Tuesday, March 18, 2008

BrandFM is for all your digital brand 'assets'

What Company Is Offering:
BrandFM makes it really easy to find your brand files, with super fast search and browsing by company, brand, tags, GPC categories and more. Find and download the files you need faster than ever with backorders for restricted files. No more missed deadlines.BrandFM is for all your digital brand 'assets'. Assets are files that you use in marketing and communicating your brand and products. Brand Assets = Your brand marketing resources.

How It Works:

Brand owners decide who sees what, who can download, who can upload and who can manage. Public's great for products, Private brillaint for that next great campaign. Members only just the ticket for core assets that are used again and again. You stay in control.
Invite your designer or agency to upload your brand files and media directly to your online library. Owner Approvals means you stay in control and when you approve- your users can instantly access.

You get your own site address (e.g. yourcompany.brandfm.com) with just your stuff and your own brandable corporate look and feel. Upload your logo, change your colours and add a button to your main website. Hey presto - you've got your own branded brand library where your users will feel right at home - all without coding.

Users can also search and find your brand when searching across multiple companies and brands on the global BrandFM site using a single user id and password. Big users of multiple brands (such as retail chains) will love the time savings available to them while you stay in full control.

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

KnowledgeShape--Solve the considerable challenge of turning diverse forms of information into clear and valuable search assets

What Company Is Offering:
KnowledgeShape is a Toronto-based company with international presence and reach, whose technologies target and solve the considerable challenge of turning diverse forms of information into clear and valuable search assets.

Its Product:
Products range from simple yet exceptional voice2text and paper2text applications to much more complex & far-reaching Intranet and Internet crawl and search applications. As a result, KnowledgeShape programs can be used by small professional firms and large businesses and institutions alike; particularly where storage, retrieval and search have the potential to provide a competitive and productive advantage.

KnowledgeShape products are scalable search and information management frameworks for the small office, company department, and for large enterprises. Information, intelligence and knowledge repositories that span vast networks and document platforms can be integrated into the frameworks. The frameworks are used for search, crawling, indexing, site deployment, and paper and voice notes conversion. ScapeShape is used to publish information for visualization, search and collaboration while also providing extensive Intranet file sharing capability with its file and document container functionality.

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

w2wlink.com -- Professional Networking Site For Women Only

What Company Is Offering:
The w2wlink vision is to provide a community and place with resources, knowledge, tools and connections that women need to support growth during times of change in their professional and personal lives.w2wlink.com is the premier online community for professional women in times of growth who work smart and live well. It is a free content and professional peer group social networking website. Members get confidential profile creation, and matched placement into w2wlink Network Circles of up to ten members with common interests to learn, seek advice and share viewpoints. Members can share articles, quizzes, post SmartComments, network and more. Groups include interests such as: Corporate Fast Track, Entrepreneurial Journey, Career Transition and Work-Life Balance.

How It Works:
www.w2wlink.com matches women into free networking circles based on their filling out detailed profiles and then w2wlink custom matches them into peer groups of up to ten. w2wlink.com is a first of its kind, best in its category, online networking community that custom matches members for free, into peer network circles of common interest. Network circle groups include such common interest areas such as Corporate Fast Track, Entrepreneurial Journey, Career Transition, Work-Life Balance.

More at:http://www.w2wlink.com/

BudgetGPS Announces Low Cost GPS Tracking Solution - BudgetGPS.com

What Company Is Offering:
BudgetGPS is a division of towXchange, Inc. and is a leading provider of vehicle tracking solutions to the towing and recovery industry. In February 2008, BudgetGPS expanded its operations to include offerings to all industries needing tracking services. The BudgetGPS application currently provides quality vehicle tracking solutions to companies of all sizes at very aggressive price points. BudgetGPS solutions are currently serving over 500 customers across the United States and extensive growth is planned for the system.

How It Works:

BudgetGPS is designed to be intuitive both in setup and daily use. Customers simply login to the BudgetGPS website and access their own instance of BudgetGPS to track their fleets, run reports, review history and more. System security manages user roles and access to certain features. The system offers HTML reports as well as export options for utilizing the data within other applications. The mapping system is Google Maps based and easy to use.

How It Will Help Companies:
“With BudgetGPS, small companies can afford to implement a GPS solution and all of the tracking data is available to the owner or manager from the internet. This system was designed with a goal of real time dispatch tracking capability and the ability to integrate to the management systems already in place within their potential client base. BudgetGPS can certainly review history, run speed and stops reports and can monitor vehicle location but it was not designed to monitor RPMs or the number of times a driver opens a door. This system was designed to accomplish the task of determining truck location at a reasonable price point and it has overachieved on that goal.”

More at:www.budgetgps.com

PlayCafe, an online video game show, has raised an unspecified first round from First Round Capital

What Company Is Offering:
PlayCafe is the first online game show network! Every Monday through Friday at 6 PM PST / 9 PM EST, they stream live, interactive game shows where YOU are the contestant. You can watch their live crew, play a variety of games, chat in real time with other players, and win prizes. The company, which is also making an embeddable widget version of its games, boasts an average playing session of 86 minutes, with 250 to 300 players per night. Prizes range from an iTunes song to $1000 cash.

How Much They Got from VCs:

LA-based PlayCafe, an online video game show, has raised an unspecified first round from First Round Capital, reports NTV, which notes that the raise is still in progress. The site offers a live Q&A game show, that allows users to participate for prizes and cash. So far, participation is still small, with the nightly game averaging 250-300 players. The company plans to eventually run the game around the clock—currently it runs an episode each night during the week.

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

Favorville.com is a social networking tool which provides members with the opportunity to help and be helped by others

What Company Is Offering:
Favorville.com is a social networking tool which provides members with the opportunity to help and be helped by others. With Favorville, members can post help requests, offer help and help grow the community. Favorville makes it easy to get in touch and build lasting connections with helpful neighbors, both in your locale or across the global village.

How It Works:

Take a minute to register, select your city, find a suitable category (if one doesn’t exist, suggest it!) and enter your post. Try to be as descriptive as possible so potential helpers can respond accurately to your needs. It also helps to list your neighborhood if your request requires a face-to-face meeting. That’s it. Sit back and wait for responses. You will receive an e-mail any time a trusted member of the Favorville community has responded.

If you received help from another Favorville member, please take a moment to rate your experience. You’ll find all your closed items under the profile section on the site. Simply select Completed Favor and answer a few simple questions – the process will only take a minute or so. It is important for us to track member activity and recognize our most helpful members! Plus, your feedback will help us derive a reliability rating for our members, and this could help future members decide whether they want to help, or accept help, from certain members.

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

Swivel is a place where curious people explore all kinds of data

What Company Is Offering:
Swivel is a place where curious people explore all kinds of data.
Swivel's mission is to make data useful so people share insights, make great decisions and improve lives. Swivel is a Web site that makes it easy for everyone to collaborate and explore data together — because better informed people make better decisions: in voting booths, in corporate boardrooms and at neighborhood meetings.

How It Works:

Swivel can handle only one table at a time. If your spreadsheet has multiple tables, copy the table you want to import into a new spreadsheet.

The data in your table must be arranged in columns containing values of similar type, date, if present, must be in a column, and column titles, if present, cannot span lines or columns. If your data isn't like that, you may be able to tweak it in Excel.

Swivel now provides a Swivel Toolbar available for Excel to allow you to manipulate your data into a format that Swivel will be able to understand.

Your data must have a simple table structure. Your data must be in a single table, with values arranged in uniform columns of like items. If there is a date, it must be in a column. If columns have headers, they must be on one row.

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

Car Advisory Network an online portal for automobile information, has raised around $6.5 million in Series A funding

What Company Is Offering;

The Car Advisory Network is a VC-funded startup building the next internet platform in the auto industry .

How Much They Got From VCs:

Car Advisory Network, a Seattle-based developer of an online portal for automobile information, has raised around $6.5 million in Series A funding, according to a regulatory filing. Backers include Accel Partners and Greylock Partners.

More at:www.caradvisorynetwork.com

RecycleBank that partners with cities and businesses to reward households that recycle has raised $30 million in Series B funding

What Company Is Offering:

RecycleBank, a Philadelphia-based company that partners with cities and businesses to reward households that recycle.

How Much They Got From VCs;

They have raised $30 million in Series B funding, according to VentureWire. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers led the round, and was joined by return backers RRE Ventures and Sigma Partners.



The company previously raised a $13.1 million Series A round, and before that secured seed capital from Columbia University's Eugene M. Lang Center for Entrepreneurship.

More at:www.recyclebank.com

Clearleap, a new video technology company has closed its first round of venture capital funding for $9 million

What Company Is Offerring:
Clearleap develops and markets technologies that greatly expand consumer options for "what's on TV." The Company works with video content owners and cable, satellite and IPTV companies, offering a new model of video delivery technologies and services that profoundly improve the television experience.

How Much They Got From VCs;
Clearleap, a new video technology company based in Atlanta, has closed its first round of venture capital funding. Industry leaders Trinity Ventures of Menlo Park, California and Noro- Moseley Partners of Atlanta, Georgia co- led this $9 million investment.

Named to Clearleap's Board of Directors are Trinity Ventures' General Partner Fred Wang, and Alan J. Taetle, General Partner at Noro-Moseley Partners. Among those taking a minority stake are Jim Chiddix, former CTO of Time Warner Cable, and Sig Mosley, President at Imlay Investments, Inc.

About VCs:
1.
Trinity Ventures, a 21 year veteran in the venture business with more than $1 billion under management, partners with exceptional entrepreneurs to build great companies. Trinity Ventures focuses on early-stage technology investment opportunities with a particular emphasis on the Digital Media, Internet Services, Mobility, Security and Software markets. Trinity has invested in well over 100 ventures. For more information, visit www.trinityventures.com .

2.
Founded in 1983, Atlanta-based Noro-Moseley Partners (NMP) is one of the largest and most experienced venture capital firms in the southeastern United States. NMP has created five limited partnership funds totaling approximately $580 million in capital and has invested in approximately 160 companies. NMP invests primarily in Southeastern-based, early and established growth stage companies. Industries of interest include technology, healthcare and business services. For more information, visit www.noro-moseley.com .

More at: www.clearleap.com

Thumbplay, Inc. is a leading online platform of mobile entertainment content has raised $18 million in Series E funding

What Company Is Offering:
Thumbplay, Inc. is a leading online platform of mobile entertainment content. The company aggregates, promotes and delivers mobile content directly to members via Thumbplay.com. The site offers ringtones, wallpapers, games and text-based services through a membership-based, community experience. Thumbplay, headquartered in New York, was founded by CEO Are Traasdahl and Executive Vice President, Marketing Evan Schwartz.

Thumbplay Inc., is backed by Bain Capital Ventures, SoftBank Capital, i-Hatch Ventures, Redwood Partners, New Enterprise Associates and Meritech.


How Much They Got From VCs:
Thumbplay, a New York-based provider of mobile multimedia content, has raised $18 million in Series E funding. The deal was co-led by the Brookside Capital Advisors, the public equity affiliate of Bain Capital, and Cross Creek Capital, the private equity affiliate of Wasatch Advisors.



The company had previously raised over $35 million, including an unannounced $17 million Series D round last summer at a post-money valuation of approximately $250 million. In addition to the investors listed in the new regulatory filing, that round also included Bain Capital Ventures, Redwood Partners, New Enterprise Associates and Meritech Capital Partners.

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

Vivisimo, a leading provider of enterprise search software and expertise got $4 million USD funded by Portland

What Company Is Offering:
The Vivisimo Velocity platform provides enterprises with innovative search solutions that allow users to access, extract and manipulate all available content, regardless of location. The latest version of Velocity is the first major enterprise search platform to bring business-ready Web 2.0 functionalities, such as social tagging, social bookmarking, social networking and mash-ups to the market.
Vivisimo does search right by combining the simplicity and innovation of consumer search with the flexibility and control of enterprise software. The company works with customers to understand their goals and quickly deploy solutions that maximize the business value of information??with an interface user's love. Vivisimo serves its global client base through headquarters in Pittsburgh, PA, and Paris, France, and partners throughout the world.

How Much They Got From VCs:
Vivisimo, a leading provider of enterprise search software and expertise, today announced the completion of its first institutional investment round of , ME based North Atlantic Capital (northatlanticcapital.com). The financing will support Vivisimo's continued global expansion and strengthen the company's sales and marketing efforts.

About VCs:

Portland, Maine based North Atlantic Capital is an expansion stage venture capital firm investing primarily in tech-enabled business service, information technology and communications companies. Established in 1986, North Atlantic manages a pool of capital in excess of $200 million, and is currently investing its fourth fund, closed in 2007. In addition to growth capital and board level guidance, North Atlantic offers its portfolio companies free research and M&A services along with executive education programs at leading business schools. Other investments in the current fund include Tangoe, Inc., Servigistics, Inc., Invoke Solutions, Inc. and Synacor, Inc. To learn more about North Atlantic's investment criteria and approach to value creation, please visit www.northatlanticcapital.com

More at:www.vivisimo.com

isango! , a leading provider of travel experiences on the internet has received $8m in investment

What Company Is Offering:
isango! is an ambitious young company . It offers consumers and travel professionals an authoritative source of exciting and colourful experiences - holiday tours, sightseeing, attractions, activities and the best things to do in 60 countries across the world. To help you plan and book ahead, isango! finds everything you need to make your travel experience unforgettable.

How Much They Got From VCs:
isango! , a leading provider of travel experiences on the internet has received $8m in investment to fund its next stage of growth. The funding round, which is the first institutional round for the company, was led by SPARK Ventures, which is known for previous investment success with LastMinute.com, PriceRunner and other internet-based businesses. SPARK Ventures contributed $4m; Beringea, manager of the top performing ProVen VCTs, contributed $2.5m and the remaining $1.5 million came from existing shareholders.

About VCs:
1.
SPARK Ventures is the leading quoted early-stage venture capital company in Europe. It manages over ?240 million on behalf of major institutional investors, leading UK universities, and three quoted venture capital trusts.

SPARK invests in entrepreneurs to create dynamic businesses in the technology, media, telecoms and healthcare&life sciences sectors. As well as capital, it brings a wealth of experience of developing high growth companies from early stage through to IPO or trade sale, adding value to its investments through active support and strategic direction.

Some of its exits include Mergermarket, Lastminute.com, Footfall, Nomad, Pricerunner, Elata, Glycart, OHM and Avidex.

www.SPARKventures.com

2.
Beringea is an international private equity and investment banking firm with offices in London, Los Angeles, Detroit (U.S.) , and Shanghai. Beringea invests in a range of emerging sectors including media, Internet technologies, marketing services and advanced communications.

Beringea launched its first VCT in 1996, making it one of the most experienced VCT managers in the UK. Beringea is the manager of ProVen VCT and ProVen Growth&Income, the highest performing VCTs of their launch years according to www.taxefficientreview.com .
For more information please visit www.beringea.com/ http://www.provenvcts.com .


More at:www.isango.com

Video Search Summit 2008

Accuracy * Indexing * Advertising & Marketing* User Experience * Monetization * New Technology

Superb case studies, panel debates, and roundtable sessions on:

The Online Video Search Market: Discover how text, speech and video analytics tools will ensure you get your share of the predicted $15.6bn Online Video market.
Indexing the Video Web: Identify the latest indexing tools and methodologies. Plus strategies to handle dynamic online video players and the impact of RSS feeds on video identification.
Monetize Online Video Search & Maximize ROI: Learn how personalized channels and contextual advertising technologies will revolutionize in-video advertising – and supercharge your business revenues.
Lead the Way in User Experience: Understand why directive search and casual browsing are the keys to consumer satisfaction and learn how human aggregation, text analytics, and speech analytics tools can help boost your viewing figures.
Search Results: Hear the latest advances in video, speech and text analytics, including skewed language models and face detection technologies that can make your searches the most accurate and relevant on the web.
Cutting Edge Technology Update : See how best to exploit next-generation Online. Video Search tools such as semantic search, image content detection and two-dimensional browser interfaces.
Legal Issues: Evaluate intellectual property pitfalls, including updates on Perfect 10 v Google; & Universal Music Group v VeohTV.

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

crowdSPRING---To help people from around the world access creative talent, and to help creatives from across the globe find new customers

What Company Is Offering:
crowdSPRING was started to help people from around the world access creative talent, and to help creatives from across the globe find new customers.

With backgrounds in both the creative industry and law, crowdSPRING is a labor of love for a team that believes strongly in the creative process and the protection of intellectual property. We left no stone unturned - from free, binding legal contract generation for every transaction and advanced digital watermarking to a built-in, secure escrow service and a feedback rating system - they tried to make a safe environment for both Buyers and Contributors alike.

How It Works:


Whether you need a new logo, website, marketing materials or a custom illustration, just tell them what you need, when you need it and how much you'd like to pay.

As the submissions come in, you'll be able to review, sort, rate, give feedback and collaborate with Contributors until you find 'the one'.

Once posted, Contributors from all around the world will work on your project and you'll begin to receive actual work - not proposals or bids - to review.
And, if you're not completely satisfied, they offer a 100%, unconditional, money-back guarantee.

Every transaction on crowdSPRING is protected by a customized contract, digital watermarking and numerous other protections so you can be sure that your work is safe. Plus, through our unique partnership with IPRegistry.com, every completed project is automatically registered in an intellectual property database at no cost to you whatsoever.

When you start your project, you'll deposit the funds with us and we won't release them until you tell us that you're totally happy with the final product. Plus, we also offer an unconditional money back guarantee. If you're not completely happy, then they'll refund your money.

For every completed project on crowdSPRING, Buyers and Contributors rate one another and give feedback on a whole range of variables from communication to adherence to the timeline so you'll never be left to wonder about who you do business with.

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

VisualDNA - a revolutionary new way of helping you discover fascinating things about yourself

What Company Is Offering:

They’ve developed VisualDNA - a revolutionary new way of helping you discover fascinating things about yourself by using your response to images. Intrigued? - So far over 6 million people have used this amazing new technology on their sister site, Imagini.net.

Who Is Backing Them:

We’ve teamed up with Pepsi to bring you the VisualDNA of David Beckham, Ronaldinho, Thierry Henry, Cesc Fabregas, Lionel Messi, and Frank Lampard.


Why To Use It :

You can use your VisualDNA to find things that suit you. Right now our most advanced of these is our Interiors Style Finder with MyDeco.


More at:http://youniverse.com/

Monday, March 17, 2008

WebVisible --providing the highest value interactive marketing and advertising available for any small business got 12 million dollars

What Company Is Offering:
WebVisible is the online small business advocate – providing the highest value interactive marketing and advertising available for any small business owner’s budget – helping them succeed with our cutting-edge technology, innovative products and trusted services.

How It Works:
WebVisible is focusing on local business owners who are, as they say, “too busy minding their stores to successfully navigate the complexities of buying and managing their own online advertising, whether pay-per-click, banner ads, call-based solutions, or ROI measurement tools.” WebVisible tracks the consumer’s location by partnering with many companies which have this info via cookies or other means, such as Yahoo, Ask, MSN, Local.com and others. Then, they sell their advertising products to local business customers of large media companies and online service providers, such as AT&T, British Telecom, and Earthlink.

How Much They Got From VCs:
WebVisible has received 12 million dollars in its second round of funding.

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

Credit Karma offers a new way to track your credit score and a unique way to benefit from it

What Company Is Offering:
Credit Karma offers a new way to track your credit score and a unique way to benefit from it. For the first time you can get a truly free credit score with no hidden costs or obligations. Based on your score, you gain access to exclusive offers from companies that value your creditworthiness.


The principle of Karma is common to many beliefs. The general idea is that any action a person takes either positive or negative, will have an inevitable equal effect in the future. Your credit score is kind of an expression of this concept; an index of your credit history: your credit karma. Credit Karma embodies the best parts of these two disparate yet similar concepts to help people stay aware of their Credit Score and gain access to exclusive deals at the same time.

Their services start with a FREE credit score. No credit card is required and no strings are attached. Return as often as you like and use our service to track your credit file and stay informed. Credit Karma believes this is a fundamental consumer right. Credit Karma will continue to provide these FREE credit scores while doing the most to protect your privacy regardless if you use our other services.

How It Works:

When you access the FREE credit score, Credit Karma will show personalized offers to you based on your credit profile . These offers are from advertisers who share our vision of consumer empowerment. If you wish to take advantage of Karma Offers, it is up to you. Credit Karma will never share your information without your consent.

Credit Karma messages are one way broadcasts from our partner companies. Our advertising partners provide personalized offers and Credit Karma matches them with appropriate people, never disclosing the user information unless the consumer responds to the offer. This protects your privacy and allows you to control who receives your data.

Unlike the traditional credit marketing world where businesses buy and sell your personal information without your knowledge and then chase you with offers, Credit Karma tries to give the power and the choice back to you.

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

Visible Technologies is a leading provider of online brand management solutions for companies and individuals

What Company Is Offering:
Visible Technologies is a leading provider of online brand management solutions for companies and individuals in today's rapidly changing new media environment


They provide their customers with high-value strategic solutions supported by proprietary world-class technology and measurable results. Whether it's building or managing reputations across popular search engines, or helping companies track and participate in influential consumer created content channels, they empower brands to do more online to build their businesses and bottom lines.

Unique Features:

TruCast - Social Media Solutions

TruCast is the industry’s first comprehensive solution for social media analysis and participation. Our enterprise level solution enables clients to complete the conversation by allowing them to track, analyze, and participate in blogs, forums, social networks, and online communities.

TruView proactively protects and promotes companies’ and individuals’ reputations online. TruView is ideal for companies, executives, politicians, high profile individuals, athletes, and organizations who want to highlight the most accurate and relevant information about their organization or themselves.



The TruView reputation management solution ensures that positive and relevant content is positioned where users are most likely to view it.

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

Obopay is the first truly comprehensive mobile payment service in the United States

What Company Is Offering:

Obopay is the first truly comprehensive mobile payment service in the United States. That means you can instantly get, send and spend money anywhere, anytime with anyone. With Obopay you can instantly pay back a friend, split a dinner bill, get money from your parents, get quick cash, pay up or collect on a friendly wager, track purchases, check your balance, and much, much more. And, you can do it all from your phone, or your mySpace page (with a widget).

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

OrganizedWisdom is a Human-Powered, Physician-Guided Search Service for Health

What Company Is Offering:
OrganizedWisdom is a Human-Powered, Physician-Guided Search Service for Health.To provide the best search service in the world for health by hand-crafting search results that physicians and consumers will recommend to their family and friends.

How It Works:
By adding the wisdom of trained expert search guides and physician reviewers to the power of algorithmic-only search tools and social bookmarking sites. This human-powered model helps us deliver far superior health search results by eliminating search index spam from low-quality websites, links to duplicative libraries of licensed health content or potentially dangerous web sites.

Unique Features:
1) WisdomCards™ - Search our library of thousands of hand-crafted search results pages on the most popular health topics. Find WisdomCards on diseases, conditions, treatments, drugs, health products, doctors, hospitals, and even health companies. Each WisdomCard is created and managed by one of our experts.

2) RequestWisdom™ - Didn't find what you were looking for? We offer a FREE service and one of our expert Health Guides will do the searching for you and create a WisdomCard on any health topic you request. This can be useful if you want a WisdomCard on your personal doctor, local hospital, or a rare condition we haven't covered yet.

3) LiveWisdom™ - Connect LIVE via chat with board certified doctors, health professionals, and health advocates for only $1.99 per minute. We believe that asking doctors questions should be easy, affordable, and accessible to all. The service, still in pilot beta, is private and anonymous and does not replace a doctor visit.

4) Tabbed Health Search - For the first time, people can search all of the major health search engines from one place. If we don’t have a WisdomCard created yet for your search term, you get related WisdomCards and a tabbed search interface to make it easy for you to quickly search Google, WebMD, Healthline, HealthVault, Healia, Right Health, and PubMed with the simple click of a button. This is a major leap forward in health search and will help people save a great deal of time when searching for health information.

More at:http://organizedwisdom.com/

Decode your friend's ATTRACTION CODE while encoding yours

About Company:

This generator allows you to create a code which you can paste in your MySpace profile, message board, forum and so on... Only who is really interested in you will take the time to decode it. MY (SEXUAL) ATTRACTION CODE provide a discreet way to declare your identity, aptitude or inclinations. Many websites like MySpace give you only few options to tell your orientation, as: straight, bi and gay. My Attraction Code give a far better way to describe yourself.

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

UpRanker.com--Submit your web site and get a free backlink + traffic to your web places

About Company:

UpRanker.com,submit your web site, blog, community profile, photo album, video group and more today and get a free backlink + traffic to your web places.


Discover the benefits of registration. All your listings in your profile. One page to show all your links with your own editable weblink.

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

Happytoreview is a unique space where you can review the products that you use on a daily basis

What Company Is Offering:
Happytoreview is a unique space where you can review the products that you use on a daily basis for the benefit of those around you. Don't think that you have to be limited in what you want to review--they encourage you to review whatever it is that you come in to contact with in your daily life.

How It Works:
If you are a bibliophile and want to share your love of books with the world, go for it! If you are a gamer and want to warn people that the over-hyped game is not all it's cracked up to be, that is your prerogative here. But don't feel limited by these things. If you want to review a commercial you saw on TV, a speaker you listened to, or the latest State of the Union address, all of these things can be rated by our simple smiley rating system. So have fun here. Create a community of friends that you can share your review with. Think outside the box of reviewing if you want to, or make your site the go-to place for reading about books.

More at:http://happytoreview.com/

BetOnMarkets.com offers fixed odds financial bets

What Company Is Offering:

BetOnMarkets.com offers fixed odds financial bets; i.e. financial bets that pay a fixed amount (or nothing) on expiry. In other words, when you buy a fixed-odds bet from BetOnMarkets.com, you are entitled to receive a payout, which is a fixed multiple of the amount you have staked.

How It Works;

With the BetOnMarkets.com dealing system a client expresses a view and makes a prediction. If the prediction comes true, the client will profit by a predetermined amount. Before any bet is placed, the client knows the entire possible downside as well as the exact possible profit.
However, with most bets, you are also able to sell your bet before the final settlement date to mitigate your losses or take your profits out early. This means that your risk level is clearly defined at all times.[Go to top]



BetOnMarkets.com uses a variety of methods to compute bet prices. Some bets are priced using complex mathematical algorithms, based on option pricing technology whilst others are priced using simpler methods. Our advanced pricing models take into account market implied volatility, the current market quote of the underlying market, expiry date, present market conditions and other contributing factors. Furthermore, prices are weighted according to demand; bets currently in high demand will be priced at a premium to bets in low demand.

A small sales commission is built into the price of all bets. This commission is not constant and depends on the market conditions. To find out the exact commission amount charged on a bet, log into your account and select "Advanced Mode" (situated under the Home menu). Then price a bet as per normal, and click on the link "Further Info." to see the exact amount of commission charged on that specific bet. When you buy a bet, the amount deducted from your account is simply the price of the bet; there are no additional fees?

More at:http://koel1.betonmarkets.com

Size Wand will enable you to find your correct size for new clothing purchases with ease

What Company Is Offering:
Size Wand will enable you to find your correct size for new clothing purchases with ease. Simply enter your size in one or more articles of clothing that you know fits you well, and Size Wand instantly finds your size in any item you wish to purchase. Seamlessly integrated with individual product pages on retailer's sites, Size WandSM has been designed from the ground up to be in sync with how people actually shop. No size chart. No tape measure. No hassle.

How It Works:

By sharing your closet today, you'll be ready to experience the convenience of Size Wand the moment it goes live*. Once logged into your account, Size Wand literally does all the work for you without even clicking a button. Size Wand will automatically display your size as you browse clothing items throughout a retailer's site. Shopping has never been this simple.

*Users must enter their email address in order to access their submitted closet when Size Wand goes live. Automatic sizing is only available for items that can be accurately sized based on the items in your submitted .

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

Personalized market place for your social network

What Company Is Offering:
Personalized market place for your social network. In less than 5 minutes you can create a personalized market place, filled with products that you select from vendors around the world.

How It Works:

You can share this market place with all of your friends, relatives and colleagues – your personal social network – via your own Web Site AND sites like Facebook, My Space, Linked In and other popular social networks.

When your friends buy one of these products you receive a 10% commission on the sale.

You don’t have to do anything except “tell your social network” about your own personalized market place. Our vendors take care of the shipping and we do all of the billing. You receive the benefits of sharing high quality products with your social network.

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

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. 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.

SnapLeague subscriptions are month-to-month. There are no sign up or cancellation fees. There are no long-term contracts. In addition, every paid subscription comes with a 30-day free trial.

Whom It Will Help Most:

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/

Pardot is an on-demand software company that increases revenue and maximizes efficiency for companies with multi- touch sales cycles

What Company Is Offering:
Pardot is an on-demand software company that increases revenue and maximizes efficiency for companies with multi- touch sales cycles. Pardot offers Prospect Insight that shows your sales teams exactly where to spend their time while doubling the value of existing marketing efforts, and starts at only $30/user/month. Pardot offers a variety of services to best serve its clients.
Let the Pardot services team handle any integration or setup for you. Pardot offers three Quick Start packages that are flexible enough to meet any organizations business needs


Its Product:
Prospect Insight is an on-demand web marketing automation suite that can show your sales team exactly where to spend its time in order to maximize ROI. Advanced micro-level web analytics allows Prospect Insight to capture all relevant prospect activities, both on and off your site, and help you determine who is showing the most buying signals.
Prospect Insight is a flexible yet powerful marketing automation solution, designed to boost sales for B2B marketers. The on-demand solution boasts a rich feature set in a variety of core areas.

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

Sunday, March 16, 2008

AdPerk is a San Francisco-based company that rewards users for watching relevant online videos

What Company Is Offering:
AdPerk is a San Francisco-based company that rewards users for watching relevant online videos. Recognizing that time is valuable and choice is crucial, AdPerk allows users to have a better experience with sponsored content. By changing the way companies think about marketing, AdPerk is committed to fostering an environment where consumers can actively participate in the information process, ultimately helping advertisers and publishers meet their objectives.

How It Works:
Select the offer you wish to participate in and you’ll be taken to a library of relevant branded videos. Each video represents credit(s) that can be applied toward the corresponding reward offer. Watch videos that interest you the most and once completed, simply enter a word-verification so the credits can be applied to your account. You’ll be automatically directed to the checkout page after you’ve earned the required number of credits and your reward will be mailed to you.

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

Hip-hop .net-----that enables and encourages individual creative expression; to build a diverse community of dedicated Hip-hop heads

What Company Says:

To promote the growth and development of an online portal to worldwide Hip-hop culture that enables and encourages individual creative expression; to build a diverse community of dedicated Hip-hop heads who continually refine their common aesthetic of Hip-hop as art via instant feedback from a userbase of thousands.

Who Is Backing Them:
Hip-hop.net is a team of Hip-hop fanatics spread around the globe. Brian, aka Theory (Seattle, USA), began work on the original site back in 1998 and continues to determine overall direction. Norm aka Compay (Buenos Aires, Argentina) does all the programming and maintains the servers. Matt aka Kempo (Hampshire, UK) writes our album reviews and is our UK correspondent. Dave aka Darnit (Seattle, WA) does our design and layout work.


Their original B-boys.com logo was created in photoshop by hand by their good friend Iosefatu Sua, aka Sion1 who also has designed most of their tshirts.

Their Hip-hop.net logo was designed by FourColorCreative in Seattle using Cooper Black, an original Hip-hop flyer font from the late 70's - early 80's.

Many ideas for this site over the years have come from the members of our forums. There would be no b-boys.com/hip-hop.net without Benjamin Grimm, FroshKiller, Loot, Monk, Richard Corey, and too many others to name here.

More at:http://www.hip-hop.net/

BloggUpp-------Connect Smart And Boost Your Incoming Traffic

What Company is Offering:
BlogUpp! seeks to be of use to every blogger with quality content, no matter the language and where he/she lives.

How It Works:

BlogUpp! snapshots your blog and reads your RSS regularly. Blog's thumbnail shows on other blogs with our service activated. The thumbnail is accompanied by your blog's most recent article. For every 10 readers of your blog, it is shown to 9 readers on other blogs.An identical widget projects on your weblog, listing relevant blogs.
Each link clicked in the widget opens a new window, not closing your blog.
And all this is completely free and with no effort whatsoever .

How Is It different?


No registration and no account required.
No ad submission and no efforts.
No animation and annoying ads.
WordPress platform and alike friendly.
Targeted readers reach .
Welcome bonus for everyone.
Best in the industry exchange ratio (10:9).

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

FixSor is committed to simplify the process of finding a local pre-qualified licensed and insured contractor for your project

What Company Is Offering:
FixSor is committed to simplify the process of finding a local pre-qualified licensed and insured contractor for your project. All of our contractors are carefully selected to ensure quality and full customer satisfaction. Additionally, we guide you by the hand throughout the whole process and schedule up to three free estimate appointments with creditable professionals all anxiously waiting to begin your project. The best part about working with us is that our services are completely FREE! It does not cost you a dime to ensure you are matched with a highly certified professional. Here at FixSor, customer satisfaction is our highest priority.

How It Works:
With FixSor, you take the guesswork completely out of your search. A simple form submission will have you on track to meet with highly qualified professionals in your area. You will not only be given an opportunity to utilize creditable licensed and insured local contractors, you will also able to view and submit ratings of these contractors to enhance your consumer experience. More so, FixSor will remove the frustration that comes with finding quality contractors in your particular area and it will also set you up with free estimates. In a nutshell, FixSor is designed to personalize your input in order to successfully present to you at least three licensed, insured, and creditable contractors that are anxiously waiting to start your project.
Before a contractor application is accepted into FixSor’s professional contractor network, contractors go through and extensive review. 1. License verification.2. Insurance verification.3. Verifying business is on file with the state that it operates in.4. Review at least five previous client testimonials ensuring customer satisfaction with contractor's professionalism, service, punctuality, expertise, deadlines and availability.

More at:http://fixsor.com/

BBC Green Search

What Company Is Offering:
The search on BBC Green is a little different to the search you may have used on other websites.

How It Works:
When you submit a search you’ll be taken to a search results page. This page has the top five links for both ‘BBC Green results’ and ‘recommended sites results’. You can view all of these results by clicking on the links provided. The difference between these is explained below.
If their search returns no results you can try similar words or a simpler search. For example instead of ‘what is the best green boiler’ just search for ‘boiler’. If they still return no results and there is something you would like to see on the site then please suggest it to the editor.


There are ten results per page. If there are more than one page of results you can navigate between these pages by clicking on the numbers for each page or the ‘previous’ and ‘next’ links.

You can also click on the recommended sites results link to see these results.


These are pages on other websites that match your search. The websites that are searched have been handpicked by the BBC Green team. The sites do not pay to be included in our search; the aim is to provide you with a resource to find the best environmental information on the web.

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

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Bungee Labs Inc., an Orem, Utah-based provider of a system for creating and delivering next-generation Web applications, has raised $8 million

What Company Is Offering:
Bungee Labs™ is the creator and operator of Bungee Connect™, a 100% web-based environment for efficiently creating and instantly delivering highly interactive web applications. Bungee Connect's immediate access, integration and presentation of public and private web services empower developers to create deeply interoperable, data-driven applications with rich interactivity — achieving 21st century user experiences without the typically complex programming of web service integration, Ajax interaction, web application state management, and deployment provisioning.



How Much They Got From VCs:

Bungee Labs Inc., an Orem, Utah-based provider of a system for creating and delivering next-generation Web applications, has raised $8 million in Series C funding, according to a regulatory filing. Backers include North Bridge Venture Partners, Venrock and Wasatch Venture Fund.

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

Five9, Inc., a leader in on-demand call center solutions got $12 million in equity funding

What Company Is Offering:
Five9 is the leading global provider of on-demand call center software for telemarketing, customer service, and business continuity. The award-winning Five9 Virtual Call Center and Predictive Dialer serve customers of all sizes on five continents. Customers profit from Five9’s reliable, robust functionality that is fast, easy, and affordable to deploy.

How It Works:

The on-demand Five9 Virtual Call Center enables companies to build a comprehensive, feature-rich contact center without any hardware, software, or upfront capital expenditures. In addition to the cost savings, Five9's on-demand service allows for easy set-up and administration of at-home agents as well as single-site or distributed, multi-site centers. Built from the ground up with VoIP, any business with a PC and a broadband connection can access an affordable suite of applications including: Automatic Call Distribution (ACD), Predictive Dialer, Auto Dialer, Interactive Voice Response (IVR), Computer Telephony (CTI), Remote Agent Capabilities, Skills-based Routing, Voice Recording, Quality Monitoring, Real-time Reporting, Chat, and Centralized Management.

How Much They Got From VCs:
Five9, Inc., a leader in on-demand call center solutions, announced the completion of $12 million in equity funding from leading investors Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Partech International and Mosaic Venture Partners. Five9 will use the funding to accelerate its sales, marketing, and product development initiatives.

About VCs:
Hummer Winblad Venture Partners was founded in 1989 as the first venture capital fund to invest exclusively in software companies. Through their history, they have invested in the pioneers and leaders of several generations of software applications, architectures, delivery methods and business models.

Hummer Winblad helps entrepreneurs build companies in desktop software, embedded systems, client-server, distributed network computing, internet, and software as a service. For more information on Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, visit http://www.humwin.com.

More at:http://www.five9.com

ADrive LLC leads the free online data storage community, offering the largest amount of free storage on the Internet

What Company Is Offering:
ADrive LLC leads the free online data storage community, offering the largest amount of free storage on the Internet. They provide their users with secure solutions for storing, backing up, and accessing files from virtually anywhere, at any time. ADrive serves as an online, centralized vault for all file types including: music, videos, photos, documents, and more.

How It Works:
ADrive operates using industry-leading enterprise level data storage, networking and server technology to safely store and access your files.

ADrive is extremely fault-tolerant, allowing our users to feel safe when using our services. They know you need your data on demand, so they have designed the most highly available infrastructure to ensure your ADrive experience is simple, secure and enjoyable.
Their Basic Plan gives you up to 50GB of free online storage for all of your files: music, video, photos, documents, and other files.

Click on the News section to view the latest news about ADrive.

To use ADrive, your browser must have the following: 1. Cookies enabled 2. Internet Explorer security set to medium-high or lower. 3. Javascript turned on. 4. It is recommended that Internet Explorer's information/download bar be disabled and ActiveX be enabled.

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

Popularo is a user driven social news aggregation website

What Company Is Offering:

Popularo is a user driven social news aggregation website.

How It Works:

It is based on the theory that a user should vote for the content or topic in question, not for the person that submitted it.

After users submit something to Popularo, it becomes available in a random voting box for other users to make a decision about in a "hot or not" style, rapid-fire voting system. Only the title and headline are displayed in the voting box to help prevent bias or voting fraud.

Once a submission receives enough negative votes, it is removed from the system, and once it receives enough positive votes it is promoted to the front page and voting is suspended. There are no superusers that can sway the vote, every user has an equal vote.

More at:http://beta.popularo.com/

OmniDate---For Serious Online Dating

What Company Is Offering:
OmniDate provides the latest in virtual reality to help singles find real-life meaningful relationships.OmniDate is the next generation of online dating. It provides users with unique virtual dating venues, such as cafés, bars and lounges, where singles can get to know each other in a fun, safe environment before meeting face to face.

Invite someone on an OmniDate and enjoy great conversation, romantic scenery and wonderful music. You will have fun, laugh, and build common experiences.



How It Works:

OmniDate let's you find out whether you click with the person behind the profile before you rush off to meet him or her. Make your first date an OmniDate. Do you have similar interests and aspirations? Do you enjoy the same music? Do you make each other laugh? When the date ends, you will know whether you want to go on another OmniDate, meet in real life, or never see each other again. Whatever your choice, you will make it safely through a convenient messaging system.

When it comes to finding YOUR life mate, YOU are the expert! Only you can determine whether there is a fit between you and another person! So go ahead and take control of your online dating! Fill out a profile and start OmniDating!

More at:http://omnidate.com/

Evernote allows individuals to capture and find anything from their real and digital lives using their PC, Mac, mobile phone, and the web

What Company Is Offering:
Evernote allows individuals to capture and find anything from their real and digital lives using their PC, Mac, mobile phone, and the web.

How It Works:

Every note added to Evernote, goes through powerful recognition and indexing servers, which make it possible to find everything. Notes can be found by searching and filtering for:

Tags and titles,
Typed text,Text within images
Dates ,
Attributes (does the note contain a web clip, an image, audio, handwriting, and more) .

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

Mobicue provides for you a multiple access to enjoy a fast mobile contents exchange with your friends

What Company Is Offering:
Mobicue is a mobile content sharing community for its members to keep abreast of their friends’ life on the go. Through a microblog of yourself, you can update, distribute and manage any content, such as photos, videos, text and music to be viewed and enjoyed on any mobile devices.

How It Works:

Mobicue provides for you a multiple access to enjoy a fast mobile contents exchange with your friends: The website, a more convenient place to enjoy when you a PC handy; The mobile website, especially designed for any mobile browser; The client application for you to free download and use on your own mobile.

Mobile updates could be anything from your mobile phone, such as photos and videos that you just captured, a text that you just wrote and so on. Whenever you see or think about something interesting, why not let your friends know about it. Just post them. All updates for public viewing would pop up into your friends’ eyes in the first place when they are up on Mobicue. Updates can be made through either the mobile Mobicue website or sending to your unique Mobicue updating email address.

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

Friday, March 14, 2008

Hot Help Desk software is a free online helpdesk for customer support service, trouble ticket management and email management

What Company Is Offering:
Hot Help Desk software is a free online helpdesk for customer support service, trouble ticket management and email management. It's a 100% web-based help desk system which can be accessed from any browser, with no plug-ins, no client maintenance and no client updates. Your customers can create and update tickets via online web based form or through email easily, so technicians are able to track the history of support requests from inception to resolution, including routing, ownership and transfers. The free Help Desk solution also provide powerful service modules like automatic email notification, searchable knowledge base, administrable download and reports analyzer. The customers could be offered with different options to get their issues resolved instantly. With a complete feature set and an affordable price tag, the help desk support will improve the efficiency of your business. You can transform your cost center to a revenue center.

How It Works:

Create an unlimited amount of departments. Your customers can then log help desk requests to specific departments, it allows administrator to create technician accounts with limited acces to specific departments or provide them with default department wide access.
Hot Help Deskt offers a fully features support portal for your customers, allowing them to submit support requests through web form, Your customers can also submit file attachments with tickets.
A customer can submit ticket by sending a email. Incoming emails can be turned into support tickets automatically. As soon as the message is received on your pop3 server it will appear in the technician's ticket queue. Responses to email notifications are appended to the history of the corresponding existing tickets.

Customers can open, view and modify tickets through web site, eliminating the need for them to sit on the phone on hold waiting for a technician to take their information. Automated e-mail alerts will keep them up to date on ticket progress, greatly shortening response time when action is required on their part. If customer is not satisfied with technician service, he can submit complaint to administrator.

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

5th Bar----that collects information about mobile phones, cell phone companies, and accessories from members and sources all over the world

What Company Is Offering:
5th Bar is an advertisement free, member supported community that collects information about mobile phones, cell phone companies, and accessories from members and sources all over the world. The goal of this site is to organize and collect in one place for you all this diverse information, presenting it in a new easy to digest way, so you can get to the bottom line quickly.

How It Works:

If you add a new phone or accessory to the system, something that is not possible on traditional cell phone websites, the 5th bar will immediately go out and start tracking and collecting information on that new device.5th bar is not a carrier, manufacturer, or retailer and so they don't have a conflict of interest in trying to sell you any particular device or one that might exceed your needs or budget.

More at:http://www.5thbar.com/

Gajeebo is a huge collection of website information

What Company Is Offering:
Gajeebo is a huge collection of website information. It is an effort towards assisting internet surfing. It provides information of websites such as its content, current ratings and review.

Unique Features:

The Top 5 Websites are selected based on ratings by their members and displayed under respective categories on the home page.
Search Websites - You have the option to search a website and find its in depth information as user reviews, ratings and content. Make Gajeebo your Homepage.
Add New Website Links.
Members can rate and express their opinions about a website.
Members can choose the way they wish to display categories on different pages.
Members can choose to display their favorite 5 websites under each category.

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

USAspending.gov---allows visitors to search for information about federal assistance, including grants, loans, insurance, etc

What Company Is Offering:
USAspending.gov, a re-launch of www.federalspending.gov, provides this information to the public, as collected from federal agencies, in an easy to use website. The data is largely from sources: the Federal Procurement Data System, which contains information about federal contracts; and the Federal Assistance Award Data System, which contains information about federal financial assistance such as grants, loans, insurance, and direct subsidies like Social Security.

How It Works:
The Assistance tab of USAspending.gov allows visitors to search for information about federal assistance, including grants, loans, insurance, etc. Navigation links on the left side of this page function as the main navigation interface for users. Currently, visitors can search three main categories: by grant recipient, by place of performance, and by granting agency.

Recipient searches can be performed by simply entering a search term in the cell and clicking go. Search for all recipients that include a search term by simply entering an asterisk before the term. The sidebar also provides quick tables for Top 100 Recipients per year, as well as award totals based on the state or congressional district location of the recipients (which is not necessarily where the money is actually spent). The advanced search allows users to modify a simple name search with other factors such as amount of total award amount, type of recipient, etc.

Location searches allow users to find out how much money is being spent in a location. The sidebar permits quick searches by states. The advanced search uses counties, cities as well as other search modifiers.

Agency searches can be done by either selecting a major agency from the sidebar menu or by selecting a year total for an agency from the "Overview by Major Agency" table. Advanced search allows you to modify you search by changing factors such as the year, type of award granted, type of recipient, etc. The advanced search also allows you to search for sub-offices within major agencies and departments as well as minor agencies such as the Federal Communications Commission or the National Endowment for the Arts.
More at:http://www.usaspending.gov/

vzaar provides a simple and fast way for eBay sellers to upload videos of their products and services to enhance their listings

What Company Is Offering:
vzaar provides a simple and fast way for eBay sellers to upload videos of their products and services to enhance their listings. Unlike other services, vzaar is designed for video ecommerce.

How It Works:
vzaar enables buyers to get a clear look at what they are purchasing and watch it in action. vzaar makes it easy for sellers to add video into their listings, drive bids and move more inventory. And unlike still images or slideshows, videos have audio, enabling sellers to communicate more effectively, describe their services and inspire trust.

vzaar has helped sellers in the beta program sell items ranging from a backhoe to jet skis, diamonds to art, and guitars to comics. vzaar was the first company to enable video listings on eBay UK.

"Videos provide sellers with a distinct advantage in the competitive eBay market, but it has always been a challenge trying to add videos to listings," said Ken Moss, CEO of vzaar. "Unlike other video solutions designed for entertainment, we built vzaar specifically for video commerce. Once buyers and sellers first see a video-enabled eBay listing, they want them for all listings."

How Is It Different:
vzaar is designed for video commerce. When a YouTube video ends, it drives viewers to watch another user’s video. When a vzaar video ends, it prompts viewers to bid on the item. Also, the vzaar player contains vital information that YouTube does not: seller feedback and bidding time left on the auction.
vzaar’s technology can be integrated and used to deliver video to other online businesses, big or small.

More at:http://vzaar.com/

CONTEMPOZINE - the definitive guide to style for the modern man

What Company Is Offering:
CONTEMPOZINE - the definitive guide to style for the modern man, is an online style magazine and shopping guide for the style aware contemporary man. CONTEMPOZINE features the hottest trends and the coolest products in men's fashion, home furnishings and lifestyle products. No product appears here unless it meets our high standard of design, style and utility excellence.

How It Works:

Contempozine provides a centralized staff of style pickers that do the job for you. Searching across the Internet finding the most fashion forward
product and delivering them directly to you.


They features cool watches, stylish shoes, fashionable jeans, t-shirts and just about anything else to accent your life with flair and an unique style. Women also find value in the site as a tool to find great gifts for their significant other or men in their life.

They scours the net each day to find the most fashionable and stylish products for the contemporary man. If you are not great at fashion or simply don’t have the time, then this is the place to go. www.contempozine.com has a cutting edge, irreverent voice and is all about self expression for the modern man. They employ a rigorous process on finding products that are up to our high standard.

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

Content providers are overlooking the needs of many ....

Content providers are overlooking the needs of many of today's Internet users, according to a new Burst Media study. The online survey, conducted in February 2008 of more than 13,000 web users 18 years or older, found a majority of Internet users 45 years
and older believe that online content, as well as website design and online advertising is skewed toward younger web users.

The Burst survey found that young web users between the ages of 18-24 years and 25-34 years are most likely to say online content is focused on people their age (76.0% and 73.9%). Additionally, more than one-half (55.7%) of respondents 35-44 years perceive online content to be focused toward their age segment.

Starting with the "Young Boomer" segment (45-54 years) there is a precipitous decline in the number of respondents who say Internet content is focused toward people their age. In fact, within this age segment only one in three (35.4%) believe online content is focused on people their own age. Only one in five (18.9%) respondents 55 years and older say Internet content is primarily focused on people their age. Additionally, three-quarters (77.7%) of respondents 45 years and older believe online advertising is not targeted towards them, and focuses on younger audiences.

The Burst survey also revealed several interesting findings about different demographic segments' perceptions of the online marketplace. These include:

-- Disparity in Usability: The Burst survey revealed that website usability is an issue for older web users. For sites drawing an audience 45 and older, simple navigation and design is critical for retaining those consumers.

-- Loss of Connectivity Devastating at any Age: The one truth across all ages is that the Internet has become an integral part of their everyday life. Two-thirds (67.7%) of respondents said that their daily routine would be disrupted if they could not access the Internet for a week, with 42.9% saying that they would be significantly impacted.

-- Expanded Universe of Sites: Overall, three out of five (59.6%) of respondents are visiting more web sites in a typical week than they were one year ago. An expanded catalog of sites visited is not only a phenomenon of the young; in fact, 62.8% of respondents 55 years and older say they are visiting more sites today in a typical week of web surfing than they were one year ago.

"The Internet is the proverbial big tent - made up of lots of audience segments with differing content interests," said Jarvis Coffin, CEO of Burst Media. "A major audience segment, such as adults over 45, should not be crying out for content. Clearly there is an opportunity for talented web publishers to develop engaging content that resonates with older web audiences. Likewise, there is also an opportunity for advertisers - older audiences are using the Internet and it makes senses for marketers keen on reaching them to seriously consider the web to deliver their advertising message."

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

Birdiegolfpga.com offers everything that the serious golfer needs at discounts

What Company Is Offering:

Birdiegolfpga.com offers everything that the serious golfer needs. Discounts vary but include equipment, Golf lessons, as well as travel to exotic golf courses. This golfer friendly website also offers free Golf videos for those who want that little extra help without paying for lessons with a pro.

BirdieGolfpga.com website . They have developed this website to allow you to get to know their products and services a bit better , as well as make all of their information available to you 24 hours a day .

They will continue to add product and company information to this site on a weekly basis so if you don't find what you're looking for please check back often .

The website was launched in early March by President of JLB Global Marketing & Sales. James Bate of White Lake, MI; states that, “We have assembled the best products and Largest Discount Suppliers for you, all on one web site for your convenience. Feel free to check all our suppliers for the very best prices and hottest deals anywhere.”


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

NYRentClub.com is an online community of New Yorkers where members rate and review NYC rental brokers and receive personal matches

What Company Is Offering:

NYRentClub.com is an online community of New Yorkers where members rate and review NYC rental brokers and receive personal matches to quality brokers who meet their specific criteria. There is no cost to the renters -- in fact they can get a $50 bonus check when they sign a qualifying lease. Additionally, renters receive a minimum 20% discount off their traditional broker fee.

How It Works:

NYRentClub provides agents with filtered referrals. You can choose to help prospective renters based on their move date, property type, region, credit, and rent range. Update your preferences any time.


Membership as an agent offers you a steady stream of quality referrals. In exchange for this referral source, agents provide members a discount broker fee. Think about it. 5 filtered referrals at 12% are better than 5 walk-ins at 15%. Our users want to use an agent, and they don’t waste agents’ time.



You must provide them with at least 3 tenant references. Your referees will rate your service out of 5 stars and provide a comment. Members of NYRentClub will rate and review agents' service from that point on. The better your service, the higher you’ll rank on system, and the more referrals you will receive. Additional agents are only added to our system as demand to service the prospective tenants increases.

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