FameHog – Showcase Your Talents
The entertainment industry provides employment to a host of professional needed for making any sort of presentation possible. People usually see only the presenters like actors, directors, editors and musicians etc. Few, if any, know about the people who work to make all this possible in the background.
I am talking about the people who work day and night during the projects durations like agents, engineers, designers, makeup and hair professionals and stuntmen. They rarely get the exposure they deserve to show the world what they are capable of. Well, FameHog is just the place for such people.
FameHog provides these professionals with the opportunity and tools to present their creations for everyone to see. Besides being a social networking site, the place provides audio and video player, news service and even email facilities. An easy to use content management system allows for professional looking profiles and resumes.
What they say about themselves
The vast majority of film & TV professionals don’t have management. These are the set designers, animators, makeup artists, sound engineers, etc. To date these professionals have had limited options to promote, market and manager their careers. FameHog levels the playing field and digitizes this distribution model, eliminating the need for printed headshots, portfolios and messengers.
Why it could be a success
People need to know how much work goes into making a TV or film production possible and how many people make it so. Everyone should get the exposure they deserve for their creative talents. FameHog may inspire others to follow these professionals by providing them the platform to get together and discuss ideas. I believe the website could benefit by launching a marketplace for people to monetize their talents.
TweetPort – Tweets to your Inbox
Who doesn’t tweet these days? Celebrities, sport personalities, politicians, friends and family all love to share their updates. And it can be overwhelming sometimes with the huge amount of messages. And what if you don’t check your account. You may end up missing something important. TweetPort now offers the solution.
This new service takes all your tweets and package them in an email to be sent to the address of your choice. A Twitter application, which only needs access to your account and the option to send the email daily, weekly or monthly, which summarizes all those tweets so that you can sit back and read them all at once.
The service is free for the first month and then costs $3 per month currently.
What they say about themselves
TweetPort is your personal Twitter summary report. It’s a way to condense all of your tweets into one, easy-to-read, daily email. Best of all, it’s automatically organized by importance. The report is also available in live form on TweetPort.net.
Why it could be a success
There are times when we don’t have access to the Internet or we may be busy or on vacation. Getting all the tweets in the email will certainly help as it should be a breeze to read them. I wonder if they can put an option to get the email with tweets only from certain people. That would be cool as only the important bits will come filtered from the rest.
Piggy Belt – Personal Finance Management
Ever had problems keeping track of expenses on the move? Petty cash expenses are a pain to remember when it is time to put them down in the books. If you own an iPhone or something with spreadsheet software, you may not have any trouble but absence of these present a problem. In comes PiggyBelt.
PiggyBelt lets you keep track of your expenses easily by allowing you to send an expense report as soon as you have made one. There are numerous ways in which an expense report can be submitted. You can use SMS from any phone, send an email to Piggy to let it update your account with the information or you can just log into your account via any Internet enabled device and update your expense report.
The website can generate reports showing various expense heads and how much money is spent under each. The report is pretty basic but gives a ballpark picture of the daily or monthly expenses. The service currently costs $5 per month.
What they say about themselves
It’s developed to help ordinary people to write down expenses and analyze them without hesitation, without advanced knowledge or accountant. Just to keep eye on their money.
Why it could be a success
Although there are many services of this type available, the subscription fee for PiggyBelt is on the lower end of the market. The different methods by which reports can be submitted and the user-friendly interface increases its value.
B00mbox – Collaborative Playlist Management
You must have seen video playlists by different users on YouTube. Now you can make it even better by asking other people to contribute and build a playlist with input from your friends, colleagues and loved ones. B00mbox, a free service, lets users achieve this without hassle, quickly and comfortably.
B00mbox lets users pick different YouTube videos, add them through a web interface to the collection and finally use this collection as a playlist by flipping through different slides. There are some already nice collections like top songs of 2010 and beautiful travel destinations open for input. Sadly there is no option to delete the video from the slideshow through B00mbox interface.
B00mbox is powered by slidebomb and each collection is hosted there.
What they say about themselves
B00mbox is great because it lets people work together to make something. If we find a way to turn this exposure into dollars we got a hit.
Why it could be a success
Asking others about their opinions on a certain subject is a way to add diversity. If you are trying to find something, searching for it yourself may take a long time, whereas if you ask other people to chip in, you will quickly get the desired results. The service can be used for fun, education or quick surveys.
DueToDos – Managing Business Communication
The world today is fast paced. Business is conducted on the move. People are constantly traveling and keeping track of correspondence with clients can be overwhelming, for small companies, to say the least.
In comes DueToDos. The web platform allows people to keep track of their sent messages and through a simple procedure schedule reminders and team collaborations based on these. All you have to do is to send a Bcc copy of your message to an email address provided and through the dashboard of your account on DueToDos, manage how you want to follow up on the conversation. Administrators and managers can assign tasks and keep track of them through their control panels to check on the status of different users.
The website also allows users to add additional email accounts to send notifications to along with the ability to restrict the task between certain calender dates. Summaries of daily activities can be scheduled for team members to keep them abreast of the project status.
The website is still in beta and currently works only on an invite system.
What they say about themselves
DueToDos is your outgoing to-do list. Take back control of your sent mail! We solve email fatigue be allowing you to focus on what really matters, who you need to follow up with.
Why it could be a success
Whereas other services focus on incoming emails, DueToDos makes management of sent emails easy. Scheduling reminders, summaries and team collaboration and management are some of the highlights of this startup. These features can help small businesses to keep the cost of communication and management within their resources while giving them enough facilities to conduct the business activities efficiently.
Habilis – A New Approach to Virtual Assistance
In order to grow your business or to do a job efficiently, you need to fix your eyes and efforts on bigger things and leave the small things to others. You can achieve this by hiring a virtual assistant.
Finding the right Virtual Assistant for your needs can be difficult, sites like odesk and Vworker are great but quality can occasionally be an issue. The idea behind Habilis is to help you take care of small matters in a painless way. This is done through Virtual Assistants provided by Habilis. It has a team of professional VAs to assist you in every day work. The work that could be taken care of through Habilis includes office services, websites maintenance, personal services, etc.
Habilis has two pricing models. One is an hourly payment structure and the second structure is a based on Pay as You Go model. You can either hire a full time VA and pay per hour or get a number of tasks done and pay per task.
The benefit of using Habilis would be in shape of saved time, which is otherwise wasted in finding a good virtual assistant. Besides that working with Habilis would ensure that the work is done in a timely fashion and you do not have to keep sending messages to your VA to get the work completed.
What they Say about Themselves
We provide lifestyle management and virtual assistants to help you stay shipshape at all times. Making appointments, booking flights, even sending out flowers – we do all this and more. Alternatively, you could use us for your work side of things (think presentations, competitor analysis, web research). Simply put, we are at your service 24/7/365.
Why It Could be a Success
Finding a good virtual assistant and get the work done in a timely and efficient manner is as difficult as finding an honest weight-loss product review in Google. Habilis makes this process easy and straightforward. This ease of getting the work done could prove the key to its success.
ZuzuHire.com
Whether you do a good bit of hiring in your organization or spend little time at the task, you’ll enjoy the features of ZuzuHire. ZuzuHire is a multimedia screening tool that enables businesses or human resource agencies to screen and hire candidates faster and with more efficiency. On ZuzuHire, you simply write down the questions for the interview, and make a selection as to how you want potential job candidates to reply. Choose from multimedia choices, such as voice, video, essay or multiple choice.
If you don’t have time in your busy schedule to talk to individual applicants, then you’ll find great comfort in knowing ZuzuHire is your personnel assistant. For example, if you are screening potential employees, connect your prepared interview to a job posting for your company. Applicants who provide their qualifications will answer the interview questions through an established platform.
Also, if you want to avoid speaking on the phone with candidates, you can choose to interview, again, via ZuzuHire’s platform. Write down the interview questions and send them by email for candidates to conveniently fill out in the comfort of their home.
Needless to say, the employment screening tool is an excellent way to cut down on the time it takes to interview people and review their qualifications. Employment agencies can also take advantage of the candidate presentation tool on the ZuzuHire site. Not only can you supply the applicant’s resume to a client, you can include the multimedia interview as well. No doubt, you’ll be well-remembered as your company’s brand colors and logo appear online too.
As you can readily incorporate the interview in the posting for the job, you’ll be able to speed up the process and generate some extra time where you can carefully peruse each resume and multimedia interview in order to make a choice. This type of screening makes candidates a lot less nervous about applying and the employer much more confident about his eventual decision.
Employers can also appraise a greater number of applicants when using the video format. That’s because body language and presentation skills are more easily assessed, which means supervisors can make better use of their time and devote less of it to evaluating candidates.”
What Does ZuzuHire Say?
ZuzuHire is a multimedia interviewing tool that makes it easy to screen and interview job candidates online.
What’s So Special About It?
ZuzuHire’s easy-to-use app allows you to conduct multimedia interviews or online interviews with the use of video, mock phone screens, essay questions, and interview questionnaires.
DocMeIn – Free Web-based Appointments Solution for Medical Professionals
Managing appointments may not be much trouble for large hospitals due to dedicated staff for setting up, monitoring, and following up the appointments with patients. Small and medium level clinics may face tough time in managing the appointments. Missed appointments and no-show makes this process more troublesome. DocMeIn makes the appointments scheduling and managing the appointments easy for solo clinics and mid-scale hospitals without adding any expenses.
DocMeIn is a free web-based solution for appointment scheduling for healthcare professionals. The appointments could either be made by the physicians or the patients. The solution offers unlimited appointments with complete control and timely notifications to both the patients and the health care providers.
Each of the physician has a dedicated page to present the basic information along with the contact and operating hours. This page could conveniently be accessed by the patients to make appointments easily. They also have the options of confirming, cancelling or getting a new appointment ensuring the low no-show rate. The inclusion of patients int he process of appointment scheduling makes them more motivated to show or notify the no-show.
The reminder emails are sent to the patients along with the attachement of appointment, which is easily recognized by the email clients as appointments.
What they Say about Themselves
DocMeIn is the only free service for doctors. We help keep no-show rates low and calendars filled with appointments, which helps to keep costs down for everyone.
Why It could be a Success
DocMeIn fulfills a very important need of the physicians i.e. making the appointments management easy and controllable. It does so without posing any cost and ads to them. No doubt DocMeIn could be a successful appointment scheduling system for physicians of all scales. Addition of mobile phone notifications along with the email notifications would make it simply irresistible.
ItsMySearch.com – Personalized Search Engine & Custom Homepage
Every person has a desire deep down in his heart i.e. to personalize everything he uses. ItsMySearch claims to do just that for those who want to personalize their search experience.
The main function of ItsMySearch is to make a personalized homepage for your browser. Homepage is the first thing you see, whenever you fire up your browser application. Imagine having your smiling face on background and your name instead of Google’s logo; you would surely love it. You may also put an image of your family, girlfriend, etc to add some good memories to it.
The website also offer many customized themes for your liking. You may choose from a wide variety of available themes. Another advantageous thing is the ease of creating your very personalized start page. You can start the process from the homepage and it takes literally very few efforts to have your page ready to be set as browser homepage.
ItsMySearch also offers several search engines to search from a single interface. These search engines include Google, Yahoo, Bing, Wikipedia, and YouTube.
One thing I noted, which should be considered by ItsMySearch.com is the lack of personalization on the search results pages. It would be very nice if the search results also had the same personalized look as the homepage. In fact the search results are pretty plain lacking an attractive look.
What Do They Say About Themselves?
ItsMySearch.com stands as one of the most lively ways available for users to customize their own start pages. ItsMySearch.com lets just anybody come up with a 100% personalized homepage that can pull search results from sites as popular (and pivotal) such as Google, Yahoo, Bing, Wikipedia and YouTube
Why it Could Be a Success:
ItsMySearch could become a success due to its focus on the people’s desire to personalize. It needs to implement personalization at the whole search process rather than limiting it to the start page. Another thing, which makes it stand out is the ease of switching the search engine in search results, if needed.
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