LinkedIn Corporation is backed by venture capital firms including Sequoia Capital, Greylock, and Bessemer Venture Partners, as well as individuals such as Marc Andreessen (co-founder of Netscape and chairman of Opsware), Joe Kraus (co-founder of Excite), and Peter Thiel (co-founder of PayPal). Feeling a bit disconnected? LinkedIn wants to help. LinkedIn Corporation is an online business network designed to help professionals find jobs, people, and service providers. It is also offers career management tools. LinkedIn Corporation has grown to reach approximately 80 million users in some 200 countries since its founding in 2003. LinkedIn is free to join; it also offers a paid premium membership with additional tools, and sells advertising.

Healthline Networks, Inc. was formed in 1999 as YourDoctor.com; it floundered during the dot com bust and eventually resurfaced as Healthline Networks in 2005 with funding from companies such as VantagePoint and Reed Elsevier. Healthline Networks wants to give you a direct connection to health information. The company's Web site uses proprietary semantic taxonomy to match everyday language with medical terms for a more complete look at interconnected topics from diseases and conditions to causes and treatments. In addition to operating its own ad-supported consumer Web site, Healthline powers search, advertising, and content services to a network of publishers, advertisers, health Web sites, and health plans.

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.

eDiets.com, Inc. engages in developing and marketing Internet-based diet and fitness programs to consumers and businesses primarily in North America. It offers various digital subscription-based diet plans according to an individual’s weight goals, food and cooking preferences, and related shopping lists and recipes; and subscription-based weight loss oriented meal delivery services, as well as interactive online information, communities, education, and telephone and online support services. The company also provides message boards on various topics of interest to subscribers, such as online meetings presented by licensed mental health counselors, registered dietitians, and certified fitness trainers. In addition, it offers private label online nutrition, fitness, and wellness programs to health insurance, pharmaceutical, and food industries; and operates a Web site, eDiets.com, which provides content in the areas of diet and nutrition, fitness, mind and body, health, and food and recipes, as well as plans, designs, and develops private-label nutrition Web sites. eDiets.com, Inc. was founded in 1992 and is based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Ygnition Networks, Inc. markets its services nationwide from offices in California, Ohio, Texas, and Washington. Investors in Ygnition include ComVentures and Chrysalis Ventures. If you live in an apartment or condo, Ygnition Networks wants to be your Ynternet access provyder. The company markets broadband network connections to operators of multi-tenant buildings among other clients in order to enable bulk high-speed Internet access and other communications services. It also serves customers in the health care, education, and public sector segments. In addtion to Web access, Ygnition offers cable television and digital voice calling. Its services are made possible through an agreement with AT&T.

Snapfish was founded in 1999 by entrepreneur Raj Kapoor and was previously sold to the owners of photo-printing company District Photo. Hewlett-Packard acquired Snapfish in 2005. It operates as part of the HP Imaging and Printing Group. Managing your sea of digital photos online is a snap. Snapfish is an online photo service that lets Internet users share, store, and edit digital photo albums through the company's website. In addition, the service offers 9¢ digital prints, and more than 100 personalized custom photo gift products such as calendars, mugs, and mouse pads. The service is one of the largest players in the digital photo market, with more than 85 million registered users in some 20 countries.

Great Works Internet was founded in 1994 as Biddeford Internet. Great Works Internet feels that connecting to the Web is no small matter. The company, known as GWI, provides Internet services to customers in Maine and areas of New Hampshire. The company serves more than 60,000 residential and business customers with dial-up and broadband connection services. GWI offers other residential services including Internet telephony, while providing such business-oriented services as Web site, email, and data server hosting, as well as online access for local cable operators.

PeoplePC might want to consider changing names to PeopleISP. PeoplePC first made a name for itself giving PCs away for "free" with the purchase of a multiyear membership to its Internet access service. In 2004 PeoplePC changed tack and began to focus on providing straightforward ISP service. It has dropped the PCs and now provides value-priced, narrowband Internet access to more than 1 million subscribers as a subsidiary of Internet service provider EarthLink. PeoplePC also offers a fee-based acceleration service to augment its dial-up speeds and a fee-based spam-blocking service.

Pathfire is a subsidiary of digital media services firm DG FastChannel. Pathfire delivers the lowdown on the hottest news. The company provides digital content distribution and management services to broadcast media outlets. Pathfire delivers primarily news and syndicated programming, including shows such as Jeopardy, Friends, and Wheel of Fortune. Major networks such as ABC and CNN rely on the Pathfire network to distribute thousands of news stories to hundreds of television affiliates. Pathfire company also provides digital media distribution and management services for advertising delivery. All total, it distributes content to more than 1,300 television stations throughout the US.

The Enta Group was founded in 1990 by chairman and managing director Jason Tsai and three other employees. Entanet provides business-class voice and data connectivity services such as broadband Internet access, Web hosting, colocation, and virtual private networks (VPNs). The company primarily serves corporate customers in the UK, relying on channel partners to sell it's proucts. Part of the Enta Group of firms, Entanet has sister companies that provide related services such as e-commerce services (Enta Online), interactive communications (Enta Media), and hardware and software distribution (Entatech). In 2006 the company merged with sister company Entacall to provide converged data and voice solutions.

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