What Company Is Offering:
Boss Bitching is a user driven social content website that allows anonymous postings of stories about bosses. Posts can be made about a current boss or someone from a previous job.
How It Works:
Visitors to Boss Bitching will read and rate posts. The posts that receive the most attention via the ratings will get promoted to the front page. Users can receive updates of the most popular posts through RSS.
RSS (Real Simple Syndication) allows users to subscribe and then receive newly submitted content to their computers or portable players automatically once it becomes available.
More at:http://www.bossbitching.com/
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Buzznet's integrated media and community platform allows its users to network like never before with leading bands
What Company Is Offering:
Buzznet distinguishes itself from traditional media sites and social networks that are focused on profile pages and communication tools by enabling Web users to program dynamic multimedia communities around the music and pop culture topics they are most passionate about.
More authentic, content rich and frequently updated than a website, and more interactive than a blog.
How It Works:
Buzznet's integrated media and community platform allows its users to network like never before with leading bands, trendsetters and their peers through self-created content, videos, photos and journals. This unique user-centric approach has attracted more than 10 million users who program, by contributing, combining, providing context and connectivity, making Buzznet a top destination for people seeking the most current and authentic content and news.
More at:http://www.buzznet.com/
Buzznet distinguishes itself from traditional media sites and social networks that are focused on profile pages and communication tools by enabling Web users to program dynamic multimedia communities around the music and pop culture topics they are most passionate about.
More authentic, content rich and frequently updated than a website, and more interactive than a blog.
How It Works:
Buzznet's integrated media and community platform allows its users to network like never before with leading bands, trendsetters and their peers through self-created content, videos, photos and journals. This unique user-centric approach has attracted more than 10 million users who program, by contributing, combining, providing context and connectivity, making Buzznet a top destination for people seeking the most current and authentic content and news.
More at:http://www.buzznet.com/
Monday, May 26, 2008
Locify is open - enables anybody to create location aware services for anyone
What Company Is Offering:
Locify is free application for common mobile phone. It can use phone's internal GPS or connected bluetooth GPS or it is fairly usable even without GPS at all.
And Locify is open - enables anybody to create location aware services for anyone. It is as easy as creating web pages.
How It Works:
Locify client is standard Java application for mobile phones (J2ME). These applications are distributed in Java Archive files (jar extension). One single archive contains the whole application and is binary. However, there is also Java Archive Descriptor (.jad) file, which is not needed for installation, but can be used to enhance user experience. Locify's jad file contains digital signature, allowing users to install Locify as trusted application and can be used as source of preinstalled services.
A preinstalled service or "link" is basically shortcut to installation. It has special icon and when you activate it, Locify downloads welcome message located on URL at which this shortcut is pointing. If you decide to confirm installation of specified service, installation link is replaced by standard service icon.
More at:http://www.locify.com/
Locify is free application for common mobile phone. It can use phone's internal GPS or connected bluetooth GPS or it is fairly usable even without GPS at all.
And Locify is open - enables anybody to create location aware services for anyone. It is as easy as creating web pages.
How It Works:
Locify client is standard Java application for mobile phones (J2ME). These applications are distributed in Java Archive files (jar extension). One single archive contains the whole application and is binary. However, there is also Java Archive Descriptor (.jad) file, which is not needed for installation, but can be used to enhance user experience. Locify's jad file contains digital signature, allowing users to install Locify as trusted application and can be used as source of preinstalled services.
A preinstalled service or "link" is basically shortcut to installation. It has special icon and when you activate it, Locify downloads welcome message located on URL at which this shortcut is pointing. If you decide to confirm installation of specified service, installation link is replaced by standard service icon.
More at:http://www.locify.com/
Write Match, a transparent, seamless and convenient service that provides writers with access to the best writing and editing assignments from around
What Company is Offering:
Chillifreeze.com is a group website of Chillibreeze Solutions Pvt Ltd, one of India’s leading content and design providers.
Write Match, a transparent, seamless and convenient service that provides writers with access to the best writing and editing assignments from around the globe.
Complete transparency in the bidding process and direct communication with the client ensures the elimination of middlemen. Write Match handles the financial aspect thereby allowing writers to focus on their writing, rather than the logistics.
How It Works:
This service allows clients to fix the price for their projects and communicate directly with writers on their projects, thereby offering a higher degree of control on the process and deliverables. Clients can post their project in one step using a simple form on Chillifreeze.Clients will be able to outsource content development to freelance writers at lower costs without the high commissions normally charged by agencies and intermediaries.
Chillifreeze’s parent company Chillibreeze with a client base and writer network already running into thousands plans to use the Write Match service to tap into a wider audience and service clientele from industries and domains beyond its core areas. Write Match is perfect for writers because it does not charge writers for connections or bids, unlike some other freelance marketplaces.
More at:http://www.chillifreeze.com/
Chillifreeze.com is a group website of Chillibreeze Solutions Pvt Ltd, one of India’s leading content and design providers.
Write Match, a transparent, seamless and convenient service that provides writers with access to the best writing and editing assignments from around the globe.
Complete transparency in the bidding process and direct communication with the client ensures the elimination of middlemen. Write Match handles the financial aspect thereby allowing writers to focus on their writing, rather than the logistics.
How It Works:
This service allows clients to fix the price for their projects and communicate directly with writers on their projects, thereby offering a higher degree of control on the process and deliverables. Clients can post their project in one step using a simple form on Chillifreeze.Clients will be able to outsource content development to freelance writers at lower costs without the high commissions normally charged by agencies and intermediaries.
Chillifreeze’s parent company Chillibreeze with a client base and writer network already running into thousands plans to use the Write Match service to tap into a wider audience and service clientele from industries and domains beyond its core areas. Write Match is perfect for writers because it does not charge writers for connections or bids, unlike some other freelance marketplaces.
More at:http://www.chillifreeze.com/
Whereareyou.in
What Company Is Offering:
Whereareyou.in is a platform for all the people to stay in touch with each other. It provides a way to be in contact with the people from your past. The idea of bringing all the people together has
made this site.
How It Works:
Here you can locate your missing friends, colleagues, neighbours, relatives or anyone who changed heir mobile numbers. Anyone who is looking for missing persons can use this site.To keep in contact and give your details to someone who is missing you, you need to register in this site.
You can enter the known mobile number of the person you are searching and click on the button. You will get the present mobile number of the person. You can get the personal details provided the person has chosen public for his personal profile during registration.
This is to for the users to make sure they don't lose contact when the mobile number is changed. And Here your mobile number is shown only to the people who know your earlier mobile number. This way it ensures complete privacy.
More atwww.Whereareyou.in
Whereareyou.in is a platform for all the people to stay in touch with each other. It provides a way to be in contact with the people from your past. The idea of bringing all the people together has
made this site.
How It Works:
Here you can locate your missing friends, colleagues, neighbours, relatives or anyone who changed heir mobile numbers. Anyone who is looking for missing persons can use this site.To keep in contact and give your details to someone who is missing you, you need to register in this site.
You can enter the known mobile number of the person you are searching and click on the button. You will get the present mobile number of the person. You can get the personal details provided the person has chosen public for his personal profile during registration.
This is to for the users to make sure they don't lose contact when the mobile number is changed. And Here your mobile number is shown only to the people who know your earlier mobile number. This way it ensures complete privacy.
More atwww.Whereareyou.in
Grant Gopher is offered to anyone interested in finding grant funding
What Company Is Offering:
Grant Gopher is the service that sends you new grant announcements every week only in the areas you request! Your personal Deadline Calendar is updated daily utilizing sources for federal grants, state grants, community foundations, private foundations and corporate giving programs.
This service is offered to anyone interested in finding grant funding. While there are fewer grants available for individuals or small businesses, GrantGopher.com does incorporate them in the database. Grant awards range from $300 into the millions, and are included from every source available, including community, family, and corporate foundations, as well as departments of local, county, state and federal government agencies.
How It Works:
Once you have identified a grant that is a good match, click on the live link they provide to you - this will take you directly to the grantor's funding guidelines and application. Read the guidelines carefully (several times)! Once you decide to proceed with the application, be sure to follow all the directions set forth by the grantor.
More at:http://www.grantgopher.com/
Grant Gopher is the service that sends you new grant announcements every week only in the areas you request! Your personal Deadline Calendar is updated daily utilizing sources for federal grants, state grants, community foundations, private foundations and corporate giving programs.
This service is offered to anyone interested in finding grant funding. While there are fewer grants available for individuals or small businesses, GrantGopher.com does incorporate them in the database. Grant awards range from $300 into the millions, and are included from every source available, including community, family, and corporate foundations, as well as departments of local, county, state and federal government agencies.
How It Works:
Once you have identified a grant that is a good match, click on the live link they provide to you - this will take you directly to the grantor's funding guidelines and application. Read the guidelines carefully (several times)! Once you decide to proceed with the application, be sure to follow all the directions set forth by the grantor.
More at:http://www.grantgopher.com/
NeighborCity is an unbiased real estate search engine
What Company Is Offering:
NeighborCity is an unbiased real estate search engine built with real estate buyers and sellers in mind. Their goal is to help you find the perfect home for your next move, locate your ideal second home or to help you compare your home to others in your neighborhood when considering whether to sell your home and how to price it for sale.
How Is It Different:
Most of the other real estate websites will only show you listings they obtained directly from a broker. They often do not include all available properties in a given area and sometimes limit the amount of property data and images they provide their end users. Many accept advertising fees from brokers and agents in return for preferred placement on their Web sites. NeighborCity.com is completely free to use and does not accept advertising dollars so that you have an uncluttered real estate shopping experience.
Instead of partnering with existing real estate brokers or agents, their approach is to stay completely independent so that they can maintain an impartial view on your local real estate market, your neighborhood and your home or next purchase. Instead of listing only certain properties or providing an incomplete view of the market, our technology integrates directly with your local MLS (multiple listing service) to ensure that a search at NeighborCity.com brings you literally every listing available on the market (that is listed with a broker/real estate agent).
More at:http://www.neighborcity.com/
NeighborCity is an unbiased real estate search engine built with real estate buyers and sellers in mind. Their goal is to help you find the perfect home for your next move, locate your ideal second home or to help you compare your home to others in your neighborhood when considering whether to sell your home and how to price it for sale.
How Is It Different:
Most of the other real estate websites will only show you listings they obtained directly from a broker. They often do not include all available properties in a given area and sometimes limit the amount of property data and images they provide their end users. Many accept advertising fees from brokers and agents in return for preferred placement on their Web sites. NeighborCity.com is completely free to use and does not accept advertising dollars so that you have an uncluttered real estate shopping experience.
Instead of partnering with existing real estate brokers or agents, their approach is to stay completely independent so that they can maintain an impartial view on your local real estate market, your neighborhood and your home or next purchase. Instead of listing only certain properties or providing an incomplete view of the market, our technology integrates directly with your local MLS (multiple listing service) to ensure that a search at NeighborCity.com brings you literally every listing available on the market (that is listed with a broker/real estate agent).
More at:http://www.neighborcity.com/
Vantagetrade is a Stock Analysis Portal
What Company Is Offering:
Vantagetrade is a Stock Analysis Portal. They provide you with Daily Stock Picks and timely Buy and Sell Signals for any Stock on BSE, NSE, FTSE, NASDAQ and NYSE Exchanges.
Vantagetrade brings forth easy to understand Buy and Sell signals directly on the charts, for its users. The Signals work on scientifically proven and proprietary algorithms that follows the trend and alerts you when there is an upward or downward movement in the stock.
How It Works:
Log in to your account. Click on Portfolio link on the top right of the page.Click on Add to Portfolio to add stocks. Search for the stock of your choice.Click on the get Buy and Sell Signals button to view the chart.Click on the get chart button to view the chart. You get 'Buy and Sell Chart' AND 'Analysis and Suggestion'.
OR
Choose any Stock from the Stock Picks section. You get 'Buy and Sell Signal Chart' AND 'Analysis and Suggestion'.
You could either Invest or Exit as the trend changes. You get early exit signals for upcoming Bear Phases. On the fly analysis for any stock. Receive instant alerts via email.
The strength of a signal is computed by the system with real time or current market data and displayed in the suggestion window. The strength of a daily signal is indicative of how dependable the signal is or how susceptible it is to change. The value attributed to the signal strength is applicable to that bar only.
More at:http://www.vantagetrade.com/
Vantagetrade is a Stock Analysis Portal. They provide you with Daily Stock Picks and timely Buy and Sell Signals for any Stock on BSE, NSE, FTSE, NASDAQ and NYSE Exchanges.
Vantagetrade brings forth easy to understand Buy and Sell signals directly on the charts, for its users. The Signals work on scientifically proven and proprietary algorithms that follows the trend and alerts you when there is an upward or downward movement in the stock.
How It Works:
Log in to your account. Click on Portfolio link on the top right of the page.Click on Add to Portfolio to add stocks. Search for the stock of your choice.Click on the get Buy and Sell Signals button to view the chart.Click on the get chart button to view the chart. You get 'Buy and Sell Chart' AND 'Analysis and Suggestion'.
OR
Choose any Stock from the Stock Picks section. You get 'Buy and Sell Signal Chart' AND 'Analysis and Suggestion'.
You could either Invest or Exit as the trend changes. You get early exit signals for upcoming Bear Phases. On the fly analysis for any stock. Receive instant alerts via email.
The strength of a signal is computed by the system with real time or current market data and displayed in the suggestion window. The strength of a daily signal is indicative of how dependable the signal is or how susceptible it is to change. The value attributed to the signal strength is applicable to that bar only.
More at:http://www.vantagetrade.com/
StrikeIron provides an on-demand Web-based infrastructure for delivering business data to any Internet-connected system
What Company Is Offering:
StrikeIron provides an on-demand Web-based infrastructure for delivering business data to any Internet-connected system, including Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, Web sites, mashups, spreadsheets or core enterprise systems.
Based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, StrikeIron was founded by veteran entrepreneurs with more than fifty years of combined experience in building successful technology companies.
Unique Features:
* StrikeIron Web Services Marketplace.
* StrikeIron IronCloud.
* Tools to Make Data Integration Easy.
StrikeIron Web Services Marketplace
The Marketplace is sophisticated Software as a Service data distribution engine that greatly reduces the complexity for developers and business users who want to integrate live data from any number of sources. The Marketplace is built on top of a technology platform that provides a consistent interface across many XML-based Web services from multiple, diverse sources. This allows customers and partners to customize and integrate external data sources and additional external functionality into enterprise, Web, and composite applications. Currently, StrikeIron provides over 127 live data sources and business functions from organizations such as D&B, Cortera (formerly eCredit) Gale, MapQuest, Midnight Trader, Tax Data Systems, NASDAQ, The Sports Network, USPS, and Zacks.
Customers who subscribe through the StrikeIron Marketplace have instant access to a rich set of functionality and data and can take advantage of more flexible choices of protocols, simplified sign-on, simplified billing and accounting, flexible pricing alternatives, and integrated tools and services to accelerate their utilization.
StrikeIron IronCloud
StrikeIron launched its IronCloud platform as a commercial offering in 2008. It is the only comprehensive Web services Delivery Platform that opens up new channels for data distribution and consumption through Web services. Enterprises of all sizes can now reduce the cost, complexity and challenges of managing data distribution, including metering, monitoring, and authentication, and concentrate their focus on making information easier to access and use.
IronCloud expands the application of this infrastructure beyond subscription-based Web service usage. Companies that want to leverage the same Web service delivery platform to externalize their own data or services to the general public for use in applications, mashups, mobile devices, and Web sites can take advantage of our "industrial strength Web service onboarding" capabilities. They can have services live and available on the Web for use in a very short period of time. This allows waves of innovators to build on top of the service provider's offering and deliver valuable real-time analytics back to the service provider about that usage so the offerings can be optimized.
StrikeIron offers a wide variety of Products and Tools to make the data easy to integrate and immediately useful. Product include SOA Express for Excel, an easy-to-use tool that lets users do drag-and-drop integration of Web services directly into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets as well as Web Services Analyzer which gives users faster understanding of internal or external Web services with a mouse click!
How Is Market Of That Kind Of Company:
StrikeIron is the first mover as a Web services on-demand provider, with a projected market potential of $4.6 billion dollars in 2013, according to Forrester Research. Poised to help redefine the Web, StrikeIron is the leading innovator in the data-as-a-service (DaaS) space, and is positioned to become the primary data provider to next generation Web-oriented applications, including applications built using platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings.
More at:http://www.strikeiron.com/
StrikeIron provides an on-demand Web-based infrastructure for delivering business data to any Internet-connected system, including Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, Web sites, mashups, spreadsheets or core enterprise systems.
Based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, StrikeIron was founded by veteran entrepreneurs with more than fifty years of combined experience in building successful technology companies.
Unique Features:
* StrikeIron Web Services Marketplace.
* StrikeIron IronCloud.
* Tools to Make Data Integration Easy.
StrikeIron Web Services Marketplace
The Marketplace is sophisticated Software as a Service data distribution engine that greatly reduces the complexity for developers and business users who want to integrate live data from any number of sources. The Marketplace is built on top of a technology platform that provides a consistent interface across many XML-based Web services from multiple, diverse sources. This allows customers and partners to customize and integrate external data sources and additional external functionality into enterprise, Web, and composite applications. Currently, StrikeIron provides over 127 live data sources and business functions from organizations such as D&B, Cortera (formerly eCredit) Gale, MapQuest, Midnight Trader, Tax Data Systems, NASDAQ, The Sports Network, USPS, and Zacks.
Customers who subscribe through the StrikeIron Marketplace have instant access to a rich set of functionality and data and can take advantage of more flexible choices of protocols, simplified sign-on, simplified billing and accounting, flexible pricing alternatives, and integrated tools and services to accelerate their utilization.
StrikeIron IronCloud
StrikeIron launched its IronCloud platform as a commercial offering in 2008. It is the only comprehensive Web services Delivery Platform that opens up new channels for data distribution and consumption through Web services. Enterprises of all sizes can now reduce the cost, complexity and challenges of managing data distribution, including metering, monitoring, and authentication, and concentrate their focus on making information easier to access and use.
IronCloud expands the application of this infrastructure beyond subscription-based Web service usage. Companies that want to leverage the same Web service delivery platform to externalize their own data or services to the general public for use in applications, mashups, mobile devices, and Web sites can take advantage of our "industrial strength Web service onboarding" capabilities. They can have services live and available on the Web for use in a very short period of time. This allows waves of innovators to build on top of the service provider's offering and deliver valuable real-time analytics back to the service provider about that usage so the offerings can be optimized.
StrikeIron offers a wide variety of Products and Tools to make the data easy to integrate and immediately useful. Product include SOA Express for Excel, an easy-to-use tool that lets users do drag-and-drop integration of Web services directly into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets as well as Web Services Analyzer which gives users faster understanding of internal or external Web services with a mouse click!
How Is Market Of That Kind Of Company:
StrikeIron is the first mover as a Web services on-demand provider, with a projected market potential of $4.6 billion dollars in 2013, according to Forrester Research. Poised to help redefine the Web, StrikeIron is the leading innovator in the data-as-a-service (DaaS) space, and is positioned to become the primary data provider to next generation Web-oriented applications, including applications built using platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings.
More at:http://www.strikeiron.com/
NowPublic is a participatory news network
What Company Is Offering:
NowPublic is a participatory news network which mobilizes an army of reporters to cover the events that define our world. In twelve short months, the company has become one of the fastest growing news organizations with thousands of reporters in over 140 countries. During Hurricane Katrina, NowPublic had more reporters in the affected area than most news organizations have on their entire staff.
NowPublic Technologies, Inc. is a Vancouver-based company.
More at:http://www.nowpublic.com/
NowPublic is a participatory news network which mobilizes an army of reporters to cover the events that define our world. In twelve short months, the company has become one of the fastest growing news organizations with thousands of reporters in over 140 countries. During Hurricane Katrina, NowPublic had more reporters in the affected area than most news organizations have on their entire staff.
NowPublic Technologies, Inc. is a Vancouver-based company.
More at:http://www.nowpublic.com/
HitLinkz in an online utility that aspires to be your one-stop place on the internet for all your link needs
What Company is Offering:
HitLinkz in an online utility that aspires to be your one-stop place on the internet for all your link needs.
With HitLinkz you can explore the famous links across various categories, you can add those famous links to your HitList for quick reference in the future and you can vote on the links to make it a Hit or Miss.
How It Works:
HitLinkz provides its users with a comprehensive list of categories and links across those categories. Users can recommend new categories to be covered by HitLinkz and can recommend appropriate links to those categories. Other users vote on the links to make it to the HitList, which is a list of Top 10 links for that category. HitLinkz strongly believes that by letting the users decide whether a link is a Hit or Miss it truly can bring to the audience (users) the links that are famous and appropriate at a given time.
More at:http://www.hitlinkz.com/
HitLinkz in an online utility that aspires to be your one-stop place on the internet for all your link needs.
With HitLinkz you can explore the famous links across various categories, you can add those famous links to your HitList for quick reference in the future and you can vote on the links to make it a Hit or Miss.
How It Works:
HitLinkz provides its users with a comprehensive list of categories and links across those categories. Users can recommend new categories to be covered by HitLinkz and can recommend appropriate links to those categories. Other users vote on the links to make it to the HitList, which is a list of Top 10 links for that category. HitLinkz strongly believes that by letting the users decide whether a link is a Hit or Miss it truly can bring to the audience (users) the links that are famous and appropriate at a given time.
More at:http://www.hitlinkz.com/
eGenie.co.uk is a free, easy-to-use service that helps you find the cheapest and best service provider foreveryday odd jobs
What Company is Offering:
eGenie.co.uk is a free, easy-to-use service that helps you find the cheapest and best service provider to complete all those general, everyday odd jobs that you never get round to doing!
How It Works:
eGenie.co.uk is basically a reverse auction. Simply post an assignment detailing what work should be done and the service providers will try to out bid each other in order to win the job. You decide of course which service provider receives your assignment and in this manner you always get the cheapest and the best. If you are not satisfied with any of the offers you are under no obligation to allocate the assignment, thus saving yourself time money and patience.
eGenie.co.uk is not a search engine nor is it a classifieds directory. eGenie.co.uk is better!
Whether you need private tuition, want to get a dent in your car fixed, need a new haircut or you are looking for someone who can lay laminate flooring, at eGenie.co.uk you wi’ll find exactly want you want, at a price you want to pay.
More at:http://www.egenie.co.uk/
eGenie.co.uk is a free, easy-to-use service that helps you find the cheapest and best service provider to complete all those general, everyday odd jobs that you never get round to doing!
How It Works:
eGenie.co.uk is basically a reverse auction. Simply post an assignment detailing what work should be done and the service providers will try to out bid each other in order to win the job. You decide of course which service provider receives your assignment and in this manner you always get the cheapest and the best. If you are not satisfied with any of the offers you are under no obligation to allocate the assignment, thus saving yourself time money and patience.
eGenie.co.uk is not a search engine nor is it a classifieds directory. eGenie.co.uk is better!
Whether you need private tuition, want to get a dent in your car fixed, need a new haircut or you are looking for someone who can lay laminate flooring, at eGenie.co.uk you wi’ll find exactly want you want, at a price you want to pay.
More at:http://www.egenie.co.uk/
Search using keyboard shortcuts with Katapulco!
What Company Is Offering:
Katapulco lets you search more efficiently (therefore enhancing your productivity) by using a series of keyboard shortcuts to query the most popular search engines and Internet databases.
At Katapulco, they believe that using the keyboard whenever possible is much faster and productive than using the mouse, especially when it comes to searching the Internet. Imagine searching Google Maps, the Internet Movie Database or Wikipedia from one page without ever clicking on anything and just by adding "gm" (Google Maps), "i" (IMDB) or "w" (Wikipedia) at the end of your queries!
How Is It Different:
The Firefox search box defaults to Google but also offers six other options, including Answers.com, Yahoo and eBay. However, the disadvantage is that you have to use the mouse to select them. In addition to that, once you use another search engine (for example Amazon.com), your latest selection remains the default search engine, so you will have to select Google or Yahoo again to return to a general search. That's a lot of clicking!
Unlike the others, Katapulco always returns to a general search. And in case you wish to use another search engine, it’s really easy and hassle free! All you need to do is type the desired search engine's keyboard shortcut, without leaving the keyboard! They believe that it is a perfect solution for people who prefer to enhance their personal productivity while keeping their hands on the keyboard.
More at:http://www.katapulco.com/
Katapulco lets you search more efficiently (therefore enhancing your productivity) by using a series of keyboard shortcuts to query the most popular search engines and Internet databases.
At Katapulco, they believe that using the keyboard whenever possible is much faster and productive than using the mouse, especially when it comes to searching the Internet. Imagine searching Google Maps, the Internet Movie Database or Wikipedia from one page without ever clicking on anything and just by adding "gm" (Google Maps), "i" (IMDB) or "w" (Wikipedia) at the end of your queries!
How Is It Different:
The Firefox search box defaults to Google but also offers six other options, including Answers.com, Yahoo and eBay. However, the disadvantage is that you have to use the mouse to select them. In addition to that, once you use another search engine (for example Amazon.com), your latest selection remains the default search engine, so you will have to select Google or Yahoo again to return to a general search. That's a lot of clicking!
Unlike the others, Katapulco always returns to a general search. And in case you wish to use another search engine, it’s really easy and hassle free! All you need to do is type the desired search engine's keyboard shortcut, without leaving the keyboard! They believe that it is a perfect solution for people who prefer to enhance their personal productivity while keeping their hands on the keyboard.
More at:http://www.katapulco.com/
Qwika.com, a wiki search engine
What Company Is Offering:
Qwika.com, a wiki search engine. The technology is designed from the ground up to work with wiki-based content and has a number of unique features of interest to researchers and Wikipedia editors. It is the only search engine to index machine translated content, so that users may search for terms in their own language and see results translated from English.
"Wikipedia's growth in English is well documented, but other languages lag far behind. The next biggest is German, roughly a third of the size of the English one. Spanish is a mere tenth of the size" says Luke Metcalfe, founder of the site. "There is thus a massive gap in the market."
The resultant content is machine translated, so it contains imperfections, but are still much better than no article at all and further, provide a starting point for editors to translate manually into their own language. Languages included are German, French, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Greek, Korean, Chinese and Russian.
In addition, some country-specific topics are covered best in their native language. Qwika makes this content available to English speakers, rolling it all into the one index. Articles from all 11 languages are included in the English language version.
The engine also includes WikiTravel and aims to include all sizeable wikis. "Wikis are cropping up on a variety of topics and approaches to community. We'd like to see this diversity flourish while still providing the user with a central location for such public encyclopedia-style content".
More at:http://www.qwika.com/
Qwika.com, a wiki search engine. The technology is designed from the ground up to work with wiki-based content and has a number of unique features of interest to researchers and Wikipedia editors. It is the only search engine to index machine translated content, so that users may search for terms in their own language and see results translated from English.
"Wikipedia's growth in English is well documented, but other languages lag far behind. The next biggest is German, roughly a third of the size of the English one. Spanish is a mere tenth of the size" says Luke Metcalfe, founder of the site. "There is thus a massive gap in the market."
The resultant content is machine translated, so it contains imperfections, but are still much better than no article at all and further, provide a starting point for editors to translate manually into their own language. Languages included are German, French, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Greek, Korean, Chinese and Russian.
In addition, some country-specific topics are covered best in their native language. Qwika makes this content available to English speakers, rolling it all into the one index. Articles from all 11 languages are included in the English language version.
The engine also includes WikiTravel and aims to include all sizeable wikis. "Wikis are cropping up on a variety of topics and approaches to community. We'd like to see this diversity flourish while still providing the user with a central location for such public encyclopedia-style content".
More at:http://www.qwika.com/
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Creative Citizen
What Company Is Offering:
Creative Citizen is a mental shift: humans don't always have to be users and abusers, they can also be creators. Instead of continuing down the same path of global unawareness and consumption, a Creative Citizen reduces worldwide problems to daily, personal solutions. Our goal here is to help each person see how little acts have truly big effects.
Creative Citizen equips individuals and communities to move forward in the quest to become responsible global citizens. Instead of focusing on the fear induced by water shortages, expanding landfills, smoggy cities and the specter of global warming, they focus on one action at a time, knowing that a series of small actions can lead to massive results.
How It Works:
Creative Citizen is an ideal made kinetic: becoming a citizen of the global community, ready and willing to share Creative Solutions for all of our eco-problems, minor and major. They know that no one citizen can know everything about living responsibly on this planet – our goal is to create an ever-evolving wealth of environmental knowledge and each Creative Citizen is essential to our success.
So, go ahead and submit a Creative Solution and watch your Greenage grow or just look around and soak up what you see. They're always open to suggestions, so email them with your thoughts about how to make your experience as a Creative Citizen™ more fulfilling, rewarding and effective.
More at:http://www.creativecitizen.com/
Creative Citizen is a mental shift: humans don't always have to be users and abusers, they can also be creators. Instead of continuing down the same path of global unawareness and consumption, a Creative Citizen reduces worldwide problems to daily, personal solutions. Our goal here is to help each person see how little acts have truly big effects.
Creative Citizen equips individuals and communities to move forward in the quest to become responsible global citizens. Instead of focusing on the fear induced by water shortages, expanding landfills, smoggy cities and the specter of global warming, they focus on one action at a time, knowing that a series of small actions can lead to massive results.
How It Works:
Creative Citizen is an ideal made kinetic: becoming a citizen of the global community, ready and willing to share Creative Solutions for all of our eco-problems, minor and major. They know that no one citizen can know everything about living responsibly on this planet – our goal is to create an ever-evolving wealth of environmental knowledge and each Creative Citizen is essential to our success.
So, go ahead and submit a Creative Solution and watch your Greenage grow or just look around and soak up what you see. They're always open to suggestions, so email them with your thoughts about how to make your experience as a Creative Citizen™ more fulfilling, rewarding and effective.
More at:http://www.creativecitizen.com/
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Pycasa is a vertical search engine for for-sale-by-owner properties
What Company Is Offering:
Pycasa is a vertical search engine for for-sale-by-owner (FSBO) properties.
Pycasa tries to solve two problems in the online FSBO market. First, Pycasa provides search results for the many FSBO sites already listing properties. We are in early beta and we are actively expanding our result set to incorporate these many different FSBO sites. Second, Pycasa displays all the relevant property information on the search results page so you don't have to traverse back and forth between the results page and the property pages to find what you're looking for.
More at:http://pycasa.com/
Pycasa is a vertical search engine for for-sale-by-owner (FSBO) properties.
Pycasa tries to solve two problems in the online FSBO market. First, Pycasa provides search results for the many FSBO sites already listing properties. We are in early beta and we are actively expanding our result set to incorporate these many different FSBO sites. Second, Pycasa displays all the relevant property information on the search results page so you don't have to traverse back and forth between the results page and the property pages to find what you're looking for.
More at:http://pycasa.com/
Bnarrator ---Your Content Speak
What Company Is Offering:
Bnarrator offers a PLAY button which is added to websites and blogs, so that when a visitor clicks the button, a professional narrator's recording is played reading aloud the content of that page.
This service is offered to the website owner/blogger absolutely free and is sponsored by a brief advertisement message which precedes the narration.
There are numerous forms of Bnarrator players, such as the one suitable for websites of constantly updating content.
Why To Use It
Use Bnarrator.com for improving the surfing experience in your website by adding human narration.
Make your pages more accessible to elderly visitors and for the visually impaired and increase your traffic.
The narration is preceded and sponsored by a short advertisement. Advertisers consider this an effective media because the ads are played to an attentive audience.
The ad revenue is shared with the website owners and narrators, and part of it goes to organizations helping the visually impaired.
The narration is played through a widget (smart banner) which is easily added to the website's code.
More at:http://www.bnarrator.com/
Bnarrator offers a PLAY button which is added to websites and blogs, so that when a visitor clicks the button, a professional narrator's recording is played reading aloud the content of that page.
This service is offered to the website owner/blogger absolutely free and is sponsored by a brief advertisement message which precedes the narration.
There are numerous forms of Bnarrator players, such as the one suitable for websites of constantly updating content.
Why To Use It
Use Bnarrator.com for improving the surfing experience in your website by adding human narration.
Make your pages more accessible to elderly visitors and for the visually impaired and increase your traffic.
The narration is preceded and sponsored by a short advertisement. Advertisers consider this an effective media because the ads are played to an attentive audience.
The ad revenue is shared with the website owners and narrators, and part of it goes to organizations helping the visually impaired.
The narration is played through a widget (smart banner) which is easily added to the website's code.
More at:http://www.bnarrator.com/
Altierre is a provider of wireless dynamic pricing solutions for retailers got $8 million in a second round
What Company Is Offering:
Altierre Corp., a leading provider of wireless dynamic pricing solutions for retailers, provides single-platform hardware, software and other IT solutions that enable chain-wide dynamic pricing, improve price accuracy, sharply reduce costs and paper waste, and improve communication with consumers from the onset of the shopping experience to the point-of-purchase. Altierre is a winner of the Red Herring 100 Award, a selection of the 100 private companies based in North America that play a leading role in innovation and technology.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Altierre Corp., a provider of wireless dynamic pricing solutions for retailers, today announced it has raised an additional $8 million in a second closing of its Series C funding round, bringing the total to $30 million. Participating in Altierre's second closing were previous investors the D. E. Shaw group and Labrador Ventures. Altierre has raised a total of $60 million to date.
"We are seeing substantial customer interest in our solution, and this additional funding will further enable us to scale toward multiple implementations in the near future. The second closing of the Series C round continues to demonstrate our investors' enthusiasm for our technology, and our highly differentiated and strategic approach to a large market opportunity," said Altierre Chairman and CEO Sunit Saxena.
Altierre has been co-developing its wireless dynamic pricing solution under signed agreements with several of the United States' top 10 grocery chains. With a fully functioning, end-to-end solution, the company is now executing its breakout strategy to directly address this significant opportunity.
More at:www.altierre.com.
Altierre Corp., a leading provider of wireless dynamic pricing solutions for retailers, provides single-platform hardware, software and other IT solutions that enable chain-wide dynamic pricing, improve price accuracy, sharply reduce costs and paper waste, and improve communication with consumers from the onset of the shopping experience to the point-of-purchase. Altierre is a winner of the Red Herring 100 Award, a selection of the 100 private companies based in North America that play a leading role in innovation and technology.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Altierre Corp., a provider of wireless dynamic pricing solutions for retailers, today announced it has raised an additional $8 million in a second closing of its Series C funding round, bringing the total to $30 million. Participating in Altierre's second closing were previous investors the D. E. Shaw group and Labrador Ventures. Altierre has raised a total of $60 million to date.
"We are seeing substantial customer interest in our solution, and this additional funding will further enable us to scale toward multiple implementations in the near future. The second closing of the Series C round continues to demonstrate our investors' enthusiasm for our technology, and our highly differentiated and strategic approach to a large market opportunity," said Altierre Chairman and CEO Sunit Saxena.
Altierre has been co-developing its wireless dynamic pricing solution under signed agreements with several of the United States' top 10 grocery chains. With a fully functioning, end-to-end solution, the company is now executing its breakout strategy to directly address this significant opportunity.
More at:www.altierre.com.
Blabnote---Vocal Social Network
What Company Is Offering:
You ring the blabnote number and the application on the other end recognises your caller ID, no usernames or passwords involved. It loads up your personal contacts, groups, events, shared messages and profile. The whole thing is entirely driven by their magical voice recognition technology.
How It Works:
Say "Create Group called Ping Pong" and a group called "Ping Pong" gets created.
Say "Add Tito, Chico and Foochie to Ping Pong" and those contacts are added to "Ping Pong".
Say "Call Ping Pong" and Tito's, Chico's and Foochie's phones ring simultaneously and join you all together in conference.
Say "Message Ping Pong. Team practice is cancelled today". Your message gets dropped into everyone's message box.
Say "Listen to Tito" and you can listen to the latest messages that he has created himself, or been left by others.
Say "Add Meesha", type in her number and Meesha gets added to your contacts. Her phone rings inviting her to your network too! Pretty fancy huh? Now when Meesha rings blabnote, her caller ID is recognised and she has access to the same fab technology you do.
The whole thing is just beautifully easy to use and concedes inferiority only to the lingering sparkle of an eroding afternoon daydream.
More at:http://www.blabnote.com/
You ring the blabnote number and the application on the other end recognises your caller ID, no usernames or passwords involved. It loads up your personal contacts, groups, events, shared messages and profile. The whole thing is entirely driven by their magical voice recognition technology.
How It Works:
Say "Create Group called Ping Pong" and a group called "Ping Pong" gets created.
Say "Add Tito, Chico and Foochie to Ping Pong" and those contacts are added to "Ping Pong".
Say "Call Ping Pong" and Tito's, Chico's and Foochie's phones ring simultaneously and join you all together in conference.
Say "Message Ping Pong. Team practice is cancelled today". Your message gets dropped into everyone's message box.
Say "Listen to Tito" and you can listen to the latest messages that he has created himself, or been left by others.
Say "Add Meesha", type in her number and Meesha gets added to your contacts. Her phone rings inviting her to your network too! Pretty fancy huh? Now when Meesha rings blabnote, her caller ID is recognised and she has access to the same fab technology you do.
The whole thing is just beautifully easy to use and concedes inferiority only to the lingering sparkle of an eroding afternoon daydream.
More at:http://www.blabnote.com/
Hurox (pronounced is much more than your average social network
What Company Says:
Hurox (pronounced “who rocks”) is much more than your average social network. At Hurox we believe in the freedom of expression. They have worked hard to make sharing your creativity and passion as easy as possible. Using some of the most advanced tools available, anyone can create virtually any “website”, no pasting code or programming necessary.
How It Works:
Every Hurox member has the ability to earn monetary rewards for their efforts. Focusing on the Artistic community, musicians, authors, photographers and the like will have the ability to share and sell their creations with other members in the Hurox community.Watch the VideoContact HuroxSign UpDrag and drop, cool text, embeds, graphics, and layout templatesSell Your Content.
More at:http://www.hurox.com/
Hurox (pronounced “who rocks”) is much more than your average social network. At Hurox we believe in the freedom of expression. They have worked hard to make sharing your creativity and passion as easy as possible. Using some of the most advanced tools available, anyone can create virtually any “website”, no pasting code or programming necessary.
How It Works:
Every Hurox member has the ability to earn monetary rewards for their efforts. Focusing on the Artistic community, musicians, authors, photographers and the like will have the ability to share and sell their creations with other members in the Hurox community.Watch the VideoContact HuroxSign UpDrag and drop, cool text, embeds, graphics, and layout templatesSell Your Content.
More at:http://www.hurox.com/
Friday, May 23, 2008
ScribbleLive
What Company Is Offering:
ScribbleLive allows broadcasters, publishers, educators, corporations, social groups, writers, students, bloggers and individuals to be instant publishers, live to your screen.
how It Works:
Logging in is a snap. They seamlessly integrate with your FaceBook, MSN Live or your Open ID account so you don’t have to remember another ID and password. Since there is no need to install software or learn some complicated back end, you can create your event in seconds. Give it a name and off you go. Now, send out the invitation to your friends to help you cover the full story. They instantly become your team or writers, photographers and editors and ScribbleLive ensure you are all on the same page.
Once that post hits the page, in seconds I might add, you can instantly edit your text right in the post without the need to leave the comfort of the browser. The update instantly appears on everyone’s screen. How cool is that!
ScribbleLive is not a chat line; this is a collaborative, real time journaling of events as they unfold.
Its easy to use, you have instant access, the posts appear in seconds without the need to reload, you can edit instantly, you have unlimited users that can watch the event and its totally new!
More at:http://www.scribblelive.com/
ScribbleLive allows broadcasters, publishers, educators, corporations, social groups, writers, students, bloggers and individuals to be instant publishers, live to your screen.
how It Works:
Logging in is a snap. They seamlessly integrate with your FaceBook, MSN Live or your Open ID account so you don’t have to remember another ID and password. Since there is no need to install software or learn some complicated back end, you can create your event in seconds. Give it a name and off you go. Now, send out the invitation to your friends to help you cover the full story. They instantly become your team or writers, photographers and editors and ScribbleLive ensure you are all on the same page.
Once that post hits the page, in seconds I might add, you can instantly edit your text right in the post without the need to leave the comfort of the browser. The update instantly appears on everyone’s screen. How cool is that!
ScribbleLive is not a chat line; this is a collaborative, real time journaling of events as they unfold.
Its easy to use, you have instant access, the posts appear in seconds without the need to reload, you can edit instantly, you have unlimited users that can watch the event and its totally new!
More at:http://www.scribblelive.com/
Professional on the Web
What Company Is Offering:
Professional on the Web is a fresh directory where web agencies and freelancers can list their profiles and easily manage showcase of their projects. They manage to keep the directory as focused as possible to get the most number of professionals listed in our directory.
How It Works:
After signing up you can complete your profile using in_place_editors and you can arrange projects and tags by drag&drop .
Users can search web professionals by tag and also rate projects instantly. No need to register or sign in.
You can subscribe to the ever increasing list of designers and projects being added to Professional on the web via RSS.
More at:http://www.professionalontheweb.com/
Professional on the Web is a fresh directory where web agencies and freelancers can list their profiles and easily manage showcase of their projects. They manage to keep the directory as focused as possible to get the most number of professionals listed in our directory.
How It Works:
After signing up you can complete your profile using in_place_editors and you can arrange projects and tags by drag&drop .
Users can search web professionals by tag and also rate projects instantly. No need to register or sign in.
You can subscribe to the ever increasing list of designers and projects being added to Professional on the web via RSS.
More at:http://www.professionalontheweb.com/
Track contacts, leads, customers, vendors, and others with Highrise
What Company Is Offering:
Track contacts, leads, customers, vendors, and others with Highrise.Every contact in Highrise gets a page. You and your co-workers can add notes from calls,
conversations, meetings, or any other historic information about this person.
How It Works:
Tasks help you get things done. Assign tasks to yourself or to others. Add action categories (Call,
Thank You, Demo, Fax, Email) for quick scanning. Check’em off when they're done.
Highrise will even send reminders to your email account or mobile phone!
Highrise lets you specify who can see which people, companies, notes, and cases. It’s your call.
Adding a person manually takes just a few seconds. You can also upload vCards
to add people even faster or import people from your Basecamp account.
Highrise works hand in hand with email. You can send, BCC, or forward emails to
Highrise and they'll automatically be attached to the right person’s page.
Company pages aggregate notes, files, and emails from people that are part of that company.
Now you can see everyone your company knows at any company in your account.
Highrise gets better the more people in your organization that use it. The users section lets you invite people to create accounts on your system. Groups let you set batch permissions on people, notes, and cases.
More at:http://www.highrisehq.com/
Track contacts, leads, customers, vendors, and others with Highrise.Every contact in Highrise gets a page. You and your co-workers can add notes from calls,
conversations, meetings, or any other historic information about this person.
How It Works:
Tasks help you get things done. Assign tasks to yourself or to others. Add action categories (Call,
Thank You, Demo, Fax, Email) for quick scanning. Check’em off when they're done.
Highrise will even send reminders to your email account or mobile phone!
Highrise lets you specify who can see which people, companies, notes, and cases. It’s your call.
Adding a person manually takes just a few seconds. You can also upload vCards
to add people even faster or import people from your Basecamp account.
Highrise works hand in hand with email. You can send, BCC, or forward emails to
Highrise and they'll automatically be attached to the right person’s page.
Company pages aggregate notes, files, and emails from people that are part of that company.
Now you can see everyone your company knows at any company in your account.
Highrise gets better the more people in your organization that use it. The users section lets you invite people to create accounts on your system. Groups let you set batch permissions on people, notes, and cases.
More at:http://www.highrisehq.com/
ComfyPage is the tool you need to create simple, smart and super quick websites
What Company Is Offering:
ComfyPage is the tool you need to create simple, smart and super quick websites without the worry of hiring expensive web developers and designers. You can use it for absolutely any purpose provided it doesn't break any Australian laws.
How It Works:
After registration they take you through their easy setup wizard, then provide any help you need placing content on your new site.
You get everything you need to build a website and have it live to the world.
More at:http://comfypage.com/
ComfyPage is the tool you need to create simple, smart and super quick websites without the worry of hiring expensive web developers and designers. You can use it for absolutely any purpose provided it doesn't break any Australian laws.
How It Works:
After registration they take you through their easy setup wizard, then provide any help you need placing content on your new site.
You get everything you need to build a website and have it live to the world.
More at:http://comfypage.com/
BugWiki is bug tracking without all the confusing bells and whistles
What Company Is Offering:
BugWiki is bug tracking without all the confusing bells and whistles. If you want to track bugs without spending time installing, configuring and exploring a bug tracking tool, BugWiki is made for you.
How It Works:
Once you decide to try BugWiki, you are ready to report your first bug in seconds. Just a quick sign up and you're good to go.BugWiki offers you only the small set of features you really need. This makes BugWiki easy to adopt for new users.
Every user in your organisation can see and do everything. Yes, everything.You can stay logged in forever, and the "New bug" page is fully bookmarkable. Only one field is required, so to make a quick note of a bug comes at a very low price. You can always add more info later.
More at:https://www.bugwiki.com/
BugWiki is bug tracking without all the confusing bells and whistles. If you want to track bugs without spending time installing, configuring and exploring a bug tracking tool, BugWiki is made for you.
How It Works:
Once you decide to try BugWiki, you are ready to report your first bug in seconds. Just a quick sign up and you're good to go.BugWiki offers you only the small set of features you really need. This makes BugWiki easy to adopt for new users.
Every user in your organisation can see and do everything. Yes, everything.You can stay logged in forever, and the "New bug" page is fully bookmarkable. Only one field is required, so to make a quick note of a bug comes at a very low price. You can always add more info later.
More at:https://www.bugwiki.com/
Macroaxis Corporation specializes in providing software solutions for the financial services sector
What Company Is Offering:
Macroaxis Corporation specializes in providing software solutions for the financial services sector, facilitating rapid distribution of financial analytics to larger audiences. Unique in the industry, Macroaxis Corporation's financial engineering platform delivers measurable value in the form of improved return on clients' intellectual property, productivity and managed assets for financial institutions.
How It Works:
The Five Star Portfolio Optimization technique refers to the simple methodology we use to achieve better diversification. Using the Portfolio Optimization Pitchlet, you can evaluate the One-Day Value At Risk of the optimal portfolio along with total risk, expected return, Sharpe ratio and Treynor ratio. The model picks the optimal portfolio from the efficient frontier given your specified level of risk, and a set of constraints on weight and return. The resulting portfolio is then compared to your existing portfolio. As a rational investor, your main objective is to outperform your existing portfolio in all 5 categories. For each category in which you outperform your existing portfolio, you will get one star. The best optimization is achieved when, after several iterations, you get all five stars.
More at:http://macroaxis.com/
Macroaxis Corporation specializes in providing software solutions for the financial services sector, facilitating rapid distribution of financial analytics to larger audiences. Unique in the industry, Macroaxis Corporation's financial engineering platform delivers measurable value in the form of improved return on clients' intellectual property, productivity and managed assets for financial institutions.
How It Works:
The Five Star Portfolio Optimization technique refers to the simple methodology we use to achieve better diversification. Using the Portfolio Optimization Pitchlet, you can evaluate the One-Day Value At Risk of the optimal portfolio along with total risk, expected return, Sharpe ratio and Treynor ratio. The model picks the optimal portfolio from the efficient frontier given your specified level of risk, and a set of constraints on weight and return. The resulting portfolio is then compared to your existing portfolio. As a rational investor, your main objective is to outperform your existing portfolio in all 5 categories. For each category in which you outperform your existing portfolio, you will get one star. The best optimization is achieved when, after several iterations, you get all five stars.
More at:http://macroaxis.com/
Vibstars is a social network of socialbuzzing that lets you easily spread your ideas and discoveries on the Web
What Company Is Offering:
Vibstars is a social network of socialbuzzing that lets you easily spread your ideas and discoveries on the Web.
Vibstars is not a digg-like or a platform of miniblogging but paves the way for buzz2buzz.
How It Works:
You propose an idea, a link to an article, a video of youtube or the images found on the Web at all your contacts and your friends can with one click send your news to their own networks and so forth. The best buzz appear on the homepage.
More at:http://vibstars.com/
Vibstars is a social network of socialbuzzing that lets you easily spread your ideas and discoveries on the Web.
Vibstars is not a digg-like or a platform of miniblogging but paves the way for buzz2buzz.
How It Works:
You propose an idea, a link to an article, a video of youtube or the images found on the Web at all your contacts and your friends can with one click send your news to their own networks and so forth. The best buzz appear on the homepage.
More at:http://vibstars.com/
PolicyMap is an innovative geographic information system
What Company Is Offering:
PolicyMap is an innovative geographic information system which allows you to easily create custom maps, tables, and charts.Provides over 4,000 indicators plus the ability to plot your own data with our mapping services.Available from any Web browser on any operating system.Backed by the resources, expertise and integrity of The Reinvestment Fund.
How It Works:
Once you've created a map, table or report that you want, save it and export it as a jpeg or a pdf for use in your presentation or reports.Search any location by address, census tract, county, state, zip code, school district, or Congressional district. Subscribers also can create custom regions.
PolicyMap currently offers over 4,000 indicators related to demographics, real estate, crime, health, schools, housing affordability, employment, energy, and public investments.
More at:http://www.policymap.com/
PolicyMap is an innovative geographic information system which allows you to easily create custom maps, tables, and charts.Provides over 4,000 indicators plus the ability to plot your own data with our mapping services.Available from any Web browser on any operating system.Backed by the resources, expertise and integrity of The Reinvestment Fund.
How It Works:
Once you've created a map, table or report that you want, save it and export it as a jpeg or a pdf for use in your presentation or reports.Search any location by address, census tract, county, state, zip code, school district, or Congressional district. Subscribers also can create custom regions.
PolicyMap currently offers over 4,000 indicators related to demographics, real estate, crime, health, schools, housing affordability, employment, energy, and public investments.
More at:http://www.policymap.com/
Stitcher service enables you to hear the audio content you care about
What Company Is Offering:
Their service enables you to hear the audio content you care about. They “stitch” it into personalized, always-current stations that you can easily listen to on your iPhone or computer.
How It Works:
An example user's commute might include SF weather, NY Knicks scores, the Onion Radio News, VentureBeat Headlines and CNN News. Each day, the latest segments stream to your iPhone or computer automatically, without you having to manually refresh anything.
Stitcher revolutionizes information radio because it is:Customized: they learn what you like and don't like - so they can serve you better and better content
Easy: just start listening, they'll take care of the rest
Portable: stream Stitcher anywhere: no satellite device, Wi-Fi or syncing required.
More at:http://www.stitcher.com/
Their service enables you to hear the audio content you care about. They “stitch” it into personalized, always-current stations that you can easily listen to on your iPhone or computer.
How It Works:
An example user's commute might include SF weather, NY Knicks scores, the Onion Radio News, VentureBeat Headlines and CNN News. Each day, the latest segments stream to your iPhone or computer automatically, without you having to manually refresh anything.
Stitcher revolutionizes information radio because it is:Customized: they learn what you like and don't like - so they can serve you better and better content
Easy: just start listening, they'll take care of the rest
Portable: stream Stitcher anywhere: no satellite device, Wi-Fi or syncing required.
More at:http://www.stitcher.com/
Flock - The Social Web Browser got VCs funding
What company Is Offering:
Flock - The Social Web Browser - is built on Mozilla's constantly improving Firefox architecture . It is free to download and use at http://www.flock.com. Flock simplifies and extends the use of social and web-based applications to enable the richest user experience possible across information-gathering, sharing, communication, self-expression and interaction. Flock delivers a more personal experience of the web, where its users are in control and more connected to what they value. The company is based in Redwood City, CA, with an office in Victoria, British Columbia.
How Much they Got From VCs:
Flock, a Redwood City, Calif.-based developer of a social Web browser, has raised $15 million in Series D funding. Fidelity Ventures led the round, and was joined by return backers Bessemer Venture Partners, Catamount Ventures and Shasta Ventures.
This new funding exceeds the amounts raised in all prior rounds combined and will be used to provide growth capital to expand Flock's business, including research and development, marketing and expansion into new global markets. According to Datamonitor, there are currently over 230 million members of social networks globally, and revenues are projected to reach $2.4 billion by 20121. Fidelity Ventures brings the advantages of its tremendous global reach and experience to assist in growing Flock's business.
"We are thrilled to close this significant round of financing," said Shawn Hardin, CEO of Flock. "Following the tremendous market response to Flock's commercial release, this new funding will enable us to continue our browser innovation � making engagement and participation across social networks and the Web as effortless as consumption."
"The browser is strategic because it enables nearly everything users do online," said Larry Cheng, Partner at Fidelity Ventures. "Flock's social browser is the most compelling innovation in the browser market in over a decade. The reasons we invested are simple: great product, fantastic user adoption, and excellent revenue growth."
More at: www.flock.com
Flock - The Social Web Browser - is built on Mozilla's constantly improving Firefox architecture . It is free to download and use at http://www.flock.com. Flock simplifies and extends the use of social and web-based applications to enable the richest user experience possible across information-gathering, sharing, communication, self-expression and interaction. Flock delivers a more personal experience of the web, where its users are in control and more connected to what they value. The company is based in Redwood City, CA, with an office in Victoria, British Columbia.
How Much they Got From VCs:
Flock, a Redwood City, Calif.-based developer of a social Web browser, has raised $15 million in Series D funding. Fidelity Ventures led the round, and was joined by return backers Bessemer Venture Partners, Catamount Ventures and Shasta Ventures.
This new funding exceeds the amounts raised in all prior rounds combined and will be used to provide growth capital to expand Flock's business, including research and development, marketing and expansion into new global markets. According to Datamonitor, there are currently over 230 million members of social networks globally, and revenues are projected to reach $2.4 billion by 20121. Fidelity Ventures brings the advantages of its tremendous global reach and experience to assist in growing Flock's business.
"We are thrilled to close this significant round of financing," said Shawn Hardin, CEO of Flock. "Following the tremendous market response to Flock's commercial release, this new funding will enable us to continue our browser innovation � making engagement and participation across social networks and the Web as effortless as consumption."
"The browser is strategic because it enables nearly everything users do online," said Larry Cheng, Partner at Fidelity Ventures. "Flock's social browser is the most compelling innovation in the browser market in over a decade. The reasons we invested are simple: great product, fantastic user adoption, and excellent revenue growth."
More at: www.flock.com
SmartSynch, a global leader in public wireless smart metering technology has raised $20 million dollars
What Company Is Offering:
SmartSynch’s SmartMeters represent future-proof investments in technology. The standards-based IP connectivity enabled in every SmartMeter deployed makes them adaptable and remotely upgradeable to support today’s sensor and communications needs, as well as tomorrow’s opportunities, better than any alternative.
How Much They Got From VCs:
SmartSynch, a global leader in public wireless smart metering technology, announced today that it has raised $20 million dollars in expansion financing. New investor Credit Suisse, a leading international financial institution based in New York, invested in the financing through its Customized Fund Investment Group. This round also provided an opportunity for a new investor, Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance Company, to participate in SmartSynch’s success, along with a host of existing investors, such as: Battelle Ventures, Beacon Group, Endeavor Capital Management, GulfSouth Capital, Innovation Valley Partners, Kinetic Ventures, OPG Ventures and Siemens Venture Capital. To date, SmartSynch has raised a total of $80 million since its inception in 2000. It will use this latest round to fund working capital growth, expand market presence and accelerate the product roadmap for new Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and Smart Grid Intelligence solutions.
“Utilities are deploying smart meter technology at a rapid rate to avoid the difficulty of building and permitting new power plants, to prepare for impending carbon regulation and more importantly because managing electricity use at a granular level opens up new business opportunities with customers,” said Nadim Barakat, a Managing Director in Credit Suisse’s Customized Fund Investment Group. “We chose SmartSynch because of its deep customer base, innovative technology and compelling value proposition for utilities looking to gain the highest possible return on investment in smart meter systems.”
More at:www.smartsynch.com.
SmartSynch’s SmartMeters represent future-proof investments in technology. The standards-based IP connectivity enabled in every SmartMeter deployed makes them adaptable and remotely upgradeable to support today’s sensor and communications needs, as well as tomorrow’s opportunities, better than any alternative.
How Much They Got From VCs:
SmartSynch, a global leader in public wireless smart metering technology, announced today that it has raised $20 million dollars in expansion financing. New investor Credit Suisse, a leading international financial institution based in New York, invested in the financing through its Customized Fund Investment Group. This round also provided an opportunity for a new investor, Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance Company, to participate in SmartSynch’s success, along with a host of existing investors, such as: Battelle Ventures, Beacon Group, Endeavor Capital Management, GulfSouth Capital, Innovation Valley Partners, Kinetic Ventures, OPG Ventures and Siemens Venture Capital. To date, SmartSynch has raised a total of $80 million since its inception in 2000. It will use this latest round to fund working capital growth, expand market presence and accelerate the product roadmap for new Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and Smart Grid Intelligence solutions.
“Utilities are deploying smart meter technology at a rapid rate to avoid the difficulty of building and permitting new power plants, to prepare for impending carbon regulation and more importantly because managing electricity use at a granular level opens up new business opportunities with customers,” said Nadim Barakat, a Managing Director in Credit Suisse’s Customized Fund Investment Group. “We chose SmartSynch because of its deep customer base, innovative technology and compelling value proposition for utilities looking to gain the highest possible return on investment in smart meter systems.”
More at:www.smartsynch.com.
TimeBucks.org ---- For donating, trading, or finding services
What Company Is Offering:
TimeBucks.org is to share your skills and find services you need. Posted services are usually less formal and less profit-oriented than other directories. Most people who provide services just want to share a talent or support an organization they care about.
They encourage the non-commercial nature of their community by setting a one-price-for-everybody policy: 15 "time-bucks" is equal to one hour of service. That can be broken down into larger or smaller amounts. For example, 7.50 time-bucks is equal to a half an hour, and so on.
How It Works:
Members can earn time-bucks by providing a service or purchasing time-bucks online at $1 to 1 time-buck. When you exchange dollars for time-bucks, you're taking your money out of the financial system that rewards profits above people, and putting it into a system that supports nonprofits and communities. Click the Get Tab to order your time-bucks.
Members trade time-bucks for a wide variety of services. Post a service yourself or look under the Trade tab to view services by category.
More at:http://www.timebucks.org/
TimeBucks.org is to share your skills and find services you need. Posted services are usually less formal and less profit-oriented than other directories. Most people who provide services just want to share a talent or support an organization they care about.
They encourage the non-commercial nature of their community by setting a one-price-for-everybody policy: 15 "time-bucks" is equal to one hour of service. That can be broken down into larger or smaller amounts. For example, 7.50 time-bucks is equal to a half an hour, and so on.
How It Works:
Members can earn time-bucks by providing a service or purchasing time-bucks online at $1 to 1 time-buck. When you exchange dollars for time-bucks, you're taking your money out of the financial system that rewards profits above people, and putting it into a system that supports nonprofits and communities. Click the Get Tab to order your time-bucks.
Members trade time-bucks for a wide variety of services. Post a service yourself or look under the Trade tab to view services by category.
More at:http://www.timebucks.org/
eduFire is a community of people passionate about teaching and learning languages
What Company Is Offering:
eduFire is a community of people passionate about teaching and learning languages. As a student you find outstanding language tutors from all around the world and learn from them from the comfort of your home. As a teacher you'll be able to connect with students and can teach them without having to travel.
How It Works:
Sign up and create your profile (the better and more complete your profile the more likely you'll be to get new students). You'll soon receive messages from students interested in learning a language from you.
You just need an Internet connection (broadband recommended) and a web browser. If you don't have flash installed then you'll want to install Flash 9. When you're ready, you can check your audio and video settings here to confirm that you're all set!
You don't need a webcam, but learning a language online is much better if your student can see you. If you have a desktop computer, they recommend this Logitech Quickcam, and if you have a laptop, they recommend this camera.
More at:http://edufire.com/
eduFire is a community of people passionate about teaching and learning languages. As a student you find outstanding language tutors from all around the world and learn from them from the comfort of your home. As a teacher you'll be able to connect with students and can teach them without having to travel.
How It Works:
Sign up and create your profile (the better and more complete your profile the more likely you'll be to get new students). You'll soon receive messages from students interested in learning a language from you.
You just need an Internet connection (broadband recommended) and a web browser. If you don't have flash installed then you'll want to install Flash 9. When you're ready, you can check your audio and video settings here to confirm that you're all set!
You don't need a webcam, but learning a language online is much better if your student can see you. If you have a desktop computer, they recommend this Logitech Quickcam, and if you have a laptop, they recommend this camera.
More at:http://edufire.com/
The Industry Standard is a prediction market, intersected with a reputation-based social network
What Company Is Offering:
Their prediction market is a place where, for entertainment purposes, you can bet on the chances of future events occurring or not occurring, using a virtual currency called "Standard Dollars". The predictions listed on the market are all related to the online economy, which touches nearly all businesses these days. If you see a prediction on the site where you believe you know the future outcome, place a bet and see if you are right. If your bet is correct, you’ll win more "Standard Dollars" to bet on other predictions, and your community rank will increase. If you’re really good, you may also win prizes.
How It Works:
When you are logged into the site, you can track your predictions where you’ve wagered bets by clicking on “My Predictions”, which may be found at the top of every page.
If you want to see a prediction on the site that you think would be relevant to The Industry Standard’s mission, you can suggest one at any time. The community will then vote to see if your suggestion should be added to the site. If the suggestion is well received, The Industry Standard team may convert the Suggestion into a Prediction. Once this happens, you will instantly be awarded S$25,000 to your account!
Your Net Worth is an indicator of how well you are doing in placing bets and suggesting predictions on The Industry Standard. You start at S$100,000 when you register. If you make good decisions on the predictions you bet on, your Net Worth will go up as your bets pay off. If you make bad decisions, your Net Worth will go down. This will impact your Industry Rank.
When a prediction is judged, you are credited with Standard Dollars for each bet that you get right. If the odds were already high that an event would occur when you placed your bet, you wouldn’t earn as much if you were right, compared to what you would earn if you bet on a long shot, where the odds were low. However, the most important thing is to be right. When the event’s closing date occurs (the date on which the event will be judged to see if an event has occurred or not), The Industry Standard will review the prediction and determine if the prediction has come true. As soon as we make that judgment, your account will be updated accordingly, depending on how you bet.
More at:http://www.thestandard.com/
Their prediction market is a place where, for entertainment purposes, you can bet on the chances of future events occurring or not occurring, using a virtual currency called "Standard Dollars". The predictions listed on the market are all related to the online economy, which touches nearly all businesses these days. If you see a prediction on the site where you believe you know the future outcome, place a bet and see if you are right. If your bet is correct, you’ll win more "Standard Dollars" to bet on other predictions, and your community rank will increase. If you’re really good, you may also win prizes.
How It Works:
When you are logged into the site, you can track your predictions where you’ve wagered bets by clicking on “My Predictions”, which may be found at the top of every page.
If you want to see a prediction on the site that you think would be relevant to The Industry Standard’s mission, you can suggest one at any time. The community will then vote to see if your suggestion should be added to the site. If the suggestion is well received, The Industry Standard team may convert the Suggestion into a Prediction. Once this happens, you will instantly be awarded S$25,000 to your account!
Your Net Worth is an indicator of how well you are doing in placing bets and suggesting predictions on The Industry Standard. You start at S$100,000 when you register. If you make good decisions on the predictions you bet on, your Net Worth will go up as your bets pay off. If you make bad decisions, your Net Worth will go down. This will impact your Industry Rank.
When a prediction is judged, you are credited with Standard Dollars for each bet that you get right. If the odds were already high that an event would occur when you placed your bet, you wouldn’t earn as much if you were right, compared to what you would earn if you bet on a long shot, where the odds were low. However, the most important thing is to be right. When the event’s closing date occurs (the date on which the event will be judged to see if an event has occurred or not), The Industry Standard will review the prediction and determine if the prediction has come true. As soon as we make that judgment, your account will be updated accordingly, depending on how you bet.
More at:http://www.thestandard.com/
DiscRevolt provides physical solutions for digital delivery of media
What Company Is Offering:
DiscRevolt provides physical solutions for digital delivery of media. For artists, DiscRevolt is a way to deliver DRM-free digital music through artist-specific download cards. DiscRevolt also provides promotional services to artists, labels, events and third-parties through download cards for backend delivery of samplers, pre-releases and other exclusive content.
DiscRevolt also provides promotional services to artists, labels, events and third-parties through download cards for backend delivery of samplers, pre-releases and other exclusive content. Their extensive reporting system gives clients access to detailed sales and non-identifying demographic information that no other download service can match.
More at:http://www.discrevolt.com/
DiscRevolt provides physical solutions for digital delivery of media. For artists, DiscRevolt is a way to deliver DRM-free digital music through artist-specific download cards. DiscRevolt also provides promotional services to artists, labels, events and third-parties through download cards for backend delivery of samplers, pre-releases and other exclusive content.
DiscRevolt also provides promotional services to artists, labels, events and third-parties through download cards for backend delivery of samplers, pre-releases and other exclusive content. Their extensive reporting system gives clients access to detailed sales and non-identifying demographic information that no other download service can match.
More at:http://www.discrevolt.com/
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Targeted User-Generated Content Marketing Solutions
What Company Is Offering:
TUGCMS, provides highly targeted leads (generated by assessing their behavior), thus increasing sales significantly and at the same time reducing costs associated with traditional lead generation and marketing. Here’s how:
TUGCMS relies on New Media — BLOGS, WIKIS, PODCAST, ONLINE VIDEO, TOP SOCIAL AND BUSINESS NETWORKS, etc to document as much behavior of online users as possible. The behavior is then segmented by relevancy, thus helping us identify Passionistas relevant to your business. This leads to a comprehensive, yet focused set of prospective customers.
How It Works:
Their team of lead generation associates will research several Web 2.0 media to build a comprehensive database of warm leads. In addition to contact information (phone #, email ID, profiles on various social networking sites, personal blogs etc) the database also documents key user interests, audience profiling (in case of blogs), and other relevant information that helps their team of research associates map buying behavior, especially in your target market.
Segmentation and identification of the Passionistas relevant to your industry. Based on the behavior documented, our knowledge professionals will segment and identify hot leads – Passionistas who are likely to buy (or influence sales of) your product or service.
Their team of Marketing professionals can also help in formulating efficient and effective go-to-market strategies leveraging the information documented and segmented in the above two phases. In other words, they’ll define best practices for an effective marketing campaign using online behavior.
More at;http://www.infoanalytica.com/tugcms.htm
TUGCMS, provides highly targeted leads (generated by assessing their behavior), thus increasing sales significantly and at the same time reducing costs associated with traditional lead generation and marketing. Here’s how:
TUGCMS relies on New Media — BLOGS, WIKIS, PODCAST, ONLINE VIDEO, TOP SOCIAL AND BUSINESS NETWORKS, etc to document as much behavior of online users as possible. The behavior is then segmented by relevancy, thus helping us identify Passionistas relevant to your business. This leads to a comprehensive, yet focused set of prospective customers.
How It Works:
Their team of lead generation associates will research several Web 2.0 media to build a comprehensive database of warm leads. In addition to contact information (phone #, email ID, profiles on various social networking sites, personal blogs etc) the database also documents key user interests, audience profiling (in case of blogs), and other relevant information that helps their team of research associates map buying behavior, especially in your target market.
Segmentation and identification of the Passionistas relevant to your industry. Based on the behavior documented, our knowledge professionals will segment and identify hot leads – Passionistas who are likely to buy (or influence sales of) your product or service.
Their team of Marketing professionals can also help in formulating efficient and effective go-to-market strategies leveraging the information documented and segmented in the above two phases. In other words, they’ll define best practices for an effective marketing campaign using online behavior.
More at;http://www.infoanalytica.com/tugcms.htm
"Panga A Day"----A place where you can share Pangas you took
About Company:
"Panga A Day"
A place where you can share Pangas you took. Please ensure that you dont hurt anyone's feelings in any way. "
The boy leaning against the wall, the guy walkin behind the girl, and a person walking alone in a subway are all the moods of a person when he or she is set to do something mischievious.
PangaADay is a place to share witty ideas and stupid pranks we play everyday. Pangas are one such things which everyone of us would like to discuss or make a topic of discussion. Remember those long "ADAAS" in the college canteen, where you just pick up one panga and then the discussion goes on for hours together. We all Miss it and here is our chance to reconstruct the same again.
More at;www.PangaADay.com
"Panga A Day"
A place where you can share Pangas you took. Please ensure that you dont hurt anyone's feelings in any way. "
The boy leaning against the wall, the guy walkin behind the girl, and a person walking alone in a subway are all the moods of a person when he or she is set to do something mischievious.
PangaADay is a place to share witty ideas and stupid pranks we play everyday. Pangas are one such things which everyone of us would like to discuss or make a topic of discussion. Remember those long "ADAAS" in the college canteen, where you just pick up one panga and then the discussion goes on for hours together. We all Miss it and here is our chance to reconstruct the same again.
More at;www.PangaADay.com
HelpGlobe.com is the future of help, ready to store human-reviewed knowledge better than any existing Q&A or wiki platform
What Company Is Offering:
HelpGlobe looks like a Question and Answer site. But this is not your average Q&A site. HelpGlobe.com is the future of help, ready to store human-reviewed knowledge better than any existing Q&A or wiki platform.
How Is It Different:
Unlike Wikipedia, HelpGlobe has continuously collects ratings to ensure quality knowledge. (The knowledge for each topic will still be more detailed on Wikipedia. HelpGlobe will collect the most relevant questions only.)
Unlike Yahoo!Answers, HelpGlobe rewards answers only with quality ratings. And answers with low ratings simply disappear. So unlike Yahoo!Answers, HelpGlobe won't feel like a chat site.
Unique Features:
5-star rating system, easily entered with single-click for each question or answer.
Users are allowed (and encouraged) to refine knowledge continuously as they learn.
Non-linear scoring system, reflecting the reality of quality in questions and answers.
You can answer your own questions. This is a knowledge sharing site, not a chat site.
Questions earn you points. Answers earn you points. Because both are needed to share knowledge.
more at:http://www.helpglobe.com/
HelpGlobe looks like a Question and Answer site. But this is not your average Q&A site. HelpGlobe.com is the future of help, ready to store human-reviewed knowledge better than any existing Q&A or wiki platform.
How Is It Different:
Unlike Wikipedia, HelpGlobe has continuously collects ratings to ensure quality knowledge. (The knowledge for each topic will still be more detailed on Wikipedia. HelpGlobe will collect the most relevant questions only.)
Unlike Yahoo!Answers, HelpGlobe rewards answers only with quality ratings. And answers with low ratings simply disappear. So unlike Yahoo!Answers, HelpGlobe won't feel like a chat site.
Unique Features:
5-star rating system, easily entered with single-click for each question or answer.
Users are allowed (and encouraged) to refine knowledge continuously as they learn.
Non-linear scoring system, reflecting the reality of quality in questions and answers.
You can answer your own questions. This is a knowledge sharing site, not a chat site.
Questions earn you points. Answers earn you points. Because both are needed to share knowledge.
more at:http://www.helpglobe.com/
Petition Spot allows members to create online petitions for free
What Company Is Offering:
Petition Spot allows members to create online petitions for free. Once submitted, you can start getting hundreds and even thousands of signatures online.
How It Works:
Powerful tools are available where you can manage your petitions, including a swear filter, and an email validation system (free optional feature) so you can ensure your petition has valid signatures. They allows members to create online petitions for free, which then may be forwarded to anyone with an e-mail address. Signing the virtual dotted line is a simple way to show support for a cause -- whether global or local.
More at:http://www.petitionspot.com/
Petition Spot allows members to create online petitions for free. Once submitted, you can start getting hundreds and even thousands of signatures online.
How It Works:
Powerful tools are available where you can manage your petitions, including a swear filter, and an email validation system (free optional feature) so you can ensure your petition has valid signatures. They allows members to create online petitions for free, which then may be forwarded to anyone with an e-mail address. Signing the virtual dotted line is a simple way to show support for a cause -- whether global or local.
More at:http://www.petitionspot.com/
PrepHub as the YouTube for test prep
What Company Is Offering:
PrepHub was designed to help users study for tests through practice. The site was founded because I was sick of buying test prep books, being a student is hard enough without spending hundreds of dollars on these test prep books, just to do the practice questions. Searching the web was no better, there are limited number of "free" practice questions out there, and most services try to link you in to their expensive test prep services.
How It Works:
PrepHub allows the users to create questions for each other, therefor taking out the middleman (the expensive test prep books). Think of PrepHub as the YouTube for test prep. Like YouTube you can rate questions, favorite questions, flag questions as spam (damn those spammers). It is a community site and thus relies on the community for continual improvement.
More at:http://prephub.com/
PrepHub was designed to help users study for tests through practice. The site was founded because I was sick of buying test prep books, being a student is hard enough without spending hundreds of dollars on these test prep books, just to do the practice questions. Searching the web was no better, there are limited number of "free" practice questions out there, and most services try to link you in to their expensive test prep services.
How It Works:
PrepHub allows the users to create questions for each other, therefor taking out the middleman (the expensive test prep books). Think of PrepHub as the YouTube for test prep. Like YouTube you can rate questions, favorite questions, flag questions as spam (damn those spammers). It is a community site and thus relies on the community for continual improvement.
More at:http://prephub.com/
Telecom Transport Management Inc is a provider of advanced voice and data transport backhaul solutions for wireless carriers got VCs funding
What Company Is Offering:
Telecom Transport Management offers wireless carriers a comprehensive, best in class solution that is more cost effective, reliable, flexible and manageable than current transport solutions in the industry. The company builds, owns and operates protected, fully managed state of the art backhaul networks for its carrier customers. These are end-to-end, high speed, high capacity hybrid microwave and fiber networks, connecting hundreds of cell sites in each market to the wireless carriers' switching centers. TTM currently serves several national and regional wireless carriers, helping them meet their increasing bandwidth requirements at a level of performance and price historically unavailable in the wireless market.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Telecom Transport Management Inc. (TTM), a provider of advanced voice and data transport backhaul solutions for wireless carriers, today announced it has raised a $20 million senior debt facility from Columbia Partners Private Capital. TTM will use the funds to finance the continued expansion of its intelligent, high capacity backhaul networks and for other working capital needs. The $20 million supplements the $140 million of equity financing that has been invested in or committed to TTM.
"Columbia Partners' strong financial support during a time when the capital markets are strained is a validation of TTM's business," said Mark Hamilton, President and CEO of TTM. "This debt facility along with our recently completed equity round provides TTM with the resources we need to expand our current networks and move into new markets where we identify opportunities with our customers."
TTM currently serves several national and regional wireless carriers in the U.S. The company is managing and constructing wireless backhaul networks in Richmond and Norfolk, Virginia, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Central and Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.
More at:www.columbiaprivatecapital.com
Telecom Transport Management offers wireless carriers a comprehensive, best in class solution that is more cost effective, reliable, flexible and manageable than current transport solutions in the industry. The company builds, owns and operates protected, fully managed state of the art backhaul networks for its carrier customers. These are end-to-end, high speed, high capacity hybrid microwave and fiber networks, connecting hundreds of cell sites in each market to the wireless carriers' switching centers. TTM currently serves several national and regional wireless carriers, helping them meet their increasing bandwidth requirements at a level of performance and price historically unavailable in the wireless market.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Telecom Transport Management Inc. (TTM), a provider of advanced voice and data transport backhaul solutions for wireless carriers, today announced it has raised a $20 million senior debt facility from Columbia Partners Private Capital. TTM will use the funds to finance the continued expansion of its intelligent, high capacity backhaul networks and for other working capital needs. The $20 million supplements the $140 million of equity financing that has been invested in or committed to TTM.
"Columbia Partners' strong financial support during a time when the capital markets are strained is a validation of TTM's business," said Mark Hamilton, President and CEO of TTM. "This debt facility along with our recently completed equity round provides TTM with the resources we need to expand our current networks and move into new markets where we identify opportunities with our customers."
TTM currently serves several national and regional wireless carriers in the U.S. The company is managing and constructing wireless backhaul networks in Richmond and Norfolk, Virginia, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Central and Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.
More at:www.columbiaprivatecapital.com
Aster Data Systems is a proven innovator in high-performance analytical databases got VCs funding
What Company Is Offering:
Aster Data Systems is a proven innovator in high-performance analytical databases, bringing deep insights on massive data analyzed on clusters of commodity hardware.The leading insights resulting from this research combined to form the foundation for Aster's architecture, that simultaneously optimizes across the three dimensions of scalability, performance and manageability. With Aster, systems are as easy to operate at 300 nodes managing hundreds of Terabytes as at 3 nodes managing hundreds of Gigabytes.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Aster Data, a Redwood City, Calif.-based developer of clustered databases for Web analytics, has raised an undisclosed amount of VC funding. Backers include Cambrian Ventures, First Round Capital, Sequoia Capital and individual angels like Ron Conway, David Cheriton and Rajeev Motwani.
More at:www.asterdata.com
Aster Data Systems is a proven innovator in high-performance analytical databases, bringing deep insights on massive data analyzed on clusters of commodity hardware.The leading insights resulting from this research combined to form the foundation for Aster's architecture, that simultaneously optimizes across the three dimensions of scalability, performance and manageability. With Aster, systems are as easy to operate at 300 nodes managing hundreds of Terabytes as at 3 nodes managing hundreds of Gigabytes.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Aster Data, a Redwood City, Calif.-based developer of clustered databases for Web analytics, has raised an undisclosed amount of VC funding. Backers include Cambrian Ventures, First Round Capital, Sequoia Capital and individual angels like Ron Conway, David Cheriton and Rajeev Motwani.
More at:www.asterdata.com
ExteNet Systems Inc., a leading network infrastructure company, it has secured an additional $27.5 million
What Company Is Offering:
ExteNet Systems, Inc. develops innovative distributed antenna system (DAS) networks for wireless service providers. The company designs, builds and operates DAS networks to extend and expand wireless performance in outdoor locations where conventional macro cell tower development is challenging. The company's In-Building networks provide an economical solution to coverage problems in a wide range of indoor environments, including offices and residential/mixed use buildings. ExteNet Systems uses flexible DAS architectures that support all frequency bands and technologies.
How Much They Got From VCs:
ExteNet Systems Inc., a leading network infrastructure company, today announced it has secured an additional $27.5 million of equity and debt financing. The new capital will be used to build distributed antenna system (DAS) networks to meet the explosive demand for wireless voice, data and video services.
Palomar Ventures joined this equity round along with existing investors Centennial Ventures, Sevin Rosen Funds, Columbia Capital and CenterPoint Ventures. Dallas-based Comerica Bank is providing the revolving credit facility, which represents an additional financial milestone for the company.
What VCs Says About Company:
Commenting on why Palomar Ventures chose to invest in ExteNet Systems, partner Kevin Jacques said: "Although Palomar typically invests in earlier-stage companies, we saw this as an excellent opportunity to invest in a more mature business that we believe has tremendous growth potential. Because I had previously been on the board, we felt that we knew the company and market well. Management has done a fantastic job building networks and forming carrier relationships. We're excited about the additional market potential that new wireless services such as WiMAX and the newly released 700 MHz spectrum have created for ExteNet Systems."
The funds will be used to support the acceleration of the company's growth as it builds out a substantial number of new networks across the country. ExteNet Systems has signed contracts with nearly every major carrier and currently has networks operating or under construction in: California, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island.
More at: http://www.extenetsystems.com
ExteNet Systems, Inc. develops innovative distributed antenna system (DAS) networks for wireless service providers. The company designs, builds and operates DAS networks to extend and expand wireless performance in outdoor locations where conventional macro cell tower development is challenging. The company's In-Building networks provide an economical solution to coverage problems in a wide range of indoor environments, including offices and residential/mixed use buildings. ExteNet Systems uses flexible DAS architectures that support all frequency bands and technologies.
How Much They Got From VCs:
ExteNet Systems Inc., a leading network infrastructure company, today announced it has secured an additional $27.5 million of equity and debt financing. The new capital will be used to build distributed antenna system (DAS) networks to meet the explosive demand for wireless voice, data and video services.
Palomar Ventures joined this equity round along with existing investors Centennial Ventures, Sevin Rosen Funds, Columbia Capital and CenterPoint Ventures. Dallas-based Comerica Bank is providing the revolving credit facility, which represents an additional financial milestone for the company.
What VCs Says About Company:
Commenting on why Palomar Ventures chose to invest in ExteNet Systems, partner Kevin Jacques said: "Although Palomar typically invests in earlier-stage companies, we saw this as an excellent opportunity to invest in a more mature business that we believe has tremendous growth potential. Because I had previously been on the board, we felt that we knew the company and market well. Management has done a fantastic job building networks and forming carrier relationships. We're excited about the additional market potential that new wireless services such as WiMAX and the newly released 700 MHz spectrum have created for ExteNet Systems."
The funds will be used to support the acceleration of the company's growth as it builds out a substantial number of new networks across the country. ExteNet Systems has signed contracts with nearly every major carrier and currently has networks operating or under construction in: California, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island.
More at: http://www.extenetsystems.com
Mocana securely enables Internet-scale applications and services for connected devices got VCs funding
What Company Is Offering:
Mocana securely enables Internet-scale applications and services for connected devices. Mocana's industry-leading infrastructure software solutions ensure that wired and wireless devices, networks and services perform and scale with the utmost security – a necessary foundation for a networked society. Customers include Philips, Dell, Cisco, Nortel Networks, Harris, Honeywell, Symbol, Net.com and Radvision, among others.The company has been recognized with numerous awards including the Red Herring 100 and Frost & Sullivan’s Innovation of the Year.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Mocana, a security software company that delivers comprehensive protection for devices, today closed $7 Million in venture financing. The infusion of funding, led by Southern Cross Venture Partners, will be used to expand the company’s product lines, build out its international presence and increase marketing activities. Mocana’s only previous institutional investor, Shasta Ventures also provided investment for this round, increasing their ownership position in the company and bringing Mocana’s total capital backing to $12.1M.
Attacks on PC platforms have steadily grown in sophistication and PC security technology has generally evolved along with the threats. But now there are more non-PC “things” connecting to the network every day, like PDAs, routers, DVRs, printers, iPods, and even cars or digital picture frames. Each one of these new devices represents a “soft target” for hackers and an easy way in to the rest of the network. This is because third- and fourth-generation attack techniques are being unleashed upon millions of non-PC devices armed with first-generation security, at best.
To address this, Mocana offers its Device Security Framework (DSF), a comprehensive approach to device security that secures communications to and from any device connected to the network, as well as the data and applications residing on those devices. This latest round of financing will be used to enhance and expand the 20 security components that currently make up Mocana’s DSF so that manufacturers and service providers can ensure that security is inherent in the device, to protect against existing and emerging threats.
More at:www.mocana.com/evaluate.html
Mocana securely enables Internet-scale applications and services for connected devices. Mocana's industry-leading infrastructure software solutions ensure that wired and wireless devices, networks and services perform and scale with the utmost security – a necessary foundation for a networked society. Customers include Philips, Dell, Cisco, Nortel Networks, Harris, Honeywell, Symbol, Net.com and Radvision, among others.The company has been recognized with numerous awards including the Red Herring 100 and Frost & Sullivan’s Innovation of the Year.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Mocana, a security software company that delivers comprehensive protection for devices, today closed $7 Million in venture financing. The infusion of funding, led by Southern Cross Venture Partners, will be used to expand the company’s product lines, build out its international presence and increase marketing activities. Mocana’s only previous institutional investor, Shasta Ventures also provided investment for this round, increasing their ownership position in the company and bringing Mocana’s total capital backing to $12.1M.
Attacks on PC platforms have steadily grown in sophistication and PC security technology has generally evolved along with the threats. But now there are more non-PC “things” connecting to the network every day, like PDAs, routers, DVRs, printers, iPods, and even cars or digital picture frames. Each one of these new devices represents a “soft target” for hackers and an easy way in to the rest of the network. This is because third- and fourth-generation attack techniques are being unleashed upon millions of non-PC devices armed with first-generation security, at best.
To address this, Mocana offers its Device Security Framework (DSF), a comprehensive approach to device security that secures communications to and from any device connected to the network, as well as the data and applications residing on those devices. This latest round of financing will be used to enhance and expand the 20 security components that currently make up Mocana’s DSF so that manufacturers and service providers can ensure that security is inherent in the device, to protect against existing and emerging threats.
More at:www.mocana.com/evaluate.html
Moblyng which allows consumers to mobilize all major forms of social media content: photos, videos, slide shows and other “widgets" got VCs funding
What Company Is Offering:
Moblyng, is mobile social media and can detect and “mobilize” photo and slide show widgets and online video from any social media page or URL. The company has patent-pending technology that provides detection, “scraping” and mobile distribution of social media. The company is privately held and headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif.
Moblyng , an emerging leader in mobile social media, announced today the launch of its beta product which allows consumers to mobilize all major forms of social media content: photos, videos, slide shows and other “widgets.” Moblyng offers a free, fun and easy way for consumers to share media with friends using their mobile devices. Moblyng works on most phones that display photos or videos, including mobile phones that do not otherwise permit Flash-based content, such as the iPhone.
How Much It Got From VCs:
The company also announced today that it received $5.7 million in funding from MDV-Mohr Davidow Ventures and Deep Fork Capital.
Moblyng’s groundbreaking and patent-pending technology allows consumers to mobilize existing social media like Slide and RockYou slide shows, YouTube videos and MySpace videos, slide shows and photo albums -- all with one click. Using Moblyng’s technology, users do not need to download any applications to their phones. Consumers simply “scrape” content from their MySpace, Friendster or other social network page and send it directly to their mobile devices. Facebook users can use a unique Moblyng Mobile Slide Show application to easily share creations online or with mobile phones. Moblyng technology automatically converts Flash-based content to images or video for mobile distribution, bridging the gap between online Flash objects and mobile devices, which do not widely support Flash-based content. Users can also create new media, share media and send “gifts” to friends on their mobile devices.
“Moblyng is the first mobile social media solution to mobilize the cool stuff users already have on their profiles. We have unique and patent-pending technology that offers a free, fun and easy way for consumers to share photos, slideshows, video clips and almost all other media from a social network page directly to a mobile phone,” said Stewart Putney, founder and CEO, Moblyng.
More at:www.Moblyng.com
Moblyng, is mobile social media and can detect and “mobilize” photo and slide show widgets and online video from any social media page or URL. The company has patent-pending technology that provides detection, “scraping” and mobile distribution of social media. The company is privately held and headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif.
Moblyng , an emerging leader in mobile social media, announced today the launch of its beta product which allows consumers to mobilize all major forms of social media content: photos, videos, slide shows and other “widgets.” Moblyng offers a free, fun and easy way for consumers to share media with friends using their mobile devices. Moblyng works on most phones that display photos or videos, including mobile phones that do not otherwise permit Flash-based content, such as the iPhone.
How Much It Got From VCs:
The company also announced today that it received $5.7 million in funding from MDV-Mohr Davidow Ventures and Deep Fork Capital.
Moblyng’s groundbreaking and patent-pending technology allows consumers to mobilize existing social media like Slide and RockYou slide shows, YouTube videos and MySpace videos, slide shows and photo albums -- all with one click. Using Moblyng’s technology, users do not need to download any applications to their phones. Consumers simply “scrape” content from their MySpace, Friendster or other social network page and send it directly to their mobile devices. Facebook users can use a unique Moblyng Mobile Slide Show application to easily share creations online or with mobile phones. Moblyng technology automatically converts Flash-based content to images or video for mobile distribution, bridging the gap between online Flash objects and mobile devices, which do not widely support Flash-based content. Users can also create new media, share media and send “gifts” to friends on their mobile devices.
“Moblyng is the first mobile social media solution to mobilize the cool stuff users already have on their profiles. We have unique and patent-pending technology that offers a free, fun and easy way for consumers to share photos, slideshows, video clips and almost all other media from a social network page directly to a mobile phone,” said Stewart Putney, founder and CEO, Moblyng.
More at:www.Moblyng.com
Unitrends is a leading provider of innovative, integrated solutions that protect and restore critical data and systems got $9 million funding
What Company Is Offering:
Unitrends is a leading provider of innovative, integrated solutions that protect and restore critical data and systems. Unitrends’ family of disk-to-disk backup appliances provides unmatched protection and rapid recovery of lost systems, applications and data. The company’s local backup and off-site vaulting appliances eliminate the need for multi-vendor software and hardware, and deliver an integrated solution that is affordable for small- and medium-sized enterprises.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Unitrends, a leading provider of innovative, integrated solutions that protect and restore critical data and systems, today announced completion of a $9 million round of Series C financing. Paladin Capital Group led the round, which also included participation from other Unitrends venture investors, including the Aurora Funds, Harbert Venture Partners, and the Trelys Funds.
Unitrends will use this investment to fuel additional research and development, bolster its partner marketing programs and strengthen its sales and support organizations. Strong market demand is being driven by the increasing need for integrated, easy to manage data protection, disaster recovery and vaulting solutions.
“Data protection, business continuity and disaster recovery repeatedly rank as top priorities for IT leaders worldwide. We believe that Unitrends’ approach to delivering integrated solutions with advanced features in an easy-to-use appliance model is smart and needed in today’s data-intensive business environment,” said Philip Eliot, principal, Paladin Capital Group. “Given the persistent demand for reliable data protection and recovery solutions, we are especially pleased to include Unitrends in our portfolio.”
“Small and mid-sized businesses are particularly challenged to find reliable and affordable data protection and recovery solutions. Since day one, our commitment has been to deliver cost-effective solutions that meet the needs of end users, providing advanced features in an easy to install, easy-to-use, and highly reliable system,” said Duncan McPherson, chief executive officer, Unitrends. “This funding round enables a new phase in the growth of our company, and provides significant flexibility and resources with which to advance Unitrends’ industry-leading suite of fully integrated data protection and disaster recovery products and services.”
More at:http://www.unitrends.com
Unitrends is a leading provider of innovative, integrated solutions that protect and restore critical data and systems. Unitrends’ family of disk-to-disk backup appliances provides unmatched protection and rapid recovery of lost systems, applications and data. The company’s local backup and off-site vaulting appliances eliminate the need for multi-vendor software and hardware, and deliver an integrated solution that is affordable for small- and medium-sized enterprises.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Unitrends, a leading provider of innovative, integrated solutions that protect and restore critical data and systems, today announced completion of a $9 million round of Series C financing. Paladin Capital Group led the round, which also included participation from other Unitrends venture investors, including the Aurora Funds, Harbert Venture Partners, and the Trelys Funds.
Unitrends will use this investment to fuel additional research and development, bolster its partner marketing programs and strengthen its sales and support organizations. Strong market demand is being driven by the increasing need for integrated, easy to manage data protection, disaster recovery and vaulting solutions.
“Data protection, business continuity and disaster recovery repeatedly rank as top priorities for IT leaders worldwide. We believe that Unitrends’ approach to delivering integrated solutions with advanced features in an easy-to-use appliance model is smart and needed in today’s data-intensive business environment,” said Philip Eliot, principal, Paladin Capital Group. “Given the persistent demand for reliable data protection and recovery solutions, we are especially pleased to include Unitrends in our portfolio.”
“Small and mid-sized businesses are particularly challenged to find reliable and affordable data protection and recovery solutions. Since day one, our commitment has been to deliver cost-effective solutions that meet the needs of end users, providing advanced features in an easy to install, easy-to-use, and highly reliable system,” said Duncan McPherson, chief executive officer, Unitrends. “This funding round enables a new phase in the growth of our company, and provides significant flexibility and resources with which to advance Unitrends’ industry-leading suite of fully integrated data protection and disaster recovery products and services.”
More at:http://www.unitrends.com
WaveM Live! is a new, free and easy to use mobile media that brings news, sports, tv-guide, mobile e-mail and lots of more straight onto mobile phone
What Company Is Offering:
WaveM Live! is a new, free and easy to use mobile media that brings news, sports, tv-guide, mobile e-mail and lots of more straight onto mobile phone.
High quality and reliable WaveM Live! content is produced by content distributors; well-known publishing houses, media companies and brand owners. This system is active in Finland and expanding to new markets.
How It Works:
You can send and receive WaveM Live! mobile email messages with other users by using just a WaveM username. Everyone else can reach you with username@wavem.fi e-mail.
WaveM Live! runs on smart phones as well as less expensive consumer phones up to three years old. Newer phones allow you to keep WaveM Live! running in the background on your handset so you can instantly receive personal messages and see updates to your favorite content channels.
To send and receive free WaveM messages with your friends, all they need to have is WaveM Live! on their cell phone. To help you communicate with your friends we have designed in WaveM Live! a feature allowing you to invite your friends to join WaveM Live!. Tell your friends about WaveM Live! mobile media and send him/her an invitation message to join as a WaveM Live! user. You will find this feature "Invite a friend" on the WaveM Live!.
More at:http://www.wavem.com/
WaveM Live! is a new, free and easy to use mobile media that brings news, sports, tv-guide, mobile e-mail and lots of more straight onto mobile phone.
High quality and reliable WaveM Live! content is produced by content distributors; well-known publishing houses, media companies and brand owners. This system is active in Finland and expanding to new markets.
How It Works:
You can send and receive WaveM Live! mobile email messages with other users by using just a WaveM username. Everyone else can reach you with username@wavem.fi e-mail.
WaveM Live! runs on smart phones as well as less expensive consumer phones up to three years old. Newer phones allow you to keep WaveM Live! running in the background on your handset so you can instantly receive personal messages and see updates to your favorite content channels.
To send and receive free WaveM messages with your friends, all they need to have is WaveM Live! on their cell phone. To help you communicate with your friends we have designed in WaveM Live! a feature allowing you to invite your friends to join WaveM Live!. Tell your friends about WaveM Live! mobile media and send him/her an invitation message to join as a WaveM Live! user. You will find this feature "Invite a friend" on the WaveM Live!.
More at:http://www.wavem.com/
BrandView.com
What Company Is Offering:
BrandView is a privately funded company, based in southern Sweden. Their mission is to create the best looking and most extensive fashion catalogue on the Internet. BrandView is BrandNew and doing its best to be as user friendly as possible. They are constantly searching the web to keep you updated and hope that you reciprocate this by adding brands we are yet to discover.
How It Works:
They will create order in the fashion industry on the Internet!BrandView.com is a fashion site that gathers clothing brands and their online shops. In it, amongst other things, you can search your favorite clothing brand and find out where you can buy it online. If there is a brand that you're missing you can easily add it to help build, the most extensive fashion catalogue on the internet.
More at:http://www.brandview.com/
BrandView is a privately funded company, based in southern Sweden. Their mission is to create the best looking and most extensive fashion catalogue on the Internet. BrandView is BrandNew and doing its best to be as user friendly as possible. They are constantly searching the web to keep you updated and hope that you reciprocate this by adding brands we are yet to discover.
How It Works:
They will create order in the fashion industry on the Internet!BrandView.com is a fashion site that gathers clothing brands and their online shops. In it, amongst other things, you can search your favorite clothing brand and find out where you can buy it online. If there is a brand that you're missing you can easily add it to help build, the most extensive fashion catalogue on the internet.
More at:http://www.brandview.com/
One Laptop Per Child
What Company Is Offering:
One Laptop Per Child wants to do, bringing webless children into the web and giving them "new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves." In recognition of this lofty goal, Listio has included this charity among its webservices as another way you can contribute to the larger community.
OLPC is a non-profit organization providing a means to an end—an end that sees children in even the most remote regions of the globe being given the opportunity to tap into their own potential, to be exposed to a whole world of ideas, and to contribute to a more productive and saner world community.
More at:http://www.laptop.org/
One Laptop Per Child wants to do, bringing webless children into the web and giving them "new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves." In recognition of this lofty goal, Listio has included this charity among its webservices as another way you can contribute to the larger community.
OLPC is a non-profit organization providing a means to an end—an end that sees children in even the most remote regions of the globe being given the opportunity to tap into their own potential, to be exposed to a whole world of ideas, and to contribute to a more productive and saner world community.
More at:http://www.laptop.org/
Zadby is an online marketplace where advertisers, marketers, and brand managers can connect with freelance video producers
What Company Is Offering:
Zadby is an online marketplace where advertisers, marketers, and brand managers can connect with freelance video producers to create innovative product placement videos for distribution through outlets like YouTube and MySpace. Advertisers define what they want in a campaign; video producers shoot the videos; and Zadby facilitates, tracking the views and paying the producer on a per-view basis. It's a low-risk proposition for a brand since it is view based and video producers get bucks for what they are doing anyway.
With Zadby, you now have a marketplace where you can earn money from what you love to do anyway: creating videos.
How It Works:
Advertisers and brand managers, wishing to raise awareness for their brand, can commission the development of videos through our online marketplace. Since Zadby takes care of the administrative pieces, this frees up the brand manager to think about what they do best: steward the brand.
Online video producers, who currently create millions of videos a year for online consumption through outlets like YouTube, now have a market where they can earn money from what they love to do anyway: creating videos.
Zadby sits in the middle and acts as the glue and the grease to pull it all together in a seamless manner. It provides all the tools and the legal frameworks to allow each party to do what they do best, just connected in a new and innovative way.
More at:http://www.zadby.com/
Zadby is an online marketplace where advertisers, marketers, and brand managers can connect with freelance video producers to create innovative product placement videos for distribution through outlets like YouTube and MySpace. Advertisers define what they want in a campaign; video producers shoot the videos; and Zadby facilitates, tracking the views and paying the producer on a per-view basis. It's a low-risk proposition for a brand since it is view based and video producers get bucks for what they are doing anyway.
With Zadby, you now have a marketplace where you can earn money from what you love to do anyway: creating videos.
How It Works:
Advertisers and brand managers, wishing to raise awareness for their brand, can commission the development of videos through our online marketplace. Since Zadby takes care of the administrative pieces, this frees up the brand manager to think about what they do best: steward the brand.
Online video producers, who currently create millions of videos a year for online consumption through outlets like YouTube, now have a market where they can earn money from what they love to do anyway: creating videos.
Zadby sits in the middle and acts as the glue and the grease to pull it all together in a seamless manner. It provides all the tools and the legal frameworks to allow each party to do what they do best, just connected in a new and innovative way.
More at:http://www.zadby.com/
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