Tuesday Oct 20, 2009

Congratulations to the 4 winners of the North of England "stimulus package". Visuvi, LinkedNow, Chyngles, and Hear Planet will receive free airline tickets to the UK, marketing help, free office space for one year, and introduction to investors in Northern England. Way to go!!

Visuvi is an visual-based search engine with patent pending technology in content-based image recognition. Visuvi's search engine examines the content and patterns within an image, categorizes that information via mathematical indexing and delivers search results of images with similar characteristics. Visuvi's analysis is entirely machine generated examining the content of the image itself and does not rely on text. More


LinkedNow is a social networking platform for working professionals and has two main goals. First to help find, review and talk about what's great - and not so great - about current and past employers. Secondly, LinkedNow wants to enable best ways of looking for a new job online. Very handy! More


Chyngle is a B2B mobile application platform which enables any venue to create a branded, custom mobile application to enhance the customer experience during events, increase venue and vendor revenue and communicate directly to attendees through their own interactive in-pocket marketing channel. Chyngle works with stadiums, malls, airports, theme parks, schools, resorts, hotels, cruise ships, casinos, conferences, etc. More


HearPlanet is a mobile audio discovery guide - it's like having a professional tour guide providing coverage for hundreds of locations, with additional enhanced content added daily. It also offers a geolocation device to discover instant info on things that are nearby. More

 

Wednesday Jul 01, 2009

There are only 3 weeks left to submit Sun Startup Essentials funniest, most exhilarating, heart breaking and motivating print, banner and video ads. More at: http://www.zooppa.com/contests/sun-startup-essentials

Please let your creative friends know about this great opportunity! The deadline to submit your ads is July 21, 2009. Some fantastic ads have already been submitted on the contest website. Check them out!

P.S. Sun employees and contractors can compete, but they are not eligible for the Sun prize. They can win the community and Zooppa awards.

 

Saturday Jun 27, 2009

Among 230,000 open source projects on SourceForge.net, the TWiki project got nominated as one of 10 finalists in the "Best Project for Enterprise" category at the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards 2009. Please vote for TWiki at http://sourceforge.net/community/cca09/vote/?f=426 - and spread the word! 

TWiki is a flexible and easy to use enterprise wiki and collaboration platform. TWiki is one of the most popular wikis used behind corporate firewalls; it gets downloaded 8,000 times a month and is in use by the majority of Fortune 500 companies. Some TWiki deployments behind corporate firewalls have over 400,000 pages and more than 20,000 registered users.

Thursday Mar 26, 2009

Yep, it's time to vote for your favorite startup again. This time I met up with 20 at SxSW Interactive. Take a second and find your favorite video, then text 'startup [name of startup you're voting for]' to 41411. The winner will win a Flip camera like the one I filmed these guys on. You can also check them out at these urls.

http://www.sun.com/emrkt/startupessentials/overview.jsp
http://www.sun.com/emrkt/startupessentials/spotlight.jsp

Friday Mar 06, 2009

Sun Startup Essentials is trying something new with the events it attends. It involves videos of startups, a flip camera, and voting for your favorite startup thru SMS. Take a second to view the videos below or at the urls given, and text 'Startup [name of the startup your voting for] to 41411.

http://www.sun.com/emrkt/startupessentials/overview.jsp

http://www.sun.com/emrkt/startupessentials/spotlight.jsp

Friday Dec 12, 2008

Bebo's Streisan Chapman joined us at the Sun sponsored Facebook Garage London earlier in November to discuss Bebo's developer and social opportunities.  Missed it? You can catch the video here:

Adding to the valued partnerships and great offers to the community, we are happy to announce yet another FREE hosting offering, this time for Bebo's developers.  Go here for more information.  

If that was not enough, Sun is also happy to provide the prizes for the best new engaging Bebo application. The judges are high profile bloggers and entrepreneurs, Frank Gruber, Dave McClure, and Jesse Stay!

 

Click the image for all the information - but a particular highlight is:

"The Contest is open only to legal residents of the 50 United States (including the District of Columbia), Canada (excluding Quebec) and the United Kingdom who are 18 years of age or older at time of entry and are registered members of Bebo.com. "

Good Luck!

Matt 

 

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