What Company Is Offering:
Worlds Best Producers.com, the Music industry's hottest showcase for Music Producers!
They promote and represent individuals involved in music production and the recording industry. Large or small music producers all are welcome and encouraged.
How It Works:
They provide a platform showcasing your work to a vast audience including fans, fellow producers, artists seeking producers, and record executives. Their aim is to bring together those needing assistance with those able to provide it in one great site.
It doesn't matter what style of music you produce. It doesn't matter if you've been producing music for years or if you're just starting out (in fact, for new producers, our site will be an unparalleled source of inspiration, advice and ideas). In short, this is a place that welcomes anyone who producers or wants to produce any type of music or sounds. Welcome to where the world's best Producers gather.
This is the one place that lets the audience decide your rank, add reviews, win you awards and plenty more. They are the only place you will find awards for Producers.
They have a wide variety of talent here available to work with you. Talent on display from:Producers, Engineers, DJ's ,Beatmakers, Mixers Multi-instrumentalists,Remixers, Programmers ,Multimedia and creative process experts
Students and trainees.
Their Studios Worldwide features details of studios available for hire. If you own a studio, list it with us, and if you're looking for a recording studio or an engineer to work with, this is the place to do it! Their unique Contact Box allows you to request various services and see who has the facilities to help you. Wherever you are they can help you find a studio for your work, and staff who can help with whatever you need!
More at:http://www.worldsbestproducers.com/
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Antz@work provides you with an easy to use project management tool that runs in your browser
What Company Is Offering:
Antz@work gives you a head-start on your way to project management nirvana. It provides you with an easy to use project management tool that runs in your browser and can be accessed any time and from anywhere. No more tons of emails, just you and your team.
How It Works:
Antz@work is fast. It suits well the average user yet giving the pro´s enough shortcuts to plow easily through work at lightspeed.Creating a project is as easy as labeling a binder.Assigning todos is done in a blink.
Unique Features:
Upload, manage and share files with your team.
Discuss your projects online.
Start your own votings.
Work simultaneously with others on text documents.
Use an advanced interface featuring drag´n´drop.
Communicate via private messages & chat.
More at: http://www.antzatwork.com/
Antz@work gives you a head-start on your way to project management nirvana. It provides you with an easy to use project management tool that runs in your browser and can be accessed any time and from anywhere. No more tons of emails, just you and your team.
How It Works:
Antz@work is fast. It suits well the average user yet giving the pro´s enough shortcuts to plow easily through work at lightspeed.Creating a project is as easy as labeling a binder.Assigning todos is done in a blink.
Unique Features:
Upload, manage and share files with your team.
Discuss your projects online.
Start your own votings.
Work simultaneously with others on text documents.
Use an advanced interface featuring drag´n´drop.
Communicate via private messages & chat.
More at: http://www.antzatwork.com/
You can have your own photo's analyzed by sophisticated emotion recognition software
What Company Is Offering:
GladorSad.com is a site where you can upload your photo and see which emotions you have in this photo. First you upload your photo and add tags and a description. Your photo is then added to the gallery where users can vote on it. The photos with the most votes are then analyzed. You can analyze the photos by playing the game.
How It Works:
You can have your own photo's analyzed by sophisticated emotion recognition software, and the mystery of emotions will be explained to you.You can have your own photo analyzed! To get your photo on the site you can use the form below. Your photo will then be placed on the site, where after it is important to get as many votes as possible: Since they are unable to analyse each photo, only the photo’s with the most votes will be analyzed and will be place in the photo gallery!To get the best result, it is important that the photo only contains a face and the face is perpendicular to the camera. If this is not the case, they might not be able to analyze the picture.
More at:http://www.gladorsad.com/
GladorSad.com is a site where you can upload your photo and see which emotions you have in this photo. First you upload your photo and add tags and a description. Your photo is then added to the gallery where users can vote on it. The photos with the most votes are then analyzed. You can analyze the photos by playing the game.
How It Works:
You can have your own photo's analyzed by sophisticated emotion recognition software, and the mystery of emotions will be explained to you.You can have your own photo analyzed! To get your photo on the site you can use the form below. Your photo will then be placed on the site, where after it is important to get as many votes as possible: Since they are unable to analyse each photo, only the photo’s with the most votes will be analyzed and will be place in the photo gallery!To get the best result, it is important that the photo only contains a face and the face is perpendicular to the camera. If this is not the case, they might not be able to analyze the picture.
More at:http://www.gladorsad.com/
AdKafe is an Online Marketplace devoted to the advertising industry
What Company is Offering:
AdKafe is an Online Marketplace devoted to the advertising industry. It enables the advertisers (Ad Seekers) and the Ad Designers to buy and sell ad ideas globally. In other words, they bring together the organizations or individuals searching for creative advertisement ideas and the people offering innovative ideas.
How It Works:
AdKafe works on a modified reverse auction model in which there is one buyer and multiple sellers and the product demand is driven by the buyers. The AdKafe model has an additional advantage because here the buyer (Ad Seeker) pays only after a satisfactory review of the product (Ad Design), so there are no surprises and the quality is guaranteed. The seller (Ad Designer) gets rewarded for the quality.
As a registered Ad Seeker you can post your ad requirements through Ad Solicitations, which call for designs (logos, video ads, audio ads, print ads, or taglines), from the registered Ad Designers. The Ad Designers will then review your Ad Solicitations and submit ad designs for your evaluation.
More at:http://www.adkafe.com/
AdKafe is an Online Marketplace devoted to the advertising industry. It enables the advertisers (Ad Seekers) and the Ad Designers to buy and sell ad ideas globally. In other words, they bring together the organizations or individuals searching for creative advertisement ideas and the people offering innovative ideas.
How It Works:
AdKafe works on a modified reverse auction model in which there is one buyer and multiple sellers and the product demand is driven by the buyers. The AdKafe model has an additional advantage because here the buyer (Ad Seeker) pays only after a satisfactory review of the product (Ad Design), so there are no surprises and the quality is guaranteed. The seller (Ad Designer) gets rewarded for the quality.
As a registered Ad Seeker you can post your ad requirements through Ad Solicitations, which call for designs (logos, video ads, audio ads, print ads, or taglines), from the registered Ad Designers. The Ad Designers will then review your Ad Solicitations and submit ad designs for your evaluation.
More at:http://www.adkafe.com/
MusicIP provides music discovery and identification solutions for websitespartnered with LyricFind
What Company Is Offering:
MusicIP provides music discovery and identification solutions for websites, software and consumer electronics devices.The infinite possibilities of what MusicIP's products and services are capable of.
How It Works:
Their products enable companies to provide high quality music recommendations and empower music fans to easily explore and delight in new listening experiences. They take the guesswork out of song selection, allowing people to rediscover forgotten songs in their digital music library and be introduced to new music based on the songs they already love.
Recent Updates:
It has partnered with LyricFind, a provider of lyric search and display services. MusicIP says the partnership will enhance MusicIP’s MyDJ and MusicDNS products to now include lyrical information, allowing music fans to seamlessly and quickly access their digital music.
More at:http://www.musicip.com/
http://www.lyricfind.com/
MusicIP provides music discovery and identification solutions for websites, software and consumer electronics devices.The infinite possibilities of what MusicIP's products and services are capable of.
How It Works:
Their products enable companies to provide high quality music recommendations and empower music fans to easily explore and delight in new listening experiences. They take the guesswork out of song selection, allowing people to rediscover forgotten songs in their digital music library and be introduced to new music based on the songs they already love.
Recent Updates:
It has partnered with LyricFind, a provider of lyric search and display services. MusicIP says the partnership will enhance MusicIP’s MyDJ and MusicDNS products to now include lyrical information, allowing music fans to seamlessly and quickly access their digital music.
More at:http://www.musicip.com/
http://www.lyricfind.com/
Zuda--Competition For Comics
Zuda holds a competition once a month. Each month there will be ten new comics available for readers to evaluate, discuss and vote upon. In addition, the winning comic from each month goes on to become a new, ongoing series. For each ongoing series, the Zuda editorial staff works with the creative team of that series to determine the schedule that best suits its unique needs.
You can submit a comic as often as you like; however, you can only submit one comic at a time. That comic must be evaluated (and potentially run through a competition) before a new one can be submitted.
You only get one vote per competition; however, they understand that this is a subjective experience you may wish to change your vote if something else strikes your fancy more. Because of this, you are allowed to change your vote before the end of the competition. If you change your vote you will in effect be “un-voting” for your original selection and switching your one vote to your new selection.
More at:http://zudacomics.com/
You can submit a comic as often as you like; however, you can only submit one comic at a time. That comic must be evaluated (and potentially run through a competition) before a new one can be submitted.
You only get one vote per competition; however, they understand that this is a subjective experience you may wish to change your vote if something else strikes your fancy more. Because of this, you are allowed to change your vote before the end of the competition. If you change your vote you will in effect be “un-voting” for your original selection and switching your one vote to your new selection.
More at:http://zudacomics.com/
Citrus is a solution that provides invoice presentation, payment collection and credit control over the internet
What Company Is Offering:
Citrus is a solution that provides invoice presentation, payment collection and credit control over the internet.Citrus is an online invoicing solution that gets you paid quickly, accurately, and streamlines invoice fulfilment, payment and credit control, cutting your costs and significantly reducing manual errors.
How It Works:
You can give your customers a secure branded website that projects a more professional image. Your customers get access to a real-time online statement as well as all of their invoices, old and new. You can even give them an area where you share documents with them, secure or generally available information like new product descriptions. They can pay online using methods that you choose to offer them.
Unique Features:
It handles taking payments via different methods.
It handles sending customer emails on your behalf using easy templates that you define just once.
It looks after what to do when payments fail and it automatically manages credit control scenarios using parameters that you provide.
More at:http://www.citrusbill.com/
Citrus is a solution that provides invoice presentation, payment collection and credit control over the internet.Citrus is an online invoicing solution that gets you paid quickly, accurately, and streamlines invoice fulfilment, payment and credit control, cutting your costs and significantly reducing manual errors.
How It Works:
You can give your customers a secure branded website that projects a more professional image. Your customers get access to a real-time online statement as well as all of their invoices, old and new. You can even give them an area where you share documents with them, secure or generally available information like new product descriptions. They can pay online using methods that you choose to offer them.
Unique Features:
It handles taking payments via different methods.
It handles sending customer emails on your behalf using easy templates that you define just once.
It looks after what to do when payments fail and it automatically manages credit control scenarios using parameters that you provide.
More at:http://www.citrusbill.com/
PriceHub is to provide price transparency for vehicle transactions
What Company Is Offering:
PriceHub is to provide price transparency for vehicle transactions, as well as provide a community for people to share & discuss prices. There’s price transparency in almost every other marketplace, so why not have one for cars & trucks too.
How It Works:
The prices you see on PriceHub are the actual, real sale prices that their registered users have submitted. These prices are not computer “estimates” or “calculations”. There will be the occasional user that submits inaccurate data, but most of the time, the prices that are submitted are pretty accurate based on their observations.
The information on PriceHub comes from several sources. Most of the prices are submitted by actual users who report real sale prices to PriceHub. We also gather sale prices from various auctions, agencies, and dealers.
How It Will Helpful:
If you are buying a new or used car, you can use PriceHub to get a good idea of what other people have paid for a similar car. You can use the search feature to find the same make/model, then narrow down the results by looking at year, mileage, condition, location and more.
If you are selling a used car, you can use PriceHub to get a good idea of what other people have gotten for selling a similar car. You can use the search feature to find the same make/model, then narrow down the results by looking at year, mileage, condition, location, and more.
More at:http://www.pricehub.com/
PriceHub is to provide price transparency for vehicle transactions, as well as provide a community for people to share & discuss prices. There’s price transparency in almost every other marketplace, so why not have one for cars & trucks too.
How It Works:
The prices you see on PriceHub are the actual, real sale prices that their registered users have submitted. These prices are not computer “estimates” or “calculations”. There will be the occasional user that submits inaccurate data, but most of the time, the prices that are submitted are pretty accurate based on their observations.
The information on PriceHub comes from several sources. Most of the prices are submitted by actual users who report real sale prices to PriceHub. We also gather sale prices from various auctions, agencies, and dealers.
How It Will Helpful:
If you are buying a new or used car, you can use PriceHub to get a good idea of what other people have paid for a similar car. You can use the search feature to find the same make/model, then narrow down the results by looking at year, mileage, condition, location and more.
If you are selling a used car, you can use PriceHub to get a good idea of what other people have gotten for selling a similar car. You can use the search feature to find the same make/model, then narrow down the results by looking at year, mileage, condition, location, and more.
More at:http://www.pricehub.com/
Testuff is an on-demand service for managing and executing manual software tests and for reporting defects
What Company Is Offering:
Testuff is an on-demand service for managing and executing manual software tests and for reporting defects.Testuff is an on-demand service with a desktop client application and a secure web-based backend. It saves you both time and money which can be better spent on improving your software.
How It Works:
By capturing a video of each test and attaching it to the bug reports. Testuff drastically reduces the time testers spend explaining the bugs to developers and helps developers quickly reproduce and eradicate elusive bugs.
Integrates with many bug trackers and can automatically generates bug reports in yours. All bug reports include a link to the video recording of the test and a lot of additional useful information for reproducing and correcting bugs.
Gives you peace of mind by storing your test data on secure and routinely backed up servers that are monitored around the clock.
More at:http://www.testuff.com/
Testuff is an on-demand service for managing and executing manual software tests and for reporting defects.Testuff is an on-demand service with a desktop client application and a secure web-based backend. It saves you both time and money which can be better spent on improving your software.
How It Works:
By capturing a video of each test and attaching it to the bug reports. Testuff drastically reduces the time testers spend explaining the bugs to developers and helps developers quickly reproduce and eradicate elusive bugs.
Integrates with many bug trackers and can automatically generates bug reports in yours. All bug reports include a link to the video recording of the test and a lot of additional useful information for reproducing and correcting bugs.
Gives you peace of mind by storing your test data on secure and routinely backed up servers that are monitored around the clock.
More at:http://www.testuff.com/
Friday, January 11, 2008
UandItrade.com is e-trading site geared towards parents with growing families
What Company Is Offering:
UandItrade.com is e-trading site geared towards parents with growing families. The purpose of the site is to trade anything and everything relating to children including clothing, toys, nursery items etc. Though UandItrade.com can be likened to the powerhouse eBay, gone are the excessive fees and expenses to both buyers and sellers.
How It Works:
UandItrade.com is solely based on a point system with no money exchanging hands. There is no cost to list and the site is economically responsible by supporting itself solely through advertising. The current demographics of UandItrade.com users come from states all over the country and every economic strata.
In nutshell:
The fact remains that UandItrade.com is re-opening an old venue which deserves wholehearted support in light of current environmental conditions. It is well documented that textile manufacturing is in fact one of the top toxic industries. Some of the bigger environmental organizations, like Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Fund, have been very vocal about the chemicals used in clothing manufacturing. Among the dossier of chemical agents used are formaldehyde, sulfuric acid and the like. By reducing just the demand for new clothing, a family can drastically reduce the environmental load. All in all it's a win-win situation.
More at:www.uanditrade.com.
UandItrade.com is e-trading site geared towards parents with growing families. The purpose of the site is to trade anything and everything relating to children including clothing, toys, nursery items etc. Though UandItrade.com can be likened to the powerhouse eBay, gone are the excessive fees and expenses to both buyers and sellers.
How It Works:
UandItrade.com is solely based on a point system with no money exchanging hands. There is no cost to list and the site is economically responsible by supporting itself solely through advertising. The current demographics of UandItrade.com users come from states all over the country and every economic strata.
In nutshell:
The fact remains that UandItrade.com is re-opening an old venue which deserves wholehearted support in light of current environmental conditions. It is well documented that textile manufacturing is in fact one of the top toxic industries. Some of the bigger environmental organizations, like Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Fund, have been very vocal about the chemicals used in clothing manufacturing. Among the dossier of chemical agents used are formaldehyde, sulfuric acid and the like. By reducing just the demand for new clothing, a family can drastically reduce the environmental load. All in all it's a win-win situation.
More at:www.uanditrade.com.
Online Investor Conference
InvestorIdeas.com, and its global investor and industry Greentech portals announce the 2008 Investorideas.com Global Greentech Online Investor Conference, March 21, 2008. The conference theme is: “Insight into Global Green Investing Trends and Opportunities in Solar, Wind, Biofuel, Green Transportation, and Water.”
The in-depth online conference will be available March 21st, 2008, starting at 9:00 am EDT and archived thereafter.
The online conference will include presentations from renewable, environmental, water, clean energy and technology experts providing in-depth perspectives on what is happening in the Greentech sector from venture capital, funds, indices and global publicly traded companies.
The conference format will consist of an audio presentation (average 15 minutes) with images in a slideshow presentation, in flash format.
The conference is free to online visitors with login registration.
More Detail at:www.investorideas.com
The in-depth online conference will be available March 21st, 2008, starting at 9:00 am EDT and archived thereafter.
The online conference will include presentations from renewable, environmental, water, clean energy and technology experts providing in-depth perspectives on what is happening in the Greentech sector from venture capital, funds, indices and global publicly traded companies.
The conference format will consist of an audio presentation (average 15 minutes) with images in a slideshow presentation, in flash format.
The conference is free to online visitors with login registration.
More Detail at:www.investorideas.com
Reserve A Spot in Heaven ---Unique Business Idea
What Company Is Offering:
Reserve A Spot in Heaven offers its services through their travel kits, which include "everything needed to transport one individual to Heaven.”They offer you a 100% guaranteed reserved spot into Heaven. Currently the site offers two kits to get you to Paradise: a basic Essential Travel Pack and an upgraded All Access Pack, both including a 100% money back guarantee. These kits come complete with a unique reservation certificate, citizen of Heaven I.D. card, flight boarding pass and a Heaven 101 mini instructional guide. The All Access Pack even includes a special VIP pass to access exclusive areas off limits to most, such as ‘the Land of Milk and Honey’ and ‘Thug Mansion.’
How It Works:
It is "directly affiliated and sent down by The Board of Heavenly Officials, the only governing body in Heaven, to offer you one thing and one thing only: a worry free, secure way into Heaven." And with a money back guarantee, what do you have to lose? It is claimed that that most of their ‘reservation holders’ get in, and if for some reason someone is “plagued by those malevolent evils of the underworld” and can’t make the journey successfully, then they will refund their money with no questions asked.
The kits are intended to be gag gifts, but some critics aren’t laughing about it. "I wish you the worst and hope you suffer, because that monetary pool of happiness that you swim in on mother earth will soon be fire and hot lava in the dungeons of hell. May Christ purge the devil from within you. May the devil be gone!" e-mailed one individual.
What Company Says:
"We don't want people to take it seriously. It's more of just a fun idea we came up with that we thought we'd turn into a novelty gift," said Edgar Kim, 22, half of the duo who started Reserve A Spot In Heaven. His partner, Nathan Davis, 23, thinks it’s hilarious. “People are loving this! We get so much fan mail from people telling us how awesome this is that it’s ridiculous. Our intentions are good and we don’t want to offend anybody. We hope everyone can just take it with a grain of salt and get a good laugh out of it.”
More at:www.reserveaspotinheaven.com
Reserve A Spot in Heaven offers its services through their travel kits, which include "everything needed to transport one individual to Heaven.”They offer you a 100% guaranteed reserved spot into Heaven. Currently the site offers two kits to get you to Paradise: a basic Essential Travel Pack and an upgraded All Access Pack, both including a 100% money back guarantee. These kits come complete with a unique reservation certificate, citizen of Heaven I.D. card, flight boarding pass and a Heaven 101 mini instructional guide. The All Access Pack even includes a special VIP pass to access exclusive areas off limits to most, such as ‘the Land of Milk and Honey’ and ‘Thug Mansion.’
How It Works:
It is "directly affiliated and sent down by The Board of Heavenly Officials, the only governing body in Heaven, to offer you one thing and one thing only: a worry free, secure way into Heaven." And with a money back guarantee, what do you have to lose? It is claimed that that most of their ‘reservation holders’ get in, and if for some reason someone is “plagued by those malevolent evils of the underworld” and can’t make the journey successfully, then they will refund their money with no questions asked.
The kits are intended to be gag gifts, but some critics aren’t laughing about it. "I wish you the worst and hope you suffer, because that monetary pool of happiness that you swim in on mother earth will soon be fire and hot lava in the dungeons of hell. May Christ purge the devil from within you. May the devil be gone!" e-mailed one individual.
What Company Says:
"We don't want people to take it seriously. It's more of just a fun idea we came up with that we thought we'd turn into a novelty gift," said Edgar Kim, 22, half of the duo who started Reserve A Spot In Heaven. His partner, Nathan Davis, 23, thinks it’s hilarious. “People are loving this! We get so much fan mail from people telling us how awesome this is that it’s ridiculous. Our intentions are good and we don’t want to offend anybody. We hope everyone can just take it with a grain of salt and get a good laugh out of it.”
More at:www.reserveaspotinheaven.com
Look Up Web For Me
What Company Says:
A California startup company "Look Up Web For Me, Inc" introduced a new service "Look Up Web For Me" on Jan 7th, 2008. The company maintains that they are still in the experimental stage.
How It Works:
The service helps people on the go needing information from a public website. A consumer can call 866-WEB-4111 and get connected to a live agent. The agent looks up the web and gives information right over the phone.This service helps people in an urgent need of information from the web when they cannot get connected. What 411 did for the telephone directories, they intend to do the same for the web."The service is available from 6 AM PST to 6PM PST Monday through Friday by calling 866-web-4111. The Company plans to expand the service hours with new funding and build out of the expanded infrastructure. Currently this service is available within the U.S. only.
More at:www.lookupwebforme.com
A California startup company "Look Up Web For Me, Inc" introduced a new service "Look Up Web For Me" on Jan 7th, 2008. The company maintains that they are still in the experimental stage.
How It Works:
The service helps people on the go needing information from a public website. A consumer can call 866-WEB-4111 and get connected to a live agent. The agent looks up the web and gives information right over the phone.This service helps people in an urgent need of information from the web when they cannot get connected. What 411 did for the telephone directories, they intend to do the same for the web."The service is available from 6 AM PST to 6PM PST Monday through Friday by calling 866-web-4111. The Company plans to expand the service hours with new funding and build out of the expanded infrastructure. Currently this service is available within the U.S. only.
More at:www.lookupwebforme.com
Multistat is helping companies lower costs, increase research efficiency, accelerate the R&D through comprehensive optimization software and services
What Company Is Offering:
Multistat Visual Optimizer helps you meet corporate product goals such as getting products to market quicker, increasing product margins, decreasing material costs, improving product quality, or reducing carbon emissions.
How It Works:
Multistat’s solutions bring to market breakthrough performance to existing optimization techniques, with benchmark results orders of magnitude faster than existing solutions. Multistat is helping companies lower costs, increase research efficiency, accelerate the R&D cycle through comprehensive optimization software and services. Multistat is used by aerospace, defense and automotive design companies as well as structural optimization and materials science research.
Need to save time, get to market sooner, create higher performance products and grow top - line revenue - Multistat can help.
How Much They Got From VCs:
San Clemente-based Multistat said today that the firm has completed a Series A funding from angel group the Tech Coast Angels. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. Multistat said the funding will go to fuel the company's growth, and for sales and marketing.
About VCs:
Tech Coast Angels is the largest angel investor network in the United States, and provides funding and guidance to more early-stage, high-growth companies in Southern California than any other venture capital, angel or other private equity group.
More at:http://www.multistat.com/
Multistat Visual Optimizer helps you meet corporate product goals such as getting products to market quicker, increasing product margins, decreasing material costs, improving product quality, or reducing carbon emissions.
How It Works:
Multistat’s solutions bring to market breakthrough performance to existing optimization techniques, with benchmark results orders of magnitude faster than existing solutions. Multistat is helping companies lower costs, increase research efficiency, accelerate the R&D cycle through comprehensive optimization software and services. Multistat is used by aerospace, defense and automotive design companies as well as structural optimization and materials science research.
Need to save time, get to market sooner, create higher performance products and grow top - line revenue - Multistat can help.
How Much They Got From VCs:
San Clemente-based Multistat said today that the firm has completed a Series A funding from angel group the Tech Coast Angels. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. Multistat said the funding will go to fuel the company's growth, and for sales and marketing.
About VCs:
Tech Coast Angels is the largest angel investor network in the United States, and provides funding and guidance to more early-stage, high-growth companies in Southern California than any other venture capital, angel or other private equity group.
More at:http://www.multistat.com/
ShoppingWords.com is a NEW online community for shoppers around the globe
What Company Is Offering:
ShoppingWords.com is a NEW online community for shoppers around the globe.Connect and make friends with other shoppers and find out what's hot and what's not on the shopping community.List all things that you want to buy and track your progress in getting them.Get shopping tips from other members on the best places to buy online or offline.
How It Works:
Post
A post is something you want to say about your shopping word. A good post would generally answer any of the questions like.Simply put, "Posting" is the core of the ShoppingWords community. Without your posts, there will be no community.
Photos
The image section is for you to upload and store the cool images that you want to share with the shopping community. Remember, ShoppingWords.com is a friendship and social networking site as well so having a bunch of friends here will not be a bad addition to your MySpace buddies:-) When you have shopping friends all over the world, it will be much easier to buy or get that shopping word wherever they are.
PostCart
PostCart is a space for you to easily save a post which might be interesting or of good use to you. You can easily do this by clicking that "Add to PostCart" link that you can see in each post.
Surveys
Surveys are your answers to our general questionnaire whenever you add a "have bought" shopping word in your account. This is meant for other shoppers to know where did you buy that shopping word and more importantly, if it is really worth buying that shopping word.
Recommendations
This will be the placeholder for your online and offline shop recommendations. If you find or stumble upon a good deal near your neighborhood, in a favorite shopping mall in your city or in any online shop, this is where you let your community know
Notepad
Notepad is a private, for you section only that you can use to note down things that you do not want others to see. ShoppingWords is a community but having a small private space would not be that bad right?
More at:http://www.shoppingwords.com/
ShoppingWords.com is a NEW online community for shoppers around the globe.Connect and make friends with other shoppers and find out what's hot and what's not on the shopping community.List all things that you want to buy and track your progress in getting them.Get shopping tips from other members on the best places to buy online or offline.
How It Works:
Post
A post is something you want to say about your shopping word. A good post would generally answer any of the questions like.Simply put, "Posting" is the core of the ShoppingWords community. Without your posts, there will be no community.
Photos
The image section is for you to upload and store the cool images that you want to share with the shopping community. Remember, ShoppingWords.com is a friendship and social networking site as well so having a bunch of friends here will not be a bad addition to your MySpace buddies:-) When you have shopping friends all over the world, it will be much easier to buy or get that shopping word wherever they are.
PostCart
PostCart is a space for you to easily save a post which might be interesting or of good use to you. You can easily do this by clicking that "Add to PostCart" link that you can see in each post.
Surveys
Surveys are your answers to our general questionnaire whenever you add a "have bought" shopping word in your account. This is meant for other shoppers to know where did you buy that shopping word and more importantly, if it is really worth buying that shopping word.
Recommendations
This will be the placeholder for your online and offline shop recommendations. If you find or stumble upon a good deal near your neighborhood, in a favorite shopping mall in your city or in any online shop, this is where you let your community know
Notepad
Notepad is a private, for you section only that you can use to note down things that you do not want others to see. ShoppingWords is a community but having a small private space would not be that bad right?
More at:http://www.shoppingwords.com/
123Brand It
What Company Is Offering:
It is a service that puts creative types in contact with those who need their opinion or their contribution. Two examples: - a company may need your opinion to select a logo from A, B or C. - a second company may ask for your help to find a name for a new product.
How It Works:
As soon as you register you will be assigned a “portfolio” which you will fill with points by participating on the website. Based on the points you accumulate you can select a gift from the catalogue, this is our first thank you for your activity. But there is more. The companies who enter a request for a contribution will award the winner with the item specified each time. And equally important, this is an excellent showcase for getting exposure in the communication and creative world, being able to demonstrate your ideas in the field is often much better than a good CV.
At some point you have certainly been faced with having to choose between A and B or to invent a new motto or claim. Yes, there are specialised agencies but sometimes you are too small and their costs are too high. Up to now the solution has been to ask your staff, friends or relations, even through in-house mailing lists, etc. Now there is something better, for a very low cost you can put your survey or request online making it visible to a potential number of creative types, customers and navigators which no mailing list can equal.
More at:http://www.123brand.it/
It is a service that puts creative types in contact with those who need their opinion or their contribution. Two examples: - a company may need your opinion to select a logo from A, B or C. - a second company may ask for your help to find a name for a new product.
How It Works:
As soon as you register you will be assigned a “portfolio” which you will fill with points by participating on the website. Based on the points you accumulate you can select a gift from the catalogue, this is our first thank you for your activity. But there is more. The companies who enter a request for a contribution will award the winner with the item specified each time. And equally important, this is an excellent showcase for getting exposure in the communication and creative world, being able to demonstrate your ideas in the field is often much better than a good CV.
At some point you have certainly been faced with having to choose between A and B or to invent a new motto or claim. Yes, there are specialised agencies but sometimes you are too small and their costs are too high. Up to now the solution has been to ask your staff, friends or relations, even through in-house mailing lists, etc. Now there is something better, for a very low cost you can put your survey or request online making it visible to a potential number of creative types, customers and navigators which no mailing list can equal.
More at:http://www.123brand.it/
Canopy Financial provides innovative technology solutions that connect healthcare and financial services got 15 million in VCs funding
What Company Is Offering
Canopy Financial provides innovative technology solutions that connect healthcare and financial services. Serving some of the world's largest healthcare and financial institutions, Canopy powers the development and delivery of complete healthcare banking services for both consumers and businesses.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Canopy Financial, a leading provider of innovative technology solutions that connect healthcare and financial services, announced it has completed a minority capital venture funding round of approximately 15 million dollars. Led by Granite Global Ventures, the new funding round will support product development and marketing of Canopy's leading edge healthcare banking technologies for the rapidly growing Health Savings Account (HSA) and Consumer-Driven Healthcare (CDH) market.
About VCs:
Granite Global Ventures is a leader in expansion-stage venture capital investments in the United States and Asia. Focused on expanding global innovation, GGV's highly diverse team manages over $800 million from its offices in Silicon Valley, Shanghai, and Singapore. The firm invests across a range of sectors in information technology, services and healthcare, as well as emerging industry segments in Asia. GGV has provided capital and helped accelerate international business development for its worldwide portfolio of high-growth companies, particularly in the U.S. and China. GGV's portfolio includes athenahealth, SuccessFactors, Alibaba.com, HiSoft, Tudou.com, Boston-Power, and Isilon Systems.http://www.ggvc.com.
More at:http://www.canopyfi.com
Canopy Financial provides innovative technology solutions that connect healthcare and financial services. Serving some of the world's largest healthcare and financial institutions, Canopy powers the development and delivery of complete healthcare banking services for both consumers and businesses.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Canopy Financial, a leading provider of innovative technology solutions that connect healthcare and financial services, announced it has completed a minority capital venture funding round of approximately 15 million dollars. Led by Granite Global Ventures, the new funding round will support product development and marketing of Canopy's leading edge healthcare banking technologies for the rapidly growing Health Savings Account (HSA) and Consumer-Driven Healthcare (CDH) market.
About VCs:
Granite Global Ventures is a leader in expansion-stage venture capital investments in the United States and Asia. Focused on expanding global innovation, GGV's highly diverse team manages over $800 million from its offices in Silicon Valley, Shanghai, and Singapore. The firm invests across a range of sectors in information technology, services and healthcare, as well as emerging industry segments in Asia. GGV has provided capital and helped accelerate international business development for its worldwide portfolio of high-growth companies, particularly in the U.S. and China. GGV's portfolio includes athenahealth, SuccessFactors, Alibaba.com, HiSoft, Tudou.com, Boston-Power, and Isilon Systems.http://www.ggvc.com.
More at:http://www.canopyfi.com
Outspark is free online community games portal has raised $11 million in Series B financing
What Company Is Offering:
Outspark is redefining interactive entertainment through an engaging virtual playground accessible to players of all ages and experience levels.A unique publisher and operator of free online community games. The company's global reach enables it to select the most compelling social games from talented development teams located around the world.
How Much They Got From VCs:
It has raised $11 million in Series B financing. Leading the round is Tencent Holdings, the operator of China’s top Internet portal and instant messaging service. Existing investors DCM and Altos Ventures also participated in the round, which will help Outspark expand and enhance a virtual playground that has attracted more than 1 million registered users in less than five months.
About Tencent
Tencent aims to enrich the interactive online experience of Internet users in China by providing a comprehensive range of Internet and wireless value-added services. Through various online platforms that include the Instant Messaging service “QQ,” web portal QQ.com, QQ Game portal, multi-media blog service Qzone and wireless portals, Tencent provides online services to the largest community in China and fulfills user needs for communication, information, entertainment and e-Commerce online.
Tencent currently operates three principal lines of business: Internet value-added services, mobile and telecommunications value-added services and online advertising. Shares of Tencent Holdings Limited are traded on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, under stock code 700. www.tencent.com/ir.
more at: http://www.outspark.com.
Outspark is redefining interactive entertainment through an engaging virtual playground accessible to players of all ages and experience levels.A unique publisher and operator of free online community games. The company's global reach enables it to select the most compelling social games from talented development teams located around the world.
How Much They Got From VCs:
It has raised $11 million in Series B financing. Leading the round is Tencent Holdings, the operator of China’s top Internet portal and instant messaging service. Existing investors DCM and Altos Ventures also participated in the round, which will help Outspark expand and enhance a virtual playground that has attracted more than 1 million registered users in less than five months.
About Tencent
Tencent aims to enrich the interactive online experience of Internet users in China by providing a comprehensive range of Internet and wireless value-added services. Through various online platforms that include the Instant Messaging service “QQ,” web portal QQ.com, QQ Game portal, multi-media blog service Qzone and wireless portals, Tencent provides online services to the largest community in China and fulfills user needs for communication, information, entertainment and e-Commerce online.
Tencent currently operates three principal lines of business: Internet value-added services, mobile and telecommunications value-added services and online advertising. Shares of Tencent Holdings Limited are traded on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, under stock code 700. www.tencent.com/ir.
more at: http://www.outspark.com.
alerts.com --They deliver reminders, notifications or alerts where you want them when you want them
What Company Is Offering:
alerts.com is your central destination to access, manage and orchestrate how to receive updated news, headlines or the scores of your favorite team or player, get birthday or party reminders, be notified when a fare goes up or down, if severe weather is moving to town, if the price of a gadget has now dropped to where it becomes a steal, and many more. Be in control of all time-sensitive events and information that shape your life.
How It Works:
They deliver reminders, notifications or alerts where you want them when you want them. With Alerts.com there is absolutely no spam as you are in control. What you select is what you get, nothing else.
For developers and publishers, their software tools make it very easy to participate in the alerts.com ecosystem. For advertisers they simplify how to initiate, administer and visualize a comprehensive marketing campaign across multiple touch points such as SMS, voice broadcasting, email and more.
More at:http://www.alerts.com/
alerts.com is your central destination to access, manage and orchestrate how to receive updated news, headlines or the scores of your favorite team or player, get birthday or party reminders, be notified when a fare goes up or down, if severe weather is moving to town, if the price of a gadget has now dropped to where it becomes a steal, and many more. Be in control of all time-sensitive events and information that shape your life.
How It Works:
They deliver reminders, notifications or alerts where you want them when you want them. With Alerts.com there is absolutely no spam as you are in control. What you select is what you get, nothing else.
For developers and publishers, their software tools make it very easy to participate in the alerts.com ecosystem. For advertisers they simplify how to initiate, administer and visualize a comprehensive marketing campaign across multiple touch points such as SMS, voice broadcasting, email and more.
More at:http://www.alerts.com/
CheckOutMyCards.com
What Company is Offering:
CheckOutMyCards.com takes the latest technology and applies it to card collecting. They desire to continually impress their regular customers by offering new features, utilizing the latest technology, and making it easier and more fun to collect cards.
How It Works:
The best way to make purchases is to create an account and purchase store credit. With sufficient store credit, you can make purchases instantly without going through a shopping cart or paying extra fees. Without using store credit, all payments go through PayPal. Via PayPal, a payment can be made with a credit card or from a bank account. The credit cards accepted are Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover..
By selling your cards through CheckOutMyCards.com they or other users have the opportunity to buy your cards from you.
More at:http://www.checkoutmycards.com/
CheckOutMyCards.com takes the latest technology and applies it to card collecting. They desire to continually impress their regular customers by offering new features, utilizing the latest technology, and making it easier and more fun to collect cards.
How It Works:
The best way to make purchases is to create an account and purchase store credit. With sufficient store credit, you can make purchases instantly without going through a shopping cart or paying extra fees. Without using store credit, all payments go through PayPal. Via PayPal, a payment can be made with a credit card or from a bank account. The credit cards accepted are Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover..
By selling your cards through CheckOutMyCards.com they or other users have the opportunity to buy your cards from you.
More at:http://www.checkoutmycards.com/
WeGame.com is creating a new product for gamers around the world
What Company Is Offering:
WeGame.com is creating a new product for gamers around the world.
How It Works:
Simply click the "Upload" link at the top of the page. Click "Browse for Video," find the video on your hard drive, and fill out the Title, Description and Game fields while the video uploads. After the video is fully uploaded, click "Submit my video."
To change your user avatar, click "My Profile" in the upper right hand corner of the website after you have logged in. This will access your user settings. On the right hand side of the screen, below your current avatar, is a box in which you can enter the path of your new avatar. Click upload and your new avatar will be loaded to the site!
WeGame wants to give creators the best platform to publish gaming content. If you are a content creator and would like your own featured channel, please e-mail us at team@wegame.com with some basic information about your content.
More at:
http://www.wegame.com/
WeGame.com is creating a new product for gamers around the world.
How It Works:
Simply click the "Upload" link at the top of the page. Click "Browse for Video," find the video on your hard drive, and fill out the Title, Description and Game fields while the video uploads. After the video is fully uploaded, click "Submit my video."
To change your user avatar, click "My Profile" in the upper right hand corner of the website after you have logged in. This will access your user settings. On the right hand side of the screen, below your current avatar, is a box in which you can enter the path of your new avatar. Click upload and your new avatar will be loaded to the site!
WeGame wants to give creators the best platform to publish gaming content. If you are a content creator and would like your own featured channel, please e-mail us at team@wegame.com with some basic information about your content.
More at:
http://www.wegame.com/
iMantri is an online peer-to-peer community for seeking and offering mentoring and coaching
What Company is Offering:
iMantri is an online peer-to-peer community for seeking and offering mentoring and coaching. Tap into the wisdom of your peers and share your gifts with others. iMantri is an online exchange and a social network for mentors and mentees.
Whether you need mentoring or you can offer mentoring or be a mentee and a mentor at the same time, iMantri can help.
How It Works:
iMantri is a mentoring network and your leverage is dependent on your network. With a work email, your colleagues (present and former) will be able to find you easily and also you will be able to join the closed loop networks within your firm. Of course, providing a work email is entirely optional and you may choose to use a personal email ID.
iMantri is driven off competencies and goals as building blocks of mentoring and hence it is essential to pick at least one goal or one competency. You may add/change competencies and goals at any time based on your needs.
In real world, all of us have some strengths and some areas where we need to improve. So when you are trying to be a mentor in an area, you emphasize those skills and competencies and elucidate how you can others. Whereas if you are seeking mentorship, then you will focus on areas where you need help and request help. Given the purpose of each activity is different, iMantri allows for two different profiles.
More at:http://www.imantri.com/
iMantri is an online peer-to-peer community for seeking and offering mentoring and coaching. Tap into the wisdom of your peers and share your gifts with others. iMantri is an online exchange and a social network for mentors and mentees.
Whether you need mentoring or you can offer mentoring or be a mentee and a mentor at the same time, iMantri can help.
How It Works:
iMantri is a mentoring network and your leverage is dependent on your network. With a work email, your colleagues (present and former) will be able to find you easily and also you will be able to join the closed loop networks within your firm. Of course, providing a work email is entirely optional and you may choose to use a personal email ID.
iMantri is driven off competencies and goals as building blocks of mentoring and hence it is essential to pick at least one goal or one competency. You may add/change competencies and goals at any time based on your needs.
In real world, all of us have some strengths and some areas where we need to improve. So when you are trying to be a mentor in an area, you emphasize those skills and competencies and elucidate how you can others. Whereas if you are seeking mentorship, then you will focus on areas where you need help and request help. Given the purpose of each activity is different, iMantri allows for two different profiles.
More at:http://www.imantri.com/
The Healthcare Gift Card can be used to help pay for health expenses, products and wellness-related services
What Company Is offering:
The Healthcare Gift Card can be used to help pay for health expenses, products and wellness-related services. The card can be used to pay things like co-pays, prescriptions, dental care and vision care, as well as gym memberships and elective procedures. You can buy one for yourself and use it to pay for a variety of healthcare expense or you can buy one as a gift and have it sent directly to the recipient.
How It Works:
The Gift Card is a more personal and secure gift than cash. You choose the amount you want to place on the card, anything from as little as $25 up to as much as $5,000, and the recipient chooses the health related expenses he or she wants to use it for — however there’s no rule that says you can’t make suggestions!
The card costs $4.95 plus shipping and handling and can be sent to you or straight to the recipient.
Uses include: co-pays at doctor’s and pharmaciesdental care including braces and teeth whitening; vision care including eye exams and prescription sunglasses; memberships at health clubs and elective procedures including Lasik and cosmetic surgery.
There are a couple of important points for you as the Gift Card Giver, to keep in mind for the Gift Card Receiver. The Prepaid Healthcare Visa Card should be used at merchants and service providers that accept Visa Debit Cards.
Also, the gift card cannot be used at any ATM and can not be used in exchange for cash. The card officially becomes the property of the recipient as soon as they sign the back . Simple activation instructions will be included with the gift card.
More at:http://www.givewell.com/
The Healthcare Gift Card can be used to help pay for health expenses, products and wellness-related services. The card can be used to pay things like co-pays, prescriptions, dental care and vision care, as well as gym memberships and elective procedures. You can buy one for yourself and use it to pay for a variety of healthcare expense or you can buy one as a gift and have it sent directly to the recipient.
How It Works:
The Gift Card is a more personal and secure gift than cash. You choose the amount you want to place on the card, anything from as little as $25 up to as much as $5,000, and the recipient chooses the health related expenses he or she wants to use it for — however there’s no rule that says you can’t make suggestions!
The card costs $4.95 plus shipping and handling and can be sent to you or straight to the recipient.
Uses include: co-pays at doctor’s and pharmaciesdental care including braces and teeth whitening; vision care including eye exams and prescription sunglasses; memberships at health clubs and elective procedures including Lasik and cosmetic surgery.
There are a couple of important points for you as the Gift Card Giver, to keep in mind for the Gift Card Receiver. The Prepaid Healthcare Visa Card should be used at merchants and service providers that accept Visa Debit Cards.
Also, the gift card cannot be used at any ATM and can not be used in exchange for cash. The card officially becomes the property of the recipient as soon as they sign the back . Simple activation instructions will be included with the gift card.
More at:http://www.givewell.com/
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Sutori --The voice of today's customer
What Company Is Saying:
Sutori is a place where customers can rate companies, share experiences, build consensus and reach companies to affect positive change.
They help companies get closer to their customers by creating experiences (mostly delivered online) that meet the real needs of real people. They believe that customers now hold the reins of power. And they think most companies need to work on their listening skills. Because ultimately the meaning and value of their products and their brand is not determined by engineers, designers or marketers, but by customers—based on their own experiences.
How It Works:
On Sutori, you can rate companies by posting stories about your experiences with them.
Each story is accompanied by a "goodwill rating", which contributes to the goodwill meter—an aggregated view of how the Sutori community feels about each company.
When other users read your story, they have the option of leaving a comment or voting to agree or disagree with you.
To reflect the power of consensus, stories with many "agree" votes have a stronger impact on the goodwill meter. Similarly, stories with many "disagree" votes have less of an impact.
In addition to a centralized goodwill meter where companies can track how customers feel about them and why, Sutori also includes a mechanism whereby companies can post official responses to any story.
Sutori was conceived and developed by a small team of Blast Radius employees who wanted to turn these ideas into something real.
More at:http://sutori.com/
Sutori is a place where customers can rate companies, share experiences, build consensus and reach companies to affect positive change.
They help companies get closer to their customers by creating experiences (mostly delivered online) that meet the real needs of real people. They believe that customers now hold the reins of power. And they think most companies need to work on their listening skills. Because ultimately the meaning and value of their products and their brand is not determined by engineers, designers or marketers, but by customers—based on their own experiences.
How It Works:
On Sutori, you can rate companies by posting stories about your experiences with them.
Each story is accompanied by a "goodwill rating", which contributes to the goodwill meter—an aggregated view of how the Sutori community feels about each company.
When other users read your story, they have the option of leaving a comment or voting to agree or disagree with you.
To reflect the power of consensus, stories with many "agree" votes have a stronger impact on the goodwill meter. Similarly, stories with many "disagree" votes have less of an impact.
In addition to a centralized goodwill meter where companies can track how customers feel about them and why, Sutori also includes a mechanism whereby companies can post official responses to any story.
Sutori was conceived and developed by a small team of Blast Radius employees who wanted to turn these ideas into something real.
More at:http://sutori.com/
Foranu lets you save money as well as time in finding the best car insurance rate
What Company Says:
Foranu was born out of the need for better car insurance shopping experience. ForAnu lets you save money as well as time in finding the best insurance rate.
How It Works:
Users will input their basic car insurance related data like age, marital status, credit score, etc. (they do not collect personal information like name, address, phone number, etc. ) Users can query based on age, marital status, location, etc. and they show following results.
1.Car Insurance Company.
2.Car Insurance Company Service rating.
3.Insurance rate (computed for 6 months).
4.Car Insurance Company website link.
Users can get educated on car insurance matters and they also answers numbers of user’s questions.
More at:http://www.foranu.com/
Foranu was born out of the need for better car insurance shopping experience. ForAnu lets you save money as well as time in finding the best insurance rate.
How It Works:
Users will input their basic car insurance related data like age, marital status, credit score, etc. (they do not collect personal information like name, address, phone number, etc. ) Users can query based on age, marital status, location, etc. and they show following results.
1.Car Insurance Company.
2.Car Insurance Company Service rating.
3.Insurance rate (computed for 6 months).
4.Car Insurance Company website link.
Users can get educated on car insurance matters and they also answers numbers of user’s questions.
More at:http://www.foranu.com/
DesignFlavr to deliver the latest and freshest art and design straight to you
What Company Is Offering:
DesignFlavr is a breed of website that hopes to deliver the latest and freshest art and design straight to you with no frills and no hassle. The concept behind this website is to help support the vast and ever growing number of Designers and Artists that reside here on the World Wide Web.
How It Works:
By creating a user friendly and regularly updated portal we hope that our efforts will help the many talented people out there get some well deserved recognition for their hard work.
They do not in any way take credit for the artwork and designs that appears on their site. They do not seek to profit or gain recognition for others people work - they are simply a medium for communicating an artist directory in a visual form.
This website is not designed to be used as a portfolio for artists or any person seeking free image hosting. All images submitted are moderated for quality and content as well as checked for any infringing copyright issues.
They encourage user submitted content and believe that the original artist retains the right to request their artwork removed at any time for any reason they deem sufficient.
More at:http://www.designflavr.com/
DesignFlavr is a breed of website that hopes to deliver the latest and freshest art and design straight to you with no frills and no hassle. The concept behind this website is to help support the vast and ever growing number of Designers and Artists that reside here on the World Wide Web.
How It Works:
By creating a user friendly and regularly updated portal we hope that our efforts will help the many talented people out there get some well deserved recognition for their hard work.
They do not in any way take credit for the artwork and designs that appears on their site. They do not seek to profit or gain recognition for others people work - they are simply a medium for communicating an artist directory in a visual form.
This website is not designed to be used as a portfolio for artists or any person seeking free image hosting. All images submitted are moderated for quality and content as well as checked for any infringing copyright issues.
They encourage user submitted content and believe that the original artist retains the right to request their artwork removed at any time for any reason they deem sufficient.
More at:http://www.designflavr.com/
DrUpload allow's you to upload images quickly, and freely on fast servers.
What Company Is Offering:
DrUpload allow's you to upload images quickly, and freely on fast servers.
How It Works:
They limit all files to a max of 10mb per file, however you may upload as many file's as you want. all you do is select your file click on upload and when its ready you will see your image! They allow most image type's such as .jpg .jpeg .png .bmp .gif .psd.
More at:http://drupload.com/
DrUpload allow's you to upload images quickly, and freely on fast servers.
How It Works:
They limit all files to a max of 10mb per file, however you may upload as many file's as you want. all you do is select your file click on upload and when its ready you will see your image! They allow most image type's such as .jpg .jpeg .png .bmp .gif .psd.
More at:http://drupload.com/
Lat49 is the online mapvertising system that brings geographically relevant advertising to users of online maps
What Company Is Offering:
Lat49 is the online mapvertising system that brings geographically relevant advertising to users of online maps. Lat49 is a new mapvertising system that finally enables advertisers to reach the enormous number of people who use online, interactive mapping technologies such as MapQuest, Google Maps, and the long tail of "map mashups". Lat49 provides a revenue strategy to the thousands of online publishers that have included interactive maps as a feature on their Web sites.
How It Works:
Lat49 puts your ad right where you know the user is looking — on the map. As users travel to different regions on lat49's partner map sites, your geo-targeted ad appears where it matters to your business. Your lat49 ad provides users with locally relevant, interactive map content. There is no competition for the user's attention. You own every block or region of the map that you buy — and you own it across a worldwide network of map sites that cater directly to your target market. To learn more about our publisher network, visit our featured publisher page.
With lat49, you purchase the exclusive advertising rights for regions of the map. Anytime someone visits your real estate across the lat49 publisher network, your ad is guaranteed to show.
With lat49, you can buy parcels of land at multiple zoom levels to suit the goals of your advertising campaign. Build your regional branding campaign by owning the map's most zoomed out views. Or, finely tune your messaging to target the local street, neighborhood, or urban level audiences. Action oriented or branding focused... lat49 offers a variety of ad formats to accommodate your needs.
Unique Features:
1.Lat49 provides advertisers with access to an engaged and interactive audience that is currently unreachable with existing ad engines.
2.Lat49 does NOT rely on keyword search. The user's interest is determined by interaction with the map. All ads are geo-targeted and contextually relevant.
3.Lat49 is NOT another pushpin on the map — it is an on-map display ad.
4.Lat49 suits any kind of retail, product, or service business. It is not dependent on a specific address, just the area(s) of the map that you choose.
More at:http://lat49.com/
Lat49 is the online mapvertising system that brings geographically relevant advertising to users of online maps. Lat49 is a new mapvertising system that finally enables advertisers to reach the enormous number of people who use online, interactive mapping technologies such as MapQuest, Google Maps, and the long tail of "map mashups". Lat49 provides a revenue strategy to the thousands of online publishers that have included interactive maps as a feature on their Web sites.
How It Works:
Lat49 puts your ad right where you know the user is looking — on the map. As users travel to different regions on lat49's partner map sites, your geo-targeted ad appears where it matters to your business. Your lat49 ad provides users with locally relevant, interactive map content. There is no competition for the user's attention. You own every block or region of the map that you buy — and you own it across a worldwide network of map sites that cater directly to your target market. To learn more about our publisher network, visit our featured publisher page.
With lat49, you purchase the exclusive advertising rights for regions of the map. Anytime someone visits your real estate across the lat49 publisher network, your ad is guaranteed to show.
With lat49, you can buy parcels of land at multiple zoom levels to suit the goals of your advertising campaign. Build your regional branding campaign by owning the map's most zoomed out views. Or, finely tune your messaging to target the local street, neighborhood, or urban level audiences. Action oriented or branding focused... lat49 offers a variety of ad formats to accommodate your needs.
Unique Features:
1.Lat49 provides advertisers with access to an engaged and interactive audience that is currently unreachable with existing ad engines.
2.Lat49 does NOT rely on keyword search. The user's interest is determined by interaction with the map. All ads are geo-targeted and contextually relevant.
3.Lat49 is NOT another pushpin on the map — it is an on-map display ad.
4.Lat49 suits any kind of retail, product, or service business. It is not dependent on a specific address, just the area(s) of the map that you choose.
More at:http://lat49.com/
FyreBall is developing a gaming-influenced alternative to email, has raised around $1.1 million in Series A funding
What Company Is Offering:
Fyreball is a rich and playful alternative to email for sending stuff to your friends. It's being developed by a team of game industry veterans, internet addicts and Spartan warriors. They think Fyreball will be a great way to track, send and receive cool content on the web.
How Much They Got From VCs:
FyreBall Inc., a Bellevue, Wash.-based company that is developing a gaming-influenced alternative to email, has raised around $1.1 million in Series A funding led by Labrador Ventures. It is run by former members of the Halo development team.
More at:www.fyreball.com
Fyreball is a rich and playful alternative to email for sending stuff to your friends. It's being developed by a team of game industry veterans, internet addicts and Spartan warriors. They think Fyreball will be a great way to track, send and receive cool content on the web.
How Much They Got From VCs:
FyreBall Inc., a Bellevue, Wash.-based company that is developing a gaming-influenced alternative to email, has raised around $1.1 million in Series A funding led by Labrador Ventures. It is run by former members of the Halo development team.
More at:www.fyreball.com
DevonWay is provider of on-demand web services for improving work processesraised $6.5 million in Series A funding
What Company Is Offering:
DevonWay On-Demand is a web services offering representing a new generation of solutions designed to improve work processes while supplying budget relief across the enterprise.
How It Works:
DevonWay puts an end to the rigid monolithic ERP system approach to software that force the user to think in foreign terms, requiring endless training. Devon-Way web-services improve your user experiences, end the hassle with IT support and simplify your work day… and our no-license fee — no maintenance-fee — on-demand model saves you money. Sit down. Log on. Begin working... no additional software or server required! Checkout our feature set – unavailable from any other software vendor.
Their service offerings are designed to be additive to client/server systems of record commonly in use. These offer incremental change to departmental functions improving the end-user experience and work performance of engineering, operations and maintenance disciplines. When fully deployed, they represent a new generation of browser class computing that can replace existing client/sever software products in use.
How Much They Got From VCs:
DevonWay is provider of on-demand web services for improving work processes, has raised $6.5 million in Series A funding led by Crosslink Capital.
More at:http://www.devonway.com/
DevonWay On-Demand is a web services offering representing a new generation of solutions designed to improve work processes while supplying budget relief across the enterprise.
How It Works:
DevonWay puts an end to the rigid monolithic ERP system approach to software that force the user to think in foreign terms, requiring endless training. Devon-Way web-services improve your user experiences, end the hassle with IT support and simplify your work day… and our no-license fee — no maintenance-fee — on-demand model saves you money. Sit down. Log on. Begin working... no additional software or server required! Checkout our feature set – unavailable from any other software vendor.
Their service offerings are designed to be additive to client/server systems of record commonly in use. These offer incremental change to departmental functions improving the end-user experience and work performance of engineering, operations and maintenance disciplines. When fully deployed, they represent a new generation of browser class computing that can replace existing client/sever software products in use.
How Much They Got From VCs:
DevonWay is provider of on-demand web services for improving work processes, has raised $6.5 million in Series A funding led by Crosslink Capital.
More at:http://www.devonway.com/
LiveMocha is provider of online language education raised $6 million in Series A funding
What Company Is Offering:
LiveMocha is a language-learning tool that combines fun self-study lessons, motivational tools and community to help you learn the language of your choice. Unlike CDs and books that contain stale academic content, LiveMocha brings to you useful everyday language from actual native speakers.
How It Works:
LiveMocha has a goal setting and friendly leader board competition system to help you stay engaged and active in your foreign language-learning goal. Through competitions, point sharing and community involvement LiveMocha gives you the tools to stay motivated and on track.At LiveMocha they encourage you to learn with and teach other members of your community. Submit a writing sample or an audio sample of a lesson and have a native speaker correct your work. Do the same for someone else when you get the chance and together you can build a strong language community.
LiveMocha also gives you the opportunity to work with native language speakers and other students learning the same language as you. Practicing with other students and native language speakers gives you the opportunity to learn real conversational language instead of the stuffy language you learn in CD’s and books.
How Much They Got From VCs:
LiveMocha Inc., is provider of online language education, has nearly $6 million in Series A funding led by Maveron Equity Partners.
http://www.livemocha.com/help/onlinehelp
LiveMocha is a language-learning tool that combines fun self-study lessons, motivational tools and community to help you learn the language of your choice. Unlike CDs and books that contain stale academic content, LiveMocha brings to you useful everyday language from actual native speakers.
How It Works:
LiveMocha has a goal setting and friendly leader board competition system to help you stay engaged and active in your foreign language-learning goal. Through competitions, point sharing and community involvement LiveMocha gives you the tools to stay motivated and on track.At LiveMocha they encourage you to learn with and teach other members of your community. Submit a writing sample or an audio sample of a lesson and have a native speaker correct your work. Do the same for someone else when you get the chance and together you can build a strong language community.
LiveMocha also gives you the opportunity to work with native language speakers and other students learning the same language as you. Practicing with other students and native language speakers gives you the opportunity to learn real conversational language instead of the stuffy language you learn in CD’s and books.
How Much They Got From VCs:
LiveMocha Inc., is provider of online language education, has nearly $6 million in Series A funding led by Maveron Equity Partners.
http://www.livemocha.com/help/onlinehelp
ArcMail is provider of email archiving and management solutions for small and medium-sized businesses got $3 million in VCs funding
What Company Is Offering:
ArcMail Technology is a cutting-edge provider of simple, secure, and cost-effective email archiving and management solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. The company’s ArcMail appliance is easy to buy, easy to install, and easy to use, and improves the end-user experience, reduces the load on IT resources, and safely and securely retains the business information contained in emails.
How It Works:
The company has a global channel program to help deliver its products to organizations worldwide. ArcMail's product strategy is to provide an email archive product that improves the end-user experience, reduces the load on IT resources, and safely and securely retains the business information contained in emails. By packaging the operating system and software with the database, on-board storage, and RAID disk management, ArcMail has provided a product that is reliable, easy to buy, easy to install, and easy to use. The Defender product line has also been designed to meet the archiving requirements of companies with as few as 5 mailboxes all the way up to 2000+ mailboxes, providing broad coverage for the SMB market space.
The company's distribution strategy is to develop and fully support channel sales through Value Added Resellers (VARs).
It offers a no-obligation 30-day free trial on all its products.ArcMail’s flagship product, ArcMail Defender captures all inbound, outbound and internal email using the journaling function of companies’ mail servers, which indexes the email header and text information. ArcMail Defender allows easy storage and retrieval giving organizations a simple way to manage email.
How Is Market Of That Kind Of Company:
With the use of email continuing to explode (many companies saw a 25%-50% increase in their email stores in just the past 12 months, according to Ostermann Research) and companies starting to recognize the importance of the business information contained in emails, we expect the email archive market will experience tremendous growth in the next 5 years.
How Much They Got From VCs:
ArcMail Technology, a leading provider of email archiving and management technologies, announced a $3 million investment from Advantage Capital Partners, the Louisiana Technology Fund and other investors. This new funding will be used to add staff and implement an aggressive marketing campaign to take advantage of quickly expanding market opportunities and to provide additional support for channel sales and product development.
More at:www.arcmailtech.com
ArcMail Technology is a cutting-edge provider of simple, secure, and cost-effective email archiving and management solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. The company’s ArcMail appliance is easy to buy, easy to install, and easy to use, and improves the end-user experience, reduces the load on IT resources, and safely and securely retains the business information contained in emails.
How It Works:
The company has a global channel program to help deliver its products to organizations worldwide. ArcMail's product strategy is to provide an email archive product that improves the end-user experience, reduces the load on IT resources, and safely and securely retains the business information contained in emails. By packaging the operating system and software with the database, on-board storage, and RAID disk management, ArcMail has provided a product that is reliable, easy to buy, easy to install, and easy to use. The Defender product line has also been designed to meet the archiving requirements of companies with as few as 5 mailboxes all the way up to 2000+ mailboxes, providing broad coverage for the SMB market space.
The company's distribution strategy is to develop and fully support channel sales through Value Added Resellers (VARs).
It offers a no-obligation 30-day free trial on all its products.ArcMail’s flagship product, ArcMail Defender captures all inbound, outbound and internal email using the journaling function of companies’ mail servers, which indexes the email header and text information. ArcMail Defender allows easy storage and retrieval giving organizations a simple way to manage email.
How Is Market Of That Kind Of Company:
With the use of email continuing to explode (many companies saw a 25%-50% increase in their email stores in just the past 12 months, according to Ostermann Research) and companies starting to recognize the importance of the business information contained in emails, we expect the email archive market will experience tremendous growth in the next 5 years.
How Much They Got From VCs:
ArcMail Technology, a leading provider of email archiving and management technologies, announced a $3 million investment from Advantage Capital Partners, the Louisiana Technology Fund and other investors. This new funding will be used to add staff and implement an aggressive marketing campaign to take advantage of quickly expanding market opportunities and to provide additional support for channel sales and product development.
More at:www.arcmailtech.com
DailyLit sends books in installments via e-mail
What Company is Offering:
DailyLit brings books right into your inbox in convenient small messages that take less than 5 minutes to read. This works incredibly well not just on your computer but also on a Treo, Blackberry, Sidekick or whatever the PDA of your choice. In the words of Dr. Seuss: Try it, you might like it! (Oops -- it would appear that the actual quote from Green Eggs and Ham is "You do not like them. So you say. Try them! Try them! And you may.")
How it Works:
DailyLit aims to combine the best of both worlds by delivering great books in bite-sized chunks via email and RSS.
DailyLit sends books in installments via e-mail. DailyLit currently offers over 400 classic public domain titles that can be subscribed to and read in their entirety for free. Popular titles include "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu and "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen Readers can choose how often and at what time they want the e-mails sent to them (e.g. every weekday at 6:30am). Books on DailyLit can be read any place that a reader receives e-mail, including on a PDA, Blackberry, Trio, etc. Each installment of a book can be read in under 5 minutes, and if a reader is done with a particular installment, a reader can receive the next installment immediately in his/her e-mail Inbox. DailyLit has recently added forums where readers can discuss their favorite books and authors.
All you need to do is pick a book (browse the collection or use the search box), select how often and when you want to receive messages, and provide your email address. Click on the big Subscribe button. DailyLit does the rest.
More at:http://www.dailylit.com/faq#why
DailyLit brings books right into your inbox in convenient small messages that take less than 5 minutes to read. This works incredibly well not just on your computer but also on a Treo, Blackberry, Sidekick or whatever the PDA of your choice. In the words of Dr. Seuss: Try it, you might like it! (Oops -- it would appear that the actual quote from Green Eggs and Ham is "You do not like them. So you say. Try them! Try them! And you may.")
How it Works:
DailyLit aims to combine the best of both worlds by delivering great books in bite-sized chunks via email and RSS.
DailyLit sends books in installments via e-mail. DailyLit currently offers over 400 classic public domain titles that can be subscribed to and read in their entirety for free. Popular titles include "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu and "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen Readers can choose how often and at what time they want the e-mails sent to them (e.g. every weekday at 6:30am). Books on DailyLit can be read any place that a reader receives e-mail, including on a PDA, Blackberry, Trio, etc. Each installment of a book can be read in under 5 minutes, and if a reader is done with a particular installment, a reader can receive the next installment immediately in his/her e-mail Inbox. DailyLit has recently added forums where readers can discuss their favorite books and authors.
All you need to do is pick a book (browse the collection or use the search box), select how often and when you want to receive messages, and provide your email address. Click on the big Subscribe button. DailyLit does the rest.
More at:http://www.dailylit.com/faq#why
Trulia--Real Estate Search has announced the Trulia Publisher Platform,become partner and earn
What Company is Offering:
They are a real estate search engine that helps you find homes for sale and provides real estate information at the local level to help you make better decisions in the process.
They aim to be a delightfully smart partner when you are looking to buy a home. The smart part should help you find your dream home (or at least the dream home within your budget) and arm you with data and information about local real estate (without too much work). The delightful part should make you smile and keep you coming back.
How It Works:
Whether you are moving down the street or clear across the country, they're here to help you understand real estate trends at the local level. When you are about to make the biggest financial decision of your life, they help you understand how your future home stacks up compared to similar homes on the market, and similar homes that have recently sold. They show you how sales prices have been trending where it matters—in your county, city, ZIP code and neighborhood.
Recent Updates:
The real estate web site, has announced the Trulia Publisher Platform, which allows other web sites to offer real estate listings under their own brand. Early partners include Kiplinger, Village Voice Media, and AmericanTowns. Trulia provides partners with software and listings, while partners provide Trulia with additional traffic. Additionally, Trulia shares advertising revenue with publishing partners that participate in the program.
More at:http://www.trulia.com/
They are a real estate search engine that helps you find homes for sale and provides real estate information at the local level to help you make better decisions in the process.
They aim to be a delightfully smart partner when you are looking to buy a home. The smart part should help you find your dream home (or at least the dream home within your budget) and arm you with data and information about local real estate (without too much work). The delightful part should make you smile and keep you coming back.
How It Works:
Whether you are moving down the street or clear across the country, they're here to help you understand real estate trends at the local level. When you are about to make the biggest financial decision of your life, they help you understand how your future home stacks up compared to similar homes on the market, and similar homes that have recently sold. They show you how sales prices have been trending where it matters—in your county, city, ZIP code and neighborhood.
Recent Updates:
The real estate web site, has announced the Trulia Publisher Platform, which allows other web sites to offer real estate listings under their own brand. Early partners include Kiplinger, Village Voice Media, and AmericanTowns. Trulia provides partners with software and listings, while partners provide Trulia with additional traffic. Additionally, Trulia shares advertising revenue with publishing partners that participate in the program.
More at:http://www.trulia.com/
Jingle Networks which bring you free directory assistance via the phone got $13 million in funding
What Company is Offering:
1-800-FREE411 is free nationwide directory assistance. And it’s free from any phone. Cell. Home. Work. Wherever. Of course, you may get charged minutes on your cell phone (like most calls), but we won’t charge you a penny.
How It Works:
Simply dial 1-800-FREE411 and get the listing you need for free. It’s just like 411, only better because it doesn’t cost anything. At Free411.com, you’ll get the most accurate residential and business listings on the Web. That’s because they use the same real-time data as the phone companies.
Recent Updates:
The first company to bring you free directory assistance via the telephone, Jingle Networks, has raised nearly $13 million in Series C-1 funding. With return investors Goldman Sachs, IDG Ventures Boston, Liberty Associated Partners and First Round Capital, this most recent round follows a $30 million Series C round from just a few months ago. That round also included a few media companies including Comcast Interactive Capital and Hearst, as well as Lead Dog Ventures.
http://www.free411.com/
1-800-FREE411 is free nationwide directory assistance. And it’s free from any phone. Cell. Home. Work. Wherever. Of course, you may get charged minutes on your cell phone (like most calls), but we won’t charge you a penny.
How It Works:
Simply dial 1-800-FREE411 and get the listing you need for free. It’s just like 411, only better because it doesn’t cost anything. At Free411.com, you’ll get the most accurate residential and business listings on the Web. That’s because they use the same real-time data as the phone companies.
Recent Updates:
The first company to bring you free directory assistance via the telephone, Jingle Networks, has raised nearly $13 million in Series C-1 funding. With return investors Goldman Sachs, IDG Ventures Boston, Liberty Associated Partners and First Round Capital, this most recent round follows a $30 million Series C round from just a few months ago. That round also included a few media companies including Comcast Interactive Capital and Hearst, as well as Lead Dog Ventures.
http://www.free411.com/
ClipSyndicate--Video Search Tool For Social Networks
What Company Is Offering:
ClipSyndicate enables broadcasters and other video content producers to realize new revenue streams and extend their brand into the "Long Tail" of the Internet by syndicating video clips to thousands of vertical web sites looking for specific content of interest for their end-users.
Video news syndication is a win-win-win for the broadcaster, the Web publisher and the advertiser. As a result of these new distribution opportunities provided by ClipSyndicate, broadcasters can further monetize their clips, web publishers have a new source for fresh, relevant content, and advertisers have access to a highly targeted audience.
How It Works:
Once you have found your clip, click on publish this clip and you will be taken to the publish page. You will see a drop down menu to select "My First Channel." The clip will be added to your first channel. You may add more clips to your channel or copy code to publish your clip to your site. Click "Get Code" and a screen will offer several integration methods.
A channel is a collection of clips (one or more) organized into a playlist called a channel. You can create as many channels as you choose for as many different topics as you choose to integrate onto your site.
A smart channel is a "saved search" that automatically updates your channel's playlist as new clips become available that meet your search criteria.
More at:http://www.clipsyndicate.com/
ClipSyndicate enables broadcasters and other video content producers to realize new revenue streams and extend their brand into the "Long Tail" of the Internet by syndicating video clips to thousands of vertical web sites looking for specific content of interest for their end-users.
Video news syndication is a win-win-win for the broadcaster, the Web publisher and the advertiser. As a result of these new distribution opportunities provided by ClipSyndicate, broadcasters can further monetize their clips, web publishers have a new source for fresh, relevant content, and advertisers have access to a highly targeted audience.
How It Works:
Once you have found your clip, click on publish this clip and you will be taken to the publish page. You will see a drop down menu to select "My First Channel." The clip will be added to your first channel. You may add more clips to your channel or copy code to publish your clip to your site. Click "Get Code" and a screen will offer several integration methods.
A channel is a collection of clips (one or more) organized into a playlist called a channel. You can create as many channels as you choose for as many different topics as you choose to integrate onto your site.
A smart channel is a "saved search" that automatically updates your channel's playlist as new clips become available that meet your search criteria.
More at:http://www.clipsyndicate.com/
Zotero is an easy-to-use yet powerful online research tool
What Company Is Offering:
Zotero is an easy-to-use yet powerful research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources (citations, full texts, web pages, images, and other objects), and lets you share the results of your research in a variety of ways.
How It Works:
Zotero integrates tightly with online resources; it can sense when users are viewing a book, article, or other object on the web, and—on many major research and library sites—find and automatically save the full reference information for the item in the correct fields. Since it lives in the web browser, it can effortlessly transmit information to, and receive information from, other web services and applications; since it runs on one’s personal computer, it can also communicate with software running there (such as Microsoft Word). And it can be used offline as well (e.g., on a plane, in an archive without WiFi).
Zotero users will gain the ability to share and collaborate on their collections with other users through an exchange server, and receive recommendations and feeds of new resources that might be of interest to them. In short, over the next year Zotero will expand from an already helpful browser extension into a full-fledged tool for digital research and collaboration.
More at:http://www.zotero.org/
Zotero is an easy-to-use yet powerful research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources (citations, full texts, web pages, images, and other objects), and lets you share the results of your research in a variety of ways.
How It Works:
Zotero integrates tightly with online resources; it can sense when users are viewing a book, article, or other object on the web, and—on many major research and library sites—find and automatically save the full reference information for the item in the correct fields. Since it lives in the web browser, it can effortlessly transmit information to, and receive information from, other web services and applications; since it runs on one’s personal computer, it can also communicate with software running there (such as Microsoft Word). And it can be used offline as well (e.g., on a plane, in an archive without WiFi).
Zotero users will gain the ability to share and collaborate on their collections with other users through an exchange server, and receive recommendations and feeds of new resources that might be of interest to them. In short, over the next year Zotero will expand from an already helpful browser extension into a full-fledged tool for digital research and collaboration.
More at:http://www.zotero.org/
FULLPIX is a powerful and easy-to-use software for enhancing mobile phone and internet videos
What Company Is Offering:
FULLPIX is a powerful and easy-to-use software for enhancing mobile phone and internet videos.
Full Image, the only European company fully dedicated to professional film and video digital restoration, used all his know-how and his in-house research and development team to offer to web community the simple and necesseary FULLPIX freeware.
How It Works:
You can get a new unlock code from the contact page.
Input and output video formats supported: 3gp, 3g2, avi, flv, mov, mpeg1, mpeg2, mp4, asf. In only: wmv 1, wmv 2, wmv 3, and many others...
• Input and output audio formats supported: mp2, mp3, aac, ac3, amr-nb, amr-wb. In only: wav, ogg, wma, and many others...
More at:http://www.fullpix.tv/
FULLPIX is a powerful and easy-to-use software for enhancing mobile phone and internet videos.
Full Image, the only European company fully dedicated to professional film and video digital restoration, used all his know-how and his in-house research and development team to offer to web community the simple and necesseary FULLPIX freeware.
How It Works:
You can get a new unlock code from the contact page.
Input and output video formats supported: 3gp, 3g2, avi, flv, mov, mpeg1, mpeg2, mp4, asf. In only: wmv 1, wmv 2, wmv 3, and many others...
• Input and output audio formats supported: mp2, mp3, aac, ac3, amr-nb, amr-wb. In only: wav, ogg, wma, and many others...
More at:http://www.fullpix.tv/
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
iVerify is interactive video monitoring company, has raised $21 million in private funding
What Company Is Offering:
iVerify, one of the largest dedicated video monitoring centers in the country services national retailers, financial institutions, and public utilities. It operates its National Video Monitoring Center from Charlotte, North Carolina. They deliver verified business data to help companies increase revenue and profitability. Their unique, interactive solution integrates real-time audio, remote video and motion detection with web-based displays and reporting.
How It Works:
Their Video Monitoring Center (VMC) serves as your information hub and control center. There, specially trained operators monitor and verify on-site activities, and respond accordingly: collecting information, creating reports and taking action when necessary. Their unique system combines audio/video intelligence with human interaction to provide their customers an unprecedented level of control and verification.
How Much They Got From VCs:
The iVerify system can benefit every department within a company. Merchandising, operations, human resources, construction and senior management can put the system to work for their own needs by way of online reporting and live camera views. We work one-on-one with each customer to design a system that best achieves that business’ goals.
How Much They Got From VCs:
iVerify is interactive video monitoring company, has raised $21 million in private funding from RBC Century Bank and a "private equity sponsor." The company also announced the $8.5 million cash acquisition of Smart Interactive Systems Inc., the video monitoring business of Magal Security Systems (Nasdaq: MAGS).
More at:http://www.iverify.us/
iVerify, one of the largest dedicated video monitoring centers in the country services national retailers, financial institutions, and public utilities. It operates its National Video Monitoring Center from Charlotte, North Carolina. They deliver verified business data to help companies increase revenue and profitability. Their unique, interactive solution integrates real-time audio, remote video and motion detection with web-based displays and reporting.
How It Works:
Their Video Monitoring Center (VMC) serves as your information hub and control center. There, specially trained operators monitor and verify on-site activities, and respond accordingly: collecting information, creating reports and taking action when necessary. Their unique system combines audio/video intelligence with human interaction to provide their customers an unprecedented level of control and verification.
How Much They Got From VCs:
The iVerify system can benefit every department within a company. Merchandising, operations, human resources, construction and senior management can put the system to work for their own needs by way of online reporting and live camera views. We work one-on-one with each customer to design a system that best achieves that business’ goals.
How Much They Got From VCs:
iVerify is interactive video monitoring company, has raised $21 million in private funding from RBC Century Bank and a "private equity sponsor." The company also announced the $8.5 million cash acquisition of Smart Interactive Systems Inc., the video monitoring business of Magal Security Systems (Nasdaq: MAGS).
More at:http://www.iverify.us/
MyMapCards
Share your business cards, present your company, find new business contacts, and zoom in to find local contacts.
More at:http://www.mymapcards.com/
More at:http://www.mymapcards.com/
Morale-O-Meter
What Company Says:
This is just a silly site where you can keep track of your morale and display it on your websicle. It was created by Buster McLeod.
How It Works:
It will get you an email every morning reminding you to report your morale for the previous day. It will also tell you the day's average morale and who had the craziest day.
Unique Features:
1. Keep track of, and share, your morale, health, sleep, alcohol consumption, and caffeine consumption.
2. Compare your day with the days of others.
3. Customize a free graph of your morale trends to put on your own site.
4. Get (optional) daily email reminders about each day.
More at:http://morale.erikbenson.com/
This is just a silly site where you can keep track of your morale and display it on your websicle. It was created by Buster McLeod.
How It Works:
It will get you an email every morning reminding you to report your morale for the previous day. It will also tell you the day's average morale and who had the craziest day.
Unique Features:
1. Keep track of, and share, your morale, health, sleep, alcohol consumption, and caffeine consumption.
2. Compare your day with the days of others.
3. Customize a free graph of your morale trends to put on your own site.
4. Get (optional) daily email reminders about each day.
More at:http://morale.erikbenson.com/
alaTEST is a free and independent product quality comparison engine
What Company Is Offering:
alaTEST is a free and independent product quality comparison engine created for consumers who look for simple and objective product information.
alaTEST is a unique service helping consumers with their shopping decisions by objectively informing them about product quality. They are totally independent towards product manufacturers, retailers and review sources.
How It Works:
Today’s vast array of products can be overwhelming. Questions such as what product, what brand, what version and for what price are not longer easy to answer. Therefore, alaTEST wants to help by providing unbiased product quality information. They do not test any product themselves; instead, they have developed one of the fastest growing databases in the world with professional tests. This database is continuously updated with new tests and reviews that are matched with product specifications and prices provided by their network partners - all with the purpose of informing consumers un a simple, effective and objective way.
Unique Features:
alaSCORE is a complex algorithm that recollects different product quality ratings from reliable sources, standardizes them and develops them into the most unbiased result currently available in the market.
More at:http://alatest.com/
alaTEST is a free and independent product quality comparison engine created for consumers who look for simple and objective product information.
alaTEST is a unique service helping consumers with their shopping decisions by objectively informing them about product quality. They are totally independent towards product manufacturers, retailers and review sources.
How It Works:
Today’s vast array of products can be overwhelming. Questions such as what product, what brand, what version and for what price are not longer easy to answer. Therefore, alaTEST wants to help by providing unbiased product quality information. They do not test any product themselves; instead, they have developed one of the fastest growing databases in the world with professional tests. This database is continuously updated with new tests and reviews that are matched with product specifications and prices provided by their network partners - all with the purpose of informing consumers un a simple, effective and objective way.
Unique Features:
alaSCORE is a complex algorithm that recollects different product quality ratings from reliable sources, standardizes them and develops them into the most unbiased result currently available in the market.
More at:http://alatest.com/
SEONIK Is A Search Engine Friendly Link Generator
What Company Is Offering:
SEONIK is not tool that will make your URLs shorter.SEONIK is a search engine friendly link generator.SEONIK is a tool that helps you to convert dynamic URLs into SEO Frendly looking html URLs. SEONIK URLs automatically redirect to destinations that you choose. Also SEONIK has special algorithm that give you ability to know the best suitable keywords for your web page.
How It Works:
SEONIK will crawl the given URL, extract text as a search engine would and analyses the density of the keywords. As a result the 20 most common words and phrases in the webpage can be seen.The keywords have been generated based on the content of your web page. SEONIK defines the so called Keyword Density. Keyword Density is the percentage of occurrence of your keywords to the text in the rest of your webpage.
The keywords have been generated based on the content of your web page. SEONIK defines the so called Keyword Density. Keyword Density is the percentage of occurrence of your keywords to the text in the rest of your webpage.
Unique Features:
Its based on Static URLs.
1. Static URLs typically Rank better in Search Engines.
2. Search Engines are known to index the content of dynamic pages a lot slower compared to static pages.
3. Static URLs are always more friendlier looking to the End Users.
More at:http://seonik.com/
SEONIK is not tool that will make your URLs shorter.SEONIK is a search engine friendly link generator.SEONIK is a tool that helps you to convert dynamic URLs into SEO Frendly looking html URLs. SEONIK URLs automatically redirect to destinations that you choose. Also SEONIK has special algorithm that give you ability to know the best suitable keywords for your web page.
How It Works:
SEONIK will crawl the given URL, extract text as a search engine would and analyses the density of the keywords. As a result the 20 most common words and phrases in the webpage can be seen.The keywords have been generated based on the content of your web page. SEONIK defines the so called Keyword Density. Keyword Density is the percentage of occurrence of your keywords to the text in the rest of your webpage.
The keywords have been generated based on the content of your web page. SEONIK defines the so called Keyword Density. Keyword Density is the percentage of occurrence of your keywords to the text in the rest of your webpage.
Unique Features:
Its based on Static URLs.
1. Static URLs typically Rank better in Search Engines.
2. Search Engines are known to index the content of dynamic pages a lot slower compared to static pages.
3. Static URLs are always more friendlier looking to the End Users.
More at:http://seonik.com/
EmployeeSuggestionBox.com
What Company Says:
EmployeeSuggestionBox.com provides everyone in your organization—from your department managers, your salespeople to your warehouse staff— an on-demand platform to capture, develop and incorporate good ideas companywide.
How It Works:
The first step is to bring in promising ideas. Solicit and capture ideas from your employees. Inspire fresh and creative thinking where each individual can tap into his/her imagination.
Create, distribute and report on an online opinion poll straight from your desktop. Build consensus among co-workers and have the group vote on ideas to consider and tally the results to get a priority of feelings of the group.
The facilitator can open the idea campaign by posing a question or an existing submitted idea and then letting the group brainstorm the idea. This brainstorming session provides a method for your company to build upon ideas into full-blown concepts.
Employees excel when you present them with on-the-job challenges. Match the right people with the right projects and quickly turn ideas into a real product, service, or business model.
More at:https://www.employeesuggestionbox.com/
EmployeeSuggestionBox.com provides everyone in your organization—from your department managers, your salespeople to your warehouse staff— an on-demand platform to capture, develop and incorporate good ideas companywide.
How It Works:
The first step is to bring in promising ideas. Solicit and capture ideas from your employees. Inspire fresh and creative thinking where each individual can tap into his/her imagination.
Create, distribute and report on an online opinion poll straight from your desktop. Build consensus among co-workers and have the group vote on ideas to consider and tally the results to get a priority of feelings of the group.
The facilitator can open the idea campaign by posing a question or an existing submitted idea and then letting the group brainstorm the idea. This brainstorming session provides a method for your company to build upon ideas into full-blown concepts.
Employees excel when you present them with on-the-job challenges. Match the right people with the right projects and quickly turn ideas into a real product, service, or business model.
More at:https://www.employeesuggestionbox.com/
TimeBridge has created the first personal scheduling manager
What Company Is Offering:
TimeBridge has created the first personal scheduling manager to give busy professionals a faster, more efficient way to schedule meetings and manage their time. TimeBridge's one-step scheduling is the most efficient way to schedule meetings with large groups or individuals across time zones, calendaring systems and companies.
How It Works:
TimeBridge allows users to easily schedule meetings, share their availability with others, and connect directly with calendars including Outlook and Google Calendar.
While online calendars help users track their time, TimeBridge facilitates the social, and often complex process of getting busy people together— in person, on the phone or online.
More at:http://www.timebridge.com/
TimeBridge has created the first personal scheduling manager to give busy professionals a faster, more efficient way to schedule meetings and manage their time. TimeBridge's one-step scheduling is the most efficient way to schedule meetings with large groups or individuals across time zones, calendaring systems and companies.
How It Works:
TimeBridge allows users to easily schedule meetings, share their availability with others, and connect directly with calendars including Outlook and Google Calendar.
While online calendars help users track their time, TimeBridge facilitates the social, and often complex process of getting busy people together— in person, on the phone or online.
More at:http://www.timebridge.com/
SoonR--making computer files available and useful to people anytime, through any mobile phone or Internet connected device got $9.5 million
What Company Is Offering:
SoonR is a global innovator dedicated to making computer files available and useful to people anytime, through any mobile phone or Internet connected device.
How It Works:
The SoonR service continuously and securely backs up computer files and allows users to easily search for, view, forward and share documents from wherever they are, and on whatever connected device they prefer. The company provides carriers and other partners with a branded, premium service and a compelling revenue model. The service works across worldwide carrier networks and major handset operating systems.
Unique Features:
SoonR’s platform brings the computer desktop and mobile worlds together as never before. Through SoonR, users can easily access, back up and share files on their desktop computer while on the go, right from their mobile phone or Internet-enabled device -- and even when the computer is turned off.
How Much They Got From VCs:
SoonR announced that it has closed a strategic $9.5 million Series B investment led by Cisco, intended to help the company expand its mobile platform and advance its new partner-driven distribution strategy. Previous investors Intel Capital and Clearstone Venture Partners also participated in the round. Total investment in the two-year old company now stands at $15.5 million.
More at: www.soonr.com
SoonR is a global innovator dedicated to making computer files available and useful to people anytime, through any mobile phone or Internet connected device.
How It Works:
The SoonR service continuously and securely backs up computer files and allows users to easily search for, view, forward and share documents from wherever they are, and on whatever connected device they prefer. The company provides carriers and other partners with a branded, premium service and a compelling revenue model. The service works across worldwide carrier networks and major handset operating systems.
Unique Features:
SoonR’s platform brings the computer desktop and mobile worlds together as never before. Through SoonR, users can easily access, back up and share files on their desktop computer while on the go, right from their mobile phone or Internet-enabled device -- and even when the computer is turned off.
How Much They Got From VCs:
SoonR announced that it has closed a strategic $9.5 million Series B investment led by Cisco, intended to help the company expand its mobile platform and advance its new partner-driven distribution strategy. Previous investors Intel Capital and Clearstone Venture Partners also participated in the round. Total investment in the two-year old company now stands at $15.5 million.
More at: www.soonr.com
STEP Labs produces crystal-clear voice communications even in the noisiest environments received $6.5 million in Series B funding
What Company Is Offering:
STEP Labs is venture-backed, Silicon Valley-based acoustic software company whose technology produces crystal-clear voice communications even in the noisiest environments. Unlike traditional noise cancelation technologies, STEP's patented technology uses an understanding of the physics of sound wave propagation to isolate voice from ambient noise. This approach offers a broad applicability to a wide range of wireless telecommunications and consumer electronic devices. Working with leading global manufacturers, STEP Labs is designing some of the industry's most advanced hands-free products, including Bluetooth headsets, stereo headphones, helmets and eyewear.
How It Works:
STEP Labs develops and licenses advanced voice separation technology and acoustic design services to manufacturers. Bluetooth headsets enabled with STEPware allow clear, consistent voice communications in even the most severe, high-decibel noise environments - such as a rock concert or a tradeshow. STEPware-enabled devices also make human-to-machine communications clear and concise, enabling near-perfect speech recognition in any noise environment.
How Much They Got From VCs:
STEP Labs announced that it received $6.5 million in Series B funding, led by Gabriel Venture Partners and supported by Individuals' Venture Fund, Garage Technology Ventures, Garage Canada, and private investors.
STEP will use the new funds to expand its acoustic expertise to support its manufacturing partners worldwide in the design of new products and the acceleration of their market introduction.
What VCs Says About Company:
"STEP's patented acoustic technology is a giant leap forward in voice recognition," said Scott Chou, partner at Gabriel Venture Partners. "STEP surpasses any technology out there today in noise elimination at very high decibels, maintaining voice fidelity - which means when you talk on a STEP-enabled Bluetooth device, your voice is always clear and natural."
For more : www.step-labs.com
STEP Labs is venture-backed, Silicon Valley-based acoustic software company whose technology produces crystal-clear voice communications even in the noisiest environments. Unlike traditional noise cancelation technologies, STEP's patented technology uses an understanding of the physics of sound wave propagation to isolate voice from ambient noise. This approach offers a broad applicability to a wide range of wireless telecommunications and consumer electronic devices. Working with leading global manufacturers, STEP Labs is designing some of the industry's most advanced hands-free products, including Bluetooth headsets, stereo headphones, helmets and eyewear.
How It Works:
STEP Labs develops and licenses advanced voice separation technology and acoustic design services to manufacturers. Bluetooth headsets enabled with STEPware allow clear, consistent voice communications in even the most severe, high-decibel noise environments - such as a rock concert or a tradeshow. STEPware-enabled devices also make human-to-machine communications clear and concise, enabling near-perfect speech recognition in any noise environment.
How Much They Got From VCs:
STEP Labs announced that it received $6.5 million in Series B funding, led by Gabriel Venture Partners and supported by Individuals' Venture Fund, Garage Technology Ventures, Garage Canada, and private investors.
STEP will use the new funds to expand its acoustic expertise to support its manufacturing partners worldwide in the design of new products and the acceleration of their market introduction.
What VCs Says About Company:
"STEP's patented acoustic technology is a giant leap forward in voice recognition," said Scott Chou, partner at Gabriel Venture Partners. "STEP surpasses any technology out there today in noise elimination at very high decibels, maintaining voice fidelity - which means when you talk on a STEP-enabled Bluetooth device, your voice is always clear and natural."
For more : www.step-labs.com
Fancast--For Online Tv Viewing
What Company Is offering:
Fancast have created one all-inclusive escape that combines everything you want to know about TV, movies, and celebrities. More than just the latest entertainment buzz, Fancast is also your number one place to find what to watch, where to watch it, and when it's available.
How It Works:
With Fancast, you can watch the hits CSI: Miami, 30 Rock, How I Met Your Mother, and plenty of other full-length TV series. You can also check out the latest movie trailers, clips, photos, news and reviews. And you can search for any movie and TV-related info you absolutely need at that moment.Fancast is your destination devoted to TV, movies and celebrities.
To browse the site, click one of the links on the site's main navigation bar to find content. Click Sign In so you can save content to Your Fancast Favorites and personalize your experience.
You can watch video on Fancast anytime without a subscription. In fact, they've created a special place where you can watch and search for movie, TV and other entertainment video. Their editors will let you know what's hot this week. Use the following pointers to get started.
More at:http://www.fancast.com/
Fancast have created one all-inclusive escape that combines everything you want to know about TV, movies, and celebrities. More than just the latest entertainment buzz, Fancast is also your number one place to find what to watch, where to watch it, and when it's available.
How It Works:
With Fancast, you can watch the hits CSI: Miami, 30 Rock, How I Met Your Mother, and plenty of other full-length TV series. You can also check out the latest movie trailers, clips, photos, news and reviews. And you can search for any movie and TV-related info you absolutely need at that moment.Fancast is your destination devoted to TV, movies and celebrities.
To browse the site, click one of the links on the site's main navigation bar to find content. Click Sign In so you can save content to Your Fancast Favorites and personalize your experience.
You can watch video on Fancast anytime without a subscription. In fact, they've created a special place where you can watch and search for movie, TV and other entertainment video. Their editors will let you know what's hot this week. Use the following pointers to get started.
More at:http://www.fancast.com/
Earth Class Mail --Your Postal Mail Online Got funding of $13.3 million
What Company Is Offering:
Earth Class Mail is changing how postal mail is delivered, for the betterment of individuals, businesses, national post offices, and most importantly – the planet. Instead of making physical postal deliveries which are so dependent on fuel for planes and trucks, they deliver postal mail online - where people can deal with it instantly, anywhere in the world.
How It Works:
No matter where their customers are, they simply log-in to view pictures of their mail and decide what they want to do with each piece. For example, they can choose which pieces to have opened and scanned so they can read them online, and which to recycle, archive, or have sent to them in “snail mail” form wherever they are located – all with the click of a mouse.
For businesses, Earth Class Mail not only delivers employee mail regardless of where each employee happens to be, but they also handle standardized process mail such as claim forms, invoices, legal documents, mortgages, applications, tax documents and checks more efficiently and cost-effectively than ordinary document management and storage solutions.
By offering national posts the ability to deliver mail online, Earth Class Mail can move posts from their current energy-wasting physical-delivery model to clean electronic delivery for a significant portion of the mail they currently handle. Their patent-pending MegaSorter automated storage and retrieval system is a transformative technology capable of sorting mail faster and at a fraction of the cost of existing sorter technologies.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Earth Class Mail, which allows people to view their postal mail online, has closed its first round of funding at $13.3 million.
More at:http://www.earthclassmail.com/
Earth Class Mail is changing how postal mail is delivered, for the betterment of individuals, businesses, national post offices, and most importantly – the planet. Instead of making physical postal deliveries which are so dependent on fuel for planes and trucks, they deliver postal mail online - where people can deal with it instantly, anywhere in the world.
How It Works:
No matter where their customers are, they simply log-in to view pictures of their mail and decide what they want to do with each piece. For example, they can choose which pieces to have opened and scanned so they can read them online, and which to recycle, archive, or have sent to them in “snail mail” form wherever they are located – all with the click of a mouse.
For businesses, Earth Class Mail not only delivers employee mail regardless of where each employee happens to be, but they also handle standardized process mail such as claim forms, invoices, legal documents, mortgages, applications, tax documents and checks more efficiently and cost-effectively than ordinary document management and storage solutions.
By offering national posts the ability to deliver mail online, Earth Class Mail can move posts from their current energy-wasting physical-delivery model to clean electronic delivery for a significant portion of the mail they currently handle. Their patent-pending MegaSorter automated storage and retrieval system is a transformative technology capable of sorting mail faster and at a fraction of the cost of existing sorter technologies.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Earth Class Mail, which allows people to view their postal mail online, has closed its first round of funding at $13.3 million.
More at:http://www.earthclassmail.com/
PageOnce is the first Personal Internet Assistant web site,got $1.5 million round led by Valley entrepreneurs
What Company Is Offering:
PageOnce is the first Personal Internet Assistant web site.
They are an innovative Internet company located in the heart of the Silicon Valley in California.PageOnce adheres to the highest standards in security in order to keep your data private and secure. They work to bring you a great service, with the peace of mind that your information will be protected.
PageOnce is currently in an invitation only beta and is expecting to open its site soon.
How It Works:
They recognize that security is an important issue for you.
They never require information that connects you to your accounts. All PageOnce needs is your e-mail. You can be as anonymous as you want.
Unique Features:
1.All your data is encrypted with a 256-bit encryption level.
2.All personal data exchanged with PageOnce.com is encrypted with 128-bit (the highest industry standard) Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) system, the highest industry standard, to create a protected connection between users and PageOnce.com's server.
3.All your profile data is safely secured on our database behind multiple firewalls that prohibit unauthorized access.
How Much They Got From VCs:
It has announced the closing of a $1.5 million round led by Valley entrepreneurs Liron Petrushka and Bobby Lent.
Who Is Backing Them:
1.Guy Goldstein – Co-Founder and CEO
Guy brings over 16 years of experience in all aspects of technology, product development, management and strategy. Prior to PageOnce, Guy served in an executive position of Corporate Development at HP software, responsible for mergers, acquisitions and strategy. Before that, Guy spent 9 years in various R&D executive roles at Mercury Interactive. Guy holds a bachelor's degree in Business and computer science, cum laude, from the Tel-Aviv University. Guy served in the Israeli Air Force as a major and fighter pilot.
2.Ahikam Kaufman – Co-Founder ChiefOperation Officer
Ahikam brings over 16 years of experience in corporate finance and business operations, including sales operations, business analysis, M&A, financial reporting and financial systems. Prior to PageOnce, Ahikam served in an executive role in the sales operations organization in HP software. Before that, Ahikam spent 6 years in various leadership positions in the Finance organization at Mercury Interactive. Prior to that, Ahikam served as the CFO of Conduct Software, a venture-backed start-up acquired by Mercury in 1999. Ahikam holds a bachelor degree in Economics and an LL.M. in Law from the Bar-Ilan University, Ahikam is also a certified public accountant.
http://www.pageonce.com/How_we_keep_you_safe.html
PageOnce is the first Personal Internet Assistant web site.
They are an innovative Internet company located in the heart of the Silicon Valley in California.PageOnce adheres to the highest standards in security in order to keep your data private and secure. They work to bring you a great service, with the peace of mind that your information will be protected.
PageOnce is currently in an invitation only beta and is expecting to open its site soon.
How It Works:
They recognize that security is an important issue for you.
They never require information that connects you to your accounts. All PageOnce needs is your e-mail. You can be as anonymous as you want.
Unique Features:
1.All your data is encrypted with a 256-bit encryption level.
2.All personal data exchanged with PageOnce.com is encrypted with 128-bit (the highest industry standard) Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) system, the highest industry standard, to create a protected connection between users and PageOnce.com's server.
3.All your profile data is safely secured on our database behind multiple firewalls that prohibit unauthorized access.
How Much They Got From VCs:
It has announced the closing of a $1.5 million round led by Valley entrepreneurs Liron Petrushka and Bobby Lent.
Who Is Backing Them:
1.Guy Goldstein – Co-Founder and CEO
Guy brings over 16 years of experience in all aspects of technology, product development, management and strategy. Prior to PageOnce, Guy served in an executive position of Corporate Development at HP software, responsible for mergers, acquisitions and strategy. Before that, Guy spent 9 years in various R&D executive roles at Mercury Interactive. Guy holds a bachelor's degree in Business and computer science, cum laude, from the Tel-Aviv University. Guy served in the Israeli Air Force as a major and fighter pilot.
2.Ahikam Kaufman – Co-Founder ChiefOperation Officer
Ahikam brings over 16 years of experience in corporate finance and business operations, including sales operations, business analysis, M&A, financial reporting and financial systems. Prior to PageOnce, Ahikam served in an executive role in the sales operations organization in HP software. Before that, Ahikam spent 6 years in various leadership positions in the Finance organization at Mercury Interactive. Prior to that, Ahikam served as the CFO of Conduct Software, a venture-backed start-up acquired by Mercury in 1999. Ahikam holds a bachelor degree in Economics and an LL.M. in Law from the Bar-Ilan University, Ahikam is also a certified public accountant.
http://www.pageonce.com/How_we_keep_you_safe.html
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