Okay, all you virtual-worlds people: you won't be able to contain yourselves once you get a look at Sococo. But even those of you who aren't will be highly intrigued — especially if you work "virtually" and really feel disconnected with your dispersed work team. It lets all of you interact in a rich, virtualized environment as if you were face-to-face. I talked with David Van Wie, CEO and founder, about this always-on group communications service for distributed teams. 
It provides an intuitive, spatial layout, letting you see office interactions as they occur, and initiate ad-hoc meetings easily. It integrates IM and voice, and has a unique "Multi-Screenshare" technology.
Category: Startups (Page 28 of 30)
DEMO always attracts a good number of non-U.S. based startups to announce on its stage, and this one traveled all the way from the UK to tell us about its tool for enabling retailers to sell their wares on mobile devices — first for the iPhone, with support for other platforms coming soon. The key word here is free, folks. Do you remember the days when creating a mobile app actually cost companies money? On stage, MobiCart touted its first customer, a regional airline in the UK called FlyBe.com, which essentially put its entire in-flight magazine on an app — meaning its advertisers, who used to just sell their products via the print pages of the airline's magazine, now have another way to take orders. 
The CEO and founder, Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine, tells us about it in this little two-part chat, including how the heck he might even make money with this venture.
(sorry for the abrupt cut-off…ran out of battery! click below for the rest)
• Download or listen to Part 2 of Graeme's interview with MobiCart… (MP3)"
I stopped to chat with Guy Ben-Artzi, CEO and cofounder of ParticleCode, which would later be named one of the DEMOgod Award winners. The "Particle Platform" the company introduced is an open and extendable cross-platform IDE that automates the porting process, allowing developers to create native apps using languages such as Java, ActionScript3, and C#. 
Because it lets developers more efficiently create and maintain their apps through the use of a single code-base, Particle enables teams to focus on more innovative cross-device experiences. The Particle SDK currently includes plug-ins for all popular smart phone and tablet OSs.
Get ready to hear the phrase "Props and Drops" a lot, at least if SocialSmack has anything to do with it. I heard last week these guys would be here at DEMOfall, and I knew I'd have to interview them. 
This startup, based in Austin, TX, is all about giving consumers a better way to express themselves about the brands they interact with on a daily basis. I had a great chat with Matt Curtin, founder and CEO.
At the opening reception Monday evening, I ran into the folks from Rocky Mountain Ventures, and learned about the new product they would introduce the next day: the CaptureID Mobile Scanner. This company, based in Fort Collins, CO, is headed by a long-time HP engineer and inventor, Gordon Nutall. And I also spoke with Ranjit Singh, COO, who’s a former Xerox executive. The beginning of my interview got cut off (duh, I missed hitting the on button in the glare of the sun!), so we join it in progress.
In the photo I took of the company’s on-stage pitch on Tuesday, that’s Gordon Nutall on the right, and marketing manager Lisa Milner on the left. 
In the interview, Gordon and Ranjit also refer to the company’s previous consumer-market product, the FlipPal portable scanner. The new CaptureID product being introduced at DEMOfall takes the company into a new direction: B2B and professional markets.
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