Phoenix is buzz city this week as high rollers (looking to invest) and tech writers (looking for a story) arrive for DEMO 2006, the annual new product bash. Some 70 hand-picked companies pay $15,000 for 5 minutes in front of 700 people. C/Net has good coverage as do SofttechVC, Tech Crunch, the Washington Post and ZDNet. Here’s a list of demonstrators straight from the Demo list:
- Accomplice™ Software (http://www.accomplicesoftware.com/): Accomplice™’s patent-pending software gives you one easy place to see and manage what’s on your plate, what each person on your team is up to, and what you’re trying to achieve.
- America Online,Inc. (): AOL Video Search featuring Truveo is building a comprehensive search engine for video on the Web.
- ASTAV, inc. (http://www.astav.net): ASTAV’s NOPHISH™ technology/SignSafe service give people identity fraud protection online and in the physical world.
- Avokia (http://www.avokia.com): ApLive™ provides true continuous availability for any database management system on the market today.
- Azos AI, LLC. (http://www.azosai.com/): With the introduction of GetMeNow™ and Smart Emergency Alert™, secure, prioritized emergency communication can be received via text/voice/alarm/broadcast providing time critical information – anytime, anywhere.
- BiggerBoat (http://www.biggerboat.com): BiggerBoat is the Internet’s most comprehensive, entertainment industry specific search engine delivering cross-category, cross-format, and cross-retailer search results to online entertainment consumers.
- Blurb, Inc. (http://www.blurb.com): Blurb BookSmart™ puts a professional press and global distribution in the hands of every blogger, marketer, traveler, chef, photographer, consultant, family historian, online community
- Bones in Motion,Inc. (http://www.bonesinmotion.com): BiM Active re-purposes mobile phones into performance monitors for outdoor activities. Record your speed, distance, calories, elevation and route while hearing distance and pace feedback during your activity.
- BroadRamp, Inc. (http://www.broadrampcds.com): BroadRamp’s CDS™ is a multimedia Internet content delivery platform that delivers strong security and an enhanced ability to generate e-commerce revenue.
- CNET Channel (http://www.cnetchannel.com): Intelligent Cross-Sell (ICS) helps retailers identify and cross-sell complementary products, such as the best accessories for a notebook computer.
- Cosmix Corp. (http://www.kosmix.com): Kosmix Search has developed algorithms and technology that solve a complex engineering problem: categorizing the entire Web into understandable categories, such as women’s health and adventure travel.
- Digislide Holdings (http://www.digislide.com.au): Digismart is a micro-optical engine that allows 11-inch by 17-inch full-color images to be projected from a range of hand held devices, including cell phones, Notebooks, GPS units, MP3/MP4 players, smartcard readers and gaming devices.
- Eeminder, Inc. (http://www.eeminder.com): Eeminder improves the productivity of distributed mobile teams. Optimized for the handheld device, the essence of Eeminder is an intelligent e-mail processing engine that extracts relevant information from e-mails, creates and updates project status accordingly
- EQO Communications, Inc. (http://www.eqo.com): The EQO Mobile Internet Phone Service allows Skype users to make and receive phone calls to and from their buddy list on regular mobile phone handsets.
- eVoke TV Corp. (http://www.evoketv.com): eVoke TV helps connect you to your preferred TV programming by providing Web-based “TV listings” with a better user experience.
- Extricom, Inc. (http://www.extricom.com): Extricom claims to triple WiFi capacity for data, voice (VoWLAN), video and other mobile and mission-critical real-time applications.
- Fortify Software (http://www.fortifysoftware.com): Fortify Application Defense is a software solution that monitors and protects business applications from misuse regardless of whether the source of attack is inside or outside the enterprise.
- Front Porch, Inc. (http://www.frontporch.com): PorchLight Security Messaging (PLSM) combines Front Porch’s proven messaging technology with leading intrusion-prevention systems.
- GarageBand.com (http://www.garageband.com): A companion for iTunes with three key benefits: (1) it helps you organize your existing music library by auto-creating play lists of similarsounding artists, (2) helps you discover new music by automatically downloading free songs from the hottest GarageBand.com artists that fit your tastes, and (3) lets you share your listening profile online and find people with similar tastes.
- Grass Roots Software (http://www.grassroots-sw.com): Freepath is a communication tool that makes all kinds of media seamlessly presentable in person or across the Web. Point and click to collect, arrange and present most file types including PowerPoint, Flash, images, PDF, Word, Excel, Web, audio, video and more.
- Gravee (http://www.gravee.com): AdShare fundamentally changes the economic model for search — shifting power from content distributors (such as search engines) to content owners.
- GuardID Systems, Inc. (http://www.guardidsystems.com): GuardID Systems’ proprietary ID Vault security token works with existing financial institution Web sites.
- iGuitar, Inc. (http://www.iguitar.com): iGuitar USB connects guitarists to a Mac or a PC via a proprietary USB interface that is class compliant/bus powered
- Interprise Solutions USA, LLC. (http://www.interprisesuite.com): Built around the latest “smart client” technology, Interprise Suite combines the best aspects of a desktop application (speed, rich user interface, easy printing) with the best aspects of a Web application.
- Iotum Corp. (http://www.iotum.com): iotum is the world’s first platform to intelligently filter, rank and prioritize calls based on their relevance to you.
- IPswap (http://www.ipswap.com): IPswap is a global marketplace that allows people to share, interact, solve problems and create new solutions where intellectual work and intellectual capital can be contributed and monetized, globally.
- IronPort Systems, Inc. (http://www.ironport.com): IronPort S-Series web security appliances are a next-generation solution for combating spyware and complex web-based threats.
- Jitterbit, Inc. (http://www.jitterbit.com): Jitterbit is an open source integration tool that delivers a quick and simple way to design, configure, test and deploy integration solutions. It supports most major document types and protocols.
- Kaboodle, Inc. (http://www.kaboodle.com/): kaboodle.com users form a powerful community where they help each other with every day decisions about gifts, shopping, trips, entertainment, parenting or any other topic.
- Krugle, Inc. (http://www.krugle.net): Find code. Find answers. Krugle’s vertical search engine gives programmers instant access to all the open source code and highly relevant technical information they need.
- LocaModa, Inc. (http://www.locamoda.com): LocaModa’s products enable brands to have a closed-loop relationship with consumers by extending the Web to the street. StreetSurfer™ converts location based digital signage into interactive media.
- LogLogic, Inc. (http://www.loglogic.com): The company captures 100% of transactional data in the form of logs from applications, devices, servers, operating systems and more. We then make it actionable through real-time alerting, reporting, millisecond search and secure storage.
- Mi5, Inc. (http://www.mi5networks.com): Mi5’s Enterprise Spygate appliances utilize a multi-layered spyware prevention architecture that delivers the most comprehensive protection, lowest false positive rates, and best performance.
- MooBella, LLC. (http://www.moobella.com): The MooBella System, a virtual ice cream shop in the space of a vending machine, mixes and instantly freezes fresh ingredients to produce a delicious scoop of ice cream within 45 seconds.
- Mp3Car.com (http://www.mp3car.com): Intel co-branded and developed automotive enabler. Fujitsu Automotive docking station with StreetDeck.com software. Rapid install car computer with StreetDeck.com software. StreetDeck combines the features of navigation, satellite radio, vehicle diagnostics, Bluetooth phones, cameras, media ripping, audio playback, radio, DVDs, picture viewer and Wi-Fi syncing.
- my people, LLC. (http://www.mypeople.com): my people provides residential phone service that leverages the power of the Internet to deliver new, useful features with VoIP.
- NetworkStreaming (http://www.networkstreaming.com): NetworkStreaming is a software company that specializes in appliance-based remote support solutions, allowing IT and support professionals to connect remotely to clients and co-workers via the Internet for support and troubleshooting.
- NewsGator Technologies, Inc. (jennifers@newsgator.com): NewsGator Technologies is the leading RSS platform company providing enterprise, private label, and consumer RSS solutions across a broad range of products.
- Nexidia, Inc. (http://www.nexidia.com): Nexidia’s product dramatically enhances discoverability, relevance and personalization of rich media search to create new advertising opportunities and new subscription services around searching, navigating and playback of rich media.
- OpenConnect Systems, Inc. (http://www.oc.com): Automatically identify business process improvement by analyzing everyday user interactions with mainframe assets
- Panoratio Database Images, Inc. (http://www.panoratio.com): Patented software for the analysis of large, complex data sets.
- Pay By Touch (http://www.paybytouch.com): A new payment and identification service that gives consumers a quick finger scan.
- PayWi Corp. (http://www.paywi.com): PayWi lets people make secure financial transactions on their cell phones, including making payments onsite, remotely and online.
- Persystent Technologies, Inc. (http://www.persystent.com): Simplifies the support of end-user devices and reduces Help Desk calls by eliminating software/system failures and the frustration caused by slow or out-of-order PCs.
- Plum (http://www.plum.com/): A free Internet service for collecting and sharing the things you care about, stumble across or need.
- PolyVision (http://www.polyvision.com): Used in a way similar to a flipchart, Thunder is an information appliance experienced on an architectural scale that redefines the collaborative process.
- RawSugar (http://www.rawsugar.com): RawSugar enables anyone to easily create, organize and publish a hierarchical directory of recommended and annotated URLs, and build a community around shared interests.
- Riya.com (http://www.riya.com): Riya.com is a group of face recognition and text recognition researchers and engineers who have created a technology to look inside and automatically tag photos.
- Sharpcast, Inc. (http://www.sharpcast.com): Sharpcast is developing a connected applications platform that will set new standards for consumer media and information management.
- Shimon Systems, Inc. (http://www.shimonsystems.com): Bio-NetGuard provides Fingerprint based access control to enterprise networks at the very first point of contact to the network — the Wi-Fi access point.
- SimpleFeed, Inc. (http://www.simplefeed.com): Implement, manage and modify customer communications programs using RSS technology.
- Smilebox, Inc. (http://www.smilebox.com): Smilebox inspires you to communicate creatively with family and friends around special moments in your life. A variety of talented artists create a continually evolving catalog of hundreds of multimedia templates.
- Sprout Systems, Inc. (http://www.sproutit.com): Sprout Systems creates and distributes affordable business software designed for the unique needs of businesses with 10 employees or fewer.
- StrikeForce Techologies, Inc. (http://www.strikeforcetech.com): WebSecure™ provides safe online interactions and helps prevent identity theft by protecting information from hackers’ favorite tool: keyloggers.
- TagWorld (http://www.tagworld.com): TagWorld Social Commerce is an online ecosystem that provides a comprehensive and tightly integrated set of publishing, communication and network tools to support and enable the social Web.
- Tested Technologies Corp. (http://www.testedtech.com): Hyperblocking-IPS accurately identifies and blocks transmissions emanating from harmful IP addresses based on IP attributes.
- The Multiverse Network, Inc. (http://www.multiverse.net): Provides independent game developers the resources they need to enter and compete in the online game market.
- Tiny Pictures, Inc. (http://www.tinypictures.us): Tiny’s peer sharing model allows you to instantly share the details of your life with the people who care most: publish photos with a single click, easily control who sees what, and browse and comment on any platform.
- Transparensee Systems, Inc. (http://www.transparensee.com): Lets a Web site’s visitors find the best match for any product or service using an unlimited number of search criteria — even if there are no exact matches.
- Ugobe, Inc. (http://www.ugobe.com): Ugobe develops and markets robotic technology that transforms inanimate objects into lifelike creatures exhibiting organic movement and realistic behaviors. Like Pixar, we blur technology into reality.
- Vivid Sky (http://www.vividskyco.com): Vivid Sky’s SkyBOX gives the power back to the fans’ in the stands. On-demand instant replays, eliminating concession lines (ordering and delivery to your location), and discovering everything about your team (stats, bios, infographics).
- Vizrea Corp. (http://www.vizrea.com): Vizrea Snap is the first complete photo service for camera phone users. It has three seamlessly integrated applications — one each for PC, for camera phones and for the Web.
- VSee Lab, LLC. (http://www.vseelab.com): VSee software allows people to see each other and share documents, movies and computer desktops over the Internet. VSee requires half the bandwidth of Skype 2.0.
- Yahoo! (http://www.yahoo.com): Bringing the best of Web 2.0 to online photo sharing, the new Yahoo! Photos delivers the power and elegance of desktop photo management software to the “anywhere” access of the Web.
- Zimini (http://www.zimini.com): Zimini provides highly personalized promotions, offers and coupons leaving the user’s identity secure & private. For merchants, Zimini provides highly individualized digital promotions.
- Zingee, Pte Ltd. (http://www.zingee.com): Easily create Web links to content on their computer. Viewers access the content with a browser, without needing to register or install. Sharers securely control exactly what is shared and who they share to.
- ZinkKat, LLC. (http://www.zinkkat.com): Chili is the first wearable cordless phone, MP3 player, Podcast and Web stream receiver … all in one.
One product that caught my eye on this list was Blurb. It is similar to Apple Computer’s iPhoto albums, but more flexible. Its BookSmart product makes it easy to convert a blog to a book. You can make novels, albums, coffee-table-like books, cookbooks and so on. It costs $79.95 for up to 400 pages, or $29.95 for up to 40 pages.
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