and outsourced services. Each of the Fund's principals has substantial operating experience and a proven track record of helping small business grow successfully. For more information, visit http://www.mkcapital.com .
More at:http://www.seddesaber.com
FixYa ,the Web’s most popular place to get free advice for troubleshooting problems received $6 million
What Company is Offering:
FixYa is the Web’s most popular place for free product support and advice. Millions of users rely on FixYa’s community of product experts for quick answers to any question about any product, from gadgets to gardening tools.
How Much they Got From VCs:
FixYa ,the Web’s most popular place to get free advice for troubleshooting problems with gadgets, home appliances and consumer products, announced that it received $6 million in Series B funding by Mayfield Fund and Pitango Venture Capital. The funding was led by Mayfield Fund. Both funds participated in Series A funding, led by Pitango. FixYa will use the funds to expand its business operations in the United States and Israel and to offer new products and services to its rapidly growing user base.
“Consumers are dealing with a tidal wave of increasingly complex products at the same time that fewer resources are being committed by manufacturers to customer service and support,” said Raj Kapoor, managing director at Mayfield Fund and former CEO of Snapfish.com, who will join FixYa’s board. “We are proud to accelerate FixYa’s mission of helping consumers with this reality and the challenges they face as a result. FixYa’s community-based approach creates an efficient marketplace where people can ask questions and get answers to any high- or low-tech problem they may have with their gadgets or other products.”
More at:http://www.fixya.com
FixYa is the Web’s most popular place for free product support and advice. Millions of users rely on FixYa’s community of product experts for quick answers to any question about any product, from gadgets to gardening tools.
How Much they Got From VCs:
FixYa ,the Web’s most popular place to get free advice for troubleshooting problems with gadgets, home appliances and consumer products, announced that it received $6 million in Series B funding by Mayfield Fund and Pitango Venture Capital. The funding was led by Mayfield Fund. Both funds participated in Series A funding, led by Pitango. FixYa will use the funds to expand its business operations in the United States and Israel and to offer new products and services to its rapidly growing user base.
“Consumers are dealing with a tidal wave of increasingly complex products at the same time that fewer resources are being committed by manufacturers to customer service and support,” said Raj Kapoor, managing director at Mayfield Fund and former CEO of Snapfish.com, who will join FixYa’s board. “We are proud to accelerate FixYa’s mission of helping consumers with this reality and the challenges they face as a result. FixYa’s community-based approach creates an efficient marketplace where people can ask questions and get answers to any high- or low-tech problem they may have with their gadgets or other products.”
More at:http://www.fixya.com
My Starbucks Idea
What Company says:
What would make your Starbucks experience perfect? We know you’ve got ideas—big ideas, little ideas, maybe even totally revolutionary ideas—and we want to hear them all. That’s why we created My Starbucks Idea. So you can share the ideas that matter to you and you can find out how we’re putting those ideas to work. Together, we will shape the future of Starbucks.
How It Works:
Any visitor can look at the ideas that have been posted and read our "Ideas in Action" blog. If you sign up to be a registered member of the site , you can also submit your own ideas, vote and comment on ideas submitted by other people.
My Starbucks Idea is an online community dedicated to sharing and discussing ideas and allowing you to see how Starbucks is putting top ideas into action. If you’d like to ask a question or make a comment specific to your experience with Starbucks, please visit the Contact Us section of Starbucks.com.
They’ve got a dedicated team of "Idea Partners"—Starbucks employees who are experts in their respective fields—who will read all ideas and comments. They’ll take a combination of the most popular and most innovative ideas that are the best fit for Starbucks and present them to key decision makers within the company to recommend how we put those ideas to work.
Everyone helps decide by voting. Ideas posted to the "Popular Ideas" section of the website (determined by using an algorithm based on number of points, number of comments and recency of post) will be considered, but our Idea Partners may also choose ideas simply because they think they’re promising.
If you’re a registered member, you can vote on each idea one time by simply clicking on the "vote" icon to the left of the idea (only one vote per idea). Each vote is worth 10 points and you can see an idea’s score (number of points) beneath the "vote" icon.
If they implement your idea, they may give you credit on the site, but they won’t be compensating customers if their ideas are chosen.
More at:http://mystarbucksidea.force.com/
What would make your Starbucks experience perfect? We know you’ve got ideas—big ideas, little ideas, maybe even totally revolutionary ideas—and we want to hear them all. That’s why we created My Starbucks Idea. So you can share the ideas that matter to you and you can find out how we’re putting those ideas to work. Together, we will shape the future of Starbucks.
How It Works:
Any visitor can look at the ideas that have been posted and read our "Ideas in Action" blog. If you sign up to be a registered member of the site , you can also submit your own ideas, vote and comment on ideas submitted by other people.
My Starbucks Idea is an online community dedicated to sharing and discussing ideas and allowing you to see how Starbucks is putting top ideas into action. If you’d like to ask a question or make a comment specific to your experience with Starbucks, please visit the Contact Us section of Starbucks.com.
They’ve got a dedicated team of "Idea Partners"—Starbucks employees who are experts in their respective fields—who will read all ideas and comments. They’ll take a combination of the most popular and most innovative ideas that are the best fit for Starbucks and present them to key decision makers within the company to recommend how we put those ideas to work.
Everyone helps decide by voting. Ideas posted to the "Popular Ideas" section of the website (determined by using an algorithm based on number of points, number of comments and recency of post) will be considered, but our Idea Partners may also choose ideas simply because they think they’re promising.
If you’re a registered member, you can vote on each idea one time by simply clicking on the "vote" icon to the left of the idea (only one vote per idea). Each vote is worth 10 points and you can see an idea’s score (number of points) beneath the "vote" icon.
If they implement your idea, they may give you credit on the site, but they won’t be compensating customers if their ideas are chosen.
More at:http://mystarbucksidea.force.com/
The Successful Living Project --Practical self management learning opportunities to improve your self esteem
What Company is Offering;
The Successful Living Project is about overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that life can throw in your way. It is packed full of practical self management learning opportunities to improve your self esteem and control over your life and work.
Their philosophy is about achieving control over thought processes, building confidence and empowering you to engage in your own recovery. It’s about improving and enhancing wellbeing and living life to the full.
How It works:
The Successful Living Project was set up to put you in charge of your life, to help you reach your full potential and to help you recognise the things that might be holding you back. Looking after yourself is a first step on the road to achieving all the things that you want from life. Learn how to set goals, achieve your dreams and master life. Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be.
The Successful Living Project has been set up by three people, Ann, Kris and Kerry. Kris is the IT specialist, who we rely on to develop and fix the website. Ann is a Psychiatric Nurse and Counsellor and Kerry is a Life and Image Coach.
More at:http://www.successbox.co.uk/
The Successful Living Project is about overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that life can throw in your way. It is packed full of practical self management learning opportunities to improve your self esteem and control over your life and work.
Their philosophy is about achieving control over thought processes, building confidence and empowering you to engage in your own recovery. It’s about improving and enhancing wellbeing and living life to the full.
How It works:
The Successful Living Project was set up to put you in charge of your life, to help you reach your full potential and to help you recognise the things that might be holding you back. Looking after yourself is a first step on the road to achieving all the things that you want from life. Learn how to set goals, achieve your dreams and master life. Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be.
The Successful Living Project has been set up by three people, Ann, Kris and Kerry. Kris is the IT specialist, who we rely on to develop and fix the website. Ann is a Psychiatric Nurse and Counsellor and Kerry is a Life and Image Coach.
More at:http://www.successbox.co.uk/
Sum--Powerful web-based personal finance
About Company:
Categorize your recurring expenses and income. Periodically update your account balances. Sum tells you how accurate you were. No sensitive bank information necessary.
Sum helps you stay on budget. Track and update your budgets via email or iPhone. Sum predicts your financial future. Predict your account balances for up to a year away.
Sum is the first in a suite of financial web applications that talk to each other.
Sign up now and get the same low monthly rate as long as you are a member.
More at:https://sumapp.com/
Categorize your recurring expenses and income. Periodically update your account balances. Sum tells you how accurate you were. No sensitive bank information necessary.
Sum helps you stay on budget. Track and update your budgets via email or iPhone. Sum predicts your financial future. Predict your account balances for up to a year away.
Sum is the first in a suite of financial web applications that talk to each other.
Sign up now and get the same low monthly rate as long as you are a member.
More at:https://sumapp.com/
Podfitness has created a system that builds audio workouts just for you
What Company is Offering:
Podfitness has created a system that builds audio workouts just for you. Based on your goals and preferences, every workout is customized for you, and downloaded to your iPod, Zune, or other MP3 player. It’s simply the most effective and flexible workout system ever.
How It Works:
Fill out a short Fitness Profile, and Podfitness matches you with the trainers and programs that are most likely to help you reach your goals. For instance, if you’re a beginner, you want to lose 10 pounds, and you prefer to exercise outdoors, Podfitness will recommend several trainers that know how to ease you into an outdoor exercise program that will help you shed pounds quickly.
If you’re after more than one fitness goal (or just want some variety), you can work out with any of the 80 top trainers in Podfitness anytime. So, in addition to a weight loss program with one trainer, you could add a weight training program with another trainer, and a Yoga program with another. The choices are endless, and Podfitness keeps track of your progress, so you can switch up your programs whenever you want.
Every Podfitness workout is customized to the best music in the world—yours! So choose your favorite songs, upload them to iTunes or Zune, and Podfitness will mix them with every custom workout.
More at:http://www.podfitness.com/
Podfitness has created a system that builds audio workouts just for you. Based on your goals and preferences, every workout is customized for you, and downloaded to your iPod, Zune, or other MP3 player. It’s simply the most effective and flexible workout system ever.
How It Works:
Fill out a short Fitness Profile, and Podfitness matches you with the trainers and programs that are most likely to help you reach your goals. For instance, if you’re a beginner, you want to lose 10 pounds, and you prefer to exercise outdoors, Podfitness will recommend several trainers that know how to ease you into an outdoor exercise program that will help you shed pounds quickly.
If you’re after more than one fitness goal (or just want some variety), you can work out with any of the 80 top trainers in Podfitness anytime. So, in addition to a weight loss program with one trainer, you could add a weight training program with another trainer, and a Yoga program with another. The choices are endless, and Podfitness keeps track of your progress, so you can switch up your programs whenever you want.
Every Podfitness workout is customized to the best music in the world—yours! So choose your favorite songs, upload them to iTunes or Zune, and Podfitness will mix them with every custom workout.
More at:http://www.podfitness.com/
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