TAG Portfolio

Abe's Market

2009-09-30T10:08:00.000-07:00

Abe’s Market is the online marketplace for great natural products. We connect buyers seeking amazing natural products with the people who make them. There’s no need to prowl the Internet for a broader natural product selection than can be found at your local natural market. At Abe’s Market, you can get all your natural product buying done in one place.

Too often today, we buy products without knowing the origin of the products. At Abe’s Market you can discover fantastic natural products while having the unique opportunity to learn the story behind them – straight from the products’ creators. This valuable background goes beyond what can be found on a label. Who makes the product? What’s in it? Where is it made? How? You can even chat directly with sellers to ask specific questions so you know that you can trust and be comfortable with the products you bring into your home.

Free Agent Central

2009-08-31T10:19:00.000-07:00

Free Agent is a best of breed on-line accounting application for Freelances, Small business and accounting firms.

Designed from the ground up as a SaaS application, the interface is intuitive and friendly.

The application is strong on time-management, invoicing, expenses reimbursement, UK tax and VAT.

Targeted at the 2m very small operations in the UK with 1-3 people who are time and resource constrained and built specifically for them.

UserVoice

2009-05-01T23:01:00.000-07:00

UserVoice helps companies listen to customers - turning

feedback into innovation that improves their bottom line.

With shortening software release cycles and more intense

competition, companies need to be able to react quicker.

Customers can be a great source of instant feedback but

user forums & contact emails do not scale well, becoming

disorganised & time consuming.

UserVoice offers:

• A simple way to get actionable feedback fast

• Widgets that make it easy to solicit feedback

• Hosted forums where customers vote for the best ideas

• Prioritised, actionable ideas that companies can use to improve

their products

(example forum: http://tweetdeck.uservoice.com)

Twitterfeed

2009-04-30T09:53:00.000-07:00

Twitterfeed saves over 400,000 publishers many hours by auto feeding their posts (over 750K daily) directly to Twitter and Facebook.

Twitterfeed also provides real time stats to publishers to help them track activity on their posts.

Twitterfeed is jointly funded by TAG and Betaworks and operates out of London and New York.

bit.ly

2009-04-26T11:00:00.000-07:00

Bit.ly is a sophisticated URL shortener. It uses a cookie to remember the last 15 links you've shortened and displays that history on the home page when you visit. It allows you to set up a custom URL ending for your link. It automatically creates 3 thumbnails for every page you save a link to.

Bit.ly also tracks clickthrough numbers and referrers so you can see what kind of traffic your shortcut got and from where. There's a simple API for adding Bit.ly functionality to any other web app and all the data, including traffic data and thumbnails, is easily accessible by XML feeds.

The bit.ly sidebar makes it simple to post links of the webpage being viewed to Twitter, Facebook

Tweetdeck

2009-02-24T05:09:00.000-08:00

TweetDeck is a desktop application that aims to evolve the existing functionality of Twitter by taking loads of information i.e twitter feeds, and breaking it down into more manageable bite sized pieces.

TweetDeck enables users to split their main feed (All Tweets) into topic or group specific columns allowing a broader overview of tweets. To do this All Tweets are saved to a local database. One column will always contain All Tweets. The GROUP, SEARCH and REPLIES buttons then allow the user to make up additional columns populated from the database. Once created these additional columns will automatically update allowing the user to easily keep track of a twitter threads.

Being database driven TweetDeck allows the user to continue twittering even when offline. Tweets and direct messages are queued and then sent automatically when back online.

2009-02-20T09:36:00.000-08:00

Skimlinks is a really neat solution for bloggers and web publishers to earn cash through affiliate marketing without all the hassle of signing up Affiliate networks or retailers.

Really simple to implement and install, Skimlinks turns normal retailer links found in their editorial content into ‘affiliate links’ automatically. Each time a user clicks-through and makes a purchase, the website earns a commission from the retailer.

Skimlink’s new technology means users no longer have to sign up for multiple affiliate programs across many networks, or create and maintain affiliate links as merchants change from one network to another. Skimlinks provides instant access to affiliate programs of over 9,000 international merchants (even the 30-40% of merchants that do not support deeplinking) across 16 affiliate networks, and all publisher’s links are optimised for the best commissions at any point in time.

Amee

2009-01-06T03:42:00.000-08:00

AMEE is a database in the cloud that allows tracking of activities and applying emission factors data to the tracked activities. It was built from day one to support other applications and web sites which gather the activity data from consumers and businesses.

The advantages are many. AMEE is a neutral clearing house for data about energy consumption. It anonymises the incoming data from clients so that others can re-use it imaginatively. The whole project is open source and revenues come from annual or monthly service fee based on varying scales.

Instead of trying to solve the entire measurement problem in one go, AMEE starts with a known level of detail even if at that level of detail only estimated emissions factors are available.

As more and more systems connect to AMEE and provide data, those initial estimates can be refined and triangulated.
Every time a new measurement system comes online, whether it is smart meters in homes, or cars that talk to the network, the data can be fed into AMEE allowing for a gradual transition from estimated emissions to detailed actual measurement of emissions.
AMEE has made the deliberate choice to focus only on acting as a backend database and web service so as to not compete with any of the systems and companies that could provide inputs for AMEE and thus help improve the quality of AMEE's data asset.

Posh 24

2009-01-05T07:33:00.000-08:00

Posh 24 is a Stockholm based online magazine focusing on celebrity gossip news which has developed a very fast growing audience.
Posh is structured in such a way as to encourage and attract large amounts of user generated content - comments and pictures - from its growing number of users in Sweden and abroad.

The celebrity database aggregates content making access to users favourite celebrity easy.
The site is news driven is updated 24x7 and is strictly moderated and has attracted high quality advertisers and sponsors.

Habit Industries - Fuzzwich

2009-01-05T06:55:00.000-08:00

Fuzzwich aims to solve many of the problems associated with monetising social media by allowing brands to develop engaging and distributable ads - quickly and easily.
Fuzzwich is a system for creating and running user generated ad campaigns using an innovative animation technology. Because it is completely online, Fuzzwich is able to bridge the gap between creation and distribution. As well as standard sharing options for social networks and blogs, Fuzzwich animations deploy directly to video sites and advertising networks. Fuzzwich is an end to end social media solution. In industry terms, it provides the interactive ad format, a social campaign landing page, the administration tools and the measurement metrics. It's everything you need for an ad campaign, on the clients site, the Fuzzwich site or Facebook. The audience will create and share beautiful animations featuring the brand's characters, products, and music. Once the brand's assets are in incorporated, they instantly become playful, engaging, and distributable as social media, wrapped in a campaign system that keeps it easy to measure and easy to manage.

Webmynd

2009-01-05T06:28:00.001-08:00

Webmynd is a Firefox add-on that records every website you visit and saves a virtual copy on your hard drive. It is an extension to your natural memory. As you browse the web Webmynd saves a virtual copy of websites to your hard drive so that you can search and find things again when ever you need them. Even if the page has changed or disappeared from the web you can still find the copy in your WebMynd.

Webmynd's thesis is that traditional systems of bookmarking and tagging links will become obselete. As webpages are becoming more dynamic saving a simple link is not good enough.

Users can personalise the right-hand side of Google with the information sources that they most value. Instead of ads, users can embed sources such as Wikipedia, Flickr, Amazon, YouTube, Twitter, their WebMynd visual browsing history and most frequently visited sites.

Fotonauts

2009-01-05T03:52:00.000-08:00

Fotonauts’ mission is to enable the creation of the definitive pool of images for everyone to contribute to, discover, use and enjoy, covering all areas of human interest.

The Fotonauts feature set allows individuals to collaborate and take the world's pictures from Flickr, Picasa and other services and create structured datasets with metadata. When you have tens of thousands of photos organized and structured by people, you have a huge dataset, which also becomes an index--a Wikipedia of photos.

In addition, fotonauts public albums can be turned into widgets and easily distributed to any Web page. Fotonauts provides a unique URL for each album for sharing.

At the core of fotonauts' search engine effort is tagging that comes from adding relevant content, such as maps and Wikipedia content, to images and albums and applying tags from other services. Fotonauts also created its own ranking algorithm, ImageRank, which combines tags and usage data to deliver the most relevant results.

Graze - Nature Delivered

2009-01-01T13:07:00.000-08:00

Graze is an eCommerce company which sells food. It makes it easier for people to eat healthily at work. Graze delivers a full letter-box-sized box of healthy food (nuts, berries, dried fruit etc) straight to a desk.
Prices start at £2.29 delivered.
Users rate the range of over 200 products and choose from 4 different types/sizes of package.
Highest rated products get included most often.

Delivery frequency, package type and delivery address are controlled through an interactive drag and drop website.

RjDj

2009-01-01T12:26:00.000-08:00

RjDj is an iPhone application that samples the sounds in your environment (e.g. your voice, background noise etc.), remixes those sounds in real time and then plays them back to you.

It uses sensory input to generate and control the music you are listening to.
RjDj is a revolutionary concept to music.

It's goal is to kickstart reactive music and turn it into a consumer format.

The application enables users to record sounds through the iPhone and absorb them into a variety of musical scenes in order to create a live and unique interactive musical experience.

The application includes a set of songs that go on forever, using the iPhone’s internal microphone to ‘listen’ to the noises and voices heard in your proximity to dynamically create music. It’s a bizarre and totally unique experience.

Slideshare

2009-01-01T03:39:00.000-08:00

SlideShare is a community for sharing presentations. Individuals or organizations can upload and share PowerPoint, PDF, or OpenOffice presentations.
Users can tag presentation, and download or embed them into their own websites or blogs. Users can also share their documents privately.
SlideShare lets its users to join groups to connect with SlideShare members who share similar interests. Business presentations make the most of the content. SlideShare also has a facebook application for uploading documents

Techcrunch has called SlideShare the YouTube equivalent for PowerPoint presentations.
Slideshare has released a new plugin for Microsoft Office 2007 that allows users to edit and publish presentations directly to their SlideShare accounts.

Beyond publishing new PowerPoint documents to the web, the SlideShare plugin can import SlideShare files from the cloud (both your own and those that are shared by others), which can then be modified on your native PowerPoint client. The plugin features an integrated search so users can browse through files from SlideShare contacts and groups, as well as support for Twitter and FriendFeed so they can broadcast a new presentation without leaving Office.

Lookery

2009-01-01T03:30:00.000-08:00

Image via CrunchBaseLookery is an advertising and user-targeting network offering lightweight, economical targeting data.

Lookery is building behavioral targeting systems, without the expensive computation infrastructure or pricey agency sales force. The data-aggregation operations are cloud-based, variable-costed and can be scaled up or down on-demand.

Lookery is taking the cheap, web-scale, participatory tack necessary to provide economical web-wide user targeting: it operates a social network-centric ad network to drive volume, free data collection and large distribution partnerships. Lookery is aggregating user-reported data from, and with the permission of, social networks, dating sites, ISPs, and e-commerce sites. It offers the aggregated targeting data back out via its ad network customers, statistics widgets, as well as unbundled targeting, APIs.

Lookery provides revenue to social networks, dating sites, ISPs, and e-commerce sites by aggregating their user profiles for targeting across the web. When Lookery is paid for user targeting, it shares revenue with the profile contributors. These payments provide a new, and purely incremental revenue stream, completely detached from their site’s page inventory.

Socialistics - Peer

2009-01-01T03:14:00.000-08:00

Peer is a knowledge sharing tool for small to medium sized groups. By pooling and analysing the web history of everyone in the group, Peer can provide each member with the most useful websites.

Users can define custom groups or use Peer's built-in integration with existing services such as Facebook or Basecamp.

Peer is a network service and desktop client available for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X 10.5

Peer identifies specific information relevant to the user's current activity;
powered by content extracted from their network
The client drops seamlessly into the users workflow, only appearing when the information is needed. All data gathering is performed in the background without any need for user input.

Peer is in Alpha mode (as at Jan 09)

Techlightenment

2009-01-01T02:57:00.000-08:00

Techlightenment is a social media agency. It helps clients research, develop and deliver campaigns across all forms of social media; from application development to media buying and analytics.

By using a data-driven approach to marketing, it aims to help clients understand the people that engage with their brands. Techlightenment helps create and deliver successful campaigns, by helping drive that engagement.

The agency is best known for its development of a Facebook application made in conjunction with SonyBMG to promote the new Bob Dylan album and single. The application was an immediate critical success; heralded by many as the 'coolest' Facebook application to-date.

MyBuilder

2009-01-01T02:41:00.000-08:00

MyBuilder is an online marketplace that brings together consumers, builders and tradesmen, offering an open and transparent platform that promotes and supports high-quality work. Posting a job on the site is free, and there is also no cost for builders and tradesmen to join.

MyBuilder operates by charging a fee to a builder or tradesman only once a quote has been accepted by the homeowner.

Working on a principle of accountability through feedback, tradesmen are rated on their workmanship by those who hire them, making it easier to find high quality builders and for builders to find good quality jobs.

Zemanta

2009-01-01T02:31:00.000-08:00

Image via CrunchBase

Zemanta is a platform that aims to help online content producers find related content from across the web to enhance their publication(s). A blog, an article or a web page can be fed into its system, which then recognises it and returns suggested images, smart links, keywords and relevant related stories from the web.

Based on the input, the engine recommends links to content from: Amazon, Crunchbase, Wikipedia, Freebase, MusicBrainz, Flickr, Daylife and social networks.

Zemanta analyses copy through its proprietary natural language processing and semantic algorithms, and statistically compares its contextual framework to a pre-indexed database of content. The system uses a combination of machine learning techniques and end-user input that enables the engine to be trained and to constantly improve the recommendations.

With the launch of the public API, Zemanta is opening up its technology for blogging platforms, media companies and other content database owners to enable them to leverage their unstructured content and enhance it with relevant related content.

Kublax

2008-12-31T10:33:00.001-08:00

Kublax synchronises all consumers bank accounts, utilities, and loyalty schemes and presents the information in a user friendly format.

This enables easy tracking of incoming and outgoing cashflow and analysis of personal finances.

All the key information (log-ins etc) stays on the desktop in hyper-encrypted files.

Kublax also creates a social network around your personal finances where key information is not revealed but the “crowd” can source intelligence on investments, savings accounts, mortgages and spending proportions.

Kublax aims to put some 'fun' into managing personal finances - or at least remove the drudgery.

Bill Monitor from Optimor

2008-12-31T10:16:00.000-08:00

BillMonitor helps users save money on their mobile phones by ensuring they are on the correct tariff. The flagship service uses advanced statistics to identify the best price plan for customers based on their individual usage pattern, considering tens of thousands of tariff options available in the market today from UK mobile phone companies.

BillMonitor’s technology analyses historical usage patterns, predicts future behaviour, and suggests the best mobile price plans with a high degree of certainty that individuals will see real savings.

Because people’s mobile calling habits change frequently, BillMonitor uses predictive and data mining maths from Oxford scientists to anticipate future needs, recommending the best tariff plan and services early enough for you to enjoy maximum savings.

BillMonitor keeps track of usage updating users on a monthly basis ensuring they are always informed of their usage relative to the tariffs available.

BillMonitor was developed by Optimor Labs Ltd.

Songkick

2008-12-31T07:35:00.000-08:00

Songkick aims to be the home of live music on the web.

Songkick is a concert listings site that has created a comprehensive database that tracks concerts as they appear on 16 different ticketing sites in the UK and the USA and across dozens of blogs. You can search the database and track shows and blog posts about your favorite acts, or download SongKicker, which automatically tracks artists you listen to.
SongKicker is a plug-in that pulls artists you listen to from iTunes, Windows Media Player, and Winamp.

Songkick makes going to shows as easy as going to the movies.

More listings are constantly being added to ensure that every single concert in existence—no matter how obscure the band or tiny the venue is listed. Songkick even index bands' MySpace pages to make sure they have all their dates.

Academia

2008-12-31T07:21:00.000-08:00

Image via CrunchBase

Academia.edu is a network and information website which does two things:

It displays academics around the world in a tree format, according to what university/department they are affiliated with.
It enables an academic to have an easy-to-maintain academic webpage. A sample page on Academia.edu is here: http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardPrice

In December 2008, it had over 85,000 academic papers uploaded and more than 20,000 academics featured in the 'tree'.

Seedcamp

2008-12-31T07:01:00.000-08:00

Seedcamp was inspired by Saul Klein in a blog post in February 2007.

Seedcamp it is a collective initiative by members of the VC community, serial entrepreneurs, mentors, and angel investors and was founded in the belief that Europe has the talent, the role models, and the capital founders and entrepreneurs need to succeed.
It aims to provide a catalyst for the next generation of great entrepreneurs and help them to take risks, think big, and succeed.

Participating in Seedcamp provides enormous validation and access to a world-class network of advisors to help with every aspect of the entrepreneurs business, plus a direct route to seed and venture capital

Seedcamp runs an annual event in London at which 20 finalists of a Europe wide competition participate, receiving intensive mentoring and gettting the opportunity to present their companies to an experienced audience.

The 6 winners are entitled to receive Euros 50,000 in return for 10% of their company.

If a team that is selected agrees to take the investment, the funding will be sufficient for them to move to London for at least three months.

The goal of this 3-month period is to help grow and nurture the teams by providing the same level of intensity and in-depth focus on developing the product and business.

Dopplr

2008-12-31T06:32:00.000-08:00

Dopplr is a free social networking service, launched in 2007, that allows users to create itineraries of their travel plans and spot correlations with their contacts’ travel plans in order to arrange meetings at any point on their journey.
Additional features include allowing the user to calculate the carbon footprint their journeys have produced. New features are being added continuously adding to the benefits of travellers.

The site is named after Christian Doppler, discoverer of the Doppler effect. The company is based in the Old Street area of London.

In 2007, Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, described it in an interview with The New York Times as his favorite non-wiki website.

A survey carried out in early 2008 on influential technology figures by the Guardian Media Group named Dopplr as a company to watch out for.

Mashery

2008-12-31T06:24:00.000-08:00

Launched in 2006, Mashery is designed to make it cheaper and easier for companies to build and control channels for web services than it would be to do everything in-house.

Thousands of software-driven companies are releasing APIs in order to become Software as a Service (SaaS) providers, either as a primary or secondary line of business. Although every API is different, the infrastructure to manage them includes the same set of challenges across virtually all providers. Adopting Mashery's developer management and support services allows API vendors to focus on their core business.

Mashery offers all the ingredients needed to get APIs widely distributed and successfully used – an API marketplace, tracking, metrics, usage/access management, commerce, security and performance tools.

Mashery’s customers include Shopping.com, Move, Cafe Press, LinkedIn, Lonely Planet, Freewebs, Get Satisfaction, Compete.com, France Telecom, Netflix, Trulia and Sylantro.

Glasses Direct

2008-12-31T05:24:00.000-08:00

Glasses Direct, is an eCommerce Business that supplies discount-priced prescription spectacles. It was founded in 2004 when it created the sector.

It is also notable for the legal/regulatory attempts to close it down by several major bricks and mortar competitors.

Glasses Direct range of products has expanded rapidly and now includes many 'designer' frames.
The website is supported by a comprehensive catalogue and innovative techniques have been introduced to enhance the buying process.

For example, using the industry's most advanced facial recognition technology, its virtual mirror lets customers see what the glasses look like on their own face - on screen.

DH Gate

2008-12-31T05:10:00.000-08:00

DHgate aims to be a one-stop solution to purchasing China wholesale products online.
Its buyers are from the US, Europe, Australia and Asia–totalling to over 230 countries worldwide.

DH Gate has over 10 million product listings from more than 100,000 dedicated wholesalers and manufacturers from China.

DHgate offers a quick-and-easy online purchasing process in addition to offering a dedicated and knowledgeable customer service team. Its Trust Marketing and Escrow payment processes enhances the safety and security of wholesale purchasing environment.

DHgate is PayPal's largest client in the Asia-Pacific region.

Zoopla

2008-12-31T04:53:00.000-08:00

Zoopla aims to be the definitive data resource for the real estate market in the UK. Covering all 27m homes, Zoopla's data sources include owners and agents who upload data enhancing the value of the database as a whole.
The Zoopla site is a searchable directory of UK residential properties, created as a mashup of Royal Mail's database, the UK HM Land Registry's data on property transactions, Google maps, Microsoft Birds eye view, and other data sources. The data is then presented in a read-write format, so that user generated content can "fill in the gaps".

Zoopla has started by providing free value estimates and sold prices on homes, allowing sellers and agents to list homes for sale and letting all users edit information and upload photos.

Zoopla's value estimates are calculated using a proprietary algorithm that been developed by analysing millions of data points relating to property sales and home characteristics throughout the UK. The algorithm works by comparing relationships between home prices, economic trends and property characteristics in given geographic areas.

Byteplay

2008-12-31T04:43:00.000-08:00

Byteplay's flagship product, DotHomes is a Real Estate search engine.
DotHomes allows home seekers across the US, UK and South Africa to search over thousands of real estate Websites from one place. Underlying DotHomes' search mechanism is a Machine learning data-mining technology, which automatically finds property listings on listing broker / agent Websites, and extracts relevant information. This allows for extremely rapid scaling up of coverage, whilst still getting data directly from source Websites (as opposed to getting data from smaller aggregators).

DotHomes employs an advertising business model. It does not charge real estate listing brokers to have their property listings appear in the DotHomes search index. Instead it provides ancillary real estate services with an opportunity to advertise alongside the free "organic" search results.

OpenX

2008-12-31T04:26:00.000-08:00

OpenX, formerly called Openads, is the most popular ad server solution when measured by number of publishers using it. It has 35,000 publishers using the software on 150,000 sites in 140 different countries and in 20 languages.

OpenX Hosted, contains the same software found in the original OpenX Ad Server, which allows publishers to completely control their ad space. This product allows publishers to use the software to operate all aspects of ad serving while OpenX provides all the hardware and back-end infrastructure, leaving publishers free to focus on their advertising revenues.

OpenX is an open-source advertising server that is licensed under the GNU General Public License. It features an integrated banner management interface and tracking system for gathering statistics. The product enables web site administrators to rotate banners from both in-house advertisement campaigns as well as from paid or third-party sources, such as Google's AdSense.

In Dec 08 Techcrunch reported very rapid growth for OpenX in both usage and revenues.

The company was was originally based in the UK, but has now moved its main headquarters to California with offices in London and Poland.

Quickbridge

2008-12-31T04:06:00.000-08:00

Wonga (the flagship brand of Quickbridge Ltd) provides small, short-term cash advances to UK consumers online. The company uses sophisticated risk and decisioning technology to make automated yet responsible lending decisions. Funds are lent from the companies own Balance Sheet. This is not peer to peer lending.

Applying for Wonga is simple and quick. There’s no paperwork to tackle or documents to fax. The service is online from start to finish.

Wonga is transforming the unsecured loan market by offering small, short term loans online with more speed, convenience and flexibility than banks, high street lenders and other websites. It removes the complexity and inflexibility consumers face whenever they need to borrow some cash in a hurry.

Its sophisticated risk and decision engine means the application and approval process takes literally minutes. The entire service is online and real-time and operates 24 x 7 x 365.

Wonga is serious about its commitment to responsible lending. It makes money when customers repay, not by continually extending a growing line of credit.

Wonga: slang term for cash or money, used in the UK and especially in London (“A whole lotta wonga”). From the Romany word wanger (coal) - coal was sometimes used as a casual term for money in England in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Imagini

2008-12-31T03:46:00.000-08:00

Imagini is a London-based technology company that has developed patent-pending technology to capture Visual DNA, a means of understanding emotions through images. There are currently three patents pending for the underlying IP.

BBC has nominated Youniverse, Imagini's visual communication platform, one of the best sites on the web. Other media such as the The Wall Street Journal, PC World and The Guardian have positively reviewed Imagini.

The Imagini technology builds Visual DNA by collecting the feelings and motivations of consumers using image-based quizzes that identify and map visual preferences across a series of behavioural axes. The technology can be used to capture emotional responses to a wide variety of pictorial stimuli from aesthetic elements such as style and form, through to more abstract concepts such as freedom, happiness, fulfilment and love.

This visual approach differs from traditional text-based research tools since it taps into the strongest source of emotional reflex. Images access feelings without the need for higher thought. With Imagini image-based quizzes, users express their emotions in just one click.

Imagini’s technology has been used in collaboration with a number of commercial partners including MSN, the Art Institute of America, The British Army, Nectar, MyDeco.com, PepsiCo and Hotels.com.

More than 10m people have completed an Imagini quiz/survey.

Netlog

2008-12-31T03:33:00.000-08:00

Netlog (formerly known as Facebox) is a social networking website specifically targeted at the European youth.
Netlog's success is partly due to the localisation which it implemented early in its development.

The site was founded in 2004 in Ghent, Belgium, by Lorenz Bogaert and Toon Coppens, and as of mid-2008 had 37 million registered users across 19 languages.

On Netlog, members can create their own web page, extend their social network, publish their music playlists, share videos, post blogs and join groups. Each member can invite friends on his page and thus create a link between his profile and the profile friends. The world record for the number of friends gathered on a single profile is owned by a Belgian: Ma_planete, who as of July 2008 had almost 12000 people on their friends list.

Spotrunner

2008-12-31T01:56:00.000-08:00

Spot Runner is an Internet based ad agency that focuses on making it easy and affordable for local businesses to advertise on TV.
Spot Runner is looking to change the television ad industry by offering everything needed to get your commercial on TV at a reasonable price. The entire process takes just days and is a fraction of the cost (as little as $500) of what it otherwise would be.
Spotrunner's web-based service provides the ability to pick and choose from its library of pre-produced ads and customising the spot through an online process, including the advertisers logo, voice-over script, and other company information.
Through its proprietary media planning engine, the service can also create customized media plans by using some basic information entered by the advertiser, such as their industry, target demographics and budget.

Daylife

2008-12-31T01:38:00.000-08:00

The Daylife intelligent content services platform offers a compelling way for any publisher to complement their own editorial expertise by adding fresh pages, sections, or whole sites of high-quality, targeted content with little or no staffing resources.

Daylife is an online news aggregator including a news platform based on the concepts of the semantic web. Daylife.com, launched in 2007, is a showcase of the platform and provides access to a publicly accessible API. Initially known as NewsDB, Daylife is situated both as a news-browsing engine and a platform. This dual structure allows users and publishers alike a view into every subject, country, point of view, or topic in the news.

The Daylife service provides access to a continually growing index of all the articles and images of many thousands of sources, including established news outlets and blogs. The whole platform is fully automated and without human intervention. It uses various proprietary algorithms, AI, and NLP to derive all its data and output.

Daylife's Developer API, DayPI, provides programmers with a web accessible interface to Daylife's news aggregation and analysis service. By using the API, developers can ask rich questions about the news, and retrieve data that will allow them to build applications around the answers to those questions. Both free and paid access is available.

Publishers using Daylife's platform include: The Washington Post, USA Today, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Newsweek, SkyNews, CNN Money and Treehugger.

Stardoll

2008-12-31T01:20:00.000-08:00

Stardoll is the leading global fashion & dress-up community for girls. It has over 20m members and is presented in 17 different languages.
Stardoll is a browser game based around the paper doll concept. Launched in 2006, the website was attracting a reported 8 million unique users a month (as of February 2008), who dress up dolls using a range of tools and can participate in interactive activities depending on the type of account they use.

MoveMe

2008-12-31T01:02:00.001-08:00

MoveMe is a website dedicated to making moving home really simple. It takes care the myriad administrative tasks associated with moving as well as offering opportunities to save money in the process.
MoveMe evolved out of a deep understanding of the process, the founders ran a concierge service hand holding movers through the moving nightmare.
The site is built on top of dozens of databases identifying service and utilities providers, local Government and parking regulations etc for every postcode in the UK.
Revenues come from lead-generation and sponsorship.

Astley Clarke

2008-12-30T11:30:00.000-08:00

Astley Clarke has established itself as one of the leading on-line designer jewellery boutiques. It has a wide range of stylish and original jewellery priced between £50 and £2000.
Products are beautifully packaged and the company prides itself on its high level of customer service.
Astley Clarke is constantly featured in leading publications. The year of 2008 saw more than 100 press articles in leading journals covering Astley Clarke's products and service.

Fizzback

2008-12-30T11:18:00.000-08:00

The Fizzback™ service solicits instant customer feedback at the point of experience and employs a unique artificial intelligence engine to understand the nature, sentiment and tone of comments.
Adaptive responses are generated and delivered instantly giving customers a sense of empowerment.
Relevant staff are immediately alerted, enabling companies to resolve customer issues quickly.
Senior management benefit from Real-time Dashboard, ranging from KPIs to verbatim customer feedback.
Fizzback has a roster of blue chip clients including: Carphone Warehouse, National Express, Marks and Spencer, Phones 4U and T-Mobile.
Fizzback has won a plethora of awards including Retail Systems Supplier of the Year from Retail Week and are rated a 'cool vendor' by Gartner.

Koodos

2008-12-30T09:16:00.000-08:00

Koodos has established a platform for famous fashion brands to publish their overstocks. Koodos features over 150 of the world's best known brands offering its customers significant discounts to the full retail price.
The brand is able to control the price at which they offer their goods, with Koodos receiving a commission on the sales made.
Koodos also makes its own purchases and runs special time limited promotions to its many hundreds of thousands of members.

Mind Candy

2008-12-30T08:54:00.000-08:00

Mind Candy is one of the world's leading developers of
social multi-player games, helping kids (and big kids!)
around the world play and connect.
Its first game Perplex City required players to solve extremely challenging puzzles to locate a missing treasure.

Its latest game, Moshi Monsters, is aimed at young children and is growing very rapidly. These puzzles are at least mostly solvable by the average Venture Capitalist.

Moo

2008-12-30T08:38:00.000-08:00

Moo loves to print.
An on-demand printing company with a unique technology which enables every item ordered in a set to be different.
Famous for its mini cards, Moo has extended its range to encompass Business Cards (regular size, but remarkable in their quality, variety and packaging), Greeting cards and other stationery.
Moo has a strong, loyal and growing following who provide each other and the company with inspiring new ideas for formats, content and uses.
Based in London, more than half Moo's products are sold in the USA.

LoveFilm

2008-12-30T08:28:00.000-08:00

Lovefilm is a leading European home entertainment company with over 600,000 active subscriber households.
* In the last 2 years, launched in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Germany
* Top 3 Most Visited UK Site in Entertainment and Movies
* UK's largest range - Over 65,000 titles
* World class partners with exclusive relationships
* Lowest-cost DVD rental platform in Europe
* Market leaders in digital film delivery with the largest movie download catalogue in Europe

Digivate

2008-12-30T08:20:00.000-08:00

Digivate is a leading ecommerce agency which builds ecomerce websites, provides a fully managed service for these sites as well as offering marketing services such as email marketing, Paid search, Affiliate program managment and SEO consultancy.