Twitter Grader - New tool by Hubspot for twitter stats

Hubspot has released a new tool Twitter Grader that easily lets you check your twitter activities to see how you grade. Check it out, instant results. See http://twitter.grader.com/ Since I am not such a super twitterer, my stats were just 59 out of 100. Nice little tool, another one adding to the popularity of Twitter. See screenshots below;

You can also follow them on Twitter, http://twitter.com/grader

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MoFuse - Mobi-lize your blog or web in 5 seconds

This is a great new webservice from the MoFuse, Rhode Island, US startup company. In 5 seconds you can get a nice looking .mobi optimized blog or website (or if you like, you can of course create a new one). I decided to use this blog to make a .mobi version, works very well, I am impressed. MoFuse also generate your QR code that can be used by camera phone scanning software to launch your browser. See the result at http://tlidforss.mofuse.mobi/ and MoFuse screenshots below. David Berube, the founder and the staff have a done an excellent job. It's a pity, I have not got an iPhone yet, would like to use a real one instead of a browser emulator.

Iterasi - Weave and share your own webhistory

I started using http://www.iterasi.com/ an excellent bookmarking service that also does complete web clipping of web pages you visit and would like to bookmark and share. Got the tip from Michael Arrington's http://www.techcrunch.com/ and I agree with Mike, this is definitely a convenient and useful service. I tested on my blog, see the result at http://www.iterasi.net/public/users/tlidforss and a snapshot below.

Posterous - Revival of email by blogging

This is an interesting blogging services site, http://posterous.com/ You email, attach what you want and out comes a newly created blog for you. I like the simplicity of it. Not bad at all.
Posterous also has autopost service for Flickr and Twitter.

See a snapshot of the homepage below:


See my first blogpost and the resulting autolayout, http://tlidforss.posterous.com/

TwitterFeed - Auto feed your blog to Twitter

This is a great and convenient tip for you if you routinely like to twit in Twitter about your new blogposts. Sign up for TwitterFeed and in three easy steps you are up and running and TwitterFeed will take care of your Twitter blog post announcements. Really an easy and covenient service. You need an OpenID to register and if you don't have one, this site will help you get an OpenID url.

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YouNoodle - Your startup social and university networking site

Well, here's a Vator.tv competitor. YouNoodle.com has started with a bang taking off recently. YouNoodle has put together a nice social networking platform, easy classification of your social data. Not that obvious though in some cases where the information you provide will be displayed once you get to view your profile. I think getting the text from the "short bio" used as tag line to your name was not obvious to me at least. But I guess brand new beta services, you have to put up with some odd things.

Since I have recently covered and used for a little while Vator.tv, I have to conclude that from a social networking point of view, YouNoodle is better, I like the ease with which you can go from following company, contact and network and also join groups. Vator has somewhat stricter distinctions between startups, service providers and contributors on their site. I do like Vator's company information better though plus the push they have that you should provide a video pitch and/or demo. I guess time will tell which one that will grab the major share of users. One thing to consider is also, what's the key benefit each site is going for? What I am actually looking for is, do you provide a service just to facilitate and hoook up people and then leave it up to them to figure out what to do, or do you intend to enable and encourage an efficient exchange of needed services between all parties involved?

So far, most social networking sites fail to do the latter. The big danger in easy to use for everybody netwoking sites is the same all the time. You get way too many people that are somehow going to find the few that will make sense to communicate and do business with.

YouNoodle does have an interesting approach in trying to provide analytical tools to help your startup business. See the startup predictive tool, http://younoodle.com/predictor that will help you analyze what will your startup be worth in three years.

See home page of YouNoodle below and feel free to explore my page, http://younoodle.com/people/thomas_lidforss




Also, contact Thomas Lidforss International for your startup business services needs.

Vator for your startup company- Use TV style networking

Here's a tip for all of you working with startup companies and have not found the Silicon Valley startup company, Vator.tv. You are missing an important opportunity to present, demo and get a following of people (investor and service providers) who are interested in your company. You can also find possible partner companies buy browsing other companies' video presentations and profiles.

See a snapshot of the home page below;


And, also see myVator page, and as you can tell from the right side of the page, I have not made my own video presentation yet. This post is just another reminder that I have to add this.



See, http://www.vator.tv/user/show/ThomasLidforss

Ribbit - Mobile VoIP finally here?

There has been a lot of talk about Ribbit, "embed voice" in your web application company today with the announcement of an acquisition by BT. Ribbit is a startup company in Mountain View that has focused on building or enabling voice applications from any computing device using VoIP and Adobe Flash/Flex technologies. From a technology point of view, a key new trend with VoIP and Adobe is that allmost all devices have (or can have) the technology embedded thereby avoiding the giant hurdle of designing and getting new VoIP applications into a mobile phone. From a businss point of view, there are questions around the business model. Paying Ribbit to "go through" their softswitch gateways is together with the fact that paying in most countries for mobile data access using a mobile operators radio network is way too expensive.

It will be interesting to see though what BT will make out of this acquisition having bailed in and out of having their own mobile phone network. More to follow about this and future outlook for mobile phone operators.

Emotiv Systems - Get your mind to control your communications

Emotiv Systems is a cool San Francisco based startup with Australian roots. I think it is about time UI design gets to be innovative and creative. 30 years have passed since the early creative days at (Xerox) PARC center where graphical user interface and a computer mouse became famous developments. Emotiv is into using your own brain and mind to control how you interact with machines. This would be fun to try out writing a blog or a tweat on twitter or a new game on PS3, Wii and Xbox 360. See the "high-tech mouse" below.

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Great marketing tip for your Youtube ads

Do you still think, YouTube and other sites are for nothing but playing around or sharing music videos? Then this is great news for you and your company. Video marketing can be as efficient as a good TV commercial but you have to make it interactive and easy for a user to do something while watching your video. Bubbleply by PLYmedia is an interesting startup company making it extremely easy for you to add "bubbles" to your video and include url links. Plymedia is a Silicon Valley startup focusing on video web media services. The best way to understand how this is working is actually to look at an example. See the embedded video below.

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Egnyte - Continuous backup and on demand file management

Recent impact from lost data reminded me of startup where a friend of mine is involved. Egnyte is a Silicon Valley based startup providing on demand file management including sharing, storing and continuous backup while you work on your documents. Not a bad idea at all since most people around the world are not managing backup properly, I admit to that myself, backup tends to become the typical to-do thing, I'll take care of that tomorrow... So, I can recommend, give Egnyte's service a try.

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Mikons - Make and market your own ikons with social networking

This is another example of a webservices Texas-based, startup company that is using the power of social networking for marketing purposes. Mikons is a handy little service where you can create logos, your own ikons for whatever purpose, use, market and order your own T-shirt, buttons... I created quickly a sample of a T-shirt with my own logo. Not bad for a couple of minutes work. Once you are happy with the result, you order your T-shirts. See, example below at http://www.mikons.com/people/tlidforss/ The editor is easy to use for cartoons and your own little set of icons you can use for animation.

Toluu - I have got my blog aggregator to do social networking

I just started using toluu's new blog aggregator that also does sharing with friends and matchmaking to help you find people to network with. See, http://www.toluu.com/tlidforss for my toluu.

I like the fast and slick UI with listing of blog post contents, useful if you have a lot of blogs you scan and read. I will have to update and check-in later with comments about the match making parts. I think there is an interesting trend going on right now in the blogosphere in parallel with the twitter like gangs. Several new companies are addressing the need for searching, sorting, scanning through blogs together with directory listing type services and social networking. In addition to Google's blogsearch, you have Swedish startups such as Twingly and Bloggkoll that togheter are addressing this area with toluu.

eXpress Wireless Security Now - Xpressent

Do you need an easy integration of state of the art wireless security software for your mobile devices, terminal adapters, femtocells or security gateways?

Then look no further, Xpressent Inc is a hot company providing expert services and software products for your business. Xpressent also provides test tools to test and evaluate your equipment against protocol compliance, capacity and vulnerability. Xpressent is up to date with the latest IETF and 3GPP security standards needed for your protection.

Please contact me at http://www.lidforss.com/contactus.aspx to discuss your needs further and I will introduce you to Xpressent.

The GoingGreen 100 Winners Posted

Check out the GoingGreen 100 Winners from the Sep 6 event at KPMG in Mountain View. A lot of interesting companies. Here's the list of the 100 companies.

Automotive & Transportation
AC Propulsion
CleanAir Logix
Myers Motors
Mygistics
Phoenix Motorcars
PML
Tesla Motors
Think Global
ZENN Motor Company


Biofuel & Agriculture
Altra Biofuels
Amyris Biotechnologies
Chemrec
Cilion
ClearFuels Technology
E3 Biofuels
Gevo
Greenfuel Technologies
Imperium Renewables
LS9
Mascoma
Mendel Biotechnology
RangeFuels
Solazyme
Targeted Growth


Energy Management & Efficiency
Blade Network Technologies
H2Gen Innovations
Silver Spring Networks
SmartSynch
Verdiem

Energy Storage
A123 Systems
Bloom Energy
Cobasys
Deeya Energy
EEStor
GridPoint **OVERALL WINNER**
Jadoo Power
Lilliputian Systems
ZPower

Nanotech & Materials
Artificial Muscle
d.light design
EoPlex Technologies
FiberTech Polymers
Hycrete
Nanoexa
Nanostellar
Serious Materials
Space-X

Clean Energy (not solar or biofuel)
Airtricitiy
CoalTek
General Compression
Great Point Energy
Nordic Windpower
Orion Energy
Powerspan
Verdant Power


Solar
Ausra
Better Energy Systems
BrightSource Energy
Daystar Technologies
Energy Innovations
HelioVolt
Innovalight
Konarka Technologies
Miasolé
Nanosolar
Silicon Valley Solar
Solaicx
SolarCity
Solaria
Solexant
SolFocus
Stion
Stirling Energy Systems


Waste Management
Earthanol
EnerTech Environmental
Intechra
iReuse
LanzaTech
MBA Polymers
TechTurn
Ze-Gen


Water
AbTech Industries
Aqua Sciences
Aquarius Technologies
Atlantium Technologies
Bio-Pure Technology
Derceto
EnviroTower
GeoPure Water Technologies
IDE Technologies
Industrial Plug and Play
Microvi Biotech
MIOX Corporation
NanoH2O
Novazone
P2W Pollution To Water
PAX Water Technologies
Poseidon Resources
Seven Seas Water
Superall Products


best regards,
/Thomas

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The new trend - Green Business opportunities

Have you noticed latetly all new businesses that have very exciting ideas and technologies and they all have the "theme" green in common?

I have personally recently been in touch with the leaders of two of them. One, OriginOil is an interesting energy production company in Southern California, transforming algae into oil. The company has recently filed a patent for their processes.

Right NOW, there is also an excellent opportunity for anybody to invest in the company. See http://www.originoil.com/ and please feel free to contact me for further details about Origin Oil at http://www.lidforss.com/ for more contact information.

The second company in Dallas has an interesting solution for green restaurants, saving a lot of energy and greenhouse gases, considering everything from the building materials used to cooking, heating and ventilating in addition to good healthy food. The founder of Cafe DelPiazza is looking for investments to branch out and further establish his restaurant concept.
Please feel free to contact me for further details about Cafe DelPiazza at http://www.lidforss.com/contactus.aspx for more contact information.

Introduction of Due Dilligence Inc - A Guidance Consulting Services Company

If you have not heard of Due Dilligence Inc, http://www.superdiligence.com/ you have missed something important. Due Dilligence provides consulting services supported by AI based software that will help your business reach new highs.

Due Dilligence recently introduced and launched service packs to fit the different stages and needs of your business development.

Every Due Diligence, Inc. client needs a different assortment of products and services, with different features and options. That being said, having handled several hundred client projects and evaluated several thousand businesses and investment opportunities, Due Diligence, Inc. has designed a series of pre-configured Services Packages based on the more common requests for help Due Diligence, Inc. has received over the past two+ decades. While every project is unique for each client, these Services Packages are an excellent base from which to determine exactly what products and services you need for your organization.

Choose the Package that best reflects your current situation, and Due Diligence, Inc. will start there to tailor our products and services to fit your needs and give you a price quote. Also keep in mind that these Packages are not the complete list of products and services that Due Diligence, Inc. offers, and and the firm can customize its support specifically to your organization’s unique situation.

Packages - Focus

• The Start-Up Package - For the 1st Two Years of a Start-Up
• The Mergers & Acquisitions Package - For a Buyer For a Seller
• The Investment Package - For an Investor
• The Technology License Package - For a Licensor For a Licensee
• The Debt Finance Package - For a Company Seeking Debt
• The Capital Finance Package - For a Company Seeking Capital
• The Intellectual Property Package - To Assess a Company’s Intellectual Property Assets
• The Legal Package - To Assess a Company’s Legal Systems
• The Strategic & Business Planning Package - To Assess a Company’s Strategic and Business Plans and Planning Systems
• The Financial Package - To Assess a Company’s Financial Systems
• The Human Capital Package - To Assess a Company’s Human Capital
• The Marketing Package - Assess a Company’s Marketing Plan & System
• The Sales Package - To Assess a Company’s Sales Plan & System
• The Technology Package - To Assess a Technology
• The Management Package - To Assess a Company’s Management Team & Processes
• The Communications Package - To Assess a Company’s Communications & Processes
• The Research & Development Package - To Assess a Company’s R&D Systems & Processes
• The Operations Package - To Assess a Company’s Operations Systems & Processes
• The Regulatory Package - To Assess a Company’s Regulatory Environment & Systems
• The Quality Package - To Assess a Company’s Quality Systems
• The Products/Services Package - To Assess a Company’s Products and/or Services
• The Relationships Package - To Assess a Company’s Relationships
• The Structure Package - To Assess a Company’s Structure

Please contact me at http://www.lidforss.com/contactus.aspx for further information such as report examples you can create.

/Thomas