What Company Is Offering:
BookLamp.org is a system for matching readers to books through an analysis of writing styles, similar to the way that Pandora.com matches music lovers to new music. Do you like Stephen King’s It, but thought it was too long?
The technology behind BookLamp allows you to find books that are written with a similar tone, tense, perspective, action level, description level, and dialog level, while at the same time allowing you to specify details like... half the length. It’s impervious to outside influences - like advertising - that impact socially driven recommendation systems and isn’t reliant on a large user base to work.
How It Works:
BookLamp is a book recommendation system that uses the full text of a book to match it to other books based on scene-by-scene measurements of elements such as pacing, density, action, dialog, description, perspective, and genre, among others. In other words, BookLamp.org is a Pandora.com for books, based on an author's writing style. If you match against multiple books, the self-learning system adjusts your formulas to make the match specific to your tastes. As the system moves out of beta, it will also incorporate human feedback into the recommendation systems, blending the strengths of social networks with the strengths of computer analysis. Ultimately, they want users to be able to create and share their own formulas, creating a community of book lovers that have tools to discover and share books in a way never before possible.
Because the system matches books through objective data from the text itself instead of relying solely on social networks to generate recommendations, the recommendations are impervious to outside influences such as advertising or author marketing. It also allows you to match to a far greater detail than alternative systems. With BookLamp, you can request a book similar to Stephen King's The Stand, but half the length, first person, literary mainstream fiction, with slightly more dialog, less description, and a rising action level across the first 10 scenes. If that's what you're looking for.
More at:http://beta.booklamp.org/
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Zipcars are as ubiquitous as ATMs
What Company Says:
Zipcars are as ubiquitous as ATMs. Z2B (business) and personal drivers alike are loving the freedom and cost savings a Zipcar brings to their life - many have even achieved transportation nirvana. That's why over 30% of our customers have either sold their car or have stopped their purchasing decision. The revolution is underway, at least in the minds of members who no longer give a second thought to how they will get where they need to go. With a Zipcard in your pocket, a car is only a wireless signal away. Viva la revolution!
How It Works:
Just apply online today. It only takes a few minutes.
Once you're approved, you get your very own Zipcard.
Reserve one of their hundreds of cars – for a couple hours or the entire day. Do it online or use a phone.
Walk to the car, then just hold your Zipcard to the windshield.
The doors will unlock, and it's all yours!
Drive away... and return to the same reserved parking spot at the end of your reservation. It's that simple. And remember, gas and insurance are included too.
More at:http://www.zipcar.com/
Zipcars are as ubiquitous as ATMs. Z2B (business) and personal drivers alike are loving the freedom and cost savings a Zipcar brings to their life - many have even achieved transportation nirvana. That's why over 30% of our customers have either sold their car or have stopped their purchasing decision. The revolution is underway, at least in the minds of members who no longer give a second thought to how they will get where they need to go. With a Zipcard in your pocket, a car is only a wireless signal away. Viva la revolution!
How It Works:
Just apply online today. It only takes a few minutes.
Once you're approved, you get your very own Zipcard.
Reserve one of their hundreds of cars – for a couple hours or the entire day. Do it online or use a phone.
Walk to the car, then just hold your Zipcard to the windshield.
The doors will unlock, and it's all yours!
Drive away... and return to the same reserved parking spot at the end of your reservation. It's that simple. And remember, gas and insurance are included too.
More at:http://www.zipcar.com/
Passively Multiplayer Online Game
What Company Is Offering:
PMOG is an infinite game built on individual network histories, transforming our web surfing into ongoing social play. With a game head-up display in Firefox, players can bomb each other, wage war over web sites, and lead other users on web missions. Ordinary web sites become caches for items and currency. PMOG fuses an MMO into our WWW.
How It Works:
PMOG stands for Passively Multiplayer Online Game. Players play without playing; clicking around the internet turns into experience points and currency.
This unconventional massively multiplayer online game merges your web life with an alternate, hidden reality. The mundane takes on a layer of fantastic achievement. Player behavior generates characters and alliances, triggers interactions in the environment, and earns the player points to spend online beefing up their inventory. Suddenly the internet is not a series of untouchable exhibits, but a hackable, rewarding environment.
More at:http://pmog.com/
PMOG is an infinite game built on individual network histories, transforming our web surfing into ongoing social play. With a game head-up display in Firefox, players can bomb each other, wage war over web sites, and lead other users on web missions. Ordinary web sites become caches for items and currency. PMOG fuses an MMO into our WWW.
How It Works:
PMOG stands for Passively Multiplayer Online Game. Players play without playing; clicking around the internet turns into experience points and currency.
This unconventional massively multiplayer online game merges your web life with an alternate, hidden reality. The mundane takes on a layer of fantastic achievement. Player behavior generates characters and alliances, triggers interactions in the environment, and earns the player points to spend online beefing up their inventory. Suddenly the internet is not a series of untouchable exhibits, but a hackable, rewarding environment.
More at:http://pmog.com/
A brand new solution for building video sharing communities on your own website
What Company Says:
A brand new solution for building video sharing communities on your own website. Video has gained a huge market on the web, and there is no better time than now to get started with a highly profitable video site of your own.
How It Works:
A brand new solution for building video sharing communities on your own website.By accessing the YouTube API, videOlive can increase the visibility of your community and its videos.With multiple video encoding options, you are now able to run videOlive from shared hosts that do not support FFmpeg.
When you install videOlive for the first time, your license will be paired with the domain where you are installing it on. But at any time, and for any reason, you can request an domain name update for your license if you need to change domains.
More at:http://www.monoeci.net/
A brand new solution for building video sharing communities on your own website. Video has gained a huge market on the web, and there is no better time than now to get started with a highly profitable video site of your own.
How It Works:
A brand new solution for building video sharing communities on your own website.By accessing the YouTube API, videOlive can increase the visibility of your community and its videos.With multiple video encoding options, you are now able to run videOlive from shared hosts that do not support FFmpeg.
When you install videOlive for the first time, your license will be paired with the domain where you are installing it on. But at any time, and for any reason, you can request an domain name update for your license if you need to change domains.
More at:http://www.monoeci.net/
NewsTrust helps people find good journalism online
What Company Is Offering:
NewsTrust helps people find good journalism online, so they can make informed decisions as citizens. To that end, our nonprofit organization offers an integrated online service, which includes a quality news filter, media literacy tools and a trust network.
How It Works:
NewsTrust's mission is to help people find and share quality journalism online, so they can make more informed decisions as citizens. NewsTrust will accomplish its mission by empowering an online community of citizens, students and journalists to collaboratively evaluate the quality of journalism. To that end, the NewsTrust service will provide:
The free NewsTrust.net website features daily feeds of quality news and opinions, which are carefully rated by our members, using our unique review tools. We rate the news based on quality, not just popularity. NewsTrust reviewers evaluate each article against core journalistic principles such as fairness, evidence, sourcing and context.
More at:http://www.newstrust.net/
NewsTrust helps people find good journalism online, so they can make informed decisions as citizens. To that end, our nonprofit organization offers an integrated online service, which includes a quality news filter, media literacy tools and a trust network.
How It Works:
NewsTrust's mission is to help people find and share quality journalism online, so they can make more informed decisions as citizens. NewsTrust will accomplish its mission by empowering an online community of citizens, students and journalists to collaboratively evaluate the quality of journalism. To that end, the NewsTrust service will provide:
The free NewsTrust.net website features daily feeds of quality news and opinions, which are carefully rated by our members, using our unique review tools. We rate the news based on quality, not just popularity. NewsTrust reviewers evaluate each article against core journalistic principles such as fairness, evidence, sourcing and context.
More at:http://www.newstrust.net/
MochiBot is a Flash traffic monitoring tool
What Company Is Offering:
MochiBot is a Flash traffic monitoring tool (similar to a hit counter) that tracks the performance of individual Flash content files (SWFs) no matter where they end up on the web. If your SWF is on 5 different servers, then MochiBot will count the number of views that SWF got for all 5 servers. It's perfect for tracking how viral your Flash content is.
MochiBot is made up of just four lines of ActionScript code that sit harmlessly in your Flash content. Wherever that SWF goes, MochiBot will follow. This method ensures accurate traffic data no matter what website your SWF ends up on. MochiBot.com knows about each view of your SWF, and makes it available as simple and easy to understand reports that show you just how popular your Flash content is.
How It Works:
You simply copy and paste a few lines of ActionScript from MochiBot.com into your Flash file (FLA), and publish the SWF. Every time your Flash content is played, MochiBot sends a signal to our servers indicating where it is and that it's being played. MochiBot is completely unobtrusive, and will work with any type of Flash content: games, animations, banner ads, videos, or anything you can think up! The best part of all is that it has no effect on your content whatsoever.
More at:http://www.mochibot.com/
MochiBot is a Flash traffic monitoring tool (similar to a hit counter) that tracks the performance of individual Flash content files (SWFs) no matter where they end up on the web. If your SWF is on 5 different servers, then MochiBot will count the number of views that SWF got for all 5 servers. It's perfect for tracking how viral your Flash content is.
MochiBot is made up of just four lines of ActionScript code that sit harmlessly in your Flash content. Wherever that SWF goes, MochiBot will follow. This method ensures accurate traffic data no matter what website your SWF ends up on. MochiBot.com knows about each view of your SWF, and makes it available as simple and easy to understand reports that show you just how popular your Flash content is.
How It Works:
You simply copy and paste a few lines of ActionScript from MochiBot.com into your Flash file (FLA), and publish the SWF. Every time your Flash content is played, MochiBot sends a signal to our servers indicating where it is and that it's being played. MochiBot is completely unobtrusive, and will work with any type of Flash content: games, animations, banner ads, videos, or anything you can think up! The best part of all is that it has no effect on your content whatsoever.
More at:http://www.mochibot.com/
Friday, April 18, 2008
Downloadable Online Free Programming Scripts and Other Resources
About Company:
Soloscript.com is the online mentor to millions and millions of programmers and learners who are benefiting from this site in a cost effective manner. In such cases Soloscript.com serves as a harbinger that guarantees success to the learners who can now get access to valuable resources. Even working professionals can update their knowledge or can refer any topic during website development and designing. Soloscript.com has been given a new design and cool blue color with more additional features and script for reference. Apart from the prime reference articles and
highest rated scripts of ASP, ASP.Net, XML, JavaScript, C and C++, CFML, Flash, Database, Remote Hosting, Shipping Implementation and Payment Gateway. The index page provides direct access to free tutorials of ASP.net, C#, Perl, PHP, Java script, C & C++, Ajax Tutorials, J2ee, J2Me, Java, Python & Ruby Rail, Ecommerce, Internet and law, Search Engine Optimization, domain name registration, crystal report and many more other important topics. T.S. Anand of Soloscript.com speaks about this tutorial site as the online arena of unlimited I.T. knowledge. He says, “Soloscript.com is an attempt to guide the learners in developing and designing websites. Not only this even non IT professionals who have interest in computers or beginners in the I.T field can go through the online scripts as they are written in simple English easily understandable by anyone.”
Anyone seeking information on the above mentioned topics and more essential scripts can download free scripts as their study material on a specific topic.This site has become a landmark in educating IT aspirants in almost every field related to computers and web designing.
More at:http://www.soloscript.com/
Soloscript.com is the online mentor to millions and millions of programmers and learners who are benefiting from this site in a cost effective manner. In such cases Soloscript.com serves as a harbinger that guarantees success to the learners who can now get access to valuable resources. Even working professionals can update their knowledge or can refer any topic during website development and designing. Soloscript.com has been given a new design and cool blue color with more additional features and script for reference. Apart from the prime reference articles and
highest rated scripts of ASP, ASP.Net, XML, JavaScript, C and C++, CFML, Flash, Database, Remote Hosting, Shipping Implementation and Payment Gateway. The index page provides direct access to free tutorials of ASP.net, C#, Perl, PHP, Java script, C & C++, Ajax Tutorials, J2ee, J2Me, Java, Python & Ruby Rail, Ecommerce, Internet and law, Search Engine Optimization, domain name registration, crystal report and many more other important topics. T.S. Anand of Soloscript.com speaks about this tutorial site as the online arena of unlimited I.T. knowledge. He says, “Soloscript.com is an attempt to guide the learners in developing and designing websites. Not only this even non IT professionals who have interest in computers or beginners in the I.T field can go through the online scripts as they are written in simple English easily understandable by anyone.”
Anyone seeking information on the above mentioned topics and more essential scripts can download free scripts as their study material on a specific topic.This site has become a landmark in educating IT aspirants in almost every field related to computers and web designing.
More at:http://www.soloscript.com/
www.iVeteran.US----To reconnect our growing community of military veterans
About Company:
www.iVeteran.US launches a free membership web site that offers member profiles, photo uploading, videos, music, bloging, and discussion services to reconnect our growing community of military veterans.
Veterans of the U.S. Air Force, Army, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard can now reconnect with their fellow service men and women in a social website dedicated to the military.
News affecting veterans from veteran organizations, the Veterans Administration, national and regional news channels; and from veterans themselves offer a single site to keep up to date on issues affecting them each day.
How It Works:
A Veteran Resource feature provides information on veteran benefits, how to apply for them, and advice on how to deal with the bureaucracy. And www.iVeteran.US brings the national finest cartoonists to reflect humor on a deadly serious profession.
www.iVeteran.US offers a unique feature called TOUR OF DUTY that allows a veteran to display his/her photos, videos, music, or voice recording on a scrolling timeline allowing friends to view or add their photos, notes, etc. Additionally, Tributes can be created to those heading to war, or the families that support them.
More at:www.iVeteran.US
www.iVeteran.US launches a free membership web site that offers member profiles, photo uploading, videos, music, bloging, and discussion services to reconnect our growing community of military veterans.
Veterans of the U.S. Air Force, Army, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard can now reconnect with their fellow service men and women in a social website dedicated to the military.
News affecting veterans from veteran organizations, the Veterans Administration, national and regional news channels; and from veterans themselves offer a single site to keep up to date on issues affecting them each day.
How It Works:
A Veteran Resource feature provides information on veteran benefits, how to apply for them, and advice on how to deal with the bureaucracy. And www.iVeteran.US brings the national finest cartoonists to reflect humor on a deadly serious profession.
www.iVeteran.US offers a unique feature called TOUR OF DUTY that allows a veteran to display his/her photos, videos, music, or voice recording on a scrolling timeline allowing friends to view or add their photos, notes, etc. Additionally, Tributes can be created to those heading to war, or the families that support them.
More at:www.iVeteran.US
iGliss is all about helping you access and share your personal and favorite media content
What Company Is Offering:
iGliss is all about helping you access and share your personal and favorite media content such as pictures, audio podcasts, video clips, and blog posts, from your PCs and the Internet.
iGliss lets you create your own media catalog for your online favorite content as well as content from your PCs.
How It Works:
It automatically synchronizes interesting content from your favorite Web sites and PCs in your catalog, so that you can easily enjoy interesting pictures, audio podcasts and music, video clips, blog posts in one place, without constantly searching for them. You can easily collect and organize the content in your catalog, and share it with your friends in groups.
Gliss lets you search for and collect media content from popular websites including YouTube, Flickr, Blogger, etc. For example, you can collect "Videos loaded by a specific user on YouTube", "Favorite Videos of a specific user on YouTube", or "Pictures of a specific place on Flickr", etc.
You can easily add a new RSS feed to your media catalog.
iGliss users download a small client application that manages the user's media collection and uploads media files. iGliss can locate, catalog and deliver desired media content directly to users, freeing them from the task of searching multiple Web sites for specific content.
More at:http://www.igliss.com/
iGliss is all about helping you access and share your personal and favorite media content such as pictures, audio podcasts, video clips, and blog posts, from your PCs and the Internet.
iGliss lets you create your own media catalog for your online favorite content as well as content from your PCs.
How It Works:
It automatically synchronizes interesting content from your favorite Web sites and PCs in your catalog, so that you can easily enjoy interesting pictures, audio podcasts and music, video clips, blog posts in one place, without constantly searching for them. You can easily collect and organize the content in your catalog, and share it with your friends in groups.
Gliss lets you search for and collect media content from popular websites including YouTube, Flickr, Blogger, etc. For example, you can collect "Videos loaded by a specific user on YouTube", "Favorite Videos of a specific user on YouTube", or "Pictures of a specific place on Flickr", etc.
You can easily add a new RSS feed to your media catalog.
iGliss users download a small client application that manages the user's media collection and uploads media files. iGliss can locate, catalog and deliver desired media content directly to users, freeing them from the task of searching multiple Web sites for specific content.
More at:http://www.igliss.com/
amazingtunes is about showcasing the best unsigned artists and bands
What Company Is Offering:
amazingtunes is about showcasing the best unsigned artists and bands. If you're an unsigned artist or band, get discovered with amazingtunes. Create a profile, upload songs, find new fans. Choose to sell your music, and you'll keep 70% of the revenue.
Start exploring today and discover something new.
How It Works:
The amazingtunes Dashboard is your starting point to explore and discover new music. You'll find the Dashboard at the top of every page. Search for a style of music you like - this could be a favourite band, artist or genre. Use the buttons to discover new music, rate the latest songs or hear the amazingtunes chart.
The amazingtunes player will then appear and begin playing your music. You can now listen to amazingtunes while surfing the web.
More at:http://www.amazingtunes.com/
amazingtunes is about showcasing the best unsigned artists and bands. If you're an unsigned artist or band, get discovered with amazingtunes. Create a profile, upload songs, find new fans. Choose to sell your music, and you'll keep 70% of the revenue.
Start exploring today and discover something new.
How It Works:
The amazingtunes Dashboard is your starting point to explore and discover new music. You'll find the Dashboard at the top of every page. Search for a style of music you like - this could be a favourite band, artist or genre. Use the buttons to discover new music, rate the latest songs or hear the amazingtunes chart.
The amazingtunes player will then appear and begin playing your music. You can now listen to amazingtunes while surfing the web.
More at:http://www.amazingtunes.com/
Scoopt is a media agency that has been created specifically to help members of the public sell photographs and videos of newsworthy events tothe media
What Company is Offering:
Scoopt is a media agency that has been created specifically to help members of the public sell photographs and videos of newsworthy events to the media. They bridge the gap between amateur photographer – and by 'amateur', they mean anybody with a digital camera or a cameraphone who just happens to be in the right place at the right time – and picture desks. Scoopt is now owned and operated by Getty Images, which means that Scoopt members have direct access to worldwide media markets.
How it Works:
You submit your photos to Scoopt and we license them on your behalf! When you send Scoopt a photo, you automatically grant them an exclusive worldwide licence to market that photo for a period of twelve (12) months. During this twelve-month period, you agree not to publish the photo anywhere else. When the twelve months are up, the licence becomes non-exclusive. They will still try to sell your photo but now you can also publish it yourself on a photoblog or a picture sharing site -- or anywhere else at all. They appreciate that you should have the right to share your work; theyonly ask that you understand that they MUST have an exclusive licence for really hot photos in order to achieve the best possible deal for you.
They sell your photos in two ways:
1. When a photo is really hot – that is, when you have a genuine scoop – your photo will go straight into the Getty Images gallery viewed by thousands of picture buyers every day, and the Getty sales teams around the world will make sure the right customers see your photo. Your photo will also be placed in the Scoopt gallery
2. A photo that is not quite so hot will go into the Scoopt gallery where picture buyers will be able to view it online. It may fit a news story of the day or simply make a nice 'filler' picture in a magazine.
As soon as your photo is placed in one of their galleries it can start to make sales for you. Some photos sell again and again to different publications and each time it sells you get paid.
More at:http://www.scoopt.com/
Scoopt is a media agency that has been created specifically to help members of the public sell photographs and videos of newsworthy events to the media. They bridge the gap between amateur photographer – and by 'amateur', they mean anybody with a digital camera or a cameraphone who just happens to be in the right place at the right time – and picture desks. Scoopt is now owned and operated by Getty Images, which means that Scoopt members have direct access to worldwide media markets.
How it Works:
You submit your photos to Scoopt and we license them on your behalf! When you send Scoopt a photo, you automatically grant them an exclusive worldwide licence to market that photo for a period of twelve (12) months. During this twelve-month period, you agree not to publish the photo anywhere else. When the twelve months are up, the licence becomes non-exclusive. They will still try to sell your photo but now you can also publish it yourself on a photoblog or a picture sharing site -- or anywhere else at all. They appreciate that you should have the right to share your work; theyonly ask that you understand that they MUST have an exclusive licence for really hot photos in order to achieve the best possible deal for you.
They sell your photos in two ways:
1. When a photo is really hot – that is, when you have a genuine scoop – your photo will go straight into the Getty Images gallery viewed by thousands of picture buyers every day, and the Getty sales teams around the world will make sure the right customers see your photo. Your photo will also be placed in the Scoopt gallery
2. A photo that is not quite so hot will go into the Scoopt gallery where picture buyers will be able to view it online. It may fit a news story of the day or simply make a nice 'filler' picture in a magazine.
As soon as your photo is placed in one of their galleries it can start to make sales for you. Some photos sell again and again to different publications and each time it sells you get paid.
More at:http://www.scoopt.com/
Eluma is a new kind of personal web organizer
What Company Is Offering:
Eluma is a new kind of personal web organizer that lets you easily collect, organize and share any and all of the information you find on the Web, or through Eluma.With Eluma, you can collect anything you want from the Web, organize it however you like and share it with others if you choose to. You can also discover interesting collections of information that others have created – a collection about the Red Sox, or maybe politics or dogs?!?!
How It Works:
With Eluma you can:
keep all of your Web stuff in one place - favorite Web sites, RSS feeds and podcasts that you’ve subscribed to, blogs you read, etc. You can organize your favorites by creating collections or assigning tags… or both.
share your collections of favorites with a friend, a group of friends, or with the entire Eluma community.
discover new content, and subscribe to collections that have been created and recommended by other Eluma users.
subscribe to real-time alerts that show up right on your desktop.
More at:http://www.eluma.com/
Eluma is a new kind of personal web organizer that lets you easily collect, organize and share any and all of the information you find on the Web, or through Eluma.With Eluma, you can collect anything you want from the Web, organize it however you like and share it with others if you choose to. You can also discover interesting collections of information that others have created – a collection about the Red Sox, or maybe politics or dogs?!?!
How It Works:
With Eluma you can:
keep all of your Web stuff in one place - favorite Web sites, RSS feeds and podcasts that you’ve subscribed to, blogs you read, etc. You can organize your favorites by creating collections or assigning tags… or both.
share your collections of favorites with a friend, a group of friends, or with the entire Eluma community.
discover new content, and subscribe to collections that have been created and recommended by other Eluma users.
subscribe to real-time alerts that show up right on your desktop.
More at:http://www.eluma.com/
Turf is a fun, easy-to-play strategy game set at your local community
What Company Is Offering:
Turf is a fun, easy-to-play strategy game set at your local community.
It's a web-based game that brings neighbors together in the real world.
What Company Says:
The power of Turf is the very real strategy meetings, parties, communication networks, government structures, friendships, alliances and betrayals that emerge over the course of the game. We think this game is important because it brings together members of meaningful, already existing social groups, in the real world.
We're working to improve the gameplay, make more beautiful maps, and add features to better connect the communities that play Turf. We're always looking for new real-world elements to bring into the game, and ways to incorporate local businesses, schools and groups.
More at:http://www.playturf.net/
Turf is a fun, easy-to-play strategy game set at your local community.
It's a web-based game that brings neighbors together in the real world.
What Company Says:
The power of Turf is the very real strategy meetings, parties, communication networks, government structures, friendships, alliances and betrayals that emerge over the course of the game. We think this game is important because it brings together members of meaningful, already existing social groups, in the real world.
We're working to improve the gameplay, make more beautiful maps, and add features to better connect the communities that play Turf. We're always looking for new real-world elements to bring into the game, and ways to incorporate local businesses, schools and groups.
More at:http://www.playturf.net/
CrowdSpirit is the 1st Electronic Community which enables you to decide which electronic products you would like to be able to purchase
What Company Is Offering:
CrowdSpirit is the 1st Electronic Community which enables you to decide which electronic products you would like to be able to purchase in your favorite electronic retailer.The CrowdSpirit community aims to start a revolution in manufacturing by creating the first electronic products driven and inspired by customers’ wishes and expectations.
How It Works:
Step 1
Innovator sends ideas. The contributors fine tune them & vote for the best one.
Step 2
A core team is elected by the innovator to defined the product specifications with partners .
Step 3
The first prototype is tested and then further improved by the community.
Step 4
Fans purchase products to the CrowdSpirit partners. The community recommends products to new partners.
More at:http://www.crowdspirit.com/
CrowdSpirit is the 1st Electronic Community which enables you to decide which electronic products you would like to be able to purchase in your favorite electronic retailer.The CrowdSpirit community aims to start a revolution in manufacturing by creating the first electronic products driven and inspired by customers’ wishes and expectations.
How It Works:
Step 1
Innovator sends ideas. The contributors fine tune them & vote for the best one.
Step 2
A core team is elected by the innovator to defined the product specifications with partners .
Step 3
The first prototype is tested and then further improved by the community.
Step 4
Fans purchase products to the CrowdSpirit partners. The community recommends products to new partners.
More at:http://www.crowdspirit.com/
IndieGoGo is an online social marketplace connecting filmmakers and fans to make independent film happen
What Company is Offering:
IndieGoGo - the social marketplace where filmmakers and fans connect to make independent film happen.
Filmmakers can raise money and awareness, find cast and crew, and gain credibility through the help of their number one resource, the fans.
Fans get the opportunity to discover and impact the films of tomorrow, while getting insider access and VIP perks for their contributions.
How It Works:
IndieGoGo is an online social marketplace connecting filmmakers and fans to make independent film happen. The platform provides filmmakers the tools for project funding, recruiting, and promotion, while enabling their audience to discover and connect directly with filmmakers and the causes they support.
Anyone can use IndieGoGo. Whether you're a filmmaker trying to get your project started or finished, or a fan eager for more personally relevant and interesting films, IndieGoGo is where both can take action and influence what projects are brought to life.
More at:http://www.indiegogo.com/
IndieGoGo - the social marketplace where filmmakers and fans connect to make independent film happen.
Filmmakers can raise money and awareness, find cast and crew, and gain credibility through the help of their number one resource, the fans.
Fans get the opportunity to discover and impact the films of tomorrow, while getting insider access and VIP perks for their contributions.
How It Works:
IndieGoGo is an online social marketplace connecting filmmakers and fans to make independent film happen. The platform provides filmmakers the tools for project funding, recruiting, and promotion, while enabling their audience to discover and connect directly with filmmakers and the causes they support.
Anyone can use IndieGoGo. Whether you're a filmmaker trying to get your project started or finished, or a fan eager for more personally relevant and interesting films, IndieGoGo is where both can take action and influence what projects are brought to life.
More at:http://www.indiegogo.com/
Socialtext Incorporated is the first wiki company and leading provider of Enterprise 2.0 solutions
What Company Is Offering:
Socialtext Incorporated is the first wiki company and leading provider of Enterprise 2.0 solutions. Socialtext captures the best features of web-native tools called "wikis" and "weblogs" and brings them inside your enterprise to create a collaboration and knowledge tool that works the way people do.
With Socialtext, people form groups flexibly, and build lightweight structure on the fly, as part of getting their job done -- without needing design or coding skills.
How It Works:
A Socialtext wiki is a secure, group-editable website. Instead of sending emails and attachments, Socialtext customers use private web pages to work together.
To help stimulate adoption, Socialtext offers WikiWidgets, which make it easy for non-technical, business users to create rich, dynamic wiki content.
Plus Socialtext provides added flexibility for users to access wiki content from anywhere, anytime - from mobile devices or even when off-line and disconnected from the network - with Socialtext Miki, the mobile wiki, and Socialtext Unplugged, the off-line wiki.
More at:http://www.socialtext.com/
Socialtext Incorporated is the first wiki company and leading provider of Enterprise 2.0 solutions. Socialtext captures the best features of web-native tools called "wikis" and "weblogs" and brings them inside your enterprise to create a collaboration and knowledge tool that works the way people do.
With Socialtext, people form groups flexibly, and build lightweight structure on the fly, as part of getting their job done -- without needing design or coding skills.
How It Works:
A Socialtext wiki is a secure, group-editable website. Instead of sending emails and attachments, Socialtext customers use private web pages to work together.
To help stimulate adoption, Socialtext offers WikiWidgets, which make it easy for non-technical, business users to create rich, dynamic wiki content.
Plus Socialtext provides added flexibility for users to access wiki content from anywhere, anytime - from mobile devices or even when off-line and disconnected from the network - with Socialtext Miki, the mobile wiki, and Socialtext Unplugged, the off-line wiki.
More at:http://www.socialtext.com/
IntroNiche is a classifieds website bringing together companies which want to cross-promote
What Company Is Offering:
IntroNiche is a classifieds website bringing together companies which want to cross-promote. There are two ways to use the site:
- post a classified ad so interested companies can contact you.
- browse the categories to find other companies you want to cross-promote with .
How It Works:
You can directly email other people on the site if you think you can help each other out in making publicity. For example, you can include the other person in your newsletter if that other person includes you on his website.
You have full liberty to bargain and barter the deals that make most sense to you.
Login or register to post comments.
There are no special conditions for joining IntroNiche.
Individuals, groups, public organizations or associations can all join their community.
You can use three methods when looking for someone to make a cross-promotion deal with:
browse the categories, specifying at the same time your marketing niche.
use the search engine which is always available at the top of IntroNiche.
post an ad and let other profiles contact you (recommended).
More at:http://www.introniche.com/
IntroNiche is a classifieds website bringing together companies which want to cross-promote. There are two ways to use the site:
- post a classified ad so interested companies can contact you.
- browse the categories to find other companies you want to cross-promote with .
How It Works:
You can directly email other people on the site if you think you can help each other out in making publicity. For example, you can include the other person in your newsletter if that other person includes you on his website.
You have full liberty to bargain and barter the deals that make most sense to you.
Login or register to post comments.
There are no special conditions for joining IntroNiche.
Individuals, groups, public organizations or associations can all join their community.
You can use three methods when looking for someone to make a cross-promotion deal with:
browse the categories, specifying at the same time your marketing niche.
use the search engine which is always available at the top of IntroNiche.
post an ad and let other profiles contact you (recommended).
More at:http://www.introniche.com/
Search Rascal is a new service that allows you to track the top search results for keywords of your choice
What Company Is Offering:
Search Rascal is a new service that allows you to track the top search results for keywords of your choice.
How It Works:
Enter the search term or phrase you would like to begin tracking.
All of the pages on their site have a large search box located at the top of the page. Simply enter your search term or phrase in the box and click “Generate Report.”
View the report for your search term or phrase
After you click generate report, their rascal goes out to search engines including Google, Yahoo and MSN (Live Search) and capture limited information about the results for the search term or phrase entered. If you entered a new search term or phrase that we aren’t already tracking, your report will show data from today only. This information is then recaptured daily, allowing you to view comparison reports by day, week, and month. You can check back any time to see an updated report for your search term or phrase.
More at:http://www.searchrascal.com/
Search Rascal is a new service that allows you to track the top search results for keywords of your choice.
How It Works:
Enter the search term or phrase you would like to begin tracking.
All of the pages on their site have a large search box located at the top of the page. Simply enter your search term or phrase in the box and click “Generate Report.”
View the report for your search term or phrase
After you click generate report, their rascal goes out to search engines including Google, Yahoo and MSN (Live Search) and capture limited information about the results for the search term or phrase entered. If you entered a new search term or phrase that we aren’t already tracking, your report will show data from today only. This information is then recaptured daily, allowing you to view comparison reports by day, week, and month. You can check back any time to see an updated report for your search term or phrase.
More at:http://www.searchrascal.com/
Apture gives content creators the power to find and incorporate relevant multimedia items directly into their pages
What Company Is Offering:
Apture provides the first rich communication platform that allows people to intuitively experience the web.
How It Works:
With just one line of code, publishers and bloggers can quickly and easily turn flat pages of text into a compelling multimedia experience. Apture gives content creators the power to find and incorporate relevant multimedia items directly into their pages. Readers can then access these items without ever leaving the page, providing them with a deeper and more meaningful web experience.
More at:http://www.apture.com/
Apture provides the first rich communication platform that allows people to intuitively experience the web.
How It Works:
With just one line of code, publishers and bloggers can quickly and easily turn flat pages of text into a compelling multimedia experience. Apture gives content creators the power to find and incorporate relevant multimedia items directly into their pages. Readers can then access these items without ever leaving the page, providing them with a deeper and more meaningful web experience.
More at:http://www.apture.com/
With ExitReality you can… View every Social Network profile, as an immersive, real time 3D environment
ExitReality is an exciting new social media platform that aims to improve your online experience with an enhanced 3D, multi-user, immersive messaging environment.
What Company Is Offering:
ExitReality is a browser add-on for Internet Explorer and Firefox that dynamically imports all your social network profile content into a custom 3D place, including video, photos, music, comments and friends.
How It Works:
With ExitReality you can… View every Social Network profile, as an immersive, real time 3D environment.
Interact with all your favorite content (including photos, video and audio) and share those experiences with your friends.
Chat with all of your friends on your or any of your friends profiles...?
ExitReality works with all major social network sites including Facebook, Bebo, Hi5, MySpace and Friendster, be it to simply visit your own profile in 3D and have one or more of your friends over for a chat or visit a friend's profile on a rival social network site and watch a video with them.
More at:http://www.exitreality.com/
What Company Is Offering:
ExitReality is a browser add-on for Internet Explorer and Firefox that dynamically imports all your social network profile content into a custom 3D place, including video, photos, music, comments and friends.
How It Works:
With ExitReality you can… View every Social Network profile, as an immersive, real time 3D environment.
Interact with all your favorite content (including photos, video and audio) and share those experiences with your friends.
Chat with all of your friends on your or any of your friends profiles...?
ExitReality works with all major social network sites including Facebook, Bebo, Hi5, MySpace and Friendster, be it to simply visit your own profile in 3D and have one or more of your friends over for a chat or visit a friend's profile on a rival social network site and watch a video with them.
More at:http://www.exitreality.com/
ZoeyBot is a free educational service for kids, parents and teachers
What Company Is Offering:
ZoeyBot is a free educational service for kids, parents and teachers. Kids use an animated desktop where they perform safe searches for articles, videos, tutorials and more. ZoeyBot is like Wikipedia and Google - Just for kids!ZoeyBot is an educational website designed for kids between the ages of 7 and 13. On ZoeyBot kids use a built-in search engine to make safe discoveries. ZoeyBot is safe because all content is stored on our site and there are no links leaving this site.
ZoeyBot is free and really easy to use and there's nothing to download or install.
More at:http://www.zoeybot.com/
ZoeyBot is a free educational service for kids, parents and teachers. Kids use an animated desktop where they perform safe searches for articles, videos, tutorials and more. ZoeyBot is like Wikipedia and Google - Just for kids!ZoeyBot is an educational website designed for kids between the ages of 7 and 13. On ZoeyBot kids use a built-in search engine to make safe discoveries. ZoeyBot is safe because all content is stored on our site and there are no links leaving this site.
ZoeyBot is free and really easy to use and there's nothing to download or install.
More at:http://www.zoeybot.com/
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Collective Intellect , the leading social media analytics company helping businesses track, understand and use social media got new funding of $6.6 m
About Company:
Collective Intellect is a social media analytics company that helps businesses track, understand, and use social media. By utilizing artificial intelligence to sift through online media in real time, Collective Intellect accurately identifies social media participants and communities with knowledge and influence, filters and ranks information capabilities delivering the best content on any topic, and provides key conversation analysis critical in developing and measuring the success rates of sales and marketing programs.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Collective Intellect , the leading social media analytics company helping businesses track, understand and use social media, today closed its second round of institutional funding by raising $6.6 million from venture capital firms led by Grotech Capital Group and including existing investors Appian Ventures and Croghan Investments and new investor Crawley Hatfield Capital, LP.
Proceeds from the investment will be used to dramatically expand Collective Intellect's marketing and sales initiatives, leading to expanded distribution of its monitoring services and analytics-based content, as well as broader application of the company's insights in social media campaigns. This round of funding follows the $2.6 million infusion that Collective Intellect received in February 2006 which was led by Appian Ventures and included other accredited investors in Colorado and New York.
More at:www.collectiveintellect.com
Collective Intellect is a social media analytics company that helps businesses track, understand, and use social media. By utilizing artificial intelligence to sift through online media in real time, Collective Intellect accurately identifies social media participants and communities with knowledge and influence, filters and ranks information capabilities delivering the best content on any topic, and provides key conversation analysis critical in developing and measuring the success rates of sales and marketing programs.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Collective Intellect , the leading social media analytics company helping businesses track, understand and use social media, today closed its second round of institutional funding by raising $6.6 million from venture capital firms led by Grotech Capital Group and including existing investors Appian Ventures and Croghan Investments and new investor Crawley Hatfield Capital, LP.
Proceeds from the investment will be used to dramatically expand Collective Intellect's marketing and sales initiatives, leading to expanded distribution of its monitoring services and analytics-based content, as well as broader application of the company's insights in social media campaigns. This round of funding follows the $2.6 million infusion that Collective Intellect received in February 2006 which was led by Appian Ventures and included other accredited investors in Colorado and New York.
More at:www.collectiveintellect.com
TimeBank is a national charity inspiring and connecting a new generation of people to volunteer in their communities
What Company Is Offering:
TimeBank is a national charity inspiring and connecting a new generation of people to volunteer in their communities, and enabling charitable organisations and businesses to develop innovative and effective volunteer recruitment programmes.TimeBank is transforming the way that individuals, organisations and businesses give back to their communities and contribute to a better world.
How It Works:
TimeBank expertly matches the passions, interests and skills of individuals with opportunities that suit their lifestyles.TimeBank supports voluntary organisations by creating and delivering innovative volunteer recruitment campaigns.TimeBank knows how to harness the power of brands in order to inspire people to give of their time, and they do this with businesses throughout the UK.
TimeBank has in-house technological expertise to build every aspect of an online recruitment campaign, from websites to viral games to online databases. Their award winning website is proof of our ability to harness the power of the web for the benefit of volunteering. They combine high quality web design with cutting edge technology to deliver creative, cost effective online solutions for recruitment as well as ongoing customer care.
More at:http://www.timebank.org.uk/
TimeBank is a national charity inspiring and connecting a new generation of people to volunteer in their communities, and enabling charitable organisations and businesses to develop innovative and effective volunteer recruitment programmes.TimeBank is transforming the way that individuals, organisations and businesses give back to their communities and contribute to a better world.
How It Works:
TimeBank expertly matches the passions, interests and skills of individuals with opportunities that suit their lifestyles.TimeBank supports voluntary organisations by creating and delivering innovative volunteer recruitment campaigns.TimeBank knows how to harness the power of brands in order to inspire people to give of their time, and they do this with businesses throughout the UK.
TimeBank has in-house technological expertise to build every aspect of an online recruitment campaign, from websites to viral games to online databases. Their award winning website is proof of our ability to harness the power of the web for the benefit of volunteering. They combine high quality web design with cutting edge technology to deliver creative, cost effective online solutions for recruitment as well as ongoing customer care.
More at:http://www.timebank.org.uk/
Rated People is an exciting new business site designed to help you choose recommended tradesmen in your area
What Company Is Offering:
Rated People have a massive network of carefully selected tradespeople who get 'rated' by their customers on every single job they complete.
By sharing their experiences they help each other and everyone wins: their customers choose from the best in their area - and the best tradespeople grow stronger, more successful businesses.
How It Works:
Rated People is like word of mouth, only bigger and better. Bigger because you get instant access to a huge local network of rated tradespeople. Better because you know your tradesperson will take extra care that you are happy with the job - every positive rating helps them grow their business. You'll get competitive quotes from good local tradespeople who are ready to give you a better quality of service.
1. Describe your job. Let them know where you are, what you'd like to get done and when you'd like to start.
2. Get quotes. Tell them how many quotes you'd like and they'll put you in touch with up to three local tradespeople, have the right skills and would like to quote.
3. Choose a tradesperson. They put you in direct contact so you can discuss the job further and arrange visits. Then choose a tradesperson if you'd like to proceed.
4. Rate them! Let everyone know how you rate your tradesperson.
More at:http://www.ratedpeople.com/
Rated People have a massive network of carefully selected tradespeople who get 'rated' by their customers on every single job they complete.
By sharing their experiences they help each other and everyone wins: their customers choose from the best in their area - and the best tradespeople grow stronger, more successful businesses.
How It Works:
Rated People is like word of mouth, only bigger and better. Bigger because you get instant access to a huge local network of rated tradespeople. Better because you know your tradesperson will take extra care that you are happy with the job - every positive rating helps them grow their business. You'll get competitive quotes from good local tradespeople who are ready to give you a better quality of service.
1. Describe your job. Let them know where you are, what you'd like to get done and when you'd like to start.
2. Get quotes. Tell them how many quotes you'd like and they'll put you in touch with up to three local tradespeople, have the right skills and would like to quote.
3. Choose a tradesperson. They put you in direct contact so you can discuss the job further and arrange visits. Then choose a tradesperson if you'd like to proceed.
4. Rate them! Let everyone know how you rate your tradesperson.
More at:http://www.ratedpeople.com/
Mindsite offers medical-grade resources to help patients overcome the confusion surrounding mental health treatment
What Company Is Offering:
Mindsite offers medical-grade resources to help patients overcome the confusion surrounding mental health treatment. Start by taking the pre-evaluation (it takes less than 10 minutes), and we'll give you personalized, relevant information for your specific mental health needs.
How It Works:
Mindsite is a medical informatics solution designed to address the problems faced by patients searching for information on mental health.
Mindsite is designed to drive objective self awareness about mental health and deliver personalized, actionable information regarding best practices for treatment approaches. With Mindsite, people will be empowered to make more educated and informed decisions about their mind.
Who Is Backing Them:
Founder and CEO. Mr. Eraker is the founder and former CEO of Redfin, an online residential real estate brokerage backed by Madrona, Vulcan Capital, BEV Capital, and Draper Fischer Jurveston. Prior to founding Redfin, Mr. Eraker worked for Coolearth Software, a supply chain management software developer focused on process manufacturers. He also worked at Elixis, a developer of Web-based medical records eventually acquired by GE Medical Systems. Mr. Eraker holds a BS in Biochemistry from the University of Washington. In his spare time, Mr. Eraker serves on the Board of Directors for the Puget Sound Symphony Orchestra.
More at:http://www.mindsite.com/
Mindsite offers medical-grade resources to help patients overcome the confusion surrounding mental health treatment. Start by taking the pre-evaluation (it takes less than 10 minutes), and we'll give you personalized, relevant information for your specific mental health needs.
How It Works:
Mindsite is a medical informatics solution designed to address the problems faced by patients searching for information on mental health.
Mindsite is designed to drive objective self awareness about mental health and deliver personalized, actionable information regarding best practices for treatment approaches. With Mindsite, people will be empowered to make more educated and informed decisions about their mind.
Who Is Backing Them:
Founder and CEO. Mr. Eraker is the founder and former CEO of Redfin, an online residential real estate brokerage backed by Madrona, Vulcan Capital, BEV Capital, and Draper Fischer Jurveston. Prior to founding Redfin, Mr. Eraker worked for Coolearth Software, a supply chain management software developer focused on process manufacturers. He also worked at Elixis, a developer of Web-based medical records eventually acquired by GE Medical Systems. Mr. Eraker holds a BS in Biochemistry from the University of Washington. In his spare time, Mr. Eraker serves on the Board of Directors for the Puget Sound Symphony Orchestra.
More at:http://www.mindsite.com/
PluggedIn.com is a place to get the hottest music videos, photos, blogs, news, recommendations and more, from artists that matter most to you
What Company Is Offering:
PluggedIn.com is a place to get the hottest music videos, photos, blogs, news, recommendations and more, from artists that matter most to you - in one place. You can:Save the stuff you like, create playlists and share them.Promote your taste in music and meet other music fans.Get recommendations based on the music you like.
How It Works:
Watch stunning, high-quality music videos from your favorite artists. Their innovative video player delivers smooth, uninterrupted, full-screen video over the Internet. Search for an artist, save your favorites, create a playlist and enjoy. It's like having your very own music video channel -- when you want, how you want.
Search for your favorite artist and we'll dynamically assemble the best music content from the web. From HD videos to photos, blog posts to wikipedia entries, biographies to tour dates, CDs to merchandise; we've profiled over one million artists. View and save your favorites, or navigate to recommended artists to keep the session flowing.
Save the stuff you like and share it with the community. We'll make recommendations of other artists and videos you might like, and connect you to fans with similar music tastes. If you like what you see, follow the fans and get instant updates on what they are listening to, which artists they like, who they are searching for and more.
More at:http://www.pluggedin.com/
PluggedIn.com is a place to get the hottest music videos, photos, blogs, news, recommendations and more, from artists that matter most to you - in one place. You can:Save the stuff you like, create playlists and share them.Promote your taste in music and meet other music fans.Get recommendations based on the music you like.
How It Works:
Watch stunning, high-quality music videos from your favorite artists. Their innovative video player delivers smooth, uninterrupted, full-screen video over the Internet. Search for an artist, save your favorites, create a playlist and enjoy. It's like having your very own music video channel -- when you want, how you want.
Search for your favorite artist and we'll dynamically assemble the best music content from the web. From HD videos to photos, blog posts to wikipedia entries, biographies to tour dates, CDs to merchandise; we've profiled over one million artists. View and save your favorites, or navigate to recommended artists to keep the session flowing.
Save the stuff you like and share it with the community. We'll make recommendations of other artists and videos you might like, and connect you to fans with similar music tastes. If you like what you see, follow the fans and get instant updates on what they are listening to, which artists they like, who they are searching for and more.
More at:http://www.pluggedin.com/
Macroaxis Wealth Management Tools
What Company Is Offering:
Macroaxis Corporation specializes in providing software solutions for the financial services sector, facilitating rapid distribution of financial analytics to larger audiences. Unique in the industry, Macroaxis Corporation's financial engineering platform delivers measurable value in the form of improved return on clients' intellectual property, productivity and managed assets for financial institutions.
They are dedicated to bringing investors a practical portfolio analysis and optimization toolset that no other company can offer. It is their goal to provide investors and institutions with the ability to properly define, analyze and present optimal portfolios that will lead to increases in return on managed assets, technology, productivity, and intellectual property.
How It Works:
Macroaxis Wealth Management Toolset is a easy to use set of modules that will allow you to make this allocation by optimizing the trade-off between your risk and return constrains. Using their Portfolio Optimizer or Efficient Frontier as well as available market browsers you can quickly optimize your portfolio against you personal risk and return preference.
Using the Portfolio Optimization Pitchlet, you can evaluate the One-Day Value At Risk of the optimal portfolio along with total risk, expected return, Sharpe ratio and Treynor ratio. The model picks the optimal portfolio from the efficient frontier given your specified level of risk, and a set of constraints on weight and return. The resulting portfolio is then compared to your existing portfolio. As a rational investor, your main objective is to outperform your existing portfolio in all 5 categories. For each category in which you outperform your existing portfolio, you will get one star. The best optimization is achieved when, after several iterations, you get all five.
More at:http://www.macroaxis.com/
Macroaxis Corporation specializes in providing software solutions for the financial services sector, facilitating rapid distribution of financial analytics to larger audiences. Unique in the industry, Macroaxis Corporation's financial engineering platform delivers measurable value in the form of improved return on clients' intellectual property, productivity and managed assets for financial institutions.
They are dedicated to bringing investors a practical portfolio analysis and optimization toolset that no other company can offer. It is their goal to provide investors and institutions with the ability to properly define, analyze and present optimal portfolios that will lead to increases in return on managed assets, technology, productivity, and intellectual property.
How It Works:
Macroaxis Wealth Management Toolset is a easy to use set of modules that will allow you to make this allocation by optimizing the trade-off between your risk and return constrains. Using their Portfolio Optimizer or Efficient Frontier as well as available market browsers you can quickly optimize your portfolio against you personal risk and return preference.
Using the Portfolio Optimization Pitchlet, you can evaluate the One-Day Value At Risk of the optimal portfolio along with total risk, expected return, Sharpe ratio and Treynor ratio. The model picks the optimal portfolio from the efficient frontier given your specified level of risk, and a set of constraints on weight and return. The resulting portfolio is then compared to your existing portfolio. As a rational investor, your main objective is to outperform your existing portfolio in all 5 categories. For each category in which you outperform your existing portfolio, you will get one star. The best optimization is achieved when, after several iterations, you get all five.
More at:http://www.macroaxis.com/
social|median is a social news service that connects people with personalized news and information
About Company:
social|median is a social news service that connects people with personalized news and information. It’s a bookmarking tool, similar to Twine, that aggregates information around various News Groups that cover any topic under the sun. When you first start out, you can easily search for News Groups to join up with, or create one of your own. To make things easier, as with all good social bookmarking tools, social(median has a browser plugin for easy clipping as you surf the web.
The site is currently in a private invite-only alpha.
There are now 920 alpha users.
More at:http://www.socialmedian.com/
social|median is a social news service that connects people with personalized news and information. It’s a bookmarking tool, similar to Twine, that aggregates information around various News Groups that cover any topic under the sun. When you first start out, you can easily search for News Groups to join up with, or create one of your own. To make things easier, as with all good social bookmarking tools, social(median has a browser plugin for easy clipping as you surf the web.
The site is currently in a private invite-only alpha.
There are now 920 alpha users.
More at:http://www.socialmedian.com/
Central Desktop, the Complete Business Collaboration platform for business teams got $7M
What Company Is Offering:
Central Desktop delivers a Complete Business Collaboration platform for the mid-market enabling business teams to connect, share, collaborate and manage business both internally and externally on customizable web workspaces. Its solution is delivered as a pure-play web-based platform (SaaS) that combines the most robust collaboration tools available with consumer-level service and afford-ability. Central Desktop enables teams of all sizes to work virtually and seamlessly without the need for IT resources, leveling the playing field for SMBs wishing to do business with the Fortune 5000 through technology that is as simple as launching a browser.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Central Desktop, the Complete Business Collaboration platform for business teams, t announced a $7M investment from OpenView Venture Partners. The funding is the company’s first round of institutional investment and will be used to further accelerate Central Desktop's R&D, marketing and sales efforts into the under-served SMB market that requires robust business tools with ease of use at affordable prices. The company now serves over 125,000 users and business teams as its approach to Business Collaboration continues rapid adoption in the SMB market. In related news, Central Desktop was named a finalist in both the 2008 Red Herring 100 and SoftwareCEO's Most Innovative General Business Software Awards.
More at:http://www.centraldesktop.com/
Central Desktop delivers a Complete Business Collaboration platform for the mid-market enabling business teams to connect, share, collaborate and manage business both internally and externally on customizable web workspaces. Its solution is delivered as a pure-play web-based platform (SaaS) that combines the most robust collaboration tools available with consumer-level service and afford-ability. Central Desktop enables teams of all sizes to work virtually and seamlessly without the need for IT resources, leveling the playing field for SMBs wishing to do business with the Fortune 5000 through technology that is as simple as launching a browser.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Central Desktop, the Complete Business Collaboration platform for business teams, t announced a $7M investment from OpenView Venture Partners. The funding is the company’s first round of institutional investment and will be used to further accelerate Central Desktop's R&D, marketing and sales efforts into the under-served SMB market that requires robust business tools with ease of use at affordable prices. The company now serves over 125,000 users and business teams as its approach to Business Collaboration continues rapid adoption in the SMB market. In related news, Central Desktop was named a finalist in both the 2008 Red Herring 100 and SoftwareCEO's Most Innovative General Business Software Awards.
More at:http://www.centraldesktop.com/
Rosum is the first and only company to use unmodified broadcast TV signals to power location and timing solutions has raised $15 million in new fund
What Company Is Offering:
Rosum is the first and only company to use unmodified broadcast TV signals to power location and timing solutions. Rosum is also the first to combine TV and GPS signals for truly robust hybrid positioning in all environments. Partners include Intel Corporation , 2Wire Inc., Trimble , and the Boeing Company . Rosum's founding team includes the original architects of the GPS constellation.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Rosum Corporation announced that it has raised $15 million in new financing. Existing investors Charles River Ventures, Allegis Capital, Steamboat Ventures and KTB Ventures, and new investor TruePosition, Inc., a subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation, participated in this round of financing.
Skip Speaks, Rosum CEO, commented, "In the past seven months, we have secured partnerships with Intel Corporation and 2Wire Inc. This new financing will enable us to accelerate our expansion into the mobile TV and femtocell markets and to capture emerging global opportunities for our solution. We are grateful for the ongoing support from our current investors and we are excited to add TruePosition, a market leader in the field of location technology, as a strategic investor."
Stephen Stuut, TruePosition CEO, added, "Rosum's TV-positioning solution is well-aligned with our vision of delivering always-available location-based services, indoors and out, with the best technology available. We are pleased to join the Rosum Board of Directors."
Rosum is the first and only company to harness the broadcast TV infrastructure to deliver location and timing solutions where GPS is most challenged indoors and in urban canyons.
The TV infrastructure is robust, distributed, and highly correlated with population centers, cellular service and broadband penetration.
More at:http://www.rosum.com/
Rosum is the first and only company to use unmodified broadcast TV signals to power location and timing solutions. Rosum is also the first to combine TV and GPS signals for truly robust hybrid positioning in all environments. Partners include Intel Corporation , 2Wire Inc., Trimble , and the Boeing Company . Rosum's founding team includes the original architects of the GPS constellation.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Rosum Corporation announced that it has raised $15 million in new financing. Existing investors Charles River Ventures, Allegis Capital, Steamboat Ventures and KTB Ventures, and new investor TruePosition, Inc., a subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation, participated in this round of financing.
Skip Speaks, Rosum CEO, commented, "In the past seven months, we have secured partnerships with Intel Corporation and 2Wire Inc. This new financing will enable us to accelerate our expansion into the mobile TV and femtocell markets and to capture emerging global opportunities for our solution. We are grateful for the ongoing support from our current investors and we are excited to add TruePosition, a market leader in the field of location technology, as a strategic investor."
Stephen Stuut, TruePosition CEO, added, "Rosum's TV-positioning solution is well-aligned with our vision of delivering always-available location-based services, indoors and out, with the best technology available. We are pleased to join the Rosum Board of Directors."
Rosum is the first and only company to harness the broadcast TV infrastructure to deliver location and timing solutions where GPS is most challenged indoors and in urban canyons.
The TV infrastructure is robust, distributed, and highly correlated with population centers, cellular service and broadband penetration.
More at:http://www.rosum.com/
WaveMaker, a provider of open source visual tools for Web application development got funding
What Company Is Offering:
WaveMaker Software, Inc. provides an easy-to-use, open source Web application development platform for aspiring Web developers. WaveMaker's Visual Ajax Studio and Rapid Deployment Framework are Web Fast and CIO SafeTM, enabling developers to quickly create and deploy Web applications that adhere to the CIO's architecture, security and data policies. WaveMaker Software is privately held and headquartered in San Francisco, California, and is funded by Allegis Capital, Hummer-Winblad and Worldview Technology Partners.
How Much They Got From VCs:
WaveMaker, a provider of open source visual tools for Web application development, today announced the appointment of Roger Sippl to the Board of Directors. With over 30 years of experience in building and managing enterprise software companies, Sippl will help guide WaveMaker as it continues to expand its Ajax open source Web application development platform. The company also closed $4.5 million in funding this month which will help fuel the continued growth of the company's developer community.
"WaveMaker makes it easy to assemble rich Internet applications from databases and Web services," said Chris Keene, CEO of WaveMaker. "With Roger Sippl, we get a world class entrepreneur with expertise on 4GLs, databases and Web services. Roger's business counsel and financial backing will be invaluable to WaveMaker as we move forward in our vision to be the PowerBuilder for Web 2.0 development."
More at: http://wavemaker.com
WaveMaker Software, Inc. provides an easy-to-use, open source Web application development platform for aspiring Web developers. WaveMaker's Visual Ajax Studio and Rapid Deployment Framework are Web Fast and CIO SafeTM, enabling developers to quickly create and deploy Web applications that adhere to the CIO's architecture, security and data policies. WaveMaker Software is privately held and headquartered in San Francisco, California, and is funded by Allegis Capital, Hummer-Winblad and Worldview Technology Partners.
How Much They Got From VCs:
WaveMaker, a provider of open source visual tools for Web application development, today announced the appointment of Roger Sippl to the Board of Directors. With over 30 years of experience in building and managing enterprise software companies, Sippl will help guide WaveMaker as it continues to expand its Ajax open source Web application development platform. The company also closed $4.5 million in funding this month which will help fuel the continued growth of the company's developer community.
"WaveMaker makes it easy to assemble rich Internet applications from databases and Web services," said Chris Keene, CEO of WaveMaker. "With Roger Sippl, we get a world class entrepreneur with expertise on 4GLs, databases and Web services. Roger's business counsel and financial backing will be invaluable to WaveMaker as we move forward in our vision to be the PowerBuilder for Web 2.0 development."
More at: http://wavemaker.com
SignalDemand, the leader in on-demand price and margin optimization software has received a $20 million
What Company Is Offering:
SignalDemand provides manufacturers with on-demand software and services to achieve maximum profit margins in the face of volatile markets and increasingly complex demand decisions. Using patented, comprehensive mathematical models to process thousands of variables, SignalDemand's technology allows customers to adjust supply and pricing on a continual basis. By recommending best price, supply utilization and product mix in moments, SignalDemand enables better day-to-day decision-making. Companies such as Cargill, Farmland Foods, Hormel, National Frozen Foods, Rich Products, Seaboard Foods and Ventura Foods rely on SignalDemand for immediate and ongoing improvement of financial performance.
How Much They Got From VCs:
SignalDemand, the leader in on-demand price and margin optimization software, announced that it has received a $20 million investment from a syndicate of highly regarded venture firms led by a new investor, InterWest Partners. Existing investors Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, General Catalyst and Catamount Ventures also participated. SignalDemand plans to use the funds to spearhead its expansion into new vertical and geographic markets and further enhance its award-winning price and margin optimization offering.
SignalDemand is the world's only provider of price and margin optimization software for manufacturers delivered through a SaaS (Software as a Service) deployment model. Using patent-pending econometric modeling and sophisticated pricing algorithms, SignalDemand helps large-scale manufacturers understand how to optimize their pricing, supply utilization and product mix. SignalDemand customers report significant margin and profit gains from the company's acclaimed software.
About VCs:
InterWest Partners (www.interwest.com), founded in 1979, is a leading diversified venture capital firm focused on building long-term relationships with entrepreneurs and portfolio companies. Currently investing its ninth fund, IW IX, a $600 million fund, InterWest has raised more than $2 billion of capital since inception. InterWest has 17 investing partners in Menlo Park, CA and Dallas, TX, who bring together deep domain knowledge in life sciences and information technology.
More at: www.signaldemand.com
SignalDemand provides manufacturers with on-demand software and services to achieve maximum profit margins in the face of volatile markets and increasingly complex demand decisions. Using patented, comprehensive mathematical models to process thousands of variables, SignalDemand's technology allows customers to adjust supply and pricing on a continual basis. By recommending best price, supply utilization and product mix in moments, SignalDemand enables better day-to-day decision-making. Companies such as Cargill, Farmland Foods, Hormel, National Frozen Foods, Rich Products, Seaboard Foods and Ventura Foods rely on SignalDemand for immediate and ongoing improvement of financial performance.
How Much They Got From VCs:
SignalDemand, the leader in on-demand price and margin optimization software, announced that it has received a $20 million investment from a syndicate of highly regarded venture firms led by a new investor, InterWest Partners. Existing investors Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, General Catalyst and Catamount Ventures also participated. SignalDemand plans to use the funds to spearhead its expansion into new vertical and geographic markets and further enhance its award-winning price and margin optimization offering.
SignalDemand is the world's only provider of price and margin optimization software for manufacturers delivered through a SaaS (Software as a Service) deployment model. Using patent-pending econometric modeling and sophisticated pricing algorithms, SignalDemand helps large-scale manufacturers understand how to optimize their pricing, supply utilization and product mix. SignalDemand customers report significant margin and profit gains from the company's acclaimed software.
About VCs:
InterWest Partners (www.interwest.com), founded in 1979, is a leading diversified venture capital firm focused on building long-term relationships with entrepreneurs and portfolio companies. Currently investing its ninth fund, IW IX, a $600 million fund, InterWest has raised more than $2 billion of capital since inception. InterWest has 17 investing partners in Menlo Park, CA and Dallas, TX, who bring together deep domain knowledge in life sciences and information technology.
More at: www.signaldemand.com
Adsdaq is an advertising exchange operated by ContextWeb
What Company Is Offering:
Adsdaq is an advertising exchange operated by ContextWeb. It attracts inventory from various publishers, mostly non-branded and part of the "long-tail". ADSDAQ's key features include a wide reach- reportedly 48% of the US population according to ComScore. Also, ADSDAQ offers a level of transparency and control, especially with the AskPrice feature on its flagship selling desk, that allows publishers to set a minimum price for which to sell ads on the ADSDAQ exchange.
How It Works:
Go to http://adsdaq.com/login and enter your username and password.
ADSDAQ serves primarly graphical ads. Sometimes ADSDAQ will also serve rich media and expandable ads. There are no text ads served by ADSDAQ currently.
Their patent-pending technology allows them to optimize creative and serve the most relevant advertisement to your targeted audience in less than 20 milliseconds. More specifically, they provide advertisers with the opportunity to only display their advertisements on content that is most relevant to the product they are selling. With ADSDAQ, ads are placed on the most contextually relevant pages. When buying direct from sites or networks, advertisers do not have the ability to control exactly where their ads are being served, thus allowing for spillage and waste.
More at:http://exchange.contextweb.com/
Adsdaq is an advertising exchange operated by ContextWeb. It attracts inventory from various publishers, mostly non-branded and part of the "long-tail". ADSDAQ's key features include a wide reach- reportedly 48% of the US population according to ComScore. Also, ADSDAQ offers a level of transparency and control, especially with the AskPrice feature on its flagship selling desk, that allows publishers to set a minimum price for which to sell ads on the ADSDAQ exchange.
How It Works:
Go to http://adsdaq.com/login and enter your username and password.
ADSDAQ serves primarly graphical ads. Sometimes ADSDAQ will also serve rich media and expandable ads. There are no text ads served by ADSDAQ currently.
Their patent-pending technology allows them to optimize creative and serve the most relevant advertisement to your targeted audience in less than 20 milliseconds. More specifically, they provide advertisers with the opportunity to only display their advertisements on content that is most relevant to the product they are selling. With ADSDAQ, ads are placed on the most contextually relevant pages. When buying direct from sites or networks, advertisers do not have the ability to control exactly where their ads are being served, thus allowing for spillage and waste.
More at:http://exchange.contextweb.com/
tagthe.net is a webservice intended to provide you with tags for your texts
What Company Is Offering:
tagthe.net is a webservice intended to provide you with tags for your texts. You can use it in your applications, in other webservices or just play around with it.
How It Works:
It uses the information that is present in the text, it analyses the content and tries to find out words that could be useful as tags. Currently it works with english, german, french and spanish texts. You could integrate it in your own applications, everywhere from an Email Client to a Blogging Service. Everything could use a little tag or two.
For the moment there is no limit, no need to register and no API key or whatsoever. Just use it.
More at:http://www.tagthe.net/
tagthe.net is a webservice intended to provide you with tags for your texts. You can use it in your applications, in other webservices or just play around with it.
How It Works:
It uses the information that is present in the text, it analyses the content and tries to find out words that could be useful as tags. Currently it works with english, german, french and spanish texts. You could integrate it in your own applications, everywhere from an Email Client to a Blogging Service. Everything could use a little tag or two.
For the moment there is no limit, no need to register and no API key or whatsoever. Just use it.
More at:http://www.tagthe.net/
Keypi is the first collaborative analysis tool for the tendencies of the web
What Company Is Offering:
Keypi is the first collaborative analysis tool for the tendencies of the web. In a simple way, Keypi provides in real-time the last tendencies and activities of the web: Browsers, Operating Systems, Search Engines, Mobile Supports, Robots …Data that we provide by processing the audit of hundreds of sites.
How It Works:
These figures are refined and specified as each one participates and influences the tendencies with their site and through our Widget Flash (Beta currently available). Our data show the tendencies over the two last past weeks and make available every week the different classifications and tendencies of the web, on our site and our RSS feeds.
Having, in real-time, the most realistic possible data: That is their goal.
More at:http://www.keypi.com/
Keypi is the first collaborative analysis tool for the tendencies of the web. In a simple way, Keypi provides in real-time the last tendencies and activities of the web: Browsers, Operating Systems, Search Engines, Mobile Supports, Robots …Data that we provide by processing the audit of hundreds of sites.
How It Works:
These figures are refined and specified as each one participates and influences the tendencies with their site and through our Widget Flash (Beta currently available). Our data show the tendencies over the two last past weeks and make available every week the different classifications and tendencies of the web, on our site and our RSS feeds.
Having, in real-time, the most realistic possible data: That is their goal.
More at:http://www.keypi.com/
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
StreamSend is the most comprehensive and cost-effective permission-based e-mail marketing suite available
What Company Is Offering:
StreamSend is an award winning permission based e-mail marketing solution created by marketers, for marketers.StreamSend is the most comprehensive and cost-effective permission-based e-mail marketing suite available. The company is proud to provide this powerful email marketing suite to marketers, entrepreneurs and online retailers around the world. StreamSend also has a strong Email Marketing Reseller program.
How It Works:
Itt's a web-based application that allows you to simply log-in to you account and create and send email campaigns. StreamSend does not require any software to be downloaded or installed on your computer.
It's one of the only email marketing applications that offers every customer a private IP address . StreamSend is the most cost-effective web-based email marketing solution and offers features comparable to applications that cost thousands of dollars. They do not require that you sign a one-year contract, as most other robust applications do, and they offer a 30 day free trial so that you can see for yourself just how powerful a tool StreamSend can be. Be sure to test drive StreamSend before you chose your email marketing solution.
More at:http://www.streamsend.com/
StreamSend is an award winning permission based e-mail marketing solution created by marketers, for marketers.StreamSend is the most comprehensive and cost-effective permission-based e-mail marketing suite available. The company is proud to provide this powerful email marketing suite to marketers, entrepreneurs and online retailers around the world. StreamSend also has a strong Email Marketing Reseller program.
How It Works:
Itt's a web-based application that allows you to simply log-in to you account and create and send email campaigns. StreamSend does not require any software to be downloaded or installed on your computer.
It's one of the only email marketing applications that offers every customer a private IP address . StreamSend is the most cost-effective web-based email marketing solution and offers features comparable to applications that cost thousands of dollars. They do not require that you sign a one-year contract, as most other robust applications do, and they offer a 30 day free trial so that you can see for yourself just how powerful a tool StreamSend can be. Be sure to test drive StreamSend before you chose your email marketing solution.
More at:http://www.streamsend.com/
Media companies are launching "vertical ad networks"
Looking to snare a larger share of Internet ad dollars, traditional media companies are launching "vertical ad networks" in which they sell ad bundles of space on their sites and on independent sites with complementary content.
Forbes.com's Business and Finance Blog Network, announced last week, includes more than 450 finance-focused blogs, such as Talking Biz News and Xconomy. Forbes will sell ad space across that network, earning a cut of the revenue from the sites.
It hopes to attract advertisers by featuring blogs that have been prescreened for "credible" content, says Forbes.com CEO Jim Spanfeller.
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia has put together an ad network — known as Martha's Circle — that's made up of 25 lifestyle-focused sites such as FriendsEat.com and Christmas-Cookies.com.
Ad space on the partner site typically is sold in packages with space on MarthaStewart.com and MSO's company-owned sites and blogs, which also include The Martha Blog and The Bride's Guide. Advertisers can create their own specialized bundle as well with a la carte site selection.
Via-USA TODAY
Forbes.com's Business and Finance Blog Network, announced last week, includes more than 450 finance-focused blogs, such as Talking Biz News and Xconomy. Forbes will sell ad space across that network, earning a cut of the revenue from the sites.
It hopes to attract advertisers by featuring blogs that have been prescreened for "credible" content, says Forbes.com CEO Jim Spanfeller.
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia has put together an ad network — known as Martha's Circle — that's made up of 25 lifestyle-focused sites such as FriendsEat.com and Christmas-Cookies.com.
Ad space on the partner site typically is sold in packages with space on MarthaStewart.com and MSO's company-owned sites and blogs, which also include The Martha Blog and The Bride's Guide. Advertisers can create their own specialized bundle as well with a la carte site selection.
Via-USA TODAY
Delaycast----Find Flight Delay Predictions
What Company Is Offering:
Delaycast was established to provide information about possible difficulties in flight itineraries and to give travelers realistic expectations about their travel plans. Its goal is to help flyers avoid delays, missed connections, and unintended stayovers.
How It Works:
When travelers consider future air travel, Delaycast.com provides them with reasonable estimates of the delays they may experience based on factors such as airline, origin, destination, and date and time of day. These estimates are based on predictive modeling technologies that model historical patterns in flight delays and project them into the future.
Unique Features:
1. Delay Profiles provide broad overviews of the best days, times, and airlines to fly, based on selected airports.
2. Delay Predictions provide information about delays and cancellations for specific airports, airlines, dates and times.
All predictions and profiles are produced by the models, and as such, are never 100% accurate. Nevertheless, the insight provided beyond the airlines schedules will help most traveler avoid troubles.
More at:http://www.delaycast.com/
Delaycast was established to provide information about possible difficulties in flight itineraries and to give travelers realistic expectations about their travel plans. Its goal is to help flyers avoid delays, missed connections, and unintended stayovers.
How It Works:
When travelers consider future air travel, Delaycast.com provides them with reasonable estimates of the delays they may experience based on factors such as airline, origin, destination, and date and time of day. These estimates are based on predictive modeling technologies that model historical patterns in flight delays and project them into the future.
Unique Features:
1. Delay Profiles provide broad overviews of the best days, times, and airlines to fly, based on selected airports.
2. Delay Predictions provide information about delays and cancellations for specific airports, airlines, dates and times.
All predictions and profiles are produced by the models, and as such, are never 100% accurate. Nevertheless, the insight provided beyond the airlines schedules will help most traveler avoid troubles.
More at:http://www.delaycast.com/
Crowdabout makes podcasts interactive and conversational
What Company Is Offering:
Social networks for podcasters and their crowds.Crowdabout makes podcasts interactive and conversational. While listening or viewing in the online Conversational Player, you can talk back and add your own thoughts to those of crowds of other people listening to the same shows. Share ideas, correct mistakes, debate the finer points, offer advice, shout out to homeys, leave some love...whatever your motivation, crowdabout makes the converstation possible.
How It Works:
By adding your existing podcast RSS feed, you'll automatically be adding all your shows from the feed to CrowdAbout for listeners to discover, enjoy an interact with. When you are logged in, click the "My Settings" link in your control box at the top of the site. Then click the edit button next to "My Show Settings" to name your show, add your feed, upload a thumbnail image for the show, and assign categories and search tags.
Add Posts to Your Episodes in the Conversational Player.
Get Conversation Feeds to help manage the interaction, and add to your site things like RSS chicklets for your conversation feed, little graphic badges to tell people how to get interactive with your site, and embeddable players to make your site the starting place for the conversation.
When playback reaches a point where you want to make a post, click the + button at the right side of the timeline at the bottom of the player. (If you don't see this button, then the person who uploaded the media may have disabled that option.) Compose your post. Click the play button in the lower left corner of the post to review where the post will appear once submitted. Nudge the post left and right as needed using the nudge-left and nudge-right buttons next to the post-play button. Click "Send" in the lower right corner when finished.
More at:http://crowdabout.us/
Social networks for podcasters and their crowds.Crowdabout makes podcasts interactive and conversational. While listening or viewing in the online Conversational Player, you can talk back and add your own thoughts to those of crowds of other people listening to the same shows. Share ideas, correct mistakes, debate the finer points, offer advice, shout out to homeys, leave some love...whatever your motivation, crowdabout makes the converstation possible.
How It Works:
By adding your existing podcast RSS feed, you'll automatically be adding all your shows from the feed to CrowdAbout for listeners to discover, enjoy an interact with. When you are logged in, click the "My Settings" link in your control box at the top of the site. Then click the edit button next to "My Show Settings" to name your show, add your feed, upload a thumbnail image for the show, and assign categories and search tags.
Add Posts to Your Episodes in the Conversational Player.
Get Conversation Feeds to help manage the interaction, and add to your site things like RSS chicklets for your conversation feed, little graphic badges to tell people how to get interactive with your site, and embeddable players to make your site the starting place for the conversation.
When playback reaches a point where you want to make a post, click the + button at the right side of the timeline at the bottom of the player. (If you don't see this button, then the person who uploaded the media may have disabled that option.) Compose your post. Click the play button in the lower left corner of the post to review where the post will appear once submitted. Nudge the post left and right as needed using the nudge-left and nudge-right buttons next to the post-play button. Click "Send" in the lower right corner when finished.
More at:http://crowdabout.us/
Indeed, the most comprehensive search engine for jobs, announced the launch of Job Search by Salary
What Company Is Offering:
Indeed, the most comprehensive search engine for jobs, pioneered a radically improved approach to job search. Indeed has given job seekers free access - instantly, in a single search - to millions of jobs from thousands of company websites, job boards, newspapers, blogs and associations. Indeed makes it easy for job seekers to drill down by keyword, location - and now salary - to find exactly the right jobs. With millions of job seekers and over a hundred million job searches per month, Indeed is by far the leading vertical search engine for jobs. Indeed was selected by Time magazine as one of the Top 10 Websites in 2007 and by PC World as one of the Best 50 Websites. Indeed won a 2008 Weddle’s Users’ Choice Award and was named the Best Job Search Engine by Job-hunt.org.
Recent Updates:
Indeed, the most comprehensive search engine for jobs, announced today the launch of Job Search by Salary. This unique feature enables job seekers to find all jobs meeting their salary needs - even when salaries are not advertised by employers. The vast majority of job listings don't include salaries, so Indeed estimates the salaries of millions of such jobs. Job seekers have never been able to search all jobs by salary until now.
Indeed's proprietary methodology to estimate salaries is based on an analysis of similar job listings that include salaries. Indeed extracts salaries from all job listings containing this information - about a fifth of the total – and then estimates salaries for the rest. When actual salaries are advertised, they are shown in the search results.
Job seekers can enter any annual salary into the search box on Indeed, returning all jobs estimated to pay at least that much. They can also set up an email job alert to be notified when jobs matching their salary requirements are found. A job seeker looking for a marketing management position paying over $60,000 per year, for example, can search 'Marketing Manager $60k' which returns over seventy thousand jobs nationwide.
More at:www.indeed.com
Indeed, the most comprehensive search engine for jobs, pioneered a radically improved approach to job search. Indeed has given job seekers free access - instantly, in a single search - to millions of jobs from thousands of company websites, job boards, newspapers, blogs and associations. Indeed makes it easy for job seekers to drill down by keyword, location - and now salary - to find exactly the right jobs. With millions of job seekers and over a hundred million job searches per month, Indeed is by far the leading vertical search engine for jobs. Indeed was selected by Time magazine as one of the Top 10 Websites in 2007 and by PC World as one of the Best 50 Websites. Indeed won a 2008 Weddle’s Users’ Choice Award and was named the Best Job Search Engine by Job-hunt.org.
Recent Updates:
Indeed, the most comprehensive search engine for jobs, announced today the launch of Job Search by Salary. This unique feature enables job seekers to find all jobs meeting their salary needs - even when salaries are not advertised by employers. The vast majority of job listings don't include salaries, so Indeed estimates the salaries of millions of such jobs. Job seekers have never been able to search all jobs by salary until now.
Indeed's proprietary methodology to estimate salaries is based on an analysis of similar job listings that include salaries. Indeed extracts salaries from all job listings containing this information - about a fifth of the total – and then estimates salaries for the rest. When actual salaries are advertised, they are shown in the search results.
Job seekers can enter any annual salary into the search box on Indeed, returning all jobs estimated to pay at least that much. They can also set up an email job alert to be notified when jobs matching their salary requirements are found. A job seeker looking for a marketing management position paying over $60,000 per year, for example, can search 'Marketing Manager $60k' which returns over seventy thousand jobs nationwide.
More at:www.indeed.com
FrontStream Payments Inc,provider of payment solutions to SMEs, has raised $16 million in first-round funding
What Company Is Offering:
FrontStream Payments, based in Brentwood, TN, is a leading provider of payments products and services to small and medium-sized businesses and independent credit card sales organizations.
How Much They Got From VCs:
FrontStream Payments Inc., a Brentwood, Tenn.-based provider of payment solutions to SMEs, has raised $16 million in first-round funding. Participants include SSM Partners, Noro-Moseley Partners, Wakefield Group, Southpoint Capital and companymanagement.
FrontStream Payments products and services include turnkey solutions that enable merchants to increase revenues through the acceptance of credit and debit cards. The company also helps drive customer relationship management and loyalty efforts by allowing them to offer their own "branded" loyalty, gift and prepaid cards.
More at:http://www.frontstreampayments.com/
FrontStream Payments, based in Brentwood, TN, is a leading provider of payments products and services to small and medium-sized businesses and independent credit card sales organizations.
How Much They Got From VCs:
FrontStream Payments Inc., a Brentwood, Tenn.-based provider of payment solutions to SMEs, has raised $16 million in first-round funding. Participants include SSM Partners, Noro-Moseley Partners, Wakefield Group, Southpoint Capital and companymanagement.
FrontStream Payments products and services include turnkey solutions that enable merchants to increase revenues through the acceptance of credit and debit cards. The company also helps drive customer relationship management and loyalty efforts by allowing them to offer their own "branded" loyalty, gift and prepaid cards.
More at:http://www.frontstreampayments.com/
RecycleBank, a rewards program that motivates households to recycle has secured $30 million
What Company Is Offering:
RecycleBank is a rewards program that motivates people to recycle. It does this by quickly and easily measuring the amount of material each home recycles and then converting that activity into RecycleBank Reward Points that can be used at hundreds of local and national rewards partners. RecycleBank is simple to implement, market-driven and proven to work, saving municipalities' money and rewarding citizens for their environmental stewardship. RRE Ventures and Sigma Partners are the largest institutional shareholder group and Ron Gonen, the co-founder and CEO is the largest individual shareholder.
How Much They Got From VCs:
RecycleBank, a rewards program that motivates households to recycle, announced today that it has secured $30 million in Series B funding from leading venture capital firms, Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield and Byers (KPCB), RRE Ventures, Sigma Partners and The Westly Group. RecycleBank will be using this funding to rapidly scale in the United States and continue expansion into Europe in the next 24 months.
More at: www.recyclebank.com
RecycleBank is a rewards program that motivates people to recycle. It does this by quickly and easily measuring the amount of material each home recycles and then converting that activity into RecycleBank Reward Points that can be used at hundreds of local and national rewards partners. RecycleBank is simple to implement, market-driven and proven to work, saving municipalities' money and rewarding citizens for their environmental stewardship. RRE Ventures and Sigma Partners are the largest institutional shareholder group and Ron Gonen, the co-founder and CEO is the largest individual shareholder.
How Much They Got From VCs:
RecycleBank, a rewards program that motivates households to recycle, announced today that it has secured $30 million in Series B funding from leading venture capital firms, Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield and Byers (KPCB), RRE Ventures, Sigma Partners and The Westly Group. RecycleBank will be using this funding to rapidly scale in the United States and continue expansion into Europe in the next 24 months.
More at: www.recyclebank.com
Coghead empowers tech-savvy business people and IT professionals to develop applications that automate business operations
What Company Is Offering:
Coghead is a platform for creating, using and sharing applications. Coghead provides a directory where members of the community can publish and subscribe to applications.
Coghead empowers tech-savvy business people and IT professionals to develop applications that automate business operations. By combining the benefits of zero infrastructure, a 100% web-based environment, drag and drop tools, and powerful customization capabilities, Coghead is changing the application development game - in your favor.
How It Works:
With Coghead, you can quickly create custom software and deploy it to colleagues, clients, and employees, real time.
Perhaps best of all, once you become a “Coghead”, you will have the entire Coghead community behind you - contributing applications, sharing solutions, and relating technical advice.
All you need is a browser, an internet connection, and an understanding of your business needs - or those of your clients.
You can create an account and begin right away. Start with a pre-built template from the Coghead application gallery, or build your own from scratch. Or do a little of both! Coghead has specialized templates for creating a nearly limitless range of applications.
More at:https://www.coghead.com/
Coghead is a platform for creating, using and sharing applications. Coghead provides a directory where members of the community can publish and subscribe to applications.
Coghead empowers tech-savvy business people and IT professionals to develop applications that automate business operations. By combining the benefits of zero infrastructure, a 100% web-based environment, drag and drop tools, and powerful customization capabilities, Coghead is changing the application development game - in your favor.
How It Works:
With Coghead, you can quickly create custom software and deploy it to colleagues, clients, and employees, real time.
Perhaps best of all, once you become a “Coghead”, you will have the entire Coghead community behind you - contributing applications, sharing solutions, and relating technical advice.
All you need is a browser, an internet connection, and an understanding of your business needs - or those of your clients.
You can create an account and begin right away. Start with a pre-built template from the Coghead application gallery, or build your own from scratch. Or do a little of both! Coghead has specialized templates for creating a nearly limitless range of applications.
More at:https://www.coghead.com/
StarCite, Inc., the leading provider of on-demand meeting and event management solutions for corporations and hotels, venues has secured $15 million
About Company:
StarCite, Inc. provides a technology platform that makes meeting and event planning, booking and management simpler and more cost-effective for corporations, hotels, venues and meeting suppliers worldwide.
How It Works:
StarCite’s solutions deliver visibility, cost savings, and control over meeting spending for businesses and enhanced revenue opportunities for suppliers. Through Web-based, on-demand technology, StarCite automates and supports every key element of the meeting planning and procurement process: planning, budgeting, buying, attendance, payment, and results measurement. Using StarCite’s proprietary online marketplace, meeting buyers can connect and conduct business with over 93,000 hotels, venues, destinations and suppliers globally.
How Much They Got From VCs:
StarCite, Inc., the leading provider of on-demand meeting and event management solutions for corporations and hotels, venues, and other meeting suppliers, today announced that it from current investors, including Internet Capital Group (NASDAQ: ICGE - News), TPG Ventures, and Norwest Venture Partners (NVP). StarCite plans to use the proceeds from the funding primarily to support its initiatives for both continued global growth and ongoing enhancements to its suite of technology offerings.
StarCite is experiencing increasing growth as more corporations and meeting suppliers utilize its online technology for meeting management. The company estimates that $7.5 billion in meeting and event business passed through StarCite’s online global marketplace in 2007, an increase of approximately 30 percent over its 2006 estimates.
More at:www.starcite.com
StarCite, Inc. provides a technology platform that makes meeting and event planning, booking and management simpler and more cost-effective for corporations, hotels, venues and meeting suppliers worldwide.
How It Works:
StarCite’s solutions deliver visibility, cost savings, and control over meeting spending for businesses and enhanced revenue opportunities for suppliers. Through Web-based, on-demand technology, StarCite automates and supports every key element of the meeting planning and procurement process: planning, budgeting, buying, attendance, payment, and results measurement. Using StarCite’s proprietary online marketplace, meeting buyers can connect and conduct business with over 93,000 hotels, venues, destinations and suppliers globally.
How Much They Got From VCs:
StarCite, Inc., the leading provider of on-demand meeting and event management solutions for corporations and hotels, venues, and other meeting suppliers, today announced that it from current investors, including Internet Capital Group (NASDAQ: ICGE - News), TPG Ventures, and Norwest Venture Partners (NVP). StarCite plans to use the proceeds from the funding primarily to support its initiatives for both continued global growth and ongoing enhancements to its suite of technology offerings.
StarCite is experiencing increasing growth as more corporations and meeting suppliers utilize its online technology for meeting management. The company estimates that $7.5 billion in meeting and event business passed through StarCite’s online global marketplace in 2007, an increase of approximately 30 percent over its 2006 estimates.
More at:www.starcite.com
Cuill, a stealth start-up with a new approach to search got $25 million in funding
What Company Is Offering:
Cuill is a technology start-up pioneering a new approach to search. The team is leveraging their own expertise in search architecture, relevance methods and data analysis to provide users with a better search experience. The company is located on a quiet street in Menlo Park, Calif.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Cuill, a stealth start-up with a new approach to search, announced that the company has secured a second round of equity financing of $25 million, led by Madrone Capital Partners. The Series B investment follows a previous $8 million funding round from Tugboat Ventures and Greylock Partners.
"We are pleased with the confidence of our investors," said Chief Executive Officer and co-founder Tom Costello. "Our team is using breakthroughs in search architecture and technological advances to create a new paradigm in search, and we now have the resources to reach the next level in pure search."
Cuill has assembled a premier team of search experts from Google, IBM, eBay, Alta Vista, Xerox PARC, the Internet Archive and Stanford University. These highly respected search veterans have a proven track record in the search industry and are focused on creating the next generation of search.
More at:http://www.cuill.com
Cuill is a technology start-up pioneering a new approach to search. The team is leveraging their own expertise in search architecture, relevance methods and data analysis to provide users with a better search experience. The company is located on a quiet street in Menlo Park, Calif.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Cuill, a stealth start-up with a new approach to search, announced that the company has secured a second round of equity financing of $25 million, led by Madrone Capital Partners. The Series B investment follows a previous $8 million funding round from Tugboat Ventures and Greylock Partners.
"We are pleased with the confidence of our investors," said Chief Executive Officer and co-founder Tom Costello. "Our team is using breakthroughs in search architecture and technological advances to create a new paradigm in search, and we now have the resources to reach the next level in pure search."
Cuill has assembled a premier team of search experts from Google, IBM, eBay, Alta Vista, Xerox PARC, the Internet Archive and Stanford University. These highly respected search veterans have a proven track record in the search industry and are focused on creating the next generation of search.
More at:http://www.cuill.com
Seero is your platform to broadcast your world and win vacation
What Company Is Offering:
Seero.com is a geo-broadcasting platform for users to broadcast and experience destinations around the world. Seero fuses live and on-demand video with GPS mapping to create a rich and unique user experience. Their goal is to shake the foundations of how you see video with a platform that promotes exploration and geographical awareness.
If you are looking for another typical video site, or 'Television Online', this probably isn't the place for you. If you want to experience a new way to see the world, welcome.
How It Works:
Seero utilizes the vast potential of the internet to create an original brand of content. If you are a citizen journalist, local tour guide, back road explorer, talented performer, or simply have a great destination to unveil, Seero is your platform to broadcast your world.
More at:http://www.seero.com/
Seero.com is a geo-broadcasting platform for users to broadcast and experience destinations around the world. Seero fuses live and on-demand video with GPS mapping to create a rich and unique user experience. Their goal is to shake the foundations of how you see video with a platform that promotes exploration and geographical awareness.
If you are looking for another typical video site, or 'Television Online', this probably isn't the place for you. If you want to experience a new way to see the world, welcome.
How It Works:
Seero utilizes the vast potential of the internet to create an original brand of content. If you are a citizen journalist, local tour guide, back road explorer, talented performer, or simply have a great destination to unveil, Seero is your platform to broadcast your world.
More at:http://www.seero.com/
Localeze is the leading provider of local merchant data for the search and online Yellow Pages industries
What Company Is Offering:
The Localeze data repository brings together local merchant information from several places, including Yellow Pages directories, authorized brand-dealer lists, Web sites and many other sources. What makes this data special is we also collect detailed business information provided by the merchants themselves — the most accurate business data you can find. Using our Web tools, merchants can create and update comprehensive business listings quickly and easily. That way, not only do search engines get the freshest, richest content, but merchants also get the chance to present an accurate, detailed snapshot of their businesses.
How It Works:
Localeze offers the tools you need. They let merchants of all sizes create powerful, rich business listings that don't get buried in search results. While other directories allow you to list only the basic details about your business, our Merchant Profile Manager allows you to add much richer content to your listings - including business category, specific products, brands, services, hours of operation, payment options and much more — making your stores much more "findable" for consumers. That's why more than 250,000 local merchants and a growing list of top retail brands have chosen Localeze to boost their visibility in local searches.
More at:http://www.localeze.com/
The Localeze data repository brings together local merchant information from several places, including Yellow Pages directories, authorized brand-dealer lists, Web sites and many other sources. What makes this data special is we also collect detailed business information provided by the merchants themselves — the most accurate business data you can find. Using our Web tools, merchants can create and update comprehensive business listings quickly and easily. That way, not only do search engines get the freshest, richest content, but merchants also get the chance to present an accurate, detailed snapshot of their businesses.
How It Works:
Localeze offers the tools you need. They let merchants of all sizes create powerful, rich business listings that don't get buried in search results. While other directories allow you to list only the basic details about your business, our Merchant Profile Manager allows you to add much richer content to your listings - including business category, specific products, brands, services, hours of operation, payment options and much more — making your stores much more "findable" for consumers. That's why more than 250,000 local merchants and a growing list of top retail brands have chosen Localeze to boost their visibility in local searches.
More at:http://www.localeze.com/
A Mikon is a symbol about you
What Company Is Offering:
A Mikon is a symbol about you.For example, a Mikon can say I'm from Texas. It's an idea in the form of a picture can say where you're from, what you like to do, what organizations you belong to, what you believe in, anything!
Create or use a mikon for your club. Create or use a Mikon for your clan or guild
your hobbies: biking, scrapbooking, book clubs, drinking, chess, reading, movies
your beliefs: religion, political affiliation, gender identification,
an experience or aspect of your personal story,cancer survivor, entrepreneur,
a concept you want to share
your preferences: paper or plastic? coffee or tea? vinyl or digital?
A company has one and only one logo but thats not enough to describe who you are!
With multiple Mikons, you make a sentence of symbols. The old saw is A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words. What does a dozen Mikons say?
How It Works:
Sign up to establish your unique login ID and password.
Use the Mikon Machine™, our cool vector drawing tool, to create the symbols that tell your story. You can design from scratch or remix other graphics to build your personal set of Mikons.
Publish your Mikons and choose how you would like to share them, possibly with your family, friends, and co-workers; or you can always keep them private.
Connect with other Mikoners, search for people with similar Mikons, join a community, email a fellow Mikoner, view your friends list and much more!
More at:http://www.mikons.com/
A Mikon is a symbol about you.For example, a Mikon can say I'm from Texas. It's an idea in the form of a picture can say where you're from, what you like to do, what organizations you belong to, what you believe in, anything!
Create or use a mikon for your club. Create or use a Mikon for your clan or guild
your hobbies: biking, scrapbooking, book clubs, drinking, chess, reading, movies
your beliefs: religion, political affiliation, gender identification,
an experience or aspect of your personal story,cancer survivor, entrepreneur,
a concept you want to share
your preferences: paper or plastic? coffee or tea? vinyl or digital?
A company has one and only one logo but thats not enough to describe who you are!
With multiple Mikons, you make a sentence of symbols. The old saw is A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words. What does a dozen Mikons say?
How It Works:
Sign up to establish your unique login ID and password.
Use the Mikon Machine™, our cool vector drawing tool, to create the symbols that tell your story. You can design from scratch or remix other graphics to build your personal set of Mikons.
Publish your Mikons and choose how you would like to share them, possibly with your family, friends, and co-workers; or you can always keep them private.
Connect with other Mikoners, search for people with similar Mikons, join a community, email a fellow Mikoner, view your friends list and much more!
More at:http://www.mikons.com/
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Social Networking Site for Virtual Assistants
What Company Is Offering:
The Alliance of Virtual Assistants is the “newest kid on the block” in the world of Virtual Assistant networking sites. It is a bit different to others in that it is based on the social networking model. AVA gives its members their own page to express their personality, groups, blogs, a forum, and the ability to upload videos and pictures.
AVA is a great way for Virtual Assistants to connect with each other and with the public.
How It Works:
If someone is looking for a VA, they can go to the site and post an RFP which will be sent to all the members of the network. AVA will give Virtual Assistants a venue to share with each other, support each other, and socialize with each other.
The Alliance of Virtual Assistants is giving away a free gift to the first Virtual Assistants that join. “Essential Article Marketing Secrets” an e-book written by Darrell Williams will be emailed to the first 50 VAs who sign up. As AVA grows, it will also offer advertising space, resources, contests and events. Williams says, “We want to see a real community grow out of AVA.”
More at:
Right-Hand-Man Virtual Assistant Services
Darrell A. Williams
902-367-5019
darrell@righthandmanva.com
www.righthandmanva.com
http://www.allianceva.ning.com
The Alliance of Virtual Assistants is the “newest kid on the block” in the world of Virtual Assistant networking sites. It is a bit different to others in that it is based on the social networking model. AVA gives its members their own page to express their personality, groups, blogs, a forum, and the ability to upload videos and pictures.
AVA is a great way for Virtual Assistants to connect with each other and with the public.
How It Works:
If someone is looking for a VA, they can go to the site and post an RFP which will be sent to all the members of the network. AVA will give Virtual Assistants a venue to share with each other, support each other, and socialize with each other.
The Alliance of Virtual Assistants is giving away a free gift to the first Virtual Assistants that join. “Essential Article Marketing Secrets” an e-book written by Darrell Williams will be emailed to the first 50 VAs who sign up. As AVA grows, it will also offer advertising space, resources, contests and events. Williams says, “We want to see a real community grow out of AVA.”
More at:
Right-Hand-Man Virtual Assistant Services
Darrell A. Williams
902-367-5019
darrell@righthandmanva.com
www.righthandmanva.com
http://www.allianceva.ning.com
TronMe ---anyone can mix and perform their favorites live on MSN, Skype, or even YouTube
What Company Is Offering:
TronMe is brand new, it's in the starting blocks and ready to explode into the home entertainment arena.Using TronMe software anyone can mix and perform their favorites live on MSN, Skype, or even YouTube; it's a whole new level of interactivity that is certain to appeal to wannabe performers of all ages. This fresh technology works with a new audio format - .IVS Each song is separated into different tracks or building blocks and the software mixes these back together based on the movements detected through the computer's web cam to provide an exclusive mix every time.
Buyers will choose songs from their website, in the .IVS format for use with their TronMe software. If your tracks are among their favorites then they will be looking to buy them. Make sure your tracks are there - don't miss the opportunity to jump on board the IVS revolution.
How It Works:
TronMe is controlled purely from the webcam or the mouse and, from the movements detected, the program creates a unique mix of the track. The player has total control of how the mix sounds. The direction of the movement determines which instrument plays. Stay in the middle and they are equal, move higher and the percussion is dominant. There is no end to the options and possibilities. Of course, no one ever moves the exact same way twice and so each time a song is played an entirely new mix is created. There are also plenty of effects to add onto the video to make the end result exceptionally professional.
TronMe is compatible with MSN, Skype and, of course, the home video recorder; the performance can be made all the more exciting by an audience or it can just be recorded in mp3 or avi to be watched back later.
More at:http://www.tronme.com/
TronMe is brand new, it's in the starting blocks and ready to explode into the home entertainment arena.Using TronMe software anyone can mix and perform their favorites live on MSN, Skype, or even YouTube; it's a whole new level of interactivity that is certain to appeal to wannabe performers of all ages. This fresh technology works with a new audio format - .IVS Each song is separated into different tracks or building blocks and the software mixes these back together based on the movements detected through the computer's web cam to provide an exclusive mix every time.
Buyers will choose songs from their website, in the .IVS format for use with their TronMe software. If your tracks are among their favorites then they will be looking to buy them. Make sure your tracks are there - don't miss the opportunity to jump on board the IVS revolution.
How It Works:
TronMe is controlled purely from the webcam or the mouse and, from the movements detected, the program creates a unique mix of the track. The player has total control of how the mix sounds. The direction of the movement determines which instrument plays. Stay in the middle and they are equal, move higher and the percussion is dominant. There is no end to the options and possibilities. Of course, no one ever moves the exact same way twice and so each time a song is played an entirely new mix is created. There are also plenty of effects to add onto the video to make the end result exceptionally professional.
TronMe is compatible with MSN, Skype and, of course, the home video recorder; the performance can be made all the more exciting by an audience or it can just be recorded in mp3 or avi to be watched back later.
More at:http://www.tronme.com/
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