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What’s Really Happening at DEMO

January 29, 2007 / / 4 Comments

Here’s something better than just a list of presenting companies at DEMO ’07, which I posted the other day. Below is a list with a few words on what each of these companies actually does…or what they’ll be introducing at the event, which starts Tuesday evening in Palm Desert, CA. Demofirst Note some of these mostly brand-new, hand.pngcked firms are remaining “stealth” right up to the end (but surprisingly not that many). What is surprising is that a few have no web sites at all! [We can only hope they might activate a site once the conference actually begins? 🙂 … ] Also note there are five big-name firms using DEMO to introduce something new as well, but I didn’t have time to drill into their massive web sites to see that that might be. Nonetheless, here’s everything else, and I must say some exciting stuff is due to be unveiled. (If you’d rather view this list with live links to each company’s site, here’s a quick web page I put up. It’s all public info — I just aggregated it so I can see everything in one place to plan my coverage.)

The DEMO 07 Presenting Companies and What They’re About
6th Sense Analytics, Inc. – Morrisville, NC – www.6sa.com – SaaS analytics for sw dev teams
Adobe Systems, Inc. – San Jose, CA – www.adobe.com – ??
Aggregate Knowledge – San Mateo, CA – www.aggregateknowledge.com – content recommendation engine
Alcatel-Lucent Ventures – Murray Hill, NJ – www.alcatel–lucent.com  -??
Attendio, Inc. – San Francisco, CA – www.attendio.com – still stealth (angel investors, Sunbridge Partners)
Bling Software, Inc. – Pleasanton, CA – www.blingsoftware.com – Ajax-based player for mobile Apps
blinkx, Inc. – San Francisco, CA – www.blinkx.com – video search
BooRah, Inc. – Palo Alto, CA – www.boorah.com – restaurant reviews (SF area only for now)
Boston-Power, Inc. – Westborough, MA – www.boston-power.com – WEB SITE NOT FOUND (hello?)
Brevient Technologies, Inc. – Milwaukee, WI – www.jyngle.com – mobile messaging for groups
BUZ Interactive – Palo Alto, CA – www.buzinteractive.com – mobile personalization
Ceelox, Inc. – Tampa, FL – www.ceelox.com – biometric security software, incl for web site access
CircleUp, Inc. – Newport Beach, CA – www.circleup.com – online tool for community information-gathering
ClipSyndicate, a service of Critical Mention – NYC – www.clipsyndicate.com – news clips for web sites
DARTdevices Corp. – Mountain View, CA – www.dartdevices.com – middleware for device integration
DesignIn, Inc. – Marblehead, MA – URL unavailable – (no URL, hello?)
Devicescape Software, Inc. – San Bruno, CA – www.devicescape.com – connects devices to wi-fi w/o browser
eJamming, Inc. – Valley Village, CA – www.ejamming.com – jam with other musicians online, in real time
Eyejot, Inc. – Seattle, WA – www.eyejot.com – still stealth to the end
GoWare, Inc. – Gilbert, AZ – www.goware.biz – access your PC data through your mobile phone
Helium, Inc. – Andover, MA – www.helium.com – user-created online reference resource, peer-reviewed
Inilex, Inc. – Chandler, AZ – www.inilex.com – platform to track assets like cars via phone or email
ink2 Corporation – Emeryville, CA – www.ink2.com – WEB SITE NOT FOUND (hello?)
Integrien Corp. – Irvine, CA – www.integrien.com – predicts enterprise app slowdowns and outages
iqzone, inc. – Scottsdale, AZ – www.iqzone.com – “snap, send, sell” (otherwise stealth)
Iwerx, LLC – Mt.Dora, FL – www.iwerx.com – WEB SITE NOT FOUND (hello?)
Jaman.com, Inc. – Palo Alto, CA – www.jaman.com – global online community for cinephiles
Kauffman Innovation Network – Kansas City, MO – www.iBridgeNetwork.org – online forum, research/innov
LiveSquare.com  – Gilbert, AZ – www.livesquare.com – anti.pngracy technology for streaming media
Magnify.net – New York, NY – www.Magnify.net – video publishing platform, integrates UG video into websites
Me.dium, Inc. – Boulder, CO – www.me.dium.com – reveals hidden world of people/activity behind browser
Mission Research – Lancaster, PA – www.missionresearch.com – “Giftworks” fundraising software
Mixpo Portfolio Broadcasting – Seattle, WA – www.mixpo.com – broadcasts videos/photos/music to the web
Mobio Networks – Cupertino, CA – www.getmobio.com – mobile content & apps that are fun, simple, everyday
My Currency Co. – San Francisco, CA – www.my-currency.com – community site for real estate, investment
Nexo Systems, Inc. – Palo Alto, CA – www.nexo.com – free web sites for online groups
Nextumi – Dublin, OH – www.nextumi.com – sharing layer that connects cell/IM/MySpace/Facebook/email
Nuvoiz, Inc. – Mountain View, CA – www.nuvoiz.com – software to expand usage of VoIP over Wi-Fi
OurStory – Mountain View, CA – www.ourstory.com – capture, share, and preserve stories about your life
PairUp, Inc. – San Francisco, CA – www.pairup.com – “the business trip, reinvented” (no more info)
Panjea.com – Los Angeles, CA – www.panjea.com – social media network with marketplace for members
Preclick Corp. – Atlantic Highlands, NJ – www.preclick.com – simple software for organizing & editing photos
QTech, Inc. – Hyderabad, AP, India – www.qtechinc.com – tools for mobile phones to jog your memory
Reveal Technology – Palo Alto, CA www.revealtechnology.com – trusted enterprise P2P network software
SailPoint Technologies – Austin, TX – www.sailpoint.com – enterprise software for identity mgmt/compliance
Seagate Technology – Scotts Valley, CA – www.seagate.com – ??
Serendipity Technologies – Yakum, Israel – www.serendipity–tech.com – WEB SITE NOT FOUND (hello?)
SharedBook, Inc. – New York, NY – www.sharedbook.com – reverse publishing platform (online to offline)
Shipwire.com – Los Angeles, CA – www.shipwire.com – automated, low-cost order fulfillment
SOASTA – Mountain View, CA – www.soasta.com – sw for testing, certification of web services & web apps
SplashCast – Portland, OR – www.splashcastmedia.com – Marshall Kirkpatrick’s media syndication service
SupportSoft, Inc. – Redwood City, CA – www.supportsoft.com – automated software support for consumers
Symantec Corp. – Cupertino, CA – www.symantec.com – ??
TeleFlip – Santa Monica, CA – www.teleflip.com – send messages from PCs to cell phone with no software
TextDigger, Inc. – San Jose, CA – www.textdigger.com – AI software for advanced information retrieval
ThePort Network – Atlanta, GA – www.theport.com – solution for creating, administering online communities
Thunk – San Francisco, CA – www.honeypitch.com – proposal automation solution w/CRM, productivity tools
Total Immersion – Suresnes, France – www.t-immersion.com – augmented reality software (returnee from ’04)
Trailfire, Inc. – Seattle, WA – www.trailfire.com – hosted service to let anyone comment on any web page
Triumfant, Inc. – Research Triangle Park, NC – www.triumfant.com – automated resolution management
Vringo, Inc. – Beit Shemesh, Israel – www.vringo.com – community for sharing video ringtones
VUVOX Network – Redwood City, CA – www.vuvox.com – personal, emotive expressions on your media
WHISHER.COM – Barcelona, Spain – www.whisher.com – “Wi-fi reloaded” (otherwise stealth)
Wyse Technology, Inc. – San Jose, CA – www.wyse.com – ??
Yodio, Inc. – Bellevue, WA – www.yodio.com – personal audio publishing for “fun, fame, and fortune”
ZINK Imaging, LLC – Waltham, MA – www.zink.com – still stealth to the end
Zoho / AdventNet – Pleasanton, CA – www.zoho.com – CRM & office productivity apps, incl ZohoWriter
ZoomInfo – Waltham, MA – www.zoominfo.com – search engine to discover people, companies, relationships

I have my list of favorites to check out. Which ones are you most interested in, and why?

Some of the Great People I Met at BlogHaus and CES

January 17, 2007 / / 6 Comments

As a final wrapup of my experience last week in networking of the face-to-face kind — in and around the largest trade show in the country, CES — I thought I’d do what I often do after these things: list the people I met. Most of the these were due to BlogHaus, which is the main reason I made the trip, and where I spent most of my time Sunday through Wednesday noon. Bloghaussign_1 I also attended an event called Storage Visions over the weekend, a press event called Showstoppers on Monday evening, and a party on Tuesday evening sponsored by Blog Business Summit. (See all my previous BlogHaus and CES posts. And my Flickr set, such as it is, you can find here. My friend Doc Searls’ set is sooo much better, and I actually show up in one of his shots. Also see Thomas Hawk’s great photo-documentary of the event on his very own photo-sharing site, Zooomr — and I’d encourage you to sign up for the service.)

Anyway, back to all the people I met — at least the ones I remember (apologies to those for whom I didn’t get a card to remind me!):
• From PodTech:
– John Furrier
– Linda Furrier
– Robert Scoble
– Maryam Scoble
– Valerie Cunningham
– Jeremiah Owyang
– Chris Coulter

• From Seagate:
– Bill Watkins, CEO
– Julie Still
– Brian Ziel
– Woody Monroy

And these others, in no particular order:
– Gabe Rivera, Founder, Techmeme
– Andru Edwards, CEO, GearLive
– Lionel Menchaca, chief blogger, Dell
– Thomas Hawk, Founder, Zooomr
– James Courtney, Skype Journal
– David Berkowitz, 360i.com
– Nicholas Butterworth, Diversion Media & Travelistic
– Oluf Nissen, HP and GeekTieGuy.com
– Betsy Weber, evangelist, TechSmith
– Paul Loeffler, PR, Palm
– Mark Plungy, PR, Yahoo!
– Mike Terpin, CEO, Terpin Communications
– Jennifer Fader, Terpin Communications
– Teresa Valdez Klein, Blog Business Summit
– Sam Abadir, CEO, Broadclip
– Al Carlton, Coolest-Gadgets.com
– Sal Cangeloso, XYZcomputing.com
– Sarah Browne, TheDailyBee blog
– Sandira Calviac, TechAgnostic.com blog
– Rick Calvert, CEO, BlogWorldExpo.com
– Kristian Rauhala, CEO, H2Oaudio
– Dave Botherway, President, Melbourne PC User Group
– Susan Fitzpatrick, CEO, Dateline Media
– Ron Nissen, investor, Bluebox Devices (Melbourne)
– Robert Yearsley, CEO, Bluebox Devices
– Benno Rice, Chief Architect, Bluebox Devices
– Angus Robinson, CEO, AEEMA (Australia)
– Barbara Adams, Australian Trade Commission
– Annette Ahern, US Consulate, Melbourne

At the Storage Visions event:
– Lee Gomes, Wall Street Journal
– Mark Walker, Seagate
– John Freeman, Strategic Marketing Decisions
– Tom Coughlin, producer of the event
(whom I already knew)
– Jim Porter, Disk/Trend (ditto)

Others I also knew but ran into again:
– Doc Searls
– Buzz Bruggeman
– Keith Shaw, NetworkWorld and DEMO
– also met Jason Meserve of NetworkWorld

Whew! I met a lot of great people on this trip. And I look forward to staying in touch with them. I know I’ll be seeing some again very soon at the DEMO ’07 event — for example, PodTech, the developers of the wonderful BlogHaus concept! What a super idea they had, and what a great client they have in Seagate who agreed to be lead sponsor. It was indeed a marketing and PR coup for them! Thanks again to both organizations.

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CES Post 7: Winding Down

January 10, 2007 / / 1 Comment

This will be my final post from the BlogHaus, at about 11:00 am on Wednesday. It’s been great. Now sitting here with Tom Hawk of Zooomr and Andru Edwards of Gear Live and some of his people, who are all busy publishing. (Tom told me he won’t make his 1000 photo upload goal, but he’s halfway there. He only uploads really, really nice pix, though. Somebody else just said there are 30,000 photos now up in Flicker tagged CES 2007. Yikes! I did a bunch myself, mostly of the BlogHaus.)

Had a great time last night at the Blogger Business Summit party — met a lot of interesting folks. Then back to the BlogHaus, which was going at full capacity, Robert Scoble holding court in one corner, pizza in another. And lots in between. One new person I met was a guy who’s launching the first trade show for the the blog world….called, guess what? BlogWorld! Sounds like a serious endeavor, from a guy who’s run lots of successful shows — Rick Calvert is his name. It’s scheduled for November — in Vegas! Don’t know if there’s a site up yet, but looks like it’ll be at www.BlogWorldExpo.com.

Anyway, I’m going off to some other business soon here, then heading for the airport about 3:00. Just picked up all my email, and learned I missed the cut for a lunch with Guy Kawasaki in Minneapolis on the 19th, before his big talk at the U of MN. Apparently there were only 7 slots at the table, and my friend Gary Smaby tried to get me on the list, but too many muckety-mucks already, I guess… 🙂 [Thanks for trying, anyway, Gary.] But I’ll sure be there for the talk following, which is already sold out.

Guy should be very happy the temps are finally dropping in Minnesota (lows below zero this weekend, I hear) — because, as you may recall, what got him to our state in January was the National Pond Hockey Championships, which are held on one of our city lakes. And people were getting real nervous they wouldn’t have ice, with our temps hovering around 40 for so long. Sounds like the ice will be real hard by the time Guy gets here! Anyway, looking forward to seeing Guy again, hearing his talk, and seeing him play hockey.

Cheers from Vegas! It was a good trip…

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CES Post 6: Apple Fever Takes Over

January 9, 2007 / / 1 Comment

Apple has sucked all oxygen out of the consumer electronics space again today, with an absolutely over-the-top keynote by Steve Jobs. It was fun sitting here at the BlogHaus this morning and following along with it all of it at MacRumorsLive and Engadget — which were the only good ways to do it, since Apple doesn’t do any live video or audio feed. Iphone_1 I was sitting next to Andru Edwards, the CEO of GearLIve Media of Seattle, who’s been updating his very impressive site all morning, while he has about five people continuously roaming the show for the news. He and one of his guys and myself were commenting as the keynote went along. Big fun. We can’t wait to get our hands on that iPhone! PodTech reports in a post today that the product will, in fact, be called by that name after Cisco does some sort of licensing deal with Apple, allowing it to use their trademark. (See my previous post on that.)

What struck me about sitting here in the BlogHaus conference room this morning — enjoying this big pipe we’re all on and following along with every word Jobs says — was the weird timing of the Bill Gates keynote from yesterday running in silence on the large screen in the next room. Interesting juxtaposition: two keynotes, world’s apart…. 🙂

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CES Post 5: My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, and I Don’t Love CES

January 9, 2007 / / 1 Comment

But BlogHaus is fantastic! The PodTech people are great, and I got to meet a bunch of really nice Seagate folks last night, too — very cool. I love that company, and the great legacy they have in this industry — and in Minnesota, too, I might add (where they employs thousands). Bloghausentry

I thought for this post I’d just do the quick rundown of my day yesterday, the first official day of CES (which makes me wonder how many more of these days I can take!]…

It’s Tuesday morning now at the Haus, another beautiful, sunny day in Vegas. I was a little later getting to the suite this morning (about 8:30) — I guess because I stayed an hour later last night! (More on that in a bit.) But I was still the first blogger to arrive today….or maybe Sandira Calviac was here just ahead of me, so I defer to the lovely lady… 🙂 She’s from NY and has a cool new blog called TechAgnostic.com. But the best thing of all: she surfs! Learned in Hawaii recently, and came home and bought a wet suit so she could surf Long Island. I love it.

So, anyway, yesterday I attended the Aussie press event, as I blogged about. Being from Australia originally, I just had to… 🙂 Then I took in the Yahoo press luncheon — where I heard all about the new Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0 service (now officially in beta) and the related Yahoo oneSearch — which they say together equals “the ‘Net in your pocket.” Pretty awesome demo they did. What’s the take on all this? Well, TechCrunch and others position it simply as Yahoo playing catch up to Google’s lead in mobile search. And the carriers they’ve signed up so far are all non-U.S. — so don’t get too excited yet. But one guy next to me (from a NY hedge fund!) was able to download the app quickly during the talk from his T-Mobile smart phone. Try it yourself here.

Then it was back to BlogHaus, where I hung in the conference room, blogging and chatting — mostly with PodTech folks and Lionel Menchacha, Dell’s official blogger, who’s a great guy. Been with Dell going way back.

After chatting with Linda Furrier about the how the whole BogHaus idea came about (a great story — more later), I left around 5:30 to head back to my hotel and get ready for the Showstoppers event at the Wynn Hotel. Huge crowds for this mini event, with what seemed like a hundred small booths (and killer food, drinks, and schwag). The coolest thing I saw there was the whole line of waterproof iPod cases and earphones from H2O Audio of San Diego. Pretty cool — for surfers especially, which the CEO, Kristian Rauhala, is (he surfs Black’s Beach). H2oaudiosurfer

Stayed at Showstoppers till about 8:30, then figured I’d better go grab a cab to get back for the big doin’s at the BlogHaus, with all the Seagate people showing up for a special program. Lo and behold, as I’m walking through the endless casino path through the cavernous Wynn, who do I see briskly walking by me but John Furrier. So, I yells, hey John, I’ll bet you have a limo, huh? He says yeah, wanna ride? So, I join him and Robert Scoble, who caught up with us about then, for the ride back to the Bellagio. We had some good laughs….these two guys are way fun!

Back at the animal house — I mean BlogHaus — the place is starting to rock. And a beer or so later, the Seagate folks start arriving. John does the introductions, they announce the Seagate product giveaway winners (darn, I wanted one), and I had a chance to chat with corporate communications people Brian Ziel, Woody Monroy, and Julie Still. Woody’s a surfer (great name for one! I own a woody car myself…), and he tells me there are a lot of surfers at the company, since their offices in Scotts Valley are so close to Santa Cruz. He surfs generally before work. Later, I met CEO Bill Watkins, who’s a great guy, really fun, and we chatted about Minnesota a bit. See photo below of him being interviewed by one of the vlogging crews.

Here are some of my other photos of last night’s happenings, at least the ones that didn’t start getting blurry like my eyes as the evening progressed… 🙂 Seagatepodtech
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Scobledrinking We had waaay too much fun. My favorite photo is the one of Scoble going bottom’s up — no, that’s not vodka. 🙂 Seriously, it was an awesome event, with lots of great conversation and laughs. Mega-mega thanks PodTech, and of course to Seagate for underwriting the whole thing — a real marketing and PR coup. And it’s not over yet — the suite goes 24/7 till 8:00 am Thursday…

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