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DEMO ’08 – Second Day Coverage

It’s all on Twitter — 38 more companies who pitched yesterday.  It was another amazing, rapid-fire blast of innovation, both morning and afternoon.  I tried to capture the essence of each pitch in the length of a single tweet, including the domain of each (without the .com).  That was challenging — as I told Walt Mossberg yesterday when he leaned over and asked, "What are you Twittering?"  Abbreviations became the order of the day, too.

Microblogging seems made for such an event, now that I’ve tried it, at least if you want to cover all 77 companies (which I was determined to do).  That and in some general photos, which I have up on Flickr. (Thankfully, I didn’t try to push myself to photograph every single presenter!)  Let me know what you think.  Lots more available at DEMO.com, of course.  What companies jump out at you? 

DEMO ’08 Opening Party Pix

Here are some of my pix from the opening reception at DEMO ’08. The venue was great (again), and the turnout was big.

1) View from my window…. Demovenue

2) Let’s get this party started…. Demoparty1

3) The mob converges…. Demoparty2

4) The bar tries hard to keep up…. Demoparty3

5) Gary Bolles and Dan Gillmor…. Demobollesgillmor

6) Dan Farber, Steve Larsen, Gary Bolles…. Demofarberlarsenbolles

7) Kevin Dorren, Nigel Eccles (both of HubDub), Steve Larsen, Miko Mentz…. Demohubdublarsenmentz_2

8) Renee Blodgett and Stuart  Cohen of SpeakLike….

UPDATE 1/29:  Oops, sorry, that was Sanford Cohen…it was late when  I did this  🙂Demoblodgettcohen

What I Like at DEMO So Far…

Well, it hasn’t even started yet, but looking over the list, perusing the press room, and chatting with a few folks, these companies are some I definitely will be checking out…

• BitGravity – who can’t like the company with the technology that will be live streaming DEMO for the very first time? (watch DEMO.com starting tomorrow morning to see their work)
• Blist – world’s easiest database…makes relational database creation and management as easy as using a spreadsheet
• HubDub – DEMO describes this one as a brilliant marriage of news aggregation and prediction markets, and these guys came all the way from Edinburgh…great Scot!
• Livescribe – a new kind of content creation tool (how could I not like that?)…its Pulse Smartpen is a computer in a pen that records and links audio to what you write on paper (ooooh)
• Redux – a new concept in social networking, using a unique set of algorithms based on user actions and  personality preferences

That’s just a start. There are 77 presenters!  More soon….

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