DEMO 08 Conference Unveils 77 Never-Before-Seen Innovations
Wednesday January 30, 11:45 pm ET
Program Focuses on Online Video Content, the Social Web, Innovative Tech Support, Flexible Business Software, African Ingenuity, and More.
PALM DESERT, Calif., Jan. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The DEMO 08 conference wrapped this evening following a packed day of live stage demonstrations and intense pavilion sessions where demonstrators showed off their products one- on-one to conference attendees. DEMO, known to launch the best new digital technologies, is a forum for entrepreneurs to impact early adopters, secure funding, attract merger and acquisition targets, and network with the technology industry's elite. Produced by Network World Events and Executive Forums and hosted by emerging technology analyst Chris Shipley, DEMO is the industry's must-attend conference.
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"In the past few months, I have met with more than 300 companies from five continents representing a tremendous range of markets, technologies, and entrepreneurial energy," said Shipley. "The 77 demonstrators that have launched here at DEMO 08 represent the very best technologies, products, and services coming to market today."
Today's introductions included technologies designed for:
-- creating, distributing, and viewing video content online;
-- making the Web a more interactive place;
-- managing and measuring video advertisements
-- maintaining computer health through sophisticated tech support;
-- retrofitting the Web's infrastructure for today's onslaught of rich
media applications; and
-- fine-tuning and pinpointing search results.
Highlights from today's technology introductions include:
Creating and Consuming Video Content Online
-- xtranormal, Inc.'s Pjungle -- template-based application that allows
users to create near-life, character-based, online messaging,
communications and storytelling.
-- Capzles, Inc.'s Capzles -- an engaging and attractive 'social
storytelling' community that allows users to express themselves through
combined videos, photos/images, blogs and music/audio along horizontal
timelines.
The Social Web
-- Hubdub, Ltd.'s Hubdub News -- allows users to discover and measure
opinions in the mass market by tracking running news stories over
time.
-- Buzka, Pty Ltd.'s Buzka POPNets -- helps customers build social
networks focused on finding and sharing product related information and
experiences.
-- Redux, Inc.'s Redux -- a social network that helps young professionals
get settled in new communities, find people with similar likes, and
identify activities that appeal to their interests.
Tools to Manage and Measure Online Video Advertising
-- Liquidus Corp.'s Liquidus SpotSense -- an online interface for
producing and distributing video advertising faster, better, and
cheaper than existing offerings.
-- TubeMogul, Inc.'s Premium Distribution & Analytics -- allows producers
and content owners to upload videos once and automatically deploy them
to top video sharing sites, delivering measurements about viewings and
impact.
-- Visible Measures Corp.'s VisiblePlatform -- provides unprecedented
visibility into online video audiences and how they engage --
or don't -- with content assets, Web-based distribution, and
advertising placements.
Service and Tech Support
-- Pathworks Software Corp.'s Helpstream -- the first Web-based,
on-demand, self-service customer support and help desk solution built
for enterprise customers.
-- SupportSpace, Inc.'s SupportSpace -- an online service that gives
consumers and small businesses access to a robust community of
independent, certified tech experts capable of solving virtually any
tech-related problems.
-- good2gether, Inc.'s good2gether -- a platform for non-profits that
connects people, causes, media, and brands into one highly distributed
network, catalyzing action.
Flexible Software for Business
-- CHALEX Corp.'s BpDAM -- enables businesses to orchestrate remote
collaborations and securely share digital files of any type.
-- Catalyst Web Services, LLC's CatalystOffice -- a Web-based suite of
integrated, business-class email, document management, calendar,
contacts and IM applications, designed specifically for America's 25M
small businesses.
-- Sterna Technologies, Inc.'s Sterna Business Positioning System (BPS) --
a quick-to-implement and powerful business analytics platform offering
real time visibility into deviations from operational goals.
Retrofitting the Web to Support Next-Generation Applications
-- Asankya, Inc.'s Hypermesh Network -- provides seamless transport of
high quality real-time and two-way traffic over IP networks regardless
of existing disconnects between today's CDNs and P2P solutions.
-- Kaazing Corp.'s Kaazing Enterprise Edition -- a highly scalable,
high-performance Java environment that developers can use to extend
their existing Java skills into the browser to create next-generation,
rich Internet applications.
-- Nirvanix's Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network -- a Web-based platform
for developers, enabling quick and easy integration of scalable storage
and delivery into any application.
More Precise Online Search Tools
-- HealthPricer Interactive, Ltd.'s HealthPricer -- crawls health-related
sites, gathers information, and normalizes data to provide
comprehensive search results across a wide range of health-related
products.
-- Silobreaker, Ltd.'s Silobreaker -- a complex relational analysis and
context extraction tool that can be applied to a company's internal
information, providing a 360-degree view heretofore impossible.
-- Circos.com, Inc.'s Circos -- mines insight from user-generated content
and delivers complex answers to questions that search hasn't previously
been able to answer.
DEMO Goes Into Africa
On Wednesday afternoon, DEMO convenes a panel on Africa, to explore the nature of innovation and opportunity in one of the world's most populous and undervalued markets.
"Americans are imprinted with a view of impoverished Africa that belies the economic opportunity open to those who are ready and able to think differently about Africa," said Shipley. "Indeed, innovation -- rethinking methods and approaches in order to meet a decidedly different need set -- is the key to unlocking the potential of the 900+ mil
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