What Company Is Offering:
StrategicRating.com creates custom 'Strategic' Business Plans, in the format preferred by the SBA and banks, though personal (or remote) "Whiteboard-style interviews/presentations. Using a growing network of local Certified Business Partners (CBP's), StrategicRating.com provides "live" plan consulting and support for their CBP-based interviews.
A thought-provoking and strategy planning interview/discussion of your Market and your Business is presented by a business plan specialist. This allows rapid coverage of everything from your past Investments, returns and operations to your future opportunities, projections and delivery assurances. Their interview assesses your experience and "insight" of your markets, products/services, promotion, sales, competition, distribution, supply, inventory, governance and balance sheet.
How It Works:
Following the interview, at StrategicRating.com, the information collected from the interview is processed through multiple business planner and strategy planning models and applications. After some hand-editing (and on average, 24 hours) this creates:
=> A Custom Business plan in the format preferred by Banks/SBA, with Projections
Supported by:
* Comparative Industry data.
* Industry expert Analytics and Strategies supported by proven models of business.
logic, reflecting opportunities and problems based on "insights" gained from the
interview of the business and market.
* A Focus on accurate expense to projection alignment, based on roll-ups of expenses
by department.
=> Several Business Strategy Reports (Actions, Key Factors, Improvements needed).
* Supporting Rationale/Logic trails validate weighted strategy recommendations,
interview topic-alignments and/or inconsistencies.
=> An invaluable service delivered for ~ 1/3 of the comparable cost / depth / value of the
analysis, Strategies, and Business Plan.
More at:http://www.strategicrating.com/
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Google's Plan for Mobile Domination
Google is gaining market share throughout the mobile industry -- regardless of your carrier or how basic your phone may be -- with a set of innovative services that such companies as Yahoo and Microsoft are struggling to match. Let's say you don't want to pay the extra $15 a month that Verizon charges for unlimited mobile-Web access, or you have a spotty connection. Google lets you perform searches using SMS, which is very reliable. Stock quotes, flight info, sports scores? A simple query, such as the weather example above, will get you these data nuggets. "SMS allows you to get a lot of the most common structured forms of information out of Google," says Sumit Agarwal, lead product manager for Google Mobile.
In January, California will join the states that have made it illegal to text while driving. Google's voice-powered service, GOOG-411, is great for hands-free access to local information. Call 800-GOOG-411 and the system prompts you to tell it where you are and what you want. You can even have it send directions via a text message.
Google's GrandCentral service gives you one master phone number to hand out and then lets you manage your communications in a variety of cool ways. You can route a caller to a specific phone or flag someone with priority status so you receive their calls anywhere; pick up while the caller is still leaving a message; and manage your voice mail, including receiving notifications via email or text and having them transcribed so they can be saved forever.
Fire up an iPhone and Google's mobile ambitions become quite apparent. The company wants to offer an irresistible mobile-intelligent version of the desktop Google experience. Google's iPhone search option is front and center. Start to enter a word and you begin getting results before you're even done typing -- a huge time-saver. You can also drill down into a rich suite of Google services: Translate, Talk, and YouTube, to name a few.
Luckily, you don't need the coolest and latest device to use a bunch of services. Maps, Mail, Calendar, and Reader work in some form on a large number of handsets, but they can do so much more on a smartphone. With Maps, I love that you can get turn-by-turn driving directions and traffic info without having to enter where you are, because Google can figure it out even without GPS, by triangulating your position using Wi-Fi and cell towers.
So why would Google create its own phone platform? To take these services even further. For instance, the G1 includes a compass. Point in any direction to see maps of those streets. Android is also a lab to explore what the world looks like when all these apps will work together. Theoretically, Google will be able to analyze traffic, see you're running 10 minutes late to an appointment, and prompt you to send a message to the person you're meeting. "As you bring these different pieces together, the experience changes dramatically and usage skyrockets," Agarwal says.
He's not kidding. Google reports that users do 50 times more data queries with a smartphone than a basic one. Just type 466-453 and join the ranks of data-driven mobile Google addicts.
More at:http://www.fastcompany.com/
In January, California will join the states that have made it illegal to text while driving. Google's voice-powered service, GOOG-411, is great for hands-free access to local information. Call 800-GOOG-411 and the system prompts you to tell it where you are and what you want. You can even have it send directions via a text message.
Google's GrandCentral service gives you one master phone number to hand out and then lets you manage your communications in a variety of cool ways. You can route a caller to a specific phone or flag someone with priority status so you receive their calls anywhere; pick up while the caller is still leaving a message; and manage your voice mail, including receiving notifications via email or text and having them transcribed so they can be saved forever.
Fire up an iPhone and Google's mobile ambitions become quite apparent. The company wants to offer an irresistible mobile-intelligent version of the desktop Google experience. Google's iPhone search option is front and center. Start to enter a word and you begin getting results before you're even done typing -- a huge time-saver. You can also drill down into a rich suite of Google services: Translate, Talk, and YouTube, to name a few.
Luckily, you don't need the coolest and latest device to use a bunch of services. Maps, Mail, Calendar, and Reader work in some form on a large number of handsets, but they can do so much more on a smartphone. With Maps, I love that you can get turn-by-turn driving directions and traffic info without having to enter where you are, because Google can figure it out even without GPS, by triangulating your position using Wi-Fi and cell towers.
So why would Google create its own phone platform? To take these services even further. For instance, the G1 includes a compass. Point in any direction to see maps of those streets. Android is also a lab to explore what the world looks like when all these apps will work together. Theoretically, Google will be able to analyze traffic, see you're running 10 minutes late to an appointment, and prompt you to send a message to the person you're meeting. "As you bring these different pieces together, the experience changes dramatically and usage skyrockets," Agarwal says.
He's not kidding. Google reports that users do 50 times more data queries with a smartphone than a basic one. Just type 466-453 and join the ranks of data-driven mobile Google addicts.
More at:http://www.fastcompany.com/
Post282 is a place where you can create and run your own private community websites
What Company Is Offering:
Post282 is a place where you can create and run your own private community websites for chatting with friends, sharing images and movies, posting links to cool stuff you find on the web, and a whole bunch of other stuff! Creating your community is free and takes about 15 seconds!
How It Works:
Post282 lets you upload your own images and place them in your posts. However, we currently don't permit uploading of videos to the site (assuming your community is hosted on Post282.com, rather than a customized installation). This is simply in order to reduce the amount of bandwidth they use each month.
However, you can upload your videos to other sites and then link to them in your posts. Modern video hosting sites (YouTube, Google Video, MetaCafe, and so on) let you upload your videos, and then embed them into your own website using embed code.
To add videos to your posts, simply copy the embed code from the site where the video is hosted, and paste it into the 'Add Video' box on the Create Post page.
To make it even easier, for YouTube, Google Video, MetaCafe, or iFilm videos, you can just copy the link to the page the video is on (copy from the address bar at the top of your browser), and paste it into the 'Add Video' box on the Create Post page.
There are two ways to add images to your posts:
First, you can copy a link to the image into the 'Image' box on the Create Post page, and then press the 'Add Image' button. The image should then appear in the textarea below. To get a link to an image you see on the web, either right-click on it and select 'Copy Shortcut' (IE Users), or right-click on it and select 'Copy Image Location' (Firefox users). You can then paste the copied link into the Image box. However, the practice of hot-linking to images on other people's websites is not encouraged. This is because you will be using their bandwidth to display images on your community website.
The second approach is preferable. First, save the image you want to post onto your computer. Then, on the Create Post page click on the 'Browse' button, find the image you want to upload, and click 'OK'. Then click on the 'Begin Upload' button. A copy of your image will then be transferred to the Post282 servers, and once the upload has completed, a link to the image will appear in the 'Image' box. Select whether you want the image to be Small, Medium, or Large in your post (you can resize the image anyway, once you've added it to the post), and click on the 'Add Image' button.
More at:http://www.post282.com/
Post282 is a place where you can create and run your own private community websites for chatting with friends, sharing images and movies, posting links to cool stuff you find on the web, and a whole bunch of other stuff! Creating your community is free and takes about 15 seconds!
How It Works:
Post282 lets you upload your own images and place them in your posts. However, we currently don't permit uploading of videos to the site (assuming your community is hosted on Post282.com, rather than a customized installation). This is simply in order to reduce the amount of bandwidth they use each month.
However, you can upload your videos to other sites and then link to them in your posts. Modern video hosting sites (YouTube, Google Video, MetaCafe, and so on) let you upload your videos, and then embed them into your own website using embed code.
To add videos to your posts, simply copy the embed code from the site where the video is hosted, and paste it into the 'Add Video' box on the Create Post page.
To make it even easier, for YouTube, Google Video, MetaCafe, or iFilm videos, you can just copy the link to the page the video is on (copy from the address bar at the top of your browser), and paste it into the 'Add Video' box on the Create Post page.
There are two ways to add images to your posts:
First, you can copy a link to the image into the 'Image' box on the Create Post page, and then press the 'Add Image' button. The image should then appear in the textarea below. To get a link to an image you see on the web, either right-click on it and select 'Copy Shortcut' (IE Users), or right-click on it and select 'Copy Image Location' (Firefox users). You can then paste the copied link into the Image box. However, the practice of hot-linking to images on other people's websites is not encouraged. This is because you will be using their bandwidth to display images on your community website.
The second approach is preferable. First, save the image you want to post onto your computer. Then, on the Create Post page click on the 'Browse' button, find the image you want to upload, and click 'OK'. Then click on the 'Begin Upload' button. A copy of your image will then be transferred to the Post282 servers, and once the upload has completed, a link to the image will appear in the 'Image' box. Select whether you want the image to be Small, Medium, or Large in your post (you can resize the image anyway, once you've added it to the post), and click on the 'Add Image' button.
More at:http://www.post282.com/
Live365 is an Internet radio network
What Company Is Offering:
The Company gives individuals and organizations a "voice" to be able to reach a global audience, while offering radio listeners an unparalleled choice in music and other audio content. Through easy-to-use tools and services, anyone with a computer and an Internet connection can create his or her own Internet radio station. As a result, Live365 offers the most diverse array of high-quality radio available today, with thousands of stations spanning myriad genres and representing over 150 countries.
Live365 is an Internet radio network. It offers Internet radio stations that you can listen to.
It is completely legal to create, broadcast and listen to Live365 stations. All broadcasting stations adhere to rules set forth in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the "DMCA"). Live365 broadcasters are required to agree to and abide by these rules upon starting a station. Live365 also has licenses with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers ("ASCAP"), Broadcast Music, Inc. ("BMI") and The Society of European Stage Authors and Composers ("SESAC"). These licenses allow broadcasters to stream licensed music on their stations.
More at:http://www.live365.com/
The Company gives individuals and organizations a "voice" to be able to reach a global audience, while offering radio listeners an unparalleled choice in music and other audio content. Through easy-to-use tools and services, anyone with a computer and an Internet connection can create his or her own Internet radio station. As a result, Live365 offers the most diverse array of high-quality radio available today, with thousands of stations spanning myriad genres and representing over 150 countries.
Live365 is an Internet radio network. It offers Internet radio stations that you can listen to.
It is completely legal to create, broadcast and listen to Live365 stations. All broadcasting stations adhere to rules set forth in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the "DMCA"). Live365 broadcasters are required to agree to and abide by these rules upon starting a station. Live365 also has licenses with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers ("ASCAP"), Broadcast Music, Inc. ("BMI") and The Society of European Stage Authors and Composers ("SESAC"). These licenses allow broadcasters to stream licensed music on their stations.
More at:http://www.live365.com/
Reply.com is simplified the process of purchasing clicks and leads online
What Company Is Offering:
Reply.com is the leading online marketing platform for the acquisition of locally-targeted and category-specific consumers on a cost-per-click or cost-per-lead basis. By eliminating the need for complex and expensive online marketing infrastructures and large teams of experts, Reply.com makes Internet marketing available to businesses of all sizes. Reply! provides a highly-profitable alternative to online marketing solutions offered by major search engines and ad networks.
How It Works:
With the launch of the Reply! Marketplace, they simplified the process of purchasing clicks and leads online. Buyers can now easily target the types of consumer actions they are interested in purchasing, throttle volume daily, and dynamically change the price they pay. With increased control and segmentation, buyers can profitably move offline advertising budgets online. Using Reply!, buyers can focus on managing phone calls and orders, rather than keywords and technology.
Sellers earn a premium for quality, have access to a highly liquid marketplace that maximizes yield, and can more efficiently liquidate inventory.
Why To Use It:
Many large business segments require personal contact, either face-to-face or by phone, to close a transaction. There are millions of consumers using the Internet to research such products and services, including automotive, real estate, mortgage, insurance, education, home improvement, and travel, and there are countless businesses—large and small—trying to reach those consumers.
More at:http://www.reply.com/
Reply.com is the leading online marketing platform for the acquisition of locally-targeted and category-specific consumers on a cost-per-click or cost-per-lead basis. By eliminating the need for complex and expensive online marketing infrastructures and large teams of experts, Reply.com makes Internet marketing available to businesses of all sizes. Reply! provides a highly-profitable alternative to online marketing solutions offered by major search engines and ad networks.
How It Works:
With the launch of the Reply! Marketplace, they simplified the process of purchasing clicks and leads online. Buyers can now easily target the types of consumer actions they are interested in purchasing, throttle volume daily, and dynamically change the price they pay. With increased control and segmentation, buyers can profitably move offline advertising budgets online. Using Reply!, buyers can focus on managing phone calls and orders, rather than keywords and technology.
Sellers earn a premium for quality, have access to a highly liquid marketplace that maximizes yield, and can more efficiently liquidate inventory.
Why To Use It:
Many large business segments require personal contact, either face-to-face or by phone, to close a transaction. There are millions of consumers using the Internet to research such products and services, including automotive, real estate, mortgage, insurance, education, home improvement, and travel, and there are countless businesses—large and small—trying to reach those consumers.
More at:http://www.reply.com/
Neokast enables individuals and businesses to broadcast high quality multimedia content
What Company Is Offering:
Neokast enables individuals and businesses to broadcast high quality multimedia content over the Internet to large audiences through the industry's most secure, reliable, and cost-effective video streaming solution. It enables the distribution of high-quality online multimedia content to an unlimited audience.
How It Works:
Neokast.com viewers watching content will share some of their upload bandwidth to support the network. So in exchange for receiving a stream, everybody contributes something back. This way the system scales with the number of users without requiring a significant server infrastructure at the publisher.
More at:http://www.neokast.com/
Neokast enables individuals and businesses to broadcast high quality multimedia content over the Internet to large audiences through the industry's most secure, reliable, and cost-effective video streaming solution. It enables the distribution of high-quality online multimedia content to an unlimited audience.
How It Works:
Neokast.com viewers watching content will share some of their upload bandwidth to support the network. So in exchange for receiving a stream, everybody contributes something back. This way the system scales with the number of users without requiring a significant server infrastructure at the publisher.
More at:http://www.neokast.com/
Friday, December 12, 2008
STUFF ALERT which is focused on providing enhanced search capability for items that are hard to find on eBay
What Company Is Offering:
StuffAlert is an exciting new service that's designed to make it easier to
locate hard to find items or items that are likely to become available
sometime in the near future.
How It Works:
STUFF ALERT which is focused on providing enhanced search capability for items that are hard to find on eBay.If there's something specific you want and it's not listed on eBay, they do the searching for you 24/7 until it's found - instead of you having to keep visiting eBay and manually searching, they do the hard work for you by
automatically searching eBay for you and then when somebody lists the exact
item you want, they locate it and send you an email or text message with a
link!
More at:http://www.stuffalert.com/
StuffAlert is an exciting new service that's designed to make it easier to
locate hard to find items or items that are likely to become available
sometime in the near future.
How It Works:
STUFF ALERT which is focused on providing enhanced search capability for items that are hard to find on eBay.If there's something specific you want and it's not listed on eBay, they do the searching for you 24/7 until it's found - instead of you having to keep visiting eBay and manually searching, they do the hard work for you by
automatically searching eBay for you and then when somebody lists the exact
item you want, they locate it and send you an email or text message with a
link!
More at:http://www.stuffalert.com/
StockFriend is a new social network for investors that allows you tomake predictions about stocks
What Company Is Offering:
StockFriend is a new social network for investors that allows you tomake predictions about stocks, see others' stock picks,aggregate community opinions, track their performance, and make new friends. By putting together lots of information, from a variety of sources, we hope to provide participants with a way to have fun and learn to make better investment decisions.Stockfriend is for all levels of stock investors. Everyone can share your picks or analysis with friends or track your or others' performance.
Unique Features:
With StockFriend, people can:
Share, Rate, pick and virtual trade stocks.
Browse other people stock picks, profile, performance and learn how to invest.
Manage your portfolio, participate in discussion.
Find, Join and create groups to connect with people who have similar interests.
Become a specialist analyst.
Member benefits:
Real trading environment (enter trades & watch them fill via our data feeds - the same ones used by the brokerages).
Timely reports on your portfolio's performance to help you evaluate & improve.
Full history of your trades.
Proper calculation of your returns over time to gauge your ability.
More at:http://www.stockfriend.com/
StockFriend is a new social network for investors that allows you tomake predictions about stocks, see others' stock picks,aggregate community opinions, track their performance, and make new friends. By putting together lots of information, from a variety of sources, we hope to provide participants with a way to have fun and learn to make better investment decisions.Stockfriend is for all levels of stock investors. Everyone can share your picks or analysis with friends or track your or others' performance.
Unique Features:
With StockFriend, people can:
Share, Rate, pick and virtual trade stocks.
Browse other people stock picks, profile, performance and learn how to invest.
Manage your portfolio, participate in discussion.
Find, Join and create groups to connect with people who have similar interests.
Become a specialist analyst.
Member benefits:
Real trading environment (enter trades & watch them fill via our data feeds - the same ones used by the brokerages).
Timely reports on your portfolio's performance to help you evaluate & improve.
Full history of your trades.
Proper calculation of your returns over time to gauge your ability.
More at:http://www.stockfriend.com/
TennisBusinessWire.com
What Company Is Offering:
TennisBusinessWire.com is a user driven tennis information community. Players, Companies, and Clubs are staying informed on the latest tennis press releases using their blog platform, where tennis entities submit their press release to see what others think about it.
More at:http://tennisbusinesswire.com/
TennisBusinessWire.com is a user driven tennis information community. Players, Companies, and Clubs are staying informed on the latest tennis press releases using their blog platform, where tennis entities submit their press release to see what others think about it.
More at:http://tennisbusinesswire.com/
Club Cooee is a 3D internet communication platform for teenagers
What Company Is Offering:
Club Cooee is a 3D internet communication platform for teenagers who want to meet in a virtual reality to have fun and be creative together.
The core of Club Cooee is an innovative and worldwide unique 3D messenger capable of depicting a realtime and live environment on the user’s Windows desktop – without a surrounding programme window.
How It Works:
The lean Club Cooee 3D messenger client simply turns the depiction of avatars, rooms and items into a user-friendly interface in Windows Vista Widget style. But this unique technology also depicts 3D in Windows XP without any problems.
The users can network online and interact with each other in situations they created themselves. They can chat, watch movies and pictures, listen to music, play together and much more. Their own creativity is top priority.
Constantly updated avatars, furniture items and other articles of daily use make it easy for the users to present themselves and play to the gallery.
The users create their world to their own taste and liking and thus become directors of settings and scenes without restrictions.
More at:http://www.clubcooee.com/
Club Cooee is a 3D internet communication platform for teenagers who want to meet in a virtual reality to have fun and be creative together.
The core of Club Cooee is an innovative and worldwide unique 3D messenger capable of depicting a realtime and live environment on the user’s Windows desktop – without a surrounding programme window.
How It Works:
The lean Club Cooee 3D messenger client simply turns the depiction of avatars, rooms and items into a user-friendly interface in Windows Vista Widget style. But this unique technology also depicts 3D in Windows XP without any problems.
The users can network online and interact with each other in situations they created themselves. They can chat, watch movies and pictures, listen to music, play together and much more. Their own creativity is top priority.
Constantly updated avatars, furniture items and other articles of daily use make it easy for the users to present themselves and play to the gallery.
The users create their world to their own taste and liking and thus become directors of settings and scenes without restrictions.
More at:http://www.clubcooee.com/
Zolve is a comprehensive real estate marketplace that provides business-building tools
What Company Is Offering:
Zolve is a comprehensive real estate marketplace that provides business-building tools and connects practitioners and service providers to earn referrals, further professional development, & share information.
How It Works:
Zolve has created a real estate terminal to harness the referral traffic that flows in & out of real estate markets. From referrals to introductions, questions & answers, Zolve members are working together to increase each other's potential both financially and academically.
Zolve provides networking tools that empower real estate professionals to expand their sphere of influence and connect specifically with others who share similar business interests. Members can increase the value of their sphere of influence exponentially by easily accessing other networks linked to their own.
Zolve members enjoy a safe place where they can share tools in the Share Center, learn from their peers in the Over Coffee Forums, and share their local market expertise with their customers via their own customizable blog. They can also easily keep up with the industry's best writing on The Early Bird and greet new members at the Welcome Mat.
Joining Zolve is FREE with no strings attached; you will not be required to provide payment information. As a free member, you will have full access to every feature of the network.
More at:http://zolve.com/
Zolve is a comprehensive real estate marketplace that provides business-building tools and connects practitioners and service providers to earn referrals, further professional development, & share information.
How It Works:
Zolve has created a real estate terminal to harness the referral traffic that flows in & out of real estate markets. From referrals to introductions, questions & answers, Zolve members are working together to increase each other's potential both financially and academically.
Zolve provides networking tools that empower real estate professionals to expand their sphere of influence and connect specifically with others who share similar business interests. Members can increase the value of their sphere of influence exponentially by easily accessing other networks linked to their own.
Zolve members enjoy a safe place where they can share tools in the Share Center, learn from their peers in the Over Coffee Forums, and share their local market expertise with their customers via their own customizable blog. They can also easily keep up with the industry's best writing on The Early Bird and greet new members at the Welcome Mat.
Joining Zolve is FREE with no strings attached; you will not be required to provide payment information. As a free member, you will have full access to every feature of the network.
More at:http://zolve.com/
Design Feeds provides easy to use and up to date information on anything design
What Company Is Offering:
Design Feeds provides easy to use and up to date information on anything design. From design inspiration to CSS and coding techniques, it refreshes every 10 minutes and grabs new articles from a growing resource of respected websites.
More at:http://www.designfeeds.com.au/
Design Feeds provides easy to use and up to date information on anything design. From design inspiration to CSS and coding techniques, it refreshes every 10 minutes and grabs new articles from a growing resource of respected websites.
More at:http://www.designfeeds.com.au/
Thursday, December 11, 2008
CompanyLoop is a place to grow your network and build relationships at your company
What Company Is Offering:
CompanyLoop is a place to grow your network and build relationships at your company. With CompanyLoop, you can find the people you need within your company, get introduced to new people at your company, and stay informed on co-workers like never before. Whether you're trying to get your job done faster or accelerate your career, your company network can help.
How It Works:
After joining, you'll be able to view co-workers' profile pages and start building your own. CompanyLoop is a powerful way to share what you're working on and what you've accomplished with your co-workers.
You can also build relationships with co-workers by giving them recognition. Think someone you work with has done a great job? Because CompanyLoop is visible to everyone in your company, co-workers appreciate getting "applauded" and "tagged" on CompanyLoop.
More at:http://www.companyloop.com/
CompanyLoop is a place to grow your network and build relationships at your company. With CompanyLoop, you can find the people you need within your company, get introduced to new people at your company, and stay informed on co-workers like never before. Whether you're trying to get your job done faster or accelerate your career, your company network can help.
How It Works:
After joining, you'll be able to view co-workers' profile pages and start building your own. CompanyLoop is a powerful way to share what you're working on and what you've accomplished with your co-workers.
You can also build relationships with co-workers by giving them recognition. Think someone you work with has done a great job? Because CompanyLoop is visible to everyone in your company, co-workers appreciate getting "applauded" and "tagged" on CompanyLoop.
More at:http://www.companyloop.com/
BuzzShout tracks the hottest web technology companies through listings, social reviews, and editorials
What Company Is Offering:
BuzzShout tracks the hottest web technology companies through listings, social reviews, and editorials.Each review on BuzzShout can be shouted for. If you find a review particularly useful, interesting, or just plain hilarious, Shout It! This way, it'll be easy to separate the good reviews from the chaff.
How To Use It:
Try to keep reviews relevant to the company in question. Do not use reviews solely as a billboard for promoting a rival company.
Talk about its features: What do you like? What don't you like? Be specific.
If you hate the company and its services, don't just rant about it. Make a suggestion! In addition to their search bar on the top of the page, they also have some YubNub commands. Simply use the command "bsh mysearchterm" or "buzzshout mysearchterm" to search BuzzShout.
YubNub allows users to easily and quickly invoke "web commands", like searching BuzzShout.
More at:http://www.buzzshout.com/
BuzzShout tracks the hottest web technology companies through listings, social reviews, and editorials.Each review on BuzzShout can be shouted for. If you find a review particularly useful, interesting, or just plain hilarious, Shout It! This way, it'll be easy to separate the good reviews from the chaff.
How To Use It:
Try to keep reviews relevant to the company in question. Do not use reviews solely as a billboard for promoting a rival company.
Talk about its features: What do you like? What don't you like? Be specific.
If you hate the company and its services, don't just rant about it. Make a suggestion! In addition to their search bar on the top of the page, they also have some YubNub commands. Simply use the command "bsh mysearchterm" or "buzzshout mysearchterm" to search BuzzShout.
YubNub allows users to easily and quickly invoke "web commands", like searching BuzzShout.
More at:http://www.buzzshout.com/
Give Real is the best way to buy your friend a drink online and through Facebook
What Company Is Offering:
Give Real is the best way to buy your friend a drink online and through Facebook. While other services limit your fun to just virtual drinks or “participating establishments,” Give Real lets you send Real Drinks that your friends redeem at ANY Bar or Restaurant in the United States.
How Is It Different:
A fun and unique gifting alternative, Give Real conveniently applies drink credits to your own credit or debit card. There's no gift card to wait for in the mail, no coupon to print out, and no code to present.
Complete a one-time account setup with Give Real in less than five minutes, and you're good to go! The next time you're out, our system verifies that you bought something at a Bar or Restaurant with your card, then credits you for the value of your gift. You'll automatically receive the drink credit when the transaction posts to your account, usually in 3-5 days.
More at:http://www.givereal.com/
Give Real is the best way to buy your friend a drink online and through Facebook. While other services limit your fun to just virtual drinks or “participating establishments,” Give Real lets you send Real Drinks that your friends redeem at ANY Bar or Restaurant in the United States.
How Is It Different:
A fun and unique gifting alternative, Give Real conveniently applies drink credits to your own credit or debit card. There's no gift card to wait for in the mail, no coupon to print out, and no code to present.
Complete a one-time account setup with Give Real in less than five minutes, and you're good to go! The next time you're out, our system verifies that you bought something at a Bar or Restaurant with your card, then credits you for the value of your gift. You'll automatically receive the drink credit when the transaction posts to your account, usually in 3-5 days.
More at:http://www.givereal.com/
ZingSale.com is a free service that enables bargain hunters to find price discounts on the web
What Company Is Offering:
ZingSale.com is a free service that enables bargain hunters to find price discounts on the web. Users simply specify the items they want and how much they would like to pay and ZingSale.com does the rest — scouring millions of products from thousands of online merchants until it finds the requested discount. ZingSale.com is fun and easy to use and requires no upfront registration or software to install.
How It Works:
Once you find a product on ZingSale that you would like to them to watch for you, just click the "Zing It" button. You will then be asked for your email address, which they need so they can tell you know when that item goes on sale!
Once you give them your email address your account is created! Afterwards, be sure to check your email for a welcome message from them which will have instructions on how to access your account, set up a password, and manage your alerts.
Once a ZingSale alert has been created, the system will add that product to the monitoring queue. ZingSale continually watches our network on online merchants for lower prices, and when your desired product is available at or below your desired price, you will receive an email notification.
More at:http://www.zingsale.com/
ZingSale.com is a free service that enables bargain hunters to find price discounts on the web. Users simply specify the items they want and how much they would like to pay and ZingSale.com does the rest — scouring millions of products from thousands of online merchants until it finds the requested discount. ZingSale.com is fun and easy to use and requires no upfront registration or software to install.
How It Works:
Once you find a product on ZingSale that you would like to them to watch for you, just click the "Zing It" button. You will then be asked for your email address, which they need so they can tell you know when that item goes on sale!
Once you give them your email address your account is created! Afterwards, be sure to check your email for a welcome message from them which will have instructions on how to access your account, set up a password, and manage your alerts.
Once a ZingSale alert has been created, the system will add that product to the monitoring queue. ZingSale continually watches our network on online merchants for lower prices, and when your desired product is available at or below your desired price, you will receive an email notification.
More at:http://www.zingsale.com/
Subscribe to your favorite websites with Notifixious
What Company Is Offering:
Subscribe to your favorite websites with Notifixious, and you will be notified when new content is available.
How It Works:
1. Enter a website to subscribe.2Tell them how to notify you
It can either be your email address, your cell-phone number, or your login on your favorite Instant Messaging network.3.Everytime there is something new on your favorite site, they will send you a notification. It's "pushed" to you so that you don't have to "pull" it! Just signup to discover more, and subscribe in one click to the websites that you like!
More at:http://notifixio.us/
Subscribe to your favorite websites with Notifixious, and you will be notified when new content is available.
How It Works:
1. Enter a website to subscribe.2Tell them how to notify you
It can either be your email address, your cell-phone number, or your login on your favorite Instant Messaging network.3.Everytime there is something new on your favorite site, they will send you a notification. It's "pushed" to you so that you don't have to "pull" it! Just signup to discover more, and subscribe in one click to the websites that you like!
More at:http://notifixio.us/
SongSeek is music service that allows you to search and stream music online
What Company Is Offering:
SongSeek is music service that allows you to search and stream music online. You can create playlists of your favorite tracks and easily share them by generating widgets that can be embedded on to your blog or personal (Facebook, MySpace, Blogger or hi5) webpage.
Unique Features:
It has many features, such as: - Find and stream music online. - Create playlists with you favorite tracks ( Registration needed). - Generate embeddable widgets of your playlists. - Embed those widgets on to your blog or personal (Facebook, MySpace, Blogger or hi5) webpage. - Customize Widgets: Color, enable/disable repeat and shuffle. - Easily rearrange song order in your play lists.
More at:http://www.songseek.net/
SongSeek is music service that allows you to search and stream music online. You can create playlists of your favorite tracks and easily share them by generating widgets that can be embedded on to your blog or personal (Facebook, MySpace, Blogger or hi5) webpage.
Unique Features:
It has many features, such as: - Find and stream music online. - Create playlists with you favorite tracks ( Registration needed). - Generate embeddable widgets of your playlists. - Embed those widgets on to your blog or personal (Facebook, MySpace, Blogger or hi5) webpage. - Customize Widgets: Color, enable/disable repeat and shuffle. - Easily rearrange song order in your play lists.
More at:http://www.songseek.net/
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Bite2Eat.com ---Ordering on-line
What Company Is Offering:
Bite2Eat.com wants to make interacting with restaurants as convenient and natural as the on-line banking or shopping you've gotten accustomed to. Ordering on-line - especially using Buddy Orders to order with a group of friends or colleagues - is easy, quick and more relaxing that doing it by phone using a paper take-out menu.
If you're a restaurant owner or manager, they have a short video to get you into the mood. As the racing in your heart subsides, you can sign up to begin getting orders right here. If you're a customer and your favorite restaurants are, sadly, not yet listed with a live menu, let them know and they'll get the restaurant into their network. It's just one of those "everybody wins" situations.
Bite2Eat is simply a way to meet new customers and make ordering simple for existing ones. They just take a small commission for bringing them the business (it's free to you, of course, and costs them nothing to sign up). They get new, unintimidating and non-intrusive technology that sends the orders over to them using whatever method they prefer - phone, fax or computer.
More at:http://www.bite2eat.com/
Bite2Eat.com wants to make interacting with restaurants as convenient and natural as the on-line banking or shopping you've gotten accustomed to. Ordering on-line - especially using Buddy Orders to order with a group of friends or colleagues - is easy, quick and more relaxing that doing it by phone using a paper take-out menu.
If you're a restaurant owner or manager, they have a short video to get you into the mood. As the racing in your heart subsides, you can sign up to begin getting orders right here. If you're a customer and your favorite restaurants are, sadly, not yet listed with a live menu, let them know and they'll get the restaurant into their network. It's just one of those "everybody wins" situations.
Bite2Eat is simply a way to meet new customers and make ordering simple for existing ones. They just take a small commission for bringing them the business (it's free to you, of course, and costs them nothing to sign up). They get new, unintimidating and non-intrusive technology that sends the orders over to them using whatever method they prefer - phone, fax or computer.
More at:http://www.bite2eat.com/
Veodia's agile platform put your work in motion
What Company Is Offering:
Veodia's agile platform-as-a-service empowers people to enhance their communications with simple-to-use, high-quality, live and on-demand video. Veodia is agile because it works for you in the way that you want.
Veodia provides the best of both worlds: individuals are up and broadcasting in three simple steps, while organizations can rely on a secure, scalable end-to-end solution and easily integrate Veodia into their existing environments (including - among others - WebEx Connect and Jive Clearspace).
Unique Features:
Connect with prospects via differentiated outreach videos and product demos.
Keep your team 'on message' with best-practices videos of high performers.
Close customers rapidly with "reasons to buy" videos.
Generate leads with videos that highlight your offerings.
Increase marketing ROI with targeted video communications.
Bring case studies to life with compelling customer videos.
More at:http://www.veodia.com/
Veodia's agile platform-as-a-service empowers people to enhance their communications with simple-to-use, high-quality, live and on-demand video. Veodia is agile because it works for you in the way that you want.
Veodia provides the best of both worlds: individuals are up and broadcasting in three simple steps, while organizations can rely on a secure, scalable end-to-end solution and easily integrate Veodia into their existing environments (including - among others - WebEx Connect and Jive Clearspace).
Unique Features:
Connect with prospects via differentiated outreach videos and product demos.
Keep your team 'on message' with best-practices videos of high performers.
Close customers rapidly with "reasons to buy" videos.
Generate leads with videos that highlight your offerings.
Increase marketing ROI with targeted video communications.
Bring case studies to life with compelling customer videos.
More at:http://www.veodia.com/
ArmchairGM aims to be the ultimate community of sports fans --Sportswiki
What Company Is Offering:
ArmchairGM aims to be the ultimate community of sports fans -- a place where fans of games ranging from baseball and football to auto racing and mixed martial arts can congregate around a common theme: Fans rule. They're using MediaWiki -- the same software as Wikipedia -- because they believe in open doors. Any fan should be able to participate, and at ArmchairGM, any and all sports fans are welcome to join the community.
How It Works:
Any sports fan can add stuff for other sports fans to read, watch, and enjoy.Its sports encyclopedia has articles dealing with mainstream American sports and players but expands to more esoteric endeavors such as Japanese baseball (see, for example, all-star Kosuke Fukudome's entry) and snooker players like Ronnie O'Sullivan.
Unlike Wikipedia, though, the encyclopedia is built with sports fans in mind. Fans can embed flash videos such as YouTube clips into pages and build virtual multimedia directories. Encyclopedia entries have links to opinion content written on ArmchairGM, giving fans not just the facts, but also the red meat that sports fans crave.
More at:http://armchairgm.wikia.com/
ArmchairGM aims to be the ultimate community of sports fans -- a place where fans of games ranging from baseball and football to auto racing and mixed martial arts can congregate around a common theme: Fans rule. They're using MediaWiki -- the same software as Wikipedia -- because they believe in open doors. Any fan should be able to participate, and at ArmchairGM, any and all sports fans are welcome to join the community.
How It Works:
Any sports fan can add stuff for other sports fans to read, watch, and enjoy.Its sports encyclopedia has articles dealing with mainstream American sports and players but expands to more esoteric endeavors such as Japanese baseball (see, for example, all-star Kosuke Fukudome's entry) and snooker players like Ronnie O'Sullivan.
Unlike Wikipedia, though, the encyclopedia is built with sports fans in mind. Fans can embed flash videos such as YouTube clips into pages and build virtual multimedia directories. Encyclopedia entries have links to opinion content written on ArmchairGM, giving fans not just the facts, but also the red meat that sports fans crave.
More at:http://armchairgm.wikia.com/
Shout'Em is platform on which you can easily start co-branded microbloging social networking service
What Company Is Offering:
Shout'Em is platform on which you can easily start co-branded microbloging social networking service. Something simple as Twitter or with more features like Pownce. It is up to you :)
Networks on Shout'Em are "lightweight social networks". They have small set of features: microblogging, links and photo sharing, geo location sharing and mobile browser support.
They belive that microblogging concept is more suitable for small comunities loking for simple service to comunicate than existing social networks with tons of features.
To customers Shout'Em enables taking care only of the fun part. Naming, colors, design, promotion etc... They take care of all other technical details and provide scalable and reliable software.
How It Works:
Just login and type in the name of your network, url choose, language and you're done.
In your admin interface you choose which features, look and feel, skin you want. You can make it look completely different with few mouse clicks.
With custom skins you can make it look like the part of your existing web site.
More at:http://www.shoutem.com/
Shout'Em is platform on which you can easily start co-branded microbloging social networking service. Something simple as Twitter or with more features like Pownce. It is up to you :)
Networks on Shout'Em are "lightweight social networks". They have small set of features: microblogging, links and photo sharing, geo location sharing and mobile browser support.
They belive that microblogging concept is more suitable for small comunities loking for simple service to comunicate than existing social networks with tons of features.
To customers Shout'Em enables taking care only of the fun part. Naming, colors, design, promotion etc... They take care of all other technical details and provide scalable and reliable software.
How It Works:
Just login and type in the name of your network, url choose, language and you're done.
In your admin interface you choose which features, look and feel, skin you want. You can make it look completely different with few mouse clicks.
With custom skins you can make it look like the part of your existing web site.
More at:http://www.shoutem.com/
Zookel aims to benefit both sides of the recruitment equation
What Company Is Offering:
Zookel aims to benefit both sides of the recruitment equation by:
Allowing candidates to use psychological profiling tools to gain more insight into their career motivations, needs, and strengths.
Harnessing the power of existing social networks (including Facebook, LinkedIn etc) to provide candidates with more opportunities (including unpublicised ones), and to provide employers with the tools to tackle the Holy Grail of recruitment – employee referrals.
How It Works:
Giving candidates the opportunity to film a video CV to showcase their personality, explain their career progression, and highlight what they’re looking for. In a business environment where communication is critical, video CV’s represent the future.
Presenting candidates with a range of additional tools, including 3.9 million company profiles & hundreds of salary benchmarks, allowing them to be better informed and more prepared for interviews and / or job offers.
Allowing companies to manage their own corporate recruitment profile.
More at:http://www.zookel.com/
Zookel aims to benefit both sides of the recruitment equation by:
Allowing candidates to use psychological profiling tools to gain more insight into their career motivations, needs, and strengths.
Harnessing the power of existing social networks (including Facebook, LinkedIn etc) to provide candidates with more opportunities (including unpublicised ones), and to provide employers with the tools to tackle the Holy Grail of recruitment – employee referrals.
How It Works:
Giving candidates the opportunity to film a video CV to showcase their personality, explain their career progression, and highlight what they’re looking for. In a business environment where communication is critical, video CV’s represent the future.
Presenting candidates with a range of additional tools, including 3.9 million company profiles & hundreds of salary benchmarks, allowing them to be better informed and more prepared for interviews and / or job offers.
Allowing companies to manage their own corporate recruitment profile.
More at:http://www.zookel.com/
You Wish - an online marketplace which allows you to state exactly what you want and then get personal responses from business
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Tuesday, December 9, 2008
ePathChina .com is a global manufacturer and sourcing center of electronic products
What Company Is Offering:
ePathChina.com is the best electronics wholesaler in China,you can see lots kind electronics products at here,if you need some gadgets,epathchina is the best choice for you.
ePathChina Limited is a global manufacturer and sourcing center of electronic products. They works for providing for all business persons, such as ebay sellers, distributors, store owners, retailers, drop shippers and small wholesalers with high quality goods at a competitive price. Their cost savings are passed along to their customers as your profit. Abiding by the principle of "Super Quality, Satisfactory Services", they are striving hard to be your good business partner. Buy discount Chinese electronics on their online wholesale shop now, it will be your best deal.
More at:http://www.epathchina.com/
MyWikiBiz is a new directory where you can author your legacy on the Internet
What Company Is Offering:
MyWikiBiz is a new directory where you can author your legacy on the Internet. Even if Wikipedia has rejected an article about you or your enterprise as being "non-notable". With MyWikiBiz, you create a beautiful, reader-friendly page that will get picked up by Google, Yahoo!, and MSN Search engines.
How Is It Different:
Unlike traditional encyclopedias, you may protect your advocate point-of-view. Which means you can say what you want about yourself or your business, without fear of someone else coming along and messing up your work.
You earn money here. Author a really popular page, embed your own Google AdSense ads on it, and you keep 100% of the revenues generated from that page's advertising... for the rest of your life.
Sell your products and services here. If you're an artist, sell your paintings. If you're an author, sell your books. If you're an attorney, proffer your services. (Those are just a few "a" occupations -- imagine what's possible with "b" through "z"!)
Showcase maps, videos, games, and information widgets on your pages. You can't do that on Wikipedia!
More at:http://www.mywikibiz.com/
MyWikiBiz is a new directory where you can author your legacy on the Internet. Even if Wikipedia has rejected an article about you or your enterprise as being "non-notable". With MyWikiBiz, you create a beautiful, reader-friendly page that will get picked up by Google, Yahoo!, and MSN Search engines.
How Is It Different:
Unlike traditional encyclopedias, you may protect your advocate point-of-view. Which means you can say what you want about yourself or your business, without fear of someone else coming along and messing up your work.
You earn money here. Author a really popular page, embed your own Google AdSense ads on it, and you keep 100% of the revenues generated from that page's advertising... for the rest of your life.
Sell your products and services here. If you're an artist, sell your paintings. If you're an author, sell your books. If you're an attorney, proffer your services. (Those are just a few "a" occupations -- imagine what's possible with "b" through "z"!)
Showcase maps, videos, games, and information widgets on your pages. You can't do that on Wikipedia!
More at:http://www.mywikibiz.com/
Tapatap is "Your Contest Community" offering infinite contests for fun and prizes
What Company Is Offering:
Tapatap is "Your Contest Community" offering infinite contests for fun and prizes. Create your own contests to share and enter your photos to win. Explore the community and see how your votes stack up. Tap enough points and take home some goodies!
Tapatap is a mobile social gaming leader - delivering mobile and web sites where users can create, enter and play user generated or sponsored games by some of today's major consumer brands. Tapatap is the first social gaming company on both the mobile and web that gives consumers the opportunity to play for fun and prizes. Harnessing the power of mobile 2.0, Tapatap combines pop culture and game show logic, to deliver the most unique consumer mobile entertainment experience.
How It Works:
Get started by first creating a profile. Then you can start tapping (voting in contests, submitting photos into contests, or creating your own contests)! Don't forget to invite your friends!
You can create a profile by clicking on Join Now and entering your information. Creating your own contests is one of the best ways to get involved in the Tapatap community. Contests are what keep Tapatap fun and interesting! You can create either open contests (anyone can submit photos) or closed contests (only you can submit photos).
More at:http://www.tapatap.com/
Tapatap is "Your Contest Community" offering infinite contests for fun and prizes. Create your own contests to share and enter your photos to win. Explore the community and see how your votes stack up. Tap enough points and take home some goodies!
Tapatap is a mobile social gaming leader - delivering mobile and web sites where users can create, enter and play user generated or sponsored games by some of today's major consumer brands. Tapatap is the first social gaming company on both the mobile and web that gives consumers the opportunity to play for fun and prizes. Harnessing the power of mobile 2.0, Tapatap combines pop culture and game show logic, to deliver the most unique consumer mobile entertainment experience.
How It Works:
Get started by first creating a profile. Then you can start tapping (voting in contests, submitting photos into contests, or creating your own contests)! Don't forget to invite your friends!
You can create a profile by clicking on Join Now and entering your information. Creating your own contests is one of the best ways to get involved in the Tapatap community. Contests are what keep Tapatap fun and interesting! You can create either open contests (anyone can submit photos) or closed contests (only you can submit photos).
More at:http://www.tapatap.com/
Trivago---Find useful information to help you plan your next vacation or business trip
What Company Is Offering:
At trivago you can find useful information to help you plan your next vacation or business trip. You will find reviews from other people who have already visited your destination or stayed in the hotel, holiday home, etc., that you are looking for.
Browse through the different categories or search for a specific hotel, and after you return from your trip feel free to tell us about your experience. It will surely help other travellers...
More at:http://www.trivago.co.uk/
At trivago you can find useful information to help you plan your next vacation or business trip. You will find reviews from other people who have already visited your destination or stayed in the hotel, holiday home, etc., that you are looking for.
Browse through the different categories or search for a specific hotel, and after you return from your trip feel free to tell us about your experience. It will surely help other travellers...
More at:http://www.trivago.co.uk/
Yahoo! GeoPlanet helps bridge the gap between the real and virtual worlds
What Company Is Offering:
Yahoo! GeoPlanet helps bridge the gap between the real and virtual worlds by providing an open, permanent, and intelligent infrastructure for geo-referencing data on the Internet.
How It Works:
Yahoo! GeoPlanet is a resource for managing all geo-permanent named places on Earth. It provides the geographic developer community with the vocabulary and grammar to describe the world's geography in an unequivocal, permanent, and language-neutral manner. Developers can geo-enable their applications by using GeoPlanet to traverse the global spatial hierarchy, identify the geography relevant to their users and their businesses, and in turn, unambiguously geotag, geotarget, and geolocate data across the Web.
More at:http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/
Yahoo! GeoPlanet helps bridge the gap between the real and virtual worlds by providing an open, permanent, and intelligent infrastructure for geo-referencing data on the Internet.
How It Works:
Yahoo! GeoPlanet is a resource for managing all geo-permanent named places on Earth. It provides the geographic developer community with the vocabulary and grammar to describe the world's geography in an unequivocal, permanent, and language-neutral manner. Developers can geo-enable their applications by using GeoPlanet to traverse the global spatial hierarchy, identify the geography relevant to their users and their businesses, and in turn, unambiguously geotag, geotarget, and geolocate data across the Web.
More at:http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/
Fasteagle is presenting an editorial selection of websites and search tools
What Company Is Offering:
Fasteagle is a web workspace presenting an editorial selection of websites and search tools in a convenient interface. Direct online contents and are fully browseable and displayed inside a frame. Unlike most startpages like myYahoo, Netvibes or iGoogle, Fasteagle does not aggregates RSS, feeds or widgets; instead, it directly links to actual content or conveniently displayed inside their site.
Unique Features:
One-click to useful and handy Internet tools.
Easily find almost any kind of information or media existing on the web.
Discover web content not indexed on main search engines.
Query 200+ search providers from one single site, without having to retype your search terms every time.
Compare results for the same terms at different search engines
Keep up-to-date on new note-worthy websites and online tools.
Conduct serious academic research.
Easily reach vertical search engines and Invisible (deep) Web tools.
More at:http://www.fasteagle.com/
Fasteagle is a web workspace presenting an editorial selection of websites and search tools in a convenient interface. Direct online contents and are fully browseable and displayed inside a frame. Unlike most startpages like myYahoo, Netvibes or iGoogle, Fasteagle does not aggregates RSS, feeds or widgets; instead, it directly links to actual content or conveniently displayed inside their site.
Unique Features:
One-click to useful and handy Internet tools.
Easily find almost any kind of information or media existing on the web.
Discover web content not indexed on main search engines.
Query 200+ search providers from one single site, without having to retype your search terms every time.
Compare results for the same terms at different search engines
Keep up-to-date on new note-worthy websites and online tools.
Conduct serious academic research.
Easily reach vertical search engines and Invisible (deep) Web tools.
More at:http://www.fasteagle.com/
Monday, December 8, 2008
unblab.com---An inbox that learns
What Company Is Offering:
Spend less time inside your email inbox and more time ______ing.
Unique Features:
An inbox that learns.For a short time, its software will track the way you organize your inbox and then, if you choose, their software will take over and do the organizing for you! This gives you all the benefits of a clean and tidy inbox, with none of the work.
A refreshing interface. Box view has revolutionized the way you'll read your email. Much like the divided columns of a newspaper or a series of sticky notes, the Unblab interface allows you to scan for what's important and then gracefully focus in once you've found it.
The snooze feature is perfect for emails that aren't a priority at the moment but that you don't want to forget about. Slap the snooze button on a message, just like you would your alarm clock. It'll come back around when you're ready.
Umm-brella helps you focus. Umm-brella helps you focusUmm-brella protects your inbox from overly wordy emails that can dampen your work pace. This feature allows you to set a character limit on incoming emails, limiting a would-be blabber to an email no longer than a text message.
ReachWall keeps you safe.ReachWall protects your inbox by letting you keep your email address hidden. Rather than give everyone your email address, you can advertise your ReachWall as your initial point of contact.
More at:http://unblab.com/
Spend less time inside your email inbox and more time ______ing.
Unique Features:
An inbox that learns.For a short time, its software will track the way you organize your inbox and then, if you choose, their software will take over and do the organizing for you! This gives you all the benefits of a clean and tidy inbox, with none of the work.
A refreshing interface. Box view has revolutionized the way you'll read your email. Much like the divided columns of a newspaper or a series of sticky notes, the Unblab interface allows you to scan for what's important and then gracefully focus in once you've found it.
The snooze feature is perfect for emails that aren't a priority at the moment but that you don't want to forget about. Slap the snooze button on a message, just like you would your alarm clock. It'll come back around when you're ready.
Umm-brella helps you focus. Umm-brella helps you focusUmm-brella protects your inbox from overly wordy emails that can dampen your work pace. This feature allows you to set a character limit on incoming emails, limiting a would-be blabber to an email no longer than a text message.
ReachWall keeps you safe.ReachWall protects your inbox by letting you keep your email address hidden. Rather than give everyone your email address, you can advertise your ReachWall as your initial point of contact.
More at:http://unblab.com/
Jobs in Pods, the internet’s first ever audio recruitment platform
What Company Is Offering:
Jobs in Pods, the internet’s first ever audio recruitment platform. Jobs in Pods is a place to actually hear from the employers themselves through audio interviews with their HR managers/employees.
These “jobcasts” give you unique insight into different aspects of the company such as:What it’s like to work there, the kinds of people they hire, the benefits they offer and what their ideal candidate is like.
How It Works:
At the end of each podcast you’ll be instructed on how and where to apply to the jobs you just heard about. Each podcast comes with a blog post which lists all the relevant links and information about the employer and their job listings.
You can search this site just like a job board. Each podcast is categorized by the types of jobs mentioned and their location. Visit the job categories to the right to browse the ‘jobcasts‘ and find the ones that interest you.
There are also a number of ways to stay updated on new podcasts by subscribing to their RSS feeds. Each job category also comes with its own feed so that you can subscribe to just the ones that interest you.
You can also download the MP3 files to your computer or iPod.
For employers this site represents a new way to talk to the iPod generation of job candidates coming your way. If you have any questions about using our site, please use the contact form.
More at:http://jobsinpods.com/
Jobs in Pods, the internet’s first ever audio recruitment platform. Jobs in Pods is a place to actually hear from the employers themselves through audio interviews with their HR managers/employees.
These “jobcasts” give you unique insight into different aspects of the company such as:What it’s like to work there, the kinds of people they hire, the benefits they offer and what their ideal candidate is like.
How It Works:
At the end of each podcast you’ll be instructed on how and where to apply to the jobs you just heard about. Each podcast comes with a blog post which lists all the relevant links and information about the employer and their job listings.
You can search this site just like a job board. Each podcast is categorized by the types of jobs mentioned and their location. Visit the job categories to the right to browse the ‘jobcasts‘ and find the ones that interest you.
There are also a number of ways to stay updated on new podcasts by subscribing to their RSS feeds. Each job category also comes with its own feed so that you can subscribe to just the ones that interest you.
You can also download the MP3 files to your computer or iPod.
For employers this site represents a new way to talk to the iPod generation of job candidates coming your way. If you have any questions about using our site, please use the contact form.
More at:http://jobsinpods.com/
A webmark marks a location on the web, just like a bookmark marks a location in a book
What Company Is Offering:
A webmark marks a location on the web, just like a bookmark marks a location in a book. It's a web page, whose address you want to remember for some reason. Webmarks are often called bookmarks or favorites, especially when the webmark itself is stored offline on your PC.A1-Webmarks is a free service that combines the convenience of a personal webmark server with the power of social webmarking.
More at:http://www.a1-webmarks.com/
A webmark marks a location on the web, just like a bookmark marks a location in a book. It's a web page, whose address you want to remember for some reason. Webmarks are often called bookmarks or favorites, especially when the webmark itself is stored offline on your PC.A1-Webmarks is a free service that combines the convenience of a personal webmark server with the power of social webmarking.
More at:http://www.a1-webmarks.com/
Factbites.com---Where Results Make Sense
What Company Is Offering:
Factbites, a new approach to search. Under the slogan "where results make sense", Factbites provides searchers with full sentences about their search topic, rather than the sentence fragments most search engines offer.
Rather than focusing on link-based technology like Google, Factbites delves into the tone and subject matter of the given topic.
How It Works:
The engine "reads" the content of each page and determines how meaningful the text is. It seeks out authoritative and informative content, preferring encyclopedia-style fact-based descriptions to the chatty, spammy and inconsequential.
The end result is a clean summary you can almost read from beginning to end. Not only is this an effective filter against spam and clutter, it's also a time saver, because it gives users a clear picture of what each destination site is about. For encyclopedia-style content, the site makes some large claims. The website challenges users to compare Factbites results to Google results at Factbites vs. Google. When searching for quick information on the sort of things you'd usually go to an encyclopedia for, the results are surprisingly clear - Factbites wins hands down.
More at:http://www.factbites.com/
Factbites, a new approach to search. Under the slogan "where results make sense", Factbites provides searchers with full sentences about their search topic, rather than the sentence fragments most search engines offer.
Rather than focusing on link-based technology like Google, Factbites delves into the tone and subject matter of the given topic.
How It Works:
The engine "reads" the content of each page and determines how meaningful the text is. It seeks out authoritative and informative content, preferring encyclopedia-style fact-based descriptions to the chatty, spammy and inconsequential.
The end result is a clean summary you can almost read from beginning to end. Not only is this an effective filter against spam and clutter, it's also a time saver, because it gives users a clear picture of what each destination site is about. For encyclopedia-style content, the site makes some large claims. The website challenges users to compare Factbites results to Google results at Factbites vs. Google. When searching for quick information on the sort of things you'd usually go to an encyclopedia for, the results are surprisingly clear - Factbites wins hands down.
More at:http://www.factbites.com/
BlogPulse is an automated trend discovery system for blogs
What Company Is Offering:
BlogPulse is an automated trend discovery system for blogs. Blogs, a term that is short for weblogs, represent the fastest-growing medium of personal publishing and the newest method of individual expression and opinion on the Internet. BlogPulse applies machine-learning and natural-language processing techniques to discover trends in the highly dynamic world of blogs.
How It Works:
BlogPulse.com is a blog search engine that also analyzes and reports on daily activity in the blogosphere. BlogPulse searches content posted on weblogs, or blogs. BlogPulse is NOT a general World Wide Web search engine. Users can search by link (URL), keyword, phrase, boolean query, and date range.
Simply enter your search terms to locate blog entries containing those words. Click on Search Help if you want to know more about specific search features available on BlogPulse. When your search is complete, BlogPulse also offers a one-click function to create a trend graph of your search results, to receive RSS feeds for the search, to track conversation from the results or to view that blogger's profile.
More at:http://www.blogpulse.com/
BlogPulse is an automated trend discovery system for blogs. Blogs, a term that is short for weblogs, represent the fastest-growing medium of personal publishing and the newest method of individual expression and opinion on the Internet. BlogPulse applies machine-learning and natural-language processing techniques to discover trends in the highly dynamic world of blogs.
How It Works:
BlogPulse.com is a blog search engine that also analyzes and reports on daily activity in the blogosphere. BlogPulse searches content posted on weblogs, or blogs. BlogPulse is NOT a general World Wide Web search engine. Users can search by link (URL), keyword, phrase, boolean query, and date range.
Simply enter your search terms to locate blog entries containing those words. Click on Search Help if you want to know more about specific search features available on BlogPulse. When your search is complete, BlogPulse also offers a one-click function to create a trend graph of your search results, to receive RSS feeds for the search, to track conversation from the results or to view that blogger's profile.
More at:http://www.blogpulse.com/
Saturday, December 6, 2008
15 Internet Sites That Can Make or Break Your Brand
Once a brand enters the marketplace, it becomes the subject of many online conversations. Most of the time, these dialogs will stay under the radar and have little or no effect on overall revenue. However, profound business implications can occur for brands that become the topic of discussion on certain influential Web sites. These sites can greatly sway the marketplace in favor or against the brand, heavily influencing customer sentiment and overall sales. The following 15 sites possess such power.
1. Google: With a dominant share of search-engine traffic, Google is almost always a consumer's first stop online to find out more about a brand. The top 10 results returned by Google on a branded search will be perceived by most consumers as the prevailing public opinion about a brand, and the tone of these results can greatly influence whether or not a sale will be made. Google’s first-page results are so critical to business success that a whole industry has been created around the concept of online reputation management, and many businesses use online- reputation-management software to monitor brand discussions and, if necessary, engage brand detractors with the the goal of removing negative brand mentions from search results (or at least pushing them lower).
Power Example: Far fewer people would have been ripped off by multilevel marketing schemes had they entered them into Google first.
2. YouTube: Well over half of Web surfers watch videos online, and YouTube holds a dominant position as the top Internet video destination. Businesses should realize that brand evangelists (and detractors) make and post videos on YouTube, and that the videos that are creative and clever enough to go viral can reach millions of viewers and potential customers. For example, Blendtec.com has leveraged a popular series of creative “Will It Blend” videos into incredible brand awareness and business success. Similar to monitoring search results, companies should monitor YouTube for videos about their brand for online-reputation-management purposes.
Power Example: One wouldn’t think that a video that encourages men to examine themselves for possible testicular cancer could become superpopular and go viral, but this one did.
3. Amazon.com Inc.: Amazon.com is the most popular online retail destination, and a Google search on the name of almost every product available online will return an Amazon.com product page as one of the top results. Consumers visit Amazon.com (even if they buy elsewhere) because no other Web site offers such a large number of trusted product reviews from previous product buyers. The consumer sentiment for a particular product will directly impact sales not only at Amazon.com but across the Web. Brand managers can quickly measure the health of their brand by reading Amazon.com reviews, and perceptive companies will quickly react and respond to their Amazon.com audience.
Power Example: Were you planning to buy the DVD of the "Ron White Show"? Don’t bother.
4. Wikipedia: Wikipedia is the de facto online reference encyclopedia that allows anyone to create or edit an entry — provided that their contribution meets site standards. Wikipedia pages almost always rank on the first page of search-engine results. This means that if your brand has a Wikipedia page, it will generate a lot of search-engine visits, and the content will be trusted because Wikipedia is considered to be an impartial source of information. While obvious emotional or commercial pitches about your brand will be quickly removed by Wikipedia editors, information pertaining to your brand that can be objectively sourced from “reputable” Web sites will likely stick. And if this information is negative or critical, your brand will be affected.
Power Example(s): Hoaxes abound on Wikipedia, and though they can be corrected, they still have the power to damage your brand. Examples that received tremendous publicity include George Washington did what?, Sinbad’s (the comedian) death and the John Siegenthaler incident.
5. Facebook: Facebook is the top social-networking Web site for adults and professionals. Prominent Facebook members with large numbers of friends wield tremendous brand influence, because when they post an opinion about a product or a service that they have used, it will be seen by their friends via Facebook's friend feeds. In addition, there are many popular Facebook applications that allow people to voice opinions on a wide variety of subjects (such as films and books) that will be broadcast throughout the Facebook network. Facebook also offers brands the opportunity to create engaging, clever and fun applications that generate a large amount of goodwill by spreading virally through people's friend networks.
Power Example(s): In conjunction with the release of Bob Dylan’s remixed greatest-hits album, a developer launched a Facebook application that allows users to graft a short message onto the placards within Dylan’s legendary "Subterranean Homesick Blues" video, which they could then send to friends within Facebook. This application has nearly 5,000 Facebook fans, and it got a tremendous amount of positive buzz from Dylan aficiandos. You can check out the Web version here.
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1. Google: With a dominant share of search-engine traffic, Google is almost always a consumer's first stop online to find out more about a brand. The top 10 results returned by Google on a branded search will be perceived by most consumers as the prevailing public opinion about a brand, and the tone of these results can greatly influence whether or not a sale will be made. Google’s first-page results are so critical to business success that a whole industry has been created around the concept of online reputation management, and many businesses use online- reputation-management software to monitor brand discussions and, if necessary, engage brand detractors with the the goal of removing negative brand mentions from search results (or at least pushing them lower).
Power Example: Far fewer people would have been ripped off by multilevel marketing schemes had they entered them into Google first.
2. YouTube: Well over half of Web surfers watch videos online, and YouTube holds a dominant position as the top Internet video destination. Businesses should realize that brand evangelists (and detractors) make and post videos on YouTube, and that the videos that are creative and clever enough to go viral can reach millions of viewers and potential customers. For example, Blendtec.com has leveraged a popular series of creative “Will It Blend” videos into incredible brand awareness and business success. Similar to monitoring search results, companies should monitor YouTube for videos about their brand for online-reputation-management purposes.
Power Example: One wouldn’t think that a video that encourages men to examine themselves for possible testicular cancer could become superpopular and go viral, but this one did.
3. Amazon.com Inc.: Amazon.com is the most popular online retail destination, and a Google search on the name of almost every product available online will return an Amazon.com product page as one of the top results. Consumers visit Amazon.com (even if they buy elsewhere) because no other Web site offers such a large number of trusted product reviews from previous product buyers. The consumer sentiment for a particular product will directly impact sales not only at Amazon.com but across the Web. Brand managers can quickly measure the health of their brand by reading Amazon.com reviews, and perceptive companies will quickly react and respond to their Amazon.com audience.
Power Example: Were you planning to buy the DVD of the "Ron White Show"? Don’t bother.
4. Wikipedia: Wikipedia is the de facto online reference encyclopedia that allows anyone to create or edit an entry — provided that their contribution meets site standards. Wikipedia pages almost always rank on the first page of search-engine results. This means that if your brand has a Wikipedia page, it will generate a lot of search-engine visits, and the content will be trusted because Wikipedia is considered to be an impartial source of information. While obvious emotional or commercial pitches about your brand will be quickly removed by Wikipedia editors, information pertaining to your brand that can be objectively sourced from “reputable” Web sites will likely stick. And if this information is negative or critical, your brand will be affected.
Power Example(s): Hoaxes abound on Wikipedia, and though they can be corrected, they still have the power to damage your brand. Examples that received tremendous publicity include George Washington did what?, Sinbad’s (the comedian) death and the John Siegenthaler incident.
5. Facebook: Facebook is the top social-networking Web site for adults and professionals. Prominent Facebook members with large numbers of friends wield tremendous brand influence, because when they post an opinion about a product or a service that they have used, it will be seen by their friends via Facebook's friend feeds. In addition, there are many popular Facebook applications that allow people to voice opinions on a wide variety of subjects (such as films and books) that will be broadcast throughout the Facebook network. Facebook also offers brands the opportunity to create engaging, clever and fun applications that generate a large amount of goodwill by spreading virally through people's friend networks.
Power Example(s): In conjunction with the release of Bob Dylan’s remixed greatest-hits album, a developer launched a Facebook application that allows users to graft a short message onto the placards within Dylan’s legendary "Subterranean Homesick Blues" video, which they could then send to friends within Facebook. This application has nearly 5,000 Facebook fans, and it got a tremendous amount of positive buzz from Dylan aficiandos. You can check out the Web version here.
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Myrsol Real Estate is a product built for Real Estate Agents
What Company Is Offering:
Myrsol Real Estate CMS (Content Management System) is a product built for Real Estate Agents and offices who demand a quality product that works for them. Their system provides proven results and your return on your investment will be HUGE!
Their product includes everything you would expect a real estate website to have - Powerful property searching, property mapping via Google, RSS/XML Feeds (Trulia, Google Base, Zillow, etc.), integrated Blogs, and much, much more. You can check out an overview of their most popular features or take a picture filled tour of their product.
More at:http://www.myrsol.com/
Myrsol Real Estate CMS (Content Management System) is a product built for Real Estate Agents and offices who demand a quality product that works for them. Their system provides proven results and your return on your investment will be HUGE!
Their product includes everything you would expect a real estate website to have - Powerful property searching, property mapping via Google, RSS/XML Feeds (Trulia, Google Base, Zillow, etc.), integrated Blogs, and much, much more. You can check out an overview of their most popular features or take a picture filled tour of their product.
More at:http://www.myrsol.com/
Hidetext.net lets you convert text to an image
What Company Is Offering:
Hidetext.net lets you convert text to an image. This means you can hide passwords, personal messages, pieces of code, or any kind of private information on forums, blogposts, emails, irc, msn-aim chats.
The created image can be linked to, or you can download the image and delete it directly from the server. HideText doesn't pretend to be much more then a little tool to obfuscate your text and that may just help you out from time to time to hide things. Improve your privacy a little bit. Nothing more nothing less.
More at:http://www.hidetext.net/
Hidetext.net lets you convert text to an image. This means you can hide passwords, personal messages, pieces of code, or any kind of private information on forums, blogposts, emails, irc, msn-aim chats.
The created image can be linked to, or you can download the image and delete it directly from the server. HideText doesn't pretend to be much more then a little tool to obfuscate your text and that may just help you out from time to time to hide things. Improve your privacy a little bit. Nothing more nothing less.
More at:http://www.hidetext.net/
LoomTV is your new access to the online video world
What Company Is Offering:
LoomTV aims to provide better access to the world of online media.LoomTV is your new access to the online video world - the ultimate community for every kind of user-generated television!
How It Works:
Search videos by keywords within the most important video engines at once.Create your own channels and add your favorite music videos, TV series, cartoons, documentaries or whatever you are interested in.Share them with other users by presenting them in your profile, embedding them in your messages or post them in the chat.See what other users are interested in and meet people with related interests.
Enjoy watching your favorite videos non-stop - without clicking from one video to another.
More at:http://www.loom.tv/
LoomTV aims to provide better access to the world of online media.LoomTV is your new access to the online video world - the ultimate community for every kind of user-generated television!
How It Works:
Search videos by keywords within the most important video engines at once.Create your own channels and add your favorite music videos, TV series, cartoons, documentaries or whatever you are interested in.Share them with other users by presenting them in your profile, embedding them in your messages or post them in the chat.See what other users are interested in and meet people with related interests.
Enjoy watching your favorite videos non-stop - without clicking from one video to another.
More at:http://www.loom.tv/
Friday, December 5, 2008
Assessing innovation metrics: McKinsey Global Survey
A recent McKinsey Global Survey shows that companies are satisfied, overall, with their use of metrics to assess innovation portfolios—though many findings suggest that they shouldn’t be. The companies that get the highest returns from innovation do use metrics well; these organizations tend to assess innovation more comprehensively than the others.
Even in the current economic turmoil, innovation remains a high strategic priority for most companies, and many see it as a strong contributor to growth. Yet many also struggle to measure the performance of their innovation portfolios. In a recent McKinsey Global Survey,1 we asked senior executives which types of innovations their companies pursue, which ones they measure and with what metrics, what goals they have in using metrics, and how satisfied they are with the metrics they choose.
Companies reporting the highest contribution to growth from their innovation projects tend to be more interested in pursuing and measuring their innovations as a portfolio and therefore use metrics across the whole innovation process. In the end, they are more satisfied than others with the ability of such metrics to help their organizations do everything from aligning individual performance incentives to improving innovation performance to communicating with investors.
Sixteen percent of the respondents say that their companies don’t use any metrics to assess innovations. Among those that do, most are satisfied overall, though the findings suggest they aren’t effectively using these metrics as well as they could. Most notably, companies are much likelier to rely on metrics for outputs than...
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Even in the current economic turmoil, innovation remains a high strategic priority for most companies, and many see it as a strong contributor to growth. Yet many also struggle to measure the performance of their innovation portfolios. In a recent McKinsey Global Survey,1 we asked senior executives which types of innovations their companies pursue, which ones they measure and with what metrics, what goals they have in using metrics, and how satisfied they are with the metrics they choose.
Companies reporting the highest contribution to growth from their innovation projects tend to be more interested in pursuing and measuring their innovations as a portfolio and therefore use metrics across the whole innovation process. In the end, they are more satisfied than others with the ability of such metrics to help their organizations do everything from aligning individual performance incentives to improving innovation performance to communicating with investors.
Sixteen percent of the respondents say that their companies don’t use any metrics to assess innovations. Among those that do, most are satisfied overall, though the findings suggest they aren’t effectively using these metrics as well as they could. Most notably, companies are much likelier to rely on metrics for outputs than...
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PureWave Networks, Inc has secured $12 million
What Company Is Offering:
PureWave, a Silicon Valley Company, is the world’s leading supplier of high-performance adaptive beamforming 4G base-stations currently supporting standard WiMAX devices, enabling delivery of quadruple-play services (Voice, Video, Data, Mobile). PureWave Networks’ PureMax technology is a multi-beamforming approach that delivers significantly higher capacity and coverage than the competition. PureWave Networks employs a software-defined radio approach which assures that systems built for today’s world can be easily upgradeable in the future.
How Much They Got From VCs:
PureWave Networks, Inc., an innovative provider of advanced, cost-effective 4G wireless base stations, announced that it has secured $12 million in Series B funding. Two new venture funds – ATA Ventures and Leapfrog Ventures - have joined PureWave’s existing investors, which include Allegis Capital and Benhamou Global Ventures, in successfully completing the funding round. The Series B funding will allow PureWave to commercially introduce its advance beam forming WiMAX base stations in North America, the APAC region and other selected markets and to expand its operations.
”PureWave’s strong balance sheet in this challenging economic environment, together with our leading edge product offering, will be the foundation of our future growth," said Gideon Ben-Efraim, PureWave’s CEO and Chairman. “WiMAX and LTE infrastructure are the big growth opportunity in the mobile infrastructure market today and we are positioning the company to be a major player in this space.”
PureWave’s goal is to transform the economics of WiMAX and LTE, through a combination of advanced technology, an innovative product offering and the most cost-effective products available on the market. PureWave offers small form-factor WiMAX base stations, which combine the power, performance and sophisticated features of a traditional macro base station, with the small footprint and competitive pricing of pico base stations.
More at:http://www.pwnets.com/
PureWave, a Silicon Valley Company, is the world’s leading supplier of high-performance adaptive beamforming 4G base-stations currently supporting standard WiMAX devices, enabling delivery of quadruple-play services (Voice, Video, Data, Mobile). PureWave Networks’ PureMax technology is a multi-beamforming approach that delivers significantly higher capacity and coverage than the competition. PureWave Networks employs a software-defined radio approach which assures that systems built for today’s world can be easily upgradeable in the future.
How Much They Got From VCs:
PureWave Networks, Inc., an innovative provider of advanced, cost-effective 4G wireless base stations, announced that it has secured $12 million in Series B funding. Two new venture funds – ATA Ventures and Leapfrog Ventures - have joined PureWave’s existing investors, which include Allegis Capital and Benhamou Global Ventures, in successfully completing the funding round. The Series B funding will allow PureWave to commercially introduce its advance beam forming WiMAX base stations in North America, the APAC region and other selected markets and to expand its operations.
”PureWave’s strong balance sheet in this challenging economic environment, together with our leading edge product offering, will be the foundation of our future growth," said Gideon Ben-Efraim, PureWave’s CEO and Chairman. “WiMAX and LTE infrastructure are the big growth opportunity in the mobile infrastructure market today and we are positioning the company to be a major player in this space.”
PureWave’s goal is to transform the economics of WiMAX and LTE, through a combination of advanced technology, an innovative product offering and the most cost-effective products available on the market. PureWave offers small form-factor WiMAX base stations, which combine the power, performance and sophisticated features of a traditional macro base station, with the small footprint and competitive pricing of pico base stations.
More at:http://www.pwnets.com/
MusicBiatch---Find High-Quality 1 Billion mp3 files
What Company Is Offering:
MusicBiatch is a music search engine designed for locating an audio files in various file sharing and uploading sites.
At present they have 1 billion mp3 files in theirr search database and thousands files are added daily.
How It Works:
As an file sharing search engine MusicBiatch.com finds mp3 files matching your search criteria among the files that has been seen recently in audio uploading sites by our search spider. This information is accumulated in a database. When you execute a MusicBiatch.com search it delivers results from the database.
With its approach to crawling you can find the mp3 files shared on audio uploading sites that the other crawlers miss. Also its search engine collects rich and relevant metadata for each page. As a result, when you search for mp3 files with MusicBiatch, you can always find high-quality, relevant search results.
More at:http://www.musicbiatch.com/
MusicBiatch is a music search engine designed for locating an audio files in various file sharing and uploading sites.
At present they have 1 billion mp3 files in theirr search database and thousands files are added daily.
How It Works:
As an file sharing search engine MusicBiatch.com finds mp3 files matching your search criteria among the files that has been seen recently in audio uploading sites by our search spider. This information is accumulated in a database. When you execute a MusicBiatch.com search it delivers results from the database.
With its approach to crawling you can find the mp3 files shared on audio uploading sites that the other crawlers miss. Also its search engine collects rich and relevant metadata for each page. As a result, when you search for mp3 files with MusicBiatch, you can always find high-quality, relevant search results.
More at:http://www.musicbiatch.com/
Wreckamovie is an online collaborative film community
What Company Is Offering:
Wreckamovie is an online collaborative film community by Star Wreck Studios Oy. Ltd.Star Wreck Studios is a film studio that is specialized in blending the Internet and the film industry together by unleashing the creative potential of Internet communities, and changing the whole chain of filmmaking. Through the launch of its new online service www.wreckamovie.com, the company makes it possible to collaboratively produce professional quality A/V content of all types: from short films to feature films and to all distribution screens – from Internet and mobile to film theater.
More at:http://www.wreckamovie.com/
Wreckamovie is an online collaborative film community by Star Wreck Studios Oy. Ltd.Star Wreck Studios is a film studio that is specialized in blending the Internet and the film industry together by unleashing the creative potential of Internet communities, and changing the whole chain of filmmaking. Through the launch of its new online service www.wreckamovie.com, the company makes it possible to collaboratively produce professional quality A/V content of all types: from short films to feature films and to all distribution screens – from Internet and mobile to film theater.
More at:http://www.wreckamovie.com/
Spific---Stop Searching And Start Finding
What Company Is Offering:
With Spific you will receive quality results every time so that you can stop searching and start finding.
With Spific you can search the entire internet directly from their homepage or select a specific category. Each search focuses on a specific topic and will guide you to the highest quality results by allowing you to refine your results by date, site, and category.
For example after searching the entire internet for the keyword "Olympics" you can then select a refinement such as "Blogs", to find Bloggers currently writing about the Olympics, "Forums", to find active discussions that you can join, "Videos", to view Olympics related videos, or "Stores", to find online stores offering Olympics related merchandise . Refinements appear as blue underlined text located directly above the search results, selecting one will refine your search and provide more relevant results.
Unique Features:
Uses Google's search algorithm—Even Spific’s specialty searches provide results generated by the most effective search provider online.
Advanced features are easily accessible—A single click is all that is necessary to refine search results by date, category and site.
Improved Internet Search—Display results from the entire web or show only those from blogs, forums, online stores, or video websites.
Individual labeling of thousands of sites—Allowing highly efficient filtering of search results.
Quality results—Searches focus on those websites that provide superior design and content allowing users access to the best the online world has to offer.
More at: http://www.spific.com/
With Spific you will receive quality results every time so that you can stop searching and start finding.
With Spific you can search the entire internet directly from their homepage or select a specific category. Each search focuses on a specific topic and will guide you to the highest quality results by allowing you to refine your results by date, site, and category.
For example after searching the entire internet for the keyword "Olympics" you can then select a refinement such as "Blogs", to find Bloggers currently writing about the Olympics, "Forums", to find active discussions that you can join, "Videos", to view Olympics related videos, or "Stores", to find online stores offering Olympics related merchandise . Refinements appear as blue underlined text located directly above the search results, selecting one will refine your search and provide more relevant results.
Unique Features:
Uses Google's search algorithm—Even Spific’s specialty searches provide results generated by the most effective search provider online.
Advanced features are easily accessible—A single click is all that is necessary to refine search results by date, category and site.
Improved Internet Search—Display results from the entire web or show only those from blogs, forums, online stores, or video websites.
Individual labeling of thousands of sites—Allowing highly efficient filtering of search results.
Quality results—Searches focus on those websites that provide superior design and content allowing users access to the best the online world has to offer.
More at: http://www.spific.com/
TeachStreet is a place to Teach or Learn Anything
What Company Is Offering:
TeachStreet is a place to Teach or Learn Anything.It's a user-driven social networking and class review site, designed to help bring students and teachers together. They've created a community where anyone who loves to learn can find a class that's perfect for them, and where teachers of all subjects, from academia to pure silliness, can market themselves to potential clients.
How It Works:
Joining TeachStreet is absolutely free, and it takes only a few minutes to register with them. Once you become a member, you can take advantage of all of TeachStreet's features, including:
Review classes: Spread the word about classes you love, or get the scoop on a course you've been thinking about taking. Their class reviews come from users just like you, so you'll have a good idea of whether or not a class is right for you.
Search: No more wasting hours online trying to find a class, or bugging your friends for a lead. TeachStreet makes it easy to search through thousands of classes in your area, by subject or by teacher.
Connect: Use their message center to get in touch with other TeachStreet members who share your interests. Or send a quick note to a teacher about the classes they teach. Either way, you'll be able to get even more information about your favorite topics in just a few clicks.
More at:http://www.teachstreet.com/
TeachStreet is a place to Teach or Learn Anything.It's a user-driven social networking and class review site, designed to help bring students and teachers together. They've created a community where anyone who loves to learn can find a class that's perfect for them, and where teachers of all subjects, from academia to pure silliness, can market themselves to potential clients.
How It Works:
Joining TeachStreet is absolutely free, and it takes only a few minutes to register with them. Once you become a member, you can take advantage of all of TeachStreet's features, including:
Review classes: Spread the word about classes you love, or get the scoop on a course you've been thinking about taking. Their class reviews come from users just like you, so you'll have a good idea of whether or not a class is right for you.
Search: No more wasting hours online trying to find a class, or bugging your friends for a lead. TeachStreet makes it easy to search through thousands of classes in your area, by subject or by teacher.
Connect: Use their message center to get in touch with other TeachStreet members who share your interests. Or send a quick note to a teacher about the classes they teach. Either way, you'll be able to get even more information about your favorite topics in just a few clicks.
More at:http://www.teachstreet.com/
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Turn your favorite feeds into a personal magazine
What Company Is Offering:
Turn your favorite feeds into a personal magazine.Pro design.Automatic delivery.1-step setup.Free.No account required.
How It Works:
Enter at least one RSS feed.Select your delivery options.On schedule, they will email you a print-ready PDF.
More at:http://www.tabbloid.com/
Turn your favorite feeds into a personal magazine.Pro design.Automatic delivery.1-step setup.Free.No account required.
How It Works:
Enter at least one RSS feed.Select your delivery options.On schedule, they will email you a print-ready PDF.
More at:http://www.tabbloid.com/
Backlinked.com --Free Backlinks Tracker
What Company Is Offering:
Backlinked.com provides a free service for users to track their paid and exchanged backlinks.
This saves you from having to manually go and check every website you have paid for or exchanged backlinks with. Free, simple to use and effective.
How It Works:
Simply enter your website, and the backlinks you have, and let Backlinked.com do the rest.Backlinked.com will monitor simple free solutions to organizing and validating your paid and exchanged incoming links.
More at:http://www.backlinked.com/
Backlinked.com provides a free service for users to track their paid and exchanged backlinks.
This saves you from having to manually go and check every website you have paid for or exchanged backlinks with. Free, simple to use and effective.
How It Works:
Simply enter your website, and the backlinks you have, and let Backlinked.com do the rest.Backlinked.com will monitor simple free solutions to organizing and validating your paid and exchanged incoming links.
More at:http://www.backlinked.com/
1000tags.com --Tagging As A Way To Advertise
What Company Is Offering:
1000tags.com is a project that aims to put to the test in its simplest form the viability of tagging as a way to advertise, by presenting a tag cloud formed by tags added by people who try to promote a particular site or page.
This is done by offering a web page where anyone can book a particular tag that will later be displayed in the main tag cloud at the 1000tags.com page, as well as allowing web site owners to add their tag - for free of course - by syndicating a small tag cloud at their pages.
How It Works:
When you book a tag, you have two options: 1.Book a tag that only you can use it (exclusive tags) 2.Book a shared tag.
Exclusive tags are tags that once booked, nobody else can use them. The tag must have not been booked before, of course. Also, when someone books an exclusive tag, the user booking it decides the size (weight) of the tag: the bigger the font size, the more it costs.
Because this goes against the way tags are normally used, not only we discourage users to book exclusive tags by pricing them quite higher than shared tags, but also we won't allow more than 50 exclusive tags. That is, once 50 exclusive tags have been booked, no more will be allowed.
Shared tags are the way to go. Anyone can book a shared tag even if someone else has already share-booked it. Then, when someone clicks on a shared tag, a list of the sites that booked that tag will be presented in no particular order.
The beauty of shared tags is that, just like regular tag clouds, the more people book them, the more weight (font size) they will have in the tag cloud. So if you happen to book a heavily booked tag, your site will appear in a longer list of sites, but your tag will also be much more visible in the tag cloud.
More at:http://www.1000tags.com/
1000tags.com is a project that aims to put to the test in its simplest form the viability of tagging as a way to advertise, by presenting a tag cloud formed by tags added by people who try to promote a particular site or page.
This is done by offering a web page where anyone can book a particular tag that will later be displayed in the main tag cloud at the 1000tags.com page, as well as allowing web site owners to add their tag - for free of course - by syndicating a small tag cloud at their pages.
How It Works:
When you book a tag, you have two options: 1.Book a tag that only you can use it (exclusive tags) 2.Book a shared tag.
Exclusive tags are tags that once booked, nobody else can use them. The tag must have not been booked before, of course. Also, when someone books an exclusive tag, the user booking it decides the size (weight) of the tag: the bigger the font size, the more it costs.
Because this goes against the way tags are normally used, not only we discourage users to book exclusive tags by pricing them quite higher than shared tags, but also we won't allow more than 50 exclusive tags. That is, once 50 exclusive tags have been booked, no more will be allowed.
Shared tags are the way to go. Anyone can book a shared tag even if someone else has already share-booked it. Then, when someone clicks on a shared tag, a list of the sites that booked that tag will be presented in no particular order.
The beauty of shared tags is that, just like regular tag clouds, the more people book them, the more weight (font size) they will have in the tag cloud. So if you happen to book a heavily booked tag, your site will appear in a longer list of sites, but your tag will also be much more visible in the tag cloud.
More at:http://www.1000tags.com/
IMVOCAL--To make phone to PC calling for free
What Company Is Offering:
IMVOCAL tracking the miles - Bridging the communication gap. IMVOCAL; a company committed to being on the leading edge of communication. This tool is to keep people connected all the time irrespective of their location. IMVOCAL was conceived, to fill the need of people to make phone to PC calling for free.
How It Works:
They gave you a global VOCAL ID number which can be shared with your contacts and accessed using the Toll Free access number. No identity hijacks. IMVOCAL allows any user on a phone or mobile to dial into an internet user without the need to download anything. It's simple and easy to use with voice as clear and close to toll quality.
IMVOCAL brings people from different walks of life, generations and miles together.
More at:http://www.imvocal.com/
IMVOCAL tracking the miles - Bridging the communication gap. IMVOCAL; a company committed to being on the leading edge of communication. This tool is to keep people connected all the time irrespective of their location. IMVOCAL was conceived, to fill the need of people to make phone to PC calling for free.
How It Works:
They gave you a global VOCAL ID number which can be shared with your contacts and accessed using the Toll Free access number. No identity hijacks. IMVOCAL allows any user on a phone or mobile to dial into an internet user without the need to download anything. It's simple and easy to use with voice as clear and close to toll quality.
IMVOCAL brings people from different walks of life, generations and miles together.
More at:http://www.imvocal.com/
Kontagent is the leading viral analytics platform for social network application developers
What Company Is Offering:
Kontagent is the leading viral analytics platform for social network application developers. The Kontagent platform has been built from the ground up to provide deep social data visualization and analysis that delivers actionable insights delivered via a hosted, on-demand service. The Kontagent platform works directly with the Facebook API, and will soon support OpenSocial and the MySpace platform.
How It Works:
Kontagent provides a wrapper for the Facebook client library. This wrapper extracts relevant information from Facebook interactions and transmits it to Kontagent's analytics system using a REST-based interface.
More at:http://www.kontagent.com/
Kontagent is the leading viral analytics platform for social network application developers. The Kontagent platform has been built from the ground up to provide deep social data visualization and analysis that delivers actionable insights delivered via a hosted, on-demand service. The Kontagent platform works directly with the Facebook API, and will soon support OpenSocial and the MySpace platform.
How It Works:
Kontagent provides a wrapper for the Facebook client library. This wrapper extracts relevant information from Facebook interactions and transmits it to Kontagent's analytics system using a REST-based interface.
More at:http://www.kontagent.com/
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