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Demo- An end to Social Media?

Not really.There were the requisite B2C startups and also a lot of Enterprise or B2B companies in this session, but an interesting comment from Chris Shipley in that there is currently a category for “Social Media Companies” which will be dropped in the next event as this is becoming not a separate category, but integrated into every product that will be demo-ing in the future. The Revolution Will Be Broadcast on the WebThe demand for rich video content places big demands on content producers and the networks that distribute their product. It also opens the imaginations of individuals to become creators as well as consumers of video content.Demonstrations by: BitGravity Make internet powerful for delivering media. Experiences that rival

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Demo-Tuesday Morning Sessions

The day is broken up into groupings and the first one is entitled: "We’re Not Just Conference Producers, We’re Customers"Every product we select for DEMO is intrinsically valuable. Each will find customers, from enterprise IT professionals at work to families and friends at home. Yet, in every screening cycle, we find a handful of products that we want or need for ourselves. Here are a few from this year's crop.Demonstrations by: TimeTrade Systems, Inc. Easy scheduling to market. Schedule Now button in an email gives opportunity for easy response to meeting requests. Web interface to make it easier. For the enterprise mkt. It is a Leading scheduler company with corporations like Schwab usingNeed to update web cal and integrates with

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Demo- Brief overview by Chris Shipley

Here is the schedule for the first day. People starting to arrive for first day's sessions. ['The number of iPhones here is pretty overwhelming, but I'd expect it with this crowd. ] Chris Shipley (Host and founder of Demo) gives a brief kick off talk: Her update on state of industry: · 77 demos this week out of hundreds that applied; representative of the market and direction · Why 77? Not really driven by raw numbers, but only want to present best products and wide range of ideas · Can't just show Web2.0 products but it has to represent broader industry · All products are interrelated; Demo is about seeing connections where maybe none were apparent before. · All of

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Posted on January 30, 2008 2:06 pm

Demo- An end to Social Media?

Not really.There were the requisite B2C startups and also a lot of Enterprise or B2B companies in this session, but an interesting comment from Chris Shipley in that there is currently a category for “Social Media Companies” which will be dropped in the next event as this is becoming not a separate category, but integrated into every product that will be demo-ing in the future. The Revolution Will Be Broadcast on the WebThe demand for rich video content places big demands on content producers and the networks that distribute their product. It also opens the imaginations of individuals to become creators as well as consumers of video content.Demonstrations by: BitGravity Make internet powerful for delivering media. Experiences that rival television but are compelling because they are interactive. First broadcast quality content delivery network. Live video streaming HD, affordable and scales. Flash client , not download. Can use it as a DVR. Fast channel change as well. Good demo. Cozimo.com Collaboration of filmmakers and clients. Markups that are designated by contributor, can chat and respond. Quite a few attributes and features. Can step thru all notifications on the timeline. xtranormal Gives avatars new life. From templates can do things like a talk show with avatars. Has preset actions and this is all in browser! And you can scan in pictures and map them on the avatars. "Movie making in a box" Capzles, Inc. Social storytelling - empowers anyone to create multimedia stories. Time-based emphasis. Can be used by consumer brands to tell a story. The Social WebIt’s redundant, really. Since the first pages were linked, people have been the driving force of the Web. The difference is that today, people – rather than pages – are the center point of every application. The Web really has become the greatest social experiment ever attempted.Demonstrations by: HubDub, Ltd. Prediction markets, aggregation and social networking. Weird demo start with props (entrails and magic 8-ball). Predictions or forecast on how news stories will develop. EG who will get the republican nomination? Given $1000 virtual dollars to make a prediction. Can will virtual dollars. Users are news participants. notebookz.com, Inc. Connects users to others research on the web. Place and tools to discover others research on the web. Goes out and looks at other collections of information on the web. Sort of like del.icio.us but allows cutting and pasting as well of text. atlaspost.com Social mapping network. Putting houses on a google maps mashup And the Revolution Will Be Paid for by AdvertisingYou thought you’d escape advertising by shifting your viewing from television to the Web. Think again. And as Web video ads gain momentum, tools to manage and measure video advertising are in demand.Demonstrations by: Liquidus Corp. On Demand Marketing. Production and distribution of video to channels. Pulls images from the web in turns them into flash videos. TubeMogul, Inc. Ratings for video. Content creators can upload video to the site and the metadata. Can then push it out to the video sites in one click. Saves time in uploading etc. provides a single dashboard for tracking/stats. Can analyze demographics of audience. Helps provide more metrics for doing deals to get advertisers for content on line. Visible Measures Corp. Measure behaviour of internet video audience. Can see what people do in each video like replay, rewind or leave the video. Good for advertisers to see also how other sites pick up the videos and blog posts feature the ad. Can also see geo-location who is seeing the video. At your ServiceTechnology should just work. But, of course, it doesn’t. We’ve become incredibly dependent on technologies that are inherently frail. Whether an IT profession responsible for maintaining the infrastructure or you or me needing to keep our own computers running, we’ll all be gratified to see new scrutiny paid to the important area of product service and support.Demonstrations by: support.com Remote support. Pc health check does a scan of the pc to look at where problems exist… What about if the PC is offline and they have to download the app? Gives a report using traffic signals and colors. Then gives a huge list of things that could be fixed. Looks a little overwhelming at first, but gives a description of what each would do to fix. Pathworks Software Corp. Customer service. Application called help stream. Customer service is hard to do cost-effectively. Looks like aggregation of web results, community and KB. Its also Free !?…Not sure how they do this… SupportSpace, Inc. Community based tech support market space. Community can then engage experts based on their profile and rating. Can do desktop sharing. A Different Spin on ServiceService is also what we do for others and this demonstrator is all about helping people find volunteer opportunities in their local communities.Demonstration by: good2gether, Inc. Reinventing philanthropy. People want to get involved and it makes it easier to recruit the volunteers. It is free and the local non-profits can sell ads. Can share to facebook and email invites out to others. Hyper local content that can be monetized with partners. Connecting people.

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Posted on January 29, 2008 2:38 pm

Demo-Tuesday Morning Sessions

The day is broken up into groupings and the first one is entitled: "We’re Not Just Conference Producers, We’re Customers"Every product we select for DEMO is intrinsically valuable. Each will find customers, from enterprise IT professionals at work to families and friends at home. Yet, in every screening cycle, we find a handful of products that we want or need for ourselves. Here are a few from this year's crop.Demonstrations by: TimeTrade Systems, Inc. Easy scheduling to market. Schedule Now button in an email gives opportunity for easy response to meeting requests. Web interface to make it easier. For the enterprise mkt. It is a Leading scheduler company with corporations like Schwab usingNeed to update web cal and integrates with Google Cal and Outlook, so you can see existing calendar options Iterasi, Inc. These days, can't save pages which are dynamically created- "Notarize" but couldn't one of the other app creators (or IE of FF) do this? How do they make money? Has search function as well. Can schedule a regular grab LiquidPlanner, Inc. Project management- capture and manage uncertainty on schedules. Can manage at product and the portfolio with prioritization. Has document and collaboration management and workforce management Citiport, Inc. Local (travel ) info, can interact and share info with locals. Not sure of the monetization or the competitive market for these services. LeapFrog Enterprises, Inc. Tag Reading System- get kids 4-8 reading. Portable reader kids can use, download books and upload child use data. Works with real books. Tiny camera and can read print in books. can read along by scanning with the device, even works on the pictures. At retail buy the books and then go online and manage from a dashboard. Can upload data and see the learning path. Good demo and looks like fun (at least for parents!) http://Leapfrog.com/tag Skyfire Web-browser for mobile. Mobile on the phone is "so 1995" [What about the iPhone? What about flashlight?] It apparently brings the web version (not mobile version) to the phone. Supports JavaScript and all flash. Is it only Windows-based touchscreen phones? Fabrik, Inc. New apps on Adobe Air platform. Need for storage (40M ext hds shipped). How do I find my information? Provide a central location to see stuff, but leave it where it is. "Jaggle:" It virtualizes the location of your content; as well as ability to share stuff. Drag and drop from wherever the images are including music etc. Could provide a new way of thinking about peoples files; no more need to think of what PC or website its located on. SpeakLike, LLC Translation in chat window. Uses automated and human translators. Over time gets smarter and faster. Can do multi-lingual simultaneous translation. Pretty neat but question is with most of these hybrid services is how does it scale? STEP Labs Voice optimization for auto systems. Noise cancellation technology, but the demo didn't completely work. Needs a bit more work as the audio wasn't completely intelligible. NotchUp, Inc. Helps companies cost-effectively recruit. The best people currently have jobs, but they are not actively seeking new jobs. Lets recruits set an 'interview price' How do you get the word out to recruiters to use this? Can import LinkedIn profile. Probably pretty good for the tech crowd in the Bay area, but maybe limited appeal in other areas. Education.com Schoolfinder helps parents research schools. "Trustworthy" vetted answers to those questions 800 PBX, Inc. Personalized telephony service. With access to applications like weather and Yahoo. Speech recognition a bit like Jott? Commercial break with a Heinz commercial (Message in a bottle), which segues nicely into the next topic area called: Message in a Bottle"Well, maybe not in a bottle, exactly, but communication is the centerpiece of every modern application. These products drive to the vision of seamless, integrated communication capabilities for personal and business applications. Demonstrations by: Toktumi, Inc. Makes small business look big. Like an office phone system, but uses the PC with hosted services. But like a VoIP control panel, with more customization. Had some problems with the demo, getting the service running. Avistar Communications Corp. Video for unified communications. Can overlay web pages on a video call. Managing multi-party video. And also video enhancement Santrum Networks, Inc. ?? Movial Makes social media social. Integrates social media with telecomm. Instantly share social media with friends that are not connected on the PC. Ribbit Corp. Developers can add voice to their apps easily through APIs. Unified directory (through Plaxo). Connected to OpenSocial and pulls info about caller into the window for more detail. Interesting stuff; probably an acquisition candidate (remember GrandCentral?) LegiTime Technologies, Inc. Professional SMS client which improves utility of SMS for business Vidyo High quality video conferencing over general IP networks (because it was designed for the internet). Really impressive quality and a good review at GigaOm

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Posted on January 29, 2008 2:32 pm

Demo- Brief overview by Chris Shipley

Here is the schedule for the first day. People starting to arrive for first day's sessions. ['The number of iPhones here is pretty overwhelming, but I'd expect it with this crowd. ] Chris Shipley (Host and founder of Demo) gives a brief kick off talk: Her update on state of industry: · 77 demos this week out of hundreds that applied; representative of the market and direction · Why 77? Not really driven by raw numbers, but only want to present best products and wide range of ideas · Can't just show Web2.0 products but it has to represent broader industry · All products are interrelated; Demo is about seeing connections where maybe none were apparent before. · All of us are driving new products and concepts, we create a new opportunity and put more demands on infrastructure or security etc. met by many of products here · More reliable CDNs, or security; whatever it is should be driven by customers · Software on the web often better than many of the business apps we use today; the general web and interface experiences have upped our expectation. Why the slow response and bad user experience from Enterprise tools like SAP? · We can get these web tools without a requisition, they are just available and people in the Enterprise are starting to use them as they help get work done more effectively (like Basecamp?!) · Communication- text, voice, video need to be part of all applications- seamlessly · We as consumers are challenging s/w and h/w providers to make it easier and easier. · We are defined by technology we use - but we need to drive good user experience for ourselves. The experience will matter more and more · How will you deliver experience to our customers?

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Demo-Tuesday Morning Sessions

Demo- Brief overview by Chris Shipley

Demo- An end to Social Media?

Demo-Tuesday Morning Sessions

Demo- Brief overview by Chris Shipley