What Company Is Offering:
Social Mention is a social media search engine that searches user-generated content such as blogs, comments, bookmarks, events, news, videos, and microblogging services.
It allows you to easily track what people are saying about you, your company, a new product, or any topic across the web’s social media landscape in real-time.
How It Works:
Search results are aggregated from numerous popular social media sources, including Google blog search, Twitter, Delicious, FriendFeed, Flickr, Digg, YouTube etc. and remixed as a single stream of information. The data is fresh, which means you can track conversations as they are happening in real-time.
In addition to web-based search results, Social Mention also features email alerts and personalized RSS feeds for automatic and instant updates.
More at:http://www.socialmention.com/
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Meetsee Is A Virtual Office Tool
What Company Is Offering:
Meetsee uses the Halcyon Worlds platform to address the intangibles associated with the virtual office like building trust and camaraderie and connecting remote workers to the people and content they need. Halcyon Worlds has been dedicated to providing the industry’s most flexible and comprehensive interactive platform for isometric virtual worlds.
A Meetsee room is your own space online where you and your coworkers can be productive or just have fun together. Every Meetsee room gets its own URL that you can distribute to others. Post it on a Web page or blog or send it in an email or instant messenger. Just enter the URL in a Web browser and you're off. It's that easy.
How It Works:
Once you've registered, you can immediately create your first Meetsee room. Just click the Create Room button. Just follow the steps and your room will become available in you're my Profile page. From here you can access, change settings, and get information for your Meetsee room.
Inside your Meetsee room there are many ways for you to communicate and collaborate with your co-workers. You can chat, video conference, share files, watch videos, and view photos. But the best thing is that you can do all these things together at the same time. Can't be there at the same time? No worries! Inside every Meetsee room is a Message Board where you can post messages to be viewed anytime.
More at:Meetsee
Meetsee uses the Halcyon Worlds platform to address the intangibles associated with the virtual office like building trust and camaraderie and connecting remote workers to the people and content they need. Halcyon Worlds has been dedicated to providing the industry’s most flexible and comprehensive interactive platform for isometric virtual worlds.
A Meetsee room is your own space online where you and your coworkers can be productive or just have fun together. Every Meetsee room gets its own URL that you can distribute to others. Post it on a Web page or blog or send it in an email or instant messenger. Just enter the URL in a Web browser and you're off. It's that easy.
How It Works:
Once you've registered, you can immediately create your first Meetsee room. Just click the Create Room button. Just follow the steps and your room will become available in you're my Profile page. From here you can access, change settings, and get information for your Meetsee room.
Inside your Meetsee room there are many ways for you to communicate and collaborate with your co-workers. You can chat, video conference, share files, watch videos, and view photos. But the best thing is that you can do all these things together at the same time. Can't be there at the same time? No worries! Inside every Meetsee room is a Message Board where you can post messages to be viewed anytime.
More at:Meetsee
SeekSift is a discovery engine for content on the live web
What Company Is Offering:
SeekSift is a discovery engine for content on the live web.SeekSift will provide you with your daily dose of updates through email by supplying SeekSift with your RSS feeds and other syndicated sources. SeekSift also acts as a search engine and tracker for similar topics. Based on what topics you’ve given them, and your ratings, SeekSift learns what topics may be of interest to you.
More at: SeekSift
SeekSift is a discovery engine for content on the live web.SeekSift will provide you with your daily dose of updates through email by supplying SeekSift with your RSS feeds and other syndicated sources. SeekSift also acts as a search engine and tracker for similar topics. Based on what topics you’ve given them, and your ratings, SeekSift learns what topics may be of interest to you.
More at: SeekSift
Frimp is your an online yard sale
What Company Is Offering:
Frimp is an online yard sale or flea market where you can browse the stuff in your neighborhood, set up your own online sale, or search for a particular item across the whole of Frimp.
How It Works:
Selling:They make it easier to put your stuff on sale at Frimp than it is to put it out in your yard. They want it to be hassle free. They want it to be fun. In five minutes, and by giving them no more information than what you want to be called, your zipcode, your email address, and a password, you'll be ready to sell as many items as you want.
Frimp is cost effective for you whether you want to sell your house or a dozen $0.25 books. They also make it easy (and free) for you to give things away using Frimp.
Buying:The same thing applies to browsing, searching and buying stuff. If you want to see what people are giving away for free in your neighborhood, it's easy to do. If you want to see who's selling romance novels near you, that's easy too. Buying an item is as simple as signing up, going shopping to find an item you like, and clicking "Buy", then working out the details with the seller.
More at:http://www.frimp.net/
Frimp is an online yard sale or flea market where you can browse the stuff in your neighborhood, set up your own online sale, or search for a particular item across the whole of Frimp.
How It Works:
Selling:They make it easier to put your stuff on sale at Frimp than it is to put it out in your yard. They want it to be hassle free. They want it to be fun. In five minutes, and by giving them no more information than what you want to be called, your zipcode, your email address, and a password, you'll be ready to sell as many items as you want.
Frimp is cost effective for you whether you want to sell your house or a dozen $0.25 books. They also make it easy (and free) for you to give things away using Frimp.
Buying:The same thing applies to browsing, searching and buying stuff. If you want to see what people are giving away for free in your neighborhood, it's easy to do. If you want to see who's selling romance novels near you, that's easy too. Buying an item is as simple as signing up, going shopping to find an item you like, and clicking "Buy", then working out the details with the seller.
More at:http://www.frimp.net/
Monday, December 1, 2008
“Brain Evolution System,” helps increase thinking speed, boost creativity, raise energy levels, improve your memory, and release bad habits
What Company Is Offering:
The Brain Evolution System (or BrainEv) is a six-level program for mastering the brain.The 6-CD program, known as the “Brain Evolution System,” helps increase thinking speed, boost creativity, raise energy levels, improve your memory, and release bad habits.
The program uses specially-crafted sounds to help influence your brainwaves, bringing profound benefits - such as sharper thinking, more energy, greater relaxation, better problem solving skills, and much more!
As you use the program, your brain muscle is automatically "trained" more and more - enabling you to tap into those peak performance brainwaves, on-demand!
Each level of the program features a relaxing mix of all-natural sounds - coupled with the exclusive 3P D.E.A.P. brainwave entrainment technology.
How It Works:
Each level offers an evolving step along a six-tier program designed to introduce you to a variety of brainwave states. This allows you to "train" your brain muscle, so that you can tap into those peak performance states in future - on-demand!
In just SIX MONTHS of using the Brain Evolution System, you can reach advanced states of mind that previously required DECADES of meditative practice.
By tapping into the Brain Evolution System, you can "optimize" your mind to operate at peak performance all the time - both intellectually, and emotionally.
The Brain Evolution System makes use of a highly specialized, proprietary brainwave entrainment technology (3P D.E.A.P) - which uses intricate sound patterns to influence your brainwaves, and thereby change your state of mind.
This brainwave entrainment is achieved by simply listening to our sound-based program, for 30 minutes per day, 6 days a week, in the comfort of your own home or personal space. No special equipment, exercises or extended effort is required on your part.
More at:http://www.brainev.com/
The Brain Evolution System (or BrainEv) is a six-level program for mastering the brain.The 6-CD program, known as the “Brain Evolution System,” helps increase thinking speed, boost creativity, raise energy levels, improve your memory, and release bad habits.
The program uses specially-crafted sounds to help influence your brainwaves, bringing profound benefits - such as sharper thinking, more energy, greater relaxation, better problem solving skills, and much more!
As you use the program, your brain muscle is automatically "trained" more and more - enabling you to tap into those peak performance brainwaves, on-demand!
Each level of the program features a relaxing mix of all-natural sounds - coupled with the exclusive 3P D.E.A.P. brainwave entrainment technology.
How It Works:
Each level offers an evolving step along a six-tier program designed to introduce you to a variety of brainwave states. This allows you to "train" your brain muscle, so that you can tap into those peak performance states in future - on-demand!
In just SIX MONTHS of using the Brain Evolution System, you can reach advanced states of mind that previously required DECADES of meditative practice.
By tapping into the Brain Evolution System, you can "optimize" your mind to operate at peak performance all the time - both intellectually, and emotionally.
The Brain Evolution System makes use of a highly specialized, proprietary brainwave entrainment technology (3P D.E.A.P) - which uses intricate sound patterns to influence your brainwaves, and thereby change your state of mind.
This brainwave entrainment is achieved by simply listening to our sound-based program, for 30 minutes per day, 6 days a week, in the comfort of your own home or personal space. No special equipment, exercises or extended effort is required on your part.
More at:http://www.brainev.com/
RomanticPrintables.com ---Best Printable Gift Options
What Company Is Offering:
RomanticPrintables.com provides instant access to more than 200 professionally designed printable products, such as love coupons, stationary, games and love notes. This site virtually eliminates the waiting period that accompanies most other online purchases and puts romance and gift giving at your fingertips!
The great thing about RomanticPrintables is that they are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year from the comfort of your own home. In minutes visitors can download pages of printables and in the time it takes to click print, they are in your hands and ready to use", says founder Sara Reed.
With RomanticPrintables.com, lack of creativity will never prevent you from being romantic. All of the printables are prewritten and ready to give.
More at:http://www.romanticprintables.com/
RomanticPrintables.com provides instant access to more than 200 professionally designed printable products, such as love coupons, stationary, games and love notes. This site virtually eliminates the waiting period that accompanies most other online purchases and puts romance and gift giving at your fingertips!
The great thing about RomanticPrintables is that they are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year from the comfort of your own home. In minutes visitors can download pages of printables and in the time it takes to click print, they are in your hands and ready to use", says founder Sara Reed.
With RomanticPrintables.com, lack of creativity will never prevent you from being romantic. All of the printables are prewritten and ready to give.
More at:http://www.romanticprintables.com/
MailCatch--To create temporary disposable mailboxes, in a completly anonymous way
What Company Is Offering:
MailCatch is an email service that allows you to create temporary disposable mailboxes, in a completly anonymous way. When you are asked for an email by a website and you do not want to give your (for fear of spam), you can simply give whatever mailbox name you want on the mailcatch.com domain (like whatever@mailcatch.com). Then you come here, type in the mailbox name and check your mail. They get the spam, not you! The ultimate anti-spam service.
How It Works:
Emails that are sent to MailCatch are never saved or kept permanently. They will fade away with time(this can range from a few hours to a few days depending on the traffic).They do not keep emails, they do not track you, it is all completely anonymous. You do not have to pay, register or otherwise sign-in to use their service.
When a site asks you for an email and you do not want to provide your real one for fear of spam, just give a mail of the form whatever@mailcatch.com.
Then you go to MailCatch.com and you open the whatever inbox, read your mail and be done with it!
More at:http://www.mailcatch.com/
MailCatch is an email service that allows you to create temporary disposable mailboxes, in a completly anonymous way. When you are asked for an email by a website and you do not want to give your (for fear of spam), you can simply give whatever mailbox name you want on the mailcatch.com domain (like whatever@mailcatch.com). Then you come here, type in the mailbox name and check your mail. They get the spam, not you! The ultimate anti-spam service.
How It Works:
Emails that are sent to MailCatch are never saved or kept permanently. They will fade away with time(this can range from a few hours to a few days depending on the traffic).They do not keep emails, they do not track you, it is all completely anonymous. You do not have to pay, register or otherwise sign-in to use their service.
When a site asks you for an email and you do not want to provide your real one for fear of spam, just give a mail of the form whatever@mailcatch.com.
Then you go to MailCatch.com and you open the whatever inbox, read your mail and be done with it!
More at:http://www.mailcatch.com/
BuyLater will find you the lowest possible price for a "New" condition item , from any vendor
What Company Is Offering:
BuyLater adds a button to Amazon.com webpages, sending you email or tweets when items come back "In Stock", or the price changes...Great for Wiis, Kindles, or watching for unannounced "sales" on big-ticket purchases.
BuyLater, by default, will find you the lowest possible price for a "New" condition item , from any vendor. So when you get to the Amazon page, you may find that Amazon is offering it at a higher price.
How It Works:
When you download and install BuyLater, you become part of a massive grid-computer, that's helping all the BuyLater users stay on top of the latest prices. Whenever your browser is running, BuyLater does one polling job every minute, and sends the results back to this server for all the users to share. There's no personal information involved, and it's a pretty moderate amount of bandwidth.
More at:http://www.buylatr.com/
BuyLater adds a button to Amazon.com webpages, sending you email or tweets when items come back "In Stock", or the price changes...Great for Wiis, Kindles, or watching for unannounced "sales" on big-ticket purchases.
BuyLater, by default, will find you the lowest possible price for a "New" condition item , from any vendor. So when you get to the Amazon page, you may find that Amazon is offering it at a higher price.
How It Works:
When you download and install BuyLater, you become part of a massive grid-computer, that's helping all the BuyLater users stay on top of the latest prices. Whenever your browser is running, BuyLater does one polling job every minute, and sends the results back to this server for all the users to share. There's no personal information involved, and it's a pretty moderate amount of bandwidth.
More at:http://www.buylatr.com/
Terapad is a great way to create a website from scratch without any web design or development skills
What Company Is Offering:
Terapad is a great way to create a website from scratch without any web design or development skills.
How Is It Different:
Terapad is truly unique as it can be used both in a personal or corporate environment. It's unlike anything you've used so far. You can use it as a personal blog, or you can use it as a powerful content management system, complete with custom graphics, online shop and HR tools. Regardless of what you decide to do with it, there is, and always will be, a free version available.
More at:http://www.terapad.com/
Terapad is a great way to create a website from scratch without any web design or development skills.
How Is It Different:
Terapad is truly unique as it can be used both in a personal or corporate environment. It's unlike anything you've used so far. You can use it as a personal blog, or you can use it as a powerful content management system, complete with custom graphics, online shop and HR tools. Regardless of what you decide to do with it, there is, and always will be, a free version available.
More at:http://www.terapad.com/
Yahoo! Buzz index is a list of the day's most popoular (or recently popoular) search queries on Yahoo
What Company Is Offering:
Yahoo! Buzz index is a list of the day's most popoular (or recently popoular) search queries on Yahoo!
To compile your daily buzz dosage, Buzzingo takes the buzz data and retrieves relevant information from the web.
It was written using Ruby On Rails and the Yahoo! API, which proved sooo much easier to use than Google's API. It also covers many search sources comparing to the crippled Google API.
While the popoular search terms are updated daily, (i.e. the list of category hot items is fixed throughout the day), the actual item information such as related news items and images are updated every hour.
More at:http://www.buzzingo.com/
Yahoo! Buzz index is a list of the day's most popoular (or recently popoular) search queries on Yahoo!
To compile your daily buzz dosage, Buzzingo takes the buzz data and retrieves relevant information from the web.
It was written using Ruby On Rails and the Yahoo! API, which proved sooo much easier to use than Google's API. It also covers many search sources comparing to the crippled Google API.
While the popoular search terms are updated daily, (i.e. the list of category hot items is fixed throughout the day), the actual item information such as related news items and images are updated every hour.
More at:http://www.buzzingo.com/
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Woopid
What Company Is Offering:
Woopid is a video tutorial website which aims to empower people by giving them access to thousands of free and practical video tutorials, allowing them to learn about their computer and other gadgets. Everything video is made with the knowledge that both a beginner and an advanced user may be watching, and through the unique “Take a Step Back”, “Moving Forward” system, we’re able to ensure all levels of computer and gadget users aren’t confused about what they’re watching. Learn some new tricks, make better presentations, network your computer and more.
More at:http://www.woopid.com/
Woopid is a video tutorial website which aims to empower people by giving them access to thousands of free and practical video tutorials, allowing them to learn about their computer and other gadgets. Everything video is made with the knowledge that both a beginner and an advanced user may be watching, and through the unique “Take a Step Back”, “Moving Forward” system, we’re able to ensure all levels of computer and gadget users aren’t confused about what they’re watching. Learn some new tricks, make better presentations, network your computer and more.
More at:http://www.woopid.com/
Friday, November 28, 2008
WikiPik is the place where consumers and professionals alike connect and exchange opinions and data
What Company Is Offering:
wiki" means it's collaborative, and "pik" stands for three things: "pick" as in "pick the best", "peak" meaning "top" or "best", and "PIK" = "Payment In Kind" which stands for WikiPik's reward point system . WikiPik is also a word that is easy to pronouce in just about any language, emphasizing WikiPik's global reach..
WikiPik is the place to make lightning fast educated decisions. WikiPik is the place where consumers and professionals alike connect and exchange opinions and data on products, services, places, people, you name it. WikiPik is truly international, multilingual, ad free and open licensed, that means it's free information forever.
How Is It Different:
Meaningful, Bias Compensated Rankings WikiPik uses a novel ranking algorithm, to display information in the order that is relevant to you. DeltaRank™ is different in that it can compensate for bias in users ratings, by basing its scoring on how contributors perceive quality differences between items rather than just averaging uncorrelated opinions.
Customizable Grid Views WikiPik's powerful grid-based ranking/sorting/filtering interface allows you to quickly manipulate information and identify the item that is best for you. No more sifting through pages and pages of review text to tediously extract the information you need. WikiPik finally has it all at your fingertips!
Performance Database Beyond subjective opinions on quality aspects, users can also share own physical performance measurements, such as such as battery life or power consumption, in a plethora of quantities and units, and convert them between US and metric. Such way you can use WikiPik as a collaborative research database, go beyond whitewashed manufacturer's specs and get your hands on real world data.
Open Structure WikiPik allows you not only contribute content, but also collaborate on how this content is represented and organized. If something is not in the database yet, simply add it! Create new items, categories, rating criteria, technical specs whenever you need them and build WikiPik right then and there.
Open License All contributed content is published under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license. So anything you contribute to WikiPik stays free information available to mankind forever, and can be re-distributed and altered by anyone, free of charge, even for commercial purposes, under the terms of this license.
Ad Free Consistent with the vow to strict neutrality and trust, WikiPik is a 100% ad-free web site. WikiPik puts mission first and money second so we can all enjoy a truly informational experience.
Multilingual Having a name that is easy to pronounce in just about any language, and a multilingual interface & database, WikiPik makes it easy for anyone from any culture to contribute.
More at:Wikipik
wiki" means it's collaborative, and "pik" stands for three things: "pick" as in "pick the best", "peak" meaning "top" or "best", and "PIK" = "Payment In Kind" which stands for WikiPik's reward point system . WikiPik is also a word that is easy to pronouce in just about any language, emphasizing WikiPik's global reach..
WikiPik is the place to make lightning fast educated decisions. WikiPik is the place where consumers and professionals alike connect and exchange opinions and data on products, services, places, people, you name it. WikiPik is truly international, multilingual, ad free and open licensed, that means it's free information forever.
How Is It Different:
Meaningful, Bias Compensated Rankings WikiPik uses a novel ranking algorithm, to display information in the order that is relevant to you. DeltaRank™ is different in that it can compensate for bias in users ratings, by basing its scoring on how contributors perceive quality differences between items rather than just averaging uncorrelated opinions.
Customizable Grid Views WikiPik's powerful grid-based ranking/sorting/filtering interface allows you to quickly manipulate information and identify the item that is best for you. No more sifting through pages and pages of review text to tediously extract the information you need. WikiPik finally has it all at your fingertips!
Performance Database Beyond subjective opinions on quality aspects, users can also share own physical performance measurements, such as such as battery life or power consumption, in a plethora of quantities and units, and convert them between US and metric. Such way you can use WikiPik as a collaborative research database, go beyond whitewashed manufacturer's specs and get your hands on real world data.
Open Structure WikiPik allows you not only contribute content, but also collaborate on how this content is represented and organized. If something is not in the database yet, simply add it! Create new items, categories, rating criteria, technical specs whenever you need them and build WikiPik right then and there.
Open License All contributed content is published under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license. So anything you contribute to WikiPik stays free information available to mankind forever, and can be re-distributed and altered by anyone, free of charge, even for commercial purposes, under the terms of this license.
Ad Free Consistent with the vow to strict neutrality and trust, WikiPik is a 100% ad-free web site. WikiPik puts mission first and money second so we can all enjoy a truly informational experience.
Multilingual Having a name that is easy to pronounce in just about any language, and a multilingual interface & database, WikiPik makes it easy for anyone from any culture to contribute.
More at:Wikipik
MIVA is all about helping your business grow through performance marketing services
What Company Is Offering:
MIVA is all about helping your business grow through performance marketing services. From setting up storefronts to delivering customers to your website, MIVA can help in multiple ways. To achieve these objectives, we have established three main divisions, each complementing the other and each offering their own unique products and services:
MIVA Direct helps businesses develop direct relationships with users through private-branded consumer desktop software supported by robust underlying contextual and search technologies.
They offer popular consumer desktop software tailored to the needs of specific audiences, customized with a partner brand and buttons. Consumer software options include a search toolbar with ad-blocker and custom links tailored to site content, rich messaging capabilities via RSS and XML, and custom integrations with additional features such as weather, finance and communications. Desktop software can link to a site's most active and engaging content. For example, this could include a popular sports icon that resides on the desktop which offers instant information and quick access to a fantasy football league, or a stock ticker that provides immediate market updates. Partners can earn additional revenue, extend their brand beyond the traditional web site, and interact with their consumers in new ways. Users benefit from a better, more interactive experience with their favorite online or offline brand.
More at:http://www.miva.com/
MIVA is all about helping your business grow through performance marketing services. From setting up storefronts to delivering customers to your website, MIVA can help in multiple ways. To achieve these objectives, we have established three main divisions, each complementing the other and each offering their own unique products and services:
MIVA Direct helps businesses develop direct relationships with users through private-branded consumer desktop software supported by robust underlying contextual and search technologies.
They offer popular consumer desktop software tailored to the needs of specific audiences, customized with a partner brand and buttons. Consumer software options include a search toolbar with ad-blocker and custom links tailored to site content, rich messaging capabilities via RSS and XML, and custom integrations with additional features such as weather, finance and communications. Desktop software can link to a site's most active and engaging content. For example, this could include a popular sports icon that resides on the desktop which offers instant information and quick access to a fantasy football league, or a stock ticker that provides immediate market updates. Partners can earn additional revenue, extend their brand beyond the traditional web site, and interact with their consumers in new ways. Users benefit from a better, more interactive experience with their favorite online or offline brand.
More at:http://www.miva.com/
Industry Trends Exercise
Why is Wayne Gretzky one of pro hockey's all-time greats? Gretzky says the trick is "skating to where the puck's going to be, not where it is." Anticipating his teammates' moves and competitors' reactions, he dynamically positions himself to take the shot. This time-tested strategy landed Gretzky among the National Hockey League's leading scorers for over ten years.
Your company can glide to the top using a similar approach, dynamically positioning itself to anticipate the market's direction and competitors' responses. That's one way strategic planning gives you an edge. Unlike operational planning, strategic planning focuses on where you need to be in three to five years.
Failing to look ahead is like skating blindfolded. You never know how close you are to the goal.
Understanding industry trends There are various approaches to understanding trends in your industry-gathering and analyzing secondary data already available, for example, or collecting primary data from your customers, suppliers, and other key stakeholders.
Too many companies overlook one of the best and most convenient sources of industry insight-the management team. If your managers are up on your industry, you have a storehouse of information at your fingertips.
You can do the same Industry Trends Exercise that enables our clients to tap the knowledge and expertise of their managers. Through this structured exercise the management team
Identifies and prioritizes key trends that are likely to affect the company - for all key stakeholder groups within the industry (customers, suppliers, governments, and others).
Outlines strategies to take advantage of favorable trends.
Develops strategies to minimize the impact of unfavorable trends.
If your industry is in flux, facing environmental changes that could affect your future success, try the Industry Trends Exercise. It will help you reach your goals as you grow and your industry evolves.
Click For Industry Trend Exercise..
Your company can glide to the top using a similar approach, dynamically positioning itself to anticipate the market's direction and competitors' responses. That's one way strategic planning gives you an edge. Unlike operational planning, strategic planning focuses on where you need to be in three to five years.
Failing to look ahead is like skating blindfolded. You never know how close you are to the goal.
Understanding industry trends There are various approaches to understanding trends in your industry-gathering and analyzing secondary data already available, for example, or collecting primary data from your customers, suppliers, and other key stakeholders.
Too many companies overlook one of the best and most convenient sources of industry insight-the management team. If your managers are up on your industry, you have a storehouse of information at your fingertips.
You can do the same Industry Trends Exercise that enables our clients to tap the knowledge and expertise of their managers. Through this structured exercise the management team
Identifies and prioritizes key trends that are likely to affect the company - for all key stakeholder groups within the industry (customers, suppliers, governments, and others).
Outlines strategies to take advantage of favorable trends.
Develops strategies to minimize the impact of unfavorable trends.
If your industry is in flux, facing environmental changes that could affect your future success, try the Industry Trends Exercise. It will help you reach your goals as you grow and your industry evolves.
Click For Industry Trend Exercise..
Futurecovery .com---Discover Your Future
What Company Is Offering:
Futurecovery is a simple mini app which is Ajax based. People are always guessing what they will become in ten years time, what they will be doing in a week, or indeed next year. Futurecovery simply lets the user choose a date, write what they think they will be, have become, or want to be, type in their e-mail and click send.
More at:http://www.futurecovery.com/
Futurecovery is a simple mini app which is Ajax based. People are always guessing what they will become in ten years time, what they will be doing in a week, or indeed next year. Futurecovery simply lets the user choose a date, write what they think they will be, have become, or want to be, type in their e-mail and click send.
More at:http://www.futurecovery.com/
Cebase is a web based database that allows you to manage and share your data on the web
What Company Is Offering:
Cebase is a web based database that allows you to manage and share your data on the web. In cebase your data is stored in lists. A list is much like a table in a traditional database like Microsoft Access or FileMaker but without the hassles of having to create primary keys, foreign keys or any other low-level database object.
How It Works:
To get started you first have to create an application. You can create an application by clicking on the Create New Application button that is located on your account home page. In the page that is loaded, enter a name for your application and click Create Application to let cebase create your application.
You can either create a new list by entering a list name and defining one or more fields - or - by importing your data. If you have no data to import and want to start from scratch then select Create a New List. Enter a descriptive term (like contacts or tasks) for the items in your list. The term you enter should be the plural noun that best describes the data you want to keep track of. If for example you want to keep track of your contacts then you should enter the plural noun Contacts. Next define the information you want to store for each item in your list. You can do so by entering one or more field names and selecting an appropriate data type. Some example field names are First Name, Last Name, Street, etc... If you are done entering field names then click the Create List button to create your list.
More at:http://www.cebase.com/
Cebase is a web based database that allows you to manage and share your data on the web. In cebase your data is stored in lists. A list is much like a table in a traditional database like Microsoft Access or FileMaker but without the hassles of having to create primary keys, foreign keys or any other low-level database object.
How It Works:
To get started you first have to create an application. You can create an application by clicking on the Create New Application button that is located on your account home page. In the page that is loaded, enter a name for your application and click Create Application to let cebase create your application.
You can either create a new list by entering a list name and defining one or more fields - or - by importing your data. If you have no data to import and want to start from scratch then select Create a New List. Enter a descriptive term (like contacts or tasks) for the items in your list. The term you enter should be the plural noun that best describes the data you want to keep track of. If for example you want to keep track of your contacts then you should enter the plural noun Contacts. Next define the information you want to store for each item in your list. You can do so by entering one or more field names and selecting an appropriate data type. Some example field names are First Name, Last Name, Street, etc... If you are done entering field names then click the Create List button to create your list.
More at:http://www.cebase.com/
Free IQ is an online community where streaming video is used to share knowledge and information with others…at no cost
What Company Is Offering:
Free IQ is an online community where streaming video is used to share knowledge and information with others…at no cost.
At Free IQ, the emphasis is placed on exchanging valuable information not frivolous entertainment. They believe that everyone knows something that is of value to someone else. They let people share that knowledge through video.
A unique feature enables site visitors to make purchases directly from a content provider. The product purchased could be additional video information (which can be downloaded directly from Free IQ or sent via DVD), audio CD’s, E-zines, E-newsletters or even physical products. Free IQ processes each transaction and collects a modest commission.
How Is It Different:
Free IQ allows a user to upload any video, regardless of length. You can also upload audio, PDF’s…almost any media. A proprietary search engine allows users to quickly select only relevant content. The search algorithm—which has two patents pending—also incorporates a sophisticated user rating system which considers direct input, review quality and actual user experience with each piece of content.
More at:http://www.freeiq.com/
Free IQ is an online community where streaming video is used to share knowledge and information with others…at no cost.
At Free IQ, the emphasis is placed on exchanging valuable information not frivolous entertainment. They believe that everyone knows something that is of value to someone else. They let people share that knowledge through video.
A unique feature enables site visitors to make purchases directly from a content provider. The product purchased could be additional video information (which can be downloaded directly from Free IQ or sent via DVD), audio CD’s, E-zines, E-newsletters or even physical products. Free IQ processes each transaction and collects a modest commission.
How Is It Different:
Free IQ allows a user to upload any video, regardless of length. You can also upload audio, PDF’s…almost any media. A proprietary search engine allows users to quickly select only relevant content. The search algorithm—which has two patents pending—also incorporates a sophisticated user rating system which considers direct input, review quality and actual user experience with each piece of content.
More at:http://www.freeiq.com/
Thursday, November 27, 2008
The Indian Outbound Travel Monitor provides an understanding of the market segments of Indian outbound travelers
In 2008, approximately 10 million* overseas trips will be made by Indians. By 2010 it is estimated that this will go up to about 16 million*. There is limited information on the Indian outbound travelers' behavior, perceptions and experiences. The India Outbound Travel Monitor 2008 is the first syndicated survey of its kind to provide you with insights on the Indian outbound traveler to fulfill this need gap and help marketers and those related to the travel and tourism industry make informed decisions. *Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA)
The report is based on face to face interviews conducted with 2000 outbound travelers across tier I and tier II cities. The study was conducted across five big cities and five smaller cities spread across the North, East, West and South of India.
The Indian Outbound Travel Monitor provides an understanding of the market segments of Indian outbound travelers allowing marketers to:
- Identify and optimize growth opportunities in the India outbound travel market
- Develop effective marketing strategies to win Indian consumers
- Gain insights for tactical plans to communicate with your target segment
- Unravel the entire travel decision making process and the Barriers and drivers there in
- Track your performance against competitors
- Understand new trends in travel
This study will be useful to the Airlines, NTO s, Hotels, Airport authorities, Travel Agents, OTAs, Duty free shops, Insurance, Telecom and many others related to the Travel Industry.
Asian countries are the most popular destinations for Indian travelers.
On average, Indians spend nearly USD 1,789 per person per leisure trip.
Nature and the environment (62%), culture and art (53%), safety (50%) and hygiene (48%) are the most important considerations for travellers when selecting their next travel destination.
The internet has fast become one of the most popular sources of information on destinations for close to half (48%) of those surveyed, behind travel agents and tour operators (56%).
More at:http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/38e8ee/india_outbound_tra
The report is based on face to face interviews conducted with 2000 outbound travelers across tier I and tier II cities. The study was conducted across five big cities and five smaller cities spread across the North, East, West and South of India.
The Indian Outbound Travel Monitor provides an understanding of the market segments of Indian outbound travelers allowing marketers to:
- Identify and optimize growth opportunities in the India outbound travel market
- Develop effective marketing strategies to win Indian consumers
- Gain insights for tactical plans to communicate with your target segment
- Unravel the entire travel decision making process and the Barriers and drivers there in
- Track your performance against competitors
- Understand new trends in travel
This study will be useful to the Airlines, NTO s, Hotels, Airport authorities, Travel Agents, OTAs, Duty free shops, Insurance, Telecom and many others related to the Travel Industry.
Asian countries are the most popular destinations for Indian travelers.
On average, Indians spend nearly USD 1,789 per person per leisure trip.
Nature and the environment (62%), culture and art (53%), safety (50%) and hygiene (48%) are the most important considerations for travellers when selecting their next travel destination.
The internet has fast become one of the most popular sources of information on destinations for close to half (48%) of those surveyed, behind travel agents and tour operators (56%).
More at:http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/38e8ee/india_outbound_tra
inDplay accelerates, expands, and facilitates the worldwide marketplace for film, TV and video rights
What Company Is Offering:
inDplay accelerates, expands, and facilitates the worldwide marketplace for film, TV and video rights. Aggregating professional buyers and sellers, inDplay promotes sales across all distribution channels (e.g.,Theatrical, Home Video/DVD, Cable/TV, Mobile/Handheld, and Internet/VOD). inDplay is a subscription-based online marketplace where buyers and sellers can transact and manage rights for their film and video properties. Using a proprietary standardized licensing and contract process, inDplay facilitates content discovery and acquisition process, making it easier to buy and sell distribution rights globally.
inDplay is comprised of a team of professionals from the media, entertainment, and technology industry. Read about our Team or our Board & Advisors.
More at:http://www.indplay.com/
inDplay accelerates, expands, and facilitates the worldwide marketplace for film, TV and video rights. Aggregating professional buyers and sellers, inDplay promotes sales across all distribution channels (e.g.,Theatrical, Home Video/DVD, Cable/TV, Mobile/Handheld, and Internet/VOD). inDplay is a subscription-based online marketplace where buyers and sellers can transact and manage rights for their film and video properties. Using a proprietary standardized licensing and contract process, inDplay facilitates content discovery and acquisition process, making it easier to buy and sell distribution rights globally.
inDplay is comprised of a team of professionals from the media, entertainment, and technology industry. Read about our Team or our Board & Advisors.
More at:http://www.indplay.com/
Curbly is the best place to find design ideas, share your creativity, and learn from experts
What Company Is Offering:
Curbly is the best place to find design ideas, share your creativity, and learn from experts.
It's an online community of people who are passionate about making their homes the best place to be.
Curbly is a Web community for people who love where they live. Curbly is the best place to share pictures of your home, find design ideas, and get expert home-improvement advice.
With the right tools and know-how, every person can create a place that fits their personality. Curbly helps you bring out the best in your home.
More at:http://www.curbly.com/
Curbly is the best place to find design ideas, share your creativity, and learn from experts.
It's an online community of people who are passionate about making their homes the best place to be.
Curbly is a Web community for people who love where they live. Curbly is the best place to share pictures of your home, find design ideas, and get expert home-improvement advice.
With the right tools and know-how, every person can create a place that fits their personality. Curbly helps you bring out the best in your home.
More at:http://www.curbly.com/
AutoVirt allows you to eliminate tasks from your workload by automating data migration in a transparent, out-of-band operation
What Company Is Offering:
AutoVirt allows you to eliminate tasks from your workload by automating data migration in a transparent, out-of-band operation. AutoVirt is the only complete and fully automated file virtualization and data migration software solution for Windows environments.
AutoVirt software optimizes storage utilization, frees staff to make better use of talent and time, mitigates business risk, and delivers a significant ROI.
AutoVirt software will be available for purchase online as well as over the phone, and pricing is determined by the size of the user environment. AutoVirt can help automate data migration tasks for organizations of any size.
More at:http://www.autovirt.com/
AutoVirt allows you to eliminate tasks from your workload by automating data migration in a transparent, out-of-band operation. AutoVirt is the only complete and fully automated file virtualization and data migration software solution for Windows environments.
AutoVirt software optimizes storage utilization, frees staff to make better use of talent and time, mitigates business risk, and delivers a significant ROI.
AutoVirt software will be available for purchase online as well as over the phone, and pricing is determined by the size of the user environment. AutoVirt can help automate data migration tasks for organizations of any size.
More at:http://www.autovirt.com/
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
PlaySpan, Inc., the leading provider of digital goods micro-transaction and payment solutions got $16.8M funding
What Company Is Offering:
PlaySpan is the game industry's first publisher-sponsored in-game commerce network. PlaySpan's patent-pending in-game search, commerce and micropayment technologies enable game publishers and developers to generate new revenues, acquire new users and extend the loyalty of existing users. Leading game providers and virtual world publishers have selected PlaySpan as their official marketplace for virtual goods.
PlaySpan offers global payment solutions through its subsidiary PayByCash®, which has served the games industry for 10 years, supporting over 70 payment methods in over 180 countries.
How Much They Got From VCs:
PlaySpan, Inc., the leading provider of digital goods micro-transaction and payment solutions, announced $16.8M in Series B investment from Easton Capital Group, Menlo Ventures, Novel TMT Ventures, STIC and other undisclosed investors. This new capital brings the company's total funding to $24M. The new funding will be used to expand into Europe and Asia and to grow PlaySpan's global publisher and user-base.
"Online games publishers and social media application developers are looking for new sources of revenue beyond traditional advertising and subscriptions. We are enabling a new business model in the form of micro-transactions for users that prefer the pay-as-you-go model," said Karl Mehta, Founder & CEO of PlaySpan. "It is a testament to our market-leading position, demonstrated growth, and the long-term potential of virtual goods and micro-transactions that we have raised a significant round in spite of the current economic climate."
The pay-as-you-go model has gained rapid adoption and is poised for tremendous future growth because it gives consumers more control over their entertainment experience and offers publishers expanded revenue opportunities. PlaySpan offers publishers and developers a complete out-of-the-box platform for managing secure, efficient micro-transactions, virtual goods sales, global alternative payments and peer-to-peer trading. PlaySpan’s platform enables any developer to monetize any content at any price for any user in any country, said Mehta.
More at:www.playspan.com
Contact:
VSC Consulting
Vijay Chattha, 415-305-6041
vijaychatta@gmail.com
PlaySpan is the game industry's first publisher-sponsored in-game commerce network. PlaySpan's patent-pending in-game search, commerce and micropayment technologies enable game publishers and developers to generate new revenues, acquire new users and extend the loyalty of existing users. Leading game providers and virtual world publishers have selected PlaySpan as their official marketplace for virtual goods.
PlaySpan offers global payment solutions through its subsidiary PayByCash®, which has served the games industry for 10 years, supporting over 70 payment methods in over 180 countries.
How Much They Got From VCs:
PlaySpan, Inc., the leading provider of digital goods micro-transaction and payment solutions, announced $16.8M in Series B investment from Easton Capital Group, Menlo Ventures, Novel TMT Ventures, STIC and other undisclosed investors. This new capital brings the company's total funding to $24M. The new funding will be used to expand into Europe and Asia and to grow PlaySpan's global publisher and user-base.
"Online games publishers and social media application developers are looking for new sources of revenue beyond traditional advertising and subscriptions. We are enabling a new business model in the form of micro-transactions for users that prefer the pay-as-you-go model," said Karl Mehta, Founder & CEO of PlaySpan. "It is a testament to our market-leading position, demonstrated growth, and the long-term potential of virtual goods and micro-transactions that we have raised a significant round in spite of the current economic climate."
The pay-as-you-go model has gained rapid adoption and is poised for tremendous future growth because it gives consumers more control over their entertainment experience and offers publishers expanded revenue opportunities. PlaySpan offers publishers and developers a complete out-of-the-box platform for managing secure, efficient micro-transactions, virtual goods sales, global alternative payments and peer-to-peer trading. PlaySpan’s platform enables any developer to monetize any content at any price for any user in any country, said Mehta.
More at:www.playspan.com
Contact:
VSC Consulting
Vijay Chattha, 415-305-6041
vijaychatta@gmail.com
Sezmi Corporation, creator of the first complete personal TV system has secured $33 million
What Company Is Offering:
Sezmi Corporation has developed the first complete personal TV offering by combining traditional TV content, movies and internet video in a single easy-to-use product. Designed from the ground up with next generation TV functionality, Sezmi puts consumers in total control with a personalized on-demand viewing experience. Sezmi is working with partners from broadcast, broadband, content and advertising industries to create a new TV choice for consumers.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Sezmi Corporation, creator of the first complete personal TV system, announced that it has secured $33 million of additional financing. This amount includes new investments from Advanced Equities, Inc. and others, and follow-on investments from previous investors: Morgenthaler Ventures, Omni Capital Group, TD Fund, and Legend Ventures.
“This round of funding enables us to put the final touches on product development and testing, and bring the Sezmi service to market,” said Buno Pati, co-founder and CEO of Sezmi. “We are pleased to welcome our new investors and would like to thank our previous investors for their ongoing support.
“Sezmi has a strong plan and has established a unique position in the market,” said Bob Pavey, general partner of Morgenthaler Ventures. “Sezmi has demonstrated not only the viability of its offering, but also its ability to reach milestones as set forth in its plan. We strongly believe in Sezmi and its management team; this funding reflects our enthusiasm for the opportunity to contribute to Sezmi’s growth.”
More at: www.sezmi.com
Sezmi Corporation
Barbara Cassidy, 650-631-7100
bcassidy@sezmi.com
or
A&R Edelman
Jody Farrar, 650-762-2925
jody.farrar@ar-edelman.com
Sezmi Corporation has developed the first complete personal TV offering by combining traditional TV content, movies and internet video in a single easy-to-use product. Designed from the ground up with next generation TV functionality, Sezmi puts consumers in total control with a personalized on-demand viewing experience. Sezmi is working with partners from broadcast, broadband, content and advertising industries to create a new TV choice for consumers.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Sezmi Corporation, creator of the first complete personal TV system, announced that it has secured $33 million of additional financing. This amount includes new investments from Advanced Equities, Inc. and others, and follow-on investments from previous investors: Morgenthaler Ventures, Omni Capital Group, TD Fund, and Legend Ventures.
“This round of funding enables us to put the final touches on product development and testing, and bring the Sezmi service to market,” said Buno Pati, co-founder and CEO of Sezmi. “We are pleased to welcome our new investors and would like to thank our previous investors for their ongoing support.
“Sezmi has a strong plan and has established a unique position in the market,” said Bob Pavey, general partner of Morgenthaler Ventures. “Sezmi has demonstrated not only the viability of its offering, but also its ability to reach milestones as set forth in its plan. We strongly believe in Sezmi and its management team; this funding reflects our enthusiasm for the opportunity to contribute to Sezmi’s growth.”
More at: www.sezmi.com
Sezmi Corporation
Barbara Cassidy, 650-631-7100
bcassidy@sezmi.com
or
A&R Edelman
Jody Farrar, 650-762-2925
jody.farrar@ar-edelman.com
QuickenPicks.com, a new, free online shopping service
What Company Is Offering:
QuickenPicks.com, a new, free online shopping service from Intuit Inc. It offers discounts from more than 900 popular online retailers so consumers can save more money and even earn cash back. Last month, Quicken Picks customers received an average cash back check of nearly $50.
Quicken Picks offers consumers hundreds of discounts in 27 categories, including automotive services, books, clothing, shoes, toys, and even groceries. Consumers can easily find wish list items too, everything from wine to outdoor gear, to dining, travel and electronics. QuickenPicks.com features discounts from retailers such as Best Buy, Barnes & Noble, and Lands End.
Quicken Picks is available to everyone, free of charge. Consumers can also install a toolbar within Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers on Windows machines to receive updates on deals.
More at:https://couponoffers.intuit.com/
QuickenPicks.com, a new, free online shopping service from Intuit Inc. It offers discounts from more than 900 popular online retailers so consumers can save more money and even earn cash back. Last month, Quicken Picks customers received an average cash back check of nearly $50.
Quicken Picks offers consumers hundreds of discounts in 27 categories, including automotive services, books, clothing, shoes, toys, and even groceries. Consumers can easily find wish list items too, everything from wine to outdoor gear, to dining, travel and electronics. QuickenPicks.com features discounts from retailers such as Best Buy, Barnes & Noble, and Lands End.
Quicken Picks is available to everyone, free of charge. Consumers can also install a toolbar within Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers on Windows machines to receive updates on deals.
More at:https://couponoffers.intuit.com/
VideoEgg, the video and rich media ad network that guarantees brand engagement, today introduced AdFrames for mobile
What Company Is Offering:
VideoEgg is a new kind of rich media advertising network that guarantees brand engagement. The network is composed of over 80 million uniques across more than 200 leading video, gaming and social network sites as well as social applications, bringing outstanding consumer reach and engagement to its advertising partners. An advertising innovator, VideoEgg was the first to commercialise interactive advertising overlays onto video, an approach that is being widely adopted by the industry.
New Updates:
VideoEgg, the video and rich media ad network that guarantees brand engagement, today introduced AdFrames for mobile, a performance-based ad offering that enables advertisers to distribute invitation-based, expandable video or rich media ads to iPhone users. Nikon is among the first brands to leverage AdFrames’ mobile distribution as a measurable way to promote its CoolPix and D90 cameras and reach highly engaged consumers.
What Is AdFrame:
The AdFrames solution distributes video or rich media through an innovative, expandable ad unit that can be dynamically formatted to fit any size on a page, widget or online game. This flexibility will enable publishers to better integrate the ad message into their environment. Importantly, Adframes will align incentives across the delivery network by compensating publishers on user engagement. Engagement doesn’t begin until a user rolls over the ad, and the AdFrame Invitation has expanded into an overlay. AdFrames includes a countdown during the roll-over to ensure the user is not engaging with the ad inadvertently.
More at:http://www.videoegg.com/
VideoEgg is a new kind of rich media advertising network that guarantees brand engagement. The network is composed of over 80 million uniques across more than 200 leading video, gaming and social network sites as well as social applications, bringing outstanding consumer reach and engagement to its advertising partners. An advertising innovator, VideoEgg was the first to commercialise interactive advertising overlays onto video, an approach that is being widely adopted by the industry.
New Updates:
VideoEgg, the video and rich media ad network that guarantees brand engagement, today introduced AdFrames for mobile, a performance-based ad offering that enables advertisers to distribute invitation-based, expandable video or rich media ads to iPhone users. Nikon is among the first brands to leverage AdFrames’ mobile distribution as a measurable way to promote its CoolPix and D90 cameras and reach highly engaged consumers.
What Is AdFrame:
The AdFrames solution distributes video or rich media through an innovative, expandable ad unit that can be dynamically formatted to fit any size on a page, widget or online game. This flexibility will enable publishers to better integrate the ad message into their environment. Importantly, Adframes will align incentives across the delivery network by compensating publishers on user engagement. Engagement doesn’t begin until a user rolls over the ad, and the AdFrame Invitation has expanded into an overlay. AdFrames includes a countdown during the roll-over to ensure the user is not engaging with the ad inadvertently.
More at:http://www.videoegg.com/
Venture Capital Is Still Flowing ?
A ray of hope in the hard-knocks economy: Despite few foreseeable exits, early stage investors are still making bets in a handful of promising, high-growth sectors.
In fact, venture capitalists have put only slightly fewer dollars at stake as they did this same time last year, before the financial crisis had gained any traction. In the three quarters ended Sept. 30, venture-capital investment was down just 4%, to $22.3 billion, versus the same period in 2007, according to VentureOne, an industry tracker.
Compare that to the relatively comatose market for initial public offerings, which tends to offer the juiciest exits for VC funds. Measured in dollar terms, the 50 IPOs in the first three quarters raised just $30.5 billion, compared with the 261 deals that yielded $60.5 billion in the first three quarters of last year. Only eight companies went public in the last three months, raising a mere $1 billion.
Some VCs say the difficult market has made it easier to find promising companies. "There are [fewer] tourists right now who are just pitching," says Guy Kawasaki, managing director at Garage Technology Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund. "That yields a better entrepreneur."
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In fact, venture capitalists have put only slightly fewer dollars at stake as they did this same time last year, before the financial crisis had gained any traction. In the three quarters ended Sept. 30, venture-capital investment was down just 4%, to $22.3 billion, versus the same period in 2007, according to VentureOne, an industry tracker.
Compare that to the relatively comatose market for initial public offerings, which tends to offer the juiciest exits for VC funds. Measured in dollar terms, the 50 IPOs in the first three quarters raised just $30.5 billion, compared with the 261 deals that yielded $60.5 billion in the first three quarters of last year. Only eight companies went public in the last three months, raising a mere $1 billion.
Some VCs say the difficult market has made it easier to find promising companies. "There are [fewer] tourists right now who are just pitching," says Guy Kawasaki, managing director at Garage Technology Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund. "That yields a better entrepreneur."
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Search the best of the web in a single search
What Company Is Offering:
"Search the best of the web in a single search".They've created the first multi-dimensional information aggregator and search portal in the world. Their goal is to gather, organize and render the most relevant information from the internet's most valuable destinations for each users search, in one single simple shot. Catch a useful video when you weren't looking for one, see the latest news and blogs on a topic you're searching for, or find a variety of deals on a gadget you need and more when you use LeapFish.
More at:http://www.leapfish.com/
"Search the best of the web in a single search".They've created the first multi-dimensional information aggregator and search portal in the world. Their goal is to gather, organize and render the most relevant information from the internet's most valuable destinations for each users search, in one single simple shot. Catch a useful video when you weren't looking for one, see the latest news and blogs on a topic you're searching for, or find a variety of deals on a gadget you need and more when you use LeapFish.
More at:http://www.leapfish.com/
Meshopolis.com is your one-stop shopping marketplace that provides you convenience for buying and selling online
What Company Is Offering:
Meshopolis.com is your one-stop shopping marketplace that provides you convenience for buying and selling online. Or simply put, Meshopolis is an online shopping mall. At Meshopolis, everyone can create and operate their eStores with just a few clicks.
At meshopolis, most eStores will be able to process credit cards through the use of Paypal. Depends on the eStore you visit, credit cards and Paypal will most likely be accepted.
How Is It Different:
Unlike traditional malls, shoppers can also take the advantage of participating in the Meshopolis Community for product discussions and opinion sharing. You can also read product reviews posted by others – a great way to do your research before making final decision on what product to buy.
More at:http://www.meshopolis.com/
Meshopolis.com is your one-stop shopping marketplace that provides you convenience for buying and selling online. Or simply put, Meshopolis is an online shopping mall. At Meshopolis, everyone can create and operate their eStores with just a few clicks.
At meshopolis, most eStores will be able to process credit cards through the use of Paypal. Depends on the eStore you visit, credit cards and Paypal will most likely be accepted.
How Is It Different:
Unlike traditional malls, shoppers can also take the advantage of participating in the Meshopolis Community for product discussions and opinion sharing. You can also read product reviews posted by others – a great way to do your research before making final decision on what product to buy.
More at:http://www.meshopolis.com/
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Zuberance, the leading provider of on-demand customer sales force software has raised $4 million in Series A funding
What Company Is Offering:
Zuberance offers a portfolio of customizable SaaS applications that enable enterprises to identify, mobilize, and track customer advocates. Zuberance's unique applications enable customers to automatically publish authentic, advocate-generated content like reviews and testimonials to specific locations within shopping and review sites, to share promotional offers with friends and colleagues, as well as offers powerful management tools and real-time analytics.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Zuberance, the leading provider of on-demand customer sales force software, announced that it has raised $4 million in Series A funding from Emergence Capital Partners, the leading venture capital firm focused on early and growth-stage technology-enabled services companies. Gordon Ritter, general partner of Emergence Capital, joined Zuberance’s board of directors and the company will use the funding to expand its team and support product development, sales and marketing efforts.
About VCs:
Emergence Capital Partners, based in San Mateo, Calif., is the leading venture capital firm focused on early and growth-stage Technology-Enabled Services companies. Its mission is to help build market leaders in partnership with great entrepreneurs. Emergence partners have funded and helped build more than 35 TES companies, more than any other early-stage venture firm. Emergence Capital has assets of over $325 million under management. Prior investments include companies such as salesforce.com (CRM), SuccessFactors (SFSF), HireRight (HIRE), Genius, Intacct, TouchCommerce and InsideView. For more information, visit www.emcap.com.
More at:www.zuberance.com
Zuberance offers a portfolio of customizable SaaS applications that enable enterprises to identify, mobilize, and track customer advocates. Zuberance's unique applications enable customers to automatically publish authentic, advocate-generated content like reviews and testimonials to specific locations within shopping and review sites, to share promotional offers with friends and colleagues, as well as offers powerful management tools and real-time analytics.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Zuberance, the leading provider of on-demand customer sales force software, announced that it has raised $4 million in Series A funding from Emergence Capital Partners, the leading venture capital firm focused on early and growth-stage technology-enabled services companies. Gordon Ritter, general partner of Emergence Capital, joined Zuberance’s board of directors and the company will use the funding to expand its team and support product development, sales and marketing efforts.
About VCs:
Emergence Capital Partners, based in San Mateo, Calif., is the leading venture capital firm focused on early and growth-stage Technology-Enabled Services companies. Its mission is to help build market leaders in partnership with great entrepreneurs. Emergence partners have funded and helped build more than 35 TES companies, more than any other early-stage venture firm. Emergence Capital has assets of over $325 million under management. Prior investments include companies such as salesforce.com (CRM), SuccessFactors (SFSF), HireRight (HIRE), Genius, Intacct, TouchCommerce and InsideView. For more information, visit www.emcap.com.
More at:www.zuberance.com
Top 30 start-up
Agri-business, software testing, sports management, education and tele-radiology all rub shoulders in a shortlist of 30 nominees in the Tata-NEN Hottest Startup Awards conducted by the National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN), a not-for-profit organization that aims to nurture entrepreneurship in the country.
The 30 were chosen from a list of 588 nominees with maximum public votes and the highest expert ratings. The competition, of which Mint is an exclusive print partner, attracted 200,000 votes across all nominees and 100,000 registered users on its website.
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The 30 were chosen from a list of 588 nominees with maximum public votes and the highest expert ratings. The competition, of which Mint is an exclusive print partner, attracted 200,000 votes across all nominees and 100,000 registered users on its website.
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With Melt Mail, you only give your unique Melt Mail address and get the desired information
What Company Is Offering:
With Melt Mail, you only give your unique Melt Mail address (which forwards to your own), get the desired information and after a defined period of time (the melting point) the Melt Mail address will be deleted.
How It Works:
Enter your e-mail address in the text field and choose how long your Melt Mail forward-address should be available -- it's the melting point.
After hitting the "create"-button, a unique Meltmail is created which forwards every incoming mail to your e-mail acccount.
After the melting point is reached, they delete your real e-mail address from their database and also the Meltmail won't be available anymore.
So, they only store your e-mail address during the period of time you defined with the melting point.
More at:http://www.meltmail.com/
With Melt Mail, you only give your unique Melt Mail address (which forwards to your own), get the desired information and after a defined period of time (the melting point) the Melt Mail address will be deleted.
How It Works:
Enter your e-mail address in the text field and choose how long your Melt Mail forward-address should be available -- it's the melting point.
After hitting the "create"-button, a unique Meltmail is created which forwards every incoming mail to your e-mail acccount.
After the melting point is reached, they delete your real e-mail address from their database and also the Meltmail won't be available anymore.
So, they only store your e-mail address during the period of time you defined with the melting point.
More at:http://www.meltmail.com/
Blern.com--Get personalized recommendations of news and blog articles based on what you like
What Company Is Offering:
Blern.com learns about you through a variety of your user profiles on the web such as MySpace, Digg, Pandora, Delicious, WordPress, Stumbleupon and others. Blern then makes accurate recommendations of news and blog articles based on what it learns about you. You can also train Blern by telling it directly which articles you liked and which you didn't.
More at:http://blern.com/
Blern.com learns about you through a variety of your user profiles on the web such as MySpace, Digg, Pandora, Delicious, WordPress, Stumbleupon and others. Blern then makes accurate recommendations of news and blog articles based on what it learns about you. You can also train Blern by telling it directly which articles you liked and which you didn't.
More at:http://blern.com/
Monday, November 24, 2008
50 Biggest Companies by Revenue
50 Biggest Companies by Revenue
Even beleaguered standbys like GM, Bombardier and Nortel are still impressively huge.
RANK COMPANY (Year-End) REVENUE
($000's) REVENUE
%CHG ASSETS
($000's) ASSETS
%CHG
1 Royal Bank of Canada (Oc07) 41,307,000 14.60 600,346,000 11.84
2 Manulife Financial (De07) 35,533,000 3.92 352,002,000 -2.02
3 George Weston (De07) 33,035,000 2.27 18,388,000 -1.11
4 General Motors of Canada (De07) 31,675,000 -4.99 n/a n/a
5 Power Corp. of Canada (De07) 29,623,000 2.50 133,145,000 0.29
6 Magna International (De07) 1 26,192,000 7.98 15,343,000 16.64
7 Bank of Nova Scotia (Oc07) 26,427,000 17.55 411,510,000 8.58
8 Toronto-Dominion Bank (Oc07) 25,209,000 12.59 422,124,000 7.43
9 Imperial Oil (De07) 24,136,000 2.65 16,287,000 0.91
10 Onex Corp. (De07) 23,520,000 16.99 26,199,000 16.04
11 EnCana Corp. (De07) 1 21,886,000 33.09 46,974,000 33.81
12 CIBC (Oc07) 23,289,000 15.38 342,178,000 12.56
13 Chrysler Canada (De06) 8 15,226,000 2.39 n/a n/a
14 Rio Tinto Alcan (De07) 1 20,091,000 -15.02 n/a n/a
15 Petro-Canada (De07) 21,496,000 15.14 23,852,000 5.33
16 Sun Life Financial (De07) 21,190,000 -12.77 187,496,000 -0.60
17 Bank of Montreal (Oc07) 20,344,000 12.07 366,524,000 14.55
18 BCE Inc. (De07) 20,264,000 14.54 37,797,000 1.68
19 Bombardier Inc. (Ja08) 1 17,763,000 9.17 20,562,000 -4.83
20 Suncor Energy (De07) 18,178,000 14.83 24,167,000 28.83
21 Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec (De07) 18,067,000 55.44 227,149,000 9.46
22 Husky Energy (De07) 15,674,000 23.44 21,697,000 20.99
23 Shell Canada (De06) 14,806,000 2.86 17,556,000 28.47
24 Wal-Mart Canada (Ja06) 14,300,000 5.93 31,891,000 n/a
25 Alimentation Couche-Tard (Ap07) 1 12,087,400 18.68 3,043,200 31.20
26 Empire Company (My07) 13,408,200 2.39 5,224,900 3.43
27 ACE Aviation Holdings (De07) 12,728,000 19.10 13,771,000 2.46
28 Hydro-Quebec (De07) 12,417,000 10.27 64,852,000 2.54
29 Desjardins Group (De07) 12,275,000 5.15 144,059,000 11.55
30 Enbridge Inc. (De07) 12,233,800 11.96 19,907,400 8.31
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Even beleaguered standbys like GM, Bombardier and Nortel are still impressively huge.
RANK COMPANY (Year-End) REVENUE
($000's) REVENUE
%CHG ASSETS
($000's) ASSETS
%CHG
1 Royal Bank of Canada (Oc07) 41,307,000 14.60 600,346,000 11.84
2 Manulife Financial (De07) 35,533,000 3.92 352,002,000 -2.02
3 George Weston (De07) 33,035,000 2.27 18,388,000 -1.11
4 General Motors of Canada (De07) 31,675,000 -4.99 n/a n/a
5 Power Corp. of Canada (De07) 29,623,000 2.50 133,145,000 0.29
6 Magna International (De07) 1 26,192,000 7.98 15,343,000 16.64
7 Bank of Nova Scotia (Oc07) 26,427,000 17.55 411,510,000 8.58
8 Toronto-Dominion Bank (Oc07) 25,209,000 12.59 422,124,000 7.43
9 Imperial Oil (De07) 24,136,000 2.65 16,287,000 0.91
10 Onex Corp. (De07) 23,520,000 16.99 26,199,000 16.04
11 EnCana Corp. (De07) 1 21,886,000 33.09 46,974,000 33.81
12 CIBC (Oc07) 23,289,000 15.38 342,178,000 12.56
13 Chrysler Canada (De06) 8 15,226,000 2.39 n/a n/a
14 Rio Tinto Alcan (De07) 1 20,091,000 -15.02 n/a n/a
15 Petro-Canada (De07) 21,496,000 15.14 23,852,000 5.33
16 Sun Life Financial (De07) 21,190,000 -12.77 187,496,000 -0.60
17 Bank of Montreal (Oc07) 20,344,000 12.07 366,524,000 14.55
18 BCE Inc. (De07) 20,264,000 14.54 37,797,000 1.68
19 Bombardier Inc. (Ja08) 1 17,763,000 9.17 20,562,000 -4.83
20 Suncor Energy (De07) 18,178,000 14.83 24,167,000 28.83
21 Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec (De07) 18,067,000 55.44 227,149,000 9.46
22 Husky Energy (De07) 15,674,000 23.44 21,697,000 20.99
23 Shell Canada (De06) 14,806,000 2.86 17,556,000 28.47
24 Wal-Mart Canada (Ja06) 14,300,000 5.93 31,891,000 n/a
25 Alimentation Couche-Tard (Ap07) 1 12,087,400 18.68 3,043,200 31.20
26 Empire Company (My07) 13,408,200 2.39 5,224,900 3.43
27 ACE Aviation Holdings (De07) 12,728,000 19.10 13,771,000 2.46
28 Hydro-Quebec (De07) 12,417,000 10.27 64,852,000 2.54
29 Desjardins Group (De07) 12,275,000 5.15 144,059,000 11.55
30 Enbridge Inc. (De07) 12,233,800 11.96 19,907,400 8.31
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Zubka is a unique job referral site
What Company Is Offering:
Zubka is a unique job referral site which can benefit you in two simple ways;
First, you can earn good money by recommending friends for jobs. And second, if you need to fill a job vacancy, Zubka helps you find the perfect person - in a simpler, cheaper, more hassle free way than the usual recruitment routes.
How It Works:
If there's a job posted on Zubka and you think it is right for someone you know, then refer them.
They can be anyone – your sister, cousin, school mate, work colleague - anybody you know who would be perfect for that job.
If they get the job, bingo! You're in the money. For example, they reward to you for placing someone in a £50,000 job is £3,600.
If you're a Hirer advertising a job on Zubka, it means you're opening up that vacancy to the world of Zubka Connectors. This means all the Candidates (the people who are referred) are personally recommended. Check their profile to see they're totally appropriate for the position.
And as well as being a quick way of hiring, it costs a third of traditional recruitment charges. The Hirer gets the perfect candidate and pays considerably less than usual.
More at:http://www.zubka.com/
Zubka is a unique job referral site which can benefit you in two simple ways;
First, you can earn good money by recommending friends for jobs. And second, if you need to fill a job vacancy, Zubka helps you find the perfect person - in a simpler, cheaper, more hassle free way than the usual recruitment routes.
How It Works:
If there's a job posted on Zubka and you think it is right for someone you know, then refer them.
They can be anyone – your sister, cousin, school mate, work colleague - anybody you know who would be perfect for that job.
If they get the job, bingo! You're in the money. For example, they reward to you for placing someone in a £50,000 job is £3,600.
If you're a Hirer advertising a job on Zubka, it means you're opening up that vacancy to the world of Zubka Connectors. This means all the Candidates (the people who are referred) are personally recommended. Check their profile to see they're totally appropriate for the position.
And as well as being a quick way of hiring, it costs a third of traditional recruitment charges. The Hirer gets the perfect candidate and pays considerably less than usual.
More at:http://www.zubka.com/
ReliefInsite.com, is a HIPAA-compliant web-based platform that provides visually-oriented pain assessment and tracking
What Company Is Offering:
ReliefInsite is a privately held healthcare information technology company that provides secure online pain management services. The company's flagship product, ReliefInsite.com, is a patented, secure, HIPAA-compliant web-based platform that provides visually-oriented pain assessment and tracking. Through the collection of structured and unstructured data and preparation of comprehensive reports, ReliefInsite provides a longitudinal perspective of a patient's condition in real-time, enabling improved quality of care and assessment of outcomes.
More at:http://www.reliefinsite.com/
ReliefInsite is a privately held healthcare information technology company that provides secure online pain management services. The company's flagship product, ReliefInsite.com, is a patented, secure, HIPAA-compliant web-based platform that provides visually-oriented pain assessment and tracking. Through the collection of structured and unstructured data and preparation of comprehensive reports, ReliefInsite provides a longitudinal perspective of a patient's condition in real-time, enabling improved quality of care and assessment of outcomes.
More at:http://www.reliefinsite.com/
SENIORPeopleMeet.com
What Company Is Offering:
SENIORPeopleMeet.com has been designed to provide a simple and fun atmosphere for singles. Meet other singles in your city or on the other side of the world. Using theirr easy to use search features and their leading edge website technology, meeting other singles has never been easier.
More at:http://www.seniorpeoplemeet.com/
SENIORPeopleMeet.com has been designed to provide a simple and fun atmosphere for singles. Meet other singles in your city or on the other side of the world. Using theirr easy to use search features and their leading edge website technology, meeting other singles has never been easier.
More at:http://www.seniorpeoplemeet.com/
Friday, November 21, 2008
Offbeat Guides create personalized, up-to-date travel guides that cover over 30,000 travel destinations
What Company Is Offering:
Offbeat Guides create personalized, up-to-date travel guides that cover over 30,000 travel destinations, using a combination of search technology and curation by both amateur and professional travel experts.
How It Works:
Their guides scour the web to find the best, most up-to-date information about your destination. You can personalize the information you want based on your travel dates, preferences, and destination. The guides come with local maps, festivals and events going on while you're there, exchange rates, key phrases in the city's language, weather forecasts and more.
More at:http://www.offbeatguides.com/
Offbeat Guides create personalized, up-to-date travel guides that cover over 30,000 travel destinations, using a combination of search technology and curation by both amateur and professional travel experts.
How It Works:
Their guides scour the web to find the best, most up-to-date information about your destination. You can personalize the information you want based on your travel dates, preferences, and destination. The guides come with local maps, festivals and events going on while you're there, exchange rates, key phrases in the city's language, weather forecasts and more.
More at:http://www.offbeatguides.com/
Mobspin makes it easy to ask for (and share) recommendations with your friends across a wide range of topics
What Company Is Offering:
Mobspin makes it easy to ask for (and share) recommendations with your friends across a wide range of topics.
How It Works:
The questions, reviews, and comments you write can be seen by any other Mobspin user, and will eventually be available to the general public as well.
However, only people who are "connected" to you can see your name or picture attached to what you've written (or see your profile).
"Connected" users are your friends (one degree away), your friends' friends (two degrees), and the friends of your friends' friends (three degrees).
Your content will appear anonymous to everyone else.
Only people connected to you — within three degrees of friendship — can reply to your questions or comment on your reviews.
More at:http://www.mobspin.com/
Mobspin makes it easy to ask for (and share) recommendations with your friends across a wide range of topics.
How It Works:
The questions, reviews, and comments you write can be seen by any other Mobspin user, and will eventually be available to the general public as well.
However, only people who are "connected" to you can see your name or picture attached to what you've written (or see your profile).
"Connected" users are your friends (one degree away), your friends' friends (two degrees), and the friends of your friends' friends (three degrees).
Your content will appear anonymous to everyone else.
Only people connected to you — within three degrees of friendship — can reply to your questions or comment on your reviews.
More at:http://www.mobspin.com/
Foonance.com is the new flexible way for families, individuals, and couples to manage their personal finances
What Company Is Offering:
Foonance.com is the new flexible way for families, individuals, and couples to manage their personal finances and track their Net worth over multiple Money Stores.
How It Works:
Once your have started logging your expenses and income you will have the chance to "Tag" your expenses. Tags are basically keywords, for instance you may log a transaction when you purchase some groceries, for this you may enter a Tag of say: "Groceries" or "Food". These Tags will help generate a "Tag Cloud" which will give you a helpful look into exactly where your money is going.
More at:https://www.foonance.com/
Foonance.com is the new flexible way for families, individuals, and couples to manage their personal finances and track their Net worth over multiple Money Stores.
How It Works:
Once your have started logging your expenses and income you will have the chance to "Tag" your expenses. Tags are basically keywords, for instance you may log a transaction when you purchase some groceries, for this you may enter a Tag of say: "Groceries" or "Food". These Tags will help generate a "Tag Cloud" which will give you a helpful look into exactly where your money is going.
More at:https://www.foonance.com/
SXC is an alternative for expensive stock photography
What Company Is Offering:
SXC is an alternative for expensive stock photography. The idea was to create a site where creative people could exchange their photos for inspiration or work. In about two years the site evolved into this massive community you see now - there are over 1.500.000 registered users and more than 350.000 photos online!
When you click download, the high res photo appears in a HTML page. On Windows you can save them by right clicking on them and selecting Save as, while on Mac you can save them by CTRL - clicking on them and selecting Save as. If you use Internet Explorer and it wants to save a BMP file, please empty your browser cache and try again!
More at:http://www.sxc.hu/
SXC is an alternative for expensive stock photography. The idea was to create a site where creative people could exchange their photos for inspiration or work. In about two years the site evolved into this massive community you see now - there are over 1.500.000 registered users and more than 350.000 photos online!
When you click download, the high res photo appears in a HTML page. On Windows you can save them by right clicking on them and selecting Save as, while on Mac you can save them by CTRL - clicking on them and selecting Save as. If you use Internet Explorer and it wants to save a BMP file, please empty your browser cache and try again!
More at:http://www.sxc.hu/
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Tip'd is a community for financial news, ideas, and tips
What Company Is Offering:
Tip'd is a community for financial news, ideas, and tips. It operates as a social media platform, meaning the community (you) decides which news stories and investing tips should be published on their homepage. Tip'd users vote on stories they like by clicking the 'Tip it' button that appears next to each story, and then can comment by pressing the 'Discuss' link below the story.
More at:http://tipd.com/
Tip'd is a community for financial news, ideas, and tips. It operates as a social media platform, meaning the community (you) decides which news stories and investing tips should be published on their homepage. Tip'd users vote on stories they like by clicking the 'Tip it' button that appears next to each story, and then can comment by pressing the 'Discuss' link below the story.
More at:http://tipd.com/
wePapers is a place where students (and everybody) can expand their knowledge and share their wisdom, for free
What Company Is Offering:
wePapers was created to help students (and other knowledge-thirsty folks) share their smarts. wePapers is a place where students (and everybody) can expand their knowledge and share their wisdom, for free .They created wePapers to help people learn from one-another.
How It Works:
The idea is simple: they think everyone has something to teach, and anyone can become a teacher, a guru or a mentor.
More important, they believe everybody deserves the right to learn for free .
wePapers is where you find the kind of quality information you wouldn't find anywhere else on the web, the kind of papers you'd have to dig for in dusty library basements and still not find what you're looking for .
wePapers is also where you share what you've learned, with people who are learning the same thing. You can discuss your work with them and get useful feedback .
Whether to help you graduate with honors or just win an argument, they created WePapers to help make you smarter, much smarter .
More at:http://www.wepapers.com/
wePapers was created to help students (and other knowledge-thirsty folks) share their smarts. wePapers is a place where students (and everybody) can expand their knowledge and share their wisdom, for free .They created wePapers to help people learn from one-another.
How It Works:
The idea is simple: they think everyone has something to teach, and anyone can become a teacher, a guru or a mentor.
More important, they believe everybody deserves the right to learn for free .
wePapers is where you find the kind of quality information you wouldn't find anywhere else on the web, the kind of papers you'd have to dig for in dusty library basements and still not find what you're looking for .
wePapers is also where you share what you've learned, with people who are learning the same thing. You can discuss your work with them and get useful feedback .
Whether to help you graduate with honors or just win an argument, they created WePapers to help make you smarter, much smarter .
More at:http://www.wepapers.com/
ebandLive gives you a professionally designed website and content management service so you can easily update your band's website from anywhere
What Company Is Offering:
ebandLive gives you a professionally designed website and content management service so you can easily update your band's website from anywhere in the world using only a web browser. Add, delete and edit news postings, tour dates, blogs, links, band bios, pics, mp3s and more! ebandLive was built specifically for bands, artists, band manager / management companies and record labels. It includes all of the elements that make a music website kick ass AND it's super easy for anyone to update.
More at:http://www.ebandlive.com/
ebandLive gives you a professionally designed website and content management service so you can easily update your band's website from anywhere in the world using only a web browser. Add, delete and edit news postings, tour dates, blogs, links, band bios, pics, mp3s and more! ebandLive was built specifically for bands, artists, band manager / management companies and record labels. It includes all of the elements that make a music website kick ass AND it's super easy for anyone to update.
More at:http://www.ebandlive.com/
ebandLive gives you a professionally designed website and content management service so you can easily update your band's website from anywhere
What Company Is Offering:
ebandLive gives you a professionally designed website and content management service so you can easily update your band's website from anywhere in the world using only a web browser. Add, delete and edit news postings, tour dates, blogs, links, band bios, pics, mp3s and more! ebandLive was built specifically for bands, artists, band manager / management companies and record labels. It includes all of the elements that make a music website kick ass AND it's super easy for anyone to update.
More at:http://www.ebandlive.com/
ebandLive gives you a professionally designed website and content management service so you can easily update your band's website from anywhere in the world using only a web browser. Add, delete and edit news postings, tour dates, blogs, links, band bios, pics, mp3s and more! ebandLive was built specifically for bands, artists, band manager / management companies and record labels. It includes all of the elements that make a music website kick ass AND it's super easy for anyone to update.
More at:http://www.ebandlive.com/
CreativePro Office is the most complete set of online office management tools
What Company Is Offering:
CreativePro Office is the most complete set of online office management tools you're likely to find at any price - and it's completely free! Manage your team, clients, projects, invoices, events and quotes from one web-based application. CreativePro Office is well suited for both independent professionals and small teams of graphic designers, programmers and web developers.
More at:http://www.creativeprooffice.com/
CreativePro Office is the most complete set of online office management tools you're likely to find at any price - and it's completely free! Manage your team, clients, projects, invoices, events and quotes from one web-based application. CreativePro Office is well suited for both independent professionals and small teams of graphic designers, programmers and web developers.
More at:http://www.creativeprooffice.com/
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
RollStream is the leader in enterprise collaboration for trading partner communities
What Company Is Offering:
RollStream is the leader in enterprise collaboration for trading partner communities. RollStream delivers an online solution for accelerating interactions across the global supply chain. Industry leaders like McKesson Medical-Surgical, Owens & Minor and Tesco use RollStream to significantly reduce the cost and time required to onboard partners, communicate operational changes, and rollout sales and marketing initiatives.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Core Capital Partners, a leading venture capital firm that invests in high-growth technology companies, today announced that it led a $6 million Series B round of funding for RollStream, a premier provider of enterprise collaboration software solutions. This latest round of funding will be used to expand sales and marketing efforts and to bolster RollStream’s portfolio of tools for contact management, communications, document sharing, and feedback management.
Fairfax, Va.-based RollStream optimizes trading partner communities through collaboration solutions targeted at person to person interaction. By speeding collaboration and communication amongst manufacturers, suppliers, distributors and customers, the company’s hosted software solution enables businesses to reduce the cost to manage their extended supply chains.
More at:www.rollstream.com
RollStream is the leader in enterprise collaboration for trading partner communities. RollStream delivers an online solution for accelerating interactions across the global supply chain. Industry leaders like McKesson Medical-Surgical, Owens & Minor and Tesco use RollStream to significantly reduce the cost and time required to onboard partners, communicate operational changes, and rollout sales and marketing initiatives.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Core Capital Partners, a leading venture capital firm that invests in high-growth technology companies, today announced that it led a $6 million Series B round of funding for RollStream, a premier provider of enterprise collaboration software solutions. This latest round of funding will be used to expand sales and marketing efforts and to bolster RollStream’s portfolio of tools for contact management, communications, document sharing, and feedback management.
Fairfax, Va.-based RollStream optimizes trading partner communities through collaboration solutions targeted at person to person interaction. By speeding collaboration and communication amongst manufacturers, suppliers, distributors and customers, the company’s hosted software solution enables businesses to reduce the cost to manage their extended supply chains.
More at:www.rollstream.com
Trashbank is the Web's premier free, full-service bartering site
What Company Is Offering:
Trashbank is the Web's premier free, full-service bartering site. Unlike other similar bartering destinations, Trashbank is the only one that provides a comprehensive range of categories that truly allows members to trade anything they have for anything they want, be it a product, a service or even cold, hard cash.
How It Works:
Trashbank is the place for you. Whether you're a home repair guru, a musician, a massage therapist or just a hard-working person willing to mow someone's lawn all summer in return for a ride back to school in the fall, you are sure to find someone here willing to trade with you.
Trashbank is more than a collection of hidden treasures. It's also a community of people like yourself who know the value of what you have and what you have to offer. And that's why even if you don't immediately find something you want, you can still get paid.
More at:http://www.trashbank.com/
Trashbank is the Web's premier free, full-service bartering site. Unlike other similar bartering destinations, Trashbank is the only one that provides a comprehensive range of categories that truly allows members to trade anything they have for anything they want, be it a product, a service or even cold, hard cash.
How It Works:
Trashbank is the place for you. Whether you're a home repair guru, a musician, a massage therapist or just a hard-working person willing to mow someone's lawn all summer in return for a ride back to school in the fall, you are sure to find someone here willing to trade with you.
Trashbank is more than a collection of hidden treasures. It's also a community of people like yourself who know the value of what you have and what you have to offer. And that's why even if you don't immediately find something you want, you can still get paid.
More at:http://www.trashbank.com/
MOG, your personalized gateway for music discovery
What Company Is Offering:
MOG, your personalized gateway for music discovery. With MOG, you can find, share, and talk about the music you’re into, from Abba to Zappa.
Whether you’re a die-hard music junkie, or just looking for inspiration for your latest party playlist, MOG is your essential online music source. Created by a passionate community of music lovers and powered by cutting edge music discovery technology, MOG makes it ridiculously easy to find new music, watch music videos, and read news and reviews that match your personal taste in music.
Imagine if Rolling Stone or MTV had thousands of writers and producers contributing news, reviews, songs, and videos that were filtered based on what you were listening to, so you could always find the good stuff. That’s exactly what MOG is doing.
And the scene at MOG is raging. You may even rub shoulders with some of your favorite bands; Over 100 artists are currently hanging out on MOG, including Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie, Questlove of The Roots, Branford Marsalis, Greg Saunier of Deerhoof, Tad Kubler of The Hold Steady, Matthew Caws of Nada Surf, David Lowery of Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven, Tom Gray of Gomez, Josh Haden, and Portastatic.
Completely free, anyone can create a MOG page and browse posts, MP3s and videos by visiting www.mog.com.
More at:http://mog.com/
MOG, your personalized gateway for music discovery. With MOG, you can find, share, and talk about the music you’re into, from Abba to Zappa.
Whether you’re a die-hard music junkie, or just looking for inspiration for your latest party playlist, MOG is your essential online music source. Created by a passionate community of music lovers and powered by cutting edge music discovery technology, MOG makes it ridiculously easy to find new music, watch music videos, and read news and reviews that match your personal taste in music.
Imagine if Rolling Stone or MTV had thousands of writers and producers contributing news, reviews, songs, and videos that were filtered based on what you were listening to, so you could always find the good stuff. That’s exactly what MOG is doing.
And the scene at MOG is raging. You may even rub shoulders with some of your favorite bands; Over 100 artists are currently hanging out on MOG, including Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie, Questlove of The Roots, Branford Marsalis, Greg Saunier of Deerhoof, Tad Kubler of The Hold Steady, Matthew Caws of Nada Surf, David Lowery of Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven, Tom Gray of Gomez, Josh Haden, and Portastatic.
Completely free, anyone can create a MOG page and browse posts, MP3s and videos by visiting www.mog.com.
More at:http://mog.com/
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
digitalArbor provides onshore/offshore implementation and production services to the digital advertising, marketing, and content/communications market
What Company Is Offering:
digitalArbor provides onshore/offshore implementation and production services to the digital advertising, marketing, and content/communications market.digitalArbor takes creative and strategic direction for advertising and marketing activities from clients to produce and maintain digital campaigns with the same quality and speed of much more expensive onshore teams. Whether a large retained team, or short-term project, digitalArbor is focused on partnering with clients on their terms.
How Much They Got From VCs:
digitalArbor, a provider of implementation and production services to the digital advertising, marketing and content/communications market, launched today and announced that it has secured a $5 million Series A round of financing led by Flybridge Capital Partners. In conjunction with the launch, the company also announced that its United States operations and first offshore digital production facility have begun to service new client relationships. As part of the funding, Jeff Bussgang from Flybridge Capital Partners will join the company’s board of directors.
More at:www.digitalarbor.com
digitalArbor provides onshore/offshore implementation and production services to the digital advertising, marketing, and content/communications market.digitalArbor takes creative and strategic direction for advertising and marketing activities from clients to produce and maintain digital campaigns with the same quality and speed of much more expensive onshore teams. Whether a large retained team, or short-term project, digitalArbor is focused on partnering with clients on their terms.
How Much They Got From VCs:
digitalArbor, a provider of implementation and production services to the digital advertising, marketing and content/communications market, launched today and announced that it has secured a $5 million Series A round of financing led by Flybridge Capital Partners. In conjunction with the launch, the company also announced that its United States operations and first offshore digital production facility have begun to service new client relationships. As part of the funding, Jeff Bussgang from Flybridge Capital Partners will join the company’s board of directors.
More at:www.digitalarbor.com
VibeAgent.com is a hotel search engine
What Company Is Offering:
VibeAgent.com is a hotel search engine. VibeAgent searches rates and availability for more than 140,000 hotels worldwide from 30 leading hotel and travel sites.
How Much They Got From VCs:
VibeAgent, the hotel search engine, announced at the industry-leading PhoCusWright Travel Conference that it has raised $3 million in Series A investment capital to support its goal of becoming the world's leading hotel search engine.
"It can be very time-consuming to find the right hotel at the best price online," said VibeAgent Co-founder and CEO Adam Healey. "VibeAgent solves this problem by aggregating rates, availability, and content from over 30 travel sites, and adding a layer of intelligence to match each traveler to the perfect hotel. Our goal is to become the market leader in hotel search, and this investment is a milestone along that path."
More at:www.vibeagent.com
VibeAgent.com is a hotel search engine. VibeAgent searches rates and availability for more than 140,000 hotels worldwide from 30 leading hotel and travel sites.
How Much They Got From VCs:
VibeAgent, the hotel search engine, announced at the industry-leading PhoCusWright Travel Conference that it has raised $3 million in Series A investment capital to support its goal of becoming the world's leading hotel search engine.
"It can be very time-consuming to find the right hotel at the best price online," said VibeAgent Co-founder and CEO Adam Healey. "VibeAgent solves this problem by aggregating rates, availability, and content from over 30 travel sites, and adding a layer of intelligence to match each traveler to the perfect hotel. Our goal is to become the market leader in hotel search, and this investment is a milestone along that path."
More at:www.vibeagent.com
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