DEMO in the morning

[Arturo Artom on DEMO live screen, launching VideoMap Widget from Truman Show. Photo by Shel]

I'm live blogging this one.  Don't tell the Ragan folk. The rest of you please forgive me my typos and to those sitting next to me, I apologize for the flailing elbows and loud typing.

Shipley keynote: Lot of distance traveled since last DEMO. Last February, she talked about the power of the individual and decentralization of computing.  Now she see the power shifting from the few to the many. Shift to user generated content.  Allowing everyday people to customize content, such as teachers.  Now, we are peeling back the face of web 2.0 and finding greater speed, bandwidth and mobility.  This show will show the new deals.

"This DEMO is about everything 2.0.  Everyone is effected by the changes.

1 segment is on Video,

Digital Fountain of Fremont. Charles Oppenheimer says they are a video solutions company. Introduced Splash, a video content delivery network.  Showed how minor loss of video packet causes glitches.  Splash ensures that all the content gets delivered intact, even with packer loss. "Allows entertainment grade delivery over the Internet. Will be ready in January.  Selling this technology to content delivery companies.Showed extremely high quality video being sent live from Virginia. Using Amazon Web Services to employ Splash over the Internet. If this is the quality that we will be seeing in 2008, then I want this stuff. Great opening act.

Globalcast TV showed a dazzling   conferencing technology in that there is zero latency. Can use existing infrastructure technology.

Clipblast Introduced the clipblast video widget.  The highlight was a 3 second clip of me being interviewed by Scoble. Let's you clip any online video and play it on your desktop inside the widget. Can be used to distribute promos such a movie trailers. Very promising.

Radar is an internet video search engine that remarkable improves quality.  Because of a demogodglitch, it sounds like we'll have to take his word for it. When connection happened, showed running video searches on Radar, the product they were launching. 4 hit products in a row if you ask me.

MotionDSP introduced FixMyMovie.com which increases resolution, reduces noise, corrects color and lighting errors. It can enhance details in a way that the CIA apparently likes.  You can see before/after versions to compare the imrovements. Canmake a JPEG photo from any video.  The videos you upload, the company claims, actually get better.

YourTrumanShow introduced their VideoMap embedable widget which lets you share video from any source on the Internet with any member f your personal extended network. I am on the board of directors and if you ask me, they rock.

Diigolets you attach a virtual sticky note to anything on the web to share or forward them to your friends. The sticky note shoiws highlights and annotations. You can use them to add bookmarks to a list.

Cocomment addresses the challenges of tracking your own comments on the internet, because "if you cannot follow a conversation, how can you actually have a conversation online." It lets you see all the comments on a topic such as Iraq, and you can follow the trail to see what else that person has said on the Web.

ideablob.com is a group blog for everyday people looking for feedback on their ideas.

Spigit. also deals with ideas, this time for companies to use internally.  It uses virtual currency and awards to motivate employees to share.  It's sort of a virtual suggestion box for the Information Age, where everyone sees your ideas and is free to comment.  There are more levels of complexity to this however than there are in Dungeons and Dragons. I think they are trying to do far too much.  People like recognition for good ideas and that is a stronger motivation that getting employees to compete for rewards and points. I think they would go further with less.

Glam Media, an online fashion magazine introduced two widgets, one which allows you to curate web content and you can compare yourself to other curators.

What a strong opening segment.  If this is the quality of this conference's selections, we are in for an incredible DEMO.

Comments

[Maggie Tsai]

Hi Shel,

Thanks for your prompt coverage of Diigo, and great meeting and chatting with you in person!

Thought your readers may be interested in this: we have created a WebSlides for all the presenting companies at this conference and their alexa traffic charts. http://slides.diigo.com/list/techdude/demofall2007_alexa

Playing it allow you to quickly visit all the companies and see their latest Alexa ratings. Not just live webpages, note that you can annotate on those pages on the fly as well! Wouldn't it be fun to use this to quickly check which company has generated the most buzz after the conference :-)

Best,
Maggie

PS. Love your book!

[cara]

I think you rock Shel!!!

[shel israel]

Back atchya, Cara. Back atchya