What Company Is Offering:
By incorporating a radical new service and delivery methodology with a distribution and display mechanism for Internet applications, in2apps has brought distributed content, community and commerce to the masses. Here’s how:
Free Software as a Service.
Mass peer-to-peer networking.
Equitable access to tools that deliver community, commerce and content.
The potential of monetized content for every individual .
It’s Free. It’s One Line of Code. The potential is that simple. in2apps publishers offer enterprise-quality solutions to build communities and accrue and share content while creating new opportunities for commerce by inserting just one, free line of code (per solution) into a single page on their website. Suddenly the world is your audience.
How It Works:
in2apps is extending every Internet footprint with their in2classified, in2advertizing, and in2community solutions, delivered through one platform that leverages the power of a distributed web architecture. This creates a massive, yet targeted, distribution of content, community and commerce for you. Suddenly the world is your audience.
Their D-to-C solution seamlessly integrates into your site through a single line of code, one per in2 application, and provides the strategic backbone you need to succeed in the era of Web 3.0. Already have one or two of your "Cs" in place? The new D-to-C is so flexible that each in2application is independently available, but really, you should experience it in its entirety.
More at:http://www.in2apps.com/
Thursday, May 29, 2008
NetMechanic helps businesses increase revenue, satisfy customers and improve overall website quality
What Company Is Offering:
NetMechanic helps businesses increase revenue, satisfy customers and improve overall website quality. Their automated tools analyze website availability and reliability, improve page visualization, optimize search engine rankings and monitor performance.
To provide small to medium-sized business webmasters with easy, affordable self-service web tools that help them create a quality web experience for customers, as well as accessibility for search engine spiders.
NetMechanic customers now have the advantage of being part of the Keynote family, the world's most trusted third-party "Internet Performance Authority". Keynote serves over 2300 corporate customers with unbiased benchmarking data, competitive analysis and operational metrics from the customer perspective.
NetMechanic serves a broad base of clients, including companies such as Jet Blue Airways, the London Stock Exchange, Five Star Video, the Foundation for the National Institute of Health, SitePro.com, Land O' Lakes, Xerox, New York University and many others large and small.
More at:http://www.netmechanic.com/
NetMechanic helps businesses increase revenue, satisfy customers and improve overall website quality. Their automated tools analyze website availability and reliability, improve page visualization, optimize search engine rankings and monitor performance.
To provide small to medium-sized business webmasters with easy, affordable self-service web tools that help them create a quality web experience for customers, as well as accessibility for search engine spiders.
NetMechanic customers now have the advantage of being part of the Keynote family, the world's most trusted third-party "Internet Performance Authority". Keynote serves over 2300 corporate customers with unbiased benchmarking data, competitive analysis and operational metrics from the customer perspective.
NetMechanic serves a broad base of clients, including companies such as Jet Blue Airways, the London Stock Exchange, Five Star Video, the Foundation for the National Institute of Health, SitePro.com, Land O' Lakes, Xerox, New York University and many others large and small.
More at:http://www.netmechanic.com/
BizAg.com aggregates business for sale listings from multiple classifieds sites into a single comprehensive search solution
What Company Is Offering:
BizAg.com aggregates business for sale listings from multiple classifieds sites into a single comprehensive search solution. They are a vertical search engine of businesses for sale.
Searching businesses for sale is inefficient and difficult. Listings are everywhere, making it hard to compare listings and make informed decisions.
BizAg.com improves that experience by offering the largest database of business for sale listings. Advanced search tools and market information enables buyers to find their perfect business.
More at:http://www.bizag.com/
BizAg.com aggregates business for sale listings from multiple classifieds sites into a single comprehensive search solution. They are a vertical search engine of businesses for sale.
Searching businesses for sale is inefficient and difficult. Listings are everywhere, making it hard to compare listings and make informed decisions.
BizAg.com improves that experience by offering the largest database of business for sale listings. Advanced search tools and market information enables buyers to find their perfect business.
More at:http://www.bizag.com/
PolicyMap is an innovative geographic information system which allows you to easily create custom maps, tables, and charts
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.
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.
More at:http://www.policymap.com/
Mippin is the exciting new way to get your favourite internet content on your mobile phone
What Company Is Offering:
Mippin is the exciting new way to get your favourite internet content on your mobile phone.
Mippin delivers the latest news, blogs and other web content in the perfect format for your phone – giving you the control to discover and share what you want.
How It Works:
Mippin delivers information from thousands of websites in the best format for a mobile phone screen.
One simple entry box allows you to search for information or type in an Internet address. Mippin also makes it easy to find the things you want with handy browsing categories.
Mippin automatically personalises itself to you - it keeps track of your favourite sites in Smart Favourites and gets even better when you're signed in with the MyMippin features.
Adding widget applications to the home page gives you quick shortcuts to news, weather, horoscopes and more. Simple and fun!
More at:http://www.mippin.com/
Mippin is the exciting new way to get your favourite internet content on your mobile phone.
Mippin delivers the latest news, blogs and other web content in the perfect format for your phone – giving you the control to discover and share what you want.
How It Works:
Mippin delivers information from thousands of websites in the best format for a mobile phone screen.
One simple entry box allows you to search for information or type in an Internet address. Mippin also makes it easy to find the things you want with handy browsing categories.
Mippin automatically personalises itself to you - it keeps track of your favourite sites in Smart Favourites and gets even better when you're signed in with the MyMippin features.
Adding widget applications to the home page gives you quick shortcuts to news, weather, horoscopes and more. Simple and fun!
More at:http://www.mippin.com/
idiomag is a high-quality, digital magazine personalized to your interests in music
What Company Is Offering:
idiomag is a high-quality, digital magazine personalized to your interests in music. It keeps you "in the know" about the artists and genres you love, while helping you discover new music. With articles, reviews, galleries and interactive features in a rich magazine format, you can access idiomag whenever and wherever you want it.
How It Works:
idiomag aggregates music articles from over 100 different sources, drawing in related media and transforming the resulting article into a rich-media magazine format; and our personalisation system then matches the content to the individual interests of each reader. You can find out more, and check out the video screencast here.
More at:http://www.idiomag.com/
idiomag is a high-quality, digital magazine personalized to your interests in music. It keeps you "in the know" about the artists and genres you love, while helping you discover new music. With articles, reviews, galleries and interactive features in a rich magazine format, you can access idiomag whenever and wherever you want it.
How It Works:
idiomag aggregates music articles from over 100 different sources, drawing in related media and transforming the resulting article into a rich-media magazine format; and our personalisation system then matches the content to the individual interests of each reader. You can find out more, and check out the video screencast here.
More at:http://www.idiomag.com/
Notches is a free, open, universal platform for reviews
What Company Is Offering:
Notches is a free, open, universal platform for reviews. To develop an impartial review system that can be integrated across the Internet.
How It Works:
They're building a network of applications, partners and cool tools. Reviews written in any of the network's sites will be part of the Notches system everywhere. All the pieces share a common back-end which handles the heavy lifting.Notches supports any conceivable rating format. They can handle anything from a thumbs up to a five-star ranking to one-hundred point precision.
More at:http://www.notch.es/
Notches is a free, open, universal platform for reviews. To develop an impartial review system that can be integrated across the Internet.
How It Works:
They're building a network of applications, partners and cool tools. Reviews written in any of the network's sites will be part of the Notches system everywhere. All the pieces share a common back-end which handles the heavy lifting.Notches supports any conceivable rating format. They can handle anything from a thumbs up to a five-star ranking to one-hundred point precision.
More at:http://www.notch.es/
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
PhoneConfirm.com is advanced automatic phone confirmation and phone number verification services
what Company Is Offering:
PhoneConfirm.com is advanced automatic phone confirmation and phone number verification services. Due to low prices and perfect quality it seems to be good choice both for small and advanced level business.
How It Works:
PhoneConfirm.com Works by automatically dialing an online end-user's telephone number at the same time that same end-user is making a transaction on a website. By responding to the website and the phone call prompt with a one-time personal identification number (PIN), randomly generated and presented via the web interface by PhoneConfirm.com service, an otherwise anonymous online end-user will be able to confirm that the person who received the phone call and the person who is interacting on the website are the same person.
PhoneConfirm.com automates an important online identity verification process that protects both online businesses and end-users. Additionally, it can be used for many types of confirmation of online interactions and transactions.
The result is a reduction in fraud, lower number of charge backs, decreased unauthorized system access, and increased and substantial cost-savings over manual telephone verification processes .
More at:http://www.phoneconfirm.com/
PhoneConfirm.com is advanced automatic phone confirmation and phone number verification services. Due to low prices and perfect quality it seems to be good choice both for small and advanced level business.
How It Works:
PhoneConfirm.com Works by automatically dialing an online end-user's telephone number at the same time that same end-user is making a transaction on a website. By responding to the website and the phone call prompt with a one-time personal identification number (PIN), randomly generated and presented via the web interface by PhoneConfirm.com service, an otherwise anonymous online end-user will be able to confirm that the person who received the phone call and the person who is interacting on the website are the same person.
PhoneConfirm.com automates an important online identity verification process that protects both online businesses and end-users. Additionally, it can be used for many types of confirmation of online interactions and transactions.
The result is a reduction in fraud, lower number of charge backs, decreased unauthorized system access, and increased and substantial cost-savings over manual telephone verification processes .
More at:http://www.phoneconfirm.com/
Orgoo---Email,IM, Video Chat All In One Place
What Company Is Offering:
Imagine your personal communications cockpit, where every tool you need to communicate and express yourself is organized and integrated together in one place online - all your email accounts, all your IM accounts, video chat, video mail, SMS and more, working together to give you one seamless experience.
More at:http://www.orgoo.com/
Imagine your personal communications cockpit, where every tool you need to communicate and express yourself is organized and integrated together in one place online - all your email accounts, all your IM accounts, video chat, video mail, SMS and more, working together to give you one seamless experience.
More at:http://www.orgoo.com/
Widgiland is the universal widget directory, where you can find any kind of widgets:web,desktop or mobile widgets
What Company Is Offering:
Widgiland is the universal widget directory, where you can find any kind of widgets:web,desktop or mobile widgets. It is a platform made by our developers. Users can find all widgets promoted by Widgiland Developers.
How It Works:
Widgiland is an on line Widget Directory. Users can find thousands of widgets for any web, desktop or mobile platforms and for their web pages and blogs.You can search widgets by keywords or browse by categories and platforms.Find your favourite widgets on Widgiland!
You can become a Widgiland developer creating a windgiland account. Widgiland gives you the opportunity to promote your widgets for free! As a member of Developer Area , you can promote and submit your personal widgets. Build all togheter this first shared widgets directory!
In your personal area, you can click on the menu on left top , down the widgiland logo, and navigate trough your personal pages. In your widget gallery you can submit, modify or delete our own widgets. Promoting your widgets here it's very simple and it take only few seconds.
More at:http://www.widgiland.com/
Widgiland is the universal widget directory, where you can find any kind of widgets:web,desktop or mobile widgets. It is a platform made by our developers. Users can find all widgets promoted by Widgiland Developers.
How It Works:
Widgiland is an on line Widget Directory. Users can find thousands of widgets for any web, desktop or mobile platforms and for their web pages and blogs.You can search widgets by keywords or browse by categories and platforms.Find your favourite widgets on Widgiland!
You can become a Widgiland developer creating a windgiland account. Widgiland gives you the opportunity to promote your widgets for free! As a member of Developer Area , you can promote and submit your personal widgets. Build all togheter this first shared widgets directory!
In your personal area, you can click on the menu on left top , down the widgiland logo, and navigate trough your personal pages. In your widget gallery you can submit, modify or delete our own widgets. Promoting your widgets here it's very simple and it take only few seconds.
More at:http://www.widgiland.com/
Pricecheck.at is designed to be fast and easy to use on your mobile phone
What Company Is Offering:
Keep tabs on the latest prices when you're out and about with Pricecheck.at.
Just enter the make/model of the item you want to check and compare prices immediately.
Pricecheck.at is designed to be fast and easy to use on your mobile phone.
More at:http://pricecheck.at/
Keep tabs on the latest prices when you're out and about with Pricecheck.at.
Just enter the make/model of the item you want to check and compare prices immediately.
Pricecheck.at is designed to be fast and easy to use on your mobile phone.
More at:http://pricecheck.at/
IFACnet is a global accountancy search engine designed specifically for professional accountant in business and small and medium practices
What Company Is Offering:
IFACnet is a global accountancy search engine designed specifically for professional accountant in business and small and medium practices.
It provides easy access to leading-edge articles, good practice guidance, management strategies and tools, and other resources developed by professional accountancy bodies worldwide. These resources are designed to help professional accountants stay current on the latest trends and techniques, perform competently and compete effectively.
How It Works:
IFACnet.com scans websites key terms and phrases and delivers the results in order of relevance. It is unique in that it focuses specifically and solely on websites that provide information developed for professional accountants.
IFAC is the worldwide organization for the accountancy profession dedicated to serving the public interest by strengthening the profession and contributing to the development of strong international economies. IFAC is comprised of 155 members and associates in 118 countries, representing more than 2.5 million accountants in public practice, education, government service, industry and commerce. Through its independent standard-setting boards, IFAC sets ethics, auditing and assurance, education, and public sector accounting standards. It also develops guidance to encourage high quality performance by professional accountants in business.
More at:http://www.ifacnet.com/
IFACnet is a global accountancy search engine designed specifically for professional accountant in business and small and medium practices.
It provides easy access to leading-edge articles, good practice guidance, management strategies and tools, and other resources developed by professional accountancy bodies worldwide. These resources are designed to help professional accountants stay current on the latest trends and techniques, perform competently and compete effectively.
How It Works:
IFACnet.com scans websites key terms and phrases and delivers the results in order of relevance. It is unique in that it focuses specifically and solely on websites that provide information developed for professional accountants.
IFAC is the worldwide organization for the accountancy profession dedicated to serving the public interest by strengthening the profession and contributing to the development of strong international economies. IFAC is comprised of 155 members and associates in 118 countries, representing more than 2.5 million accountants in public practice, education, government service, industry and commerce. Through its independent standard-setting boards, IFAC sets ethics, auditing and assurance, education, and public sector accounting standards. It also develops guidance to encourage high quality performance by professional accountants in business.
More at:http://www.ifacnet.com/
Cash4Lead is a unique social Lead exchange where individuals can buy and sell Lead information
What Company Is Offering:
Cash4Lead is a unique social Lead exchange where individuals can buy and sell Lead information. If you want to buy or know someone who is interested in buying something, they believe that there are individuals and companies out their that will pay you to have that information.
How it Works:
Cash4Lead is built on the notion that a sales person should work with pre-qualified Leads and not contacts; the Cash4Lead network will help them get to those Leads. Our patent pending platform brings the seller and buyers together in a safe and secure environment. At the same time, it retains and maintains the identity of the seller and buyer from each other so that the seller and buyer can complete their transaction using their online Anonymous ID a.k.a Avatar. In essence, it provides complete anonymity of all transactions; you can sell and buy a Lead without letting the other party know of your identity.
Cash4Lead eliminates the middlemen - affiliate marketing firms and brokers - from the transaction and optimizes the Lead selling experience.
More at:https://www.cash4lead.com/
Cash4Lead is a unique social Lead exchange where individuals can buy and sell Lead information. If you want to buy or know someone who is interested in buying something, they believe that there are individuals and companies out their that will pay you to have that information.
How it Works:
Cash4Lead is built on the notion that a sales person should work with pre-qualified Leads and not contacts; the Cash4Lead network will help them get to those Leads. Our patent pending platform brings the seller and buyers together in a safe and secure environment. At the same time, it retains and maintains the identity of the seller and buyer from each other so that the seller and buyer can complete their transaction using their online Anonymous ID a.k.a Avatar. In essence, it provides complete anonymity of all transactions; you can sell and buy a Lead without letting the other party know of your identity.
Cash4Lead eliminates the middlemen - affiliate marketing firms and brokers - from the transaction and optimizes the Lead selling experience.
More at:https://www.cash4lead.com/
Kyriba is a leading provider of Treasury solutions delivered under the Software as a Service has received new funding
What Company Is Offering:
Kyriba is a leading provider of Treasury solutions delivered under the Software as a Service (SaaS) model. Customers use the automated online system to better control their daily cash management tasks including bank balances, transaction reporting, payments, cash positioning / forecasting, automated general ledger posting and investment portfolio reporting. The system automatically collects bank statements and facilitates automated cash, bank, and ledger reconciliations through Kyriba’s daily bank connectivity monitoring service. The solution also meets stringent Sarbanes-Oxley 404 audit trail, workflow, and control requirements and provides seamless integration with third-party applications.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Kyriba Corporation, the leader of web-based cash and treasury management solutions, announced today that it received new funding subscribed by its current shareholders and by Coface, a new investor.
“Kyriba’s international positioning and proven experience in the Financial Software as a Service (SaaS) industry fits well with the Coface mission to be a global business-to-business trade facilitator,” stated Jerome Cazes, CEO of Coface. “I am sure that this is a first step towards a successful strategic partnership. We see a lot of potential in coupling the Coface and Kyriba solutions to promote a very innovative offer to the marketplace.”
“Adding Coface as a strategic investor and on our Board of Directors will bring many synergies to Kyriba,” said Jean-Luc Robert, Chief Executive Officer of Kyriba Corporation. “Coface facilitates Trade Receivables Financing which is a very hot topic during the current Credit Crisis and an important part for an efficient cash management. Coface, by its global presence, will greatly facilitate our international expansion.”
More at:www.kyriba.com
Kyriba is a leading provider of Treasury solutions delivered under the Software as a Service (SaaS) model. Customers use the automated online system to better control their daily cash management tasks including bank balances, transaction reporting, payments, cash positioning / forecasting, automated general ledger posting and investment portfolio reporting. The system automatically collects bank statements and facilitates automated cash, bank, and ledger reconciliations through Kyriba’s daily bank connectivity monitoring service. The solution also meets stringent Sarbanes-Oxley 404 audit trail, workflow, and control requirements and provides seamless integration with third-party applications.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Kyriba Corporation, the leader of web-based cash and treasury management solutions, announced today that it received new funding subscribed by its current shareholders and by Coface, a new investor.
“Kyriba’s international positioning and proven experience in the Financial Software as a Service (SaaS) industry fits well with the Coface mission to be a global business-to-business trade facilitator,” stated Jerome Cazes, CEO of Coface. “I am sure that this is a first step towards a successful strategic partnership. We see a lot of potential in coupling the Coface and Kyriba solutions to promote a very innovative offer to the marketplace.”
“Adding Coface as a strategic investor and on our Board of Directors will bring many synergies to Kyriba,” said Jean-Luc Robert, Chief Executive Officer of Kyriba Corporation. “Coface facilitates Trade Receivables Financing which is a very hot topic during the current Credit Crisis and an important part for an efficient cash management. Coface, by its global presence, will greatly facilitate our international expansion.”
More at:www.kyriba.com
Pelago, Inc., creators of the new social networking and discovery service has secured $15 million
What Company Is Offering:
Pelago, Inc. is an early-stage company based in Seattle developing a new generation of consumer experiences based on breakthrough technology, including Whrrl, a new mobile and web-based service at the intersection of social networking and local discovery. Pelago was founded by former senior executives from Amazon.com and is backed by leading venture capital firms from the U.S., Europe and India.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Pelago, Inc., creators of the new social networking and discovery service, Whrrl, announced today that the company has secured $15 million in a Series B financing round. The funds will be used for strategic technology investments and partnerships to continue the service’s rapid deployment across North America and into new overseas markets.
Deutsche Telekom’s venture capital arm, T-Mobile Venture Fund, led the round and was joined by the corporate venture arm of Reliance ADA Group, Reliance Technology Ventures Ltd. (RTVL), and Palo Alto-based DAG Ventures. Original investors in Pelago’s 2006 $7.4M Series A round, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, Trilogy Equity Partners and Bezos Expeditions, also participated in the new round.
T-Mobile Venture Fund and RTVL provide Pelago with unmatched mobile and wireless leadership, as well as an essential foundation in global technology and communications expertise.
More at:www.pelago.com
Pelago, Inc. is an early-stage company based in Seattle developing a new generation of consumer experiences based on breakthrough technology, including Whrrl, a new mobile and web-based service at the intersection of social networking and local discovery. Pelago was founded by former senior executives from Amazon.com and is backed by leading venture capital firms from the U.S., Europe and India.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Pelago, Inc., creators of the new social networking and discovery service, Whrrl, announced today that the company has secured $15 million in a Series B financing round. The funds will be used for strategic technology investments and partnerships to continue the service’s rapid deployment across North America and into new overseas markets.
Deutsche Telekom’s venture capital arm, T-Mobile Venture Fund, led the round and was joined by the corporate venture arm of Reliance ADA Group, Reliance Technology Ventures Ltd. (RTVL), and Palo Alto-based DAG Ventures. Original investors in Pelago’s 2006 $7.4M Series A round, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, Trilogy Equity Partners and Bezos Expeditions, also participated in the new round.
T-Mobile Venture Fund and RTVL provide Pelago with unmatched mobile and wireless leadership, as well as an essential foundation in global technology and communications expertise.
More at:www.pelago.com
AppAssure Software is changing the way businesses think about protecting their mission-critical messaging infrastructure got VCs funing
What Company Is Offering:
AppAssure Software is changing the way businesses think about protecting their mission-critical messaging infrastructure -- by providing solutions that protect the entire messaging environment, not just the data. Driven by the force to eradicate downtime and its accompanying drag on business, AppAssure develops innovative software that organizations can rely upon without significant overhead.
AppAssure's Replay software is currently in production serving organizations in all verticals. Additionally, AppAssure is the recent recipient of Redmond Magazine's MVP award.
How Much They Got From VCs:
AppAssure Software, the only solution provider offering continuous application protection (CAP) for mission-critical Exchange environments, announced that Bain Capital led an investment round to continue acceleration of the company's rapid growth.
AppAssure's Replay(TM) product suite offers continuous application protection (CAP) by capturing the full state of the Exchange environment, and then collecting, inspecting and virtualizing all Exchange data. By doing so, Replay can recover an entire Exchange environment (including BlackBerry servers and domain controllers) from any type of failure, back to any point in time, within minutes. Replay extends this approach to traditional NetApp, EMC and iSCSI SAN platforms, making them application aware for fast recoveries, off-host backups and disaster recovery.
More at:http://www.appassure.com/
AppAssure Software is changing the way businesses think about protecting their mission-critical messaging infrastructure -- by providing solutions that protect the entire messaging environment, not just the data. Driven by the force to eradicate downtime and its accompanying drag on business, AppAssure develops innovative software that organizations can rely upon without significant overhead.
AppAssure's Replay software is currently in production serving organizations in all verticals. Additionally, AppAssure is the recent recipient of Redmond Magazine's MVP award.
How Much They Got From VCs:
AppAssure Software, the only solution provider offering continuous application protection (CAP) for mission-critical Exchange environments, announced that Bain Capital led an investment round to continue acceleration of the company's rapid growth.
AppAssure's Replay(TM) product suite offers continuous application protection (CAP) by capturing the full state of the Exchange environment, and then collecting, inspecting and virtualizing all Exchange data. By doing so, Replay can recover an entire Exchange environment (including BlackBerry servers and domain controllers) from any type of failure, back to any point in time, within minutes. Replay extends this approach to traditional NetApp, EMC and iSCSI SAN platforms, making them application aware for fast recoveries, off-host backups and disaster recovery.
More at:http://www.appassure.com/
OPENLANE, Inc is online auction company for automotive dealers to buy and sell wholesale vehicles has closed a $25 million funding
What Company Is Offering:
OPENLANE, Inc. is a leading online auction company in North America for automotive dealers to buy and sell wholesale vehicles. The company offers end-to-end auto remarketing solutions to auto manufacturers, captive finance companies, lease and daily rental companies, financial institutions and wholesale auto auctions throughout the United States and Canada. OPENLANE powers online remarketing programs for American Honda Finance, Audi Financial Services, Avis Budget Group, Chase Auto Finance, Chrysler Financial, Ford Motor Credit, Porsche Financial Services, Volkswagen Credit, among others.
How Much They Got From VCs:
OPENLANE, Inc., the leading online auction company in North America for automotive dealers to buy and sell wholesale vehicles, today announced the Company has closed a $25 million funding round led by Meritech Capital Partners. Also participating in the round were existing investors August Capital, RPM Ventures, and Zilkha Venture Partners. The funds will be used to help the Company scale in line with rising demand for its online wholesale auction, while continuing to maintain high levels of customer service and product innovation.
OPENLANE sold over 270,000 vehicles online in 2007, valued at over $4 billion and generating in excess of $60 million in revenues. This represented revenue growth of approximately 60 percent compared to the prior year. The Company experienced continued strong growth in the first quarter of 2008. Revenues for the first quarter of 2008 were approximately 65 percent higher than the first quarter of 2007.
More at:www.openlane.com
OPENLANE, Inc. is a leading online auction company in North America for automotive dealers to buy and sell wholesale vehicles. The company offers end-to-end auto remarketing solutions to auto manufacturers, captive finance companies, lease and daily rental companies, financial institutions and wholesale auto auctions throughout the United States and Canada. OPENLANE powers online remarketing programs for American Honda Finance, Audi Financial Services, Avis Budget Group, Chase Auto Finance, Chrysler Financial, Ford Motor Credit, Porsche Financial Services, Volkswagen Credit, among others.
How Much They Got From VCs:
OPENLANE, Inc., the leading online auction company in North America for automotive dealers to buy and sell wholesale vehicles, today announced the Company has closed a $25 million funding round led by Meritech Capital Partners. Also participating in the round were existing investors August Capital, RPM Ventures, and Zilkha Venture Partners. The funds will be used to help the Company scale in line with rising demand for its online wholesale auction, while continuing to maintain high levels of customer service and product innovation.
OPENLANE sold over 270,000 vehicles online in 2007, valued at over $4 billion and generating in excess of $60 million in revenues. This represented revenue growth of approximately 60 percent compared to the prior year. The Company experienced continued strong growth in the first quarter of 2008. Revenues for the first quarter of 2008 were approximately 65 percent higher than the first quarter of 2007.
More at:www.openlane.com
Adregate is to make as much money as you can off of your ad sales
What Company Is Offering:
Adregate is created by website owners and for website owners. They know what a pain it can be to manage advertisements on your site, and they want to make that process much more enjoyable. They ultimately want you to make as much money as you can off of your ad sales.
How It Works:
With Adregate, everything is hosted for you and all of your ads are delivered from their fast and extremely reliable servers. No more updating software or wondering if your server has the right specs. Just drop in a small piece of code where you want your ad to display, and your ads immediately start serving!
Provide potential advertisers a page with advertising information including impressions, uniques, and available advertising spots. This page takes the hassle out of building a complicated media kit by creating it for you. They are also working on a central directory that will list your ad sales pages so advertisers can easily find your site!
More at:http://www.adregate.com/
Adregate is created by website owners and for website owners. They know what a pain it can be to manage advertisements on your site, and they want to make that process much more enjoyable. They ultimately want you to make as much money as you can off of your ad sales.
How It Works:
With Adregate, everything is hosted for you and all of your ads are delivered from their fast and extremely reliable servers. No more updating software or wondering if your server has the right specs. Just drop in a small piece of code where you want your ad to display, and your ads immediately start serving!
Provide potential advertisers a page with advertising information including impressions, uniques, and available advertising spots. This page takes the hassle out of building a complicated media kit by creating it for you. They are also working on a central directory that will list your ad sales pages so advertisers can easily find your site!
More at:http://www.adregate.com/
InSTEDD is an innovation lab for technologies designed to improve early disease detection and rapid disaster response
What Company Is Offering:
InSTEDD is all about humanitarian collaboration through technology innovation.InSTEDD is an innovation lab for technologies designed to improve early disease detection and rapid disaster response.
How It Works:
InSTEDD works with universities, corporations, international health organizations, humanitarian NGOs and communities. Together, we work to identify or craft and then field-test technologies for better data collection and analysis, more efficient communications, and more effective response. InSTEDD will, for example, be adapting new social networking capabilities for humanitarian coordination, and testing inflatable satellite dishes able to be carried in a backpack.
InSTEDD’s mission is to discover, develop, test, deploy and share information about technologies that buy critical time. Through better disease detection and response times, outbreaks can be contained and possibly prevented. Through better disaster response, more lives can be saved. Through collaboration better answers can be found.
More at:http://www.instedd.org/
InSTEDD is all about humanitarian collaboration through technology innovation.InSTEDD is an innovation lab for technologies designed to improve early disease detection and rapid disaster response.
How It Works:
InSTEDD works with universities, corporations, international health organizations, humanitarian NGOs and communities. Together, we work to identify or craft and then field-test technologies for better data collection and analysis, more efficient communications, and more effective response. InSTEDD will, for example, be adapting new social networking capabilities for humanitarian coordination, and testing inflatable satellite dishes able to be carried in a backpack.
InSTEDD’s mission is to discover, develop, test, deploy and share information about technologies that buy critical time. Through better disease detection and response times, outbreaks can be contained and possibly prevented. Through better disaster response, more lives can be saved. Through collaboration better answers can be found.
More at:http://www.instedd.org/
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
CO.CC is provider of Internet services that serving Free Domain Name Register (you.co.cc) for your Blog
What Company Is Offering:
CO.CC is provider of Internet services that serving Free Domain Name Register (you.co.cc) for your Blog! Domain Name Registration for Blog like Myspace.com, Youtube.com, etc. Free URL redirection (free URL forwarding) for your long url site or blog like www.longurl.com/users/boring.htm become www.you.co.cc. So you can turn your long and boring URL site or blog into a short and sweet CO.CC address! Search for the domain that you want to choose - if it's available, you can register it for free!
You can redirect your own web site or blogs as well. They would like to suggest you to bulid your own site or own blog, if you want to redirect at CO.CC. However their service could be restricted or even stoped in some cases if you do not use for long time.You better access your co.cc domain sometimes.
More at:http://www.free-redirect.tk/
CO.CC is provider of Internet services that serving Free Domain Name Register (you.co.cc) for your Blog! Domain Name Registration for Blog like Myspace.com, Youtube.com, etc. Free URL redirection (free URL forwarding) for your long url site or blog like www.longurl.com/users/boring.htm become www.you.co.cc. So you can turn your long and boring URL site or blog into a short and sweet CO.CC address! Search for the domain that you want to choose - if it's available, you can register it for free!
You can redirect your own web site or blogs as well. They would like to suggest you to bulid your own site or own blog, if you want to redirect at CO.CC. However their service could be restricted or even stoped in some cases if you do not use for long time.You better access your co.cc domain sometimes.
More at:http://www.free-redirect.tk/
LastGraph is a web-based service that aims to give you a new way to explore your last.fm listening history
What company is Offering:
LastGraph is a web-based service that aims to give you a new way to explore your last.fm listening history. They use the last.fm API to transfer across your basic profile data, and then crunch it around in various interesting (and often hilariously inefficient) ways.
More at:http://lastgraph3.aeracode.org/
LastGraph is a web-based service that aims to give you a new way to explore your last.fm listening history. They use the last.fm API to transfer across your basic profile data, and then crunch it around in various interesting (and often hilariously inefficient) ways.
More at:http://lastgraph3.aeracode.org/
Askmego is an online community in which participants ask and answer questions in real-time on a wide range of topics
What Company Is Offering:
Askmego is an online community in which participants ask and answer questions in real-time on a wide range of topics. Like any other community, we have a core set of principles that must be followed by all members. Violating the Community Guidelines may result in the termination of your Askmego account without warning. In extreme cases, violations may result in the termination of your Askmego ID.
How It Works:
Askmego is a place to gain knowledge, not customers, page views, or dates. If you have years of experience in something, have a special hobby or own your own business it's OK to discuss a good that's on topic with a link to your website, blog, or email to offer more information. However, it is not OK to send links that are unrelated to the topic or are clearly meant only to solicit others for personal and financial gain. Also prohibited are solicitations like "Will you add me as a contact?" or propositioning people.
Anyone can report abuse and the community depends on each member to help keep Askmego a safe, fun, and positive place for everyone.
More at:http://askmego.com/
Askmego is an online community in which participants ask and answer questions in real-time on a wide range of topics. Like any other community, we have a core set of principles that must be followed by all members. Violating the Community Guidelines may result in the termination of your Askmego account without warning. In extreme cases, violations may result in the termination of your Askmego ID.
How It Works:
Askmego is a place to gain knowledge, not customers, page views, or dates. If you have years of experience in something, have a special hobby or own your own business it's OK to discuss a good that's on topic with a link to your website, blog, or email to offer more information. However, it is not OK to send links that are unrelated to the topic or are clearly meant only to solicit others for personal and financial gain. Also prohibited are solicitations like "Will you add me as a contact?" or propositioning people.
Anyone can report abuse and the community depends on each member to help keep Askmego a safe, fun, and positive place for everyone.
More at:http://askmego.com/
Faviki is a social bookmarking tool which allows you to tag webpages you want to remember with Wikipedia terms
What Company Is Offering;
Faviki is a social bookmarking tool which allows you to tag webpages you want to remember with Wikipedia terms. This means that everybody uses the same names for tags from the world's largest collection of knowledge.Thanks to DBpedia, which extracts structured information from Wikipedia and represents it in a flexible data model, these tags are reference to objects which are categorized automatically, keeping your and your friend's bookmarks and interests well organized.
How Is It Different:
Unlike classic tags, which are just words, new tags represent references to unique concepts that have their own URL. For example, the tag “Coca-Cola” has a reference to URL http://dbpedia.org/data/Coca-Cola (actually, the name of the tag is just the last part of the URL).
So, instead of having different tags for the same concept, which is the case with classic tags (cocacola, coca-cola, coca+cola, CocaCola) there will be just the one unique “Coca-Cola” tag.
More at:http://www.faviki.com/
Faviki is a social bookmarking tool which allows you to tag webpages you want to remember with Wikipedia terms. This means that everybody uses the same names for tags from the world's largest collection of knowledge.Thanks to DBpedia, which extracts structured information from Wikipedia and represents it in a flexible data model, these tags are reference to objects which are categorized automatically, keeping your and your friend's bookmarks and interests well organized.
How Is It Different:
Unlike classic tags, which are just words, new tags represent references to unique concepts that have their own URL. For example, the tag “Coca-Cola” has a reference to URL http://dbpedia.org/data/Coca-Cola (actually, the name of the tag is just the last part of the URL).
So, instead of having different tags for the same concept, which is the case with classic tags (cocacola, coca-cola, coca+cola, CocaCola) there will be just the one unique “Coca-Cola” tag.
More at:http://www.faviki.com/
Mobissimo is the ultimate travel search engine with a simple mission: improve the way people seek and discover travel information
What Company Is Offering:
Mobissimo is the ultimate travel search engine with a simple mission: improve the way people seek and discover travel information. The Mobissimo search engine performs real-time queries of the multiple websites that travelers traditionally check manually (plus dozens of others that are often overlooked). In a very short time, Mobissimo returns the most comprehensive travel search results available on the Web today.
How It Works:
Mobissimo empowers customers to quickly find and book travel deals that suit their needs. With innovative industry leading technology, the most extensive coverage and selection of worldwide travel suppliers, and a proven business model that supports customers and suppliers alike, Mobissimo is uniquely positioned to deliver to its users a differentiated and superior travel buying experience.
They search dozens of travel suppliers simultaneously so that you can research your options quickly and conveniently. Their meta-search technology searches the Web sites that you would normally check by hand, plus many more you might not think of (in the United States and around the world). Their aim is to return the most comprehensive travel search results in less than a minute.
More at:http://www.mobissimo.com/
Mobissimo is the ultimate travel search engine with a simple mission: improve the way people seek and discover travel information. The Mobissimo search engine performs real-time queries of the multiple websites that travelers traditionally check manually (plus dozens of others that are often overlooked). In a very short time, Mobissimo returns the most comprehensive travel search results available on the Web today.
How It Works:
Mobissimo empowers customers to quickly find and book travel deals that suit their needs. With innovative industry leading technology, the most extensive coverage and selection of worldwide travel suppliers, and a proven business model that supports customers and suppliers alike, Mobissimo is uniquely positioned to deliver to its users a differentiated and superior travel buying experience.
They search dozens of travel suppliers simultaneously so that you can research your options quickly and conveniently. Their meta-search technology searches the Web sites that you would normally check by hand, plus many more you might not think of (in the United States and around the world). Their aim is to return the most comprehensive travel search results in less than a minute.
More at:http://www.mobissimo.com/
Land Surveyors United is the first social network in the world exclusively geared for land surveying professionals and the GPS, mapping and geomatics
What Company is Offering:
Land Surveyors United is the first social network in the world exclusively geared for land surveying professionals and the GPS, mapping and geomatics community. This group creates a virtual space for surveyors to post their technology related questions, experiences, tips, tricks and advise for the field.
How It Works:
Members are surveyors, of course, most of which spend the majority of their day in the woods or along the side of the road measuring and creating the landscapes of our cities and towns. As an online community comprised entirely of like minded individuals, LSU provides a place to find equipment, collaborate and troubleshoot problems in the field and find reference materials related to surveying. All content is subscription friendly and can be read via RSS feed reader. Small surveying firms can promote their business and jobs can be sought and found. This is truly the first community of its kind, ever!
Land surveyors have little time to spend in front of a computer searching for the answers, equipment, instructions and specifications that they need in order to work and stay ahead of competition. They also know a lot of tricks that can be used in the field that might help others. LSU creates a space exclusively for these professionals to share advise, video, reference material and photos with other surveyors. There is not another place on the web where surveyors will feel more at home.
More at:http://landsurveyorsunited.ning.com/
Land Surveyors United is the first social network in the world exclusively geared for land surveying professionals and the GPS, mapping and geomatics community. This group creates a virtual space for surveyors to post their technology related questions, experiences, tips, tricks and advise for the field.
How It Works:
Members are surveyors, of course, most of which spend the majority of their day in the woods or along the side of the road measuring and creating the landscapes of our cities and towns. As an online community comprised entirely of like minded individuals, LSU provides a place to find equipment, collaborate and troubleshoot problems in the field and find reference materials related to surveying. All content is subscription friendly and can be read via RSS feed reader. Small surveying firms can promote their business and jobs can be sought and found. This is truly the first community of its kind, ever!
Land surveyors have little time to spend in front of a computer searching for the answers, equipment, instructions and specifications that they need in order to work and stay ahead of competition. They also know a lot of tricks that can be used in the field that might help others. LSU creates a space exclusively for these professionals to share advise, video, reference material and photos with other surveyors. There is not another place on the web where surveyors will feel more at home.
More at:http://landsurveyorsunited.ning.com/
Knewsroom is a community-directed news publication where not only do you have a voice—you get paid to use it
What Company Is Offering:
Knewsroom is a community-directed news publication where not only do you have a voice—you get paid to use it. “The Knews” gets published every morning, featuring the previous day’s top stories in Politics, Business, Technology, Design, Sports, and Entertainment. 20% of every dollar they generate in advertising gets split with the people who make the Knews happen: writers, readers, evangelists...anyone looking to turn extra brainwidth into extra cash.It’s fun, it’s free, and it’s easy to get started.
How It Works:
You can submit stories in response to topics suggested by the community, or follow your instincts and write about what you think is important. Content can be original (created by a Knewsie), or syndicated (linked from another news source) and may include articles, photos, and video. If the community thinks your content is Knewsworthy, not only does it stand a chance of getting published, but if it’s original content you could earn another $150 on top of your share of the day’s ad revenue.
The more involved you are in Knewsroom, the more power you’ll have to shape it. You accumulate watts—our official community currency—by being an active member of the community: suggesting topics, writing stories, voting, and referring other members. The idea is to invest your watts in what you think should tomorrow’s Knews should be. Just like on Wall Street, your return on investment is determined by the risk you take. You can invest in Topics—which are kind of like mutual funds (lower risk/lower return), or you can bet on Stories—which you can think of as individual stocks (higher risk/higher return). Of course, you can diversify and do both. Like everything else at Knewsroom,™ it’s entirely up to you.
Each day at deadline, Knewsroom fires up the press and runs a sophisticated matrix algorithm to determine the Top 5 Topics and the Top 5 Stories each section. If you happen to bet on a winner, not only will you get your share of all the watts that went invested into the winner, but you’ll get your cut of the ad revenue generated that day — that’s real cash money, credited to your own Knewsroom™ MasterCard.
More at:http://knewsroom.com/
Knewsroom is a community-directed news publication where not only do you have a voice—you get paid to use it. “The Knews” gets published every morning, featuring the previous day’s top stories in Politics, Business, Technology, Design, Sports, and Entertainment. 20% of every dollar they generate in advertising gets split with the people who make the Knews happen: writers, readers, evangelists...anyone looking to turn extra brainwidth into extra cash.It’s fun, it’s free, and it’s easy to get started.
How It Works:
You can submit stories in response to topics suggested by the community, or follow your instincts and write about what you think is important. Content can be original (created by a Knewsie), or syndicated (linked from another news source) and may include articles, photos, and video. If the community thinks your content is Knewsworthy, not only does it stand a chance of getting published, but if it’s original content you could earn another $150 on top of your share of the day’s ad revenue.
The more involved you are in Knewsroom, the more power you’ll have to shape it. You accumulate watts—our official community currency—by being an active member of the community: suggesting topics, writing stories, voting, and referring other members. The idea is to invest your watts in what you think should tomorrow’s Knews should be. Just like on Wall Street, your return on investment is determined by the risk you take. You can invest in Topics—which are kind of like mutual funds (lower risk/lower return), or you can bet on Stories—which you can think of as individual stocks (higher risk/higher return). Of course, you can diversify and do both. Like everything else at Knewsroom,™ it’s entirely up to you.
Each day at deadline, Knewsroom fires up the press and runs a sophisticated matrix algorithm to determine the Top 5 Topics and the Top 5 Stories each section. If you happen to bet on a winner, not only will you get your share of all the watts that went invested into the winner, but you’ll get your cut of the ad revenue generated that day — that’s real cash money, credited to your own Knewsroom™ MasterCard.
More at:http://knewsroom.com/
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 tailored for sites like YouTube, AOL, and MySpace.
Zadby has all the tools and workflows to facilitate the creation, posting, tracking, and payment for online videos with product placement angles.
How It Works:
Advertisers and brand managers, wishing to raise awareness for their brand, can commission the development of videos through their 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 tailored for sites like YouTube, AOL, and MySpace.
Zadby has all the tools and workflows to facilitate the creation, posting, tracking, and payment for online videos with product placement angles.
How It Works:
Advertisers and brand managers, wishing to raise awareness for their brand, can commission the development of videos through their 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/
eCast Inc is a broadband-enabled touchscreen media network, has secured $12.3 million
What Company Is Offering:
Ecast operates the largest broadband touchscreen media network in the United States, providing digital music to over 10,000 bars and nightclubs across the country. Their unique touchscreen music service allows locations to put the power of choice where it should be: with the consumer. Utilizing the speed and scalability of broadband, Ecast delivers music, advertising and other forms of entertainment to the young-adults most responsible for affecting purchasing decisions and consumer trends. Ecast is changing the way people listen to music in public places and revolutionizing out-of-home advertising.
How Much They Got From VCs:
eCast Inc., a San Francisco-based operator of a broadband-enabled touchscreen media network, has secured $12.3 million of an $18.64 million Series D-1 round, according to a regulatory filing. Shareholders include Focus Ventures, Mobius Venture Capital, Crosslink Capital, DCM and El Dorado Ventures. The company has raised over $97 million in total VC funding since its 199 inception.
More at:http://www.ecastnetwork.com/
Ecast operates the largest broadband touchscreen media network in the United States, providing digital music to over 10,000 bars and nightclubs across the country. Their unique touchscreen music service allows locations to put the power of choice where it should be: with the consumer. Utilizing the speed and scalability of broadband, Ecast delivers music, advertising and other forms of entertainment to the young-adults most responsible for affecting purchasing decisions and consumer trends. Ecast is changing the way people listen to music in public places and revolutionizing out-of-home advertising.
How Much They Got From VCs:
eCast Inc., a San Francisco-based operator of a broadband-enabled touchscreen media network, has secured $12.3 million of an $18.64 million Series D-1 round, according to a regulatory filing. Shareholders include Focus Ventures, Mobius Venture Capital, Crosslink Capital, DCM and El Dorado Ventures. The company has raised over $97 million in total VC funding since its 199 inception.
More at:http://www.ecastnetwork.com/
Vantos Inc is provider of enterprise investigation management, has raised $10.69 million
What Company Is Offering:
VANTOS is singularly and passionately focused on being the global leader in the Enterprise Investigation Management market. From minor office misconduct to international financial crimes, companies can spend millions of dollars conducting workplace investigations. Employees misuse expense accounts for personal use. Managers divulge proprietary, confidential information. Accounting fudges end-of-the-quarter numbers. Executives create offshore shell companies to transfer debt off the books. The list of potential fraud and misconduct goes on and on.
They empower businesses to initiate, execute and manage investigations with their patent-pending technologies that power the V-FlexIM product. Designed to tackle the increasing variety and volume of investigations facing companies in the today's heavily regulated market.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Vantos Inc., a Seattle-based provider of enterprise investigation management, has raised $10.69 million in Series B funding, according to a regulatory filing. Backers include Fluke Venture Partners, OVP Venture Partners and Outlook Ventures.
More at:www.vantos.com
VANTOS is singularly and passionately focused on being the global leader in the Enterprise Investigation Management market. From minor office misconduct to international financial crimes, companies can spend millions of dollars conducting workplace investigations. Employees misuse expense accounts for personal use. Managers divulge proprietary, confidential information. Accounting fudges end-of-the-quarter numbers. Executives create offshore shell companies to transfer debt off the books. The list of potential fraud and misconduct goes on and on.
They empower businesses to initiate, execute and manage investigations with their patent-pending technologies that power the V-FlexIM product. Designed to tackle the increasing variety and volume of investigations facing companies in the today's heavily regulated market.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Vantos Inc., a Seattle-based provider of enterprise investigation management, has raised $10.69 million in Series B funding, according to a regulatory filing. Backers include Fluke Venture Partners, OVP Venture Partners and Outlook Ventures.
More at:www.vantos.com
Cooking.com is provider of cooking recipes and ecommerce services, has raised $7 million
What Company Is Offering:
Cooking.com has the most comprehensive product selection for your kitchen plus sophisticated tools to help you make informed purchases, such as authoritative customer reviews, demonstration videos and buying guides. They back every purchase with a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee policy.
In addition to shopping, millions of people come to Cooking.com to find great recipes, to give and get mealtime tips, and to meet other cooks who love food, cooking and sharing their experiences in the kitchen. Our recipes come from top cookbooks and magazines, along with a growing collection of original creations shared by members and customers. Cooking.com is all about you. We are committed to improvements based on your comments -- we listen and respond by adding requested items, discontinuing poorly rated products and continually expanding our content and services based on your feedback.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Cooking.com, a Santa Monica, Calif.-based provider of cooking recipes and ecommerce services, has raised $7 million in Series E funding, according to a regulatory filing. Listed shareholders include Azure Capital Partners, Clearstone Venture Partners, Starbucks Corp. and Idealab.
The company had raised over $90 million between 1998 and 2000, plus $7 million in venture debt funding earlier this year from Orix Finance.
More at:http://www.cooking.com/
Cooking.com has the most comprehensive product selection for your kitchen plus sophisticated tools to help you make informed purchases, such as authoritative customer reviews, demonstration videos and buying guides. They back every purchase with a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee policy.
In addition to shopping, millions of people come to Cooking.com to find great recipes, to give and get mealtime tips, and to meet other cooks who love food, cooking and sharing their experiences in the kitchen. Our recipes come from top cookbooks and magazines, along with a growing collection of original creations shared by members and customers. Cooking.com is all about you. We are committed to improvements based on your comments -- we listen and respond by adding requested items, discontinuing poorly rated products and continually expanding our content and services based on your feedback.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Cooking.com, a Santa Monica, Calif.-based provider of cooking recipes and ecommerce services, has raised $7 million in Series E funding, according to a regulatory filing. Listed shareholders include Azure Capital Partners, Clearstone Venture Partners, Starbucks Corp. and Idealab.
The company had raised over $90 million between 1998 and 2000, plus $7 million in venture debt funding earlier this year from Orix Finance.
More at:http://www.cooking.com/
Boss Bitching is a user driven social content website that allows anonymous postings of stories about bosses
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/
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/
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/
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