DEMO: Supercool School wants to be the Ning of online educationMonday, March 22, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Supercool School is one of 65 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2010 event taking place this week. These companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objective. Supercool School, which allows anyone to create an online learning environment for which they can charge students, says it has a $450 million dollar total addressable market opportunity in the U.S. alone, with over two million potential customers. Supercool founder Steli Efti told me what he’s trying to create is the Ning of Education, allowing anyone to build their own educational site. [...] Read more |
DEMO: Restaurant 2.0 reservation system challenges OpenTableSunday, March 21, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology BlueSkies is one of 65 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2010 event taking place this week. These companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objective. With OpenTable’s successful IPO last year, the restaurant reservation market has a clear leader. But a startup called BlueSkies Hospitality Management Systems says it’s launching something better with a service called Restaurant 2.0. Restaurant 2.0 will supposedly allow restaurants to take reservations from their own websites while collecting data for their customer marketing systems. [...] Read more |
DEMO: GlideTV launches What’s On channel for web videos on TVSunday, March 21, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology GlideTV is one of 65 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2010 event taking place this week. These companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objective. Last fall, GlideTV launched a cool wireless touchpad that serves as a remote control for people who want to hook their computers to their TV sets. Now it’s announcing a new software application that makes it easy to watch and find movies on the web. The new What’s On feature aggregates a lot of web videos in a single channel that users can browse to discover movies and video. [...] Read more |
DEMO: MightyMeeting keeps your A-game close, your Powerpoint closerSunday, March 21, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology MightyMeeting is one of 65 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2010 event taking place this week. These companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objective. Where professionals once had overflowing filing cabinets and oversized atache cases for presentation graphics, we now have overflowing inboxes and cloud storage. One problem remains the same: How do you find what you need when you need it? The world is mobile and you may have to deliver in 10 minutes or less. [...] Read more |
DEMO: Gwabbit creates a universal contact list in the cloudSunday, March 21, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Gwabbit is one of 65 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2010 event taking place this week. These companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objective. Gwabbit has been steadily expanding its solutions for automating the tedious job of collecting and entering your contact information. It has just creaded Gwab-o-sphere, which the company calls the first automatic contact cloud. The service is akin to a universal remote control for all of your contacts, synchronizing the contacts you have across your phones and social networks. [...] Read more |
DEMO: Widgetbox’s ClickTurn Ad Builder marries rich ads and real-time webSunday, March 21, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology WidgetBox is one of 65 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2010 event taking place this week. These companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objective. Rich real-time media, from video ads to Twitter feeds, is pushing aside the old banner ad. But advertisers and publishers don’t have an easy way to create rich media ads quickly. That’s why San Francisco-based Widgetbox has created ClickTurn Ad Builder, which turns the creation of rich media ads into a self-serve automated process. [...] Read more |
DEMO: Airset brings cloud computers to groups and individualsSunday, March 21, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Airset is one of 65 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2010 event taking place this week. These companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objective. Cloud computing is a hot topic these days, but it usually refers to individual cloud-based applications like Gmail. Airset aims to take the notion a step further by offering individuals and groups cloud computing environments which contain multiple cloud-based applications. By networking these cloud computing environments, the company believes it can help organize your life. [...] Read more |
DEMO: MagInify Call Center can detect customers’ moodsSunday, March 21, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology eXaudios is one of 65 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2010 event taking place this week. These companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objective. Today there are over 150,000 call centers with an average of 80 employees each. Call centers are important not only for customer retention, but for product management. Callers carry the keys to future sales, whether they know it or not. eXaudios’ MagInify (that’s not a typo, that’s “MagInify”) call centers can supposedly detect these elements in a phone call: The customer’s underlying emotional state. [...] Read more |
DEMO: Closely helps small businesses bring deals to Facebook and TwitterSunday, March 21, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Closely is one of 65 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2010 event taking place this week. These companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objective. If you’re a small business, it can be a challenge to figure out the best way to take advantage of social networking services like Facebook and Twitter. A startup called Closely wants to help. In this case, the Denver, Colo. company is launching an invite-only beta test of Closely Business Edition. [...] Read more |
DEMO: Zosh replaces the routine of print/sign/fax with a mobile solutionSunday, March 21, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Zosh is one of 65 products chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2010 event taking place this week. The companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objective. Gartner expects the value of the mobile Internet to surpass the desktop version in three years. But the world of paperwork hasn’t kept up. I, for one, still need to print out, sign, and then fax in paperwork to get paid by some of the publishers I work for. Then they lose the paperwork. Zosh is described as a mobile document execution platform by its maker, ABJK NewCo. [...] Read more |
DEMO: GreenNurture helps you make your company more sustainableSunday, March 21, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology GreenNurture is one of 65 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2010 event taking place this week. These companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objective. GreenNurture, maker of an application that helps employees contribute to the sustainability of the companies they work for, is launching at the DEMO conference in Palm Springs, Calif. Using social networking and rewards systems, the platform gives people incentives to change their behavior to save energy and other resources. [...] Read more |
DEMO: VenueGen lets businesses stage quick and easy virtual meetingsSunday, March 21, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology VenueGen is one of 65 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2010 event taking place this week. These companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objective. Virtual-meeting startup VenueGen is announcing today a virtual meeting platform that is both visually appealing and easy to use. To date, most meeting platforms have been neither. It’s a lot more than Cisco’s WebEx meeting platform, and a lot less than Linden Labs’ Second Life virtual world. [...] Read more |
DEMO: InVisage’s QuantumFilm enables gorgeous camera phone picturesSunday, March 21, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology InVisage is one of 65 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2010 event taking place this week. These companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objective. QuantumFilm could usher in a new age of high-quality, thin, inexpensive digital cameras and camera films. Based on a new kind of image sensor technology from chip startup InVisage Technologies, QuantumFilm can deliver mobile phone camera images that are four times sharper than today’s cameras, with twice the dynamic range, or the ability to have both dark and light features in the same picture. [...] Read more |
mmatcher wants to bring classified ads to mobile marketSunday, March 21, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Craiglist brought classified ads onto the Internet in 1995. Fifteen years later, Slovenian entrepreneur Robert Farazin is launching mmatcher, a classified ad service aimed making the ads “mobile, spam protected, personal and real-time matched,” he told me via email. The number of online adults who have used online classifieds has more than doubled in the past four years, according to Pew Internet Research. Ebay estimates that the global online classifieds market size will be worth $22 billion annually in 2010. [...] Read more |
Startup Sency takes simplified approach to real-time searchSunday, March 21, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Thanks to services like Twitter that let users publish quick messages nearly as fast as they come to mind, a host of real-time search engines have recently emerged — engines that quickly index these messages and serve up the most current ones related to a particular search keyword. Sency is the latest startup to jump into this market. And so far, it seems to be keeping its head above water despite all the competition. Its real-time search engine launched in October and has already seen traffic grow from 10k to 150k hits in 5 months. [...] Read more |
Week in review: Web pioneer bashes Apple, SXSW attendees slams Twitter keynoteSaturday, March 20, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Here’s our summary of the week’s business and tech news. First, the most popular stories we published in the last seven days: Google pays web pioneer to bash Apple — Tim Bray isn’t as well-known as Sir Tim Berners-Lee, but the guy has had a leading role in defining the Internet. When he announced this week that he’s joining Google as an evangelist for the Android platform, he published a blog post that was pretty critical of competitor Apple, and which VentureBeat’s Paul Boutin found “off-putting. [...] Read more |
Week in review: Web pioneer bashes Apple, SXSW attendees slam Twitter keynoteSaturday, March 20, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Here’s our summary of the week’s business and tech news. First, the most popular stories we published in the last seven days: Google pays web pioneer to bash Apple — Tim Bray isn’t as well-known as Sir Tim Berners-Lee, but the guy has had a leading role in defining the Internet. When he announced this week that he’s joining Google as an evangelist for the Android platform, he published a blog post that was pretty critical of competitor Apple, and which VentureBeat’s Paul Boutin found “off-putting. [...] Read more |
Civ5 preview signals return to good old-fashioned war-game rootsSaturday, March 20, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Civilization IV was one of the most immersive strategy games ever made. When it debuted in 2005, it was an elaborate triumph in the strategy game genre, with a combination of action, graphics, and addictive game play. But Civilization 5 just might top it, even as it returns gamers to the nostalgic days of old war games. The game is coming out this fall from developer Firaxis Games and publisher Take-Two Interactive. In a preview of the game at the Game Developers Conference, Firaxis showed that the look and play of the game will be very different from the fourth version. [...] Read more |
Civ5 preview signals return to good old-fashioned war gamesSaturday, March 20, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Civilization IV was one of the most immersive strategy games ever made. When it debuted in 2005, it was an elaborate triumph in the strategy game genre, with a combination of action, graphics, and addictive game play. But Civilization V just might top it, even as it returns gamers to the nostalgic days of old war games. The game is coming out this fall from developer Firaxis Games and publisher Take-Two Interactive. In a preview of the game at the Game Developers Conference, Firaxis showed that the look and play of the game will be very different from the fourth version. [...] Read more |
Civilization V preview signals return to good old-fashioned war gamesSaturday, March 20, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Civilization IV was one of the most immersive strategy games ever made. When it debuted in 2005, it was an elaborate triumph in the strategy game genre, with a combination of action, graphics, and addictive game play. But Civilization V just might top it, even as it returns gamers to the nostalgic days of old war games. The game is coming out this fall from developer Firaxis Games and publisher Take-Two Interactive. In a preview of the game at the Game Developers Conference, Firaxis showed that the look and play of the game will be very different from the fourth version. [...] Read more |
