ServiceMagic helps you hire residential contractors with the click of a mouse -- presto! The company operates an online marketplace where homeowners can find information about qualified contractors and service professionals in their area and post projects and service requests for contractors to bid on. The company fields requests for services in more than 700 categories, including bathroom remodeling, locksmiths, and handymen. It has more than 70,000 pre-screened businesses, many of which are rated by customers, that pay fees for leads received as a result of the service. Co-Chairmen and former CEOs Michael Beaudoin and Rodney Rice started ServiceMagic in 1998. It was acquired by IAC/InterActiveCorp in 2004.

The Wikimedia Foundation is funded primarily through donations and grants, and was founded by Internet entrepreneur Jimmy Wales in 2003. Want free access to the sum of all human knowledge? Wikimedia Foundation can give it to you. The not-for-profit organization has produced a plethora of free-content wiki projects, including one of the most visited sites on the Internet, online collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia (the foundation's first project). The term wiki (a Hawaiian word for "fast") describes a collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone with Internet access to contribute or modify content. Wikimedia has a paid staff of about 30, while hundreds of thousands of volunteers contribute content.

This company lives in a (young) man's world, and it would be nothing without games, gadgets, and girls. UGO Entertainment (pronounced "Yu-Ji-Oh") is an online publisher that targets 18- to 34-year-old men with content for video game fans. The site covers topics of interest for the "gamer lifestyle", such as technology, movies, and sports. Flagship sites UGO.com and 1UP.com and their network of related sites, which draw an audience of about 42 million monthly users, also offers streaming media entertainment and features on comics, TV shows, and music. Launched in 1997 as Unified Gamers Online, UGO Entertainment was acquired by publisher Hearst Corporation in 2007; it operates as part of Hearst Interactive Media.

Authentidate Holding Corp. provides secure health information exchange, workflow management services, and telehealth solutions worldwide. AuthentiDate Holding Corp. company’s software and Web-based services eliminate paper and manual work steps from clinical and administrative processes. It delivers Web-based services as software as a service. AuthentiDate Holding Corp. company’s customers and users include homecare companies, health systems, and physician groups, which utilize AuthentiDate Holding Corp. company’s products and services to coordinate care for patients outside of acute-care. It also offers its patent pending content authentication technology in the form of the United States Postal Service Electronic Postmark (USPS EPM) in the United States. AuthentiDate Holding Corp. was formerly known as Bitwise Designs, Inc. and changed its name to Authentidate Holding Corp. in March 2001. Authentidate Holding Corp. was founded in 1985 and is based in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey with an additional office in Germany.

Art Technology Group, Inc. develops and markets a range of e-commerce software solutions, as well as provides related services in conjunction with its products, including support and maintenance, professional services, managed application hosting services, and optimization services for enhancing online sales and support. The company offers ATG Commerce, an e-commerce platform and set of e-commerce applications that it delivers through perpetual software licenses, software as a service, or on a managed services basis. Its solutions provide customer analytics, targeting, and segmentation functionality that can be personalized to help businesses attract new prospects, convert Web site visitors into buyers, optimize order sizes, and retain Web site visitors as long-term customers. Art Technology Group, Inc. also provides ATG Optimization services, including Click-to-Call that allows online prospects and customers to transition seamlessly within the context of their online session into telephone or PC-based voice contact with businesses; Click-to-Chat, which enables online prospects and customers to initiate a text chat session online with its clients sales or customer service agents; Call Tracking that allows clients to track inbound telephone response to their print and online promotional campaigns; and ATG Recommendations, an automated personalized recommendation engine used to enhance e-commerce experiences by automatically presenting each Web site visitor with relevant product recommendations and information. Art Technology Group markets its products and services primarily through its direct sales organization to companies and other businesses in the retail, telecommunications, media and entertainment, distribution, and consumer goods manufacturing industries. Art Technology Group, Inc. was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Since 1995, when it launched the first car-buying website, Autobytel Inc.'s (Nasdaq: ABTL) mission has been to empower automotive consumers with the best available tools and information they need to make smart, well-informed vehicle purchasing and ownership decisions. By providing a convenient and comprehensive online automotive experience for in-market car shoppers, and then connecting those shoppers with its nationwide network of automotive dealers, the company has helped millions of consumers find the vehicle they want and generated billions of dollars in car sales for dealers. Through its extensive marketing network, Autobytel provides dealers and manufacturers with advanced web-based advertising and marketing programs, as well as opportunities to build relationships with customers and programs to efficiently manage and convert online business.

Johnson & Johnson owns BabyCenter, which was founded in 1997 by Matt Glickman and Mark Selcow. BabyCenter company was acquired by Johnson & Johnson in 2001. If the parenting information you're getting from other sources is a bit too infantile, turn to BabyCenter. BabyCenter company operates Web sites for parents of infants and young children. Its BabyCenter.com, Baby.com, and Pregnancy.com sites contain content for parents of offspring from pre-conception through age eight. The sites also include the BabyCenter Community feature for interactive communication, advice, and support. BabyCenter additionally has several international sites, and a retail partnership with Diapers.com to sell clothing and baby products online.

Online Resources Corporation provides outsource and Web-and phone-based financial technology services to financial institution, biller, card issuer, and creditor clients in the United States. The company offers an integrated suite of Web-based account presentation, payment, relationship management, and professional services. Its account presentation services enable in viewing transaction histories and account balances; reviewing and retrieving current and past statements; transferring funds and balances; initiating or scheduling either one-time or recurring payments; accessing and maintaining account information; and providing cash management services. The company’s payments services comprise Web-based bill payment services, remittance services, a suit of payment options, and real-time account debit services. Its relationship management services consist of customer care services; and professional services comprise customized software applications, such as account opening and lending for financial institution clients, which enable them to acquire consumers via the Web channel; implementation services that convert existing data and integrate with the client’s legacy host system or third party core processor; ongoing maintenance of client specific applications or interfaces; and customization of applications, training of client personnel, and information reporting and analysis. The company‘s third party services include bill payment and account retrieval, check ordering, inter-institution funds transfer and account aggregation, check imaging, and electronic statement services. Online Resources Corporation was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia.

Looksmart, Ltd. operates as an online search advertising network solution company that provides solutions for search advertisers and publishers. LookSmart offers advertisers targeted, pay-per-click search advertising and contextual search advertising via its Advertiser Networks; and an Ad Center platform for customizable private-label advertiser solutions for online publishers. Looksmart’s customers include intermediaries, who purchase clicks to sell into the affiliate networks of search engine providers; direct advertisers and their agencies; and self-service advertisers. LookSmart, Ltd. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Brandow Company, Inc. was established in 1990 by president and owner Jon Brandow. The Brandow Company publishes BizMiner, an online database of business information in the form of industry analysis and marketing research profiles. BizMiner covers more than 17 million US business facilities in some 300 national and local market sectors. Users can find industry reports through searching by industry and by market area. BizMiner provides financial information through its BizStats subsidiary, which was acquired in 2007.

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