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DEMO ’07 Names Presenting Companies

January 26, 2007 / / 0 Comments

The producers of the DEMO 2007 conference, to be held January 30 – February 1 in Palm Desert, CA, have announced the 68 new and established companies that have been selected to introduce their innovations at the event. “These carefully vetted firms will introduce an array of consumer and enterprise solutions to an audience of investors, business development executives, media, pundits, and fellow entrepreneurs,” said the announcement. Demolaunchpadlogo Now in its 17th year, the DEMO conferences are widely regarded for launching important new technologies into the national consciousness.

Some of the technologies that will be introduced at DEMO 07, according to the announcement, are:
– The first video email and messaging service…
– A GPS product that allows users to control their vehicles wirelessly…
– Video ringtones…
– Small business solutions for email, shipping & receiving, and CRM…
– A product that allows you to IM photos directly onto your friends’ desktops…
– The ultimate mobile printer…
– A platform to improve developer productivity and product management…
– Software that tracks plagiarized blog content…
– Online identity protection tools…
– A community collaboration site focused on home improvement, remodeling and design projects…
– A service that secures messages within images so that only the intended recipients can view the text…
– A collaboration site for musicians…
– Sophisticated data search technologies for businesses…
– Media publishing services for consumers and corporations…
– Products from Spain, France, Israel, and India…

The DEMO 07 demonstrators that were named today are as follows:
• 6th Sense Analytics, Inc. – Morrisville, NC – www.6sa.com
• Adobe Systems, Inc. – San Jose, CA – www.adobe.com
• Aggregate Knowledge – San Mateo, CA – www.aggregateknowledge.com
• Alcatel-Lucent Ventures – Murray Hill, NJ – www.alcatel–lucent.com
• Attendio, Inc. – San Francisco, CA – www.attendio.com
• Bling Software, Inc. – Pleasanton, CA – www.blingsoftware.com
• blinkx, Inc. – San Francisco, CA – www.blinkx.com
• BooRah, Inc. – Palo Alto, CA – www.boorah.com
• Boston-Power, Inc. – Westborough, MA – www.boston–power.com
• Brevient Technologies, Inc. – Milwaukee, WI – www.jyngle.com
• BUZ Interactive – Palo Alto, CA – www.buzinteractive.com
• Ceelox, Inc. – Tampa, FL – www.ceelox.com
• CircleUp, Inc. – Newport Beach, CA – www.circleup.com
• ClipSyndicate, a service of Critical Mention – New York, NY – www.clipsyndicate.com
• DARTdevices Corp. – Mountain View, CA – www.dartdevices.com
• DesignIn, Inc. – Marblehead, MA – URL unavailable
• Devicescape Software, Inc. – San Bruno, CA – www.devicescape.com
• eJamming, Inc. – Valley Village, CA – www.ejamming.com
• Eyejot, Inc. – Seattle, WA – www.eyejot.com
• GoWare, Inc. – Gilbert, AZ – www.goware.biz
• Helium, Inc. – Andover, MA – www.helium.com
• Inilex, Inc. – Chandler, AZ – www.inilex.com
• ink2 Corporation – Emeryville, CA – www.ink2.com
• Integrien Corp. – Irvine, CA – www.integrien.com
• iqzone, inc. – Scottsdale, AZ – www.iqzone.com
• Iwerx, LLC. – Mt.Dora, FL – www.iwerx.com
• Jaman.com, Inc. – Palo Alto, CA – www.jaman.com
• Kauffman Innovation Network, Inc. – Kansas City, MO – www.iBridgeNetwork.org
• LiveSquare.com – Gilbert, AZ – www.livesquare.com
• Magnify.net – New York, NY – www.Magnify.net
• Me.dium, Inc. – Boulder, CO – www.me.dium.com
• Mission Research – Lancaster, PA – www.missionresearch.com
• Mixpo Portfolio Broadcasting, Inc. – Seattle, WA – www.mixpo.com
• Mobio Networks – Cupertino, CA – www.getmobio.com
• My Currency Co. – San Francisco, CA – www.my-currency.com/
• Nexo Systems, Inc. – Palo Alto, CA – www.nexo.com
• Nextumi – Dublin, OH – www.nextumi.com
• Nuvoiz, Inc. – Mountain View, CA – www.nuvoiz.com
• OurStory – Mountain View, CA – www.ourstory.com
• PairUp, Inc. – San Francisco, CA – www.pairup.com
• Panjea.com – Los Angeles, CA – www.panjea.com
• Preclick Corp. – Atlantic Highlands, NJ – www.preclick.com/demo
• QTech, Inc. – Hyderabad, AP, India – www.qtechinc.com
• Reveal Technology, Inc. – Palo Alto, CA – www.revealtechnology.com
• SailPoint Technologies, Inc. – Austin, TX – www.sailpoint.com
• Seagate Technology – Scotts Valley, CA – www.seagate.com
• Serendipity Technologies, Inc. – Yakum, Israel – www.serendipity–tech.com
• SharedBook, Inc. – New York, NY – www.sharedbook.com
• Shipwire.com – Los Angeles, CA – www.shipwire.com
• SOASTA, Inc. – Mountain View, CA – www.soasta.com
• SplashCast, Inc. – Portland, OR – www.splashcastmedia.com
• SupportSoft, Inc. – Redwood City, CA – www.supportsoft.com
• Symantec Corp. – Cupertino, CA – www.symantec.com
• TeleFlip, Inc. – Santa Monica, CA – www.teleflip.com
• TextDigger, Inc. – San Jose, CA – www.TextDigger.com
• ThePort Network, Inc. – Atlanta, GA – www.theport.com
• Thunk, Inc. – San Francisco, CA – www.honeypitch.com
• Total Immersion – Suresnes, France – www.t-immersion.com
• Trailfire, Inc. – Seattle, WA – www.trailfire.com
• Triumfant, Inc. – Research Triangle Park, NC – www.triumfant.com/
• Vringo, Inc. – Beit Shemesh, Israel – www.vringo.com
• VUVOX Network, Inc. – Redwood City, CA – www.vuvox.com
• WHISHER.COM – Barcelona, Spain – www.whisher.com
• Wyse Technology, Inc. – San Jose, CA – www.wyse.com
• Yodio, Inc. – Bellevue, WA – www.yodio.com
• ZINK Imaging, LLC. – Waltham, MA – www.zink.com
• Zoho / AdventNet, Inc. – Pleasanton, CA – www.zoho.com
• ZoomInfo – Waltham, MA – www.zoominfo.com

Conferences I Plan to Blog…

December 20, 2006 / / 0 Comments

Just to update you, o faithful blog readers, I thought I’d mention what conferences I’ll be blogging from in coming weeks and months. First of all, I’m happy to report I’ve been accepted again as a press registrant at the DEMO 2007 event, which is January 30 – February 1. This will be about my fourth DEMO event. Demo07banner The venue this year was switched from Phoenix to Palm Desert, California, which should be a glorious locale at this time of year (especially when I’ll be escaping Minnesota winter!). I always look forward to this conference, not only because 70 of the hottest startups in the country pitch their businesses here, but because it attracts so much buzz and media attention, more than virtually any other event all year long. The media list is like a who’s who. As always, companies you’ll be reading about a year, two years, three years from now will first be heard from at DEMO. And I’ll do my best to report the highlights for you… [See categories to the right for my coverage of both DEMO events in 2006.]

Another event I’m thinking about covering (but not sure yet if I can break away) is the big momma of ’em all: CES …which used to stand for Consumer Electronics Show, but now wants to be so much more (see theme). Being a content guy, how could I not like this one? Haven’t been to Vegas in a while — caught an Interop show there a couple years ago, and of course attended many Comdex events back in the day. CES, by the way, may be big, but it still doesn’t draw as many people as Comdex did in its heydey. Nonetheless, the show is today the “world’s largest tradeshow for consumer technology and North America’s largest annual tradeshow of any kind.” Get this: it will feature 2700 exhibitors covering floorspace the equivalent of 35 football fields(!), and will have 140,000 attendees — 25,000 of them from other countries. Ces07logotheme Those attendees will include manufacturers, retailers, content providers and creators, broadband developers, wireless carriers, cable and satellite TV providers, installers, engineers, corporate buyers, government leaders, financial analysts and the media. [How could I not like pal-in’ around with those installers, huh? Cable guys attend this thing?? Maybe I should reconsider….] Anyway, there will be a ton of press at this one, and the bloggers will outnumber them — guaranteed. The combined total will easily be in the thousands. Robert Scoble, the well known author and former head blogger at Microsoft, who’s now VP of Media Development at Podtech, will even have his own suite where bloggers can hang out. Here’s what he said on his blog: “By the way, our BlogHaus at CES will be open to ANY blogger, not just those ‘blessed’ by Microsoft or some other company. You just need to have me put your name on the list so you can get up to our suite.” I did.

Finally, I’m looking out to March and thinking I’d love to blog ETech again. O’Reilly is my favorite publisher and conference producer. [You’ll note I recommend many of its books under the “Reading” subhead at the right. Disclosure: I do get free books from time to time, but only post those I really find of value.] Oreillyetechlogo I’ve really enjoyed reporting on this conference in the past, and love running into my old blog buddies there, like Doc Searls and David Weinberger. Sure, it’s a developer event. But, as I’ve said before, some of my best friends are developers…. 🙂 And this event draws an awesome, a-list of attendees, too, at all levels, and many other great bloggers. Anyway, it would be fun to capture it again for y’all, and I hope to get out to San Diego for it in late March. [Okay, it’s an excuse to hang out again at my favorite beach, too 🙂 … ]

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Web 2.0 Summit Could Take a Lesson

November 10, 2006 / / 1 Comment

As I sit here blogging from my room on the 14th floor at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in LA, watching the sun rise, I’m thinking the blogging experience up at the big event up in EssEff couldn’t have been too much fun. Glad I missed the frustration. I just read a post on Read/Write Web that the wi-fi there was spotty at best. Madashell How could the producers of the event not provide reliable wireless ‘Net access? Is it something to do with the antiquated venue? Just a logistics screw up? Or did they cut corners after charging such lofty prices? After all, this was an event that was supposed to glorify technology, wasn’t it? Just goes to show you — technology often doesn’t work as advertised. I’ll bet there were some unhappy bloggers at this event. The producers should take a lesson from conferences like Demo. They manage to have wi-fi that’s flawless in my experience.

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