What Company Is Offering:
EquineNow is an online classified site featuring horses for sale. If you are looking to buy or sell a horse, you've come to the right place. Use the links to browse through their listings of horses or get started right away by looking at their most recent ads. .
How It Works:
Login to the Manage Your Ads area and mark the Horse as "Sold" or "Hidden".
All ads will be shown on the site for 90 days from the date they were created. However, you may "turn off" an ad if your horse sells, or if you don't want it displayed online. You can renew your ad prior to the expiration date if you would like it to keep running.
You may add your pedigree so that it shows up correctly on the ad. For many horses, the pedigree information is already on record, but for some horses its not. In that case, what you need to do is fill out the sire / dam information (add a horse or edit a horse) at the AllBreed or PedigreeQuery sites mentioned above.
More at:http://www.equinenow.com/
Monday, April 28, 2008
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Autoquake, a U.K.-based online retailer of used cars, has closed a Gbp6 million ($11.8 million) second round of venture capital funding
What Company Is Offering:
Autoquake offers you a better way to buy a used car. No stress, no hassle - just great service and low, low prices.
Because Autoquake is an online service, there are no showrooms to pay for, or salesman waiting to take their cut. That means our prices are rock-bottom. Expect to save 15%-20% over typical forecourt prices. There's no need to haggle, either - the price you see is the price you pay.
Low prices sometimes mean a no-frills approach to service. Not at Autoquake. Every car has gone through a comprehensive mechanical inspection before it appears online. You can take a test drive at our professional hand-over centre, buy on finance or arrange a warranty for added peace of mind, just as you would at an old-fashioned car dealer. If you want to speak to someone, our helpful staff are just a phone call away, six days a week.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Autoquake, a U.K.-based online retailer of used cars, has closed a Gbp6 million ($11.8 million) second round of venture capital funding led by Highland Capital Partners in conjunction with existing investor Accel Partners. The financing is in addition to the Gbp3 million invested by Accel Partners in the summer of 2006.
More at:http://www.autoquake.com/
Autoquake offers you a better way to buy a used car. No stress, no hassle - just great service and low, low prices.
Because Autoquake is an online service, there are no showrooms to pay for, or salesman waiting to take their cut. That means our prices are rock-bottom. Expect to save 15%-20% over typical forecourt prices. There's no need to haggle, either - the price you see is the price you pay.
Low prices sometimes mean a no-frills approach to service. Not at Autoquake. Every car has gone through a comprehensive mechanical inspection before it appears online. You can take a test drive at our professional hand-over centre, buy on finance or arrange a warranty for added peace of mind, just as you would at an old-fashioned car dealer. If you want to speak to someone, our helpful staff are just a phone call away, six days a week.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Autoquake, a U.K.-based online retailer of used cars, has closed a Gbp6 million ($11.8 million) second round of venture capital funding led by Highland Capital Partners in conjunction with existing investor Accel Partners. The financing is in addition to the Gbp3 million invested by Accel Partners in the summer of 2006.
More at:http://www.autoquake.com/
SaysMe Inc is provider of politics-based, consumer-driven television advertising, has closed a series A financing
What Company Is Offering:
SaysMe.tv is the primary place that individual consumers come to voice their own opinions through television, Internet and radio advertising regarding politics, sports, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (or whatever else they may be pursuing). SaysMe.tv allows you to participate in politics in a brand new way. For the first time ever, you will be able to use your campaign dollars to broadcast the messages you care about on TV. This begins in the form of sponsoring ads with your name at the end and will quickly grow into ways for you to create increasingly personalized messages by adding your own text, graphics and voice to commercials.
How Much They Got From VCs:
SaysMe Inc, a Los Angeles-based provider of politics-based, consumer-driven television advertising, has closed a series A financing led by Intel Capital and Prime Capital. Also participating were Ashton Kutcher's Katalyst Films, advertising pioneer Bill Apfelbaum, and other prominent angel investors. The proceeds from this funding round will be used to expand SaysMe's product offering beyond politics and to continue development of its suite of consumer-friendly technologies.
www.intelcapital.com
More at:http://www.saysme.tv/
SaysMe.tv is the primary place that individual consumers come to voice their own opinions through television, Internet and radio advertising regarding politics, sports, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (or whatever else they may be pursuing). SaysMe.tv allows you to participate in politics in a brand new way. For the first time ever, you will be able to use your campaign dollars to broadcast the messages you care about on TV. This begins in the form of sponsoring ads with your name at the end and will quickly grow into ways for you to create increasingly personalized messages by adding your own text, graphics and voice to commercials.
How Much They Got From VCs:
SaysMe Inc, a Los Angeles-based provider of politics-based, consumer-driven television advertising, has closed a series A financing led by Intel Capital and Prime Capital. Also participating were Ashton Kutcher's Katalyst Films, advertising pioneer Bill Apfelbaum, and other prominent angel investors. The proceeds from this funding round will be used to expand SaysMe's product offering beyond politics and to continue development of its suite of consumer-friendly technologies.
www.intelcapital.com
More at:http://www.saysme.tv/
JYGY --The Next Step In Mobile Social Networking
About Company:
JYGY is all about exploring and sharing with your friends. When you log into JYGY for the first time, you see the Dash page, this is where they put little widgets with various information and content for you. You can rearrange the page as you like. You can also add more stuff to it, just go to your account tab and customize it. While you are on the account tab, you can also set up your communication preferences, contact information and more.
JYGY has some social networking features like you have seen on other sites. However, JYGY is integrated into the mobile world from the get go. So for instance you can SMS your friends - just find them on the friends or the messages page.
You can upload media into JYGY different ways. Right now we recommend doing it on the webpage, but you will be able to MMS it to JYGY and email as well later. You can send the media to your friends from JYGY as well.
More at:http://www.jygy.com/
JYGY is all about exploring and sharing with your friends. When you log into JYGY for the first time, you see the Dash page, this is where they put little widgets with various information and content for you. You can rearrange the page as you like. You can also add more stuff to it, just go to your account tab and customize it. While you are on the account tab, you can also set up your communication preferences, contact information and more.
JYGY has some social networking features like you have seen on other sites. However, JYGY is integrated into the mobile world from the get go. So for instance you can SMS your friends - just find them on the friends or the messages page.
You can upload media into JYGY different ways. Right now we recommend doing it on the webpage, but you will be able to MMS it to JYGY and email as well later. You can send the media to your friends from JYGY as well.
More at:http://www.jygy.com/
Compare your flight ticket in just one click with Jetcost.co.uk
What Company Is Offering:
Compare your flight ticket in just one click with Jetcost.co.uk .
Jetcost is a metasearch engine specialized in travel.
It does allow you to compare in just a second thousands of flights, hotels, car rentals, travel packages,...
How It Works:
Jetcost.co.uk compare for you flight tickets and find the cheapest flight among offers and promotions of online travel agencies, regular airlines and low-cost carrier. To book a cheap flight, you just need to launch a search and wait for the travel search engine Jetcost.co.uk to do the work for you. It will show you the best fare for your flight ticket and your airline travel. Discount flights, last minute flights, bargain airfares, charter flights offers and budget airline tickets, Jetcost is the insurance to travel at low cost and at the cheapest fare!
More at:http://www.jetcost.co.uk/
Compare your flight ticket in just one click with Jetcost.co.uk .
Jetcost is a metasearch engine specialized in travel.
It does allow you to compare in just a second thousands of flights, hotels, car rentals, travel packages,...
How It Works:
Jetcost.co.uk compare for you flight tickets and find the cheapest flight among offers and promotions of online travel agencies, regular airlines and low-cost carrier. To book a cheap flight, you just need to launch a search and wait for the travel search engine Jetcost.co.uk to do the work for you. It will show you the best fare for your flight ticket and your airline travel. Discount flights, last minute flights, bargain airfares, charter flights offers and budget airline tickets, Jetcost is the insurance to travel at low cost and at the cheapest fare!
More at:http://www.jetcost.co.uk/
ChemWeb.com provides access to the information chemists need to enhance their research, product development and/or their businesses
What Company Is Offering:
ChemWeb.com provides access to the information chemists need to enhance their research, product development, self-development, education, and/or their businesses in Chemistry and related disciplines. Easy access to abstracts, papers, books, conferences, news, forums and the Alchemist newsletter makes ChemWeb.com useful to our members.Membership is free and takes just a minute to register. Members have exclusive content access and can participate in the many ChemWeb community features.
How It Works:
Easy access to abstracts, papers, journals, books, conferences news, forums and the Alchemist newsletter makes ChemWeb.com powerful and useful to their members.ChemWeb.com members can access a growing list of journal article abstracts and databases from a variety of publishers. A number of databases offer structure-based searching and manipulation of molecular structures. ChemWeb.com services include a Jobs Search in association with sciencejobs.com, Conference and Event Center, Bookstore and the online magazine, the alchemist.
More at:http://chemweb.com/
ChemWeb.com provides access to the information chemists need to enhance their research, product development, self-development, education, and/or their businesses in Chemistry and related disciplines. Easy access to abstracts, papers, books, conferences, news, forums and the Alchemist newsletter makes ChemWeb.com useful to our members.Membership is free and takes just a minute to register. Members have exclusive content access and can participate in the many ChemWeb community features.
How It Works:
Easy access to abstracts, papers, journals, books, conferences news, forums and the Alchemist newsletter makes ChemWeb.com powerful and useful to their members.ChemWeb.com members can access a growing list of journal article abstracts and databases from a variety of publishers. A number of databases offer structure-based searching and manipulation of molecular structures. ChemWeb.com services include a Jobs Search in association with sciencejobs.com, Conference and Event Center, Bookstore and the online magazine, the alchemist.
More at:http://chemweb.com/
uberVU is just an interesting way for you to keep track of all your content in this distributed world
What Company Is Offering:
uberVU helps you regain control of The Cloud. Because uberVU is just an interesting way for you to keep track of all your content in this distributed world.
The name comes from “UBER”, which is the German word for “more”, “extra”, “super”, “very”. And “VU” is just a misspelled version of “view”. The name refers to having an augmented overview of all your comment and conversations. Your uber-view of the Web you created.
How It Works:
Publish content such as blog posts, classifieds, pictures, videos, news, press releases or any other type of structured content, from one central location. More control and flexibility. Makes sense. Think of it as your publishing headquarters.
See and interact with the responses you get to your content. So if you post some content on 2 different blogs, you’ll be able to see what people from both blogs have said about it. And you can even respond to them, so that the conversation continues.
More at: http://www.ubervu.com/
uberVU helps you regain control of The Cloud. Because uberVU is just an interesting way for you to keep track of all your content in this distributed world.
The name comes from “UBER”, which is the German word for “more”, “extra”, “super”, “very”. And “VU” is just a misspelled version of “view”. The name refers to having an augmented overview of all your comment and conversations. Your uber-view of the Web you created.
How It Works:
Publish content such as blog posts, classifieds, pictures, videos, news, press releases or any other type of structured content, from one central location. More control and flexibility. Makes sense. Think of it as your publishing headquarters.
See and interact with the responses you get to your content. So if you post some content on 2 different blogs, you’ll be able to see what people from both blogs have said about it. And you can even respond to them, so that the conversation continues.
More at: http://www.ubervu.com/
Sendloop is a professional yet easy-to-use email marketing and mail list management service for any kind of online/offline businesses
What Company Is Offering:
Sendloop is a professional yet easy-to-use email marketing and mail list management service for any kind of online/offline businesses.
Sendloop Help Center provides easy-to-read instructions for all sections and features of Sendloop.
How It Works:
Sendloop includes all professional features that you will need for your email marketing campaign combined with a very easy to use interface. In just a few minutes, you will get your account up and ready to send your first email campaign.
Sendloop is being improved every day to make your life easier about email marketing.
More at:http://www.sendloop.com/
Sendloop is a professional yet easy-to-use email marketing and mail list management service for any kind of online/offline businesses.
Sendloop Help Center provides easy-to-read instructions for all sections and features of Sendloop.
How It Works:
Sendloop includes all professional features that you will need for your email marketing campaign combined with a very easy to use interface. In just a few minutes, you will get your account up and ready to send your first email campaign.
Sendloop is being improved every day to make your life easier about email marketing.
More at:http://www.sendloop.com/
Saturday, April 26, 2008
The BBC Sound Index is a massive index of the hottest bands and tracks that are being talked about on the internet right now
What Company Is Offering:
The BBC Sound Index is a massive index of the hottest bands and tracks that are being talked about on the internet right now.
Every six hours the Sound Index crawls some of the biggest music sites on the internet - Bebo, MySpace, Last.FM, iTunes, Google and YouTube - to find out what people are writing about, listening to, watching, downloading and logging on to. It then counts and analyses this data to make an instant list of the most popular 1000 artists and tracks on the web. The more blog mentions, comments, plays, downloads and profile views an artist or track has, the higher up the Sound Index they are. So, the Sound Index is a music buzz index controlled entirely by the public.
How It Works:
All the demographic data they collect and use is entirely anonymous, so they can never attribute any age or location data to any specific person. So, if you are a user of any of these sites, you don't need to worry that the Sound Index has any information about you. However, if you are concerned, or want more details, please contact us at soundindex@bbc.co.uk.
You can also watch some of the newest bands hottest new tracks on Sound, the music show on BBC every Saturday.
The Sound Index is currently in a public service beta phase, with data sources being finalised. During this beta phase we shall also be implementing and tweaking the data currently in the Index, and investigating a weighting system, to allow the more active forms of interaction to contribute more heavily to the Index.
More at:http://www.bbc.co.uk/soundindex/soundindex/
The BBC Sound Index is a massive index of the hottest bands and tracks that are being talked about on the internet right now.
Every six hours the Sound Index crawls some of the biggest music sites on the internet - Bebo, MySpace, Last.FM, iTunes, Google and YouTube - to find out what people are writing about, listening to, watching, downloading and logging on to. It then counts and analyses this data to make an instant list of the most popular 1000 artists and tracks on the web. The more blog mentions, comments, plays, downloads and profile views an artist or track has, the higher up the Sound Index they are. So, the Sound Index is a music buzz index controlled entirely by the public.
How It Works:
All the demographic data they collect and use is entirely anonymous, so they can never attribute any age or location data to any specific person. So, if you are a user of any of these sites, you don't need to worry that the Sound Index has any information about you. However, if you are concerned, or want more details, please contact us at soundindex@bbc.co.uk.
You can also watch some of the newest bands hottest new tracks on Sound, the music show on BBC every Saturday.
The Sound Index is currently in a public service beta phase, with data sources being finalised. During this beta phase we shall also be implementing and tweaking the data currently in the Index, and investigating a weighting system, to allow the more active forms of interaction to contribute more heavily to the Index.
More at:http://www.bbc.co.uk/soundindex/soundindex/
xRank keeps track of notable people and puts them in order for you
What Company Is Offering:
xRank keeps track of notable people and puts them in order for you. They count Live Search web searches for movie stars, musicians, and other famous people. Then, they compile their findings into an insightful ranking formula that tells you who the world is searching for most. The result is a cultural snapshot of who's hot and who's not!
How It Works:
View a person's popularity over the past six months on the xRank History chart. Under the xRank History chart, find the top-moving searches. These are real searches from users on the day the person peaked in popularity on xRank.
Look over the rankings for names that interest you. Arrow icons show how their movement is trending. Movement at the top of the list means more than it does near the bottom.
Discover relationships among notable people. Thumbnail photos at the bottom of xRank show you the associates, friends, enemies, and romances, of the person you're interested in.Explore a celebrity's latest videos, images, movies, albums, and more.
More at:http://search.live.com/xrank/results.aspx
xRank keeps track of notable people and puts them in order for you. They count Live Search web searches for movie stars, musicians, and other famous people. Then, they compile their findings into an insightful ranking formula that tells you who the world is searching for most. The result is a cultural snapshot of who's hot and who's not!
How It Works:
View a person's popularity over the past six months on the xRank History chart. Under the xRank History chart, find the top-moving searches. These are real searches from users on the day the person peaked in popularity on xRank.
Look over the rankings for names that interest you. Arrow icons show how their movement is trending. Movement at the top of the list means more than it does near the bottom.
Discover relationships among notable people. Thumbnail photos at the bottom of xRank show you the associates, friends, enemies, and romances, of the person you're interested in.Explore a celebrity's latest videos, images, movies, albums, and more.
More at:http://search.live.com/xrank/results.aspx
Wakozi is a portal that allows stores who offer delivery to be included in their search engine
About Company:
Wakozi is a portal that allows stores who offer delivery to be included in their search engine. Simply enter your zip code, address and apartment number into the search engine, and Wakozi spits out a list of stores that will deliver your favorite drink right to your door.
More at:http://www.wakozi.com/
Wakozi is a portal that allows stores who offer delivery to be included in their search engine. Simply enter your zip code, address and apartment number into the search engine, and Wakozi spits out a list of stores that will deliver your favorite drink right to your door.
More at:http://www.wakozi.com/
Minggl is a toolbar that brings your social sites together in one place
What Company Is Offering:
Minggl is a toolbar that brings your social sites together in one place, feeding you the latest activities of friends, no matter where you are on the web.
How It Works:
Minggl is moving freely around the web while staying connected to multiple social networks. The Minggl toolbar monitors your networks for key events and friend activity to keep you posted as you browse other sites. It also enables you to manage content, friends, and your online identities across profiles from wherever you are.
More at:http://www.minggl.com/
Minggl is a toolbar that brings your social sites together in one place, feeding you the latest activities of friends, no matter where you are on the web.
How It Works:
Minggl is moving freely around the web while staying connected to multiple social networks. The Minggl toolbar monitors your networks for key events and friend activity to keep you posted as you browse other sites. It also enables you to manage content, friends, and your online identities across profiles from wherever you are.
More at:http://www.minggl.com/
A metronome is a practice tool that produces a steady pulse (or beat) to help musicians play rhythms accurately
What Company Is Offering:
A metronome is a practice tool that produces a steady pulse (or beat) to help musicians play rhythms accurately. The pulses are measured in beats-per-minute (BPM). Most metronomes are capable of playing beats from 35 to 250 BPM. Common uses of the metronome are helping you to maintain an established tempo while practicing, and learning difficult passages.
How It Works:
The first step in metronome use is to understand time signatures. Time signatures are found at the beginning of a musical piece, after the clef and the key signature. Time signatures (also called meter signatures) consist of two numbers. The top number indicates the number of beats in a measure, while the bottom number corresponds to the value of the beat. Most often, you will see 2, 3, 4 or 6 beats per measure. Beats are commonly half notes (the bottom number of the meter signature is “2”), quarter notes (“4”) or dotted quarter notes (“8”).
More at:http://www.metronomeonline.com/
A metronome is a practice tool that produces a steady pulse (or beat) to help musicians play rhythms accurately. The pulses are measured in beats-per-minute (BPM). Most metronomes are capable of playing beats from 35 to 250 BPM. Common uses of the metronome are helping you to maintain an established tempo while practicing, and learning difficult passages.
How It Works:
The first step in metronome use is to understand time signatures. Time signatures are found at the beginning of a musical piece, after the clef and the key signature. Time signatures (also called meter signatures) consist of two numbers. The top number indicates the number of beats in a measure, while the bottom number corresponds to the value of the beat. Most often, you will see 2, 3, 4 or 6 beats per measure. Beats are commonly half notes (the bottom number of the meter signature is “2”), quarter notes (“4”) or dotted quarter notes (“8”).
More at:http://www.metronomeonline.com/
ProjectLocker is to provide on-demand tools for software developers
What Company Is Offering:
ProjectLocker is to provide on-demand tools for software developers. Guided by the simple mission of helping companies build better software, ProjectLocker's services have expanded to include services for the complete lifecycle of software projects, from requirements documentation to build and test automation.
How It Works:
ProjectLocker serves companies from startups to Fortune 1000 multinationals.
ProjectLocker is an innovator in the on-demand development space. Recent additions are ProjectLocker Analytics and BuildLocker. ProjectLocker Analytics works with ProjectLocker Subversion Hosting to help managers analyze developer activity, so they can better manage their projects. ProjectLocker Analytics is the first hosted source code analytics system. BuildLocker is also an industry first: a virtualized hosted continuous integration solution.
More at:http://www.projectlocker.com/
ProjectLocker is to provide on-demand tools for software developers. Guided by the simple mission of helping companies build better software, ProjectLocker's services have expanded to include services for the complete lifecycle of software projects, from requirements documentation to build and test automation.
How It Works:
ProjectLocker serves companies from startups to Fortune 1000 multinationals.
ProjectLocker is an innovator in the on-demand development space. Recent additions are ProjectLocker Analytics and BuildLocker. ProjectLocker Analytics works with ProjectLocker Subversion Hosting to help managers analyze developer activity, so they can better manage their projects. ProjectLocker Analytics is the first hosted source code analytics system. BuildLocker is also an industry first: a virtualized hosted continuous integration solution.
More at:http://www.projectlocker.com/
Macrocasa is a web-based software: let you manage your business in the best and simplest way ever
What Company Is Offering:
Macrocasa is a web-based software: let you manage your business in the best and simplest way ever. With a mobile device is like carrying your office in the palm of your hand.
Unique Features:
A complete list of your real estates paginated and sortable by type, date, name, owner, city and price.
Fully customizable property information such as typologies, notes, images, documents, Google Maps based address, rent/sell management...
Specific request could be associated to clients, in order to find out in a click properties matching their criteria.
Every sale/rent will be recorded in order to track the agent, the seller and the new owner. A simple statistics module let you find the best vendor, most sold typologies, most active agencies...
More at:http://www.macrocasa.com/
Macrocasa is a web-based software: let you manage your business in the best and simplest way ever. With a mobile device is like carrying your office in the palm of your hand.
Unique Features:
A complete list of your real estates paginated and sortable by type, date, name, owner, city and price.
Fully customizable property information such as typologies, notes, images, documents, Google Maps based address, rent/sell management...
Specific request could be associated to clients, in order to find out in a click properties matching their criteria.
Every sale/rent will be recorded in order to track the agent, the seller and the new owner. A simple statistics module let you find the best vendor, most sold typologies, most active agencies...
More at:http://www.macrocasa.com/
Friday, April 25, 2008
Silverpop, a leading provider of on-demand marketing technology, has closed a $15 million round of funding
What Company Is Offering:
Silverpop is a premier email service provider delivering a comprehensive array of on-demand, Web-based software solutions serving the online relationship marketing needs of enterprise-level organizations throughout the world. Its Software-as-a-Service approach makes it easy and affordable for marketers to create, automate and execute lifecycle multi-channel marketing campaigns that are timely, relevant and measurable. With highly scalable tools supporting both high-volume BtoC marketing initiatives as well as demand generation activities for BtoB sales processes, Silverpop delivers a robust suite of marketing tools not available elsewhere in the marketplace.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Silverpop, a leading provider of on-demand marketing technology, has closed a $15 million round of funding. The funds are earmarked for international expansion, R&D acceleration and to fund additional acquisitions to round out the company's on-demand marketing suite.
The company has been recognized by Deloitte as the second fastest-growing technology company in Georgia, and Silverpop is the only company that has consistently been named by JupiterResearch as one of the top two enterprise-oriented email service providers each of the last four years.
"On-demand marketing solutions are changing how marketers do their jobs. They are able to be more flexible, more responsive and more competitive, all with lower costs," said Silverpop CEO Bill Nussey. "The demand for Software-as-a-Service marketing solutions is growing at an amazing rate, and investors are beginning to realize the tremendous upside of this market."
More at: www.silverpop.com
Silverpop is a premier email service provider delivering a comprehensive array of on-demand, Web-based software solutions serving the online relationship marketing needs of enterprise-level organizations throughout the world. Its Software-as-a-Service approach makes it easy and affordable for marketers to create, automate and execute lifecycle multi-channel marketing campaigns that are timely, relevant and measurable. With highly scalable tools supporting both high-volume BtoC marketing initiatives as well as demand generation activities for BtoB sales processes, Silverpop delivers a robust suite of marketing tools not available elsewhere in the marketplace.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Silverpop, a leading provider of on-demand marketing technology, has closed a $15 million round of funding. The funds are earmarked for international expansion, R&D acceleration and to fund additional acquisitions to round out the company's on-demand marketing suite.
The company has been recognized by Deloitte as the second fastest-growing technology company in Georgia, and Silverpop is the only company that has consistently been named by JupiterResearch as one of the top two enterprise-oriented email service providers each of the last four years.
"On-demand marketing solutions are changing how marketers do their jobs. They are able to be more flexible, more responsive and more competitive, all with lower costs," said Silverpop CEO Bill Nussey. "The demand for Software-as-a-Service marketing solutions is growing at an amazing rate, and investors are beginning to realize the tremendous upside of this market."
More at: www.silverpop.com
FirstRain is the leading provider of search-driven research applications for investment professionals and corporate executives
What Company Is Offering:
FirstRain is the leading provider of search-driven research applications for investment professionals and corporate executives. They fill the information gap that exists in the research process for portfolio managers, analysts and management teams, uncovering information they would not see otherwise, and help theirr clients ask and answer more effective questions, identify emerging trends, and generate better ideas-faster.
How It Works:
FirstRain combines cutting-edge technology with models of companies and topics in their market context to extract only the most relevant intelligence from the web-including hard-to-find sources such as sector-specific sources, premium subscription sites, influential blogs and local and international news. They deliver personalized results tailored to our clients' particular strategy and view of the market via email or web access.
FirstRain delivers personalized, robust data to keep you abreast of developments impacting your investments. Their search-driven research fits the investment professional's workflow by applying pattern detection and adaptive models of business concepts, companies and industries to the web to uncover information that you would not see otherwise. FirstRain extends your information reach and sharpens your edge.
FirstRain is a privately held company, headquartered in Foster City, CA. The company has sales client-services offices in New York, NY, and research and development facilities in Gurgaon. Investors include Oak Investment Partners, Ampersand Ventures, Diamondhead Ventures and Split Rock Partners.
More at:http://firstrain.com/
FirstRain is the leading provider of search-driven research applications for investment professionals and corporate executives. They fill the information gap that exists in the research process for portfolio managers, analysts and management teams, uncovering information they would not see otherwise, and help theirr clients ask and answer more effective questions, identify emerging trends, and generate better ideas-faster.
How It Works:
FirstRain combines cutting-edge technology with models of companies and topics in their market context to extract only the most relevant intelligence from the web-including hard-to-find sources such as sector-specific sources, premium subscription sites, influential blogs and local and international news. They deliver personalized results tailored to our clients' particular strategy and view of the market via email or web access.
FirstRain delivers personalized, robust data to keep you abreast of developments impacting your investments. Their search-driven research fits the investment professional's workflow by applying pattern detection and adaptive models of business concepts, companies and industries to the web to uncover information that you would not see otherwise. FirstRain extends your information reach and sharpens your edge.
FirstRain is a privately held company, headquartered in Foster City, CA. The company has sales client-services offices in New York, NY, and research and development facilities in Gurgaon. Investors include Oak Investment Partners, Ampersand Ventures, Diamondhead Ventures and Split Rock Partners.
More at:http://firstrain.com/
Campusfood.com
What Company Is Offering:
Campusfood.com, Inc. is the leading network of restaurants, providing innovative marketing to restaurant partners and offering online menus with interactive ordering for students and local communities.
How It Works:
Through a virtual food court, Campusfood connects millions to a national base of over 1,500 chain and independent restaurants at more than 300 of the top campuses across the country. Campusfood continues to grow each year, adding campuses and restaurants to their roster. Campusfood.com is the easiest, fastest and least expensive way to order food from your favorite restaurants. Avoid busy signals, miscommunications, AND save tons of money by taking advantage of exclusive meal deals and specials.
Campusfood.com customer service is standing by...7 days a week, 9AM - 3AM EST.
More at:http://www.campusfood.com/
Campusfood.com, Inc. is the leading network of restaurants, providing innovative marketing to restaurant partners and offering online menus with interactive ordering for students and local communities.
How It Works:
Through a virtual food court, Campusfood connects millions to a national base of over 1,500 chain and independent restaurants at more than 300 of the top campuses across the country. Campusfood continues to grow each year, adding campuses and restaurants to their roster. Campusfood.com is the easiest, fastest and least expensive way to order food from your favorite restaurants. Avoid busy signals, miscommunications, AND save tons of money by taking advantage of exclusive meal deals and specials.
Campusfood.com customer service is standing by...7 days a week, 9AM - 3AM EST.
More at:http://www.campusfood.com/
Feedables is your source for up to date content that is categorized and presented specifically for you
What Company Is Offering:
Feedables is your source for up to date content that is categorized and presented specifically for you.
If you’ve got a big appetite for knowledge, or when you need to keep up to date on a specific topic - turn to Feedables for sizzling hot content .
How It Works:
Feedable is an aggregation website covering a specific topic of information utilizing rss technology.
When they create a Feedables site they scour the deepest parts of the web to find the most pertinent information on that particuliar topic. They harness the power of news articles, podcasts, video and imagery from the biggest news sources to the most niche blogs.
More at:http://www.feedables.com/
Feedables is your source for up to date content that is categorized and presented specifically for you.
If you’ve got a big appetite for knowledge, or when you need to keep up to date on a specific topic - turn to Feedables for sizzling hot content .
How It Works:
Feedable is an aggregation website covering a specific topic of information utilizing rss technology.
When they create a Feedables site they scour the deepest parts of the web to find the most pertinent information on that particuliar topic. They harness the power of news articles, podcasts, video and imagery from the biggest news sources to the most niche blogs.
More at:http://www.feedables.com/
The Thread Buddy is a threaded discussion tool that uses wildcard DNS, so you can pick your own discussion URL
What Company Is Offering:
The Thread Buddy is a threaded discussion tool that uses wildcard DNS, so you can pick your own discussion URL. The thread is tied to the *.www.threadbuddy.com URL that you choose, so there are endless open "channels" to use. The thread buddy is search engine friendly since it has an integrated plaintext and rss feed. Also, the thread buddy can easily be integrated into any site. See the help page for how to integrate a Thread Buddy into your site.
How It Works:
It is easy to add a Thread Buddy to your site! Just replace the URL in the iframe tag below with your own thread buddy (yourname.threadbuddy.com), it's that simple.At a minimum, the following is code is all that is needed to put a Thread Buddy on your site.
More at:http://www.threadbuddy.com/
The Thread Buddy is a threaded discussion tool that uses wildcard DNS, so you can pick your own discussion URL. The thread is tied to the *.www.threadbuddy.com URL that you choose, so there are endless open "channels" to use. The thread buddy is search engine friendly since it has an integrated plaintext and rss feed. Also, the thread buddy can easily be integrated into any site. See the help page for how to integrate a Thread Buddy into your site.
How It Works:
It is easy to add a Thread Buddy to your site! Just replace the URL in the iframe tag below with your own thread buddy (yourname.threadbuddy.com), it's that simple.At a minimum, the following is code is all that is needed to put a Thread Buddy on your site.
More at:http://www.threadbuddy.com/
RealDealDocs is a leading online legal document resource offering millions of sample legal agreements, contracts and clauses
What Company Is Offering:
RealDealDocs is a leading online legal document resource offering millions of sample legal agreements, contracts and clauses. Members can edit, print and download copies of real legal documents used and drafted by the top law firms for both Fortune 500 Companies and small cap operations.
How It Works:
RealDealDocs.com provides a wide variety of legal agreements ranging from executive employment agreements, confidentiality agreements mortgage loan agreements, lease agreements, and more. RealDealDocs.com offers over 10 million other legal documents and clauses in addition to the independent contractor and aforementioned agreements.
Documents and clauses found at RealDealDocs.com are drafted by some of the top law firms for Fortune 500 companies as well as for the smallest of small cap companies. Since these legal documents have been drafted by the best law firms in the country, they are not only relevant work products, but also individual opportunities to gain important competitive intelligence about how top law firms are negotiating and drafting agreements for their clients; not to mention an invaluable peek at the inner workings of the World’s largest companies.
More at:http://www.RealDealDocs.com
RealDealDocs is a leading online legal document resource offering millions of sample legal agreements, contracts and clauses. Members can edit, print and download copies of real legal documents used and drafted by the top law firms for both Fortune 500 Companies and small cap operations.
How It Works:
RealDealDocs.com provides a wide variety of legal agreements ranging from executive employment agreements, confidentiality agreements mortgage loan agreements, lease agreements, and more. RealDealDocs.com offers over 10 million other legal documents and clauses in addition to the independent contractor and aforementioned agreements.
Documents and clauses found at RealDealDocs.com are drafted by some of the top law firms for Fortune 500 companies as well as for the smallest of small cap companies. Since these legal documents have been drafted by the best law firms in the country, they are not only relevant work products, but also individual opportunities to gain important competitive intelligence about how top law firms are negotiating and drafting agreements for their clients; not to mention an invaluable peek at the inner workings of the World’s largest companies.
More at:http://www.RealDealDocs.com
Greenengineseo.com--new media agency that focuses on organic search engine optimization and strategic online marketing campaigns for Automotive firms
What Company Is Offering:
Greenengineseo.com, a premiere new media agency that focuses on organic search engine optimization and strategic online marketing campaigns for Automotive firms.
How It Works:
Their mission is to help brands harness the power of the Internet to create value for their customers. Solutions are driven by your needs and your competitive position. Ultimately they endeavor to increase online traffic, sales and profits.
The first move is to initiate a dialogue. As experts who care about helping businesses outperform the competition, this is your opportunity to find out more about their skills, expertise and philosophy.They are available to give you candid feedback on your website and media plan. Due to demand, they only take on new clients on a case by case basis but they are certainly available to give you competitive advice.
Recent Updates:
Greenengineseo.com, a premiere new media agency that focuses on organic search engine optimization and strategic online marketing campaigns for Automotive firms. announced a new campaign for a leading automotive manufacturer.
More at:http://www.greenengineseo.com/
Greenengineseo.com, a premiere new media agency that focuses on organic search engine optimization and strategic online marketing campaigns for Automotive firms.
How It Works:
Their mission is to help brands harness the power of the Internet to create value for their customers. Solutions are driven by your needs and your competitive position. Ultimately they endeavor to increase online traffic, sales and profits.
The first move is to initiate a dialogue. As experts who care about helping businesses outperform the competition, this is your opportunity to find out more about their skills, expertise and philosophy.They are available to give you candid feedback on your website and media plan. Due to demand, they only take on new clients on a case by case basis but they are certainly available to give you competitive advice.
Recent Updates:
Greenengineseo.com, a premiere new media agency that focuses on organic search engine optimization and strategic online marketing campaigns for Automotive firms. announced a new campaign for a leading automotive manufacturer.
More at:http://www.greenengineseo.com/
KeepandShare.com
What Company Is Offering:
KeepandShare.com is the free website that makes group file & calendar sharing easy. With a few clicks, anyone can create a secure group file or calendar sharing center in 30 seconds. Keepandshare.com is a private 'sharing space' where families, friends, clients, businesses, and groups of any kind can keep and share calendars, files, documents, lists, journals and photos safely and privately. With over 280,000 registered members KeepandShare.com is among the web's fastest growing sites.
How It Works:
Its free online secure file sharing resource center. With free online file sharing combined with extensive web-based file sharing resources, KeepandShare's announcement today of their free secure file sharing resource center means users can create file sharing program and share online file sharing faster than ever before. Impressive new file sharing features mean users can do even more with their private file sharing software KeepandShare account.
KeepandShare's free secure file sharing online web center is available now at:
http://www.keepandshare.com/htm/free_file_sharing.php
The private file sharing software is secure because it's 100% private to you, but you can share file at any time by just inviting friends to have access to the file or entire folders. You can even mark files public. Lastly, the web-based file sharing in KeepandShare can be combined with creating native documents and sharing online calendars, so it's truly a complete solution for group sharing needs. Kudos to KeepandShare."
KeepandShare.com is the free website that makes group sharing easy. KeepandShare's free secure file and calendar sharing accounts can be accessed securely from any Internet connected computer.
More at:http://www.keepandshare.com/htm/free_file_sharing.php
KeepandShare.com is the free website that makes group file & calendar sharing easy. With a few clicks, anyone can create a secure group file or calendar sharing center in 30 seconds. Keepandshare.com is a private 'sharing space' where families, friends, clients, businesses, and groups of any kind can keep and share calendars, files, documents, lists, journals and photos safely and privately. With over 280,000 registered members KeepandShare.com is among the web's fastest growing sites.
How It Works:
Its free online secure file sharing resource center. With free online file sharing combined with extensive web-based file sharing resources, KeepandShare's announcement today of their free secure file sharing resource center means users can create file sharing program and share online file sharing faster than ever before. Impressive new file sharing features mean users can do even more with their private file sharing software KeepandShare account.
KeepandShare's free secure file sharing online web center is available now at:
http://www.keepandshare.com/htm/free_file_sharing.php
The private file sharing software is secure because it's 100% private to you, but you can share file at any time by just inviting friends to have access to the file or entire folders. You can even mark files public. Lastly, the web-based file sharing in KeepandShare can be combined with creating native documents and sharing online calendars, so it's truly a complete solution for group sharing needs. Kudos to KeepandShare."
KeepandShare.com is the free website that makes group sharing easy. KeepandShare's free secure file and calendar sharing accounts can be accessed securely from any Internet connected computer.
More at:http://www.keepandshare.com/htm/free_file_sharing.php
Obopay, Inc., the pioneering service provider for payments via mobile phones got $20 million in funding
What Company Is Offering:
Obopay, Inc. is a pioneering service that lets consumers and businesses purchase, pay, and transfer money through any mobile phone using Obopay's mobile application, text message, mobile Web, widget or Obopay.com. As the first mobile payment service created exclusively for the mobile phone, only Obopay works on any phone and any carrier to empower consumers and businesses with the convenience of mobile payments.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Obopay, Inc., the pioneering service provider for payments via mobile phones, announced the closing of its $20 million fourth round of venture funding and the addition of two new board members. This latest round of investment builds on Obopay's enormous momentum in its business and high-profile partnerships.
"This round of investment builds on Obopay's proven success in the mobile payments market," explained Carol Realini, CEO of Obopay. "With our continuing focus on delivering services built on specific feedback from consumers, such as the ability to send money from and receive money to any US bank account, the success of our partnerships and our international expansion, we remain confident in the viability of the American -- and global -- mobile payments market."
More at:www.obopay.com
Obopay, Inc. is a pioneering service that lets consumers and businesses purchase, pay, and transfer money through any mobile phone using Obopay's mobile application, text message, mobile Web, widget or Obopay.com. As the first mobile payment service created exclusively for the mobile phone, only Obopay works on any phone and any carrier to empower consumers and businesses with the convenience of mobile payments.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Obopay, Inc., the pioneering service provider for payments via mobile phones, announced the closing of its $20 million fourth round of venture funding and the addition of two new board members. This latest round of investment builds on Obopay's enormous momentum in its business and high-profile partnerships.
"This round of investment builds on Obopay's proven success in the mobile payments market," explained Carol Realini, CEO of Obopay. "With our continuing focus on delivering services built on specific feedback from consumers, such as the ability to send money from and receive money to any US bank account, the success of our partnerships and our international expansion, we remain confident in the viability of the American -- and global -- mobile payments market."
More at:www.obopay.com
Retail Convergence Inc., a newly formed corporation comprised of a portfolio of ecommerce companies has closed a $25 million Series A round
About Company:
Retail Convergence Inc. is a portfolio of ecommerce companies leveraging a common platform, infrastructure, customer file and brand relationships. Current portfolio companies include RueLaLa.com and SmartBargains.com. Retail Convergence is a privately-held company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Investors include New England Development, Breakaway Ventures, Mugar Enterprises and General Catalyst.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Retail Convergence Inc., a newly formed corporation comprised of a portfolio of ecommerce companies, today announced it has closed a $25 million Series A round of financing.
Lead investors include New England Development, Breakaway Ventures, Mugar Enterprises and General Catalyst Partners. The first initiative for the new organization included the acquisition of SmartBargains.com, the leading online, off-price retailer. Additionally, Retail Convergence today announced the launch of RueLaLa.com, the invitation-only, private sale ecommerce site driven exclusively by user-generated membership.
RueLaLa.com is an exciting addition to the Retail Convergence portfolio as it offers an entirely new shopping experience. The private sale model provides consumers exclusive access to scheduled sales of upscale brands. Each private sale is brand-specific, lasts 2 days and features current season merchandise. Membership is completely user-generated – the only way an individual can join RueLaLa.com is through an invitation from an existing member. In today’s tepid retail environment this unique peer-to-peer, viral marketing driven model addresses consumers’ demand for unique shopping experiences.
More at:www.ruelala.com
www.smartbargains.com.
Retail Convergence Inc. is a portfolio of ecommerce companies leveraging a common platform, infrastructure, customer file and brand relationships. Current portfolio companies include RueLaLa.com and SmartBargains.com. Retail Convergence is a privately-held company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Investors include New England Development, Breakaway Ventures, Mugar Enterprises and General Catalyst.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Retail Convergence Inc., a newly formed corporation comprised of a portfolio of ecommerce companies, today announced it has closed a $25 million Series A round of financing.
Lead investors include New England Development, Breakaway Ventures, Mugar Enterprises and General Catalyst Partners. The first initiative for the new organization included the acquisition of SmartBargains.com, the leading online, off-price retailer. Additionally, Retail Convergence today announced the launch of RueLaLa.com, the invitation-only, private sale ecommerce site driven exclusively by user-generated membership.
RueLaLa.com is an exciting addition to the Retail Convergence portfolio as it offers an entirely new shopping experience. The private sale model provides consumers exclusive access to scheduled sales of upscale brands. Each private sale is brand-specific, lasts 2 days and features current season merchandise. Membership is completely user-generated – the only way an individual can join RueLaLa.com is through an invitation from an existing member. In today’s tepid retail environment this unique peer-to-peer, viral marketing driven model addresses consumers’ demand for unique shopping experiences.
More at:www.ruelala.com
www.smartbargains.com.
RightScale, Inc., the leading automated management platform for Internet cloud computing serviceshas secured $4.5 million in first-round venture fund
What Company Is Offering:
RightScale, Inc. delivers the platform, tools and expertise that enable companies to create scalable web solutions on cloud computing services that are reliable, easy to manage, and cost less. Funded by Benchmark Capital, RightScale is a private company headquartered in Santa Barbara, California.
How Much They Got From VCs:
RightScale, Inc., the leading automated management platform for Internet cloud computing services, today announced it has secured $4.5 million in first-round venture financing from Benchmark Capital. RightScale will use the funds to accelerate customer growth and develop more tools that enable developers to create and automate reliable, scalable and high-performing web applications for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Benchmark Capital general partner Kevin Harvey will join the company's board of directors.
More at:http://www.RightScale.com.
RightScale, Inc. delivers the platform, tools and expertise that enable companies to create scalable web solutions on cloud computing services that are reliable, easy to manage, and cost less. Funded by Benchmark Capital, RightScale is a private company headquartered in Santa Barbara, California.
How Much They Got From VCs:
RightScale, Inc., the leading automated management platform for Internet cloud computing services, today announced it has secured $4.5 million in first-round venture financing from Benchmark Capital. RightScale will use the funds to accelerate customer growth and develop more tools that enable developers to create and automate reliable, scalable and high-performing web applications for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Benchmark Capital general partner Kevin Harvey will join the company's board of directors.
More at:http://www.RightScale.com.
Plugoo offers you several communication tools based on instant messaging
What Company Is Offering:
Plugoo offers you several communication tools based on instant messaging:
Plugoo Widget, to interact LIVE with your website visitors;
Planet Plugoo, to meet people from all over the world, share your interests and chat with them instantly.
How It Works:
Plugoo Widget enables your website visitors (blog, social network profile, online shop…) to get in touch with you in real time, directly on your Instant Messenger (MSN Messenger, GoogleTalk, Yahoo! Messenger, AOL AIM, ICQ, Jabber…). If your messenger status is online, visitors can send you an instant message through the Plugoo Buddy in your messenger buddy list. You can thus chat with them, answer their questions or comments Live!
Your visitors don’t need neither to download a software nor to create an account before they can contact you. They never have access to your instant messaging information (username). And conversation between a visitor and you is strictly private – other simultaneous visitors on the website don’t see the conversation. You don’t have to change your habits, you keep using your favorite messenger on your desktop or from your mobile phone.
Planet Plugoo is the Plugoo Members’ community. Planet Plugoo is a micro-social chat-centric network. You can share your interests with people from all over the world, meet new friends and chat with them. You can browse Planet Plugoo using tags about interests, localization… Your personal information (email address, instant messaging username) are never revealed to other Planet Plugoo Members.
More at:http://www.plugoo.com/
Plugoo offers you several communication tools based on instant messaging:
Plugoo Widget, to interact LIVE with your website visitors;
Planet Plugoo, to meet people from all over the world, share your interests and chat with them instantly.
How It Works:
Plugoo Widget enables your website visitors (blog, social network profile, online shop…) to get in touch with you in real time, directly on your Instant Messenger (MSN Messenger, GoogleTalk, Yahoo! Messenger, AOL AIM, ICQ, Jabber…). If your messenger status is online, visitors can send you an instant message through the Plugoo Buddy in your messenger buddy list. You can thus chat with them, answer their questions or comments Live!
Your visitors don’t need neither to download a software nor to create an account before they can contact you. They never have access to your instant messaging information (username). And conversation between a visitor and you is strictly private – other simultaneous visitors on the website don’t see the conversation. You don’t have to change your habits, you keep using your favorite messenger on your desktop or from your mobile phone.
Planet Plugoo is the Plugoo Members’ community. Planet Plugoo is a micro-social chat-centric network. You can share your interests with people from all over the world, meet new friends and chat with them. You can browse Planet Plugoo using tags about interests, localization… Your personal information (email address, instant messaging username) are never revealed to other Planet Plugoo Members.
More at:http://www.plugoo.com/
Cerizmo is a system for selling and delivering downloadable files of all kinds
What Company Is Offering:
Cerizmo is a system for selling and delivering downloadable files of all kinds. It is a hosted, on-demand service that provides everything you need to start selling - a customizable online store, a control panel to manage it, payment integration, and automatic delivery of downloads. There's no software to install or configure - they manage everything on their servers.
And the best part - the money goes straight into your own merchant account instantly when you make a sale.
Unique Features:
Sell any kind of Download
Software, ebooks, digital photos and artwork, screencasts, music, manuals, documents, videos, schematics - if it's a file, you can sell it with our system. You can even bundle multiple downloads on one item.
Automatic Download Delivery
A secure direct download link is automatically delivered to your customer after they order. The download links automatically expire, and the location of the files is protected from unauthorized access.
Your Own Customizable Store
Sell your digital goods through your store - complete with shopping cart, checkout, and payment integration. Quickly customize the look and feel with your own HTML layout and stylesheet files.
Merchant Control Panel
Setup and control everything from your own private Merchant Control Panel. Setup and customize your store, view your orders and sales statistics, and view information about your customers. It's all there.
PayPal Integration
Integrates seamlessly with your own PayPal account. There's no waiting to get paid - the money goes straight into your account when you make a sale.
More at:http://www.cerizmo.com/
Cerizmo is a system for selling and delivering downloadable files of all kinds. It is a hosted, on-demand service that provides everything you need to start selling - a customizable online store, a control panel to manage it, payment integration, and automatic delivery of downloads. There's no software to install or configure - they manage everything on their servers.
And the best part - the money goes straight into your own merchant account instantly when you make a sale.
Unique Features:
Sell any kind of Download
Software, ebooks, digital photos and artwork, screencasts, music, manuals, documents, videos, schematics - if it's a file, you can sell it with our system. You can even bundle multiple downloads on one item.
Automatic Download Delivery
A secure direct download link is automatically delivered to your customer after they order. The download links automatically expire, and the location of the files is protected from unauthorized access.
Your Own Customizable Store
Sell your digital goods through your store - complete with shopping cart, checkout, and payment integration. Quickly customize the look and feel with your own HTML layout and stylesheet files.
Merchant Control Panel
Setup and control everything from your own private Merchant Control Panel. Setup and customize your store, view your orders and sales statistics, and view information about your customers. It's all there.
PayPal Integration
Integrates seamlessly with your own PayPal account. There's no waiting to get paid - the money goes straight into your account when you make a sale.
More at:http://www.cerizmo.com/
Protagonize is a creative writing community dedicated to writing various forms of collaborative, interactive fiction
What Company Is Offering:
Protagonize is a creative writing community dedicated to writing various forms of collaborative, interactive fiction. One author writes a story, and others post branches or chapters to it in different directions. The result is an organic, evolving story where everyone can participate.
How It Works:
After registering, you have a couple of different ways to post content. First off, you can start a new story by clicking the "Protagonize!" link from your right-hand menu. That will get you started with a fresh, brand new story. If you're not signed in to your Protagonize account, you'll be prompted to do so before posting anything.
Protagonize lets you explore your inner author: simply read and be amazed by the creative prowess of other writers, subscribe via RSS, or contribute to stories yourself. Registered members get their own author profile page, can write new stories, branches and chapters, add page markers, keep track of their favourite authors, add comments, rate stories, and more.
More at:http://www.protagonize.com/
Protagonize is a creative writing community dedicated to writing various forms of collaborative, interactive fiction. One author writes a story, and others post branches or chapters to it in different directions. The result is an organic, evolving story where everyone can participate.
How It Works:
After registering, you have a couple of different ways to post content. First off, you can start a new story by clicking the "Protagonize!" link from your right-hand menu. That will get you started with a fresh, brand new story. If you're not signed in to your Protagonize account, you'll be prompted to do so before posting anything.
Protagonize lets you explore your inner author: simply read and be amazed by the creative prowess of other writers, subscribe via RSS, or contribute to stories yourself. Registered members get their own author profile page, can write new stories, branches and chapters, add page markers, keep track of their favourite authors, add comments, rate stories, and more.
More at:http://www.protagonize.com/
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Top Business Trends
6 business ideas that take advantage of the top business trends.
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NuWire Investor:
Previously, NuWire identified and ranked the Top 5 Business Trends that present great opportunities for business owners. In this companion article, we present 6 innovative business ideas that exemplify these trends; however, aspiring business owners may find that, with a little food for thought and a lot of motivation, the opportunities are endless.
Foreign market consulting
A business in foreign market consulting can help U.S.-based businesses take advantage of exporting opportunities. Because of their high demand overseas, sophisticated capital goods such as medical equipment and electrical machinery may offer some of the greatest potential for exporting. Additionally, the emergence of the middle and upper-classes in rapidly developing countries such as China and Russia has also driven demand for luxury goods such as diamond jewelry.
In addition to the U.S., opportunities for foreign market consultants exist in Latin American markets. Latin American currencies are closely tied to the weakening U.S. dollar, and thus hold lower value than other global currency markets. For such a venture, Spanish-speaking individuals would possess a significant advantage.
Link--Virtual Entrepreneur
business-trends.jpg
NuWire Investor:
Previously, NuWire identified and ranked the Top 5 Business Trends that present great opportunities for business owners. In this companion article, we present 6 innovative business ideas that exemplify these trends; however, aspiring business owners may find that, with a little food for thought and a lot of motivation, the opportunities are endless.
Foreign market consulting
A business in foreign market consulting can help U.S.-based businesses take advantage of exporting opportunities. Because of their high demand overseas, sophisticated capital goods such as medical equipment and electrical machinery may offer some of the greatest potential for exporting. Additionally, the emergence of the middle and upper-classes in rapidly developing countries such as China and Russia has also driven demand for luxury goods such as diamond jewelry.
In addition to the U.S., opportunities for foreign market consultants exist in Latin American markets. Latin American currencies are closely tied to the weakening U.S. dollar, and thus hold lower value than other global currency markets. For such a venture, Spanish-speaking individuals would possess a significant advantage.
Link--Virtual Entrepreneur
ChunkIt! is a personal search engine for your browser that lets you see exactly where to get precisely what you want, BEFORE you click away
What Company Is Offering:
ChunkIt! is a personal search engine for your browser that lets you see exactly where to get precisely what you want, BEFORE you click away.
ChunkIt! is an exciting new offering from TigerLogic Corporation (formerly Raining Data Corporation). Their goal has been to take the frustration out of Web searching, by directing you towards the ideal Web pages containing precisely the information you need. No more aimless surfin’ and searchin’. No more chasing after lame links. No more bouncing between multiple windows.
How It Works:
After a quick install, you'll see the new ChunkIt! search box appear in your browser. By entering key words like you would with any search engine, valuable information from the Web will become much easier to find. ChunkIt! can help you discover information buried deep inside the Web hundreds of times faster than conventional search tools. ChunkIt! does this by searching through web pages, as well as its links, extracting the valuable "chunks" of information contained in the target pages that meet your search criteria. You'll no longer have to put up with the endless lists of website links and cryptic abstracts delivered by conventional search engines.
More at:http://www.tigerlogic.com/
ChunkIt! is a personal search engine for your browser that lets you see exactly where to get precisely what you want, BEFORE you click away.
ChunkIt! is an exciting new offering from TigerLogic Corporation (formerly Raining Data Corporation). Their goal has been to take the frustration out of Web searching, by directing you towards the ideal Web pages containing precisely the information you need. No more aimless surfin’ and searchin’. No more chasing after lame links. No more bouncing between multiple windows.
How It Works:
After a quick install, you'll see the new ChunkIt! search box appear in your browser. By entering key words like you would with any search engine, valuable information from the Web will become much easier to find. ChunkIt! can help you discover information buried deep inside the Web hundreds of times faster than conventional search tools. ChunkIt! does this by searching through web pages, as well as its links, extracting the valuable "chunks" of information contained in the target pages that meet your search criteria. You'll no longer have to put up with the endless lists of website links and cryptic abstracts delivered by conventional search engines.
More at:http://www.tigerlogic.com/
Familybuilder is positioned to leverage the social graphs of multiple online social networks at once
About Company:
Familybuilder(formally iFamily) is a leading software application development company focused on building family-oriented applications within online social networks. The company's flagship product, Family Tree, is the leading social genealogy application on Facebook and Bebo.
Unlike stand-alone online genealogy services, Familybuilder is positioned to leverage the social graphs of multiple online social networks at once to help people find and communicate with relatives, build family trees, preserve family history, track family activity and more.
More at:http://www.familybuilder.com/
Familybuilder(formally iFamily) is a leading software application development company focused on building family-oriented applications within online social networks. The company's flagship product, Family Tree, is the leading social genealogy application on Facebook and Bebo.
Unlike stand-alone online genealogy services, Familybuilder is positioned to leverage the social graphs of multiple online social networks at once to help people find and communicate with relatives, build family trees, preserve family history, track family activity and more.
More at:http://www.familybuilder.com/
ShopWindoz is a shopping site on which sellers can easily set up a shop and sell their products to a global audience
What Company Is Offering:
ShopWindoz is a shopping site on which sellers can easily set up a shop and sell their products to a global audience.ShopWindoz is the new creative shopping network from Berlin. Creatives of all types are turning exciting ideas into unique products outside the mainstream. ShopWindoz gives these designers and artists the opportunity to become shop owners and sell their products online to a global audience.
All registered users can rate a seller’s shop window design on a five-star scale in the “Shop Window Design” feature. In the “Shop Info” column you’ll find the overall rating and the total number of ratings.
How Is It Different:
Unlike most other shopping platforms, sellers can fully customise their shop window to their individual taste and present themselves however they want.
For the first time it is possible for buyers to truly go window shopping on the web.
More at:http://www.shopwindoz.com/
ShopWindoz is a shopping site on which sellers can easily set up a shop and sell their products to a global audience.ShopWindoz is the new creative shopping network from Berlin. Creatives of all types are turning exciting ideas into unique products outside the mainstream. ShopWindoz gives these designers and artists the opportunity to become shop owners and sell their products online to a global audience.
All registered users can rate a seller’s shop window design on a five-star scale in the “Shop Window Design” feature. In the “Shop Info” column you’ll find the overall rating and the total number of ratings.
How Is It Different:
Unlike most other shopping platforms, sellers can fully customise their shop window to their individual taste and present themselves however they want.
For the first time it is possible for buyers to truly go window shopping on the web.
More at:http://www.shopwindoz.com/
MobiTV is a leader in mobile content and services, developing and offering technology that powers an end-to-end managed network got VCs funding
What Company Is Offering:
MobiTV is a leader in mobile content and services, developing and offering technology that powers an end-to-end managed network for content ingestion, encoding and optimized delivery over mobile and broadband networks. MobiTV's platform technology delivers live television, premium and primetime programming, video-on-demand, satellite and digital music services from top broadcast and cable television networks and major music labels through its carrier and operator partners to more than three million subscribers worldwide.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Leader Ventures, an investment firm offering blended debt and equity financing, announced today that it has provided $5 million of equipment financing to MobiTV, the leading provider and platform for content delivery over mobile and broadband networks.
"Millions of subscribers enjoy mobile and broadband entertainment services," said Patrick Gordan, managing director at Leader Ventures. "MobiTV gives wireless carriers and other operator partners the ability to deliver content almost anywhere," Gordan added.
"We are delighted to be working with Leader Ventures on our equipment financing," said Charlie Nooney, chief executive officer and chairman of MobiTV. "As we continue to expand our footprint and bring our services to an even larger audience, new equipment is essential to our goals of improving the performance of mobile television's content delivery infrastructure and delivering a richer, more rewarding media experience to viewers."
More at:http://www.mobitv.com/
MobiTV is a leader in mobile content and services, developing and offering technology that powers an end-to-end managed network for content ingestion, encoding and optimized delivery over mobile and broadband networks. MobiTV's platform technology delivers live television, premium and primetime programming, video-on-demand, satellite and digital music services from top broadcast and cable television networks and major music labels through its carrier and operator partners to more than three million subscribers worldwide.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Leader Ventures, an investment firm offering blended debt and equity financing, announced today that it has provided $5 million of equipment financing to MobiTV, the leading provider and platform for content delivery over mobile and broadband networks.
"Millions of subscribers enjoy mobile and broadband entertainment services," said Patrick Gordan, managing director at Leader Ventures. "MobiTV gives wireless carriers and other operator partners the ability to deliver content almost anywhere," Gordan added.
"We are delighted to be working with Leader Ventures on our equipment financing," said Charlie Nooney, chief executive officer and chairman of MobiTV. "As we continue to expand our footprint and bring our services to an even larger audience, new equipment is essential to our goals of improving the performance of mobile television's content delivery infrastructure and delivering a richer, more rewarding media experience to viewers."
More at:http://www.mobitv.com/
MediaScrape, a Montreal-based video news aggregator, has raised $3.2 million in VC funding
What Company Is Offering:
MediaScrape is a world leading broadcaster of global, multi-lingual breaking news video.Their partners include BBC News; CBC News; Asia News International and thirty other leading news broadcasters around the world.
New distribution opportunities provided by MediaScrape broadcasters can further monetize their clips, web publishers have a new source for breaking news, and advertisers have access to highly targeted audiences which driver higher CPMs.
MediaScrape also encourages individuals around the world to submit their news stories, providing a venue for empowered individual journalism as the most democratic form of news reporting.
How Much They Got From VCs:
MediaScrape, a Montreal-based video news aggregator, has raised $3.2 million in VC funding from an undisclosed investor. The company referred to the round as its second, but TechCrunch notes that earlier coverage indicates that it's actually MediaScrape's fourth time at the funding trough. www.mediascrape.com
More at:http://www.mediascrape.com/
MediaScrape is a world leading broadcaster of global, multi-lingual breaking news video.Their partners include BBC News; CBC News; Asia News International and thirty other leading news broadcasters around the world.
New distribution opportunities provided by MediaScrape broadcasters can further monetize their clips, web publishers have a new source for breaking news, and advertisers have access to highly targeted audiences which driver higher CPMs.
MediaScrape also encourages individuals around the world to submit their news stories, providing a venue for empowered individual journalism as the most democratic form of news reporting.
How Much They Got From VCs:
MediaScrape, a Montreal-based video news aggregator, has raised $3.2 million in VC funding from an undisclosed investor. The company referred to the round as its second, but TechCrunch notes that earlier coverage indicates that it's actually MediaScrape's fourth time at the funding trough. www.mediascrape.com
More at:http://www.mediascrape.com/
Play Hard Sports, Inc. is the casual sports network got series A round funding
What Company is offering:
Play Hard Sports, Inc. is the first casual sports network in North America focused exclusively on developing, publishing and distributing exceptional sports games and entertainment across the Internet. Play Hard is creating the next-generation in online sports with no massive download, no long waiting for the game to load, and no required fees to play. Play Hard provides its audience with high-quality sports titles that can be played almost anywhere and anytime.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Play Hard Sports, Inc., the first studio in North America to exclusively develop, publish, and distribute casual sports games and content over the Internet, today announced the company's official launch as well as a Series A round of funding from New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Jeffrey Anderson, the former President and CEO of Turbine, Inc., announced the formation of his new online gaming company after months of industry speculation.
"Play Hard is an exciting opportunity for sports fans of every age who are looking for something new to play," said Jeffrey Anderson, the founder and CEO of Play Hard Sports, Inc. "Online games continue to change the way that people interact, and Play Hard is the newest evolution in sports. Our online games will free players from the couch, allowing them play nearly whenever and wherever they want."
More at:www.playhard.net
Play Hard Sports, Inc. is the first casual sports network in North America focused exclusively on developing, publishing and distributing exceptional sports games and entertainment across the Internet. Play Hard is creating the next-generation in online sports with no massive download, no long waiting for the game to load, and no required fees to play. Play Hard provides its audience with high-quality sports titles that can be played almost anywhere and anytime.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Play Hard Sports, Inc., the first studio in North America to exclusively develop, publish, and distribute casual sports games and content over the Internet, today announced the company's official launch as well as a Series A round of funding from New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Jeffrey Anderson, the former President and CEO of Turbine, Inc., announced the formation of his new online gaming company after months of industry speculation.
"Play Hard is an exciting opportunity for sports fans of every age who are looking for something new to play," said Jeffrey Anderson, the founder and CEO of Play Hard Sports, Inc. "Online games continue to change the way that people interact, and Play Hard is the newest evolution in sports. Our online games will free players from the couch, allowing them play nearly whenever and wherever they want."
More at:www.playhard.net
Tiny Prints, Inc, a leading online retailer of premium, personalized, social stationery got VCs funding
What Company Is Offering:
Tiny Prints, Inc. is a web-based company comprised of two brands offering premium, personalized, social stationery, Tiny Prints and Wedding Paper Divas. Tiny Prints and Wedding Paper Divas provide simple, modern and unique stationery from birth announcements to baby shower and wedding and party invitations to thank you cards and holiday photo cards. Offering exclusive designs from the nation's top designers, easy card personalization, a powerful preview engine and top-notch customer service, their designs have been lauded by numerous television networks, publications and celebrity parents.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Tiny Prints, Inc, a leading online retailer of premium, personalized, social stationery, announced today that Summit Partners and Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV) have acquired a minority interest in the company. This investment marks the first external round of funding received to date for Tiny Prints.
Tiny Prints is a web-based company comprised of two social stationery brands, Tiny Prints and Wedding Paper Divas (www.weddingpaperdivas.com). Both brands offer premium, affordable stationery without foregoing the high-end customer experience found at stationery retailers. Rather than automating every step in the production process, Tiny Prints has developed groundbreaking technology that allows the company to deliver a personal, customer experience that consumers prefer. Since their inception, both Tiny Prints and Wedding Paper Divas have been recognized for their exclusive stationery designs that include holiday cards, birth announcements, and all other forms of wedding and lifestyle stationery.
More at:www.tinyprints.com
Tiny Prints, Inc. is a web-based company comprised of two brands offering premium, personalized, social stationery, Tiny Prints and Wedding Paper Divas. Tiny Prints and Wedding Paper Divas provide simple, modern and unique stationery from birth announcements to baby shower and wedding and party invitations to thank you cards and holiday photo cards. Offering exclusive designs from the nation's top designers, easy card personalization, a powerful preview engine and top-notch customer service, their designs have been lauded by numerous television networks, publications and celebrity parents.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Tiny Prints, Inc, a leading online retailer of premium, personalized, social stationery, announced today that Summit Partners and Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV) have acquired a minority interest in the company. This investment marks the first external round of funding received to date for Tiny Prints.
Tiny Prints is a web-based company comprised of two social stationery brands, Tiny Prints and Wedding Paper Divas (www.weddingpaperdivas.com). Both brands offer premium, affordable stationery without foregoing the high-end customer experience found at stationery retailers. Rather than automating every step in the production process, Tiny Prints has developed groundbreaking technology that allows the company to deliver a personal, customer experience that consumers prefer. Since their inception, both Tiny Prints and Wedding Paper Divas have been recognized for their exclusive stationery designs that include holiday cards, birth announcements, and all other forms of wedding and lifestyle stationery.
More at:www.tinyprints.com
Audience is a voice processor company that enables clear communications anywhere, raised $15 million in Series C funding
What Company Is Offering:
Audience is a voice processor company that enables clear communications anywhere with noise suppression technology based on the intelligence of the human hearing system. The technology is applicable across a broad range of consumer products where voice needs to be intelligible in noisy environments, and its first commercial product is for the mobile handset market. Audience was selected as the Most Innovative True Mobile Start-Up for the "2008 GSMA Mobile Innovation Global Awards." The company is one of 34 founding member companies of the Open Handset Alliance and the only one with advanced noise suppression technology.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Audience announced it raised $15 million in Series C funding in March, bringing the total funding amount to date to $45 million. Demonstrating confidence in the company's technology based on the intelligence of the human hearing system, existing investors funded the round. These include NEA, Tallwood Venture Capital, Vulcan Capital and VentureTech Alliance.
"Audience's technology is a remarkable innovation with many applications," said George Pavlov, General Partner, Tallwood Venture Capital, and Audience Board member. "The company already has design wins for its first voice processor for the mobile handset market and will be making its technology available to other markets in the future."
More at:http://www.audience.com
Audience is a voice processor company that enables clear communications anywhere with noise suppression technology based on the intelligence of the human hearing system. The technology is applicable across a broad range of consumer products where voice needs to be intelligible in noisy environments, and its first commercial product is for the mobile handset market. Audience was selected as the Most Innovative True Mobile Start-Up for the "2008 GSMA Mobile Innovation Global Awards." The company is one of 34 founding member companies of the Open Handset Alliance and the only one with advanced noise suppression technology.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Audience announced it raised $15 million in Series C funding in March, bringing the total funding amount to date to $45 million. Demonstrating confidence in the company's technology based on the intelligence of the human hearing system, existing investors funded the round. These include NEA, Tallwood Venture Capital, Vulcan Capital and VentureTech Alliance.
"Audience's technology is a remarkable innovation with many applications," said George Pavlov, General Partner, Tallwood Venture Capital, and Audience Board member. "The company already has design wins for its first voice processor for the mobile handset market and will be making its technology available to other markets in the future."
More at:http://www.audience.com
With vlingo users can now simply speak to their mobile phones to enter search terms, addresses or any other text
What Company Is Offering:
Using innovative speech recognition technology, vlingo delivers a single voice interface that can work with any mobile application without training or other constraints. With vlingo access to your mobile internet applications is no longer held hostage by twelve tiny keys.
How It Works:
At vlingo they unlock access to wireless data services. They provide wireless carriers and wireless application providers a voice interface to their applications. With vlingo, instead of triple-tapping on a small keyboard, users can now simply speak to their mobile phones to enter search terms, addresses or any other text.
More at:http://www.vlingomobile.com/
Using innovative speech recognition technology, vlingo delivers a single voice interface that can work with any mobile application without training or other constraints. With vlingo access to your mobile internet applications is no longer held hostage by twelve tiny keys.
How It Works:
At vlingo they unlock access to wireless data services. They provide wireless carriers and wireless application providers a voice interface to their applications. With vlingo, instead of triple-tapping on a small keyboard, users can now simply speak to their mobile phones to enter search terms, addresses or any other text.
More at:http://www.vlingomobile.com/
vTap helps you find media quickly on phones and other input/display constrained devices
What Company Is Offering:
vTap helps you find media quickly on phones and other input/display constrained devices (they released a desktop version too but that is just to give you a flavor of the experience) . For example, imagine during a dinner conversation a word or topic comes up and you want to check the meaning of a word or concept. With vTap, you could quickly find the answer right there by typing just a few characters of your query. vTap starts displaying answers as you type, so you may not even have to type the whole query.
How It Works:
You can try vTap on your desktop or on your mobile by visiting http://vtap.com. You can also try vTap on your phone by going through the following steps.
Open a browser on your computer and go vtap.com.
Send an SMS to your device by typing your phone number.
When the SMS arrives on your device, click the link in the SMS to install application.
You can customize their application for the Windows Mobile Platform at the source level by signing up for their developer program at Developer Program.
More at:http://www.vtap.com/
vTap helps you find media quickly on phones and other input/display constrained devices (they released a desktop version too but that is just to give you a flavor of the experience) . For example, imagine during a dinner conversation a word or topic comes up and you want to check the meaning of a word or concept. With vTap, you could quickly find the answer right there by typing just a few characters of your query. vTap starts displaying answers as you type, so you may not even have to type the whole query.
How It Works:
You can try vTap on your desktop or on your mobile by visiting http://vtap.com. You can also try vTap on your phone by going through the following steps.
Open a browser on your computer and go vtap.com.
Send an SMS to your device by typing your phone number.
When the SMS arrives on your device, click the link in the SMS to install application.
You can customize their application for the Windows Mobile Platform at the source level by signing up for their developer program at Developer Program.
More at:http://www.vtap.com/
moblf---It is a service through which you can interact with various web services using SMS text message
What Company Is Offering:
moblf, stands for Mobile Life. It is a service through which you can interact with various web services using SMS text message. The goal of moblf is to make it easy for you to access the various web services over your mobile, using SMS / Text Message.
How It Works:
To access web services over moblf, you must have a Twitter account. You should also have an account with the web service you would like to interact with.
moblf enables you to access FriendFeed from wherever you are, over SMS text message. You don’t need to depend on internet access anymore!
You can retrieve your messages on FriendFeed and view it directly on your mobile, or on other applications like Twitter, gtalk, Twhirl, etc. Through moblf you can view messages from a specific user or a specific web service or both.
More at:http://www.moblf.com/
moblf, stands for Mobile Life. It is a service through which you can interact with various web services using SMS text message. The goal of moblf is to make it easy for you to access the various web services over your mobile, using SMS / Text Message.
How It Works:
To access web services over moblf, you must have a Twitter account. You should also have an account with the web service you would like to interact with.
moblf enables you to access FriendFeed from wherever you are, over SMS text message. You don’t need to depend on internet access anymore!
You can retrieve your messages on FriendFeed and view it directly on your mobile, or on other applications like Twitter, gtalk, Twhirl, etc. Through moblf you can view messages from a specific user or a specific web service or both.
More at:http://www.moblf.com/
WISEOZ
What Company Is Offering:
WISEOZ IS A TEAMING-INSPIRED, EVENT-BASED, AND INTEREST-ORIENTED COMMUNITY THAT SERVES TO UNITE PEOPLE THROUGH EVENT PARTICIPATION AND SHARED INTERESTS. MEMBERS COLLABORATE, PARTICIPATE, SOCIALIZE, AND CONNECT THROUGH VIRTUAL ONLINE EVENTS (“WISEWITS”), INTEREST-BASED SOCIAL NETWORKS (“CIRCLES OF INTEREST”), AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ONLINE IDENTITY (“MY EGO”).
How It Works:
WISEWITS HAVE MEMBERS, OR TEAMS OF MEMBERS, APPLYING THEIR EXPERIENCES, CREATIVITY, AND KNOW-HOW TO RESOLVE FOR CLUES ACROSS THE VIRTUAL WORLD BY SEEKING OUT INFORMATION OR PERFORMING CERTAIN TASKS THROUGH MULTI-STAGE EVENTS. TEAMS AND INDIVIDUALS PARTICIPATE IN WISEWITS FOR FUN AND REWARD, AND TO IMPROVE THEIR RANKING WITHIN THE COMMUNITY. WISEWITS OFFER CASH AND NON-CASH REWARDS INCLUDING THE WISEOZ CURRENCY, WIT POINTS.
MEMBERS CAN ENJOY AND CREATE A VARIETY OF LOGIC PUZZLES, TRIVIA, TEASERS, AND MORE WITH QUICKWITS. QUICKWITS INVOLVE SIMILAR SEEKING AND SOLVING SKILLS TO WISEWITS. ALSO, A HAT CONCEPT ALLOWS FOR MEMBERS TO TIP (WITH CASH OR WIT) AS A GESTURE TO THE CREATOR OF A QUICKWIT.
MATCHWITS PROVIDE A PLACE FOR MEMBERS TO EXPERIENCE ORGANIZED, PAIRED CHALLENGES THROUGH MULTIPLE ROUNDS OF COMPETITION.
MEMBERS ESTABLISH ONLINE IDENTITIES THROUGH A VARIETY OF CUSTOMIZATIONS AVAILABLE WITHIN MY EGO.
MEMBERS MAKE SOCIAL CONNECTIONS WITH LIKE INDIVIDUALS THROUGH CIRCLES OF INTEREST.
More at:http://www.wiseoz.com/
WISEOZ IS A TEAMING-INSPIRED, EVENT-BASED, AND INTEREST-ORIENTED COMMUNITY THAT SERVES TO UNITE PEOPLE THROUGH EVENT PARTICIPATION AND SHARED INTERESTS. MEMBERS COLLABORATE, PARTICIPATE, SOCIALIZE, AND CONNECT THROUGH VIRTUAL ONLINE EVENTS (“WISEWITS”), INTEREST-BASED SOCIAL NETWORKS (“CIRCLES OF INTEREST”), AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ONLINE IDENTITY (“MY EGO”).
How It Works:
WISEWITS HAVE MEMBERS, OR TEAMS OF MEMBERS, APPLYING THEIR EXPERIENCES, CREATIVITY, AND KNOW-HOW TO RESOLVE FOR CLUES ACROSS THE VIRTUAL WORLD BY SEEKING OUT INFORMATION OR PERFORMING CERTAIN TASKS THROUGH MULTI-STAGE EVENTS. TEAMS AND INDIVIDUALS PARTICIPATE IN WISEWITS FOR FUN AND REWARD, AND TO IMPROVE THEIR RANKING WITHIN THE COMMUNITY. WISEWITS OFFER CASH AND NON-CASH REWARDS INCLUDING THE WISEOZ CURRENCY, WIT POINTS.
MEMBERS CAN ENJOY AND CREATE A VARIETY OF LOGIC PUZZLES, TRIVIA, TEASERS, AND MORE WITH QUICKWITS. QUICKWITS INVOLVE SIMILAR SEEKING AND SOLVING SKILLS TO WISEWITS. ALSO, A HAT CONCEPT ALLOWS FOR MEMBERS TO TIP (WITH CASH OR WIT) AS A GESTURE TO THE CREATOR OF A QUICKWIT.
MATCHWITS PROVIDE A PLACE FOR MEMBERS TO EXPERIENCE ORGANIZED, PAIRED CHALLENGES THROUGH MULTIPLE ROUNDS OF COMPETITION.
MEMBERS ESTABLISH ONLINE IDENTITIES THROUGH A VARIETY OF CUSTOMIZATIONS AVAILABLE WITHIN MY EGO.
MEMBERS MAKE SOCIAL CONNECTIONS WITH LIKE INDIVIDUALS THROUGH CIRCLES OF INTEREST.
More at:http://www.wiseoz.com/
Gifts.com is entering into the question & answer space tomorrow with Gift Answers
What Company Is Offering:
Gifts.com is a free service that delivers the Web's best gift ideas, customized for any recipient or occasion. They also offer a suite of personalized tools to help anyone give great gifts. Their mission: To be your one-stop destination for gift-giving!
Recent Updates:
Gifts.com is entering into the question & answer space tomorrow with Gift Answers.Simply ask your gift related question and receive replies from Gift.com’s gifting experts, as well as other users. The questions can be anything gift related, and from the ones currently on the site, it looks like it really could be quite helpful to people.
More at:http://www.gifts.com/
Gifts.com is a free service that delivers the Web's best gift ideas, customized for any recipient or occasion. They also offer a suite of personalized tools to help anyone give great gifts. Their mission: To be your one-stop destination for gift-giving!
Recent Updates:
Gifts.com is entering into the question & answer space tomorrow with Gift Answers.Simply ask your gift related question and receive replies from Gift.com’s gifting experts, as well as other users. The questions can be anything gift related, and from the ones currently on the site, it looks like it really could be quite helpful to people.
More at:http://www.gifts.com/
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Allwonderhotels.com provides exhuastive database of hotels all around the globe with respect to location, facilities, themes
What Company Is Offering:
The website Allwonderhotels.com provides exhuastive database of hotels all around the globe with respect to location, facilities, themes.
At Allwondershotels.com, we provide information on Hotels in Asia, Hotels in Africa, Hotels in North America, Hotels in South America, Hotels in Europe. Emphasis has been laid on providing hotel information, booking information, amenities provided and the tariff structure. We provide information on the different types of hotels and accomadation facilities right from 7 Star Hotels to 2 Star Hotels, Budget Hotels, Cheap Hotels, Luxury Hotels, Discount Hotels, Honeymoon Hotels, Airport Hotels to suit your budget, needs and satisfaction.
More at:http://www.allwondershotels.com/.html
The website Allwonderhotels.com provides exhuastive database of hotels all around the globe with respect to location, facilities, themes.
At Allwondershotels.com, we provide information on Hotels in Asia, Hotels in Africa, Hotels in North America, Hotels in South America, Hotels in Europe. Emphasis has been laid on providing hotel information, booking information, amenities provided and the tariff structure. We provide information on the different types of hotels and accomadation facilities right from 7 Star Hotels to 2 Star Hotels, Budget Hotels, Cheap Hotels, Luxury Hotels, Discount Hotels, Honeymoon Hotels, Airport Hotels to suit your budget, needs and satisfaction.
More at:http://www.allwondershotels.com/.html
Shvoong----Write An Abstract And Earn Money
What Company Is Offering:
Shvoong’ is a world-wide center for abstracts, offering a wide variety of abstracts in 34 different languages. Their goal is to summarize all that has been written throughout human history in the areas of literature and scientific research, thus providing you the essence of human knowledge.
How It Works:
All the abstracts are written by their users, citizens of the world, who not only enjoy sharing their knowledge with everyone, but also earn royalties for their work. The site has no pretension of replacing the real thing — whether books or studies — with abstracts, but rather serve as a tool that helps you swim in the sea of information, separate the chaff from the wheat.
Upon entering the "Write an abstract" option, details are requested including an email address (for transfer of payment via PayPal). The surfer selects a book or an article, writes the abstract (according to the site's guidelines) and submits it. The money is transferred into the abstract-writer's account at the end of each month. The amount paid will be according to the "number of entries to abstract page" parameter.
More at:http://www.shvoong.com/
Shvoong’ is a world-wide center for abstracts, offering a wide variety of abstracts in 34 different languages. Their goal is to summarize all that has been written throughout human history in the areas of literature and scientific research, thus providing you the essence of human knowledge.
How It Works:
All the abstracts are written by their users, citizens of the world, who not only enjoy sharing their knowledge with everyone, but also earn royalties for their work. The site has no pretension of replacing the real thing — whether books or studies — with abstracts, but rather serve as a tool that helps you swim in the sea of information, separate the chaff from the wheat.
Upon entering the "Write an abstract" option, details are requested including an email address (for transfer of payment via PayPal). The surfer selects a book or an article, writes the abstract (according to the site's guidelines) and submits it. The money is transferred into the abstract-writer's account at the end of each month. The amount paid will be according to the "number of entries to abstract page" parameter.
More at:http://www.shvoong.com/
SlideBoom is a free service for sharing PowerPoint presentations on the web
What Company Is Offering:
SlideBoom is a portal for sharing PowerPoint presentations and slideshows on web. You can upload PowerPoint presentations, tag them, embed into your blog or website and receive comments to them from other people.
How It Works:
SlideBoom is a free service for sharing PowerPoint presentations on the web. Everyone can publish here their slideshows for business, education, entertaining and just fun. The membership is free.
Your SlideBoom presentations can be viewed by millions of Internet users or just by your closest friends – it’s up to you. With SlideBoom you can embed a PowerPoint presentation you like directly into content of your blog or web site.
You can convert almost any animated content that may be created in PowerPoint into Flash and share it with your friends, family, colleagues, clients, teachers, students, etc.
The social facilities of the site lets you find people with the same interests, comment and rank their presentations.
More at:http://www.slideboom.com/
SlideBoom is a portal for sharing PowerPoint presentations and slideshows on web. You can upload PowerPoint presentations, tag them, embed into your blog or website and receive comments to them from other people.
How It Works:
SlideBoom is a free service for sharing PowerPoint presentations on the web. Everyone can publish here their slideshows for business, education, entertaining and just fun. The membership is free.
Your SlideBoom presentations can be viewed by millions of Internet users or just by your closest friends – it’s up to you. With SlideBoom you can embed a PowerPoint presentation you like directly into content of your blog or web site.
You can convert almost any animated content that may be created in PowerPoint into Flash and share it with your friends, family, colleagues, clients, teachers, students, etc.
The social facilities of the site lets you find people with the same interests, comment and rank their presentations.
More at:http://www.slideboom.com/
Wecolumn is the premier destination to read and share original text or columns worldwide through a Web experience
What Company Is Offering:
Wecolumn is the premier destination to read and share original text or columns worldwide through a Web experience. Wecolumn allows people to easily upload and share text on www.wecolumn.com and across the Internet through websites, mobile devices, blogs, and email.
How It Works:
Everyone can read text and columns on Wecolumn. People can see first-hand accounts of current events, find columns about their hobbies and interests, and discover the quirky and unusual. As more people express special moments in a digital way, Wecolumn is empowering them to become the writers of tomorrow.
Wecolumn brings writers and audience closer together by enabling them to share their words. They don't know what you want to express or you want to share. They're just searching for a way to distribute their words and than thouhgt why not share it. They offer a way to connect with the people you care about by sharing your activities with them on the Web. More cool third-party applications built by other developers using their API can be in your reach in the near future.
More at:www.wecolumn.com
Wecolumn is the premier destination to read and share original text or columns worldwide through a Web experience. Wecolumn allows people to easily upload and share text on www.wecolumn.com and across the Internet through websites, mobile devices, blogs, and email.
How It Works:
Everyone can read text and columns on Wecolumn. People can see first-hand accounts of current events, find columns about their hobbies and interests, and discover the quirky and unusual. As more people express special moments in a digital way, Wecolumn is empowering them to become the writers of tomorrow.
Wecolumn brings writers and audience closer together by enabling them to share their words. They don't know what you want to express or you want to share. They're just searching for a way to distribute their words and than thouhgt why not share it. They offer a way to connect with the people you care about by sharing your activities with them on the Web. More cool third-party applications built by other developers using their API can be in your reach in the near future.
More at:www.wecolumn.com
CreativeCrowds is to help companies and institutions engage the power of crowdsourcing
What Company Is Offering:
CreativeCrowds is a startup that is fully committed to crowdsourcing. Their mission is to help companies and institutions engage the power of crowdsourcing. CreativeCrowds has experienced partners. Crowdsourcing delivers deep understanding of the consumer needs and desires. In an unique way: it goes beyond traditional research.
How It Works:
CreativeCrowds developed an unique platform for crowdsourcing. This platform is called CreativeChallenge. They have the vision that collaborating with existing communities pays off more than building your own new community: it is faster, cheaper and the success rate is higher. This is why they cooperate with many existing communities.
Crowdsourcing delivers an authentic image. Your users are actively involved with products, services and the brand, and they will create buzz.
Crowdsourcing delivers profitable ideas. Ideas for new products, services or improvements. Innovations with guaranteed success.
They are involved in each step to make your company better with the help of crowdsourcing.
More at:http://www.creativecrowds.com/
CreativeCrowds is a startup that is fully committed to crowdsourcing. Their mission is to help companies and institutions engage the power of crowdsourcing. CreativeCrowds has experienced partners. Crowdsourcing delivers deep understanding of the consumer needs and desires. In an unique way: it goes beyond traditional research.
How It Works:
CreativeCrowds developed an unique platform for crowdsourcing. This platform is called CreativeChallenge. They have the vision that collaborating with existing communities pays off more than building your own new community: it is faster, cheaper and the success rate is higher. This is why they cooperate with many existing communities.
Crowdsourcing delivers an authentic image. Your users are actively involved with products, services and the brand, and they will create buzz.
Crowdsourcing delivers profitable ideas. Ideas for new products, services or improvements. Innovations with guaranteed success.
They are involved in each step to make your company better with the help of crowdsourcing.
More at:http://www.creativecrowds.com/
SHIPtool brings all the pricing and timing information from different carriers to your finger tip
What Company Is Offering:
SHIPtool brings all the pricing and timing information from different carriers to your finger tip. It allows the shipper to see and compare different shipment pricing and delivery options from the same page and then guides them to Carrier page to process their shipments. Everyone benefits from it.
SHIPtool helps shippers choose from all the carriers for the optimum priceand time for each package at any selected point in time. This equates to 30%+ or so savings.
Compare pricing and timing. Select the carrier. Ship from the chosen carriers. Save money and time on the shipment. It’s FREE .
More at:http://www.shiptool.com/
SHIPtool brings all the pricing and timing information from different carriers to your finger tip. It allows the shipper to see and compare different shipment pricing and delivery options from the same page and then guides them to Carrier page to process their shipments. Everyone benefits from it.
SHIPtool helps shippers choose from all the carriers for the optimum priceand time for each package at any selected point in time. This equates to 30%+ or so savings.
Compare pricing and timing. Select the carrier. Ship from the chosen carriers. Save money and time on the shipment. It’s FREE .
More at:http://www.shiptool.com/
PCworldradio.com--- Internet Talk Radio Station broadcasting informative and entertaining programs
What Company Is Offering:
PCworldradio.com is designed to provide excellent programming with content designed to inform and entertain.
Partners involved in creating PCworldradio are not amateur broadcaster. Their combined experience in radio broadcasting is over 70 Years. This includes behind the mic, programming, sales and management!
They're committed to bringing quality live steaming radio to your computer, 24/7!
In this platform businesses can host their own :30/:60 show to discuss their product or service. It's an alternative to mainstream marketing which has proven to be highly cost effective for just about any type of business.
More at:http://www.pcworldradio.com/
PCworldradio.com is designed to provide excellent programming with content designed to inform and entertain.
Partners involved in creating PCworldradio are not amateur broadcaster. Their combined experience in radio broadcasting is over 70 Years. This includes behind the mic, programming, sales and management!
They're committed to bringing quality live steaming radio to your computer, 24/7!
In this platform businesses can host their own :30/:60 show to discuss their product or service. It's an alternative to mainstream marketing which has proven to be highly cost effective for just about any type of business.
More at:http://www.pcworldradio.com/
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