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Category: Entrepreneurship (Page 56 of 60)

Koral Brings Web 2.0 Content Mgmt to Businesses

Enterprise content management is big business — a $3B industry, as a matter of fact, says Koral CEO Mark Suster, but it’s only at a 5% penetration. Lately, he said, there’s been a big increase in sites to help consumers manage their content, as we all know. Korallogo But what about the majority of businesses who still have a hard time dealing with all their stuff? Koral is out fill that gaping hole with a web app that looks a lot like a consumer Web 2.0 app. The DEMO folks describe it as “a lightweight, document-capable, user-focused content management sytem.” It’s totally free for busineses now, in the consumer vein, but moving toward enterprise work group licensing. It’s hassle free to contribute to, says Suster, and “you can collaborate with any group — the others don’t have to be on your system.” The app is self-built AJAX, and is “super fast,” says UI designer Jon Levine, “which was our first priority.” The app lets you subscribe to documents, authors, or tags. The UI is very, very nice. It’s in limited beta now, and you can invite your friends if you’re lucky enough to get in…

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Sales Reps Will LOVE Genius Interactive

How can a solution that allows sales people see exactly what prospects are doing online on their company’s web site, in real time, not be cool? It lets them deal with the hot, closing opportunities that make their whole world go round — right now. Genius_logo And they can even roll back to the last several hours or previous day, for example. “It’s been described as TiVo for web visits,” said David Thompson, CEO. Best of all, it’s “IT free,” he said. The sales folks can use it without even getting the geeks involved…

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MindTouch Hometown Boy Does Good

Aaron Fulkerson, VP and cofounder of Mindtouch, who’s based in St. Paul, did a fantastic job with his demo just now. He pitched his newly named “DekiBox” smart wiki appliance with aplomb and mega enthusiam. I can’t wait to ask him how much caffeine he consumed before he went on this morning… 🙂 And his San Diego-based colleague, Steve Bjorg (CTO and cofounder), handled his part of the demo flawlessly as well. More from these guys in a later post….

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MojoPac Separates and Virtualizes the App Layer from the Hardware

As touched on previously, this offering from RingCube lets you use any computing device, like an iPod, cell phone, or USB drive, as if it were your own personal computer. Mojopaclogo The difference from earlier attempts to do this is that it works with any application. And, when you use it, it’s totally isolated from your real PC. “What happens on MojoPac stays on MojoPac.”

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