What Company Is Offering:
Motionbox makes it easy to upload, organize, enhance, and share your personal videos with family, friends & groups.
Personal video is about more than just home movies; it's about capturing life — in motion and on the fly. As we all know, life doesn't always happen in perfect, 30-second clips. So how do you dig through all your videos to get to the moments you care about most? They don't think you should have to learn complicated editing software to share the best parts of your videos online. That's why they've developed smart, simple ways to help you make the most of what you've shot.
How It Works:
Shoot video using any camera or even your phone. Their uploader is lightning fast and easy to use. No file size limits for Premium Members.Combine the best parts of your videos and cut out the boring parts. No complicated software required. Premium Members have unlimited storage.It’s easy to share videos with friends and family via email or post them on your blog. Premium members can download high-quality versions too.
The best part of the site comes without the membership fee—both free and Premium members can create customized flipbooks from videos they upload to the site.Motionbox is your one stop solution for ultracute videos of your toddler taking his first steps.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Motionbox, the video site that appeals to doting parents for family video storage and editing, has closed a $7 million Series B round of funding. The round was led by new investor Constellation Ventures, which is a unite of Bear Stearns Asset Management. Previous investors Canaan Partners and SAS Investors also participated in this round.
The funding will go towards marketing and developing Motionbox’s new premium services, which include unlimited storage and downloads, as well as flipbooks.
More at:http://www.motionbox.com/
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
PayMate is the first of its kind mobile payment service
What Company Is Offering:
PayMate is a Mumbai based wireless transactions platform provider. PayMate is a spin-off from Coruscant Tec, a sister concern with a focus on wireless content. PayMate has created a viable ecosystem to enable wireless transactions connecting banks, switches, merchants and customers using a simple, secure and seamless technology.
How It Works:
PayMate is the first of its kind mobile payment service in India, which helps transform your phone into a wallet. So, now you can shop online, buy movie & airline tickets, send flowers & gifts, pay your bills, subscribe to newspapers and magazines, pay for goods at your favourite restaurant and retail store, using your mobile phone.You register for PayMate with your bank but this process is paperless and over the phone. To register for PayMate you have multiple options to choose from:- Call your bank’s phone banking number directly.Visit the nearest Corporation bank ATM to register.
You can use this service at any of PayMate's accredited merchants. While PayMate’s merchant base already includes over 2,500 online portals, leading voice portals and some key retail chains, this list of merchants is growing rapidly. You will soon be able to buy movie & flight tickets, send flowers & gifts, pay for your bills & subscriptions & even pay at your favourite restaurant or retail store, simply through your mobile.
Why They Are In News Again:
India-based PayMate, a mobile payments company, is making its way to America. Hiring Dhruv Singh as VP of Americas, the goal is to grow PayMate in un-banked consumer markets, particularly in the US. Singh previously worked as the Director of Worldwide Business Development at AMD, and was at ATI Technologies prior to his position at AMD.
More at:http://www.paymate.in/faqs.asp
PayMate is a Mumbai based wireless transactions platform provider. PayMate is a spin-off from Coruscant Tec, a sister concern with a focus on wireless content. PayMate has created a viable ecosystem to enable wireless transactions connecting banks, switches, merchants and customers using a simple, secure and seamless technology.
How It Works:
PayMate is the first of its kind mobile payment service in India, which helps transform your phone into a wallet. So, now you can shop online, buy movie & airline tickets, send flowers & gifts, pay your bills, subscribe to newspapers and magazines, pay for goods at your favourite restaurant and retail store, using your mobile phone.You register for PayMate with your bank but this process is paperless and over the phone. To register for PayMate you have multiple options to choose from:- Call your bank’s phone banking number directly.Visit the nearest Corporation bank ATM to register.
You can use this service at any of PayMate's accredited merchants. While PayMate’s merchant base already includes over 2,500 online portals, leading voice portals and some key retail chains, this list of merchants is growing rapidly. You will soon be able to buy movie & flight tickets, send flowers & gifts, pay for your bills & subscriptions & even pay at your favourite restaurant or retail store, simply through your mobile.
Why They Are In News Again:
India-based PayMate, a mobile payments company, is making its way to America. Hiring Dhruv Singh as VP of Americas, the goal is to grow PayMate in un-banked consumer markets, particularly in the US. Singh previously worked as the Director of Worldwide Business Development at AMD, and was at ATI Technologies prior to his position at AMD.
More at:http://www.paymate.in/faqs.asp
Grayboxx,the local search tool designed to offer you a well-rounded and informative set of queries for businesses in your region
What Company Is Offering:
Grayboxx,the local search tool designed to offer you a well-rounded and informative set of queries for businesses in your region.
Grayboxx is to bring optimal relevancy to "local search". Users are going to get what they're looking for. By leveraging intelligent, patent-pending algorithms that discern the quality and reputation of local businesses with minimal user interaction, they index and score local businesses without imposing review-writing chores on end-users.
How It Works:
With grayboxx, you have statistically significant business rankings. Grayboxx has over 100x the number of neig\ hbor recommendations than the largest user-generated review local site. A search on grayboxx typically yields dozens of ranked businesses, each of which often has anywhere\ from 5 to 100 neighbor recommendations. This beats having to choose based on one or two user-written reviews, whose experiences may not be representative. It helps to he\ ar the whole community speak.
Grayboxx has the unique advantage of Preference Scoring™. Their PreferenceScoring™ solution evaluates 'implicit endorsements' (essentially, people's expressions of approval for a business). When people buy things from a store or make reservations at a restaurant, they are speaking with their acti ons about what they like. With this model, they're able to show you businesses that are favored by your community. Any business, any community. This does for local search what PageRank did for web search.
More at:http://www.grayboxx.com/
Grayboxx,the local search tool designed to offer you a well-rounded and informative set of queries for businesses in your region.
Grayboxx is to bring optimal relevancy to "local search". Users are going to get what they're looking for. By leveraging intelligent, patent-pending algorithms that discern the quality and reputation of local businesses with minimal user interaction, they index and score local businesses without imposing review-writing chores on end-users.
How It Works:
With grayboxx, you have statistically significant business rankings. Grayboxx has over 100x the number of neig\ hbor recommendations than the largest user-generated review local site. A search on grayboxx typically yields dozens of ranked businesses, each of which often has anywhere\ from 5 to 100 neighbor recommendations. This beats having to choose based on one or two user-written reviews, whose experiences may not be representative. It helps to he\ ar the whole community speak.
Grayboxx has the unique advantage of Preference Scoring™. Their PreferenceScoring™ solution evaluates 'implicit endorsements' (essentially, people's expressions of approval for a business). When people buy things from a store or make reservations at a restaurant, they are speaking with their acti ons about what they like. With this model, they're able to show you businesses that are favored by your community. Any business, any community. This does for local search what PageRank did for web search.
More at:http://www.grayboxx.com/
AdMob is the world's largest mobile advertising marketplace
What Company Is Offering:
AdMob is the world's largest mobile advertising marketplace. AdMob allows advertisers to reach their customers on the mobile Web and publishers to increase the value of their mobile sites. AdMob offers both advertisers and publishers the ability to target and personalize advertising to their customers in over 160 countries.
How It Works:
AdMob is a mobile advertising marketplace bringing together buyers and sellers of mobile ads. Publishers simply place some code into their mobile web pages, and AdMob serves pay-per-click advertising directly to their users.To set up your mobile site with AdMob, you simply register and create a site in the system. You will be given access to install code which can then be integrated into your PHP, JSP, ASP, or CGI driven mobile web pages. Once you have done this, you are all ready to go.AdMob spends a great deal of time and effort finding high quality advertisers interested in reaching a qualified mobile audience. Our publisher partners also provide links from their websites directing potential advertisers to their AdMob listings.
Why is It In News Again:
Land Rover has gotten in the game of targeted mobile advertising, teaming up with AdMob for a campaign rolled out across mobile phones within AdMob’s network. This is a campaign designed to target high net worth customers that actually browse the mobile web.
Leveraging AdMob’s specialized iPhone ad platform, Land Rover really hoped to hone in on a good potential consumer base with its mobile ads.The demographics for Land Rover customers and iPhone users are generally in the same price bracket, and many will find the results of the campaign interesting for marketing on a mobile level with custom, targeted ads. Part of the campaign used a banner ad as a store locater, enabling mobile phone users to type in their zip code to see a map, along with directions to the nearest dealer.
More at:http://www.admob.com/
AdMob is the world's largest mobile advertising marketplace. AdMob allows advertisers to reach their customers on the mobile Web and publishers to increase the value of their mobile sites. AdMob offers both advertisers and publishers the ability to target and personalize advertising to their customers in over 160 countries.
How It Works:
AdMob is a mobile advertising marketplace bringing together buyers and sellers of mobile ads. Publishers simply place some code into their mobile web pages, and AdMob serves pay-per-click advertising directly to their users.To set up your mobile site with AdMob, you simply register and create a site in the system. You will be given access to install code which can then be integrated into your PHP, JSP, ASP, or CGI driven mobile web pages. Once you have done this, you are all ready to go.AdMob spends a great deal of time and effort finding high quality advertisers interested in reaching a qualified mobile audience. Our publisher partners also provide links from their websites directing potential advertisers to their AdMob listings.
Why is It In News Again:
Land Rover has gotten in the game of targeted mobile advertising, teaming up with AdMob for a campaign rolled out across mobile phones within AdMob’s network. This is a campaign designed to target high net worth customers that actually browse the mobile web.
Leveraging AdMob’s specialized iPhone ad platform, Land Rover really hoped to hone in on a good potential consumer base with its mobile ads.The demographics for Land Rover customers and iPhone users are generally in the same price bracket, and many will find the results of the campaign interesting for marketing on a mobile level with custom, targeted ads. Part of the campaign used a banner ad as a store locater, enabling mobile phone users to type in their zip code to see a map, along with directions to the nearest dealer.
More at:http://www.admob.com/
EatLime is an easy-to-use free service that allows anyone, anywhere to transfer large files over the Web, Email, or Instant Messenger
What company Is Offering:
EatLime is an easy-to-use free service that allows anyone, anywhere to transfer large files over the Web, Email, or Instant Messenger (IM).
EatLime offers an improved file transfer technology (patent-pending) with the vision to be the premier destination for direct data delivery.
How It Works:
With EatLime, you can easily share any file, including videos, pictures, and documents with your friends and family much faster.
What makes EatLime faster? Unlike other services, EatLime lets your friends start downloading your shared files as soon as you start uploading them, making the entire sharing process much faster!
Use EatLime from your Desktop. Download and Install EatLime on your computer to share easily, rapidly, unobtrusively, efficiently, securely, durably ...
You can transfer as many files as you like. They will keep active files on their system as long as they're in demand.
Access your ShareLinks from Anywhere, at Anytime. All ShareLinks you create and receive are stored in your user account. Access them from any browser, at anytime!
More at:http://www.eatlime.com/
EatLime is an easy-to-use free service that allows anyone, anywhere to transfer large files over the Web, Email, or Instant Messenger (IM).
EatLime offers an improved file transfer technology (patent-pending) with the vision to be the premier destination for direct data delivery.
How It Works:
With EatLime, you can easily share any file, including videos, pictures, and documents with your friends and family much faster.
What makes EatLime faster? Unlike other services, EatLime lets your friends start downloading your shared files as soon as you start uploading them, making the entire sharing process much faster!
Use EatLime from your Desktop. Download and Install EatLime on your computer to share easily, rapidly, unobtrusively, efficiently, securely, durably ...
You can transfer as many files as you like. They will keep active files on their system as long as they're in demand.
Access your ShareLinks from Anywhere, at Anytime. All ShareLinks you create and receive are stored in your user account. Access them from any browser, at anytime!
More at:http://www.eatlime.com/
ePractice.eu is offers a new service for the professional community of eGovernment
What Company Is Offering:
ePractice.eu is a portal created by the European Commission which offers a new service for the professional community of eGovernment, eInclusion and eHealth practitioners.
It is an interactive initiative that empowers its users to discuss and influence open government, policy-making and the way in which public administrations operate and deliver services.
How It Works:
ePractice.eu involves practitioners from all 27 Member States, EU-member candidate states and EFTA countries. Practitioners from other countries outside the EU are also welcome to join.
The ePractice.eu portal combines online activities with frequent offline exchanges: workshops, face-to-face meetings and public presentations. With a large knowledge base of real-life case studies submitted by ePractice members from across Europe, ePractice.eu serves as a point of reference for all users.
ePractice.eu is based on the inherently participative nature of web services: it goes beyond the “exchange cases” and facilitates the exchange of advice, experiences, events and stories.
More at:http://www.epractice.eu/
ePractice.eu is a portal created by the European Commission which offers a new service for the professional community of eGovernment, eInclusion and eHealth practitioners.
It is an interactive initiative that empowers its users to discuss and influence open government, policy-making and the way in which public administrations operate and deliver services.
How It Works:
ePractice.eu involves practitioners from all 27 Member States, EU-member candidate states and EFTA countries. Practitioners from other countries outside the EU are also welcome to join.
The ePractice.eu portal combines online activities with frequent offline exchanges: workshops, face-to-face meetings and public presentations. With a large knowledge base of real-life case studies submitted by ePractice members from across Europe, ePractice.eu serves as a point of reference for all users.
ePractice.eu is based on the inherently participative nature of web services: it goes beyond the “exchange cases” and facilitates the exchange of advice, experiences, events and stories.
More at:http://www.epractice.eu/
Macroaxis--On Demand Portfolios Optimization
What Company is Offering:
Macroaxis Corporation specializes in providing software solutions for the financial services sector, facilitating rapid distribution of financial analytics to larger audiences. Unique in the industry, Macroaxis Corporation's financial engineering platform delivers measurable value in the form of improved return on clients' intellectual property, productivity and managed assets for financial institutions.
How It Works:
They are dedicated to bringing investors a practical portfolio analysis and optimization toolset that no other company can offer. It is their goal to provide investors and institutions with the ability to properly define, analyze and present optimal portfolios that will lead to increases in return on managed assets, technology, productivity, and intellectual property. Building on the current trends and leveraging the evolving web technologies, Macroaxis Corporation brings a new type of financial application, one that is based on simplicity, speed, and accessibility, making technology that was once offered only to professional money managers, available to the entire mainstream investing community.
PitchletTM is our first product. In a nutshell, Pitchlets enable financial practitioners to request input from investors, set up required analytics and then interactively present investment recommendations, strategies, performance results, and attribution analysis to various interested parties.
They currently maintain a Pitchlet toolset for presentation of Wealth Management Analytics based on Modern Portfolio Theory. It is a powerful and practical module for both professional money managers and private investors. Most importantly, not a single piece of software needs to be installed to client's computer.
PitchletTM is a true on-demand analytical engine.
More at:http://www.macroaxis.com/
Macroaxis Corporation specializes in providing software solutions for the financial services sector, facilitating rapid distribution of financial analytics to larger audiences. Unique in the industry, Macroaxis Corporation's financial engineering platform delivers measurable value in the form of improved return on clients' intellectual property, productivity and managed assets for financial institutions.
How It Works:
They are dedicated to bringing investors a practical portfolio analysis and optimization toolset that no other company can offer. It is their goal to provide investors and institutions with the ability to properly define, analyze and present optimal portfolios that will lead to increases in return on managed assets, technology, productivity, and intellectual property. Building on the current trends and leveraging the evolving web technologies, Macroaxis Corporation brings a new type of financial application, one that is based on simplicity, speed, and accessibility, making technology that was once offered only to professional money managers, available to the entire mainstream investing community.
PitchletTM is our first product. In a nutshell, Pitchlets enable financial practitioners to request input from investors, set up required analytics and then interactively present investment recommendations, strategies, performance results, and attribution analysis to various interested parties.
They currently maintain a Pitchlet toolset for presentation of Wealth Management Analytics based on Modern Portfolio Theory. It is a powerful and practical module for both professional money managers and private investors. Most importantly, not a single piece of software needs to be installed to client's computer.
PitchletTM is a true on-demand analytical engine.
More at:http://www.macroaxis.com/
Ancestry Press, a new venture recently launched by Ancestry.com
What Company Is Offering:
Ancestry Press, a new venture recently launched by Ancestry.com. Customers who already have their pedigree information archived on Ancestry.com can easily transfer their family trees, facts, photos, stories, historical documents, recipes and more to formatted templates—or blank pages they can design from scratch—for printing. And those who aren't yet Ancestry.com users can set up accounts quickly and easily.
How It Works:
Building your family tree has been a labor of love. Now you can bring it to life with their free, easy-to-use publishing tool. Create beautiful pages or family tree posters that showcase your documents, photos and charts. You can print your pages at home or order professionally printed, coffee-table quality books or high quality prints suitable for framing.
Books are hand-bound and printed on 100-pound gloss, acid-free, archival paper with hard leatherette covers that can be stamped with custom two-line titles in gold foil. Pricing is currently at USD 29.95 for a 24-page book. Customers can add extra pages for just 39 cents each up to a total of 100 pages. 18-by-24-inch family tree posters (additional sizes coming soon) are available at an introductory rate of USD 19.95 and can feature up to six generations. There are volume discounts, too, for those who might like to purchase multiple copies as gifts for family members. Turnaround time is two to three weeks.
More at: www.ancestrypress.com
Ancestry Press, a new venture recently launched by Ancestry.com. Customers who already have their pedigree information archived on Ancestry.com can easily transfer their family trees, facts, photos, stories, historical documents, recipes and more to formatted templates—or blank pages they can design from scratch—for printing. And those who aren't yet Ancestry.com users can set up accounts quickly and easily.
How It Works:
Building your family tree has been a labor of love. Now you can bring it to life with their free, easy-to-use publishing tool. Create beautiful pages or family tree posters that showcase your documents, photos and charts. You can print your pages at home or order professionally printed, coffee-table quality books or high quality prints suitable for framing.
Books are hand-bound and printed on 100-pound gloss, acid-free, archival paper with hard leatherette covers that can be stamped with custom two-line titles in gold foil. Pricing is currently at USD 29.95 for a 24-page book. Customers can add extra pages for just 39 cents each up to a total of 100 pages. 18-by-24-inch family tree posters (additional sizes coming soon) are available at an introductory rate of USD 19.95 and can feature up to six generations. There are volume discounts, too, for those who might like to purchase multiple copies as gifts for family members. Turnaround time is two to three weeks.
More at: www.ancestrypress.com
The Issue is a non-partisan blog newspaper that provides a window to an emerging world of diverse and informed opinions
What Company Is Offering:
The Issue is a non-partisan blog newspaper that provides a window to an emerging world of diverse and informed opinions. We cull the blogosphere for its wise insights, probing analyses, and diverse perspectives, drawing together a borderless newspaper. By combining the democratization and diversity of new media with the format and editorial standards of traditional news, we hope to offer a hybrid news source that provides the best of both worlds.
How It Works:
Their editorial team handpicks articles that represent the best of the blogosphere. Selected articles are clearly written, intuitively organized, and have theses and make arguments that are supported with well-researched and salient points. No article selection is ever arbitrary or automated. The team handpicks some of the top blog posts each day to produce a comfortably formatted newspaper. Capitalizing on the diversity of perspectives - they show 4 views on a particular Issue each day. This allows them to fight bias and let readers make informed decisions, getting a deep dive into every Issue in a short amount of time.
How Is It Different:
All reputable news sources fight the editorial bias in roughly the same way; deliver appropriately critical news in a “just the facts” format. But even without the inherent agenda of large corporations, this approach to objectivity is rather futile. No matter how fact-based the account, language and context always tell a story of their own.
An understanding of current events cannot be two-dimensional. The way most news is delivered creates exactly that dynamic. The reader’s point of reference interacts with the delivered facts. Those facts then filter through the reader’s biases, presumptions, and context base to effectively reinforce what he already knew – that he was right. Yes, new information has come in, but the level of understanding has not changed.
More at:http://theissue.com/
The Issue is a non-partisan blog newspaper that provides a window to an emerging world of diverse and informed opinions. We cull the blogosphere for its wise insights, probing analyses, and diverse perspectives, drawing together a borderless newspaper. By combining the democratization and diversity of new media with the format and editorial standards of traditional news, we hope to offer a hybrid news source that provides the best of both worlds.
How It Works:
Their editorial team handpicks articles that represent the best of the blogosphere. Selected articles are clearly written, intuitively organized, and have theses and make arguments that are supported with well-researched and salient points. No article selection is ever arbitrary or automated. The team handpicks some of the top blog posts each day to produce a comfortably formatted newspaper. Capitalizing on the diversity of perspectives - they show 4 views on a particular Issue each day. This allows them to fight bias and let readers make informed decisions, getting a deep dive into every Issue in a short amount of time.
How Is It Different:
All reputable news sources fight the editorial bias in roughly the same way; deliver appropriately critical news in a “just the facts” format. But even without the inherent agenda of large corporations, this approach to objectivity is rather futile. No matter how fact-based the account, language and context always tell a story of their own.
An understanding of current events cannot be two-dimensional. The way most news is delivered creates exactly that dynamic. The reader’s point of reference interacts with the delivered facts. Those facts then filter through the reader’s biases, presumptions, and context base to effectively reinforce what he already knew – that he was right. Yes, new information has come in, but the level of understanding has not changed.
More at:http://theissue.com/
Network 18 Invested In Online Learning Company$4 million and online search advertising firm Webchutney Studio Pvt. Ltd
The venture capital and private equity investment arm of Delhi-based media company Network 18 Fincap Pvt. Ltd, Capital 18, has closed four deals, two of which are undisclosed, since its formal incorporation this January.
The two disclosed deals involve investments in online learning company 24X7 Learning Solutions Pvt. Ltd ($4 million or Rs15.8 crore) and online search advertising firm Webchutney Studio Pvt. Ltd (deal size undisclosed).
The investments made by Capital 18 are separate from those that the group’s Internet arm, Web 18, has been making over the last 12-18 months. “We will invest in sectors complementary to, but not conflicting with the strategies of Network 18,” says Sarbvir Singh, managing director, Capital 18.
Singh said that the venture capital arm would not invest in companies that have the potential to be merged with the group’s existing properties. Gaming, animation, print media and the larger media, entertainment and technology space would be its key areas of focus for investment.
The firm has plans to invest in 8-10 companies over next few years
Web 18, the Internet arm, has invested in at least six Indian companies, including movie ticketing company Bigtree Entertainment Pvt. Ltd and travel portal Yatra.com. Unlike Web 18, which aligns its investment along the group’s larger strategies and invests from Network 18’s balance sheet, the venture capital arm operates as a separate fund.
Singh did not reveal the size of the fund, but said “it invested out of a dedicated corpus”.
Capital 18 wants to differentiate itself from other venture capital firms by leveraging the resources of its parent to help its portfolio companies.
It will typically invest $5-10 million per company, which pits it against venture capital investors such as Sequoia Capital India, Helion Venture Partners in Bangalore and Matrix India Partners in Mumbai.
The firm has plans to invest in 8-10 companies over the next few years. Capital 18 will not only focus on growth companies looking to scale, but will also invest in large incubation projects.
Via-Mint
http://www.livemint.com/2007/12/03222825/Network-18-arm-closes-4-deals.html
The two disclosed deals involve investments in online learning company 24X7 Learning Solutions Pvt. Ltd ($4 million or Rs15.8 crore) and online search advertising firm Webchutney Studio Pvt. Ltd (deal size undisclosed).
The investments made by Capital 18 are separate from those that the group’s Internet arm, Web 18, has been making over the last 12-18 months. “We will invest in sectors complementary to, but not conflicting with the strategies of Network 18,” says Sarbvir Singh, managing director, Capital 18.
Singh said that the venture capital arm would not invest in companies that have the potential to be merged with the group’s existing properties. Gaming, animation, print media and the larger media, entertainment and technology space would be its key areas of focus for investment.
The firm has plans to invest in 8-10 companies over next few years
Web 18, the Internet arm, has invested in at least six Indian companies, including movie ticketing company Bigtree Entertainment Pvt. Ltd and travel portal Yatra.com. Unlike Web 18, which aligns its investment along the group’s larger strategies and invests from Network 18’s balance sheet, the venture capital arm operates as a separate fund.
Singh did not reveal the size of the fund, but said “it invested out of a dedicated corpus”.
Capital 18 wants to differentiate itself from other venture capital firms by leveraging the resources of its parent to help its portfolio companies.
It will typically invest $5-10 million per company, which pits it against venture capital investors such as Sequoia Capital India, Helion Venture Partners in Bangalore and Matrix India Partners in Mumbai.
The firm has plans to invest in 8-10 companies over the next few years. Capital 18 will not only focus on growth companies looking to scale, but will also invest in large incubation projects.
Via-Mint
http://www.livemint.com/2007/12/03222825/Network-18-arm-closes-4-deals.html
JetBird has completed a private placement of €21 million (US$31 million) of equity capital with European, US, private and institutional investors
About Company:
From 2009, JetBird will offer a point-to-point, on demand private jet service in Europe. The launch of JetBird will mark a revolution in the way people travel in the region. JetBird will offer all of the benefits of traditional private jet usage, but at a fraction of the cost of existing branded private jet operators.
Virtually all of us who fly regularly aspire to travel on private jets, however to date the cost of private flight has proved prohibitive for all but the most senior executives and the wealthiest individuals, with flight costs being many multiples of business class tickets on commercial aircraft.
How Much They Got From VCs:
JetBird, the first Pan-European, low cost executive jet taxi operator, today announced that it has successfully completed a private placement which now values JetBird at approximately €101 million (c. US$150 million).
JetBird has completed a private placement of €21 million (US$31 million) of equity capital with European, US, private and institutional investors. The placement was oversubscribed and includes a combination of new and existing investors in JetBird.
Proceeds from the private placement will be applied towards the financing of the first 25 Phenom 100 aircraft and general corporate purposes as JetBird continues to move toward the launch of Europe’s first low cost executive jet taxi operator in 2009. The fundraising was underwritten, arranged and completed by Claret Capital.
What Company says:
JetBird Chairman, Dómhnal Slattery, commented “We are pleased to announce the successful completion of this private placement. This equity capital raising reflects strong support from existing shareholders and new investors in JetBird. As JetBird’s largest individual shareholder, my interests are fully aligned with those of our shareholders and we will maintain an unrelenting focus on the steps towards launch.”
“This capital raising represents a significant uplift in valuation since JetBird’s launch. This, in part, reflects the increased value of our order of 100 Phenom 100 aircraft following a number of recent price increases. JetBird is now adequately capitalised to sustain its medium-term objectives," Slattery said.
"JetBird’s ability to deliver a premium product, at a lower price point, reflects our choice of the best-in-class aircraft in the industry. Embraer’s Phenom manufacturing and flight testing programme is on schedule. The Phenom programme’s continuing progress validates JetBird’s choice of the best-in-class aircraft from a manufacturer with proven commercial expertise and a track record of delivering aircraft on time and to a commercial, operable standard," JetBird CEO, Stefan Vilner said.
"We look forward to putting in place financing for our first 25 aircraft later in 2007 and are on track to launch our service, on schedule, in 2009," he said.
more at:http://www.flyjetbird.com/
From 2009, JetBird will offer a point-to-point, on demand private jet service in Europe. The launch of JetBird will mark a revolution in the way people travel in the region. JetBird will offer all of the benefits of traditional private jet usage, but at a fraction of the cost of existing branded private jet operators.
Virtually all of us who fly regularly aspire to travel on private jets, however to date the cost of private flight has proved prohibitive for all but the most senior executives and the wealthiest individuals, with flight costs being many multiples of business class tickets on commercial aircraft.
How Much They Got From VCs:
JetBird, the first Pan-European, low cost executive jet taxi operator, today announced that it has successfully completed a private placement which now values JetBird at approximately €101 million (c. US$150 million).
JetBird has completed a private placement of €21 million (US$31 million) of equity capital with European, US, private and institutional investors. The placement was oversubscribed and includes a combination of new and existing investors in JetBird.
Proceeds from the private placement will be applied towards the financing of the first 25 Phenom 100 aircraft and general corporate purposes as JetBird continues to move toward the launch of Europe’s first low cost executive jet taxi operator in 2009. The fundraising was underwritten, arranged and completed by Claret Capital.
What Company says:
JetBird Chairman, Dómhnal Slattery, commented “We are pleased to announce the successful completion of this private placement. This equity capital raising reflects strong support from existing shareholders and new investors in JetBird. As JetBird’s largest individual shareholder, my interests are fully aligned with those of our shareholders and we will maintain an unrelenting focus on the steps towards launch.”
“This capital raising represents a significant uplift in valuation since JetBird’s launch. This, in part, reflects the increased value of our order of 100 Phenom 100 aircraft following a number of recent price increases. JetBird is now adequately capitalised to sustain its medium-term objectives," Slattery said.
"JetBird’s ability to deliver a premium product, at a lower price point, reflects our choice of the best-in-class aircraft in the industry. Embraer’s Phenom manufacturing and flight testing programme is on schedule. The Phenom programme’s continuing progress validates JetBird’s choice of the best-in-class aircraft from a manufacturer with proven commercial expertise and a track record of delivering aircraft on time and to a commercial, operable standard," JetBird CEO, Stefan Vilner said.
"We look forward to putting in place financing for our first 25 aircraft later in 2007 and are on track to launch our service, on schedule, in 2009," he said.
more at:http://www.flyjetbird.com/
Consorte Media Inc., a San Francisco-based provider of marketing services to the Spanish-speaking market, has raised $7 million in Series B funding
What Company Is Offering:
Consorte is the leading provider of online marketing solutions targeting the Hispanic market. Through its media network of premium content sites, its extended advertising network of third-party sites and its targeted lead generation services, Consorte provides companies with multiple ways to connect with Hispanic consumers online. Consorte applies its Spanish-language media expertise and deep knowledge of the Hispanic consumer market to generate high-quality results for its customers.
How It Works:
Consorte Media makes it easy for leading advertisers to target the U.S. Hispanic, Latin America and Spain markets effectively. We provide tailored campaigns for brand marketers and direct marketers alike.
Consorte Media enables direct marketing advertisers to reach Hispanics in a cost-effective way and one that provides a measurable return on investment. The advertiser need only outline its requirements for a sales lead (age, income level, etc.) and Consorte Media can deliver customers that meet this criteria. There are no upfront costs, the leads are delivered in real-time, and custom campaigns can be launched. Consorte Media currently drives leads in debt, mortgages, ringtones, and auto.
They can deliver the right ads to the right consumer at the right time. Consorte Media knows where to find consumers online, what they will respond to and how to optimize campaigns to make the most of online advertising dollars.
Via their Hispanic-focused ad network, the Consorte Media Ad Network, they bring together leading brand and direct advertisers with hundreds of top quality Hispanic-focused online publishers, with a technology – and research-driven approach.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Consorte Media Inc., a San Francisco-based provider of marketing services to the Spanish-speaking market, has raised $7 million in Series B funding. Sutter Hill Ventures led the round, and was joined by return backer Mayfield Fund. The company raised a $3.2 million Series A round late last year from Mayfield and Band of Angels.
http://www.consortemedia.com/
Consorte is the leading provider of online marketing solutions targeting the Hispanic market. Through its media network of premium content sites, its extended advertising network of third-party sites and its targeted lead generation services, Consorte provides companies with multiple ways to connect with Hispanic consumers online. Consorte applies its Spanish-language media expertise and deep knowledge of the Hispanic consumer market to generate high-quality results for its customers.
How It Works:
Consorte Media makes it easy for leading advertisers to target the U.S. Hispanic, Latin America and Spain markets effectively. We provide tailored campaigns for brand marketers and direct marketers alike.
Consorte Media enables direct marketing advertisers to reach Hispanics in a cost-effective way and one that provides a measurable return on investment. The advertiser need only outline its requirements for a sales lead (age, income level, etc.) and Consorte Media can deliver customers that meet this criteria. There are no upfront costs, the leads are delivered in real-time, and custom campaigns can be launched. Consorte Media currently drives leads in debt, mortgages, ringtones, and auto.
They can deliver the right ads to the right consumer at the right time. Consorte Media knows where to find consumers online, what they will respond to and how to optimize campaigns to make the most of online advertising dollars.
Via their Hispanic-focused ad network, the Consorte Media Ad Network, they bring together leading brand and direct advertisers with hundreds of top quality Hispanic-focused online publishers, with a technology – and research-driven approach.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Consorte Media Inc., a San Francisco-based provider of marketing services to the Spanish-speaking market, has raised $7 million in Series B funding. Sutter Hill Ventures led the round, and was joined by return backer Mayfield Fund. The company raised a $3.2 million Series A round late last year from Mayfield and Band of Angels.
http://www.consortemedia.com/
Selltis, LLC is a provider of on-demand customer relationship management has raised an undisclosed amount of VC funding
What Company Is Offering:
Selltis, LLC is a provider of on-demand customer relationship management (CRM) software for end-to-end sales process automation. Specializing in the needs of technical and industrial sales organizations, Selltis manages all aspects of the customer and partner relationship lifecycle.
How It Works:
Selltis™ is an integrated software system that manages the business processes involved in generating and maintaining sales for technical and industrial organizations – from marketing campaigns and lead management to managing complex projects, quoting, and providing field service.
Built on the company's unique, "many-to-many" data linking Hyperrelational? technology, the Selltis Sales platform allows industrial sales teams to "Link The Way You Think?." Expanding on the company's unique, hyperrelational? technology that offers "many-to-many" data linking, the new Selltis Sales 5.0, planned for general availability in early 2008, allows users to manage all aspects of the customer and partner relationship lifecycle. This "Link The Way You Think?" approach provides the capability to proactively manage complex, team sales environments. The Selltis Sales platform includes tools to automate marketing campaigns and lead management as well as quoting and field service.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Selltis LLC, a New Orleans-based provider of on-demand CRM software for end-to-end sales process automation, has raised an undisclosed amount of VC funding from Advantage Capital Partners and Enhanced Capital Partners.
About VCs:
1. Enhanced Capital Partners
Founded in 1999, Enhanced Capital Partners is a national investment firm with over $400 million under management specializing in investments in small and mid-size companies. Enhanced Capital provides a range of investment options to promote the growth and expansion of businesses. Our flexibility and practical investment approach can make the difference in maximizing the growth potential for a company poised for rapid growth. Enhanced Capital's team members have extensive experience working with high growth businesses and a proven track record for helping our portfolio companies realize their full potential. For more information, visit www.enhancedcap.com.
2. Advantage Capital Partners
Advantage Capital Partners is an innovative group of venture capital partnerships with more than $800 million under management. Established in 1992, the firm has grown from its origins in Louisiana to include offices in Missouri, New York, Texas and Washington, D.C. From the start, Advantage has raised private funds to invest in states and communities underserved by traditional sources of risk capital. The firm has built a strong track record of public-private partnerships with state and federal organizations, facilitating the flow of billions of dollars of investment capital into these communities. In conjunction with such efforts, Advantage provides equity and debt capital ? along with value-added counsel and other support ? to promising operating businesses that have the potential for excellent investor returns as well as significant community impact. The firm uses this dual bottom line to measure its success. For more information, visit www.advantagecap.com.
More at:http://www.selltis.com/
Selltis, LLC is a provider of on-demand customer relationship management (CRM) software for end-to-end sales process automation. Specializing in the needs of technical and industrial sales organizations, Selltis manages all aspects of the customer and partner relationship lifecycle.
How It Works:
Selltis™ is an integrated software system that manages the business processes involved in generating and maintaining sales for technical and industrial organizations – from marketing campaigns and lead management to managing complex projects, quoting, and providing field service.
Built on the company's unique, "many-to-many" data linking Hyperrelational? technology, the Selltis Sales platform allows industrial sales teams to "Link The Way You Think?." Expanding on the company's unique, hyperrelational? technology that offers "many-to-many" data linking, the new Selltis Sales 5.0, planned for general availability in early 2008, allows users to manage all aspects of the customer and partner relationship lifecycle. This "Link The Way You Think?" approach provides the capability to proactively manage complex, team sales environments. The Selltis Sales platform includes tools to automate marketing campaigns and lead management as well as quoting and field service.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Selltis LLC, a New Orleans-based provider of on-demand CRM software for end-to-end sales process automation, has raised an undisclosed amount of VC funding from Advantage Capital Partners and Enhanced Capital Partners.
About VCs:
1. Enhanced Capital Partners
Founded in 1999, Enhanced Capital Partners is a national investment firm with over $400 million under management specializing in investments in small and mid-size companies. Enhanced Capital provides a range of investment options to promote the growth and expansion of businesses. Our flexibility and practical investment approach can make the difference in maximizing the growth potential for a company poised for rapid growth. Enhanced Capital's team members have extensive experience working with high growth businesses and a proven track record for helping our portfolio companies realize their full potential. For more information, visit www.enhancedcap.com.
2. Advantage Capital Partners
Advantage Capital Partners is an innovative group of venture capital partnerships with more than $800 million under management. Established in 1992, the firm has grown from its origins in Louisiana to include offices in Missouri, New York, Texas and Washington, D.C. From the start, Advantage has raised private funds to invest in states and communities underserved by traditional sources of risk capital. The firm has built a strong track record of public-private partnerships with state and federal organizations, facilitating the flow of billions of dollars of investment capital into these communities. In conjunction with such efforts, Advantage provides equity and debt capital ? along with value-added counsel and other support ? to promising operating businesses that have the potential for excellent investor returns as well as significant community impact. The firm uses this dual bottom line to measure its success. For more information, visit www.advantagecap.com.
More at:http://www.selltis.com/
Decipher, Inc. is a marketing research services provider specializing in online survey Got VCs Funding
What Company Is Offering:
Decipher, Inc. is a marketing research services provider specializing in online survey programming, data collection, data processing/reporting, and custom technology development.
How It Works:
Utilizing Web-based applications, Decipher integrates state of the art technology with traditional research techniques. In an industry that's $8.2 billion and growing, Decipher's online survey tools and data reporting suite provide users with the unique ability to automate post field production, and significantly increasing the accuracy and quality of research reporting for their businesses.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Decipher Inc., a Fresno, Calif.-based provider of online survey software, has raised an undisclosed amount of VC funding from DCA Capital Partners.
What VCs Says About Company:
Decipher is a market leader in providing customized market research services to high-profile clients operating around the globe and has built a strong reputation for quality in this rapidly expanding market," says Jeremy Wolfe, a Partner at DCA. "They are highly regarded by customers and competitors alike and continue to develop leading services and tools for the industry. We hope our investment and partnership with the company will accelerate that success."
What's Purpose Of Raising Funds:
The proceeds of the financing will be used primarily to pursue additional growth opportunities as well as further expand the operations and development staff. "We are thrilled to partner with DCA in capitalizing on the exciting growth prospects we see ahead of us," says Jamin Brazil, Co-CEO of Decipher Inc. "We could not be more energized by the attractive growth opportunites we're seeing in the marketplace and believe this is the right time to raise institutional capital to capitalize on those opportunities," says Decipher Co-CEO Jayme Plunkett.
About VCs:
DCA Capital Partners is a private equity fund formed to provide expansion capital to growth?oriented, middle?market businesses in underserved markets across the broader Northern and Central California region, and the Pacific Southwest (Arizona and Nevada). In conjunction with its institutional investor partners, the Fund provides promising later?stage companies with additional capital and expertise needed to successfully expand and extend their businesses.
DCA Capital provides expansion capital for the purpose of both investing in strategic and operational growth or acquisitions, as well as funding full and partial liquidity to business owners interested in diversifying their investment risk and portfolio. The Fund will also invest selectively in divisional spinouts/divestitures and industry consolidation opportunities.
More at:http://www.decipherinc.com/
Decipher, Inc. is a marketing research services provider specializing in online survey programming, data collection, data processing/reporting, and custom technology development.
How It Works:
Utilizing Web-based applications, Decipher integrates state of the art technology with traditional research techniques. In an industry that's $8.2 billion and growing, Decipher's online survey tools and data reporting suite provide users with the unique ability to automate post field production, and significantly increasing the accuracy and quality of research reporting for their businesses.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Decipher Inc., a Fresno, Calif.-based provider of online survey software, has raised an undisclosed amount of VC funding from DCA Capital Partners.
What VCs Says About Company:
Decipher is a market leader in providing customized market research services to high-profile clients operating around the globe and has built a strong reputation for quality in this rapidly expanding market," says Jeremy Wolfe, a Partner at DCA. "They are highly regarded by customers and competitors alike and continue to develop leading services and tools for the industry. We hope our investment and partnership with the company will accelerate that success."
What's Purpose Of Raising Funds:
The proceeds of the financing will be used primarily to pursue additional growth opportunities as well as further expand the operations and development staff. "We are thrilled to partner with DCA in capitalizing on the exciting growth prospects we see ahead of us," says Jamin Brazil, Co-CEO of Decipher Inc. "We could not be more energized by the attractive growth opportunites we're seeing in the marketplace and believe this is the right time to raise institutional capital to capitalize on those opportunities," says Decipher Co-CEO Jayme Plunkett.
About VCs:
DCA Capital Partners is a private equity fund formed to provide expansion capital to growth?oriented, middle?market businesses in underserved markets across the broader Northern and Central California region, and the Pacific Southwest (Arizona and Nevada). In conjunction with its institutional investor partners, the Fund provides promising later?stage companies with additional capital and expertise needed to successfully expand and extend their businesses.
DCA Capital provides expansion capital for the purpose of both investing in strategic and operational growth or acquisitions, as well as funding full and partial liquidity to business owners interested in diversifying their investment risk and portfolio. The Fund will also invest selectively in divisional spinouts/divestitures and industry consolidation opportunities.
More at:http://www.decipherinc.com/
The vLex database allows you to search for legal information you need from a single search engine
What Company Is Offering:
The vLex database allows you to search for legal information you need from a single search engine. It doesn’t matter what content you are looking for, nor from which country you are in. vLex will perform your search and with its advanced algorithms, it will reveal more relevant information.
How It Works:
vLex is one of best resources for legal information, both local and international. The interface is very straight forward and does not require a lot training to learn how to operate. Mostly, they appreciate the time saved on quick searches through the Books and Journals collection, along with full access to Contracts and Forms.
Exclusive rights to specific documents and publications have been given to vLex. This important information they provide to their customers with access to content in full text.
They are committed to helping you find the information you need. For that reason, vlex has features that enable you to store documents you deem important, create alerts of new developments on specific topics or journals, RSS and more. Search Features:Advanced search Forms ,Stemming ,Combination of fields ,Specialized search engines for each type of content ,Boolean operators and proximity Wildcards ,Internal search for each document ,Complex searches with combination operators.
Personalization tools:Search Alerts ,Journals summary alerts ,RSS ,Document Tagging ,Favorite documents ,Personal Search Suggestions ,Search history .
More at:http://vlex.com/promos/
The vLex database allows you to search for legal information you need from a single search engine. It doesn’t matter what content you are looking for, nor from which country you are in. vLex will perform your search and with its advanced algorithms, it will reveal more relevant information.
How It Works:
vLex is one of best resources for legal information, both local and international. The interface is very straight forward and does not require a lot training to learn how to operate. Mostly, they appreciate the time saved on quick searches through the Books and Journals collection, along with full access to Contracts and Forms.
Exclusive rights to specific documents and publications have been given to vLex. This important information they provide to their customers with access to content in full text.
They are committed to helping you find the information you need. For that reason, vlex has features that enable you to store documents you deem important, create alerts of new developments on specific topics or journals, RSS and more. Search Features:Advanced search Forms ,Stemming ,Combination of fields ,Specialized search engines for each type of content ,Boolean operators and proximity Wildcards ,Internal search for each document ,Complex searches with combination operators.
Personalization tools:Search Alerts ,Journals summary alerts ,RSS ,Document Tagging ,Favorite documents ,Personal Search Suggestions ,Search history .
More at:http://vlex.com/promos/
Insightory--Connecting Management Professionals,Business Students To Share Their Insights With The Corporate World
What Company Is Offering:
Insightory is a platform for management professionals, academicians and graduate business students to share their knowledge and insights with the corporate world, solve management issues collaboratively, and network with peers who have similar professional interests.
How It Works:
Their goal is to do for management knowledge what Wikipedia has done for general knowledge i.e. put it out on the "open" web, so that those who have expertise can add to it, and those who need the expertise can tap into it. In doing so, they will create powerful networks, with rich opportunities for "providers" as well as "seekers" of management knowledge.
They believe in : Companies need a constant supply of "management knowledge" (best practices, trends, how-to's, insights, etc.)
Having access to multiple viewpoints is better than having access to a few.
Management knowledge is not the essential domain of a few; it is distributed among tens of thousands of smart, experienced people all over the world.
Currently, there isn't any effective way for companies to tap into the experience and expertise of those who aren't employees or contractors / consultants.
The most efficient mechanism for building and distributing knowledge is an open, internet-based system.
More at:http://www.insightory.com/
Insightory is a platform for management professionals, academicians and graduate business students to share their knowledge and insights with the corporate world, solve management issues collaboratively, and network with peers who have similar professional interests.
How It Works:
Their goal is to do for management knowledge what Wikipedia has done for general knowledge i.e. put it out on the "open" web, so that those who have expertise can add to it, and those who need the expertise can tap into it. In doing so, they will create powerful networks, with rich opportunities for "providers" as well as "seekers" of management knowledge.
They believe in : Companies need a constant supply of "management knowledge" (best practices, trends, how-to's, insights, etc.)
Having access to multiple viewpoints is better than having access to a few.
Management knowledge is not the essential domain of a few; it is distributed among tens of thousands of smart, experienced people all over the world.
Currently, there isn't any effective way for companies to tap into the experience and expertise of those who aren't employees or contractors / consultants.
The most efficient mechanism for building and distributing knowledge is an open, internet-based system.
More at:http://www.insightory.com/
Monday, December 3, 2007
MyStore.com is a place where you can buy or sell online for free
What Company Is Offering:
MyStore.com is a place where you can buy or sell online for free. Whether you are a business or individual already selling on Ebay, Craigslist, Yahoo, Amazon or any online auction site or online classifieds, adding a free online store at MyStore.com increases your chances to sell your items. If you have something to sell, you have nothing to lose. If you are looking to shop online and find a deal, use MyStore.com to compare prices. Shop locally or shop the world. Find great deals or open an online store of your own. MyStore.com won't cost you a cent.
How it Works:
MyStore.com is a virtual real estate company and application service provider offering individuals and businesses with FREE online "retail" space and software usage in the form of personalized web stores located within the company's marketplace located at www.MyStore.com and an e-commerce service provider offering seller support services; including hosting, design, payment processing, marketing, fulfillment, inventory management, and customer management.Using the company's web-based store builder, even the most novice computer user can create a personalized web store and be open for business in just a few minutes.
Throughout the marketplace shoppers have the ability to search for items, compare prices, get to know who they are dealing with before they buy, deal directly with the seller and buy items without the need of a credit card or checking account - if they choose - greatly reducing the potential of fraud.
How Is It Different:
What's unique about MyStore.com - in addition to its ease of use and advanced security and fraud protection procedures and features - is that it provides an "open marketplace" where buyers and sellers deal directly with each other. Web store owners have complete control over their web store's content, items, customers and transactions, and both buyers and web store owners can use a wide variety of communication tools to get to know each other, track transactions, build trust and do
business.
More at:http://mystore.com/
MyStore.com is a place where you can buy or sell online for free. Whether you are a business or individual already selling on Ebay, Craigslist, Yahoo, Amazon or any online auction site or online classifieds, adding a free online store at MyStore.com increases your chances to sell your items. If you have something to sell, you have nothing to lose. If you are looking to shop online and find a deal, use MyStore.com to compare prices. Shop locally or shop the world. Find great deals or open an online store of your own. MyStore.com won't cost you a cent.
How it Works:
MyStore.com is a virtual real estate company and application service provider offering individuals and businesses with FREE online "retail" space and software usage in the form of personalized web stores located within the company's marketplace located at www.MyStore.com and an e-commerce service provider offering seller support services; including hosting, design, payment processing, marketing, fulfillment, inventory management, and customer management.Using the company's web-based store builder, even the most novice computer user can create a personalized web store and be open for business in just a few minutes.
Throughout the marketplace shoppers have the ability to search for items, compare prices, get to know who they are dealing with before they buy, deal directly with the seller and buy items without the need of a credit card or checking account - if they choose - greatly reducing the potential of fraud.
How Is It Different:
What's unique about MyStore.com - in addition to its ease of use and advanced security and fraud protection procedures and features - is that it provides an "open marketplace" where buyers and sellers deal directly with each other. Web store owners have complete control over their web store's content, items, customers and transactions, and both buyers and web store owners can use a wide variety of communication tools to get to know each other, track transactions, build trust and do
business.
More at:http://mystore.com/
N2uitive provides a recorded statement management solution that simplifies the recording, retrieval, and reporting of claims interviews
What Company is Offering:
N2uitive provides property and casualty claims insurers a web-based recorded statement management solution that simplifies the recording, retrieval, and transcription of claims interviews. Gain the unprecedented ability to not only digitally capture and manage your claims interviews, but also understand the data collected throughout the claims interview lifecycle.
How It Works:
N2uitive provides a recorded statement management solution that simplifies the recording, retrieval, and reporting of claims interviews. Their web-based Digital Statement Servicemakes capturing, managing, and understanding your recorded statement lifecycle data effortless.Their service gives property and casualty insurers the unprecedented ability to know and act upon answers to questions such as: How many statements do we take by office or claims rep; what questions do we ask; what data is in the recording; do statements correlate to claims volume and results? The power of knowing what’s in your data, in real-time, translates into reduced expenses, increased claims accuracy, and better claim results.
More at:http://www.n2uitive.com/
N2uitive provides property and casualty claims insurers a web-based recorded statement management solution that simplifies the recording, retrieval, and transcription of claims interviews. Gain the unprecedented ability to not only digitally capture and manage your claims interviews, but also understand the data collected throughout the claims interview lifecycle.
How It Works:
N2uitive provides a recorded statement management solution that simplifies the recording, retrieval, and reporting of claims interviews. Their web-based Digital Statement Servicemakes capturing, managing, and understanding your recorded statement lifecycle data effortless.Their service gives property and casualty insurers the unprecedented ability to know and act upon answers to questions such as: How many statements do we take by office or claims rep; what questions do we ask; what data is in the recording; do statements correlate to claims volume and results? The power of knowing what’s in your data, in real-time, translates into reduced expenses, increased claims accuracy, and better claim results.
More at:http://www.n2uitive.com/
Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research
What Company is Offering:
Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in our database and write high quality descriptions of the resources. The database contains 120213 records.
How It Works;
The Intute database makes possible to discover the best and most relevant resources in one easily accessible place. You can explore and discover trusted information, assured that it has been evaluated by specialists for its quality and relevance. Intute database comes into its own, it allows access to both subject-specific and cross-subject resources, all of which have been evaluated for their quality and relevance. For more details please see the Intute Collection Development Framework and Policy which outlines the intention of the Intute service to select and evaluate online resources according to agreed policies, priorities and criteria.
Intute exists to advance education and research by promoting the best of the Web in one easily accessible place, providing access to quality resources through a process of evaluation and collaboration.
More at:http://www.intute.ac.uk/
Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in our database and write high quality descriptions of the resources. The database contains 120213 records.
How It Works;
The Intute database makes possible to discover the best and most relevant resources in one easily accessible place. You can explore and discover trusted information, assured that it has been evaluated by specialists for its quality and relevance. Intute database comes into its own, it allows access to both subject-specific and cross-subject resources, all of which have been evaluated for their quality and relevance. For more details please see the Intute Collection Development Framework and Policy which outlines the intention of the Intute service to select and evaluate online resources according to agreed policies, priorities and criteria.
Intute exists to advance education and research by promoting the best of the Web in one easily accessible place, providing access to quality resources through a process of evaluation and collaboration.
More at:http://www.intute.ac.uk/
ShipGooder finds the best shipping rates - Always free
What Company Is Offering:
ShipGooder's purpose is to provide fast, accurate, competitive shipping rate information in the U.S. and Canada. In essence, to be your shipping guide. ShipGooder finds the best shipping rates - Always free and requires no account registration!
How It Works:
ShipGooder provides an easy, fast rate engine to get the best shipping rates by comparing local, regional and national courier companies. Since all couriers aren’t competitive in all locations, ShipGooder offers a way to check and compare the best rates. ShipGooder provides instant price comparisons and delivery options from a range of couriers. It’s that simple.
For customers with special contracted rates with various couriers, ShipGooder can provide a cost effective way to incorporate your various contracted carrier rates and services in one place to allow quick comparison as well. There is a fee for service depending on the number of contracted couriers.
More at:http://shipgooder.com/
ShipGooder's purpose is to provide fast, accurate, competitive shipping rate information in the U.S. and Canada. In essence, to be your shipping guide. ShipGooder finds the best shipping rates - Always free and requires no account registration!
How It Works:
ShipGooder provides an easy, fast rate engine to get the best shipping rates by comparing local, regional and national courier companies. Since all couriers aren’t competitive in all locations, ShipGooder offers a way to check and compare the best rates. ShipGooder provides instant price comparisons and delivery options from a range of couriers. It’s that simple.
For customers with special contracted rates with various couriers, ShipGooder can provide a cost effective way to incorporate your various contracted carrier rates and services in one place to allow quick comparison as well. There is a fee for service depending on the number of contracted couriers.
More at:http://shipgooder.com/
CollabTRAK was designed by web designers for web designers
What Company Is Offering:
CollabTRAK was designed by web designers for web designers. As web designers, they have a unique understanding of the difficulties in managing design projects and sorting through a bunch of emails from clients just to find a certain message or file that was sent to you. CollabTRAK keeps your design projects organized for you and your clients. Using CollabTRAK shows your clients that you are serious about their projects.
How It Works:
Link to CollabTRAK login straight from your homepage. Designers and clients can view and manage projects anytime from any web browser.No downloads needed. Designers have the option to send deliverables directly to clients via email from within CollabTRAK. Clients can send emails as well.Designers have full control over the info in project descriptions and notes. Send your clients links to contracts, invoices, mock-ups, etc.
You can sign-up for CollabTRAK whether or not you have a PayPal account. We integrated PayPal into CollabTRAK to make it easy for designers to accept payments seamlessly. Your CollabTRAK account comes pre-configured for PayPal payment acceptance, with no interaction needed on your part.
More at:http://www.collabtrak.com/
CollabTRAK was designed by web designers for web designers. As web designers, they have a unique understanding of the difficulties in managing design projects and sorting through a bunch of emails from clients just to find a certain message or file that was sent to you. CollabTRAK keeps your design projects organized for you and your clients. Using CollabTRAK shows your clients that you are serious about their projects.
How It Works:
Link to CollabTRAK login straight from your homepage. Designers and clients can view and manage projects anytime from any web browser.No downloads needed. Designers have the option to send deliverables directly to clients via email from within CollabTRAK. Clients can send emails as well.Designers have full control over the info in project descriptions and notes. Send your clients links to contracts, invoices, mock-ups, etc.
You can sign-up for CollabTRAK whether or not you have a PayPal account. We integrated PayPal into CollabTRAK to make it easy for designers to accept payments seamlessly. Your CollabTRAK account comes pre-configured for PayPal payment acceptance, with no interaction needed on your part.
More at:http://www.collabtrak.com/
LocalNote --Local Real-Estate Tools
LocalNote provide a collection of online resources, including
classified listings, and various email services.
LocalNote provides interactive community notice boards and services.
Just as every location and community have their own high-value physical notice boards, LocalNote strives to deliver this value online and extend beyond obvious (and fun) metaphors to create high-value interactive media for locations and communities.
More at:http://www.localnote.com.au/
classified listings, and various email services.
LocalNote provides interactive community notice boards and services.
Just as every location and community have their own high-value physical notice boards, LocalNote strives to deliver this value online and extend beyond obvious (and fun) metaphors to create high-value interactive media for locations and communities.
More at:http://www.localnote.com.au/
The Club E Network is the new online and "on the ground" social network for aspiring, emerging and experienced entrepreneurs
What Company Is Offering:
The Club E Network is the new online and "on the ground" social network for aspiring, emerging and experienced entrepreneurs. Our open-source organization invites the entrepreneur community to join together globally to synergize their talents and encourage the free exchange of ideas and resources.
How It Works:
Club E is introducing its full circle resource and network for entrepreneurs worldwide. The online community unites social networking for entrepreneurs at a global level, while their trusted referral network offers entrepreneurs a straight line to the answers, expertise, and information that they seek. Their e-learning tools deliver entrepreneurs a wealth of relevant information to grow their businesses. These tools enable entrepreneurs to empower themselves with knowledge that will make the difference between a wish and a dream realized. Launching 50+ chapters in communities across the country over the next 24 months, Club E will provide an “on the ground” network with member access to monthly and bi-monthly events. Each event brings speakers, networking and activities constructed to support current and budding entrepreneurs. These local Club E events give entrepreneurs the opportunity to get that valuable face time and interact with their fellow visionaries.Club E Network’s short format programming provides compelling and informative entertainment combined with valuable information for business owners to use. New and celebrity entrepreneur profiles, how-to shows, and reality and lifestyle programming all exist on the Club E Network. It is the one-stop shop for the passionate entrepreneur.
More at:http://www.clubenetwork.com/
The Club E Network is the new online and "on the ground" social network for aspiring, emerging and experienced entrepreneurs. Our open-source organization invites the entrepreneur community to join together globally to synergize their talents and encourage the free exchange of ideas and resources.
How It Works:
Club E is introducing its full circle resource and network for entrepreneurs worldwide. The online community unites social networking for entrepreneurs at a global level, while their trusted referral network offers entrepreneurs a straight line to the answers, expertise, and information that they seek. Their e-learning tools deliver entrepreneurs a wealth of relevant information to grow their businesses. These tools enable entrepreneurs to empower themselves with knowledge that will make the difference between a wish and a dream realized. Launching 50+ chapters in communities across the country over the next 24 months, Club E will provide an “on the ground” network with member access to monthly and bi-monthly events. Each event brings speakers, networking and activities constructed to support current and budding entrepreneurs. These local Club E events give entrepreneurs the opportunity to get that valuable face time and interact with their fellow visionaries.Club E Network’s short format programming provides compelling and informative entertainment combined with valuable information for business owners to use. New and celebrity entrepreneur profiles, how-to shows, and reality and lifestyle programming all exist on the Club E Network. It is the one-stop shop for the passionate entrepreneur.
More at:http://www.clubenetwork.com/
Smart Desktop aims to help people sort that information automatically and intelligently
What Company is Offering:
Smart Desktop aims to help people sort that information automatically and intelligently. It enables organization around the projects people care about, which makes interacting with your information more intuitive and natural.
How It Works:
Smart Desktop is changing the way you manage information without changing the way you work.
Intelligent Classification - Using machine intelligence technology, Smart Desktop automatically organizes your information by project so you can find it instantly.
Fast access to your resourcesSmart Information Retrieval – Smart Desktop presents a single user interface for your commonly used project resources and enables you to quickly retrieve information that you have previously used without having to jump between applications or filter through irrelevant search results.
Smart E-mail Management – Smart Desktop automatically classifies email in a manner that is consistent with the way you think. E-mails are automatically classified by project and presented in Outlook search folders as well as the Smart Desktop user interface components.
Smart Time Tracking – Track how much time you spend working on a given project or in a specific application. Smart Desktop provides a granular, real-time view into a project, and easily generates project and time management reports.
Smart Billing & Reporting – Smart Desktop is essential to users who charge for work based on project time or billable hours. Time management reports provide granular detail about time spent on specific projects and specific project resources. These details are easily exported to common 3rd party billing applications or spreadsheets from which purchase orders can be generated.
More at:http://www.smartdesktop.com/
http://www.picorp.com/
Smart Desktop aims to help people sort that information automatically and intelligently. It enables organization around the projects people care about, which makes interacting with your information more intuitive and natural.
How It Works:
Smart Desktop is changing the way you manage information without changing the way you work.
Intelligent Classification - Using machine intelligence technology, Smart Desktop automatically organizes your information by project so you can find it instantly.
Fast access to your resourcesSmart Information Retrieval – Smart Desktop presents a single user interface for your commonly used project resources and enables you to quickly retrieve information that you have previously used without having to jump between applications or filter through irrelevant search results.
Smart E-mail Management – Smart Desktop automatically classifies email in a manner that is consistent with the way you think. E-mails are automatically classified by project and presented in Outlook search folders as well as the Smart Desktop user interface components.
Smart Time Tracking – Track how much time you spend working on a given project or in a specific application. Smart Desktop provides a granular, real-time view into a project, and easily generates project and time management reports.
Smart Billing & Reporting – Smart Desktop is essential to users who charge for work based on project time or billable hours. Time management reports provide granular detail about time spent on specific projects and specific project resources. These details are easily exported to common 3rd party billing applications or spreadsheets from which purchase orders can be generated.
More at:http://www.smartdesktop.com/
http://www.picorp.com/
Silicon Valley Winners Of Technology Pioneers 2008 Award
Here are the Silicon Valley winners of the World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneers 2008 Award:
23andMe, Mountain View: Creates technology that lets people search for their genetic makeup.
Accuray, Sunnyvale: Makes a doctor-directed robot called CyberKnife, which treats tumors with radiation. More than 40,000 patients have been treated by more than 100 CyberKnife robots in use worldwide, the company says.
Admob, San Mateo: A mobile advertising marketplace provider.
Arteris, San Jose (with dual headquarters in Paris): Start-up focusing on the challenge of creating networking capabilities for chips that have many different functions incorporated into them.
Innovative Silicon, Santa Clara: Develops and licenses Z-RAM - dense, low-cost memory technology seen as a successor to dynamic random access memory (DRAM).
LS9, San Carlos: A "renewable petroleum" company whose re-engineered microbes produces hydrocarbons that act like those in petroleum. The company says it is pursuing industrial applications of synthetic biology to produce proprietary biofuels.
Lumio, Menlo Park: Creates low-cost, high-resolution sensing technologies and miniature, efficient projection technologies that can convert an inert surface into an interactive touch sensitive area.
Meraki, Mountain View: Offers affordable Internet access through a new approach to wireless networking.
Nanostellar, Redwood City: A start-up that applies nanotechnology to catalytic converters to help clean diesel engine exhaust.
Silver Spring Networks, Redwood City: Makes intelligent, Internet protocol-based networking products.
Unidym, Menlo Park: Creates products for the electronics industry using carbon nanotubes.
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23andMe, Mountain View: Creates technology that lets people search for their genetic makeup.
Accuray, Sunnyvale: Makes a doctor-directed robot called CyberKnife, which treats tumors with radiation. More than 40,000 patients have been treated by more than 100 CyberKnife robots in use worldwide, the company says.
Admob, San Mateo: A mobile advertising marketplace provider.
Arteris, San Jose (with dual headquarters in Paris): Start-up focusing on the challenge of creating networking capabilities for chips that have many different functions incorporated into them.
Innovative Silicon, Santa Clara: Develops and licenses Z-RAM - dense, low-cost memory technology seen as a successor to dynamic random access memory (DRAM).
LS9, San Carlos: A "renewable petroleum" company whose re-engineered microbes produces hydrocarbons that act like those in petroleum. The company says it is pursuing industrial applications of synthetic biology to produce proprietary biofuels.
Lumio, Menlo Park: Creates low-cost, high-resolution sensing technologies and miniature, efficient projection technologies that can convert an inert surface into an interactive touch sensitive area.
Meraki, Mountain View: Offers affordable Internet access through a new approach to wireless networking.
Nanostellar, Redwood City: A start-up that applies nanotechnology to catalytic converters to help clean diesel engine exhaust.
Silver Spring Networks, Redwood City: Makes intelligent, Internet protocol-based networking products.
Unidym, Menlo Park: Creates products for the electronics industry using carbon nanotubes.
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Executive Search Solutions specializes in providing executive search and specialized research solutions to emerging growth companies
What Company Is Offering:
Executive Search Solutions specializes in providing executive search and specialized research solutions to emerging growth companies. Whether your company is looking for senior executive management, marketing, sales, operations, technical, or professional services leaders, we can customize a solution that fits your needs.
If you are a senior executive or Board member of a growing company whose management team is incomplete and requires unique talent to maximize its opportunities, please contact them to learn how they can help you find the right individual for your organization.
How It Works:
Executive Search Solutions hones in on the organization’s needs, from leadership, to specific business problems and objectives, to everyday tasks. They then tailor a list of requirements and develop a targeted research strategy and prerequisite list. Each candidate is qualified against these prerequisites and presented with a written appraisal. They firmly believe that the essence of the success of any search can be found in the quality of the research and the qualifying process.
More at:http://www.bassettsearch.com/
Executive Search Solutions specializes in providing executive search and specialized research solutions to emerging growth companies. Whether your company is looking for senior executive management, marketing, sales, operations, technical, or professional services leaders, we can customize a solution that fits your needs.
If you are a senior executive or Board member of a growing company whose management team is incomplete and requires unique talent to maximize its opportunities, please contact them to learn how they can help you find the right individual for your organization.
How It Works:
Executive Search Solutions hones in on the organization’s needs, from leadership, to specific business problems and objectives, to everyday tasks. They then tailor a list of requirements and develop a targeted research strategy and prerequisite list. Each candidate is qualified against these prerequisites and presented with a written appraisal. They firmly believe that the essence of the success of any search can be found in the quality of the research and the qualifying process.
More at:http://www.bassettsearch.com/
Mployd.com, is a leading website provider of job search and recruitment for job seekers
What Company Is Offering:
Mployd.com, is a leading website provider of job search and recruitment for job seekers. Mployd helps job seekers search for employment and leading the employers wanting to recruit, hire and provide opportunities.
How It Works:
Mployd is, Working with companies, human resource managers, recruitment organizations, company recruiters and job seekers, they were able to design an employment community that facilitates easy communication between employers and job seekers.
By focusing on communication between employers and job seekers they have been able to develop a wide range of tools that allow job seekers to apply for jobs much easier than ever before. With their "5-Minute Job Posting", Mployd allows employers to post more jobs quicker and with great ease.
Mployd finds employees faster and is less expensive.
Mployd is successful, not by accident, it is by understanding that it does not have to be difficult for employers to find great employees and it should never be difficult to find a dream job.
More at:http://mployd.com/
Mployd.com, is a leading website provider of job search and recruitment for job seekers. Mployd helps job seekers search for employment and leading the employers wanting to recruit, hire and provide opportunities.
How It Works:
Mployd is, Working with companies, human resource managers, recruitment organizations, company recruiters and job seekers, they were able to design an employment community that facilitates easy communication between employers and job seekers.
By focusing on communication between employers and job seekers they have been able to develop a wide range of tools that allow job seekers to apply for jobs much easier than ever before. With their "5-Minute Job Posting", Mployd allows employers to post more jobs quicker and with great ease.
Mployd finds employees faster and is less expensive.
Mployd is successful, not by accident, it is by understanding that it does not have to be difficult for employers to find great employees and it should never be difficult to find a dream job.
More at:http://mployd.com/
StyleShake—a new online venture that lets creative customers design their own duds
What Company Is offering:
StyleShake—a new online venture that lets creative customers design their own duds, picking from a selection of quality fabrics and putting together dresses from virtual pattern pieces to create truly personal pieces that can be delivered to their doors (in Europe or the United States) in as little as 10 days, with prices starting at GBP 139.
How It Works:
At StyleShake, you are the fashion designer. Step into our design studio, start designing and get exactly what you want. Create it online using our playful design tools, share it with our fashion-savvy community and when you are ready, just click on ‘buy’. It only takes up to ten days to have your special design ready and delivered to your door.
Virtual mannequins allow them to see their designs come to life as they choose the colour, bodice cut, neckline, sleeves, waist panel, lower bodice and sleeves—a process that can be downright addictive for those with a flair for fashion. Lucky for them, the site allows users to store their designs as part of their profiles. Members are encouraged to rate and comment on one another's designs or simply browse through other users’ collections for inspiration.
While would-be Stella McCartneys may go a long way before they run out of dress design ideas, an obvious next step would be to expand clothing options to include pants, suits, swimsuits and more—including men's and children's wear. Fashion forward entrepreneurs eager to get on board with this or other DIY concepts might take a hint from Crushpad and consider offering e-commerce marketing solutions to facilitate customers who would like to start selling and branding their designs.
StyleShake appeal to consumers who love unique, handmade goods, and eagerly buy them from 'pro-am' creators through online marketplaces like Etsy and Supermarket, but lack the technical know-how to construct their own clothing or other products. Business opportunities? Provide an outlet for the average person's creativity and enable them to wear or use one-of-a-kind pieces that they have 'made' themselves. Think of it as ADIY (almost do it yourself).
More at: www.styleshake.com
StyleShake—a new online venture that lets creative customers design their own duds, picking from a selection of quality fabrics and putting together dresses from virtual pattern pieces to create truly personal pieces that can be delivered to their doors (in Europe or the United States) in as little as 10 days, with prices starting at GBP 139.
How It Works:
At StyleShake, you are the fashion designer. Step into our design studio, start designing and get exactly what you want. Create it online using our playful design tools, share it with our fashion-savvy community and when you are ready, just click on ‘buy’. It only takes up to ten days to have your special design ready and delivered to your door.
Virtual mannequins allow them to see their designs come to life as they choose the colour, bodice cut, neckline, sleeves, waist panel, lower bodice and sleeves—a process that can be downright addictive for those with a flair for fashion. Lucky for them, the site allows users to store their designs as part of their profiles. Members are encouraged to rate and comment on one another's designs or simply browse through other users’ collections for inspiration.
While would-be Stella McCartneys may go a long way before they run out of dress design ideas, an obvious next step would be to expand clothing options to include pants, suits, swimsuits and more—including men's and children's wear. Fashion forward entrepreneurs eager to get on board with this or other DIY concepts might take a hint from Crushpad and consider offering e-commerce marketing solutions to facilitate customers who would like to start selling and branding their designs.
StyleShake appeal to consumers who love unique, handmade goods, and eagerly buy them from 'pro-am' creators through online marketplaces like Etsy and Supermarket, but lack the technical know-how to construct their own clothing or other products. Business opportunities? Provide an outlet for the average person's creativity and enable them to wear or use one-of-a-kind pieces that they have 'made' themselves. Think of it as ADIY (almost do it yourself).
More at: www.styleshake.com
MFG.com is an online marketplace that saves you time and money by instantly matching a buyer's drawings and specifications to qualified suppliers
What Company Is Offering:
MFG.com is an online marketplace that saves you time and money by instantly matching a buyer's drawings and specifications to qualified suppliers. No more searching or worrying.
How It Works:
MFG.com creates efficiencies in the creation, distribution, tracking and awarding of RFQs for custom manufactured parts and assemblies by matching buyers and suppliers at an exact moment in time, when they need each other. Plus, our community rating system eliminates the risks associated with developing new business relationships.
Intelligent matching allows the buyer to get their parts more efficiently while enabling the supplier to make a profit because they are doing the work they do best. It's a win-win!
For Buyers
1.Get matched to only qualified suppliers
As you create your online RFQ and your specs are instantly matched, a live list of qualified suppliers is created. You choose who you want to invite into the process and we do the rest. Your RFQ is sent, non-disclosures are presented, drawings are securely distributed and you simply wait for your quotes.
And... it's TOTALLY FREE for buyers. Suppliers pay an annual membership fee and we never charge commissions or transaction fees.
For Supliers
2.Set your RFQ filters and create your profile
Thousands of RFQs are flowing though MFG.com at any given point in time and your RFQ filters collect opportunities that match your expertise and capacity. And your profile is a multi-media enabled web page that lets you tell buyers your story.
More at:http://www.mfgquote.com/
MFG.com is an online marketplace that saves you time and money by instantly matching a buyer's drawings and specifications to qualified suppliers. No more searching or worrying.
How It Works:
MFG.com creates efficiencies in the creation, distribution, tracking and awarding of RFQs for custom manufactured parts and assemblies by matching buyers and suppliers at an exact moment in time, when they need each other. Plus, our community rating system eliminates the risks associated with developing new business relationships.
Intelligent matching allows the buyer to get their parts more efficiently while enabling the supplier to make a profit because they are doing the work they do best. It's a win-win!
For Buyers
1.Get matched to only qualified suppliers
As you create your online RFQ and your specs are instantly matched, a live list of qualified suppliers is created. You choose who you want to invite into the process and we do the rest. Your RFQ is sent, non-disclosures are presented, drawings are securely distributed and you simply wait for your quotes.
And... it's TOTALLY FREE for buyers. Suppliers pay an annual membership fee and we never charge commissions or transaction fees.
For Supliers
2.Set your RFQ filters and create your profile
Thousands of RFQs are flowing though MFG.com at any given point in time and your RFQ filters collect opportunities that match your expertise and capacity. And your profile is a multi-media enabled web page that lets you tell buyers your story.
More at:http://www.mfgquote.com/
Sunday, December 2, 2007
EntreWiki---Business Ideas For Entrepreneurs
What Company Is Offering:
The EntreWiki is a new Web 2.0 Directory of Business Ideas where entrepreneurs and companies can advertise their businesses such as a franchise, business plan, start-up business, or any business that can help someone to start a new business.
How It Works:
EntreWiki targets a focused niche group of entrepreneurs and people who are interested in starting a new business. They offers 15 years of online and offline advertising at just one hundred dollars with one-time free advertisement creative conversion to Wiki text.
The EntreWiki team will "convert" an advertisement creative, normally submitted to a National Paper Magazine (in Photoshop format), into a Wiki markup language. Basically, they make an offline advertisement to be visible online, easily searched by search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, and AOL.
Once an advertisement has been converted to a Wiki page, EntreWiki pings the advertisement page all over the blogsphere and the internet through Web 2.0 technologies like RSS, Blogs, and Social Networks like Digg and StumbleUpon, further enhancing the ad's visibility on the internet.
As EntreWiki's database of business ideas grow, the advertisement page-owners will benefit from the on-growing web traffic and visitors who come through Google search terms related with each advertisement page's content.
With the revenue generated from all the advertisement pages, EntreWiki will re-invest the money back into offline magazine advertising in such magazines as Entrepreneur, Small Business Opportunities, Home Business, and etc….
Once a Wiki-converted advertisement page goes live, page-owners can also edit their pages, add photos, YouTube videos, RSS Feeds, GoogleMaps, or anything that can be done with a Wiki page. A page on the EntreWiki can be edited just as easily as a user would edit a page in Wikipedia.
more at:http://entrewiki.com/
The EntreWiki is a new Web 2.0 Directory of Business Ideas where entrepreneurs and companies can advertise their businesses such as a franchise, business plan, start-up business, or any business that can help someone to start a new business.
How It Works:
EntreWiki targets a focused niche group of entrepreneurs and people who are interested in starting a new business. They offers 15 years of online and offline advertising at just one hundred dollars with one-time free advertisement creative conversion to Wiki text.
The EntreWiki team will "convert" an advertisement creative, normally submitted to a National Paper Magazine (in Photoshop format), into a Wiki markup language. Basically, they make an offline advertisement to be visible online, easily searched by search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, and AOL.
Once an advertisement has been converted to a Wiki page, EntreWiki pings the advertisement page all over the blogsphere and the internet through Web 2.0 technologies like RSS, Blogs, and Social Networks like Digg and StumbleUpon, further enhancing the ad's visibility on the internet.
As EntreWiki's database of business ideas grow, the advertisement page-owners will benefit from the on-growing web traffic and visitors who come through Google search terms related with each advertisement page's content.
With the revenue generated from all the advertisement pages, EntreWiki will re-invest the money back into offline magazine advertising in such magazines as Entrepreneur, Small Business Opportunities, Home Business, and etc….
Once a Wiki-converted advertisement page goes live, page-owners can also edit their pages, add photos, YouTube videos, RSS Feeds, GoogleMaps, or anything that can be done with a Wiki page. A page on the EntreWiki can be edited just as easily as a user would edit a page in Wikipedia.
more at:http://entrewiki.com/
eCirkit is the latest to introduce a webtop “personal desktop” experience to users for an integrated social networking experience
MashableReports :
eCirkit is the latest to introduce a webtop “personal desktop” experience to users for an integrated social networking experience. Unlike most basic offerings towards this end, eCirkit acts very much like a Windows desktop in most respects. Still conducting private testing, the company hasn’t launched a beta yet (it’s coming December 1), but I had a rather involved conversation with the guys behind eCirkit so I could find out what the site’s all about.
On the social networking side of things, eCirkit has an instant messenger client, an email tool for aggregating POP/IMAP accounts, and shared “browsing and web” options. For instance, viewing another user’s preferred RSS feeds and social bookmarks can be viewed through eCirkit’s proxy browser, and added to their own favorites. So in this sense, there’s the potential for direct sharing of certain types of media that we often interact with on the web.
more at:http://www.ecirkit.com/
eCirkit is the latest to introduce a webtop “personal desktop” experience to users for an integrated social networking experience. Unlike most basic offerings towards this end, eCirkit acts very much like a Windows desktop in most respects. Still conducting private testing, the company hasn’t launched a beta yet (it’s coming December 1), but I had a rather involved conversation with the guys behind eCirkit so I could find out what the site’s all about.
On the social networking side of things, eCirkit has an instant messenger client, an email tool for aggregating POP/IMAP accounts, and shared “browsing and web” options. For instance, viewing another user’s preferred RSS feeds and social bookmarks can be viewed through eCirkit’s proxy browser, and added to their own favorites. So in this sense, there’s the potential for direct sharing of certain types of media that we often interact with on the web.
more at:http://www.ecirkit.com/
ASMALLWORLD---Millinoire's Social Networking
What Company Is Offering:
ASMALLWORLD is a private online community, which is designed for those who already have strong connections with one another.
They allow their members to connect, reconnect and interact more effectively with like-minded individuals who share the same circle of friends, interests, and schedules.
ASmallWorld.net -- borrow many of their rules from blue-blood social clubs. People must be invited to join. Membership decisions seem to be based on an applicant's education, job title and connections, since it's difficult to verify wealth levels. Those who engage in improper behavior, like trying to mingle with strangers or sell products too aggressively, are kicked out.
On the surface, the sites seem like a winning idea. Social networking outposts have exploded in popularity, while the number of millionaires and billionaires is also surging. Since wealth likes to be with wealth, the rich often seek out networks to help them with everything from vacations and parties to managing money and making business contacts. What's more, the sites host frequent member events, like jet rides, vineyard tours and sailing trips, sponsored by high-end corporate partners.
What's more, while the sites claim to be exclusive, they're opening their doors wider and wider to please advertisers and investors, who often prefer quantity over quality. And the sites can't ensure that all their members are what they say they are, despite verification systems from fellow members and the sites themselves. All this has rankled some members, who say the sites have become simply well-dressed Facebooks.
"It's very difficult to build a network based solely on wealth," says Stephen Martiros, a managing director of CCC Alliance, a coalition of rich families based in Boston. "You might start with a few wealthy people, but as you grow it eventually reverts to the mean. And once that happens, the wealthy leave. If you have one guy worth $100 million sitting at a table with a guy worth $1 million, only one of them is going to be excited to be there."
How It Works:
Prospective members have to be invited to join by another member. Rules state that members aren't allowed to "annoy, harass or unreasonably disturb members, or try to connect to members with whom you have no previous contact."
The site's classified ad section reads like a billionaire's yard sale: "For sale -- Caviar Servers and Horn Spoons." "For Sale $2.8 million Tsavorite gemstone." "Bugatti Veyron, Black, 2006. 1.1 million Euros."
This week's hot topics in the forums included "Best Fencing Clubs in the world," "Surfing in Gstaad?" and a discussion of lobster-abuse in St. Tropez. (One member recoiled at watching them boiled alive.) Another asks: "If you had $20 million where would you invest it now, given the subprime crisis?" (Members advised commodities and cash.)
How They Are Progressing:
aSmallWorld. Launched by Swedish banker and globetrotter Erik Wachtmeister, aSmallWorld has more than 250,000 members. Weinstein Co., owned by movie moguls Bob and Harvey Weinstein, bought a stake last year, giving it added cachet. Joe Robinson, the company's CEO, says aSmallWorld is aimed at tastemakers, social connectors and the migratory rich, who may want to meet up in Scotland for golf or Paris for dinner.
More at:http://www.asmallworld.net/
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ASMALLWORLD is a private online community, which is designed for those who already have strong connections with one another.
They allow their members to connect, reconnect and interact more effectively with like-minded individuals who share the same circle of friends, interests, and schedules.
ASmallWorld.net -- borrow many of their rules from blue-blood social clubs. People must be invited to join. Membership decisions seem to be based on an applicant's education, job title and connections, since it's difficult to verify wealth levels. Those who engage in improper behavior, like trying to mingle with strangers or sell products too aggressively, are kicked out.
On the surface, the sites seem like a winning idea. Social networking outposts have exploded in popularity, while the number of millionaires and billionaires is also surging. Since wealth likes to be with wealth, the rich often seek out networks to help them with everything from vacations and parties to managing money and making business contacts. What's more, the sites host frequent member events, like jet rides, vineyard tours and sailing trips, sponsored by high-end corporate partners.
What's more, while the sites claim to be exclusive, they're opening their doors wider and wider to please advertisers and investors, who often prefer quantity over quality. And the sites can't ensure that all their members are what they say they are, despite verification systems from fellow members and the sites themselves. All this has rankled some members, who say the sites have become simply well-dressed Facebooks.
"It's very difficult to build a network based solely on wealth," says Stephen Martiros, a managing director of CCC Alliance, a coalition of rich families based in Boston. "You might start with a few wealthy people, but as you grow it eventually reverts to the mean. And once that happens, the wealthy leave. If you have one guy worth $100 million sitting at a table with a guy worth $1 million, only one of them is going to be excited to be there."
How It Works:
Prospective members have to be invited to join by another member. Rules state that members aren't allowed to "annoy, harass or unreasonably disturb members, or try to connect to members with whom you have no previous contact."
The site's classified ad section reads like a billionaire's yard sale: "For sale -- Caviar Servers and Horn Spoons." "For Sale $2.8 million Tsavorite gemstone." "Bugatti Veyron, Black, 2006. 1.1 million Euros."
This week's hot topics in the forums included "Best Fencing Clubs in the world," "Surfing in Gstaad?" and a discussion of lobster-abuse in St. Tropez. (One member recoiled at watching them boiled alive.) Another asks: "If you had $20 million where would you invest it now, given the subprime crisis?" (Members advised commodities and cash.)
How They Are Progressing:
aSmallWorld. Launched by Swedish banker and globetrotter Erik Wachtmeister, aSmallWorld has more than 250,000 members. Weinstein Co., owned by movie moguls Bob and Harvey Weinstein, bought a stake last year, giving it added cachet. Joe Robinson, the company's CEO, says aSmallWorld is aimed at tastemakers, social connectors and the migratory rich, who may want to meet up in Scotland for golf or Paris for dinner.
More at:http://www.asmallworld.net/
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A clustering engine that will search the Web with www.etools.ch and automatically organize the results into thematic categories
What Company is Offering:
A clustering engine that will search the Web with www.etools.ch and automatically organize the results into thematic categories.
Carrot2 is an Open Source Search Results Clustering Engine. It can automatically organize (cluster) search results into thematic categories.Carrot2 provides an architecture for acquiring search results from various sources (YahooAPI, GoogleAPI, MSN Search API, eTools Meta Search, Alexa Web Search, PubMed, OpenSearch, Lucene index, SOLR), clustering the results and visualising the clusters. Currently, 5 clustering algorithms are available that are suitable for different kinds of document clustering tasks.
Thanks to its flexible architecture, high quality and a friendly BSD-like license, Carrot2 has been successfully used in a number of commercial and research applications and resulted in a number of interesting publications.
How It Works:
Carrot2 can add clustering of search results to an existing search engine. You can use an Open Source project called Nutch to crawl your website. Nutch has a Carrot2-based search clustering plugin, so you'll get all crawling, searching and clustering in one piece.
How can I integrate Carrot2 with my Web site/ software?
Such an integration depends on what existing infrastructure is already available in your project. Carrot2 requires a feed of documents (search results), so typically you'll need a search engine that crawls your site. Such an engine can be indeed local to your Web site (proprietary solutions in intranets, search engines built on top of Nutch or ht://dig), but it can as well be a global search engine with searches restricted to your domain (Google, Yahoo).
Once a search engine is available, the integration depends on the technology your site/ software uses for rendering the user interface (or more accurately: for implementing application logic). Software written in Java can use Carrot2 directly in a way that is shown in the end-to-end example code (JavaDoc). Sites written in Perl, PHP, .NET and other languages can use the Carrot2 Document Clustering Server, for more details see the dedicated FAQ. Finally, in some cases you might want to re-use and customize (through XSLT) some bits of Carrot2's web application (located in the carrot2/applications/carrot2-demo-webapp folder of the source repository) to e.g. visualize clusters.
More at:http://demo.carrot2.org/
A clustering engine that will search the Web with www.etools.ch and automatically organize the results into thematic categories.
Carrot2 is an Open Source Search Results Clustering Engine. It can automatically organize (cluster) search results into thematic categories.Carrot2 provides an architecture for acquiring search results from various sources (YahooAPI, GoogleAPI, MSN Search API, eTools Meta Search, Alexa Web Search, PubMed, OpenSearch, Lucene index, SOLR), clustering the results and visualising the clusters. Currently, 5 clustering algorithms are available that are suitable for different kinds of document clustering tasks.
Thanks to its flexible architecture, high quality and a friendly BSD-like license, Carrot2 has been successfully used in a number of commercial and research applications and resulted in a number of interesting publications.
How It Works:
Carrot2 can add clustering of search results to an existing search engine. You can use an Open Source project called Nutch to crawl your website. Nutch has a Carrot2-based search clustering plugin, so you'll get all crawling, searching and clustering in one piece.
How can I integrate Carrot2 with my Web site/ software?
Such an integration depends on what existing infrastructure is already available in your project. Carrot2 requires a feed of documents (search results), so typically you'll need a search engine that crawls your site. Such an engine can be indeed local to your Web site (proprietary solutions in intranets, search engines built on top of Nutch or ht://dig), but it can as well be a global search engine with searches restricted to your domain (Google, Yahoo).
Once a search engine is available, the integration depends on the technology your site/ software uses for rendering the user interface (or more accurately: for implementing application logic). Software written in Java can use Carrot2 directly in a way that is shown in the end-to-end example code (JavaDoc). Sites written in Perl, PHP, .NET and other languages can use the Carrot2 Document Clustering Server, for more details see the dedicated FAQ. Finally, in some cases you might want to re-use and customize (through XSLT) some bits of Carrot2's web application (located in the carrot2/applications/carrot2-demo-webapp folder of the source repository) to e.g. visualize clusters.
More at:http://demo.carrot2.org/
IowaNightlife is the one-stop, online nightlife resource guide for Iowa
What Company is Offering:
IowaNightlife is the one-stop, online nightlife resource guide for Iowa. Throughout the region, tens of thousands utilize IowaNightlife to find out which bars, clubs, and restaurants are most popular from night to night.
How It Works:
IowaNightlife provides useful information including hours of operation, directions, food/drink specials and on-location photo albums.
As more people continue to flock to Iowa, there become more opportunities for leisure and entertainment.
IowaNightlife continues to accommodate to the growing nightlife scene, by providing a diverse range of resources. Regardless of individual tastes, local "nightlifers" can find the information to plan an exciting night out with IowaNightlife!
More at:http://www.iowanightlife.com/
IowaNightlife is the one-stop, online nightlife resource guide for Iowa. Throughout the region, tens of thousands utilize IowaNightlife to find out which bars, clubs, and restaurants are most popular from night to night.
How It Works:
IowaNightlife provides useful information including hours of operation, directions, food/drink specials and on-location photo albums.
As more people continue to flock to Iowa, there become more opportunities for leisure and entertainment.
IowaNightlife continues to accommodate to the growing nightlife scene, by providing a diverse range of resources. Regardless of individual tastes, local "nightlifers" can find the information to plan an exciting night out with IowaNightlife!
More at:http://www.iowanightlife.com/
izzyMe--Connect with other users, sell, and buy through personalized social networking groups
What Company Is Offering:
izzyMe is a privately funded company headquartered in Kirkland, Washington. They created izzyMe because they didn't see any of the other classifieds site giving their users full control over how they sell, buy, local or nationwide, cash credit, and or trade (Why limit the user). They feel if people want to connect with other users, sell, and buy through personalized social networking groups, and on the classified site, they should be able to. This is a site that is very much a work in progress. Let us know what you like, what you don't like, or what you wish we had. They're going to keep adding more features, but they want to know what could make this site better.
Who Is Backing Them:
1.Davrick Liles, Founder and CEO
Davrick is an entrepreneur in his own mind, never content with the basics, always looking for ways to improve in business, and relationships with people. Davrick has had a successful track record with running businesses in the past, after 6 years with his last company, he helped start AttackMedia.com in 2007. From there he found in his free time that he would toggle between different web sites, and then wondered why he couldn't build a site that would allow users to a have a real user experience with Classified ads (izzyme). Davrick is always thinking of ways to improve the users experience on the web, so why not do it himself, he calls izzyme.com the peoples network, because he wants others to help in the efforts of design, and ideas that will contribute to the needs of users online.
2. Nicholas Reed, Co-Founder and Web Engineer
I'm the main programmer for izzyMe and also get to help out on design while it grows. Feel free to send me an email with any comments, suggestions, or questions about the site.
more at:http://www.izzyme.com/
izzyMe is a privately funded company headquartered in Kirkland, Washington. They created izzyMe because they didn't see any of the other classifieds site giving their users full control over how they sell, buy, local or nationwide, cash credit, and or trade (Why limit the user). They feel if people want to connect with other users, sell, and buy through personalized social networking groups, and on the classified site, they should be able to. This is a site that is very much a work in progress. Let us know what you like, what you don't like, or what you wish we had. They're going to keep adding more features, but they want to know what could make this site better.
Who Is Backing Them:
1.Davrick Liles, Founder and CEO
Davrick is an entrepreneur in his own mind, never content with the basics, always looking for ways to improve in business, and relationships with people. Davrick has had a successful track record with running businesses in the past, after 6 years with his last company, he helped start AttackMedia.com in 2007. From there he found in his free time that he would toggle between different web sites, and then wondered why he couldn't build a site that would allow users to a have a real user experience with Classified ads (izzyme). Davrick is always thinking of ways to improve the users experience on the web, so why not do it himself, he calls izzyme.com the peoples network, because he wants others to help in the efforts of design, and ideas that will contribute to the needs of users online.
2. Nicholas Reed, Co-Founder and Web Engineer
I'm the main programmer for izzyMe and also get to help out on design while it grows. Feel free to send me an email with any comments, suggestions, or questions about the site.
more at:http://www.izzyme.com/
Biggest Polaroid-picture-collection of the planet to celebrate the magic of instant photography
What Company Is Offering:
They are building the biggest Polaroid-picture-collection of the planet to celebrate the magic of instant photography. So please seach your archives and attics and reactivate your Instant Cameras. This is the slamming comeback of Instant Photo Fun.
They are presenting a rapidly growing group of amazing Polaroid enthusiasts that are polanoid enough to believe in the unique power of vivid instant photography.
They are searching for instant addicts all over the world, ready to support this project, ready to register and upload. For free and just for Instant Fun.
About Membership:
From the very beginning thy try their best to make your membership at polanoid.net challenging and enriching. Every new member receives a 5 EURO coupon for unsaleable.com, the best source for Polaroid products. As soon as you have uploaded your first pictures you can take part in our projects, become world famous and win fantastic prices every week.
More at:http://www.polanoid.net/
They are building the biggest Polaroid-picture-collection of the planet to celebrate the magic of instant photography. So please seach your archives and attics and reactivate your Instant Cameras. This is the slamming comeback of Instant Photo Fun.
They are presenting a rapidly growing group of amazing Polaroid enthusiasts that are polanoid enough to believe in the unique power of vivid instant photography.
They are searching for instant addicts all over the world, ready to support this project, ready to register and upload. For free and just for Instant Fun.
About Membership:
From the very beginning thy try their best to make your membership at polanoid.net challenging and enriching. Every new member receives a 5 EURO coupon for unsaleable.com, the best source for Polaroid products. As soon as you have uploaded your first pictures you can take part in our projects, become world famous and win fantastic prices every week.
More at:http://www.polanoid.net/
eToro---Financial Trading Made Easy
What Company Is Offering:
eToro makes it faster and easier than ever to execute trades, watch your trading activity, share, and enjoy financial information - using real or virtual money. It is a unique and user-friendly platform, which combines multidisciplinary expertise from the fields of finance, software development, and design to bring you the next generation of trading.
How It Works:
Trades are visually represented so you can watch your trades run marathons, rise and fall between countries and more. Apply your trading skills with real-market rates on virtual money. Various free-to-enter championships are held so you can get a chance to win top prizes and become the top trader. Interact with friends and fellow traders either privately or publicly. Trade for real money with real-time trade execution and without dealer intervention.
For Whom It Will Helpful:
eToro’s trading platform was developed in order to serve the emerging retail segment of the Forex community. Novice Forex enthusiasts that like to experience trading are no longer required to deal with complicated trading systems, and can now enjoy Forex trading via eToro‘s exciting visual trading platform.
Their commitment to providing traders with innovative and easy to use currency trading technology, fair dealing practices, and excellent customer service establish eToro as the perfect platform for traders worldwide.
More at:http://www.etoro.com/#
eToro makes it faster and easier than ever to execute trades, watch your trading activity, share, and enjoy financial information - using real or virtual money. It is a unique and user-friendly platform, which combines multidisciplinary expertise from the fields of finance, software development, and design to bring you the next generation of trading.
How It Works:
Trades are visually represented so you can watch your trades run marathons, rise and fall between countries and more. Apply your trading skills with real-market rates on virtual money. Various free-to-enter championships are held so you can get a chance to win top prizes and become the top trader. Interact with friends and fellow traders either privately or publicly. Trade for real money with real-time trade execution and without dealer intervention.
For Whom It Will Helpful:
eToro’s trading platform was developed in order to serve the emerging retail segment of the Forex community. Novice Forex enthusiasts that like to experience trading are no longer required to deal with complicated trading systems, and can now enjoy Forex trading via eToro‘s exciting visual trading platform.
Their commitment to providing traders with innovative and easy to use currency trading technology, fair dealing practices, and excellent customer service establish eToro as the perfect platform for traders worldwide.
More at:http://www.etoro.com/#
Saturday, December 1, 2007
Free Online Library
The Free Library has offered free, full-text versions of classic literary works from hundreds of celebrated authors, whose biographies, images, and famous quotations can also be found on the site. Recently, The Free Library has been expanded to include a massive collection of periodicals from hundreds of leading publications covering Business and Industry, Communications, Entertainment, Health, Humanities, Law, Government, Politics, Recreation and Leisure, Science and Technology, and Social Sciences. This collection includes millions of articles dating back to 1984 as well as newly-published articles that are added to the site daily.
The Free Library is an invaluable research tool and the fastest, easiest way to locate useful information on virtually any topic. Explore the site through a keyword search, or simply browse the enormous collection of literary classics and up-to-date periodicals to find exactly what you need.
TheFreeLibrary.com now allows you to create your own personal homepage by adding and removing, dragging and dropping, and "using or losing" existing content windows. In addition, you can add your own bookmarks, weather information, horoscope, and RSS feeds from anywhere on the web.
More at:http://www.thefreelibrary.com/
The Free Library is an invaluable research tool and the fastest, easiest way to locate useful information on virtually any topic. Explore the site through a keyword search, or simply browse the enormous collection of literary classics and up-to-date periodicals to find exactly what you need.
TheFreeLibrary.com now allows you to create your own personal homepage by adding and removing, dragging and dropping, and "using or losing" existing content windows. In addition, you can add your own bookmarks, weather information, horoscope, and RSS feeds from anywhere on the web.
More at:http://www.thefreelibrary.com/
The Savvy Source for Parents was an idea conceived by parents, for parents
What Company Says:
The Savvy Source for Parents was an idea conceived by parents, for parents.
After giving birth to her daughter, our founder, Stacey Boyd, quickly realized that there are very few resources to help parents navigate choosing and gaining admission to preschools. So she turned to friends who already had children in preschool and realized that her parent friends were a treasure trove of useful information. Not one to keep the inside scoop to herself, she wondered if there was a way to harness all of the information she had gathered in a format from which other parents could benefit. Stacey talked up the idea with some friends, and over some of her famous goat cheese tarts last spring, a small group met at Stacey's home to begin making Stacey's brainchild a reality - and thus The Savvy Source for Parents was born!.
How It Works:
They started with about a half dozen moms in San Francisco and in less than one year, they have spread to 17 cities across the country, with many more cities in the pipeline. They have been able to spread so quickly because thousands of parents have been generous enough to share their experiences with other parents. With the help of leading childhood development experts, they created a survey for school directors to complete. As you will see, the director survey asks directors to provide parents with all sorts of useful tidbits from what "a day in the life" is like at their preschool to how the school handles discipline, to teacher/student ratios, and much more.
They believe that the depth and quantity of parent reviews and the first-hand information from school directors makes this the most informative web site about preschools in the country.
More at:http://www.savvysource.com/
The Savvy Source for Parents was an idea conceived by parents, for parents.
After giving birth to her daughter, our founder, Stacey Boyd, quickly realized that there are very few resources to help parents navigate choosing and gaining admission to preschools. So she turned to friends who already had children in preschool and realized that her parent friends were a treasure trove of useful information. Not one to keep the inside scoop to herself, she wondered if there was a way to harness all of the information she had gathered in a format from which other parents could benefit. Stacey talked up the idea with some friends, and over some of her famous goat cheese tarts last spring, a small group met at Stacey's home to begin making Stacey's brainchild a reality - and thus The Savvy Source for Parents was born!.
How It Works:
They started with about a half dozen moms in San Francisco and in less than one year, they have spread to 17 cities across the country, with many more cities in the pipeline. They have been able to spread so quickly because thousands of parents have been generous enough to share their experiences with other parents. With the help of leading childhood development experts, they created a survey for school directors to complete. As you will see, the director survey asks directors to provide parents with all sorts of useful tidbits from what "a day in the life" is like at their preschool to how the school handles discipline, to teacher/student ratios, and much more.
They believe that the depth and quantity of parent reviews and the first-hand information from school directors makes this the most informative web site about preschools in the country.
More at:http://www.savvysource.com/
Product Clash
What Company Is Offering:
Product Clash is looking to become a fun place for internet users to stop by when looking for in-season items as well as some top-selling consumer electronics.With ProductClash they look to combine and structure direct competitive information together with user generated content.They will also serve their users with purchasing options. By the way, people who do not believe in the power of e-Commerce are ignorant.We can only engage our users (and ourselves) properly if there is a fun aspect involved. The fun of Product Clash is not mutually exclusive to the information purpose, so "dull" people are perfectly able to enjoy the site experience.
How It Works:
Product clash addresses the new dimension, by adding the social prioritization to the information overload on the internet.1. The Influential Power of other people
2. Emotional Connection to the brand or product category.
3. The underlying rational need for a product or a service.
More at:http://www.productclash.com/
Product Clash is looking to become a fun place for internet users to stop by when looking for in-season items as well as some top-selling consumer electronics.With ProductClash they look to combine and structure direct competitive information together with user generated content.They will also serve their users with purchasing options. By the way, people who do not believe in the power of e-Commerce are ignorant.We can only engage our users (and ourselves) properly if there is a fun aspect involved. The fun of Product Clash is not mutually exclusive to the information purpose, so "dull" people are perfectly able to enjoy the site experience.
How It Works:
Product clash addresses the new dimension, by adding the social prioritization to the information overload on the internet.1. The Influential Power of other people
2. Emotional Connection to the brand or product category.
3. The underlying rational need for a product or a service.
More at:http://www.productclash.com/
Create Your Own Mobile Device With "Bug Labs " And Become Entrepreneur
What Company Is Offering:
BUG is a collection of easy-to-use, open source hardware modules, each capable of producing one or more Web services. These modules snap together physically and the services connect together logically to enable users to easily build, program and share innovative devices and applications. With BUG, we don't define the final products - you do.
US start-up Bug Labs wants to harness some of that same creativity by enabling tech-savvy do-it-yourselfers to create their own mobile devices. The company has designed several basic hardware modules that snap together like building blocks to perform whatever mobile function their owners can think of. “There are so many great gadget ideas that haven't been thought of yet,” the founders note. “We want to unlock and inspire the discovery and creation of as many of these devices as possible.” Besides letting them add whatever they want, the snap-together components also let consumers leave out what they don't want, which is a far cry from many pre-packaged mobile phones and PDAs that come crammed with features their buyers have no use for.
How it works:
Bug Labs is a new kind of technology company, enabling a new generation of engineers to tap their creativity and build any type of device they want, without having to solder, learn solid state electronics, or go to China. Bug Labs envisions a future where CE stands for Community Electronics, the term "mashups" applies equally to hardware as it does to Web services, and entrepreneurs can appeal to numerous markets by inventing "The Long Tail" of devices.
Would-be product designers start with Bug Labs’ basic module—in essence, a Linux-based mobile computer. Then, they add other modules to give the basic device fresh capabilities. Want a camera that tags photos with a GPS-derived location and then uploads them to the web? All it takes is fitting the necessary components together. The software to run the device is also modular, though customizing it may require some minor coding. Bug Labs aims to start selling both the basic module and the first four add-ons (GPS, digital camera/videocam, colour LCD touchscreen and an accelerometer/motion sensor) by the end of 2007.
Gadgets built with Bug Lab’s block-like components may not satisfy those who lust after branded mobile devices poured into seamlessly sleek designs. It will, however, appeal to people who enjoy making things,* and like having control over elements of a product’s design. Whether or not the component approach succeeds with mobile devices, plenty of other manufactured products would do well to study the concept and see if they can make their own products modular and stackable. Let them build it, and they will come! ;-)
More at: www.buglabs.net
BUG is a collection of easy-to-use, open source hardware modules, each capable of producing one or more Web services. These modules snap together physically and the services connect together logically to enable users to easily build, program and share innovative devices and applications. With BUG, we don't define the final products - you do.
US start-up Bug Labs wants to harness some of that same creativity by enabling tech-savvy do-it-yourselfers to create their own mobile devices. The company has designed several basic hardware modules that snap together like building blocks to perform whatever mobile function their owners can think of. “There are so many great gadget ideas that haven't been thought of yet,” the founders note. “We want to unlock and inspire the discovery and creation of as many of these devices as possible.” Besides letting them add whatever they want, the snap-together components also let consumers leave out what they don't want, which is a far cry from many pre-packaged mobile phones and PDAs that come crammed with features their buyers have no use for.
How it works:
Bug Labs is a new kind of technology company, enabling a new generation of engineers to tap their creativity and build any type of device they want, without having to solder, learn solid state electronics, or go to China. Bug Labs envisions a future where CE stands for Community Electronics, the term "mashups" applies equally to hardware as it does to Web services, and entrepreneurs can appeal to numerous markets by inventing "The Long Tail" of devices.
Would-be product designers start with Bug Labs’ basic module—in essence, a Linux-based mobile computer. Then, they add other modules to give the basic device fresh capabilities. Want a camera that tags photos with a GPS-derived location and then uploads them to the web? All it takes is fitting the necessary components together. The software to run the device is also modular, though customizing it may require some minor coding. Bug Labs aims to start selling both the basic module and the first four add-ons (GPS, digital camera/videocam, colour LCD touchscreen and an accelerometer/motion sensor) by the end of 2007.
Gadgets built with Bug Lab’s block-like components may not satisfy those who lust after branded mobile devices poured into seamlessly sleek designs. It will, however, appeal to people who enjoy making things,* and like having control over elements of a product’s design. Whether or not the component approach succeeds with mobile devices, plenty of other manufactured products would do well to study the concept and see if they can make their own products modular and stackable. Let them build it, and they will come! ;-)
More at: www.buglabs.net
Avail Media, the provider of content aggregation and IPTV transport services got $25 million in VCs funding
What Company Is Offering:
Avail Media is the only company today to deliver a combined MPEG-4 linear TV and Video On Demand (VOD) IPTV solution. Avail Media, the provider of content aggregation and IPTV transport services, delivers to its customers a full line-up of live television programming with hundreds of channels, all quality encoded in MPEG-4, IP encapsulated, encrypted, combined with VOD and designed for future value-added services. Avail Media's system has been designed for use by broadband network operators of all types. Whether triple-play, quad-play, or pure video play, Avail Media offers the broadest and deepest set of IPTV services, technologies and solutions available in the marketplace today.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Avail Media, Inc., a provider of IPTV and advanced media services to broadband operators, announced it has closed the final tranche of a $25 million Series B equity round. First time investor Valhalla Partners joined Columbia Capital, Novak Biddle Venture Partners, and Pioneer Ventures in the round.
The financing, along with $5 million in debt financing from a strategic investor and Silicon Valley Bank, brings the total capital raised this year to $30 million, which will provide Avail Media with sufficient resources to execute on its vision, create value-added services, and effectively position its customers for success in the market.
What VCs Says About Company's Growth Prospects:
Avail Media has made significant strides in supporting its expanding customer base. Avail's ability to bring telecom, cable, and Internet service providers cost-effective, customizable IPTV technology quickly and seamlessly is unmatched in this emerging space. There is tremendous market opportunity here and under the direction of its experienced, highly respected management team, Avail is well positioned to be a key player in the industry," said Art Marks, general partner, Valhalla Partners and Avail Media new board member.
What Company's CEO Says:
We've made some significant advances this year which indicate that 2008 will be a year of continued expansion and productivity for us. First, our customer installation rate is already exceeding expectations. Second, because we operate the only MPEG 4 linear and video on demand (VOD) platform, we have an excellent foundation upon which to build value added services," said Ramu Potarazu, CEO, Avail Media. "Valhalla brings additional industry and operating experience as well as critical resources within their team which will be valuable during this growth phase," Potarazu added.
More at:http://www.availmedia.com/
Avail Media is the only company today to deliver a combined MPEG-4 linear TV and Video On Demand (VOD) IPTV solution. Avail Media, the provider of content aggregation and IPTV transport services, delivers to its customers a full line-up of live television programming with hundreds of channels, all quality encoded in MPEG-4, IP encapsulated, encrypted, combined with VOD and designed for future value-added services. Avail Media's system has been designed for use by broadband network operators of all types. Whether triple-play, quad-play, or pure video play, Avail Media offers the broadest and deepest set of IPTV services, technologies and solutions available in the marketplace today.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Avail Media, Inc., a provider of IPTV and advanced media services to broadband operators, announced it has closed the final tranche of a $25 million Series B equity round. First time investor Valhalla Partners joined Columbia Capital, Novak Biddle Venture Partners, and Pioneer Ventures in the round.
The financing, along with $5 million in debt financing from a strategic investor and Silicon Valley Bank, brings the total capital raised this year to $30 million, which will provide Avail Media with sufficient resources to execute on its vision, create value-added services, and effectively position its customers for success in the market.
What VCs Says About Company's Growth Prospects:
Avail Media has made significant strides in supporting its expanding customer base. Avail's ability to bring telecom, cable, and Internet service providers cost-effective, customizable IPTV technology quickly and seamlessly is unmatched in this emerging space. There is tremendous market opportunity here and under the direction of its experienced, highly respected management team, Avail is well positioned to be a key player in the industry," said Art Marks, general partner, Valhalla Partners and Avail Media new board member.
What Company's CEO Says:
We've made some significant advances this year which indicate that 2008 will be a year of continued expansion and productivity for us. First, our customer installation rate is already exceeding expectations. Second, because we operate the only MPEG 4 linear and video on demand (VOD) platform, we have an excellent foundation upon which to build value added services," said Ramu Potarazu, CEO, Avail Media. "Valhalla brings additional industry and operating experience as well as critical resources within their team which will be valuable during this growth phase," Potarazu added.
More at:http://www.availmedia.com/
FeedWard.com is a Video Search Engine
FeedWard.com is a Video ?Search Engine? that enables the user to search through various video sites. The main idea was conceived and implemented by Nick Nt. on 2007 and the purpose of the whole project is to create a single web site that combines the results of the most popular web2.0 video sites. FeedWard is coming out supporting 5 of the biggest and fastest growing sites, such as youtube, veoh, google video, livevideo and metacafe. Later on, many more sites will be added on our engine.
More at:http://www.feedward.com/
More at:http://www.feedward.com/
Bloove is an online phone management service
What Company Is Offering:
Bloove is an online phone management service. It allows you to edit address book contacts and speed dial settings, initiate calls and work with messages - all from your favorite browser. It is like PC Suite for the web.
How It Works:
Bloove communicates with a mobile phone via wireless data connection: GPRS, EDGE, WCDMA, Wi-Fi etc. So, no cable, infrared or Bluetooth hardware is needed. You will need to install Bloove Agent application on your phone, no installs are required on the desktop. You may manage your phone everywhere you have just a browser, without cumbersome desktop application.
Open http://bloove.com/m on your mobile. It will determine a compatible version for your phone automatically.
For Symbian phones you will need to agree with all warnings and just run the agent. For J2ME you will need to grant access to network and your contacts for the Agent to work properly prior to running application. Access settings are specific to phone vendor.
On Nokia phones open Application, choose Bloove Agent, choose Options/Application Access and set Communication/Network Access to Always allowed. Repeat Always allowed setting for Data access/Read user data and Data access/Add and edit data.
On Sony-Ericsson phones open File manager/Applications, choose Bloove Agent, choose More/Permissions and set Internet access to Never ask. Repeat Never ask setting for Read user data and Write user data. If your phone allows you to do so, set Never ask to Messaging as well.
The free version is currently available. With the free version you can't connect more then one mobile phone to you account and Contact Archive is limited to 15 items. All other features are unrestricted: you may manage an unlimited number of contacts on the phone, and there is no time limit - basic functions will be free forever. We plan to introduce premium options with more number of mobile phones and archive items allowed.
More at:http://www.bloove.com/
Bloove is an online phone management service. It allows you to edit address book contacts and speed dial settings, initiate calls and work with messages - all from your favorite browser. It is like PC Suite for the web.
How It Works:
Bloove communicates with a mobile phone via wireless data connection: GPRS, EDGE, WCDMA, Wi-Fi etc. So, no cable, infrared or Bluetooth hardware is needed. You will need to install Bloove Agent application on your phone, no installs are required on the desktop. You may manage your phone everywhere you have just a browser, without cumbersome desktop application.
Open http://bloove.com/m on your mobile. It will determine a compatible version for your phone automatically.
For Symbian phones you will need to agree with all warnings and just run the agent. For J2ME you will need to grant access to network and your contacts for the Agent to work properly prior to running application. Access settings are specific to phone vendor.
On Nokia phones open Application, choose Bloove Agent, choose Options/Application Access and set Communication/Network Access to Always allowed. Repeat Always allowed setting for Data access/Read user data and Data access/Add and edit data.
On Sony-Ericsson phones open File manager/Applications, choose Bloove Agent, choose More/Permissions and set Internet access to Never ask. Repeat Never ask setting for Read user data and Write user data. If your phone allows you to do so, set Never ask to Messaging as well.
The free version is currently available. With the free version you can't connect more then one mobile phone to you account and Contact Archive is limited to 15 items. All other features are unrestricted: you may manage an unlimited number of contacts on the phone, and there is no time limit - basic functions will be free forever. We plan to introduce premium options with more number of mobile phones and archive items allowed.
More at:http://www.bloove.com/
With Cataplt---Your affordable email campaign... in seconds!
What Company Is Offering:
Cataplt™ is the first web-based middle market email solution on Earth. They designed it because emailing larger lists from Microsoft© Outlook© can be painful, but larger enterprise solutions are complicated and expensive. They know you wanted the best of both worlds.
How It Works:
With Cataplt, you can email up to 5,000 recipients. Simply upload your list, cut and paste your text or html message, then send. It's that simple! About 48 hours later they'll send you a report of how many emails reached your audience, how many emails were opened, and how many links were clicked. (real metrics that show your email campaign success).
For any email campaign up to 5000 addresses, the price is only $10! Your affordable email campaign... in seconds!
More at:http://www.cataplt.com/
Cataplt™ is the first web-based middle market email solution on Earth. They designed it because emailing larger lists from Microsoft© Outlook© can be painful, but larger enterprise solutions are complicated and expensive. They know you wanted the best of both worlds.
How It Works:
With Cataplt, you can email up to 5,000 recipients. Simply upload your list, cut and paste your text or html message, then send. It's that simple! About 48 hours later they'll send you a report of how many emails reached your audience, how many emails were opened, and how many links were clicked. (real metrics that show your email campaign success).
For any email campaign up to 5000 addresses, the price is only $10! Your affordable email campaign... in seconds!
More at:http://www.cataplt.com/
Friday, November 30, 2007
IRSeek The most comprehensive chat search engine
What Company Is Offering:
IRSeek utilizies the power of the people on IRC and brings it to the rest of the community to enjoy and learn from.
IRC (Internet Relay Chat) remains one of the most active platforms for sharing knowledge and collaborating on the Internet.
How it Works:
www.IRSeek.com strives to make this hidden gem available to the entire Internet community. By constantly archiving thousands of active, highly-focused, public chat-rooms in a wide variety of topics (e.g. Linux, soccer, Christianity, poker, business and others) then indexing, processing and publishing the content on the web using advanced Web 2.0 technologies while maintaining the privacy of the users, we are creating a knowledge base different from any other.
Who Is Backing Them:
Eran Cohen, Chief Executive Officer
Eran cohen has over 13 years of experience in the computing industry. Prior to co-founding B&C Advanced Solutions LTD, Mr. Cohen skillfully lead several large-scale client-server projects which are extensively used throughout the world today. During his time in iWeb LTD, Mr. Cohen served as a senior web-application developer. He then served as a consultant and project leader for Computest LTD. Mr. Cohen then served as the head of the e-payment backoffice system at Random-Logic LTD. Mr. Cohen completed his military service at the Israeli Air-Force as a computer-systems expert.
Ariel Berkman, Chief Technical Officer
Ariel Berkman has over 15 years of experience in the computing industry. Prior to co-founding B&C Advanced Solutions LTD, Mr. Berkman had extensive experience consulting and implementing complex systems with emphasis on reliability, availability, and security. During his time in Contact- NOW LTD, Ariel served as a senior Unix system-administrator. At Envara LTD (acquired by Intel), Ariel served as a the head of the IT department. He then served as a technology consultant for Metacafe LTD and the Computer- Science IT department at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
More at:http://www.irseek.com/
IRSeek utilizies the power of the people on IRC and brings it to the rest of the community to enjoy and learn from.
IRC (Internet Relay Chat) remains one of the most active platforms for sharing knowledge and collaborating on the Internet.
How it Works:
www.IRSeek.com strives to make this hidden gem available to the entire Internet community. By constantly archiving thousands of active, highly-focused, public chat-rooms in a wide variety of topics (e.g. Linux, soccer, Christianity, poker, business and others) then indexing, processing and publishing the content on the web using advanced Web 2.0 technologies while maintaining the privacy of the users, we are creating a knowledge base different from any other.
Who Is Backing Them:
Eran Cohen, Chief Executive Officer
Eran cohen has over 13 years of experience in the computing industry. Prior to co-founding B&C Advanced Solutions LTD, Mr. Cohen skillfully lead several large-scale client-server projects which are extensively used throughout the world today. During his time in iWeb LTD, Mr. Cohen served as a senior web-application developer. He then served as a consultant and project leader for Computest LTD. Mr. Cohen then served as the head of the e-payment backoffice system at Random-Logic LTD. Mr. Cohen completed his military service at the Israeli Air-Force as a computer-systems expert.
Ariel Berkman, Chief Technical Officer
Ariel Berkman has over 15 years of experience in the computing industry. Prior to co-founding B&C Advanced Solutions LTD, Mr. Berkman had extensive experience consulting and implementing complex systems with emphasis on reliability, availability, and security. During his time in Contact- NOW LTD, Ariel served as a senior Unix system-administrator. At Envara LTD (acquired by Intel), Ariel served as a the head of the IT department. He then served as a technology consultant for Metacafe LTD and the Computer- Science IT department at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
More at:http://www.irseek.com/
Shopit is a marriage of e-commerce and social networking
What Company Is Offering:
Shopit is designed to be a faster, easier and more cost effective selling and trading environment than any other available today. It is the world′s first and largest peer-to-peer social commerce network that enables users to buy, sell and trade anything, anywhere on the Internet.
How It Works:
Shopit is a marriage of e-commerce and social networking. This website is the only e-commerce exchange that allows users to build personalized Mini-Stores™, quickly upload items and list them for sale or trade. These Mini-Stores™ can be displayed millions of places on the Web, including social networks, blogs and e-mails.
Best of all, doing business on Shopit is absolutely FREE! You can buy, sell, trade, and list items without any fees. Shopit also allows users to promote products with photos and video on their own profiles.
Who Is Backing Them:
The Shopit team is a group of Internet users who decided that buyers and sellers needed better tools for Web commerce. The site is backed and managed by a team of Internet visionaries with expertise spanning e-commerce, social networking, advertising, online marketing and affiliate marketing. Together, they realized that the next evolution in e-commerce involves empowering every Internet user to be a merchant. You are able to browse for free without registering but in order to purchase or sell an item you must register.
More at:http://www.shopit.com/
Shopit is designed to be a faster, easier and more cost effective selling and trading environment than any other available today. It is the world′s first and largest peer-to-peer social commerce network that enables users to buy, sell and trade anything, anywhere on the Internet.
How It Works:
Shopit is a marriage of e-commerce and social networking. This website is the only e-commerce exchange that allows users to build personalized Mini-Stores™, quickly upload items and list them for sale or trade. These Mini-Stores™ can be displayed millions of places on the Web, including social networks, blogs and e-mails.
Best of all, doing business on Shopit is absolutely FREE! You can buy, sell, trade, and list items without any fees. Shopit also allows users to promote products with photos and video on their own profiles.
Who Is Backing Them:
The Shopit team is a group of Internet users who decided that buyers and sellers needed better tools for Web commerce. The site is backed and managed by a team of Internet visionaries with expertise spanning e-commerce, social networking, advertising, online marketing and affiliate marketing. Together, they realized that the next evolution in e-commerce involves empowering every Internet user to be a merchant. You are able to browse for free without registering but in order to purchase or sell an item you must register.
More at:http://www.shopit.com/
PeekYou Is People Search Engine
What Company Is Offering:
A PeekYou profile helps other people find your websites, social-networking pages, photos or anything else about you online. You can also create a profile for friends or relatives to ensure that they may also be easily found online.
You can also register to become a full Contributor which allows you to track your edits to PeekYou and gives you other benefits as well.
How it Works:
Everyone can browse through PeekYou or create new profiles. However, in order to edit or submit information on existing profiles you need to be a registered user. PeekYou will prompt you to log in to your account when you attempt to make changes to a profile. After you have logged in, you can easily edit the "info", "tags", "bio", "photo", and "weblinks" fields by clicking on the appropriate edit buttons. Submitting links into the correct categories ensures easy navigation on the profile. Please note that there can be up to 25 tags on every category, so choose only the most relevant descriptions for the person whose profile you are editing.
PeekYou contributors can link more than one location to a profile. The key is for each added location to be relevant to the person on the profile, and not merely a transient locality. Good examples of relevant locations include birthplace, college town, and any place where that person has lived for a few years. Location therefore does not need to be limited to current locality. When in doubt whether a specific location should be added, consider whether someone who knows that person could plausibly relate him/her principally to the location under consideration. If yes, then that location is a good candidate for being added to the profile.
Why Is It In News Again:
PeekYou.com, the “people search” engine, announced a new way to search Google. This application improves Google’s results by displaying the people who own the websites or those who are referenced within them. The service is available at http://google.peekyou.com/
More at:http://www.peekyou.com/
A PeekYou profile helps other people find your websites, social-networking pages, photos or anything else about you online. You can also create a profile for friends or relatives to ensure that they may also be easily found online.
You can also register to become a full Contributor which allows you to track your edits to PeekYou and gives you other benefits as well.
How it Works:
Everyone can browse through PeekYou or create new profiles. However, in order to edit or submit information on existing profiles you need to be a registered user. PeekYou will prompt you to log in to your account when you attempt to make changes to a profile. After you have logged in, you can easily edit the "info", "tags", "bio", "photo", and "weblinks" fields by clicking on the appropriate edit buttons. Submitting links into the correct categories ensures easy navigation on the profile. Please note that there can be up to 25 tags on every category, so choose only the most relevant descriptions for the person whose profile you are editing.
PeekYou contributors can link more than one location to a profile. The key is for each added location to be relevant to the person on the profile, and not merely a transient locality. Good examples of relevant locations include birthplace, college town, and any place where that person has lived for a few years. Location therefore does not need to be limited to current locality. When in doubt whether a specific location should be added, consider whether someone who knows that person could plausibly relate him/her principally to the location under consideration. If yes, then that location is a good candidate for being added to the profile.
Why Is It In News Again:
PeekYou.com, the “people search” engine, announced a new way to search Google. This application improves Google’s results by displaying the people who own the websites or those who are referenced within them. The service is available at http://google.peekyou.com/
More at:http://www.peekyou.com/
Fotolog Acquired By French Internet company Hi-Media At $90 million
What Company is Offering:
Fotolog is the world's leading photo-blogging site, one of the world's largest social networking sites and a global cultural phenomenon. More than 10 million members in more than 200 countries use Fotolog as a simple and fun way to express themselves through online photo diaries or photo blogs.
What makes Fotolog special is not just the ability to post photos, but the ability to connect with others — whether simply staying in touch with friends and family or exploring the diverse Fotolog universe, discovering photos of new people from different cultures, participating in the site's fascinating special-interest communities and, perhaps most important, receiving personal feedback on their photos from around the world.
How It Works:
Just click the "create your own free Fotolog photo-blog" link that you'll see all over the place and fill out the short registration form. It should take less than a minute and you'll be on your way. After that, you'll be able to upload a photo any time you want in less than a minute.Once you've created your free Fotolog photo-blog, go to your page, and click on the upload link that you see in the navigation bar. Then click on the browse button to find the photo you'd like to upload from your computer's hard drive. Remember: photos must be JPGs or GIFs, and they need to be 2,000 KB or less. Most digital cameras out there today create photo files that are less than 2,000 K, so you should be good to go. But, for you folks with super-duper gazillion mega-pixel cameras, any basic image-editing software (check out this list at CNET) will allow you to resize your photos to the proper size to upload. Fotolog will ultimately convert your photo to a JPG, no larger than 500x500 pixels.
How Much They Got From VCs:
French Internet company Hi-Media,operator of one of Europe’s largest ad networks and micro-payment services, completed its acquisition today of Fotolog.
The $90 million deal was first announced last August. Since then, Fotolog has added two million more members for a total of 13 million, and claims 3.9 billion page views a month.
Fotolog trails behind MySpace’s PhotoBucket and Yahoo’s Flickr. CEO John Borthwick is moving on to his incubator/investment fund Betaworks.
More at:http://www.fotolog.com/
http://www.hi-media.com/
Fotolog is the world's leading photo-blogging site, one of the world's largest social networking sites and a global cultural phenomenon. More than 10 million members in more than 200 countries use Fotolog as a simple and fun way to express themselves through online photo diaries or photo blogs.
What makes Fotolog special is not just the ability to post photos, but the ability to connect with others — whether simply staying in touch with friends and family or exploring the diverse Fotolog universe, discovering photos of new people from different cultures, participating in the site's fascinating special-interest communities and, perhaps most important, receiving personal feedback on their photos from around the world.
How It Works:
Just click the "create your own free Fotolog photo-blog" link that you'll see all over the place and fill out the short registration form. It should take less than a minute and you'll be on your way. After that, you'll be able to upload a photo any time you want in less than a minute.Once you've created your free Fotolog photo-blog, go to your page, and click on the upload link that you see in the navigation bar. Then click on the browse button to find the photo you'd like to upload from your computer's hard drive. Remember: photos must be JPGs or GIFs, and they need to be 2,000 KB or less. Most digital cameras out there today create photo files that are less than 2,000 K, so you should be good to go. But, for you folks with super-duper gazillion mega-pixel cameras, any basic image-editing software (check out this list at CNET) will allow you to resize your photos to the proper size to upload. Fotolog will ultimately convert your photo to a JPG, no larger than 500x500 pixels.
How Much They Got From VCs:
French Internet company Hi-Media,operator of one of Europe’s largest ad networks and micro-payment services, completed its acquisition today of Fotolog.
The $90 million deal was first announced last August. Since then, Fotolog has added two million more members for a total of 13 million, and claims 3.9 billion page views a month.
Fotolog trails behind MySpace’s PhotoBucket and Yahoo’s Flickr. CEO John Borthwick is moving on to his incubator/investment fund Betaworks.
More at:http://www.fotolog.com/
http://www.hi-media.com/
VerticalSearch.com---For B2B Community
What Company Is Offering:
VerticalSearch.com's mission is to provide the B2B community with the best search experience on the web. They accomplish this first by focusing their search engine on the most relevant web sites for the B2B user.
How It Works:
To begin with, They have indexed over 4,000 of the B2B trade press sites, including many online -only publishers of B2B information. These sites offer a wealth of content and editorial expertise in the whole range of B2B verticals, from Agriculture to Mining, Construction to Transportation. Soon they will be adding tens of thousands of B2B company sites to augment the B2B trade press sites. And, as VerticalSearch.com evolves, watch for useful community tools and features that will allow each vertical B2B community to share domain expertise, product offerings, and business and job opportunities by sector.
Who Is Backing Them:
VerticalSearch.com LLC is a privately held company founded by Jeffrey Dearth, one of the pioneers of the commercial Internet. Partners in the venture include Planet Discover, a customized search engine provider, and DeSilva & Phillips, LLC, a media investment bank. But VerticalSearch.com is also YOU, the B2B user. With your help, VerticalSearch.com can become one of your major partners in developing new leads, delivering relevant content, and putting you in touch with your industry colleagues worldwide. Click here to find out how to submit your web site to VerticalSearch.com.
More at:http://www.verticalsearch.com/
VerticalSearch.com's mission is to provide the B2B community with the best search experience on the web. They accomplish this first by focusing their search engine on the most relevant web sites for the B2B user.
How It Works:
To begin with, They have indexed over 4,000 of the B2B trade press sites, including many online -only publishers of B2B information. These sites offer a wealth of content and editorial expertise in the whole range of B2B verticals, from Agriculture to Mining, Construction to Transportation. Soon they will be adding tens of thousands of B2B company sites to augment the B2B trade press sites. And, as VerticalSearch.com evolves, watch for useful community tools and features that will allow each vertical B2B community to share domain expertise, product offerings, and business and job opportunities by sector.
Who Is Backing Them:
VerticalSearch.com LLC is a privately held company founded by Jeffrey Dearth, one of the pioneers of the commercial Internet. Partners in the venture include Planet Discover, a customized search engine provider, and DeSilva & Phillips, LLC, a media investment bank. But VerticalSearch.com is also YOU, the B2B user. With your help, VerticalSearch.com can become one of your major partners in developing new leads, delivering relevant content, and putting you in touch with your industry colleagues worldwide. Click here to find out how to submit your web site to VerticalSearch.com.
More at:http://www.verticalsearch.com/
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