DEMO: Bloson turns everything you do online into a good deedMonday, March 22, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Bloson 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. Bloson, a social networking site that connects companies, consumers and non-profit organizations, to help the world, is emerging from beta testing today. The idea behind Bloson is to allow regular internet users to raise money for causes without having to do anything outside of their normal online routines. [...] Read more |
DEMO: AppWhirl lets anybody create their own iPhone appMonday, March 22, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Everybody should have their own app. That’s the basic idea behind AppWhirl, which allows anyone to create an app for the iPhone to broadcast a stream of news and other information in real time. Mountain View, Calif.-based AppWhirl is announcing a new app-creation tool at the DEMO Spring 2010 conference. The tool lets just about anyone build personalized iPhone apps for communicating to your fans, followers, or friends and family. Right now, programmers will charge thousands of dollars to create apps for people. [...] Read more |
DEMO: DigitalScirocco connects buyers and sellers of online contentMonday, March 22, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology DigitalScirocco 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. Having a steady stream of fresh and relavent content can be key to a successful website. With that in mind, and looking DigitalSciroccotoday announced the launch of a virtual marketplace to help connect sellers and buyers of content connect. DigitalScirocco is a real-time auction based market-place that automatically selects content from thousands of sellers and places it on customer’s websites. [...] Read more |
DEMO: Group collaboration gets a bit of voting input with DemocrasoftMonday, March 22, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Democrasoft 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. Democrasoft, a Santa Rosa-based collaboration startup, aims to bring a bit of voter input into online community building and project management. It’s a service that lets groups, both large and small, organize conversations and pick ideas to promote. The company’s main product, Collaborize, is designed for organizations that need some ground-up input like schools, clubs and associations. [...] Read more |
DEMO: Visiarc’s Mobile Documents aim to redefine mobile e-mail attachmentsMonday, March 22, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Visiarc 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. Mobile developer Visiarc says current mobile e-mail solutions stink at giving users access to large attachments. Its Mobile Documents application aims to solve that problem by streaming large attachments to your phone, instead of waiting for them to download. Since so many of us use our e-mail accounts as file repositories, Mobile Documents would allow us to have far more access to our files than ever before. [...] Read more |
DEMO: PiMobility puts its light electric motorcycle into driveMonday, March 22, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology PiMobility, maker of the electric-hybrid bike called the PiCycle, is officially launching its newest creation at the DEMO conference in Palm Springs, Calif.: a two-wheel drive light electric motorcycle it calls the PiMoto. One of two green companies debuting at the event, PiMobility seeks to prove that greening transportation can be incredibly simple. First, the stats. The PiMoto can reach speeds up to 30 miles per hour, and has a 25-mile range per charge, making it a suitable commuter vehicle for people who have always wanted to bike to work without showing up sweaty. [...] Read more |
DEMO: ThickButtons makes it easier to type on touchscreensMonday, March 22, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology ThickButtons 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. As more phones launch with virtual rather than physical keyboards, users are needing to re-learn how to type — and it’s not always the most intuitive experience. Some phones, like Motorola’s Droid, use vibrations to indicate clicks, but now a new company called ThickButtons is launching at DEMO to ease the experience even more. [...] Read more |
DEMO: Neverend Media to bring multimedia and social features to subscription-based e-booksMonday, March 22, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Neverend Media 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. Neverend Media has ambitious plans for e-books. Its “neverend books” are constantly updated, subscription-based, e-books that include a wealth of multimedia and social features. Neverend books are free of digital rights management (DRM) software, meaning the technology doesn’t stop you from copying the files to other devices, and can include images, audio, video, and links. [...] Read more |
DEMO: BrandFolium offers online marketplace for social networking adsMonday, March 22, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology BrandFolium 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. Two-year-old BrandFolium will turn on its NavID.com (pronounced nah-VEED) website today at DEMO, calling it an online connection between advertisers and publishers of social networking sites. The NavID marketplace works pretty much like the way advertisers and publishers have worked together for decades. [...] Read more |
DEMO: Uppy Media urges fashionistas to tag their looksMonday, March 22, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Uppy Media 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. Bootstrapped startup Uppy Media is looking to take the glossy feel of fashion magazines straight into your Facebook albums. The company’s Facebook application, TAGtheLOOK, lets users tag their own or their friends’ outfits in photo albums and share their tastes through a real-time feed. [...] Read more |
DEMO: Mmatcher wants to bring classified ads to mobile marketMonday, March 22, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Mmatcher 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. Fifteen years after Craigslist brought classified ads online, Slovenian entrepreneur Robert Farazin is launching Mmatcher, a 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 Internet classified ads has more than doubled in the past four years, according to Pew Internet Research. [...] Read more |
DEMO: Zerista hopes its mobile community tools will end-run the packMonday, March 22, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Zerista 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. Zerista, a provider of mobile web apps for small social groups, brings together elements of custom community platforms like Ning, friend-finding like Foursquare, and event management and ticketing like Eventbrite. “Existing social media platforms and communities are trying to retrofit their desktop applications for mobile use,” Charlie Savage, CEO of Zerista, wrote in a prepared statement for the press. [...] Read more |
DEMO: Immitter makes it easier for indie music artists to get discoveredMonday, March 22, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Immitter 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. Immitter, an online music service combining the power of Pandora and MySpace’s user-generated content to help independent artists boost get discovered by regular listeners, is launching today. Unlike Pandora, Immitter — short for the Internet Transmitter — will be delivering music by unsigned, unrepresented musicians to general listeners. [...] Read more |
DEMO: AppVoyage expands its ad-building toolbox with AppBloxMonday, March 22, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology AppVoyage 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. AppVoyage, a startup that provides companies and brands with the tools they need to easily snap together mobile applications and advertising campaigns, is taking its business model one step further with the launch of AppBlox. AppBlox allows users to drag and drop different widgets and components together to build rich mobile apps and ads — and it’s as simple as Microsoft PowerPoint to use, according to AppVoyage founder and chief executive Sagar Golla. [...] Read more |
DEMO: Flinc unveils real-time mobile ride sharing systemMonday, March 22, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Flinc 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. Carpooling or ride sharing can be a great way to save gas, time and money. Current web services tend to need a period of time to plan and arrange pick-ups, drop-offs and payments. Looking to bring the process to real-time, Flinc today announced the official launch of its mobile ride sharing system. The company claims to give users the ability to use their mobile phones through a special application that connects with GPS navigation systems in vehicles to arrange a pick-up in real-time. [...] Read more |
DEMO: My6Sense opens up its filtering smarts to developersMonday, March 22, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology My6Sense 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. My6Sense, an Israeli company that studies your tastes in content and then uses that data to automatically filter your news or Twitter feeds, opened up an application programming interface to outside developers today. As people get more and more bombarded with links and content from multiple places, the need to filter out the noise is growing. [...] Read more |
DEMO: Voxofon Ambit to help parents protect kids using cell phonesMonday, March 22, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Voxofon 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. Despite the ever-increasing ubiquity of cell phones these days, many parents still have issues giving their children cellphones. Voxofon, a company most famous for its VoIP offerings, has another product called Voxofon Ambit — cell phone software that will give parents control over what services their kids use, and who they can talk to. [...] Read more |
Roxio CinemaNow scores next-day web publishing rights for new TV showsMonday, March 22, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology The Roxio CinemaNow business of Sonic Solutions has scored a coup in the right to distribute TV show episodes on the web the day after they air. The deal with Warner Bros. Digital Distribution gives Roxio CinemaNow an expanded library of premium content that it will sell on its web-based video service for $1.99 per show. Technically speaking, Sonic has secured Electronic Sell Through rights for distributing standard definition and high definition versions of popular TV shows. Shows include in the deal include Fringe, Human Target, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, The Bachelor, The Closer, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Two and a Half Men, and Past Life. [...] Read more |
Proof that video games are a universal language: Iranian team creates a gameMonday, March 22, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Video games are having an unquestionable influence on culture around the world. The Swiss have moved to ban violent video games altogether. But gamers are like the critters in a round of “whack a mole.” They just keep popping up in unexpected locations. A 20-member team in Tehran has created a game, Garshasp the Monster Slayer, which launches soon on the PC and has drawn international praise. It’s a fantasy game that draws upon Iranian myths, putting the player in a Persian world where he or she must solve puzzles and slay monsters called “deevs,” according to a story in the Washington Post. [...] Read more |
Proof that video games are a universal language: Iranian team creates a cool gameMonday, March 22, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Video games are having an unquestionable influence on culture around the world. The Swiss have moved to ban violent video games altogether. But gamers are like the critters in a round of “whack a mole.” They just keep popping up in unexpected locations. A 20-member team in Tehran has created a game, Garshasp the Monster Slayer, which launches soon on the PC and has drawn international praise. It’s a fantasy game that draws upon Iranian myths, putting the player in a Persian world where he or she must solve puzzles and slay monsters called “deevs,” according to a story in the Washington Post. [...] Read more |
