Technology

Vator.tv is a catalyst for innovation. It is a professional network and marketplace for ideas and businesses. Anyone, across all industries, at any stage, can share ideas, products, services and businesses with the rest of the world, mainly through video. People use Vator.tv to pitch their ideas, businesses, skillsets or needs, such as capital, partner or staffing requirements. Hence, the tagline, \\\"What\\\'s your pitch?\\\" Through these pitches, people on Vator.tv can network, exchange knowledge and collaborate with other people who can help those ideas get to the next level. People use Vator.tv to get their ideas or needs discovered or to find, discover and connect with others in networks of interest.

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Trendio is a neat community-based game where you can see how good you are at predicting the future of news, politics, entertainment, sports or technology. The site ranks trends in many categories depending on how much buzz they get in online media and users can trade in these trends with fictive money, as if they were shares in a stock market.

Brining the Virtual World to Reality Fix8 is a unique interactive communication application that allows people to customize their on-screen virtual appearance in real-time using avatar technology and creative accessories. Fix8 integrates human expression analysis and rendering capabilities, avatar/facial sculpting and animation technology, voice manipulation, and one click 3D facemaker design capabilities in one package.

Xcavator is a new and exciting technology for searching and sorting images. With all the control granted to you, it makes image searching easy and specific. It's very much like text-based searching in Google or Yahoo!

WeShow brings a human-powered approach to filtering and organizing content. Each day, WeShow uses technology and a global team of category experts to scour more than 15 video repositories such as YouTube, MetaCafe, Google Video, MySpace, Dailymotion and many others in search of the best quality and delivers the most entertaining videos. WeShow delivers content to consumers through a comprehensive channel system, targeted newsletters distributed to registered users and a WeShow TV program that highlights daily the best world wide video content available

Mike Malone is a freelance programmer and entrepreneur. For the time being, he’s working on a website with his brother. Mike recently graduated from Virginia Tech, with a degree in Business Information Technology. He’s been interested in the IT industry from a young age, and can remember playing the original Tetris (released the year he was born) and surfing the net using AOL for DOS (back when AOL was cool). He currently lives with his girlfriend in San Francisco, CA.