Demo in the afternoon

I liked the afternoon considerable better than the morning sessions, as did the people sitting near me. Perhaps that goes along with my personal interest in social media and end user products.  But an energy that seemed flat in the morning, was stronger in the afternoon.

Support.com's  Solutions Toolkit tunes up a PC in about five minutes over the Internet. A completely automated system.  Cleans up your desktop, optimizes the disk and lets you shut down your Windows-based computer faster than a speeding iceberg.  Provides a "non-geek" language report so you know what they actually did.  I know a couple of car mechanics that should use it as well.

Sailpoint Technologies, my favorite of the enterprise presenting companies address the $27 b spent on compliance risk management and reporting.  Product is Compliance IQ, which eliminates all the spreadsheets and database reports and produces a single screen Risk scorecard, letting the manager figure out where the greatest problems exist.  He or she can drill into the information to get more and more information as needed. Contains tons of data that can be accessed in seconds. This may be a huge solution for a major corporate headache all of whom need to manage measured risk situation.

Panjea introduced Panjea TV. It pulls clips from YouTube or Google and remixes them into a personal Panjea channel. Was the 9th presenter to say "it's really that simple," but as Dan Farber, sitting next to me said--no it's not."  This product to me seemed promising but not quite ready for prime time.  The uneven presentation was also not quite ready for dress rehearsal.

Magnify.net  of NYC, lets you keyword search for videos. Had audience shout out keywords and came up with 1000 in about ten seconds.  Went to weather video channel.  Lets you discover video all over the web and integrate it into your own site. One of the favorites among salty media folk sitting near me. This was a favorite of people I asked.

Yodio, is an online destination community for for audio and video sharing.  Demo called in an audio to the community by phone to recommend his visit to Big Sky Montana. This was a second strong demo in a row. They also can geocode all content that comes in. So somebody can call in from Paris and Yodio can sent that person geographically relevant content, almost instantly. They also said they accet Paypal tipping.  My tip: Buy low. Sell high.  These guys had good energy and just talked to the audience.  this was a personal favorite.

Live Square--Media 2.0 security companies.

Ink2 Corp.  of Emeryville is old-fashioned print shop, who I also consulted on their presentation  introduced a web-based service that produces print on demand cards, calendars and other items you select from affiliate web-based content providers. CEO Mark Rinella showed how he created a greeting card from an online vintage comic book cover.  He then entered a personal message to a friend, selected a stamp and mailed it off, all within 24 hours. It was well-received.

VuVox--let's customers pull in video, audio and photos.  Let's you choose a whole bunch of styles.  using artists around the world for special unique looks. Goes into a teen room and creates an MTV like  screen.  Did it in seconds. You can create a visual environment, then publish it on your own site or on a Vuvox channel and share it with friends on MySpace. They are a potential competitor to my client Scrapblog and their presentation was well received. Vuvox was among the day's favorites.

Splashcast--is a multimedia syndication platform that let's people creat and syndicate  and syndicate online channels of mixed media content.  Far and away one of the day's best technologies and presentations. Among Sharpcast team members is Marshall Kirkpatrick, formerly of TechCrunch.

SharedBook, Inc.  let's you collaborate online to jointly create a hardcopy book for personal publication.  Company is doing this with several API partners. Demo showed how a Soccer mom would create a team book. It can be ad supported for a business.  No bad.

OurStory--Andy Halliday, founder and a former client of mine, let's you tell the stories of family members with photos and text.  At anytime you can download it into a book.  A key feature is the timeline.  You drag and drop photos and text onto the timeline and they automatically arrange chronologically. Show photo story of family members and use as a Christmas present. Can also make video entries.

Mixpo of Seattle, whom I consulted for DEMO, can combine media onto a single card that can replace a small business website. Describing the service  for "everyday people,"  Glenn Pingul described how a destination travel agent, a designer and a restaunteer could all use the "mixcards," to create always current multimedia displays.

It's half time in DEMO land as far as the dais presentations go. The winners of the day from where I sit, were Vuvox and Magnify. The other gods selected today, will be of a lesser level or so it seems to me.

I'm now doing the other yhing people at DEMO doing lots f.  I have a series of three private meetings, before a dinner for members of the press and DEMO sponsors. I look forward to the free meal part of it.

Comments

[Pat Phelan]

looking forward to your feedback tomorrow on my favorites teleflip.
Hope you guys are having a good time.

[Jeremiah Owyang]

Killer summary, thanks

[Alex]

Lots of mixed-, multi- and shared-media companies! Thanks for the summary.

[christopher okenwa]

trying to make different