Could it be any more fun than getting to see this many entrepreneurs get up on stage and pitch their exciting new stuff at DEMO? Or maybe you'd rather sit at home and whine about "the economy"? Go ahead, wallow in your lamestream-media bullcrap. 
I'm goin' to the Disneyland of Entrepreneurship and Innovation: DEMO '09! Where the excitement of what's new and what's coming next in cool, new technology will encourage and inspire all those lucky enough to be there. And, if even if you can't be in the room, you'll have lots of online options to feel like you're almost there — which the DEMO folks tell you all about right here.
Yes, there are only 39 presenters this time, when 60-something have been common at most events in recent years. But, hey, what would you expect in these times? It's not quantity — it's quality! The DEMO producers never disappoint on that.
Here's the current crop of lucky presenters:
• 7 Billion People, Inc., Austin, TX
• Always Innovating, Inc., Mountain View, CA
• AppZero Corp., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• Asurion Mobile Applications, Inc., San Mateo, CA
• Avaak, Inc., San Diego, CA
• BitGravity, Inc., Burlingame, CA
• bluBuzz, LLC, Holland, MI
• Cc:Betty, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
• Citrix Online, Goleta, CA
• Coveroo, Inc., San Francisco, CA
• deskNET, Lausanne, CH
• Document Depository Corp., LLC, Wayne, PA
• eFormic, Ltd., Stuttgart, DE
• Ensembli, Ltd., Sheffield, Great Britain
• Evri, Inc., Seattle, WA
• Gazaro, Inc., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• HAM-IT, Inc., North Andover, MA
• Home-Account, Inc., San Francisco, CA
• HowSimple, LLC, Huntington Beach, CA
• Jadoos, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
• Kutano Corp., Burnaby, BC, Canada
• Liquid Media, LLC, Arvada, CO
• Ontier, Inc., Portland, OR
• Primal Fusion, Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• Promptu Systems Corp., Menlo Park, CA
• Purewire, Inc., Atlanta, GA
• Qualcomm MEMS Technologies, Inc., San Diego, CA
• Qubes, Inc., Taipei, Taiwan
• Silverstone Solutions, Inc., San Francisco, CA
• Skout, Inc., San Francisco, CA
• SmartyCard, San Mateo, CA
• Symantec Corp., Mountain View, CA
• Technicopia, LLC, Carmel Valley, CA
• Transformyx, Inc., Baton Rouge, LA
• Vokle, Inc., Santa Monica, CA
• Xandros, Inc., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• XMARKS, San Francisco, CA
• Zipadi Technologies, LLC, Bluffdale, UT
• Zuora, Inc., Redwood City, CA
If you're attending or presenting, look me up, starting Sunday evening at the opening reception. Then I'll be in the grand hall all day Monday and Tuesday, sitting in the press area up front. In a new wrinkle this year, I'll be doing audio interviews with startup team members and various friends and colleagues I run into — then posting those MP3s regularly to my blog during the two-and-a-half days. And, of course, I'll be live-tweeting the whole affair as well — as I have several times now.
To communicate with me, please comment here on my blog, or you can always reply or DM me on my Twitter page, which is simply @GraemeThickins. Please follow me there for the full-on firehose of DEMO updates! My tweets will also be running at this aggregator page, where all DEMO '09 attendees' tweets will appear: @DEMOchatter.
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