Grou.ps, a startup based in San Francisco, has secured a $1.1 Million Series A financing round in a deal led by Golden Horn Ventures. Grou.ps will also now be open-sourcing a restricted version of its code, with a view to spreading its collaboration tools. This move is based around the idea of commoditizing the platform faster and then taking advantage of the fact that they can then hire the best programmers out there. Currently Grou.ps has about 200,000 active users worldwide, after launching a public beta in April.
The site offers chat, blogs, wikis, forums, mailing lists, photo albums, bookmarking, calendaring and maps among other features. You can run all of your group’s collaboration tools from one Grou.ps domain using a single login. It also will mash with content from Flickr and YouTube. In fact if it sounds a little like Ning or Wetpaint, then that’s because it has several aspects in common with those sites. One of the main differences are that Ning - with $104 Million in backing - has a much larger number of users and also runs ads, whereas Grou.ps doesn’t (apart from the AdSense code group owners can add).
Source: TechCrunch
Grou.ps Pulls In $1.1 Million, Opens Up Code To Take On Ning
Choose the right Social Networking application.
If you are looking to establish your own community e.g social networking, here's a review completed by the geeks in TechCrunch. I agree with their finding about Ning. I actually use Ning in some of our project such as RandomPage.com (formerly known as Plogging.com) and DNConference.com Domain Name for Business.
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The news may overflow with stories about the social networking giants, such as Facebook and MySpace, but a horde of companies are doing their best to reduce the fundamental features of these websites to mere commodities. These up-and-coming companies provide so-called “white label” social networking platforms that enable their customers to build their own social networks (often from scratch) and to tailor those networks to a range of purposes.
The idea of white labeling a network is to make the platform provider as invisible as possible to the social network’s users and to brand the network with the builder’s identity or intent. While definitions of “social networking” may vary, social networks are primarily defined by member profiles and some sort of user generated content.
There are roughly three types of companies that have emerged in the space of white label social networking. The first provides hosted, do-it-yourself solutions with which customers can largely point and click their way to a brand new social network. Companies of this type interact minimally with their customers and rather focus on providing the network-building tools that they demand.
We have taken a sample of nine of these companies - Ning, KickApps, CrowdVine, GoingOn, CollectiveX, Me.com, PeopleAggregator, Haystack, and ONEsite - all of which provide free baseline services, and reviewed them individually below. We have also included the chart on the right summarizing all of these companies’ offerings. Credit for initial research into these companies goes to Jeremiah Owyang who compiled a comprehensive list of white label social networking services.
Source: TechCrunch
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The Brightcove Internet TV Platform
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The popularity of .TV domain extension is going up up up!
This is a follow up of my previous post about Big TV Networks are enthusiastic about .TV. The big companies prefer to use .TV to expand their online media brand. It is simply make sense to use .TV when advertising on local television network.
So I'm curious to see the latest trends of other domain extension comparing to .TV. I used Google Trends to produce this graph, click the image to see more detail of trend history.
Travel
This is an excellent add-on to your GEO .TV travel website. Visit Chicago-City.com or FairfaxCity.com to see how I embedded this video. For Travel Booking visit NorthAmerica.NET website.
The video is courtesy by Shocko of TravelGuide.TV
Knowing your visitors
I've been using Google web analytic for years but not paying attention to it. Well, after reading this article Web Analytics Demystified by Avinash Kaushik (thanks to Steve M of SimplyGeo.com for the link) it gave me ways to understand my visitors and concentrate on their specific needs. I suggest that you read the article too if you want to improve your website contents and increase revenue.
Developing a website for business!
Developing a website is a challenge for everyone, some don't have knowledge to start, some don't have the money, some don't have the time, etc. Which one are you?
I personally having a time management issue to start a project. I believe 24 hours is not enough for me. I'm asking God to make it 48 hours. Just kidding.
Seriously, I plan to develop a domain to a full website at least 1 web project a week. So far, I'm behind 1-2 weeks for every project. The last project is www.Chicago-City.com and www.FairfaxCity.com, the design and content is 80-90% complete. I need to bring up the advertising space so the visitors will know that we are accepting ad space. I have the graphics for ad space ready, so integrating the auto paypal payment is next. I hope to can complete this task in a week.
I'm also building my development team but very slow in process. So I guess I will be another months of managing my time in a more productive way. Hey what about my Marketing Team, I guess this is next!
Chicago-city.com Online Portal is LIVE
I blog here that Chicago-city.com is being develop as a complete portal. Just to give you a quick peek of what Chicago-city.com has to offer.
Here are some services available as of this time.
- News targetted for Chicago financial, media, entertainment, business, etc.
- Free Email for businesses (still in progress)
- Local Advertising
- Dining and Restaurant directory
- Business Directory
- Jobs
- Forums (still in progress)
- and more in the pipeline.
To see our project in progress, please visit Chicago-City.com Online Portal for Travel and Local Guides.
Business.NU is now LIVE
Finally Business.NU is now a website/blog to introduce .NU businesses that provide products and services.We need "YOU" to help us improve this website.
We want "YOU" to be part of this project and grow with us. Become one of our authors, publishers or supporters.
continue reading: http://www.business.nu/2008/04/welcome-to-businessnu-online.html
Hardworking.com has acquired Chicago-City.com domain name.
Labels: business, development, GEO, GeoNation.com, geopreneursHardworking.com is a privately owned Internet Media Portal acquired the GEO domain name Chicago-City.com today.
As we continue to expand our services to reach local consumers, we continue to look for GEO domain names related to our past acquisitions such as DCweb.com, FairfaxCity.com, ManassasCity.com, etc. If you have any related GEO domain names, please post it here or send email to EMIL @KING.NET and I will reply to you as soon as possible.
Visit Chicago-City.com website.
Thank you.
Advertising.PH is now live
I would like to introduce another service Advertising.PH to cater local businesses in Philippines market. The idea is to provide low cost advertising for entrepreneurs and small business to market their services and/or products.
To expand our business, we also purchased Ads.PH currently redirect to Advertising.PH website.
The website still ongoing development, but we are are ready to serve. Visit Advertising.PH today!
Thank you.
DrComfort.com domain for Health related website
I've already close a deal for DrPalmer.com domain name, congrats to the new owner. Moving forward, another health related domain name is available forsale ... DrComfort.com
Asking price is $6000 or best offer I can get.
This is a limited time offer only while DrComfort.com is not develop. We intend to develop our domain porfolio to increase value in online advertising and other form of marketing. This is your a chance to buy it today at fair market value.
Payment Terms: Bank Wire Transfer or Escrow (plus transaction fees).
If you have any question, please post your comment here or send email to EMIL @KING.NET with your complete name, contact information e.g. mobile, and I will get in touch with you asap.
Thank you.
Chitika for domains
Chitika just introduce their new service for domain name owners. This is another way to make money with your domain name. I will test this using some of my keyword premium domain names and let's see how they will perform using Chitika platform.
I'm planning to use the following niche and keywords domains for this test. I will post the result after 30 days.
- http://www.buy.nu/ ideally good for shopping website
- http://www.phonehandy.com/ ideal for phone ecommerce website
- http://www.mydrives.com/ for hard disk, computers, USB Drive and accessories.
- http://www.faircomputer.com/ selling computer hardware and software
- http://www.bargainzap.com/
- http://www.buy.net.cn/ to get a small pie of chinese market
My goal is to establish traffic, page ranking and ofcourse revenue. The bottom figure ($) always measure if the project is a success.
Keep checking for result here.
Thank you,
Emil @KING.NET
Generic Domain Names Forsale
These domain names are available forsale for limited time only ofcourse not forsale after we develop the domain or parnered to 3rd party webpreneurs. So this is your opportunity to own a generic domain name. The posted price is our BIN selling price but still negotiable to all businesses and webpreneurs out there.
Good luck to all.
MessageBuddy.com $2000 ... SOLD
PortalMessenger.com .net .org package for only $2200
PortalSource.com for $2500 or best offer good content management website
Emie.com 4 LLLL domain accepting a minimum $10,000.00 offer.
SiteMedic.com for only $1800 good for Health Portal or community
PhoenixInsure.com a GEO domain with premium keyword "Insure" looking for $2500 only.
IamWonder.com generic domain for only $1500.
PlazaPlace.com could be a GEO domain $3000 for a quick sale.
MartialArt.BIZ very nice for online shopping website $1500, looking to close for next offer.
Trafficky.com $5000 ideal for domain name conference portal.
FastImaging.com for $6000 for printing services.
Thank you for checking. Please come back again for new articles and sales.
Investing in .TV domain name (Part2/2)
This is the 2nd part of Investing in .TV Domain Name article. If you haven't read the 1st part yet, I highly recommend that you read it first so you can see the potential value of .TV domain extension.
I will introduce some tools that you can use for your .TV domain names if you don't have the time to develop it. The solution I will discuss here is just another way to maximize the revenue of your .TV portfolio.
Use a FREE service to make money for your .TV portfolio.
Tool #1 Magnify.net. The service is FREE and easy to customize. We have some GEO .TV domain names that are using Magnify.net to share, upload and watch video/photos. For some live .TV websites, see examples below:
- http://www.belgium.tv/ - this automatically search the internet using the keyword(s) that I've assigned during setup. You can schedule the search every 3 days or 5 days or 7 days.
- http://www.jersey.tv/ - similar approach with Belgium.TV but this search more cities in New Jersey and New York. So the content is huge.
- http://www.fairfax.tv/ - is basically concentrated in Fairfax, Virginia to support our local community to upload and watch local video found in many video hosting services.
Not only for GEO .TV domain names, here are some examples that I used Magnify.net service:
- http://domain.king.net/ - this is a consolidation of domain name videos that you can find in the Internet.
- http://redskins.king.net/ - collections of Redskins video upload by fans.
- http://taekwondo.king.net/ - taekwondo demonstration videos.
- http://anime.king.net/ - anime and video tutorials.
- and other video that you can find in the Internet.
To get your own Video Social Networking tool, go check it out http://www.magnify.net/.
Tool #2 http://www.mogulus.com/. This is my favorite tool for my .TV domain. I currently use this for http://www.station.tv/ to broadcast my own live music.
Did I mention that these services are free to use? If I havent, yes they are free to use.
Tool #3 http://www.justin.tv/. Yes this is broadcasting service now, check out the how to broadcasting guide to start your own.
Tool #4 Mobile Video services such as kyte.tv, qik.com and flixwagon.com
Tool #5 WorldTV.com provide free online video tool. For example, visit http://www.worldtv.com/usa to watch video online.
Tool #6 TravelGuide.TV provide free video that you can embed to your existing website. The video is done by professional videographer and the voice over is so sexy. Thanks to shocko at namepros for introducing this service. See this in action, visit www.FairfaxCity.com website or www.Cityware.com Travel Resource.
HOW YOU CAN MAKE MONEY USING THESE TOOLS?
I can use my adsense code to show ads relevant to my video website. For Magnify.net, this is a shared profit ads though you can use other markerting approach to maximize your revenue. For example in http://www.michigan.tv/ website, I've used adsense and linkshare affiliate to provide ads around the video. I can also accept direct ad space from local customers, we can put this to the header, footer, side and middle area of the website.
Using Mogulus tool is very enjoying, easy to deploy and it's a complete studio solution. I can mix music video (as shown in http://www.station.tv/) of my own, using Youtube search results or allow other producer to broadcast with our http://www.station.tv/ broadcast. Sounds good ha! Well, take a peek at http://www.station.tv/ and enjoy our music. If you would like to hear other music, just drop as a note.
Added to adsense, I can use the ticker ad to show advertisement accepting monthly recurring payment to show their website to my avid listener. This is through Internet no boundaries, wide audiences.
Well, that's for now. I hope this help you follow your dream in media, entertainment or other related broadcasting business.
This trend will help you find out the most active .TLD domain name extension and history. http://www.google.com/trends?q=.tv%2C.biz%2C.name%2C.cc%2C.mobi
Best regards,
Emil @KING.NET
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