What Company is offering:
FUNDGRA+DES™ is the easiest way to get one of the most sophisticated, objective, and stringent evaluations of mutual funds, closed end and exchange traded funds.
How It works:
Every month, our database of over 22,000 mutual funds and ETFs is graded on an A+ through F scale for five criteria designed by ERISA fiduciaries to expose what anyone investing for retirement SHOULD LEARN before buying or selling ANY fund. These five separately graded categories - diversification, expense, risk, return and the risk of material underperformance - are combined into an equally weighted overall grade.
Usually less than 1% of all funds even receive an overall grade of A or A-. Honor Roll funds (graded B or better) normally make up less than 4-5% of all funds. Shouldn't you know what your funds grades are? Search for them above, or use our advanced search to screen for funds that may have the characteristics you are seeking.
More at:http://fundgrades.com/
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Trueview's online monitoring company, lets a business owner see what's going on in the store without being there
What Company Is offering:
Trueview's solutions offer a large number of monitoring tools through an intuitive and secure website. Live and recorded video can be viewed from an internet connection anywhere in the world
A New York-based online monitoring company, lets a business owner see what's going on in the store without being there. Real-time and archived video streams can be accessed by logging on to trueviewservices.com. The videos are saved online for at least two weeks, and can be downloaded for later viewings.
How It works:
The service starts at $1,495 for installation of two cameras. Monthly service is $29.99 for two-week storage and round-the-clock technical support. The cameras can be wireless. The company also is working on making its systems accessible by mobile phone.
"The technology, since it's Web-based, gave us the ability to log on remotely and see real time what's happening in our office," says Mr. Schwartz, who paid $3,000 for about a dozen Trueview wireless cameras and online remote backup system. "If I'm out of the office or out of the country, I could log on to see who's at their desk, what time everybody came in for work and what time they left, and I could see what people are working on in their computers, in each workstation," he adds.
More at:http://trueviewservices.com/
Trueview's solutions offer a large number of monitoring tools through an intuitive and secure website. Live and recorded video can be viewed from an internet connection anywhere in the world
A New York-based online monitoring company, lets a business owner see what's going on in the store without being there. Real-time and archived video streams can be accessed by logging on to trueviewservices.com. The videos are saved online for at least two weeks, and can be downloaded for later viewings.
How It works:
The service starts at $1,495 for installation of two cameras. Monthly service is $29.99 for two-week storage and round-the-clock technical support. The cameras can be wireless. The company also is working on making its systems accessible by mobile phone.
"The technology, since it's Web-based, gave us the ability to log on remotely and see real time what's happening in our office," says Mr. Schwartz, who paid $3,000 for about a dozen Trueview wireless cameras and online remote backup system. "If I'm out of the office or out of the country, I could log on to see who's at their desk, what time everybody came in for work and what time they left, and I could see what people are working on in their computers, in each workstation," he adds.
More at:http://trueviewservices.com/
Hyperoffice
What Company is offering:
This company's Web-based software makes it easier for owners, employees, suppliers and business clients to plan projects, share and edit documents, and manage information any time and from any Internet connection. HyperOffice, based in Rockville, Md., allows small businesses to also set up their own intranets and other portals for vendors and customers.
How Much It Cost :
The cost averages $6 to $9 a month per user, with multiple levels of user log-in and administrative rights set by the owner for security. There's a free 30-day trial.
More at:http://www.hyperoffice.com/
This company's Web-based software makes it easier for owners, employees, suppliers and business clients to plan projects, share and edit documents, and manage information any time and from any Internet connection. HyperOffice, based in Rockville, Md., allows small businesses to also set up their own intranets and other portals for vendors and customers.
How Much It Cost :
The cost averages $6 to $9 a month per user, with multiple levels of user log-in and administrative rights set by the owner for security. There's a free 30-day trial.
More at:http://www.hyperoffice.com/
Critical Links receiving $5,7 million from European venture capital funds
What Company is About:
Critical Links is an international networking technology company and provider of edgeBOX, a converged multi-function device or business gateway targeted at SMBs and Enterprise Branch Offices. edgeBOX is available in a wide range of scalable hardware platforms, including hardened appliances and standard servers, and has the best feature to price ratio in the market, making it the ideal choice for cost savvy SMEs. edgeBOX typically replaces 4 to 6 single-function devices required to deliver an equivalent set of services, fully remotely managed, with significantly lower TCO. Telecom Service Providers and Managed Services Providers offer edgeBOX as a service to their SME customers.
How Much They Got From VCs:
They announced it has closed its Series A round of funding, receiving $5,7 million from European venture capital funds InovCapital, Change Partners and ASK/ISQ Capital.
Whats The Purpose Of Raising Fund:
The new funding enables Critical Links to accelerate sales and marketing activities worldwide, in order to fuel the continued market growth of its proven edgeBOX “Office in a Box” solution. The company is expanding its direct presence in the US market and increasing its investment in sales and marketing in Europe and in key emerging markets such as India, China, Brazil and South Africa.
About VCs:
InovCapital is the Portuguese Ministry of the Economy and Innovation venture capital society, geared towards supporting SME’s and entrepreneurs. Its mission is to contribute for the supported growth of the Portuguese economy through the promotion of entrepreneurship and a proactive participation in the development of the Portuguese companies. Inovcapital focuses its investments in technology intensive start-up companies and innovative projects geared for expansion into the global market.
About ASK/ISQ Capital
ASK/ISQ Capital is the venture capital arm of the ISQ Group, one of the largest engineering services firms in Portugal with more than 700 staff members. ISQ Capital focuses its investments in early-stage, technology-oriented companies.
About Change Partners
Change Partners is a leading independent venture capital company in Portugal. The firm invests in start-ups and highly innovative companies through its Fast Change investment fund.
More at:www.critical-links.com
Critical Links is an international networking technology company and provider of edgeBOX, a converged multi-function device or business gateway targeted at SMBs and Enterprise Branch Offices. edgeBOX is available in a wide range of scalable hardware platforms, including hardened appliances and standard servers, and has the best feature to price ratio in the market, making it the ideal choice for cost savvy SMEs. edgeBOX typically replaces 4 to 6 single-function devices required to deliver an equivalent set of services, fully remotely managed, with significantly lower TCO. Telecom Service Providers and Managed Services Providers offer edgeBOX as a service to their SME customers.
How Much They Got From VCs:
They announced it has closed its Series A round of funding, receiving $5,7 million from European venture capital funds InovCapital, Change Partners and ASK/ISQ Capital.
Whats The Purpose Of Raising Fund:
The new funding enables Critical Links to accelerate sales and marketing activities worldwide, in order to fuel the continued market growth of its proven edgeBOX “Office in a Box” solution. The company is expanding its direct presence in the US market and increasing its investment in sales and marketing in Europe and in key emerging markets such as India, China, Brazil and South Africa.
About VCs:
InovCapital is the Portuguese Ministry of the Economy and Innovation venture capital society, geared towards supporting SME’s and entrepreneurs. Its mission is to contribute for the supported growth of the Portuguese economy through the promotion of entrepreneurship and a proactive participation in the development of the Portuguese companies. Inovcapital focuses its investments in technology intensive start-up companies and innovative projects geared for expansion into the global market.
About ASK/ISQ Capital
ASK/ISQ Capital is the venture capital arm of the ISQ Group, one of the largest engineering services firms in Portugal with more than 700 staff members. ISQ Capital focuses its investments in early-stage, technology-oriented companies.
About Change Partners
Change Partners is a leading independent venture capital company in Portugal. The firm invests in start-ups and highly innovative companies through its Fast Change investment fund.
More at:www.critical-links.com
Get Paid Upto$50 Dollars For Reviewing Any Software On Softwarejudge.com
What Company is Offering:
If you have strong opinions about software, whether positive or negative, and want to get paid for your reviews, you are in the right place. We pay up to 50 dollars for tell-it-like-it-is, no marketing BS, straight talking software reviews.
How It Works:
First. Submit only original reviews that you wrote personally. If we find out that there is a sentence that’s not yours (it’s very easy to find that out with Google), you won’t get paid. Even if you previously submitted top notch reviews that we really liked. We always run reviews through web search before paying you or buying software you requested.
Second. Don’t submit more than three reviews in one day. Better yet, submit one review and see if it gets published or not. If it does not get published, it’s not good enough and we don’t want to spend several hours a day reading crappy reviews. Not everybody is good at this. But you have to be good to get published. Also, don’t bother us if your English is very bad. It’s fine if you make some mistakes (we all do), but a person who only had two years of English classes in high-school or college isn’t someone who is qualified for this job.
Third. Besides freebies, like free reg keys and free games that we give away to best contributors, there are two ways you get paid. If you have $200 in your account, contact us via the form with the complete personal information necessary for us to send you the money. Right now the default method is Western Union, because money can be sent anywhere in the world in 15 minutes. Again, the minimum amount is $200 (two hundred dollars) because we don’t want to spend all our time in the bank. If you have at least $20 in your account, you can request any software, game or an e-book to be purchased. You pick any product you want that costs as much money as is currently available in your account (or less) BUT it has to be a DOWNLOADABLE. We don’t want to deal with shipping costs (we’ve got a few reviewers who live in Australia) or spend time finding out why your package never arrived. In this day and age, you can pretty much buy any software in downloadable form, just send us the link and we’ll get it for you. We won’t buy anything off eBay for the same reason – we don’t want to deal with merchants we can’t trust.
Finally. Don’t be stupid. Don’t review software that you never tried. Don’t say software is good, if it’s bad. Don’t try to write only positive reviews. And never, never do anything that’ll piss us off.
More at:http://www.softwarejudge.com/
If you have strong opinions about software, whether positive or negative, and want to get paid for your reviews, you are in the right place. We pay up to 50 dollars for tell-it-like-it-is, no marketing BS, straight talking software reviews.
How It Works:
First. Submit only original reviews that you wrote personally. If we find out that there is a sentence that’s not yours (it’s very easy to find that out with Google), you won’t get paid. Even if you previously submitted top notch reviews that we really liked. We always run reviews through web search before paying you or buying software you requested.
Second. Don’t submit more than three reviews in one day. Better yet, submit one review and see if it gets published or not. If it does not get published, it’s not good enough and we don’t want to spend several hours a day reading crappy reviews. Not everybody is good at this. But you have to be good to get published. Also, don’t bother us if your English is very bad. It’s fine if you make some mistakes (we all do), but a person who only had two years of English classes in high-school or college isn’t someone who is qualified for this job.
Third. Besides freebies, like free reg keys and free games that we give away to best contributors, there are two ways you get paid. If you have $200 in your account, contact us via the form with the complete personal information necessary for us to send you the money. Right now the default method is Western Union, because money can be sent anywhere in the world in 15 minutes. Again, the minimum amount is $200 (two hundred dollars) because we don’t want to spend all our time in the bank. If you have at least $20 in your account, you can request any software, game or an e-book to be purchased. You pick any product you want that costs as much money as is currently available in your account (or less) BUT it has to be a DOWNLOADABLE. We don’t want to deal with shipping costs (we’ve got a few reviewers who live in Australia) or spend time finding out why your package never arrived. In this day and age, you can pretty much buy any software in downloadable form, just send us the link and we’ll get it for you. We won’t buy anything off eBay for the same reason – we don’t want to deal with merchants we can’t trust.
Finally. Don’t be stupid. Don’t review software that you never tried. Don’t say software is good, if it’s bad. Don’t try to write only positive reviews. And never, never do anything that’ll piss us off.
More at:http://www.softwarejudge.com/
JackBe received $9.5 Million
What Company is Offering:
JackBe is a solution in the enterprise Web 2.0 market. Their solution focused on companies and organizations.JackBe is an enterprise mashup solution.
How It Works:
JackBe describes their solution, an innovative Enterprise Web 2.0 Mashup Platform that allows any user to easily access and mashup any data from any application to improve their decision making and enhance their collaboration."
What Is The Purpose:
The purpose is to provide a solution to allow employees to access and mashup information, any way they like. The outcome hopefully allows the user to discover and organize information in a way that allows them to make better decisions and collaborate with others.
JackBe states that the organizations desire is to turn knowledge workers into "the killer app" assisting their organization in obtaining an advantage over the competition.
How Much They Got From VCs:
JackBe received $9.5 Million from Harbert Venture Partners, Core Capital Partners, Intel Capital, Darby Technology Ventures and Blue Chip Venture Company.
About VCs:
Core Capital is a $350 million private equity fund that provides capital to both early-stage ventures and small to mid-sized growth companies. The common thread is that these companies are developing or incorporating disruptive technologies into their businesses. We focus principally on the kinds of "core" or fundamental technologies that enable or enhance information, data and communication. We are headquartered in Washington, D.C. and most of our investments are made on the East Coast. And others VCs:
http://www.core-capital.com/
http://www.intel.com/capital/
http://www.harbert.net/venture-capital/
http://www.darbyoverseas.com/do/jsp/home.jsp?url=/home/pub
More at:http://www.jackbe.com/
JackBe is a solution in the enterprise Web 2.0 market. Their solution focused on companies and organizations.JackBe is an enterprise mashup solution.
How It Works:
JackBe describes their solution, an innovative Enterprise Web 2.0 Mashup Platform that allows any user to easily access and mashup any data from any application to improve their decision making and enhance their collaboration."
What Is The Purpose:
The purpose is to provide a solution to allow employees to access and mashup information, any way they like. The outcome hopefully allows the user to discover and organize information in a way that allows them to make better decisions and collaborate with others.
JackBe states that the organizations desire is to turn knowledge workers into "the killer app" assisting their organization in obtaining an advantage over the competition.
How Much They Got From VCs:
JackBe received $9.5 Million from Harbert Venture Partners, Core Capital Partners, Intel Capital, Darby Technology Ventures and Blue Chip Venture Company.
About VCs:
Core Capital is a $350 million private equity fund that provides capital to both early-stage ventures and small to mid-sized growth companies. The common thread is that these companies are developing or incorporating disruptive technologies into their businesses. We focus principally on the kinds of "core" or fundamental technologies that enable or enhance information, data and communication. We are headquartered in Washington, D.C. and most of our investments are made on the East Coast. And others VCs:
http://www.core-capital.com/
http://www.intel.com/capital/
http://www.harbert.net/venture-capital/
http://www.darbyoverseas.com/do/jsp/home.jsp?url=/home/pub
More at:http://www.jackbe.com/
Fetch helps you provide secure delivery of your digital products
What Company Is Offering:
Fetch is the smartest, freshest, most elegant digital delivery application that makes selling digital goods simple. Your information is hosted on our fast, reliable and secure servers, so transactions are worry free. Simply add digital items and our automated system will do the rest.
How It Works:
Fetch helps you provide secure delivery of your products. Fetch includes features such as; automatic delivery, bulk import, custom notification, and download statistics. To begin you must choose one of the four plans, which vary only in price and storage space. The plan prices vary from $12 per month to $99 a month, and the storage space varies from 50MB to 10GB. The first step is to fill in some general settings, such as; the sites name, the sites email, the feed URL, feed username, and feed password. Then you need to add your items, either import a bulk inventory or add items individually. Use the items manager to display inventory items. Orders are automatically updated and instructions are sent to customers immediately.
More at:http://www.fetchapp.com/
Fetch is the smartest, freshest, most elegant digital delivery application that makes selling digital goods simple. Your information is hosted on our fast, reliable and secure servers, so transactions are worry free. Simply add digital items and our automated system will do the rest.
How It Works:
Fetch helps you provide secure delivery of your products. Fetch includes features such as; automatic delivery, bulk import, custom notification, and download statistics. To begin you must choose one of the four plans, which vary only in price and storage space. The plan prices vary from $12 per month to $99 a month, and the storage space varies from 50MB to 10GB. The first step is to fill in some general settings, such as; the sites name, the sites email, the feed URL, feed username, and feed password. Then you need to add your items, either import a bulk inventory or add items individually. Use the items manager to display inventory items. Orders are automatically updated and instructions are sent to customers immediately.
More at:http://www.fetchapp.com/
Payoneer Is Prepaid Mastercards
What Company Is Offering:
We offer a Prepaid MasterCard®. They have a prepaid limit, can be used everywhere that MasterCards® is accepted.
In addition to making the card available to partner groups for travel, we enable online payments for Web businesses to make payments to their members, vendors or partners through a fully-hosted solution to support all of their payment needs.
How It Works:
The card essentially functions like a gift card; you can load up to $1000 on to the card daily. Anyone over 13 can legally hold the Payoneer card, though if you’re under 18 you’ll need to have your parents order a card for you, and, though you’ll be able to check your Payoneer account online, only those over 18 will be able to load money on to your card. There are several ways to load money on to the Payoneer card; you can do it directly from the Payoneer site, or you can do it through the website of any bank partnered with Payoneer. Once you’ve activated your card online, you can use your Payoneer card just as you would a MasterCard; it’s accepted everywhere that a MasterCard is.
More at:http://www.payoneer.com/
We offer a Prepaid MasterCard®. They have a prepaid limit, can be used everywhere that MasterCards® is accepted.
In addition to making the card available to partner groups for travel, we enable online payments for Web businesses to make payments to their members, vendors or partners through a fully-hosted solution to support all of their payment needs.
How It Works:
The card essentially functions like a gift card; you can load up to $1000 on to the card daily. Anyone over 13 can legally hold the Payoneer card, though if you’re under 18 you’ll need to have your parents order a card for you, and, though you’ll be able to check your Payoneer account online, only those over 18 will be able to load money on to your card. There are several ways to load money on to the Payoneer card; you can do it directly from the Payoneer site, or you can do it through the website of any bank partnered with Payoneer. Once you’ve activated your card online, you can use your Payoneer card just as you would a MasterCard; it’s accepted everywhere that a MasterCard is.
More at:http://www.payoneer.com/
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Collabration Tool For Entrprises
What Company is offering:
Project management + enterprise knowledge sharing
• Project workspaces, tasks and reports
• Enterprise wiki, permissions and roles
• Ticketing and bug tracking
• Easy communication and knowledge sharing
• Really simple and intuitive interface
#1 On-Demand Software for knowledge-intensive collaboration!”
How It Works:
Using it you’ll get a bucketful of prime enterprise geared features: enterprise wiki, categories, and tagging, reports, charts, tickets, team dashboards, email notification, teams and roles, files storage, and customization among other things. It’s got an intuitive interface so anyone in your office should be able to manage. ComindWork gives companies a modern and elegant way to manage projects and improve communications. While there’s a free version available, paid editions start at an affordable $11 a month and go up to $245 a month for the Enterprise Max edition.
More at:http://www.comindwork.com/
Project management + enterprise knowledge sharing
• Project workspaces, tasks and reports
• Enterprise wiki, permissions and roles
• Ticketing and bug tracking
• Easy communication and knowledge sharing
• Really simple and intuitive interface
#1 On-Demand Software for knowledge-intensive collaboration!”
How It Works:
Using it you’ll get a bucketful of prime enterprise geared features: enterprise wiki, categories, and tagging, reports, charts, tickets, team dashboards, email notification, teams and roles, files storage, and customization among other things. It’s got an intuitive interface so anyone in your office should be able to manage. ComindWork gives companies a modern and elegant way to manage projects and improve communications. While there’s a free version available, paid editions start at an affordable $11 a month and go up to $245 a month for the Enterprise Max edition.
More at:http://www.comindwork.com/
Keep track of all your car service records online
What is company about:
Keep track of all your car service records online, and manage routine maintenance as well as major and minor repairs.
How It Works:
Virtual garage to store your cars, including year, color, make, model, license and vehicle identification number data.
Searchable repair forms to look up any repair or maintenance record, regardless of when or where it was performed.
Comprehensive service history outlines work done by professional shops or in your own back yard.
More at:http://yourgarageonline.com/about
Keep track of all your car service records online, and manage routine maintenance as well as major and minor repairs.
How It Works:
Virtual garage to store your cars, including year, color, make, model, license and vehicle identification number data.
Searchable repair forms to look up any repair or maintenance record, regardless of when or where it was performed.
Comprehensive service history outlines work done by professional shops or in your own back yard.
More at:http://yourgarageonline.com/about
FlauntR is a slick new tool photo editor
What company is offering:
FlauntR is a slick new tool photo editor.
Flauntr actually offers three web-application solutions for photo editing: PhotoStylr, PhotoEditr, and PhotoProfilr. Each one is different in it’s approach to photo editing, and all three are free to use under one single site login.
How It Works:
flauntR is incubated by DeviceDriven (http://www.devicedriven.com). flauntR is created with the vision of enabling consumers to enhance photos or images without reading through heaps of user manuals or purchasing and downloading expensive software.
More at:http://flauntr.com/
FlauntR is a slick new tool photo editor.
Flauntr actually offers three web-application solutions for photo editing: PhotoStylr, PhotoEditr, and PhotoProfilr. Each one is different in it’s approach to photo editing, and all three are free to use under one single site login.
How It Works:
flauntR is incubated by DeviceDriven (http://www.devicedriven.com). flauntR is created with the vision of enabling consumers to enhance photos or images without reading through heaps of user manuals or purchasing and downloading expensive software.
More at:http://flauntr.com/
2007 Microentrepreneurship award
Citibank (China) Co Ltd and the China Banking Association yesterday announced the winners of the 2007 Microentrepreneurship Awards in China.
Oriented from a symbolic anniversary of United Nations' International Year of Microcredit 2005, it is the third annual ceremony in China, which recognizes the entrepreneurs' skills and contributions to building prosperity with microfinance support and helping less-advantaged individuals to improve their lives.
The awards include 7 conventional categories, Rural Agriculture, Non-Agriculture, Urban Trade, Processing, Service, and Rural and Urban Loan Officers. Meanwhile, three special awards were introduced this year. They are Innovation, Common Wealth, and Energy-efficiency and Environmental-protection.
This year a total of 198 applications for the Awards were received from around China. After several rounds of screening and field trip interviews, some 107 micro-entrepreneurs were selected as winners across all the prizes.
Wu Xiaoling, vice governor of the People's Bank of China, suggested, "It proves that microfinance is such as a powerful mechanism for empowerment and poverty reduction because it unleashes the drive of the poor to improve their own lives and grow out of deprivation. We should create and provide an environment that fosters the healthy development of microfinance."
Richard Stanley, chairman of Citibank (China) Co Ltd, noted, "As a locally incorporated bank in China, Citi remains deeply committed to making a positive and significant contribution to the wider community, and we are proud of our longstanding support of microfinance development in China."
"Citi congratulates all of the winners of this year's Awards program, and we look forward to being a key supporter of microfinance in China in the future." Mr. Stanley added.
Oriented from a symbolic anniversary of United Nations' International Year of Microcredit 2005, it is the third annual ceremony in China, which recognizes the entrepreneurs' skills and contributions to building prosperity with microfinance support and helping less-advantaged individuals to improve their lives.
The awards include 7 conventional categories, Rural Agriculture, Non-Agriculture, Urban Trade, Processing, Service, and Rural and Urban Loan Officers. Meanwhile, three special awards were introduced this year. They are Innovation, Common Wealth, and Energy-efficiency and Environmental-protection.
This year a total of 198 applications for the Awards were received from around China. After several rounds of screening and field trip interviews, some 107 micro-entrepreneurs were selected as winners across all the prizes.
Wu Xiaoling, vice governor of the People's Bank of China, suggested, "It proves that microfinance is such as a powerful mechanism for empowerment and poverty reduction because it unleashes the drive of the poor to improve their own lives and grow out of deprivation. We should create and provide an environment that fosters the healthy development of microfinance."
Richard Stanley, chairman of Citibank (China) Co Ltd, noted, "As a locally incorporated bank in China, Citi remains deeply committed to making a positive and significant contribution to the wider community, and we are proud of our longstanding support of microfinance development in China."
"Citi congratulates all of the winners of this year's Awards program, and we look forward to being a key supporter of microfinance in China in the future." Mr. Stanley added.
Cellphonefocus.com offes excellent after-sale service
What Company is offering:
Cellphonefocus.com offes excellent after-sale service, all Cell Phone and Cellular Phone Accessories have a guarantee of 1 Year Warranty and 30 Day Money Back. "Our goal is to provide excellent quality to our customers at the lowest price, provide fast & reliable service, and excellent 'on-the-dot' shipping using our newly implemented UPS innovation shipping methods." said Leslie.chan, Sales Manager of cellphonefocus.com.
How It Works:
In order to make users more easily find the products that they want, cellphonefocus.com has improved its accessories categorization structure by adding Brand Buttons, such as NOKIA, MOTOROLA, SAMSUNG, LG Electronics, NEC, PANASONIC, Sony Ericsson, etc., near the top of the procuct pages. Besides, cellphonefocus.com has added a new catalog 'Shop by Brands', thus, users can easily find all the accessories related a certain brand by clicking the corresponding sub-catalog.
More at;http://www.cellphonefocus.com/
Cellphonefocus.com offes excellent after-sale service, all Cell Phone and Cellular Phone Accessories have a guarantee of 1 Year Warranty and 30 Day Money Back. "Our goal is to provide excellent quality to our customers at the lowest price, provide fast & reliable service, and excellent 'on-the-dot' shipping using our newly implemented UPS innovation shipping methods." said Leslie.chan, Sales Manager of cellphonefocus.com.
How It Works:
In order to make users more easily find the products that they want, cellphonefocus.com has improved its accessories categorization structure by adding Brand Buttons, such as NOKIA, MOTOROLA, SAMSUNG, LG Electronics, NEC, PANASONIC, Sony Ericsson, etc., near the top of the procuct pages. Besides, cellphonefocus.com has added a new catalog 'Shop by Brands', thus, users can easily find all the accessories related a certain brand by clicking the corresponding sub-catalog.
More at;http://www.cellphonefocus.com/
SEO Offer
Guaranteed SEO firm, Adviatech Corp., has announced a discount on their newly launched guaranteed search engine optimization plan for the month of October.
Tampa based search engine optimization company, Adviatech Corp. (www.adviatech.com), has announced a special offer for their guaranteed search engine optimization plan for the month of October. The guaranteed SEO plan has been a success (according to Adviatech Corp.) as many companies have entrusted Adviatech with their search engine optimization project based on the money back guarantee.
The guaranteed SEO service was officially launched earlier in 2007 with a few select industries. Last week, Adviatech expanded their list of accepted industries to include in their guaranteed search engine optimization plan. The list included many competitive industries which were not previously approved under the money back guaranteed search engine optimization service plan.
The month of October has always been the best time to start a “New Years” search engine optimization campaign. At least that’s the viewpoint of Adviatech Corp., Vice President, Jason Bland who commented today, “If a company is wanting to have their web site’s ranking increase by the new year, October is the best time to start a search engine optimization project. Most web sites start responding to the search engine optimization content changes and link building efforts performed by Adviatech in the third month of service.”
To promote the value of starting a search engine optimization project in October, Adviatech Corp., has launched a promotion which will end October 30, 2007. The promotion will allow companies to get a free month of guaranteed SEO management and save up to five hundred dollars ($500.00) off the initial search engine optimization project fee.
More at:http://www.adviatech.com/
Tampa based search engine optimization company, Adviatech Corp. (www.adviatech.com), has announced a special offer for their guaranteed search engine optimization plan for the month of October. The guaranteed SEO plan has been a success (according to Adviatech Corp.) as many companies have entrusted Adviatech with their search engine optimization project based on the money back guarantee.
The guaranteed SEO service was officially launched earlier in 2007 with a few select industries. Last week, Adviatech expanded their list of accepted industries to include in their guaranteed search engine optimization plan. The list included many competitive industries which were not previously approved under the money back guaranteed search engine optimization service plan.
The month of October has always been the best time to start a “New Years” search engine optimization campaign. At least that’s the viewpoint of Adviatech Corp., Vice President, Jason Bland who commented today, “If a company is wanting to have their web site’s ranking increase by the new year, October is the best time to start a search engine optimization project. Most web sites start responding to the search engine optimization content changes and link building efforts performed by Adviatech in the third month of service.”
To promote the value of starting a search engine optimization project in October, Adviatech Corp., has launched a promotion which will end October 30, 2007. The promotion will allow companies to get a free month of guaranteed SEO management and save up to five hundred dollars ($500.00) off the initial search engine optimization project fee.
More at:http://www.adviatech.com/
MedRecruit
What Company is Offering:
MedRecruit aims to pick up where other recruiting efforts leave off by explicitly including lifestyle in the process of matching doctors with positions. MedRecruit was founded last year by Sam Hazledine, a doctor and skiing champion who wanted to create better balance between doctors' work and personal lives.
How It Works:
Doctors who sign up for the free service, which currently serves just New Zealand and Australia, specify not just the details of their medical specialty and grade; they also tell MedRecruit what type of location they want and what sorts of family, cultural and recreational opportunities--skiing or surfing, for example. MedRecruit then helps find a good match among the hospitals and medical organizations it represents. Watchlists are available, as is 24-hour assistance, and MedRecruit facilitates all travel and accommodations. It even pays a 4 percent bonus to doctors who work exclusively through MedRecruit. Ultimately, the company says, the result is happier doctors and higher retention rates for the hospitals that hire them.
With thousands of jobs available at hundreds of hospitals across New Zealand and Australia.
More at: www.medrecruit.com
MedRecruit aims to pick up where other recruiting efforts leave off by explicitly including lifestyle in the process of matching doctors with positions. MedRecruit was founded last year by Sam Hazledine, a doctor and skiing champion who wanted to create better balance between doctors' work and personal lives.
How It Works:
Doctors who sign up for the free service, which currently serves just New Zealand and Australia, specify not just the details of their medical specialty and grade; they also tell MedRecruit what type of location they want and what sorts of family, cultural and recreational opportunities--skiing or surfing, for example. MedRecruit then helps find a good match among the hospitals and medical organizations it represents. Watchlists are available, as is 24-hour assistance, and MedRecruit facilitates all travel and accommodations. It even pays a 4 percent bonus to doctors who work exclusively through MedRecruit. Ultimately, the company says, the result is happier doctors and higher retention rates for the hospitals that hire them.
With thousands of jobs available at hundreds of hospitals across New Zealand and Australia.
More at: www.medrecruit.com
RealSelf is a new product review site with a niche for anti-aging
What company is offering:
RealSelf is a new product review site with a niche for anti-aging.
How it works:
The two main components of the site are reviews, and the Q&A section. Both are easily accessible from the homepage and nearly every other page throughout the site. This makes for very easy site navigation and a continuous swarm of information on RealSelf. This is a review site and a community, so reviews are made by users, as are the Q&A sections. Any comment or response can be voted on for helpfulness, and these will be ordered accordingly on the site, so whether you’re reading a page of answers to a question, or reviews for a product, the most helpful will show on top.
Why is It different:
One unique factor for RealSelf is its algorithm, which will hunt and kill smam reviews. And to put the icing on the cake (sort of) those spam reviews that are created by companies hoping to inflate the recognition of their products will be publically outed, often resulting in the company to acknowledge their wrong doing.
Individual profiles are also used as self-promotional purposes, as well as mini-hubs for information. A user can enter information about themselves, which could be particularly helpful for healthcare professionals, etc. A map enables them to mark their office and provide contact information. Profile pages will also display the RealSelf content that’s proved most valuable to them, as well as the content they’ve created or interacted with throughout the community.
More at:http://www.realself.com/
RealSelf is a new product review site with a niche for anti-aging.
How it works:
The two main components of the site are reviews, and the Q&A section. Both are easily accessible from the homepage and nearly every other page throughout the site. This makes for very easy site navigation and a continuous swarm of information on RealSelf. This is a review site and a community, so reviews are made by users, as are the Q&A sections. Any comment or response can be voted on for helpfulness, and these will be ordered accordingly on the site, so whether you’re reading a page of answers to a question, or reviews for a product, the most helpful will show on top.
Why is It different:
One unique factor for RealSelf is its algorithm, which will hunt and kill smam reviews. And to put the icing on the cake (sort of) those spam reviews that are created by companies hoping to inflate the recognition of their products will be publically outed, often resulting in the company to acknowledge their wrong doing.
Individual profiles are also used as self-promotional purposes, as well as mini-hubs for information. A user can enter information about themselves, which could be particularly helpful for healthcare professionals, etc. A map enables them to mark their office and provide contact information. Profile pages will also display the RealSelf content that’s proved most valuable to them, as well as the content they’ve created or interacted with throughout the community.
More at:http://www.realself.com/
Going.com, the local event website For Finding something fun you'd like to do
What Company is offering;
Going helps you find fun things to do and fun people to meet.Ever wish there were one place where you can find all the events around town?
Want to know whether an event is worth going to and see who else is interested?
Looking to meet some new people who are up for doing fun things?
How It works:
Find something fun you'd like to do. We have tons of ways to help you do that, such as by popularity (how many others are interested), by time, by distance, or using our Editors' Picks. Start here.
See who else wants to go. Don't be shy; people are meeting up to go do stuff all the time. Feel free to post a message for the event to see who else's up for meeting up.
Discover people who share your interests. Look up groups that sound interesting and add your two cents. Browse people, see who's similar in interests, then post a comment or send them a friend request.
Get out to one of our events. From Courtney Love, to The Teddybears, to Daft Punk, to Perez Hilton, Going gets you in to the best events.
How is it progressing:
Going.com, the local event website, has seen some success with its Facebook app called Naughty Gifts. This app has gained abou 4 million users, marking it as one of the fastest growing applications. Naughty Gifts needs no explanation. It lets you send very bad things to people you love.
more at:http://going.com/
Going helps you find fun things to do and fun people to meet.Ever wish there were one place where you can find all the events around town?
Want to know whether an event is worth going to and see who else is interested?
Looking to meet some new people who are up for doing fun things?
How It works:
Find something fun you'd like to do. We have tons of ways to help you do that, such as by popularity (how many others are interested), by time, by distance, or using our Editors' Picks. Start here.
See who else wants to go. Don't be shy; people are meeting up to go do stuff all the time. Feel free to post a message for the event to see who else's up for meeting up.
Discover people who share your interests. Look up groups that sound interesting and add your two cents. Browse people, see who's similar in interests, then post a comment or send them a friend request.
Get out to one of our events. From Courtney Love, to The Teddybears, to Daft Punk, to Perez Hilton, Going gets you in to the best events.
How is it progressing:
Going.com, the local event website, has seen some success with its Facebook app called Naughty Gifts. This app has gained abou 4 million users, marking it as one of the fastest growing applications. Naughty Gifts needs no explanation. It lets you send very bad things to people you love.
more at:http://going.com/
MyItThings Offering New Holiday Widgets
What Company is offering;
MyItThings is created for you and by you! It's a collaborative space where everyone is part of the community and contributes to the content. The magazine is a dynamic space that is published daily and gives an opportunity to everyone to contribute and be featured on its pages. You can just read what people write about their "It" things or create your own page .MyItThings, which is a user-generated lifestyle magazine of sorts.
New Features:
It will soon be offering a widget for your Wish List and Virtual Closet, which can be placed on other websites, blogs and social networking profiles, like MySpace and Facebook. A few of these widgets are holiday-themed, so MyItThings is taking advantage of the holiday season and letting you spread some Christmas cheer (i.e. your gift list).
The new widget is powered by Clearspring,so you know there are easy sharing options, including embed code for a variety of social networks and blogging platforms. Wishpot and Glimpse have similar wishlists and widget-sharing options as well.
More at:http://www.myitthings.com/
MyItThings is created for you and by you! It's a collaborative space where everyone is part of the community and contributes to the content. The magazine is a dynamic space that is published daily and gives an opportunity to everyone to contribute and be featured on its pages. You can just read what people write about their "It" things or create your own page .MyItThings, which is a user-generated lifestyle magazine of sorts.
New Features:
It will soon be offering a widget for your Wish List and Virtual Closet, which can be placed on other websites, blogs and social networking profiles, like MySpace and Facebook. A few of these widgets are holiday-themed, so MyItThings is taking advantage of the holiday season and letting you spread some Christmas cheer (i.e. your gift list).
The new widget is powered by Clearspring,so you know there are easy sharing options, including embed code for a variety of social networks and blogging platforms. Wishpot and Glimpse have similar wishlists and widget-sharing options as well.
More at:http://www.myitthings.com/
Friday, October 26, 2007
Make Anything Work is the ultimate small-business resource for business owners looking to develop or enhance their business skills.
What Companyy is Offering:
Make Anything Work is the ultimate small-business resource for business owners looking to develop or enhance their business skills. The content, delivery system and course design & creation, as well as the resources provided free through our blog and to our mailing list, have all been created to help small business owners beat the odds and build successful businesses.
How It Will Help Entrepreneurs:
Make Anything Work was founded on one simple principle: to do everything possible to help entrepreneurs and small business owners beat the odds and build successful businesses. As part of that goal, Make Anything Work, a Vancouver, British Columbia based training and education company for entrepreneurs and small business owners recently launched their propitiatory new training concept, the Bookinar.
The Make Anything Work Bookinar is the perfect blend of traditional book learning combined with live seminar training. The Bookinar concept forms the backbone of all Make Anything Work training programs, such as the hugely successful Make My Marketing Work recently launched at 10am in the 10th October 2007.
“This is an amazing development in the training tools available to new business owners. The Bookinar concept not only allows business owners to easily digest all the information needed to successfully manage their business, but it also ensures they put it into action.” says company co-founder Alex Read. He continues, “Our aim is to help develop a global plethora of successful entrepreneurs. We hate to see small business owners struggle to succeed and often fail. Our new Bookinar concept will certainly help to ensure that we get successful business habits developed within as many business owners as possible.”
More at:www.makeanythingwork.com.
Make Anything Work is the ultimate small-business resource for business owners looking to develop or enhance their business skills. The content, delivery system and course design & creation, as well as the resources provided free through our blog and to our mailing list, have all been created to help small business owners beat the odds and build successful businesses.
How It Will Help Entrepreneurs:
Make Anything Work was founded on one simple principle: to do everything possible to help entrepreneurs and small business owners beat the odds and build successful businesses. As part of that goal, Make Anything Work, a Vancouver, British Columbia based training and education company for entrepreneurs and small business owners recently launched their propitiatory new training concept, the Bookinar.
The Make Anything Work Bookinar is the perfect blend of traditional book learning combined with live seminar training. The Bookinar concept forms the backbone of all Make Anything Work training programs, such as the hugely successful Make My Marketing Work recently launched at 10am in the 10th October 2007.
“This is an amazing development in the training tools available to new business owners. The Bookinar concept not only allows business owners to easily digest all the information needed to successfully manage their business, but it also ensures they put it into action.” says company co-founder Alex Read. He continues, “Our aim is to help develop a global plethora of successful entrepreneurs. We hate to see small business owners struggle to succeed and often fail. Our new Bookinar concept will certainly help to ensure that we get successful business habits developed within as many business owners as possible.”
More at:www.makeanythingwork.com.
Myntra, start-up aimed at the personalized gifting and merchandise space in India it has secured seed funding from Erasmic Venture Fund
What Company is offering:
Myntra, a consumer internet start-up aimed at revolutionizing the personalized gifting and merchandise space in India.At Myntra.com, you can start shopping by searching and browsing through their extensive library of designs and artwork.
How It Works:
If you like something, choose your color and size and place and order. We offer wide selection of products including T-Shirts, Mugs, Greeting Cards, Mousepads, Posters etc. and are constantly expanding the available offerings at our site. We will print your order on the desired product and ship it to you within 24hrs. We accept major credit card payments.
If you want to become a seller, register on our site and upload your designs and publish them. Once you have uploaded your design, we will review it and if the design passes our legal and copyright tests, we will send you a mail confirming that your design has been published. You can then track the sale of your designs and manage your sales account. You will get paid for your designs on a monthly basis. You can get 10% of the value of the product sold.
How Much they Got From VCs:
Myntra, a consumer internet start-up aimed at revolutionizing the personalized gifting and merchandise space in India, announced today that it has secured seed funding from Erasmic Venture Fund and a few other angel investors.
About Vcs:
http://www.erasmic.com/
More at:http://www.myntra.com/
Myntra, a consumer internet start-up aimed at revolutionizing the personalized gifting and merchandise space in India.At Myntra.com, you can start shopping by searching and browsing through their extensive library of designs and artwork.
How It Works:
If you like something, choose your color and size and place and order. We offer wide selection of products including T-Shirts, Mugs, Greeting Cards, Mousepads, Posters etc. and are constantly expanding the available offerings at our site. We will print your order on the desired product and ship it to you within 24hrs. We accept major credit card payments.
If you want to become a seller, register on our site and upload your designs and publish them. Once you have uploaded your design, we will review it and if the design passes our legal and copyright tests, we will send you a mail confirming that your design has been published. You can then track the sale of your designs and manage your sales account. You will get paid for your designs on a monthly basis. You can get 10% of the value of the product sold.
How Much they Got From VCs:
Myntra, a consumer internet start-up aimed at revolutionizing the personalized gifting and merchandise space in India, announced today that it has secured seed funding from Erasmic Venture Fund and a few other angel investors.
About Vcs:
http://www.erasmic.com/
More at:http://www.myntra.com/
EchoSign "The Killer App for Contract Management." has announced that it has secured $6 million
What Is EchoSign:
In just one click, the EchoSign solution automates the entire signature process from the request for signature to the distribution and filing of the executed agreement or form. With nothing to download, learn or install, there is simply no faster or secure way to get your contracts signed, tracked and filed.
EchoSign has taken the 'contract close' process from its old paradigm of efaxes and misplaced emails into a sophisticated, but easy to use contract automation application with measurable and proven value. Now organizations can get both external and internal contracts signed in seconds electronically, or by an automated fax system, that intelligently routes signed copies of each contract to all parties. In addition, everyone in the organization -- sales, finance, HR -- now for the first time has instant visibility into the status of all outstanding contracts.
How Much They Got From VCs:
EchoSign , the leading web-based signature automation service, today announced that it has secured $6 million through a Series B Preferred venture capital financing agreement. The investment was led by Emergence Capital with full participation from previous investor Storm Ventures.
Whats The Purpose Of Raising Fund:
This round of funding enables EchoSign to expand sales, marketing, and product development operations to meet the increasing demand and popularity of its easy to use, web-based application. Every day over 150,000 users in over 500 global organizations say "Just EchoSign It," to get their contracts signed in the most secure, efficient and effective manner possible.
How It Value For Us Or Companies:
EchoSign's contract signature automation application adds value to organizations of all sizes from British Telecomm, Network General, PayPal, Entertainment Publications, and even bail bondsman at bailgram.com. EchoSign's seamlessly integrated application with salesforce.com -- EchoSign for Salesforce -- is one of the top rated applications on the salesforce.com AppExchange. At the recent salesforce.com Dreamforce conference, EchoSign was named "The Killer App for Contract Management." EchoSign is also a launch partner on Webex Connect, and a charter member of OpenSAM, enabling a full open ecosystem of online office applications.
About VCs:
Emergence Capital Partners is the leading venture capital firm focused on early and growth-stage Technology-Enabled Services investing. Our mission is to help build market leading, successful businesses in partnership with great entrepreneurs. Our partners have funded and helped build over 30 TES companies, including such leaders as aQuantive, DoubleClick, Salesforce.com, SuccessFactors, and HireRight more than any other early-stage venture firm. Having assessed thousands of companies in the TES sector, we have developed significant expertise and resources focused on the critical factors of success in our market. Our focus and team-based approach allow us to create unique value for our service-based portfolio companies.
In just one click, the EchoSign solution automates the entire signature process from the request for signature to the distribution and filing of the executed agreement or form. With nothing to download, learn or install, there is simply no faster or secure way to get your contracts signed, tracked and filed.
EchoSign has taken the 'contract close' process from its old paradigm of efaxes and misplaced emails into a sophisticated, but easy to use contract automation application with measurable and proven value. Now organizations can get both external and internal contracts signed in seconds electronically, or by an automated fax system, that intelligently routes signed copies of each contract to all parties. In addition, everyone in the organization -- sales, finance, HR -- now for the first time has instant visibility into the status of all outstanding contracts.
How Much They Got From VCs:
EchoSign , the leading web-based signature automation service, today announced that it has secured $6 million through a Series B Preferred venture capital financing agreement. The investment was led by Emergence Capital with full participation from previous investor Storm Ventures.
Whats The Purpose Of Raising Fund:
This round of funding enables EchoSign to expand sales, marketing, and product development operations to meet the increasing demand and popularity of its easy to use, web-based application. Every day over 150,000 users in over 500 global organizations say "Just EchoSign It," to get their contracts signed in the most secure, efficient and effective manner possible.
How It Value For Us Or Companies:
EchoSign's contract signature automation application adds value to organizations of all sizes from British Telecomm, Network General, PayPal, Entertainment Publications, and even bail bondsman at bailgram.com. EchoSign's seamlessly integrated application with salesforce.com -- EchoSign for Salesforce -- is one of the top rated applications on the salesforce.com AppExchange. At the recent salesforce.com Dreamforce conference, EchoSign was named "The Killer App for Contract Management." EchoSign is also a launch partner on Webex Connect, and a charter member of OpenSAM, enabling a full open ecosystem of online office applications.
About VCs:
Emergence Capital Partners is the leading venture capital firm focused on early and growth-stage Technology-Enabled Services investing. Our mission is to help build market leading, successful businesses in partnership with great entrepreneurs. Our partners have funded and helped build over 30 TES companies, including such leaders as aQuantive, DoubleClick, Salesforce.com, SuccessFactors, and HireRight more than any other early-stage venture firm. Having assessed thousands of companies in the TES sector, we have developed significant expertise and resources focused on the critical factors of success in our market. Our focus and team-based approach allow us to create unique value for our service-based portfolio companies.
Metrofunk is the latest to create a trend-setting site
What company is Offering:
Metrofunk is the latest to create a trend-setting site aimed for the networking of creatives, from fashion designers, to filmmakers and party promoters.
How It Works And For Whom:
Artists and businesses alike can use metrofunk for self-promotion with the creation of their own, branded networks. The purpose is to offer up channels of distribution, for pushing their own products. The tools for this promotion is what you’d expect: blogs, music, photos, videos, events, etc.
Metrofunk’s part in all of this is to provide a central hub for content being created through its branded networks. It can categorize content according to its four verticals: nightlife, fashion, film and music. As with other sites where you can create your own network, individuals can join your network.
Content is pushed through these networks in a Digg-like voting system, taking advantage of the popularity contest mindset that many trend-setters are born with. Incentives for the creation of your network are monetization opportunities. Dripbook and Behance are other networks for creatives while Ning and MyLifeBrand offer branded social networks. 944life and similar sites aim to bring the forefront of culture to users for promotional purposes as well.
More at:http://metrofunk.com/
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Metrofunk is the latest to create a trend-setting site aimed for the networking of creatives, from fashion designers, to filmmakers and party promoters.
How It Works And For Whom:
Artists and businesses alike can use metrofunk for self-promotion with the creation of their own, branded networks. The purpose is to offer up channels of distribution, for pushing their own products. The tools for this promotion is what you’d expect: blogs, music, photos, videos, events, etc.
Metrofunk’s part in all of this is to provide a central hub for content being created through its branded networks. It can categorize content according to its four verticals: nightlife, fashion, film and music. As with other sites where you can create your own network, individuals can join your network.
Content is pushed through these networks in a Digg-like voting system, taking advantage of the popularity contest mindset that many trend-setters are born with. Incentives for the creation of your network are monetization opportunities. Dripbook and Behance are other networks for creatives while Ning and MyLifeBrand offer branded social networks. 944life and similar sites aim to bring the forefront of culture to users for promotional purposes as well.
More at:http://metrofunk.com/
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SignUpForCards.com provides consumers with a fast, convenient, and interactive way to search and identify credit card offers that best meet their need
What Company is offering:
Search for credit cards by category below, or use the credit card locator to quickly find the card that best meets your needs. Search, compare, read reviews, and apply online! From 0% introductory interest cards to balance transfer, rewards cards and more, find the highest rated cards right here.
How It Works:
SignUpForCards.com provides consumers with a fast, convenient, and interactive way to search and identify credit card offers that best meet their needs. After selecting their cards of choice, visitors may instantly apply for credit cards online through this portal. SignUpForCards.com offers this dynamic and interactive credit card search tool as a free service to consumers.
more at;http://www.signupforcards.com/
Search for credit cards by category below, or use the credit card locator to quickly find the card that best meets your needs. Search, compare, read reviews, and apply online! From 0% introductory interest cards to balance transfer, rewards cards and more, find the highest rated cards right here.
How It Works:
SignUpForCards.com provides consumers with a fast, convenient, and interactive way to search and identify credit card offers that best meet their needs. After selecting their cards of choice, visitors may instantly apply for credit cards online through this portal. SignUpForCards.com offers this dynamic and interactive credit card search tool as a free service to consumers.
more at;http://www.signupforcards.com/
Do Me London is an entertainment guide for your mobile phone
What Company is Offering:
Do Me London is an entertainment guide for your mobile phone. It’s recently launched a set of mobile guides for touring the city.
How It Works:
You can request a tour via text message that’s sent to Do Me, and you’ll receive the tour guide mobile URL. Each tour guide offers a multimedia manner in which to enjoy the city, featuring both audio and video content. It will cost you between £1.00 and £1.50 for a tour guide, depending on the length of the tour.
Why Is It Different:
There are plenty of user-generated sites out there that tap into their user base to collect content and offer it back up to you via mobile phones, including sites like Whrrl. And while these can be very helpful, Do Me has an advantage with its offering of premium content, and appeals to a wider range of mobile users, especially those that are less familiar with extensive mobile browsing.
Having mobile tours like those offered by Do Me London is a good inclusion for bundled packages, such as those found with GetMobio. EveryScape is another service that’s looking to create a fuller spectrum of city tours, but lacks the accessible mobile features.
More at;http://do-me.info/
Do Me London is an entertainment guide for your mobile phone. It’s recently launched a set of mobile guides for touring the city.
How It Works:
You can request a tour via text message that’s sent to Do Me, and you’ll receive the tour guide mobile URL. Each tour guide offers a multimedia manner in which to enjoy the city, featuring both audio and video content. It will cost you between £1.00 and £1.50 for a tour guide, depending on the length of the tour.
Why Is It Different:
There are plenty of user-generated sites out there that tap into their user base to collect content and offer it back up to you via mobile phones, including sites like Whrrl. And while these can be very helpful, Do Me has an advantage with its offering of premium content, and appeals to a wider range of mobile users, especially those that are less familiar with extensive mobile browsing.
Having mobile tours like those offered by Do Me London is a good inclusion for bundled packages, such as those found with GetMobio. EveryScape is another service that’s looking to create a fuller spectrum of city tours, but lacks the accessible mobile features.
More at;http://do-me.info/
ChannelMe.TV, the network where you can have your own .tv domain and push video content withad revenue-sharing model
What company is offering:
ChannelMe.TV, the network where you can have your own .tv domain and push video content, has added an ad revenue-sharing model tat’s now being extended to its users. You own and control your channel’s brand.
How It Works:
The program is free to sign up for, but you’ll need to be at least 18 years of age. From there, you can select from three categories of advertisements tat will display on your .tv page. You get a cut from the ad revenue generated for ChannelMe.
Will it Work:
As the .tv domain hype has yet to be met in reality, with both ChannelMe and Me.tv, it will be interesting to see if this particular tactic helps to a large extent, with ChannelMe. This ad rev-share model is widely used across video-sharing networks, and has been implemented in a successful manner by only a few networks. As far as video-sharing networks go, it seemed like many couldn’t launch in the past year without boasting their ad rev program, but this proves difficult for unestablished start-ups.
ChannelMe’s ad program is currently available to US users only, and payouts occur after your account has reached $10.
More at:http://www.channelme.tv/
ChannelMe.TV, the network where you can have your own .tv domain and push video content, has added an ad revenue-sharing model tat’s now being extended to its users. You own and control your channel’s brand.
How It Works:
The program is free to sign up for, but you’ll need to be at least 18 years of age. From there, you can select from three categories of advertisements tat will display on your .tv page. You get a cut from the ad revenue generated for ChannelMe.
Will it Work:
As the .tv domain hype has yet to be met in reality, with both ChannelMe and Me.tv, it will be interesting to see if this particular tactic helps to a large extent, with ChannelMe. This ad rev-share model is widely used across video-sharing networks, and has been implemented in a successful manner by only a few networks. As far as video-sharing networks go, it seemed like many couldn’t launch in the past year without boasting their ad rev program, but this proves difficult for unestablished start-ups.
ChannelMe’s ad program is currently available to US users only, and payouts occur after your account has reached $10.
More at:http://www.channelme.tv/
MicroPlace lets you make small investments through its service
What Company is Offering:
MicroPlace lets you make small investments through its service, which provides loans to those in developing countries.
Why eBay Launching It:
The launching of micro-financing tools is becoming a popular trend, and it comes as no surprise that eBay has gotten in on this type of financial institution, made possible through the use of the Internet. With most of eBay’s recent projects focusing on classifieds websites, and the improvement of eBay’s own struggling auction and VoIP services, MicroPlace enables eBay to venture in a new direction.
The importance of these types of services is of course the provision of loans with conditions that are often more reasonable than what some will find in their own countries. Ad different countries around the world have different laws pertaining to loans, businesses, etc. it’s often extremely difficult to start your own business in a developing country, and many stay in poverty as a result of minimized access to financial resources. Others in this space include Kiva, Globefunder and WordHugger.
more at:https://www.microplace.com/
MicroPlace lets you make small investments through its service, which provides loans to those in developing countries.
Why eBay Launching It:
The launching of micro-financing tools is becoming a popular trend, and it comes as no surprise that eBay has gotten in on this type of financial institution, made possible through the use of the Internet. With most of eBay’s recent projects focusing on classifieds websites, and the improvement of eBay’s own struggling auction and VoIP services, MicroPlace enables eBay to venture in a new direction.
The importance of these types of services is of course the provision of loans with conditions that are often more reasonable than what some will find in their own countries. Ad different countries around the world have different laws pertaining to loans, businesses, etc. it’s often extremely difficult to start your own business in a developing country, and many stay in poverty as a result of minimized access to financial resources. Others in this space include Kiva, Globefunder and WordHugger.
more at:https://www.microplace.com/
Aactics is a site for gaining feedback about yourself and your company
What Company is Offering:
Actics is a new community for do-gooders. It’s a positive network that lets you earn respect and endorsements from others that recognize the goodness of your actions.
How It Works:
Aactics is a site for gaining feedback about yourself and your company. And what’s the end result of feedback? Improving yourself or your company, and having a public reason to hold yourself accountable. This encourages you to hold yourself to a slightly higher standard.
The community is connected by these values and actions, so it’s very easy to further navigate the site to find like-minded users. On your own profile, Actics will give you a snapshot of your proxy, so you can easily keep track of what your friends are doing.
How It Could Improve More:
I think a site like this will need a great deal of exporting options, and integration into other networks, like Facebook. It’s already begun to move in this direction with its offering of actics badges, which operate in a concept similar to a digg button, which lets site visitors show their support for your company directly from the company’s website.
more at:http://www.actics.com/
Actics is a new community for do-gooders. It’s a positive network that lets you earn respect and endorsements from others that recognize the goodness of your actions.
How It Works:
Aactics is a site for gaining feedback about yourself and your company. And what’s the end result of feedback? Improving yourself or your company, and having a public reason to hold yourself accountable. This encourages you to hold yourself to a slightly higher standard.
The community is connected by these values and actions, so it’s very easy to further navigate the site to find like-minded users. On your own profile, Actics will give you a snapshot of your proxy, so you can easily keep track of what your friends are doing.
How It Could Improve More:
I think a site like this will need a great deal of exporting options, and integration into other networks, like Facebook. It’s already begun to move in this direction with its offering of actics badges, which operate in a concept similar to a digg button, which lets site visitors show their support for your company directly from the company’s website.
more at:http://www.actics.com/
AdNav
What company is Offering:
Brooklyn based GPS marketing solutions company AdNav is preparing a navigation handset with hopes of eventually providing a free devices.
How It Works:
The company’s initial proposed model charges travelers a small fee for a device when renting a car or registering for a hotel. Through the functionality of AdNav’s sleek handset, participating tourists are enabled to blend into natural surroundings. Say goodbye to common “just visiting” signifiers such as the fanny pack, camera, or oversized maps.
The company eventually hopes to offer free GPS devices that come loaded with ads for various businesses.
How They Are Planing To Excute Their Business:
AdNav is already partnered with search engine Ask.com, which will provide Internet access and local business listings for the bewildered tourist. Other features include geo-coded city guides complete with historical information, popular attractions, local statistics, etc.
More at:http://www.adnavinc.com/
Brooklyn based GPS marketing solutions company AdNav is preparing a navigation handset with hopes of eventually providing a free devices.
How It Works:
The company’s initial proposed model charges travelers a small fee for a device when renting a car or registering for a hotel. Through the functionality of AdNav’s sleek handset, participating tourists are enabled to blend into natural surroundings. Say goodbye to common “just visiting” signifiers such as the fanny pack, camera, or oversized maps.
The company eventually hopes to offer free GPS devices that come loaded with ads for various businesses.
How They Are Planing To Excute Their Business:
AdNav is already partnered with search engine Ask.com, which will provide Internet access and local business listings for the bewildered tourist. Other features include geo-coded city guides complete with historical information, popular attractions, local statistics, etc.
More at:http://www.adnavinc.com/
Thursday, October 25, 2007
ChoiceA.com helps both buyers and sellers find what they are looking for
What Company Is Offering::
ChoiceA.com helps you choose choice A by creating a site that has pulled together the useful material from the web and creating a space where buyers and sellers can connect directly without a middle man.
How It works:
ChoiceA.com helps both buyers and sellers find what they are looking for. There is a search engine on the site that lets buyers search for property with filters such as; property type, price range, location, and geographic range from destination. A list of properties appear, with a photo, address, and square footage of the property. You can choose to look at a map, or photo gallery to get more details or just click on the listing to get more information on the property and the connect information of the buyer. The listing provides lots of detailed information about the property like if it needs any repairs, how many rooms are in the property, etc… ChoiceA.com has many tools for sellers to aide them in what can seem as the overwhelming process of selling their property. ChoiceA.com has tools and forms that help users list their property, negotiate, and then sell. All of the information and tools on ChoiceA.com are free, so take advantage of this site and choose ChoiceA.com
more at:http://www.choicea.com/
ChoiceA.com helps you choose choice A by creating a site that has pulled together the useful material from the web and creating a space where buyers and sellers can connect directly without a middle man.
How It works:
ChoiceA.com helps both buyers and sellers find what they are looking for. There is a search engine on the site that lets buyers search for property with filters such as; property type, price range, location, and geographic range from destination. A list of properties appear, with a photo, address, and square footage of the property. You can choose to look at a map, or photo gallery to get more details or just click on the listing to get more information on the property and the connect information of the buyer. The listing provides lots of detailed information about the property like if it needs any repairs, how many rooms are in the property, etc… ChoiceA.com has many tools for sellers to aide them in what can seem as the overwhelming process of selling their property. ChoiceA.com has tools and forms that help users list their property, negotiate, and then sell. All of the information and tools on ChoiceA.com are free, so take advantage of this site and choose ChoiceA.com
more at:http://www.choicea.com/
"Tryvertising Trend "Marketing With Taste!
What company is Offering;
Effectively market your product's flavor to consumers, via our new, groundbreaking Peel 'n TasteTM technology.First Flavor, which converts flavours into Peel 'n Taste strips that can be mass-distributed in a broad-scale tryvertising campaign.
How It works:
Using the latest in taste-matching technology, we replicate the flavor of your product and deliver it to consumers in a compact, dissolving edible film that works seamlessly within existing promotional vehicles, while exponentially increasing their value. Peel 'n TasteTM is easy, safe to use, and consumers love it.
First Flavor's strips contain no sugar or calories, and all ingredients have been FDA-approved. They're produced in bulk quantities of 100,000 to 10 million or more, and quantity-based pricing ranges from 7 to 40 cents per strip. Possible uses for the strips include not just print advertisements but also direct mail, product-on-product, and in-store coupon dispensing applications. Though only four promotions have launched so far, First Flavor's customers range from small, entrepreneurial firms to large, Fortune 50 companies, president and CEO Jay Minkoff says. The US-based company, which was founded last year, already has sales representation in the EU, but it has also received inquiries from around the world. It's open to the possibility of nonexclusive partnerships to help bring Peel n' Taste to more consumers, Minkoff says.
Will It Work:
They've already shone the spotlight on the tryvertising trend, and this is yet another piece of evidence that it's taking hold. Only time will tell how consumers take to it in this form, but it's a concept worth considering for any business in food and beverages or beyond. We're just hoping a chocolatier will sign up soon.
More at:http://www.firstflavor.com/
Effectively market your product's flavor to consumers, via our new, groundbreaking Peel 'n TasteTM technology.First Flavor, which converts flavours into Peel 'n Taste strips that can be mass-distributed in a broad-scale tryvertising campaign.
How It works:
Using the latest in taste-matching technology, we replicate the flavor of your product and deliver it to consumers in a compact, dissolving edible film that works seamlessly within existing promotional vehicles, while exponentially increasing their value. Peel 'n TasteTM is easy, safe to use, and consumers love it.
First Flavor's strips contain no sugar or calories, and all ingredients have been FDA-approved. They're produced in bulk quantities of 100,000 to 10 million or more, and quantity-based pricing ranges from 7 to 40 cents per strip. Possible uses for the strips include not just print advertisements but also direct mail, product-on-product, and in-store coupon dispensing applications. Though only four promotions have launched so far, First Flavor's customers range from small, entrepreneurial firms to large, Fortune 50 companies, president and CEO Jay Minkoff says. The US-based company, which was founded last year, already has sales representation in the EU, but it has also received inquiries from around the world. It's open to the possibility of nonexclusive partnerships to help bring Peel n' Taste to more consumers, Minkoff says.
Will It Work:
They've already shone the spotlight on the tryvertising trend, and this is yet another piece of evidence that it's taking hold. Only time will tell how consumers take to it in this form, but it's a concept worth considering for any business in food and beverages or beyond. We're just hoping a chocolatier will sign up soon.
More at:http://www.firstflavor.com/
Touch Order Seems Good Idea For Food Or Hotel Entrepreneurs
What Is it:
McDonald's in Korea is testing food ordering by RFID (radio-frequency identification). A pilot program in Seoul's Shinchon neighbourhood lets customers place an order by pointing their cell phone at the items they want.
How It Works:
Simple—they first need to download software to their phone and then, seated at their McDonald's table, plug an RFID reader into the phone and aim their handset at a menu with built-in RFID chips. Items are automatically charged to their cell phone bill. As soon an order is ready, a message is sent to the customer's cell phone, letting them know that they can pick up their tray at the counter.
Its first in World :
According to SK Telecom, McDonald's "Touch Order" system is the first in the world that lets customers use RFID to place orders at a restaurant. Like GoMobo, the company that enables members to order food by text message at a growing number of US restaurants, Touch Order allows customers to avoid queues, making the buying process faster and more convenient for both the restaurant and its patrons. One to watch if you're in mobile commerce or the fast food business! (Related: Food ordering by text message.)
Detail: www.mcdonalds.co.kr
McDonald's in Korea is testing food ordering by RFID (radio-frequency identification). A pilot program in Seoul's Shinchon neighbourhood lets customers place an order by pointing their cell phone at the items they want.
How It Works:
Simple—they first need to download software to their phone and then, seated at their McDonald's table, plug an RFID reader into the phone and aim their handset at a menu with built-in RFID chips. Items are automatically charged to their cell phone bill. As soon an order is ready, a message is sent to the customer's cell phone, letting them know that they can pick up their tray at the counter.
Its first in World :
According to SK Telecom, McDonald's "Touch Order" system is the first in the world that lets customers use RFID to place orders at a restaurant. Like GoMobo, the company that enables members to order food by text message at a growing number of US restaurants, Touch Order allows customers to avoid queues, making the buying process faster and more convenient for both the restaurant and its patrons. One to watch if you're in mobile commerce or the fast food business! (Related: Food ordering by text message.)
Detail: www.mcdonalds.co.kr
Unique Business Idea
What Company is offering:
The British company's Street Art service uses high-pressure cleaning machines to wash brands, logos and adverts onto dirty pavements.
Street Advertising Services is offering a less antagonizing—and more legal—solution by creating images out of water.
How It Works:
First, clients provide their design, and SAS turns it into a giant stencil. Then, working at night, the SAS team blasts the stencil with water and steam on dirty walls, roads, pavements or even road signs. The result is a sparkling clean image in the shape of the company's logo or message. Nothing but water and steam are used, and it's all perfectly environmentally friendly and legal, SAS stresses. Pricing for a street art campaign with 15 to 20 adverts throughout a city begins at GBP 1,000 per city plus initial setup costs. Clients so far have ranged from newly opened businesses to global brands.
How That Idea Came:
The idea for the service, which launched last year, came to founder Kristian Jeffrey out of sheer frustration. Jeffrey explains: "I run several small online businesses, and was searching for cost-effective advertising to attract consumers to my sites. My potential customers were walking around me every day, and it was when I was walking through the dirty streets of London that the idea came to me: why not take advertising literally to the street? Having experimented with several different methods, we wanted to apply a technique that was not just eye-catching and effective but also friendly to the environment. What could be more natural than water?"
SAS has operated primarily in the UK so far, but it's open to projects anywhere in the world (as long as there's dirty pavement!). The company is also keen to explore reciprocal arrangements with other entrepreneurial enterprises.
Detail at: www.streetadvertisingservices.com
The British company's Street Art service uses high-pressure cleaning machines to wash brands, logos and adverts onto dirty pavements.
Street Advertising Services is offering a less antagonizing—and more legal—solution by creating images out of water.
How It Works:
First, clients provide their design, and SAS turns it into a giant stencil. Then, working at night, the SAS team blasts the stencil with water and steam on dirty walls, roads, pavements or even road signs. The result is a sparkling clean image in the shape of the company's logo or message. Nothing but water and steam are used, and it's all perfectly environmentally friendly and legal, SAS stresses. Pricing for a street art campaign with 15 to 20 adverts throughout a city begins at GBP 1,000 per city plus initial setup costs. Clients so far have ranged from newly opened businesses to global brands.
How That Idea Came:
The idea for the service, which launched last year, came to founder Kristian Jeffrey out of sheer frustration. Jeffrey explains: "I run several small online businesses, and was searching for cost-effective advertising to attract consumers to my sites. My potential customers were walking around me every day, and it was when I was walking through the dirty streets of London that the idea came to me: why not take advertising literally to the street? Having experimented with several different methods, we wanted to apply a technique that was not just eye-catching and effective but also friendly to the environment. What could be more natural than water?"
SAS has operated primarily in the UK so far, but it's open to projects anywhere in the world (as long as there's dirty pavement!). The company is also keen to explore reciprocal arrangements with other entrepreneurial enterprises.
Detail at: www.streetadvertisingservices.com
APML allows users to personalized marketing
What Company is offering:
APML allows users to share their own personal Attention Profile in much the same way that OPML allows the exchange of reading lists between News Readers. The idea is to compress all forms of Attention Data into a portable file format containing a description of ranked user interests.
How It Works:
With APML you’d be able to share your attention profile with advertising companies and marketers, thus enabling you to gain control over your info. You’d be given more filtering power, thus making it easier for you to select what you want to be known about yourself. As deep, behavior analyzing adverts become more popular, APML should be embraced as it gives consumers a mantle of protection over their private and sacrosanct data. Advertisers wouldn’t have to do so much snooping as it were, and it’d be much easier for them to sell you stuff. Of course, APML may not go over so well with consumers, what with questions of efficiency, privacy, and the sheer amount of work involved. Currently you can see APML at work on Engagd, Particls and Clutzr among others.
More at:http://apml.org/
APML allows users to share their own personal Attention Profile in much the same way that OPML allows the exchange of reading lists between News Readers. The idea is to compress all forms of Attention Data into a portable file format containing a description of ranked user interests.
How It Works:
With APML you’d be able to share your attention profile with advertising companies and marketers, thus enabling you to gain control over your info. You’d be given more filtering power, thus making it easier for you to select what you want to be known about yourself. As deep, behavior analyzing adverts become more popular, APML should be embraced as it gives consumers a mantle of protection over their private and sacrosanct data. Advertisers wouldn’t have to do so much snooping as it were, and it’d be much easier for them to sell you stuff. Of course, APML may not go over so well with consumers, what with questions of efficiency, privacy, and the sheer amount of work involved. Currently you can see APML at work on Engagd, Particls and Clutzr among others.
More at:http://apml.org/
mFoundry have completed a $15 million Series C round of financing
What Company is Offering:
mFoundry has become one of the foremost innovators in mobile financial services. The company’s Spotlight Financial Platform offers a comprehensive and equitable solution for financial institutions, wireless operators and other mobile banking and payment providers.mFoundry's Spotlight Financial Platform is a cross-carrier, cross-platform solution with the broadest device support of any competitor.
How Much they Got From VCs:
mFoundry, the leading provider of mobile financial services, announced today they have completed a $15 million Series C round of financing. Motorola, Inc. through Motorola Ventures, its strategic venture capital arm, led the round joined by existing investors as well as other strategic investors, PayPal, NCR Corporation and a leading wireless operator. In addition, NCR has selected mFoundry’s Spotlight Financial Platform as part of their mobility technology solution.
What's Their Reason For Rasing Fund:
mFoundry will use funds to meet the strong domestic and international market demand for their mobile banking and payments products.
“As consumer demand continues to grow for anywhere, anytime information access, mFoundry is playing a key role in creating and shaping the future of personalized mobile financial services,” said Code Cubitt, investment manager, Motorola Ventures. “mFoundry’s Spotlight Financial Platform allows for a more feasible and affordable mobile financial services experience for wireless operators, financial institutions and consumers. Motorola is excited by the synergies we see between our two companies both domestically and internationally.”
More at:http://www.mfoundry.com/
mFoundry has become one of the foremost innovators in mobile financial services. The company’s Spotlight Financial Platform offers a comprehensive and equitable solution for financial institutions, wireless operators and other mobile banking and payment providers.mFoundry's Spotlight Financial Platform is a cross-carrier, cross-platform solution with the broadest device support of any competitor.
How Much they Got From VCs:
mFoundry, the leading provider of mobile financial services, announced today they have completed a $15 million Series C round of financing. Motorola, Inc. through Motorola Ventures, its strategic venture capital arm, led the round joined by existing investors as well as other strategic investors, PayPal, NCR Corporation and a leading wireless operator. In addition, NCR has selected mFoundry’s Spotlight Financial Platform as part of their mobility technology solution.
What's Their Reason For Rasing Fund:
mFoundry will use funds to meet the strong domestic and international market demand for their mobile banking and payments products.
“As consumer demand continues to grow for anywhere, anytime information access, mFoundry is playing a key role in creating and shaping the future of personalized mobile financial services,” said Code Cubitt, investment manager, Motorola Ventures. “mFoundry’s Spotlight Financial Platform allows for a more feasible and affordable mobile financial services experience for wireless operators, financial institutions and consumers. Motorola is excited by the synergies we see between our two companies both domestically and internationally.”
More at:http://www.mfoundry.com/
Expectnation.com is a new site that offers conference managers a tool to help organize conferences
What company is saying:
We’re not just satisfied with streamlining the mechanics of organizing a conference. We want to enable new conference experiences too. So look out for features that support and enhance the conference experience for attendees and staff alike.
As an example of this approach, take a look at the personal scheduler. Not only does it make it a breeze for attendees to plan out their conference, but it lets organizers know in advance of popular talks and potential room overcrowding.
Keep an eye on the Expectnation blog for news of new features, and handy hints on how to use what’s already available.
How It Works:
Expectnation.com is a new site that offers conference managers a tool to help organize conferences and keep their participants involved and in-the-know. The basic idea is that managers create a website for a specific conference and within the templates, can keep all important information and updates on display for the invitees. The manager controls the site through a content management system that allows for easy editing and posting. Site creators can include images and downloads with the asset manager, making distributing important material hassle-free. Conference managers have complete control over the navigation of the site and can customize the navigation board, create news feeds and choose to keep information (such as behind the scenes planning) private. Other features include online payment, flexible mailmerge, press registration and many other professional tools. A URL link will bring participants directly to the conference site, creating a community of invitees who can prepare for the conference as the site progresses and take part in any pre-conference forums or blogging.
More at:http://www.expectnation.com/
We’re not just satisfied with streamlining the mechanics of organizing a conference. We want to enable new conference experiences too. So look out for features that support and enhance the conference experience for attendees and staff alike.
As an example of this approach, take a look at the personal scheduler. Not only does it make it a breeze for attendees to plan out their conference, but it lets organizers know in advance of popular talks and potential room overcrowding.
Keep an eye on the Expectnation blog for news of new features, and handy hints on how to use what’s already available.
How It Works:
Expectnation.com is a new site that offers conference managers a tool to help organize conferences and keep their participants involved and in-the-know. The basic idea is that managers create a website for a specific conference and within the templates, can keep all important information and updates on display for the invitees. The manager controls the site through a content management system that allows for easy editing and posting. Site creators can include images and downloads with the asset manager, making distributing important material hassle-free. Conference managers have complete control over the navigation of the site and can customize the navigation board, create news feeds and choose to keep information (such as behind the scenes planning) private. Other features include online payment, flexible mailmerge, press registration and many other professional tools. A URL link will bring participants directly to the conference site, creating a community of invitees who can prepare for the conference as the site progresses and take part in any pre-conference forums or blogging.
More at:http://www.expectnation.com/
EarlyMiser lets you set up feeds that will notify you when the price of a selected product has dropped below a certain level
What Company is offering:
Earlymiser is a easy to use shopping comparison site. The best way to use the site is to understand one of the basic concepts behind the site - custom feeds. You can think of custom feeds as shopping list, a want list - it's really a list of items that you want to group together. Each feed can be set up with its own pricing trigger.
How It Works:
EarlyMiser lets you set up feeds that will notify you when the price of a selected product has dropped below a certain level (or has been reduced by a certain percentage). To use Early Miser, start by searching for a product. You can search by keyword, tag cloud, or category. When you find the product you want to buy, click “Add to feed” and select the price at which you wish to purchase it. You can add tags to your feed to organize products around it. For example, if you wanted EarlyMiser to aggregate music-related products for you, you might set up a feed called “My Music”, and add tags such as “albums”, “Johnny Cash”, “entertainment systems” “laptop speakers”, etc. The publication date on each provider changes in the feed when the price is updated, so keep track of these changes with your RSS feeder to stay informed about price fluctuations. You’re not limited to viewing the content of your own feeds either; you can check out others’ feeds and corresponding products as well under the “Recently Updated Product Feeds” tab. You don’t have to register to browse around on the site, but you will definitely want to sign up if you want to build your own feeds.
More at:http://www.earlymiser.com/
Earlymiser is a easy to use shopping comparison site. The best way to use the site is to understand one of the basic concepts behind the site - custom feeds. You can think of custom feeds as shopping list, a want list - it's really a list of items that you want to group together. Each feed can be set up with its own pricing trigger.
How It Works:
EarlyMiser lets you set up feeds that will notify you when the price of a selected product has dropped below a certain level (or has been reduced by a certain percentage). To use Early Miser, start by searching for a product. You can search by keyword, tag cloud, or category. When you find the product you want to buy, click “Add to feed” and select the price at which you wish to purchase it. You can add tags to your feed to organize products around it. For example, if you wanted EarlyMiser to aggregate music-related products for you, you might set up a feed called “My Music”, and add tags such as “albums”, “Johnny Cash”, “entertainment systems” “laptop speakers”, etc. The publication date on each provider changes in the feed when the price is updated, so keep track of these changes with your RSS feeder to stay informed about price fluctuations. You’re not limited to viewing the content of your own feeds either; you can check out others’ feeds and corresponding products as well under the “Recently Updated Product Feeds” tab. You don’t have to register to browse around on the site, but you will definitely want to sign up if you want to build your own feeds.
More at:http://www.earlymiser.com/
Validate For Saving money On your Wireless Bill
What Company Is Saying:
Validate: Our secure technology reads your bill and makes sure your charges line up with the plan you've signed up for.
Reports: We breakdown your charges in the language you need to approach your carrier and fix any inaccuracies. We promise that you have yet to see anything like this!
Save: The average Validas subscriber saves an estimated $240 per year.
How It Works:
Validas’ secure service that provides bill validation, itemized usage histories, and best plan advice within seconds. For companies with many mobile users, monitoring usage and managing costs can be difficult because the appropriate tools are rarely provided. Validas offers a tool for enterprises that it is easy to implement and immediately provides the information required to validate operator invoices, optimize employee expensed rate plans, and create itemized expense reports. Validas answers questions that are common to all wireless subscribers who are confused about their bills. Why is my cell phone bill different from the rate plan I was offered? Is my wireless plan the one that’s best for me? Was I billed correctly for my usage? Validas provides a thorough breakdown, using deep business analytics, to highlight information that provides each user with verification details for all of their charges and allows them to compare their current wireless plan to their providers’ latest options. Validas also insures that every bill is accurate.
More at:http://www.myvalidas.com/
Validate: Our secure technology reads your bill and makes sure your charges line up with the plan you've signed up for.
Reports: We breakdown your charges in the language you need to approach your carrier and fix any inaccuracies. We promise that you have yet to see anything like this!
Save: The average Validas subscriber saves an estimated $240 per year.
How It Works:
Validas’ secure service that provides bill validation, itemized usage histories, and best plan advice within seconds. For companies with many mobile users, monitoring usage and managing costs can be difficult because the appropriate tools are rarely provided. Validas offers a tool for enterprises that it is easy to implement and immediately provides the information required to validate operator invoices, optimize employee expensed rate plans, and create itemized expense reports. Validas answers questions that are common to all wireless subscribers who are confused about their bills. Why is my cell phone bill different from the rate plan I was offered? Is my wireless plan the one that’s best for me? Was I billed correctly for my usage? Validas provides a thorough breakdown, using deep business analytics, to highlight information that provides each user with verification details for all of their charges and allows them to compare their current wireless plan to their providers’ latest options. Validas also insures that every bill is accurate.
More at:http://www.myvalidas.com/
Find yourself a reliable local tradesman
What Company is Offering:
Find yourself a reliable local tradesman… see what other people are saying about them… and write a review of your own.
How It Works:
Combining public recommendation and user feedback, ProblemSolved.co.uk is both comprehensive and up-to-date, and provides tradesmen with a unique one-stop marketing shop. Users can browse thousands of in-depth profile pages, blogs and galleries updated by ProblemSolved members. Users can also access the service on their mobiles, by texting the name of the trade they require and their postcode to ‘TRADE’ (87233). The site relaunched in September 2007 as a web 2.0 interactive site, however the database has grown organically for several years.
More at:http://www.problemsolved.co.uk/
Find yourself a reliable local tradesman… see what other people are saying about them… and write a review of your own.
How It Works:
Combining public recommendation and user feedback, ProblemSolved.co.uk is both comprehensive and up-to-date, and provides tradesmen with a unique one-stop marketing shop. Users can browse thousands of in-depth profile pages, blogs and galleries updated by ProblemSolved members. Users can also access the service on their mobiles, by texting the name of the trade they require and their postcode to ‘TRADE’ (87233). The site relaunched in September 2007 as a web 2.0 interactive site, however the database has grown organically for several years.
More at:http://www.problemsolved.co.uk/
41pounds.org is a community of people working to eliminate a big personal nuisance and environmental hazard – junk mail
What Company is Offering:
41pounds.org is a community of people working to eliminate a big personal nuisance and environmental hazard – junk mail. Our name comes from the amount of junk mail the average person receives each year (credit card applications, catalogs, coupon books, etc.) which for the most part goes directly into the trash can or recycling bin. Even with recycling programs all over the country, the majority of household waste is junk mail, and paper takes up about 40% of landfill space.
How it Works:
The team at 41pounds.org is dedicated to helping households cut down on the junk mail that is delivered daily. Complaining about sweepstakes and credit card letters is a thing of the past, now that we can complain about spam, but the fact is we are still receiving mountains of unwanted paper that have a toxic effect on the Earth. Companies who send out junk mail are wasting valuable resources such as trees and water and emit greenhouse gasses in production. Recycling is clearly a great solution, however, the ink in junk mail has high concentrations of heavy metals, which makes it a challenge to recycle. For a small price, 41pounds.org will eliminate 80-90% of junk mail received by contacting 20-30 companies that are responsible for the most common types of junk mail (i.e. credit card companies, sweepstakes, etc.). By cutting down the amount of junk mail you receive, you can save 1.7 trees, 700 gallons of water and stop 460 pounds of CO2 from being released into our atmosphere.
More at;http://www.41pounds.org/
41pounds.org is a community of people working to eliminate a big personal nuisance and environmental hazard – junk mail. Our name comes from the amount of junk mail the average person receives each year (credit card applications, catalogs, coupon books, etc.) which for the most part goes directly into the trash can or recycling bin. Even with recycling programs all over the country, the majority of household waste is junk mail, and paper takes up about 40% of landfill space.
How it Works:
The team at 41pounds.org is dedicated to helping households cut down on the junk mail that is delivered daily. Complaining about sweepstakes and credit card letters is a thing of the past, now that we can complain about spam, but the fact is we are still receiving mountains of unwanted paper that have a toxic effect on the Earth. Companies who send out junk mail are wasting valuable resources such as trees and water and emit greenhouse gasses in production. Recycling is clearly a great solution, however, the ink in junk mail has high concentrations of heavy metals, which makes it a challenge to recycle. For a small price, 41pounds.org will eliminate 80-90% of junk mail received by contacting 20-30 companies that are responsible for the most common types of junk mail (i.e. credit card companies, sweepstakes, etc.). By cutting down the amount of junk mail you receive, you can save 1.7 trees, 700 gallons of water and stop 460 pounds of CO2 from being released into our atmosphere.
More at;http://www.41pounds.org/
WiserEarth serves the people who are transforming the world
What Company is Offering:
WiserEarth serves the people who are transforming the world. It is a community-editable international directory and networking forum that maps out and connects the largest movement in the world – the hundreds of thousands of organizations within civil society that address social justice, poverty, and the environment.
WiserEarth provides the tools and a platform for non-profit organizations, funders, social entrepreneurs, students, organizers, academics, activists, scientists, and citizens to find each other, make connections, build alliances and where possible, to share resources.
How it works:
The wealth of information and opportunities available on this site is awe-inspiring yet searching for specific details is easy. Site visitors can search for jobs, events, groups, organizations and killer resources and find well-organized and bountiful results. The resources feature really brings WiserEarth to the head of its class with specific tools and information for actively protecting and cleaning up our Earth and daily lives and includes posts such as recommended books, websites, action councils, how-to guides and event promotions. Other great features include an interactive map to help users find worldwide opportunities and browsable WikiPages.
More at:http://www.wiserearth.org/
WiserEarth serves the people who are transforming the world. It is a community-editable international directory and networking forum that maps out and connects the largest movement in the world – the hundreds of thousands of organizations within civil society that address social justice, poverty, and the environment.
WiserEarth provides the tools and a platform for non-profit organizations, funders, social entrepreneurs, students, organizers, academics, activists, scientists, and citizens to find each other, make connections, build alliances and where possible, to share resources.
How it works:
The wealth of information and opportunities available on this site is awe-inspiring yet searching for specific details is easy. Site visitors can search for jobs, events, groups, organizations and killer resources and find well-organized and bountiful results. The resources feature really brings WiserEarth to the head of its class with specific tools and information for actively protecting and cleaning up our Earth and daily lives and includes posts such as recommended books, websites, action councils, how-to guides and event promotions. Other great features include an interactive map to help users find worldwide opportunities and browsable WikiPages.
More at:http://www.wiserearth.org/
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Trusted Opinion is set to announce $1.3 million in first round venture capital
What Company Is Offering:
Trusted Opinion is a free online community for sharing ratings and recommendations between trusted individuals, and visually looks a lot like Amazon’s interface.
How It Works:
Instead of going the route of many other online media sellers and reviewers where reviews are aggregated and averaged across the whole user base, Trusted Opinion weights the opinions of people in one’s social network highest, and gradually diminishes the weight of others’ opinions as the degrees of separation increase.
There are plenty of ad hoc ways to work this into other platforms - iLike and the famous Facebook Questions application come to mind - but this is the first application with this unique take on media ratings .
According To Mashable:
Trusted Opinion is set to announce $1.3 million in first round venture capital Wednesday, but the source of the funding is undisclosed Since the official launch of its beta site in February 2007, the company is reported to have had over 350,000 registered members and approximately 3,000 new members added each day.
Proceeds from the funding are supposed to “accelerate Trusted Opinion’s impressive growth.”
More at:http://www.trustedopinion.com/
Via-Mash
Trusted Opinion is a free online community for sharing ratings and recommendations between trusted individuals, and visually looks a lot like Amazon’s interface.
How It Works:
Instead of going the route of many other online media sellers and reviewers where reviews are aggregated and averaged across the whole user base, Trusted Opinion weights the opinions of people in one’s social network highest, and gradually diminishes the weight of others’ opinions as the degrees of separation increase.
There are plenty of ad hoc ways to work this into other platforms - iLike and the famous Facebook Questions application come to mind - but this is the first application with this unique take on media ratings .
According To Mashable:
Trusted Opinion is set to announce $1.3 million in first round venture capital Wednesday, but the source of the funding is undisclosed Since the official launch of its beta site in February 2007, the company is reported to have had over 350,000 registered members and approximately 3,000 new members added each day.
Proceeds from the funding are supposed to “accelerate Trusted Opinion’s impressive growth.”
More at:http://www.trustedopinion.com/
Via-Mash
Google Taking Nielsen Data
Determined to sell more television ads, Internet search leader Google Inc. is sharpening its focus on the medium with demographic data from the influential Nielsen Co.
Under an agreement to be announced Wednesday, Google will pay Nielsen an undisclosed amount to obtain detailed information about the kinds of people who watch specific TV shows.
The breakdown, drawn from Nielsen's rating service, typically provides viewers' ages, gender, marital status and other personal data that help advertisers choose the audience most likely to be interested in their product or service.
New York-based Nielsen has been selling demographic data to television stations and advertisers for years.
Google's access to the information is significant because it gives the Mountain View-based company more tools to draw upon as it tries to target television ads as effectively as it has done on the Internet.
Because it processes more than 1 billion search requests per day, Google hasn't needed as much outside help to learn about the interests of its Internet users.
'This is another indication that Google is very serious about selling more ads in the mainstream media,' said Brad Adgate, director of research for Horizon Media, which helps advertisers buy television ads.
Since May, Google has been delivering television ads for about 14 million subscribers to EchoStar Communication Corp.'s Dish network and Astound Broadband cable service.
The set-top boxes used by EchoStar and Astound enabled Google to track when commercials were watched and for how long. By drawing on Nielsen's data, Google will now have information on what kinds of viewers are watching the commercial.
'This was a missing piece of puzzle for us,' said Keval Desai, Google's director of product management for TV ads.
Desai said Google is 'thrilled' with its progress so far in TV advertising but declined to provide any financial specifics.
Even as it expands its ad platform into TV, radio and print, Google continues to make most of its money from text-based ad links posted next to search results and other online content.
Google's formula has been so profitable that it now has a market value of about $210 billion, second only to Microsoft Corp. in the high-tech industry.
The Google alliance appeals to Nielsen because the rating firm is trying to develop new measurement techniques and extend its reach into more digital media, such as iPods and mobile phones.
'The relationship with Google...is a prime example of the ways Nielsen is embracing new technologies, platforms and relationships worldwide to serve clients more completely,' Nielsen Chairman David Calhoun said in a statement.
Via-ASP
Under an agreement to be announced Wednesday, Google will pay Nielsen an undisclosed amount to obtain detailed information about the kinds of people who watch specific TV shows.
The breakdown, drawn from Nielsen's rating service, typically provides viewers' ages, gender, marital status and other personal data that help advertisers choose the audience most likely to be interested in their product or service.
New York-based Nielsen has been selling demographic data to television stations and advertisers for years.
Google's access to the information is significant because it gives the Mountain View-based company more tools to draw upon as it tries to target television ads as effectively as it has done on the Internet.
Because it processes more than 1 billion search requests per day, Google hasn't needed as much outside help to learn about the interests of its Internet users.
'This is another indication that Google is very serious about selling more ads in the mainstream media,' said Brad Adgate, director of research for Horizon Media, which helps advertisers buy television ads.
Since May, Google has been delivering television ads for about 14 million subscribers to EchoStar Communication Corp.'s Dish network and Astound Broadband cable service.
The set-top boxes used by EchoStar and Astound enabled Google to track when commercials were watched and for how long. By drawing on Nielsen's data, Google will now have information on what kinds of viewers are watching the commercial.
'This was a missing piece of puzzle for us,' said Keval Desai, Google's director of product management for TV ads.
Desai said Google is 'thrilled' with its progress so far in TV advertising but declined to provide any financial specifics.
Even as it expands its ad platform into TV, radio and print, Google continues to make most of its money from text-based ad links posted next to search results and other online content.
Google's formula has been so profitable that it now has a market value of about $210 billion, second only to Microsoft Corp. in the high-tech industry.
The Google alliance appeals to Nielsen because the rating firm is trying to develop new measurement techniques and extend its reach into more digital media, such as iPods and mobile phones.
'The relationship with Google...is a prime example of the ways Nielsen is embracing new technologies, platforms and relationships worldwide to serve clients more completely,' Nielsen Chairman David Calhoun said in a statement.
Via-ASP
Bluestreak Technology have secured US$20 million dollars in Series D financing for its "MachBlue" platform for mobile phones and digital television
What Company is Offering:
Bluestreak Technology, a start-up based in Montrea.The MachBlue platform gives network operators and OEMs the ability to create rich-media user experiences on various devices. Bluestreak Technology is a technology partner with such industry leaders as STMicroelectronics, ACCESS, Orange, KPN, Videotron, Time Warner Cable, Thomson, NDS and OpenTV.
How Much They Got From VCs:
They have secured US$20 million dollars in Series D financing for its "MachBlue" platform for mobile phones and digital television.France's Iris Capital, a new investor, led the round, which also includes internal investors Solidarity Fund QFL, BDC Venture Capital and First Capital Group along with new investor Tomorrow Group from Korea.
More at:http://www.bluestreaktech.com/
Bluestreak Technology, a start-up based in Montrea.The MachBlue platform gives network operators and OEMs the ability to create rich-media user experiences on various devices. Bluestreak Technology is a technology partner with such industry leaders as STMicroelectronics, ACCESS, Orange, KPN, Videotron, Time Warner Cable, Thomson, NDS and OpenTV.
How Much They Got From VCs:
They have secured US$20 million dollars in Series D financing for its "MachBlue" platform for mobile phones and digital television.France's Iris Capital, a new investor, led the round, which also includes internal investors Solidarity Fund QFL, BDC Venture Capital and First Capital Group along with new investor Tomorrow Group from Korea.
More at:http://www.bluestreaktech.com/
EmailBrain has powerful newsletter management features that enable you to easily manage your brand image
What Company is offering:
EmailBrain has powerful newsletter management features that enable you to easily manage your brand image. EmailBrain includes a full suite of tools within the template library for on-line content creation and on-line content storage.
How It Works:
Emailbrain will help you optimize your campaign by giving you the development and tracking tools to make it succeed. Features include WYSIWYG editing, a template library, online image and document hosting, foreign language capabilities, whitelisting status, tracking analytics, and hosted online report archive among others. There are several editions available (corporate, standard and reseller) depending on your needs. EmailBrain works with a range of industries including artists, non-profits, political campaigns, and law firms. There’s a free trial version available. Regular pricing starts at $9.95 a month (for 2,000 sends) and goes as high as about $800 a month (400,000 sends).
More at:http://emailbrain.com/eb/index.shtml
EmailBrain has powerful newsletter management features that enable you to easily manage your brand image. EmailBrain includes a full suite of tools within the template library for on-line content creation and on-line content storage.
How It Works:
Emailbrain will help you optimize your campaign by giving you the development and tracking tools to make it succeed. Features include WYSIWYG editing, a template library, online image and document hosting, foreign language capabilities, whitelisting status, tracking analytics, and hosted online report archive among others. There are several editions available (corporate, standard and reseller) depending on your needs. EmailBrain works with a range of industries including artists, non-profits, political campaigns, and law firms. There’s a free trial version available. Regular pricing starts at $9.95 a month (for 2,000 sends) and goes as high as about $800 a month (400,000 sends).
More at:http://emailbrain.com/eb/index.shtml
Instantbird is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client
What Company is Offering:
Instantbird is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client. Using it, you can connect to all your different IM accounts.
It uses the Mozilla rendering engine to display IMs, and the Pidgin libpurple to connect to the different networks.
Instantbird is a free and open source software. So you are free to use, distribute and modify it.
How It Works:
Users can use the app to connect with other popular chat services such as MSN, ICQ, and AIM, without causing any disruption to any of their previous clients. Based on Mozilla technologies and Pidgin, InstantBird is a fairly light download at around 13 megs, requiring100MB of free disk space for Windows user. The app is available for Mac and Linux as well, although it’s known to be twitchy operating with Ubuntu. Downloading InstantBird runs quickly with a highspeed internet connection, and connecting with all your frequented chat apps should be a breeze.
More at:http://www.instantbird.com/
Instantbird is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client. Using it, you can connect to all your different IM accounts.
It uses the Mozilla rendering engine to display IMs, and the Pidgin libpurple to connect to the different networks.
Instantbird is a free and open source software. So you are free to use, distribute and modify it.
How It Works:
Users can use the app to connect with other popular chat services such as MSN, ICQ, and AIM, without causing any disruption to any of their previous clients. Based on Mozilla technologies and Pidgin, InstantBird is a fairly light download at around 13 megs, requiring100MB of free disk space for Windows user. The app is available for Mac and Linux as well, although it’s known to be twitchy operating with Ubuntu. Downloading InstantBird runs quickly with a highspeed internet connection, and connecting with all your frequented chat apps should be a breeze.
More at:http://www.instantbird.com/
BrightRoll has secured $5 million in Series B funding
What Company is Offering:
BrightRoll helps leading agencies, representing brands such as Walmart, Hewlett-Packard and Sony Pictures, launch and scale video campaigns across the industry's leading publishers. The one-year-old start-up will use the capital to continue to grow its agency and publisher relationships, as well as accelerate product development.
How Much They Got From VCs:
The world's largest video advertising network, announced today that it has secured $5 million in Series B funding from Adams Street Capital, KPG Ventures and, existing investor, TRUE Ventures. This brings the company's total venture funding to $6M since it launched in July 2006.
What VCs Says:
"We increased our investment in BrightRoll because the company is the emerging leader in a revolutionary category," said Jon Callaghan, a partner at TRUE Ventures. "This is my third time working with the founders, Tod Sacerdoti and Dru Nelson, and I could not be more ecstatic about the team they are building."
BrightRoll can execute video campaigns across more than 50% of the top 100 online media properties in the United States. The average BrightRoll video campaign reaches over 50 million unique users over a six week period. A video advertising innovator, BrightRoll is built entirely on proprietary video ad serving, targeting and optimization technology.
More at:http://www.brightroll.com/
BrightRoll helps leading agencies, representing brands such as Walmart, Hewlett-Packard and Sony Pictures, launch and scale video campaigns across the industry's leading publishers. The one-year-old start-up will use the capital to continue to grow its agency and publisher relationships, as well as accelerate product development.
How Much They Got From VCs:
The world's largest video advertising network, announced today that it has secured $5 million in Series B funding from Adams Street Capital, KPG Ventures and, existing investor, TRUE Ventures. This brings the company's total venture funding to $6M since it launched in July 2006.
What VCs Says:
"We increased our investment in BrightRoll because the company is the emerging leader in a revolutionary category," said Jon Callaghan, a partner at TRUE Ventures. "This is my third time working with the founders, Tod Sacerdoti and Dru Nelson, and I could not be more ecstatic about the team they are building."
BrightRoll can execute video campaigns across more than 50% of the top 100 online media properties in the United States. The average BrightRoll video campaign reaches over 50 million unique users over a six week period. A video advertising innovator, BrightRoll is built entirely on proprietary video ad serving, targeting and optimization technology.
More at:http://www.brightroll.com/
MeVu With New Tagging Features
What Company is offering:
MeVu, the site that offers you a profile page for displaying all your web links to various social networks, has added some new features and upgrades.
Additional Features:
Aside from the obligatory bug fixes, there’s also now a secure contact form for enabling others to send an email without seeing your contact information. A new free-form About Me field has also been added, along with a new Location field.
You can set your own meta tags for your profile page in order to make yourself show up in more search engines, and your title, description and keywords are all part of the new meta tag option. Another important addition is the RSS feed subscription options for site visitors to keep up with your ever-changing profile, and internal search has also been improved.
The changes made for better SEO and feed options are probably the most important modifications here, considering the aim of MeVu to provide you with a central site for dispersing visitors to other sites where you have a presence. This is the primary consideration for aggregation tools of this nature–they work best when people actually find them first, during a web search. And there’s a lot to compete with to this end, from other social networks, bookmarking sites, etc.
More at:http://www.mevu.com/
MeVu, the site that offers you a profile page for displaying all your web links to various social networks, has added some new features and upgrades.
Additional Features:
Aside from the obligatory bug fixes, there’s also now a secure contact form for enabling others to send an email without seeing your contact information. A new free-form About Me field has also been added, along with a new Location field.
You can set your own meta tags for your profile page in order to make yourself show up in more search engines, and your title, description and keywords are all part of the new meta tag option. Another important addition is the RSS feed subscription options for site visitors to keep up with your ever-changing profile, and internal search has also been improved.
The changes made for better SEO and feed options are probably the most important modifications here, considering the aim of MeVu to provide you with a central site for dispersing visitors to other sites where you have a presence. This is the primary consideration for aggregation tools of this nature–they work best when people actually find them first, during a web search. And there’s a lot to compete with to this end, from other social networks, bookmarking sites, etc.
More at:http://www.mevu.com/
CapaZoo is a new social network that’s encouraging users to participate on the site by offering them money
What Company is offering:
CapaZoo is a new social network that’s encouraging users to participate on the site by offering them money. Well, you can get tipped for your awesomeness, and then cash out after certain point.
How it Works:
There are a few different types of accounts you can create: business, athlete, individual, arts, or charity. All but business profiles are free (a business account will run you about $35 per year). Once you set up your profile, you can start customizing it and adding media. Businesses will have advertising options throughout the network. You can get tipped for your media, as well as for your profile. So the goal here is to get as much content on the site in order to incur more tips.
You can’t hand them out for free, however. You start out with 25 zoops (CapaZoo’s currency) and go from there. If you’d like to tip someone, you select how many zoops you’ll give them. If you’d like to add zoops to your account, you can pay $10 for 10,000. Likewise, earning 10,000 zoops means you can get $10 on your credit card. You can’t actually cash out, though, unless you’ve upgraded your account. And that will cost you $25 or $35 per year, depending on what type of account you’d like (privileged or VIP).
Why Is It Different:
CapaZoo is finding ways to make money, and hoping it’s enough to get you to heavily participate in the site. Need more of a push? CapaZoo also has retail partners that offer discounts for users. For instance, you can get 15% off of your next Hertz car rental. This is all part of the CapaZoo Savings Program, which will calculate how much money you’ve saved through its discount offers. Again, you’ll need to upgrade your account to take part in the Savings Program. I think I’ll hold out for the CapaZoo credit card with rewards points I can earn with every purchase.
Who Is Backing Them:
CapaZoo is based in Canada and has reportedly raised over $25 million in private capital, without the aid of venture capital funding.
More at:http://www.capazoo.com/
CapaZoo is a new social network that’s encouraging users to participate on the site by offering them money. Well, you can get tipped for your awesomeness, and then cash out after certain point.
How it Works:
There are a few different types of accounts you can create: business, athlete, individual, arts, or charity. All but business profiles are free (a business account will run you about $35 per year). Once you set up your profile, you can start customizing it and adding media. Businesses will have advertising options throughout the network. You can get tipped for your media, as well as for your profile. So the goal here is to get as much content on the site in order to incur more tips.
You can’t hand them out for free, however. You start out with 25 zoops (CapaZoo’s currency) and go from there. If you’d like to tip someone, you select how many zoops you’ll give them. If you’d like to add zoops to your account, you can pay $10 for 10,000. Likewise, earning 10,000 zoops means you can get $10 on your credit card. You can’t actually cash out, though, unless you’ve upgraded your account. And that will cost you $25 or $35 per year, depending on what type of account you’d like (privileged or VIP).
Why Is It Different:
CapaZoo is finding ways to make money, and hoping it’s enough to get you to heavily participate in the site. Need more of a push? CapaZoo also has retail partners that offer discounts for users. For instance, you can get 15% off of your next Hertz car rental. This is all part of the CapaZoo Savings Program, which will calculate how much money you’ve saved through its discount offers. Again, you’ll need to upgrade your account to take part in the Savings Program. I think I’ll hold out for the CapaZoo credit card with rewards points I can earn with every purchase.
Who Is Backing Them:
CapaZoo is based in Canada and has reportedly raised over $25 million in private capital, without the aid of venture capital funding.
More at:http://www.capazoo.com/
Zimbra is open source server and client software for messaging and collaboration
What Company is offering:
Zimbra is open source server and client software for messaging and collaboration - email, group calendaring, contacts, and web document management and authoring
Zimbra provides open standards and a platform for developers, its tools can be integrated with some services that a lot of institutions already have established.
Why Is It Useful:
Considering the huge switching costs of a university with a communications system to support its current and past students, faculty and staff, signing on a new service like Zimbra is a big deal. It looks like Yahoo should be pretty satisfied with its acquisition of Zimbra.
Why It is In News Again:
Zimbra has landed more than a few deals, with some 200 educational institutions in 15 different countries for the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, making it a pretty far-reaching host of applications. That puts the suite in the hands of about 33,000 students, faculty and staff, 600,000 mailboxes.
More at:http://www.zimbra.com/
Zimbra is open source server and client software for messaging and collaboration - email, group calendaring, contacts, and web document management and authoring
Zimbra provides open standards and a platform for developers, its tools can be integrated with some services that a lot of institutions already have established.
Why Is It Useful:
Considering the huge switching costs of a university with a communications system to support its current and past students, faculty and staff, signing on a new service like Zimbra is a big deal. It looks like Yahoo should be pretty satisfied with its acquisition of Zimbra.
Why It is In News Again:
Zimbra has landed more than a few deals, with some 200 educational institutions in 15 different countries for the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, making it a pretty far-reaching host of applications. That puts the suite in the hands of about 33,000 students, faculty and staff, 600,000 mailboxes.
More at:http://www.zimbra.com/
Jango is a new music social search and discovery site
What Company is Offering:
Jango is a new music social search and discovery site.
How It Works:
Jango will automatically start building your playlist from this initial setting, and you vote (smilies or frowns) which songs you like. You can also add individual artists. Similar to SeeqPod and MOG, you’ll also get additional information for each artist, like album art, more songs, videos, etc. Additionally, there is a link for you to purchase each song from iTunes or Amazon.
Jango is also a social network, you can check out other user profiles, send them shoutouts and private messages, bookmark them, and listen to their own stations. The player will also show what other users are listening to a station, so there’s a bit of socialization occurring around each playlist, similar to MxPlay and Yoinkd. Jango appears to be quite a mesh of several music playlist creation and networking sites out there, and there doesn’t seem to be any stand-out features, like Mixaloo’s playlist gifting option, that make Jango particularly better than others in the market.
More at:http://jango.com/
Jango is a new music social search and discovery site.
How It Works:
Jango will automatically start building your playlist from this initial setting, and you vote (smilies or frowns) which songs you like. You can also add individual artists. Similar to SeeqPod and MOG, you’ll also get additional information for each artist, like album art, more songs, videos, etc. Additionally, there is a link for you to purchase each song from iTunes or Amazon.
Jango is also a social network, you can check out other user profiles, send them shoutouts and private messages, bookmark them, and listen to their own stations. The player will also show what other users are listening to a station, so there’s a bit of socialization occurring around each playlist, similar to MxPlay and Yoinkd. Jango appears to be quite a mesh of several music playlist creation and networking sites out there, and there doesn’t seem to be any stand-out features, like Mixaloo’s playlist gifting option, that make Jango particularly better than others in the market.
More at:http://jango.com/
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