Venture night propositions

Adverter

David Brown — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:41:16 +0100

I don't click on ads, You don't click on ads, Our favorite sites rely on ads for revenue
Therefore something needs to change! Adverter gives the end user power to help fix this.

Amazee

Dania — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:21:15 +0100

VISION: Amazee’s vision is to become the world’s largest social collaboration platform.
TREND: As Internet users and tools are maturing we believe that the web will increasingly be used to build up power. People will gather around common goals, not only interests. Attention will be given to those users that know how to use the web to take influence and achieve things. Internet users will fulfil their need for social recognition by leading remarkable projects and letting other users participate in that process.
GOAL: We will provide the world with an Internet based social collaboration platform. People will be allowed to unite behind a common goal (on a local or global level), organize and publicize the respective project and find the required resources (sponsors, promoters, experts, volunteers) to achieve the project goal.
UNIVERSALITY: There are no restrictions to project themes as long as they are legal and legitimate. Individuals can pursue project goals in whatever area: fun, sports, social, charitable, ecological, you name it. Amazee will stand for people who move the world and all those subjects that make people move. Our mission is not to make the world a better place (well, if this happens we’ll be more than delighted) but to provide Amazee users with the most user-friendly tools to pursue and share the goals that seem most important to them.
INFOTAINMENT: Amazee strives to be fun for participative and passive users. With our platform featuring plenty of user-generated content, we aim to become a prime source of information and entertainment. Amazee will allow people to participate in the medial process by reporting, discussing, rating and commenting on project activities – or entering the project as a member or as a sponsor.
SOFTWARE: The platform is being built on the PHP based open-source software Drupal.

Becover.com

Phil Galland — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:47:23 +0100

Becover.com is a new sports experience that brings together Sports passionate.
We have created a vertical networking platform that allows athletes, teams, brands and events to interact in ways they never dreamed of.

Becover.com is about the excitement of performances by updating your sport activities and tracking others through the sports calendar.
You'll have the chance to practice even more with our activity partners finder.

A new kind of community for athletes and brands to collaborate together, for an event to be virally promoted or for a team to touch their passionate fans.

BioApply

fredos71 — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:17:49 +0100

PLEASE SEE ATTACHED PRESENTATION.

We develop innovative alternatives to petrol based products using biopolymers. BioApply has a three simultaneous steps strategy:
1. Sales & distribution of bio packaging
2. creation of innovative consumer bio-applications
3. Development of proprietary bioplastics from agricultural/industrial waste

bloobble.com ::

bloobble — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:46:36 +0100

Bloobble.com is a database of high quality business presentations professionally collected, tagged and classified for search or browsing in a single place.

Bloobble.com offers professional users, conference organizers, organizations and corporations an efficient and uniquely interactive method for accessing and publishing presentations.

Bluefolder

albin — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:11:24 +0100

Send your invoices to your trust company by internet, and retrieve any document within seconds on your PC!

Up to now:
You used to mail or deliver a boxful of invoices and other vouchers to your Trust company at regular intervals, which it would then book for you in a professional manner.
Quite frequently, your accountants would keep the original documents for several weeks, or even months, before returning them to you .
In the meantime, if you wanted to consult any of these documents, you were obliged to call the trust company in order to describe what you were looking for, and to wait- and hope- that the correct invoice would eventually be sent to you by fax or by mail…

With Win€UR BlueFolder:
YourTrust company continues to process your accounting operations like it used to, but…
You digitalise your invoices every day, using a simple scanner;
BlueFolder sends the information to your accountants, and generates
a copy for your files;
Furthermore, the text contents of all local invoices are automatically indexed by an OCR word recognition technology capable of identifying several languages (English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish), and up to 2618 different fonts
Any word appearing on the invoice may be used to find it!
At the year end, you will receive a DVD enabling you to view your yearly accounts, as well as all relevant accounting

Carnelian - The Way to Modular Video

leticia martignon — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:57:29 +0100

Carnelian aims to introduce modular video to take a giant step towards democratizing the production of high quality video. Lower costs, ease of use and shorter lead times will make quality video production and publication accessible to small companies, private enterprises, and individuals.

Competition in this area consists mostly of tools offering one or two of Carnelian's three main elements at either higher cost, at longer lead times or with poor usability. Products active in the competing realm include MotionBox, iMovie and Virage.

A first client is in place.

Clipperz

mbarulli — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:06:46 +0100

May I ask you a few questions?
- Are you comfortable with the idea of storing online your personal health records?
- Isn’t weird that online poker sites know the cards of each player?
- Would you use a web-based personal finance manager?
- Wouldn’t be nice to have a real off-the-record conversation on the web?
- Would you write your next business plan using an online word processor?

Web applications are convenient and work great, but what about privacy and security?
It’s your data! You should have exclusive ownership and control!

Browser-based cryptography allows to create a whole new breed of online services that know nothing about their users! We dubbed them zero-knowledge web applications.

A zero-knowledge application is a strong cryptographic system entirely built and executed within the browser. Nothing to install. It offers the convenience of web applications combined with the security and privacy of software solutions.

The potentialities of “zero-knowledge web applications” have already been tested with a popular service: Clipperz, an online password manager that also provides 1-click login, offline version, one-time credentials, …
Clipperz launched few months ago and today has about 12,000 registered users, it’s available in 7 languages and its users are supporting it with growing donations.

What’s next in our agenda?
We’d love to launch a social gambling network. An online place where to play the usual “Thursday night poker” with your friends, enjoying the same privacy of your living room.

cocomment

ksera — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:58:59 +0100

coComment is the leading site for tracking comments. We take citizen journalism to the next level! We centralize, track and allow sharing of comments with other users.
CoComment's free software lets you decide what to follow and gives you a single place to keep it all organized. You could, for instance, keep tabs on what one person is writing in blog comments, and follow the conversation from cocomment page.
Right now, coComment is tracking and storing about 14 million conversations on 220,000 sites. It has 860,000 users.
CoComment is free to the blogger. Blogers can add the feature to their sites, or they can have coComment itself be the engine tracking the conversations.

You can have a look at our presentation at this link
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1185153705/bclid1202130136...

Dixero

Luca Mascaro — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:30:52 +0100

Dixero is a free Web-based tool which allows you to listen your favorite RSS feeds directly online, on your computer as Podcast, or in your portable device, like an iPod!

At last, with Dixero, you can aggregate your favorite feeds from the most recognized media companies and blogs, transforming posts into audio with different voices.

easygiga.com

Roro — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:28:18 +0100

Using "easyjet" low cost managing approach, using talented and also unemployed people (giving them an internet experience).

Offering competitive international internet hosting price, focusing small/niche market, like Switzerland.

A unique hosting solution, mixed with Flickr, Google, Youtube, Open Source solutions.

Enitiatives.org or Direct Democracy 2.0

Nicolas Durand — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:15:41 +0100

When people speak about Democracy and the Internet, they often stop at the ‘online voting’ concept. This is unfortunate, because there is a wealth of ideas and innovation that is lost daily by ignoring the power of web 2.0.

Enitiatives.org, a brainchild of LIFT '06, is a direct democracy platform which makes it possible for each citizen to freely express his political and legislative opinions and to be informed of the actions carried out in his political neighborhood.

In Switzerland, this site facilitates the dialogue and the debate before the “official” launching of an initiative, and makes it possible to profit from the “collective intelligence” of the whole population. Outside of Switzerland, this site allows citizens to become real actors of the political life instead of just simply electing representatives.

One can see it like an accelerator of democracy, or a forum to express complaints towards the government.

The site brings three fundamental innovations:
1. each citizen can create an Enitiative, on the 3 political levels: federal, cantonal or communal. There is no longer any need to go through political parties to bring an idea into public discourse. The community can profit from the ideas of all citizens.
2. it is not a simple forum on the Internet: Enitiatives supported by the majority of the members will be followed by an action. The government also benefits from it, because it sees what the people want, before the situation degenerates. And one can discuss better on the Internet than on the streets…
3. citizens can be better informed of the political life of their country, thanks to search agents, which send emails to the interested members each time a new Enitiative is created, according to individually defined criteria.

Floobs

Kaitsu — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:39:33 +0100

Floobs is new Finnish start-up based in Helsinki. Floobs was set-up in february 2007 and started service development in May 2007. Currently Floobs is in international closed BETA phase. Floobs is building new service offering LIVE internet and mobile TV-channels. Users can start producing content with their mobile phone, web cam or DV-camera. Viewers can access channels with their mobile phone or PC.

FONTSELF

franz — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:44:01 +0100

FONTSELF is a project about handwriting and hand-drawn lettering.
It’s ambition is to open font creation to a broad new range of users, thanks to a simplified workflow and streamlined software.

Holistis

cyril lamblard — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:30:21 +0100

Holistis created a solution to turn unknown visitors into loyal customers.

Today, visitors are treated the same way on most websites despite the fact that each visitor has different interests and needs. The consequence is logical with 98% of websites visitors that leaves without making a purchase. This has been the case over the past 4 years. Holistis wants to change that.

Holistis proprietary technology enables marketing managers to decode and profile, in real time, visitors' intentions, behaviour and environment. Holistis adapts the website content to finally maximise user engagement & sales conversion.

Holistis is all about content personalisation & testing to increase your conversion rates without additional cost in traffic acquisition. Nespresso is already a client in the US where Holistis helped them increase their coffee machines & accessories by up to 20 times on the zones we holistified.

Holistis has been awarded the TF1 prize at Le Web 3 and will benefit from the TF1 support to break into the French market and leverage their experience in terms of organisation and communication. TF1 is already interested in using the solution for their network of sites.

Inclusive Markets Foundation

Ximena Escobar de Nogales — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:04:03 +0100

I'm working on a project to promote entrepreneurship and economic participation in emerging markets. It would be a 2-way street offering investment opportunities for investors to make money while contributing great social impact.

International Institute of Management in Technology

Schaaser_Horst — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:51:03 +0100

TOOL SUPPORTED MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION SECURITY CULTURE Application in a Private Bank

The International Institute of Management in Technology (iimt) specialises in innovation and security research & applications. The venture of iimt is to build research partnerships and to provide paid consultancy services for industrial partners. iimt also provides advanced courses in the management of ICT and utility technology, leading to executive diploma and master degrees.

The following example illustrates the consultancy services provided by iimt:

The iimt research team developed a management process for an Information Security Culture. This management process is based on action research and on expert interviews and group discussions. A Decision Support System, which supports the process, allows quick survey of the existing Information Security Culture in an organization and analysis of the results, thus discovering strong and weak points. This tool recommends, based on stored measures and rules, actions to improve the weak points. It helps security officers to do their work and to improve the Information Security Culture in their organizations. The process and the Decision Support System were applied in a Private Bank. Major findings from this Private Bank application are presented.

iO

naturalinteraction — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:45:22 +0100

Commenting a 4 minutes long video showing our latest ongoing research, Alessandro Valli and Daniele Modesto will explain why digital actually doesn't exist, why natural interaction is absolutely necessary, and how public spaces will turn into digital scenographies that interact with common people.

The video will feature interactive furniture and architecture.

IRIS

alfy — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:44:35 +0100

IRIS proposes an innovative, integrated and guaranteed Internet cleansing solution. The company requires investment for scaling-up its production and following on existing business opportunities with leading European operators.

The funding requirement is CHF 2m before March 2008, which grants 37.5% of the company. The forecasted net profit is 11m in 2010, and 36.5m in 2011, thus allowing an expected investment return that is at least tenfold over 3 years.

KeyLemon

Gilles Florey — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:53:44 +0100

KeyLemon is a software company which provides a new experience of access. Nowadays, people are continuously interacting with computers and Internet. To reach this access world, we need to create numerous personal accounts, and then face some pains:
1) forgetting passwords: how many times did you press the “send me a new password” button?
2) wasting time: how many times do you enter your lockscreen password at office?
3) continuous control: are you sure the right person is using the right service at the right place?
To solve these problems, we propose personal biometric authentication solutions based on face and speech recognition. Traditionally, biometrics is mainly used for high security applications such as physical access control. Our approach is to focus on convenient and efficient solutions, designed for all individual users.

Klewel

MaelGuillemot — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:36:31 +0100

Tremendous amounts of knowledge are shared everyday through oral presentations held in company seminars, international organization meetings, conferences and universities. However, the biggest part of such an invaluable asset is irremediably lost in absence of effective technologies for knowledge capture, extraction and access. Even after the most brilliant presentation, all it remains is usually some personal notes and some slide printouts.

Klewel has the best solution for this problem, an effective combination of hardware and software capable of performing, without human intervention, the three key tasks necessary for knowledge capitalization:

* Multimedia capture:
Klewel records the whole information delivered during a presentation without requiring any effort to the speaker and by simply pressing a button. The capture infrastructure is non-intrusive. Audio channels, videos streams and captured slides are all synchronised and timestamped.

* Knowledge extraction:
Klewel distillates automatically the core messages of the speaker from data as raw as audio and video streams thanks to fast indexing technologies developed at IDIAP Research Institute.

* Interactive web access:
Klewel makes the knowledge of the speakers available to anybody through natural language queries as simple as those that everybody uses to find web pages with Google.

The Klewel solution has already found its way through one of the most important organizers of scientific conferences in the world, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and another prestigious institution joined the group of our clients: the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). For both institutions, knowledge is a core resource and the Klewel solution is warmly welcome:

“Very impressive. Well done”, J. B., Regional Communication Adviser, UNICEF.

“This is wonderful. The range of offering: slides, audio, etc is terrific”, M. F., Communication Officer, UNICEF.

Lable

JurMous — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:21:15 +0100

We are not defined by what we build but by our vision and how we work. We don't believe in hierarchy but in partnership. We believe in ownership in what you contribute.

Our mission is about connecting everything with everything. People with people, passion, knowledge, function, purpose and people. To connect things and see a larger holistic whole. To build a platform where people can flourish, both in the digital and real domain. A platform that is not owned by us but by everybody contributing.

We don't believe in the currency of money but the currency of passionate people. And those people define what we do.

Learnissimo

thierryengel — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:57:22 +0100

Learnissimo provides with an innovative, flexible and friendly approach to language learning.

Learnissimo is a specialised site where native speaking teachers give foreign language classes by videoconference. The service is provided by those who would like to give language classes (only the best teacher profiles are selected) and the customers are Internet users who want to learn languages.

Learnissimo features:

- Complete teacher profiles (with video presentation, rates, teacher evaluations by students, availability schedule…), so that the student can choose his teacher based on his needs.
- Interactive classrooms : the private lessons take place by videoconference, with students and teachers using webcams to communicate.
- Lesson reservation schedules : the student books his next lesson or lessons via his teacher’s availability schedule. The schedules adapt to the teacher’s and the student’s time zones.
- Pedagogical tools : free access to Learnissimo’s rich multimedia library containing press articles, video excerpts and images for discussion (organised by theme and level of difficulty) which can be used during the lesson.
- A secure payment system.

Locomatrix

Tom Hume — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:49:58 +0100

LocoMatrix is a platform for location-based gaming, letting anyone author and play games in the real world. With gaming taking on an increasing physicality (thanks to the efforts of Sony's EyeToy and Nintendo's Wii), mobile ownership being near-ubiquitous, GPS starting to commoditise, and western society becoming more health-conscious, there's a clear opportunity for a business to take location-based gaming beyond one-off art projects and experiments, into the mass market.

Mixin

nicolas dengler — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 11:08:38 +0100

mixin is an interactive agenda for people to organize and share activities over time. It is the social place to share your futur status, say when you'll be available, where you'll be , make propositions, discuss and make things happen with your buddies. Once something happens, mixin is the central points that will receive and automatically collects pictures, videos, comments related to this event.

Mobile Mischief

Dr.Nightfly — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:48:51 +0100

Mobile Mischief: Video Production for the Long Tail.

We watch video mainly on TV, whose business model (count the eyeballs, monetize through advertising) is destined to fail in the long run. As the number of channels explodes, the chances to remunerate Video Production shrink, while the need for minutes of video will conversely grow.

Which fool will produce much more video for much less?

Us. That is, You! (User-Generated Video)

Today the spectrum for Video production goes from zero budget cameraphones loaded onto YouTube to Multi-million Hollywood Blockbusters. We want to produce professional Video content that matters using User-Generated Content, captured by the only mobile phone to date that has a video camera of sufficient quality for video that can be viewed without strain on a TV set. It is the Nokia N95, that records native .mp4 at 640x480@25fps.

We coordinate production by end-users (people like you and me) who share a passion for a specific topic, a community - our Long Tail - for which traditional video production would be no option due to cost, and YouTube-like video due to quality. A community which will pay for the product (and many other up-sell and cross-sell items). Our speciality is to join an existing community with the organization of the production through a network of different enthusiastic members of that community who write, film, and edit video in a business management system we coordinate.

MSi-FormFlow - managing web forms

bcsa — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:18:49 +0100

MSi-FormFlow is a tool developed to ambrass the entire form life cicle: from building forms easily without high technical skills to execution and follow up.
Developped in C# with WEB 2.0 architecture, the execution is made via a browser and is therefore perfectly integrated in your usual environement.
Open, it enables third party action in the form process.
Contextual guideline are provided throughout the full process, on the screen right site as well as process hyperlink etc.
Moreover, the form interacts with your data bases and guaranties your process effectiveness.

Musana

Frédéric Thuard — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:19:18 +0100

Message from Laurent: Founder missed the deadline and asked me to put his venture in the list. I copied this techcrunch article to give you an idea of what the site is about:

"Le site n’est pas encore ouvert mais j’ai pu le tester et avoir une conversation avec l’équipe. Il s’agit en fait d’un médiathèque musicale en ligne pour gérer et partager votre musique. Jusque là rien de nouveau, il existe des tas de services pour uploader et écouter sa musique en ligne. Mais, premier intérêt, votre musique sera également accessible depuis votre mobile en 3G. Second intérêt, vous pourrez simplement la partager autour de vous car Musana sera, via une API, connectée aux principales plateformes sociales. Mais le véritable intérêt est l’intégration de GraceNote au moment de l’upload . Dans la plupart des plateformes vous ajouter une musique et le titre n’est pas normalisé ou pire ne correspond pas à ce que vous écoutez. Avec gracenote les fichiers sont identifiés et normalisés de telle sorte que tous les fichiers présents sont toujours identifiables et riches en tags et informations (jacquettes, titres, paroles). Je me demande comment personne n’a encore pensé à faire cela en ligne (hormi les logiciels d’écoute mp3 de bureau comme iTunes). Cela garantit la qualité et structure de l’information."

MyBooo

MyBooo — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:49:12 +0100

A web desktop to store, work and collaborate! You could find on it your data and a wide range of web access sotware (Mail, Contact, Agenda, RSS Reader, Office suite,...).

NewsCred

Shafqat — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:14:00 +0100

NewsCred is a digital newspaper that will give you only the most credible news from your favorite news sources.

At NewsCred, we hope to ignite a Social Media Revolution. We feel passionate about using the power of the web to restore credibility in news media. With all the news sources, mashups, blogs and aggregators available today, it is becoming increasingly difficult to discriminate between real vetted news and biased, unfactual or untenable news. NewsCred will harness the power of our community and the social web to allow the discerning news consumer to focus only on credible news content while filtering out the noise. At the same time, NewsCred is a tool that will make the news experience more relevant to our personal tastes. To us, this is a revolutionary new way of accessing high quality, credible news content.

Think of NewsCred as a customizable digital newspaper, where you can easily filter and access your preferred news sources, whether it’s mainstream media or news content from established blogs. What sets NewsCred apart is our NewsCred Ranking technology, which ensures that only the most credible, factual and relevant news is presented, as voted by the NewsCred community.

While we love Digg and other social ranking sites, but NewsCred is completely different. We are using technology and the ratings from our user community to select the most credible articles. NewsCred selects quality, while Digg presents popularity. This is a fundamental difference in our approach, and we feel this difference is what will change the way we access news content forever.

We’re taking content from traditional, mainstream new sources, combining them with established blogs, and selecting only the highest quality articles that are relevant to you. We’re throwing in some real innovation to make the selection and filtering process the easiest you’ll see on the web, and fun too.

OneMobileID

richardmuscat — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:13:30 +0100

Using mobile technology OneMobileID takes on the growing problem of Internet pollution.

One of the web’s greatest perceived advantages – individual anonymity – is proving to be its undoing. With Web 2.0, the democratization of content generation has created new openings for exploitation by affiliate programs, ‘SEO specialists’ and spammers (as seen on digg, technorati, squidoo, and many blogs). Furthermore, corrupted content from these sites inevitably makes its way into search engines, producing mediocre search results. The consequence is a growing mistrust, undermining the very foundation of a community-driven web. In a worst case scenario this phenomenon could result in widespread mandatory censorship (Australia being the first state to do so).

OneMobileID’s answer is to include mobile into the equation. Mobile is at once ubiquitous and personal. Our technology will allow sites to request that subscribers verify their unique identity via secure mobile authentication. OneMobileID will establish the legitimacy of the subscriber, without requiring the disclosure or storage of personal information.

What you get with OneMobileID is the confidence:
- of not having multiple registrations by the same person/company for malicious purposes,
- reducing the risk of spam,
- that subscribers are real and genuine individuals, ensuring quality user generated content,
- providing a safer environment for users,
- increasing company goodwill and, ultimately value.

Pixelux Entertainment S.A.

raphael — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:35:38 +0100

To address the problem of skyrocketing video game production costs, Pixelux Entertainment has created a unique real-time physical simulation technology called Digital Molecular Matter (DMM) that will greatly reduce the cost of creating video games.

With the presentation there is a movie that illustrate very well the technology.
There are available on our sftp site:
Open a shell and do:
sftp public@crm.pixeluxentertainment.ch
passwd: DMMtechno2008
get finalTinTStoryBoard.mov
exit

SALSAdev

gamars — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:24:24 +0100

Elevator pitch:

Keywords are not good enough anymore for information retrieval. We provide indexing and searching for non-structured data at a conceptual level. Supported by a technology capable of human-level semantic understanding, we make information more informative.

Origin:

The amount of information is overwhelming. Current systems are based on aging technology; their relevance is very limited.

The serious problem is that currently there exists no alternative method to retrieve information than to explicitly degrade the query to a keyword-based language. We propose a technology that is able to apprehend the sense of data to a similar extent than Humans do. Our information system is able to classify, retrieve and quantify human-produced data without prior processing.

Our technology paves the way for new interactions between Humans and Information. It enables users to search all indexed documents semantically related to a specific topic (i.e. the technology could be applied to qualitative analysis for financial investments).

Conclusion: Information by itself has no value. We have created the next generation of semantic analysis system for information. The need for it is emergent and growing rapidly each day.

Market:

“Accenture polled more than 1000 executives […] and fond that managers were on average spending up to two hours [per-day] searching for stuff. When they found anything […] at least 50 per cent was useless: irrelevant, out-of-date or just wrong” - Financial Times, March 2007

School of Everything

paulmiller — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:25:20 +0100

School of Everything is the place to come if you have something to teach or something you want to learn. Whether it's advanced astrophysics or how to speak Arabic, yoga or how to play the saxophone, we match up students and teachers in any subject and help them meet face-to-face or over the web.

We launched the first version of the site in October 2007 and over the coming months, we intend to add new features and services which will make it simpler to organise, advertise, choose and pay for teaching and learning.

These include:
· an events system for listing courses/workshops/etc
· a reputation system to build trust between users
· a scheduling tool
· a booking and payment system
· back-office tools for self-employed teachers
· a directory of teaching venues
· more tools for organising peer-learning

For the time being the site is limited to the UK but we intend to grow the business internationally from February 2008.

Our primary source of revenue will be the commission taken on transactions
handled by the payment system. Our market research has shown that
independent teachers have a strong need for this service and are willing to pay
for it.

School of Everything isn't just a tool for people who already self-identify as teachers. We believe everybody has something to teach and that there is a strong social and economic need for new learning infrastructure to replace our existing institutions that were designed for a 19th Century industrial economy.

SECU4

Ralph Rimet — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:38:42 +0100

SECU4 has a new way of saving your valuables such as laptop, wallets, luggage, and hand bags, etc, from thievery and lost. The BlueWatchDog, working with your Bluetooth mobile phone, is made of a small alarm box, credit card size, that you place with the luggage to protect and a unique genuine software downloaded on your mobile phone. Someone is trying to steal you ? You forget something ? Your object is more than 3 to 20 meters away from you ? Your mobile phone warns you and an alarm engages on the BlueWatchDog to protect your valuables.

Sobees

François Bochatay — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:52:32 +0100

sobees organizes and integrates Web applications and services onto the desktop, makes them available offline, and offers an easy user experience to you and your social network.

SoftAppointment - ClicRDV

Sylvie Reinhard — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:13:06 +0100

Message from Sylvie: Founder missed the deadline and asked me to put his venture in the list.

What do you do?

We enable people to take appointments online.

What problem does it solve?

When you try to find an appointment by phone, you have to wait to get the secretary, and then spend a long time with her to find a convenient time, and you never get the one that really matches with your availabilities. Thanks to our software, you will be able to see the best time for your appointment in a second and make it directly!

How is it revolutionary?

Today we can book a hotel room, a train or a fly with the Internet, why don't we do it for all the rest… our company allow all businesses with appointments to propose online appointments.

With our technology, businesses have much fewer calls, that is to say more time for business management. Their absenteeism is reduced thanks to our automatic system of appointment-reminder by email and sms.

Moreover, they offer their clients the possibility to make an appointment in one sec, 24/7, discreetly, for free and from any computer!

Symfact AG

craddock — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:50:51 +0100

Market reports from organizations such as PwC, Aberdeen Group, Gartner Group and others all confirm that there are significant shortcomings within the corporate contract and compliance management process. For example:-
1 - Contract visibility is poor due to their distributed storage often not even as electronic documents but as paper copy.
2 - Clause level visibility, compliance and reporting are all but impossible.
3 - Knowledge of risk exposure and formal risk management procedures are seriously lacking.
4 - Many active contracts are impossible even to locate in their final active version.
S - Automatic notifications of contract expirations, significant events and critical deadlines are unavailable.
6 - There are almost no implemented procedures or rules governing the supervision, checking and security of a contract's content (such as risks, critical events, deadlines, obligations, liabilities, previously agreed milestones etc.) In addition emerging legislation such as Sarbanes-Oxley, Solvency II, and Basel II are further driving the requirement for traceable and transparent contract management.
As contracts become increasingly complicated and yet critical to a corporation's success ContractX provides full lifecycle support covering generation, secure visibility, reporting and commitment management.
Additionally Symfact has configured and productized the common technology platform “Symfact Compliance Solution” to address other compliance related requirements.
MonitorX – for corporate control
ConceptX – for management of Intellectual Property
Other configurations are being finalized such as KycX for anti money laundering or “Know your client” applications. This extension beyond Contract Management is a unique competitive advantage over Symfact’s traditional competitors.

tarpipe

bpedro — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:47:58 +0100

tarpipe is a publishing mediation and distribution platform that will simplify regular upload activities:

Publishing content to multiple Web locations
Combining different media into a single blog post or article
Transforming documents on-the-fly
Managing repeatable upload actions

By providing different ways to upload files without installing a desktop or mobile application we will make publishing a very simple task. Users will be able to use existing applications, creating and manipulating their documents like they’re used to.

tarpipe will also create an ecosystem where Web applications and services will be able to receive and transform media content. Users will take advantage of this ecosystem by defining delivery and transformation workflows for their documents.

TV DOMAINS

Martin — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:55:16 +0100

About TV DOMAINS:

TV is a domain extension, just like .com, .org or .net. But unlike those extensions, .TV is catchy and memorable. A .TV tells users that a site is a rich media website. And you don’t need to be a television network to get a .TV extension. TV domains are unrestricted, meaning that anyone can get one!

Online video is growing at lightning speed, and so are the ways that users find online videos. A TV domain tells users that your website is a rich media website, and by using a .TV Web address, you are offering users an easily recognizable way to find rich media and video content on the Web.

GOALS:

1- TV DOMAINS DEVELOPERS
TVDOMAINS Developers .tv channel primarily dedicated to assisting individuals and corporations in the purchasing and/or development of .tv channels. TVDOMAINS Developers provides information and resources about developed and undeveloped .tv channels.

2- TV DOMAINS TOOLS & REGISTRATION
Registering a .TV domain extension you get instant access to the Free TVDOMAIN Toolkit which lets you …

. Program your own .TV Channel: Link to your favorite videos from all over the web.
. Upload your own videos too. Let others watch, comment and rate your .TV channel’s videos.
. Personalize your Profile: Pick one of our cool templates, then customize your own Avatar, About Me, Interests, and more.
. Start a Blog, Forum or Poll: Make your entries private or public and choose from moderated or immoderate comments.
. Create a Photo Album: Upload your photos, then let your friends and others comment and rate them.
. Start your Own Social Network: Invite friends to view and join your .TV Channel, you can also allow new friends to join. Share or exchange links and build your community.

3- Developing the English, FRENCH, German and Spanish market.

Ulteo

Ulteo — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:21:13 +0100

Ulteo: Your digital life made simple
- new easy ways of trying, using, collaborating with and managing open source applications
- new ways ways of using and managing on line applications
- new ways of managing users' data.

Ulteo offers to individuals and organizations of all sizes new simple ways of using and managing their digital life, extending the possibilities and benefits of what they are already using.

Viewdle

viewdletv — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:32:00 +0100

Viewdle is the ultimate destination for searching facts in video. At a time when online video consumption is expected to reach more than 80% of the population (by 2010), Viewdle finally moves video search beyond text-based searching to deliver a true, multi-modal video search platform that uniquely combines indexing technology for text, audio and actual video to deliver a semantically-accurate video search experience. Viewdle looks inside every frame to index, identify and deliver factual, contextually-relevant results at a level of granularity not possible with existing video search functionality available today, most notably through pioneering facial-recognition technology.
Viewdle enables consumers to find precisely what they want (quickly and acccurately), content producers to monetize their content, and advertisers to more effectively target their ads.

Viewdle launched in September 2007 as part of the TechCrunch40 and a "Best Innovation/Achievement" The Crunchies 2007 finalist. Viewdle technology is currently used to power white-label indexing and searching within BCE, iTV and Reuters. Did you Viewdle today? www.viewdle.com

viibee.com

pascal — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:22:22 +0100

viibee is a new tool for video messaging. The focus is to provide a simple, fun and visual way of communication.

viibee allows members to communicate with their friends and also to find new friends.To find new friends members can create public profiles where they introduce themselves with video messages. Members can exchange video messages right from the browser (through the web cam - no software installation is required).

Rather than creating yet another social network viibee hooks into existing social networks. But viibee members are not constrained by the borders of their particular network as viibee lets member discover and talk to friends across different networks.

There is a public beta version available on http://viibee.com (though it is an early incarnation that was still focussed on dating)

Workhound: UKs Largest Job Search Engine

wmfischer — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:33:00 +0100

WorkDigital Ltd. (workdigital.co.uk) is a London-based company specializing in vertical search solutions that not only deliver quality search results, but build open platforms that allow users to develop custom solutions that provide search data in the format, place and specifications of its users. Its first platform is workhound.co.uk which currently has the UKs largest job recruitment inventory. The company was founded in Q1 2007 and is backed by private investors.

Wuala (Caleido)

dominik — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:33:49 +0100

Wuala is a new way of storing, sharing, and publishing files on the internet. Unlike traditional online storage systems, Wuala is decentralized and can harness idle resources of participating computers to build a large, secure, and reliable online storage. This enables its users to trade parts of their local storage for online storage and it allows us to provide a better service for free (fast downloads, as much storage as you like, unlimited traffic, no file size limit, etc.).

We started research and development at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) in 2004 and founded our company Caleido AG in 2007. About two months ago, we successfully launched the closed alpha: we've been on major tech blogs (TechCrunch, GigaOm, etc.) and now we're getting thousands of signups on our website.

We're currently a team of five people, but we're actively looking for more. We're completely self-financed so far: we've put in our savings and I can invest the money from my former company that I have founded 10 years ago (www.caleido.com, a CRM solution for small companies that has sold more than 35'000 licenses in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland).

For more information, please have a look at our website: http://wua.la