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LoKast, connect instantly while on the go

Leave a Comment Posted by on September 25, 2011
LoKast

LoKast

LoKast is a mobile application provider based in New York City. The company helps people connect with people you physically meet while on the go. It provides a better shared experience with its smart technology and digital expertise.

The company provides instant social networking, especially targeting local networking because, after all, you meet people who usually live nearby. LoKast offers local file sharing from one mobile to another, and video and photographs sharing. It is also largely beneficial for businesses that need to deal within the local community on an everyday basis.

This proximity-based social networking app makes it easy and fast for people to connect with the social network of people they meet in bars, football games, music concerts etc. If you want to swap a photo or a contact detail with the wonderful couple you met at the Chinese restaurant, LoKast is there to make the “connect” quick and simple.

Recently, LoKast launched its 3.0 iOS app that allows users to connect, group message and share media within a social networking browser. The only thing you need is WiFi, 3G and Bluetooth to run this app.

LoKast as the “disposable social network” can be used effectively by professionals, businesses and others to share, connect, inform and entertain while they are mobile. Many organizations now only depend on online media for marketing and promotion. LoKast can be just the service they need.

It is true that with Facebook and Twitter on mobile, you can send and receive messages to your phone from anywhere. But with LoKast, you can exchange much more than just messages. It is a complete interaction program to help you connect with people you meet. You can stay in touch even afterwards on LoKast. Of course, you can go to e-mailing and Facebook if/when the acquaintance turns into a friend.

Specifically designed for maintaining new relationships, LoKast’s tagline ‘Connect your physical life, on LoKast’ says it all.

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TripLingo revolutionizes language learning and helps you learn languages very easily

Leave a Comment Posted by on September 25, 2011
TripLingo

TripLingo

Triplingo app is a new generation language learning tool. It revolutionizes language learning and helps you learn languages very easily. The tool comes as an app for Apple iPhone and comes at a price of $9.99 and is offered in five languages: German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Dari.

The tool has a new way of teaching language. Upon the first startup of the application, it asks certain questions from a person, which generates a personalized phrase list catering to his needs and requirements. This is helpful in assessing the skill level of the person wishing to learn. Phrases and words in preferred languages can also be viewed on based on situations such as shopping, etc. A new feature that adds flavor to the app is that not only makes you learn phrases, but it helps you in learning casual and slang forms of saying one thing. So it can help you a lot in blending into communities very well.

Triplingo is very user friendly and it comes with a very simple and sleek design. Everyone can learn using it in a matter of minutes.

The tool has also many additional features; it awards you badges as you progress along the course, by answering to questions asked by the app. This might also prove as motivation for learning more!

Triplingo comes with an audio functionality. Learning a language must also involve speaking as well. Just tap on the word that comes on the screen and you will hear it in audio form.

The tool also comes with a translation into English feature. Triplingo not only offers translations of phrases, but it gives you the literal meaning of the word. So go deep into the new world that you wish to adapt to. You can also learn the cultures of the language very easily.

Read more about TripLingo on StartupTunes Business Directory

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Alternative.to aims to find you best alternatives for almost everything

Leave a Comment Posted by on September 25, 2011
Alternative.to

Alternative.to

Alternative.to is an online resource site that is there to help people. It can help you in finding you alternate to a word or phrase, no matter what it is. Not interesting? Well, find it out for yourself.

The tool offers you alternate to anything. Search for iPhone 4 and it would give the best alternates for iPhone like Galaxy Tablet and Dell Streak 5. Alternative.to can offer you best travel plans, best places to visit, best places to eat, best shopping sites, best zoos and what not!

The tool offers suggestion using complex algorithms in analyzing a person‘s need and requirement. Also, the tool builds upon suggestions of alternates proposed by common people. Then there are experts that analyze the suggestions placed forward by the people. The tool adapts using machine learning algorithms to place best choice in front of a person, who is willing to take advice. The search also optimizes itself along the lines of number of people suggesting that thing.

The tool is basically a suggestion toolbox that offers you good advice and helps you in making better decisions for shoes, clothing, school, bags, books etc.

The best part is that Alternative.to is free to use in any way you like. This is what you call free advice. No registration and no money used and you are getting free advice. Vow! People also add content to the search engine freely and you are not charged for anything that the site offers. For personalized search and getting narrow search results because of constraints posed by the person taking advice, one has to register. So one can add content as well as get personal results using Alternative.to by joining freely. The site also holds frequent prize competition for content providers. So get ready for giving useful suggestions to people.

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Cull TV – Experience Music Television Into The Internet

Leave a Comment Posted by on September 24, 2011
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Cull TV

Cull TV is online music hub for the Internet’s advanced generation. Its user base is people, according to whom the MTV and Channel [V] are dedicated minutely towards music. The music channels are more about reality shows and talking rather than pure music. But Cull TV has straightened ways for music enthusiasts.

The tool is an online video management system, where the users can manage their collection and musical tastes and share it with anyone. Cull TV lets you manage your music and videos into playlists for effective management.

Cull TV was a dream for the music fans out there. Using this tool, users can watch different channels of music videos. Side by Side, they can create their own music channels and watch all day long.

The tool has a free sign up utility. There is no trial or limited access to the tools that are available. Also, there is an additional utility that allows users to login through Facebook.

Cull TV streams its video from YouTube. So either you watch the channels that are available or create your own and enjoy. The tool also starts playing suggested videos and music, giving people a new look into the music world where they are introduced to historical bands, featured bands or new incoming bands. Music enthusiasts can also analyze the development of a genre of their choice by going through the suggestions placed for you by the suggestions’ algorithm of the tool.

The tool offers an effective search tool for channels as well as songs and artists. Users of the tool can search for their favorite artists and then, along the suggestions find out any new additions to the flavor or genre. The tool is used by millions of music and videos lovers and has been a new addition to the online music collection. Just add videos to your collection and share it with your peers on Facebook and twitter!

Read more about Cull TV at StartupTunes Business Directory.

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Indulge in targeted shopping with Get.com

1 Comment Posted by on September 24, 2011
Get.com

Get.com

Get.com is an amazing product search tool through which you can find a product you are looking for. This service lets you see the votes that a product receives along with reviews by users. On a single page, you can see multiple products of the same utility with votes and reviews so that you can make a decision to buy or not to buy within seconds.

This website works as a community where anybody and everybody can review and rate product/s. Every product comes with product description so you instantly know the details of the item along with its photograph. Get.com serves in the same way that Yelp and TripAdvisor serves for their niche market namely local services and travel respectively.

The categories on the website are electronics, automotive, photography, make-up and beauty, parenting and all. There are related questions on the right hand side of the website which guides a user to similar products that s/he might be interested in. Moreover, you can, with a click, share your Get.com activity with friends on Facebook, Twitter and Google+.

Its user-friendly interface also allows you to converse with others who are looking and rating the same product. Through interaction, you can easily get genuine reviews about a product, which is essential for a good buy. Get.com makes product discovery easy and fast.

With Get.com, you do not need to search through long listings of products, which take a lot of time and effort. This website puts similar products on the same page which gives the buyer various options to choose from.

To minimize fake votes, Get.com gives the link and the photograph of the person/s who have voted for a product. This ensures genuineness and increases the credibility of the website. The site has launched a Q&A platform to help users get crowd-sourced recommendations for products quickly. Get.com is all set to be a top web resource for buyers from across the world with their outstanding services.

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Visible Measures – Online Video Marketing Platform for Advertisers and Publishers

Leave a Comment Posted by on September 23, 2011
Visible Measures

Visible Measures

Visible Measures is an online video ad platform that offers many services to advertisers and video creators and publishers. It offers measurement solutions for both the publishers of the video content and the advertisers. The publishers are the creators and hosts of the video while the advertisers are the media companies and advertising agencies.

The tool offers users, which are the publishers and advertisers to measure the video content consumptions and the viral distributions for effective management of the published and advertised video content. The users provided with the online video measurement solutions of the Visible Measures are powered by two mainstream technologies: Viral Reach Database and Video Metrics Engine.

The solutions provided by the tool assist the users in understanding the needs and requirements and habits of their audiences so that users can able to predict the market of their content and also become more inclined to the needs of their important audiences. This would in turn affect their businesses and therefore increase their market share.

There are numerous services provided by Visible Measures. It provides a showcase of important and resourceful tools that include monitor campaign performance, competitive benchmarks, performance measurement, distributions and research. VM also produces easy to use insightful reports to keep track of the market and businesses of the users.

Visible Measures uploads videos of the publishers and the advertisers onto more than 40 different video sharing destinations in matters of a single click. In turn, it provides you with control over your brand placement. Also, it gives you clear and complete visibility into your viral video placements and measures audience growth by tracking across hundreds of video sharing destinations. It keeps the data of your videos, including every stream, every day and preserves the interaction of the every audience with every video that you have placed.

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Rentlord – Rent in and rent out accommodation easily through your trusted freind network

1 Comment Posted by on September 23, 2011
Rentlord

Rentlord

Rentlord is an online service for renting out or renting in a house. It works for both the parties; the landlords and the tenants. Rentlord website offers you to add listings of place/s you want to put on rent for landowners. For those looking to rent an accommodation with or without housemates, the website offers millions of listings of landowners if you want to rent out a place. Landlords can advertise their home to thousands of interested people and even finalize the deal with a contract on the same website.

Those looking for a place on rent can not only find the perfect accommodation, but can also communicate with the house owner/s through Rentlord. And there’s more. Through Rentlord, you can invite others to join you in your new home, split bills with housemates and even receive timely reminders about your rent and other bills.

The service is completely secure and is featured by BBC radio, seedcamp and Paypal. Rentlord makes renting simple. Everybody knows how hard it is to scan through various house listings on the net or in the newspaper and then use another tool like email or phone to communicate and finalize the contract. Rentlord gives you access to many others looking to share an accommodation in your city, making it simpler for you to get together quickly and share a place.

Apart from scanning through rental lists, it is even harder to find a reliable agent who will get you a good deal with minimum of fuss. Rentlord makes every step of renting a house easy. It guides you at each step so that you are comfortable and confident of choosing the right house to rent or of picking up the right tenant.

Rentlord provides you with the starting, the management and the closure of tenancy, all at one place. Through its user-friendly interface, you can chat with interested parties whenever you want. This is Internet’s first social network for tenants, housesharers and landlords.

Rentlord has a presence on Facebook and Twitter where you can follow them and get to know the latest deals. you move home

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Prezly – Integrated Solution For Social Media Press Releases

Leave a Comment Posted by on September 23, 2011
Prezly

Prezly

Prezly is an online content management system that will monitor your social presence on the World Wide Web. It lets you build effective social media press releases. The tool offers users to organize, publish, and track press releases.

The tool offers users to create using content of every type, whether they are audio, images or other sorts of attachment files. Side by Side, Prezly lets you embed videos from YouTube and Vimeo. Also, users can see blogs referring to their press releases, which would help in identifying the social context of the content. Users are also facilitated to send summaries of their press releases to their peers for effective management at work. All in all, Prezly wraps up into a domain name for the company of the user.

The tool simplifies building and publishing effective press releases, so users with no design experience can build effective press releases that may include audio, YouTube videos and other online content. Also users can monitor their marketing strategies and campaigns through detailed analytics using tools included in the package.

Prezly has a user friendly environment, exposing its clean and organized design. Reports of effective strategies are available in simple to read charts and graphs. The tool includes familiar interfaces, so that they can be user friendly for users to create and share press released through the social networking sites.

The tool comes in different packages, adhering to the choice of the user and company’s requirement. There is a free trial for getting used to the environment and to allow room for choice in order to make a better decision.

Prezly is a great tool for users, in need of creating professional press releases, who lack in design skills. The tool is a simple to use management and monitoring system where users can create and manage press releases, effectively.

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Aventura, Complete software solution for doctors and nurses, raises $13 million

1 Comment Posted by on September 22, 2011
Aventura

Aventura

Aventura, a Denver based software solution company, has raised $13 million in its very first round of institutional venture funding. Major investors include HLM Venture Partners, Excel Venture Management and Siemens Venture Capital.

The company provides solutions to hospitals through fast, secure and effective computer applications and tools. Aventura has developed a framework that works with people on the go because most of the nurses and doctors at hospitals and clinics need to be in motion most of the time. This is the greatest strength of this software.

The company talks about Aventura as the virtual desktop world based on one thing: How doctors and nurses actually work. They have researched a lot of hospitals and clinics, studied the environment and the needs before developing the product. Aventura is the complete software solution for the exact needs of healthcare organizations.

For ease of access where many nurses might be using the same desktop, Aventura has come up with an innovative method. Every user holds a card that s/he needs to tap at a device below the monitor, and after entering the password, h/she gets access to what she had left the desktop with. This way multiple people can use the same computer yet retain their last working page when they log-on again.

Aventura comes with instant sub-5 second log-on and log-offs, automatic updating and back-end EMR printing. The best part is that Aventura does not need you to upload to add anything to your computer. It works with what you already have.

Howard Diamond, CEO, brought the start-up, Course Technology, an education venture, to $75 million in five years. With a team of experts and an investment of $13 million, Aventura can sweep into hospitals and clinics with its innovation and usability.

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Style.ly, one-stop shop for buying and selling fashion

4 Comments Posted by on September 22, 2011
Style.ly

Style.ly

Style.ly is a shopping resource where you can buy and sell women’s clothing and accessories all with the click of a mouse. The website welcomes women to browse through their ‘Coteries’ of some amazing dresses and accessories. The number of Facebook likes below the items informs you about their popularity.

Through Style.ly, a person can see the item, view its price, choose to buy and share the experience with friends on social networking. The price of items range from as little as $5 to over $100.

Not only buying, Style.ly also encourages you to sell stuff on its website. It easily puts the photograph of the item into its chic showcase. Payment is guaranteed. Their Facebook Page is already much popular with women and has more than 10,000 likes. A buyer or a seller can share his/her experiences on their Facebook Page too.

One of the greatest advantages of Style.ly is that it is available 24×7. It drastically cuts down the time you spend looking for that perfect dress or matching accessory in different stores, comparing prices and quality. Style.ly’s user-friendly interface makes shopping a pleasurable experience. The company brings shopping to your favorite social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, and also on iphone!

Style.ly works with a group of expert fashionists who have deep knowledge of fashion. They turn your photograph of an item into a listing. Once the item is on the website, Style.ly promotes it through various ways on the Internet, and soon hundreds of buyers are seeing the listing and clicking to buy.

Items are categorized on the basis of title, description and photos so that users can quickly get to see the details of the item without wasting much time.

Shopping alone is never fun. On Style.ly, you can browse through the listings with your girlfriends even when at home. If in dearth of cash, one can always sell old items on Style.ly and buy new stuff from the same website.

Style.ly, as of now, works within the United States.

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MeetingKing Makes Meetings Simple And Adds Productivity

1 Comment Posted by on September 22, 2011
Meetingking

Meetingking

MeetingKing is exactly what its name suggests, the king of managing meetings. It makes the organization, participation and execution of meetings easy and efficient. Instead of using multiple tools for managing meetings, MeetingKing makes all tools available at one place.

You do not need to add information multiple times at different locations. Previous notes and conversations are easily accessible to ease decision-making. This collaboration tool integrates all the processes and documentation of all and every meeting. MeetingKing account is free for participants.

Maximization of human resources is something that every organization needs to do in order to survive and grow. Meetings, of course, are an integral part of that. This is where MeetingKing comes in handy. You and your team hold conversations on MeetingKing and you no longer need to look for old mails, suffer misunderstandings among/with the staff because of ineffective ways of communication or lose important information due to scattered tools.

What’s more? MeetingKing will make a list of things that needs to get done and send you reminders. You will also see updates of what others need to work on for you. Even if you are not part of the team, you can always check in and see what others discussed and finalized in a meeting.

There are provisions to include tasks that you reserve for the next meeting so that you stay focused on what you need to do.

MeetingKing is useful for company CEOs, managers, school administrators, venture capitalists, universities, corporates, lawyers, businessmen, entrepreneurs and anybody who regularly hold meetings. It cuts down the time of management and helps to increase productivity through better communication. Moreover, the participants of the meeting will, with frequent meeting, feel themselves part of the team that will help in better working environment, morale booster and increased productivity.

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Project management is fun when you have tools like PlayNice.ly

1 Comment Posted by on September 21, 2011
Playnice.ly

Playnice.ly

PlayNice.ly is a project management system specially designed to keep track of projects and the time spent on them. Now you can keep track of projects that are under supervision, whether they are individually maintained or group run.

The tool allows perfect document management and collaboration between every type of business. It does not depend where it is software development, freelancing, writing or banking.

The tool is completely web based and brings in additional advantage: it is extremely cost effective compared to the management and collaboration solutions provided by the competitors.

PlayNice.ly serves for every type of document management whether it is photos, coding scripts, or documents. Just share your documents among your peers for effective use of time and work. One can always divide project among sub-projects and allocate an area for effective use by all the team members of the project.

The tool comes in with an added advantage for people who work hour based, like freelancer, because PlayNice.ly keeps track of the time spent on each project, so that it is easy for distribute time among various projects that are under consideration at that interval of time.

PlayNice.ly takes the idea of art seriously so that one can manage their activities and the allotted time to them with fun. The tool comes in several pricing and hosting size offers. There is also a free trial for getting used to the environment and it extends to a paid plan so that one can choose according to the individual or team needs.

The tool is useful for clients in terms of security because one can get a personalized environment where all things are kept in order. Also, it is a generic tool, that provides can cater for the needs of any industry and managers and team members alike can a lot time to their work according to their liking and requirement.

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Top10 raises $3.5 million in a Series A financing by Accel Partners, Idealab and Others

Leave a Comment Posted by on September 21, 2011
Top10

Top10.com

Top10, a London-based company, helps people share top 10 of almost everything. Top 10 actresses, top 10 clubbing holidays, top 10 zombie games, top 10 things to do in New York and so on. You can add an item that interests you, invite friends from social networking sites, add friends and share your Top 10 activities on Facebook, Twitter and Google+.

The company, Top10 Group Inc. was founded in 2011 and has raised $3.5 million in a Series A financing by Accel Partners, Founder Collective, Idealab, Forward Venture Partners and Shakil Khan.

Top10 is a recommendation platform that lets people share their experiences and recommend products, places and services to others. The primary aim of Top 10 is to help people make informed choices about what they buy and from where.

A recommendation platform in an age when most people are hooked on to the Internet for practical advice on products and services is a good idea. No wonder they could raise millions from venture capitalists for Top10.

The company talks about Top10 as the “ultimate platform to discover, create and share recommendations about the stuff you love”. Indeed, that is exactly what you will see on their website. Opinions about anything and everything can be found on Top10, which is aggregated under topics for easy access. A user can follow Top10 on Facebook and Twitter.

As the company CEO, Tom Leathes, summaries that they are building a platform for buying products based on people’s reviews. With more and more people turning to the Internet to check the reviews of a product before buying, Top10 seems to have placed themselves in the right place.

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Find the book you want to read with BookLikes

1 Comment Posted by on September 21, 2011
Booklikes

Booklikes

BookLikes is a resource that helps you in choosing which books to read according to your preference. When looking for a book to read, people generally depend on people with similar interests to make a recommendation. BookLikes makes it simple for you to interact with people of shared interests so that you get to read books that you want to read.

This excellent resource for bibliophiles uses an algorithm to recommend people who have similar interests in reading so that you can exchange not only books, but have discussions about them and their authors too.

BookLikes uses a unique algorithm that takes into account factors like reading preferences, book information and social activity to provide exact recommendations. A strong social connectedness where a user can share his/her bookshelf with their contacts on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn makes BookLikes exciting.

BookLikes looks especially beneficial when you consider how hard it is to grab a book that you are confident of liking. If you end up buying books that you do not finish reading, it is a sorry investment of your time and money. BookLikes is seen as “the missing link between Amazon and Facebook”.

On their website, booklikes.com, users are categorized into genres like biographies & autobiographies, business, historical fiction, mystery and crime, thrillers, horror, sci-fi and so on. A newbie can simply “follow” these people and discuss the genre.

The site also suggests people that you may know, most popular users and most active users. You can simply search for a book with the book title or the name of the author and see how many people on BookLikes have the book on their BookLikes. This is not only a good way to connect with readers, but is also beneficial for authors to connect with the readers of their books.

Within six months, BookLikes will be available in six more languages namely Chinese, Spanish, German, French, Japanese and Polish.

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Bring interaction to PowerPoint with ShakeSpeak

Leave a Comment Posted by on September 21, 2011
Shakespeak

Shakespeak

ShakeSpeak is a tool that brings interaction to PowerPoint and Apple’s Keynote. With the help of ShakeSpeak, you can get people from around the world to participate in a topic. It also has an online version so that you can connect your website/blog with presentation tools available in the market.

Let us take an example. You are marketing a product or a service, and have created a PowerPoint presentation. You want to get feedback. The options are either to put it up on a website/s or a blog/s. ShakeSpeak gives you more options. It provides people what none in the market can: SMS, Twitter and Internet.

Moreover, it keeps the identity of the speaker hidden. This proves to be a great advantage because sometimes people are reluctant from giving negative feedback. With ShakeSpeak, you get honest feedback because the identity of the commenter is kept anonymous.

ShakeSpeak is especially beneficial for Universities and schools. In recent demonstrations in leading universities of The Netherlands, professors and students both used ShakeSpeak and found the insights and opinions they received on their presentations impressive. They found that they could interact better. There was a lively discussion and students were not shy to voice their opinions, positive or negative, because the commentators remained anonymous.

To take maximum advantage of ShakeSpeak, you need a laptop with Internet and a mobile phone. Votes and short posts/presentations where people can send in their feedback through SMS, Twitter and mobile Internet make all the difference. ShakeSpeak makes it convenient for people to communicate their thoughts to you.

ShakeSpeak encourages sharing of thoughts, ideas and feelings. Customer feedback is of immense importance for any business, big or small. After all, customer is the king. To get an insight into what customers like or dislike is the first step towards a successful business, and that is where ShakeSpeak helps.

View more about  ShakeSpeak at StartupTunes Business Directory.

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