Recently I was introduced to a very useful service for people who are into videos and have a need of submitting their videos to online video networks. You can be an Individual,  Company, Marketer, Web Agency or an Artist.

It is called hey! spread and using the tool you can submit your video files to the best video networks out there. You need to have accounts on all the supported networks on which you want to submit your videos.

The list of supported networks includes:

• YouTube
• MySpace
• Google Videos
• Yahoo Videos
• Dailymotion
• Blip.tv
• Photobucket
• Metacafe
• Bolt
• Putfile

The limits on the video are around 10 min and 100 MB.

Submission is a three step process. In the first step you upload your video file (with a title, description, tags and a category information)

In step two: you need to enter your login details for all the supported networks on which you have accounts.

In step three you have an option to receive all your links in an email to you.

By paying a fees, you can also get your video network listed there.

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Swivel is a California based startup which was founded in December of 2005. It realizes the value of data and allows users to explore data and share their insights with others.

Users can:

1. Explore data
2. Compare data
3. Share insights from data
4. Upload data

For any data, one can see the graph, the data, cloud view and the map view (newly introduced Swivel Geography). You can also get custom code to embed the views for the data in your blog. Like the one here:

or this one:

You can visit their featured graphs page to see many more interesting insights.

This is indeed a very novel way to encourage people to share data and carry out analysis on them and compare with other sources of data. I believe this tool will present to us many new insights which were hidden in data silos.

Swivel  | Intro to Swivel | About Swivel | Swivel Blog | Most Viewed Graphs 

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Electronic Medical Records are deemed to be a big step in the direction of reducing healthcare costs and such systems tend to cost around $20,000 to install for a physician. But in comes Practice Fusion a San Francisco based startup that offers a web-based digital medical record system for free.

The service will generate revenue from Google Adsense advertisements. AS per the agreement, Google won’t have access to any patient data and the advertisers will get basic information about the physicians seeing their ads. The doctors have an option to opt out of advertisements by paying a monthly fees of $250.

Here are the challenges which their tool addresses:

• Free: We do not charge licensing fees for our application, nor do we charge for hosting.
• Integrated and Interoperable: Connecting physicians to other physicians, their patients, healthcare groups and RHIOs–delivering secure, shared patient information.
• On-Demand: Our Solution is web-based requiring no software to implement and manage. Provisioning is a fraction of the time of client-server solutions.
• One View: We provide unified, aggregated views into clinical data across the entire physician and patient community.

This would indeed be a cost-effective solution for small clinics and individual doctors but bigger organizations will adopt tools which work in-house so they have control over the data they generate.

Source (here)

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Don’t have Visio to create your UML model/ network diagram/ flowchart, no problem, try Gliffy, a web-based diagram editor which supports rich diagramming capabilities right in your web browser. It is available for free.

Besides the rich drawing capabilities with support for Flowcharts, UML, Network Diagrams, User Interface, Floor Diagram, it also allows you to upload your own image and use it.

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India is becoming one of the hottest destinations for investments due to tremendous increase in entrepreneurial activities and it would not have been wise for Google to be left behind.

Google has started making investments in India. First it was India-based seed investment fund called Seedfund and now it is Erasmic Venture Fund. The amount of investment is undisclosed.

Seedfund has offices in Mumbai and Bangalore. It was founded by Pravin Gandhi, Bharati Jacob and Mahesh Murthy. Pravin Gandhi and Bharati Jacob came from Infinity Venture, the fund behind Indiabulls, Indiagames and the like. Mahesh Murthy came from Passionfund, where he backed Geodesic, Pinstorm and other successes. Here is what they think is the fund size required for startups in India:

From our experience, we figured the right amount of funding for an Indian startup wasn’t in the millions or in tens of millions of dollars range. It was closer to about $500,000. We also figured we could work closely with about 15 or 20 companies over the next 5 years – and hence arrived at a fund size of about $10 million.

They are looking mostly at internet / media / mobile / telecom / retail / consumer-facing plays – and things that are not defined as sectors. Fund investors include Motorola Ventures, Reliance ADA Group, SVB Financial Group, an affiliate of Silicon Valley Bank, Sierra Ventures, Mayfield Fund, Edelweiss Capital – and individuals like Kanwal Rekhi, KB Chandrashekhar, B V Jagadeesh and Sridar Iyengar.

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Popularity: 5% [?]