Friday, January 25, 2008

Zuora is a Benchmark funded start-up has raised $6.5 million in Series A funding

About Company:
Zuora, Inc is a Benchmark funded start-up based in Redwood Shores, CA led by veterans from WebEx, Salesforce.com, Accenture, DiCarta, Postini and Oracle.

How Much They Got From VCs:
Zuora Inc., a Calif.-based software-as-a-service startup, has raised $6.5 million in Series A funding. Benchmark Capital led the deal, with Benchmark partner Peter Fenton taking a board seat.

About VCs:
They invest in technology-driven companies that seek to create new markets with significant growth potential. They focus on early-stage investing and take a labor-intensive, service-oriented approach in markets where we have direct experience. These include enterprise software and services, communications & security, semiconductors, mobile computing, consumer services and financial services.

And, to ensure that each portfolio company gets the support it needs to succeed, we actively limit the number of companies we invest in. This gives us an unusually high partner-to-company ratio and guarantees that our portfolio companies get the attention they deserve.

Their investments range in size from as little as $100,000 to as much as $10 or $15 million. Typically, they invest $3 to $5 million initially and expect to invest $5 to $15 million over the life of a company. They invest for the long haul, not 'quick flips,' and look for entrepreneurs with a similar perspective.
http://www.benchmark.com/

Company Details:
Zuora, Inc
1400 Bridge Pkwy, Suite 201
Redwood City, CA 94065
Maps & driving directions

Tel: 650-641-3777
Fax: 650-376-1317
Email: info@zuora.com
Careers: careers@zuora.com

tvduck.com is a site where you can simply browse and watch all of your favourite T.V shows online

What Company Is Offering:
tvduck.com is a site where you can simply browse and watch all of your favourite T.V shows online.

How It Works:
If you know the name of an episode, simply type it in the search box. You may also search for it through our T.V show genres and/or through our T.V show list. Once you have found the show you are interested in, click on the link next to your show and you will be automatically directed to the streaming video.

To add a video search for the episode you wish to add and then click on the add link next to the episode name. You will be automatically directed to a page where you will be able to add the URL of the link. Once you have done that, you will have to wait for the site team to approve the link.

More at:http://www.tvduck.com/

CivilAnswers----For Answering Your Legal Questions

What Company Is Offering:
The main goals of CivilAnswers is to provide their client's with a general overview, guidelines, tips, opinions, and information on what other individuals have experienced. Promote Your Firm or Business.Assist Individuals Statewide. Gain Exposure. Post Your Article


How It Works:
Asking a question is Simple. Type in your Question, select the best legal Category and insert your Email address. And You’re Done!

Your question will circulate among registered network of professional experts that are handpicked by CivilAnswers to assist their clients with their questions. If the expert is an attorney, you will receive general information regarding the attorney and their background. Experts that are not attorneys, will provide you general guidlines and opinions regarding your question.

More at:http://www.civilanswers.com/

DealShouter.com

What Company Is Offering:
DealShouter.com, is a web service that allows users to submit deals, bargains, coupon codes, rebate offers or other special offers that may result in savings. The deals are sorted by popularity based on the votes that their users submit.

How It Works:

The "Latest Deals" page display the deals that have been last submitted by their users and have not been yet classified as "Popular". You can vote for deals to increase their popularity.
Find the best online deals, bargains, coupons, rebate offers, special discounts and freebies at DealShouter.com.
Computer and laptop deals, consumer electronics deals, clothing and apparel, service subscriptions and more.

More at:http://www.dealshouter.com/

QQ Games incorporates AIM Chat

What Company Is Offering:
Tencent seeks to provide cutting-edge Internet services to users around the world, and they believe that the Internet is about entertainment, leisure, community. They want QQ Games to be a place where users can go and safely build relationships through gaming. They strive to create an online experience so deep, that you feel like you are in the same room with someone else, having a great time, even though you may be thousands of miles apart.

Theye're launching the QQ Games service via a special relationship with AOL's AIM® Serviceservice, the #1 IM service in the U.S. They believe that AIM service with QQ Games will be a great combination for the U.S. market. For AIM users, they want to ensure that the are the best massive multiplayer casual gaming experience in the market..

How It Works:

QQ Games incorporates AIM Chat so if you are uncomfortable allowing AIM you can mange who can contact you with IM’s in your "Settings" menu in AIM under "Privacy".
The QQ Games Plugin and ALL QQ Games are FREE! There are no added costs.QQ Games will not sell or transfer your information to 3rd parties without your permission. QQ Games uses your AIM Login information (Screen Name and Password) to login to QQ Games. QQ Games does NOT save this information.
More at:http://www.qqgames.com/

EVO Landing has announced its domain development platform, which aims to create value and traffic for your domain while making you money

What Company Is Offering:
EVO Landing has announced the release of its domain development platform, which aims to create value and traffic for your domain while making you money.

EVO Landing is a next-generation domain monetization platform built around its ability to instantly generate topic-relevant, media-rich websites.EVO Landing is updated dynamically, daily, and automatically with relevant, rich-media (articles, listings, products, photos, videos, downloads).
Domain names can now be truly regarded as online investments as they enjoy the added monetary benefits of multiple ad-network integration, multiple affiliate program integration, and exclusive partnerships.

How Much They Got From VCs:
The Company received initial funding from Seattle angel investors in November 2007 and then closed its Series A round in December 2007 with Monster Venture Partners .

About VCs:

Monster Venture Partners (‘MVP’) is a new breed of early-stage venture capital firm based in Seattle. MVP’s investment philosophy is to engage in a genuine hands-on partnership with founders to jointly create value for all stakeholders. For larger opportunities, MVP co-invests with leading investors from around the world, selecting from a universe of like-minded investors who are able to add strategic value. MVP is focused on three primary verticals: marketing technology, consumer healthcare, and global consumer Internet.

More at:www.evolanding.com

FlipFact is place for people to share facts

What Company Is Offering:

FlipFact is place for people to share facts they may or may not believe. You are encouraged to participate by voting on the factuality of statements, adding comments, and posting your own statements of fact.

How It Works:

You post new statements of fact for the community to see. You can also attach an image and write up additional details about the fact. Other registered users can vote on the truthfulness of your statement. In addition, anonymous visitors can also vote once.As a sufficient number of votes are collected, your statement becomes classified as fact or fiction. Some statements may remain mysteries because the votes are split. You can post comments and discuss the facts.

You can post all kinds of facts. You could post conspiracy theories. You might want to promote your own web site. You could say something controversial. You can post cultural myths.

You don't even have to believe what you're saying. The best facts are the ones that are uncertain — the ones that people need to think about.

Just remember to phrase them in the affirmative.

More at:http://flipfact.com/

Adchemy Is next-generation online customer acquisition technology company chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the OnMedia 100 Winners

Adchemy, Inc., a next-generation online customer acquisition technology company, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the OnMedia 100 Winners. Inclusion in the OnMedia 100 signifies major developments in the creation of marketing tools, services, venues, and advertising, branding, and public relation campaigns. Adchemy was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and other industry experts spanning the globe, based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.

Adchemy and the OnMedia 100 Top Private Companies will be honored at the OnMedia conference scheduled to occur on January 28-30, 2008 at The Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York City. This two-and-a-half day executive event will feature technology CEO's from Silicon Valley leading presentations and high-level debates with the global advertising and media establishment, about disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities in the marketing, branding, advertising, and public relations industries.

Fifty of the top CEO's from the OnMedia 100 will present their market strategies to a panel of industry experts in a "CEO Showcase."

"The OnMedia 100 winners have excelled in key strategic areas in the advertising, marketing, public relations, and promotion industry," said Tony Perkins, founder and CEO of AlwaysOn. "We congratulate them for their success in introducing new tools, services, and venues for marketers to have at their fingertips and for use to take their business to the next level in innovation."

The OnMedia 100 was selected from over hundreds of companies, nominated by a panel of industry experts in the online ad service, technology, community platform, mobile advertising, marketing, and Web analytic sectors from around the world.
A full list of all the OnMedia 100 winners can be found on the AlwaysOn Web site at www.alwayson.goingon.com.

outquib is the world's source of opinions

What Company is Offering:
outquib is the world's source of opinions. Discuss what you are passionate about. Show the world what you think!

Whether you are a computer geek who cannot decide what operating system is best or a college student still deciding who to vote for, outquib is a better way to inform yourself.
How It Works:
The content on the site is made up almost entirely of users’ posted opinions. These can display in some areas on an individual basis, meaning a module showing the top opinion posts can each be on a variety of topics, and will be displayed without the context of their larger discussions. You can see the main topic for this opinion post, as well as the user that created it. There’s an option, in this case, to continue on to the larger discussion page that’s been created.

Each debate has an overview, displaying how most people feel one way or another, and a list of the influential posts. These are the posts that have been rated by users in a positive manner, meaning they’ve gained the most support and have now become influential.

More at:http://www.outquib.com/
Via-Mashable

TrustedWord--- Product Recommendations

What Company Is Offering:
TrustedWord is a community powered site that allows you to voice your opinion of the services you like or dislike in your community. Their goal is to be the most efficient way for you to share your rolodex and to quickly gain access to your friends recommendations.

How It Works:

When you invite a friend you get access to their recommendations and also to the recommendations of their friends. This gives you the ability to sort your results based on your most trusted social circles. You can easily refine these results to only those friends you trust the most. TrustedWord allows you to quickly search your friends and neighbors recommendations. Its like having instant access to a giant rolodex. No longer do you have to blindly choose a provider and hope that it works out.
More at:http://www.trustedword.com/

MonkeySee--Share your skills and knowledge on video

What Company Is Offering:
MonkeySee is a new destination website where accomplished experts from all walks of life share their skills and knowledge on video. MonkeySee provides free access to a wide range of how-to videos across multiple content categories.

How it Works:
An Expert is someone who has uploaded a how-to video through our "Upload a Video" function. It's easy to become a MonkeySee Expert. All you need to do is create a video that meets our Expert Video Guidelines, then upload it. Expert videos can be made by anyone with a video camcorder and some basic video skills, and you can create and upload as many videos as you like. You will also have your own channel page where you can showcase your videos and actively promote your business or hobby.
Anyone who submits a video is automatically a MonkeySee Expert.
There is also a process for someone to become a MonkeySee Featured Expert.MonkeySee Featured Experts occupy a premium position on the site in return for adhering to our Video Production Standards for Featured Expert Videos . Because most experts won't have the equipment and skills to meet these standards, these videos are usually created with the assistance of a professional filmmaker. MonkeySee provides free access to videos for all visitors, but registration provides visitors with enhanced site functionality.

More at:http://www.monkeysee.com/

Ponoko --- Trade your product ideas

What Company is Offering:
Ponoko is the world's first personal manufacturing platform. It's the online space for a community of creators and consumers to use a global network of digital manufacturing hardware to co-create, make and trade individualized product ideas on demand.

How It Works:

The ponoko.com marketplace connects creators, consumers, digital manufacturing hardware and service providers to promote, make and trade products on Ponoko and social networking websites. Ponoko makes the parts of an existing jigsaw fit together. It makes it easier and cheaper for designers to bring their ideas to market and makes it easier and cheaper for consumers to buy products that aren't mass produced. Products can be made anywhere in the world. Because they can be made close to where a buyer lives, they don't have to be shipped over great distances or stored in bulk in warehouses. This keeps costs down and is kinder on the environment. Digital manufacturers get access to pre-paid customers. Our online system makes it easy and straightforward for them to quote jobs, communicate with customers, receive design files and order materials.

More at:http://www.ponoko.com/

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Inform Technologies is a new technology solution for established media brands that automatically searches, organizes and links content got $15 milli

What Company Is Offering:
Inform Technologies is a new technology solution for established media brands that automatically searches, organizes and links content to provide a rich, compelling experience that attracts and retains readers. The technology relies upon artificial intelligence tools, natural language processing, identification of topics, and the continual scanning and processing of content as it is published anywhere on the Internet.

How It Works:
Inform uses artificial intelligence and proprietary rules and algorithms to scan millions of pages of text and read the way a journalist does – identifying key “entities,” such as people, places, companies and products, and recognizing how they connect, even in subtle and context-specific ways. The software continually teaches itself – in real time – how information is related and automatically updates links and topics as the context changes.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Inform Technologies, a technology solution for established media brands, has received a $15 million investment from Spark Capital, a Boston-based venture fund focused on the intersection of the media, entertainment and technology industries. Inform will use the funds to help implement its strategy for accelerated growth.

About VCs:

Spark Capital is a venture capital fund focused on building businesses that transform the distribution, management and monetization of media and content, with experience in identifying and actively building market-leading companies in sectors including infrastructure (Qtera, RiverDelta, Aether Systems, Broadbus and BigBand), networks (College Sports Television, TVONE and XCOM) and services (Akamai and the Platform). Spark Capital has over $600 million under management, and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. Spark has committed to investing $20 million in CNET equity.

More at:http://www.inform.com/

PrivacyMatters.com is a leading online destination for credit management and identity theft protection services

What Company Is Offering:
PrivacyMatters.com is a leading online destination for credit management and identity theft protection services. It educates consumers on the truths of identity theft and credit management by providing visitors and members with the latest news on identity theft and credit management, access to educational articles, and Privacy Matters 1-2-3 and Privacy Matters Identity. These programs include unlimited access to 3-in-1 credit reports and scores, daily Triple Bureau credit monitoring, identity theft monitoring services and more.

Features:

PrivacyMatters.com offers consumers :

To Manage Your Life
• Free Debt Analysis plus Credit Score and a triple-bureau Credit Report. Three tools that can help analyze one’s debt..
• Detailed Property Report. Helps get the facts needed before buying. It includes value, owner info, sales history and more.

To Protect Your Family
• Background Checks. Get information to help you make an informed decision. Criminal records, aliases and more are included in a background check.
• Criminal Checks. Wondering if nannies, repairmen and other hires coming in contact with your family have criminal records? A criminal check can be obtained.

To Find Information Fast
• People Search. To reconnect, reunite and reignite, PrivacyMatters.com helps consumers get back in touch with long-lost friends and loved ones.
• Reverse Phone Lookup. Don’t know who called? Get the 411 on unknown numbers and always know who’s called with this solution.

In addition to these new services PrivacyMatters.com will continue to provide consumers with single credit reports and scores, 3-in-1 credit reports and credit scores, and credit monitoring services as well as the Identity Theft Report and Identity Theft Restoration services.
More at:www.privacymatters.com

WeListAmerica.com ---Real Estate Search Engine For America

What Company Is Offering:
WeListAmerica.com is a user-friendly website advanced enough for the experienced professional and the everyday user. Private Sellers and Real Estate Professionals now have the ability to match buyers and sellers by marketing Residential Properties, Commercial Properties and Land to the entire country in one “easy to navigate” website.

Created by the experienced Real Estate Professional, knowing the needs and challenges of today’s market, WeListAmerica.com will fulfill the need for a Nationwide Real Estate Tool, making it “America’s Real Estate Search Engine.”

How It Works:

The easiest way to find a listing is to use the search feature available on this site. Go to the home page and click on the type of property you would like to search for, a drop down window will appear, click on "Buy" and you will be directed to our search page. On the search page you will see a list of categories which you can browse to find the listings you are interested in. You can also use our advanced search by clicking on the “Advanced Search” link in the Buyer Options section on the left hand site of the page.

More at:http://www.welistamericahomes.com/

Mosio is a mobile question and answer community enabling you to text any question from your phone and have it answered by real people

What Compnay Is About:

Mosio is a play on the word "Mociology", a mash up of "mobile" and "sociology", which is defined as "the study of human behaviour in a mobile world and the study of mobile device/phone lifestyles.

How It Works:

Mosio is a mobile question and answer community enabling you to text any question from your phone and have it answered by real people. Harnessing the power of helpful people, mobile technologies and the internet, Mosio gives users access to information anywhere.

More at:http://www.mosio.com/

RedHotFranchises.com is a franchise and business opportunity marketplace for prospective entrepreneurs

What Company Is Offering:
RedHotFranchises.com is a franchise and business opportunity marketplace where prospective entrepreneurs can get the latest information about hundreds of the most popular and profitable business opportunities for free. Prospective business owners can get info on franchise fees, start-up costs, royalties, and even earnings claims. Visitors to the site can search by industry or investment level. The site hosts a dynamic franchise articles section, a franchise news section and even a franchise contest.

Recent Updates:

RedHotFranchises.com announced the addition of BounceU as preferred advertiser on its franchise website portal. BounceU will be included as a Sizzling Franchises advertiser and will also be featured as an Article Sponsor in RedHotFranchises.com’s franchise Article section.

About BounceU – It is an indoor, climate-controlled stadium filled with giant inflatable play structures, accompanied by additional play equipment and video arcade games. In addition to hosting birthday parties and other special occasions, BounceU stadiums also offer “open bounce” sessions to provide franchise owners with an additional revenue stream.
The cost to parents to hold an event at BounceU is substantially the same as if they had the event at their own home. Once parents add up the costs to host the event at home and compare it to what it would cost to have the event at BounceU, they quickly see the unbeatable value and service that BounceU provides. If that’s not enough, they just have to envision the look on their child’s face at the end of the perfect party – at BounceU we truly do create happy memories for kids and parents!.

More at:http://www.redhotfranchises.com/

Tactile CRM is an easy to use web based CRM, contact and sales management system

What Company Is Offering:

Tactile CRM is an easy to use web based CRM, contact and sales management system designed for small businesses.Tactile is easy to use and setup - 45 seconds is all it takes to get up and running on free version - unlike other ‘CRM’ systems they don’t hold back features on free versions - you can evaluate all the functionality at your leisure.



How It Works:
In Tactile, you can set permissions on Clients and Leads giving access (separately) to 'Read' and 'Edit' the record.

By default, records you create will be Readable and Editable by Everyone - this means that all users with access to the account.


You can change this to 'Just Me' if you want to restrict either Read or Edit rights to only yourself, or you can choose a combination of users and/or 'Roles' (groups of users) - by holding 'Ctrl' (or the "Apple"/Cmd key) while clicking you can select more than one user/role in the list.

Giving access to 'Edit' a record will automatically allow the users to see the record, and the owner of the record is always able to see and edit it - even if they set access that would prevent this.

People who are part of a company will have the same permissions as the company. For 'individuals' (those not attached to a company) you can decide whether or not they should be 'Private'. Setting this means only you, the owner of the record, can see or edit the record.
More at:http://www.tactilecrm.com/

Chickipedia is the world’s largest web-based, women-based, wiki-based database of hot chicks on the planet

What Company Is Offering:
Chickipedia is the world’s largest web-based, women-based, wiki-based database of hot chicks on the planet. It is entirely user generated, making it the first female-only encyclopedia of the people, by the people, and for the people.

How It Works:

All you have to do is have access to the internet, log on, go to our “Add New Chick” link, and voila—you can create a new article, or revise an existing one. Just be sure to do so within our guidelines or risk being spanked. Hard.


Chickipedia is not your grandpa’s encyclopedia. First of all, anyone can contribute. Second, the older the profile the more well researched and accurate it is. Newer profiles tend to include falsehoods, half truths, or people just being stupid, because they haven’t been up long enough for editors to police them or to build a consensus. Third, Chickipedia is not written in stone. It can change at any second with continual updates. In fact, as we wrote that Angelina Jolie’s birthplace changed.

Their editors will be there to monitor, advise, and correct mistakes. Just don’t purposefully mess around with the site. You know the drill: If you vandalize, you will be penalized. In other words, you will be bounced off the site. Hard.

More at:http://www.chickipedia.com/

TurnHere--Internet video solutions provider

What Company is Offering:
TurnHere, Inc. is a full-service Internet video solutions provider to the
media, publishing, travel, local and real estate industries. They provide
video strategy development services, produce high quality low-cost Internet videos and develop and execute plans to deliver those videos across the Internet to the right audience.  

Their business strategy group includes a talented team of video and media professionals with creative, production and video monetization experience. We advise companies on ways to build traffic, enhance brands, engage consumers and increase sales with video.  

The company leverages its growing network of more than 3,200 professional filmmakers across more than 50 countries to create affordable Internet videos that deliver emotionally engaging and authentic content to the right audiences. With deep backgrounds in media and video production, TurnHere works with customers on creative treatments to help produce effective venues for building online traffic.

Recent Updates:

TurnHere Announces Agreement to Provide YELLOWPAGES.COM with Custom-Produced Online Video for its Local Business Advertisers.

More at:http://turnhere.com/

My WeShow enables anyone to create their own compelling video portals on any subject and customize them with fresh video content

What Company Is Offering:
My WeShow enables anyone to create their own compelling video portals on any subject and customize them with fresh video content, discussions, sharp design, and interactive tools. My WeShow provides its users with templates and tools needed to find, publish, manage, and track their video content so that it can be viewed and discussed across the social network.

My WeShow provides two different approaches to simultaneously browsing and finding videos, a focused search of the previously selected quality videos WeShow editors have labeled and organized in seven languages and an extensive search of video content from more than 100 video sites including YouTube, Metacafe, Google Video, Spike, Vimeo, Break.com and Dailymotion.

Recent Updates:

WeShow (www.weshow.com), the human-powered guide to the online video universe, launched My WeShow, powerful video focused social network that enhances Internet users' online video experience. My WeShow combines the best of video entertainment with social interaction on the web, enabling users to find video, create personalized video communities, share opinions and content while also potentially making money. My WeShow gives users the power to easily become an editor and aggregator of their own video portal, not only finding videos from more than 100 video sites, but immediately adding them to their own My WeShow portal under new titles and descriptions that they have written themselves.
In launching My WeShow, WeShow is leading the industry by fully combining video content and social networking into an entertainment guide that provides a personalized view of the top quality videos from around the world.

More at:http://www.weshow.com/my

Hictu is a video microblogging service with the integration of Jajah letting you publish audio messages online

What Company is Offering:
Hictu is a video microblogging service. Users can create their own microblog with small posts (with text, audio and video), personalize their public profiles, manage a presence-enabled friend list, meet new friends. It's easy to use, funny, effective and free.

How It Works:

Hictu is very simple to use: just provide a valid email address, choose a nickname and a password and you are in. After logging in, you can start creating your posts and inserting your personal profile information. For videoposts all you need is a webcam: click on the "Record" button and enjoy! You can also add friends to your Hictu friend list by importing your email address book, and invite them to join Hictu with a click on the Invite button.

Recent Updates:

Hictu has integration with the of Jajah into its video micro-blogging platform, letting you publish audio messages online, using Jajah’s service. These audio messages can be recorded directly within Hictu.

More at:http://hictu.com/

Roxer is an easy-to-use, free online tool that lets anyone create stunning web pages without programming

What Company is Offering:
Roxer is an easy-to-use, free online tool that lets anyone create stunning web pages without programming.

How It Works:

Roxer takes a new approach to making web pages, based on the idea that you should never have to bother with code. With Roxer anyone can make visually stunning and fully functional web pages online using only a web browser. Editing is even easier. To rearrange your content, just click and drag items where you want them. To change your text, just click and type. To move content from one page to another, just copy and paste. Best of all, you will be doing these things to your web page from your web page. It's that easy!


How Is It Different?
Roxer is different from other products in a few ways. First, they've taken a new web design approach which is visual and completely code free. Secondly they've packaged everything that people use to make web pages into little things called "Boxes" which are completely portable. This means that you can not only move them around on a web page, but also visually copy & paste them from one web page to another.

More at:http://www.roxer.com/

Greenopolis is the only site where you can practice the Spirit of Greener Living and visually measure your individual progress

What Company Is Offering:
Greenopolis is the only site where you can practice the Spirit of Greener Living and visually measure your individual progress. They’re planning all sorts of online and offline activities and resources to reinforce individual greener behavior for the greater green.

How It Works:

As a Greenopolis resident you’ll be able to measure your steps toward a greener lifestyle in a number of unique and cumulative ways.

First, get your Badge! By completing our short Beta survey, you’ll discover a starting point from which you can measure your progress. Each member can display their green badge and watch as their badge progresses from orange to green in color reflecting the amount of activities performed within the Greenopolis community.

To take the How Green Are You survey, register or login to Greenopolis and go to your Myopolis profile page. Under your profile image will be your Badge or a link to complete the survey to receive your How Green Are You badge.


By early 2008, you’ll be able to share your dynamic badge on other Blogs and on other social networks to let the world know you’re getting greener every day.

Boost Your Quality Rating. Each time your contributions are rated well, or you receive kudos from other Greenopolis Residents for your posts, you achieve a higher Quality Score. This score is used by Greenopolis to award those Residents who are contributing helpful and positive content. Become a Greenopolis Guru and mentor others with their efforts.

Earn those points! Don’t forget that Greenopolis is the only site that will provide tangible rewards for activities on the sites and even offline actions that support individual greener behavior for the greater green.

More at:http://greenopolis.com/

TrackMyShipments --Tracks the shipment using data gathered from the shipping company’s systems and updates you via the website, email and SMS text mes

What Company Is Offering:

The TrackMyShipments system constantly tracks the shipment using data gathered from the shipping company’s systems and updates you via the website, email and SMS text message alerts.

How It Works:

When you order online, your supplier will send you a ‘Your Order Has Shipped’ email when it ships your order. Once you have an account on TrackMyShipments.com you simply forward that ‘Your Order Has Shipped’ email to track@trackmyshipments.com.

The TrackMyShipments system will then examine your email and extract the company (eg ‘Amazon’), the shipper (eg ‘Fedex’), and the tracking number. The email can be in any format and any layout and the TrackMyShipments will cope without problems.

You can view the status of all your shipments at any time by logging onto TrackMyShipments.com.

It’s easy to use and much more straightforward than the alternative of having to find the original ‘Your Order Has Shipped’ email and then having to Cut&Paste the Tracking Number into the shipping company’s website.

More at:http://www.trackmyshipments.com/

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

HuntersNetworks is a Social Network for Professional Hunters , Sport Hunters worldwide

What Company Is Offering:
HuntersNetworks is a Social Network for Professional Hunters, Hunting Guides, Outfitters and Sport Hunters worldwide.
An online Social Network is similar to a membership club or organization; its individual members have common interests and goals.

How It Works:

By joining and becoming part of HuntersNetworks, hunters can now share their sport, common views, interests and goals and Network with friends, family, fellow Sport Hunters, Professional hunters and Hunting Guides worldwide!

HuntersNetworks has especially been developed with the Professional Hunter and Hunting Guide in mind. They have devoted a separate section within your Profile to allow you to add additional information that pertains to your business. Their Network features are valuable tools to help you grow your business, keep in touch with existing clients and develop new ones!

Start by creating a full Profile by completing all the Optional Fields to provide as much information as possible.

Create up to five different Photo albums and add photos of your last season, special trophies, your camp and anything else of interest. Add links to your promotional business video, interviews with well known personalities, camp surroundings, hunting footage and more.


Use your Blog to post regular updates so that your clients who are members of HuntersNetworks and are part of your circle of Friends can be kept updated of your latest hunt news.

Use their Search and Advanced Search features to find potential clients as well as interact with other Professional Hunters and Hunting Guides. Add other members to your profile and grow your personal network of Friends.

More at:http://www.huntersnetworks.com/

Post Expression --- Fullfill Or Say Your Last Wish

What Company Is Offering:
Post Expression allows you to create and store multimedia messages that will be sent by e-mail to friends and family after you die.

How It Works:

Post Expression allows you to communicate with people after you've died. It gives you the opportunity to communicate final words of encouragement, confession and love; or private information that may get lost if you pass away.You don't need to download, install, or configure anything. No one can read what you've written, until a time you dictate, and no one can edit it.

Unique Features:

Create a bunch of multimedia messages.
- Decide who will receive them by adding recipients.
- Choose the dates they'll be delivered.
- Give a secret key to a friend, or store it safely.
- And if you like: get your messages published publicly.

More at:https://www.postexpression.com/

StrategyEye is a real-time intelligence platform gives a highly contextual view of any M&A, VC and Partnership deals globally

What Company Is Offering:
StrategyEye means you and your team can see all deals and events in context against the market, easily identify your competitors' moves and rapidly spot disruptive up-and-coming companies, potential partners or acquisition targets.

How It Works:

StrategyEye is a real-time intelligence platform designed to track the explosive changes in digital media encompassing the internet, media and telecoms marketplace. The StrategyEye exec dashboard gives a highly contextual view of any M&A, VC and Partnership deals globally, coupling proprietary technology for rapid scanning and indexing of expert blogs, news and research feeds with human analysts to give a definitive view of all market activity.
They work with enterprise clients ranging from Microsoft, MTV, Liberty Media and Disney through to financial clients including UBS, Fidelity Ventures and 3i as well as high-growth start-ups like WAYN.

More at:http://www.strategyeye.com/

BoardCentral.com For online traders and investors

Boardcentral.Com was created to provide investors with an easy way to access extensive information hidden on numerous Web based financial message boards. They have developed unique and effective ways of accessing and presenting the information to users. The uniqueness of this approach is in the way of presenting the information to the users.

In today's volatile market, investors have discovered the amazing effect of a single message posted on a message board about a stock. It can drive a company's share price up or down. By visiting different message boards, investors ask questions, post comments and communicate with each other by using powerful networking and communication tools that the web Web has to offer. However, due to the large number of the message boards, investors cannot always easily find the topic they want and post their comments. In addition, if they want to share their views and post comments on multiple message boards, they have to visit each individual site, which is time consuming.

As more and more investors take control of their own investment portfolio, the need to translate news and events into winning trading and find as much information about investments has never been greater. With this many new investors coming online daily, the traders with the best information can profit most.

Since its introduction, BoardCentral.com has quickly earned the confidence of online traders and investors. So whether you're just starting out, or an experienced online trader, you can benefit and make money from information you can find using this site.
More at:http://www.boardcentral.com/

motv8tv offers a mixture of various passages, quotes and videos from speakers, philosophers and life coaches

What Company Is Offering:
motv8tv offers a mixture of various passages, quotes and videos from speakers, philosophers and life coaches. Other web sites currently offer similar style videos mixed in with other entertainment videos. motv8tv is simply for motivation.

How It Works:
motv8tv intends to offer each motivational speaker an opportunity to create their own playlist within the channel as well as reserve space and play times, just as regular television programming.

Although coaches and speakers may offer videos on their own web sites, the information is often dated, with new videos uploaded at a slower rate than viewers would like to see. motv8tv intends to be a one stop channel for service offering updated videos, links to web sites for instructional dvds and audio books, as well as information on how to book life coaches. Motivational speakers have an opportunity to partner with motv8tv by offering their own videos made exclusively to the channel. motv8tv has extended services where film crews can be provided to film lectures or seminars. motv8tv will edit and upload those videos to the motv8tv.tv channel almost instantly.

motv8tv.tv understands that “like attracts like” and with a great deal of the population seeking motivational guidance, motv8tv portends to be the single source, the only source for multiple streams of inspiration.
More at:http://motv8tv.tv/

youmarks is the leading provider of educational content in india for IITs and By IITians

What Company Is Offering:
youmarks is the leading provider of educational content in india.It is a portal which provides specially designed strategy chapters for IITJEE, AIEEE, BITSAT and DCE preparation material for students which are absolutely free for students. These chapters have been created keeping the basic need of the students in mind. As according to the new pattern of all these examinations the exams are objective in nature and thus along with the concepts students also need some supplement to increase their speed and accuracy. It is a portal, which aims to build a community of aspiring and successful students who help out each other
youmarks has created a common platform where the students can discuss their problems among themselves. http://preps.youmarks.com/forum for their users.

How It Works:
Anyone can join community shelf and submit a new problem, share their knowledge base and concepts with each other. They at youmarks keeps themselves busy with the students and keep on searching for their needs and try to fulfil those as soon as possible. They motivate students and try to improve their performance.

Students can login into preps.youmarks.com for online IITJEE preparation which is absolutely free for students.So students who are willing to take IIT as a career option can check out this portal for better guidance from IITians themselves.
More at:http://www.preps.youmarks.com/forum

Lil Mama teams up with Sandbox TV

Lil Mama teams up with Sandbox TV, an interactive media company based in New York, to announce the online debut of LilMama.tv. With the next generation branded embeddable video player created by Sandbox TV, Lil Mama can embed whole channels of exclusive, customizable content and graphics anywhere online including sites such as blogs and social networks.

Lil Mama (Jive Records) whose debut single, "Lip Gloss" topped the Billboard 100 at number 10 and was named one of the best songs of 2007 by Rolling Stone Magazine, is currently on tour with Grammy award winning artist Chris Brown. Lil Mama’s anticipated album, “Voice of the young People” is due out in the first half of 2008.

Sandbox TV is the innovative force that created both the embeddable video player as well as collaborating with the artist to produce the exclusive online content available on LilMama.tv. Lil Mama has effectively leveraged the personal brand equity gained from her music video exposure online using rich media like her channel on Sandbox.tv to quickly gain pop star status and rise to the top of the charts.


About SandboxTV

Founded in Sandbox TV, Inc. is an interactive company with a digitally distributed platform for launching new and established branded video content from the forefront of urban entertainment. By bringing together exclusive footage and behind-the-scenes looks at some of the most exciting new artists, including teen sensation Lil Mama and controversial rapper Saigon, Sandbox TV brings urban swagger and original programming into the world of rich media interactivity.SandboxTV - http://www.sandboxtv.com


More at: http://www.lilmama.tv
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Covario with robust interactive and search marketing analytics solutions for display advertising, paid search advertising got $16 million Series B

What Company Is Offering:
The Covario portfolio provides global organizations with robust interactive and search marketing analytics solutions for display advertising, paid search advertising and organic search engine optimization across the enterprise and throughout the channel. Covario enables complex and distributed organizations to control brand integrity, ensure budget transparency and deliver quantifiable results across business units, distribution channels and languages.

How Much they Got From VCs:
FTVentures has led a $16 million Series B investment in the company, joining existing investors Dubilier & Company and Voyager Capital.

About VCs:
FTVentures provides growth capital to companies seeking to finance organic expansion, recapitalizations, build-ups and buyouts. The firm invests in business services and software companies that derive value from its unmatched Global Partner Network, which includes 40 of the world's leading financial institutions. FTVentures' Global Partner Network provides the firm with a unique vantage point into the business driven and operating challenges of the global enterprise. Founded in 1998, FTVentures currently has over $1 billion under management with offices in San Francisco and New York. For more information, please visit www.ftventures.com.

More at:http://www.covario.com

KickedGames gamer driven Community

What Company Is Offering:
KickedGames gamer driven Community .Individual users of the site submit and review games, the most popular of which make it to the homepage. Users are encouraged to 'kick' games that they would like to appear on the homepage. If a game receives enough kicks, it will be promoted.

How It Works:

You simply need to register for a new account. With an account you can submit games by clicking the 'Submit a game' link on the right menu of the homepage.

Kicks are votes of approval from their members. If a game has 16 kicks, that means 16 users liked it. The more kicks a game receives, the more likely that it will appear on the homepage. If you don't like a game, don’t give it a kick.

More at:http://www.kickedgames.com/

Kollecta is a community-based online collector's paradise

What Company Is Offering:
Kollecta is a community-based online collector's paradise. Users have access to a comprehensive database of over a million (and growing!) collectable items. After registering online, you can quickly record which items you presently own, want, and have for sale, enabling you to build an electronic record of what you have collected so far and what you need to complete your collection. You are able to display your Collections to others in a secure manner without revealing your identity or location. You can also share a little detail about yourself by customising your profile with photos.

How It Works:

You have an item that isn't in the database? You can add it - it's easy! You can also add images, notes, and so on to the database of Items, allowing the community to grow and benefit from everyone's experience in their collecting field. You can see how the community rates and values your Items, and you can participate in these activities too. You gain points for things you do in the collecting community that benefit everyone, such as adding Items, refining Item detail, and so on. In the future, collectors will receive benefits depending on their level of Kollecta points.


Kollecta also connects you with other Collectors who love the same things you do. You can join Groups that collect your favourite things, and if there isn't a Group - add one! Buyers and sellers come together in Kollecta to trade Items they both share an affinity with.

More at:http://www.kollecta.com/

JotYou is location based messaging

What Company Is Offering:
JotYou is location based messaging. Send a message to your friends so they get it when they arrive at school or the ballpark or the mall. Make up geo-games. Track a foot race or bicycle race. Stage a road rally with virtual checkpoints, and feed the directions as participants progress. Ever plan to pick up the milk on the way home from work, but drive right by the store and forget? Use JotYou™ to remind yourself as you pass by specified locations. The possibilities are endless.

How it works:
You send a message to one person or many people, and specify a delivery time and location using the map on the computer, or an address from your mobile. When they arrive at the location you specify, JotYou alerts them by "buzzing" their cell phone, and delivering the message. It's just that simple!

JotYou also has a tracking feature that you can enable for fun games, events, and contests. The event organizer creates a tracking group, and can watch the locations of participants on the map as the event proceeds, and the times they were at those locations. Privacy is of course a concern, so the tracker only works when you allow it to, and visibility of location data is restricted by the group owner. Entry is protected by double-opt-in security, and tracking data is only collected during limited "game time" windows.

More at:http://www.jotyou.com/

Design Grabs is a gallery website for people who love web design

What Company Is Offering:
Design Grabs is a gallery website for people who love web design. All the sites are submitted by the members. Register for an account, grab their bookmarklet and start saving the sites that you come across. Your saved sites will be available to you from any computer.

If you are looking for a collection of great website design check out their popular sites page or the recent sites that their members have submitted.

More at:http://www.designgrabs.com/

FaceContact.com is an online tool for referral tracking through your social network with a cash reward

What Company Is Offering:
FaceContact.com is an online tool for referral tracking through your social network with a cash reward and for managing the application and selection processes. FaceContact.com expands the engagement opportunities beyond jobs to help users find service providers, new clients, investors, or investment opportunities (like real estate).

FaceContact.com was a finalist in the competition for EU start-ups organised by Index Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Atomico, DFJ Esprit, 3i, The Accelerator Group, Atlas Ventures, Partech International, Accel Partners, Highland Capital Partners, Wellington Partners, Advent Ventures and other leading venture firms (www.seedcamp.com).

How It Works:
FaceContact.com program carefully tracks who was referred by whom. Once the originator makes his or her selection and reports back to FaceContact.com, the system automatically rewards the right people. Just be sure to always make referrals by clicking on the link in the email you receive. If you instead forward the message to your contacts, you won’t get credit for the referral.

The “originator,” or the person who is searching for a new contact to fill an engagement opportunity, decides how much to place in the reward pool. Most rewards range from $800 to $5000.You have made a successful referral whenever the person you referred is selected for the engagement opportunity, whether as an employee, service provider, client, investor, or something else.

If you don’t want to participate in the referral pool, you can choose to donate the money to your favorite university or charity. In fact, this could be a great fund raiser if you and your contacts are all supporting the same organization.

More at:http://www.facecontact.com/

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Better World Books is a self-sustaining, for-profit social venture

What Company Is Offering:
Better World Books is a self-sustaining, for-profit social venture whose mission is to capitalize on the value of the book to fund literacy initiatives locally, nationally and around the world.

They partner with over 750 libraries and 1,200 college campuses across the U.S. and Canada, collecting unwanted textbooks and library discards in support of non-profit literacy programs.

How It Works:

Social ventures operate under a for-profit business model in which success is measured by the positive impact a company makes in addressing a specific social issue. In the case of Better World Books, that issue is literacy. The primary purpose of a for-profit social venture is to generate a “social profit” by harnessing the power of commerce.

By operating as a social venture, Better World Books provides its non-profit partners with a consistent and stable source of unrestricted funding. This, in turn, allows the organizations to focus on implementing effective literacy and education programs -- instead of spending an inordinate amount of time raising funds. The nature of our business model allows Better World Books to react swiftly to market opportunities, thereby leveraging the maximum social profit through the wonders of capitalism. As a sustainable venture, we do not rely on government or foundation grants or aid of any kind.
More at:http://www.betterworldbooks.com/

Interview on Demand

What Company Is Offering:
Interview on Demand Removing barriers between top candidates and the companies that seek them.Once a company has identified qualified candidates, they can use Interview On Demand’s video interview to start the hiring/evaluation process. Neither party needs expensive equipment or any technical know-how.

How It Works:

First, the hiring manager creates an interview from their template or his or her own unique questions. With a click of a button, our system invites potential candidates to take the interview. Then the candidate answers the interview question while being recorded by a webcam. The final product is a video of each candidate’s responses which is available to the employer’s hiring team via the internet anywhere, anytime. When companies are ready to review the interviews, they simple log on to our site, choose from a list of completed interviews, sit back, and watch the video. If more than one person needs to review the interviews, no problem, any number of authorized reviewers can log on from any location at any time.

More at:http://www.interview-on-demand.com/

RiverGlass, provider of intelligent web monitoring and analytics solutions has raised $2.4 million

What Company Is Offering:
RiverGlass is changing all that through solutions that intelligently locate, collect and summarize relevant internet content based on the business context of your search. Intelligent search, combined with analytical summarization and advanced text extraction capabilities, ensures your results have meaning – saving you precious time in getting to the heart of information needed to make confident business decisions.RiverGlass software is built upon an analytics platform that learns the priorities of an organization or individual user, enabling automatic notification of information and time-saving analysis of found content.

How Much They Got From VCs:

RiverGlass, provider of intelligent web monitoring and analytics solutions, announced that it has raised approximately $2.4 million in a new round of venture capital financing. The funds were raised within the current investment group made up of RPM Ventures, IllinoisVENTURES and Country Insurance & Financial Services of Bloomington, Illinois.

More at:http://www.riverglassinc.com/

Woho.tv --- Start your own TV about anything

What Company is Offering:
Woho.tv new tool in online video world. Become a part of something new and create live social TV from thousand locations from all over the world.

Start your own TV about anything and let people share with you they're ideas. Your favorite music band clips will be now in one place and you can be sure that other fans will help you update your playlist live.

Their site is fully connected with all users and outside world. You can use implemented youtube function to start your favorite channel with just one click.

How It Works;
Upload your own videos, use their transfer system or woho Firefox Toolbar to add Youtube, Dailymotion, etc content. Record show using your webcam. Use one of our music backgrounds or upload yours. Add Jingles, advertisments and logo and start making your own TV. Organize it in our Mixtable and let people see what you've got. If you decide you can upload your own adverts and start earn money.

All users of their community helping create social TV platforms, allow you to watch and share latest videos from different categories. Start your own channel and let people update it every time they add videos to own playlists. You can customize channels and transfer them to your private website, facebook or myspace profile.

Create your playlists here, upload local files or import them from many video pages by just one click. You can mix your videos, embed them or generate simple page for your firends. Their robot will find video for you and help you add content to yout playlists.

More at:http://www.woho.tv/

SnapLeague is the quickest and easiest way to set up a web site for your organization's sports leagues

What Company Is Offering:
SnapLeague is the quickest and easiest way to set up a web site for your organization's sports leagues. In just a few minutes, you'll be up and running with a complete web site with game schedules, league standings, news, events, and more.

How It Works:
SnapLeague has just the right amount of features. There's no software to install or complicated technologies to learn. If you can use a word processor, you can use SnapLeague.

When you sign up for a paid account, you will have 30 days to evaluate SnapLeague. If you cancel your account prior to your trial expiring, your card won't be charged. If you decide to retain your subscription, your credit card will be charged for the first month of service. Paid accounts will never have ANY advertising unless you put it there. You determine your site's content. There are no banner ads, pop-up windows or other forms of adverting on your site. Not even a RIM Systems or SnapLeague logo.

Free accounts contain a single bar of advertisements across the top of all of your site's public pages. They also include a link back to their web site at the bottom of every page.

For Whom It Will Help Most:
Perfect for organizations large and small, SnapLeague is designed for parks and recreation departments, youth sports associations, college and university intramural programs, community centers, fitness centers, high schools, sports bars and more.

SnapLeague works with your existing web site. No more manually updating PDFs or spreadsheets and uploading them to the web.

More at:http://rimsystems.com/

stickK is a web-based company that helps you achieve your personal goals through "Commitment Contracts"

What Company Is Offering:
stickK is a web-based company that helps you achieve your personal goals through "Commitment Contracts."

How It Works:
You create a contract obliging you to achieve a specific goal within a specific time-frame. By doing so, you put your reputation at stake. You may also choose to wager money to give yourself added incentive to succeed. If you do succeed, you get your money back. If you fail, the money is forfeited to charity, or to one of several causes, or to a person of your choosing. stickK's services are absolutely free.

Why do you need stickK to create a Commitment Contract?
Let's say you sign a contract promising to pay a friend a sum of money if you don't achieve your goal. Chances are, if you renege on your commitment contract, your friend won't take your money, or will be soft on you and renegotiate the terms of the contract (after all, aren't friends supposed to be understanding?). Thats why they hold you to the contract!

Also, stickK offers the support network feature, and the community aspects of stickK help you work toward your goal which is fun and more effective than slugging away in isolation. It is hard to replicate the ability to involve and update lots of people on your progress in real time offline!

More at:http://www.stickk.com/

Roomstr

What Company is Offering:

Roomstr will provide a unique and engaging user experience. Where potential buyers will be able to browse, search and filter properties using maps and keywords/tags. Users will be able to create a profile where they can save short listed properties and set default search/filter parameters to enable quick/easy location of potential properties.
Roomstr is being developed by Kitchen 2.0 who have already released J-Board and Folkstr, keep up to date by visiting the Kitchen 2.0 blog or subscribing to our RSS feed.

More at:http://roomstr.com/

Video for Wii is the easiest way to convert your video for your Wii

What Company Is Offering:
It is finally possible to play your videos on your Nintendo Wii. River Past Crazi Video for Wii is the easiest way to convert your video for your Wii.

How It Works:
It accepts a wide range of video formats - 3GPP, 3GPP2, ASF, AVI, DAT (VCD), DivX, DV, MKV, MOV, MP4, MPEG-1, OGM, RAM, WMV and Xvid, and output to Wii compatible QuickTime movie files. It can convert from un-encrypted DVD, from individual chapters or several seamless chapters as one unit. We resize the video automatically to make it look correctly on your Wii, reserving the best video quality with the smallest file space and complete compatibility. It even take the aspect ratio into account so your video look just right, whether it is a wide movie trailer, or a vertical video recording from a cell phone.
More at:http://www.qweas.com/download/video_dvd/video_converters/river_past_crazi_video_for_wii.htm

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RBM.TV--blends user friendly content management tools with state of the art video technology to affordably help businesses market their products

What Company Is Offering:
RBM.TV technology allows us to update our site with video and content daily without having to rely on a programmer to make the changes. They started using video on their website so that they could post amateur footage showcasing their members utilizing their services. It is really a great way for their members to get exposure and a fun and easy way to communicate with customers.

How It Works:

RBM.TV, an internet TV channel, blends user friendly content management tools with state of the art video technology to affordably help businesses market their products and services worldwide.
RBM.TV users can connect with their prospective customers by posting live streaming video, infomercials, daily video blogs, customer testimonials, facility tours, advertising spots, recorded video and much more without technical equipment or skills. Plus, users can manage their own material, personalize the design of their channel, select the add-on functionality and create a revenue stream for their marketing brand worldwide.RBM.TV has blended user friendly content management tools with cutting edge video technology to make this possibly for almost everyone, thus impacting the entire business market.

More at:www.rbm.tv

Venture capital investments in U.S. startups climbed to a six-year high of $29.4 billion

Venture capital investments in U.S. startups climbed to a six-year high of $29.4 billion in 2007, raising hope that ample money will still be available to back promising new ideas even if the staggering economy falls into a recession.

The amount of venture capital spread across 3,813 deals represents the industry's busiest year since $40.6 billion went into nearly 4,500 U.S. startups in 2001, according to data scheduled for release Saturday by Thomson Financial, PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association.

The $29.4 billion invested last year marked an 11 percent increase from $26.6 billion in 2006.

In 2001, venture capitalists were actually curtailing their investments after the dot-com economy pushed the U.S. economy into its last recession.

Although many experts believe another recession is imminent, venture capitalists say there is little reason to believe their investment pace will slacken this year.

In a show of confidence, venture capitalists raised $34.7 billion for future investments during 2007, a 9 percent increase from the previous year.

The industry's optimism stems from a belief that many of today's hottest concepts either are recession-resistant or are developing moneysaving products that may have even more appeal during an economic downturn.

The investment areas spurring the optimistic outlook include: health care and biotech; the Internet; and technology aimed at developing alternative energy, reducing pollution and promoting conservation.

Combined, these sectors attracted nearly $16 billion in venture capital investments last year, accounting more than half of the total activity.

While focusing on specialties less susceptible to economic downturns, venture capitalists have been increasing their investments more gradually in recent years. During the dot-com boom, high-tech financiers had routinely entrusted millions of dollars with young Internet entrepreneurs who had never before run profitable businesses.

The newer, more disciplined approach makes it less likely there will be a dramatic about-face like the one that occurred after venture capitalists invested nearly $160 billion in 1999 and 2000. After that flurry, venture capital investments fell for the next three years before bottoming out at $19.7 billion in 2003.

"There is nothing to suggest we will fall off a cliff" this year, said P. Sherrill Neff, founding partner of Quaker BioVentures in Philadelphia.

Quaker BioVentures focuses on startups involved in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and medical devices _ categories that Neff expects to remain in strong demand even in a feeble economy because people won't stop getting sick or growing older.

Other venture capitalists seem to share his opinion, helping to produce a record year for investments in "life sciences," which includes biotech and medical devices. Venture capitalists invested $9.11 billion in 862 life sciences deals last year, a 21 percent increase from $7.56 billion in 2006.

Internet startups also appear better positioned to weather any economic turbulence because the advertisers that generate most online profits appear likely to keep shifting their spending from television, print and radio to the Web even if there is a recession.

Venture capitalists invested $4.6 billion in Internet deals last year, a 12 percent increase from $4.1 billion in 2006.

Venture capital investments in so-called "clean technology" focused on alternative energy and reducing pollution from fossil fuels totaled $2.2 billion, a 47 percent increase from $1.5 billion in 2006.

Although they are expected to continue to ramp up their investment this year, venture capitalists may have more trouble cashing out. That's because the sluggish economy could hinder initial public offerings of stock; last year 86 venture-backed startups made their market debuts, the most since 2004.

"We are very concerned about the public markets shutting down, but it is to be expected in times of unpleasantness," said Deepak Kamra, general partner with Canaan Partners in Menlo Park.
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Orchestr8 specializes in the creation of data mashup and "structured web" solutions launched a new clipping tool

What Company Is Offering:
Orchestr8, LLC specializes in the creation of data mashup and "structured web" solutions.

Their AlchemyPoint mashup platform understands "structured" data residing within web pages and uses this information to expose a whole world of related online content. It provides advanced content manipulation and "mashup" capabilities that enable websites to be manipulated as easily as children's clay. Pages can be visually remixed, content reformatted, etc.

How It Works:
Users can share these manipulations with friends or coworkers, or publish them for access by the entire world. The AlchemyPoint platform employs unique proxy mashup technology that allows new functionality to be easily and transparently embedded into any existing website, Intranet portal, or network application (Email, Instant Messaging, etc.).

Proxy mashup capabilities are combined with a robust application server and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) that enables an organization's technology infrastructure to be quickly integrated with Internet-based services and other data sources. This system fosters the rapid creation of content-intensive services, enterprise applications, and large-scale systems.

The AlchemyPoint Browser Toolbar exposes "structured web" / mashup capability to the end-user via an easy-to-use graphical interface. Offering total web browser integration, the AlchemyPoint Toolbar enables users to visually mash up Internet/Intranet content, customize the look & feel of websites, and create personalized services such as Instant Messenger bots or e-mail auto-responders.

Recent Updates:
They have just launched a new clipping tool that lets you widgetize your content. To create your own, type in the web address of a site you’d like to grab content from. The site will display in an iFrame, enabling you to select the portion of the page you’d like to share. Indicate the size of your widget, and give it a name, and the embed code is provided for you.

More at:http://www.orch8.net/

Visible Body application, featuring an interactive, 3D model of the human body, is the most comprehensive human body visualization tool

What Company Is Offering:

Argosy's Visible Body application, featuring an interactive, 3D model of the human body, is the most comprehensive human body visualization tool available on the market today. This entirely Web-delivered application offers an unparalleled understanding of the human body.

How It Works:

Use your mouse to directly manipulate the Visible Body's 3D model.

To select: Click on the 3D model to select an object. The object will be highlighted in blue and its name and location will appear in the status bar above the model and in the menu to the left.

To select multiple objects: While holding down the Shift key, click on multiple objects in the 3D model to select multiple objects.

To select a related group of objects: While holding down the P key, click on an object to select it and its "parent" and "sibling" objects.

To select through transparent objects: While holding down the T key, click on an object visible through a transparent object to select that object.

To move: While holding down the spacebar, click and drag to move the model vertically, horizontally, or diagonally.

More at:http://www.visiblebody.com/