Who are the founders of the site? Where is the startup based?

Founder, CEO – Mr Dushyant Bhatia        [Twitter - @blogertize]

The startup is based in Mumbai, India

Over 75% of the bloggers advertising with us are from India, USA and UK

What makes this startup unique? What is the technology behind it?

This is the first web startup worldwide which has raised funds to run its online business by selling pixel adspace on its website. The idea is to combine various important pillars of internet marketing viz-a-viz affiliate marketing, promotional quizzing models, e-commerce, micro blogging, online community etc with pixel advertising. Blogertizeworld is an online portal which sells adspace to bloggers for a 3 year period under 12 segments namely sports, technology, health, politics, finance, gaming, education, showbiz, travel, life, literature and social responsibility. Adspace is available to 2,860 bloggers only on first come first serve basis. Our objective would be to divert a chunk of the traffic coming onto our website to these blog advertisers which will help the latter to dig up a couple of loyal readers which inturn would assist them in monetizing their blogs.

What are the main characterstics of your startup?

The concept of the website is similar to that of a mutual fund where the cost of running this website is distributed among a large pool of bloggers and the rewards for their investment is something which no other blogger community offers. Bloggers purchase adspace under various categories for a fixed period of 3years. The pixel blocks are available in four different sizes of 2000, 4000, 6000 & 8000 pixels. The larger the button, the higher it is placed attracting more visitors in turn resulting in increased ad revenue.

A chunk of adspace proceeds would be reinvested in various revenue generating avenues mentioned below which will help bloggers in monetizing their blog without them having to promote the same.

The following are the service offerings of Blogertizeworld.com

• - Online shopping portal
• - Online marketplace
• - Podcasting facilities
• - Online community (discussion board)
• - Ad exchange network
• - Promotional quizzing and contest portal
• - Blogertize ROI analytics
• - Exposure via newsletter
• - Profit sharing

All the services mentioned above shall launch on Sep 01, 2009 and have one common objective. i.e. To attract traffic and divert a chunk of the same to these 2,860 blogs advertising with us.

Is your startup free?

No. bloggers purchase pixel adspace on our site at a neglible price starting from $15 for a 3 year period. i.e.$5 per year and get constant traffic for next 3 years starting from Sep 01, 2009

What is your business model?

The whole idea of utilizing pixel advertising was to raise funds for this online startup. The concept of the website is similar to that of a mutual fund where the cost of running this website is distributed among a large pool of bloggers and the rewards for their investment is something which no other blogger community offers.

Some of the monetary incentives for bloggers who invest with us are:

1. Online shopping portal – We’d be having the bloggers advertising with us place a link to our shopping portal on their blog. If any visitor to their blog clicks on that link, he/she would be directed to our shopping portal and if that person purchases anything from our shopping portal, upto 75% of the profit would be given to that respective blogger. The main idea is to create an online trading store and have distributors i.e. bloggers all over the world
2. Online market place – Bloggers advertising with us will have an option to open an online store for free for the first year of operations. No yearly fee of commision on final sales shall be charged for the first year and so can sell their products via our website FREE OF COST
3. Adnetwork exchanges – We help our blogger advertisers manage their ad inventory & assist them in earning ad revenue via the idle ad inventory available on their blogs
4. Revenue split: – The revenue split would be 80-20 (Bloggers advertising with us – Blogertizeworld)
5. Podcast publishing services – Free podcast hosting services provided to bloggers advertising with us
6. Exposure via Newsletter- Visitors to Blogertize could subscribe for monthly newsletter for any of the 11 segments of their choice. i.e. A member who’d like to keep himself/herself updated about the latest in the tech circuit could sign up for the monthly tech newsletter, the content of which would be provided by the bloggers advertising with the site. The link to the blog from where the content is extracted would also be mentioned in the newsletter to give latter the exposure it requires
7. Profit sharing element – We plan to share a certain proportion of our total profits after tax. This may include profits earned via various avenues like blogertize community, market place, shopping portal, podcast facilities, ad-network exchanges, ad revenue etc. We’d be distributing a small proportion of profit (after tax) to our bloggers on yearly basis starting from the second year of operations. The profit share may differ on yearly basis depending upon various factors. The concept would be similar to that of a dividend being distributed by a public company to its equity shareholders, the only difference being that the bloggers advertising with us do not own stakes in this company. The ratio of distribution for $15, $40, $80 and $150 pixel buttons would be in the ratio of the amount invested i.e. 3:8:16:30.

What is the main idea behind it? Why is your startup worth spending time?

The main idea of this startup is to help those bloggers in monetizing their blogs who cannot spend 4-5 hours a day on promoting their blog. Our objective is to attract casual blog readers and divert a chunk of them to the blogs advertising with us. As of today, a 125×125 banner ad on a PR3 blog costs somewhere around $25-30 per month which at most can get approximately 500 odd visitors. On the other hand, BlogertizeWorld offers a 3 year adspace for as low as $15. It probably may take around 6-8 months for a blog to receive 500 visitors via Blogertize (for a $15 button). So any traffic diverted for next 28-30 odd months would be a bonus. In addition to that, Blogertize gives its members an opportunity to make a small fortune via its various revenue generating avenues.

What are your plans for the future?

We are planning to rope in more interest groups. Cannot reveal much right now but we’re in acquisition/collaboration talks with a couple of cash strapped medium-sized startups in US, UK, Israel and India. The idea is to wrap up these with our operations and relaunch them under our brand.

Who are your main competitors?

There are many individual competitors worldwide. Since the range of our service offerings is so huge, we’re bound to have atleast 2-3 big competitors for each avenue we explore. We’re still new and are concentrating on getting our baby steps right. Once we achieve that, we could concentrate on competing with the established players.

Any other information that may help to describe your startup?

Out of the total 2,860 spots, we’vre received registrations from over 1,800 bloggers. Adspace worth $50K has already been reserved. Once we receive our 2500th registration, we shall double the adspace prices.

·         Vopium  provides a service that works through the GSM network that we all are already using with our cell phones and SIM cards. Application automatically detects how to place the calls depending on the network scenario.

·         Vopium Does provide data backup facility with Synch Service. So if you have lost your phone or changing your phone you can instantly get your contacts back through Vopium Synch.

·         Vopium Supports around 600 Devices that range from Java, RIM, IPhone etc.

·         Competitive rate with premium voice quality.

Conclusion/Summary

- Low cost international calls (90% off) at an amazing voice quality

- Sending international text messages at a much discounted price

- Not to worry about your contacts and calendar as Vopium Synch makes a remote and secure backup.

- Absolutely free calls between Vopium-Wifi users

- Freedom i.e. no need to change cell phone or SIM card

- Swift communication with family & friends regardless where ever you are

It is called Skyecandy and it is a video dating service that takes Skype as its starting point. In a nutshell, it will let anybody take part of speed dating sessions that start every few minutes. After few minutes your successful dates are then recorded in the “Results” page that appears with your profile.

Authors underline that “matches you automatically with real people all over the world from the comfort and security of your own home”. Frankly speaking I don’t really think that it will become the new way people meet potential partners, but it looks like an intersting site to spend few minutes a week.

The website is well done from a purely technical point of view, but I would expect more user friendly options. Quality of sound and video is relatively good even though it’s far from being what looks like dating in real life.

A really cool thing to use is the SMS messaging system that will let you get in touch with any successful date you have had in the past. Very simple, but nice.

Businesshackers’ mark: 8/10

This site is great especially for students willing to use the same functions that complex commercial programs have. What is surprising is that never before have we seen such a startup even though the idea is definitely simple. Well, this is not exactly true. You can use Dooblet and Wakoopa, but they are not effective enough. It’s far better to stick to AlternativeTo.

What is worth underlying is that  supported operating systems include not only Windows and Mac but also Linux, so that users from all over the spectre are taken into consideration. There is also a category that is the one that deals with SaaS products. Pretty cool,  isn’t it?

The main idea for the startup was inspired by Jon Sykes who had originally designed a similar site but eventually gave up. Founders yet believed it was ingenious and they decide to follow the same idea. An we are very happy about it, as those of us who use social bookmarking sites believe such sites are great.

Authors promised to launch additional features over time. By the way they decided to launch the project on April 1, 2009 just for fun. Those guys really have good sense of humor.

Businesshackers’ mark: 8/10

Skipscreen is an add-on for Firefox that may turn out to be the right solution. The add-on for the web browser will automatically skip those pages. A message will be displayed above the Firefox status bar to give the user an indication that pages were skipped. Very simple but effective!

Check out this video for details:

Use LegalTorrents, which is basically “an online community created to discover and distribute Creative Commons licensed digital media”. It was launched in 2003, but it is actually only today that this site has been improved. Now it works well on most browsers.

The secret about Legaltorrents is that every single torrent submitted to the site is reviewed by moderators for the proper licensing and then published the site. What is more, LegalTorrents hosts a high-speed seed for each torrent, ensuring that you should always expect to get fairly high-speed transfers; it’s indeed very fast (downloading over 400 KB/s).

What really matters is that the site is free and authors only expect you to make a small donation in case you feel like. That’s fair I think. So if you are still looking for a way to download torrents completely legally at 400 kb/s, now you know the answer.

Just one more thing.If you want to utilize the site properly you need to download and have a working Bittorrent client to get content from LegalTorrents. We recommend the following clients:

* Windows: µTorrent
* Mac OS X: Transmission
* Linux: Deluge or rTorrent

As you probably know iPhone 3G data plans by AT&T makes users pay an extra $5 every month to get 200 text messages which usually came free with previous iPhone data plans. So below you can read a way to send unlimited text messages from iPhone for free.

Here you will utilize a famous email-to-text service called Teleflip.com

1. Create a new email message on your iPhone.
2. In the To: box type, 1234567890@teleflip.com (where the numbers are placeholders for any 10-digit phone number), type a message and send.
3. Enjoy free text messaging!
The message will be sent to the number in the email and all received text messages will be sent to you as an email.

If you want to use a web app to send text messages, use TxtDrop or Durgle as they work best on iPhone Safari.

It’s simple, but really effective. Hope it helps you save money.

What is this startup about?
ScheduleOnce is a dead-simple web 2.0 service that helps you find a time for your meeting with absolute accuracy across all time zones and daylight saving changes. The service is specifically designed for those hard-to-schedule meetings with multiple time zones, many invitees and different calendar systems.

ScheduleOnce is based on a patent-pending method that converts timeframes with absolute accuracy across any combination of time zones and daylight saving changes. When scheduling meetings with ScheduleOnce you can rest assured that all invitees receive the correct time, anytime in the year and anywhere on the globe.

What makes this startup special?
What makes scheduleOnce better than other scheduling tools?

Absolute accuracy: ScheduleOnce uses a patent-pending time conversion engine that takes into account both time zones and daylight saving changes across any number of geopolitical regions. All times in ScheduleOnce are always absolutely accurate across all geopolitical regions anytime in the year!

Bi-directional scheduling engine: The ScheduleOnce scheduling engine allows both the organizer and the invitees to suggest alternative meeting times. This capability allows the organizer to select the most appropriate scheduling method for every situation and reduces the time and the number of iterations that are needed to arrive at a suitable time for the meeting.

Simplicity: This is the most important design principle that has guided us through the definition and development of the system. Creating a new meeting can be done in a manner of seconds.

User experience: ScheduleOnce is a modern web application that utilizes Ajax and Web 2.0 technologies to provide a superior user experience, at par with the user experience of a desktop application!

System independent: ScheduleOnce is completely web-based and system independent. There is no need to download any software; all you need is a browser. In addition, ScheduleOnce doesn’t require that all meeting attendees use the same calendar tool or that they register.

Businesshackers has found this startup interesting and we rated it 7/10, but there is no doubt that usability has to be improved. Nevertheless it’s a good option for most users.

Elearningcommunity.com is a place where you share and pick up new ideas, give knowledge to people or also seek some knowledge. It is a great place to enrich our life with knowledge and experiences shared by people from far and beyond.

Elearningcommunity.com is a featured knowledge provider that helps knowledge seekers meet the knowledge provider. Making the maximum use of technology, classes here are taken through virtual classrooms thus providing you flexibility in schedule. One can enroll and upload courses. Online teaching fosters open a plethora of opportunities for people who want to learn and for people who want to teach. This effectively creates an environment which is true to life. Here you get a very easy to use learning environment with icon based interfaces.

Varieties of communication tools are used that establishes a relationship between the knowledge provider and the e-learner. Chats, blogs forums, private messages, help you in close-loop cooperative learning. The required tools for management, administration and control of user accounts, profiles and courses make sure that only the right person can use the right information. The site also provides tools that help you assess the knowledge quotient of the e-learners.

A very interesting place to be, elearning allows you to pick and choose from a forum of topics like general announcement, general discussions, technical forums, and marketplace forums. It shows the number of students enrolled in a particular course. This is the right place for people who want to impart knowledge and also want to earn. One can upload their course which will be promoted by the marketing system of e-learning. The added section of AskGuru renders the benefit of putting up questions that will answered by the experts.

So not it is just a place to build in instant products out of providing learning material, but also a place that increasingly enriches your online experience. It provides internet entrepreneurs a unique opportunity to grow their audience and build their business.