By Ravit Lichtenberg (blog) – This year, GigaOm’s NewTeeVee Live has explored TV Everywhere. In addition to general sessions, the conference featured 10 upcoming video startups—each providing a critical element of video and TV viewing puzzle. In Thursday's morning session, the first five companies present their predictions for TV and video:

Elemental Technologies (Sam Blackman, CEO)

The company (elementaltechnologies.com), which is headquartered in Portland, raised 7.1M Series A funding in June 2008 and has burned $2M in 3 years with 27 employees. Customers include the CDC—the number one consumer of video, as well as Adobe and Microsoft.

• Unlike other forms of media, the internet will not destroy the Pay TV business models.
• Consumers will want a high quality, seamless, video experience across multiple platforms: mobile, laptop, TV.
• People are going to be willing to pay for it to achieve the ease of use across platform that will pay for the infrastructure

[Web 2.0 Summit] Last year, the Web 2.0 Summit should have been renamed the Green 2.0 Summit, but thanks to Twitter, the Web 2.0 name is well deserved for this 2009 session. After Microsoft Bing announcement this morning, Google announced its partnership with Twitter as well, Marissa Mayer told us that the number one search engine will integrate Tweets in its result pages, however, we did not see a demo. Other announcements included HP-Wikia partnership to offer on-demand magazine printing service MagCloud tand MySpace launched its Artist Dashboard that enables bands to collect various statistics and data across several social networking sources. Check out our photo gallery.

[Web 2.0 Summit] Just when we thought that Bing was going to get an edge over Google by accessing Twitter's data, Marissa Mayer announces that Google too will have access. Google will integrate tweets in selected searches. I guess that Google wants to dip its toes before using this all over the place.

Does it mean that Twitter will crash even more often with the new traffic influx?

[Web 2.0 Summit] Twitter just made it official that Microsoft will have access to Twitter's data in real-time. This new deal was demonstrated during a Bing demonstration. A similar deal with Facebook is also said to be in the works, although we will have to see what the details are. Microsoft is taking steps to gain an edge against Google when it comes to "real-time" web. No financial details were disclosed. Web 2.0 Summit continues live on live.ubergizmo.com

Update: so much for the "Edge", Google is getting Twitter data access too.

If you haven't made it to San Francisco for the Web 2.0 Summit, we've posted this photo gallery to show you what it looked like from the inside. You can catch some details over on our live blogging section, but there's nothing like being on-site, we guess... The highlight of the first day was the discussion between John Battelle and Evan Williams (Twitter's CEO) about the revenue model of the popular web service. In the meantime, we’ll keep an eye open to report on interesting developments.

[Web 2.0 Summit] HP is partnering with Wikia, the for-profit collaborative online encyclopedia, to allow people to create magazines based on the content created by Wikia's community. Wikia will offer print-on-demand services to its users through MagCloud, a HP cloud service that automates magazine publishing. HP allows anyone to become a publisher, thanks to Web 2.0 and the "Cloud". Connectivity and the new web tools have made micro-payment available to the masses, and now they will have access to micro-publishing: the on-demand publishing service model eliminates the carrying costs making it possible to publish content that was previously economically not viable to print. MagCloud started as an incubation project in HP Labs and it was launched in February. Additionally, HP announced BookPrep, another cloud service that enables on-demand printing of books, directly competing with Lulu and Blurb.

[Web 2.0 Summit] John Battelle asked Evan Williams twice about Twitter’s revenue model, and did not get any clear answer, beside the fact that 90% of the company effort is focused on improving the technology. Evan stated that he does not regret to have refused the Facebook revenue offer. He also said that Facebook came first with the news feed model that now looks more like Twitter.

The two big areas of growth for Twitter are the Mobile and the International user base, with a significant increase in traffic in Brazil, Indonesia and Japan, the U.S and the U.K being the leading markets. Twitter.com web traffic is slowing down. Twitter recently signed an agreement with the major mobile carriers in Indonesia and Japan.

John Battelle pointed out that Twitter could do a better job at providing real value to third party developers that are building great tools such as TweetDeck (or HootSuite). Currently, they are holding back their development investments due to an fuzzy vision on the revenue model. Evan Williams said that the revenue model is one of the things on his priority list. When asked about the no-tweet clause in the Hollywood studios new contracts with actors, he said that it is certainly not on top of his list.

While everybody pays attention to Google Wave, check it out on the Nokia N900. The font is tiny, but this is pretty cool to watch.

We have to admit that it's a good domain name, but knowing that Microsoft is set to unveil a major offensive against Google Doc, it makes things even more interesting. Microsoft has previously said that a web-based Office suite would be available for free but has not shown any demos or screenshots yet. We think that Office on the web could be Microsoft's first successful anti-Google project.

The former (and little known) service previously hosted by Office.com has been relocated to ContactOffice.com.

By Ravit Lichtenberg (blog) at AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford - Open source has been getting traction in the recent year with the release of Android, continued success of companies like Mozilla, and google Chrome’s open platform approach. In this panel, the connection between SaaS and Open Source is discussed.

Satish Dharmaraj, Partner, Redpoint Ventures, Founder & Former CEO, Zimbra: The primary benefit of enterprise using open source software is freedom of choice. Companies can modify the code and there’s an ecosystem facilitating the success of open source without being committed to one company or another. The benefit to the open source software companies and the enterprises who use them is clear: scalability for one, and reach is another. However, (in a B2B model) it is still unclear how the customer company benefits from the hosted open source solution.

By Ravit Lichtenberg (blog) - We are at the Digital Media CEO showcase where it is an interesting mix of mobile, nanotechnology, and consumer efficiency and advertising companies. Highlights from six companies — each given 6 minutes to present, are provided below.

Modiv Technology
Digital media in the grocery store.

Facilitating shopping experience in the grocery store through behavior, location, history analysis and purchase enablement. Shoppers walk around with the Modiv “Zapper” and scan the product SKU for automatic tally. The system provides targeted promotions and discounts on relevant products.

WebVisible 

The digital “Yellow Pages” that provides large scale, agnostic, platform resembling a shopping mall for digital advertising, optimizing media across anything with a display. WebVisible is a solution which enables a normalized process to procure media and have push-means of advertising over multiple devices. WebVisible has global and local products, leverages predictable marketplace and the way people define their own neighborhoods—defining local the way people define local.

[Where 2.0] I saw Earthmine for the first time when it launched at DEMOFall 07: it offers a Street View-like application that has a better image quality than the Google application (at the time of launch) and provides various web 2.0 interactive tools. This street-level 3D mapping technology allows users to collect and use all kinds of geospatial data in urban environments (i.e. buildings measurements, urban inventory), which appeals to a wide range of markets including construction, engineering, architecture, real estate, infrastructure management, transportation.

To add more fun to its pretty serious offering, the company launched Wild Style City (http://www.wildstylecity.com), a virtual graffiti application that lets digital urban artists express their talent using various interactive geo-tagging tools. Wild Style City leverage earthmine's 3D mapping platform and the earthmine Flash Viewer API, which provides access to earthmine’s data library for Adobe Flash, Flex or AIR based applications (in beta). Check out the photo gallery, the demo or try it live, this application is super cool!

Nielsen has published a report that shows that 60% of Twitter users quit using the service after one month. This will of course make the day of Twitter's critics that will be quick to point out that Twitter is facing an "uphill battle", especially after the quick growth initiated by famous users like Oprah.

Even if the numbers are accurate, is this really a big problem? Sure some users are quitting, but it was true for blogging, so why wouldn't it be for micro-blogging? It would be more interesting to measure the number of tweets or even pageviews, rather than measuring "only" the number of active users. While we don't expect Twitter's retention rate to ever equal Facebook's, we think that the retention rate alone doesn't tell the whole story.

This is the kind of post that will get us banned from a couple of companies filters: SpreadTweet is basically a twitter client that look like a spreadsheet. If you look closer, you will find the usual stuff that you have become accustomed to in Twitter, but your boss won't be able to tell the difference 4 feet away. Type your replied in the top text editbox to tweet back. [Gizmodo, NYT]