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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 – Go Read My Twitters

Well, the presentations are over for the day.  Now, into the exhibit area again.  Wow, 39 companies and I think about 45 Tweets…  Graemetwitterpage
Just go to www.Twitter.com/GraemeThickins to see them.  And I’ll be back for more tomorrow!  Tonight, we got the famous DEMO Jam Session, featuring six media and PR types jamming on stage in an ad hoc band.  And iVideoSongs will be there, too (maybe with John Oates again? don’t know).

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

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