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Meebo is the Web's live communications platform. Meebo provides instant messaging and group chat at meebo.com and on partner sites across the Web. Founded in September 2005, over 30 million people use Meebo monthly, either at meebo.com, or through Meebo Rooms on partner sites. Meebo's investors include Sequoia Capital, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and now JAFCO Ventures, Time Warner Investments, and KTB Ventures. Visit meebo.com to connect with friends live on the Web. |
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Widgetbox helps people express, connect, create and inform using web widgets that can be easily shared and distributed anywhere on the web. Widgetbox has the largest selection of web widgets and the most comprehensive set of tools for the management and distribution of your web widgets. Widgetbox serves both the developers and consumers of widgets. For more information, please see www.widgetbox.com. |
| Bebo | |
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Bebo is the next generation social networking site where members can stay in touch with their College friends, connect with friends, share photos, discover new interests and just hang out. |
| Friendster | |
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With more than 40 million members, Friendster is the best way to stay in touch with your friends and it's the fastest way to discover the people and things that matter to you most. |
| Flixster | |
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Flixster is a community for movie fans of all shapes and sizes. Whether you are a die-hard horror fan or lover of romantic comedies (or both), Flixster is a place where you can find others who share your taste and through them discover new movies that you will love. Only a year old, Flixster is already one of the largest movie sites on the web with over 10 million registered users and over 300 million movie ratings. |
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WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on hundreds of thousands of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day. |
| Fliptrack | |
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Fliptrack, based in Mountain View, California, uses a patent-pending technology that enables users to create their own music videos by combining and synchronizing personal photos, text and effects with Fliptrack’s catalog of licensed music. Users can view their music videos at www.fliptrack.com or upload them to other social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook or Friendster. |
| Nettwerk Records | |
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Nettwerk Music Group is Canada's leading privately owned record label and artist management company, responsible for managing some of North America's biggest artists like Sarah McLachlan, Avril Lavigne, Barenaked Ladies and many others. Nettwerk has several offices located around the world including New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Nashville and London; with the main office in Vancouver, B.C. |
| Pump Audio | |
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Founded in 2001, Pump Audio is a new kind of agent for independent musicians, digitally connecting them with buyers in the mainstream media. With Pump Audio, artists can license their music into productions without giving up any ownership, while TV and advertising producers, independent filmmakers, web designers, UGC and other content creators can discover new music ready for use. |
| SNOCAP | |
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SNOCAP's unique digital registry provides real-time management of online licensing, rights and distribution of digital music, making it easy for artists and labels to sell music directly to their fans over the Internet and helping to power a more vibrant digital music marketplace. Using SNOCAP's MyStores, independent artists can sell their music on any website and via online retailers anywhere, anytime, while remaining fully in control of the licensing and rights. |
| Gigya | |
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Gigya develops social-sharing tools that help users distribute content and simplify the sharing process. Wildfire is a free tool that boosts the sharing and posting of website content via social networks & blogs. Without leaving a website, users can one-click post directly into their profile or blog, increasing distribution of content and length of user session. Gigya Wildfire partners include Bolt, Metacafe, Snapvine, pYzam and many others. To learn more about Gigya Wildfire and get started, go to www.gigya.com/wildfire. Gigya is funded by Benchmark Capital and First Round Capital. |
| Gizmoz | |
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Founded in 2003, Gizmoz offers consumers a new generation of character- based visual expression for use across their digital lives. The Gizmoz service makes it easy to create, customize, animate and share photo realistic 3D talking characters and videos that allow consumers to communicate and express themselves in more realistic and imaginative ways. Gizmoz is funded by Benchmark Capital, Columbia Capital and Jagen, with offices in Menlo Park, CA and Israel. For more information, visit www.gizmoz.com. |
| PlayFirst | |
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PlayFirst is a leading publisher focused on creating shared casual game experiences around lasting original brands. Committed to building casual gameplay rich in story and character, PlayFirst works with talented internal and external developers to bring mass market games to multiple platforms, including PC, Mac, mobile, handheld and console. The company's portfolio includes the world-renowned Diner Dash® franchise as well as top-selling games such as Wedding Dash™, Chocolatier™, and Dream Chronicles™. Founded in 2004 by veterans of Internet portals, traditional games publishers, entertainment software, and technology firms, PlayFirst is funded by venture capital firms Mayfield Fund, Trinity Ventures and Rustic Canyon Partners. |
| Clearspring | |
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Clearspring provides tools to help developers, publishers, advertisers and media companies meet the challenges of the distributed Web where users want to make, find and share their own content and online experiences. Clearspring's tools transform content and applications into widgets, small contained applications that can be grabbed by users and personalized on their own Web sites. Clearspring widgets can be syndicated easily across multiple Web and social networking sites and Clearspring offers robust analytics to track the spread of widgets in real-time. Headquartered outside Washington, D.C., Clearspring leads the world in the global delivery of widgets, having delivered in excess of 4 billion widgets (check our homepage ticker!) to date. Clearspring customers include the NBA, Universal Pictures, the Indianapolis Colts and RockYou. For more information about Clearspring Technologies and how to use widgets in your business or to join its developer community, please visit www.clearspring.com. |
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Webs.com, formerly Freewebs, is a Social Media company comprising both social publishing and social applications. The company creates social publishing properties and social applications that allow people around the world to tell their stories and to connect in a vibrant, fun and dynamic way. |
| Quantcast | |
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Quantcast is the world's first open Internet ratings service. The free service measures more than 30 million Web destinations and billions of Internet visits each month to produce comprehensive traffic, demographic and lifestyle profiles of online audiences. Quantcast's models are derived from visits by more than 250 million Internet users, or 65 percent of the U.S. Internet market and 35 percent of the global Internet market. Quantcast helps advertisers gauge the audiences of millions of sites and services while enabling publishers to accurately represent their sites, videos and widgets through direct measurement. The company was founded by a team of web analytics experts committed to making accurate and insightful internet audience information available on the Web. |
| Hi5 | |
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hi5 is a global brand for young people, where over 50 million members have established accounts and personal pages. From Miami to Mumbai, Lima to Lisbon, Sydney to San Francisco, hi5 is the place where young people come to stay in touch with friends, meet new people, create & explore content, and express themselves. Each day, millions of people across the globe come together to discover, connect, and communicate on hi5. hi5 is dedicated to bringing people together and making it easy to communicate all over the World. |
| Like.com | |
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Like.com is the first true visual search engine, where the contents of photos are used to search and retrieve similar items. Like.com believes that there are literally millions of items that are difficult to describe via text-based search and where individual tastes are all over the map -- think of your favorite pair of earrings or shoes and what an ordeal it can be to find something new but in a similar style. Like.com utilizes Likeness Technology™ to create a digital signature that describes the photo's contents and enables a more accurate search for similar looking items and products. The initial launch focuses on handbags, jewelry, shoes, and watches - allowing users to search and purchase items from thousands of leading and boutique brands. The company will very quickly add clothing and a number of other aesthetically oriented product categories. |
| Tagged | |
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Tagged.com is a premier social networking destination and an ideal place for advertisers to reach their target audience. Tagged provides a fun, safe, and exciting environment for people to showcase their personalities and talents, and to connect with friends and meet new ones. Tagged is experiencing dramatic growth. Advertisers love Tagged because they get clear, uncomplicated access to our audience. Our team is dedicated to making every advertiser successful and can develop and support any type of ad campaign.. |
| Zazzle | |
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Infinite and Instant, Zazzle is the only, on-demand retail platform for consumers and major brands, offering billions of retail quality, one-of-a-kind products shipped within 24 hours. Offering the largest library of customizable digital images from world-class brands, Zazzle enables content owners to unlock their entire libraries of content, making it available for purchase and customization by consumers. Through Zazzle’s innovative on-demand retail and technology platform, users can instantly create, customize to fit their personal style, purchase and sell a near infinite array of products online. The company launched in 2005 and is based in Redwood City, California. |
| Tapatap | |
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Tapatap is a social contest community where users can create, enter and play user generated or sponsored contests by some of today's major consumer brands. Tapatap is the first social contest community on both the mobile and web that gives consumers the opportunity to play for fun and prizes. Harnessing the power of mobile 2.0, Tapatap combines pop culture and game show logic, to deliver the most unique consumer mobile entertainment experience. Based in San Mateo, CA, Tapatap launched in June 2007 and is privately funded by Gabriel Venture Partners. Tapatap is on the web at http://www.tapatap.com and on your mobile phone at m.tapatap.com. |
