January 2008
57 posts
Lookout!
Me and Britt hanging with Mashable’s Kristen Nicole at the jam session - http://www.flickr.com/photos/democonference/2231407904/in/set-72157603821302050/. What a little nugget she is!
Jodange
Jodange ToMs (top of mind service) is an online automated sentiment discovery system for general information, and an online information service focused on the rapidly expanding online content available on the web. Rafe says “Top of Mind is a tool by quants, for traders. It looks at the published opinions and prognostications of market analysts and correlates them with stock moves. From that...
Circos.com
“Search engine with a brain and a heart.” The search returns only results that matter to you. You can insert key words when looking for a hotel, for example, “luxurious,” “spa,” and “Internet connectivity,” they return more targeted results. Circos also allows you to learn more about the users who have posted ratings.
Silobreaker
Silobreaker is an online search service for news and current events that delivers relevance beyond traditional search and aggregation engines. They offer analysis providing users unparalleled contextual insight into the news stories of the day. Silobreaker pulls content on global issues, science, technology and business from approximately 10,000 news, blog, research and multimedia sources. ...
HealthPricer
Applies their health domain expertise and technology to create a health-related consumer shopping experience. DEMO says - HealthPricer gathers information from other sites to provide comprehensive search results across a wide range of health-related products. Part shopping referral site, part commerce engine for health sites.
Delver
Delver, which was previously called Semingo, takes social search to a new place. Delver is the first socially connected search engine. Your friends are the best source of information - look for information, media and people within your various networks like Myspace, Facebook, Flickr, etc. Results garnered are relevant to you. Most search results brought up on Google are SEO inflicted and are...
Yoiks
Just four guys from a garage in Palo Alto. Today there are millions of connected devices, but few are remote accessible. Yoics provide simple, secure Internet network technology that works just like instant messaging. Instead of a buddy list, you have a list of devices.
Squidcast
Email attachments aren’t keeping up with growing file sizes, which are being blocked because of high underlying costs of server storage and bandwidth. Squidcast temporarily uses small amounts of end user storage at low-cost, so completely free for end-user community. They offer a platform that integrates with email and other apps to let users send and stream unlimited amounts of full...
Nirvanix
They’re beating a storage box with a bat! CEO Geoff is on-stage now. Nirvanix is a quick and easy web-based storage platform for developers. Why buy EMC when you can plug into the cloud and remove all the headings. You can upload a file of any size or type, they determine where to store it in geonodes across the world. They intelligently move files around to where they make sense,...
Sterna BPS
There’s a doggie on stage - and a smart one too (so cute)! Sterna BPS (Business Positioning System) combines advanced analytics, dynamic reporting and real time business data to provide real time business intelligence. Don’t ask us what that has to do with the dog…
Catalyst Web Services
Lauching Catalyst Office, a Web-based suite of integrated apps designed specifically for small business. It includes email, online doc management, calendar, contacts, IM and collaboration. Companies pay for the space that they need, not the number of users. Great SaaS for remote and home-based workers.
Rove Mobile
Making remote connectivity easier - they are aunching their first consumer product, PCMobilizr, that allows you to connect and access your PC and all the files on your PC, from a mobile device. Download, install and use right away regardless of your network, ISP or smartphone. Seemed to work pretty seamlessly. Cool!
Huddle
Connects work projects and social networks in one place, letting you work the way you play. Huddle.net gives you the tools to get stuff done offering free apps that Basecamp and others charge for. Allows you to create workspaces on Facebook - the first pure work tool for Facebook.
Chalex BpDAM
Online software service that eliminates the need for email attachments and enables businesses to orchestrate remote collaborations and share digital files of any type. We hung out with these guys the first night, they did great!
KonoLive from 2Win Solutions
Allows instant collaboration on documents, excel grids, video, etc. Bring up the KonoLive toolbar and you can create a review activity and click on users you want to review the document or file and send. Users can review documents and provide comments to provide immediate feedback. Comments from users pop up on the screen as soon as they post them.
Good2gether
Good2gether is a social networking service that connects people to a specific cause. The company works with nonprofit organizations, which enter volunteering opportunities, events, donation needs, etc. that Good2gether distributes across multiple partner websites. The company is already working with the San Francisco Chronicle, and will soon go live with the Houston Chronicle and several other...
Symantec
Symantec announced the new Symantech Family Safety Initiative, which focuses on helping parents ensure that their children can have safe online interactions in a broad range of areas. The application allows parents and children to collaborate and develop agreed upon rules for online activity, including which people will be blocked during online chat sessions, what type of information will be made...
MANDIANT
The dynamic duo at MANDIANT claim to find evil and fight crime. Their intrusion dectection and incident response solutions help large organizations protect business critical data. The product, Intelligent Response, allows businesses to identify potential data breeches, look at the computer systems in question to determine what information has been comprimised or is at risk, gathers supporting...
Aternity
Aternity provides the first Frontline Performance Intelligence platform, which monitors desktop performance, end to end applications response time, and end user productivity. The analysis of these key performance indicators allow the platform to establish basline levels of performance. Users or groups of users that fall below this basline threshold are identified, flagged and isolated. The...
SupportSpace
SupportSpace is a community-based tech support market place that gives people access to a higher quality of tech support. The solution allows users to leverage the knowledge of the most highly-skilled experts available on the Web. Detailed overviews of these experts (user reviews, languagues spoken, price rate, etc.) are avialable on the Web site. Users can contact experts on the site with one...
Pathworks Software
Pathworks Software today announced a customer service application called HelpStream. This is a Web-based, on-demand customer support and help desk solution that allows organizations to quickly deploy self-service and collaboration technology that is integrated with agent-based problem resolution processes. The solution has a strong community based collaboration feature, which allows help desk...
Support.com
Support.com helps home and small business PC users fix IT problems as they happen. Today, they launched a new product, PC Health Check, which is a free remote scan of your computer designed to check how well the computer is performing (whether it’s running fast or slow), diagnose hardware or software problems, and access vulnerabilities to a virus or spyware attack. The solution will...
Visible Measures
Visible Measures works with internet video publishers and advertisers to measure the effectiveness of their online videos. The analytic tools allow businesses to track and analyze viewers’ activity while wathing the video. For example, are most viewers rewinding the video at a certain point, are they closing the video clip before the product messaging can be communicated, are they clicking...
TubeMogul
TubeMogul is a distribution and analytics company for online video. Its solution allows content creaters to upload their videos to the site and automatically deploy them to as many of the the top video sharing sites as they want. Additionally, content creaters can compare and contrast the effectiveness and visibility of their videos with that of their peers and competitors. TubeMogul already...
Liquidus Corp.
Up next is Liquidus, which focuses on the mass production and distribution of commercial advertising videos across mulitiple media. Their solution allows businesses to generate these videos in an easy, inexpensive manner then distribute for placement on digitial cable video on demand stations and online.
Standout Jobs
Standout Jobs aims to improve the efficiency of the recruiting process. The company is launcing a new product called Reception, which is comprised of a DIY inteactive career site. Businesses can better engage potential employees by using personlization features that allow them to incorporate corporate messaging, branding, etc. The tool makes it easy to gather as much information about candidates...
Redux
The Redux presenters were young and enthusiastic about the launch of their new “people discovery” solution. The Redux social networking/online dating site uses advanced algorithims to predict what users will like in potential mates based on their actions and personality preferences. The algorithms are socially aware and can not only predict what type of person a user will like, but...
Buzka
Buzka today launched a new social networking application called Buzka POPNets, which allows businesses to help their customers create social networks focused on finding and sharing product-related information and experiences. It’s a easy to use application which allows users to organize their pages with simple drag and drop features. Businesses can customize the interface with their own...
YouChoose
YouChoose.net today launched a widget that replaces the “comments” section at the bottom of blog posts, news articles and social networking pages. The widget allows people to enter comments, which are instantly posted on all websites that host the widget. It turns simple comments into in-depth converations.
atlaspost
atlaspost is a social mapping networking. The app integrates google maps to let users network on a global map. It utilizes creative, animated personalization features to create individual icons which are used to visually represent individuals on the map. The app allows people to identify and interact with people with similar interest that live in close proximity.
Hubdub
Hubdub is a innovative news aggregator with a new spin. The service incorporates a prediction capability that allows people to forecast how news stories will actually turn out. The site will use top headlines around the world (presidential election, britney spears getting pregnant…again), and give users the ability to track these running news stories over time and predict outcomes, while...
Capzles
Capzles is up and launching their new site, capzles.com. The site allows users to create visually-rich social media stories and share them with the rest of the world. The process is easy to use, fast, fluid and fun. For example, if you want to share your experiences from a recent family vacation or even the production process for filming a movie, capzles allows users to create a visual,...
Xtranormal
Xtranormal allows online users to create their own near-life, character-based online movies and story clips. It’s a fun 3D animation tool that even non-tech savy users can manage. Users can create everything from animated profiles, mock talk show programs, movie clips, newscasts, etc. The tool gives you the option of incorporate the user’s own voice or an automated voice. These...
Cozimo
Cozimo is an online image and video collaboration application that allows people to interact with other users anywhere in the world. The tool gives users the ability to provide comments/feedback on specific designs and images and utilize drawing mark-up tools to discuss specific aspects of the images that need to be tweaked. With the tools, designers can manage entire projects online more...
BitGravity
We got off to another great day of presentations today with BitGravity, which provides the first broadcast quality high definition service. Today, they announced the internet’s first highly-scalable, affordable live broadcast streaming video service. The service, BG Live Broadcast, provides a clear picture with the quality of a HD television. The service appeals to any company with a need...
iVideosongs
The company,iVideotunes, was joined on stage by famous musician John Oates — what a surprise that Oates & Hall is in the house live! iVideosongs brings innovation to music instruction by teaching consumers how to play complete songs through online HD videos from the original artists themselves, as well as academic teachers. They have licensed full rights to its titles, so consumers...
MOLI.com
MOLI.com is a social platform that allows you to create multiple profiles from a single account. Moli addresses the challenges of control and privacy within social networks so that users can segment their social, personal and professional personalities through different profiles. Profiles can be deemed public, private or hidden to maintain a user’s level of privacy. Also designed for...
Seesmic
Like Twitter, but for video, Seesmic is a rich platform that enables connections among users with video. Seesmic is a web community where users can create forums and generate conversations about any subject through video. You can view videos online or on mobile devices. They currently have a user community of 3,000 people from around the world.
Livescribe
Livescribe is launching the Pulse Smartpen and a platform that includes the pen, desktop software and a web community. The pen is a computer in a pen that records and links audio to what users write on paper in a special notebook. The pen has a speaker and can record audio taken during a meeting, conference call, presentation. Your notes can be uploaded into their desktop software. A search...
SceneCaster
SceneCaster attended DEMOfall 07 in San Diego when they launched the company. They are today launching SceneWeaver, a full in-browser 3D experience. The technology allows 3D scenes to be embedded, linked and viewed from any web page. Building on top of the existing SceneCaster technology, SceneWeaver lets you add links to Web content (video, music, web pages) to a 3D scene. You have the...
StackSafe
StackSafe addresses the problem of unplanned downtime with StackSafe Test Center, a staging and testing solution for IT. IT teams can make a virtualized copy of their entire corporate Web infrastructure to test how changes to this infrastructure will impact the system. IT can then understand how certain changes will impact their business before an implementation or change actually takes...
Citrix Systems
Citrix XenDesktop brings desktop virtualization to users. The XenDesktop makes a user’s desktop virtual that performs faster than a traditional PC desktop. The virtual desktop can be accessed anywhere by simply logging into your Citrix Systems account.
Celsias
Celsias is today launching Celsias Climate Change Projects to help solve the problem of global warming. Helping individuals and companies to take real action against global warming, Celsias is the first online destination for people to create, fund and equip projects. Project leaders can get instant feedback on their impact on global warming and take advantage of the wisdom of the crowd effect...
GreenPlug
GreenPlug has developed a digital technology that allows real-time collaboration between electronic devices and their power sources. GreenPlug has created a universal power plug so that you don’t have to carry around all the various power cords associated with your computer, iPod, iPhone. GreenPlug sells a chip, called the Green Plug Universal Power Protocol, that can recognize differing...
Sprout
Very good introduction with music from Ben Harper, using his Sprout as the demo for how the SproutBuilder works. SproutBuilder is a web-based drag and drop authoring environment for building sophisticated files. Rich media widgets are made to make one’s content portable. For more novice users, SproutBuilder provides template widgets that can be easily customized. For more advanced users,...
GoldMail
A messaging platform that allows you to send and share photo slideshows with voiceover capabilities to others via email. GoldMail is today launching GoldMail for Business as a high impact e-messaging solution to help businesses communicate with greater impact. Pictures are no longer static or generalized because customized voiceover narratives are added to the slideshow, allowing businesses to...
Flypaper
Allows you to tell stories that stick on the Web by bridging the gap between PowerPoint and Flash programming. These stories can be used to help business professionals to develop interactive communications called Flypaper Models. Models are pre-created templates that include any type of media such as music, pictures, text, etc. which can then be customized to create impressive, interactive...
CellSpinSoft
CellSpin is a mobile application that lets you create and share any media (video, picture, text. audio) to any Web site simultaneously — a blogging, networking or auction site. For example, a user can create a video of an item with their mobile device and then can seamlessly post that video to eBay to sell it. No knowledge of HTML code is needed.
Ecrio
Launching MoBeam, allows you to beam barcodes directly into scanners. The technology uses a light source on a keychain-based device to duplicate the sequencing of a standard barcode. The MoBeam keychain looks similar to an iPod nano. It eliminates the need for a paper coupon or a tangible gift card because offers are delivered to the keychain device via Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones or...
blist
The world’s easiest database designed for mainstream users. A rich Internet application, blist allows you to store photos as a column type in the spreadsheet. Users can easily create columns with a drag and drop functionality. Users can create a star ratings column to rate items in their database, store documents and tables in individual cells to keep all of your information in one...