Since then, the facility has altered focus, putting more emphasis on weapons-related work and acting as a user facility for outside scientists.
Those services aggregate offerings and deals from banks and financial services companies, effectively acting as a user acquisition channel for reaching new audiences and customers.
The system integrates a smart card unit, acting as a user machine interface, sensors, actuators, interfaces, a PLC controller that incorporates the fuzzy control algorithm, local operating network (LON) modules and devices and an optional PC which monitors the performance of the system.
Billing Concepts Inc. is hoping to simplify billing for wireless computer users by acting as a clearinghouse, allowing users of public Wi-Fi hot-spots to be billed through their Internet service provider.
Naturally, it seems to follow that when a person logs into a site through their social network, they want to interact with the site with their social graph in tow – and, according to Gigya – is in turn acting as a gateway for user engagement through comments, sharing, game mechanics, and activity feeds.
Dandelife says it will work out a system for acting as a broker between users and corporate licensees so that the users are compensated for their stories.
There are a number of other companies working on embeddable avatars, including Gizmoz and Voki, but mEgo differentiates itself by acting as a hub for a user's photos and network profiles rather than just a fancy self-portrait.
This is, presumably, a barrier to the growth of its credits, and Facebook is trying to grow that side of their business (by, for example, acting as a middleman between users and mobile app developers).
By acting as a channel to funnel user donations to listed organizations, FreeWill has been able to drive a 600percentt increase in charitable giving to partner organizations on average.
It seemed like a straight-up commercial play, with Adblock Plus acting as a gatekeeper for precious users and charging big ad companies like Google money to bypass its own restrictions.
While on the face of it Picli may seem like yet another Flickr, the founders are adamant this isn't the case – it's less about acting as a giant harddrive for users to upload all their photos to, and more about community-driven quality control, where photographers share only their best work and take inspiration from others — not dissimilar to what FFFFound does for visual artists.
