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Photo: Larry Levy, CEO, Jodange, on stage at DEMO 08
Konolive
KonoLive is the Instant Collaboration that offers a unified collaboration space, transforming processes into intuitive single-click actions.
Semingo
Delver is a search engine that allows you to find content within your personal network of people. It indexes the Social Web and your social graph to deliver personalized results.
HealthPricer Interactive
HealthPrice is the Expedia for Health care according to the presenter. It is a price comparison search engine for healthcare related products and services.
Eyealike
Eyealike Video Copyright Search offers a new visual-based search approach that helps media content producers ward off massive amounts of copy infringement. Read more in my article.
Silobreaker
Silobreaker is a search & aggregation service for news and current affairs that looks at the data it finds like a person does. It recognizes things companies, people, topics, places - and puts them in context. There is a cool Media Attention Trends tool that analyze the popularity of a topic in the media. Another tool is the network search that connects a keyword to related topics in a visual graph that users can easily manipulate with drag and drop actions. This looks very cool! You can try it at silobreaker.com
Circos
While other search engines return thousands of Web pages, Circos returns a targeted set of qualified brands, ranked by their performance against consumers’ personal preferences.
Jodange
Jodange provides the ability to monitor people’s opinions and sentiment about a specific topic. The demo on stage is a search about the keyword recession during October 2007. The result is delivered as a chart that you can expand to discover the opinion holders, so, we could see that, on October 18th, Alan Greenspan did not think that a recession was coming and we could find that he changed his opinion in December.
This was the last product demo session at DEMO 08!
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Huddle.net on stage at DEMO 08
Konolive
KonoLive is the Instant Collaboration that offers a unified collaboration space, transforming processes into intuitive single-click actions.
Chalex
Chalex Corp is launching BpDAM a collaboration online service that eliminates the need for email attachements. Combining project management functions with file sharing and assets library management, this tool allows teams to collaborate remotely.
Huddle.net
Huddle is a web based collaboration application that allows users to collaborate on personnel or business projects. Huddle.net is launching its Facebook application at the show: users can access all the Huddle functions from their favorite social network website.
Rove Mobile
PC Mobilzr enable the access to your PC computer from a mobile phone from any location. You just need to download it either from a computer or a phone and you can start using it immediately. You can operate any application on your PC from your mobile phone and the demo is impressive. It is available now on Pcmobilizr.com for BlackBerry and Windows Mobile. Read more in my article.
Catalyst Web Services
CatalystOffice is a web based suite of applications for small businesses: email, document management, calendar, contacts and IM. Businesses pay a subscription based on the storage capacity they need, not on the number of users.
Sterna Technologies
Sterna Business Positionning System BPS provides a Business Analytics platform that helps manager and executives to have a real time visibility on their operations and alerts them on any deviations.
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Support.com
Support.com is launching PC HealthCheck a free internet based service that check users’ PC on demand. Read more in my article
SupportSpace
I visited the SupportSpace booth yesterday and I saw a demo of the service. I like it a lot. It could be a great replacement of traditional phone-based Tech Support services. Directly on the home page, users can see the experts’ profiles, rates and ranking. Once the user has selected an expert to help to troubleshoot her/his computer, a chat session is engaged with her/him. Using a Remote Desktop like software with no client download, the expert conduct the maintenance task ordered.
Aternity
Aternity, an Intel Capital portfolio company, launches its platform that monitors desktop performance, application usage/usability, human productivity, and end-to-end performance of every application transaction. Any problems is identified and the computer user is notified.
Symantec
I already published about the Symantec Family Safety Initiative that helps parents with their children online safety. I like the fact that this solution requires the kids collaboration to work properly, and it does not invade their privacy too much: any content from their favorite social networking website site as private is not shown to the parents. Read more in my article
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Liquidus
Liquidus provides low-cost commercial advertising video production, distribution and placement to local businesses, on digital cable video on demand (VOD), online, standard TV, eTV/IPTV and eventually mobile devices, via an easy to use web interface business owners can customize the advertising video.
TubeMogul
Monetization is the greatest challenge that web video creators are facing today. Tubemogul helps video producers upload their content on multiple video websites from a single web page. In addition, it provides a set of analytics tools to track when, where, who and how often the video was watched. Users can monitor accurately how popular their videos are and share the data with their colleagues.
Visible Measures
Visble Measures tracks users behavior with online video, their tools are capable of monitoring the audience of a video clip second by second. For the demo, the CEO showed us how an advertising was ineffective as the majority of the audience stopped watching before the product was shown. Other functions include a location based audience tracking tool. Read more in my previous article
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Hubdub
Hubdub is a new aggregator that uses users to rank news articles by placing bets on which one will be the most popular. A virtual Hubdub dollar system entices users to rank the articles. The virtual money will benchmark the ability of users to spot the best news.
Atlaspost.com
Atlaspost.com is a social networking website based on a map that allows users interact on a global map. Users can personalize their own neighborhoods with buildings, plants, animals with the “Map Village” functions in addition they can upload photos on specific location on the map and tag it with thoughts.
YouChoose
YouChoose is a widget that allows comments to be distributed across multiple websites. The widget replaces the “comments” section at the bottom of blog posts, articles or people’s personal pages. Comments posted in the widget automatically appear on all Web sites that are hosting the widget.
Continue Reading"DEMO 08 - The Social Web session"
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BitGravity
BitGravity is announcing LiveBroadcast, a high quality and highly scalable live streaming video solution. You can watch DEMO 08 live, Bitgravity is powering it, check it on the home page. BitGravity is a Content Delivery Network.
Cozimo
Cozimo is a web based collaboration solution for teams working with images and videos. A team is connected to the same page where a video clip is embedded, with Photoshop-like tools, users can draw over each frame and add comments, when the clip is replayed, users can see all the comments on each frame.
Capzles
Capzles is a new social networking and storytelling website allowing users to express themselves through combined videos, photos/images, blogs and music/audio along horizontal timelines. It is build on a Flash-based patent pending software.
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Green Plug
Green Plug, develops a chip that enables real-time collaboration between electronic devices and their power sources, using the Green Plug Universal Power Protocol (UPP). Green Plug is the developer of Green Talk - a digital protocol for real-time communication between devices that require power and their power sources. This technology allows for the charging of multiple DC powered devices with differing power requirements from a single power supply.
Celsias Project
Celsias launched last year as a blog to fight global warming that has grown in traffic by 65% each month. They are launching “Celsias Project” here at DEMO. It allows participants to create a project and become a project leaders, so people can join and support it. Celsias Project offers a set of online tools to help the project leaders and the projects supporters to raise funds and reach their goals. Read more from my previous article.
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iVideotunes
On iVideosongs’ website you can learn to play your favorite songs from the original artists who created them. You can learn from legendary side men and some of the best teachers anywhere. iVideosongs has licensed full rights to its titles, so you learn to play the complete and accurate song, exactly as it was intended. Because the HD videos are downloaded to your computer, you learn songs on your schedule and at your own pace.
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LiveScribe
I published yesterday a long article about the best gadget of DEMO: the LiveScribe PulseSmartpen. Many people here told me that this device is no new technology because they remember other digital pens from Logitech or Leapfrog (Flypen), but this device brings the digital pen category to the next level. The PulseSmartpen is a computer in a pen that records and links audio to what users write on paper and it has a lot of functions (see article). I want one for myself; hopefully it will works as well as it was demonstrated here. Read more from the article.
Seesmic
Seesmic is “Twitter with videos”, people engage in conversations via video using a compelling graphic interface over the web. Since its private beta launch, Seesmic has users from 25 different countries having conversations over video and text in different languages. There is a mobile version, compatible with hundreds of mobile phones. Loic Lemeur, the CEO, tells us that the conversations went crazy during benazir bhutto’s assassination and people are passionately debating around the presidential election. We will soon provide invitations codes on Ubergizmo.com to participate to the private beta.
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Flypaper
Flypaper bridges the gap between Powerpoint and custom Flash programs. It allows the creation of media-rich presentation that can be posted online in places like YouTube, for example. It looks cool, it is easy to use and most importantly, it’s free!
GoldMail
Goldmail Media uses voice narratives over slideshows or images and delivers it over email. They are launching their new business application at DEMO for e-marketing, where you can create audio slide shows, send them via email or post them on the web.
Sprout
Sprout is an easy-to-use authoring tool to build hightly interactive flash movies. You can use it to build widgets for example.This product is aimed at creative people who do not know how Flash programming. Then, you can post your flash movies in one click on major websites like YouTube. The CEO Carnet Williams gave me a demo just before this session. Visit the website sproutbuilder.com
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LiquidTalk
Liquidtalk enables business users to find, create and push content to mobile devices including iPod, iPhones and BlackBerry.
Zodiac Interactive
Zodigo from Zodiac Interactive is a Mobile content search application for TV. Using your mobile phone and TV you can find and download interesting mobile stuff like coupons or games.
Voyant
Voyant@Home helps people drive their financial planning with an intuitive web user interface. They can also connect with the Voyant community to share ideas and concerns about their finances.
Review2buy
Review2buy delivers price comparisons and product reviews via SMS. The product categories includes consumer electronics, books and wines. I tested the service and wrote about it yesterday. It is easy and fast to use.
Continue Reading"DEMO 08 Simplify Session"
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Toktumi
Toktumi offers affordable PBX (Private Branch System) functionality. You can receive and place calls from the phone or the computer, the application has a neat Search-to-call feature that allows users to search for a person or company name in their computer, dial the phone number and access in one click a Google map to locate the person/company address. It cost $12.95 a month plus 2 cents per minute and you can try it before subscribing.
BloCafe
BloCafé=(Blog+Live Forum+Live Public Conversation)*pushing message. With BloCafe users can host live forums to share files/cooperate on files shown at their computer desktop with attendees while they’re talking, provide live conversation rooms to attendees to allow them talking in public, send push messages to attendees, and write their blog.
Movial
Currently, people cannot share their social media instantly with all their friends. Movial’s Social Communicator provides a solution to this need. This application offers a chat-like user interface, where users has their contacts, can access their video from their favorite social website (YouTube is used for the demo) and send it to their friends via the Social Communicator dashboard, and recipients receives notifications message on their comuter or their mobile phones.
Continue Reading"DEMO 08, Message in a Bottle Session"
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Time Trade System
Time Driver allows business users to make multiple appointments sending a single email invitation by embedding a “Schedule Now” button in email messages and on Wep pages.
Iterasi
Using Iterasi toolbar with Internet Explorer or Firefox, you can save any web page just teh way you see it. It is saved as HTML and stored in your Iterasi account. This application might be very useful for journalists or students who do a lot of research using the Internet. Iterasi has also a neat search feature.
LiquidPlanner
LiquidPlanner captures and manages uncertainty for project management. This project management tool lets users assign tasks in a time range (5 to 10 days, for example) rather than in exact time, the use of ranged estimates and probabilistic scheduling helps to build more accurate schedules.
Citiport
Citiport is a travel website that helps travelers discover the cities of the world and plan their visit with an intuitive interface. Travelers and locals can also enter new point of interests and rank them as well. If a city is not yet in the system, users can create a new city and start to enter what they liked visiting.
Continue Reading"DEMO 08 - We Are Customers Session"
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Here I am at DEMO 08 and the conference started with a nice choreography starring Chris Shipley as the lead dancer! Stay tuned, I will be posting about the demo from the 77 companies attending DEMO 08.
