What Company Is Offering:
ConcertAttack.com is a place to share videos, pictures and reviews of live music events and concerts. It's also a great place to make new friends based off your musical tastes.
ConcertAttack.com is the number one online community for sharing your concert reviews, pictures and videos. Think Myspace/FaceBook meets YouTube, flickr and Fandango.com but, focused solely on concerts.
How It Works:
They are a Concert Experience Archive and Concert News Outlet. That means they organize your concert reviews, tour journals, pictures and videos by artist and concert date which, makes them easy to find and makes them part of history. When you post your concert pictures of your favorite artists just in your Myspace profile or Facebook, that makes it hard for other fans to find them and comment on them. On those kinds of sites it is difficult to share pictures and reviews of the concert you went to with fellow fans outside your network because they won't be able to find or access them. Post your concert content here and you won't have to search thousands of web pages and social network profiles to find out about what's going on at your favorite artists' concerts and you will be able to easily share your concert stuff with fellow fans.
More at:http://www.concertattack.com/
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Market Lodge represents a significant opportunity for vendors of all types of products
What Company Is Offering:
Market Lodge represents a significant opportunity for vendors of all types of products to rapidly connect with and sell to the 1.2 BILLION members of social networks. Market Lodge technology enables members of social networks to rapidly create personalized market places in their own online space. Members then leverage their own personal social network of friends, family and colleagues to present and sell your products.
How It Works;
Market Lodge has helped vendors across the United States and in Canada sell thousands of products to customers across the United States (including Alaska and Hawaii).They creates the perfect sales channel for your products! It is highly targeted. Your products are seen by people who share interest, enthusiasm and even product knowledge. Using open APIs (application programming interface) made available by Google for many social networks including MySpace and Linked in and other open networks like Facebook, we bring your products directly to the millions of social network members. And, they leverage their connections to enable your products to be seen by the perfect target market – people who are interested in what you offer!
The system offers you the ability to have complete control over your inventory. Even if you have a very limited item with say as few as five on-hand products you can enter that number and the system will automatically delete the product from the network when those are sold. If you have unlimited inventory that’s fine also. This works for small vendors with a few specialized products and for large vendors with thousands of on-hand products.
More at;http://www.themarketlodge.com/
Market Lodge represents a significant opportunity for vendors of all types of products to rapidly connect with and sell to the 1.2 BILLION members of social networks. Market Lodge technology enables members of social networks to rapidly create personalized market places in their own online space. Members then leverage their own personal social network of friends, family and colleagues to present and sell your products.
How It Works;
Market Lodge has helped vendors across the United States and in Canada sell thousands of products to customers across the United States (including Alaska and Hawaii).They creates the perfect sales channel for your products! It is highly targeted. Your products are seen by people who share interest, enthusiasm and even product knowledge. Using open APIs (application programming interface) made available by Google for many social networks including MySpace and Linked in and other open networks like Facebook, we bring your products directly to the millions of social network members. And, they leverage their connections to enable your products to be seen by the perfect target market – people who are interested in what you offer!
The system offers you the ability to have complete control over your inventory. Even if you have a very limited item with say as few as five on-hand products you can enter that number and the system will automatically delete the product from the network when those are sold. If you have unlimited inventory that’s fine also. This works for small vendors with a few specialized products and for large vendors with thousands of on-hand products.
More at;http://www.themarketlodge.com/
Slicethepie enables artists to raise money directly from their fans to professionally record and release an album
What Company Is Offering:
Slicethepie enables artists to raise money directly from their fans to professionally record and release an album.
How It Works:
Artists sign up, upload their profile and join an Arena. When the Arena is full (up to 1,000 Artists) the Scout Room opens.
Music fans earn money scouting each track at least 10 times rating it 1-10 and writing detailed reviews.
The 20 highest rated artists from the Scout Room go forward to the Showcase.
Music fans vote for and finance Showcase Artists by buying Backstage Passes.
Backstage Passes give fans exclusive access to the artist, participation in the recording process, a free copy of the album and exclusive rights to buy Contracts in the artist at a discount.
Fans buy Contracts that entitle them to a return based on the number of singles and albums sold by the Artist over a 2 year period
The Artist receives the money (non-recoupable) and goes off to record the album, keeping in close contact with Backstage Pass holders in a private area of the site.
The Contracts become fully tradable on the Slicethepie Exchange, fluctuating in value depending on the anticipated number of album and single sales.
The album is released and Slicethepie receives £2 royalty on every album sale.
The Artist keeps all their copyright and publishing rights and remains free to sign a record deal at any time.
More at:http://www.slicethepie.com/
Slicethepie enables artists to raise money directly from their fans to professionally record and release an album.
How It Works:
Artists sign up, upload their profile and join an Arena. When the Arena is full (up to 1,000 Artists) the Scout Room opens.
Music fans earn money scouting each track at least 10 times rating it 1-10 and writing detailed reviews.
The 20 highest rated artists from the Scout Room go forward to the Showcase.
Music fans vote for and finance Showcase Artists by buying Backstage Passes.
Backstage Passes give fans exclusive access to the artist, participation in the recording process, a free copy of the album and exclusive rights to buy Contracts in the artist at a discount.
Fans buy Contracts that entitle them to a return based on the number of singles and albums sold by the Artist over a 2 year period
The Artist receives the money (non-recoupable) and goes off to record the album, keeping in close contact with Backstage Pass holders in a private area of the site.
The Contracts become fully tradable on the Slicethepie Exchange, fluctuating in value depending on the anticipated number of album and single sales.
The album is released and Slicethepie receives £2 royalty on every album sale.
The Artist keeps all their copyright and publishing rights and remains free to sign a record deal at any time.
More at:http://www.slicethepie.com/
ELASTRA Is to provide companies building applications a way to radically innovate the way they develop their products
What Company Is Offering:
ELASTRA’s mission is to provide companies building applications a way to radically innovate the way they develop their products and deliver them on IT infrastructure.
How It Works:
Their customers shorten their application life-cycles, and bring better products to market more quickly and efficiently, while gaining better utilization of both infrastructure software and hardware. They enable their customers to do this by significantly simplifying and automating how they architect, deploy, manage and pay for their database and application infrastructure.
Their customers unlock the value of cloud computing by using virtualized hardware environments with cloud-provisioned database and infrastructure software that are easily configurable and do not require scripting, respond elastically to changing load and are delivered in the cloud with meter-based pricing. We believe wherever possible in leveraging industry-standard software and open software languages that our customers already know how to use and providing them with the flexibility of leveraging the cloud provider of their choice, be it public or their own private clouds or both.
Ultimately, the end result is to make application operations as easy as uploading applications and instantly turning them on — while simplifying the complex process of architecting, scaling and managing the underlying infrastructure software and eliminating the capital-intensive investments dictated by traditional software and hardware pricing models.
More at:http://www.elastra.com/
ELASTRA’s mission is to provide companies building applications a way to radically innovate the way they develop their products and deliver them on IT infrastructure.
How It Works:
Their customers shorten their application life-cycles, and bring better products to market more quickly and efficiently, while gaining better utilization of both infrastructure software and hardware. They enable their customers to do this by significantly simplifying and automating how they architect, deploy, manage and pay for their database and application infrastructure.
Their customers unlock the value of cloud computing by using virtualized hardware environments with cloud-provisioned database and infrastructure software that are easily configurable and do not require scripting, respond elastically to changing load and are delivered in the cloud with meter-based pricing. We believe wherever possible in leveraging industry-standard software and open software languages that our customers already know how to use and providing them with the flexibility of leveraging the cloud provider of their choice, be it public or their own private clouds or both.
Ultimately, the end result is to make application operations as easy as uploading applications and instantly turning them on — while simplifying the complex process of architecting, scaling and managing the underlying infrastructure software and eliminating the capital-intensive investments dictated by traditional software and hardware pricing models.
More at:http://www.elastra.com/
buzvia ----To track clicks from both incoming and outgoing links, giving you credit in the process
What Company Is Offering:
The buzvia system was developed to track clicks from both incoming and outgoing links, giving you credit in the process.
buzvia is a system that is created and programmed by i3DS International Corporation, a company that has been in business for well over a decade offering a host of customized services from 3D animation to dynamic programming.
How Is It Different:
All links within buzvia DO NOT have a “no-follow” as you are not paying for the links, this will help increase your Google PR and spread the word about your site to others. The more you use buzvia, the more links coming from your website will appear in the statistics of other sites, promoting your potential business even more. For example, if you are a corporation that sells tires and you create a buzvia link to five manufacturers, they will see that they got direct traffic from your site from the first click on.
Statistics get updated every half-hour and are based on a per month basis. Their buzboat, which searches for claimed domains, goes out every two hours and sends back an e-mail to those who have successfully claimed a domain. The members only area has a pulldown to allow you to see stats on a per month and year basis, meaning if you joined this month, it's quite possible you already have data from the previous months.
More at:http://www.buzvia.com/
The buzvia system was developed to track clicks from both incoming and outgoing links, giving you credit in the process.
buzvia is a system that is created and programmed by i3DS International Corporation, a company that has been in business for well over a decade offering a host of customized services from 3D animation to dynamic programming.
How Is It Different:
All links within buzvia DO NOT have a “no-follow” as you are not paying for the links, this will help increase your Google PR and spread the word about your site to others. The more you use buzvia, the more links coming from your website will appear in the statistics of other sites, promoting your potential business even more. For example, if you are a corporation that sells tires and you create a buzvia link to five manufacturers, they will see that they got direct traffic from your site from the first click on.
Statistics get updated every half-hour and are based on a per month basis. Their buzboat, which searches for claimed domains, goes out every two hours and sends back an e-mail to those who have successfully claimed a domain. The members only area has a pulldown to allow you to see stats on a per month and year basis, meaning if you joined this month, it's quite possible you already have data from the previous months.
More at:http://www.buzvia.com/
An online community of trade show exhibitors, marketing directors, event coordinators
What Company Is Offering:
An online community of trade show exhibitors, marketing directors, event coordinators and anyone that wants to know more about exhibiting at tradeshows.
How It Works:
They’re here to help you find the answers to your tradeshow questions.
Feel free to ask any questions that are trade show related or have to do with exhibiting at conventions, show services forms, exhibit displays, graphics or services and they’ll post both your question and any answers others in the trade show industry may have.
More at:http://www.tradeshowhelp.org/
An online community of trade show exhibitors, marketing directors, event coordinators and anyone that wants to know more about exhibiting at tradeshows.
How It Works:
They’re here to help you find the answers to your tradeshow questions.
Feel free to ask any questions that are trade show related or have to do with exhibiting at conventions, show services forms, exhibit displays, graphics or services and they’ll post both your question and any answers others in the trade show industry may have.
More at:http://www.tradeshowhelp.org/
Undertone Networks, an Intercept Interactive company, is a premier online advertising network got funding
What Company Is Offering:
Undertone Networks, an Intercept Interactive company, is a premier online advertising network comprised of today's top media properties. Undertone provides online solutions that help advertisers achieve their brand and performance-based initiatives via a comprehensive selection of ad formats, rich media, targeting capabilities and personalized service. The company is headquartered in New York and has offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Undertone Networks, a premium online advertising network, announced that it has received a strategic investment from JMI Equity. JMI, a private equity firm exclusively focused on investments in growing software and business services companies, will work closely with Undertone's management team to help the company continue to grow, deliver innovative services to its clients and create opportunities for its employees. As part of the transaction, Brad Woloson, a General Partner at JMI, has joined Undertone's Board of Directors. ORIX Venture Finance led the financing for the transaction. Terms of the investment were not disclosed.
Working with leading traditional and digital advertising agencies and their clients, Undertone executes and strategically manages online advertising campaigns that allow clients to maximize their return on investment. The funding from JMI will enable Undertone to accelerate new product development and research, and further expand its presence in both U.S. and international markets. Currently, Undertone has offices in seven major media markets across the U.S. and offers a full suite of interactive advertising solutions that include video, behavioral targeting and high impact ad solutions across a collection of the Internet's most well known and regarded Web properties.
More at: www.undertonenetworks.com
Undertone Networks, an Intercept Interactive company, is a premier online advertising network comprised of today's top media properties. Undertone provides online solutions that help advertisers achieve their brand and performance-based initiatives via a comprehensive selection of ad formats, rich media, targeting capabilities and personalized service. The company is headquartered in New York and has offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Undertone Networks, a premium online advertising network, announced that it has received a strategic investment from JMI Equity. JMI, a private equity firm exclusively focused on investments in growing software and business services companies, will work closely with Undertone's management team to help the company continue to grow, deliver innovative services to its clients and create opportunities for its employees. As part of the transaction, Brad Woloson, a General Partner at JMI, has joined Undertone's Board of Directors. ORIX Venture Finance led the financing for the transaction. Terms of the investment were not disclosed.
Working with leading traditional and digital advertising agencies and their clients, Undertone executes and strategically manages online advertising campaigns that allow clients to maximize their return on investment. The funding from JMI will enable Undertone to accelerate new product development and research, and further expand its presence in both U.S. and international markets. Currently, Undertone has offices in seven major media markets across the U.S. and offers a full suite of interactive advertising solutions that include video, behavioral targeting and high impact ad solutions across a collection of the Internet's most well known and regarded Web properties.
More at: www.undertonenetworks.com
Vindicia offers an integrated, on-demand billing and fraud management solution for online merchants has secured $5.6 million
What Company Is Offering:
Vindicia offers an integrated, on-demand billing and fraud management solution for online merchants. Vindicia CashBox is a best-of-breed billing system for creating and managing recurring and real-time payments and helps merchants improve customer retention and maximize profit. Vindicia ChargeGuard provides automated fraud screening and chargeback management services that enable merchants to recover lost revenue.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Vindicia, a leading provider of on-demand payment management software, announced that it has secured $5.6 million in series C financing. Leader Ventures co-led the financing in partnership with existing investor, DCM. Vindicia has raised a total of $8.7 million in equity since its inception.
Vindicia also announced that it has added a fraud screening module to its solution, enabling online merchants to adopt the more sophisticated commerce models required to build revenue (see related release, "Vindicia Delivers Next-Generation Billing and Fraud Management Offering for Online Merchants.") The Vindicia fraud screening module helps merchants identify and manage true fraud while limiting revenue-inhibiting "false positives." By optimizing the true fraud chargeback rate, merchants can focus on growing customer acquisition rates.
About VCs:
1.
Leader Ventures is a private investment firm providing debt and equity financing to a diversified portfolio of private and public companies. With offices in San Francisco and Menlo Park, the firm invests primarily in the U.S. and employs a variety of loan and equity structures to invest in companies at different developmental stages, across diverse industry segments. For more information, please visit www.leaderventures.com.
2.
DCM is an early stage venture capital firm supporting entrepreneurs building world-class technology companies. The firm's partners manage US$1.6 billion and have funded leading technology companies including 2Wire, 51job, @Motion (Openwave), About.com (The New York Times Co.), All About, Arroyo (Cisco), Clearwire, Dang Dang, eDreams (TA), Foundry Networks, HireRight, Internap, IPivot (Intel), JCI, Neopath Networks (Cisco), Neutral Tandem, nQuire (Siebel), PGP Corporation, Recourse Technologies (Symantec), Sigmatel, SMIC, Sling Media (EchoStar), VanceInfo and Vimicro. DCM offers hands-on operational guidance and access to an extensive network of resources, including close relationships with many of the Pacific Rim's leading companies and investors. For more information, visit www.dcm.com.
More at: www.vindicia.com
Vindicia offers an integrated, on-demand billing and fraud management solution for online merchants. Vindicia CashBox is a best-of-breed billing system for creating and managing recurring and real-time payments and helps merchants improve customer retention and maximize profit. Vindicia ChargeGuard provides automated fraud screening and chargeback management services that enable merchants to recover lost revenue.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Vindicia, a leading provider of on-demand payment management software, announced that it has secured $5.6 million in series C financing. Leader Ventures co-led the financing in partnership with existing investor, DCM. Vindicia has raised a total of $8.7 million in equity since its inception.
Vindicia also announced that it has added a fraud screening module to its solution, enabling online merchants to adopt the more sophisticated commerce models required to build revenue (see related release, "Vindicia Delivers Next-Generation Billing and Fraud Management Offering for Online Merchants.") The Vindicia fraud screening module helps merchants identify and manage true fraud while limiting revenue-inhibiting "false positives." By optimizing the true fraud chargeback rate, merchants can focus on growing customer acquisition rates.
About VCs:
1.
Leader Ventures is a private investment firm providing debt and equity financing to a diversified portfolio of private and public companies. With offices in San Francisco and Menlo Park, the firm invests primarily in the U.S. and employs a variety of loan and equity structures to invest in companies at different developmental stages, across diverse industry segments. For more information, please visit www.leaderventures.com.
2.
DCM is an early stage venture capital firm supporting entrepreneurs building world-class technology companies. The firm's partners manage US$1.6 billion and have funded leading technology companies including 2Wire, 51job, @Motion (Openwave), About.com (The New York Times Co.), All About, Arroyo (Cisco), Clearwire, Dang Dang, eDreams (TA), Foundry Networks, HireRight, Internap, IPivot (Intel), JCI, Neopath Networks (Cisco), Neutral Tandem, nQuire (Siebel), PGP Corporation, Recourse Technologies (Symantec), Sigmatel, SMIC, Sling Media (EchoStar), VanceInfo and Vimicro. DCM offers hands-on operational guidance and access to an extensive network of resources, including close relationships with many of the Pacific Rim's leading companies and investors. For more information, visit www.dcm.com.
More at: www.vindicia.com
Publish2 is an online news aggregation platform has raised $2.75 million in their Series A financing
What Company Is Offering:
Publish2 is an online news aggregation platform, designed to empower the world's journalists to discover, organize, and rank the most important news -- to benefit their own reporting, their newsrooms, and all news consumers on the web. Co-founded in 2007 by Scott Karp and Robert Young, Publish2 is backed by Velocity Interactive Group and is based in Reston, Virginia. Publish2's board of directors includes Velocity partners Jonathan Miller and Ross Levinsohn, as well as Jeff Jarvis of Buzzmachine.com and Luke Beatty, founder and President of Associated Content, Inc. Publish2 is also advised by a group of influential journalists and journalism innovators.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Publish2, Inc. announced it has raised $2.75 million in their Series A financing from Velocity Interactive Group, a leading global digital media and communications investment firm. Co-founded by Scott Karp and Robert Young, Publish2 is an online news aggregation platform, designed to empower the world's journalists to discover, organize, and rank the most important news -- to benefit their own reporting, their newsrooms, and all news consumers on the web. The site has been in stealth mode and is now in private Beta.
The money raised will be used to accelerate Publish2’s strategic growth initiatives, including hiring key team members, completing development of the technology platform, and making Publish2 an indispensable tool for a critical mass of journalists, editors, and newsrooms.
About VCs:
Velocity Interactive Group is a leading investment firm that focuses on digital media and communications. The firm brings a unique approach to investing by bringing not just financial capital, but also human capital to its investment companies. Velocity Interactive Group has a global presence in Palo Alto, Los Angeles, New York, India and China.www.velocityig.com
More at:www.publish2.com
Publish2 is an online news aggregation platform, designed to empower the world's journalists to discover, organize, and rank the most important news -- to benefit their own reporting, their newsrooms, and all news consumers on the web. Co-founded in 2007 by Scott Karp and Robert Young, Publish2 is backed by Velocity Interactive Group and is based in Reston, Virginia. Publish2's board of directors includes Velocity partners Jonathan Miller and Ross Levinsohn, as well as Jeff Jarvis of Buzzmachine.com and Luke Beatty, founder and President of Associated Content, Inc. Publish2 is also advised by a group of influential journalists and journalism innovators.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Publish2, Inc. announced it has raised $2.75 million in their Series A financing from Velocity Interactive Group, a leading global digital media and communications investment firm. Co-founded by Scott Karp and Robert Young, Publish2 is an online news aggregation platform, designed to empower the world's journalists to discover, organize, and rank the most important news -- to benefit their own reporting, their newsrooms, and all news consumers on the web. The site has been in stealth mode and is now in private Beta.
The money raised will be used to accelerate Publish2’s strategic growth initiatives, including hiring key team members, completing development of the technology platform, and making Publish2 an indispensable tool for a critical mass of journalists, editors, and newsrooms.
About VCs:
Velocity Interactive Group is a leading investment firm that focuses on digital media and communications. The firm brings a unique approach to investing by bringing not just financial capital, but also human capital to its investment companies. Velocity Interactive Group has a global presence in Palo Alto, Los Angeles, New York, India and China.www.velocityig.com
More at:www.publish2.com
NetSquared----Remixing The Web For Social Change
What Company Is Offering:
Their mission is to spur responsible adoption of social web tools by social benefit organizations. There's a whole new generation of online tools available – tools that make it easier than ever before to collaborate, share information and mobilize support. These tools include blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, podcasting, and more. Some people describe them as "Web 2.0"; they call them the social web, because their power comes from the relationships they enable.Non-profits and NGOs thrive on relationships – which means the social web holds tremendous potential to transform their effectiveness and impact. They want to help you build the strategic capacity, knowledge and skills you need to put these powerful new online tools to work achieving positive changes.
More at:http://www.netsquared.org/
Their mission is to spur responsible adoption of social web tools by social benefit organizations. There's a whole new generation of online tools available – tools that make it easier than ever before to collaborate, share information and mobilize support. These tools include blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, podcasting, and more. Some people describe them as "Web 2.0"; they call them the social web, because their power comes from the relationships they enable.Non-profits and NGOs thrive on relationships – which means the social web holds tremendous potential to transform their effectiveness and impact. They want to help you build the strategic capacity, knowledge and skills you need to put these powerful new online tools to work achieving positive changes.
More at:http://www.netsquared.org/
Sermo enables you to exchange medical knowledge with your colleagues instantaneously
What Company is Offering:
Sermo enables you to exchange medical knowledge with your colleagues instantaneously, and even send postings to colleagues who are not members of the community.
Once you are part of the Sermo community, you are free to discuss any topic relevant to the medical community, ask questions, monitor physicians observations, comment on postings, use keywords to search for information, search for postings within your specialty, submit an image to the community, bookmark and track your favorite postings, tell others how relevant you think a posting really is.
How It Works:
Sermo's clients will use data collected from the Sermo system to help forecast potential problems or new uses for commercially significant medical products and therapies, gain early insight into outbreaks and other changes in disease states and conditions that can affect the public health, perform epidemiologic research investigations, survey the opinion of practicing physicians on topics related to medical care, assess the success and adoption of best practice recommendations, look for opportunities to improve medical practice, and protect and promote patient safety and the public health.
Sermo doesn't presume the relative value of any piece of information. They leave it up to their clients to perceive that value and assign a dollar value on any piece of information that reflects their interest in a particular topic. Clients use it to further their goals and get information, the same way physicians use it to get their questions answered. By maintaining system availability to all different parties it creates a more diverse community. So all kinds of different ideas are afforded potential value as opposed to being given a pre-assigned market value. It is truly grassroots.
More at:http://www.sermo.com/
Sermo enables you to exchange medical knowledge with your colleagues instantaneously, and even send postings to colleagues who are not members of the community.
Once you are part of the Sermo community, you are free to discuss any topic relevant to the medical community, ask questions, monitor physicians observations, comment on postings, use keywords to search for information, search for postings within your specialty, submit an image to the community, bookmark and track your favorite postings, tell others how relevant you think a posting really is.
How It Works:
Sermo's clients will use data collected from the Sermo system to help forecast potential problems or new uses for commercially significant medical products and therapies, gain early insight into outbreaks and other changes in disease states and conditions that can affect the public health, perform epidemiologic research investigations, survey the opinion of practicing physicians on topics related to medical care, assess the success and adoption of best practice recommendations, look for opportunities to improve medical practice, and protect and promote patient safety and the public health.
Sermo doesn't presume the relative value of any piece of information. They leave it up to their clients to perceive that value and assign a dollar value on any piece of information that reflects their interest in a particular topic. Clients use it to further their goals and get information, the same way physicians use it to get their questions answered. By maintaining system availability to all different parties it creates a more diverse community. So all kinds of different ideas are afforded potential value as opposed to being given a pre-assigned market value. It is truly grassroots.
More at:http://www.sermo.com/
Jivox is a web-based video advertising service enabling businesses to better communicate their products and services
What Company Is Offering:
Jivox online video advertising is a powerful new way to tell your customers about your business beyond the visual and geographic limitations of search engines and banners.Jivox is a web-based video advertising service enabling businesses to better communicate their products and services to a micro-targeted audience in a more customized, relevant way than most traditional mass advertising methods, and internet banners and search engines. Jivox is headquartered in San Mateo, California with offices in Bangalore and Delhi in India.
How It Works:
With Jivox, you can easily create Free professional video advertisements for your business with music, visuals, and more. Through the exclusive Jivox network your ad will appear "on the digital air." Jivox pinpoints the sites your customers go to in the markets you need to reach them. You only pay for the actual sites where your video ad runs.
Who Is Backing Them:
Diaz Nesamoney founder of Jivox has had two prior successful ventures. Before founding Jivox, he founded Celequest, raised over $20M in venture capital, and served as its CEO until early 2007, when the company was acquired by Cognos Corporation. Celequest introduced the market’s first BI appliance, a disruptive innovation that led to its acquisition by Cognos.
He was previously co-founder, President and Chief Operating Officer at Informatica (NASDAQ:INFA), which he took from a startup to a publicly traded company in 1999 with a market capitalization of over a billion dollars. Informatica pioneered data integration software as a category and is now the market leader with over $400M in revenue.
Diaz is a trustee of the American India Foundation, a leading international development organization charged with the mission of accelerating social and economic change in India.
More at:http://www.jivox.com/
Jivox online video advertising is a powerful new way to tell your customers about your business beyond the visual and geographic limitations of search engines and banners.Jivox is a web-based video advertising service enabling businesses to better communicate their products and services to a micro-targeted audience in a more customized, relevant way than most traditional mass advertising methods, and internet banners and search engines. Jivox is headquartered in San Mateo, California with offices in Bangalore and Delhi in India.
How It Works:
With Jivox, you can easily create Free professional video advertisements for your business with music, visuals, and more. Through the exclusive Jivox network your ad will appear "on the digital air." Jivox pinpoints the sites your customers go to in the markets you need to reach them. You only pay for the actual sites where your video ad runs.
Who Is Backing Them:
Diaz Nesamoney founder of Jivox has had two prior successful ventures. Before founding Jivox, he founded Celequest, raised over $20M in venture capital, and served as its CEO until early 2007, when the company was acquired by Cognos Corporation. Celequest introduced the market’s first BI appliance, a disruptive innovation that led to its acquisition by Cognos.
He was previously co-founder, President and Chief Operating Officer at Informatica (NASDAQ:INFA), which he took from a startup to a publicly traded company in 1999 with a market capitalization of over a billion dollars. Informatica pioneered data integration software as a category and is now the market leader with over $400M in revenue.
Diaz is a trustee of the American India Foundation, a leading international development organization charged with the mission of accelerating social and economic change in India.
More at:http://www.jivox.com/
Quamut Is the most comprehensive how-to guide available on any subject
What Company Is Offering:
Quamut takes on subjects big and small and presents them on concise printable charts that you can take anywhere. Want a compact, well-organized guide to how to knit, play the harmonica, or watch football? Only Quamut has it.
How It Works:
Every Quamut chart is written by an expert, reviewed by a fact-checker, and produced by their editorial team at Barnes & Noble's headquarters in New York, all of which helps to make their content authoritative, consistent and reliable. All of their guides are springboards toward a more in-depth discussion of the topic. Their wiki features enable each Quamut to expand into the most comprehensive how-to guide available on any subject.
More at:http://www.quamut.com/
Quamut takes on subjects big and small and presents them on concise printable charts that you can take anywhere. Want a compact, well-organized guide to how to knit, play the harmonica, or watch football? Only Quamut has it.
How It Works:
Every Quamut chart is written by an expert, reviewed by a fact-checker, and produced by their editorial team at Barnes & Noble's headquarters in New York, all of which helps to make their content authoritative, consistent and reliable. All of their guides are springboards toward a more in-depth discussion of the topic. Their wiki features enable each Quamut to expand into the most comprehensive how-to guide available on any subject.
More at:http://www.quamut.com/
Boxxet brings together the "best of" news, blogs, videos, photos, gear and much more on your favorite subjects
What Company Is Offering:
Boxxet (pronounced "box set") brings together the "best of" news, blogs, videos, photos, gear and much more on your favorite subjects. For the things you care about (teams, hobbies, interests, schools, towns, etc), Boxxet's unique combination of computer automation and community participation produces the most diverse and complete best-of compilations.
How It Works:
Any contribution you can make, however small, will produce a better Boxxet for you and your fellow readers. From rating items to submitting stories, ideas or links of your own, Boxxet wants you to be part of the Boxxet. Go to your favorite Boxxet and get started!.
More at:http://www.boxxet.com/
Boxxet (pronounced "box set") brings together the "best of" news, blogs, videos, photos, gear and much more on your favorite subjects. For the things you care about (teams, hobbies, interests, schools, towns, etc), Boxxet's unique combination of computer automation and community participation produces the most diverse and complete best-of compilations.
How It Works:
Any contribution you can make, however small, will produce a better Boxxet for you and your fellow readers. From rating items to submitting stories, ideas or links of your own, Boxxet wants you to be part of the Boxxet. Go to your favorite Boxxet and get started!.
More at:http://www.boxxet.com/
Evolvist is the online resource for smarter, more sustainable living
What Company Is Offering:
Evolvist is the online resource for smarter, more sustainable living. So many of us want to do the right thing, but simply don’t know where to begin. Evolvist makes it simple to find the best businesses and worthy organizations committed to shaping a more environmentally and socially responsible society. Evolvist operates as an interactive and dynamic directory, helping you find and share businesses and organizations—from delis to dry cleaners, from financial advisors to farmers markets, from spas to solar-installers—who commit to sustainability and social responsibility.
How It Works:
Find local resources. Search existing listings using keywords, names, and terms, or browse local listings by categories. You'll get relevant results of all the businesses and organizations fitting your search or browse parameters.
Get specific. Drill down into your results by location, or filter further by a set of relevant “eco-labels,” each representative of a biz' s specific sustainable offerings.
Geo-locate. Maps will show you right where everything is, so that you can find what's most convenient.
Learn more. Click on a listing to learn all about the biz in question, and find out exactly what they do, what products or services they offer, and read what others have to say about them.
Share. Send listings to friends and family who you think would want to know about them.
Rinse, repeat. Browse or search anew from any results or listing page from the convenient navigation banner up top.
More at:http://www.evolvist.com/
Evolvist is the online resource for smarter, more sustainable living. So many of us want to do the right thing, but simply don’t know where to begin. Evolvist makes it simple to find the best businesses and worthy organizations committed to shaping a more environmentally and socially responsible society. Evolvist operates as an interactive and dynamic directory, helping you find and share businesses and organizations—from delis to dry cleaners, from financial advisors to farmers markets, from spas to solar-installers—who commit to sustainability and social responsibility.
How It Works:
Find local resources. Search existing listings using keywords, names, and terms, or browse local listings by categories. You'll get relevant results of all the businesses and organizations fitting your search or browse parameters.
Get specific. Drill down into your results by location, or filter further by a set of relevant “eco-labels,” each representative of a biz' s specific sustainable offerings.
Geo-locate. Maps will show you right where everything is, so that you can find what's most convenient.
Learn more. Click on a listing to learn all about the biz in question, and find out exactly what they do, what products or services they offer, and read what others have to say about them.
Share. Send listings to friends and family who you think would want to know about them.
Rinse, repeat. Browse or search anew from any results or listing page from the convenient navigation banner up top.
More at:http://www.evolvist.com/
Monday, March 31, 2008
Online Dating Site---For Animal Lovers
What Company Is Offering:
Geared towards single pet owners and animal lovers, the online dating website offers instant messaging with webcam, graphic intense unique chat rooms, e mails, flirts, searches by region, age, animals and breeds, blogs, forums and an online magazine on pets and dating. Sign up now... it's free and The Right Breed is also offering the potential to win one year's worth of pet food. A site like this is long overdue.
How It Works:
Founder Cindy Novak is looking to give back by starting up an adoption service where those less fortunate (aka seriously ill children, veterans, the elderly and the disabled) will have the opportunity to adopt pets. By assisting with the costs of immunizations and the first year's worth of food, both affection starved animals and those in need of some loyal companionship will benefit.
In addition, the first 60 days have complete and open usage of all the site's features. After that, the cost is only 14.99/month of which a portion will go to sponsor the adoption program. Plans for a VIP membership offering additional features such as mobile technology and unlimited virtual gifts will be offered in the coming months for a few dollars more. Money well spent.
More at;www.therightbreed.com
Geared towards single pet owners and animal lovers, the online dating website offers instant messaging with webcam, graphic intense unique chat rooms, e mails, flirts, searches by region, age, animals and breeds, blogs, forums and an online magazine on pets and dating. Sign up now... it's free and The Right Breed is also offering the potential to win one year's worth of pet food. A site like this is long overdue.
How It Works:
Founder Cindy Novak is looking to give back by starting up an adoption service where those less fortunate (aka seriously ill children, veterans, the elderly and the disabled) will have the opportunity to adopt pets. By assisting with the costs of immunizations and the first year's worth of food, both affection starved animals and those in need of some loyal companionship will benefit.
In addition, the first 60 days have complete and open usage of all the site's features. After that, the cost is only 14.99/month of which a portion will go to sponsor the adoption program. Plans for a VIP membership offering additional features such as mobile technology and unlimited virtual gifts will be offered in the coming months for a few dollars more. Money well spent.
More at;www.therightbreed.com
Ficstar develops powerful, innovative solutions that help organizations
What Company Is Offering:
Ficstar develops powerful, innovative solutions that help organizations quickly, accurately, and cost-effectively capture and save information from targeted web sites. With robust software and comprehensive consulting services, they deliver effective, fully-customized solutions designed to meet any web data extraction need.Ficstar Web Grabber can extract data from nearly any web site – including eCommerce sites, member list directories, search engines, and others.
How It Works:
Web Grabber collects both static and dynamic content from web pages, then converts it into a text file, Excel spreadsheet, or any database format. And, its fully-customizable, to ensure fast, simple extraction from any target web site.
Web Grabber empowers you to extract web content more efficiently and accurately than ever before. You can instantly capture and store the content you need – quickly, easily, and error-free!
Their web data extraction technology enables organizations to quickly and easily get the results they want.
More at:http://www.ficstar.com/
Ficstar develops powerful, innovative solutions that help organizations quickly, accurately, and cost-effectively capture and save information from targeted web sites. With robust software and comprehensive consulting services, they deliver effective, fully-customized solutions designed to meet any web data extraction need.Ficstar Web Grabber can extract data from nearly any web site – including eCommerce sites, member list directories, search engines, and others.
How It Works:
Web Grabber collects both static and dynamic content from web pages, then converts it into a text file, Excel spreadsheet, or any database format. And, its fully-customizable, to ensure fast, simple extraction from any target web site.
Web Grabber empowers you to extract web content more efficiently and accurately than ever before. You can instantly capture and store the content you need – quickly, easily, and error-free!
Their web data extraction technology enables organizations to quickly and easily get the results they want.
More at:http://www.ficstar.com/
DonorDrive is a suite of simple to use tools to manage, mine, target and grow your constituency for raising awareness and donations
What Company Is Offering:
A Web-based software service designed to increase the development capacity of non-profit organizations. DonorDrive is a suite of simple to use tools to manage, mine, target and grow your constituency for raising awareness and donations.
How It Works:
Efficiently manage any event or capital campaign. Participant, ticketing or fundraising events are easy to setup and operate. Quickly increase online donations and giving for any development initiative.
Search and manage all constituent data with ease. Track donation activity, event registrations, marketing communications and contact information. Run constituent specific reports, filter data and export on-demand.
Mine and manage your data with simple to read charts, graphs and reports. Capture meaningful trends and statistics as well as easily filter and export your data in multiple formats. Printer friendly views and other useful features.
Create, manage and track targeted e-mail campaigns. Segment constituent lists by profiles, preferences and behaviors. Build your brand and distribute relevant content to your constituency with the highest e-mail deliverability rates.
More at;http://www.donordrive.com/
A Web-based software service designed to increase the development capacity of non-profit organizations. DonorDrive is a suite of simple to use tools to manage, mine, target and grow your constituency for raising awareness and donations.
How It Works:
Efficiently manage any event or capital campaign. Participant, ticketing or fundraising events are easy to setup and operate. Quickly increase online donations and giving for any development initiative.
Search and manage all constituent data with ease. Track donation activity, event registrations, marketing communications and contact information. Run constituent specific reports, filter data and export on-demand.
Mine and manage your data with simple to read charts, graphs and reports. Capture meaningful trends and statistics as well as easily filter and export your data in multiple formats. Printer friendly views and other useful features.
Create, manage and track targeted e-mail campaigns. Segment constituent lists by profiles, preferences and behaviors. Build your brand and distribute relevant content to your constituency with the highest e-mail deliverability rates.
More at;http://www.donordrive.com/
Darrb----It is an online marketplace that connects people that want to send an item from one location to another
What Company Is Offering:
Darrb means “way” in Arabic. It is an online marketplace that connects people that want to send an item from one location to another with people who are willing to offer the delivery service and earn an income as a return. Is summary, Darrb is EBay for delivery.
How It Works:
When users auction their deliveries, deliverers (Darrbers) compete with each other by offering the lowest price and fastest delivery time in order to win the bid. This will ensure that users get the best rates and fastest delivery service.In order to ensure quality, competitive rates and speediness, users will be able to rank the service of the Darrbers once the deal is done. This ranking system will allow the public to see how other people, that have used the service of a specific Darrber, found the quality, price and speed of the delivery.
Like many auction related marketplaces, Darrb shows all bids participated to a delivery order. What Darrb does extra is it sorts the bids as per the lowest price or fastest delivery period announced by the Darrber. This means that if two Darrbers participated in a delivery order and both had similar prices, the user can sort the bids based on time (delivery duration) rather than cost. At the end of the auction, the user could choose the Darrber who best fits his requirement.
Any delivery service consists of three main factors:- Price, Time & quality of service. This sorting would give the user the best match of the first two factors, and the last factor would be known from the feedback and rating system.
More at:http://www.darrb.com/
Darrb means “way” in Arabic. It is an online marketplace that connects people that want to send an item from one location to another with people who are willing to offer the delivery service and earn an income as a return. Is summary, Darrb is EBay for delivery.
How It Works:
When users auction their deliveries, deliverers (Darrbers) compete with each other by offering the lowest price and fastest delivery time in order to win the bid. This will ensure that users get the best rates and fastest delivery service.In order to ensure quality, competitive rates and speediness, users will be able to rank the service of the Darrbers once the deal is done. This ranking system will allow the public to see how other people, that have used the service of a specific Darrber, found the quality, price and speed of the delivery.
Like many auction related marketplaces, Darrb shows all bids participated to a delivery order. What Darrb does extra is it sorts the bids as per the lowest price or fastest delivery period announced by the Darrber. This means that if two Darrbers participated in a delivery order and both had similar prices, the user can sort the bids based on time (delivery duration) rather than cost. At the end of the auction, the user could choose the Darrber who best fits his requirement.
Any delivery service consists of three main factors:- Price, Time & quality of service. This sorting would give the user the best match of the first two factors, and the last factor would be known from the feedback and rating system.
More at:http://www.darrb.com/
An ultra high security password generator.
What Company Is Offering:
Generating long, high-quality random passwords is
not simple. So here is some totally random raw
material, generated just for YOU, to start with.
Their server generates a unique set of custom, high quality, cryptographic-strength password strings which are safe for you to use.
How It Works;
Click your web browser's "refresh" button a few times and watch the password strings change each time.
Every one is completely random (maximum entropy) without any pattern, and the cryptographically-strong pseudo random number generator we use guarantees that no similar strings will ever be produced again.
These password strings are just for you. No one else can ever see them or get them. You may safely take these strings as they are, or use chunks from several to build your own if you prefer, or do whatever you want with them. Each set displayed are totally, uniquely yours — forever.
More at:https://www.grc.com/
Generating long, high-quality random passwords is
not simple. So here is some totally random raw
material, generated just for YOU, to start with.
Their server generates a unique set of custom, high quality, cryptographic-strength password strings which are safe for you to use.
How It Works;
Click your web browser's "refresh" button a few times and watch the password strings change each time.
Every one is completely random (maximum entropy) without any pattern, and the cryptographically-strong pseudo random number generator we use guarantees that no similar strings will ever be produced again.
These password strings are just for you. No one else can ever see them or get them. You may safely take these strings as they are, or use chunks from several to build your own if you prefer, or do whatever you want with them. Each set displayed are totally, uniquely yours — forever.
More at:https://www.grc.com/
Omeka is a web platform for publishing collections and exhibitions online
What Company Is Offering:
Omeka is a web platform for publishing collections and exhibitions online. Designed for cultural institutions, enthusiasts, and educators, Omeka is easy to install and modify and facilitates community-building around collections and exhibits. It is designed with non-IT specialists in mind, allowing users to focus on content rather than programming.
How It Works:
Enable users to publish web content with a system that is low-cost and easy-to-use.Omeka offers users professional-looking design themes that showcase collections and eliminate the need to hire outside designers. CHNM also plans to offer a hosted version by 2009 for those who cannot run Omeka on their own servers.
Provide users with a standards-based, interoperable system that allows them to share and use digital content in multiple contexts.
Facilitate users, in particular cultural institutions, engaging their publics and building communities around objects and primary sources.
More at:http://omeka.org/
Omeka is a web platform for publishing collections and exhibitions online. Designed for cultural institutions, enthusiasts, and educators, Omeka is easy to install and modify and facilitates community-building around collections and exhibits. It is designed with non-IT specialists in mind, allowing users to focus on content rather than programming.
How It Works:
Enable users to publish web content with a system that is low-cost and easy-to-use.Omeka offers users professional-looking design themes that showcase collections and eliminate the need to hire outside designers. CHNM also plans to offer a hosted version by 2009 for those who cannot run Omeka on their own servers.
Provide users with a standards-based, interoperable system that allows them to share and use digital content in multiple contexts.
Facilitate users, in particular cultural institutions, engaging their publics and building communities around objects and primary sources.
More at:http://omeka.org/
ChickSpeak is an organization for young women created to inspire Big Dreams, Strong Values and Success in the world
What Company Is Offering:
ChickSpeak is an organization for young women created to inspire Big Dreams, Strong Values and Success in the world.
Their website exists to be the most entertaining and engaging reflection of women’s life in college, while also providing the support and information necessary to stay healthy, grounded and achieve great heights while in school and well after graduation.
How It Works:
They are your voice- your interests and passions, your unique journey and experiences.
Updated daily articles are written by women currently in college and cover everything from health and beauty, to relationships, travel, entertainment and much more. They also feature guest writers and columnists who are recognized experts in their fields and who act as advisers to our members. Members can post comments on articles and build relationships with other members and the ChickSpeak Team through forums, personal blogs and private messaging.
More at:http://chickspeak.com/
ChickSpeak is an organization for young women created to inspire Big Dreams, Strong Values and Success in the world.
Their website exists to be the most entertaining and engaging reflection of women’s life in college, while also providing the support and information necessary to stay healthy, grounded and achieve great heights while in school and well after graduation.
How It Works:
They are your voice- your interests and passions, your unique journey and experiences.
Updated daily articles are written by women currently in college and cover everything from health and beauty, to relationships, travel, entertainment and much more. They also feature guest writers and columnists who are recognized experts in their fields and who act as advisers to our members. Members can post comments on articles and build relationships with other members and the ChickSpeak Team through forums, personal blogs and private messaging.
More at:http://chickspeak.com/
Soskod.com is an online freelancer project-service exchange portal
What Company Is Offering:
Soskod.com is an online freelancer project-service exchange portal. We provide different popular job scope so our freelancers enjoy sourcing for valued projects. Our clients (service buyers) successfully reduce their project development cost but with quality services and on the other hand our freelancers (service providers) keep on earn from our portal.
How It Works:
Service Buyer is people who post up their project in order for freelancers to bid on it. Service Provider is freelancer who interested in bidding project, provide service to service buyer.
As you know, most complicated projects are not belongs to any single category. They may be required both "Banner Creation", "Logo Design", "PHP server side language", and even "Symfony Framework" for the whole project development. That's why their project posting system designed to allow you to clearly define the behavior of your project which can be easily identify the project scope by freelancers.
"win-project-bid" mail with service buyer contact information will deliver to service provider after the service buyer picked the provider.
Their system designed to separate PM (Private Message) function with bid system so that as a service provider can has enough information on project before placing their bid. And for Bid system, each service provider has maximum 3 bids for each project to maintain the fair-play of the bid game.
More at:http://www.soskod.com/
Soskod.com is an online freelancer project-service exchange portal. We provide different popular job scope so our freelancers enjoy sourcing for valued projects. Our clients (service buyers) successfully reduce their project development cost but with quality services and on the other hand our freelancers (service providers) keep on earn from our portal.
How It Works:
Service Buyer is people who post up their project in order for freelancers to bid on it. Service Provider is freelancer who interested in bidding project, provide service to service buyer.
As you know, most complicated projects are not belongs to any single category. They may be required both "Banner Creation", "Logo Design", "PHP server side language", and even "Symfony Framework" for the whole project development. That's why their project posting system designed to allow you to clearly define the behavior of your project which can be easily identify the project scope by freelancers.
"win-project-bid" mail with service buyer contact information will deliver to service provider after the service buyer picked the provider.
Their system designed to separate PM (Private Message) function with bid system so that as a service provider can has enough information on project before placing their bid. And for Bid system, each service provider has maximum 3 bids for each project to maintain the fair-play of the bid game.
More at:http://www.soskod.com/
UnWired Buyer 2.0 is an interactive service that allows eBay buyers and sellers to connect with eBay auctions
What Company Is Offering:
UnWired Buyer 2.0 is an interactive service that allows eBay buyers and sellers to connect with eBay auctions in the critical final minutes from any mobile phone or PC. eBay shoppers are now able to determine how they want to be notified about an ending auction (email, phone call, or both) and where they want to place their bids (PC or mobile phone).
How It Works:
After you have registered, UnWired Buyer automatically synchronizes with your "My eBay Watch List" watched auctions and auctions on which you have bid on. Items on your list are then monitored, and if they meet criteria you have set, for target price, etc. you are called on them in the final minutes of the auction. You then enter your PIN and are able to bid as if you were logged into eBay on your computer.
UnWired Buyer helps sellers by allowing buyers to bid from their computer or mobile phone so they don't miss the end of an auction. UnWired Buyer brings more buyers to your auction in the closing minutes, driving more bids for your items. In addition, you can signup for the service and monitor auction activity in real-time from your PC or via your mobile phone. Bottom line, your get more bidders, more bids and more revenue.
More at:https://www.unwiredbuyer.com/
UnWired Buyer 2.0 is an interactive service that allows eBay buyers and sellers to connect with eBay auctions in the critical final minutes from any mobile phone or PC. eBay shoppers are now able to determine how they want to be notified about an ending auction (email, phone call, or both) and where they want to place their bids (PC or mobile phone).
How It Works:
After you have registered, UnWired Buyer automatically synchronizes with your "My eBay Watch List" watched auctions and auctions on which you have bid on. Items on your list are then monitored, and if they meet criteria you have set, for target price, etc. you are called on them in the final minutes of the auction. You then enter your PIN and are able to bid as if you were logged into eBay on your computer.
UnWired Buyer helps sellers by allowing buyers to bid from their computer or mobile phone so they don't miss the end of an auction. UnWired Buyer brings more buyers to your auction in the closing minutes, driving more bids for your items. In addition, you can signup for the service and monitor auction activity in real-time from your PC or via your mobile phone. Bottom line, your get more bidders, more bids and more revenue.
More at:https://www.unwiredbuyer.com/
NowTorrents is an advanced real-time search engine for bit-torrents
What Company Is Offering:
NowTorrents is an advanced real-time search engine for bit-torrents. They do not host any torrents on NowTorrents, we just make them findable. Their software scans the largest torrent hosting websites on the internet and comes up with the best results from these websites. NowTorrents is also able to detect and remove fake/dead torrents! In the near future we will also add categories and more advanced search features.
What Is BitTorrent :
BitTorrent (often abbreviated to 'BT') is a protocol (a set of rules and description of how to do things) allowing you to download files quickly by allowing people downloading the file to upload (distribute) parts of it at the same time. BitTorrent is often used for distribution of very large files, very popular files and files available for free, as it is a lot cheaper, faster and more efficient to distribute files using BitTorrent than a regular download.
More at:http://www.nowtorrents.com/
NowTorrents is an advanced real-time search engine for bit-torrents. They do not host any torrents on NowTorrents, we just make them findable. Their software scans the largest torrent hosting websites on the internet and comes up with the best results from these websites. NowTorrents is also able to detect and remove fake/dead torrents! In the near future we will also add categories and more advanced search features.
What Is BitTorrent :
BitTorrent (often abbreviated to 'BT') is a protocol (a set of rules and description of how to do things) allowing you to download files quickly by allowing people downloading the file to upload (distribute) parts of it at the same time. BitTorrent is often used for distribution of very large files, very popular files and files available for free, as it is a lot cheaper, faster and more efficient to distribute files using BitTorrent than a regular download.
More at:http://www.nowtorrents.com/
Bid4Vid provides a trusted, secure environment for connecting buyers and producers
What Company Is Offering:
They’re a marketplace for creative services, particularly video production. Bid4Vid provides a trusted, secure environment for connecting buyers and producers. The site lets you find talented producers or quality jobs, track a project’s progress, keep a record of all communications on the site and use a private workspace to manage your project.
How It Works:
If you’re a buyer, Bid4Vid is the easiest, most affordable way to get a high-quality video made in a specific geographical area. The video can be an ad, promotion, documentary, digital story — almost anything.
If you’re a producer, it’s a way to earn money — no matter where you’re located. Bid4Vid provides a convenient way to find work and make a living with your skills without the expense and hassle of marketing yourself.
A buyer is anyone who posts a project for people to bid on.
A producer is anyone — professional, semi-pro or amateur — who can create a good-looking video or other media. Don’t confuse the term with traditional media’s narrow definition of a producer. Here it means anyone who can create a polished media work.
More at:http://www.bid4vid.com/
They’re a marketplace for creative services, particularly video production. Bid4Vid provides a trusted, secure environment for connecting buyers and producers. The site lets you find talented producers or quality jobs, track a project’s progress, keep a record of all communications on the site and use a private workspace to manage your project.
How It Works:
If you’re a buyer, Bid4Vid is the easiest, most affordable way to get a high-quality video made in a specific geographical area. The video can be an ad, promotion, documentary, digital story — almost anything.
If you’re a producer, it’s a way to earn money — no matter where you’re located. Bid4Vid provides a convenient way to find work and make a living with your skills without the expense and hassle of marketing yourself.
A buyer is anyone who posts a project for people to bid on.
A producer is anyone — professional, semi-pro or amateur — who can create a good-looking video or other media. Don’t confuse the term with traditional media’s narrow definition of a producer. Here it means anyone who can create a polished media work.
More at:http://www.bid4vid.com/
LeagueSafe---Fantasy League Finance Mangment
What Company Is Offering:
Simply put, they're a fantasy commissioner's best friend. They eliminate the hassle of managing league entry fees and payouts by automating the entire process. League members pay their dues using one of our convenient and 100 percent safe and secure online payment options. League funds are held safely in an FDIC-insured account at our partner bank and distributed in accordance with league rules at season's end.
How It Works:
LeagueSafe allows your league to deposit and withdraw funds several different ways, including options without fees. They encourage you to walk through the setup process, and see for yourself. After you pay your entry fee, your funds are secured all season long at one of our two FDIC-insured partner banks, U.S. Bank or The Bancorp Bank. Think of LeagueSafe as a type of escrow account for your league's fantasy funds. They're controlled by a third party and can't be released unless you and your league members vote to allow the funds to be dispersed in accordance with your league's rules at the end of the season.
Your entry fee is deposited in an account at LeagueSafe’s FDIC-insured partner bank. From your league homepage, you can track your balance and the status of all other owners' accounts in your league. At the end of the season, you have the power to ratify your winners’ payouts.
If you have a checking account, you can use e-check to deposit funds. It’s as easy as using a credit card for an online transaction — you just type in your checking account information and the funds are transmitted electronically via a 100 percent safe and secure online transaction.
More at:https://www.leaguesafe.com/
Simply put, they're a fantasy commissioner's best friend. They eliminate the hassle of managing league entry fees and payouts by automating the entire process. League members pay their dues using one of our convenient and 100 percent safe and secure online payment options. League funds are held safely in an FDIC-insured account at our partner bank and distributed in accordance with league rules at season's end.
How It Works:
LeagueSafe allows your league to deposit and withdraw funds several different ways, including options without fees. They encourage you to walk through the setup process, and see for yourself. After you pay your entry fee, your funds are secured all season long at one of our two FDIC-insured partner banks, U.S. Bank or The Bancorp Bank. Think of LeagueSafe as a type of escrow account for your league's fantasy funds. They're controlled by a third party and can't be released unless you and your league members vote to allow the funds to be dispersed in accordance with your league's rules at the end of the season.
Your entry fee is deposited in an account at LeagueSafe’s FDIC-insured partner bank. From your league homepage, you can track your balance and the status of all other owners' accounts in your league. At the end of the season, you have the power to ratify your winners’ payouts.
If you have a checking account, you can use e-check to deposit funds. It’s as easy as using a credit card for an online transaction — you just type in your checking account information and the funds are transmitted electronically via a 100 percent safe and secure online transaction.
More at:https://www.leaguesafe.com/
Fame Experiment
What Company Says:
Fame Experiment! This isn't a reality show, there's nothing particularly special about anyone who takes part in the experiment, but they're all interested in one thing, the power of the internet to generate fame.
How It Works:
It works on the idea that one person, if seen over and over again in a multitude of places, could experience public recognition, or become “famous”. The aim is for this person’s image to be everywhere, and for that image to become embedded in internet users’ thoughts so that to see this person in public will trigger an “I know you” moment.
There are two phases to the experiment, both equally important:
Phase 1 is about getting the word out about the Fame Experiment. If you have a website, a blog, post on forums, or even email others, it is easy to participate.
By selecting the Earn Fame Points link after logging in, you will be given a choice of special code that you can place on your website, blog, forum or email signature. These links will generate an image linking to the Fame Experiment website, that when clicked on by others, will add to your Fame Points. These points contribute to the final selection of the subject. To find out how visit the FAQ page.
Phase 2 begins by selecting the winning "subject" and publicizing them to the large network of sites participating in the experiment.
From the moment the second phase begins, all images displayed on these sites will be changed to include an image of the selected subject, with a link back to the Fame Experiment where the subject's profile will be featured. During this phase, the subject will be encouraged to investigate any difference in public perception, and reflect upon this on their Fame Experiment blog.
Any clicks earnt during Phase 2 will be considerably higher than usual and contibute to a likely second experiment.
More at:http://www.fameexperiment.com/
Fame Experiment! This isn't a reality show, there's nothing particularly special about anyone who takes part in the experiment, but they're all interested in one thing, the power of the internet to generate fame.
How It Works:
It works on the idea that one person, if seen over and over again in a multitude of places, could experience public recognition, or become “famous”. The aim is for this person’s image to be everywhere, and for that image to become embedded in internet users’ thoughts so that to see this person in public will trigger an “I know you” moment.
There are two phases to the experiment, both equally important:
Phase 1 is about getting the word out about the Fame Experiment. If you have a website, a blog, post on forums, or even email others, it is easy to participate.
By selecting the Earn Fame Points link after logging in, you will be given a choice of special code that you can place on your website, blog, forum or email signature. These links will generate an image linking to the Fame Experiment website, that when clicked on by others, will add to your Fame Points. These points contribute to the final selection of the subject. To find out how visit the FAQ page.
Phase 2 begins by selecting the winning "subject" and publicizing them to the large network of sites participating in the experiment.
From the moment the second phase begins, all images displayed on these sites will be changed to include an image of the selected subject, with a link back to the Fame Experiment where the subject's profile will be featured. During this phase, the subject will be encouraged to investigate any difference in public perception, and reflect upon this on their Fame Experiment blog.
Any clicks earnt during Phase 2 will be considerably higher than usual and contibute to a likely second experiment.
More at:http://www.fameexperiment.com/
Jobsplay is an online Social Recruitment site
What Company Is Offering:
Jobsplay is an online Social Recruitment site, it has all of the features required for a community to grow around the concept of advancing people's careers through connecting with the right people.
How It Works:
It has a Job board embedded into the heart of it allowing people to be alerted to the latest job opportunities that match their skills and location. This also makes it far easier for Recruiters to find the people they are looking for in the right locations. Searches can be done by skills, location, salary expectations and all viewed on a map with travel times to the location of the role you are researching.
The site isn't just a job board though, it is a useful site for people who are happy in their current roles but are just interested in talking to other people from around the world. If you don't want to be contacted about positions then mark yourself as not looking for work and you won't be able to be found by recruiters. All contact from recruiters comes through the site as your email address is never given out, that way once you have found your perfect job you can just switch yourself to not looking for work and all contact will stop. No more phone calls and emails about jobs you just aren't interested in.
More at:http://www.jobsplay.com/
Jobsplay is an online Social Recruitment site, it has all of the features required for a community to grow around the concept of advancing people's careers through connecting with the right people.
How It Works:
It has a Job board embedded into the heart of it allowing people to be alerted to the latest job opportunities that match their skills and location. This also makes it far easier for Recruiters to find the people they are looking for in the right locations. Searches can be done by skills, location, salary expectations and all viewed on a map with travel times to the location of the role you are researching.
The site isn't just a job board though, it is a useful site for people who are happy in their current roles but are just interested in talking to other people from around the world. If you don't want to be contacted about positions then mark yourself as not looking for work and you won't be able to be found by recruiters. All contact from recruiters comes through the site as your email address is never given out, that way once you have found your perfect job you can just switch yourself to not looking for work and all contact will stop. No more phone calls and emails about jobs you just aren't interested in.
More at:http://www.jobsplay.com/
Lexposure.net is the first social and business platform custom-built for people in the fashion and creative scenes
What Company Is Offering:
Lexposure.net is the first social and business platform custom-built for people in the fashion and creative scenes. They designed it to be the leading networking and information website for the fashion and creative scene. Whether you're a photographer, model, designer, hair or makeup artist, editor, booker or producer - anyone can have his own account on Lexposure.net. Elegant, intuitive and easy to use, Lexposure.net is where work connects with your online life and your ideas come alive.
How It Works:
Users can upload portfolios, share information and link with potential partners. They can check individual activity feeds, featured members and wall posts in user profiles or mini portfolios, and communicate through the message centre, forum and pro forum or their friends' and partners' networks.
All across town and all round the world, connection is everything. Lexposure.net aims to be the main juncture for agencies, production companies, models, photographers, stylists, artists, designers and others, influencing trends, ideas and the market. Updated daily, Lexposure.net offers the highest quality collection of photos of catwalks, campaigns, new faces, promising talent, hot looks and chic parties from around the world. A growing library of 80,000 fully printable and searchable pictures, intelligently tagged, provide all you need to know. Lexposure.net gets you backstage on the fashion circuit. The faces and stories behind the big campaigns become visible. Lexposure.net is a sleek, fast and high-impact update on the people, places and issues that matter.
More at:http://www.lexposure.net/
Lexposure.net is the first social and business platform custom-built for people in the fashion and creative scenes. They designed it to be the leading networking and information website for the fashion and creative scene. Whether you're a photographer, model, designer, hair or makeup artist, editor, booker or producer - anyone can have his own account on Lexposure.net. Elegant, intuitive and easy to use, Lexposure.net is where work connects with your online life and your ideas come alive.
How It Works:
Users can upload portfolios, share information and link with potential partners. They can check individual activity feeds, featured members and wall posts in user profiles or mini portfolios, and communicate through the message centre, forum and pro forum or their friends' and partners' networks.
All across town and all round the world, connection is everything. Lexposure.net aims to be the main juncture for agencies, production companies, models, photographers, stylists, artists, designers and others, influencing trends, ideas and the market. Updated daily, Lexposure.net offers the highest quality collection of photos of catwalks, campaigns, new faces, promising talent, hot looks and chic parties from around the world. A growing library of 80,000 fully printable and searchable pictures, intelligently tagged, provide all you need to know. Lexposure.net gets you backstage on the fashion circuit. The faces and stories behind the big campaigns become visible. Lexposure.net is a sleek, fast and high-impact update on the people, places and issues that matter.
More at:http://www.lexposure.net/
Sunday, March 30, 2008
2threads is a community media and news website that combines social networking with community generated content and editorial content
What Company Is Offering:
2threads is a community media and news website that combines social networking with community generated content and editorial content. You can use 2threads to explore, interact, connect and contribute with the community and its content. The community has a fondness for all things fashion, music, lifestyle news, photos and video.
How Is It Different:
They believe we are part of the next generation of social networking and internet media destinations.They distance themselves from the mainstream social networks and media properties by taking the focus away from profile pages and social mapping tools. Instead they focus on showcasing the contributions of the community along side the content of our international editorial team. These contributions come in the form of photo galleries, videos, news articles, product finds and music players. They are the platform and your co-producers.
More at:http://www.2threads.com/
2threads is a community media and news website that combines social networking with community generated content and editorial content. You can use 2threads to explore, interact, connect and contribute with the community and its content. The community has a fondness for all things fashion, music, lifestyle news, photos and video.
How Is It Different:
They believe we are part of the next generation of social networking and internet media destinations.They distance themselves from the mainstream social networks and media properties by taking the focus away from profile pages and social mapping tools. Instead they focus on showcasing the contributions of the community along side the content of our international editorial team. These contributions come in the form of photo galleries, videos, news articles, product finds and music players. They are the platform and your co-producers.
More at:http://www.2threads.com/
SlideRocket is a web application that provides everything you need to design professional
What Company Is Offering:
SlideRocket is a web application that provides everything you need to design professional quality presentations, manage and share libraries of slides and assets, and to deliver presentations in person or remotely over the web.
How It Works:
SlideRocket is a rich internet application that provides for every part of the presentation lifecycle. It integrates authoring, asset management, delivery and analytics tools into a single hosted environment that allows you to quickly create stunning presentations, intelligently manage your assets, securely share your slides, and measure the results.SlideRocket integrates flexible authoring, intelligent asset management, secure delivery and analytics tools in a single on demand application. SlideRocket allows you to quickly create stunning presentations, store, organize, tag and search your assets, collaborate with your colleagues, securely share your slides in person or remotely and measure the results, all in one integrated environment.
More at:http://www.sliderocket.com/
SlideRocket is a web application that provides everything you need to design professional quality presentations, manage and share libraries of slides and assets, and to deliver presentations in person or remotely over the web.
How It Works:
SlideRocket is a rich internet application that provides for every part of the presentation lifecycle. It integrates authoring, asset management, delivery and analytics tools into a single hosted environment that allows you to quickly create stunning presentations, intelligently manage your assets, securely share your slides, and measure the results.SlideRocket integrates flexible authoring, intelligent asset management, secure delivery and analytics tools in a single on demand application. SlideRocket allows you to quickly create stunning presentations, store, organize, tag and search your assets, collaborate with your colleagues, securely share your slides in person or remotely and measure the results, all in one integrated environment.
More at:http://www.sliderocket.com/
Zemanta is building a platform for assisted on-line content production for any web user
What Company Is Offring:
Zemanta is building a platform for assisted on-line content production for any web user. Thir solution is best demonstrated by taking a text (a blog, an article or a web page) and feeding it into their system. The system recognizes the content and returns suggested images, smart links, keywords and relevant related stories from the Internet. It can be referenced from a user's preferred content publishing platform through a simple plug-in.
For this reason they invest in the development of advanced user-friendly interfaces and smart technologies that can understand the content.
How It Works:
They index around 300 top media sources and numerous blogs of thir users.They analyze your post through our proprietary natural language processing and semantic algorithms, and statistically compare its context framework to thir preindexed database of other content.They provide tools for bloggers to make their work of gathering and filtering information easier. They enable a blogger to have his or her blog post 'spiced up' with just a few clicks.
They are suggested from Wikimedia Commons, Flickr and various stock photo providers. They are suggested based on contextual comparison of your text and the image's title, description and articles they were used in originally.
More at:http://www.zemanta.com/
Zemanta is building a platform for assisted on-line content production for any web user. Thir solution is best demonstrated by taking a text (a blog, an article or a web page) and feeding it into their system. The system recognizes the content and returns suggested images, smart links, keywords and relevant related stories from the Internet. It can be referenced from a user's preferred content publishing platform through a simple plug-in.
For this reason they invest in the development of advanced user-friendly interfaces and smart technologies that can understand the content.
How It Works:
They index around 300 top media sources and numerous blogs of thir users.They analyze your post through our proprietary natural language processing and semantic algorithms, and statistically compare its context framework to thir preindexed database of other content.They provide tools for bloggers to make their work of gathering and filtering information easier. They enable a blogger to have his or her blog post 'spiced up' with just a few clicks.
They are suggested from Wikimedia Commons, Flickr and various stock photo providers. They are suggested based on contextual comparison of your text and the image's title, description and articles they were used in originally.
More at:http://www.zemanta.com/
Fav2.0 is a modern way to use your most visited websites
What Company is Offring:
Fav2.0 is a modern way to use your most visited websites. Set it as homepage and add your most visited sites. It uses cookies to store your sites and settings. Set your browser's homepage to fav20.com to easily access what you added here. Open links in new window or same window. Shows/hides this help window.
More at:http://www.fav20.com/
Fav2.0 is a modern way to use your most visited websites. Set it as homepage and add your most visited sites. It uses cookies to store your sites and settings. Set your browser's homepage to fav20.com to easily access what you added here. Open links in new window or same window. Shows/hides this help window.
More at:http://www.fav20.com/
Wundrbar is a next generation search bar that lets you control your personal accounts
What Company Is Offering:
Wundrbar is a next generation search bar that lets you control your personal accounts and launch any kind of web search. For example, you can manage your online calendar, start a flight search, update your twitter status, and much more. And you can do it all from the same search bar.
How It Will Helpful:
They created Wundrbar to help you to use the web faster and more easily. If you're like us, you have personal accounts all over the place - Google Calendar, Netflix, Open Table, Paypal. All of these are great services, but sometimes it just takes a little too long, or is too much hassle, to open up Netflix to add that movie your friend recommended, or open up your calendar just to add that one event. And don't even get us started on flight searches - why in the heck do all those travel sites make us click twenty times just to start a flight search? All these things should be as simple as saying them. And that's exactly what they've tried to do with Wundrbar. Want to add a new event? Type "create drinks tonight 9pm with john". Want to rent that movie? Type "netflix superbad". Want to do a flight search? "Fly sfo nyc tomorrow return 3/30". Wundrbar is built to be intuitive and flexible, so you can enter commands in a whole variety of ways. No need to worry about syntax or formatting.
They're connected to several providers for travel searches involving flights, hotels, or cars. They're connected to a few personal services, including Google Calendar. And they're connected to a lot of simple services so you can do things like 'amazon harry potter' or 'ebay ipod'.
Wundrbar is built as a programmable framework, so that anyone can hook it into new services, and so that existing actions can be linked together in new ways.
In the meantime, if there is an action you think Wundrbar should perform, add it to the public wishlist. And while you're there, vote up the other ideas that you'd like to see implemented. They'll create some of the most popular actions, and soon you'll be able to create them to. And in fact, you'll get recognition for creating actions that are highly-requested!
Also: be sure to check out the Wundrbar Firefox toolbar and search plugin, so that you can use Wundrbar from anywhere on the web.
More at:http://www.wundrbar.com/
Wundrbar is a next generation search bar that lets you control your personal accounts and launch any kind of web search. For example, you can manage your online calendar, start a flight search, update your twitter status, and much more. And you can do it all from the same search bar.
How It Will Helpful:
They created Wundrbar to help you to use the web faster and more easily. If you're like us, you have personal accounts all over the place - Google Calendar, Netflix, Open Table, Paypal. All of these are great services, but sometimes it just takes a little too long, or is too much hassle, to open up Netflix to add that movie your friend recommended, or open up your calendar just to add that one event. And don't even get us started on flight searches - why in the heck do all those travel sites make us click twenty times just to start a flight search? All these things should be as simple as saying them. And that's exactly what they've tried to do with Wundrbar. Want to add a new event? Type "create drinks tonight 9pm with john". Want to rent that movie? Type "netflix superbad". Want to do a flight search? "Fly sfo nyc tomorrow return 3/30". Wundrbar is built to be intuitive and flexible, so you can enter commands in a whole variety of ways. No need to worry about syntax or formatting.
They're connected to several providers for travel searches involving flights, hotels, or cars. They're connected to a few personal services, including Google Calendar. And they're connected to a lot of simple services so you can do things like 'amazon harry potter' or 'ebay ipod'.
Wundrbar is built as a programmable framework, so that anyone can hook it into new services, and so that existing actions can be linked together in new ways.
In the meantime, if there is an action you think Wundrbar should perform, add it to the public wishlist. And while you're there, vote up the other ideas that you'd like to see implemented. They'll create some of the most popular actions, and soon you'll be able to create them to. And in fact, you'll get recognition for creating actions that are highly-requested!
Also: be sure to check out the Wundrbar Firefox toolbar and search plugin, so that you can use Wundrbar from anywhere on the web.
More at:http://www.wundrbar.com/
Mumboe offers secure solutions that make it easy to create, store, track and manage your important business agreements online
What Company Is Offering:
Mumboe offers secure solutions that make it easy to create, store, track and manage your important business agreements online.
How It Works:
Using Mumboe, business professionals can author new contracts, store them in a secure, central repository, grant authorized access to specific individuals, and quickly search for key contract information.
Getting started with Mumboe is easy. With Mumboe, there is no upfront commitment, no hardware or software to install, and no implementation cost. All you need is an Internet. Mumboe is available for a low monthly fee. There are no commitments, and you can cancel anytime. There’s even a free account version to help you get started. Compare the Mumboe products , then click on the one that’s right for your business for details.
More At:http://www.mumboe.com/
Mumboe offers secure solutions that make it easy to create, store, track and manage your important business agreements online.
How It Works:
Using Mumboe, business professionals can author new contracts, store them in a secure, central repository, grant authorized access to specific individuals, and quickly search for key contract information.
Getting started with Mumboe is easy. With Mumboe, there is no upfront commitment, no hardware or software to install, and no implementation cost. All you need is an Internet. Mumboe is available for a low monthly fee. There are no commitments, and you can cancel anytime. There’s even a free account version to help you get started. Compare the Mumboe products , then click on the one that’s right for your business for details.
More At:http://www.mumboe.com/
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Figuringout----To help you figure out what you need to do to achieve your true potential in your personal and professional goals
What Company Is Offering:
To help you figure out what you need to do to achieve your true potential in your personal and professional goals.
As a team of coaches their job satisfaction comes from helping others feel confident, assured and clear in who they are and what they can achieve.
They question, you talk and they listen to help you unravel your thoughts and identify options that you could take. They are independent to family and friends so they have no ulterior motive, they want what is best for you!
How It Works:
The coaching part of Figuring Out's service focuses on clarifying career goals, mastering interview techniques and learning new job search strategies, among other objectives. Such career coaching programmes can come in packages of three or more one-hour sessions in person or by phone or e-mail, and are priced on average between GBP 80 and GBP 100 per hour. The work experience portion of Figuring Out's services, however, is where clients can begin testing out their options. Tapping into its Striding Out network of businesses, Figuring Out identifies and connects clients with flexible, part-time work placement opportunities that can provide the right type of work experience for their needs. The work experience service is charged at an additional fee, depending on the range and type of placements required. The result, however, is a realistic, hands-on feel for what each career possibility would really be like.
Figuring Out is a sister company of Striding Out, a support network for entrepreneurs. It was through Striding Out that Figuring Out was born.
As a company they want to inspire and support their clients to make the right choices. They will keep you posted on relevant news and exciting opportunities which they feel will help you take the right steps.
More at:http://www.figuringout.co.uk/
To help you figure out what you need to do to achieve your true potential in your personal and professional goals.
As a team of coaches their job satisfaction comes from helping others feel confident, assured and clear in who they are and what they can achieve.
They question, you talk and they listen to help you unravel your thoughts and identify options that you could take. They are independent to family and friends so they have no ulterior motive, they want what is best for you!
How It Works:
The coaching part of Figuring Out's service focuses on clarifying career goals, mastering interview techniques and learning new job search strategies, among other objectives. Such career coaching programmes can come in packages of three or more one-hour sessions in person or by phone or e-mail, and are priced on average between GBP 80 and GBP 100 per hour. The work experience portion of Figuring Out's services, however, is where clients can begin testing out their options. Tapping into its Striding Out network of businesses, Figuring Out identifies and connects clients with flexible, part-time work placement opportunities that can provide the right type of work experience for their needs. The work experience service is charged at an additional fee, depending on the range and type of placements required. The result, however, is a realistic, hands-on feel for what each career possibility would really be like.
Figuring Out is a sister company of Striding Out, a support network for entrepreneurs. It was through Striding Out that Figuring Out was born.
As a company they want to inspire and support their clients to make the right choices. They will keep you posted on relevant news and exciting opportunities which they feel will help you take the right steps.
More at:http://www.figuringout.co.uk/
SemanticHacker $1M Innovators' Challenge
SHIC is a unique opportunity to be awarded for a significant contribution to identifying and jumpstarting a new semantic discovery application for TextWise.
The judging panel will be selectively choosing up to 3 award recipients. That recipient is awarded:
$100,000 immediate payout.
Development and rollout of the software prototype and/or business plan by TextWise
Become a part of the team.
Up to an additional $900,000 during the first year after the application is released .
To qualify for the Challenge, participants must submit:
Software Prototype OR
Business Plan OR
Both a Software Prototype and a Business Plan
as well as a complete Challenge Entry Form.
More at:http://www.semantichacker.com/challenge
The judging panel will be selectively choosing up to 3 award recipients. That recipient is awarded:
$100,000 immediate payout.
Development and rollout of the software prototype and/or business plan by TextWise
Become a part of the team.
Up to an additional $900,000 during the first year after the application is released .
To qualify for the Challenge, participants must submit:
Software Prototype OR
Business Plan OR
Both a Software Prototype and a Business Plan
as well as a complete Challenge Entry Form.
More at:http://www.semantichacker.com/challenge
Billeo --- makes all online transactions convenient, simple and secure
What Company Says:
Whether you're paying bills, shopping online or need help managing passwords, Billeo combines three great tools into one convenient package to make your online life easier and more secure.
How It Works:
It provides consumers a free service that makes all online transactions convenient, simple and secure. Powered by the largest biller directory in the industry, Billeo offers consumers the greatest flexibility in managing their online bills, as well as their passwords or any other information involved in online transactions. Online Banking report has recognized Billeo with the ePayment "Best of the Web" award.
Billeo is a venture-backed firm that brings innovative features to make the online lives of our consumers hassle free. Their product helps users make payments, record receipts and access their online world in a safe and secure fashion. They have been in business for nearly three years and continually reinvented and reviewed our products to better fit our consumers needs and requests.
More at:http://www.billeo.com/
Whether you're paying bills, shopping online or need help managing passwords, Billeo combines three great tools into one convenient package to make your online life easier and more secure.
How It Works:
It provides consumers a free service that makes all online transactions convenient, simple and secure. Powered by the largest biller directory in the industry, Billeo offers consumers the greatest flexibility in managing their online bills, as well as their passwords or any other information involved in online transactions. Online Banking report has recognized Billeo with the ePayment "Best of the Web" award.
Billeo is a venture-backed firm that brings innovative features to make the online lives of our consumers hassle free. Their product helps users make payments, record receipts and access their online world in a safe and secure fashion. They have been in business for nearly three years and continually reinvented and reviewed our products to better fit our consumers needs and requests.
More at:http://www.billeo.com/
Classtools.net----Create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash
What Company Is Offering:
Create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash!
Host them on your own blog, website or intranet!
How It Works:
Each template can be saved as a stand-alone HTML file or as a Widget that can be embedded into a blog or wiki - as long as it is non-commercial.The templates need to run "live" from the server. An internet connection is therefore needed.There is no charge for creating or using any of these templates.
More at:http://www.classtools.net/
Create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash!
Host them on your own blog, website or intranet!
How It Works:
Each template can be saved as a stand-alone HTML file or as a Widget that can be embedded into a blog or wiki - as long as it is non-commercial.The templates need to run "live" from the server. An internet connection is therefore needed.There is no charge for creating or using any of these templates.
More at:http://www.classtools.net/
Skimbit is a fun web tool that makes it easy to make complicated and social decisions
What Company is Offering:
Skimbit is a fun web tool that makes it easy to make complicated and social decisions. Skimbit helps you: gather research on a project (e.g. picking a holiday house, deciding on a wedding dress), collaborate and get feedback from friends
make and act upon a decision.
How It Works:
Social decision-making is when you make a decision in a social way. Rather than deciding on something on your own, you seek advice and feedback from friends, family, colleagues, or the general public. Skimbit aims to make this process fun and easy. There are other sites that let you bookmark and share websites among friends, but only Skimbit is tailored to helping you make and act upon a decision. In addition to pooling together websites, Skimbit helps you sort, filter and analyse all the information you collect.
A project is how they refer to any decision you need to make, or research you need to do e.g. choosing a holiday house, researching which TV to buy or finding a venue for your wedding.
Login to Skimbit and click on 'Start a project'. Here you can enter all the information about your project, like the type of decision and the decision-making criteria. Once you have finished, Skimbit will create your own project webpage and you can begin your search process.
More at:http://skimbit.com/
Skimbit is a fun web tool that makes it easy to make complicated and social decisions. Skimbit helps you: gather research on a project (e.g. picking a holiday house, deciding on a wedding dress), collaborate and get feedback from friends
make and act upon a decision.
How It Works:
Social decision-making is when you make a decision in a social way. Rather than deciding on something on your own, you seek advice and feedback from friends, family, colleagues, or the general public. Skimbit aims to make this process fun and easy. There are other sites that let you bookmark and share websites among friends, but only Skimbit is tailored to helping you make and act upon a decision. In addition to pooling together websites, Skimbit helps you sort, filter and analyse all the information you collect.
A project is how they refer to any decision you need to make, or research you need to do e.g. choosing a holiday house, researching which TV to buy or finding a venue for your wedding.
Login to Skimbit and click on 'Start a project'. Here you can enter all the information about your project, like the type of decision and the decision-making criteria. Once you have finished, Skimbit will create your own project webpage and you can begin your search process.
More at:http://skimbit.com/
Virb is a community website that combines social interaction
What Company Is Offering:
A place that lets you put all of the things that make you you – photos, videos, blogs – in one place. So you can find friends (and friends can find you). VIRB° is a website that combines you, your interests, your friends and the things you like with music, art, fashion, film and more. Stay connected with your friends. Find new music. View and upload good videos, photos and more.
How It Works:
Virb is a community website that combines social interaction with music and entertainment exploration. It's a great way to keep in touch and meet people with similar interests. Use Virb to discover music, videos, cool companies and organizations... then share what you find with your friends.
More at:http://virb.com/
A place that lets you put all of the things that make you you – photos, videos, blogs – in one place. So you can find friends (and friends can find you). VIRB° is a website that combines you, your interests, your friends and the things you like with music, art, fashion, film and more. Stay connected with your friends. Find new music. View and upload good videos, photos and more.
How It Works:
Virb is a community website that combines social interaction with music and entertainment exploration. It's a great way to keep in touch and meet people with similar interests. Use Virb to discover music, videos, cool companies and organizations... then share what you find with your friends.
More at:http://virb.com/
Friday, March 28, 2008
SMX Social Media Marketing Event
SMX Social Media Marketing is where internet marketers will learn to harness the power of user engagement. You'll be a master of social media marketing after attending SMX Social Media!
This show is for internet marketers who want to engage the unique and difficult-to-reach audiences at social media sites like Digg, del.icio.us, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Reddit and Wikipedia. These and other social media sites are serving new and fast growing audiences that want to discover information based on community interests, voting and sharing.
SMX Social Media Marketing will get you up to speed on social media and how to engage communities at social media sites in an appropriate and respectful manner. Don't miss out on the revolution!
Agenda Highlights:
SMX Social Media Marketing will explore current opportunities and future developments, offering both fundamental and advanced panels on topics including:
* Social Media Marketing Essentials.
* Linkbait - Chumming for Traffic on Social Media Sites.
* Extra! Extra! The Social News Sites.
* A Marketer's Guide to Social Bookmarking & Tagging.
* Effectively Leveraging Social Networking.
* Evangelist - The Marketer's Role in SMM.
* Wikipedia, Yahoo Answers & Answer Sharing.
Via-Mashable
This show is for internet marketers who want to engage the unique and difficult-to-reach audiences at social media sites like Digg, del.icio.us, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Reddit and Wikipedia. These and other social media sites are serving new and fast growing audiences that want to discover information based on community interests, voting and sharing.
SMX Social Media Marketing will get you up to speed on social media and how to engage communities at social media sites in an appropriate and respectful manner. Don't miss out on the revolution!
Agenda Highlights:
SMX Social Media Marketing will explore current opportunities and future developments, offering both fundamental and advanced panels on topics including:
* Social Media Marketing Essentials.
* Linkbait - Chumming for Traffic on Social Media Sites.
* Extra! Extra! The Social News Sites.
* A Marketer's Guide to Social Bookmarking & Tagging.
* Effectively Leveraging Social Networking.
* Evangelist - The Marketer's Role in SMM.
* Wikipedia, Yahoo Answers & Answer Sharing.
Via-Mashable
Vigster is a community and social network for video games fans of all categories
What Company Is Offering:
Vigster is a community and social network for video games fans of all categories. Whether you are a die-hard video games fan or lover of PC based video games, web/mobile video games or a fan of other gaming platforms, Vigster is the right place to be.
How It Works:
At Vigster they introduce gamers to their global community of video game lovers and provide them with the functionality to share their gaming passions and experiences by providing the functionality for them to access our massive collections of video games and other games related information, connect with peers, friends and meet new users that share the same gaming passion as themselves.
Anyone can join Vigster its free and easy to start with. Once registered, users can then begin to enjoy the Vigster Experience.
Unique Features:
Access a massive gaming related database with up to date information on video games.
Build virtual game shelves to express themselves and show their game collections.
Discover new video games and new gaming related information about games that they love.
Share their hands on experiences about games they have played with other members.
Rate, review, discuss and voice out their opinions on video games.
Play quizzes, submit quizzes on video games that they have played.
Learn from other users about their gaming tastes and preferences.
More at:http://www.vigster.com/
Vigster is a community and social network for video games fans of all categories. Whether you are a die-hard video games fan or lover of PC based video games, web/mobile video games or a fan of other gaming platforms, Vigster is the right place to be.
How It Works:
At Vigster they introduce gamers to their global community of video game lovers and provide them with the functionality to share their gaming passions and experiences by providing the functionality for them to access our massive collections of video games and other games related information, connect with peers, friends and meet new users that share the same gaming passion as themselves.
Anyone can join Vigster its free and easy to start with. Once registered, users can then begin to enjoy the Vigster Experience.
Unique Features:
Access a massive gaming related database with up to date information on video games.
Build virtual game shelves to express themselves and show their game collections.
Discover new video games and new gaming related information about games that they love.
Share their hands on experiences about games they have played with other members.
Rate, review, discuss and voice out their opinions on video games.
Play quizzes, submit quizzes on video games that they have played.
Learn from other users about their gaming tastes and preferences.
More at:http://www.vigster.com/
SmartyPig Is A Simple, Smart, Social Savings
What Company Is Offering:
SmartyPig is a simple, smart, fun way to save for a specific goal. SmartyPig allows you to invite family and friends to contribute to your account, gives you additional incentive boosts from top retailers who sell exactly what you’re saving for AND *4.30% (APY) interest on the money you’re saving. Simple, Smart, Savings. SmartyPig!
How It Works:
With just a few clicks, your account can be up and running, with you on the fast track toward realizing the goals you’ve set for yourself. How simple is it? This simple:1. Create Your Profile
Just the facts: Some information about you, and some about your bank for your FDIC-insured accounts. Safe, secure, and as easy as 1-2-3.
2. Establish a Savings Account & Goal
Now the fun part. Tell us what you want. A new kitchen, a dream vacation, holiday gifts without the hassle of debt? It can be virtually anything.
3. Meeting Your Goal
How much do you want to save? When do you need it? Just give us the particulars and we’ll suggest a monthly contribution that will be automatically deducted from your existing checking account or other designated funding source.
4. Friends and Family Can Help!
Let your friends and family help you save by making your account Public — or don’t, by keeping it Private. You decide. SmartyPig gives you the option to reach your savings goal faster than you could ever imagine by inviting your family and friends to help you save, all while keeping your personal information safe and secure. Birthdays, holidays, graduation? Forget the stuff you don’t want. Tell them to log onto SmartyPig.com and help you reach your goal. You can even grab the SmartyPig widget off your Account page and place it on your MySpace or Facebook page to give the whole world the opportunity to help you reach your savings goal.
5. Start Saving
Their bank’s computer talks to your computer and then your bank’s computer and suddenly… Voila! You’re safely and securely on the road to reaching the goals you sensibly set for yourself. We’ll also help you along with monthly e-mails (and e-mails when friends and family members chip in) showing you where you stand and encouraging you to keep up the good work.
More at:https://www.smartypig.com/
SmartyPig is a simple, smart, fun way to save for a specific goal. SmartyPig allows you to invite family and friends to contribute to your account, gives you additional incentive boosts from top retailers who sell exactly what you’re saving for AND *4.30% (APY) interest on the money you’re saving. Simple, Smart, Savings. SmartyPig!
How It Works:
With just a few clicks, your account can be up and running, with you on the fast track toward realizing the goals you’ve set for yourself. How simple is it? This simple:1. Create Your Profile
Just the facts: Some information about you, and some about your bank for your FDIC-insured accounts. Safe, secure, and as easy as 1-2-3.
2. Establish a Savings Account & Goal
Now the fun part. Tell us what you want. A new kitchen, a dream vacation, holiday gifts without the hassle of debt? It can be virtually anything.
3. Meeting Your Goal
How much do you want to save? When do you need it? Just give us the particulars and we’ll suggest a monthly contribution that will be automatically deducted from your existing checking account or other designated funding source.
4. Friends and Family Can Help!
Let your friends and family help you save by making your account Public — or don’t, by keeping it Private. You decide. SmartyPig gives you the option to reach your savings goal faster than you could ever imagine by inviting your family and friends to help you save, all while keeping your personal information safe and secure. Birthdays, holidays, graduation? Forget the stuff you don’t want. Tell them to log onto SmartyPig.com and help you reach your goal. You can even grab the SmartyPig widget off your Account page and place it on your MySpace or Facebook page to give the whole world the opportunity to help you reach your savings goal.
5. Start Saving
Their bank’s computer talks to your computer and then your bank’s computer and suddenly… Voila! You’re safely and securely on the road to reaching the goals you sensibly set for yourself. We’ll also help you along with monthly e-mails (and e-mails when friends and family members chip in) showing you where you stand and encouraging you to keep up the good work.
More at:https://www.smartypig.com/
BankSwitcher is a tool to help you switch banks
What Company Is Offering:
BankSwitcher is a tool to help you switch banks by:
Analyzing your banking activity to find transactions that you'll need to switch (i.e., Direct Deposits, automatic payments).
Compiling instructions and forms to switch those transactions to a new bank — using our directory of over 1500 Billers and Depositors.
Creating your personal Switching Checklist (PDF format) that you can print and use when you find a better bank.
How It Works;
BankSwitcher looks at your banking activity to identify things you will need to do if you want to switch banks (e.g., change direct deposits and automatic payments). You progress through BankSwitcher in three steps:
1. Gather bank activity. BankSwitcher looks for items that will need to be changed when you switch banks, such as direct deposits and automatic payments.
2. Choose what to switch. You select the Billers and Depositors you want included in your Switching Checklist based on the items compiled in Step 1.
3. Print your Switching Checklist. Then, BankSwitcher generates a printable document (PDF format) with everything you need to change banks. You can use your Switching Checklist whenever you want.
More at:http://www.bankswitcher.com/
BankSwitcher is a tool to help you switch banks by:
Analyzing your banking activity to find transactions that you'll need to switch (i.e., Direct Deposits, automatic payments).
Compiling instructions and forms to switch those transactions to a new bank — using our directory of over 1500 Billers and Depositors.
Creating your personal Switching Checklist (PDF format) that you can print and use when you find a better bank.
How It Works;
BankSwitcher looks at your banking activity to identify things you will need to do if you want to switch banks (e.g., change direct deposits and automatic payments). You progress through BankSwitcher in three steps:
1. Gather bank activity. BankSwitcher looks for items that will need to be changed when you switch banks, such as direct deposits and automatic payments.
2. Choose what to switch. You select the Billers and Depositors you want included in your Switching Checklist based on the items compiled in Step 1.
3. Print your Switching Checklist. Then, BankSwitcher generates a printable document (PDF format) with everything you need to change banks. You can use your Switching Checklist whenever you want.
More at:http://www.bankswitcher.com/
Celltradeusa.com has developed the world's first cellular exchange place
What Company Is Offering:
Celltradeusa.com has developed the world's first cellular exchange place. Whether you want to walk away from your current contract as a Get Out member, or if you want to find an unbeatable deal as a Get In member, Celltradeusa.com has brought millions of cellular customer together to get out of stressful contract obligations, and to save big on their next cellular transaction.
How It Works:
Celltradeusa.com allows cellular customers to register a free user profile to list their remaining contract obligation. Other Celltradeusa.com members (Get In members) can browse and make contact with them. We then let the Get Out and Get In members follow through with the respective cellular service transfer of responsibility process.
Celltradeusa.com provides this service through an incentive based system that connects millions of cellular customers nationwide that want to Get Out with those that want to Get In.
More at:http://www.celltradeusa.com/
Celltradeusa.com has developed the world's first cellular exchange place. Whether you want to walk away from your current contract as a Get Out member, or if you want to find an unbeatable deal as a Get In member, Celltradeusa.com has brought millions of cellular customer together to get out of stressful contract obligations, and to save big on their next cellular transaction.
How It Works:
Celltradeusa.com allows cellular customers to register a free user profile to list their remaining contract obligation. Other Celltradeusa.com members (Get In members) can browse and make contact with them. We then let the Get Out and Get In members follow through with the respective cellular service transfer of responsibility process.
Celltradeusa.com provides this service through an incentive based system that connects millions of cellular customers nationwide that want to Get Out with those that want to Get In.
More at:http://www.celltradeusa.com/
Vontoo is a market-leading provider of automated voice messaging solutions
What Company Is Offering:
Vontoo is a market-leading provider of automated voice messaging solutions. Their robust and flexible product offerings allow organizations of all sizes to leverage the power of voice in order to build brands, drive revenues, increase operational efficiencies and solve complex communication challenges.
How It Works:
When it comes to communication, nothing can compare to the power, excitement and authenticity of the human voice. Vontoo was founded with a clear mandate – to bring the power of voice marketing and communication to organizations eager to leverage its seemingly endless capabilities.
At Vontoo, they realize that seamless communication with your customers, partners and fans is critical to your success. Voice messaging offers an accessible, dynamic and cost-effective way to stay connected to your audience - whoever they might be.
Vontoo realizes that different organizations have different needs. As a result, Vontoo offers a choice of three voice messaging solutions specifically tailored to our customer's unique communication needs.Vontoo Products: Express ,Professional
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More at:http://www.vontoo.com/
Vontoo is a market-leading provider of automated voice messaging solutions. Their robust and flexible product offerings allow organizations of all sizes to leverage the power of voice in order to build brands, drive revenues, increase operational efficiencies and solve complex communication challenges.
How It Works:
When it comes to communication, nothing can compare to the power, excitement and authenticity of the human voice. Vontoo was founded with a clear mandate – to bring the power of voice marketing and communication to organizations eager to leverage its seemingly endless capabilities.
At Vontoo, they realize that seamless communication with your customers, partners and fans is critical to your success. Voice messaging offers an accessible, dynamic and cost-effective way to stay connected to your audience - whoever they might be.
Vontoo realizes that different organizations have different needs. As a result, Vontoo offers a choice of three voice messaging solutions specifically tailored to our customer's unique communication needs.Vontoo Products: Express ,Professional
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More at:http://www.vontoo.com/
Biz Strategies, Inc--New Website Offers Valuable, Free Business Resources
What Company Is Offering:
Biz Strategies, Inc. is a full service on line consulting business. The company provides business management coaching that supports all facets of starting, growing and running a business. This includes putting business strategies, plans, tactics and processes in place to support taking your business to the next level, successfully.
Biz Strategies offers a number of free strategy guides, including "Business Management Coaching, Who needs it anyway" and "How to Identify, Form and Capitalize on Strategic Alliances". Both of these strategy guides offer process flow charts that will make it easier for business managers to understand the step by step process for growing their business. Additional free guides will be available in the near future.
In addition to the free guides the company is also providing one week of free consulting services on any business topic of your choice along with free bi-weekly management tips and tactics.
The Biz Strategy team is comprised of seasoned business professionals who have experienced allot within the industry. In addition to the team members listed on the web site, Biz Strategies is also finalizing a number of affiliate relationships with a powerful business law firm that will be able to support a number of legal tasks and questions for clients, and a strong funding professional in order to support various different types of funding strategies. This group has already worked together for many years and is going strong.
More at:http://www.bizstrategies.biz/
Biz Strategies, Inc. is a full service on line consulting business. The company provides business management coaching that supports all facets of starting, growing and running a business. This includes putting business strategies, plans, tactics and processes in place to support taking your business to the next level, successfully.
Biz Strategies offers a number of free strategy guides, including "Business Management Coaching, Who needs it anyway" and "How to Identify, Form and Capitalize on Strategic Alliances". Both of these strategy guides offer process flow charts that will make it easier for business managers to understand the step by step process for growing their business. Additional free guides will be available in the near future.
In addition to the free guides the company is also providing one week of free consulting services on any business topic of your choice along with free bi-weekly management tips and tactics.
The Biz Strategy team is comprised of seasoned business professionals who have experienced allot within the industry. In addition to the team members listed on the web site, Biz Strategies is also finalizing a number of affiliate relationships with a powerful business law firm that will be able to support a number of legal tasks and questions for clients, and a strong funding professional in order to support various different types of funding strategies. This group has already worked together for many years and is going strong.
More at:http://www.bizstrategies.biz/
SchoolFinder,CollegeFinder,GlobalScholar
About:
1.SchoolFinder places K-12 school information at your fingertips, enabling you to search and compare public, private, charter and online schools. Compare and sort schools by name, location, grade level, type and school district. They also provide schools’ student information, test scores, parent ratings, reviews, and much more.
2.CollegeFinder places college information at your fingertips, enabling you to search and compare state, private, community and online colleges. Compare and sort colleges by degree, major, location, size, price and more. We also provide colleges’ programs, contact, admissions, financial aid, student, campus, athletics, alumni, faculty, rankings, reviews and related information.
3.GlobalScholar is an online education platform and community for parents, students and trusted educators. Parents and students can search, compare and purchase online tutoring and homework help from hundreds of independent teachers and tutors on the site. They have run a criminal background check on all of their tutors and confirmed they hold a four-year college degree or higher. This assures parents and students a safe learning environment taught by top notch tutors.
More at:http://schoolfinder.globalscholar.com/
http://collegefinder.globalscholar.com/
http://www.globalscholar.com/
1.SchoolFinder places K-12 school information at your fingertips, enabling you to search and compare public, private, charter and online schools. Compare and sort schools by name, location, grade level, type and school district. They also provide schools’ student information, test scores, parent ratings, reviews, and much more.
2.CollegeFinder places college information at your fingertips, enabling you to search and compare state, private, community and online colleges. Compare and sort colleges by degree, major, location, size, price and more. We also provide colleges’ programs, contact, admissions, financial aid, student, campus, athletics, alumni, faculty, rankings, reviews and related information.
3.GlobalScholar is an online education platform and community for parents, students and trusted educators. Parents and students can search, compare and purchase online tutoring and homework help from hundreds of independent teachers and tutors on the site. They have run a criminal background check on all of their tutors and confirmed they hold a four-year college degree or higher. This assures parents and students a safe learning environment taught by top notch tutors.
More at:http://schoolfinder.globalscholar.com/
http://collegefinder.globalscholar.com/
http://www.globalscholar.com/
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