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Broadcast Your Future Plans – FutureYear.com

sree — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:52:22 +0000

What it does:
Broadcast your future plans & events, share them with friends and explore your future…

How it beats the competition:
Where FutureYear fits in – Your future! You have Facebook for catching up with past friends made and viewing past photos etc. Twitter is all about the present, what is happening right now around the world. FutureYear looks beyond your past and present and asks what are you and your friends doing in the future.

FutureYear is all about your next 12 months. Broadcast what you have planned, where you’ll be around the world, and what your ambitions are for the next year. Share with friends, even if they’re just ideas at the moment!

Explore the future with FutureYear! Search for events by date, topic or location to find stuff to do. Bored next weekend? Find out what is on in your area or what your friends will be up too!

Site:
http://www.futureyear.com

Twitter:
http://twitter.com/#!/futureyear

Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/FutureYear/160640460668358

MyMeetingProfessional.com – Gateway to Business Information to Help Ensure That Your Conference or Meeting is a Success

admin — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 18:32:27 +0000

What it does:
My Meeting Professional is the gateway to business information to help ensure that your conference or meeting is a success. More than that, it is a social hub for new ideas, shared knowledge and insight. A community sharing and profiting from new connections, strategies and tactics in the event planning space.

How it beats the competition:
We aim to share the latest views and news in the events/conferences/meetings sector but most importantly enable every professional in these areas to learn, share and develop their skills.

Site:
http://www.mymeetingprofessional.com/

Twitter:
http://twitter.com/#!/my_meeting_pro

Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/My-Meeting-Professional/217535544936261

Giveashout.com/SimplyEvents.com – What’s On Your Calendar?

admin — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:46:06 +0000

What it does:
Add your future social activities and events to your Giveashout.com calendar. Mark your next concert at the arena, get-togethers with friends, your child’s next school play, next week’s dentist appointment, a sports competition, TV appearance, sales event, religious service, your next seminar–you name it! Anything you do can be shouted out on your own social agenda.

Share it with friends and family privately or across your favorite social network websites (Facebook, Twitter, MSN Live, Google Buzz, Linkedin and MySpace) with a single click.

Track your favorite organization’s events or public figure’s calendar and discover all of the cool activities they are sharing; make your next weekend by adding their events to your calendar and continue to connect with people who share your interests.

Check in, earn, and collect stickers that can be eventually redeemed for cool coupons and prizes. We want to make it fun and convenient!

So, what’s on your calendar?

How it beats the competition:

Design, Features, usability, convenience.
Share your events across your social networks
Share not what you are doing but where you are going.
Check-in and get rewards
All your plans and events in your social calendar.

Site:
http://www.giveashout.com

Accept Online Registrations and Payments for Events, Training Classes, Conferences, Seminars or Fundraising Events for Free – Eventzilla.net

admin — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:00:57 +0000

What it does:
Eventzilla is an online event registration and ticketing software for anyone hosting an event, conference, seminar, fundraising event or a training workshop in 23+ countries.

More than 1000 event organizers from 15 countries use Eventzilla

To accept registrations & payments online and offline
Promote events on Facebook & Twitter and
Manage attendee communications & cancellations.

How it beats the competition:
Eventzilla is free for Event organizers (Attendees pay a small convenience fee for paid events)

You can setup a professional looking event page and start accepting registrations and payments online in less than 5 minutes.

Site:
http://www.eventzilla.net

Blog:
http://www.eventzilla.net/blog

Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/eventzilla

Twitter:
@Eventzilla

Winkio – Let’s Take The Pulse Of The World

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:00:43 +0000

What it does:
Winkio is a social network based on microblogging that lets its users record and track their feelings, doings and concerns while sharing them with their friends and the world. The data collected is used to take the world’s pulse and to present the big picture with maps, charts and tag clouds.

Ever wondered how the world is feeling? What people on the planet are doing? What are their concerns? How current events affect all that? Or maybe you’d like to be more in touch on how your buddies are doing? Well, that’s exactly what Winkio’s worldwide experiment is all about: you share your pulse, you care about your buddies, and we all take the pulse of the world!
You let the world know

How it beats the competition:
Winkio is a social experiment which goal is to use a social network to get the big picture

Site:
http://www.winkio.com

Located It – Discover and share events

admin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:03:24 +0000

What it does:
We are a map based website that allows users to discover local events in their area as well as share their own for free.

The site is still in the early stages, with many planned features for the future. We are based in London and are currently trying to build our user base in this area.

Any feedback or suggestions would be welcomed.

How it beats the competition:
For people searching for things to do our site offers a very quick way to visualise upcoming events around them.

We also have a filter system that makes finding events by category very easy.

For those sharing their events we offer a great way to get exposure. Unlike typical social networking fan pages, people find out about events by searching a location, and therefore are not required to be existing fans to find out about the event.

Site:
http://www.located.it/

Mixform – Portfolio Websites for Filmmakers, Actors and Visual Artists

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:30:46 +0000

What it does:
Professionally Designed Portfolios. Great for Actors, Filmmakers, and Visual Artists. Get a free account and create your website, nothing to install.

How it beats the competition:
Mixform uses the freemium business model. The difference between our pricing and everyone else’s is that our baseline service includes the ability to use your own custom domain name. The domain name can be purchased from any number of vendors and readily integrates with Mixform. This sets Mixform legions ahead of anyone else. The only remembrance of Mixform on your site is a small link in the footer, which is hardly noticeable. In fact, most custom designed sites have a similar link in its footer in recognition of the site designer.

Once you get past the initial shock of the ability to host a custom domain for free, Mixform has a great set of tools to quickly build your website. Our Ajax based pages allow you to upload, resize, and crop pictures, edit titles, summaries, biography, projects, albums, and a variety of different event types. The available sections are Home, News, Events, Projects, Videos, Resume, About, and a Contact form that sends mail straight to your email address. You can click and drag the sections around, putting things exactly where you want them. We also have a series of templates to choose from, all of which are professional grade. It’s easy to find one that will match your taste, and can be switched later if you like.

Site:
http://mixform.com

AlertGrid – A Different Approach To Monitoring

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:00:33 +0000

AlertGrid - A Different Approach To Monitoring

What it does:
AlertGrid solves problem of early notifications on custom events received from systems/scripts/apps/machines. It is entirely up to a user how he is going to feed AlertGrid with events. AlertGrid can no only handle events that occur but also those which did NOT occur. An extremely simple API is exposed to accept events. Currently AlertGrid offers notification by phone, sms and email.

How it beats the competition:
1) It is lightweight and very simple to integrate. An average developer can start feeding AlertGrid with events in a very short time.
2) It can be integrated with any event source, so it allows for creating bespoke monitoring solutions.
3) Notifications (phone, SMS) work world-wide.
4) Once integrated, event handling rules can be easily created and maintained by non-technical people, that do not know anything about integrations, event sources etc.

Site:
http://alert-grid.com

Campussizle.com – Sizzling Campus Search

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:00:34 +0000

What it does:
What is Campussizzle?
Simply put, Campussizzle is an online extension of your campus noticeboard. Right now, everyone uses the noticeboard to put up advertisements about events happening around college, about stuff they want to sell, stuff they want to buy, services they offer, services they need etc. We have put all of that and more, online on one website.

Why do we think it is useful?
We happen to think this is extremely beneficial to every student. Listings on the campus noticeboard can only be seen by people who have physical access to it, i.e. who can visit it to post their ads, to browse through other ads etc. But what about outstation students, or students who live away from campus, or students who simply can’t be bothered to walk all the way to the noticeboard? That’s where we come in. We have created this simple yet ingenious solution to all your problems. Using a website to post and view ads is a LOT cheaper (free) and less time consuming than advertising through the noticeboard or newspapers. (Yup, that means a lot more money to spend on more important things such as that bag you’ve been dying to buy, or the new ipod.) Your advertisements can be a lot longer and more detailed than they would on the noticeboard, and you don’t have to worry about them getting replaced or ripped off. If words aren’t enough to describe the amazing product you have to sell, you can even include a photo to show it off!

What can you do with it?
This is your space. Use it to post advertisements about anything you want to buy, anything you want to sell or an upcoming event that you want to tell people about!

Looking for accommodation? Looking for a housemate? Looking for a tutor?*
All you have to do is log on to the website and select your university on the top, and then select a category from the left to see all the advertisements in the area near you. Search by keyword and filter the results by campus area or to find relevant postings in the area near you.

Want to sell a book? Want to sell your old laptop? Need a job? Need to start a car pool?*
You can also post advertisements specifying what you need to buy or sell using the option on the right hand side of the site. Simply fill in the basic details about your service or product, and verify your e-mail address to have the advertisement posted on the site within minutes.

Want to tell people about your upcoming play? Need to publicize your college fest?*
Publicize events by selecting the ‘post an event’ option on the right hand side of the screen. Fill in the details about your event, add a description, add photographs or images and verify your e-mail address to have it added to the events calendar on the right.

*This list is only indicative and the actual list of categories is far more extensive. We could just go on and on and on and on…

How it beats the competition:
We are the first to come-up with this concept, so we don’t have competition online. But our competition will be noticeboards, newspaper ads. We think this will be extremely beneficial to every student. Listings on the campus noticeboard can only be seen by people who have physical access to it, i.e. who can visit it to post their ads, to browse through other ads etc. But what about students who live away from campus, or students who simply can’t be bothered to walk all the way to the noticeboard? That’s where we come in. We have created this simple yet ingenious solution to all your problems. Using a website to post and view ads is a LOT cheaper (free) and less time consuming than advertising through the noticeboard or newspapers. Your advertisements can be a lot longer and more detailed than they would on the noticeboard, and you don’t have to worry about them getting replaced or ripped off. If words aren’t enough to describe the amazing product you have to sell, you can even include a photo to show it off!

Site:
http://www.campussizzle.com

Actual News – Information Portal and News Agreggator

Charles — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:00:29 +0000

What it does:
Information Portal and News Agreggator.

English version - http://actualnewsonline.info/
German version - http://newsaktuell.info/

The format of the site is made to be simple, practical and direct, leading the user to the most updated information available in not only a specific, but a set of current subjects, all within just a few clicks – Actual News is tailored to save you time looking around the internet for current information on news and events.

Actual News is also integrated with YouTube, Wikipedia, and the leading Social Networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Google Buzz, FriendFeed, allowing you to grab and/or share headlines off the site straight from a range of Social sites.

How it beats the competition:
Direct and practical approach to current affairs.

Site:
http://actualnewsonline.info/