DEMO 2006: Day two morning

VoIP

My People

Reminders. Funky dial tone (don't think I like that, but hey, I'm an old dog when it comes to my dial tone). Weather. Wake up calls. Email in voice. Customer service. "I'll have to call you back." Funny.


Eqo Communications

::UPDATED LINK:: Online communities. People want to get connected to other people. What happens when they leave their desktop? Extends online communities and identities to your mobile phone. Silly skit. A bunch of old people here...lol. One part Beyonce, one part Bea Arthur. LOL. Extend online community with real time communications.

Zink Kat - Chile

Cordless device that allows you to have access to IM, MP3 players, RSS feeds, etc. Two buttons. Remote access through bluetooth? The smell of moondust? Yes, I think I need something that allows me to run everything from everywhere, but this didn't make me go 'wow'.
SEARCH Transparensee

Searching structured data. Databases garbage in garbage out. Sliders to adjust results. $600,000 for a house in Georgia (in the 30319 zip, which I guess is good)? Cross reference 'similar' properties/items. Drill down menu. I like that. I'm all about the drill down.

Nexidia

Searching rich media. Something about metadata. Accuracy. Speed. Scale. Relevance.
Kosmix

Categories. These guys are kind of adorable. Maybe because I know the whole, "They were supposed to buy Google" thing. They remind me of Chip and Dale in the way they interact with one another. Categorical search working very differently than Yahoo! categories. Search less and find more. Simple. That's what Mark (their product manager) told me, anyway.

Truveo...AOL Video

Video search technology. Over 20 billion video streams served up on the web in 2005. Visual crawling...find and index video.

Relevance

Panoratio Database Images

Looks good for superbowl stats fans (or predicting who you should bet on). Erm...Crunches numbers for big databases. Jennifer (send me your hidden blog url again...;))? I don't understand this stuff at all. I struggled in my stats class (read: slept through). Millions of rows by hundreds of dimensions. Pull the hidden value out of your data.
Zimini

Connects merchants and consumers in a "fundamentally new way". 80% of women use coupons? 60% of men use coupons? Coupons on the web suck. Puts you in control of your personal information. For merchants to reach the right people. Yeah, like I'd sign up for more spam. Direct Marketing automated. Krikey. Why?! Why?!

Sprout Systems

These guys said we win the gratuitous baby award (lol). Email is mundane. Mailroom saves you time. 'Needs attention' page. RSS for email. Reassign emails (better than forwarding?). Tagging your email. Response suggestions. Save some replies to public (inter company or otherwise) domain. Canned responses. Not so good, though. Get back into doing what got you into business in the first place? Erm...
Eeminder

Access to your corporate data from your mobile device. Do work from anywhere...a taxi or the beach! Um. I'm all for being connected everywhere. Totally. But for work? ;)

[oh man...the amount of lame jokes makes this pretty entertaining, indeed. Hyper cheese. Who is writing this stuff?]

Iotum

The whole world is vying for our attention. Phone. Web 2.0 call management application. ? Howard. Howard takes calls from his wife because would like to stay married. Average office worker is interupted every 3 minutes or something. Set yourself to busy on MSN Messenger. Going to voice mail on phone. Another VC joke. Wife now being sent to voice mail. Has Howard changed his mind about staying married? Looks straight forward.

OpenConnect Systems

Opening joke. Data centres. Coffee break time. (not my area at all)
Sharpcast Real time synching between your cell phone, online account and desktop. I feel for them...the technology had a major hiccup. I've met members of this team and they have a great vision.
LocaModa

Okay...what a great demo. Totally interactive with the audience. Gave us a SMS number and we got to send messages up to the large screen while we were "listening" to the presentation. I would like to see more interactivity (and I don't mean the "raise your hand if...") with the audience. Streetsurfer2.0? Extending the web to the street. Ah. I see the connection.
User Created Content
BroadRamp

Create a virtual internet hard drive. Content delivery platform from the internet. Launch video without player or third party technology...anywhere in the world. Multi-media integration. Secret sauce. Take multiple formats, plut them together and deliver with nothing but a browser. Application integration into the browser. E-commerce. IPTV. Chris?

Yahoo! Photos

30 million users per month. Over 2 billion photos. Consumer photo collections growing fast. Make experience simpler. Elegance and power of a desktop UI on the web. Brought drag and drop to the web? Oh...in a way that it's a blast. K. Drag to the tray. Multiple photos. Dancing hamsters. Create an album. Edit name of photo. Second big idea: tagging. Not just for geeks. No reloading. View tags. Tag cloud. Smart album: by tags as the thread. Smart album...you can pull the tags of other people's photos into that album (groups?).

:: Ironically, the site was broken when I went there to pull a screenshot.

[Missing: Vizrea, Smilebox, Vivid Sky, NewsGator and Simplefeed - okay, so I saw Vizrea, but they lost me at Mission Impossible skit]

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