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DEMO 09 – Interview With DEMO Presenter Jadoos

March 4, 2009 / / 1 Comment

Graeme Thickins of Tech~Surf~Blog interviews Afrus Tavakoli, CEO, and Lukas Rosenstock, CTO, of Jadoos at the DEMO ’09 conference, which was held March 1-3, 2009, in Palm Desert, CA.

The concept of a remote control for the web was, I’ll have to say, something I hadn’t really thought of till I heard about this next company, whom I interviewed on Tuesday: Jadoos. Their remote control is all about helping you manage your identity online. The company’s backend technology they call a cloud-based web operating system. Their remote control shows up in your browser window at the upper right, a nicely designed visual UI with icons that click to access various web apps, features, or sites. I spoke with Afrus Tavakoli, CEO (left), and Lukas Rosenstock, CTO.

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DEMO 09 – Interview With DEMO Presenter 7 Billion People

March 4, 2009 / / 0 Comments

Graeme Thickins of Tech~Surf~Blog interviews Mark Nagaitis, CEO of 7 Billion People, at the DEMO ’09 conference, which was held March 1-3, 2009, in Palm Desert, CA.

I’d been wanting to get to this company since hearing their on-stage pitch Monday morning, and I finally got a chance on Tuesday afternoon when, for once, their booth wasn’t mobbed. Talk about a company with an interesting naming strategy: some think names beginning with “A” are good, to get you to the front of the alphabetical listings — well, this outfit jumped even ahead of that by using a number. A big number. I asked CEO Mark Nagaitis to tell me more about his firm’s new approach to personalized online shopping.

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DEMO 09 – Interview With Cazoodle: Future DEMO Presenter?

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Graeme Thickins of Tech~Surf~Blog interviews Govind Kabra, CTO of Cazoodle (a future DEMO “hopeful”), at the DEMO ’09 conference, which was held March 1-3, 2009, in Palm Desert, CA.

I was pinged late Monday by a DEMO attendee, Govind Kabra, who wanted to give me a look at his startup’s new search technology. My first thought was, gee, I hardly have time to cover the official presenters here…but I thought, what the heck, I admired his tenacity.  So, I emailed him back before I went to the DEMO Jam Session Monday night and told him to find me at breakfast Tuesday morning. I was about chow down with Don Dodge and couple other folks when he introduced himself, and I learned he was from the University of Illinois. I told him, with that bloodline, I definitely wanted to hear more. So, after I ate, we sat down in the back of the big room just before the lights were to be lowered for the start of another big day at DEMO, and I let him tell me what his startup is doing to disrupt the apartment search business.

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DEMO 09 – Interview With DEMO Presenter Always Innovating

March 4, 2009 / / 0 Comments

Graeme Thickins of Tech~Surf~Blog interviews Gregoire Gentil, CEO, and Marivi Lerdo de Tejada, PR strategist, of Always Innovating at the DEMO ’09 conference, which was held March 1-3, 2009, in Palm Desert, CA.

On the second and final day of DEMO, I continued in the Pavilion area (during the breaks from the conference sessions in the main room). There was no way I’d have time to interview all 39 presenters, but I just had to catch Always Innovating to hear more about their “Touch Book.” I chatted with Gregoire Gentil, CEO and founder, and PR strategist Marivi Lerdo de Tejada to learn more after seeing their very excellent pitch on Monday afternoon.

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DEMO 09 – Interview With DEMO Presenter Gwabbit

March 2, 2009 / / 1 Comment

Graeme Thickins of Tech~Surf~Blog interviews Todd Miller, CEO of Technicopia, about its product called “Gwabbit” at the DEMO ’09 conference, which was held March 1-3, 2009, in Palm Desert, CA.

I thought one of the most effective on-stage demos today was one from Technicopia, for a product called “Gwabbit.”  It got some of the best reaction from the audience, as in noticable oohs and ahhs.  It lets you grab contact info that appears anywhere in email messages, instantly — and quickly get that data into your Outlook contacts, with just a click. Pretty cool. In this interview, the founder and CEO, Todd Miller, tells me the story of how it all came about.

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