Sunday, April 13, 2008

FirstLook is that kind of company. Instead of digging tools, it sells detailed reports to new-energy entrepreneurs

What Company Is Offering:
FirstLook is that kind of company. Instead of digging tools, it sells detailed reports to new-energy entrepreneurs. Those reports show just how much wind or sunshine an area is likely to receive, based on years’ worth of meteorological data.

How It Works:
The company advertises its reports via a free interactive map, which uses Google Maps. Preliminary information from the map helps entrepreneurs determine whether a windmill or solar-panel installation at a chosen location would make good financial sense. Registered users simply log in and click a location on the interactive map. Immediately, they receive a brief run-down on the area’s potential. Wind reports, for example, show the area’s average wind speed at different heights, which correspond to the possible heights of a windmill tower. Solar maps give the average daily illumination the same spot receives at differing angles. That information on sunlight angles is critical, unless the project employs solar panels that track the sun’s movement across the sky.

Websites run by the Department of Energy and other government and environmental organizations already provide similar information, though maybe with a less easy-to-use interface. But energy entrepreneurs will need something far more detailed if they hope to convince bankers or investors to fund their projects. A simple mouse click takes them to FirstLook’s reports page, where they can buy a detailed report USD 1,000 and up.

More at: www.3tiergroup.com

nsyght is a new type of search engine powered by you, your bookmarks, and your friends

About Company:

nsyght is a search engine powered by you, your bookmarks, and your friends.Nsyght is a new type of social search engine that helps users improve the relevancy of search by leveraging their bookmarks and social network. Content relevancy is not a problem that can be solved by algorithm alone. Too often searches get clogged up with spam sites or sites of low relevance. The broader the search, the less relevant the results. To achieve the best possible results from a given search, you need the human factor to augment any computer algorithm.

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

2People---Their immediate goal is to build an overwhelming public mandate for real solutions to the climate crisis

What Company Is Offering:
The mission of 2People is sustainability in one generation. To achieve this, they must make the connections between many issues, from pollution and poverty to women's rights and democracy. Their immediate goal is to build an overwhelming public mandate for real solutions to the climate crisis. They are a non-profit organization, started by Phil Mitchell.

How It Works:
Find out what are the most important actions you can take to help solve global warming.

See what actions other people are doing, ranging from personal actions such as driving less to big-picture political actions such as working on the Climate Elections 2008 campaign.

Connect with people who live near you, and connect with teams of people who are working on projects you'd like to be involved in. Join an existing team or propose a new one.
Help build the network by inviting people you know to join.

More at:http://www.2people.org/

WhatYah---A place to share movies, games and tv shows with friends legally

What Company Is Offering:

WhatYah's goal is to provide anyone the ability to know exactly what media titles your friends have so you can share everything.A place to share movies, games and tv shows with friends legally, create reviews and let your friends know what you think.

How It Works:

Sign up, Invite friends. Add & organize media titles. Create top lists to share
Print your archive for friends. Track your media. Get notified when friends get media you want. Get notified when friends get media you want.

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

IPLAdda.com H2H Fantasy Cricket League is the first ever head to head fantasy game in Cricket

What Company Is Offering:
An H2H (head-to-head) league is one where a player plays a 'match' against an opposing player in the same league. A series of such matches are played with other opposing players in the user's league for the entire duration of the competition/tournament.

How Is It Different:
IPLAdda.com H2H Fantasy Cricket League is the first ever head to head fantasy game in Cricket. In most other cricket fantasy games, you either just collect statistics for the duration of the tournament and all the other opponents in your league do the same. The team with the best statistics for the duration of the entire tournament is the winner. There is no concept of playing a match against any opponent. Furthermore, there are certain other fantasy cricket games where you are playing against yourself, such that your batsmen should score more runs than the number of runs your bowlers give away. This is also an interesting concept, but you end up playing against yourself (batsmen v bowlers), and there is no concept of playing against any other player playing the fantasy game. In a H2H league, for a specific time period within the tournament, you will play against an opponent in your league, and you should try to obtain a better statistics in terms of runs, wickets, boundaries, catches etc, which calls into picture an all-round measure of your team's capability.

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

HowDoYa was created to help people who want to learn how-to do something — anything

About Company:

HowDoYa was created to help people who want to learn how-to do something — anything. They do it by helping you search the Internet in a smarter, task-centric way. And unlike other websites that profess to have the single right answer, they give you many (but not too many) answers, so you can find the one that is right for you.

HowDoYa offers up many precisely relevant concepts and notions organized in a simple, easy-to-understand way. These concepts can be used to refine your search, building out a more and more precise query, or they can be used to quickly purchase the things you will need to do your "how-to."

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

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Edopter combines early adopter insight and worldwide buzz to tap into the next big thing

What Company Is Offering:
Edopter combines early adopter insight and worldwide buzz to tap into the next big thing. Create and follow trends, share and discuss them - then watch as they spread across the world. Who tells the world what‘s next? You do.

How It Works:

It is a place for people to share thoughts and ideas on what might become the next in-vogue trend, everything from TV shows to food tastes to fashion accessories.

Posts range from the brilliant to the bizarre. Take a scroll through the front page selection or use the tabs at the top to browse or launch a trend or see how it works.

Each trend section contains an overview, the pitch, and a space for images, videos, and chat. If you agree with the trend just click the Get In button.

You will need to be registered for this function which is simple and quick. When browsing by trend don’t forget to use the sort options at the top to direct your search.”

Your portfolio is a snapshot of what you are currently into. Fill it with interesting trends, promote the best content in each, and drop the trends
you think have had their time in the spotlight...

More at:http://edopter.com/

Uber Inc is a social networking startup has raised $5.5 million

What Company Is Offering:

Uber.com is a community-driven creative-minded destination where visitors can discover, publish, collect, store and share all forms of media content on its ever-growing Uber Index. Built on a proprietary, robust Web 2.0 platform, Uber offers members a host of unique cutting-edge widgets to enhance their online adventure. Uber redefines the traditional Web model, combining technology, content, community and experience to create an at-your-fingertips world of invaluable user-generated ideas and information. Headquartered in Los Angeles, Uber is a privately-held next-generation media company founded by Scott Sassa and Glenn Kaino .



How Much They Got From VCs:

Uber Inc., a Beverly Hills, Calif.-based social networking startup run by former Friendster and NBC exec Scott Sassa, has called down $5.5 million of a $7.6 million Series B round, according to a regulatory filing. Shareholders include Universal Music Group and Sterling Stamos Co-Investors Fund.

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

BugMeNot.com

What Company Is Offering:
BugMeNot.com was created as a mechanism to quickly bypass the login of web sites that require compulsory registration and/or the collection of personal/demographic information (such as the New York Times).

How It Works:


You're browsing the web and you click a link to an article on a site (let's say nytimes.com) but instead of getting the article you get a screen asking you to login or register. Infuriated at the idea of pointlessly registering for yet another site you turn to your good buddy bugmenot.com

STEP 1: Make a note of the website address your are trying to access. For example:
http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_2100-1024_3-5567274.html
Or even just:
www.nytimes.com

STEP 2: Visit http://bugmenot.com

STEP 3: Enter the address from step 1 into the box and press the "Get Logins" button

STEP 4: You should now be presented with at least one username and password. Make a note of them.

STEP 5: Go back to the site you were originally trying to access in step 1 and proceed to login with the username and password you noted in the previous step.

With any luck you should be able to access your article now!

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

Trade your ideas at Brickfish

What Company Is Offering:
Brickfish allows you to create and submit your blogs, audio, video and images in fun and exciting campaigns for the chance to win cool rewards. They have a variety of campaigns in your favorite channels like Fashion & Beauty, Entertainment, Lifestyles, Sports and Politics. You can also review other entries and vote for your favorites – building your reputation on Brickfish. In addition, you can share campaign content with your friends at the press of a button through other social networking sites, email, and instant messaging.

How It Works:

If want to start voting for and reviewing other people's entries or submit your own entries into a campaign, you can Enter as a Guest OR Sign Up as a Brickfish member. Then just follow the instructions to create an account. Anyone can view all public content including campaigns and all entries. If you would like to vote or review without registration, you can become a Guest.

With a Guest Account, people are able to vote and review in any campaign without registering for membership on the site. Guests can simply click the "Enter as Guest" link and start voting and reviewing right away.

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

TimeMachiner is a new mini-app that lets you email people in the future

What Company Is Offering:

TimeMachiner is a new mini-app that lets you email people in the future. Use it to remind yourself to do something that you’ll more than likely forget, keep your future self on the straight and narrow, even wish your friends happy birthday...


More at:http://timemachiner.com/

Friday, April 11, 2008

Angie's List the nation's leading source for local service provider ratings has raised $35 million

What Company Is Offering:
Angie's List is where thousands of consumers share their ratings and reviews on local service providers in more than 330 different categories. Currently, more than 600,000 consumers across the U.S. rely on Angie's List to help them find the right professional for the job they need done. Angie's List was cited in U.S. News & World Report's "50 Ways to Improve Your Life in 2007"

How Much They Got From VCs:

Angie's List the nation's leading source for local service provider ratings has added Battery Ventures, one of the nation's oldest and most well respected venture capital firms, to its list of investors. Battery invested $35 million in exchange for a minority stake in the company. Angie's List will use the investment to continue its aggressive pattern of growth and service expansion.

"We're very excited to be working so closely with Roger Lee and his partners at Battery," said Angie Hicks, founder of Angie's List. "They were helpful even before we finalized the deal, and we know we're going to enjoy working with them as we continue to grow our presence and the services we offer."

Recognized nationally as an Internet pioneer, Angie's List holds a unique position at the intersection of local search, user-generated content and subscription-based services. Further setting the company apart in the local ratings space is its data integrity process, which maximizes the accuracy and reliability of the information available on Angie's List. Angie's List does not allow anonymous postings, and service providers cannot add themselves to the List.

More at: www.angieslist.com

VendorRate helps businesses select great B2B Information Technology & Telecom vendors while avoiding expensive procurement mistakes

What Company Is Offering:
VendorRate helps businesses select great B2B Information Technology & Telecom vendors while avoiding expensive procurement mistakes. VendorRate’s revolutionary confidential rating system scores Vendor performance and gives a collective voice to the customer base of a vendor by publishing numerical ratings on an Overall and Key Performance Indicators basis.VendorRate lets customers evaluate their vendors in a confidential setting. The identity of the Rating Members is kept secret at all times. This means that the name, organization, city, state, and type of business will NEVER be disclosed. When IT professionals enter the VendorRate safe environment with identity safeguards in place, they feel more comfortable in sharing candid and reliable feedback normally not available in public or social networks.

How It Works:

VendorRate measures overall customer satisfaction for B2B vendors in the IT and Telecom industries. VendorRate has identified 10 common areas of vendor performance that can be used evaluate customer satisfaction. Ratings are given by IT professionals with the intent of helping organizations make better decisions prior to selecting an IT vendor for products or services.endor are rated only by professionals in the business community who perform IT related tasks as part of their day to day jobs.VendorRate provides an easy to use rating questionnaire that lets Members rate both quickly and accurately.

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

Quorumbet is a website combining social networking and betting capabilities

What Company Is Offering:
Quorumbet is a website combining social networking and betting capabilities where quorumbet.com is not a bookmaker, but rather provides the technological platform for facilitating betting activities among friends, family and anyone who is passionate about a topic.

The amount of what you win depends on the total amount of the pre-paid stakes. You cannot lose more than your pre-paid stakes. This is also known as the `totalizator system`, pari mutuel or pool betting.

How It Works:
Log in to your QB account. Click on the `New Bet` button on the main menu. Choose the parameters of each bet to suit your needs.Set the bet to be private or public.Set to participate or to simply facilitate the bet.Include the decision source for the outcome of your bet.Invite current users via the website and whoever you would like via email.Set the minimum stake that will be required to participate in the bet. Define the expiration date when placements for your bet are no longer accepted and the outcome will be determined.Upload a picture to represent your bet.Don't forget to check the box that you agree to settle the bet within 48 hours. Click on the Proceed button, which will load a confirmation page. Verify the information and click on the Submit button to place the bet on the QB system.

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

IdeaCrossing----It is intended to help Entrepreneurs find the assistance and investment capital they need to launch promising new business ventures

What Company Is Offering:
IdeaCrossing® is an Internet resource available to all individuals and organizations with an interest in supporting and promoting entrepreneurial activity.

It is intended to help Entrepreneurs find the assistance and investment capital they need to launch promising new business ventures.

How It Works:

IdeaCrossing serves the Angel and Venture Capital Community by identifying and screening new investment opportunities.
IdeaCrossing will provide greater visibility to the many valuable assets located throughout any given region, including universities, economic development organizations, chambers of commerce, foundations and professional services providers – each having a vital role in nurturing and accelerating the growth of new companies and industries.

Simply stated, IdeaCrossing is about creating the connections that build businesses.

You have the ability to contact the Entrepreneur you are matched with by clicking the contact link within the Match Detail page. By initiating contact, you will receive the Entrepreneur’s contact information, which will appear at the top of the Match Detail page. In addition to receiving the Entrepreneur’s contact information, initiating contact also authorizes IdeaCrossing to release your contact information to the Entrepreneur. This information will include your name and location, your company’s description, the business experience you have, and your phone number and email address.

More at:https://www.ideacrossing.org/

simplyCricket their aim is to help you (and us!) to play better cricket

About Company:
At simplyCricket their aim is to help you (and us!) to play better cricket. Whether it's advice about how to bowl faster, get more turn on your googlies or what bat to buy, we can help.

The thriving simplyCricket forum has a number of experts, keen players and lovers of the game who can offer feedback, advice and somewhere to bounce ideas around. Failing that you can just come on and have a chat about cricket in general, from test matches to backyard cricket.

They also aim to bring in guest contributors from time to time and also have a few other things in the pipeline; so it's worth checking out from time to time.

So come along to simplyCricket and learn how to play better cricket!

More at:http://www.squidoo.com/simplyCricket

Google using Quattrone as merger adviser

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Former star technology investment banker Frank Quattrone is advising Google Inc as the Web search leader mulls its strategy amid Microsoft Corp's move to buy Yahoo Inc, a source familiar with the arrangement said on Thursday.

Quattrone underwrote some of the biggest initial public offerings during the late-1990s technology boom while at Credit Suisse First Boston.

Luattrone announced that he and some former colleagues had started Qatalyst Group, a tech-focused investment banking boutique based in San Francisco, to provide merger and corporate finance advice to technology companies.

"I look forward to working with him again and am very enthusiastic about Qatalyst's prospects for success," Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt was quoted as saying in the press release announcing the opening of Quattrone's new firm.

"He is advising the company," the source said on Thursday of Google's decision to hire him, offering no further details.

A Google spokesman declined to comment.

Yahoo announced on Wednesday it had agreed to a test of whether it should turn over its Web search advertising sales to Google so it can focus on other efforts. Sources say the test is part of a planned three-way alliance to combine Yahoo with Time Warner Inc's AOL to ward off Microsoft Corp's two-month-old, $42 billion takeover bid.

Many antitrust experts and Wall Street analysts wonder if Google's dominant global share of search -- starting point for many people on the Web -- and its lucrative ad business tied to search will prevent it from joining the Web mega-merger boom.

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iBloks rich media ad developer, has raised $2.05 million in Series C funding

What Company Is Offering:
iBloks InstantAd
In less than 5 minutes, create and deliver the ads you need with iBloks InstantAd™. You can customize online video ads in minutes by adding your own photos, videos, logo and offers for a powerful online ad campaign, to post your message on your website, or to post as a gadget on social networks. Learn more.

iBloks Custom InstantAds
Need a little more flexibility and want to add a bit more individual flare to your ad? Then choose to make an iBloks Custom InstantAd. You will be able to select each individual feature of your ad including the player border, background and music. It's still just a few more easy steps to create your campaign, and you can create multiple versions of your ad for different audiences.

iBloks Video Messenger

Now the power of online video viewing and instant messenger are brought together for the 300,000,000 Windows Live Instant Messenger audiences. Advertisers and consumers can upload their own ads and videos and get the capability to post their customized iBloks Video Messenger™ on any webpage, as an online ad or on a social networking site like Facebook, Windows Live Spaces, Google and more.

iBloks Live in 3D

This turnkey 3D experience is the only fully interactive 3D experience that works without a download. Now any advertiser or consumer can interact with products and services in a "real world" feeling experience. Utilizing our video messenger technology, now you can explore the latest music and videos in 3D spaces while chatting with your friends.

How Much They Got From VCs:
iBloks, a San Francisco-based rich media ad developer, has raised $2.05 million in Series C funding led by return backer Maveron, according to a regulatory filing.

More at;http://www.ibloks.com/

Jaxtr Inc., a Palo Alto, Calif.-based provider of VoIP services for social networks and blogs, has raised around $6.4 million in Series B funding

What Company Is Offering:
Jaxtr is with the mission to bring voice to social networks and blogs. With the free jaxtr service, users can link their phones with their online network to hear from callers worldwide while keeping their existing phone numbers private.

How It Works:
By adding their jaxtr link to their email signature, global friends can call our users on their phone with the click of the mouse - without downloading any software, incurring international phone charges or even registering for jaxtr.

When users change their work, home or mobile number, they simply add or update their number on jaxtr; incoming calls then get routed to the phone of their choice. They can even block callers from reaching them or specify on a per-caller basis which callers can reach them live and which get routed to voice mail.

How Much They Got From VCs:
Jaxtr Inc., a Palo Alto, Calif.-based provider of VoIP services for social networks and blogs, has raised around $6.4 million in Series B funding led by Lehman Brothers Venture Partners, according to a regulatory filing. The company had previously raised $10 million from August Capital, Draper Richards, Mayfield, Founders Fund, Ron Conway and Reid Hoffman.
More at:http://www.jaxtr.com/

Ustream.TV , the leading internet broadcasting platform, today announced it has secured $11.1 million in Series A funding

What Company Is Offering:
Ustream is the leading internet broadcasting platform. Ustream’s proprietary technology powers an easy-to-use, web-based interface, allowing anyone with a camera, computer and Internet connection to broadcast live to the world. Integrated with a host of interactive tools including chat rooms, co-host, and shout meter, Ustream’s platform delivers real-time, social experiences on the web.

How Much They Got From VCs:
Ustream.TV , the leading internet broadcasting platform, today announced it has secured $11.1 million in Series A funding from leading venture capital firm DCM and existing investors, Labrador Ventures and The Band of Angels. The funding will enable Ustream to accelerate product development and meet growing market demand for an interactive, broadcasting platform.

“A few years ago, it was unimaginable to have interactive broadcasting on the scale that Ustream delivers today. This marks a major shift of online entertainment and it reflects a new desire to interact and be a part of the show, rather than to just consume it,” said Gen Isayama of DCM. “Investing in Ustream was a decision based on the company’s technology, pioneering vision, and track record for consistently delivering enhancements that are attracting broadcasters and engaging millions of viewers.”

About VCs:
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 (Nasdaq:JOBS - News), @Motion (Openwave), About.com (The New York Times Co.), All About (Jasdaq:2454), Arroyo (Cisco), Bittorrent, Clearwire (Nasdaq:CLWR - News), Dang Dang, eDreams (TA), Foundry Networks (Nasdaq:FDRY - News), HireRight (Nasdaq:HIRE - News), Internap (Nasdaq:INAP - News), IPivot (Intel) etc.www.dcm.com.

More at:www.ustream.tv

CiviCRM is an open source and freely downloadable constituent relationship management solution

What Company Is Offering:

CiviCRM is an open source and freely downloadable constituent relationship management solution. CiviCRM is web-based, open source, internationalized, and designed specifically to meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental groups. Integration with both Drupal and Joomla! content management systems gives you the tools to connect, communicate and activate your supporters and constituents.


More at:http://civicrm.org/

AsiaBusinessInvestor.com ---They provide an on-line community and listings service for those wishing to develop business in Asia

What Company Is Offering:
AsiaBusinessInvestor.com is owned and operated by Asia Business Investor Private Limited based in Singapore. They provide an on-line community and listings service for those wishing to develop business in Asia. They do not act as a business broker but simply an on-line meeting place for those keen to further develop business in Asia. They are committed to the economic advancement of the region as their company provides a key facilitation role for businesses to grow and prosper.

How It Works:
Asia provides a vibrant market to acquire a business. If you are looking a buying a business register with Asia Business Investor to help you connect with potential sellers of businesses.

Asia is a franchising hotspot. Whether you are seeking to resell a franchise or provide new franchise opportunities let Asia Business Investor help you to connect.

Asia Business Investor provides a platform for investors and those seeking investment to connect. Search their current listings of investors and seekers of investment.

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

The PE Data Center is a collection of interactive tools allowing investors and companies raising capital to determine where they stand

What Company Is Offering:

The PE Data Center is a collection of interactive tools allowing investors and companies raising capital to determine where they stand in the ever-changing world of private equity and venture capital.

How It Works:

They can provide business intelligence to private equity and venture investors, hedge funds and other debt and equity investors by data mining their proprietary database. Their research analysts, can provide: Investment Trends by Industry and Geographic Locale.Deal Term Comparables.Partnership Standards and Trends.Valuation Metrics.IPOData.

More at:http://pedatacenter.com/

Zicasso is a free personalized online travel service that provides customized itinerary bids from pre-screened leading travel companies

What Company Is Offering:
Zicasso is a free personalized online travel service that provides customized itinerary bids from pre-screened leading travel companies. We are ideally suited for busy, discerning travelers who want a hassle-free experience in planning & booking a trip. Experts from these pre-screened Zicasso Select Travel Companies do the work for you and they compete to get your business. No more spending hours and hours researching on the Internet and travel books on where to go, which accommodations, what transportation, which attractions, who’s a good tour operator or travel agent, etc. No more spending additional hours on booking everything you need either.

How It Works:
With Zicasso, you fill out a simple Trip Request form to describe your trip—destination, preferences, and interests. We match you with up to three pre-screened relevant travel companies (yes, we’ve done the homework for you to find only quality tour operators and travel agents who deliver the best value). These travel companies submit online Trip Plans to you on Zicasso typically within two business days—Trip Plans which are complete with detailed itineraries and pricing for everything you need, so you can easily compare and choose. In essence, you simply describe what you need once and you’ll get multiple quality travel companies, with expert knowledge of your destination, competing to plan and book everything you need, from lodging to flights, car, airport transfer, cruise, rail, tour guides, tickets to attractions, etc. You can work with the travel companies to refine and customize the Trip Plans as necessary. Then choose which company’s Trip Plan you like best and book it.

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

Guitarati is the latest, hot off the oven music store offering legal downloads of DRM free MP3 music

What Company Is Offering:
Guitarati is the latest, hot off the oven music store offering legal downloads of DRM free MP3 music.Their misson is to creat a hangout for musicians and their audience alike and provide them what they need to sell or buy their music. We want to provide more of audience to the artists and more of artists to the audience - in a rich, colorful and fun way.

How It Works:

At Guitarati, you get much better value for the money you spend on music. You can:

With their unconventional way of music discovery, easily find the music that you want to get you in the mood. Its fun and simple. Explore yourselves!
For say every $10 spent, you get to listen to as many as 1000 songs! And these are not samples, these are full length best quality (at least 192Kbps bitrate) songs. That is 1 cent per song. You can always listen to as many samples (heck, even they are 192Kbps or more) as you want for free anyways! So you have a wide range of songs to check out before downloading.

More at:http://guitarati.com/

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Soundflag acts as agent for unknown musician and bands from more than 25 countries worldwide

What Company Is Offering:
Soundflag starts with its website acts as agent for unknown musician and bands from more than 25 countries worldwide.
“Their goal is to arrange a cooperation between gifted people with professional backgrounds and radio / music stations, music magazines and event managers” says Elias Meyer, Soundflag´s manager.
Pop, Hop Hop, classical music, reaggae, country music or dance – you can find it all on Soundflag.

How It Works:

You can listen to song samples on www.soundflag.com, register yourself, pay and download the pieces you like.

The Online Sound Label Soundflag is addressed to radio / music stations, music magazines and event managers. Soundflag makes it easy to obtain knowledge of artists from countries with a less well known music scene.

Soundflag also is a way for everybody to find out about new hits not being played on commercial charts.

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

Local Motors is a next generation American car company

What Company Is Offering:
Local Motors is a next generation American car company. It is the first disruptive entrant in the US automotive industry in decades and it is the first of its kind.Local Motors will design, manufacture, and bring to market innovative, safer, more functional, lightweight, efficient cars through a revolutionary, local assembly and retail experience. These cars will revolutionize not only automobiles, but also the very structure of auto-making, auto-selling, and auto-servicing.

How It Works:
Local Motors will build low inventory, high cash conversion, low capital intensity assembly facilities distributed across the United States, which will bring satisfying and meaningful manufacturing employment in a pleasurable life-work experience.

Local Motors will create an aspirational experience of scarcity driven demand whereby the local factory will create a Wonka-like fascination with its products and methods. Not only will it sell its cars, but it will sell the experience of people being able to visit and watch their car being "born".

Local Motors will pledge a customer experience of loyal, uncompromising, personal service deserving of the largest purchase that many people ever make - their car.

You may post your design competition submissions to your own portfolios. This includes your personal website as well as portfolio hosting sites. By participating in the Local Motors competition, you are pledging not to try and sell your design to other buyers. This means you may not submit the same design to the Local Motors competition and another competition at the same time. We do not want to fall in love with your design, only to find out that you no longer own it or it is no longer available.

After you register and activate your account, you can access your portfolio by going to the "My Account" link in the upper right corner of the main page. Scroll about halfway down, and you will see an option to "Add this picture to my portfolio". There you can upload any design you like, but you will need to do so one at a time and each file will need to be 1Mb or smaller. They are working to make this process faster. Some people have had difficulty uploading designs.

More at:http://www.local-motors.com/

ClipSyndicate enables broadcasters and other video content producers to realize new revenue streams and extend their brand

What Company Is Offering:
ClipSyndicate enables broadcasters and other video content producers to realize new revenue streams and extend their brand into the "Long Tail" of the Internet by syndicating video clips to thousands of vertical web sites looking for specific content of interest for their end-users.Video news syndication is a win-win-win for the broadcaster, the Web publisher and the advertiser. As a result of these new distribution opportunities provided by ClipSyndicate, broadcasters can further monetize their clips, web publishers have a new source for fresh, relevant content, and advertisers have access to a highly targeted audience.

How It Works:
Search for clips by browsing through Clip Syndicate's featured channels. Click on any of the thumbnails on the home page to find clips.

Once you have found your clip, click on publish this clip and you will be taken to the publish page. You will see a drop down menu to select "My First Channel." The clip will be added to your first channel. You may add more clips to your channel or copy code to publish your clip to your site. Click "Get Code" and a screen will offer several integration methods:

copying the link code will integrate a simple html link to your channel. A user clicking on the link will pop up the ClipSyndicate player and play your clip.

copying the html code will integrate one thumbnail image, the title and description of your channel. Note: if you have more than one clip in your channel, you can select which thumbnail to display on your site.copying the JavaScript code will integrate your channel and display as many thumbnails as you choose on your site. Also, a JavaScript integration will automatically update your channel as you add clips to it (without having to re-copy code into your site.) ClipTip: some blog sites do not support JavaScript well.

copying the RSS code into your site will publish your channel and automatically update it when you add clips.

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

Omnisio lets you select clips from videos you find on YouTube and other video sites, and easily post them on your profile page or blog

What Company Is Offering:
Omnisio lets you select clips from videos you find on YouTube and other video sites, and easily post them on your profile page or blog. Even better, you and your friends can add comments directly in the video!

How It Works:

With Omnisio you make and share your own shows by assembling clips from different videos. Are you a sports fan and think you can do better than SportsCenter? Create your own sports show by combining the best sports highlights you can find. Are you a fashion guru? Create a fashion show with clips showing the latest fasions worn by celebrities - you can even add your own commentary.With Omnisio you can show them both side-by-side - synchronized - and give your viewers a rich and interactive experience! Great for conferences, lectures and corporate training.Use Omnisio to tag the people that appear in your video, and the key highlights. The Omnisio player will then give your viewers a list of people and highlights, and allow them to quickly jump to the parts they are interested in.

How Is It Different:
When you watch a video on TV, you can't do much with it... But when you watch a video on Omnisio... the possibilities are endless.

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

Mob4Hire---Crowd Sourced Mobile Application

What Company Is Offering:
Mob4Hire Inc was created to help mobile or cell application developers in the non stop task of testing mobile games and mobile applications. Using the crowd, the process will allow real people to test mobile applications in real field conditions. Mob4hire reduces the pain of testing for mobile developers.

How It Works:

Mob4hire is a bidding system for mobile application testing. Testers will bid on various projects specific to their handsets. Developers will choose the testers that they require and will deploy test plans for the mobile application they are developing. The mobile application tester will test the application and will report back to the developer. On completion of the test, the mobile tester will get paid for the work. Mobile testing could not be easier.

It does not matter if you have an Apple iPhone , Motorola, Nokia, or any other phone.
Any type of programming language is possible: Symbian, J2ME, BREW, Flash or Windows Mobile. (or other new ones that are just being introduced).

For each handset you register before March 31, 2008 you will get an entry to the draw for $US1000 draw. Draw date is March 31, 2008.

If you wish to get more entries to the contest please submit email addresses for other people you believe would be interested. For each successful mob4hire registration you send them, you will be granted one more chance at the draw.

If you want to test on 2 phones, you get 2 entries. If you get 3 friends to register, you get another 3 entries. If you find a bug, you get another entry. Finally put one of the widgets on your blog, website or facebook and we will double your total entries. In this case above, you would get 12 entries to the draw.

If you are a developer, you will receive $200 towards your first project, if you register before March 31, 2008.

More at:https://mob4hire.com/

Freerange Stock is to provide quality stock photos for commercial and non-commercial use

What Company Is Offering:
Freerange Stock was formed with the goal to provide quality stock photos for commercial and non-commercial use. For free. They feel that free stock photos can be good photos. Freerange is an advertising revenue supported photographic community - photographers get paid when users click on the ads that appear next to their submissions.

Images on the site are either shot by Freerange Stock, drawn from Freerange archives, or contributed by a talented community of photographers.

How It Works:
Each contributed photo is evaluated by a reviewer for its usefulness as a stock photo. Since this is not a personal photo sharing site, family photo snapshots generally don't qualify as good stock. They ask that images be around 2400 x 1600 pixels and under 1.5 megs in file size, though there may be some flexibility in these areas.
Images of people will need to be model released, which means you would need ot have on hand a completed model release document from people who appear in your submitted images.
Images provided directly (in-house) by Freerange Stock originate one of two ways. They are either digitally photographed on Canon DSLR cameras or they are a high resolution (4000 dpi) Nikon scan of an original 35mm slide.

Once the image is acquired, the photo is sharpened, color corrected, cropped and keyworded. Some images are manipulated in Photoshop to make them more effective. Then the original is archived and a 2400x1600 version is optimized and output, then posted on the live site.

They put a lot of work into each image - they feel it's worth it to make the images as appealing as possible. Thousands of images don't make the cut - this makes the collection smaller, but more useful.

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

Agree2 lets you create, collaborate on and reach agreement with your clients and partners

What Company Is Offering:
Agree2 lets you create, collaborate on and reach agreement with your clients and partners.Create and collaborate with your community to create a common goal, public rules of conduct or say an intellectual property release for a standards group. Signatories and collaborators are public. Let's change the world.

How It Works:

Agree2 lets you, your clients and partners to take back control of your agreements and contracts. Write it in your language and with words suitable to your business. Change it, haggle over it and finally accept it with the closest you will get to a friendly handshake on the web.

More at:http://agree2.com/

With Issuu anyone can convert their documents into interactive online publications

What Company Is Offering:
With Issuu anyone can convert their documents into interactive online publications. It only takes a minute and it's free. Forever.

How It Works:

Issuu is the place for online publications: Magazines, catalogs, documents, and stuff you'd normally find on print. It's the place where YOU become the publisher: Upload a document, it's fast, easy, and totally FREE. Find and comment on thousands of great publications. Join a living library, where anyone finds publications about anything and share them with friends.

With Issuu anyone can automatically convert their documents into interactive online publications. It only takes a minute and it's free. After this you can view your document in a neat magazine-style viewer, that other people can bookmark, share and comment on. You can also post (embed) your Issuu documents on any external site, profile or blog, both as a small preview and as a full-size standalone viewer. Finally, you get your own 'intelligent' Library that finds stuff YOU like.

More at:http://issuu.com/

Wells Fargo is the first large financial services company to offer virtual storage of vital documents

What Company Is Offering:
Wells Fargo’s vSafe is a secure online location where customers can upload and store copies of everything from the deeds to their homes to precious family photos. The bank also uploads each customer’s bank statements to the vault, which can be accessed by logging on to customers’ regular internet banking accounts.


How It Works:

Wells Fargo adds layers of security and throws in a dedicated phone help line. Plus it provides a single, central location for an individual’s or family important documents. Wells Fargo claims it is the first large financial services company to offer virtual storage of vital documents. In the Netherlands, ABN Amro Bank offers a similar service: Digitale Kluis (digital safe). ABN Amro’s safe stores a maximum of 500 MB of storage for EUR 14 per month, and is accessible to anyone who has access to an account holder’s online banking—including authorized accountants or family members.

More at:: www.wellsfargo.com — www.abnamro.nl

FranChild---Kids Business

About:
FranChild is a story about a Dad and Mom helping their kids learn about business, and sharing that knowledge and success formula with anybody who wants to do the same thing for their child.

How It Works:
Your child can sell to anyone or any business you agree upon. If you sell door to door, please only go to those houses that you know, never go after dark and always accompany your child. If you are going to set up retail accounts, your assistance in transportation and teaching your child business etiquette is essential! Basic tips include a firm handshake, maintaining eye contact, asking for the sale and thank yous as well. Marketing support is included in the member's only section of the website.
You and your child will also pay for products (soap, jewelry, apparel) and raw goods (beeswax sheets and wicks), and shipping. The products are sold to you at an extremely competitive rate for the amount that you buy – wholesale or below. For each kit, your cost is typically between $25-$30 and your child can net profits of $100 per kit, depending on your pricing sturcture.

More at:http://franchild.com/

SpringCM, the leader in on-demand document management and workflow has raised an additional $14 million

What Company Is Offering:
SpringCM combines the low cost, low risk benefits of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) with enterprise content management (ECM) functionality to offer unparalleled on-demand document management and workflow. Capturing content, collaborating on projects and managing complex business processes are now available with just a Web browser and Internet access. Built and designed by ECM industry veterans, SpringCM delivers award-winning functionality without the software installation, hardware maintenance and prolonged customization cycles associated with installed, on-premises applications. Industry leaders like Comcast, Stratus Technologies and Health Net trust SpringCM to host their mission-critical content and to provide solutions for contract management, finance, logistics and more.

How Much They Got From VCs:
SpringCM, the leader in on-demand document management and workflow, today announced that it has raised an additional $14 million to fund its substantial growth. The financing includes two major components: a $10 million Series B Preferred equity round led by North Bridge Venture Partners and including Foundation Capital, the Series A lead investor; and a $4 million credit facility with Comerica Bank through its Technology & Life Sciences Division.

SpringCM will use the proceeds from this funding to invest in market share expansion activities in sales, marketing, partner outreach and business development as well as the infrastructure and staff to create new products and enhance the service functionality that supports the growing customer base.

Jeffrey Beir, general partner at North Bridge Venture Partners, has joined the SpringCM board of directors. Beir was formerly co-founder and CEO of eRoom Technology and senior vice president of Products for Documentum, a division of EMC. According to Beir, "North Bridge Venture Partners is excited to be an investor in SpringCM. The company has tremendous potential -- not only because it was created as a SaaS company from the ground-up but also because of the breadth of the product and the strength of the executive management team. I look forward to working closely with Dan Carmel and the rest of the board to extend SpringCM's market leadership as the company grows."

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

Link_A_Media Devices Corporation, a leader in data recovery and transport technologies for storage devices, secured $22 million in Series B financing

What Company Is Offering:
Link_A_Media Devices was founded with a vision to develop custom, integrated system solutions on a chip for linking digital information within and across different media devices. Link_A_Media Devices is a leader in data recovery and data storage technologies. Its technologies in complex, mixed-signal processing and iterative error correction coding are capable of delivering the highest areal densities and yields, while reducing system power consumption. These advantages enable HDD and solid-state OEM’s to more effectively leverage their investments in media and sensor (head) technologies.

How Much They Got From VCs:
Link_A_Media Devices Corporation, a leader in data recovery and transport technologies for storage devices, secured $22 million in Series B financing. The funding round, led by AIG SunAmerica Ventures, was secured from four additional financial and corporate investors – KeyNote Ventures, NEC Electronics, Micron Technology, Inc and Seagate Technology.

Link_A_Media Devices is developing a new class of data recovery solutions based on Iterative Decoding and Nonlinear Signal Processing methods for peripheral storage devices, including hard disk drives (HDD) and solid-state drives (SSD). These solutions are designed to exceed the performance of conventional methods deployed in peripheral storage devices, as well as provide adaptive features that can be used during manufacturing to improve drive yields and product margins.

“AIG SunAmerica Ventures is pleased to be investing in Link_A_Media Devices at this exciting time in the industry,” said Troy Fukumoto, managing director of AIG SunAmerica Ventures. “Link_A_Media Devices is a compelling opportunity because of the team’s successful track record and deep domain experience in the HDD read channel space. We are enthusiastic to partner with Link_A_Media Devices and look forward to helping the company address fast growing peripheral storage markets such as the SSD space.”

More at:http://www.link-a-media.com/

Epicurious is to offer you the very best recipes, cooking features, and video how-tos on the Web

What Company Is Offering:
Epicurious is to offer you the very best recipes, cooking features, and video how-tos on the Web.

At the top of every page, you'll see Recipes & Menus, Articles & Guides, and Community categories, plus links to Bon Appétit and Gourmet.

Recipes & Menus includes Quick & Easy ideas, Holiday recipes, Healthy menus, Seasonal and International Cooking, Desserts, and Drinks.

In the Articles & Guides category, you'll find Entertaining tips, How to Cook, news on nutrition in Healthy Cooking, Holidays & Celebrations, the world's top restaurants in Dining & Travel, Kitchen & Equipment, and interviews in Chefs & Experts.

How It Works:

Community encompasses My Epi; the epi chat room, where you can discuss food and recipes with other Epicurious members in real time; and Forums.

They've highlighted topics within the main Epicurious categories in an easy-to-use list at the left on the homepage, so you can quickly pinpoint the information you want. These highlights are also given at the foot of every page. They've provided other ways to navigate, too, including the Recently Viewed Articles and Related Content boxes to the right.

Recently Viewed Articles shows features you've just read, so you can easily navigate back to one of those pages.

Related Content suggests features and recipes that might interest you, based on the articles or recipes you choose. For example, if you access our Going Global Irish cuisine feature, the related content to the right might include a St. Patrick's Day menu and a profile of a prominent Irish chef, plus some top-rated Irish recipes.

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

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The GORB is an index that reflects the ratings that people provide about others' conduct from a personal and a professional perspective

What Company Is Offering:
The GORB is an index that reflects the ratings that people provide about others' conduct from a personal and a professional perspective. All the ratings are aggregated, weighted, and processed using GORB Math (a patent-pending algorithm). The GORB uses a scale that ranges from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest).

How It Works:
The GORB will allow you to add instant credibility to your professional and personal references. Also it will help you gain more information regarding those people you may deal with on an daily basis. Think abut it. If 30 people say a person is reliable and honest they are probably right. You can search someone by typing his or her email address. If the person doesn't have a Personal or Professional GORB you can be the first to provide a rating.You can rate somebody by either his or her personal conduct and job performance or both. You will assign a numerical value from 1 to 10.

You can rate and search without being registered. However, if you want to promote your GORB or use some other functionalities of the site (e.g., track other peoples' GORB, define your profile, send one-on-one private communications) you must be register. The registration process is simple and free.

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

Charity evaluator, provides financial evaluations of America's charities

About Company:
Charity Navigator's rating system examines two broad areas of a charity's financial health -- how responsibly it functions day to day as well as how well positioned it is to sustain its programs over time. Each charity is then awarded an overall rating, ranging from zero to four stars. To help donors avoid becoming victims of mailing-list appeals, each charity's commitment to keeping donors' personal information confidential is assessed. The site is easily navigable by charity name, location or type of activity and also features opinion pieces by Charity Navigator experts, donation tips, and top-10 and bottom-10 lists which rank efficient and inefficient organizations in a number of categories.

Charity Navigator's leaders have provided expert analysis and commentary on the charitable sector for The Factor with Bill O'Reilly, most CNN programs, and each of the network morning shows--NBC's The Today Show, ABC's Good Morning America, and CBS's The Early Show. We have also appeared on FOX News, CNBC, NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Nightline, and Comedy Central's The Daily Show, among others, and served as contributors to National Public Radio programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered. We have been profiled in Fast Company magazine, Contribute, CFO Magazine, and The Washington Post, and quoted in nearly every major American newspaper or weekly magazine. We have published editorials and articles on charity accountability, the role of government regulation in the charitable sector, fund-raising ethics, and non-profit leadership in such newspapers as The Atlanta-Journal Constitution, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and The Los Angeles Times.


Charity Navigator accepts no funding from the charities that we evaluate, ensuring that our ratings remain objective. Furthermore, in our commitment to help America's philanthropists of all levels make informed giving decisions, we refuse to charge our users for this trusted data. As a result, Charity Navigator, a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization itself, depends on support from individuals, corporations and foundations that believe we provide a much-needed service to America's charitable givers.

More at:http://www.charitynavigator.org/

Answerology

What Company Is Offering:
Answerology gave a new goal: to put an end to miscommunication between the sexes! With its proprietary Q&A platform, the Company now aims to help people improve all their relationships -- with their romantic partners, and with their family, friends and colleagues. It's all about having a better life through shared experience.

How It Works:

Ask your anonymous question. You'll receive personalized responses from several members of our global community.

Answerology comes from sharing and comparing our experiences. The more of us who get involved, the more info we can all tap into!Anyone who has an e-mail address (and something to say about relationships!) can sign up.When sending out a question using Advanced Targeting, approximately 30 people will receive it by e-mail.

All questions are answered by other community members -- remember, they're just real people like you -- so response time can vary. Usually, you'll get several responses within 30 minutes; other times it might take a little longer.

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

Zooppa is an innovative platform for advertising made by users and sponsored by companies

What Company Is Offering:
Zooppa is an innovative platform for advertising made by users and sponsored by companies.Zooppa originated from the idea of creating a space for social advertising through user generated content.

How It Works:

Based on the briefs the companies provide, users are invited to create their own commercials for that brand. Participation in a Zooppa contest can take many forms: designing an animated sequence or creating a print ad with the company logo, writing a script or concept for a potential ad, or actually shooting their own video.
For each company that Zooppa partners with, a new contest is launched for users to compete in.
Users are also encouraged to create their ads using concepts or scripts posted by others. As an incentive to share one another's creativity, Zooppa rewards this type of collaboration with a Bonus Team Prize.
Once users have uploaded their contributions, it is up to them to decide the winners. Users rate the ads and it is based on these ratings that Zooppa awards the cash prizes.

How Is It Different:
What makes Zooppa unique is how the winners are rewarded. Each Zoop$ that users earn are equivalent to real US dollars. Once users have accumulated a minimum of 1.000 Zoop$, they can convert their Zoop$ into a real cash pay out.
Zooppa is, therefore, a new advertising model based on the Internet and the possibility to connect people from all over the world by putting them in contact with another.
Whether in fact, the companies that sponsor the contests are interested in using the posted materials in future advertising campaigns on other mediums, Zooppa plays an important role as an intermediary between the authors of the content and the companies. In this way, Zooppa guarantees a pricing range from a minimum to a maximum value, in which the interests of the two parties (the users and the companies) can be satisfied.

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

Better World Books is a for-profit social enterprise that collects and sells books online got funding

What Company Is Offering:
Better World Books is a for-profit social enterprise that collects and sells books online to fund literacy initiatives worldwide. With more than two million new and used titles in stock, Better World Books is a self-sustaining, triple-bottom-line company that balances the social, economic and environmental values of its stakeholders.

How Much They Got From VCs:
Good Capital, LLC , the San Francisco-based investment manager of the Social Enterprise Expansion Fund and Better World Books , an independent online bookseller that capitalizes on the value of books to fund and support literacy initiatives worldwide, today announced an agreement that will provide Better World Books with up to $2.5 million in growth capital from the Social Enterprise Expansion Fund. Good Capital led the Series A Preferred round and became Better World Books' first institutional investor, while 18 private individuals will provide an additional $2 million in equity capital.

"Better World Books is a great fit for Good Capital's Social Enterprise Expansion Fund," said Kevin Jones, Principal and Co-founder of Good Capital, who will take a board seat as part of the relationship. "It's a rapidly growing, expansion-stage social enterprise that is leveraging a market-based approach, by buying and selling new and used books to improve global literacy. They are passionate and smart, and we look forward to helping them achieve their financial goals and execute on their social mission."

About VCs:
Good Capital is an investment firm that accelerates the flow of capital to innovative ventures and initiatives that harness the power of the market to create sustainable solutions to some of society's most challenging problems. The company's initiatives address a wide range of social issues including social enterprise financing, community and economic development, and healthcare financing. The company actively engages social entrepreneurs and the investment community to build the social capital market and create a better society in the process. Launched by a team with a mix of social investment, entrepreneurial, and philanthropic experience, Good Capital enjoys the strategic support of Calvert Social Investment Foundation (www.calvertfoundation.org) and Criterion Ventures (www.criterionventures.com). For additional information visit the firm's website: www.goodcap.net.


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

PowerSteering, the only On-Demand, Enterprise PPM software used to manage Information Technology, Six Sigma and other strategic initiatives got $3.5M

What Company Is Offering:
PowerSteering Software is the leader in On-Demand Enterprise PPM software for Information Technology, Operational Excellence, New Product Development and other enterprise initiatives. Its easy-to-use software provides executives at the US Army, Raytheon, Ingersoll Rand, Merck, Johnson & Johnson, United Health Group, TD Bank, Washington Mutual, IBM, Best Buy and over 120 other customers with executive visibility, strategy alignment, and enhanced team productivity to drive strategy and accelerate results across the enterprise.

How Much They Got From VCs :

PowerSteering, the only On-Demand, Enterprise PPM software used to manage Information Technology, Six Sigma, New Product Development and other strategic initiatives, today announced new financing totaling $3.5M, the appointment of a new Sales Executive and continued sales momentum.

New investor MMV Financial, a Toronto-based finance company specializing in technology and life sciences companies, and existing investors Advent International and Hudson Ventures participated in the new financing. The funding will support several customer satisfaction initiatives to improve performance for international customers in remote locations, strengthen 24 x 7 global customer support and worldwide hosting services, and facilitate new Enterprise PPM product enhancements in its upcoming Spring 2008 release.

More at:www.powersteeringsoftware.com

Tideway Systems provides a shared platform for technologists to visualize and report on the data they need to make informed decisions got$27 million

What Company is Offering:

Tideway Systems provides a shared platform for technologists to visualize and report on the data they need to make informed decisions. Tideway Foundation software continuously maps application relationships to physical and virtual infrastructure, including the dependencies between them. This single, automated view of application topology enables enterprises to cut costs, reduce risk and better manage change. Tideway is rated as a category leader by prominent analyst firms.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Tideway, one of the fastest growing providers of IT automation software, announced the completion of a $27 million Series C round of financing led by new investor Scottish Equity Partners (SEP). The Series C round funding brings the total equity investment in Tideway to $37.5 million, including follow-on investments from APAX, senior management and other existing investors.

Tideway will use the proceeds to drive new customer acquisition, expand its partner ecosystem, power continued product innovation and meet escalating market demand for data center optimization. Demand is being fueled by the current economic climate, in which global enterprises are seeking to reduce IT costs and operational risk while remaining competitive with new product and service offerings.

About VCs:
SEP is a leading European venture capital firm with offices in London and Glasgow. The team has been investing together for 15 years and has a strong history of helping the most talented European entrepreneurs build world-class companies in the information technology, healthcare and energy-related technology sectors. SEP was recently named Venture Capital Firm of the Year. Previous investments include CSR, Atlantech Technologies, Wolfson Microelectronics, and Searchspace. SEP’s current portfolio includes leading-edge technology companies picoChip, ip.access and Zeus. www.sep.co.uk

More at:www.tideway.com

richrelevance, which powers next generation personalized recommendations for eCommerce businesses has raised $4.2 million

What Company Is Offering:
richrelevance powers next-generation merchandising and personalized recommendations on eCommerce sites. The company’s product outperforms collaborative filtering solutions through use of more than fifteen recommendation types combined with transparent messaging, continuous optimization, and merchandiser controls. The company is privately held and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

How Much They Got From VCs:

richrelevance, which powers next generation personalized recommendations for eCommerce businesses, announced that the company has raised $4.2 million of Series B venture capital financing from Greylock Partners and Tugboat Ventures. This funding follows on the heels of a Series A round from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Draper Richards and select angel investors.

“For eCommerce businesses, we have entered a period where there is tremendous pressure to increase the value of every customer visit. Personalized product recommendations–done right–offer incredible sales lift,” said richrelevance Board Member Ellen Siminoff, Board Chairman of Efficient Frontier and former SVP at Yahoo. “It makes sense that the person who led Amazon's Personalization R&D team is now delivering on this promise.”

More at:www.airfoilpr.com

FriendFolio ---Buy, Sell, And Trade Friends

If you have quite a few friends on Facebook, FriendFolio, which has its official launch tomorrow, wants to be your guide as to how much they’re worth. Launched by London-based application builder BAPPZ, FriendFolio does on the Web precisely what investors in the real world cannot do, which is: buy, sell, and trade friends. (At least not overtly, anyway.) That’s right, no more equality for all. None of that utopian, world-is-flat garbage. The developers behind FriendFolio consider if Facebook users’ right to place one another on a marketplace gauged in dollars and cents and strategize their way to higher-than-thou status.

Want to get rich? You sure can. By playing your ambition card(s) especially well with those carefully honed skills derived from countless hours passing go on within that capitalistic wonderworld called Monopoly - plus a good amount of “friendly” exploitation - you can build quite an impressive portfolio of Facebook associates through FriendFolio that the application’s developers would like to describe as nothing less than a game for “beautiful people, CEOs, and Apprentice hopefuls.”

Via-Mashable

POSTACRIME.COM---Stop Crime ,Get Cash

What Company Is Offering:

POSTACRIME.COM is a free service for anyone to upload photo or video content of burglary, theft, vandalism, or other criminal acts that have been caught on camera for the purpose of identification by the public. Users can also search our crime database by address or zipcode and view crimes committed near their homes and places of work, and submit tips should they have information about a specific crime.

How It Works:

Anyone who has had their car or house broken into or their property vandalized can post details about the crime (with or without photo or video evidence) to share with their neighbors and community. Other POSTACRIME.COM members can search this database of crimes and offer tips and share information about specific crimes for which they have knowledge. Crimes posted on POSTACRIME are generally non-violent and involve loss of property only. POSTACRIME.COM is not intended to be used for posting crimes like murder, assault, rape, or other violent crimes, and these types of crimes should not be posted to POSTACRIME.COM. If you have information about a violent crime, please contact your local law enforement agency directly.

POSTACRIME.COM exists to provide an avenue for all of us to contribute to making our homes and communities a better place to live and work.

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

BurnMyCar Is to provide a place where people can collectively determine the coolness and beauty of somebody's motors by voting on

What Company Says:
This is a place for people to enjoy and share their own or somebody's cars and bikes from anywhere around the world. They're here to provide a place where people can collectively determine the coolness and beauty of somebody's motors by voting on.

How It Works:

Once something is submitted, other people see the cars and vote on the ones they like best. You can BURN the car you like so that the motor may become popular. If the submission rocks and receives enough points, it is promoted to the Popular archive and stay there for enjoying by all the visitors.

BurnMyCar is for boasting of cool cars and also burning up, there's a competition that happens around the car lovers. They're here to promote that competition so you can rise your car by comments under the photos while sharing. There are few categories - in each category you can boast of your car or bike and demonstrate that your motor's cool. Let your car burn up the Web !

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

Woopra is a robust web-tracking & analysis tool

What Company Is Offering:
Woopra is a robust web-tracking & analysis tool that works perfectly on any website. It is mainly targeted for small to medium websites ranging from few hundreds up to tens of thousands of daily page views.

How It Works:
It is targeted for blogs interested in the most minuscule details of every single action. In addition, Woopra provides a precise real-time streaming of every single activity on the website.

Woopra also features a clean interface, including many graphical visualization components, such as charts, maps, panels… Along with many other clean and advanced options that make Woopra an ideal solution for webmasters who desire to discern all the aspects of their website.

Simply create an account, and you will be able to add/remove websites from the members’ area. For each website you add, you will be given a small JavaScript code to place on your website. For further details on how to insert the code on your website, refer to the installation guide in your account page.

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