“買賣”天氣英語美文

San Francisco based WeatherBill, the service which lets you bet on the weather (it can also be used for insurance), took down their landing page and launched today.

總部位於舊金山的WeatherBill公司今天正式上線，你可以利用他們的服務對未來天氣下注(它也能用做保險)。

We wrote about the company two weeks ago while it was in private beta. WeatherBill is combining an ecommerce site with a complicated weather forecasting algorithm to sell weather insurance policies to individuals and businesses.

我們在兩週之前報道了這家網絡公司，當時它還只提供內測的beta版。WeatherBill公司正在把一個電子商務網站和一中複雜的天下預報分析系統整合起來，然後向公司和個人出售天氣保險單。

The company is not disclosing the size of their round of funding. However, it includes venture firms NEA and Index Ventures, as well as a number of well known individuals: founder Joshua Schachter, Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom (through his Atomico fund) and Howard Morgan (idealab and First Round Capital), as well as others who declined to be named.

該公司並沒有透露他們得到了多少風險投資，但是它的投資商包括了NEA和INDEX，以幾一批著名的獨立投資人，其中包括的創始人Joshua Schachter、Skype的'創始人Niklas Zennstrom(通過他的原子基金)，和Howard Morgan，以及其他一些不願意透露姓名的投資人。

WeatherBill is perfect for small and medium sized businesses who’s businesses are affected by the weather. If a golf course wants to be paid $1,000 per rainy day, WeatherBill will create a policy on the fly for them.

WeatherBill公司對於那些業務受天氣影響的中小型公司來説是上佳之選，如果某高爾夫課程想要為每個雨天獲得1，000美金的賠償，那麼WeatherBill公司會為此而專門設計一份保單給他們。

The company was founded by former Googler David Friedberg.

WeatherBill公司的創建者為前GOOGLE創始人David Friedberg。

On a side note, WeatherBill is doing some really nice things with Flash (see the tools section). Even if weather and insurance isn’t your cup of tea, you should check it out. Particularly if you are creating Flash applications yourself (I said the same thing about Jobby with their use of Ajax back in March).

除了對天氣進行保險，WeatherBill公司還用FLASH做了些非常有意思的小玩藝(參看網站的工具欄)。即便你對天氣和保險全無興趣，你也應該用它查一下天氣對你收入的影響。特別的是，你還可以為自己定製一個FLASH的小程序。