Bellwort Viridian

Hello,

As a follow up to our conversation, below are the details. Viridians is into few things as a company.

Product Development

We are developing a product called as backstage. It is a collaboration / project management platform. Backstage handles:
1. Collaboration: Wiki, Tasks, Status, Calendar, File Center,
2. Alerts: Sends alerts to twitter, email, instant messenger, sms. We also plan live discussions through instant message and emails.
3. Project Management: Timesheets, Roles, Small Accounting,
4. Some new module called as Research Feeds.

We also have great ideas and analysis for other products for which we do not have time to complete. They will be executed as and when time permits.

1. Mosaic CRM
2. LaunchPad – A website which allows companies to launch their Software as a Service products by minimizing their to market time. In general it provides services like payment gateway integration, monthly billing, ordering, etc.

Viridians Entrepreneur Platform

We operate like Venture Capitalists, who seek out really great ideas, people, companies, NGOs, projects, etc at a very very early stage. What we are looking for is the following:
1. Attitude towards learning
2. Long term perspective instead of instant gratification
3. A promising idea
4. Some history of good work

Once we find such companies, we invest our money, technology, product management methodology, time, etc into your project to convert it into a product.

Presently, we are in process of adopting http://reloadbrain.com into Viridians Entrepreneur Platform. http://reloadbrain.com is like meebo and was developed by a single person. We plan to redevelop the whole core functionality from scratch and develop a completely new communications platform out of it for Enterprise applications. The idea is highly experimental.

I generally love poetry. 🙂 It was only last week, I met a poet in India and we decided to start a online poetry magazine + a social networking for poetry + a RSS aggregator for poetry. In this project, I am planning to invest my own money and get it moving…. because its for poetry! … but ROI is slower on this because initially all revenue is thru advertisements. But in case in year 2, crowd is growing and magazine getting some publicity, we can make it big….There are many many many competitors.. hence we simply plan to use RSS aggregrators, sign up to their own platforms and build up ‘BOT users’ of real world users Ex. Surinder has a blog in blogger.com on poetry. I will simply crawl his website, create a BOT Surinder and post his own poety live ….

Radio Viridian http://youtube.com/radioviridian

We believe to spread our knowledge, core code, culture as much as possible. The world is big for all of us. We are trying to create a youtube service for the same. It’s called Radio Viridian. It has three videos on our mindset. More videos are planned.

Viridians Partner Platform

All in all, we believe the market is VVVVVVVVV BIG for you / me / everyone…………. and hence we are v OPEN in sharing technology. (with some v basic restrictions). Hence we have the Viridians Partner Platform. In VPP, we tie up with small IT development companies who have a ruby on rails workforce to:
1. Partner with us on one of our products. The company invests time, effort, and a little money. When the product succeeds, the company owns a percentage of the product.
2. Partner with us on sharing technology: We co-develop a technology. Or exchange technologies.

Advantages to the company partnering with us.
1. We are open to sharing quite a bit of our technical know how and code. Generally many companies can reuse that code to sell projects.
2. We open our network to you. We maintain the Virdian Crowd.
3. After 6 odd months of interaction and learning, once the partner company is capable of executing projects for us at the quality we want we give partner companies higher priority while giving out projects. Example recently we gave out a $1000 project.
4. We often receive requests from people for portals. Since we are not into projects, we forward the requests to capable partners.
5. Cost consolidation: We buy virtual private clouds in some of the best webservers companies and share it with our partners for a cost. This way, our partners get world class servers at the webhosting cost they used to pay.
6. Training: We do hold lectures quite often on various topics. Plus generally someone in our network will know something about what you want to know.

My suggestion to you

Join us as partners for sometime, work with us – 1 person around 20 hours a week (insignificant to start off) for 2-3 months, we will come to know about each other, each other’s working skills, etc. Once we are comfortable with each other, we can scale up our operational relation for anything.

Regards

Picaso

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Paul Allen

Paul G. Allen

January 21, 1953, Seattle, USA

microsoft company history

Paul Allen’s site
Achievement

Founded Microsoft together with Bill Gates
Biography

Attends World’s Fair at Seattle Center

At Lakeside School, Paul Allen (14 years old) and friend Bill Gates (12 years old) became early computer enthusiasts. Allen went on to attend Washington State University, though he dropped out after two years to pursue his and Gates’s dream of writing software commercially for the new “personal computers”.

Allen and Gates and a small group of other Lakeside students begin programming in BASIC, using a teletype terminal.

Helps teach computer course to junior high students at Lakeside.

Graduates from Lakeside; enrolls at Washington State University.

Allen and Gates buy an Intel 8008 chip for $360 and build a computer to measure traffic.They launch their first company, Traf-O-Data.

Hired as a programmer by Honeywell in Boston.

Allen and Gates write the first microcomputer BASIC for the Altair, a computer kit based on Intel’s new 8080 chip. They move to Albuquerque, N.M., where Altair’s producer MITS makes Allen its associate director of software. Allen divides his time between MITS and a new company he and Gates have started to develop and market microcomputer languages: Micro Soft.

Apple commissions Microsoft to supply a version of its BASIC for the hot-selling Apple II. Radio Shack buys a Microsoft BASIC for its TRS-80.

Microsoft moves from Albuquerque to Bellevue, Wash.
Microsoft agrees to develop and license DOS and BASIC to IBM for its new personal computer.

Gates and Allen discuss graphical user interfaces, planting the seeds that will become Windows.

Allen and Gates found Microsoft (initially “Micro Soft”) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and begin selling a BASIC interpreter. Allen spearheads a deal for Microsoft to buy an operating system called QDOS for $50,000. Microsoft wins a contract to supply it to for use as the operating system of IBM’s new PC. This becomes the foundation for Microsoft’s remarkable growth.

Allen was forced to resign from Microsoft in 1983 after being diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease which was successfully treated by several months of radiation therapy.

In 1984 he founded Asymetrix, a software development company based in Belleuve, Washington, to make application development tools that nonprogrammers can use. Asymetrix later went on to become Click2learn.com and yet later merged with Docent to become Sum Total System (2004). In the 1990’s the company began to specialize in software for developing and delivering computer-based learning.

1992 Allen started Starwave, a producer of online content sites. Starwave did such great work for ESPN SportsZone and ABCNews.com that Disney (NYSE: DIS) bought it for a total of $350 million.

1998 In April Allen buys Marcus Cable, the nation’s 10th largest cable company, for $2.8 billion–his biggest investment to date. Also this year Allen grabbed a stake of the Internet video-sales market with his purchase of Hollywood Entertainment. And he took another software group public. This time it’s Asymetrix Learning Systems, maker of products for online classes.

On September 28, 2000 – Microsoft Corp. announced that Paul Allen is assuming a new role as senior strategy adviser to top Microsoft executives. The company also announced that Allen and Richard Hackborn have decided not to seek re-election to Microsoft’s board of directors at the company’s November shareholder meeting.

In December 2003 he announced that he was the sponsor behind the SpaceShipOne private rocket plane venture from Scaled Composites, as part of the ANSARI X PRIZE competition. In June 2004, SpaceShipOne became the first successful commercial spacecraft when it passed the 100 kilometer threshold of space.

In September 2003, Allen founded the Allen Institute of Brain Science pledging $100 million in seed money to the Seattle-based organization. Its inaugural project is the Allen Brain Atlas, a map of the human brain which will be made publicly accessible. The Brain Atlas is a component of the loosely formed Human Cognome Project.

Starting in 2003, Vulcan Ventures began funding Project Halo, an attempt to apply Artificial Intelligence techniques to the problem of producing a digital Aristotle that might serve as a mentor, providing comprehensive access to the world’s knowledge.

Allen is a major contributor to the SETI, or Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence project.

He is also the founder of the Experience Music Project, originally inspired by his interest in a museum to house his considerable collection of Jimi Hendrix memorabilia.

Allen runs a venture capital firm, Vulcan Ventures, and has created the Experience Music Project, a museum of music history, in Seattle, Washington.

He owns (through Rose City Radio Corporation) some Portland radio stations. When he heard Seattle’s Cinerama movie theater was about to shut down, he bought, restored, and updated it into a showplace for movies of all formats. He is also one of the principal financiers behind the SETI project, having stepping in to rescue the project when NASA stopped funding it in the 1990s.

Allen owns the Flying Heritage Collection.

Currently Allen is the owner of the Portland Trail Blazers (an NBA basketball team) and the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League. He also owns Rose Garden Arena, the home court of the NBA Blazers team. Due to declining attendance in 2002 and 2003, as well as difficulties renegotiating the terms of a 1993 loan, the Rose Garden corporation filed for bankruptcy on February 27, 2004.

In June of 2004, Allen opened the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, located at the Experience Music Project.

Chronology

1953
Born on January 21, Seattle, USA

1967
At Lakeside Primary School

1971
Washington State University, leaves the university a few years later to pursue other goals.

1975
Allen and Gates found Microsoft (initially “Micro Soft”) in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

1983
Allen develops Hodgkin’s disease; leaves Microsoft in 1983

1984/5
Founds Asymetrix.

1986
Vulcan Ventures is founded by Paul Allen to manage his investments.

1992
Allen started Starwave, a producer of online content sites.

1998
April Allen buys Marcus Cable, his largest investment so far

2000
On September 28, Paul Allen is assuming a new role as senior strategy adviser at Microsoft Corp.

2003
In September Allen founded the Allen Institute of Brain Science

2004
As of this year he is ranked by Forbes magazine as the fifth richest, worth an estimated $21 billion, $5 billion of which is in Microsoft stock.

In June SpaceShipOne, sponsored by one of Allen’s foundations, became the first successful commercial spacecraft when it passed the 100 kilometer threshold of space.

Honors and awards

Awarded Life-Time Achievement Award by PC Magazine.

Inducted into the Computer Museum Hall of Fame.

Video Submission

Video Submission

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increasing website traffic.”

One of the most recent trends today in building backlinks and driving traffic to a website is video submission. This

process has of late become very popular among the savvy internet marketers as its easy to get started with it. Video

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and can drive more traffic to your site.

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creating a video if you don’t already have one. If you have any text based content with you, it can be converted

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that a video must be interesting enough to be able to capture the attention of your audience and keep them engaged.

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Once you have created your video, you need to upload and submit it to the video submission sites who will allow you

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Submission Services

Video Submission
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Webpage design for SEO

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Professional Web Pages

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How many sites have you attempted to view only to nod off waiting for the first page to display? Or how many times have you visited a website that was overloaded with navigational links on the main page? First and foremost, a website must load quickly and be easy to navigate! Web surfers are savvy and usually know what they are looking for. Most will not wait around for a slow page to load and also do not like being overwhelmed by too many options in the form of links or multiple navigation choices. Good web page design begins on page one with simple professionalism.

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Backlinks

Backlinks

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In basic link terminology, a backlink is any link received by a web node (web page, directory, website, or top level domain) from another web node (Björneborn and Ingwersen, 2004). Backlinks are also known as incoming links, inbound links, inlinks, and inward links.How to build Backlinks

It is out of question that quality backlinks are crucial to SEO success. More, the question is how to get them.

While with on-page content optimization it seems easier because everything is up to you to do and decide, with

backlinks it looks like you have to rely on others to work for your success. Well, this is partially true because

while backlinks are links that start on another site and point to yours, you can discuss with the Web master of the

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The idea behind including backlinks as part of the page rank algorithm is that if a page is good, people will start

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Online music directory

Online Music: 90+ Essential Music and Audio Websites
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Online music has always been popular, and now social networks, peer recommendations and personalized radio stations are helping fans find bands faster than ever before. Here are more than 90 sites for musicians, fans, and everyone who enjoys music.

Internet Radio

Last.FM – one of the most popular music communities around, with personalized radio stations, a stunning array of social networking features, RSS support and lots more.
Slacker – personalized Internet radio which offers a desktop version of the application and a hardware portable music player. Available only in the United States.
ShoutCast – A large directory of Internet radio stations, categorized by genre. Streams work in Winamp.
Live365 – A directory of web-based Internet radio stations – expect popups.
Yahoo! Music – listen to Internet radio and watch music videos on Yahoo’s music portal.
AOL Music – AOL’s take on internet radio. Offers music from XM as well.
Pandora – a very popular Internet radio/community which brings you new music based on stuff you like. Works only in the US & Canada at the moment.
Yottamusic – a huge music library boasting over 3.4 million songs, accessible from your web browser.

Music Discovery Tools

MusicMesh – browse through artists based on their similarities; find tracklists and reviews for albums.
Blogmusik – browse through top lists and listen to popular artists for free.
Musicovery – discover new music with this cool take on Internet radio.

Social Networks

See also: 12 of the Best Music Social Networks

iLike – a community that lets you discover new music based on you and your friends’ tastes.
PureVolume – a “MySpace for music”, albeit with a classier design.
ProjectPlaylist – popular site for sharing playlists and posting them to other social networks.
Imeem – another playlist-sharing community for artists and fans that also supports embedding of tracks on other social sites and blogs.
MP3.com – the famous music site is now a social network similar to MySpace Music.
iJigg – a place for indie bands and artists to post their music, which the users can download for free.
MOG – a place to share your music and video library and exchange thoughts on music with others.
Fuzz – discover new music; artists can sell their music, but there are also free songs to be found on the site.
eListeningPost – convert your tracks into preview files, then sell them and keep 94% of the profits.
ProjectOpus – Music community for indie bands, complete with widgets to post on MySpace and blogs.
Rapspace.tv – social networking for rap and hiphop.
Musocity – a music community with profiles for fans, artists, retailers and music venues.
Haystack – social networking, playlist sharing and band profiles.
Bandbuzz – find and rate music playlists in a Digg-like interface.
Midomi – find songs by humming or singing the tune. Then explore profile pages and network with others.
Buzznet – large pop culture community with news, videos, photos and member profiles.
JukeboxAlive – Upload music and share tracks with friends. Bands can sell their CDs, write a blog and post events to a calendar.
MusicHawk – track bands and see band-related news and reviews, as well as information on gigs and new releases.
ReverbNation – social network connecting bands, fans and venues.
MusicNation – find new music, watch music videos; if you’re an indie/unsigned artist, join for a chance to get exposure or even a record contract.
Grooveshark – an online service that rewards you for sharing, reviewing, and discovering new music (currently in private testing – enter you email address on the homepage to be notified of the launch).
Dopetracks – upload and share your tracks and beats, and record music online.
Funk Player – a music sharing community where authors can upload songs, while everyone can bookmark, select, listen and comment on them.
FIQL – social playlist sharing.
Soundflavor – create playlists and share them with other users; meet people with similar taste and discover new music.
FineTune – pick an artist and receive a custom playlist featuring music by that artists and other related artists.
MusicMobs – browse through playlists and create your own in a simple interface.

Music Sharing Applications and Widgets

uPlayMe – a downloadable application that lets you meet people with similar music tastes.
DotTunes – share your iTunes collection with friends through your web browser.
Audiozue – A Mac OSX application that posts your recently-played iTunes tracks to your MySpace page or blog.
Sonific – a music network where you can store the music you hold the rights to, and syndicate it to other sites with SongSpot widgets.
Mediamaster – upload your entire music collection and access it from anywhere in the world. You can also publish this music via widgets to any website.
BooMP3 – upload and share your MP3s; unlimited hosting.
Goombah – an application that scans your iTunes library and connects you with like minded users.
Maestro – upload your entire music library and access it from anywhere.

Music Marketplaces

iTunes – Apple’s overwhelmingly popular music download store is a service that requires little in the way of introduction.
Amie Street – music market where music starts with free price, and the price increases as a track becomes more popular (the price never goes above 1 dollar).
Emusic – one of the most successful “indie” music stores, with over 100 million DRM-free tracks sold.
Bleep – high-quality MP3s with prices that are a bit high, but offering a great assortment of quality music.
MP3 Tunes – an online music store offering 30,000 albums and some 360,000 songs in its catalog.
Amazon – a soon-to-come music store which should have a huge assortment of music from big and indie labels alike.
PayPlay.FM – choose between over 1.4 million indie music tracks, and buy them in either MP3 or WMA format.
Beatport – a Flash-based music store with an embeddable player.
Audio Lunchbox – choose between 2 million DRM-free songs in MP3 or OGG format.
Indiepad – buy music from indie artists; if you’re an artist, sell music to people directly on the site.
Indistr – another audio marketplace that connects indie artists with the listeners.
Mtraks – an indie music marketplace with a very interesting and quite strong music collection in store.
MagnaTune – here you’ll find an assortment of music from various genres, ranging from electronica, rock and chillout to metal & punk.
Jamendo – an online music repository offering thousands of albums for free while still protecting the artists’ intellectual rights.
Musicane – buy and sell audio, video and ringtones.
Musiclovr – music search, recommendations and a store. Purchases are made via Amazon and iTunes.
MySpace Music / Snocap – through Snocap’s embedded music stores, bands on MySpace sell tunes to the social network’s huge audience. Bands can also sign up for Snocap independently and sell music elsewhere.

Jamming

Ejamming – jam with other musicians and record music online.
Kompoz – compose music with other musicians. Record a track, then invite other musicians to add their own instruments.
Jamnow – a musical collaboration site where you can jam with other musicians. Jam sessions can be broadcast live.
Indaba – listen to completed music or works in progress and give your feedback; join in the music-making sessions or start your own.
JamJunky – have a song that’s not quite finished yet? Or, better yet, have a dozen? Organize them with JamJunky.

Karaoke

Singshot – the “YouTube of Karaoke”: record yourself singing along to popular music and listen to others doing the same.
kSolo – sing along to backing tracks, and rate the recordings of others.

Remixing

Jamglue – remix your music online and listen to other users’ mixes.
Splice – upload samples, remix them and post them for others to hear.
YourSpins – mix your own version of your favorite track, share it and post it to your blog or MySpace page.

Mobile Music Services

Flotones – a mobile social network which allows indie bands and artists to sell their content for use on mobiles.
Entertonement – a large directory of ringtones, with top lists and categorization for easier browsing.
Mercora – a social radio network that enables you to search and listen to over 3.5 million songs; offers an application for listening to music on your smartphone.

Music Charts

Billboard – home of the Billboard charts, with music videos and reviews.
MTV’s music charts – MTV charts and videos. Videos playable only in the US.
ChartU – a “Digg for music”: vote on tracks to boost them up the chart.

Artist Databases

Allmusic – probably the most comprehensive music database on the Internet. If your favorite artists aren’t there, well, then you’re listening to some pretty unknown artists.
Pandora Backstage – artist profiles and discographies from the personalized streaming service. You can create a custom radio station straight from an artist’s page.

Lyric Databases

AbsoluteLyrics – Lyrics for all major artists.
Hot Lyrics – huge alphabetized lyrics database. Hard to navigate, but lots of content.

Music Search Engines

Qloud – Music search meets social networking. Currently back in private testing once, but Mashablehas a review here. The service that launches next may be substantially different, however.
FindSounds – a search engine for sound effects and music instrument samples.
Musipedia – find and listen to songs based on keywords you provide.

Audio Conversion Tools

Zamzar – converts all sorts of file formats, including several audio formats.
Media Convert – a media converter with a huge amount of options.
MediaConverter – a media converter that can be slow and needs polishing, but can sometimes yield really good results.

Miscellaneous Music and Audio Tools

Bluegrind – converts text to audio.
BePopular – find gigs in UK and Ireland and get your tickets.
Getabuz – create voicemail and audio e-cards online.
iden.tify.us – can’t figure out where a certain melody comes from? Identify it with the help of this service.
Houndbite – share funny audio clips from your life with other users, with the possibility to earn prizes.

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What is Web 2.0?

What is Web 2.0?
Web 2.0 is pertaining to the evolving paths of internet technology. Web 2.0 is a trend that allow web sites to be user friendly so members can express creativity and share their information amongst the online community without any hindrance. User interactivity is at the core of Web 2.0 concept. Before web 2.0, the concept of social interacting was non-existing. The web sites were created strictly for information while the creator of the web site controlled the information to be displayed on the site.
This new trend has appealed many internet services for user generated information such as Myspace and Flikr. Web 2.0 has many different tools to build a community on your web site, which can include audio, video, blogs and much more. By allowing interaction with a community this can be a way to bring traffic to your web site and target users to get engaged.
It is not possible to devise a concrete definition of web 2.0 as it holds a different meaning for various forms of online content types.
Web 2.0 term is now commonly used alongside Audio, Video, Chat, Communication, Community etc. So, this term has really found its way to other mediums as well.
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