VideoPlaza - Cool Interactive online video overlay advertising

This is a very interesting new Swedish startup creating solutions for online video advertising. Videoplaza does provide a solution for your video ad campaigns overlayed on your videos using Flash or Silverlight and works on JW Open source flash player. The users license the use of the platform for serving, managing and presenting ads. There is a flexible web campaign manager allowing to control (CPM, CPC, CPA or time and categorizing/tagging) and targetting your campaign. VideoPlaza is also hosting your ad content.

VideoPlaza has gained a lot of attention from big players and have got companies such as Warner Brothers, GM Opel, H&M and Swedish Cable TV channel5 as users. There are a lot of players in this space trying to do simple monetization schemes from text overlays on Youtube from Google to TV focused companies. The VideoPlaza team I think has got their eyes focused on TV quality ads but in an interactive online environment, good for them.

As always, when it comes to video demo, since I don't have embed code, I recommend you go to the website, http://www.videoplaza.com/ and play the demo. Use the ad control options and also think about pre-, mid- and post-roll of ads in a video plus try the full screen of ad on top of the playing video.

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iLinc - Secure and feature rich web conferencing

Karrie Rockwell, head of Channel Sales at iLinc Communications made me recently aware of all the rich features that iLinc provides in the conferencing area. The iLinc software is a comprehensive package that covers the following areas; Webinar, eLearning, Web conferencing, Audio conferencing and customer support services. iLinc has a different angle to SaaS services too, instead of paying monthly fees, you can buy as a hosted service with maintenance fee instead of monthly subscription. You can also get installed services behind your own firewall. Either way of the two alternatives, you get the best security services around. AES encryption is used. The security aspect is a part often forgotten by iLinc's better known competitors. iLinc is a Phoenix based US company.

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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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Secureon - Better licensing for your open source on demand software

Secureon is a Swedish startup focuing on how to better provide needed flexibility for customer to control the licensing of on demand hosted software services (SaaS). I like the fact that one key reason for the growth and popularity of SaaS is the dynamic scalability that can easily follow the need from a business as it grows or scales back. The licensing support has not followed fully that approach today which is something Secureon is addressing.

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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