What Company Is Offering:
ScribbleLive allows broadcasters, publishers, educators, corporations, social groups, writers, students, bloggers and individuals to be instant publishers, live to your screen.
how It Works:
Logging in is a snap. They seamlessly integrate with your FaceBook, MSN Live or your Open ID account so you don’t have to remember another ID and password. Since there is no need to install software or learn some complicated back end, you can create your event in seconds. Give it a name and off you go. Now, send out the invitation to your friends to help you cover the full story. They instantly become your team or writers, photographers and editors and ScribbleLive ensure you are all on the same page.
Once that post hits the page, in seconds I might add, you can instantly edit your text right in the post without the need to leave the comfort of the browser. The update instantly appears on everyone’s screen. How cool is that!
ScribbleLive is not a chat line; this is a collaborative, real time journaling of events as they unfold.
Its easy to use, you have instant access, the posts appear in seconds without the need to reload, you can edit instantly, you have unlimited users that can watch the event and its totally new!
More at:http://www.scribblelive.com/
Friday, May 23, 2008
Professional on the Web
What Company Is Offering:
Professional on the Web is a fresh directory where web agencies and freelancers can list their profiles and easily manage showcase of their projects. They manage to keep the directory as focused as possible to get the most number of professionals listed in our directory.
How It Works:
After signing up you can complete your profile using in_place_editors and you can arrange projects and tags by drag&drop .
Users can search web professionals by tag and also rate projects instantly. No need to register or sign in.
You can subscribe to the ever increasing list of designers and projects being added to Professional on the web via RSS.
More at:http://www.professionalontheweb.com/
Professional on the Web is a fresh directory where web agencies and freelancers can list their profiles and easily manage showcase of their projects. They manage to keep the directory as focused as possible to get the most number of professionals listed in our directory.
How It Works:
After signing up you can complete your profile using in_place_editors and you can arrange projects and tags by drag&drop .
Users can search web professionals by tag and also rate projects instantly. No need to register or sign in.
You can subscribe to the ever increasing list of designers and projects being added to Professional on the web via RSS.
More at:http://www.professionalontheweb.com/
Track contacts, leads, customers, vendors, and others with Highrise
What Company Is Offering:
Track contacts, leads, customers, vendors, and others with Highrise.Every contact in Highrise gets a page. You and your co-workers can add notes from calls,
conversations, meetings, or any other historic information about this person.
How It Works:
Tasks help you get things done. Assign tasks to yourself or to others. Add action categories (Call,
Thank You, Demo, Fax, Email) for quick scanning. Check’em off when they're done.
Highrise will even send reminders to your email account or mobile phone!
Highrise lets you specify who can see which people, companies, notes, and cases. It’s your call.
Adding a person manually takes just a few seconds. You can also upload vCards
to add people even faster or import people from your Basecamp account.
Highrise works hand in hand with email. You can send, BCC, or forward emails to
Highrise and they'll automatically be attached to the right person’s page.
Company pages aggregate notes, files, and emails from people that are part of that company.
Now you can see everyone your company knows at any company in your account.
Highrise gets better the more people in your organization that use it. The users section lets you invite people to create accounts on your system. Groups let you set batch permissions on people, notes, and cases.
More at:http://www.highrisehq.com/
Track contacts, leads, customers, vendors, and others with Highrise.Every contact in Highrise gets a page. You and your co-workers can add notes from calls,
conversations, meetings, or any other historic information about this person.
How It Works:
Tasks help you get things done. Assign tasks to yourself or to others. Add action categories (Call,
Thank You, Demo, Fax, Email) for quick scanning. Check’em off when they're done.
Highrise will even send reminders to your email account or mobile phone!
Highrise lets you specify who can see which people, companies, notes, and cases. It’s your call.
Adding a person manually takes just a few seconds. You can also upload vCards
to add people even faster or import people from your Basecamp account.
Highrise works hand in hand with email. You can send, BCC, or forward emails to
Highrise and they'll automatically be attached to the right person’s page.
Company pages aggregate notes, files, and emails from people that are part of that company.
Now you can see everyone your company knows at any company in your account.
Highrise gets better the more people in your organization that use it. The users section lets you invite people to create accounts on your system. Groups let you set batch permissions on people, notes, and cases.
More at:http://www.highrisehq.com/
ComfyPage is the tool you need to create simple, smart and super quick websites
What Company Is Offering:
ComfyPage is the tool you need to create simple, smart and super quick websites without the worry of hiring expensive web developers and designers. You can use it for absolutely any purpose provided it doesn't break any Australian laws.
How It Works:
After registration they take you through their easy setup wizard, then provide any help you need placing content on your new site.
You get everything you need to build a website and have it live to the world.
More at:http://comfypage.com/
ComfyPage is the tool you need to create simple, smart and super quick websites without the worry of hiring expensive web developers and designers. You can use it for absolutely any purpose provided it doesn't break any Australian laws.
How It Works:
After registration they take you through their easy setup wizard, then provide any help you need placing content on your new site.
You get everything you need to build a website and have it live to the world.
More at:http://comfypage.com/
BugWiki is bug tracking without all the confusing bells and whistles
What Company Is Offering:
BugWiki is bug tracking without all the confusing bells and whistles. If you want to track bugs without spending time installing, configuring and exploring a bug tracking tool, BugWiki is made for you.
How It Works:
Once you decide to try BugWiki, you are ready to report your first bug in seconds. Just a quick sign up and you're good to go.BugWiki offers you only the small set of features you really need. This makes BugWiki easy to adopt for new users.
Every user in your organisation can see and do everything. Yes, everything.You can stay logged in forever, and the "New bug" page is fully bookmarkable. Only one field is required, so to make a quick note of a bug comes at a very low price. You can always add more info later.
More at:https://www.bugwiki.com/
BugWiki is bug tracking without all the confusing bells and whistles. If you want to track bugs without spending time installing, configuring and exploring a bug tracking tool, BugWiki is made for you.
How It Works:
Once you decide to try BugWiki, you are ready to report your first bug in seconds. Just a quick sign up and you're good to go.BugWiki offers you only the small set of features you really need. This makes BugWiki easy to adopt for new users.
Every user in your organisation can see and do everything. Yes, everything.You can stay logged in forever, and the "New bug" page is fully bookmarkable. Only one field is required, so to make a quick note of a bug comes at a very low price. You can always add more info later.
More at:https://www.bugwiki.com/
Macroaxis Corporation specializes in providing software solutions for the financial services sector
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.
How It Works:
The Five Star Portfolio Optimization technique refers to the simple methodology we use to achieve better diversification. 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 stars.
More at:http://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.
How It Works:
The Five Star Portfolio Optimization technique refers to the simple methodology we use to achieve better diversification. 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 stars.
More at:http://macroaxis.com/
Vibstars is a social network of socialbuzzing that lets you easily spread your ideas and discoveries on the Web
What Company Is Offering:
Vibstars is a social network of socialbuzzing that lets you easily spread your ideas and discoveries on the Web.
Vibstars is not a digg-like or a platform of miniblogging but paves the way for buzz2buzz.
How It Works:
You propose an idea, a link to an article, a video of youtube or the images found on the Web at all your contacts and your friends can with one click send your news to their own networks and so forth. The best buzz appear on the homepage.
More at:http://vibstars.com/
Vibstars is a social network of socialbuzzing that lets you easily spread your ideas and discoveries on the Web.
Vibstars is not a digg-like or a platform of miniblogging but paves the way for buzz2buzz.
How It Works:
You propose an idea, a link to an article, a video of youtube or the images found on the Web at all your contacts and your friends can with one click send your news to their own networks and so forth. The best buzz appear on the homepage.
More at:http://vibstars.com/
PolicyMap is an innovative geographic information system
What Company Is Offering:
PolicyMap is an innovative geographic information system which allows you to easily create custom maps, tables, and charts.Provides over 4,000 indicators plus the ability to plot your own data with our mapping services.Available from any Web browser on any operating system.Backed by the resources, expertise and integrity of The Reinvestment Fund.
How It Works:
Once you've created a map, table or report that you want, save it and export it as a jpeg or a pdf for use in your presentation or reports.Search any location by address, census tract, county, state, zip code, school district, or Congressional district. Subscribers also can create custom regions.
PolicyMap currently offers over 4,000 indicators related to demographics, real estate, crime, health, schools, housing affordability, employment, energy, and public investments.
More at:http://www.policymap.com/
PolicyMap is an innovative geographic information system which allows you to easily create custom maps, tables, and charts.Provides over 4,000 indicators plus the ability to plot your own data with our mapping services.Available from any Web browser on any operating system.Backed by the resources, expertise and integrity of The Reinvestment Fund.
How It Works:
Once you've created a map, table or report that you want, save it and export it as a jpeg or a pdf for use in your presentation or reports.Search any location by address, census tract, county, state, zip code, school district, or Congressional district. Subscribers also can create custom regions.
PolicyMap currently offers over 4,000 indicators related to demographics, real estate, crime, health, schools, housing affordability, employment, energy, and public investments.
More at:http://www.policymap.com/
Stitcher service enables you to hear the audio content you care about
What Company Is Offering:
Their service enables you to hear the audio content you care about. They “stitch” it into personalized, always-current stations that you can easily listen to on your iPhone or computer.
How It Works:
An example user's commute might include SF weather, NY Knicks scores, the Onion Radio News, VentureBeat Headlines and CNN News. Each day, the latest segments stream to your iPhone or computer automatically, without you having to manually refresh anything.
Stitcher revolutionizes information radio because it is:Customized: they learn what you like and don't like - so they can serve you better and better content
Easy: just start listening, they'll take care of the rest
Portable: stream Stitcher anywhere: no satellite device, Wi-Fi or syncing required.
More at:http://www.stitcher.com/
Their service enables you to hear the audio content you care about. They “stitch” it into personalized, always-current stations that you can easily listen to on your iPhone or computer.
How It Works:
An example user's commute might include SF weather, NY Knicks scores, the Onion Radio News, VentureBeat Headlines and CNN News. Each day, the latest segments stream to your iPhone or computer automatically, without you having to manually refresh anything.
Stitcher revolutionizes information radio because it is:Customized: they learn what you like and don't like - so they can serve you better and better content
Easy: just start listening, they'll take care of the rest
Portable: stream Stitcher anywhere: no satellite device, Wi-Fi or syncing required.
More at:http://www.stitcher.com/
Flock - The Social Web Browser got VCs funding
What company Is Offering:
Flock - The Social Web Browser - is built on Mozilla's constantly improving Firefox architecture . It is free to download and use at http://www.flock.com. Flock simplifies and extends the use of social and web-based applications to enable the richest user experience possible across information-gathering, sharing, communication, self-expression and interaction. Flock delivers a more personal experience of the web, where its users are in control and more connected to what they value. The company is based in Redwood City, CA, with an office in Victoria, British Columbia.
How Much they Got From VCs:
Flock, a Redwood City, Calif.-based developer of a social Web browser, has raised $15 million in Series D funding. Fidelity Ventures led the round, and was joined by return backers Bessemer Venture Partners, Catamount Ventures and Shasta Ventures.
This new funding exceeds the amounts raised in all prior rounds combined and will be used to provide growth capital to expand Flock's business, including research and development, marketing and expansion into new global markets. According to Datamonitor, there are currently over 230 million members of social networks globally, and revenues are projected to reach $2.4 billion by 20121. Fidelity Ventures brings the advantages of its tremendous global reach and experience to assist in growing Flock's business.
"We are thrilled to close this significant round of financing," said Shawn Hardin, CEO of Flock. "Following the tremendous market response to Flock's commercial release, this new funding will enable us to continue our browser innovation � making engagement and participation across social networks and the Web as effortless as consumption."
"The browser is strategic because it enables nearly everything users do online," said Larry Cheng, Partner at Fidelity Ventures. "Flock's social browser is the most compelling innovation in the browser market in over a decade. The reasons we invested are simple: great product, fantastic user adoption, and excellent revenue growth."
More at: www.flock.com
Flock - The Social Web Browser - is built on Mozilla's constantly improving Firefox architecture . It is free to download and use at http://www.flock.com. Flock simplifies and extends the use of social and web-based applications to enable the richest user experience possible across information-gathering, sharing, communication, self-expression and interaction. Flock delivers a more personal experience of the web, where its users are in control and more connected to what they value. The company is based in Redwood City, CA, with an office in Victoria, British Columbia.
How Much they Got From VCs:
Flock, a Redwood City, Calif.-based developer of a social Web browser, has raised $15 million in Series D funding. Fidelity Ventures led the round, and was joined by return backers Bessemer Venture Partners, Catamount Ventures and Shasta Ventures.
This new funding exceeds the amounts raised in all prior rounds combined and will be used to provide growth capital to expand Flock's business, including research and development, marketing and expansion into new global markets. According to Datamonitor, there are currently over 230 million members of social networks globally, and revenues are projected to reach $2.4 billion by 20121. Fidelity Ventures brings the advantages of its tremendous global reach and experience to assist in growing Flock's business.
"We are thrilled to close this significant round of financing," said Shawn Hardin, CEO of Flock. "Following the tremendous market response to Flock's commercial release, this new funding will enable us to continue our browser innovation � making engagement and participation across social networks and the Web as effortless as consumption."
"The browser is strategic because it enables nearly everything users do online," said Larry Cheng, Partner at Fidelity Ventures. "Flock's social browser is the most compelling innovation in the browser market in over a decade. The reasons we invested are simple: great product, fantastic user adoption, and excellent revenue growth."
More at: www.flock.com
SmartSynch, a global leader in public wireless smart metering technology has raised $20 million dollars
What Company Is Offering:
SmartSynch’s SmartMeters represent future-proof investments in technology. The standards-based IP connectivity enabled in every SmartMeter deployed makes them adaptable and remotely upgradeable to support today’s sensor and communications needs, as well as tomorrow’s opportunities, better than any alternative.
How Much They Got From VCs:
SmartSynch, a global leader in public wireless smart metering technology, announced today that it has raised $20 million dollars in expansion financing. New investor Credit Suisse, a leading international financial institution based in New York, invested in the financing through its Customized Fund Investment Group. This round also provided an opportunity for a new investor, Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance Company, to participate in SmartSynch’s success, along with a host of existing investors, such as: Battelle Ventures, Beacon Group, Endeavor Capital Management, GulfSouth Capital, Innovation Valley Partners, Kinetic Ventures, OPG Ventures and Siemens Venture Capital. To date, SmartSynch has raised a total of $80 million since its inception in 2000. It will use this latest round to fund working capital growth, expand market presence and accelerate the product roadmap for new Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and Smart Grid Intelligence solutions.
“Utilities are deploying smart meter technology at a rapid rate to avoid the difficulty of building and permitting new power plants, to prepare for impending carbon regulation and more importantly because managing electricity use at a granular level opens up new business opportunities with customers,” said Nadim Barakat, a Managing Director in Credit Suisse’s Customized Fund Investment Group. “We chose SmartSynch because of its deep customer base, innovative technology and compelling value proposition for utilities looking to gain the highest possible return on investment in smart meter systems.”
More at:www.smartsynch.com.
SmartSynch’s SmartMeters represent future-proof investments in technology. The standards-based IP connectivity enabled in every SmartMeter deployed makes them adaptable and remotely upgradeable to support today’s sensor and communications needs, as well as tomorrow’s opportunities, better than any alternative.
How Much They Got From VCs:
SmartSynch, a global leader in public wireless smart metering technology, announced today that it has raised $20 million dollars in expansion financing. New investor Credit Suisse, a leading international financial institution based in New York, invested in the financing through its Customized Fund Investment Group. This round also provided an opportunity for a new investor, Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance Company, to participate in SmartSynch’s success, along with a host of existing investors, such as: Battelle Ventures, Beacon Group, Endeavor Capital Management, GulfSouth Capital, Innovation Valley Partners, Kinetic Ventures, OPG Ventures and Siemens Venture Capital. To date, SmartSynch has raised a total of $80 million since its inception in 2000. It will use this latest round to fund working capital growth, expand market presence and accelerate the product roadmap for new Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and Smart Grid Intelligence solutions.
“Utilities are deploying smart meter technology at a rapid rate to avoid the difficulty of building and permitting new power plants, to prepare for impending carbon regulation and more importantly because managing electricity use at a granular level opens up new business opportunities with customers,” said Nadim Barakat, a Managing Director in Credit Suisse’s Customized Fund Investment Group. “We chose SmartSynch because of its deep customer base, innovative technology and compelling value proposition for utilities looking to gain the highest possible return on investment in smart meter systems.”
More at:www.smartsynch.com.
TimeBucks.org ---- For donating, trading, or finding services
What Company Is Offering:
TimeBucks.org is to share your skills and find services you need. Posted services are usually less formal and less profit-oriented than other directories. Most people who provide services just want to share a talent or support an organization they care about.
They encourage the non-commercial nature of their community by setting a one-price-for-everybody policy: 15 "time-bucks" is equal to one hour of service. That can be broken down into larger or smaller amounts. For example, 7.50 time-bucks is equal to a half an hour, and so on.
How It Works:
Members can earn time-bucks by providing a service or purchasing time-bucks online at $1 to 1 time-buck. When you exchange dollars for time-bucks, you're taking your money out of the financial system that rewards profits above people, and putting it into a system that supports nonprofits and communities. Click the Get Tab to order your time-bucks.
Members trade time-bucks for a wide variety of services. Post a service yourself or look under the Trade tab to view services by category.
More at:http://www.timebucks.org/
TimeBucks.org is to share your skills and find services you need. Posted services are usually less formal and less profit-oriented than other directories. Most people who provide services just want to share a talent or support an organization they care about.
They encourage the non-commercial nature of their community by setting a one-price-for-everybody policy: 15 "time-bucks" is equal to one hour of service. That can be broken down into larger or smaller amounts. For example, 7.50 time-bucks is equal to a half an hour, and so on.
How It Works:
Members can earn time-bucks by providing a service or purchasing time-bucks online at $1 to 1 time-buck. When you exchange dollars for time-bucks, you're taking your money out of the financial system that rewards profits above people, and putting it into a system that supports nonprofits and communities. Click the Get Tab to order your time-bucks.
Members trade time-bucks for a wide variety of services. Post a service yourself or look under the Trade tab to view services by category.
More at:http://www.timebucks.org/
eduFire is a community of people passionate about teaching and learning languages
What Company Is Offering:
eduFire is a community of people passionate about teaching and learning languages. As a student you find outstanding language tutors from all around the world and learn from them from the comfort of your home. As a teacher you'll be able to connect with students and can teach them without having to travel.
How It Works:
Sign up and create your profile (the better and more complete your profile the more likely you'll be to get new students). You'll soon receive messages from students interested in learning a language from you.
You just need an Internet connection (broadband recommended) and a web browser. If you don't have flash installed then you'll want to install Flash 9. When you're ready, you can check your audio and video settings here to confirm that you're all set!
You don't need a webcam, but learning a language online is much better if your student can see you. If you have a desktop computer, they recommend this Logitech Quickcam, and if you have a laptop, they recommend this camera.
More at:http://edufire.com/
eduFire is a community of people passionate about teaching and learning languages. As a student you find outstanding language tutors from all around the world and learn from them from the comfort of your home. As a teacher you'll be able to connect with students and can teach them without having to travel.
How It Works:
Sign up and create your profile (the better and more complete your profile the more likely you'll be to get new students). You'll soon receive messages from students interested in learning a language from you.
You just need an Internet connection (broadband recommended) and a web browser. If you don't have flash installed then you'll want to install Flash 9. When you're ready, you can check your audio and video settings here to confirm that you're all set!
You don't need a webcam, but learning a language online is much better if your student can see you. If you have a desktop computer, they recommend this Logitech Quickcam, and if you have a laptop, they recommend this camera.
More at:http://edufire.com/
The Industry Standard is a prediction market, intersected with a reputation-based social network
What Company Is Offering:
Their prediction market is a place where, for entertainment purposes, you can bet on the chances of future events occurring or not occurring, using a virtual currency called "Standard Dollars". The predictions listed on the market are all related to the online economy, which touches nearly all businesses these days. If you see a prediction on the site where you believe you know the future outcome, place a bet and see if you are right. If your bet is correct, you’ll win more "Standard Dollars" to bet on other predictions, and your community rank will increase. If you’re really good, you may also win prizes.
How It Works:
When you are logged into the site, you can track your predictions where you’ve wagered bets by clicking on “My Predictions”, which may be found at the top of every page.
If you want to see a prediction on the site that you think would be relevant to The Industry Standard’s mission, you can suggest one at any time. The community will then vote to see if your suggestion should be added to the site. If the suggestion is well received, The Industry Standard team may convert the Suggestion into a Prediction. Once this happens, you will instantly be awarded S$25,000 to your account!
Your Net Worth is an indicator of how well you are doing in placing bets and suggesting predictions on The Industry Standard. You start at S$100,000 when you register. If you make good decisions on the predictions you bet on, your Net Worth will go up as your bets pay off. If you make bad decisions, your Net Worth will go down. This will impact your Industry Rank.
When a prediction is judged, you are credited with Standard Dollars for each bet that you get right. If the odds were already high that an event would occur when you placed your bet, you wouldn’t earn as much if you were right, compared to what you would earn if you bet on a long shot, where the odds were low. However, the most important thing is to be right. When the event’s closing date occurs (the date on which the event will be judged to see if an event has occurred or not), The Industry Standard will review the prediction and determine if the prediction has come true. As soon as we make that judgment, your account will be updated accordingly, depending on how you bet.
More at:http://www.thestandard.com/
Their prediction market is a place where, for entertainment purposes, you can bet on the chances of future events occurring or not occurring, using a virtual currency called "Standard Dollars". The predictions listed on the market are all related to the online economy, which touches nearly all businesses these days. If you see a prediction on the site where you believe you know the future outcome, place a bet and see if you are right. If your bet is correct, you’ll win more "Standard Dollars" to bet on other predictions, and your community rank will increase. If you’re really good, you may also win prizes.
How It Works:
When you are logged into the site, you can track your predictions where you’ve wagered bets by clicking on “My Predictions”, which may be found at the top of every page.
If you want to see a prediction on the site that you think would be relevant to The Industry Standard’s mission, you can suggest one at any time. The community will then vote to see if your suggestion should be added to the site. If the suggestion is well received, The Industry Standard team may convert the Suggestion into a Prediction. Once this happens, you will instantly be awarded S$25,000 to your account!
Your Net Worth is an indicator of how well you are doing in placing bets and suggesting predictions on The Industry Standard. You start at S$100,000 when you register. If you make good decisions on the predictions you bet on, your Net Worth will go up as your bets pay off. If you make bad decisions, your Net Worth will go down. This will impact your Industry Rank.
When a prediction is judged, you are credited with Standard Dollars for each bet that you get right. If the odds were already high that an event would occur when you placed your bet, you wouldn’t earn as much if you were right, compared to what you would earn if you bet on a long shot, where the odds were low. However, the most important thing is to be right. When the event’s closing date occurs (the date on which the event will be judged to see if an event has occurred or not), The Industry Standard will review the prediction and determine if the prediction has come true. As soon as we make that judgment, your account will be updated accordingly, depending on how you bet.
More at:http://www.thestandard.com/
DiscRevolt provides physical solutions for digital delivery of media
What Company Is Offering:
DiscRevolt provides physical solutions for digital delivery of media. For artists, DiscRevolt is a way to deliver DRM-free digital music through artist-specific download cards. DiscRevolt also provides promotional services to artists, labels, events and third-parties through download cards for backend delivery of samplers, pre-releases and other exclusive content.
DiscRevolt also provides promotional services to artists, labels, events and third-parties through download cards for backend delivery of samplers, pre-releases and other exclusive content. Their extensive reporting system gives clients access to detailed sales and non-identifying demographic information that no other download service can match.
More at:http://www.discrevolt.com/
DiscRevolt provides physical solutions for digital delivery of media. For artists, DiscRevolt is a way to deliver DRM-free digital music through artist-specific download cards. DiscRevolt also provides promotional services to artists, labels, events and third-parties through download cards for backend delivery of samplers, pre-releases and other exclusive content.
DiscRevolt also provides promotional services to artists, labels, events and third-parties through download cards for backend delivery of samplers, pre-releases and other exclusive content. Their extensive reporting system gives clients access to detailed sales and non-identifying demographic information that no other download service can match.
More at:http://www.discrevolt.com/
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Targeted User-Generated Content Marketing Solutions
What Company Is Offering:
TUGCMS, provides highly targeted leads (generated by assessing their behavior), thus increasing sales significantly and at the same time reducing costs associated with traditional lead generation and marketing. Here’s how:
TUGCMS relies on New Media — BLOGS, WIKIS, PODCAST, ONLINE VIDEO, TOP SOCIAL AND BUSINESS NETWORKS, etc to document as much behavior of online users as possible. The behavior is then segmented by relevancy, thus helping us identify Passionistas relevant to your business. This leads to a comprehensive, yet focused set of prospective customers.
How It Works:
Their team of lead generation associates will research several Web 2.0 media to build a comprehensive database of warm leads. In addition to contact information (phone #, email ID, profiles on various social networking sites, personal blogs etc) the database also documents key user interests, audience profiling (in case of blogs), and other relevant information that helps their team of research associates map buying behavior, especially in your target market.
Segmentation and identification of the Passionistas relevant to your industry. Based on the behavior documented, our knowledge professionals will segment and identify hot leads – Passionistas who are likely to buy (or influence sales of) your product or service.
Their team of Marketing professionals can also help in formulating efficient and effective go-to-market strategies leveraging the information documented and segmented in the above two phases. In other words, they’ll define best practices for an effective marketing campaign using online behavior.
More at;http://www.infoanalytica.com/tugcms.htm
TUGCMS, provides highly targeted leads (generated by assessing their behavior), thus increasing sales significantly and at the same time reducing costs associated with traditional lead generation and marketing. Here’s how:
TUGCMS relies on New Media — BLOGS, WIKIS, PODCAST, ONLINE VIDEO, TOP SOCIAL AND BUSINESS NETWORKS, etc to document as much behavior of online users as possible. The behavior is then segmented by relevancy, thus helping us identify Passionistas relevant to your business. This leads to a comprehensive, yet focused set of prospective customers.
How It Works:
Their team of lead generation associates will research several Web 2.0 media to build a comprehensive database of warm leads. In addition to contact information (phone #, email ID, profiles on various social networking sites, personal blogs etc) the database also documents key user interests, audience profiling (in case of blogs), and other relevant information that helps their team of research associates map buying behavior, especially in your target market.
Segmentation and identification of the Passionistas relevant to your industry. Based on the behavior documented, our knowledge professionals will segment and identify hot leads – Passionistas who are likely to buy (or influence sales of) your product or service.
Their team of Marketing professionals can also help in formulating efficient and effective go-to-market strategies leveraging the information documented and segmented in the above two phases. In other words, they’ll define best practices for an effective marketing campaign using online behavior.
More at;http://www.infoanalytica.com/tugcms.htm
"Panga A Day"----A place where you can share Pangas you took
About Company:
"Panga A Day"
A place where you can share Pangas you took. Please ensure that you dont hurt anyone's feelings in any way. "
The boy leaning against the wall, the guy walkin behind the girl, and a person walking alone in a subway are all the moods of a person when he or she is set to do something mischievious.
PangaADay is a place to share witty ideas and stupid pranks we play everyday. Pangas are one such things which everyone of us would like to discuss or make a topic of discussion. Remember those long "ADAAS" in the college canteen, where you just pick up one panga and then the discussion goes on for hours together. We all Miss it and here is our chance to reconstruct the same again.
More at;www.PangaADay.com
"Panga A Day"
A place where you can share Pangas you took. Please ensure that you dont hurt anyone's feelings in any way. "
The boy leaning against the wall, the guy walkin behind the girl, and a person walking alone in a subway are all the moods of a person when he or she is set to do something mischievious.
PangaADay is a place to share witty ideas and stupid pranks we play everyday. Pangas are one such things which everyone of us would like to discuss or make a topic of discussion. Remember those long "ADAAS" in the college canteen, where you just pick up one panga and then the discussion goes on for hours together. We all Miss it and here is our chance to reconstruct the same again.
More at;www.PangaADay.com
HelpGlobe.com is the future of help, ready to store human-reviewed knowledge better than any existing Q&A or wiki platform
What Company Is Offering:
HelpGlobe looks like a Question and Answer site. But this is not your average Q&A site. HelpGlobe.com is the future of help, ready to store human-reviewed knowledge better than any existing Q&A or wiki platform.
How Is It Different:
Unlike Wikipedia, HelpGlobe has continuously collects ratings to ensure quality knowledge. (The knowledge for each topic will still be more detailed on Wikipedia. HelpGlobe will collect the most relevant questions only.)
Unlike Yahoo!Answers, HelpGlobe rewards answers only with quality ratings. And answers with low ratings simply disappear. So unlike Yahoo!Answers, HelpGlobe won't feel like a chat site.
Unique Features:
5-star rating system, easily entered with single-click for each question or answer.
Users are allowed (and encouraged) to refine knowledge continuously as they learn.
Non-linear scoring system, reflecting the reality of quality in questions and answers.
You can answer your own questions. This is a knowledge sharing site, not a chat site.
Questions earn you points. Answers earn you points. Because both are needed to share knowledge.
more at:http://www.helpglobe.com/
HelpGlobe looks like a Question and Answer site. But this is not your average Q&A site. HelpGlobe.com is the future of help, ready to store human-reviewed knowledge better than any existing Q&A or wiki platform.
How Is It Different:
Unlike Wikipedia, HelpGlobe has continuously collects ratings to ensure quality knowledge. (The knowledge for each topic will still be more detailed on Wikipedia. HelpGlobe will collect the most relevant questions only.)
Unlike Yahoo!Answers, HelpGlobe rewards answers only with quality ratings. And answers with low ratings simply disappear. So unlike Yahoo!Answers, HelpGlobe won't feel like a chat site.
Unique Features:
5-star rating system, easily entered with single-click for each question or answer.
Users are allowed (and encouraged) to refine knowledge continuously as they learn.
Non-linear scoring system, reflecting the reality of quality in questions and answers.
You can answer your own questions. This is a knowledge sharing site, not a chat site.
Questions earn you points. Answers earn you points. Because both are needed to share knowledge.
more at:http://www.helpglobe.com/
Petition Spot allows members to create online petitions for free
What Company Is Offering:
Petition Spot allows members to create online petitions for free. Once submitted, you can start getting hundreds and even thousands of signatures online.
How It Works:
Powerful tools are available where you can manage your petitions, including a swear filter, and an email validation system (free optional feature) so you can ensure your petition has valid signatures. They allows members to create online petitions for free, which then may be forwarded to anyone with an e-mail address. Signing the virtual dotted line is a simple way to show support for a cause -- whether global or local.
More at:http://www.petitionspot.com/
Petition Spot allows members to create online petitions for free. Once submitted, you can start getting hundreds and even thousands of signatures online.
How It Works:
Powerful tools are available where you can manage your petitions, including a swear filter, and an email validation system (free optional feature) so you can ensure your petition has valid signatures. They allows members to create online petitions for free, which then may be forwarded to anyone with an e-mail address. Signing the virtual dotted line is a simple way to show support for a cause -- whether global or local.
More at:http://www.petitionspot.com/
PrepHub as the YouTube for test prep
What Company Is Offering:
PrepHub was designed to help users study for tests through practice. The site was founded because I was sick of buying test prep books, being a student is hard enough without spending hundreds of dollars on these test prep books, just to do the practice questions. Searching the web was no better, there are limited number of "free" practice questions out there, and most services try to link you in to their expensive test prep services.
How It Works:
PrepHub allows the users to create questions for each other, therefor taking out the middleman (the expensive test prep books). Think of PrepHub as the YouTube for test prep. Like YouTube you can rate questions, favorite questions, flag questions as spam (damn those spammers). It is a community site and thus relies on the community for continual improvement.
More at:http://prephub.com/
PrepHub was designed to help users study for tests through practice. The site was founded because I was sick of buying test prep books, being a student is hard enough without spending hundreds of dollars on these test prep books, just to do the practice questions. Searching the web was no better, there are limited number of "free" practice questions out there, and most services try to link you in to their expensive test prep services.
How It Works:
PrepHub allows the users to create questions for each other, therefor taking out the middleman (the expensive test prep books). Think of PrepHub as the YouTube for test prep. Like YouTube you can rate questions, favorite questions, flag questions as spam (damn those spammers). It is a community site and thus relies on the community for continual improvement.
More at:http://prephub.com/
Telecom Transport Management Inc is a provider of advanced voice and data transport backhaul solutions for wireless carriers got VCs funding
What Company Is Offering:
Telecom Transport Management offers wireless carriers a comprehensive, best in class solution that is more cost effective, reliable, flexible and manageable than current transport solutions in the industry. The company builds, owns and operates protected, fully managed state of the art backhaul networks for its carrier customers. These are end-to-end, high speed, high capacity hybrid microwave and fiber networks, connecting hundreds of cell sites in each market to the wireless carriers' switching centers. TTM currently serves several national and regional wireless carriers, helping them meet their increasing bandwidth requirements at a level of performance and price historically unavailable in the wireless market.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Telecom Transport Management Inc. (TTM), a provider of advanced voice and data transport backhaul solutions for wireless carriers, today announced it has raised a $20 million senior debt facility from Columbia Partners Private Capital. TTM will use the funds to finance the continued expansion of its intelligent, high capacity backhaul networks and for other working capital needs. The $20 million supplements the $140 million of equity financing that has been invested in or committed to TTM.
"Columbia Partners' strong financial support during a time when the capital markets are strained is a validation of TTM's business," said Mark Hamilton, President and CEO of TTM. "This debt facility along with our recently completed equity round provides TTM with the resources we need to expand our current networks and move into new markets where we identify opportunities with our customers."
TTM currently serves several national and regional wireless carriers in the U.S. The company is managing and constructing wireless backhaul networks in Richmond and Norfolk, Virginia, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Central and Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.
More at:www.columbiaprivatecapital.com
Telecom Transport Management offers wireless carriers a comprehensive, best in class solution that is more cost effective, reliable, flexible and manageable than current transport solutions in the industry. The company builds, owns and operates protected, fully managed state of the art backhaul networks for its carrier customers. These are end-to-end, high speed, high capacity hybrid microwave and fiber networks, connecting hundreds of cell sites in each market to the wireless carriers' switching centers. TTM currently serves several national and regional wireless carriers, helping them meet their increasing bandwidth requirements at a level of performance and price historically unavailable in the wireless market.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Telecom Transport Management Inc. (TTM), a provider of advanced voice and data transport backhaul solutions for wireless carriers, today announced it has raised a $20 million senior debt facility from Columbia Partners Private Capital. TTM will use the funds to finance the continued expansion of its intelligent, high capacity backhaul networks and for other working capital needs. The $20 million supplements the $140 million of equity financing that has been invested in or committed to TTM.
"Columbia Partners' strong financial support during a time when the capital markets are strained is a validation of TTM's business," said Mark Hamilton, President and CEO of TTM. "This debt facility along with our recently completed equity round provides TTM with the resources we need to expand our current networks and move into new markets where we identify opportunities with our customers."
TTM currently serves several national and regional wireless carriers in the U.S. The company is managing and constructing wireless backhaul networks in Richmond and Norfolk, Virginia, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Central and Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.
More at:www.columbiaprivatecapital.com
Aster Data Systems is a proven innovator in high-performance analytical databases got VCs funding
What Company Is Offering:
Aster Data Systems is a proven innovator in high-performance analytical databases, bringing deep insights on massive data analyzed on clusters of commodity hardware.The leading insights resulting from this research combined to form the foundation for Aster's architecture, that simultaneously optimizes across the three dimensions of scalability, performance and manageability. With Aster, systems are as easy to operate at 300 nodes managing hundreds of Terabytes as at 3 nodes managing hundreds of Gigabytes.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Aster Data, a Redwood City, Calif.-based developer of clustered databases for Web analytics, has raised an undisclosed amount of VC funding. Backers include Cambrian Ventures, First Round Capital, Sequoia Capital and individual angels like Ron Conway, David Cheriton and Rajeev Motwani.
More at:www.asterdata.com
Aster Data Systems is a proven innovator in high-performance analytical databases, bringing deep insights on massive data analyzed on clusters of commodity hardware.The leading insights resulting from this research combined to form the foundation for Aster's architecture, that simultaneously optimizes across the three dimensions of scalability, performance and manageability. With Aster, systems are as easy to operate at 300 nodes managing hundreds of Terabytes as at 3 nodes managing hundreds of Gigabytes.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Aster Data, a Redwood City, Calif.-based developer of clustered databases for Web analytics, has raised an undisclosed amount of VC funding. Backers include Cambrian Ventures, First Round Capital, Sequoia Capital and individual angels like Ron Conway, David Cheriton and Rajeev Motwani.
More at:www.asterdata.com
ExteNet Systems Inc., a leading network infrastructure company, it has secured an additional $27.5 million
What Company Is Offering:
ExteNet Systems, Inc. develops innovative distributed antenna system (DAS) networks for wireless service providers. The company designs, builds and operates DAS networks to extend and expand wireless performance in outdoor locations where conventional macro cell tower development is challenging. The company's In-Building networks provide an economical solution to coverage problems in a wide range of indoor environments, including offices and residential/mixed use buildings. ExteNet Systems uses flexible DAS architectures that support all frequency bands and technologies.
How Much They Got From VCs:
ExteNet Systems Inc., a leading network infrastructure company, today announced it has secured an additional $27.5 million of equity and debt financing. The new capital will be used to build distributed antenna system (DAS) networks to meet the explosive demand for wireless voice, data and video services.
Palomar Ventures joined this equity round along with existing investors Centennial Ventures, Sevin Rosen Funds, Columbia Capital and CenterPoint Ventures. Dallas-based Comerica Bank is providing the revolving credit facility, which represents an additional financial milestone for the company.
What VCs Says About Company:
Commenting on why Palomar Ventures chose to invest in ExteNet Systems, partner Kevin Jacques said: "Although Palomar typically invests in earlier-stage companies, we saw this as an excellent opportunity to invest in a more mature business that we believe has tremendous growth potential. Because I had previously been on the board, we felt that we knew the company and market well. Management has done a fantastic job building networks and forming carrier relationships. We're excited about the additional market potential that new wireless services such as WiMAX and the newly released 700 MHz spectrum have created for ExteNet Systems."
The funds will be used to support the acceleration of the company's growth as it builds out a substantial number of new networks across the country. ExteNet Systems has signed contracts with nearly every major carrier and currently has networks operating or under construction in: California, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island.
More at: http://www.extenetsystems.com
ExteNet Systems, Inc. develops innovative distributed antenna system (DAS) networks for wireless service providers. The company designs, builds and operates DAS networks to extend and expand wireless performance in outdoor locations where conventional macro cell tower development is challenging. The company's In-Building networks provide an economical solution to coverage problems in a wide range of indoor environments, including offices and residential/mixed use buildings. ExteNet Systems uses flexible DAS architectures that support all frequency bands and technologies.
How Much They Got From VCs:
ExteNet Systems Inc., a leading network infrastructure company, today announced it has secured an additional $27.5 million of equity and debt financing. The new capital will be used to build distributed antenna system (DAS) networks to meet the explosive demand for wireless voice, data and video services.
Palomar Ventures joined this equity round along with existing investors Centennial Ventures, Sevin Rosen Funds, Columbia Capital and CenterPoint Ventures. Dallas-based Comerica Bank is providing the revolving credit facility, which represents an additional financial milestone for the company.
What VCs Says About Company:
Commenting on why Palomar Ventures chose to invest in ExteNet Systems, partner Kevin Jacques said: "Although Palomar typically invests in earlier-stage companies, we saw this as an excellent opportunity to invest in a more mature business that we believe has tremendous growth potential. Because I had previously been on the board, we felt that we knew the company and market well. Management has done a fantastic job building networks and forming carrier relationships. We're excited about the additional market potential that new wireless services such as WiMAX and the newly released 700 MHz spectrum have created for ExteNet Systems."
The funds will be used to support the acceleration of the company's growth as it builds out a substantial number of new networks across the country. ExteNet Systems has signed contracts with nearly every major carrier and currently has networks operating or under construction in: California, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island.
More at: http://www.extenetsystems.com
Mocana securely enables Internet-scale applications and services for connected devices got VCs funding
What Company Is Offering:
Mocana securely enables Internet-scale applications and services for connected devices. Mocana's industry-leading infrastructure software solutions ensure that wired and wireless devices, networks and services perform and scale with the utmost security – a necessary foundation for a networked society. Customers include Philips, Dell, Cisco, Nortel Networks, Harris, Honeywell, Symbol, Net.com and Radvision, among others.The company has been recognized with numerous awards including the Red Herring 100 and Frost & Sullivan’s Innovation of the Year.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Mocana, a security software company that delivers comprehensive protection for devices, today closed $7 Million in venture financing. The infusion of funding, led by Southern Cross Venture Partners, will be used to expand the company’s product lines, build out its international presence and increase marketing activities. Mocana’s only previous institutional investor, Shasta Ventures also provided investment for this round, increasing their ownership position in the company and bringing Mocana’s total capital backing to $12.1M.
Attacks on PC platforms have steadily grown in sophistication and PC security technology has generally evolved along with the threats. But now there are more non-PC “things” connecting to the network every day, like PDAs, routers, DVRs, printers, iPods, and even cars or digital picture frames. Each one of these new devices represents a “soft target” for hackers and an easy way in to the rest of the network. This is because third- and fourth-generation attack techniques are being unleashed upon millions of non-PC devices armed with first-generation security, at best.
To address this, Mocana offers its Device Security Framework (DSF), a comprehensive approach to device security that secures communications to and from any device connected to the network, as well as the data and applications residing on those devices. This latest round of financing will be used to enhance and expand the 20 security components that currently make up Mocana’s DSF so that manufacturers and service providers can ensure that security is inherent in the device, to protect against existing and emerging threats.
More at:www.mocana.com/evaluate.html
Mocana securely enables Internet-scale applications and services for connected devices. Mocana's industry-leading infrastructure software solutions ensure that wired and wireless devices, networks and services perform and scale with the utmost security – a necessary foundation for a networked society. Customers include Philips, Dell, Cisco, Nortel Networks, Harris, Honeywell, Symbol, Net.com and Radvision, among others.The company has been recognized with numerous awards including the Red Herring 100 and Frost & Sullivan’s Innovation of the Year.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Mocana, a security software company that delivers comprehensive protection for devices, today closed $7 Million in venture financing. The infusion of funding, led by Southern Cross Venture Partners, will be used to expand the company’s product lines, build out its international presence and increase marketing activities. Mocana’s only previous institutional investor, Shasta Ventures also provided investment for this round, increasing their ownership position in the company and bringing Mocana’s total capital backing to $12.1M.
Attacks on PC platforms have steadily grown in sophistication and PC security technology has generally evolved along with the threats. But now there are more non-PC “things” connecting to the network every day, like PDAs, routers, DVRs, printers, iPods, and even cars or digital picture frames. Each one of these new devices represents a “soft target” for hackers and an easy way in to the rest of the network. This is because third- and fourth-generation attack techniques are being unleashed upon millions of non-PC devices armed with first-generation security, at best.
To address this, Mocana offers its Device Security Framework (DSF), a comprehensive approach to device security that secures communications to and from any device connected to the network, as well as the data and applications residing on those devices. This latest round of financing will be used to enhance and expand the 20 security components that currently make up Mocana’s DSF so that manufacturers and service providers can ensure that security is inherent in the device, to protect against existing and emerging threats.
More at:www.mocana.com/evaluate.html
Moblyng which allows consumers to mobilize all major forms of social media content: photos, videos, slide shows and other “widgets" got VCs funding
What Company Is Offering:
Moblyng, is mobile social media and can detect and “mobilize” photo and slide show widgets and online video from any social media page or URL. The company has patent-pending technology that provides detection, “scraping” and mobile distribution of social media. The company is privately held and headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif.
Moblyng , an emerging leader in mobile social media, announced today the launch of its beta product which allows consumers to mobilize all major forms of social media content: photos, videos, slide shows and other “widgets.” Moblyng offers a free, fun and easy way for consumers to share media with friends using their mobile devices. Moblyng works on most phones that display photos or videos, including mobile phones that do not otherwise permit Flash-based content, such as the iPhone.
How Much It Got From VCs:
The company also announced today that it received $5.7 million in funding from MDV-Mohr Davidow Ventures and Deep Fork Capital.
Moblyng’s groundbreaking and patent-pending technology allows consumers to mobilize existing social media like Slide and RockYou slide shows, YouTube videos and MySpace videos, slide shows and photo albums -- all with one click. Using Moblyng’s technology, users do not need to download any applications to their phones. Consumers simply “scrape” content from their MySpace, Friendster or other social network page and send it directly to their mobile devices. Facebook users can use a unique Moblyng Mobile Slide Show application to easily share creations online or with mobile phones. Moblyng technology automatically converts Flash-based content to images or video for mobile distribution, bridging the gap between online Flash objects and mobile devices, which do not widely support Flash-based content. Users can also create new media, share media and send “gifts” to friends on their mobile devices.
“Moblyng is the first mobile social media solution to mobilize the cool stuff users already have on their profiles. We have unique and patent-pending technology that offers a free, fun and easy way for consumers to share photos, slideshows, video clips and almost all other media from a social network page directly to a mobile phone,” said Stewart Putney, founder and CEO, Moblyng.
More at:www.Moblyng.com
Moblyng, is mobile social media and can detect and “mobilize” photo and slide show widgets and online video from any social media page or URL. The company has patent-pending technology that provides detection, “scraping” and mobile distribution of social media. The company is privately held and headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif.
Moblyng , an emerging leader in mobile social media, announced today the launch of its beta product which allows consumers to mobilize all major forms of social media content: photos, videos, slide shows and other “widgets.” Moblyng offers a free, fun and easy way for consumers to share media with friends using their mobile devices. Moblyng works on most phones that display photos or videos, including mobile phones that do not otherwise permit Flash-based content, such as the iPhone.
How Much It Got From VCs:
The company also announced today that it received $5.7 million in funding from MDV-Mohr Davidow Ventures and Deep Fork Capital.
Moblyng’s groundbreaking and patent-pending technology allows consumers to mobilize existing social media like Slide and RockYou slide shows, YouTube videos and MySpace videos, slide shows and photo albums -- all with one click. Using Moblyng’s technology, users do not need to download any applications to their phones. Consumers simply “scrape” content from their MySpace, Friendster or other social network page and send it directly to their mobile devices. Facebook users can use a unique Moblyng Mobile Slide Show application to easily share creations online or with mobile phones. Moblyng technology automatically converts Flash-based content to images or video for mobile distribution, bridging the gap between online Flash objects and mobile devices, which do not widely support Flash-based content. Users can also create new media, share media and send “gifts” to friends on their mobile devices.
“Moblyng is the first mobile social media solution to mobilize the cool stuff users already have on their profiles. We have unique and patent-pending technology that offers a free, fun and easy way for consumers to share photos, slideshows, video clips and almost all other media from a social network page directly to a mobile phone,” said Stewart Putney, founder and CEO, Moblyng.
More at:www.Moblyng.com
Unitrends is a leading provider of innovative, integrated solutions that protect and restore critical data and systems got $9 million funding
What Company Is Offering:
Unitrends is a leading provider of innovative, integrated solutions that protect and restore critical data and systems. Unitrends’ family of disk-to-disk backup appliances provides unmatched protection and rapid recovery of lost systems, applications and data. The company’s local backup and off-site vaulting appliances eliminate the need for multi-vendor software and hardware, and deliver an integrated solution that is affordable for small- and medium-sized enterprises.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Unitrends, a leading provider of innovative, integrated solutions that protect and restore critical data and systems, today announced completion of a $9 million round of Series C financing. Paladin Capital Group led the round, which also included participation from other Unitrends venture investors, including the Aurora Funds, Harbert Venture Partners, and the Trelys Funds.
Unitrends will use this investment to fuel additional research and development, bolster its partner marketing programs and strengthen its sales and support organizations. Strong market demand is being driven by the increasing need for integrated, easy to manage data protection, disaster recovery and vaulting solutions.
“Data protection, business continuity and disaster recovery repeatedly rank as top priorities for IT leaders worldwide. We believe that Unitrends’ approach to delivering integrated solutions with advanced features in an easy-to-use appliance model is smart and needed in today’s data-intensive business environment,” said Philip Eliot, principal, Paladin Capital Group. “Given the persistent demand for reliable data protection and recovery solutions, we are especially pleased to include Unitrends in our portfolio.”
“Small and mid-sized businesses are particularly challenged to find reliable and affordable data protection and recovery solutions. Since day one, our commitment has been to deliver cost-effective solutions that meet the needs of end users, providing advanced features in an easy to install, easy-to-use, and highly reliable system,” said Duncan McPherson, chief executive officer, Unitrends. “This funding round enables a new phase in the growth of our company, and provides significant flexibility and resources with which to advance Unitrends’ industry-leading suite of fully integrated data protection and disaster recovery products and services.”
More at:http://www.unitrends.com
Unitrends is a leading provider of innovative, integrated solutions that protect and restore critical data and systems. Unitrends’ family of disk-to-disk backup appliances provides unmatched protection and rapid recovery of lost systems, applications and data. The company’s local backup and off-site vaulting appliances eliminate the need for multi-vendor software and hardware, and deliver an integrated solution that is affordable for small- and medium-sized enterprises.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Unitrends, a leading provider of innovative, integrated solutions that protect and restore critical data and systems, today announced completion of a $9 million round of Series C financing. Paladin Capital Group led the round, which also included participation from other Unitrends venture investors, including the Aurora Funds, Harbert Venture Partners, and the Trelys Funds.
Unitrends will use this investment to fuel additional research and development, bolster its partner marketing programs and strengthen its sales and support organizations. Strong market demand is being driven by the increasing need for integrated, easy to manage data protection, disaster recovery and vaulting solutions.
“Data protection, business continuity and disaster recovery repeatedly rank as top priorities for IT leaders worldwide. We believe that Unitrends’ approach to delivering integrated solutions with advanced features in an easy-to-use appliance model is smart and needed in today’s data-intensive business environment,” said Philip Eliot, principal, Paladin Capital Group. “Given the persistent demand for reliable data protection and recovery solutions, we are especially pleased to include Unitrends in our portfolio.”
“Small and mid-sized businesses are particularly challenged to find reliable and affordable data protection and recovery solutions. Since day one, our commitment has been to deliver cost-effective solutions that meet the needs of end users, providing advanced features in an easy to install, easy-to-use, and highly reliable system,” said Duncan McPherson, chief executive officer, Unitrends. “This funding round enables a new phase in the growth of our company, and provides significant flexibility and resources with which to advance Unitrends’ industry-leading suite of fully integrated data protection and disaster recovery products and services.”
More at:http://www.unitrends.com
WaveM Live! is a new, free and easy to use mobile media that brings news, sports, tv-guide, mobile e-mail and lots of more straight onto mobile phone
What Company Is Offering:
WaveM Live! is a new, free and easy to use mobile media that brings news, sports, tv-guide, mobile e-mail and lots of more straight onto mobile phone.
High quality and reliable WaveM Live! content is produced by content distributors; well-known publishing houses, media companies and brand owners. This system is active in Finland and expanding to new markets.
How It Works:
You can send and receive WaveM Live! mobile email messages with other users by using just a WaveM username. Everyone else can reach you with username@wavem.fi e-mail.
WaveM Live! runs on smart phones as well as less expensive consumer phones up to three years old. Newer phones allow you to keep WaveM Live! running in the background on your handset so you can instantly receive personal messages and see updates to your favorite content channels.
To send and receive free WaveM messages with your friends, all they need to have is WaveM Live! on their cell phone. To help you communicate with your friends we have designed in WaveM Live! a feature allowing you to invite your friends to join WaveM Live!. Tell your friends about WaveM Live! mobile media and send him/her an invitation message to join as a WaveM Live! user. You will find this feature "Invite a friend" on the WaveM Live!.
More at:http://www.wavem.com/
WaveM Live! is a new, free and easy to use mobile media that brings news, sports, tv-guide, mobile e-mail and lots of more straight onto mobile phone.
High quality and reliable WaveM Live! content is produced by content distributors; well-known publishing houses, media companies and brand owners. This system is active in Finland and expanding to new markets.
How It Works:
You can send and receive WaveM Live! mobile email messages with other users by using just a WaveM username. Everyone else can reach you with username@wavem.fi e-mail.
WaveM Live! runs on smart phones as well as less expensive consumer phones up to three years old. Newer phones allow you to keep WaveM Live! running in the background on your handset so you can instantly receive personal messages and see updates to your favorite content channels.
To send and receive free WaveM messages with your friends, all they need to have is WaveM Live! on their cell phone. To help you communicate with your friends we have designed in WaveM Live! a feature allowing you to invite your friends to join WaveM Live!. Tell your friends about WaveM Live! mobile media and send him/her an invitation message to join as a WaveM Live! user. You will find this feature "Invite a friend" on the WaveM Live!.
More at:http://www.wavem.com/
BrandView.com
What Company Is Offering:
BrandView is a privately funded company, based in southern Sweden. Their mission is to create the best looking and most extensive fashion catalogue on the Internet. BrandView is BrandNew and doing its best to be as user friendly as possible. They are constantly searching the web to keep you updated and hope that you reciprocate this by adding brands we are yet to discover.
How It Works:
They will create order in the fashion industry on the Internet!BrandView.com is a fashion site that gathers clothing brands and their online shops. In it, amongst other things, you can search your favorite clothing brand and find out where you can buy it online. If there is a brand that you're missing you can easily add it to help build, the most extensive fashion catalogue on the internet.
More at:http://www.brandview.com/
BrandView is a privately funded company, based in southern Sweden. Their mission is to create the best looking and most extensive fashion catalogue on the Internet. BrandView is BrandNew and doing its best to be as user friendly as possible. They are constantly searching the web to keep you updated and hope that you reciprocate this by adding brands we are yet to discover.
How It Works:
They will create order in the fashion industry on the Internet!BrandView.com is a fashion site that gathers clothing brands and their online shops. In it, amongst other things, you can search your favorite clothing brand and find out where you can buy it online. If there is a brand that you're missing you can easily add it to help build, the most extensive fashion catalogue on the internet.
More at:http://www.brandview.com/
One Laptop Per Child
What Company Is Offering:
One Laptop Per Child wants to do, bringing webless children into the web and giving them "new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves." In recognition of this lofty goal, Listio has included this charity among its webservices as another way you can contribute to the larger community.
OLPC is a non-profit organization providing a means to an end—an end that sees children in even the most remote regions of the globe being given the opportunity to tap into their own potential, to be exposed to a whole world of ideas, and to contribute to a more productive and saner world community.
More at:http://www.laptop.org/
One Laptop Per Child wants to do, bringing webless children into the web and giving them "new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves." In recognition of this lofty goal, Listio has included this charity among its webservices as another way you can contribute to the larger community.
OLPC is a non-profit organization providing a means to an end—an end that sees children in even the most remote regions of the globe being given the opportunity to tap into their own potential, to be exposed to a whole world of ideas, and to contribute to a more productive and saner world community.
More at:http://www.laptop.org/
Zadby is an online marketplace where advertisers, marketers, and brand managers can connect with freelance video producers
What Company Is Offering:
Zadby is an online marketplace where advertisers, marketers, and brand managers can connect with freelance video producers to create innovative product placement videos for distribution through outlets like YouTube and MySpace. Advertisers define what they want in a campaign; video producers shoot the videos; and Zadby facilitates, tracking the views and paying the producer on a per-view basis. It's a low-risk proposition for a brand since it is view based and video producers get bucks for what they are doing anyway.
With Zadby, you now have a marketplace where you can earn money from what you love to do anyway: creating videos.
How It Works:
Advertisers and brand managers, wishing to raise awareness for their brand, can commission the development of videos through our online marketplace. Since Zadby takes care of the administrative pieces, this frees up the brand manager to think about what they do best: steward the brand.
Online video producers, who currently create millions of videos a year for online consumption through outlets like YouTube, now have a market where they can earn money from what they love to do anyway: creating videos.
Zadby sits in the middle and acts as the glue and the grease to pull it all together in a seamless manner. It provides all the tools and the legal frameworks to allow each party to do what they do best, just connected in a new and innovative way.
More at:http://www.zadby.com/
Zadby is an online marketplace where advertisers, marketers, and brand managers can connect with freelance video producers to create innovative product placement videos for distribution through outlets like YouTube and MySpace. Advertisers define what they want in a campaign; video producers shoot the videos; and Zadby facilitates, tracking the views and paying the producer on a per-view basis. It's a low-risk proposition for a brand since it is view based and video producers get bucks for what they are doing anyway.
With Zadby, you now have a marketplace where you can earn money from what you love to do anyway: creating videos.
How It Works:
Advertisers and brand managers, wishing to raise awareness for their brand, can commission the development of videos through our online marketplace. Since Zadby takes care of the administrative pieces, this frees up the brand manager to think about what they do best: steward the brand.
Online video producers, who currently create millions of videos a year for online consumption through outlets like YouTube, now have a market where they can earn money from what they love to do anyway: creating videos.
Zadby sits in the middle and acts as the glue and the grease to pull it all together in a seamless manner. It provides all the tools and the legal frameworks to allow each party to do what they do best, just connected in a new and innovative way.
More at:http://www.zadby.com/
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
YowTRIP is a social network site that connects you with other world travelers in your town or wherever you're traveling
What Company Is Offering:
YowTRIP is a social network site that connects you with other world travelers in your town or wherever you're traveling. Their goal is to promote cultural exchange by connecting world travelers and enabling them to share their travel experiences on this online community.
How It Works:
YowTRIP's innovative travel plan matching capabilities with the adventure package offerings of Adventure Central, the Denver-based leading provider of travel distribution and online booking services for the adventure and experiential travel industry, YowADVENTURES lets you book your adventure and find like-minded travelers to go with or hosts to stay with.
PatagoniaThe union is a seemingly natural marriage of missions, with Adventure Central working to connect the world to great adventures, and YowTRIP striving to connect world travelers. YowTRIP founder Felipe Coimbra says that's not the only reason the partnership is a perfect match for his service.
YowTRIP is not a site for simply sharing photos or reading hotel and restaurant reviews," says Coimbra. "Every service they add is designed to encourage and enable travelers to actually meet each other, in the real world."
Other enhancements to recently hit YowTRIP include YowGROUPS, whereby users can create a group to travel with, and YowEXPERTS, which allows people with significant knowledge of a destination to offer tips and advice about traveling there. Travelers can also add blogs, photos and videos to their YowTRIP profile as they travel, and share their upcoming trips via a widget on their own website.
As a new distribution partner of Adventure Central's, YowTRIP joins the company of well-known travel booking services CheapTickets.com and Orbitz.com.
More at:http://www.yowtrip.com/
YowTRIP is a social network site that connects you with other world travelers in your town or wherever you're traveling. Their goal is to promote cultural exchange by connecting world travelers and enabling them to share their travel experiences on this online community.
How It Works:
YowTRIP's innovative travel plan matching capabilities with the adventure package offerings of Adventure Central, the Denver-based leading provider of travel distribution and online booking services for the adventure and experiential travel industry, YowADVENTURES lets you book your adventure and find like-minded travelers to go with or hosts to stay with.
PatagoniaThe union is a seemingly natural marriage of missions, with Adventure Central working to connect the world to great adventures, and YowTRIP striving to connect world travelers. YowTRIP founder Felipe Coimbra says that's not the only reason the partnership is a perfect match for his service.
YowTRIP is not a site for simply sharing photos or reading hotel and restaurant reviews," says Coimbra. "Every service they add is designed to encourage and enable travelers to actually meet each other, in the real world."
Other enhancements to recently hit YowTRIP include YowGROUPS, whereby users can create a group to travel with, and YowEXPERTS, which allows people with significant knowledge of a destination to offer tips and advice about traveling there. Travelers can also add blogs, photos and videos to their YowTRIP profile as they travel, and share their upcoming trips via a widget on their own website.
As a new distribution partner of Adventure Central's, YowTRIP joins the company of well-known travel booking services CheapTickets.com and Orbitz.com.
More at:http://www.yowtrip.com/
ShopCorn is an exclusive ‘Buyer’s Community’ where customers can not only shop but also interact, express, search and multiply the charm of online buy
What Company is Offering:
ShopCorn is an exclusive ‘Buyer’s Community’ where customers can not only shop but also interact, express, search and multiply the charm of online buying. This community will provide our customers a remarkable opportunity to interact both in the online and the offline terrain.
How It Works:
At this one-stop shopping destination, buyers can easily pick and choose from an array of branded products at the click of mouse. Additionally this search experience will be coupled with a valuable comparison feature. That will enable them to purchase the best products at the cheapest prices.This community will be ‘Of the buyers’, ‘By the buyers’ and ‘For the buyers’. Such structure will promote free flow of information and guarantee an interactive shopping experience.
To aid supreme interactivity it will have an integrated facility of ‘Live audio/ video chat’. For ultimate deals customer will not only communicate amongst themselves but also pitch us on a one on one basis. This will help them to know the pros and cons of the selected products.
Over here customers can ask their queries and also state their resolutions pertaining to a selected product or service. Visitors will benefit from the information enlisted in the blog. This will assist to undertake informed buying decisions.
More at:http://www.shopcorn.in/
ShopCorn is an exclusive ‘Buyer’s Community’ where customers can not only shop but also interact, express, search and multiply the charm of online buying. This community will provide our customers a remarkable opportunity to interact both in the online and the offline terrain.
How It Works:
At this one-stop shopping destination, buyers can easily pick and choose from an array of branded products at the click of mouse. Additionally this search experience will be coupled with a valuable comparison feature. That will enable them to purchase the best products at the cheapest prices.This community will be ‘Of the buyers’, ‘By the buyers’ and ‘For the buyers’. Such structure will promote free flow of information and guarantee an interactive shopping experience.
To aid supreme interactivity it will have an integrated facility of ‘Live audio/ video chat’. For ultimate deals customer will not only communicate amongst themselves but also pitch us on a one on one basis. This will help them to know the pros and cons of the selected products.
Over here customers can ask their queries and also state their resolutions pertaining to a selected product or service. Visitors will benefit from the information enlisted in the blog. This will assist to undertake informed buying decisions.
More at:http://www.shopcorn.in/
RestyleMe is the ultimate style advice community website that features a novel way to get style advice
What Company Is Offering:
RestyleMe is the ultimate style advice community website that features a novel way to get style advice. RestyleMe's unique style utilities are fun to use and provide quick, precise, and effective style advice.
Unique Features:
Send and receive votes based on style categories.
Write comments along with your style vote.
Mark on photos by clicking on the photo to give more precise feedback.
Upload and tag your photos for each style item or brand.
Filter advice and style votes you receive from people by gender, age or location.
Set up your style profile and show people your style.
Search for friends and add them on your profile.
More at:http://restyleme.com/
RestyleMe is the ultimate style advice community website that features a novel way to get style advice. RestyleMe's unique style utilities are fun to use and provide quick, precise, and effective style advice.
Unique Features:
Send and receive votes based on style categories.
Write comments along with your style vote.
Mark on photos by clicking on the photo to give more precise feedback.
Upload and tag your photos for each style item or brand.
Filter advice and style votes you receive from people by gender, age or location.
Set up your style profile and show people your style.
Search for friends and add them on your profile.
More at:http://restyleme.com/
PearBudget is a really simple online budgeting service
What Company is Offering:
PearBudget is a really simple online budgeting service. It’s ideal for anyone new to budgeting, or for anyone who gave up on budgeting as “too hard to stay with” or “too complex to understand.”PearBudget uses an enhanced version of the envelope method of budgeting, where you allocate money to categories, and then make spending decisions based off of the money available to you.
They don’t tell you what to buy (or what not to buy), they don’t ask you for your bank passwords, and we don’t try to overwhelm you with information. They just help you make a spending plan, track your expenses, and help you plan for the future. It takes just 10 minutes a week, and costs only $3 a month.
More at:https://www.pearbudget.com/
PearBudget is a really simple online budgeting service. It’s ideal for anyone new to budgeting, or for anyone who gave up on budgeting as “too hard to stay with” or “too complex to understand.”PearBudget uses an enhanced version of the envelope method of budgeting, where you allocate money to categories, and then make spending decisions based off of the money available to you.
They don’t tell you what to buy (or what not to buy), they don’t ask you for your bank passwords, and we don’t try to overwhelm you with information. They just help you make a spending plan, track your expenses, and help you plan for the future. It takes just 10 minutes a week, and costs only $3 a month.
More at:https://www.pearbudget.com/
VoiceCloud ---transcribe voicemail messages to text
What Company Is Offering:
The VoiceCloud solution combines VoiceCloud's patent-pending streaming audio technology with hardware that allows multiple concurrent connections to instantaneously transcribe voicemail messages to text.
How It Works;
Whether users are on a mobile
device or online, they can immediately see who has called and what was said – ensuring that critical voicemails are never missed.Compared to traditional voice transcription services,VoiceCloud's solution is completely turnkey. With allresources and operations managed in-house, processes are streamlined and the time and costs of dealing with third-parties are eliminated. This enables VoiceCloud to oversee total quality control and to pass cost-savings on tothe end-user in the way of competitive pricing and flexible billing options.Compatible with major US carriers and support for bothfixed and mobile networks, VoiceCloud's innovative solution also includes unlimited voice/transcription storage and retrieval, a specially designed interface for the iPhone and 24/7 customer service and support.
More at:http://www.voicecloud.com/
The VoiceCloud solution combines VoiceCloud's patent-pending streaming audio technology with hardware that allows multiple concurrent connections to instantaneously transcribe voicemail messages to text.
How It Works;
Whether users are on a mobile
device or online, they can immediately see who has called and what was said – ensuring that critical voicemails are never missed.Compared to traditional voice transcription services,VoiceCloud's solution is completely turnkey. With allresources and operations managed in-house, processes are streamlined and the time and costs of dealing with third-parties are eliminated. This enables VoiceCloud to oversee total quality control and to pass cost-savings on tothe end-user in the way of competitive pricing and flexible billing options.Compatible with major US carriers and support for bothfixed and mobile networks, VoiceCloud's innovative solution also includes unlimited voice/transcription storage and retrieval, a specially designed interface for the iPhone and 24/7 customer service and support.
More at:http://www.voicecloud.com/
Outside.in the web's leading platform for neighborhood news and conversation got VCs funding
What Company Is Offering:
Outside.in is the web's leading platform for neighborhood news and conversation. Outside.in's technology dynamically maps web content to offline locations, which enables hyperlocal news discovery and sharing for consumers and provides powerful tools for content creators of all sizes. The company was founded by Web pioneer and bestselling author Steven Berlin Johnson and acclaimed social media creator John Geraci.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Outside.in the web's leading platform for neighborhood news and conversation, announced the hiring of Mark Josephson, former President of Seevast Corp. and General Manager of About.com. The company also announced a round of financing that includes existing investors Union Square Ventures, Milestone Venture Partners, Betaworks, and a group of prominent angel investors led by George Crowley. A new investor, the New York City Investment Fund, also joined the round.
This round of financing will fund the continued development of industry-leading consumer tools available at www.outside.in, as well as the expansion of the suite of products and services that empower content publishers of all sizes.
More at:www.outside.in
Outside.in is the web's leading platform for neighborhood news and conversation. Outside.in's technology dynamically maps web content to offline locations, which enables hyperlocal news discovery and sharing for consumers and provides powerful tools for content creators of all sizes. The company was founded by Web pioneer and bestselling author Steven Berlin Johnson and acclaimed social media creator John Geraci.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Outside.in the web's leading platform for neighborhood news and conversation, announced the hiring of Mark Josephson, former President of Seevast Corp. and General Manager of About.com. The company also announced a round of financing that includes existing investors Union Square Ventures, Milestone Venture Partners, Betaworks, and a group of prominent angel investors led by George Crowley. A new investor, the New York City Investment Fund, also joined the round.
This round of financing will fund the continued development of industry-leading consumer tools available at www.outside.in, as well as the expansion of the suite of products and services that empower content publishers of all sizes.
More at:www.outside.in
TopSchool Inc is provider of SaaS student information systems, has raised $3.2 million in Series A funding
What Company Is Offering:
At TopSchool, they believe there is a unique opportunity to provide educational institutions with an integrated, extensible, easy-to-manage and economical platform for Student Lifecycle Management delivered in a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) subscription model. Their approach represents a significant departure from traditional SIS vendors and focuses on providing rapid time-to-value by leveraging our highly flexible, industry-specific SaaS platform to address their clients' needs (with implementation times measured in weeks rather than months or years).
How Much They Got From VCs:
TopSchool Inc., a Denver-based provider of SaaS student information systems, has raised $3.2 million in Series A funding. Backers include Alsop Louie Partners and Sienna Equity Partners.
More at:www.topschoolinc.com
At TopSchool, they believe there is a unique opportunity to provide educational institutions with an integrated, extensible, easy-to-manage and economical platform for Student Lifecycle Management delivered in a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) subscription model. Their approach represents a significant departure from traditional SIS vendors and focuses on providing rapid time-to-value by leveraging our highly flexible, industry-specific SaaS platform to address their clients' needs (with implementation times measured in weeks rather than months or years).
How Much They Got From VCs:
TopSchool Inc., a Denver-based provider of SaaS student information systems, has raised $3.2 million in Series A funding. Backers include Alsop Louie Partners and Sienna Equity Partners.
More at:www.topschoolinc.com
Agito Networks, Inc. is the technology leader in the enterprise mobility space
What Company Is Offering:
Agito Networks, Inc. is the technology leader in the enterprise mobility space. Its product, the RoamAnywhere Mobility Router, is an innovative platform for mobilizing business voice and data applications using RF-based, location-aware technologies and patent-pending algorithms. Agito delivers the industry’s only carrier agnostic, business class solution for fast and automatic network handoff between WiFi and cellular networks.
Agito Networks has introduced the industry’s first Mobility Router, the Agito Networks RoamAnywhere Mobility Router. This innovative, patent-pending solution represents the next generation of enterprise mobility products for enterprises seeking the promise of improved productivity and cost savings from enterprise fixed mobile convergence (eFMC). Agito Networks’ RoamAnywhere is the industry’s first and only business mobile convergence platform that uses RF-based, location-aware technologies to best mobilize voice and data applications, while remaining agnostic to enterprise customers’ choices of mobile carriers and equipment vendors.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Agito Networks Inc., a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based provider of enterprise mobility solutions, has raised $10 million in Series B funding, according to a regulatory filing. Castile Ventures led the round, and was joined by return backer Battery Ventures.
The company's debut product is a platform designed to mobilize "business voice and data applications using RF-based, location-aware technologies and patent-pending algorithms."
More at;www.agitonetworks.com
Agito Networks, Inc. is the technology leader in the enterprise mobility space. Its product, the RoamAnywhere Mobility Router, is an innovative platform for mobilizing business voice and data applications using RF-based, location-aware technologies and patent-pending algorithms. Agito delivers the industry’s only carrier agnostic, business class solution for fast and automatic network handoff between WiFi and cellular networks.
Agito Networks has introduced the industry’s first Mobility Router, the Agito Networks RoamAnywhere Mobility Router. This innovative, patent-pending solution represents the next generation of enterprise mobility products for enterprises seeking the promise of improved productivity and cost savings from enterprise fixed mobile convergence (eFMC). Agito Networks’ RoamAnywhere is the industry’s first and only business mobile convergence platform that uses RF-based, location-aware technologies to best mobilize voice and data applications, while remaining agnostic to enterprise customers’ choices of mobile carriers and equipment vendors.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Agito Networks Inc., a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based provider of enterprise mobility solutions, has raised $10 million in Series B funding, according to a regulatory filing. Castile Ventures led the round, and was joined by return backer Battery Ventures.
The company's debut product is a platform designed to mobilize "business voice and data applications using RF-based, location-aware technologies and patent-pending algorithms."
More at;www.agitonetworks.com
Minggl is a social interaction manager
What Company Is Offering:
Minggl is a social interaction manager. The Minggl toolbar makes it easy to manage information, communication, and navigation across social networks. Minggl...from anywhere on the web.
Unique Features:
* Consolidate friends from across sites into your sidebar
* Automatically log into all your profiles
* Update status on multiple sites from one place
* Get notifications of mail, comments, and friend activity no matter where you are on the web.
* Set privacy rules that allow you to display different content on your profiles based on which friends are viewing.
More at:http://www.minggl.com/
Minggl is a social interaction manager. The Minggl toolbar makes it easy to manage information, communication, and navigation across social networks. Minggl...from anywhere on the web.
Unique Features:
* Consolidate friends from across sites into your sidebar
* Automatically log into all your profiles
* Update status on multiple sites from one place
* Get notifications of mail, comments, and friend activity no matter where you are on the web.
* Set privacy rules that allow you to display different content on your profiles based on which friends are viewing.
More at:http://www.minggl.com/
moblf, stands for Mobile Life. It is a service through which you can interact with various web services using SMS text message
What Company Is Offering:
moblf, stands for Mobile Life. It is a service through which you can interact with various web services using SMS text message. The goal of moblf is to make it easy for you to access the various web services over your mobile, using SMS / Text Message.
moblf, (Mobile Life) brings Web to SMS. It is a mobile interface that enables you to interact with web services using your mobile phone, particularly SMS text messaging. It empowers you to access your favorite web services anytime, anywhere from the mobile.
moblf integrates with published APIs of web services, such as FriendFeed, Twitter, Google, Get satisfaction, Yelp, LinkedIn and many more.
How It Works:
To access web services over moblf, you must have a Twitter account. You should also have an account with the web service you would like to interact with.moblf enables you to access FriendFeed from wherever you are, over SMS text message. You don’t need to depend on internet access anymore!
You can retrieve your messages on FriendFeed and view it directly on your mobile, or on other applications like Twitter, gtalk, Twhirl, etc. Through moblf you can view messages from a specific user or a specific web service or both.
More at:http://www.moblf.com/
moblf, stands for Mobile Life. It is a service through which you can interact with various web services using SMS text message. The goal of moblf is to make it easy for you to access the various web services over your mobile, using SMS / Text Message.
moblf, (Mobile Life) brings Web to SMS. It is a mobile interface that enables you to interact with web services using your mobile phone, particularly SMS text messaging. It empowers you to access your favorite web services anytime, anywhere from the mobile.
moblf integrates with published APIs of web services, such as FriendFeed, Twitter, Google, Get satisfaction, Yelp, LinkedIn and many more.
How It Works:
To access web services over moblf, you must have a Twitter account. You should also have an account with the web service you would like to interact with.moblf enables you to access FriendFeed from wherever you are, over SMS text message. You don’t need to depend on internet access anymore!
You can retrieve your messages on FriendFeed and view it directly on your mobile, or on other applications like Twitter, gtalk, Twhirl, etc. Through moblf you can view messages from a specific user or a specific web service or both.
More at:http://www.moblf.com/
IQ League For Which webiste is the smartest?
What Company Is Offering:
Ask your visitors to take an IQ test at www.iqleague.com. Test takes about 60 seconds and 100% free. You can place a banner, a text link or just redirect your users.For each visitor they remember were he came from and automatically enroll that visitor into "your-blog.com" group. Once they have 5 visitors from your website who passed the test they calculate IQ of your website and give you awards.
How It Works:
After that your website starts IQ competition with other sites.The URL of your website will be http://www.iqleague.com/group/mysite-com.Feel free to embed award HTML into your website to show the world how smart you are.
You need to bring at least 5 visitors who complete IQ test every 30 days to stay active. Our average conversion rate is about 30% so 15-20 redirects or clicks from your site should be enough.
To identify your site they use "referrer" value that is passed by the browser. So make sure you are not using IFrame's - they would not count.
They use full domain part of the referrer URL but drop all the folder structure. So "blog.mysite.com" and "mysite.com" will be counted as two different sites, but "mysite.com" and "mysite.com/blog" will be counted as the same site.
More at:http://www.iqleague.com/
Ask your visitors to take an IQ test at www.iqleague.com. Test takes about 60 seconds and 100% free. You can place a banner, a text link or just redirect your users.For each visitor they remember were he came from and automatically enroll that visitor into "your-blog.com" group. Once they have 5 visitors from your website who passed the test they calculate IQ of your website and give you awards.
How It Works:
After that your website starts IQ competition with other sites.The URL of your website will be http://www.iqleague.com/group/mysite-com.Feel free to embed award HTML into your website to show the world how smart you are.
You need to bring at least 5 visitors who complete IQ test every 30 days to stay active. Our average conversion rate is about 30% so 15-20 redirects or clicks from your site should be enough.
To identify your site they use "referrer" value that is passed by the browser. So make sure you are not using IFrame's - they would not count.
They use full domain part of the referrer URL but drop all the folder structure. So "blog.mysite.com" and "mysite.com" will be counted as two different sites, but "mysite.com" and "mysite.com/blog" will be counted as the same site.
More at:http://www.iqleague.com/
Witur is sharing your trips
What Company is Offering:
Witur is sharing your trips with your friends, and what a better way to do it than through a social network website such as Facebook. They have developed an application for Facebook so that you can show your trips to your network of friends and to other Facebook users. You will be allowed as well to search for other travelers’ experiences and add more trips from your Facebook profile. The application is called “My Trips“, and if you want to know how it looks like, check the following picture, and add the application to your profile!
More at:http://www.witur.com/
Witur is sharing your trips with your friends, and what a better way to do it than through a social network website such as Facebook. They have developed an application for Facebook so that you can show your trips to your network of friends and to other Facebook users. You will be allowed as well to search for other travelers’ experiences and add more trips from your Facebook profile. The application is called “My Trips“, and if you want to know how it looks like, check the following picture, and add the application to your profile!
More at:http://www.witur.com/
ShoppingNotes.com ---Get Sale Alerts When Prices Are Down
What Company Is Offering:
ShoppingNotes.com is shopping bookmark powered with price watch engine. It is one central place to save all your favorite products you find anywhere on the Internet, and our powerful price watch engine can alert you whenever your favorite products change prices.
ShoppingNotes.com is for people who do any kinds of on-line shopping. It is like browser's "Favorites" for shopping.
How It Works:
They are the first ever web site that combines shopping bookmark with price watch that works with any product URLs. If you are a shopper, ShoppingNotes.com not only helps you organize all your shopping information, but also brings you significant savings with our powerful price watch feature. If you are a merchant, ShoppingNotes.com can retain customers and promote your merchandise in a highly targeted way like never before! You can access your Shopping Notes from home, office, or just anywhere you can access the Internet.Your Shopping Notes automatically come with images and prices, and in one click, it takes you right to the product pages.
No need to install anything to start using the price watch feature. Just enter the product page URLs and your email address, and we will start watching their prices for you. You’ll be the first to know when your favorite products go on sale.
More at:http://www.shoppingnotes.com/
ShoppingNotes.com is shopping bookmark powered with price watch engine. It is one central place to save all your favorite products you find anywhere on the Internet, and our powerful price watch engine can alert you whenever your favorite products change prices.
ShoppingNotes.com is for people who do any kinds of on-line shopping. It is like browser's "Favorites" for shopping.
How It Works:
They are the first ever web site that combines shopping bookmark with price watch that works with any product URLs. If you are a shopper, ShoppingNotes.com not only helps you organize all your shopping information, but also brings you significant savings with our powerful price watch feature. If you are a merchant, ShoppingNotes.com can retain customers and promote your merchandise in a highly targeted way like never before! You can access your Shopping Notes from home, office, or just anywhere you can access the Internet.Your Shopping Notes automatically come with images and prices, and in one click, it takes you right to the product pages.
No need to install anything to start using the price watch feature. Just enter the product page URLs and your email address, and we will start watching their prices for you. You’ll be the first to know when your favorite products go on sale.
More at:http://www.shoppingnotes.com/
Streema: the easiest way to tune into your favorite radios on the web
What Company Is Offering:
Streema: the easiest way to tune into your favorite radios on the web. They believe that listening to your favorite radio stations should be easy, fast, and fun. With Streema, you can search and organize your favorite radios with just a few clicks in an intuitive web-based platform. The result is radio tuning as simple as it should be!
It's a site to tune into all your favorite radios, directly from your browser, with no download required. It's also a place to share your favorite radios with your friends and discover hidden gems within the thousands of radios that are currently available on the Internet. And the best part is that it's free!
How It Works:
Just click on the radio station name (example: ORS Radio 90s Top Hits | Web). This will launch the stream and play it through the embedded player on our page. You may not find all of your favorite radios within their radio directory; so if there is anything missing, just click on the "Request a Radio" link within the blue horizontal bar. You will be taken to the Radio Request page, where you can provide them with the Radio Name, Homepage (URL), and other useful information. They'll add that radio as soon as they can!
Once you add a friend who is also using Streema, you will see how easy it is to tune in and check out what your friend is listening to. If you click on your friend's username, you'll be able to see what your friend has on their Favorites as well as who's on their friend list. You can look for people you know by browsing your friend's own friends lists or by using the search box on the bottom side of your Friends list. Also, feel free to invite friends who are currently not using Streema via the Invite section of the Home tab.
More at:http://www.streema.com/
Streema: the easiest way to tune into your favorite radios on the web. They believe that listening to your favorite radio stations should be easy, fast, and fun. With Streema, you can search and organize your favorite radios with just a few clicks in an intuitive web-based platform. The result is radio tuning as simple as it should be!
It's a site to tune into all your favorite radios, directly from your browser, with no download required. It's also a place to share your favorite radios with your friends and discover hidden gems within the thousands of radios that are currently available on the Internet. And the best part is that it's free!
How It Works:
Just click on the radio station name (example: ORS Radio 90s Top Hits | Web). This will launch the stream and play it through the embedded player on our page. You may not find all of your favorite radios within their radio directory; so if there is anything missing, just click on the "Request a Radio" link within the blue horizontal bar. You will be taken to the Radio Request page, where you can provide them with the Radio Name, Homepage (URL), and other useful information. They'll add that radio as soon as they can!
Once you add a friend who is also using Streema, you will see how easy it is to tune in and check out what your friend is listening to. If you click on your friend's username, you'll be able to see what your friend has on their Favorites as well as who's on their friend list. You can look for people you know by browsing your friend's own friends lists or by using the search box on the bottom side of your Friends list. Also, feel free to invite friends who are currently not using Streema via the Invite section of the Home tab.
More at:http://www.streema.com/
Plantwire is a fun, easy way to find and learn about plants
What Company Is Offering:
Plantwire is a fun, easy way to find and learn about plants.They provide information on many of the world's most beautiful, interesting, and important plants. You can search by plant name, flower color, or by tags. Our database now includes over 300 plants and is growing quickly. We provide general descriptive information, flower colors, and basic instructions on how to grow and propagate each plant. More than 6000 images are included.Plantwire uses images from Flickr, the online photo management and sharing application. They browse Flickr for plant images and select the best for inclusion on Plantwire. They only display images that are licensed for commercial use through a Creative Commons license. Flickr users are the owners of the photos they provide, and they respect their wishes regarding how the images should be used.
More at:http://www.plantwire.com/
Plantwire is a fun, easy way to find and learn about plants.They provide information on many of the world's most beautiful, interesting, and important plants. You can search by plant name, flower color, or by tags. Our database now includes over 300 plants and is growing quickly. We provide general descriptive information, flower colors, and basic instructions on how to grow and propagate each plant. More than 6000 images are included.Plantwire uses images from Flickr, the online photo management and sharing application. They browse Flickr for plant images and select the best for inclusion on Plantwire. They only display images that are licensed for commercial use through a Creative Commons license. Flickr users are the owners of the photos they provide, and they respect their wishes regarding how the images should be used.
More at:http://www.plantwire.com/
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
NearbyNow, the online service that allows US-based consumers to search inventory at stores in their local shopping mall and reserve items to pick up
What Company Is Offering:
NearbyNow, Inc. provides a unique online service that allows consumers to find products, brands, and sales near them at any time using the Internet or mobile phones. NearbyNow powers hundreds of shopping centers across the U.S., allowing shoppers to search store inventory and put items on hold without placing a phone call. The company also creates an efficient marketing tool for retailers to target nearby consumers, helping to drive sales by turning online shoppers into in-store buyers.
How Much They Got From VCs:
NearbyNow, the online service that allows US-based consumers to search inventory at stores in their local shopping mall and reserve items to pick up, today announced a new investment of $11.75 million led by Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) to expand the company's Internet and mobile local shopping services.
Also announced today -- NearbyNow has partnered with TheFind, Inc., a leading shopping search engine for discovering lifestyle goods, to offer online shoppers using TheFind.com the ability to reserve products at select local retailers. Additionally, NearbyNow has revealed a sneak preview of a new mobile service for the Apple iPhone(TM) that allows shoppers to graphically navigate a shopping center, search local inventory, and reserve items for pick up.
"We are very pleased to have Norwest Venture Partners, one of the world's leading technology investors, on the NearbyNow team," said Scott Dunlap, CEO and President of NearbyNow, Inc., "NVP has a deep knowledge of Internet and mobile technologies, and a successful track record of spotting new consumer trends. We look forward to their experience and insightful direction as we move forward."
More at:www.nearbynow.com.
NearbyNow, Inc. provides a unique online service that allows consumers to find products, brands, and sales near them at any time using the Internet or mobile phones. NearbyNow powers hundreds of shopping centers across the U.S., allowing shoppers to search store inventory and put items on hold without placing a phone call. The company also creates an efficient marketing tool for retailers to target nearby consumers, helping to drive sales by turning online shoppers into in-store buyers.
How Much They Got From VCs:
NearbyNow, the online service that allows US-based consumers to search inventory at stores in their local shopping mall and reserve items to pick up, today announced a new investment of $11.75 million led by Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) to expand the company's Internet and mobile local shopping services.
Also announced today -- NearbyNow has partnered with TheFind, Inc., a leading shopping search engine for discovering lifestyle goods, to offer online shoppers using TheFind.com the ability to reserve products at select local retailers. Additionally, NearbyNow has revealed a sneak preview of a new mobile service for the Apple iPhone(TM) that allows shoppers to graphically navigate a shopping center, search local inventory, and reserve items for pick up.
"We are very pleased to have Norwest Venture Partners, one of the world's leading technology investors, on the NearbyNow team," said Scott Dunlap, CEO and President of NearbyNow, Inc., "NVP has a deep knowledge of Internet and mobile technologies, and a successful track record of spotting new consumer trends. We look forward to their experience and insightful direction as we move forward."
More at:www.nearbynow.com.
Endoscopy's ONE-STOP SHOP is now EndoChoice, the most trusted partner in endoscopy for supplies, devices, equipment, and services got VCs funding
What Company Is Offering:
Endoscopy's ONE-STOP SHOP is now EndoChoice, the most trusted partner in endoscopy for supplies, devices, equipment, and services. Providing endoscopy products since 1992, the Company leverages an efficient web-based channel, resulting in a dramatically improved customer experience. Designed to improve the efficiency of the clinical staff, EndoChoice customers enjoy the simplicity of ordering endoscopy supplies in one place, having trusted access to pricing, and accessing utilization reports -- all at the click of a button. The Company is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
How Much They Got From VCs:
EndoChoice Inc, an emerging leader in GI Endoscopy products and services, announced today that River Cities Capital Funds led its Series A financing round. EndoChoice will use the funds to accelerate their growth as they provide an efficient marketplace to the clinical staff within the highly fragmented medical market of GI endoscopy.
What VCs Says About Company:
"Two things attracted us to EndoChoice. The first is a world-class management team that brings leadership experience from GI-focused companies like Given Imaging and Boston Scientific. The second is research that confirms market demand for a company that can help GI departments deal with the pressures of increasing procedures, declining reimbursements, and growing customer and product fragmentation. We are pleased to partner with EndoChoice to help them advance their mission of becoming a market leader that can help gastroenterologists and their colleagues focus on their patients and not on administrative issues," said Rik Vandevenne, Principal of River Cities Capital Funds and new EndoChoice board member. Joining Rik on EndoChoice's board is Ed McCarthy, a Managing Partner of River Cities Capital Funds.
More at:www.endochoice.com
Endoscopy's ONE-STOP SHOP is now EndoChoice, the most trusted partner in endoscopy for supplies, devices, equipment, and services. Providing endoscopy products since 1992, the Company leverages an efficient web-based channel, resulting in a dramatically improved customer experience. Designed to improve the efficiency of the clinical staff, EndoChoice customers enjoy the simplicity of ordering endoscopy supplies in one place, having trusted access to pricing, and accessing utilization reports -- all at the click of a button. The Company is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
How Much They Got From VCs:
EndoChoice Inc, an emerging leader in GI Endoscopy products and services, announced today that River Cities Capital Funds led its Series A financing round. EndoChoice will use the funds to accelerate their growth as they provide an efficient marketplace to the clinical staff within the highly fragmented medical market of GI endoscopy.
What VCs Says About Company:
"Two things attracted us to EndoChoice. The first is a world-class management team that brings leadership experience from GI-focused companies like Given Imaging and Boston Scientific. The second is research that confirms market demand for a company that can help GI departments deal with the pressures of increasing procedures, declining reimbursements, and growing customer and product fragmentation. We are pleased to partner with EndoChoice to help them advance their mission of becoming a market leader that can help gastroenterologists and their colleagues focus on their patients and not on administrative issues," said Rik Vandevenne, Principal of River Cities Capital Funds and new EndoChoice board member. Joining Rik on EndoChoice's board is Ed McCarthy, a Managing Partner of River Cities Capital Funds.
More at:www.endochoice.com
Razorsight Corporation is the market leader in on-demand financial business intelligence solutions got VCs funding
What Company Is Offering:
Razorsight Corporation is the market leader in on-demand financial business intelligence solutions for communications, media and entertainment companies. Razorsight’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions automate payables processes with zero touch by eliminating all manual processes and paper, while providing automated workflow and powerful auditing and analytics of cost and revenue data. Razorsight’s solutions ensure that Communications Service Providers (CSPs) maximize their Network Cost Score ™ - a unique performance metric created by Razorsight to benchmark how CSPs balance the blend of internal staff costs, systems and third party providers to obtain the lowest possible network costs.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Razorsight Corporation, the market leading provider of on-demand financial business intelligence solutions for communications, media and entertainment companies, today announced that Sierra Ventures has invested an additional $9 million in the company. The proceeds will be used to expand Razorsight’s innovative product set, accelerate the company’s international expansion, which is underway as a result of two major European carrier wins, and to support strategic global alliances.
Razorsight’s solutions ensure that Communications Services Providers (CSPs) maximize savings from network cost management while minimizing the cost of doing so. Razorsight enables service providers to realize the highest return on investment by optimizing the investment in internal staff, systems and third party service providers to achieve the maximum Network Cost Score™ - a unique performance metric created by Razorsight to quantify, benchmark and improve network cost management efficiency. Leading CSPs have generated hundreds of millions in savings, and maximized their Network Cost Score™ using Razorsight’s solutions such as AIM Capture and AIM Analytics. Razorsight’s solutions allow CSPs to gain 100 percent visibility into detailed cost data with zero touch, thereby automating critical processes that were previously arduous and manual. In addition, powerful reporting and executive dashboards allow financial executives to analyze significant cost, revenue, inventory and variable cost data in unique and meaningful ways for strategic business initiatives including network engineering, market, product and customer profitability analysis and quarterly financial reporting.
More at:www.razorsight.com.
Razorsight Corporation is the market leader in on-demand financial business intelligence solutions for communications, media and entertainment companies. Razorsight’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions automate payables processes with zero touch by eliminating all manual processes and paper, while providing automated workflow and powerful auditing and analytics of cost and revenue data. Razorsight’s solutions ensure that Communications Service Providers (CSPs) maximize their Network Cost Score ™ - a unique performance metric created by Razorsight to benchmark how CSPs balance the blend of internal staff costs, systems and third party providers to obtain the lowest possible network costs.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Razorsight Corporation, the market leading provider of on-demand financial business intelligence solutions for communications, media and entertainment companies, today announced that Sierra Ventures has invested an additional $9 million in the company. The proceeds will be used to expand Razorsight’s innovative product set, accelerate the company’s international expansion, which is underway as a result of two major European carrier wins, and to support strategic global alliances.
Razorsight’s solutions ensure that Communications Services Providers (CSPs) maximize savings from network cost management while minimizing the cost of doing so. Razorsight enables service providers to realize the highest return on investment by optimizing the investment in internal staff, systems and third party service providers to achieve the maximum Network Cost Score™ - a unique performance metric created by Razorsight to quantify, benchmark and improve network cost management efficiency. Leading CSPs have generated hundreds of millions in savings, and maximized their Network Cost Score™ using Razorsight’s solutions such as AIM Capture and AIM Analytics. Razorsight’s solutions allow CSPs to gain 100 percent visibility into detailed cost data with zero touch, thereby automating critical processes that were previously arduous and manual. In addition, powerful reporting and executive dashboards allow financial executives to analyze significant cost, revenue, inventory and variable cost data in unique and meaningful ways for strategic business initiatives including network engineering, market, product and customer profitability analysis and quarterly financial reporting.
More at:www.razorsight.com.
Mu Dynamics, a pioneer in helping network operators and their vendors eliminate downtime through proactive service assurance got $10 million funding
What Company Is Offering:
Mu Dynamics proactively eliminates the high cost of service, application and network downtime. Mu’s solution automates a systematic and repeatable process that identifies hard-to-detect sources of potential downtime within IP services, applications, and underlying networks. The award-winning Mu solution is deployed at more than 100 locations, primarily at leading global service providers, cable operators and network product vendors.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Mu Dynamics, a pioneer in helping network operators and their vendors eliminate downtime through proactive service assurance, today announced a $10 million third round of financing led by Focus Ventures and previous investors Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital and DAG Ventures. The funds will accelerate the company’s rapid market expansion, particularly among Tier 1 Network operators and their vendors. Mu now has more than 100 active deployments worldwide. (Editors note: See today s announcement from Mu Dynamics: Mu Broadens Ability to Eliminate Service, Application, and Network Downtime with Addition of Denial of Service Module.)
“Given the six-digit costs associated with even a single hour of downtime in any operators’ networked applications or even SaaS offerings, there is a significant worldwide market opportunity for Mu's systematic, automated and proactive approach to pinpointing potential sources of failure in IP-based infrastructures,” said Jim Boettcher, general partner with Focus Ventures. “The company's track record with leading global operators is among the reasons we're so bullish about our investment in Mu.”
Mu’s award-winning solution, the Mu-4000 appliance, is widely adopted globally at more than 100 installations within global service providers and their strategic vendors. The Mu solution automates the detection, isolation and elimination of a wide range of weaknesses in IP-based networks and supplier products. This methodical and proactive approach maximizes network operator service availability and network uptime. With the Mu-4000, service providers can proactively eliminate many sources of costly downtime, avoid reputation damage, ensure customer satisfaction is maintained at the highest levels possible, and reduce costly customer churn.
Mu Dynamics proactively eliminates the high cost of service, application and network downtime. Mu’s solution automates a systematic and repeatable process that identifies hard-to-detect sources of potential downtime within IP services, applications, and underlying networks. The award-winning Mu solution is deployed at more than 100 locations, primarily at leading global service providers, cable operators and network product vendors.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Mu Dynamics, a pioneer in helping network operators and their vendors eliminate downtime through proactive service assurance, today announced a $10 million third round of financing led by Focus Ventures and previous investors Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital and DAG Ventures. The funds will accelerate the company’s rapid market expansion, particularly among Tier 1 Network operators and their vendors. Mu now has more than 100 active deployments worldwide. (Editors note: See today s announcement from Mu Dynamics: Mu Broadens Ability to Eliminate Service, Application, and Network Downtime with Addition of Denial of Service Module.)
“Given the six-digit costs associated with even a single hour of downtime in any operators’ networked applications or even SaaS offerings, there is a significant worldwide market opportunity for Mu's systematic, automated and proactive approach to pinpointing potential sources of failure in IP-based infrastructures,” said Jim Boettcher, general partner with Focus Ventures. “The company's track record with leading global operators is among the reasons we're so bullish about our investment in Mu.”
Mu’s award-winning solution, the Mu-4000 appliance, is widely adopted globally at more than 100 installations within global service providers and their strategic vendors. The Mu solution automates the detection, isolation and elimination of a wide range of weaknesses in IP-based networks and supplier products. This methodical and proactive approach maximizes network operator service availability and network uptime. With the Mu-4000, service providers can proactively eliminate many sources of costly downtime, avoid reputation damage, ensure customer satisfaction is maintained at the highest levels possible, and reduce costly customer churn.
Expert Village provides thousands of how-to videos by acknowledged experts in a wide variety of fields
What Company Is Offering:
Expert Village provides thousands of how-to videos by acknowledged experts in a wide variety of fields. Their videos are highly focused and Internet-optimized, which means they deal with a specific topic and are generally short compared to traditional broadcast media. Their goal is to provide users with qualified, trustworthy video content, a place on the Internet where you know that what you see is not idle speculation by a random amateur, but rather someone who really knows what they're talking about. They want to provide very targeted how-to content that answers a specific question you have. No one wants to sit through a half-hour broadcast on the history of automobile maintenance when all you need to know is how to change your spark plug. Web searches excel at bringing you exactly and exclusively the information you need, and Expert Village is committed to bringing as many answers as possible to you through video.
How It Works:
To be considered an expert on our site, the person must have either credentials from a legitimate licensing authority, extensive personal experience in the field, or both.To be considered for appearing in an Expert Village video, complete the "A" portion of the form at http://www.expertvillage.com/expertinfo.htm, which is under the "Become an Expert" tab at the top of each page. Our filmmakers will have access to a report showing what experts in which subjects are available in their area. It is up to the filmmaker to decide what experts or subjects he or she wants to make a video about; they cannot guarantee whether or not a given expert will be contacted by a filmmaker. Note that the experts appearing on our site are not Expert Village employees.
More at:http://www.expertvillage.com/
Expert Village provides thousands of how-to videos by acknowledged experts in a wide variety of fields. Their videos are highly focused and Internet-optimized, which means they deal with a specific topic and are generally short compared to traditional broadcast media. Their goal is to provide users with qualified, trustworthy video content, a place on the Internet where you know that what you see is not idle speculation by a random amateur, but rather someone who really knows what they're talking about. They want to provide very targeted how-to content that answers a specific question you have. No one wants to sit through a half-hour broadcast on the history of automobile maintenance when all you need to know is how to change your spark plug. Web searches excel at bringing you exactly and exclusively the information you need, and Expert Village is committed to bringing as many answers as possible to you through video.
How It Works:
To be considered an expert on our site, the person must have either credentials from a legitimate licensing authority, extensive personal experience in the field, or both.To be considered for appearing in an Expert Village video, complete the "A" portion of the form at http://www.expertvillage.com/expertinfo.htm, which is under the "Become an Expert" tab at the top of each page. Our filmmakers will have access to a report showing what experts in which subjects are available in their area. It is up to the filmmaker to decide what experts or subjects he or she wants to make a video about; they cannot guarantee whether or not a given expert will be contacted by a filmmaker. Note that the experts appearing on our site are not Expert Village employees.
More at:http://www.expertvillage.com/
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