September 2007
137 posts
burganprell: Screenings went well, enjoying the bloody mary bar:-) (via Twitter / burganprell)
Push-IT
Last company, people! DEMO livebloggy is official coming to an end. Monty Python parody opening. “I am searching for the holy grail of mobile data.” Lots of laughs. Any content from any website is pushed to you, and you don’t have to e in anpplication — not SMS or browser-based. This included mobile advertising. This also eliminates WAP reformatting issues. This is an...
Vitarati
Announcing Seenr. iPhone mentions onstage are now numbering in the hundreds:) “Collaborative filtering,” in this case for “social scenes.” Example: bar recommendations via a text messaging interface as dictated by your profile. Matches location preferences against mobile search. You can also rate via SMS, and help define trends on the fly. A great example use for this would...
MixGet
Mobile phones play songs together, example of “We will rock you” playign the first part (We will, we will) on one phone and the other part on another (Rock you. Dunt. Rock you.) Cool and fun.
Mig33
Mobile messaging company, also chat and VoIP calling, SMS, sort of a mobile social network, a lot like TruTap at TC40 last week. Today announcing service in the US, they currently have 7.5 million users worldwide, dlay to US because of difficult service configurations, billing structure, and laws. Value is that if your phone can’t run more than one application on your phone i.e. you...
Truphone
Demonstrating 2 products today. Uses VoIP, a new breed of operator, via wifi so can make calls with your iPhone. This is big news and has been all over the darn internets already:) Totally free, even though both phones roaming form the UK. Also a Facebook application, with a call me button, as well as location tracking (permissions based) tied to IP addresses so that you can also tell where...
Kannuu
This is a totally new way to search on mobile devices, even if there isn’t a keypad. I’ve seen this and it’s hard to describe in words, even though it is dead simple (in the UI, not necc. the backend indexing), so bear with me. These guys have done extremely well with the press thus far. It’s like T9, but it’s not like it at all. All you use need is four buttons...
Myndnet
An information marketplace. Marketplace allows anyone with knowledge to share it and get paid for it. Businesses or individuals ask questions and the community responds. This is a lot like Spoke. Example of filling out an “Ask” form recruiting a specific role that you are looking for, how many, dates etc. A job board won’t help b/c the people you’re looking for...
360 Desktop
Extends the windows desktop into an “unlimited desktop space.” It is essentially 360-degree desktop wallpaper. You can pan backwards and forwards as a way of accessing your applications because you can drag windows 360 degrees around. Hehe what would be really cool would be a 360 degree monitor with the user at the center with a Wii-ish mousing device. Imagine playing Halo on that! Can...
The Pudding
These guys have already generated MAJOR controversy this week because they listen in on your phone calls to deliver targeting advertising. http://www.thepudding.com They’re demoing it, contextual, targeted advertising to the web interface in exchange for totally free calls. Pretty funny demo because they were looking for a restaurant, and one listed Paris Hilron as a regular, then they...
Sway
Market is fragmenting, they are a marketing firm, their clients wanted one way to utilize all social media vehicles. Announcing Shoutlet. Create, distribute and track social media campaigns. Can syndicate podcasts on Odeo and upload videos to all the major video networks. Also has relationships with over 200 social networks.
FastCall411
Now into the “Marketing2.0” grouping. Keep in mind of course the Goog411 billboards that appeared in the Bay area last week. Totally different, though. If you’re looking for a plumber, you enter in your zip and need, and here in the demo it simultaneously called 10 plumbers in this case, and then announced what the customer was looking for and prompted the plumber to pick up by...
iForem
Digital archiving for life, to store, share and protect IP, important photos, or any other content or information that is of crucial importance. No going through the example of medical records. “Think of it as an online safety deposit box.” Initially targeting enterprises, law firms, etc. but also talking about individual, families, etc.
CodaSystems
Announcing Shoot and Proof, which proves certification of photographs — when, where (GPS encrypted), source, and whether it has been modified. You can take the photo out of this format via their web platform, share, etc. Use case — for professionals in the field — everything from real estate to sports photography — validation that the job was done and that the image is...
Encryptakey
Biometrically authenticated device (USB key), microprocesser built in, RFID, 8GB memory, and more. Allows you to access the information that is most critical, safely, against keyloggers, screenscrapper and the like. Whether at home, work, hotel or anywhere else, can connect into your information in a completely secure environment. Very similar to Route 1. Can also boot the entire OS off of the key...
Checkpoint Software
Announcing ForceField for online banking and shopping. Provides a “bubble of security” via virtualization technology that “wraps” each session and essentially looks like stunt double to a hacker — browser exploits, phishing, spyware, etc. Cool.
SpaceTime
3D web browsing, looks a lot like iTunes CoverFlow, the way i lets you shuffle through pages. It also displays search terms, for example, in 3D, which helps highlight what is most important and what is available. However, although this is a cool UI, the utility of it beyond the hip/novelty factor remain to be seen. The example they’re doing now of an image search is actually a better example...
Trovix
New job search engine and service. Comparing what they offer against Monster, which is a favorable comparison, but no mention of SimplyHired, for example.Secret sauce is how it extracts information about you, keying it into a profile that is based on role (as well as title) and matches that against employer needs, which is how they make $$ (from the employer). I’ll be very interested to try...
Baagz
How to find content: Typical searches Tagging and bookmarking Social recommendations Former Altavista folk, a next generation search engine. Launching Baagz, a new form of social network, a “live networks of social interests.” Allows users to search, annotate, share and organize. Sounds a lot like Plum, they’re calling Baagz the first “semantic” social network,...
FeedHub
mSpokes’s newest product. Problem of information overload. “We don’t make your feed reader, we make your feed reader smarter.” Demoing form w/in Google Reader. Example: thousands of unread items. Upload OPML file, it will analyze and deliver back a customized and optimized feed that you can subscribe to. Couples human input with machine learning, both explicit and...
Generate
Launching G-Click “one-click intelligence” technology. Say you’re on BizJournals, you can then G-click on a certain article, and it brings up information about everyone mentioned therein, related companies, etc. You can then drill into a certain individual for example, see a profile, etc. Or, a Google search for a company, then G-Click in the browser toolbar, same effect. A lot...
I'ved missed a few. . .
Including Apprema, YuuGuu, and MuseStorm, due to client stuff, will circle back and post my notes on them later.
MatchMine
Think of what Pandora has done for music in cataloging the music, and/or what Amazon has done in terms of knowing you — the customer — better, and combine thoseMatchmine is a key that takes you input on what you like in several media categories, music, movies, blogs and more. It matches individual likes to content. VERY cool UI. I spoke with these guys yesterday, they are announcing...
Adaptive Media
Nice demo of targeting advertising via online video and audio that dynamically changes to meet the individual, based on viewer profiles, user choices and publisher requirements. They’re already doing a lot of work for big companies like National City. Also manages performance and enhances content. A nice back-end piece, especially as we’ve seen a lot of front-end work in this space...
PlanHQ
New-Zealand-based company. Business planning software, wiki-style that helps you to build and implement your business plan, measure against those goals, and forecast effectively into the future. Weirdly, they launched in April, and already have many paying customers. What gives? One use case is a VC monitoring their portfolio companies, which is exactly the kind of challenge that this can help...
LongJump
Company provides a suite of hosted applications like Zoho (not office/productive however). Using all of their applications together via a dashboard. A lot like BOBJ Crystal Excelsius (sp?) Britt says. This is something I know that Zoho is working on too, integrating it all together. They didn’t go into much detail about the individual applications, but they way in which they work together...
Agendize
90% of transactions take place offline, in a store. For making your ads and sites “actionable.” The service “makes it easier for users to contact advertisers at the time, place, and means of their own choosing.” They can choose to save advertiser information for later or to share it with others, “multiplying the effectiveness of the advertisement.” Or choose to...
Batchbook
Contacts, communications, and task management. Competes with Highrise, SugarCRM, etc. Differentiator is “complete data management” and is a lot easier to use than some other CRM apps I’ve seen. But to be honest they’re not doing a very good job on stage of explaining how their approach to data management really sets them apart. Will sleuth out more:)
CashView
Automated billing and receivables software, tracks progress, commenting support as well (which seems simple, but from personal experience in the process, so many things happen outside of what a given program is able to articulate, that the reality is rarely reflected in the system.) Integrates end-to-end, from contract to final payment, all within one view, which is also nice. Again, seems very...
DimDim
Starts with saying “Webex is dead.” Cheers! First free, open source web meeting service. Totally hosted SaaS. Also has web chat and voice support, UI simple but straightforward. Going through the demo, but with similar service, th proof will be in the pudding, so anxious to give it a try. Cost savings are obviously there. Also recording functionality, which is cool.
Prolify
Collaboration via e-mail, since it is the primary touchpoint for most of us when we interface with the web (p.s. that is changing, though…) Works within “your application of choice,” here using Outlook. Share documents, can be a single user or hooked into an ECM solution. Has a nice activity/process mapping to track the collaborations. This part is way cool, shows the complete...
InstaColl
Take any MS office doc and share and collaborate — looks like Excel for example, but is Flash-based. Changes can be merged into original document with owner’s permission, and also has support online/offline. Essentially, this does for Office what MS has not managed to do yet, which is add in a lot of the functionality that Writely for instance brought to Google, as well as the...
MyQuire
Project management that will compete with 37signals, projects, meetings, calendar, conference call, chat and more. Really nice stuff, will be interesting if they can get people to switch over from other programs they are used to using in oder to take advantage of this advanced functionality. Can’t see that it is written in Rails, btw. The sharing desktops piece is especially nice.
Vello
A conferencing system that calls you, myvello.com, just ran a demo of many phones in the audience, very cool. Personally, hate how much money we pay to AT&T for conference calls and the quality sucks so look forward to trying this one out. Very easy/nice UI, but they didn’t go into the specifics of the tech so will stop by their booth later.
Tubes
Online/offline synchronization, this is what companies like Sharpcast have been working on for a long time, a huge acheivement if you ask me becase synchronization is freakin’ hard to do. Music, movies, news, etc. You can also see the public Tubes sites that others have published. Client and information lives on your desktop, even if you’re not connected to the web. Can continue to...
Tungle
Travel scheduling and coordination client, is agnostic to your calendar program (Outlook, iCal, etc.). The UI is a lot like an IM client, so pretty easy to use. Hehehe he just used the phrase “slip them a little Tungle”. Laughter. Wondering who slipped who a little Tungle last night, by the way, the party got pretty craaaazy. In discussion with “leading web services...
Myxer
Last presentation fo the day… Allows any existing website to deliver music, videos, etc. in a pretty radically simplified way to mobile devices, especially in the long tail. The best part: immediately available and free.
Earthmine
A geospatial, lightweight navigation application — analyze and communicate street-level information. No indicated partnership with TeleAtlas or similar. Browse we around a geography and geocode contextual information. Then you can take your information and upload to Google Earth, for example. Create useful, real data about the world in 3D — longer-term applications of this is unclear...
Graspr
Knowledge sharing models — ours is outdated, where a teacher knows all the content, and the content is more important than the interactions around it. A new approach to how-to videos. Only instructional content, all of the time. Example of installing crown molding. 19 videos relating to crown molding, they show skill level, etc. You can go right to the part of the video that interests most....
LiveMocha
Goooo team! Online language learning, taking it out of the CD-ROM era, using community-based approach: Instructional content Tools and exercises with help of native speakers all over the work Motivational framework “Emergent” approach to language via inference between text, sound and pictures. And the community can also augment the content (not sure how this is regulated). Running...
PeopleJam
Pursuing a “great life” - a content site and social network around learning and personal development. Running, weight loss, etc. “Life topic” pages, with content via: Video streaming Structured blogging Other integrated communications tools They also have accredited life coaches (this is a real profession, peeps, I have a friend who is one) on the site, too. “Taking...
SceneCaster
This is a 3D modeling environment, using the use case of laying out your living room. Integrated with Google’s 3D Warehouse and other catalogs. Then can use that content in a 3D online world/community without writing a whole done of code. Can also drag and drop for instance from eBay, so the value is in uniting the real and virtual, and the advertising dollars that can flow from one to the...
SceneCaster
This is a 3D modeling environment, using the use case of laying out your living room. Integrated with Google’s 3D Warehouse and other catalogs. Then can use that content in a 3D online world/community without writing a whole done of code. Can also drag and drop for instance from eBay, so the value is in uniting the real and virtual, and the advertising dollars that can flow from one to the...
CornerWorld
AV problems on live video feed from Austin. Woot! (P.S. how did “Woot” get to be a shout-out verb?) Empower content providers tools for promotion, marketing and profit. Everything from live video feed for a band to a newsletter tool. Geared towards the creative professional, and a possibility to fill that niche…
LogMeIn
LogMeIn Rescure Mobile. Allows helpdesk to instantly remote control to remote devices. Demoing now, looks good. Works via a virtualized image of the device displayed on the helpdesk screen. And a lot better than trying walk users through a given fix over the phone. Other features: file send/receive, whiteboard (for training). Their existing basic platform to PC’s is already used by 10K...
Phreesia
More hardware, fun! Phressia Pad is the product, it is a touch-screen tablet that patients get that holds all of a patient’s information, which also helps doctors in having more meaningful conversations with patients. Essentially it replaces the paperwork that you fill out when you have an appointment. You enter everything from you address to your medications. Phreesia available at no cost...
Qumranet
First commercial product is SolidIce, which has been built form the ground up to do desktop virtualization (rather than adapted from server virtualization technologies). He just said “kernel-based hypervisor [sorry!] but it’s from the KVM open source project. These guys have raised $8 million to date. Now doing the DEMO, very nice, it’s also coupled with an IT management side,...
Fusion IO
Performance-based storage. Today, it takes 600 disk drives to keep a server “fed” and it all about keeping the performance up. They’re showing the hardware, in the form of a PCI express cards — can do 100,00 iops, 600-some GB of storage. They are demoing in an HP blade. They just moved 8 DVD’s worth of data at 400MB/second, so this is about 1,000x faster than...
Propel Software
The presenter is quite possibly Amish (thanks, Laura). Beware, he may be smote before us in the very act of using the technology he’s presenting! Competing traffic, everything from Windows update sources to Skype. Their application manages your personal bandwith. Propel PBM (personal bandwidth management). Manages it automatically, drastically improving performance. Demoing it now, wow, a...
Talari Networks
They’re in the LAN for business business. Funny jokes onstage about how network infrastructure isn’t sexy. Performance and reliability have come a long way, but still don’t meet what businesses need, so no one is moving off of proprietary (and very expensive) connections yet because they’re not even there yet with what they’re already invested. Analogy: IBM in the...
